Things I have read as to why it didn't look that beat up is that it probably went into a flat spin. In such a case, it would spin around but stay horizontal like a leaf falling. When it crashed, the damage would mostly be to the underbody, the part that the Iranians have covered up in their video. That might be the reason for the drapery all around the drone, to cover up how extensive the damage is. There apparently are some dents seen on the craft.
Never mind that there's absolutely nothing in space* that could possibly justify this "cheap access" you Space Nutters masturbate over,...
You mean besides effectively limitless energy? A space elevator would also provide a nice cable to the ground to transport it. Then there is access to satellites as space based communications and research aren't going away. If it becomes cheap enough, it could certainly break into what are already billion dollar markets.
But why am I replying to you? You're just an Anonymous Troll.
Even if Samsung did deliberately rip off Apple, it seems hard to prove.
My guess is that this is why they are going after the Galaxy Tab with a design patent rather than earlier Samsung products that resembled the iPhone even more. Apple build the iPhone, has Samsung help them. Samsung then puts out a phone that seems like a copy of the iPhone. It's too hard to prove so they prepare with the launching of the iPad2 by getting a design patent on it. Apple probably even has a good enough view of the products on the market to guess what items like screens that Samsung would use if they wanted to make a look a like iPad2. Apple gets their design patent to fit what they think the Samsung will probably look like. Samsung then goes ahead and builds a product that fits that criteria and Apple springs their trap. Now it's all just a matter of lawyers, but you can probably bet that future Samsung products will not look that much like Apple's.
Not really a good comparison and movement of weight is not really the main issue. The biggest one would probably be pumping of blood in the human body and the effect on pressure. While standing under 2.4 Gs, they could get grey out or tunnel vision. Suits could probably help with that though, but would probably still put a large strain on the heart. If they flipped upside down, they would be in the range to get redouts as capliaries burst in their eyes and suits wouldn't help with that as you can't squeeze the blood out of the head. Long term inhabitants would probably have to live laying down to equal out the pressure across the body.
Rather than "realistic" I usually use "internally consistent",
The word those anal retentive people who don't understand normal speech and disagree with the use of 'realism' would be verisimilitude, the quality of realism in something.
Huh? Apple updates iPhone longer than most manufacturers because they want you to buy a new phone?
It's called branding and customer service. People return to the place that has good service. When my original iPhone was getting long in the tooth after three years (and a couple of OS upgrades), I looked at Android phones, consistently found that they hardly ever got updates and usually not from the manufacturer of the phone, so I went with Apple again. When tablets started coming out, I didn't even look at Android options figuring it would be the same. Until some brand steps up to task and provides a supported product, it's too much work and uncertainty to go with android if you want that support.
Manufacturing will ONLY come back with proper tax\legislation policy, not on wishful thinking.
Manufacturing will ONLY come back after they take to the streets and destroy the robots now doing that work. The US still makes one fifth of everything made in the world, but the thing is that instead of a hundred guys in an assembly line, it's now ten guys minding the machines. If a manufacturing center did show up in NC, it would probably only hire 50 people too.
This is the internet, and there are something to rules that govern such arguments. Everybody has an opinion and they're equal. Anecdotal story trumps opinion. Authoritative opinion trumps anecdotal data. Website trumps authoritative opinion. Authoritative website trumps a normal website. Real world citation beats an authoritative website and it ends there since nobody is going to spend time enough to actually look stuff in meat space.
One might questions whether Wikipedia is an Authoritative website or not, but it probably is as it is theoretically checked by various people who probably know their fields and any discrepancy can be seen in change record and discussion of the page. Since the other guys can't come up with a real world citation, then BasilBrush pretty much has proven the case (as far as internet arguments go).
Antimatter galaxies (or at least clumps) seem like they could also plausibly explain this.
Doubtful. As I understand it, after the big bang, the universe was so hot that matter couldn't exist. As the universe expanded and cooled, nucleosynthesis happened, and essentially, all the matter in the universe was created. At this point the universe was fairly uniform and matter and anti-matter were well mixed. They continued to annihilate, reform, etc as the universe continued to cool, but matter is created slightly greater quantities than antimatter and won out. That there would be a region where enough anti-mater happened to dominate this process to form clumps, let alone a galaxy, would be so statistically unlikely as to be considered not possible. The early universe was simply too well mixed, too dense, and too energetic for such large amounts of anti-matter to exist.
