There's just enough one-way communication for the power receiver to send "I want power" or "I don't want power". This shuts down the transmitter when the battery is fully charged.
So, are you saying that when someone puts their low-charge phone on one of these tables and it says "feed me", when someone picks that phone up and walks away the table keeps sending power out to thin air? Or does the "feed me" signal have to be there repeatedly for the transmitter to stay on?
My 7" Dell is about the same size as an NOS plate. My LG phone is smaller, but the same pinch and zoom makes reading charts quite easy. Before I had either tablet, I used my phone alot.
It's easy to waterproof the connector, it's not so easy to make the act of connecting it waterproof.
A waterproof device doesn't mean you have to be able to connect external cables to it while underwater, only that it is impervious to water while it is submerged. I don't think many people are going to say "gee, I have to connect this phone to the USB cable while it's still in the toilet."
Seacon, for example, makes lots of waterproof connections, but many of those are not underwater mateable, they need to be connected while on land and then they can be submerged without damage.
Right. So, can you? Because if you can't, it renders the rest of your statement moot.
Not moot. It proves the point. Going to wireless charging removes one (or maybe zero, if you charge via USB to start with) holes in the case. If you can't waterproof the USB connection, then having no charging connection doesn't make the device waterproof. You still have the USB port that lets water in.
OTH, if you CAN waterproof the USB connection, then you can do the same to the charging connection, and you will have just as waterproof a device as one without a charging connection.
In other words, since there is a USB port that still needs to be waterproofed, simply converting to wireless charging buys you nothing WRT waterproofability. You have to get rid of all entry points to be waterproof, not just the charging port.
Well, you shouldn't try to remember that, since Ubuntu names in alphabetical order, just like Android.
So you not only need to know the artsy name like 'Zippered Zebra', but that all the names are in alphabetical order? Still, if you want to go back one version from "Quaint Quacker", what's the name you need to look up?
And when I look at my android device and is says that it is version 3.2, how am I supposed to know what artsy name has been applied to that? Is there some reason that anyone should have to waste time looking up the mapping from "4.1.1." to "Jelly Bean" so that one can find the appropriate web blog to ask questions on?
That will roll around in some half a dozen years, but Ubuntu also has YY.MM version numbers, so you know immediately that version 08.04 is over four years old.
Why would I know that? Do you mean they also mandate that their major releases match the last two digits of the year they came out? Good to know. Certainly not obvious.
Just as it is not obvious how "Lazy Llama" fits into the nn.nn numbering scheme.
Geeks make the OS. Geeks like the wacko names. Deal with it.
I do. That doesn't mean I have to like it, and it certainly doesn't mean it is a good way of doing things. It is a fair question to ask whether this fanciful naming system is helping or hurting the adoption of Linux on the desktop. Do users like or dislike thinking about their desk computer running something called "Putrid Penguin"? Is it helpful if they have to wonder whether it would be good to upgrade from that to "Stagnant Sturgeon"?
Imagine how many people will walk away from their cellphones after they've put them on the table at the coffee shop. The old adage "keep it in your pants" will take on a whole new life.
If you eliminate the need for a power connector, it would be pretty simple to start producing smartphones and other devices that are waterproof themselves.
If you can waterproof the ubiquitous USB connection, then you can also waterproof any power connection, so wireless charging really adds nothing to the waterproofability of a device.
Instead it's more like they get additional rights through the corporation.
Like what, for example? The rights to pay more taxes? They pay corporate taxes on corporate money, and then personal taxes on what part of that money they take out of the company as salaries etc.
But what rights do you think they get that you can't get?
That fails when you get into a captive market. It's not like you can change electricity companies if you don't like the policies of your current one,
Solar. Ok, one example.
and for most people in the USA, its not like you can choose a different internet/cable/telephone company if your current one is gouging you.
So you don't buy from any of the several that are available if you don't like what all of them are doing. For most people, it is easy to choose a different phone provider -- most areas have at least two wireless and one wired one. Yeah, if all three are doing things you don't like, you're stuck. But there's only one federal government, so you have even less choice.
