Safety considerations aside - with a normal lift the motor only has to work against cabin weight - counter weight. Even hydraulic lifts can build up pressure when the cabin is descdneing. WIth this design the linear motor has to do all the work lifting the cabin up so unless there's some sort of regenerative braking system when it comes down this is going to be horribly power hungry and inefficient just when buildings are being required to reduce their power usage.
You sold the rights to your name to make a quick buck, now stop whining when someone uses it in a way you don't like. If you wanted your name only to be associated with good (ok, reasonable) quality gear you should have kept it in house.
The shuttle was never used to its full capabilities. Nothing in the AAP could have safely brought a satellite back from orbit as the shuttle managed on 4 occasions.
The shuttle could have stayed in orbit for months if it didn't have a crew. And I don't see this thing taking a full crew + 22 ton payload anytime soon. I'm not saying the shuttle was the best there could have been, but compared to this thing it was a 747 compared to a cessna.
The USA managed to build and launch an airliner sized crewed reusable spaceplane called the shuttle in the 1970s. I'd love to know whats so cutting edge about the X35 that they're trying to keep this midget version of the shuttle secret. Warp engines? Dilithium crystals? Or just too embarresed to show that space technology has barely advanced in 40 years?
Lets see how the standard issue "But he has Aspergers and didn't realise the consequence of his actions your honour" excuse will fly over there. Somehow I suspect their life will be a long way from being pleasent in the very near future especially if the oligarch who owns the bank has some friends in the judicial system who owe him a favour.
Lets be honest, the original star trek was nothing more than racial awareness propaganda by Rodenberry with a Sci Fi series nailed onto it. However he wasn't so hot on feminism so the studios are now tripping over themselves to Right That Wrong! First we had wosshername as captain in Voyager (too lazy to google), but she was white (oops). Now they've got diversity squared with an asian female captain. No doubt one of her team will be LGBT along with assorted other minority groups.
Personally I got sick of all Star Trek series long ago. There are only so many morality tales dressed up as entertainment I can handle before I need to sit with a bucket next to me. And I don't mean KFC.
...that Wikileaks never seems to publish any russian or chinese state cyber security leaks. Now either security is particularly bad in the US security services compared to russia and china, which means information is easy to get hold of, or someone in wikileaks has a rather anti-US agenda. I know which I'd lay money on.
Fair point, though neither of them are marketed products. I'm guessing wrt the latter, Torvalds learnt american english and so never found out that in british english "git" is a somewhat unpleasent insult.
That whole citizen emancipation BS was a lie sold to gullible hippies back in the day and has now been swallowed wholesale by a credulous Millennial generation who happily sell their privacy down the river for some cheap virtual baubles. By the time they wise up and realise what they've done it'll be too late. Old head, young shoulders - never happens.
... because the men in suits who sign the cheques are really not going to go a bundle over something called Cockroach. No doubt it sounded amusing after a few beers on a friday night, but I'm struggling to think of any current IT products with a worse name.
A typical hysterical reaction against nuclear. Anyone would think coal power stations don't emit radioactive particles. Also didn't anyone tell you that France next door has been producing almost half of its electricity through nuclear power for 50 years?
Someone in the ops dept in another company I worked at used to do that. In the end we just resorted to visiting his desk on the next floor up. He didn't like it but (unlike a coder) part of his job was being available for internal support issues so he couldn't complain. He wasn't overworked , just lazy. Whenever you went up (and he didn't spot you coming) he'd just be surfing the web.
I wonder if this particular specimen of arrogant entitled Tech Bro will finally realise its better to work with regulators around the world than to try and bully your way onto the scene and hope you built up enough critical mass to bulldoze your way through all those tedious regulations and laws that other companies have to comply with.
The idea behind Uber is a good one, but I hope the company itself goes out of business. Its business and HR practices stink and we don't need a company like that running transportation services (not that they'd stop there tbh).
