"Mr. Gyaltsen and the pollution committee, which will technically own the radios, are still deciding what to charge users. They are considering a flat fee of $2,000 to $5,000 per expedition"
Why would anyone - even the rich want to spend $5000 for e-mail when you could rent (or buy i guess) a satalite phone and use it for well under $500? Perhaps file transfers (like pictures) would not be possible, but voice comms is a great way to keep in touch.
It seems like a novelty to me, and i would be more worried about surviving the cold.
in the article it said only e-mail. What about video conf. - that would be cool - at a lower price.
i'm sure given that weapons dictate tactics - both offensive and defensive - the enemy (whoever)would be inclined to place possible targets near things like hospitals or chemical plants or whatever to deter this kind of attack.
but, i suppose if we are willing to blow them up near hospitals then why not zap'em instead.
that way we don't have to dish out as much foreign aid later.
in water the same aerodynamic rules apply to a degree. the curvature of the wing still causes the air/water to travel a greater distance over the curved top of the wing, therefore moving faster than tha air/water on the flat bottom of the wing. this creates the low pressure area on top of the wing. -- I would consider turning the wing over for underwater flight. Then the wing could assist a bit with bouyancy controll(assuming the sub tends to float "out of the box"). This becoming a mute point if you want to remain stationary at a fixed depth.
question: Is the water wing more efficient due to water density being a constant as opposed to air which can be compressed? Perhaps more lift but also more drag?
Exactly, the entire network is based on reliable transfer of information(information age! duh!). Introducing corupted files is going to damage the integrity of the network(more that it already is).
If a user receives a bad file and does not delete it, then another two users get it from him and only one deletes it....you see where this can go.
The bad files in our field of information are like landmines that will soon saturate the network.
This is very bad. Police access if you have to(cyberpigs), just don't undermine everything good about the net -- information.
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The possibility for an interesting discussion was here until the comments started pouring in. There ARE an amazing number of closed minds.
/. right - discussion about current topics, interpretation of recent events, and discovery through comunication.
I don't think the problem is that so many people are skeptical, it's that they totally blew off the possibility of being convinced otherwise.
Thats the point of
none of that is going on here.
Would you really want to use it anyway?- i mean the creators of this thing won't get in it to fly it. Why do you suppose that is?
not to mention the assured high dollar auction.
it's just a novelty for some rich guy's already extensive collection of vintage and rare and never driven cars.
Why would anyone - even the rich want to spend $5000 for e-mail when you could rent (or buy i guess) a satalite phone and use it for well under $500? Perhaps file transfers (like pictures) would not be possible, but voice comms is a great way to keep in touch.
It seems like a novelty to me, and i would be more worried about surviving the cold.
in the article it said only e-mail. What about video conf. - that would be cool - at a lower price.
by safe i believe they mean you won't blow up.
i'm sure given that weapons dictate tactics - both offensive and defensive - the enemy (whoever)would be inclined to place possible targets near things like hospitals or chemical plants or whatever to deter this kind of attack.
but, i suppose if we are willing to blow them up near hospitals then why not zap'em instead.
that way we don't have to dish out as much foreign aid later.
in water the same aerodynamic rules apply to a degree. the curvature of the wing still causes the air/water to travel a greater distance over the curved top of the wing, therefore moving faster than tha air/water on the flat bottom of the wing. this creates the low pressure area on top of the wing. -- I would consider turning the wing over for underwater flight. Then the wing could assist a bit with bouyancy controll(assuming the sub tends to float "out of the box"). This becoming a mute point if you want to remain stationary at a fixed depth.
question: Is the water wing more efficient due to water density being a constant as opposed to air which can be compressed? Perhaps more lift but also more drag?
That was the worst article I have ever read.
Exactly, the entire network is based on reliable transfer of information(information age! duh!). Introducing corupted files is going to damage the integrity of the network(more that it already is). If a user receives a bad file and does not delete it, then another two users get it from him and only one deletes it....you see where this can go. The bad files in our field of information are like landmines that will soon saturate the network. This is very bad. Police access if you have to(cyberpigs), just don't undermine everything good about the net -- information.