As for "cable" or "internet", the answer is not to buy it if you don't like what the provider does. Where is the law that says you must be provided cable on your terms?
Or how about if your local Walmart drives the rest of the competing businesses out of business?
And what happens if the sun comes up in the west? What do you do then?
TBH, people in the USA need to get their government into line rather then bitching that you don't want one at all.
Well, that's certainly a coment from left field. Where did I say anything like this?
If you think your government can screw you, just wait and see what a corporation without regulations can do...
Think of the economic growth if such were possible. And for being screwed by a corporation with no regulation, that's only if I choose to deal with them. They can't rip me off if I don't have to buy from them. If I don't want health insurance companies ripping me off, I don't have to buy their insurance. (And guess what -- Obamacare forces people to buy things that they otherwise wouldn't, so those companies, the bad evil health insurance companies, will profit even more. Regulation is good, you say?)
You can also erase their memory and enforce their usage during tests and finals, too - no calculators allowed - they will be provided for you.
"I failed Mr. Smith's final exam because he forced me to use one of his fancy calculators that I don't know how to use, instead of allowing me to use my old four-function one that I have been using all year."
I've seen the result of loaning calculators to students, although not this drastic. I was a TA for a chemistry class and during one quiz a student forgot his calculator. He asked to borrow mine. His: TI. Mine: HP. Seeing '1' as the concentration of hydrogen ions in a buffer solution: priceless. (I.e., instead of pressing "number enter number divide", he did "number enter number enter divide".) Not only did I mark the question wrong, I took off an extra point for having a pathetically absurd answer.
Version numbers are entirely arbitrary. It's not like version 2 actually corresponds to the 2nd build is it...
Version numbers are a lot less arbitrary than artsy-fartsy names like "Dapper Drake" or "Mangled Melon" or whatever Ubuntu is up to today. Nobody said that version numbers match the "build", but they do match the releases.
I find it much easier to understand that CentOS 6.1 is a newer version than CentOS 6.0, for example, than trying to remember that "Killer Kangaroo" is newer than "Sloppy Sloth".
Why get upset when someone decides that OS 10 is something special, or that the first version will be 3, the second 3.1 and the third 3.14.
I'd still feel better if they had their emergency checklist on their lap to make sure that they follow all procedures and don't get so focused on shutting down the bad engine that they forgot to set the flaps appropriately and end up in a stall upon approach.
90% of the successful emergency landing is the brain and skill of the pilot, not the emergency checklist that you think is the master source of all information. The emergency checklists are rather sparse, and are practiced on a regular basis during recurring training for all airline pilots.
That's why the first rule of any emergency is always "fly the airplane". Failing to do that is the cause of many many fatal accidents. Communicate, navigate, and read the checklists come later.
Most Android tablets are simply too small to usefully convey the same quantity of information on a single page and be just as legible.
My 10.1" XOOM is about 40% (guessing) larger than the standard paper NOS (federal) approach plate, and about 20% larger than the Jepp (private publisher). You can get free apps that manage flight data (Flight Plan Mobile is one) and access free facility directory and approach data. The fact that you can violate Apple's patent and pinch and zoom the data makes it better than paper.
The pilot goes through the identical checklist on every single flight, then that one time the iPad won't boot, he has to play it by ear, change his routine, and hope that he didn't miss anything.
No, that one time when the pilot's iPad won't boot (why would it boot, it's on all the time in standbye mode) they use THE COPILOT'S IPAD. He's got one, too.
But they probably won't be using the iPads for checklists, those are stored in the flight management computer, and backup copies are kept in binders in the cockpit just in case everything breaks, like the electrical systems that power the FMS. The people who design these systems aren't total morons, you know.
I'd rather have my pilot try to decipher an emergency checklist on a torn up page than stare at his reflection in a blank iPad screen.
I'd rather have my pilot staring at a blank screen on his iPad than having to read any kind of emergency checklist.
