I doubt it will help Apple. If it did, they would have done it already. Or do you really think you know how to make Apple more profitable than the people currently running the place? Or why people buy their products to begin with? Apple works so well because they control both the hardware and software. Thinking that it will be the same software experience on another computer, and that it won't cut into their hardware sales, seems pretty naive to me. I'm not saying Apple should be able to stop people from installing OS X on non-Apple hardware, of course, but that I think you are kidding yourself if you think it would be better for Apple.
Plants use solar, but very few natural things use wind or tidal power. Nature has had a very long time to try and fill these energy niches, so it is a safe guess that they can't produce enough energy to sustain a large population at a reasonable standard of living.
Nature has a hard time making large things fly, yet that doesn't stop us making bigger and bigger airliners. I know that to some people, nature is supposed to be this force that will always do things better than us (if only because evolution has been around a lot longer than our technology), but that's not really true. It does many things better than us, at the moment, true, but not everything. Look at where the humble wheel has got us. Yet such a device isn't popular in nature, because the way nature works is quite different to the way a human engineer works, unless your a creationist, perhaps;)
Probably because it might encourage people to try and rush through. There's a pedestrian crossing where I live that has an LED timer just like you described. It gives people a better judgment of if they will make it across without holding up traffic. I think it works well for pedestrians because people are always trying to get across just before the traffic goes again, which isn't as dangerous as a car diving though frantically at the last possible second.
I agree. At 1.45kg, it's heavier than a Macbook Air, but without the benefit of a large screen and keyboard. Yeah battery life is much better, but are there that many people who want to spend 9.5 hours in front of a small netbook?
Electric motors and speed controllers generate heat. This one has liquid cooling. Think I see a way around this. Might not make it as practical as an IC engine car, but might make enough of a difference for many.
Perhaps since they're unable to produce a conventional electric car just yet, they have instead oped to make an expensive car that someone with a lot of money might want to buy? As for spending money on a "shape designer" it looks like the engineers did it themselves to save money. And why do all proof-of-concept cars have to look like normal cars? Do you think that designing conventional looking cars is a good way to get people interested in green cars? Keeping in mind that the people who make cars probably have more of a passion for cars and related technology than a consumer who just want to get from A to B. It seems to me that you are the one off on another planet.
I've never seen roads in the sky. As for non-shiny planes, X-Plane isn't designed for eye-candy. Although, if you have a powerful system, you can get the terrain to look really good (which is more important that the outside of the aircraft). As for supersonic flight simulation, I think it's a bit unfair to put X-Plane down on that because AFAIK, no other flight sims for the same price do that, either. Where's the evidence that he has no interest in working on that?
But if they are no longer employed by MS, then X-Plane is no longer competition. Unless MS are going to let them start up their own outfit and hand over all the code and other IP. Sure, they might get a job for MSFS add-ons, but that's hardly a certain thing -- some of them may not even want to do that.
As for good FBW simulation, "X-Plane's flight model can handle flying wings and fly-by-wire systems". I have no idea if that covers what's needed for the 777, but worth looking into if that's your thing.
Hopefully they'll spend their spare time contributing to X-Plane -- a much better simulator if actual flight simulation is important to you. I was very disappointed to learn that the helis in MS Flight Sim are actually just fixed-wing aircraft with unrealistically large flaps and other such hacks. X-Plane uses a much more realistic flight physics engine. And since I fly RC helis, I have to say that MS's sim always felt strange, not like a giant RC heli at all.
But that they are flying around in spaceships looking for a new home planet is huge part of the plot and the motivations of the characters, so how can you say it's not a sci-fi? And who's definition of sci-fi are you using, BTW?
Yes it was a horrible thing to do but there were NO options that were not horrible to consider. None.
I agree with you up to that point. Why not drop a nuke off-shore? You can't say that would never have stopped them until you actually tried it. Or did the US only have the capability to deliver two nukes, so none could be wasted? The "no other options" answer just sounds like an excuse to me.
Perhaps I was talking about the platter, not the heads? And I don't mean to imply the heads directly contact the platter, either. This was just an explanation I read in a forum, BTW.
I'm not sure if it's something like SMART. That's actually part of the problem -- it's hard to even find info on this behavior, let alone know about it before buying one by reading the specs. It's an evenly spaced ticking sound that starts after idle for a few minuets. Either way, none of the 5 other Barracuda drives I have make this annoying sound, so I don't think it's a common or important feature.
I had a Maxtor/Seagate external drive enclosure "update" the firmware on a brand new 400GB Barracuda. It limited the drive capacity to something like 100GB or 200GB. It sits unused because I don't know if it will work reliably and Seagate didn't seem to care about replacing it. One of my 500GB Barracudas has this annoying "feature" where after a while, it starts to randomly move the head to prevent wear -- it's slow clicking is annoying. I wish there was a firmware update for that. This was a while ago, and I seem to be surrounded by functioning Barracudas, but my next HDD will be from Western Digital -- I've had enough of Seagate.
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I doubt it will help Apple. If it did, they would have done it already. Or do you really think you know how to make Apple more profitable than the people currently running the place? Or why people buy their products to begin with? Apple works so well because they control both the hardware and software. Thinking that it will be the same software experience on another computer, and that it won't cut into their hardware sales, seems pretty naive to me. I'm not saying Apple should be able to stop people from installing OS X on non-Apple hardware, of course, but that I think you are kidding yourself if you think it would be better for Apple.