Meanwhile, I take your point but persist in the notion that the Covenant novels are, in my opinion, a good worthwhile read.
Those're the books where the main character is continues to be self loathing asshole even after he defeats the BBEG, and GOD shows up to say "Thanks, I couldn't have done it without you!"? Sorry, once was enough for me. Actually, that was twice as I stopped the first time after the rape and continuous self loathing "I'm a leper" routine got too uninteresting to continue.
With the death of print such as local newspapers and magazines, they are becoming one of the few ways to advertise. While Google is getting better and better with targeting advertising on websites, most people spend lots of effort to make sure they never even see it. The problem with groupon seems to be that they do not advertise to the general population which you want because you might get further business, but rather to a population of cheapskates who will never return. Unless targeted localized advertising on the web becomes easy for the small business (at least as easy as Gorupon), then Groupon has a large selection of marks to fleece.
After having been to some countries that don't tip compulsory, I sometimes really wish they'd introduce it. London wasn't bad, Japan had good service, but I really, really want to explain the custom of "bribery" to German waitresses. I'm sick of the times I've sat at a table of people with empty glasses wanting another beer while the waitress sat around and talked to the bartender. Once she gets your order, they stand around and talk some more. Eventually, they'll get around to brining you your God damned beer.
Meanwhile, you don't have to tip, but it is expected with expected service. Bad service deserves bad tips. This is usually included into the price of whatever you are buying in the form of the pay the service industry gets. I've been a waiter and a pizza delivery driver. I know what those people go through and usually tip well, but also have no compulsion to tip for bad service. I also know that they recognize return customers who are good tippers and give them the best service.
Correction - MS and Apple both PAY CHINESE to produce actual products. There, fixed that for ya.
Correction to the correction - MS and Apple both pay the US, Japan, Korea, Germany, and several others for actual products which are all shipped to China where a Taiwanese company is paid to have the Chinese assemble them together.
I could just see you talking to Martin Luther King Jr back in the day. "Ok, you have made your point and everybody has heard it. Now, don't you think it's time for you to get back to the back of the bus? After all, you're beginning to become a nuisance."
Like Britain petitioning the USA to enter WWII, Benjamin Franklin actively petitioned for support in France in 1776 - the only difference was that the French covertly entered the American War of Independence before formally recognising the USA two years later - causing Britain to declare war on France.
Then there's not really any difference then. We had entered the war long before Pearl Harbor. We already were drafting men into the army. We were trading destroyers to Britain for bases. We had established the Lend-Lease act already and officially became the "Arsenal of Democracy" in 1940. There were reasons that the Japanese felt that they had to bomb us first, and that was because we were actively moving against them in the war already by denying them resources but not denying them to their enemies. We hadn't entered the war, but we were hardly being neutral before Pearl Harbor.
I see that you belong to a group that thinks not collecting stamps is a nice hobby.
Not collecting stamps may not be a hobby, but the hobby of constantly telling people about how you don't collect stamps, is still a hobby about stamps, not to mention being just as annoying as all the fuckers who have to tell you about their stamp collections. If people have a real hobby, they should talk about that rather than talking about what their hobby isn't.
Switched over from pure Physics to Engineering Physics which is an excuse for a physics major to get an engineering degree. For most part, I found the mechanical engineering classes I took to just be plug and chug equations with a little bit of design work here and there to fit criteria. The only thing that really came close to the physics courses were the electrical engineering and the dynamics courses.
MacOS is sort of like a kit car made by a custom shop. They take a couple of fairly common cars, cut them up, and weld them back together with a lot of custom work. Then add a custom exterior and interior that makes it look great and a pleasure to sit in (unless you are used to BMWs and all their extra features such as the remote control seat warmers). It drives well, but there are things that it might not do as well as one of the individual cars it was original made from. Meanwhile, there are all the custom work and parts that can only be gotten from the shop that built it, and they will repair and replace, but won't sell just the parts.
Limit of the sum of a Physics Major as GPA goes to 0 equals and Engineering Major.
Face it. Sciences tend to be hard. Math is hard, especially at higher levels when prepped by a high school system that really doesn't prepare the kids looking into such fields. I know I was never really challenged by my high school maths and then once I hit college calculus (not to mention upper division physics) which actually required study and doing homework to get and solve, it threw me for a loop and was harder than it should have been.
There is also the theory that 7" is a better size than 9.5" for this market.
