"You get to play it as much as you like for 24 hours and the cost is comparable to (if not better than) the Blockbuster round the corner. You can pause, fast-forward, rewind, no problem. It works great."
Yeah , and I can do all that if I buy a DVD for only a few times the price, the difference being I get to play it whenever I want, wherever I want (I can take it to friends , relatives etc etc) and hopefully it'll still play in 24 YEARS.
"It's fast, very usable, convenient, cheap and it works. I have seen the future and it is video on demand. And no they're not paying me to say this"
They probably don't have to , you sound enough of a sucker to do it for free. 24 hours , jeez , gimme a break , brainwashed or what....
It won't happen - ever. Sure some people may be happy just downloading stuff when they need it but the vast majority of people (and I mean everybody , not just teenage geeks) like the convenience of just shoving in a CD or DVD that they own whenever they want into a simple to use player and not have to boot up a PC and go through licensing hell just to listen to a piece of music.
Ok , read the specs, looks impressive , in fact too impressive. For a start a ceiling of 40,000 ft would be impressive for ANY propeller driven aircraft , never mind an autogyro , plus their quote of a max advancing blade speed of 584mph when the aircraft is doing 420mph is worrying since thats damn close to Mach 1 at that height. If the aircraft had to go into a sudden dive the rotor blade would break the sound barrier and god knows what would happen.
Suffice to say I'll believe it when I see it.
Flapping requires moving the mass of the wings up
and down. None of the kenetic energy that isn't passed to the air is retained on the opposing stroke and its all lost as heat in the muscles. Compare that to a rotary engine that just keeps turning.
"that fixed wing aircraft are lousy at."
And so you use a rotory craft. Theres also the minor issue of how the hell the thing would take off from the ground if its flapping wings could only flap to a small angle until its airborn. Ie when it needs the most downforce it produces the least. Unless you design a big branch for it to land of course.
I don't see how they'll hit 350mph with that large rotor wobbling up and down in the air stream. Unless somehow its locked in place it'll cause all sorts of dynamics issues plus it'll need to have a way of controlling blade pitch just like a helicopter (otherwise when locked you'll get torque issues) which means it'll be just as complex as a chopper internally.
If gyrocopters were the solution I'm damn sure boeing would have used them as the V22 project could hardly be called cheap.
Sorry , that should have read "Wings only flap in nature because....", not "exist". Doh.
Flight is one area NOT to copy nature in.
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I'm sorry , but just as wheels are far more efficient running along smooth roads and rails
than any combination of legs would be then
flight using fixed wings wings far more efficient than flapping for the sort of aircraft capable of carrying people or cargo. People should bear in
mind that just because nature comes up with a particular solution does NOT mean its the best one. Wings only exist in nature because continuous rotary motion using vertibrate muscle - bone structure is simply impossible therefor the next best thing evolved - backwards and forwards motion of wings. Evolution comes up with the "good enough" solution , not the best.
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Quite. And not to mention that unless you have massive counterweights flying around too 180 degrees out of phase with the main wings then
the body of any aircraft using this method will move up and down in synch with the wings. Hardly something you want in a long distance passenger aircraft! It would probably redefine the whole airsickness experience!
"That's revenge via proxy. Juvenile, cruel and a coward's way. "
So if I just went out and beat the crap out of them or shot them myself that would be ok? Ok , whatever...
"But can you tell me how well exactly has the ultimate deterrant, the death penalty, worked? "
Well unless the criminals executed can come back from the grave and commit more crimes , then yeah , I'd say its worked in their case.
"Deterrant implies that the criminal stops to think the consequences of getting caught. But if he thinks he's going to get caught in the first place,"
Don't be naive. Of course criminals think about getting caught. Why do you think they bother with ski masks, getaway cars etc etc??! Its a gamble they're prepared to take and IMO the worse
the odds of losing that gamble the fewer of them will do it.
