So they might not get back their equipment. Well boo hoo, cry me a river. They'll probably be too busy making sure Bubba isn't standing behind them in the showers for the next few years to worry about whats happened to their "l337" kit anyway.
Or perhaps you thought kidnap, extortion etc were instinctive? Perhaps in your utopia we shouldn't arrest any criminals because you can't destroy their ideas?
... we were all getting nostalgic about 1980s 8 bit machines , cursing the huge power of the 95 era PC and how it had ruined the imagination of games designers who only cared about 3D and no gameplay etc etc and how OS's were just sucking up power and not using it:
"Hey , just look what CPM could do on a 3Mhz Z80 and now look - it takes a 66Mhz 486 for Win95 to do the same thing! Ha ha! Lame!"
Your eye can't resolve much more than that. You might as well ask why we can't have sound chips that can output 100Khz. Well what would be the point unless you're writing a game for bats?
If I wanted to type a 10,000 word document or play a complex RPG I'd take that 1995 PC over a smartphone anyday. Sure , the smartphone has much better hardware but from a usability point of view it leaves a lot to be desired compared to PC or any era.
Err , ITYF the volume of the mass of a planet is the volume of the planet. Unless perhaps you were thinking of those oh-so-common planets where the core is actually hollow?
So let me get this straight, you're saying a sphere can increase or decrease its surface area without a commensurate increase or decrease in its volume? Well I'm stunned. You should publish a paper in Nature about your new model of reality - you'd win the nobel prize.
Plenty of things in the computer world are crap, but generally the alternatives are even worse. HTML5 sucks right now. When its stable then sure, it'll replace flash, but in the meantime forget it.
And did I mention farmville or facebook or any of that sh1t? I like watching TED thanks and if you think I'm forking out $$$$ for an overpriced netbook without a keyboard that Jobs got all you bleeting sheep to buy just to view some websites which I can already view on a PC with a free plugin then you're fscking dreaming.
Anyway , you'd better hurry up, I hear the next pilgrimage bus to Cupertino is leaving soon...
FTA: "Our modern society is almost completely reliant on GPS," Humphreys told the conference. "It could be deadly."
Well sorry I'm but it shouldn't be. Any critical systems should have backup systems such as using cellphone towers to triangulate or LORAN or even just plain old maps. Any society which puts all its eggs into a basket that can easily be knocked over is just asking for trouble.
"As I said, the solution is to simply not use Flash"
Sorry, the solution to what? Thats not a solution , its a problem that has to be solved if you want to look at a number of websites. You might drink the apple koolaid and believe Flash is the work of the devil but we're not all Jobs sheep.
"Youtube videos are then watched on your favourite player with a single click."
Or you could just watch them on the fscking web page in the first place instead of downloading and installing some pointless app. But whatever makes you think you're "l337" I guess.
But why would you want to? Whats the price of an oil change compared to a new engine? Sorry , I just don't understand why anyone would skimp on oil changes or other general maintenance.
No , its says its *MASS* is 6.5 times that of earth. Given its much larger volume its gravity won't be anything like that. Gravity is a result of mass divided by volume, not just mass on its own. Otherwise Jupiter would have a gravity of about 300G , not just 2.5 and the sun would collapse into a black hole.
Well thats how Mars lost its water. The reason it doesn't happen on earth is we have the ozone layer which prevents enough UV getting to the lower atmosphere and the ground to split the water.
Mind you , thinking about it - if this planet did end up with a lot of O2 in its atmosphere it would probably end up with an ozone layer too and the process would stop.
Don't know to TBH , I'm not a chemist. But some will undoubtedly escape before it can react with anything. Given the low density of the planet its unlikely its gravity is much greater than earths so H2 won't have a hard time escaping the atmosphere.
Even if it doesn't spiral into the star the UV will be slowly splitting the water into its component parts and the hydrogen will disappear off into space. What happens to the O2 after that is anyones guess - perhaps it'll react with whatever rock is there or perhaps it'll end up as a huge oxygen atmosphere.
Their for-profit system screws up GPS which has been around a LOT longer than they have , the FCC finds this and blocks their system and THEY want to sue the FCC and GPS makers???
I'm sorry, is this Falcone guy just gold plated arrogant ass who thinks the world should revolve around him, or is he just a plain, good old grade A fsckwit?
It was never done to save the consumer money, it was done to save the GOVERNMENT money. Whatever politicians say, they don't really care how much the average citizen has to cough up for public services. They simply care that they can spend less on them so they have more money to waste on pointless wars so they can be best buddies with the USA (yeah, right) or subsidising undeserving "asylum" seekers and their 10 kids.
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So they might not get back their equipment. Well boo hoo, cry me a river. They'll probably be too busy making sure Bubba isn't standing behind them in the showers for the next few years to worry about whats happened to their "l337" kit anyway.
Or perhaps you thought kidnap, extortion etc were instinctive? Perhaps in your utopia we shouldn't arrest any criminals because you can't destroy their ideas?
