I've been thinking about this for some time. A network of floating pumps across the belt where hurricanes form, solar powered, to pump cool water from a few tens of meters down up to the surface. When a depression is spotted, just turn on the pumps in its path to reduce the amount of surface heat to feed it. My oceanographer friend tells me I'm talking nonsense.
The only reason to compare fuel volume is one of convenience. How far can I travel in a vehicle that devotes a given amount of space for its fuel storage. However, we don't compare electric vehicles based on how much space their batteries take up to travel a given distance. Comparing gallons of hydrogen with gallons of gasoline and making it look like a fuel economy comparison is totally misleading.
Why is it that you Americans instantly react to stories like this with "I could crush that like a bug under my monster truck"? What the fuck is wrong with you people?
I don't know of any phones that last a whole day of constant use, and I don't see why I'd need it. My iPhone usually lasts a week between recharges, unless I play games on it or spend hours making calls. I've never carried a replacement battery for a mobile phone, although I have occasionally popped the battery to turn it off quickly, like if I'm in a meeting and it goes off.
I don't see what battery replacement has to do with data wiping, I don't think the iPhone's memory is volatile. I don't know how reliable the built-in "erase all" feature is, but it spends an hour overwriting the user data area so that should be good enough.
A user-changeable battery needs an easy release mechanism, clips, springs, all of which take up a lot of space in order to make the open-replace-close operation simple and robust. Making it a shop-only operation allows them to save on all this overhead, which is more to do with saving space than money. Can you change the battery on your rechargeable shaver, your rechargeable electric toothbrush, or your cordless drill? Well, the cordless drill you probably can, I think they are detachable. But the point stands, there are plenty of rechargeable appliances where the manufacturer chose not to incorporate easy and robust access to the battery.
Unfortunately, while social intelligence is powerful(since we've been burning brainpower on social problems longer than we've been human), it is also an excellent way to bring nearly invisible and highly emotionally misleading contrafactual assumptions into your thinking.
Ah, but part of the problem space of NASA engineers is one of communication and public relations, and so if anthropomorphizing (dammit that's hard to type) the machine helps both in terms of team motivation and PR, then why not?
I think that no one is going to trust an inflatable car.
If they show footage of it surviving major impacts that would crush other vehicles, and surviving a full clip of AK47 ammo without bursting, maybe they might. (the bullets just go straight through, though, so you might not survive...)
It was all over the trade channel on World of Warcraft last night, and people logging in or entering a city would see "He's definitely dead, BBC are reporting it" and say "Who are we talking about?", and some wit said "Obama" which caused equal quantities of outrage and hilarity.
"You need youngsters who are deep into this stuff... If they have been slightly naughty boys, very often they really enjoy stopping other naughty boys," he said.
Well, if they actually work, shouldn't they be in our past and present as well?
Because they haven't been invented yet. As soon as they are invented, then they will be in our past as well. Duh, did you skip Chronodynamics 101, or did you just think "I'll come back and study it when I invent my time machine"?
If someone that you know (and allowed access via your cell) was downloading kiddie porn on their phone, I guess that when the rozzers come knocking, you tell them who has had access to your cell, and they arrest your friend. After all, if you scan your network traffic and see kiddie porn, what are you going to do? Tell your friend to stop, or call the cops? Unless you are prepared to shop your friend to the authorities, you can't avoid being inconvenienced at her majesty's (or Obama Kenobi's) pleasure just by knowing about it.
Nice idea - but in the UK it is illegal to record a conversation (including text web chat such as IRC) without the permission of the people involved. You could listen in, maybe, but not record it. Even then you might be infringing some telecommunications regulations by deliberately snooping on a telephone conversation even if it is using your infrastructure (and by setting up their phone number as being specifically allowed, you can't even claim ignorance)
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I've not seen any "hate speech" against Scientology - "ridicule speech", lots of that, but I think it's ok to ridicule something that's ridiculous.
It would make it even worse, the updraft caused by the explosion would suck in more air even faster and just add to the problem.
I've been thinking about this for some time. A network of floating pumps across the belt where hurricanes form, solar powered, to pump cool water from a few tens of meters down up to the surface. When a depression is spotted, just turn on the pumps in its path to reduce the amount of surface heat to feed it. My oceanographer friend tells me I'm talking nonsense.
There's a "zombies" joke in there somewhere.
