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You know, this sounds a lot like Billy Boy's behavior while he was still in college. If memory serves he was always sitting on the source code for the programs he wrote on those old switch-box computers, refusing to show anyone how he did something.
Yeah.. this definitely reminds me of those 'Behold The Power Of Cheese' commercials. Now it not only will get Santa to leave you a car or bring your imaginary friend to life.. it'll debug your network security too.
You know, this sounds not unlike the YF-21 from the Macross Plus straight-to-video series. All we need now is a direct-from-brain interface system and we'll be in business.
Easy... think physics here. It's easy to shoot somebody up into the air but it's a little tricky to get folks to go into orbit. Too little power, you get a parabola, too much, they never come back. Far better to get the mechanism's bug ironed out with defnitely parabolic arcs before getting really ambitious.
We've known all about the creative malfunctions of computers when they get hot for years now, this is nothing new. But I'm not sure I'm too keen on the thought of something resident in the hardware throttling the rating on the processor when it overheats.
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quantum bogodynamics/kwon'tm boh`goh-di:-nam'iks/ n.
A theory that characterizes the universe in terms of bogon sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and suits in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpayers and computers), and bogosity potential fields. Bogon absorption, of course, causes human beings to behave mindlessly and machines to fail (and may also cause both to emit secondary bogons); however, the precise mechanics of the bogon-computron interaction are not yet understood and remain to be elucidated. Quantum bogodynamics is most often invoked to explain the sharp increase in hardware and software failures in the presence of suits; the latter emit bogons, which the former absorb. See bogon, computron, suit, psyton.
Here we have yet another shining example of people who are unwilling / unable to think for themselves. The depressing thing is, there are plenty of people who, after OnStar, are perfectly willing to have their personal information whored out to the bloody universe.
Car accidents and auto-reschedualing appointments? I'm sorry, but I think I'd be more concerned about living to tell the tale. Hell, rescheduling my own apointments by myself will give me something to do while I'm recovering from surgery to remove the dashboard from my skull. Take my mind off of other, more pressing matters.
This reminds me of some variety of oil found in a seed that some one discovered was capable of being poured directly into a disel engine and it would work just like disel.
Or was it jet feul?
Argh.. I can't remember where I heard it now, but it was a rather interesting trick. I remember seeinga demonstration where he shelled the nut and stuck it out over a bunsen burner with a pair of tweezers. Nut went up flambe.
Also.. Ford is presently working on an alcohol-burning engine that actualy performs better running on pure alohol than an equivalent gasoline engine. The test car it's put in is named 'Super Stallion'.
The problem is that, on the average, most parents no longer seem to really give a damn about their children anymore. Feral children scampering to and fro without much in the way of parental supervision, simply because the parents are too self-absorbed to notice their children are recreating scenes from Lord of the Flies.
The situation of parents unable to care for their own children is on the rise, and the US government seems to have come to the conclution that, if parents aren't going to mind their children then somebody has to.
You don't use it? You lose it...
Maybe full-on. Cyberpunk-style creches will be next, ya know? The word's already in common use.
IMHO, the largest problem in many American cities today is our over-reliance on the automobile. Quite frankly, there are a high percentage of drivers on American roads who have no business being behind the wheel...
There's an over-emphasis on large cars with powerful engines, when with rising gas prices we really ought to be decreasing our gasoline intake with smaller cars.
I'm not just talking about the environment, though.. I'm talking about the sheer cost of feul.
Ultimately, I think the biggest flaw in the Osprey design is that the dratted thing requires a computer to even remotely consider staying aloft.
It doesn't matter how much override ability you give the pilot, during that delicate transition between VTOL and flight modes.. the Ospery is as vulnerable as an infant. Don't buy the hype, that plane is dangerous.
Um, haven't we heard these Imminent Death Of Internet reports before? Like.. every couple of months? There comes a point when you just have to look at the reports and wonder when they ceased to have any sort of punch behind them at all.
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Might explain why there's something that always seems to smell in quantum mechanics...
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That's what extra fans are for...
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