Grow up.
Bluetooth 17 inch screen? I don't think so.
... we were all getting nostalgic about 1980s 8 bit machines , cursing the huge power of the 95 era PC and how it had ruined the imagination of games designers who only cared about 3D and no gameplay etc etc and how OS's were just sucking up power and not using it:
"Hey , just look what CPM could do on a 3Mhz Z80 and now look - it takes a 66Mhz 486 for Win95 to do the same thing! Ha ha! Lame!"
Etc.
Plus ca change.
Now get of my lawn!
Trying to install most OS's from a USB stick even today is a PITA. However a CD/DVD install is usually pretty painless.
Your eye can't resolve much more than that. You might as well ask why we can't have sound chips that can output 100Khz. Well what would be the point unless you're writing a game for bats?
If I wanted to type a 10,000 word document or play a complex RPG I'd take that 1995 PC over a smartphone anyday. Sure , the smartphone has much better hardware but from a usability point of view it leaves a lot to be desired compared to PC or any era.
Err , ITYF the volume of the mass of a planet is the volume of the planet. Unless perhaps you were thinking of those oh-so-common planets where the core is actually hollow?
Fuckwit.
So let me get this straight, you're saying a sphere can increase or decrease its surface area without a commensurate increase or decrease in its volume? Well I'm stunned. You should publish a paper in Nature about your new model of reality - you'd win the nobel prize.
Plenty of things in the computer world are crap, but generally the alternatives are even worse. HTML5 sucks right now. When its stable then sure, it'll replace flash, but in the meantime forget it.
And did I mention farmville or facebook or any of that sh1t? I like watching TED thanks and if you think I'm forking out $$$$ for an overpriced netbook without a keyboard that Jobs got all you bleeting sheep to buy just to view some websites which I can already view on a PC with a free plugin then you're fscking dreaming.
Anyway , you'd better hurry up, I hear the next pilgrimage bus to Cupertino is leaving soon...
FTA: "Our modern society is almost completely reliant on GPS," Humphreys told the conference. "It could be deadly."
Well sorry I'm but it shouldn't be. Any critical systems should have backup systems such as using cellphone towers to triangulate or LORAN or even just plain old maps. Any society which puts all its eggs into a basket that can easily be knocked over is just asking for trouble.
Last time I looked the surface area of a sphere was directly related to its volume you fscking moron.
"As I said, the solution is to simply not use Flash"
Sorry, the solution to what? Thats not a solution , its a problem that has to be solved if you want to look at a number of websites. You might drink the apple koolaid and believe Flash is the work of the devil but we're not all Jobs sheep.
"Youtube videos are then watched on your favourite player with a single click."
Or you could just watch them on the fscking web page in the first place instead of downloading and installing some pointless app.
But whatever makes you think you're "l337" I guess.
But why would you want to? Whats the price of an oil change compared to a new engine? Sorry , I just don't understand why anyone would skimp on oil changes or other general maintenance.
No , its says its *MASS* is 6.5 times that of earth. Given its much larger volume its gravity won't be anything like that. Gravity is a result of mass divided by volume, not just mass on its own. Otherwise Jupiter would have a gravity of about 300G , not just 2.5 and the sun would collapse into a black hole.
Well thats how Mars lost its water. The reason it doesn't happen on earth is we have the ozone layer which prevents enough UV getting to the lower atmosphere and the ground to split the water.
Mind you , thinking about it - if this planet did end up with a lot of O2 in its atmosphere it would probably end up with an ozone layer too and the process would stop.
rm -rf ~/.macromedia
"In fact, I'm not sure I can name a single site I use that makes use of Flash."
So you never use youtube then? Or any of the TV catch up services? You never view any lectures on TED?
Don't know to TBH , I'm not a chemist. But some will undoubtedly escape before it can react with anything. Given the low density of the planet its unlikely its gravity is much greater than earths so H2 won't have a hard time escaping the atmosphere.
Even if it doesn't spiral into the star the UV will be slowly splitting the water into its component parts and the hydrogen will disappear off into space. What happens to the O2 after that is anyones guess - perhaps it'll react with whatever rock is there or perhaps it'll end up as a huge oxygen atmosphere.
Their for-profit system screws up GPS which has been around a LOT longer than they have , the FCC finds this and blocks their system and THEY want to sue the FCC and GPS makers???
I'm sorry, is this Falcone guy just gold plated arrogant ass who thinks the world should revolve around him, or is he just a plain, good old grade A fsckwit?
For civiil nuclear transport anyway, don't know about weapons. Here's a video of them testing one of the nuclear containers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJflu7z4QyI
It was never done to save the consumer money, it was done to save the GOVERNMENT money. Whatever politicians say, they don't really care how much the average citizen has to cough up for public services. They simply care that they can spend less on them so they have more money to waste on pointless wars so they can be best buddies with the USA (yeah, right) or subsidising undeserving "asylum" seekers and their 10 kids.
Does sarcasm really have to be flagged on here with neon signs for some people?