The only reason to compare fuel volume is one of convenience. How far can I travel in a vehicle that devotes a given amount of space for its fuel storage. However, we don't compare electric vehicles based on how much space their batteries take up to travel a given distance. Comparing gallons of hydrogen with gallons of gasoline and making it look like a fuel economy comparison is totally misleading.
Why is it that you Americans instantly react to stories like this with "I could crush that like a bug under my monster truck"? What the fuck is wrong with you people?
I just hit Shift-Refresh and the "BETA" suffix is no longer there on Gmail.
If you already have them, it might be inconvenient to have them all replaced.
Clearly your logic skills aren't "excellent" if you mistake a missing affirmation for a negation.
I couldn't install Google Earth without also automatically downloading and installing Chrome, I had to separately remove Chrome afterwards.
So if someone disagrees with you, they are an apologist? Why not just say "I'm right, shut up"?
I don't know of any phones that last a whole day of constant use, and I don't see why I'd need it. My iPhone usually lasts a week between recharges, unless I play games on it or spend hours making calls. I've never carried a replacement battery for a mobile phone, although I have occasionally popped the battery to turn it off quickly, like if I'm in a meeting and it goes off.
I don't see what battery replacement has to do with data wiping, I don't think the iPhone's memory is volatile. I don't know how reliable the built-in "erase all" feature is, but it spends an hour overwriting the user data area so that should be good enough.
This is true. They're intended to be used a while and thrown away. They're priced accordingly.
I thought, however, we were talking about an iPhone.
Which you can take to the store to have the battery replaced, which you can't with shavers and toothbrushes.
A colleague of mine dropped his iPhone in the toilet, and it survived just fine, so yes, that's another good point I forgot. Thank you.
A user-changeable battery needs an easy release mechanism, clips, springs, all of which take up a lot of space in order to make the open-replace-close operation simple and robust. Making it a shop-only operation allows them to save on all this overhead, which is more to do with saving space than money. Can you change the battery on your rechargeable shaver, your rechargeable electric toothbrush, or your cordless drill? Well, the cordless drill you probably can, I think they are detachable. But the point stands, there are plenty of rechargeable appliances where the manufacturer chose not to incorporate easy and robust access to the battery.
Unfortunately, while social intelligence is powerful(since we've been burning brainpower on social problems longer than we've been human), it is also an excellent way to bring nearly invisible and highly emotionally misleading contrafactual assumptions into your thinking.
Ah, but part of the problem space of NASA engineers is one of communication and public relations, and so if anthropomorphizing (dammit that's hard to type) the machine helps both in terms of team motivation and PR, then why not?
(Plus, robots hate being anthropomorphized)
Only the straight ones. Gay robots enjoy it.
Car batteries are made of lead, that's why they are so heavy. These are not lead batteries.
I think that no one is going to trust an inflatable car.
If they show footage of it surviving major impacts that would crush other vehicles, and surviving a full clip of AK47 ammo without bursting, maybe they might. (the bullets just go straight through, though, so you might not survive...)
Do you really think that the US army would open fire on its own citizens? Well, apart from the time they did, but that was the National Guard.
It was all over the trade channel on World of Warcraft last night, and people logging in or entering a city would see "He's definitely dead, BBC are reporting it" and say "Who are we talking about?", and some wit said "Obama" which caused equal quantities of outrage and hilarity.
Lord West:
"You need youngsters who are deep into this stuff... If they have been slightly naughty boys, very often they really enjoy stopping other naughty boys," he said.
Well, if they actually work, shouldn't they be in our past and present as well?
Because they haven't been invented yet. As soon as they are invented, then they will be in our past as well. Duh, did you skip Chronodynamics 101, or did you just think "I'll come back and study it when I invent my time machine"?
If someone that you know (and allowed access via your cell) was downloading kiddie porn on their phone, I guess that when the rozzers come knocking, you tell them who has had access to your cell, and they arrest your friend. After all, if you scan your network traffic and see kiddie porn, what are you going to do? Tell your friend to stop, or call the cops? Unless you are prepared to shop your friend to the authorities, you can't avoid being inconvenienced at her majesty's (or Obama Kenobi's) pleasure just by knowing about it.
Nice idea - but in the UK it is illegal to record a conversation (including text web chat such as IRC) without the permission of the people involved. You could listen in, maybe, but not record it. Even then you might be infringing some telecommunications regulations by deliberately snooping on a telephone conversation even if it is using your infrastructure (and by setting up their phone number as being specifically allowed, you can't even claim ignorance)