Thats why modern cities are designed with long straight boulevards. Not to be architecturally pleasing, but to give the kaiju a clear run across the landscape without running into buildings.
Bricks are designed to be easily handled by itty bitty human hands, and they knit together nicer to form a stronger wall than, say, good old wattle and daub. They also weather well.
On the other hand, why are we still using a material thats extremely heat conductive to build walls? They are as 19th century as the internal combustion engine. Lets move up the technology and build prefab walls out of aerogel composites in a gigafactory, then cut to shape on site. Or do away with walls entirely and just have carbon fibre frames and glass. Tall buildings could then easily be constructed faster by building the upper layers first on the floor, then hiking them up into the sky and leave all the heavy industry at ground floor.
Amazon may offer more films for streaming, but you've got to pay. The actual amount of stuff to watch included free with you subscription is dismal compared to Netflix.
Instead of pulling into a supercharger and spending up to an hour recharging, couldn't they just pop my battery out and put a fully pre-charged on back in? I would have thought a medium sized bloke with a trolley and spanner could do it in a couple of minutes, about the same time as a petrol refuel. It would be pot-luck on how much life was left in the battery, but as long as the station guaranteed, say, 75%, I wouldn't complain. So does Tesla follow Apple on the battery replacement issue?
The NZ government defines UFB as a typical connection of 100 mbs download.
The New Zealand population, for all the image of isolated sheep farmers, is unually urban. 85% of the population live in towns/ cities, and the cities of Auckland and Wellington alone account for 45% of the population. Altogether, to take another 8 years to get some 4 million people in a well ordered society up to 100 mbs is alarmingly unambitious.
Everytime I start seeing comments on the internet that XKCD just isn't want it used to be, along comes a mega comic like this one.
Though I'm still hoping for the reappearance of the red spiders.
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Keep talking to the cat four times in a minute. On the fifth time, chances are you've started to upset it and its getting ready to go someplace else.
Thats why modern cities are designed with long straight boulevards. Not to be architecturally pleasing, but to give the kaiju a clear run across the landscape without running into buildings.
So long as you work without rhythm, you will not attact the Shai Hulud.
Bricks are designed to be easily handled by itty bitty human hands, and they knit together nicer to form a stronger wall than, say, good old wattle and daub. They also weather well. On the other hand, why are we still using a material thats extremely heat conductive to build walls? They are as 19th century as the internal combustion engine. Lets move up the technology and build prefab walls out of aerogel composites in a gigafactory, then cut to shape on site. Or do away with walls entirely and just have carbon fibre frames and glass. Tall buildings could then easily be constructed faster by building the upper layers first on the floor, then hiking them up into the sky and leave all the heavy industry at ground floor.
Amazon may offer more films for streaming, but you've got to pay. The actual amount of stuff to watch included free with you subscription is dismal compared to Netflix.
Google is working on that. Then the uprising will begin.
Instead of pulling into a supercharger and spending up to an hour recharging, couldn't they just pop my battery out and put a fully pre-charged on back in? I would have thought a medium sized bloke with a trolley and spanner could do it in a couple of minutes, about the same time as a petrol refuel. It would be pot-luck on how much life was left in the battery, but as long as the station guaranteed, say, 75%, I wouldn't complain. So does Tesla follow Apple on the battery replacement issue?
Its called entropy.
And now he's got the funding for Gore 2020. Yay!
The NZ government defines UFB as a typical connection of 100 mbs download. The New Zealand population, for all the image of isolated sheep farmers, is unually urban. 85% of the population live in towns/ cities, and the cities of Auckland and Wellington alone account for 45% of the population. Altogether, to take another 8 years to get some 4 million people in a well ordered society up to 100 mbs is alarmingly unambitious.
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A zombie Turing. One that fails its own Turing test.
Everytime I start seeing comments on the internet that XKCD just isn't want it used to be, along comes a mega comic like this one. Though I'm still hoping for the reappearance of the red spiders.
Freedom is indeed slavery.
It already into the realms of quantum computers. It clearly has a wave function.