I think it depends what your main use for the screen is. If you are reading paper back book formatted media, then probably. 7" is plenty big for eBooks. If you want to read magazine or similar sized book formatted PDFs, then the iPad is almost too small. Then again, if you just want an ebook reader, then you're probably going to buy an ebook reader. If you want to read magazines and other media also, I'd say the iPad is probably the correct size in a compromise between weight, size, portability, and other factors.
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Things I have read as to why it didn't look that beat up is that it probably went into a flat spin. In such a case, it would spin around but stay horizontal like a leaf falling. When it crashed, the damage would mostly be to the underbody, the part that the Iranians have covered up in their video. That might be the reason for the drapery all around the drone, to cover up how extensive the damage is. There apparently are some dents seen on the craft.
It can be. Just declare the all encompassing laws that govern the universe as your god. A god that has commanded you to swell upon its meaning.
I have to agree, ...most of the suck is still there.
You mean besides effectively limitless energy? A space elevator would also provide a nice cable to the ground to transport it. Then there is access to satellites as space based communications and research aren't going away. If it becomes cheap enough, it could certainly break into what are already billion dollar markets.
But why am I replying to you? You're just an Anonymous Troll.
My guess is that this is why they are going after the Galaxy Tab with a design patent rather than earlier Samsung products that resembled the iPhone even more. Apple build the iPhone, has Samsung help them. Samsung then puts out a phone that seems like a copy of the iPhone. It's too hard to prove so they prepare with the launching of the iPad2 by getting a design patent on it. Apple probably even has a good enough view of the products on the market to guess what items like screens that Samsung would use if they wanted to make a look a like iPad2. Apple gets their design patent to fit what they think the Samsung will probably look like. Samsung then goes ahead and builds a product that fits that criteria and Apple springs their trap. Now it's all just a matter of lawyers, but you can probably bet that future Samsung products will not look that much like Apple's.
Not really a good comparison and movement of weight is not really the main issue. The biggest one would probably be pumping of blood in the human body and the effect on pressure. While standing under 2.4 Gs, they could get grey out or tunnel vision. Suits could probably help with that though, but would probably still put a large strain on the heart. If they flipped upside down, they would be in the range to get redouts as capliaries burst in their eyes and suits wouldn't help with that as you can't squeeze the blood out of the head. Long term inhabitants would probably have to live laying down to equal out the pressure across the body.
The word those anal retentive people who don't understand normal speech and disagree with the use of 'realism' would be verisimilitude, the quality of realism in something.
It's called branding and customer service. People return to the place that has good service. When my original iPhone was getting long in the tooth after three years (and a couple of OS upgrades), I looked at Android phones, consistently found that they hardly ever got updates and usually not from the manufacturer of the phone, so I went with Apple again. When tablets started coming out, I didn't even look at Android options figuring it would be the same. Until some brand steps up to task and provides a supported product, it's too much work and uncertainty to go with android if you want that support.
Manufacturing will ONLY come back after they take to the streets and destroy the robots now doing that work. The US still makes one fifth of everything made in the world, but the thing is that instead of a hundred guys in an assembly line, it's now ten guys minding the machines. If a manufacturing center did show up in NC, it would probably only hire 50 people too.
This is the internet, and there are something to rules that govern such arguments. Everybody has an opinion and they're equal. Anecdotal story trumps opinion. Authoritative opinion trumps anecdotal data. Website trumps authoritative opinion. Authoritative website trumps a normal website. Real world citation beats an authoritative website and it ends there since nobody is going to spend time enough to actually look stuff in meat space.
One might questions whether Wikipedia is an Authoritative website or not, but it probably is as it is theoretically checked by various people who probably know their fields and any discrepancy can be seen in change record and discussion of the page. Since the other guys can't come up with a real world citation, then BasilBrush pretty much has proven the case (as far as internet arguments go).
He could also work at Microsoft. Do your time then your 100 day break.
Doubtful. As I understand it, after the big bang, the universe was so hot that matter couldn't exist. As the universe expanded and cooled, nucleosynthesis happened, and essentially, all the matter in the universe was created. At this point the universe was fairly uniform and matter and anti-matter were well mixed. They continued to annihilate, reform, etc as the universe continued to cool, but matter is created slightly greater quantities than antimatter and won out. That there would be a region where enough anti-mater happened to dominate this process to form clumps, let alone a galaxy, would be so statistically unlikely as to be considered not possible. The early universe was simply too well mixed, too dense, and too energetic for such large amounts of anti-matter to exist.
