Do not ever start out an introductory course with theories only. If you spend even the first two weeks or so discussing just the ideas of programming and never get to the actual syntax, everyone will be bored out of their minds, and you will definitely hurt any of the inspirable people. Mix and match. Sure, some courses may start out with too much syntax, and not focusing enough on the ideas behind writing certain routines, but they get the people into actually working with the code. Imagine if in an introductory physics class all the professor talked about was how a force could be used to accelerate a mass, and how the forces could act with or against each other, but never got down to F=ma and the vector additon of forces, or never showed pictures of force diagrams or anything. You would lose everyone in the class. Make sure you combine application and processes with theories. Get the right balance, and the theories can/will be interesting enough to be applied anyhow.
Well considering I'm the one that maintains all of their systems (except my sister's now since a day or two ago) then I'm the one that always has to deal with their problem when IE fudges up. If I can get a product on there that fuges up less and can smooth out the user experience, then why not change? Bill Gates does give a rat's ass, why do you think he kept selling IE at a greater and greater loss until he gave it away for free? Not that I care if Bill Gates cares, I just care what'll get the job done with the least hassle.
I've made a quick looksie around at Mozilla and the various capabilities. Checked out some screen shots that other people have posted of the mail features and general looks, as well as the traditional connection options and favorites, etc. And I have concluded that I'm gonna switch at least 3 MSIE computers to Mozilla, possible 6. It looks like something easy enough for my sister and mother to use, so I will switch their main broswers to Mozilla. I've been struggling with my crack addiction that is Windows for the last year or so, and will switch myself to Mozilla for more progress. I can switch my father's computer, but I'm not sure how he'll like a different look at all. My other sister just moved about 2 hours away, so I'm not sure how much of an influence I can have with her system anymore, but still possible since I was the last person to maintain her system. And I could switch my brother's system to Mozilla, but he abhores anyone pushing changes on him, perhaps I can persuade him with all of the crashes MSIE has given him lately. Anyways, the score is at least +3 for Mozilla.
Actually I agree with a lot more of what you were/are saying than I led on to. I think the U.S. is really hipocritical and ignorant (mainly in hindsight) in many of its actions. And, I think we attack (figuratively) many situations from the wrong angle. We spend too much time in many countries with the wrong interests and not enough time in other countries with better interests. Our Middle East interests are mainly in oil, and that can be argued different ways - but personally I don't think we should spend so much time protecting certain American's priveleges to drive gas-guzzling SUVs at $1.50/Gallon when many other countries pay the equivalent of $4.00/Gallon to drive 6 or 4 cylinder compacts. People were ridiculously yelling "highway robbery" when prices jumped from $1.00 to $1.20 (oh no...) and are still yelling that today as they move towards/past $1.50. I recall a figure that during the oil crisis in England, a small town just outside of London that housed crafts and trinkets shops for tourism had a gas station selling gas for the equivalent of $60/gallon. I would imagine people having heart attacks at an alarming rate if that ever happened here.
I knew you had a point that was behind your actual arguments, but the face value of what you were saying cried "lay of the little countries and help them be equivalent to countries 10x more powerful and richer" and it basically sounded like communism where countries = people.
If it eventually only costed $40 USD for a pair of these, it would come to the point that everyone would wear a set 99.9% of the time. By time they reached $40, a wireless solution for them would be produced very cheaply so that it could trasmit and use extremely high quality inputs. You and your friends would just walk over to an information input, sync yourself with the signal, and then view the source on your own set of... well... eyes, or whatever, heh. By time they reached $40 for a pair, they would also be able to transmit video from your environment right to the displays. Is it your greatest desire to have visual selection similar to the Predator? Well, now you have it. Want to view IR in the middle of the night? You got it.
Now, just invite your friends over, take a minute to download the DVD of the latest action packed or thriller movie to your A/V control center from the internet and broadcast the signal to all your friends. Oh man, I'm starting to drool here.
