The founder of the company spoke at my RC aircraft club. This is a roadable aircraft, not a flying car. The reasoning behind it is that private flight sometimes leaves you with bad choices such as "I'm flying towards a storm that could cause me to crash and die. Do I 1) turn around and fly to the nearest airport and wait it out, possibly for a day or more 2) fly through it and see if I survive"
This gives you a different choice. You can 3) Land at the nearest airport and drive through the storm.
In addition, because you can drive it home and park it in a garage, you can avoid expensive hanger fees. And it can run on cheaper regular gas instead of the special stuff you have to buy at airports.
It won't be rated for federal crash safety and will have a sticker in the window stating as much.
But it's still looks like a bunch of aluminum foil and bowls put together by some second grader. I can't believe nasa put the brakes on the X11... We need a better way to get stuff into space! I want death star!
No, you're an idiot. I was referring to the recent events in real life airports and pointing out that maybe airport is no longer a good name for a product.
You'd think Apple would change the name of airport... I mean, how do they sell the thing?
Apple: "You REALLY want out great product, Airport!" Customer: "Uhh, airport? What's that? Wireless networking that examines all my files for contraband, won't work if there's even a plastic knife in the room, comes with free national guard troopers to keep me from using it for illegal purposes, and is the source of disaster and death? NO THANK YOU!"
These days I just can't understand the hooplah about a console release... A year after launch every single review of every game for every single console compares the games to the "first generation" games and the second gen games almost always kick the asses of the first gen games!
So... Why is everybody so anxious to get their hands on it? Might as well wait a year or two until the hype calms down, the prices drop, and there's a good library of quality games for the system.
I also found my courses to be boring in many ways. Universities have professors who do research, so they teach their students how to do research.... But I'm not at all interested in research! I like to solve problems and build cool things!
I found that my carreer of software engineering is extremely rewarding and not at all like school was. Give it a try and see what you think!
> This is why REBOL will own your Java and C# crap. Because all its apps are SO SMALL.
Umm... Appearently you're a jealous modem user. I have gigs upon gigs for storage of programs and I have a dsl modem for fast downloads. Small applications? I'm sorry, but if that was a goal in designing the language then they were trying to solve a problem that simply doesn't exist.
Oh, and what about runtime performance? Go ahead and tell me that it's anything besides utter crap.
If you back up the solid state with a hard disk, you can dump to disk when the battery gets too low... I worked out a design a while ago for a good solid state drive when (as the poster did) I realized that it would be a possibility. Not that I expect to ever see it, but...:)
I have a lynksis router myself, and it's pretty good. Extremely easy to set up through a web interface, and nice and secure! Does forwarding, etc.
Sure, you COULD build a cheap, old box and set it up with *nix and configure its firewall and..... Scream....
With the lynksis, you:
A) Save power - it uses like 15 watts.
B) Save time - plug it in, enter your username and password (for DSL, anyway), and set your computers to DHCP and BAM! You're up and running.
C) Save space - It's small.
D) Save hassle - No complex config, no shopping for cheap parts...
Personally, I don't care for 10 lbs "portables". If I want top of the line power, I buy a desktop. If I want a laptop, I get something small like a Toshiba Libretto.... But I really would love one of those nice new ones with the crusoe chips. Either that or a sony picturebook.
It's allright to feel superior becuase you use a better operating system than Windows (don't forget though that Linux is not the only quality alternative), but to be an ass about it is wrong.
Well, in general people who feel superior act like they feel superior, which is the same as being an ass about it.
several points:
1) Unsolicited phone calls and snail mail are a decent comparison to email spam, but remember that there's always a human on the other end of that line. Humans stuff envelopes, plus there's the cost of postage and materials. All of these factors cost money and thus keep the unsolicited communcations in check. Email spam comes from one-man operations - some dork who bought a CD of emails and spam proggies of Ebay for $10 - and his 486. Together, they pump out thousands of emails a day. It is the very ability to flood email boxes with spam for no cost that separates it from other forms of unsolicited communication.
Not to mention, that spam is a huge waste of bandwidth - a precious commodity on our internet.
Huh? Incredibly small monitor?? We're talking about a simple backlit LCD. If you're worried about battery life, try lithium-ion batteries instead of AAs. There's nothing impossible about Nintendo providing the GBA with backlighting, keeping the product cheap, and keeping it light weight.
Well, as computers get faster, they also get smaller... So although the gamegear was large, there's no reason for the GBA to be. I mean, look at the Ipaq. It's muuuuch more powerful than the GBA, has a bigger screen, a backlight, and plenty of battery life. Sure it's more expensive, but without the 200mhz processor and 32 megs of ram, and the large touch-screen it would probably be pretty cheap.