That said, when choosing whether to grant power over me to a government that is, at least ostensibly, representative, or to a company that is, at least ostensibly, interested primarily in making a profit while minimizing (and often externalizing) costs, I'll choose the government. At least I have some way of influencing governmental decision-making, even if I'm not a shareholder.
You have just as much means of influencing corporate decision making, perhaps more.
If you do not like a new law that your local government enacts, you have three basic options. Move where it isn't the law, live with it while trying to get them to change their mind (and you are one vote out of thousands or millions), or violate the law and be subject to arrest and imprisonment/punishment.
If you do not like a corporate policy, you have two options. Live with it and buy stuff from them, or object and not deal with them. Notice that the second option here is not available to you when dealing with governments.
If you don't like Walmart or its policies, don't shop there. If you don't like Obama's policies, don't pay your taxes and maybe go to jail or have the IRS take the money anyway. One way you choose, the other you don't.
I manage to do that every day. I personally don't agree with the "progressive" nature of a certain insurance company, and by choice I don't deal with them. Just as in voting, if enough people join me, they'll stop. I might not even need a majority to join me, just enough to make the company understand that their polices are keeping them from profit. This, too, is different than dealing with a government, since most of those don't care about profit, they just raise taxes until they are.
In short, there is less power in the average corporation than in the average government. It's easier to outlast the average corporation.
Money can't force you to listen. You just have to break the spell. And you can't do it by censoring people.
Not even when those people have formed together for the specific purpose of pooling their money to have effective speech. That's what the CU ruling said. Those people have rights, just like everyone else.
I wonder how many people are saying both that "money buys votes" and "there isn't any voting fraud to worry about"? I.e., they think CU created some evil corporate conspiracy that buys votes, but we can't ever make people who show up at a voting booth prove they belong there.
Corporate personhood is the root of a lot of evil in our country. I think if corporations want to be people, they need to be properly accountable to our justice system, including the death penalty.
And the people that own the corporations are.
The fact is that people own corporations. Those people do not give up rights because they do. The evil is trying to strip rights from those you dislike, while demanding that you get to keep your own.
I'm sorry, but fraud existed long before the Citizen's United case, and will exist long after. Isn't it common knowledge that one should be very certain of the website one is buying things from/giving money to, and didn't that advice come about not because of SCOTUS but because of existing fraud?
Weren't there any look-alike fraud sites before Citizen's United reaffirmed that people who own corporations still have civil and constitutional rights? I think there were.
There is nothing inherently political about this issue, nor is there anything inherently political about the crime. It being Republicans who are being defrauded doesn't excuse it, and Citizen's United has nothing to do with it.
They're probably in highschool and have to get on the bus by 6:30am....or elementary school, have to get on the bus at 7:30am and just want to have plenty of time to eat and shower....
If you take a shower at 6AM on SATURDAY you'll have plenty of time to make the bus that comes around at 6:30AM on MONDAY. You might even have time to get dirty and have to take another shower.
Note that the "firmament" has both fowls and stars in it.
No, notice that the same word is used by the translators for the concept of "sky" and "open spaces". There is no claim that birds fly in outer space next to the stars. "Up there" is a reasonable concept, especially for people who don't know what is beyond the atmosphere. As I recall, early "scientists" thought lots of crazy things about the stars -- crystal spheres, anyone?
so the firmament has water above it,
That may have been what the Hebrews believed at the time. So? Why do you think these verses were written in Hebrew and not in some mystic scratchings on gold plates that dissappeared as soon as they were magically translated? Maybe so the people who were alive at the time could understand them? And maybe that means they would be written in a language they could understand, which might not have all the words we have today to describe our physical universe? Would anyone then have understood "magnetic resonance imaging"?
And I guess I do need to point out that the sky probably did have clouds from time to time back then. Clouds are made up of what, again? Oh, right. Water.
In fact, unless there are some incredibly regular local current loops this bottle could have traveled a very long way.
Right. But this is fascinating data. Datum? The time-integrated value of ocean currents with an integration time of 98 years.
