But that's what the market seems to want: toys. I'm old school, I would never fork out money for a toy, I have a hard enough time buying a laptop (what do you mean I can't buy a new video card/motherboard/whatever and I have to junk it if I want more?). BUT, the "iPod" market doesn't care about what I care about. It wants shiny. It wants "oooh look neat". And it gives ZERO shits about stuff the older generation cares about: battery life, FLOPS, upgrade-ability, compatibility. No, it's "brand name, shiny, glittery, light, small, does it make my buddies jealous"? That's it.
You are assuming that every other pilot is as responsible as you, and setting his transponder properly. What about a drone pilot who, due to budget cuts, doesn't even know what a transponder is except for another line in a checklist, and doesn't really care because it's not like HE is sitting in the aircraft. Worst that can happen to him is he gets fired, right? Didn't want that stupid $12/hr job anyway...
No, I think relying on "transponders" is a bad, bad idea. Either drones get their own airspace/altitude and NOTAM'd restricted areas so they can take off and land, and VFR pilots are kept out of that altitude, or I don't see it working at all.
Radar means no more stealth - drones are built to be stealthy. It's supposed to be "covert" surveillance. And radar means you need a lot of power, which means mass to generate that power, which means you need a bigger engine and a bigger airframe, etc etc etc.
Defense contractors: But boss, I don't understand. We've been working 30 years and we've spent 100 billion dollars to get this thing to home in and hit any target you designate with a high probability, and now you want us to design one that does exactly the opposite? I suppose I could point you to one of our earlier test models...
Oh I have, but I live in a small, civilized country, where all its laws and codes fit into one medium sized cardboard box, not that nightmare of a country where it has become fashionable to see who can get the highest page count on their bills this session ("let's pass it and then we can find out what's in it") legal system.
There are a great deal of ways, some more hardware intensive than others. But assuming you have a video card that isn't 10 years old, a male-male HDMI cable is by far the cheapest (under $10 unless you have insane distances to deal with) solution. This also assumes, of course, that your TV supports HDMI. If you're using an older TV well, remember, once you upgrade to color you'll realize what you've been missing all these years.
If you buy a chocolate bar with that dollar today and stash it under your mattress for a century, it will be inedible at best. Why should it retain value in paper form but not in chocolate form?
income, not equity. I don't care how many billions you have, if you have no income you will eat your way through them. If your income is larger than your expenses, you can fuck up as many times as you want, risk as much as you want, and you will always have more today than you had yesterday.
Rofl. Yeah, money in the bank. Julius Baer, Switzerland, in several european currencies. Tokyo, Japan, in several asian currencies. OK how about financial instruments. Short term bonds in dollars (US, Canadian, Australian, NZ), euros, pounds, reals, yen, rubles... Stocks, in several stock exchanges around the world, in diversified sectors. Gold, silver, platinum, copper, diamonds (and I ain't talking jewelry or certificates here). Now let's talk real estate....
Seriously, you are full of shit. The rich don't give a damn about inflation in one country or the next. What they DO care about is how to profit from the situation. There's always profit, if you're big enough.
Background apps are suspended, thus using no battery life.
How is THAT multi-tasking? That's just saving a program state somewhere and pulling it back up on demand. Multi-tasking is when you are actually RUNNING a program in the background, although with fewer percentage of CPU cycles.
Yeah sure, fanboy. Stop bitching about having bought the most expensive phone on the market and buy more stuff because their engineers are incapable of thought they're too busy spending all that money.
Yeah, the charger that is so convenient you have to leave your phone on the floor to charge because the cable is so short you can't plug it into a wall socket and say, put the phone on a night table. I hear you can buy a (slightly) longer cable for $50 though. To which I say fuck you, Apple.
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But that's what the market seems to want: toys. I'm old school, I would never fork out money for a toy, I have a hard enough time buying a laptop (what do you mean I can't buy a new video card/motherboard/whatever and I have to junk it if I want more?). BUT, the "iPod" market doesn't care about what I care about. It wants shiny. It wants "oooh look neat". And it gives ZERO shits about stuff the older generation cares about: battery life, FLOPS, upgrade-ability, compatibility. No, it's "brand name, shiny, glittery, light, small, does it make my buddies jealous"? That's it.