Your point? Might makes right. That's the way it's always been, and that's the way it will always be. Back in the days of cavemen, the strongest ones got to eat first and the most, had their choice of mates, and took the best caves. And that pattern continued on through every single era of history. Now mind you, the seemingly mightiest person or group may have not actually been the mightiest in a certain situation (i.e. the Americans in the Civil War, etc). And who was/is the mightiest is changed about. But however you look at it, whoever has the most power makes the rules (to some extent... if many other smaller powers join together, they will then become more powerful than the single power, and they will make the rules). The U.S. was right in telling Bosnia to fuck off. There is no reason some puny country with 4 million people, that covers 50 thousand sq km, with a $USD 1.9 billion GDP should boss around a super power with 280 million people, that covers 10 million sq km, with a $USD 10 trillion GDP. Bosnia was an ant trying to push around a mammoth, and the U.S. would have had every right to storm in there with hundreds of war planes and thousands of military personnel telling Bosnia to give us our guys back or we would tear them to shreds (mainly just destroy their military). Bosnia was way out of their league and needed to be put in their place.
Um, I think you are forgetting what America is all about. The point of America, is it's a melting pot of cultures. Naturalized citizens are there for a reason, and because of that they're Americans. Sure, the guy down the road that runs the Quickie Mart and barely speaks a word of English may not seem all that American, but he is here for a reason, and that reason is the idea behind America, that guy embodies the American idea, and is thereby very American.
On that mailbox mod, the position of the Panaflo (looks like 80mm) fan is absolutely horrible. He has the fan stuck up against the side of the box, with a screen to the outside only covering maybe a 1/4 to a 1/3 of the fan area. Number 1, you are getting absolutely horrible air flow from that (especially with the heat coming off of the cathode in there) and number 2, you are stressing the fan by forcing it to blow air on (or suck air from) a directly connected flat surface. With the amount of work he was putting into getting the metal and making brackets already, he should have just cut up a duct for the fan, and placed it at least a couple inches away from the screen. The duct would increase air flow dramatically, would be fairly easy to build, and would look much better under the cathode than a bunch of empty space.
Check out your local garage sales for original Star Wars tapes, or sometimes even video rental stores will have a sale of a bunch of old tapes, and you might be able to find an old one in there somewhere. I'm sure there are plenty copies out there, they just have to be found.
The worst part of seeing all six of them in a row, or even just in sequence, will probably be just sitting through EP1. I didn't mind EP1 too much when I first saw it at the theatre, but after seeing it a couple times again, I can't stand it. I think ABC aired EP1 just before EP2 came out, and I switched the channel to TLC or TechTV so many times cause I was sick of everything about the movie: lines are off queue, characters switching between CG and costumes, plots long and drawn out, reactions and responses to situations are totally off the wall, the list goes on. I just hope that EP3 redeems itself even more than EP2 did, that way maybe we could just skip over EP1. Perhaps if enough time passes, Lucas could consider redesigning and refilming large portions of EP1, heh.
Just get a water-cooled system. I know that is the next case I'm getting when I upgrade enough of my components no matter what. Currently I have a full tower equipped with a FOP38, 3 80 mm fans, 1 PSU fan, 1 120mm fan, and a 40 mm fan. I had this thing sitting on my desk, about 2 feet from head for over a year. I finally went out and got a drill bit to cut through my desk so I could stick it under there. Before it used to be blaring a good 70 dB, under the desk it dropped to maybe 65 dB, which isn't too much better, but at least somewhat. Freaking jet engine, ahhh! But the cases from Koolance (or whatever that come with the water cooling already installed) are a good choice because the design has been tested to work (not leak, etc). All you have to do is plug it in and attach the sinks, and you have a silent computer that probably cools even better than any fan could.
There's no way I would stick anything as loud as my current computer out by my entertainment center.
He added, "If a Marine can use (Microsoft) Word, he can get this plane to fly."
Does that include dodging all the crashes? Perhaps they should have left out that (Microsoft) part and just left it as Word, as in any generic Word Processing office tool.
But throttled to 28kbps... is it even worth using that anymore? I know I'd probably go insane if someone forced me back onto 56kbps or slower modems. I mean, 28? Sheesh, last time I used something that slow was back in 1994 or 1995. They should at least just throttle it down to 56kbps, just to be comparable with the fastest traditional modem technology.