Most people want to know the instantaneous value. Climatologists want to know the perhaps one year average. But here we have the 98 year integration. Do you know how much it would cost to build a modern electronic current meter that would have a calibration valid for 98 years?
Whether it is an upgrade or not is a matter of opinion. And using computer terminology, it isn't an upgrade at all because nobody buys an automatic transmission, opens the "transmission cover" on their car, pulls the stick and installs the auto.
When did the feathered ones stop being "dinosaurs" and become "birds". The correct answer is: We don't know.
No, the correct answer is "we don't care". It doesn't matter when they stopped being something they are not today, the fact is they are not, today. The line could have been a million years ago or 100,000. Nobody was there to record it, and it is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
Most birds, certainly all that are alive today, have never been dinosaurs. When did it happen in the past? When dinosaurs became extinct? Just like we don't look at alligators and call them dinosaurs, either.
(Yes I'm making a point: The precise delineation between two species, especially when they are in the process of changing, is not always obvious.)
Then you truly do believe that human beings are single cell protozoa, because there is no way to draw any line between one thing and the thing that evolved from it.
You do realize that for a true macroevolutionist, this would prohibit any taxonomy at all? You could never delineate between different phyla or orders or classes, because they all came from the same intiial thing.
If a bird is a dinosaur, then a dinosaur is a fish, and a fish is an amoeba, so a bird is an amoeba. Everything is just protoplasm and there is no way to differentiate. That would save a lot of time in biology classes, wouldn't it? "What's that tree?" "It's an amoeba tree!".
The question wasn't about something that had just sprouted feathers, it was "is a bird", which means present tense. There have been many changes since they started evolving from dinosaurs, and drawing the line really isn't as hard as you make it out to be. You don't need to know exactly where the line was, just that it was a very very long time ago. A 'precise delineation', which is what you think the question was about, isn't necessary. Your point, while valid as it stands, is irrelevant in context.
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There's just enough one-way communication for the power receiver to send "I want power" or "I don't want power". This shuts down the transmitter when the battery is fully charged.
So, are you saying that when someone puts their low-charge phone on one of these tables and it says "feed me", when someone picks that phone up and walks away the table keeps sending power out to thin air? Or does the "feed me" signal have to be there repeatedly for the transmitter to stay on?
My 7" Dell is about the same size as an NOS plate. My LG phone is smaller, but the same pinch and zoom makes reading charts quite easy. Before I had either tablet, I used my phone alot.
It's easy to waterproof the connector, it's not so easy to make the act of connecting it waterproof.
A waterproof device doesn't mean you have to be able to connect external cables to it while underwater, only that it is impervious to water while it is submerged. I don't think many people are going to say "gee, I have to connect this phone to the USB cable while it's still in the toilet."
Seacon, for example, makes lots of waterproof connections, but many of those are not underwater mateable, they need to be connected while on land and then they can be submerged without damage.
Right. So, can you? Because if you can't, it renders the rest of your statement moot.
Not moot. It proves the point. Going to wireless charging removes one (or maybe zero, if you charge via USB to start with) holes in the case. If you can't waterproof the USB connection, then having no charging connection doesn't make the device waterproof. You still have the USB port that lets water in.
OTH, if you CAN waterproof the USB connection, then you can do the same to the charging connection, and you will have just as waterproof a device as one without a charging connection.
In other words, since there is a USB port that still needs to be waterproofed, simply converting to wireless charging buys you nothing WRT waterproofability. You have to get rid of all entry points to be waterproof, not just the charging port.
Well, you shouldn't try to remember that, since Ubuntu names in alphabetical order, just like Android.
So you not only need to know the artsy name like 'Zippered Zebra', but that all the names are in alphabetical order? Still, if you want to go back one version from "Quaint Quacker", what's the name you need to look up?
And when I look at my android device and is says that it is version 3.2, how am I supposed to know what artsy name has been applied to that? Is there some reason that anyone should have to waste time looking up the mapping from "4.1.1." to "Jelly Bean" so that one can find the appropriate web blog to ask questions on?
That will roll around in some half a dozen years, but Ubuntu also has YY.MM version numbers, so you know immediately that version 08.04 is over four years old.