"Deterrant implies that the criminal stops to think the consequences of getting caught. But if he thinks he's going to get caught in the first place,"
Yeah , that'd be why in arab countries where you can lose a hand just for stealing they have such a rampant crimewave , unlike the peaceful
west and its soppy liberal policies. Oh sorry , am I being sarcastic? Well thats all you deserve.
"I really hope you get sent to prison for a few days sometime in your life, to see how it feels"
What a stupid statement. You might as well say you hope that I turn into a paedophile for a few days so I can understand how they really feel and
can "relate" to them. Get a life loser.
Revenge is not juvenile. Its a fundemental part of human nature and one which I happen to agree with. If you suffer because of what someone does to do you they should suffer equally in return. If they don't then what exactly is the deterrant?
"The bible in proverbs says not to withhold good from someone when it is in your power to help"
The bible also has a load of other social moralising. Do you go along with it all? If you do them you'll be either a hypocrite or insane since it contradicts itself numerous times. Man I hate holier than thou bible bashers.
I think you'll find you liberal ponce , that the original poster was already codemned by a JURY of his PEERS. If he didn't like going to prison then he
SHOULDN'T HAVE COMMITTED A CRIME. Just how hard is it for you liberal a*seholes to understand this simple concept? Prison is SUPPOSED to be unpleasent. If it wasn't then what would be the fucking point of it???! Imbecile.
Today IBM announcemed the release of 2 new landmark acronyms: TRIPS and PERC. According to a
spokesman: "Well felt that RISC had run its course . Its far to familiar to people outside the industry now and besides , it has somewhat negative connotations. With these new acronyms we can once more confuse millions of people over the acronymns expected 10 year lifecycle and also it gives us plenty of bad in-joke opportunities for our technical authors"
Seems to me you're the idiot since you don't seem to understand that "PC hardware emulation" and "virtual machine" are the same thing.
Back to school kiddie...
I think you rather killed your whole argument there. Still , you're probably a rap fan so
why arn't I surprised. Go give your lonely braincell a rest , I think it needs it.
Microsoft is an amazing company. They do all this in depth detailed research, then release buggy flawed software that is as braindead is its
possible to be. Just possibly the R&D part of the company has little influence on the main part. If you want a company that *really* respects efforts its researchers I suggest you look here
Actually I don't. And since some rappers are white perhaps you'd like to suggest I hate whites as well? Or is it mnore of a case in Politically Correct land the only answer to a crisiscism of an ethnic cultural artifact is to label a person rascist? Stupid question , of course it is since most PC people wouldn't know a thought if it came and knocked on their door at midnight with a brass band in tow. FYI I happen to hate rap and rappers because 99% of them are attitude driven halfwits, I happen to like Reggae & jazz which in case you didn't know (and you probably didn't cos I suspect you're not the sharpest tool in the box) are also forms of black music.
"but not (c)RAP 'artists', we all know they can't sing anyway."m
Sing? Half of them have trouble even talking in sentences of more than 3 words that doesn't have a swear word in it and with words of more
than 2 syllables. Then for the music they simply rip off someone elses track and put their "vocals" over the top along with some
cheap Yamaha bassline. Truly rappers are the dictionary definition of the word "talentless".
C was designed as a replacement for assembler in most (but not all) situations. Ergo they didn't put in any bounds checking because C is a
what-you-see-is-what-you-get language. Speed, flexibility and size were the considerations , not programmer hand holding.
"Before C nobody thought of writing language compilers without bounds checking on arrays."
... just avoid RedHat. They're rapidly moving to a point of making their own proprietary version of Linux but making the distribution so reliant on extra bits they've put in themselves.
I would suggest that next time you wish to upgrade your machine go Debian, Suse or if you're a techie person then Slackware.
So whats wrong with those? Pity more countries don't treat the tide of human scum coming from various bits of the world in the same way and then if these freeloaders knew they'd get a hard time instead of free dole money , housing etc , they might think twice about coming!
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"You get to play it as much as you like for 24 hours and the cost is comparable to (if not better than) the Blockbuster round the corner. You can pause, fast-forward, rewind, no problem. It works great."