You are assuming that every other pilot is as responsible as you, and setting his transponder properly. What about a drone pilot who, due to budget cuts, doesn't even know what a transponder is except for another line in a checklist, and doesn't really care because it's not like HE is sitting in the aircraft. Worst that can happen to him is he gets fired, right? Didn't want that stupid $12/hr job anyway...
No, I think relying on "transponders" is a bad, bad idea. Either drones get their own airspace/altitude and NOTAM'd restricted areas so they can take off and land, and VFR pilots are kept out of that altitude, or I don't see it working at all.
Radar means no more stealth - drones are built to be stealthy. It's supposed to be "covert" surveillance. And radar means you need a lot of power, which means mass to generate that power, which means you need a bigger engine and a bigger airframe, etc etc etc.
Then no plane would ever land at a commercial airport with a TSA presence?
Defense contractors: But boss, I don't understand. We've been working 30 years and we've spent 100 billion dollars to get this thing to home in and hit any target you designate with a high probability, and now you want us to design one that does exactly the opposite? I suppose I could point you to one of our earlier test models...
It works for what I need it to work for, that's all I care about. But I think you're missing the whole point.
Oh I have, but I live in a small, civilized country, where all its laws and codes fit into one medium sized cardboard box, not that nightmare of a country where it has become fashionable to see who can get the highest page count on their bills this session ("let's pass it and then we can find out what's in it") legal system.
If you are an attorney then on would think you would welcome fewer competitors.
Link rot could be "a threat to future scholarship"? WHO SAID TRAINING FEWER LAWYERS WAS A BAD THING? I just don't see the problem.
There are a great deal of ways, some more hardware intensive than others. But assuming you have a video card that isn't 10 years old, a male-male HDMI cable is by far the cheapest (under $10 unless you have insane distances to deal with) solution. This also assumes, of course, that your TV supports HDMI. If you're using an older TV well, remember, once you upgrade to color you'll realize what you've been missing all these years.
Yeah I bought a 25 foot one the other day for $8.
Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want.
Thus turning the console into - dun dun dunnnnnn - a desktop?
I like reading about comments on comments about stories about comments about comments.
If you buy a chocolate bar with that dollar today and stash it under your mattress for a century, it will be inedible at best. Why should it retain value in paper form but not in chocolate form?
Gold, on the other hand...
income, not equity. I don't care how many billions you have, if you have no income you will eat your way through them. If your income is larger than your expenses, you can fuck up as many times as you want, risk as much as you want, and you will always have more today than you had yesterday.
Your tax bracket is suddenly 30% instead of 20%... oh wait, what? People always forget this amazing benefit (for the government) of inflation.
Rofl. Yeah, money in the bank. Julius Baer, Switzerland, in several european currencies. Tokyo, Japan, in several asian currencies. OK how about financial instruments. Short term bonds in dollars (US, Canadian, Australian, NZ), euros, pounds, reals, yen, rubles... Stocks, in several stock exchanges around the world, in diversified sectors. Gold, silver, platinum, copper, diamonds (and I ain't talking jewelry or certificates here). Now let's talk real estate....
Seriously, you are full of shit. The rich don't give a damn about inflation in one country or the next. What they DO care about is how to profit from the situation. There's always profit, if you're big enough.
You realize it's a comment and not an argument at all, right?
No one seems to care, apparently.
I think VESA was 32 bits per pixel IRRC.
That's easy you just hit the little "optimize" tick box on the compiler doo-dad in the IDE, right?
Background apps are suspended, thus using no battery life.
How is THAT multi-tasking? That's just saving a program state somewhere and pulling it back up on demand. Multi-tasking is when you are actually RUNNING a program in the background, although with fewer percentage of CPU cycles.
Yeah sure, fanboy. Stop bitching about having bought the most expensive phone on the market and buy more stuff because their engineers are incapable of thought they're too busy spending all that money.
Apple fanboys are usually working with mommy or daddy's money, so $19 is real cheap to them. Especially when they buy $300 running shoes.
Yeah, the charger that is so convenient you have to leave your phone on the floor to charge because the cable is so short you can't plug it into a wall socket and say, put the phone on a night table. I hear you can buy a (slightly) longer cable for $50 though. To which I say fuck you, Apple.