"You disagree that length of parental care is cultural because...the consequences of not doing so are cultura"
No, I disagree because I'm a parent and have some experience in what kids are like. I suspect you are not.
"Those children are hunting, fishing, cooking, and building...doing all but one thing the adults do. As soon as estrous starts, that's adulthood at 11 or 12."
And thats not cultural? The fact that most cultures consider adulthood to be much older than that should tell you something. Primitive cultures use child labour because they have no choice given their way of life.
Unless they take the lid off Apples new graphics chip and can point out hardware design similarities and possibly extract the microcode. However doing so would violate apples copyright so they could counter sue.
I disagree. Kids need emotion support whether it comes from a parent or a guardian. Those who don't grow up with it due to the parent(s) being absent or just useless more often than not go badly off the rails or look for substitutes in gang culture with the same result.
Also its not just mental maturity. Physically a young child wouldn't survive for long in the wild. It would either be eaten, poison itself or die of starvation.
I'm not sure its that simple. Most other animals are subject to limited food supplies but many of them are much stronger and have far greater endurance than us. Where they differ is gestation period and the number of years until an offspring can fend for itself. AFAIK no other animal on earth has to do parenting duties for a given offspring until they're teenagers.
If natural selection could have found a way of dramatically increasing our stamina and/or strength without reducing our lifespan or causing other issues that reduce our breeding ability then it would have almost certainly been included in our gene pool. The fact that after millions of years it hasn't tells you a lot.
Eg: steroids will make you far stronger for a given amount of exercise compared to not taking them, but look at the huge list of (sometimes fatal) side effects. Ditto almost all other performance & strength enhancing drugs.
... they didn't evolve it as mice, it was already there when they evolved INTO mice and it presumably doesn't reduce their survivability (and even may help on rare occasions) so natural selection hasn't removed it.
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I was asking whether they did it, not whether it was fucking solvable you dribbling idiot.
Safety considerations aside - with a normal lift the motor only has to work against cabin weight - counter weight. Even hydraulic lifts can build up pressure when the cabin is descdneing. WIth this design the linear motor has to do all the work lifting the cabin up so unless there's some sort of regenerative braking system when it comes down this is going to be horribly power hungry and inefficient just when buildings are being required to reduce their power usage.
You sold the rights to your name to make a quick buck, now stop whining when someone uses it in a way you don't like. If you wanted your name only to be associated with good (ok, reasonable) quality gear you should have kept it in house.
Without a crew compartment you don't think they could have found space for a few more?
The shuttle was never used to its full capabilities. Nothing in the AAP could have safely brought a satellite back from orbit as the shuttle managed on 4 occasions.
The shuttle could have stayed in orbit for months if it didn't have a crew. And I don't see this thing taking a full crew + 22 ton payload anytime soon. I'm not saying the shuttle was the best there could have been, but compared to this thing it was a 747 compared to a cessna.
The USA managed to build and launch an airliner sized crewed reusable spaceplane called the shuttle in the 1970s. I'd love to know whats so cutting edge about the X35 that they're trying to keep this midget version of the shuttle secret. Warp engines? Dilithium crystals? Or just too embarresed to show that space technology has barely advanced in 40 years?
Not so sure about that. If the hack trashes the banks reputation then Mr Oligarch loses money and that means BIG trouble for these kids.
Lets see how the standard issue "But he has Aspergers and didn't realise the consequence of his actions your honour" excuse will fly over there. Somehow I suspect their life will be a long way from being pleasent in the very near future especially if the oligarch who owns the bank has some friends in the judicial system who owe him a favour.
Clearly a lot of the storylines passed you by.
Lets be honest, the original star trek was nothing more than racial awareness propaganda by Rodenberry with a Sci Fi series nailed onto it. However he wasn't so hot on feminism so the studios are now tripping over themselves to Right That Wrong! First we had wosshername as captain in Voyager (too lazy to google), but she was white (oops). Now they've got diversity squared with an asian female captain. No doubt one of her team will be LGBT along with assorted other minority groups.