Gimme a number where I can call these guys at, there is absolutely horrible reception in this one area right outside a mid-sized town. And you know what the funny thing is, whenever you look at anyone's detailed coverage map, every single company has bad coverage in that area. And the bad coverage area is exactly the same shape, with the exact same boundaries, nobody is shift slightly to the north/south or east/west... it's too the point that I would think that they are all using the same freaking towers. Damn conspiracy. Anyhow, reception sucks horribly out there, and I have to make a lot of calls to cell phones in that area, usually always have to wait until they move out of the area.
And yes, the area is rural, but it isn't extremly rural, there are still houses on all of the roads every hundred feet or so. And the funny thing is, if you move to the west or to the south into even more rural areas, where there is like 1 house on every road between the intersections, the reception is crystal clear.
You are still missing the point here. Yes, the Xbox is dead, but by the magical powers of MS, it will live on. For almost the exact reason you stated...
the failure of Dreamcast which should have brought WinCE into the livingrooms
MS wants the Xbox to have a presence in livings rooms, and will do whatever it takes to keep it there, along with the Windows underneath it. There will be an Xbox2, not because I have faith in Xbox or MS, but because I have witnessed the powers of MS. They don't care if they lose twice the money that they put into the Xbox total (development, production, licenses, everything), which is probably junk change to MS anyhow. They want the Xbox to have a presence, and will do whatever it takes... including the eventual necessity of an Xbox2.
Um, actually, I don't even own an Xbox. The point I was trying to make was that the Xbox is a failure, yet through the magical powers of MS, it will not die. I don't believe in the Xbox and I don't have faith in MS, I hope the Xbox stays in the market just enough to be considered a threat, but not enough to actually be a threat. This way, the Xbox and MS will never take over, but the competition is still present. I suggest you re-read the post, you seemed to have missed a lot.
There are certain actions that must be taken to ensure investors that the company has not lost its marbles... that is why they reduced their expectations in the European and Japanese markets, and overall. The plan is completely logical in analysis (long run: MS becomes a monopoly in the console market), but not logical at all in the eye of business (short run: losing money endlessly, and rather unethical business practices).
This is all part of the MS big plan. Remember back before IE and Netscape were free? MS was trying to beat out the competition, so they sold IE at a heavy loss, to the point of giving it out for free. They knew they could support themselves indefinitely during the browser war, and that there was no way that the company would end up dying due to losses on IE. Netscape on the other hand could not take such drastic actions. They were not such a large company, and could not support themselves well at all without some revenue from Netscape sales. Eventually they were forced to give away their browser too, at the risk of losing whatever market share it still held (as well as shuffles in upper management, etc). Although I really have no proof, we can still speculate. I would imagine that even if the Xbox department ended up losing money overall (consoles + games) this time around, they would still show up for the second round with the Xbox2. MS doesn't want to lose a foot hold in the console market, it's their nature to operate in this fashion. The price cut was most likely a jab taken towards Sony's market share, why else would they be willing to drop the price $100 on something they are already losing money dearly on? The only way it makes any sense is if their goals are aimed towards market share, and not profit maximization (I doubt the price drop would be balanced by games revenue any time soon after). Sure, right now there is no way MS will be able to edge Sony out of the console market. But MS has to start somewhere right?
I would definitely think that roundabouts for highway traffic are a bad idea unless you have a roundabout that's a mile in diameter or so. The volume of cars and at the speeds they travel on a highway would present a problem for traditional roundabout design. I think the clover-leaf design is much better suited for highway traffic. But for local street traffic, even in heavily populated areas, roundabouts would be great. They keep the traffic moving, eliminating the need for stopping at lights and thereby preventing the problems with people running lights and whatnot. Typically, a roundabout would have 2 or 3 lanes for handling traffic, or perhaps 2 main lanes that are always available and then a 3rd lane that alternates appearing/dissappearing in order to provide a lane for a joining/exiting street. And the joining traffic would just be required to yield to the roundabout traffic. The roundabouts would change diameter for the speed of the interesection, going 40 mph around something with a diameter of a hundred feet or so that is trying to connect several different roads would be a bad experience. It just requires correct planning.
