... begging for money that comes up with these "revolutionary" breakthroughs. Did we not learn anything from the tech boom/bust?
Whenever there is a lot of government money flowing into an industry, there is never a shortage of snake-oil salesmen lining up to grab a piece of it. There really isn't a limit to what they will say they can do.
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Easy... the world figured out floating point arithmetic and partial derivative vector processing...
Whenever I build a machine, I put in a second internal hard drive to which I make a periodic image. Personally, I use Acronis, but I am sure there are a ton of decent applications out there that can do it. You could even do a bootable flash drive with Linux that just runs a dd to copy the drive over.
One reason this is possible is because there is no regulation, or very little, on PCs anymore. I doubt a modern power supply could pass a conducted immunity test if someone's life depended on it.
Yes... the same administration that said the solution to CO2 emissions from coal combustion was to "just take the carbon out of it so it can't create CO2," and who also created a task force to evaluate and amend as necessary the "laws of physics" to allow it to happen while still maintaining the ability to create cheap electricity for hard-working American families.
I was responding to: "There are thousands of private jets out there and few cost as *little* as $2.1M or use as little fuel."
You'd use far more fuel to transport 12 people from New York to California using the Bugatti than you would in a Gulfstream V.
It's hard to do a fair comparison, though, because there is no such thing as a 2-seat jet. Most of them are at least 6-passenger (HondaJet, Eclipse, PiperJet, etc...)
Zero accountability for government officials. None. Zip. As a nation, we cannot lower ourselves to the level of holding the government accountable for its actions. The moment we admit that the government is not infallible, the whole system falls apart./sarcasm
... it's illegal in the US to fly an airship less than 1000 feet above a gathering of people, or less than 1000 feet above the highest obstacle within 2000 lateral feet of the airship.
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>> Where will we go to buy soldering irons and those RCA to headphone jack adapters now?
Soldering Irons? RCA to Headphone adapters?
I thought RadioShack only sold cell phones and DirecTV? What gives?
It is still watermarked so that if you distribute the mp3, it will be trivial to track you down.
... begging for money that comes up with these "revolutionary" breakthroughs. Did we not learn anything from the tech boom/bust?
Whenever there is a lot of government money flowing into an industry, there is never a shortage of snake-oil salesmen lining up to grab a piece of it. There really isn't a limit to what they will say they can do.
Easy... the world figured out floating point arithmetic and partial derivative vector processing...
PETA already objects to using bacteria to clean up oil spills... what do they think about using bacteria to do math?
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Whenever I build a machine, I put in a second internal hard drive to which I make a periodic image. Personally, I use Acronis, but I am sure there are a ton of decent applications out there that can do it. You could even do a bootable flash drive with Linux that just runs a dd to copy the drive over.
Hard drives are cheap.
When XP support ends in 2014. By then, Win7 will have been shaken out.
One reason this is possible is because there is no regulation, or very little, on PCs anymore. I doubt a modern power supply could pass a conducted immunity test if someone's life depended on it.
Yes... the same administration that said the solution to CO2 emissions from coal combustion was to "just take the carbon out of it so it can't create CO2," and who also created a task force to evaluate and amend as necessary the "laws of physics" to allow it to happen while still maintaining the ability to create cheap electricity for hard-working American families.
Bill Gates has applied for a patent on emptying swimming pools using only thimbles...
*sigh*
Lipolysis -> Beta Oxidation -> Acetyl-COA -> TCA Cycle -> NADH/FADH -> ETC -> ATP -> CO2
It's completely natural and spontaneous in the absence of excess blood sugar.
I was responding to: "There are thousands of private jets out there and few cost as *little* as $2.1M or use as little fuel."
You'd use far more fuel to transport 12 people from New York to California using the Bugatti than you would in a Gulfstream V.
It's hard to do a fair comparison, though, because there is no such thing as a 2-seat jet. Most of them are at least 6-passenger (HondaJet, Eclipse, PiperJet, etc...)
A modern private jet is FAR more efficient than this thing when it comes to passenger miles per gallon.
To give you a speeding ticket, they have to CATCH YOU.
If you're in this car, they can't.
I love it! Haha... that's probably one of the better tags I've seen.
The BMI is a piece of garbage when it comes to scientific value.
Yep! That's how the system works. Ain't it great?
Zero accountability for government officials. None. Zip. As a nation, we cannot lower ourselves to the level of holding the government accountable for its actions. The moment we admit that the government is not infallible, the whole system falls apart. /sarcasm
>> We NEVER EVER did that kind of stuff.
Bullshit.
>> You can use a USB flash drive when installing Vista as well.
But, but, that requires installing Vista. Are you mad?
>>However, once you've generated the compression/expansion wave, its self-sustaining.
So, what you're saying is, you're going straight to plaid?
Really? Someone actually came up with this?
They've got to stop handing out so much pot in college...
Installing Windows on a PC with special hardware (like a raid controller) STILL requires a floppy drive to load the driver.
... it's illegal in the US to fly an airship less than 1000 feet above a gathering of people, or less than 1000 feet above the highest obstacle within 2000 lateral feet of the airship.
Our Sun is not massive enough to go Supernova.