Douglas Trumbull developed a 60FPS movie system in the 1970s called Showscan.
The theater owners wouldn't install all new equipment when there was no guarantee that there would be movies in that format, and studios wouldn't make movies in that format unless the theaters had all converted.
I've always wondered if it was possible to get tickets for both speeding and going too slow for conditions at the same time. It sounds like it might be possible in Texas.
It puzzles me why a population would choose the "freedom" to not wear a seatbelt and then happily accept the consequence
AFAIK, there are laws requiring the wearing of seat belts throughout the United States. The requirement for airbags is to protect those people too stupid or apathetic to bother obeying those laws.
Maybe, but the airbag rotates with the steering wheel, so if you keep your hands on 3 and 9 positions as you turn the wheel, the airbag should still explode in between your arms, instead of through them.
I was driving like that when I got in to an accident. The air bag threw my hand up into the windshield hard enough for it to punch a hole in the windshield.
Fortunately, there wasn't too much damage to my hand, but a decade later, the scar on the back of my hand is still evident.
I no longer drive with a hand at the 12:00 position. It's 3:00 and 9:00 for me.
The local media here in central Florida is already hyping this up as a tourist attraction comparable to a Shuttle launch. Probably wishful thinking, but anything is better than nothing.
what company has traveling employees and calls them out for email, browsing, and paying bills on the road?
Maybe you have it backwards. Maybe it isn't the company worried about an employee's personal use, but the employee worried about the company having access to non work-related activities. And, no, I don't mean porn. I mean things like online banking. Even if the company is honest, I wouldn't necessarily trust the company's network administrator. I've known too many of them who loved to monitor what people were doing on "their" network.
So, while 90% of a company's employees can make do with something less than a real PC, the company would quickly fail if PC's and real MS Office were cast to the wayside.
I'm not aware that anyone was suggesting this. Obviously, if you spend much time using a keyboard, you aren't going to be happy doing that work on an iPad.
However, even those people who do create content might find an iPad very useful some of the time. I'm thinking in particular of those people who spend a lot of time on airplanes. An iPad is far more "user friendly" when stuck in an airliner seat than just about any laptop.
Many (most?) people don't actually create content using Office. They just read/view the results, perhaps with minor editing.
I'm sure they would love to be able to do that on their iPads. I don't know if the iPad version of Apple's products do a very good job of dealing with Office documents or not. I do know that for important documents, I find I must use Microsoft Office if I want to make sure everything is formatted correctly for other Office users (i.e. LibreOffice is close, but not perfect).
Most home computers have analog circuits too - most notably for reading paddle controls, which FPGA's cant handle. And yes, folks do use paddles (also applies to some mice, and mini tablets like the Koalapad.
How much did they save by using Radio Shack parts in a Mars probe? $5.00 even?
Based on my last visit to Radio Shack, I don't think their parts are any cheaper than the special-purpose, radiation-hardened parts they should have used.
But when you can't wait until tomorrow for a part for your space probe, Radio Shack is convenient.
So you are complaining that you had an option to reset your phone faster?
No, I'm saying that I had to perform several hard reboots on my Droid, but I never had to do so on the iPhone 3 or iPhone 4 that I've owned. Based on my very small sample, iPhones are less likely to lock up than Android phones.
If you want to spin it for simulated gravity, it's a lot easier to orient it so the stress is in the direction that is already strong enough to survive launch. If that means you have several stories of small "rooms", so be it.
You seem to be arguing that it's better to just give up on the idea rather than take advantage of the existing strength of any module launched from Earth, just because you want it to sit "sideways".
Because if you rotate it that way to generate pseudogravity, you'd end up with tiny floor space and really tall ceilings
Skylab had a diameter of 24 feet, giving each "floor" a area of about 450 sq-ft. That's not huge, but it's as large as some apartments. So what if you have the equivalent of a large house spread out over 4-5 "floors"?
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called this one back around 1970 in his classic story "Inconsistent Moon".
Douglas Trumbull developed a 60FPS movie system in the 1970s called Showscan.
The theater owners wouldn't install all new equipment when there was no guarantee that there would be movies in that format, and studios wouldn't make movies in that format unless the theaters had all converted.
I've always wondered if it was possible to get tickets for both speeding and going too slow for conditions at the same time. It sounds like it might be possible in Texas.
That would make for an interesting court case.