Where did I imply that we have bested nature? And last time I checked, a bike didn't require petrol.
Plants use solar, but very few natural things use wind or tidal power. Nature has had a very long time to try and fill these energy niches, so it is a safe guess that they can't produce enough energy to sustain a large population at a reasonable standard of living.
Nature has a hard time making large things fly, yet that doesn't stop us making bigger and bigger airliners. I know that to some people, nature is supposed to be this force that will always do things better than us (if only because evolution has been around a lot longer than our technology), but that's not really true. It does many things better than us, at the moment, true, but not everything. Look at where the humble wheel has got us. Yet such a device isn't popular in nature, because the way nature works is quite different to the way a human engineer works, unless your a creationist, perhaps ;)
Probably because it might encourage people to try and rush through. There's a pedestrian crossing where I live that has an LED timer just like you described. It gives people a better judgment of if they will make it across without holding up traffic. I think it works well for pedestrians because people are always trying to get across just before the traffic goes again, which isn't as dangerous as a car diving though frantically at the last possible second.
I agree. At 1.45kg, it's heavier than a Macbook Air, but without the benefit of a large screen and keyboard. Yeah battery life is much better, but are there that many people who want to spend 9.5 hours in front of a small netbook?
So your saying that emotions definitely can't be detected in people's voices?
Electric motors and speed controllers generate heat. This one has liquid cooling. Think I see a way around this. Might not make it as practical as an IC engine car, but might make enough of a difference for many.
Perhaps since they're unable to produce a conventional electric car just yet, they have instead oped to make an expensive car that someone with a lot of money might want to buy? As for spending money on a "shape designer" it looks like the engineers did it themselves to save money. And why do all proof-of-concept cars have to look like normal cars? Do you think that designing conventional looking cars is a good way to get people interested in green cars? Keeping in mind that the people who make cars probably have more of a passion for cars and related technology than a consumer who just want to get from A to B. It seems to me that you are the one off on another planet.
I don't play or watch any sport, but I really have to question anyone who says "sports are worthless". What made you take such an extreme attitude?
I think many people are aware that modern AI has roughly the intelligence of an animal.
You must be talking about some pretty simple animals.
I've never seen roads in the sky. As for non-shiny planes, X-Plane isn't designed for eye-candy. Although, if you have a powerful system, you can get the terrain to look really good (which is more important that the outside of the aircraft). As for supersonic flight simulation, I think it's a bit unfair to put X-Plane down on that because AFAIK, no other flight sims for the same price do that, either. Where's the evidence that he has no interest in working on that?
But if they are no longer employed by MS, then X-Plane is no longer competition. Unless MS are going to let them start up their own outfit and hand over all the code and other IP. Sure, they might get a job for MSFS add-ons, but that's hardly a certain thing -- some of them may not even want to do that.
As for good FBW simulation, "X-Plane's flight model can handle flying wings and fly-by-wire systems". I have no idea if that covers what's needed for the 777, but worth looking into if that's your thing.
Hopefully they'll spend their spare time contributing to X-Plane -- a much better simulator if actual flight simulation is important to you. I was very disappointed to learn that the helis in MS Flight Sim are actually just fixed-wing aircraft with unrealistically large flaps and other such hacks. X-Plane uses a much more realistic flight physics engine. And since I fly RC helis, I have to say that MS's sim always felt strange, not like a giant RC heli at all.
Or perhaps in the current economic climate, they don't see the reason to pay extra just to check their e-mail and browse a few sites?
Should have left it broken. Hate to see bad journalism bringing in the traffic.
For me, Microsoft will only improve its image when they also replace Ballmer with someone I can respect.
But that they are flying around in spaceships looking for a new home planet is huge part of the plot and the motivations of the characters, so how can you say it's not a sci-fi? And who's definition of sci-fi are you using, BTW?
Yes it was a horrible thing to do but there were NO options that were not horrible to consider. None.
I agree with you up to that point. Why not drop a nuke off-shore? You can't say that would never have stopped them until you actually tried it. Or did the US only have the capability to deliver two nukes, so none could be wasted? The "no other options" answer just sounds like an excuse to me.
Sorry, I don't buy it. I watch the show and think of analogous situations in my own life.
Well, there's your problem... Perhaps you own life is not the same as everyone elses, let alone the characters in BSG?
Perhaps I was talking about the platter, not the heads? And I don't mean to imply the heads directly contact the platter, either. This was just an explanation I read in a forum, BTW.
If that's the case, should I be worried that no other drive (including Barracudas) has ever done this?
I'm not sure if it's something like SMART. That's actually part of the problem -- it's hard to even find info on this behavior, let alone know about it before buying one by reading the specs. It's an evenly spaced ticking sound that starts after idle for a few minuets. Either way, none of the 5 other Barracuda drives I have make this annoying sound, so I don't think it's a common or important feature.
I had a Maxtor/Seagate external drive enclosure "update" the firmware on a brand new 400GB Barracuda. It limited the drive capacity to something like 100GB or 200GB. It sits unused because I don't know if it will work reliably and Seagate didn't seem to care about replacing it. One of my 500GB Barracudas has this annoying "feature" where after a while, it starts to randomly move the head to prevent wear -- it's slow clicking is annoying. I wish there was a firmware update for that. This was a while ago, and I seem to be surrounded by functioning Barracudas, but my next HDD will be from Western Digital -- I've had enough of Seagate.
I'd say that's BS, because the mechanism of action of LSD and caffeine are very different. And what's considered a true hallucination can also vary.
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