What are you talking about? Roundabouts are awesome. Mind you the only roundabout I have personally driven on was when I visited the MichSU campus. I did take many a rides on them in cabs in London though. I think they are ingenious because they keep the traffic constantly flowing, and if someone is lost, they can just keep on going until they figure out where they need to go. And they can handle all varying levels of traffic just as long as they are designed correctly, that's how come large cities in Europe use them quite often and successfully.
I was baffeled when I read this. There are time restrictions on these sorts of things. If you are involved in a civil lawsuit with another person, and they present some document evidence that you hadn't seen before, you can't say "Woa! This is gonna take me a year or two to review and come up with a rebuttle for.". You can't hold up the courts and your opponent indefintely with your problems. The judge should recognize that MS has known about the modular Windows project for as long as it has existed, realize that MS has the resources to analyze the project fairly quickly and effectively (they wrote the code originally), and give MS a limited amount of time (I would say no more than a month) to prepare a rebuttle.
This seems like a very irrational action on the state's part, to the point that I would begin to suspect dirty tricks on someone's part (most likely MS). They have been in this legal action for such a long time already, what's a few more weeks up to a month? Unless the judge would allow the "indefinite" amount of time MS claims it needs, which would be complete BS IMO.
What about terminal velocity? If you came down to fairly pressurized regions in the 5k ft to 10k ft range, wouldn't you be going slow enough to use a normal shoot. Or at least use a drag shoot initially just to slow down slightly more and then use a normal shoot?
Um actually, as I understand it, they aren't even selling the M400 yet, no major production plans. I would imagine that for 100k, we would see a lot more of these. Heck, for 100k, even I would take out a mortgage or get loans in order to buy one. A 100k for a brand new personal aircraft like the M400, especially with VTOL capabilites, is dirt cheap anyhow. And I think this statement under their sales page tips it off:
Skycars, Aerobots and Rotapower engines are not currently available for purchase.
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Do not ever start out an introductory course with theories only. If you spend even the first two weeks or so discussing just the ideas of programming and never get to the actual syntax, everyone will be bored out of their minds, and you will definitely hurt any of the inspirable people. Mix and match. Sure, some courses may start out with too much syntax, and not focusing enough on the ideas behind writing certain routines, but they get the people into actually working with the code. Imagine if in an introductory physics class all the professor talked about was how a force could be used to accelerate a mass, and how the forces could act with or against each other, but never got down to F=ma and the vector additon of forces, or never showed pictures of force diagrams or anything. You would lose everyone in the class. Make sure you combine application and processes with theories. Get the right balance, and the theories can/will be interesting enough to be applied anyhow.
Well considering I'm the one that maintains all of their systems (except my sister's now since a day or two ago) then I'm the one that always has to deal with their problem when IE fudges up. If I can get a product on there that fuges up less and can smooth out the user experience, then why not change? Bill Gates does give a rat's ass, why do you think he kept selling IE at a greater and greater loss until he gave it away for free? Not that I care if Bill Gates cares, I just care what'll get the job done with the least hassle.
I've made a quick looksie around at Mozilla and the various capabilities. Checked out some screen shots that other people have posted of the mail features and general looks, as well as the traditional connection options and favorites, etc. And I have concluded that I'm gonna switch at least 3 MSIE computers to Mozilla, possible 6. It looks like something easy enough for my sister and mother to use, so I will switch their main broswers to Mozilla. I've been struggling with my crack addiction that is Windows for the last year or so, and will switch myself to Mozilla for more progress. I can switch my father's computer, but I'm not sure how he'll like a different look at all. My other sister just moved about 2 hours away, so I'm not sure how much of an influence I can have with her system anymore, but still possible since I was the last person to maintain her system. And I could switch my brother's system to Mozilla, but he abhores anyone pushing changes on him, perhaps I can persuade him with all of the crashes MSIE has given him lately. Anyways, the score is at least +3 for Mozilla.