It puzzles me why a population would choose the "freedom" to not wear a seatbelt and then happily accept the consequence
AFAIK, there are laws requiring the wearing of seat belts throughout the United States. The requirement for airbags is to protect those people too stupid or apathetic to bother obeying those laws.
Maybe, but the airbag rotates with the steering wheel, so if you keep your hands on 3 and 9 positions as you turn the wheel, the airbag should still explode in between your arms, instead of through them.
YMMV
If you have prosthetic arms, the prosthetic hands are assumed.
I was driving like that when I got in to an accident. The air bag threw my hand up into the windshield hard enough for it to punch a hole in the windshield.
Fortunately, there wasn't too much damage to my hand, but a decade later, the scar on the back of my hand is still evident.
I no longer drive with a hand at the 12:00 position. It's 3:00 and 9:00 for me.
The local media here in central Florida is already hyping this up as a tourist attraction comparable to a Shuttle launch. Probably wishful thinking, but anything is better than nothing.
And it started singing!
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what company has traveling employees and calls them out for email, browsing, and paying bills on the road?
Maybe you have it backwards. Maybe it isn't the company worried about an employee's personal use, but the employee worried about the company having access to non work-related activities. And, no, I don't mean porn. I mean things like online banking. Even if the company is honest, I wouldn't necessarily trust the company's network administrator. I've known too many of them who loved to monitor what people were doing on "their" network.
This is one of the reasons the iPad is so popular. It makes a good personal web-surfing device when traveling on business with the company laptop.
So, while 90% of a company's employees can make do with something less than a real PC, the company would quickly fail if PC's and real MS Office were cast to the wayside.
I'm not aware that anyone was suggesting this. Obviously, if you spend much time using a keyboard, you aren't going to be happy doing that work on an iPad.
However, even those people who do create content might find an iPad very useful some of the time. I'm thinking in particular of those people who spend a lot of time on airplanes. An iPad is far more "user friendly" when stuck in an airliner seat than just about any laptop.
Do you honestly believe that a significant percentage of the workforce uses tools like R, MatLab and LATEX?!?
You need to get out more!
Many (most?) people don't actually create content using Office. They just read/view the results, perhaps with minor editing.
I'm sure they would love to be able to do that on their iPads. I don't know if the iPad version of Apple's products do a very good job of dealing with Office documents or not. I do know that for important documents, I find I must use Microsoft Office if I want to make sure everything is formatted correctly for other Office users (i.e. LibreOffice is close, but not perfect).
Most home computers have analog circuits too - most notably for reading paddle controls, which FPGA's cant handle. And yes, folks do use paddles (also applies to some mice, and mini tablets like the Koalapad.
OK, a FPGA and a 555 timer chip.
When I had "take-home" tests, I would always forget where I lived.
How much did they save by using Radio Shack parts in a Mars probe? $5.00 even?
Based on my last visit to Radio Shack, I don't think their parts are any cheaper than the special-purpose, radiation-hardened parts they should have used.
But when you can't wait until tomorrow for a part for your space probe, Radio Shack is convenient.
So you are complaining that you had an option to reset your phone faster?
No, I'm saying that I had to perform several hard reboots on my Droid, but I never had to do so on the iPhone 3 or iPhone 4 that I've owned. Based on my very small sample, iPhones are less likely to lock up than Android phones.
YMMV
When I owned a Motorola Droid, there were several times when I had to remove the battery to recover from the phone completely locking up.
I don't have that option with my iPhone, but fortunately I haven't had the phone crash.
If you want to spin it for simulated gravity, it's a lot easier to orient it so the stress is in the direction that is already strong enough to survive launch. If that means you have several stories of small "rooms", so be it.
You seem to be arguing that it's better to just give up on the idea rather than take advantage of the existing strength of any module launched from Earth, just because you want it to sit "sideways".
Because if you rotate it that way to generate pseudogravity, you'd end up with tiny floor space and really tall ceilings
Skylab had a diameter of 24 feet, giving each "floor" a area of about 450 sq-ft. That's not huge, but it's as large as some apartments. So what if you have the equivalent of a large house spread out over 4-5 "floors"?
Why are you assuming that the module(s) couldn't be designed to have the same orientation when deployed as when launched? Skylab did.
Anyone with $50 worth of equipment can drain your bank account!
Which is one of several reasons why I only have Credit Cards.
Those customers will have to wait for their very one sided contracts (in ATT's favor) to come to an end.
To the best of my knowledge, AT&T can't raise the rates on their existing contracts. If they change the contract, the customer can walk away.
Get off my lawn, you young whippersnapper!