Yeah , and I can do all that if I buy a DVD for only a few times the price, the difference being I get to play it whenever I want, wherever I want
(I can take it to friends , relatives etc etc) and hopefully it'll still play in 24 YEARS.
"It's fast, very usable, convenient, cheap and it works. I have seen the future and it is video on demand. And no they're not paying me to say this"
They probably don't have to , you sound enough of a sucker to do it for free. 24 hours , jeez , gimme a break , brainwashed or what....
It won't happen - ever. Sure some people may be happy just downloading stuff when they need it but the vast majority of people
(and I mean everybody , not just teenage geeks) like the convenience of just shoving in a CD or DVD that they own whenever they want into a simple to use
player and not have to boot up a PC and go through licensing hell just to listen to a piece of music.
Ok , read the specs, looks impressive , in fact too impressive. For a start a ceiling of 40,000 ft would be impressive for ANY propeller driven
aircraft , never mind an autogyro , plus their quote of a max advancing blade speed of 584mph when the aircraft is doing 420mph is worrying since
thats damn close to Mach 1 at that height. If the aircraft had to go into a sudden dive the rotor blade would break the sound barrier and god knows what would happen.
Suffice to say I'll believe it when I see it.
"Your proof is?"
Flapping requires moving the mass of the wings up and down. None of the kenetic energy that isn't passed to the air is retained on the
opposing stroke and its all lost as heat in the muscles. Compare that to a rotary engine that just keeps turning.
"that fixed wing aircraft are lousy at."
And so you use a rotory craft. Theres also the minor issue of how the hell the thing would take off from the ground if its flapping wings could
only flap to a small angle until its airborn. Ie when it needs the most downforce it produces the least. Unless you design a big
branch for it to land of course.
How about no Windows viruses for just one friggin week?
I don't see how they'll hit 350mph with that large rotor wobbling up and down in the air stream. Unless somehow its locked in place it'll
cause all sorts of dynamics issues plus it'll need to have a way of controlling blade pitch just like a helicopter (otherwise when locked you'll get torque issues) which means
it'll be just as complex as a chopper internally.
If gyrocopters were the solution I'm damn sure boeing would have used them as the V22 project could hardly be called cheap.
Sorry , that should have read "Wings only flap in nature because ....", not "exist". Doh.
I'm sorry , but just as wheels are far more efficient running along smooth roads and rails than any combination of legs would be then
flight using fixed wings wings far more efficient than flapping for the sort of aircraft capable of carrying people or cargo. People should bear in mind
that just because nature comes up with a particular solution does NOT mean its the best one. Wings only exist in nature because continuous rotary motion using vertibrate
muscle - bone structure is simply impossible therefor the next best thing evolved - backwards and forwards motion of wings. Evolution comes up with the "good enough" solution , not the best.
Quite. And not to mention that unless you have massive counterweights flying around too 180 degrees out of phase with the main wings then
the body of any aircraft using this method will move up and down in synch with the wings. Hardly something you want in a long distance passenger aircraft!
It would probably redefine the whole airsickness experience!
"That's revenge via proxy. Juvenile, cruel and a coward's way. "
So if I just went out and beat the crap out of them or shot them myself that would be ok? Ok , whatever...
"But can you tell me how well exactly has the ultimate deterrant, the death penalty, worked? "
Well unless the criminals executed can come back from the grave and commit more crimes , then yeah , I'd say its worked in their case.
"Deterrant implies that the criminal stops to think the consequences of getting caught. But if he thinks he's going to get caught in the first place,"
Don't be naive. Of course criminals think about getting caught. Why do you think they bother with ski masks, getaway cars etc etc??! Its a gamble they're prepared to take and IMO
the worse the odds of losing that gamble the fewer of them will do it.
"Deterrant implies that the criminal stops to think the consequences of getting caught. But if he thinks he's going to get caught in the first place,"
Yeah , that'd be why in arab countries where you can lose a hand just for stealing they have such a rampant crimewave , unlike the peaceful west and its soppy liberal policies.