Those're the books where the main character is continues to be self loathing asshole even after he defeats the BBEG, and GOD shows up to say "Thanks, I couldn't have done it without you!"? Sorry, once was enough for me. Actually, that was twice as I stopped the first time after the rape and continuous self loathing "I'm a leper" routine got too uninteresting to continue.
With the death of print such as local newspapers and magazines, they are becoming one of the few ways to advertise. While Google is getting better and better with targeting advertising on websites, most people spend lots of effort to make sure they never even see it. The problem with groupon seems to be that they do not advertise to the general population which you want because you might get further business, but rather to a population of cheapskates who will never return. Unless targeted localized advertising on the web becomes easy for the small business (at least as easy as Gorupon), then Groupon has a large selection of marks to fleece.
After having been to some countries that don't tip compulsory, I sometimes really wish they'd introduce it. London wasn't bad, Japan had good service, but I really, really want to explain the custom of "bribery" to German waitresses. I'm sick of the times I've sat at a table of people with empty glasses wanting another beer while the waitress sat around and talked to the bartender. Once she gets your order, they stand around and talk some more. Eventually, they'll get around to brining you your God damned beer.
Meanwhile, you don't have to tip, but it is expected with expected service. Bad service deserves bad tips. This is usually included into the price of whatever you are buying in the form of the pay the service industry gets. I've been a waiter and a pizza delivery driver. I know what those people go through and usually tip well, but also have no compulsion to tip for bad service. I also know that they recognize return customers who are good tippers and give them the best service.
Correction to the correction - MS and Apple both pay the US, Japan, Korea, Germany, and several others for actual products which are all shipped to China where a Taiwanese company is paid to have the Chinese assemble them together.
I could just see you talking to Martin Luther King Jr back in the day. "Ok, you have made your point and everybody has heard it. Now, don't you think it's time for you to get back to the back of the bus? After all, you're beginning to become a nuisance."
Then there's not really any difference then. We had entered the war long before Pearl Harbor. We already were drafting men into the army. We were trading destroyers to Britain for bases. We had established the Lend-Lease act already and officially became the "Arsenal of Democracy" in 1940. There were reasons that the Japanese felt that they had to bomb us first, and that was because we were actively moving against them in the war already by denying them resources but not denying them to their enemies. We hadn't entered the war, but we were hardly being neutral before Pearl Harbor.
Not collecting stamps may not be a hobby, but the hobby of constantly telling people about how you don't collect stamps, is still a hobby about stamps, not to mention being just as annoying as all the fuckers who have to tell you about their stamp collections. If people have a real hobby, they should talk about that rather than talking about what their hobby isn't.
Actually, I found that nobody parties like architecture (the one weekend a semester they aren't up trying to frantically finish their project).
Switched over from pure Physics to Engineering Physics which is an excuse for a physics major to get an engineering degree. For most part, I found the mechanical engineering classes I took to just be plug and chug equations with a little bit of design work here and there to fit criteria. The only thing that really came close to the physics courses were the electrical engineering and the dynamics courses.
MacOS is sort of like a kit car made by a custom shop. They take a couple of fairly common cars, cut them up, and weld them back together with a lot of custom work. Then add a custom exterior and interior that makes it look great and a pleasure to sit in (unless you are used to BMWs and all their extra features such as the remote control seat warmers). It drives well, but there are things that it might not do as well as one of the individual cars it was original made from. Meanwhile, there are all the custom work and parts that can only be gotten from the shop that built it, and they will repair and replace, but won't sell just the parts.
How's that?
Limit of the sum of a Physics Major as GPA goes to 0 equals and Engineering Major.
Face it. Sciences tend to be hard. Math is hard, especially at higher levels when prepped by a high school system that really doesn't prepare the kids looking into such fields. I know I was never really challenged by my high school maths and then once I hit college calculus (not to mention upper division physics) which actually required study and doing homework to get and solve, it threw me for a loop and was harder than it should have been.
I think it depends what your main use for the screen is. If you are reading paper back book formatted media, then probably. 7" is plenty big for eBooks. If you want to read magazine or similar sized book formatted PDFs, then the iPad is almost too small. Then again, if you just want an ebook reader, then you're probably going to buy an ebook reader. If you want to read magazines and other media also, I'd say the iPad is probably the correct size in a compromise between weight, size, portability, and other factors.
Personally, I prefer V/VM, the track "Hard drive crash" in particular.