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The founder of the company spoke at my RC aircraft club. This is a roadable aircraft, not a flying car. The reasoning behind it is that private flight sometimes leaves you with bad choices such as "I'm flying towards a storm that could cause me to crash and die. Do I 1) turn around and fly to the nearest airport and wait it out, possibly for a day or more 2) fly through it and see if I survive"
This gives you a different choice. You can 3) Land at the nearest airport and drive through the storm.
In addition, because you can drive it home and park it in a garage, you can avoid expensive hanger fees. And it can run on cheaper regular gas instead of the special stuff you have to buy at airports.
It won't be rated for federal crash safety and will have a sticker in the window stating as much.
...How about when 5 planes crash?
But it's still looks like a bunch of aluminum foil and bowls put together by some second grader. I can't believe nasa put the brakes on the X11... We need a better way to get stuff into space! I want death star!
No, you're an idiot. I was referring to the recent events in real life airports and pointing out that maybe airport is no longer a good name for a product.
You'd think Apple would change the name of airport... I mean, how do they sell the thing?
Apple: "You REALLY want out great product, Airport!"
Customer: "Uhh, airport? What's that? Wireless networking that examines all my files for contraband, won't work if there's even a plastic knife in the room, comes with free national guard troopers to keep me from using it for illegal purposes, and is the source of disaster and death? NO THANK YOU!"
How about naming it... Spaceport!
These days I just can't understand the hooplah about a console release... A year after launch every single review of every game for every single console compares the games to the "first generation" games and the second gen games almost always kick the asses of the first gen games!
So... Why is everybody so anxious to get their hands on it? Might as well wait a year or two until the hype calms down, the prices drop, and there's a good library of quality games for the system.
I also found my courses to be boring in many ways. Universities have professors who do research, so they teach their students how to do research.... But I'm not at all interested in research! I like to solve problems and build cool things!
I found that my carreer of software engineering is extremely rewarding and not at all like school was. Give it a try and see what you think!
They changed little bits here and there, but overall it's the same as civ2... Which was the same as civ1...
> This is why REBOL will own your Java and C# crap. Because all its apps are SO SMALL.
Umm... Appearently you're a jealous modem user. I have gigs upon gigs for storage of programs and I have a dsl modem for fast downloads. Small applications? I'm sorry, but if that was a goal in designing the language then they were trying to solve a problem that simply doesn't exist.
Oh, and what about runtime performance? Go ahead and tell me that it's anything besides utter crap.
> On Septermber 11 the minimum jumped way up over here.
I'd say multiple searches per day plus car searches is too far.
If you back up the solid state with a hard disk, you can dump to disk when the battery gets too low... I worked out a design a while ago for a good solid state drive when (as the poster did) I realized that it would be a possibility. Not that I expect to ever see it, but... :)
I have a lynksis router myself, and it's pretty good. Extremely easy to set up through a web interface, and nice and secure! Does forwarding, etc.
Sure, you COULD build a cheap, old box and set it up with *nix and configure its firewall and..... Scream....
With the lynksis, you:
A) Save power - it uses like 15 watts.
B) Save time - plug it in, enter your username and password (for DSL, anyway), and set your computers to DHCP and BAM! You're up and running.
C) Save space - It's small.
D) Save hassle - No complex config, no shopping for cheap parts...
For some reason, I just don't see barely literate juvenile delinquents doing much with a MOO....
Personally, I don't care for 10 lbs "portables". If I want top of the line power, I buy a desktop. If I want a laptop, I get something small like a Toshiba Libretto.... But I really would love one of those nice new ones with the crusoe chips. Either that or a sony picturebook.
It's allright to feel superior becuase you use a better operating system than Windows (don't forget though that Linux is not the only quality alternative), but to be an ass about it is wrong.
Well, in general people who feel superior act like they feel superior, which is the same as being an ass about it.
several points: 1) Unsolicited phone calls and snail mail are a decent comparison to email spam, but remember that there's always a human on the other end of that line. Humans stuff envelopes, plus there's the cost of postage and materials. All of these factors cost money and thus keep the unsolicited communcations in check. Email spam comes from one-man operations - some dork who bought a CD of emails and spam proggies of Ebay for $10 - and his 486. Together, they pump out thousands of emails a day. It is the very ability to flood email boxes with spam for no cost that separates it from other forms of unsolicited communication. Not to mention, that spam is a huge waste of bandwidth - a precious commodity on our internet.
Huh? Incredibly small monitor?? We're talking about a simple backlit LCD. If you're worried about battery life, try lithium-ion batteries instead of AAs. There's nothing impossible about Nintendo providing the GBA with backlighting, keeping the product cheap, and keeping it light weight.
Well, as computers get faster, they also get smaller... So although the gamegear was large, there's no reason for the GBA to be. I mean, look at the Ipaq. It's muuuuch more powerful than the GBA, has a bigger screen, a backlight, and plenty of battery life. Sure it's more expensive, but without the 200mhz processor and 32 megs of ram, and the large touch-screen it would probably be pretty cheap.