That will work for Microsoft since they will make ".windows" the default. The others will just confuse the public, who are firmly convinced that all domain names end in ".com".
> Secondly, are you suggesting a rocket powered car would go go faster without its wheels > too (without being given skis, or wings and control surfaces)?
It has wings and control surfaces: that's how it stays on the ground. Change the trim a bit and off you go. Literally.
> it would probably just slide along a bit at first...
Obviously, it needs wheels for taxiing. I suspect that the changes needed to turn it into a ground-effect machine would not be major, though. Then you could use lighter wheels with less drag (maybe even retractable) and get more speed.
How about this: it's a land vehicle if it normally remains within 10% of it's length of the land?
> Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you may generally publicize your > use of the Services; however, you may not issue any press release with respect to the > Services or this Agreement without our prior written consent.
In other words, there will be no negative reviews published.
> Same goes for Formula 1 cars -- if it weren't for wings which push down, they'd take > flight.
A short flight as they lose thrust when they lose contact with the ground.
> At present, if it's intended to travel on the ground with wheels, at what point (other > than the completely arbitrary one you've given) does it stop being a car??
Google isn't selling it. T-Mobile is. Perhaps they are stuck in that old-fashioned marketing model where you actually try to make sure that there is enough product on hand the first day to make sure everyone gets what they want.
24 hour time? How silly. That's not metric at all. Everyone should use TAI. No zones, no DST, no silly mixture of six different bases, no leap anythings: just simple integers.
Slashdot Mirror
Solid and reliable, if a bit lacking in features.
> However, this isn't the first time short term memory has been used in computing.
No. There were mercury delay lines, for example.
> I can remember (pardon the pun) memory which had to be refreshed...
It's called DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory). It's the usual kind.
> It isn't technology's problem if stupid people can't understand it.
No, it is the problem of companies trying to use it to reach mass audiences. That's why AOL may not make use of '.aol' though they may register it.
> Not, we are talking about a body that is subordinated to "the people" here.
Then we surely are not talking about the ITU: it's a UN agency.
That will work for Microsoft since they will make ".windows" the default. The others will just confuse the public, who are firmly convinced that all domain names end in ".com".
...".spam"?
> ...and that the real incident just had the car on a railroad track that led into an
> abandoned mine...
I hate to have to break it to you, but that was made up as well. There was no "real incident" (yet).
> Apparently, they can drive upside down at 150 mph, sticking to the roof by the downforce
> they'd generate.
Where's the video?
> Secondly, are you suggesting a rocket powered car would go go faster without its wheels
> too (without being given skis, or wings and control surfaces)?
It has wings and control surfaces: that's how it stays on the ground. Change the trim a bit and off you go. Literally.
> it would probably just slide along a bit at first...
Obviously, it needs wheels for taxiing. I suspect that the changes needed to turn it into a ground-effect machine would not be major, though. Then you could use lighter wheels with less drag (maybe even retractable) and get more speed.
How about this: it's a land vehicle if it normally remains within 10% of it's length of the land?
> Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you may generally publicize your
> use of the Services; however, you may not issue any press release with respect to the
> Services or this Agreement without our prior written consent.
In other words, there will be no negative reviews published.
You've described timesharing.
> Why doing this?
Why do anything other than squat in the mud and wait for the sun to go out?
> Same goes for Formula 1 cars -- if it weren't for wings which push down, they'd take
> flight.
A short flight as they lose thrust when they lose contact with the ground.
> At present, if it's intended to travel on the ground with wheels, at what point (other
> than the completely arbitrary one you've given) does it stop being a car??
Another completely arbitrary one, evidently.
Would they go faster or slower without wheels?
Well, at least they are driven by the wheels. These rocket "cars" would go faster without any.
...when it is not kept on the ground by gravity?
> I didn't RTFA
You didn't miss anything. TFA is so content-free that it is impossible to tell what the hell this is about.
Good reviews are expensive. Perhaps T-Mobile simply failed to budget enough for them.
Google isn't selling it. T-Mobile is. Perhaps they are stuck in that old-fashioned marketing model where you actually try to make sure that there is enough product on hand the first day to make sure everyone gets what they want.
True. They can probably even spell oscilloscope.
> You're a farmer...
True. And like most farmers, I think DST is really stupid.
24 hour time? How silly. That's not metric at all. Everyone should use TAI. No zones, no DST, no silly mixture of six different bases, no leap anythings: just simple integers.
...anyone on any computer on your network can do anything at all on any of your Windows boxes. What could be more compatible than that?
Christmas 1914
I think you mean Greek soldiers.