Something is amiss here. The energy to stop a falling box of people is APPROXIMATELY* the same energy is takes to get it up to where it fell FROM.
If this could REALLY work as described, we wouldn't need a whole stinking stage to get the box o'humans UP into space. Email me when this works. If it doesn't, I'll hear about it.
*Yes, the atmosphere drags both ways, but the speed it gains from falling 100,000m to 800m is less than what it would lose punching through the atmosphere.
Windows machines typically cruft up after a year or two, to where it takes 30 seconds to get the Properties on My Computer. Menus slog down. Web pages load very slowly.
Macs don't. I use a 2.33 GHZ, 2GB iMac to write ASP.NET, run PShop, RDC, MSOffice... simultaneously. It flies, while the Windows users whine about how slow their 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM machines are. I have 8 "derelict" machines in my cube. Dell GX 260 with 1.8-2.4GHz and 1GB of RAM. They are unusably slow. I go home to my 1GHz Mac/512MB RAM, and surf, fly, write a book on MS Word, RDC into my ASP.NET server. BAM!
Apple should run an ad where Lauren and her twin buy two computers. One Windows, one Mac. Then check them out after 2 years.
Making machines that go obsolete in a year might be a good marketing strategy, but it keeps away the people who catch on.
There are 3 groups of reasons to "improve" a user interface:
Enable more tasks to be multitasked
Increase usability/productivity on existing tasks
Look cool/whizbang/just because we can
Ignoring number #3 and assuming that "productivity" is a goal of the user, here is my assertion: "It is amazing how much more productivity you have with multiple computers with multiple screens."
So much of the UI is spent on "switching" apps or discerning between windows/tabs of the same app. Think Office/Email/PhotoWhatever/MSVC. Behind all that is your websurf, Facebook, chat, tunez, Skype, FTP, Remote Sessions, site monitoring, Limewire;-) And because speed is a critical part of UI, having to swap out memory slows it all down. Chances are, there is ONE APP that dominates your workflow, whether it WordProc, Spreadsheet, Coding Environment, Graphics/Flash. Whatever that is SHOULD dominate your 24" monitor. All the other stuff (the web page yer copying text from, the Email your reading for specs, etc) are in the background, BEHIND the window that's doing the work. What if it were off to the side? And what if your chat and stuff were on the computer beside you. Why buy Moore's Law next machine, when the 1.8GHz, 1GB can run your side-surfing, and it only takes a glance, not an Alt-Tab? And chances are, you have older machines and CRT monitors. Oh, but they use energy? And shipping them to the Third World doesn't?
I like UI. UI is everything, but... But I like ignoring it while I work. Most UI improvements aren't.
You enter the intersection under a green or yellow. Traffic stops ahead of you. Yer stuck in the middle of the intersection. Photo taken of you in intersection. No indication of velocity. Fair cop? Reasonable doubt?
The Air Force Research Lab is developing an Electric Motor-powered Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) that can 'harvest' energy when needed by attaching itself to a power line. It can also temporarily change its shape to look more like innocuous piece of trash hanging from the cable.
I guess I assumed that they meant the US Air Force.
Earth consists of supernova remnants. That gives us a technological advantage over any life that develops in a non-supernova area.
If you look at a Periodic Table, consider what kind of technology you could achieve with only elements lighter than Fe (inclusive). You wouldn't have lead solder to connect your steel wires. Copper doesn't exist, silver, gold. Alloys of steel lack the Co, Ni, Mo. NO titanium.
Maybe they were hampered in technology by materials and developed an organic Bluetooth equivalent, short range. We'd call that "telepathy."
Maybe we are the first to achieve this capability. If life did create itself from a universe that created itself, ONE of the life forms which achieved this interstellar communication would have to be first. Why not us?
This 2/3 number would not be a problem if they all lived in clumps. Then, the cables, DSL's and magicnet's simply wouldn't run their services. But, with the wanters and the eschewers interspersed, the marketing arm of a provider might say "Gee, why should we string into that area if only 33% want it?"
...And so the 33% suffer. Too bad, because if the providers could provide to 200% more users, they could lower the cost to all.