Actually I agree with a lot more of what you were/are saying than I led on to. I think the U.S. is really hipocritical and ignorant (mainly in hindsight) in many of its actions. And, I think we attack (figuratively) many situations from the wrong angle. We spend too much time in many countries with the wrong interests and not enough time in other countries with better interests. Our Middle East interests are mainly in oil, and that can be argued different ways - but personally I don't think we should spend so much time protecting certain American's priveleges to drive gas-guzzling SUVs at $1.50/Gallon when many other countries pay the equivalent of $4.00/Gallon to drive 6 or 4 cylinder compacts. People were ridiculously yelling "highway robbery" when prices jumped from $1.00 to $1.20 (oh no...) and are still yelling that today as they move towards/past $1.50. I recall a figure that during the oil crisis in England, a small town just outside of London that housed crafts and trinkets shops for tourism had a gas station selling gas for the equivalent of $60/gallon. I would imagine people having heart attacks at an alarming rate if that ever happened here.
I knew you had a point that was behind your actual arguments, but the face value of what you were saying cried "lay of the little countries and help them be equivalent to countries 10x more powerful and richer" and it basically sounded like communism where countries = people.
If it eventually only costed $40 USD for a pair of these, it would come to the point that everyone would wear a set 99.9% of the time. By time they reached $40, a wireless solution for them would be produced very cheaply so that it could trasmit and use extremely high quality inputs. You and your friends would just walk over to an information input, sync yourself with the signal, and then view the source on your own set of... well... eyes, or whatever, heh. By time they reached $40 for a pair, they would also be able to transmit video from your environment right to the displays. Is it your greatest desire to have visual selection similar to the Predator? Well, now you have it. Want to view IR in the middle of the night? You got it.
Now, just invite your friends over, take a minute to download the DVD of the latest action packed or thriller movie to your A/V control center from the internet and broadcast the signal to all your friends. Oh man, I'm starting to drool here.
Your point? Might makes right. That's the way it's always been, and that's the way it will always be. Back in the days of cavemen, the strongest ones got to eat first and the most, had their choice of mates, and took the best caves. And that pattern continued on through every single era of history. Now mind you, the seemingly mightiest person or group may have not actually been the mightiest in a certain situation (i.e. the Americans in the Civil War, etc). And who was/is the mightiest is changed about. But however you look at it, whoever has the most power makes the rules (to some extent... if many other smaller powers join together, they will then become more powerful than the single power, and they will make the rules). The U.S. was right in telling Bosnia to fuck off. There is no reason some puny country with 4 million people, that covers 50 thousand sq km, with a $USD 1.9 billion GDP should boss around a super power with 280 million people, that covers 10 million sq km, with a $USD 10 trillion GDP. Bosnia was an ant trying to push around a mammoth, and the U.S. would have had every right to storm in there with hundreds of war planes and thousands of military personnel telling Bosnia to give us our guys back or we would tear them to shreds (mainly just destroy their military). Bosnia was way out of their league and needed to be put in their place.
Um, I think you are forgetting what America is all about. The point of America, is it's a melting pot of cultures. Naturalized citizens are there for a reason, and because of that they're Americans. Sure, the guy down the road that runs the Quickie Mart and barely speaks a word of English may not seem all that American, but he is here for a reason, and that reason is the idea behind America, that guy embodies the American idea, and is thereby very American.
On that mailbox mod, the position of the Panaflo (looks like 80mm) fan is absolutely horrible. He has the fan stuck up against the side of the box, with a screen to the outside only covering maybe a 1/4 to a 1/3 of the fan area. Number 1, you are getting absolutely horrible air flow from that (especially with the heat coming off of the cathode in there) and number 2, you are stressing the fan by forcing it to blow air on (or suck air from) a directly connected flat surface. With the amount of work he was putting into getting the metal and making brackets already, he should have just cut up a duct for the fan, and placed it at least a couple inches away from the screen. The duct would increase air flow dramatically, would be fairly easy to build, and would look much better under the cathode than a bunch of empty space.
Check out your local garage sales for original Star Wars tapes, or sometimes even video rental stores will have a sale of a bunch of old tapes, and you might be able to find an old one in there somewhere. I'm sure there are plenty copies out there, they just have to be found.
