They might not have for a simple reason. It may originally have been decided that the parts on the rover had a very limited lifespan due to problems like the temperature swing throughout the day. Given the existence of these problems it was probably assumed that the lifespan limitation due to dust collection would never come into play. Now that we realize that the parts have lasted it may be an error, admittedly with hindsight, not to have dealt with the dust.
What do you mean 'those countries'? There's nothing weird about the sunlight in Afghanistan and it's nowhere near powerful enough to drive any 1980 VW model anywhere near 25mph. Look at existing solar powered vehicle designs. They are radically different from regular cars because they have to be extra light, wherever they run in the world.
My father's foot was largely undamaged when one of these went over his foot. Nonetheless these aren't the lightest cars in the world. There's no way you could drive this at anywhere near 25mph on solar panels alone. I have some doubts about this feel good story.
It doesn't take much effort to pick apart my hyperbole to find a real argument. In fact, many companies used to provide company cars but I haven't heard about one of those for a decade now.
That's what I thought. That's why I'm going to stay unemployed until I find a company that's not too cheap to buy me the Ferrari I need to get to work on time.
You know, it's never all that easy in my experience. There's always some awkward to reach bit of plastic or metal you have to push in a direction that you can't reach or a screw where there's no room for a screwdriver or a bit of plastic you have to buy that nobody told you about, or the pieces that need to come apart and yet are more challenging to separate than the lid of a Japanese puzzle box.
Yet clearly what they have is a tube. It's a bit of stretch of the imagination to call it a 'device'. But in these days of nanotechnology funding I guess they can't really make a press release saying they've made just a tube.
As computers get better and better at chess humans will go on finding more and more dumb aspects of the game that they claim is what makes it interesting. If programmers wanted a machine to bluff they would - but why bother, bluffing against a grandmaster is generally a very bad strategy.
I don't think the MPAA's profits make it right or wrong
Maybe it does. Copyright isn't just a right given to people for their pleasure. Let me quote a well known document
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
So we have to ask - does a 'loss' of earnings from 'piracy' hinder this Progress. If it does not, then one has to start questioning if it is wrong. This is quite different from other kinds of property rights which are exist as an end in themselves.
Unless you live in a part of the universe where they don't have radio stations. Maybe the far side of the moon. Of all the dishonest advertising for a useless product I have ever seen in my life the iTrip and its functionalikes are the most criminal.
IN YEAR 1997, 97,234 PEOPLE STARVED, 0 CAME TO THE CITY.
POPULATION IS NOW 2,123,872
THE CITY NOW OWNS 543,213 ACRES
RATS ATE 1,234,612 BUSHELS
YOU NOW HAVE 5,190,212 BUSHELS IN STORE
YOU WERE DONATED 1 LAPTOP
YOU STARVED 97,234 PEOPLE IN ONE YEAR!!!!
DUE TO THIS EXTREME MANAGEMENT YOU HAVE NOT ONLY
BEEN IMPEACHED AND THROWN OUT OF OFFICE BUT YOU
HAVE ALSO BEEN DECLARED A NATIONAL FINK!!!!
...they did have computing devices of some sort. I remember reading some of Feynman's anecdotes about them. Can't remember off the top of my head though.
Slashdot Mirror
...the competition is too see which of the vehicles can get back up the hill again.
Er...no...the rule is 'whoever' for subject and 'whomever' for object. In this case we have "whomever does" so 'whomever' is actually a subject.
...on gullibility.
I think you mean 'whoever'.
They might not have for a simple reason. It may originally have been decided that the parts on the rover had a very limited lifespan due to problems like the temperature swing throughout the day. Given the existence of these problems it was probably assumed that the lifespan limitation due to dust collection would never come into play. Now that we realize that the parts have lasted it may be an error, admittedly with hindsight, not to have dealt with the dust.
Sounds no more reasonable. There's a power mismatch by an order of magnitude here (and I don't mean a binary order of magnitude).
What do you mean 'those countries'? There's nothing weird about the sunlight in Afghanistan and it's nowhere near powerful enough to drive any 1980 VW model anywhere near 25mph. Look at existing solar powered vehicle designs. They are radically different from regular cars because they have to be extra light, wherever they run in the world.
My father's foot was largely undamaged when one of these went over his foot. Nonetheless these aren't the lightest cars in the world. There's no way you could drive this at anywhere near 25mph on solar panels alone. I have some doubts about this feel good story.
You can already do this. I'm sure I remember seeing one at the Virgin Megastore. Nobody seemed very interested in it.
Almost every game features high res color graphics. I thought it was meant to be a retro game mag.
It doesn't take much effort to pick apart my hyperbole to find a real argument. In fact, many companies used to provide company cars but I haven't heard about one of those for a decade now.
That's what I thought. That's why I'm going to stay unemployed until I find a company that's not too cheap to buy me the Ferrari I need to get to work on time.
You know, it's never all that easy in my experience. There's always some awkward to reach bit of plastic or metal you have to push in a direction that you can't reach or a screw where there's no room for a screwdriver or a bit of plastic you have to buy that nobody told you about, or the pieces that need to come apart and yet are more challenging to separate than the lid of a Japanese puzzle box.
The pop-science version didn't make sense at all but nobody seemed bothered.
The 'dial', that's fine, I remember the time when phones had dials. But 'up'. I think that might need a book to explain.
Yet clearly what they have is a tube. It's a bit of stretch of the imagination to call it a 'device'. But in these days of nanotechnology funding I guess they can't really make a press release saying they've made just a tube.
As computers get better and better at chess humans will go on finding more and more dumb aspects of the game that they claim is what makes it interesting. If programmers wanted a machine to bluff they would - but why bother, bluffing against a grandmaster is generally a very bad strategy.
Solutions for pennies.
I knew if I trawled on /. I'd find the one person for whom it works.
Unless you live in a part of the universe where they don't have radio stations. Maybe the far side of the moon. Of all the dishonest advertising for a useless product I have ever seen in my life the iTrip and its functionalikes are the most criminal.
HAMURABI: I BEG TO REPORT TO YOU.
IN YEAR 1997, 97,234 PEOPLE STARVED, 0 CAME TO THE CITY.
POPULATION IS NOW 2,123,872
THE CITY NOW OWNS 543,213 ACRES
RATS ATE 1,234,612 BUSHELS
YOU NOW HAVE 5,190,212 BUSHELS IN STORE
YOU WERE DONATED 1 LAPTOP
YOU STARVED 97,234 PEOPLE IN ONE YEAR!!!!
DUE TO THIS EXTREME MANAGEMENT YOU HAVE NOT ONLY
BEEN IMPEACHED AND THROWN OUT OF OFFICE BUT YOU
HAVE ALSO BEEN DECLARED A NATIONAL FINK!!!!
SO LONG FOR NOW
Well at least with the iBook there's no chance of the backspace key doing anything unexpected...
...they did have computing devices of some sort. I remember reading some of Feynman's anecdotes about them. Can't remember off the top of my head though.