Bell didn't get a patent for the idea of a telephone - people had been trying to make telephones for decades. He got the patent for a working implementation of a telephone.
This is what makes all those "Hey, I saw that idea 20 years ago in a Bond movie" posts so laughable. Da Vinci drew sketches of aircraft hundreds of years ago. That didn't stop the Wright brothers from patenting their designs.
Plutonium is a heavy metal and - even ignoring the radiological effects - settles into the body the same way lead and other heavy metals do.
That's what makes it so lethal as a radiological substance. It gets accumulated by the body where it can cause on-going damage instead just passing through.
I can't believe you're the only one to notice this - All these other posters freaking about privacy, too.:-P
Hasn't it occurred to anyone that we don't have the technology to make a cloth that can display a coherent image and still flutter as the wearer moves about?
As another check - what physics or computer science department would list "Ghost in the Shell" as a reference?
Shaped charges don't do the trick against modern armor.
The way it works is this: the outer shell is made of some very hard material that cracks the armor, destroying the outer shell in the process. inside is a depleted uranium slug clad with copper. The heavy slug penetrates the cracked armor at such a high velocity that the copper boils, acting as a lubricant to allow the slug to continue to penetrate the armor.
You'd have a heck of a time developing a non-metallic material with the right characteristics to replace the copper in these rounds.
Apparently one of these gentlemen was responsible for writing, all on his own, an open-source replacement OS for the HP-48 called "MetaKernel". It was so much better/faster than the built-in software that HP licensed it for use in the HP-49 series.
So there's no problem with the HP emulation from an OS perspective.
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Did you really say I should look for WTF compatibility?
Hrm. I can hear the slogan now....
If it doesn't make you say "WTF" it isn't from Microsoft!
The name iPod Ratt was already taken.
Future models in the line will include the iPod Twisted Sister and the iPod Def Leppard. The whole series is referred to as the "iPod Hair Band".
Glad you still had the link - it's not visible on HPCalc's main page any more.
The older version of the site showed that it's a clamshell case - the bottom half flips down to reveal a large calculator style keyboard.
:-P
They used to have pics of their prototype spread out over the bench, with all the chips in view and the keys on the keyboard all hand-labelled.
I guess they've gotten funding since then.
A quick check of comp.sys.hp48 will show hundreds of posts complaining about key bounce and other issues.
I'm fairly disappointed with my 49G+, I'm looking forward to this machine, which was designed by some of the old HP48 engineers, I believe.
The only fan mail I ever received was for an "adventure game" I wrote for the HP-41CV.
Guy wrote me a 9 page letter explaining to me how I wrote my own program.
they're for implementations.
Bell didn't get a patent for the idea of a telephone - people had been trying to make telephones for decades. He got the patent for a working implementation of a telephone.
This is what makes all those "Hey, I saw that idea 20 years ago in a Bond movie" posts so laughable. Da Vinci drew sketches of aircraft hundreds of years ago. That didn't stop the Wright brothers from patenting their designs.
Of course, many of his sponsors support off-shoring. I don't see him giving the money back.
Being publicly shown as being arrested is the moral equivalent of rape.
Did you just object to a science fiction movie on the grounds that the financial backing of the characters is unrealistic?
Perhaps - but certainly not new.
Herbie the Love Bug
and, of course, his cartoon brother,
speed buggy
herbie the love bug?
Got any maple syrup?
See The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun for Asimov's exploration of how a robot could "commit murder" while staying true to the 3 laws.
Plutonium is a heavy metal and - even ignoring the radiological effects - settles into the body the same way lead and other heavy metals do.
That's what makes it so lethal as a radiological substance. It gets accumulated by the body where it can cause on-going damage instead just passing through.
Don't feel bad. *I* got it, anyway. ;-)
I can't believe you're the only one to notice this - All these other posters freaking about privacy, too. :-P
Hasn't it occurred to anyone that we don't have the technology to make a cloth that can display a coherent image and still flutter as the wearer moves about?
As another check - what physics or computer science department would list "Ghost in the Shell" as a reference?
Shaped charges don't do the trick against modern armor.
The way it works is this: the outer shell is made of some very hard material that cracks the armor, destroying the outer shell in the process. inside is a depleted uranium slug clad with copper. The heavy slug penetrates the cracked armor at such a high velocity that the copper boils, acting as a lubricant to allow the slug to continue to penetrate the armor.
You'd have a heck of a time developing a non-metallic material with the right characteristics to replace the copper in these rounds.
I want to see you touch someone else's computer screen with your mouse pointer.
Apparently one of these gentlemen was responsible for writing, all on his own, an open-source replacement OS for the HP-48 called "MetaKernel". It was so much better/faster than the built-in software that HP licensed it for use in the HP-49 series.
So there's no problem with the HP emulation from an OS perspective.
HP's haven't used keystroke programming since the 1980s.
The 48 and 49 series use a lisp-ish language called RPL.
Feel free to prove him wrong, then.
You stop using our backbone and our servers and our protocols and we'll stop pestering you.
but it wasn't that many years ago that bad weather could degrade dial-up connections - including snow stretching bad or weak connections.
by someone who had learned of the hole thru Microsoft's technical explanations of an old hole, I don't see why such a level of detail is a good thing.