Oh sorry , am I being sarcastic? Well thats all you deserve.
"eye for an eye"
"forgive and forget"
Those are the most obvious ones, there are dozens of others which I'm sure you can google for.
"I really hope you get sent to prison for a few days sometime in your life, to see how it feels"
What a stupid statement. You might as well say you hope that I turn into a paedophile for a few days so I can understand how they really feel and
can "relate" to them. Get a life loser.
Revenge is not juvenile. Its a fundemental part of human nature and one which I happen to agree with. If you suffer because of what someone does
to do you they should suffer equally in return. If they don't then what exactly is the deterrant?
"The bible in proverbs says not to withhold good from someone when it is in your power to help"
The bible also has a load of other social moralising. Do you go along with it all? If you do them you'll be either a hypocrite or insane since
it contradicts itself numerous times. Man I hate holier than thou bible bashers.
I think you'll find you liberal ponce , that the original poster was already codemned by a JURY of his PEERS. If he didn't like going to prison then he
SHOULDN'T HAVE COMMITTED A CRIME. Just how hard is it for you liberal a*seholes to understand this simple concept? Prison is SUPPOSED to be unpleasent.
If it wasn't then what would be the fucking point of it???! Imbecile.
Today IBM announcemed the release of 2 new landmark acronyms: TRIPS and PERC. According to a spokesman: "Well felt that RISC had run its course
. Its far to familiar to people outside the industry now and besides , it has somewhat negative connotations. With these new acronyms we can
once more confuse millions of people over the acronymns expected 10 year lifecycle and also it gives us plenty of bad in-joke
opportunities for our technical authors"
Seems to me you're the idiot since you don't seem to understand that "PC hardware emulation" and "virtual machine" are the same thing.
Back to school kiddie...
"Grow the fuck up"
I think you rather killed your whole argument there. Still , you're probably a rap fan so
why arn't I surprised. Go give your lonely braincell a rest , I think it needs it.
Microsoft is an amazing company. They do all this in depth detailed research, then release buggy flawed software that is as braindead is its
possible to be. Just possibly the R&D part of the company has little influence on the main part. If you want a company that *really* respects efforts its researchers I suggest you look here
Actually I don't. And since some rappers are white perhaps you'd like to suggest I hate whites
as well? Or is it mnore of a case in Politically Correct land the only answer to a crisiscism of an ethnic cultural artifact is to label
a person rascist? Stupid question , of course it is since most PC people wouldn't know a thought if it came and knocked on their door at midnight with a brass band in tow.
FYI I happen to hate rap and rappers because 99% of them are attitude driven halfwits, I happen to like Reggae & jazz which in case you didn't know (and you probably didn't cos I suspect you're not
the sharpest tool in the box) are also forms of black music.
"but not (c)RAP 'artists', we all know they can't sing anyway."m
Sing? Half of them have trouble even talking in sentences of more than 3 words that doesn't have a swear word in it and with words of more
than 2 syllables. Then for the music they simply rip off someone elses track and put their "vocals" over the top along with some
cheap Yamaha bassline. Truly rappers are the dictionary definition of the word "talentless".
C was designed as a replacement for assembler in most (but not all) situations. Ergo they didn't put in any bounds checking because C is a
what-you-see-is-what-you-get language. Speed, flexibility and size were the considerations , not programmer hand holding.
"Before C nobody thought of writing language compilers without bounds checking on arrays."
Rubbish. Go read up on computer languages.
"Lets see, I have worked with eight Turing award winners"
That doesn't make you one of them. For all we know you could have been their lab assistent.
... just avoid RedHat. They're rapidly moving to a point of making their own proprietary version of Linux but making the distribution so reliant on extra bits they've put in themselves.
I would suggest that next time you wish to upgrade your machine go Debian, Suse or if you're a techie person then Slackware.
So whats wrong with those? Pity more countries don't treat the tide of human scum coming from
various bits of the world in the same way and then if these freeloaders knew they'd get a hard time
instead of free dole money , housing etc , they might think twice about coming!