The worst part of seeing all six of them in a row, or even just in sequence, will probably be just sitting through EP1. I didn't mind EP1 too much when I first saw it at the theatre, but after seeing it a couple times again, I can't stand it. I think ABC aired EP1 just before EP2 came out, and I switched the channel to TLC or TechTV so many times cause I was sick of everything about the movie: lines are off queue, characters switching between CG and costumes, plots long and drawn out, reactions and responses to situations are totally off the wall, the list goes on. I just hope that EP3 redeems itself even more than EP2 did, that way maybe we could just skip over EP1. Perhaps if enough time passes, Lucas could consider redesigning and refilming large portions of EP1, heh.
Just get a water-cooled system. I know that is the next case I'm getting when I upgrade enough of my components no matter what. Currently I have a full tower equipped with a FOP38, 3 80 mm fans, 1 PSU fan, 1 120mm fan, and a 40 mm fan. I had this thing sitting on my desk, about 2 feet from head for over a year. I finally went out and got a drill bit to cut through my desk so I could stick it under there. Before it used to be blaring a good 70 dB, under the desk it dropped to maybe 65 dB, which isn't too much better, but at least somewhat. Freaking jet engine, ahhh! But the cases from Koolance (or whatever that come with the water cooling already installed) are a good choice because the design has been tested to work (not leak, etc). All you have to do is plug it in and attach the sinks, and you have a silent computer that probably cools even better than any fan could.
There's no way I would stick anything as loud as my current computer out by my entertainment center.
Even worse...
He added, "If a Marine can use (Microsoft) Word, he can get this plane to fly."
Does that include dodging all the crashes? Perhaps they should have left out that (Microsoft) part and just left it as Word, as in any generic Word Processing office tool.
But throttled to 28kbps... is it even worth using that anymore? I know I'd probably go insane if someone forced me back onto 56kbps or slower modems. I mean, 28? Sheesh, last time I used something that slow was back in 1994 or 1995. They should at least just throttle it down to 56kbps, just to be comparable with the fastest traditional modem technology.
LMAO! Thank you so much, I had no idea they released tracks with each release. Those are some great lyrics!
Gimme a number where I can call these guys at, there is absolutely horrible reception in this one area right outside a mid-sized town. And you know what the funny thing is, whenever you look at anyone's detailed coverage map, every single company has bad coverage in that area. And the bad coverage area is exactly the same shape, with the exact same boundaries, nobody is shift slightly to the north/south or east/west... it's too the point that I would think that they are all using the same freaking towers. Damn conspiracy. Anyhow, reception sucks horribly out there, and I have to make a lot of calls to cell phones in that area, usually always have to wait until they move out of the area.
And yes, the area is rural, but it isn't extremly rural, there are still houses on all of the roads every hundred feet or so. And the funny thing is, if you move to the west or to the south into even more rural areas, where there is like 1 house on every road between the intersections, the reception is crystal clear.
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You are still missing the point here. Yes, the Xbox is dead, but by the magical powers of MS, it will live on. For almost the exact reason you stated...
the failure of Dreamcast which should have brought WinCE into the livingrooms
MS wants the Xbox to have a presence in livings rooms, and will do whatever it takes to keep it there, along with the Windows underneath it. There will be an Xbox2, not because I have faith in Xbox or MS, but because I have witnessed the powers of MS. They don't care if they lose twice the money that they put into the Xbox total (development, production, licenses, everything), which is probably junk change to MS anyhow. They want the Xbox to have a presence, and will do whatever it takes... including the eventual necessity of an Xbox2.
Amazing, it's even better than what Lucas did.
Um, actually, I don't even own an Xbox. The point I was trying to make was that the Xbox is a failure, yet through the magical powers of MS, it will not die. I don't believe in the Xbox and I don't have faith in MS, I hope the Xbox stays in the market just enough to be considered a threat, but not enough to actually be a threat. This way, the Xbox and MS will never take over, but the competition is still present. I suggest you re-read the post, you seemed to have missed a lot.
There are certain actions that must be taken to ensure investors that the company has not lost its marbles... that is why they reduced their expectations in the European and Japanese markets, and overall. The plan is completely logical in analysis (long run: MS becomes a monopoly in the console market), but not logical at all in the eye of business (short run: losing money endlessly, and rather unethical business practices).