Why would I know that? Do you mean they also mandate that their major releases match the last two digits of the year they came out? Good to know. Certainly not obvious.
Just as it is not obvious how "Lazy Llama" fits into the nn.nn numbering scheme.
Geeks make the OS. Geeks like the wacko names. Deal with it.
I do. That doesn't mean I have to like it, and it certainly doesn't mean it is a good way of doing things. It is a fair question to ask whether this fanciful naming system is helping or hurting the adoption of Linux on the desktop. Do users like or dislike thinking about their desk computer running something called "Putrid Penguin"? Is it helpful if they have to wonder whether it would be good to upgrade from that to "Stagnant Sturgeon"?
Imagine how many people will walk away from their cellphones after they've put them on the table at the coffee shop. The old adage "keep it in your pants" will take on a whole new life.
If you eliminate the need for a power connector, it would be pretty simple to start producing smartphones and other devices that are waterproof themselves.
If you can waterproof the ubiquitous USB connection, then you can also waterproof any power connection, so wireless charging really adds nothing to the waterproofability of a device.
Instead it's more like they get additional rights through the corporation.
Like what, for example? The rights to pay more taxes? They pay corporate taxes on corporate money, and then personal taxes on what part of that money they take out of the company as salaries etc.
But what rights do you think they get that you can't get?
That fails when you get into a captive market. It's not like you can change electricity companies if you don't like the policies of your current one,
Solar. Ok, one example.
and for most people in the USA, its not like you can choose a different internet/cable/telephone company if your current one is gouging you.
So you don't buy from any of the several that are available if you don't like what all of them are doing. For most people, it is easy to choose a different phone provider -- most areas have at least two wireless and one wired one. Yeah, if all three are doing things you don't like, you're stuck. But there's only one federal government, so you have even less choice.
As for "cable" or "internet", the answer is not to buy it if you don't like what the provider does. Where is the law that says you must be provided cable on your terms?
Or how about if your local Walmart drives the rest of the competing businesses out of business?
And what happens if the sun comes up in the west? What do you do then?
TBH, people in the USA need to get their government into line rather then bitching that you don't want one at all.
Well, that's certainly a coment from left field. Where did I say anything like this?
If you think your government can screw you, just wait and see what a corporation without regulations can do...
Think of the economic growth if such were possible. And for being screwed by a corporation with no regulation, that's only if I choose to deal with them. They can't rip me off if I don't have to buy from them. If I don't want health insurance companies ripping me off, I don't have to buy their insurance. (And guess what -- Obamacare forces people to buy things that they otherwise wouldn't, so those companies, the bad evil health insurance companies, will profit even more. Regulation is good, you say?)
You can also erase their memory and enforce their usage during tests and finals, too - no calculators allowed - they will be provided for you.
"I failed Mr. Smith's final exam because he forced me to use one of his fancy calculators that I don't know how to use, instead of allowing me to use my old four-function one that I have been using all year."
I've seen the result of loaning calculators to students, although not this drastic. I was a TA for a chemistry class and during one quiz a student forgot his calculator. He asked to borrow mine. His: TI. Mine: HP. Seeing '1' as the concentration of hydrogen ions in a buffer solution: priceless. (I.e., instead of pressing "number enter number divide", he did "number enter number enter divide".) Not only did I mark the question wrong, I took off an extra point for having a pathetically absurd answer.
Version numbers are entirely arbitrary. It's not like version 2 actually corresponds to the 2nd build is it...
Version numbers are a lot less arbitrary than artsy-fartsy names like "Dapper Drake" or "Mangled Melon" or whatever Ubuntu is up to today. Nobody said that version numbers match the "build", but they do match the releases.
I find it much easier to understand that CentOS 6.1 is a newer version than CentOS 6.0, for example, than trying to remember that "Killer Kangaroo" is newer than "Sloppy Sloth".
Why get upset when someone decides that OS 10 is something special, or that the first version will be 3, the second 3.1 and the third 3.14.
