Apparently it was a low budget operation. To do it right, they should have been shaped marble stones. Precision machined, anb with flatness measured on a granite surface plate, of course, to keep the people obsessed with making measurements happy.
I'm sorry, but when I've skipped stones, half of the challange is finding the right flat stones. This whole experiment takes the fun out of it and turns it into a joyless exercise.
I'd certainly hope this isn't going to lead to 'skipping stones' at the Olympics, or a standard skipping stone, produced by AMF and Wilson. Can't something just be fun without the jocks getting involved?
Oh, come on. Street vendors selling CDs and DVDs not being guilty?
I can see 'presumed innocent' still being the legal tenant in court, as it should be. No way in h*ll we have to believe that outside a courtroom. Get real.
Now, if they start harassing street musicians who are also selling their own work, that would be a radically different thing. I think that's not what's happening here.
I can see it now: Scuzzbag street dealer standing in courtroom. Testifying that he was selling the illegal media copies. Maybe he'd win his case. While building a nice juicy body of evidence for the RIAA to turn around and use to give him a stiff fine or lock him down for a long spell.
So if you saw a bunch of guys all dressed in black coming down the street, and they stop and start harassing you, you're not scared?
I'm not out hawking pirated CDs and DVDs on said street. Presumably the people who are doing so are more 'street savvy.'
As an aside: I thought we were all agreed that these people who widely distribute copyrighted materials for a profit are the bad guys, and the regular folks who might make a copy here and there are the good guys. What happened?
To give Apple a certain amount of credit, removable battery compartments are one of the most expensive parts of product design.
You have to make them dummy-proof so the customer can't screw up the contacts and/or damage it using anything that s/he can be exected to try.
You have to design them to fit any battery you're going to specify as approved. This puts in you in 'squeeze' between Marketing, who want any battery available anywhere to be specified as usable, and your design costs and margin for acceptable use.
A non-removable battery design is sort of skimpy, and clearly a cost cutting measure made on a premium-priced device, but I wouldn't call it an 'engineering failure.'
FDR also was a failure in that he intended his 'New Deal' programs to be a temporary measure, that we as a Nation are still to this day saddled with to a certain extent.
That, and the fact that JFK was strongly in favor of tax cuts, are a few of the most prominent 'swept under the rug' historical facts.
Under 'socialism' as practiced in the East (yes, we know it was far from perfect) pollution was a far worse problem than in the West. Your notion that a 'socialist' world would be better or worse for the environment has little or no evidence to back it up.
One of the things I distinctly remember is how political it was. 'Developing Nations' which have FAR less technology to deal with pollution, and large areas of undeveloped land mass were mostly exempted from most of the mandates.
It was patently political and anti-Western in thrust. A badly flawed solution to an unclear problem. Thank goodness it hasn't gone anywhere.
The 'decrease in biodiversity' has been going on for as long as man has walked on two feet.
Unfortunately, the word often doesn't get out. Instead of children being taught, for instance, that there is a fossil record of horses on the North American continent that went extinct simultaneous with the arrival of the 'Native Americans,' they are exposed to 'Noble Savages Who Worked Within Nature' propaganda. A thread of anti-modernism runs deep within many intellectual circles.
Unfortunately, false nostalgia has more appeal to a lot of people than common sense.
Part of the hysteria surrounding this all is man's ever-present need to feel 'in control' of the world. These people maintain 'man is killing the planet.' 'The planet' laughs and spits the equivalent of another years worth of industrial emissions out in a single volcano eruption.
People need to get over this 'we are in charge and at the steering wheel of planet earth' business. No, humans are NOT the brain of your all hallowed gaia. We're just one of the variety of bugs crawling on it.
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An importan question:
With everybody there being an equally good candidate to be the guy whose underwear are run up the flagpole, who would they choose?
Then clearly it is a good thing since it takes funding away from blowing up South Pacific islands in the name of science.
Apparently it was a low budget operation. To do it right, they should have been shaped marble stones. Precision machined, anb with flatness measured on a granite surface plate, of course, to keep the people obsessed with making measurements happy.
I'm sorry, but when I've skipped stones, half of the challange is finding the right flat stones. This whole experiment takes the fun out of it and turns it into a joyless exercise.
I'd certainly hope this isn't going to lead to 'skipping stones' at the Olympics, or a standard skipping stone, produced by AMF and Wilson. Can't something just be fun without the jocks getting involved?
Oh, come on. Street vendors selling CDs and DVDs not being guilty?
I can see 'presumed innocent' still being the legal tenant in court, as it should be. No way in h*ll we have to believe that outside a courtroom. Get real.
