Could you please explain why people *wouldn't* want their plane to be remembered like the Bonanza?
Didn't you ever hear the phrase: "fork-tailed dentist killer"? Deserved or not, it didn't have a great reputation, and the litigation nearly ruined Beechcraft.
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I can prove that I am not a 20 foot nymphomaniac amazon woman.
No, you can't. You could be a 20-foot nymphomaniac Amazon in disguise. Go ahead, prove that you're not!
"I heard that cancer is cause by di-hydrogen monoxide."
Caused? Well, we don't really know, but there is a very strong correllation. 100% of cancer sufferers have significant quantities of DHMO throughout their bodies. The tumor cells themselves are probably close to 90% DHMO by volume.
If the folks in charge of writing autopilot software are idiots, then I invite you step right in and do it for them, since you seem to know what's what.
He wasn't bashing the implementers, he was bashing the people who decide what to implement.
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how can we know for sure that other problemtic parts were used?
I just worked for a company that basically destroyed a big part of itself/because/ it was so unwilling to lay people off. There was a huge chunk of "dead wood". Those who weren't dead wood ultimately paid quite a price for that. I see things differently now. Laying off a chunk of an organization is sometimes quite necessary. Let's call it a "deossificiation" of the work force.
Boeing makes these awesome Sky Buses with wheels and everything.
Yeah, they're great if I want to go to London or Singapore, but not terribly practical if I just want to go from Cupertino to Santa Cruz. That's about an hour in the car, on a very dangerous, crowded mountain road and it would be more like 15 minutes in the air.
And really, given the number of accidents on the highway-on-the-ground where folks only have to worry about two dimensions
This is actually the strongest argument for going to aircars. Today, we funnel traffic into very narrow passages, where vehicles pass each other in opposite directions at very high speed, with nothing more than a few feet of separation and a couple of painted lines to prevent head-on collisions. The FAA considers it a near-collision when two aircraft pass within a thousand feet of each other. It's pretty rare to be a thousand feet away from the nearest car on a highway in the daytime, at least where I live.
If we took to the skies, 1) there's a lot more room, 2) the trip itself can take minutes instead of hours, and 3) concentration of population will be reduced, which contributes to 1).
When you account for the cost of building roads, as well as the fact that fatalities are routine for every major city rush-hour commute, air cars could actually end up saving us money. Four-lane highways can easily cost over a million dollars a mile. If we switched to air cars for people, and only used roads for freight, most of the interstate system could be two-lane roads.
I was expecting a couple of prototypes, but 75! I'd say they're going onward full bore.
I'm very skeptical when it comes to Moller. The guy has been promising that he was five years away from shipping a product for at least 25 years. I hope I'm wrong, though.
I use an Ipod, and I've bought a grand total of 2 (two) songs from itms.
I think it's also worth pointing out that the iPod was a runaway hit product before the iTMS opened, and it still sells better than its competition even in countries that don't have an iTunes store.
If the record companies bugger up the iTMS, the iPod will still be the top music player. All they'll do is piss away hundreds of millions in revenue.
That figure sounds awfully low. Are they lumping in all the "windoze wanker's guide to nose-picking on the intarweb" books in the same category or something?
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I believe that is called giving consumers what they want
I would state that slightly differently. People tend to become rich by giving people what they will settle for.
-jcr
Could you please explain why people *wouldn't* want their plane to be remembered like the Bonanza?
Didn't you ever hear the phrase: "fork-tailed dentist killer"? Deserved or not, it didn't have a great reputation, and the litigation nearly ruined Beechcraft.
-jcr
I can prove that I am not a 20 foot nymphomaniac amazon woman.
No, you can't. You could be a 20-foot nymphomaniac Amazon in disguise. Go ahead, prove that you're not!
-jcr
"I heard that cancer is cause by di-hydrogen monoxide."
Caused? Well, we don't really know, but there is a very strong correllation. 100% of cancer sufferers have significant quantities of DHMO throughout their bodies. The tumor cells themselves are probably close to 90% DHMO by volume.
-jcr
Well, you know, in the history of aviation, it has been that manufacturers have always been out to fix their products with a religous fervor.
Actually, that's pretty much true for aviation. Nobody wants their product to be remembered like the DeHavilland Comet, or the Beechcraft Bonanza.