=)):)) *pop back to reality* Sorry... heh heh, I kill me.
Dang it!!! There goes my bet with Hawking about making a tractor beam. But wait... if we could use a photon emitted from NEGATIVE MASS it would have NEGATIVE MOMENTUM!!! Ok, Stephen... it's ON!
not like any yuppie with 200K is going to be able to fly it.
No, but any pilot who wants to indenture himself as an air-cabby could make a metric a55-load of cash.
Simple as that
well, except for the transition from air to road. I didn't RTFA, but it doesn't matter. Say yer cruising from SF to LA and you decide to stop at the Rock Store for some french toast. What is to stop you from setting the thing down on an out of the way road and driving in? Yeah. Rules. What else? (I know the short answers, but will let y'all cover them. GPS chips, etc.
As an aero engineer, I'm excited at this possible advancement. But as someone who lives in a society run by lawyers, cybercops and pirates, I'm not that excited. It will die a smothering death, even if not ONE fatality ever results.
I've long thought that crossing dandelions and cannabis would be the best way to terraform Mars. If for no other reason than to get McDonald's and Hostess to set up a presence there.
Just an IT guy among non-it guys. But with the Firefox Awesome bar, I can usually get to every site I need with a unique pair of letters. "SL" will get me to Slashdot. And with my hands on the keyboard (working), I can hit SL faster than reaching for a mouse and bookmark.
Ok, it WOULD be a little tough to write a serious SQL query with a wheel... How did Stephen Hawking operate his thingee?
The way that my jobs works out, I could do MOST of it with a Wheel! And if I got the MacWheel Shuffle, I could NOT show up, and half the office wouldn't notice;-)
"If you drive a car, I'll tax the street."
--
Taxman
The Beatles Revolver
Seriously, people. Have we failed somewhere in transmitting the message that the Beatles song is *satire* and Orwell's DYS-topia is a *warning*!? It's not a cook book for Governments to follow to do that voodoo that they do!
Oh, that's a great idea. So THAT's how we can do that and get away with it! Now, how do we tax their feet?
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Something is amiss here. The energy to stop a falling box of people is APPROXIMATELY* the same energy is takes to get it up to where it fell FROM.
If this could REALLY work as described, we wouldn't need a whole stinking stage to get the box o'humans UP into space. Email me when this works. If it doesn't, I'll hear about it.
*Yes, the atmosphere drags both ways, but the speed it gains from falling 100,000m to 800m is less than what it would lose punching through the atmosphere.
This would be a very efficient way to put a satellite into a nice, 100 mile high orbit. DOH! 100 kilometers! WHATEVER!
You are about to boot up your Windows Computer -- (C)ancel, (A)llow, (F)ail
Yep, most secure, indeed!
Windows machines typically cruft up after a year or two, to where it takes 30 seconds to get the Properties on My Computer. Menus slog down. Web pages load very slowly.
Macs don't. I use a 2.33 GHZ, 2GB iMac to write ASP.NET, run PShop, RDC, MSOffice... simultaneously. It flies, while the Windows users whine about how slow their 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM machines are. I have 8 "derelict" machines in my cube. Dell GX 260 with 1.8-2.4GHz and 1GB of RAM. They are unusably slow. I go home to my 1GHz Mac/512MB RAM, and surf, fly, write a book on MS Word, RDC into my ASP.NET server. BAM!
Apple should run an ad where Lauren and her twin buy two computers. One Windows, one Mac. Then check them out after 2 years.
Making machines that go obsolete in a year might be a good marketing strategy, but it keeps away the people who catch on.
Ignoring number #3 and assuming that "productivity" is a goal of the user, here is my assertion:
;-) And because speed is a critical part of UI, having to swap out memory slows it all down. Chances are, there is ONE APP that dominates your workflow, whether it WordProc, Spreadsheet, Coding Environment, Graphics/Flash. Whatever that is SHOULD dominate your 24" monitor. All the other stuff (the web page yer copying text from, the Email your reading for specs, etc) are in the background, BEHIND the window that's doing the work. What if it were off to the side? And what if your chat and stuff were on the computer beside you. Why buy Moore's Law next machine, when the 1.8GHz, 1GB can run your side-surfing, and it only takes a glance, not an Alt-Tab? And chances are, you have older machines and CRT monitors. Oh, but they use energy? And shipping them to the Third World doesn't?