Now, if they start harassing street musicians who are also selling their own work, that would be a radically different thing. I think that's not what's happening here.
Naw. It'll be in a big obvious stuffed plush 'Tux the Penguin' that you thought came from ThinkGeek.
Although I much prefer the big oversized cowboy hat kind of thing featured on The Simpsons.
I'm soooo mad that they put those 'jelly' chocolates in the Whitman Sampler box with the good ones.
In fact, I think I'm now justified to steal as many boxes of candy from that store as I like.
Stick to ripping off street vendors and I'm sure you'll get away with it. For awhile.
Best be planning on moving sometime soon, though. Remember, you're 'ripping off' people who rip people off for a living.
Street vendors aren't in the privacy of their own home either.
You stood out on a street corner selling illegal copies of Movies and Records when you were a kid?
I guess I grew up in a different neighborhood.
Then perhaps they should assert their rights.
I can see it now: Scuzzbag street dealer standing in courtroom. Testifying that he was selling the illegal media copies. Maybe he'd win his case. While building a nice juicy body of evidence for the RIAA to turn around and use to give him a stiff fine or lock him down for a long spell.
So if you saw a bunch of guys all dressed in black coming down the street, and they stop and start harassing you, you're not scared?
I'm not out hawking pirated CDs and DVDs on said street. Presumably the people who are doing so are more 'street savvy.'
As an aside: I thought we were all agreed that these people who widely distribute copyrighted materials for a profit are the bad guys, and the regular folks who might make a copy here and there are the good guys. What happened?
To give Apple a certain amount of credit, removable battery compartments are one of the most expensive parts of product design.
You have to make them dummy-proof so the customer can't screw up the contacts and/or damage it using anything that s/he can be exected to try.
You have to design them to fit any battery you're going to specify as approved. This puts in you in 'squeeze' between Marketing, who want any battery available anywhere to be specified as usable, and your design costs and margin for acceptable use.
A non-removable battery design is sort of skimpy, and clearly a cost cutting measure made on a premium-priced device, but I wouldn't call it an 'engineering failure.'
Wiping out a species because you like to eat it is a minor loss.
I'll post this one using my +1 Karma Bonus, which I seldom use. Because it's so shocking, coming from somebody who apparently drinks the koolaide.
So you're saying China shouldn't face the same restrictions, facility by facility, as the US? That doesn't seem fair...
FDR also was a failure in that he intended his 'New Deal' programs to be a temporary measure, that we as a Nation are still to this day saddled with to a certain extent.
That, and the fact that JFK was strongly in favor of tax cuts, are a few of the most prominent 'swept under the rug' historical facts.
"Hating Bush" is a fulltime occupation for folks like you, eh?
You're a heck of a lot like the Clinton haters.
Regular folks think you're loony.
Under 'socialism' as practiced in the East (yes, we know it was far from perfect) pollution was a far worse problem than in the West. Your notion that a 'socialist' world would be better or worse for the environment has little or no evidence to back it up.
Apple is a midget who is reaching up.
Sony is a giant bending down.
Or whatever, maan.
We remember the Kyoto accord.
One of the things I distinctly remember is how political it was. 'Developing Nations' which have FAR less technology to deal with pollution, and large areas of undeveloped land mass were mostly exempted from most of the mandates.
It was patently political and anti-Western in thrust. A badly flawed solution to an unclear problem. Thank goodness it hasn't gone anywhere.
The 'decrease in biodiversity' has been going on for as long as man has walked on two feet.
Unfortunately, the word often doesn't get out. Instead of children being taught, for instance, that there is a fossil record of horses on the North American continent that went extinct simultaneous with the arrival of the 'Native Americans,' they are exposed to 'Noble Savages Who Worked Within Nature' propaganda. A thread of anti-modernism runs deep within many intellectual circles.
Unfortunately, false nostalgia has more appeal to a lot of people than common sense.
Part of the hysteria surrounding this all is man's ever-present need to feel 'in control' of the world. These people maintain 'man is killing the planet.' 'The planet' laughs and spits the equivalent of another years worth of industrial emissions out in a single volcano eruption.
People need to get over this 'we are in charge and at the steering wheel of planet earth' business. No, humans are NOT the brain of your all hallowed gaia. We're just one of the variety of bugs crawling on it.
And there's no way in HELL that we're going to be able to round up enough virgins to plug all those volcanoes.
Especially not if we're going to bear on with the 'sexual revolution' culture that many of these same folks so often promote.
It's all politics.
There. I answered it.
Now go read 'Chicken Little' which, sadly, some of you seem to have missed out on as children.
Must be because so much Ernie and Bert were pushed at you instead.
Perpetual research grant-earning mechanisms. Not really machines.