-jcr
If the folks in charge of writing autopilot software are idiots, then I invite you step right in and do it for them, since you seem to know what's what.
He wasn't bashing the implementers, he was bashing the people who decide what to implement.
-jcr
how can we know for sure that other problemtic parts were used?
You can't. It's impossible to prove a negative.
-jcr
I subscribe to the reverse Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I'm convinced that the Eskimos migrated to the arctic because they had forty words for "snow."
-jcr
Ok, I think I see where you're coming from. You really should see a shrink about your jealously issues.
-jcr
Remember the Milgram experiment?
Sure, but how often to you really get the chance to wire a bureacrat up to a torture device?
-jcr
I just worked for a company that basically destroyed a big part of itself /because/ it was so unwilling to lay people off. There was a huge chunk of "dead wood". Those who weren't dead wood ultimately paid quite a price for that. I see things differently now. Laying off a chunk of an organization is sometimes quite necessary. Let's call it a "deossificiation" of the work force.
Let me guess: IBM in the mid-80's?
-jcr
So why are you being so sarcastic? Did Rutan steal your girlfriend or something?
-jcr
These cars are not VTOL, or even STOL*.
Yes, they are. Moller's test flights to date have all been hovering tests.
-jcr
Boeing makes these awesome Sky Buses with wheels and everything.
Yeah, they're great if I want to go to London or Singapore, but not terribly practical if I just want to go from Cupertino to Santa Cruz. That's about an hour in the car, on a very dangerous, crowded mountain road and it would be more like 15 minutes in the air.
-jcr
And really, given the number of accidents on the highway-on-the-ground where folks only have to worry about two dimensions
This is actually the strongest argument for going to aircars. Today, we funnel traffic into very narrow passages, where vehicles pass each other in opposite directions at very high speed, with nothing more than a few feet of separation and a couple of painted lines to prevent head-on collisions. The FAA considers it a near-collision when two aircraft pass within a thousand feet of each other. It's pretty rare to be a thousand feet away from the nearest car on a highway in the daytime, at least where I live.
If we took to the skies, 1) there's a lot more room, 2) the trip itself can take minutes instead of hours, and 3) concentration of population will be reduced, which contributes to 1).
When you account for the cost of building roads, as well as the fact that fatalities are routine for every major city rush-hour commute, air cars could actually end up saving us money. Four-lane highways can easily cost over a million dollars a mile. If we switched to air cars for people, and only used roads for freight, most of the interstate system could be two-lane roads.
-jcr
Anyone know where I can go and kick the propellers on one of these?
Davis, California. Near Sacramento.
-jcr
I was expecting a couple of prototypes, but 75! I'd say they're going onward full bore.
I'm very skeptical when it comes to Moller. The guy has been promising that he was five years away from shipping a product for at least 25 years. I hope I'm wrong, though.
-jcr
Is this even legal?
Sure it is. It's an experimental aircraft.
Wouldn't one have to have a licnese to pilot these?
Probably. Check with the FAA.
-jcr
That's just because Apple was about to tank
Guess again. Apple was already back to about $10 billion in market capitalization by the time the music store was launched.
-jcr
I use an Ipod, and I've bought a grand total of 2 (two) songs from itms.
I think it's also worth pointing out that the iPod was a runaway hit product before the iTMS opened, and it still sells better than its competition even in countries that don't have an iTunes store.
If the record companies bugger up the iTMS, the iPod will still be the top music player. All they'll do is piss away hundreds of millions in revenue.
-jcr
surpassing even P2P networks in usage.
I haven't heard this. As a shareholder, I certainly hope it's true, though. Where did you see the figures?
-jcr
That figure sounds awfully low. Are they lumping in all the "windoze wanker's guide to nose-picking on the intarweb" books in the same category or something?
-jcr
Apple's a $40+ billion company. I'd say it's worked very well for them.
-jcr
If the record companies want to make money on the iPod, they should do what I do: buy AAPL shares. They're up over 400% from when the iTMS launched.
-jcr
I don't think any product ever displaced an entrenched product because it was better, unless the switch is completely painless,
Lotus 123 vs. Visicalc. The switch was far from painless.
-jcr