I don't think anyone does.
I'd still feel better if they had their emergency checklist on their lap to make sure that they follow all procedures and don't get so focused on shutting down the bad engine that they forgot to set the flaps appropriately and end up in a stall upon approach.
90% of the successful emergency landing is the brain and skill of the pilot, not the emergency checklist that you think is the master source of all information. The emergency checklists are rather sparse, and are practiced on a regular basis during recurring training for all airline pilots.
That's why the first rule of any emergency is always "fly the airplane". Failing to do that is the cause of many many fatal accidents. Communicate, navigate, and read the checklists come later.
Most Android tablets are simply too small to usefully convey the same quantity of information on a single page and be just as legible.
My 10.1" XOOM is about 40% (guessing) larger than the standard paper NOS (federal) approach plate, and about 20% larger than the Jepp (private publisher). You can get free apps that manage flight data (Flight Plan Mobile is one) and access free facility directory and approach data. The fact that you can violate Apple's patent and pinch and zoom the data makes it better than paper.
The pilot goes through the identical checklist on every single flight, then that one time the iPad won't boot, he has to play it by ear, change his routine, and hope that he didn't miss anything.
No, that one time when the pilot's iPad won't boot (why would it boot, it's on all the time in standbye mode) they use THE COPILOT'S IPAD. He's got one, too.
But they probably won't be using the iPads for checklists, those are stored in the flight management computer, and backup copies are kept in binders in the cockpit just in case everything breaks, like the electrical systems that power the FMS. The people who design these systems aren't total morons, you know.
I'd rather have my pilot try to decipher an emergency checklist on a torn up page than stare at his reflection in a blank iPad screen.
I'd rather have my pilot staring at a blank screen on his iPad than having to read any kind of emergency checklist.
That said, when choosing whether to grant power over me to a government that is, at least ostensibly, representative, or to a company that is, at least ostensibly, interested primarily in making a profit while minimizing (and often externalizing) costs, I'll choose the government. At least I have some way of influencing governmental decision-making, even if I'm not a shareholder.
You have just as much means of influencing corporate decision making, perhaps more.
If you do not like a new law that your local government enacts, you have three basic options. Move where it isn't the law, live with it while trying to get them to change their mind (and you are one vote out of thousands or millions), or violate the law and be subject to arrest and imprisonment/punishment.
If you do not like a corporate policy, you have two options. Live with it and buy stuff from them, or object and not deal with them. Notice that the second option here is not available to you when dealing with governments.
If you don't like Walmart or its policies, don't shop there. If you don't like Obama's policies, don't pay your taxes and maybe go to jail or have the IRS take the money anyway. One way you choose, the other you don't.
I manage to do that every day. I personally don't agree with the "progressive" nature of a certain insurance company, and by choice I don't deal with them. Just as in voting, if enough people join me, they'll stop. I might not even need a majority to join me, just enough to make the company understand that their polices are keeping them from profit. This, too, is different than dealing with a government, since most of those don't care about profit, they just raise taxes until they are.
In short, there is less power in the average corporation than in the average government. It's easier to outlast the average corporation.
Money can't force you to listen. You just have to break the spell. And you can't do it by censoring people.
Not even when those people have formed together for the specific purpose of pooling their money to have effective speech. That's what the CU ruling said. Those people have rights, just like everyone else.
I wonder how many people are saying both that "money buys votes" and "there isn't any voting fraud to worry about"? I.e., they think CU created some evil corporate conspiracy that buys votes, but we can't ever make people who show up at a voting booth prove they belong there.
Corporate personhood is the root of a lot of evil in our country. I think if corporations want to be people, they need to be properly accountable to our justice system, including the death penalty.
And the people that own the corporations are.
The fact is that people own corporations. Those people do not give up rights because they do. The evil is trying to strip rights from those you dislike, while demanding that you get to keep your own.
People have demonstrated time and again, that given the chance to acquire and abuse power, they will.
Can I play the FTFY game?
Governments have demonstrated time and again, that given the chance to acquire and abuse power, they will.