Personally I got sick of all Star Trek series long ago. There are only so many morality tales dressed up as entertainment I can handle before I need to sit with a bucket next to me. And I don't mean KFC.
...that Wikileaks never seems to publish any russian or chinese state cyber security leaks. Now either security is particularly bad in the US security services compared to russia and china, which means information is easy to get hold of, or someone in wikileaks has a rather anti-US agenda. I know which I'd lay money on.
Fair point, though neither of them are marketed products. I'm guessing wrt the latter, Torvalds learnt american english and so never found out that in british english "git" is a somewhat unpleasent insult.
That whole citizen emancipation BS was a lie sold to gullible hippies back in the day and has now been swallowed wholesale by a credulous Millennial generation who happily sell their privacy down the river for some cheap virtual baubles. By the time they wise up and realise what they've done it'll be too late. Old head, young shoulders - never happens.
... because the men in suits who sign the cheques are really not going to go a bundle over something called Cockroach. No doubt it sounded amusing after a few beers on a friday night, but I'm struggling to think of any current IT products with a worse name.
A typical hysterical reaction against nuclear. Anyone would think coal power stations don't emit radioactive particles. Also didn't anyone tell you that France next door has been producing almost half of its electricity through nuclear power for 50 years?
Someone in the ops dept in another company I worked at used to do that. In the end we just resorted to visiting his desk on the next floor up. He didn't like it but (unlike a coder) part of his job was being available for internal support issues so he couldn't complain. He wasn't overworked , just lazy. Whenever you went up (and he didn't spot you coming) he'd just be surfing the web.
I wonder if this particular specimen of arrogant entitled Tech Bro will finally realise its better to work with regulators around the world than to try and bully your way onto the scene and hope you built up enough critical mass to bulldoze your way through all those tedious regulations and laws that other companies have to comply with.
The idea behind Uber is a good one, but I hope the company itself goes out of business. Its business and HR practices stink and we don't need a company like that running transportation services (not that they'd stop there tbh).
"You disagree that length of parental care is cultural because...the consequences of not doing so are cultura"
No, I disagree because I'm a parent and have some experience in what kids are like. I suspect you are not.
"Those children are hunting, fishing, cooking, and building...doing all but one thing the adults do. As soon as estrous starts, that's adulthood at 11 or 12."
And thats not cultural? The fact that most cultures consider adulthood to be much older than that should tell you something. Primitive cultures use child labour because they have no choice given their way of life.
Unless they take the lid off Apples new graphics chip and can point out hardware design similarities and possibly extract the microcode. However doing so would violate apples copyright so they could counter sue.
As usual, only the lawyers will win.
"This is more cultural than biological."
I disagree. Kids need emotion support whether it comes from a parent or a guardian. Those who don't grow up with it due to the parent(s) being absent or just useless more often than not go badly off the rails or look for substitutes in gang culture with the same result.
Also its not just mental maturity. Physically a young child wouldn't survive for long in the wild. It would either be eaten, poison itself or die of starvation.
I'm not sure its that simple. Most other animals are subject to limited food supplies but many of them are much stronger and have far greater endurance than us. Where they differ is gestation period and the number of years until an offspring can fend for itself. AFAIK no other animal on earth has to do parenting duties for a given offspring until they're teenagers.
If you ate nothing but butter & chocolate maybe.
If natural selection could have found a way of dramatically increasing our stamina and/or strength without reducing our lifespan or causing other issues that reduce our breeding ability then it would have almost certainly been included in our gene pool. The fact that after millions of years it hasn't tells you a lot.
Eg: steroids will make you far stronger for a given amount of exercise compared to not taking them, but look at the huge list of (sometimes fatal) side effects. Ditto almost all other performance & strength enhancing drugs.
... they didn't evolve it as mice, it was already there when they evolved INTO mice and it presumably doesn't reduce their survivability (and even may help on rare occasions) so natural selection hasn't removed it.