This is all part of the MS big plan. Remember back before IE and Netscape were free? MS was trying to beat out the competition, so they sold IE at a heavy loss, to the point of giving it out for free. They knew they could support themselves indefinitely during the browser war, and that there was no way that the company would end up dying due to losses on IE. Netscape on the other hand could not take such drastic actions. They were not such a large company, and could not support themselves well at all without some revenue from Netscape sales. Eventually they were forced to give away their browser too, at the risk of losing whatever market share it still held (as well as shuffles in upper management, etc). Although I really have no proof, we can still speculate. I would imagine that even if the Xbox department ended up losing money overall (consoles + games) this time around, they would still show up for the second round with the Xbox2. MS doesn't want to lose a foot hold in the console market, it's their nature to operate in this fashion. The price cut was most likely a jab taken towards Sony's market share, why else would they be willing to drop the price $100 on something they are already losing money dearly on? The only way it makes any sense is if their goals are aimed towards market share, and not profit maximization (I doubt the price drop would be balanced by games revenue any time soon after). Sure, right now there is no way MS will be able to edge Sony out of the console market. But MS has to start somewhere right?
I would definitely think that roundabouts for highway traffic are a bad idea unless you have a roundabout that's a mile in diameter or so. The volume of cars and at the speeds they travel on a highway would present a problem for traditional roundabout design. I think the clover-leaf design is much better suited for highway traffic. But for local street traffic, even in heavily populated areas, roundabouts would be great. They keep the traffic moving, eliminating the need for stopping at lights and thereby preventing the problems with people running lights and whatnot. Typically, a roundabout would have 2 or 3 lanes for handling traffic, or perhaps 2 main lanes that are always available and then a 3rd lane that alternates appearing/dissappearing in order to provide a lane for a joining/exiting street. And the joining traffic would just be required to yield to the roundabout traffic. The roundabouts would change diameter for the speed of the interesection, going 40 mph around something with a diameter of a hundred feet or so that is trying to connect several different roads would be a bad experience. It just requires correct planning.
What are you talking about? Roundabouts are awesome. Mind you the only roundabout I have personally driven on was when I visited the MichSU campus. I did take many a rides on them in cabs in London though. I think they are ingenious because they keep the traffic constantly flowing, and if someone is lost, they can just keep on going until they figure out where they need to go. And they can handle all varying levels of traffic just as long as they are designed correctly, that's how come large cities in Europe use them quite often and successfully.
I was baffeled when I read this. There are time restrictions on these sorts of things. If you are involved in a civil lawsuit with another person, and they present some document evidence that you hadn't seen before, you can't say "Woa! This is gonna take me a year or two to review and come up with a rebuttle for.". You can't hold up the courts and your opponent indefintely with your problems. The judge should recognize that MS has known about the modular Windows project for as long as it has existed, realize that MS has the resources to analyze the project fairly quickly and effectively (they wrote the code originally), and give MS a limited amount of time (I would say no more than a month) to prepare a rebuttle.
This seems like a very irrational action on the state's part, to the point that I would begin to suspect dirty tricks on someone's part (most likely MS). They have been in this legal action for such a long time already, what's a few more weeks up to a month? Unless the judge would allow the "indefinite" amount of time MS claims it needs, which would be complete BS IMO.
What about terminal velocity? If you came down to fairly pressurized regions in the 5k ft to 10k ft range, wouldn't you be going slow enough to use a normal shoot. Or at least use a drag shoot initially just to slow down slightly more and then use a normal shoot?
Know if there's somewhere online I could find the film for download? I would love to check that out.
Um actually, as I understand it, they aren't even selling the M400 yet, no major production plans. I would imagine that for 100k, we would see a lot more of these. Heck, for 100k, even I would take out a mortgage or get loans in order to buy one. A 100k for a brand new personal aircraft like the M400, especially with VTOL capabilites, is dirt cheap anyhow. And I think this statement under their sales page tips it off:
Skycars, Aerobots and Rotapower engines are not currently available for purchase.