Anyway, what I was trying to say is that if you want the thing to work with a fold-up solar panel front cover (and something to wrap your fingers around), you won't be able to do it on the inside (the wiring would almost demand a solid hinge; it might break otherwise, and if it's a solid hinge, it's all too prone to slip out of clumsy users' hands... if it's a flip-and-fold-in cover, you'd have to hold it up to the sun, not the position most conducive to work).
For one thing, if you plan to sit it on your forearm while you use it, the solar cells can't be on the inside of the front cover (unless you live on some odd planet where the sun is underground and the dirt is transparent).
What Apple did in a few lines of shell script, it takes Windows a complicated installer to do. I personally plan to switch to the Mac platform for its superior file deletion capabilities.
Well, as I was going to continue before my train of thought was derailed by an ultra-sensitive touchpad:
Of course, it's not going to be all science. What do the scientists do when they have to drop their work and babysit a billionare who's never been on a space station, much less a new one?
The ISS only has a handful of modules, only one of which is used by scientists. With 6 people, in the event of a catastrophic depressurization, they will not be able to survive for long; the two escape modules are at opposite ends of the station, and they each carry only 3 people -- anyone try running in microgravity lately? Until the station becomes a great superstructure in outer space, there won't be much going on -- until then, people are going to be too busy worrying about whether they've put together the station correctly (thank god their instructions aren't from IKEA; they'd never finish).
Anyway, that's enough ranting for one night.
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All your base... oh, what's the point?
Tito complaining that space was boring is like someone paying millions of dollars to go to the Playboy Mansion only to find Hef sitting in an old Barcalounger drinking beer and watching TV.
Oooh... Another thing to make Macintoshes prohibitively expensive. This kind of knee-jerk standards-changing is what got Apple into their 5% market share mess in the first place. The only people who buy Macs nowadays are schools, and no school I know of is going to plunk down 2 grand for a monitor that'll probably be broken in a year...
What'll they think of next? Obsoleting old apps with Mac OS X 10.1? Color requirements for iMac software?
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Holy shazbot, Batman! I need caffeine.
Anyway, what I was trying to say is that if you want the thing to work with a fold-up solar panel front cover (and something to wrap your fingers around), you won't be able to do it on the inside (the wiring would almost demand a solid hinge; it might break otherwise, and if it's a solid hinge, it's all too prone to slip out of clumsy users' hands... if it's a flip-and-fold-in cover, you'd have to hold it up to the sun, not the position most conducive to work).
For one thing, if you plan to sit it on your forearm while you use it, the solar cells can't be on the inside of the front cover (unless you live on some odd planet where the sun is underground and the dirt is transparent).
Look at this innovation!
What Apple did in a few lines of shell script, it takes Windows a complicated installer to do. I personally plan to switch to the Mac platform for its superior file deletion capabilities.
Back in my day, we didn't even have fork(). We only had spoon().
Well, as I was going to continue before my train of thought was derailed by an ultra-sensitive touchpad: Of course, it's not going to be all science. What do the scientists do when they have to drop their work and babysit a billionare who's never been on a space station, much less a new one? The ISS only has a handful of modules, only one of which is used by scientists. With 6 people, in the event of a catastrophic depressurization, they will not be able to survive for long; the two escape modules are at opposite ends of the station, and they each carry only 3 people -- anyone try running in microgravity lately? Until the station becomes a great superstructure in outer space, there won't be much going on -- until then, people are going to be too busy worrying about whether they've put together the station correctly (thank god their instructions aren't from IKEA; they'd never finish). Anyway, that's enough ranting for one night. -- All your base... oh, what's the point?
Tito complaining that space was boring is like someone paying millions of dollars to go to the Playboy Mansion only to find Hef sitting in an old Barcalounger drinking beer and watching TV.
Oooh... Another thing to make Macintoshes prohibitively expensive. This kind of knee-jerk standards-changing is what got Apple into their 5% market share mess in the first place. The only people who buy Macs nowadays are schools, and no school I know of is going to plunk down 2 grand for a monitor that'll probably be broken in a year... What'll they think of next? Obsoleting old apps with Mac OS X 10.1? Color requirements for iMac software?