People are the antidote, not the poison.
This was inevitable since citizens united.
I'm sorry, but fraud existed long before the Citizen's United case, and will exist long after. Isn't it common knowledge that one should be very certain of the website one is buying things from/giving money to, and didn't that advice come about not because of SCOTUS but because of existing fraud?
Weren't there any look-alike fraud sites before Citizen's United reaffirmed that people who own corporations still have civil and constitutional rights? I think there were.
There is nothing inherently political about this issue, nor is there anything inherently political about the crime. It being Republicans who are being defrauded doesn't excuse it, and Citizen's United has nothing to do with it.
They're probably in highschool and have to get on the bus by 6:30am....or elementary school, have to get on the bus at 7:30am and just want to have plenty of time to eat and shower....
If you take a shower at 6AM on SATURDAY you'll have plenty of time to make the bus that comes around at 6:30AM on MONDAY. You might even have time to get dirty and have to take another shower.
Note that the "firmament" has both fowls and stars in it.
No, notice that the same word is used by the translators for the concept of "sky" and "open spaces". There is no claim that birds fly in outer space next to the stars. "Up there" is a reasonable concept, especially for people who don't know what is beyond the atmosphere. As I recall, early "scientists" thought lots of crazy things about the stars -- crystal spheres, anyone?
so the firmament has water above it,
That may have been what the Hebrews believed at the time. So? Why do you think these verses were written in Hebrew and not in some mystic scratchings on gold plates that dissappeared as soon as they were magically translated? Maybe so the people who were alive at the time could understand them? And maybe that means they would be written in a language they could understand, which might not have all the words we have today to describe our physical universe? Would anyone then have understood "magnetic resonance imaging"?
And I guess I do need to point out that the sky probably did have clouds from time to time back then. Clouds are made up of what, again? Oh, right. Water.
In fact, unless there are some incredibly regular local current loops this bottle could have traveled a very long way.
Right. But this is fascinating data. Datum? The time-integrated value of ocean currents with an integration time of 98 years.
Most people want to know the instantaneous value. Climatologists want to know the perhaps one year average. But here we have the 98 year integration. Do you know how much it would cost to build a modern electronic current meter that would have a calibration valid for 98 years?
stick shift -> automatic is rarely an upgrade.
Whether it is an upgrade or not is a matter of opinion. And using computer terminology, it isn't an upgrade at all because nobody buys an automatic transmission, opens the "transmission cover" on their car, pulls the stick and installs the auto.
What it IS is an UPSELL by the dealer.
When did the feathered ones stop being "dinosaurs" and become "birds". The correct answer is: We don't know.
No, the correct answer is "we don't care". It doesn't matter when they stopped being something they are not today, the fact is they are not, today. The line could have been a million years ago or 100,000. Nobody was there to record it, and it is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
At what point did a bird stop being a dinosaur?
Most birds, certainly all that are alive today, have never been dinosaurs. When did it happen in the past? When dinosaurs became extinct? Just like we don't look at alligators and call them dinosaurs, either.
(Yes I'm making a point: The precise delineation between two species, especially when they are in the process of changing, is not always obvious.)
Then you truly do believe that human beings are single cell protozoa, because there is no way to draw any line between one thing and the thing that evolved from it. You do realize that for a true macroevolutionist, this would prohibit any taxonomy at all? You could never delineate between different phyla or orders or classes, because they all came from the same intiial thing.
If a bird is a dinosaur, then a dinosaur is a fish, and a fish is an amoeba, so a bird is an amoeba. Everything is just protoplasm and there is no way to differentiate. That would save a lot of time in biology classes, wouldn't it? "What's that tree?" "It's an amoeba tree!".
The question wasn't about something that had just sprouted feathers, it was "is a bird", which means present tense. There have been many changes since they started evolving from dinosaurs, and drawing the line really isn't as hard as you make it out to be. You don't need to know exactly where the line was, just that it was a very very long time ago. A 'precise delineation', which is what you think the question was about, isn't necessary. Your point, while valid as it stands, is irrelevant in context.