"It is amazing how much more productivity you have with multiple computers with multiple screens."
So much of the UI is spent on "switching" apps or discerning between windows/tabs of the same app. Think Office/Email/PhotoWhatever/MSVC. Behind all that is your websurf, Facebook, chat, tunez, Skype, FTP, Remote Sessions, site monitoring, Limewire
I like UI. UI is everything, but... But I like ignoring it while I work. Most UI improvements aren't.
You enter the intersection under a green or yellow. Traffic stops ahead of you. Yer stuck in the middle of the intersection. Photo taken of you in intersection. No indication of velocity. Fair cop? Reasonable doubt?
The Air Force Research Lab is developing an Electric Motor-powered Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) that can 'harvest' energy when needed by attaching itself to a power line. It can also temporarily change its shape to look more like innocuous piece of trash hanging from the cable.
I guess I assumed that they meant the US Air Force.
Is this the part where John Hodgman runs in, wearing red Dolphin shorts and hurls a 10 kilo bag of churros at the 29-foot iMax iMac?
<voiceover>"One reason that 2112 won't be like 2112"</voiceover>
Jobs' 54th passed on Tuesday
"Passed on", Gracie? Could you have chosen a worse phrase? Or where you trying to glom Google hits from the query: [jobs "passed on"]
An elaborate system of Post It Notes (All ROT13'd)
Earth consists of supernova remnants. That gives us a technological advantage over any life that develops in a non-supernova area.
If you look at a Periodic Table, consider what kind of technology you could achieve with only elements lighter than Fe (inclusive). You wouldn't have lead solder to connect your steel wires. Copper doesn't exist, silver, gold. Alloys of steel lack the Co, Ni, Mo. NO titanium.
Maybe they were hampered in technology by materials and developed an organic Bluetooth equivalent, short range. We'd call that "telepathy."
Maybe we are the first to achieve this capability. If life did create itself from a universe that created itself, ONE of the life forms which achieved this interstellar communication would have to be first. Why not us?
C) ***zeroes***
Damn, copy/paste
A) "...all of the data in a computer ***ARE*** really just a bunch..."
B) "...just a bunch of ones ***OR*** zeros..."
Yeah, maybe if we miniaturize this enough, it would be a light saber. Hmmm... if we enlarge it enough, maybe it could be a Death Star cannon.
Come here, asteroid. Just a little closer...
...is in the voiceover at the end. Which Ridley dropped.
"...Rachel was special. No termination date. We didn't know how long we'd have together. Who does?"
When the Challenger exploded, I and an unknown number of other lost their jobs, or suffered pay loss from down time.
The money spent on manned spacecraft doesn't go into a black hole. It gets spent on silly things like salaries, rent, bar tabs.
I don't know if money trickles down, but LACK of it does.
This 2/3 number would not be a problem if they all lived in clumps. Then, the cables, DSL's and magicnet's simply wouldn't run their services. But, with the wanters and the eschewers interspersed, the marketing arm of a provider might say "Gee, why should we string into that area if only 33% want it?"
...And so the 33% suffer. Too bad, because if the providers could provide to 200% more users, they could lower the cost to all.
:)) *pop back to reality* Sorry... heh heh, I kill me.
=))
...his skills to slide past security and override their computer systems may be the last hope of mankind.
Unless the aliens AREN'T running Windows.
And the winner is... "pressure!"
Dang it!!! There goes my bet with Hawking about making a tractor beam. But wait... if we could use a photon emitted from NEGATIVE MASS it would have NEGATIVE MOMENTUM!!! Ok, Stephen... it's ON!
not like any yuppie with 200K is going to be able to fly it.
No, but any pilot who wants to indenture himself as an air-cabby could make a metric a55-load of cash.
Simple as that
well, except for the transition from air to road. I didn't RTFA, but it doesn't matter. Say yer cruising from SF to LA and you decide to stop at the Rock Store for some french toast. What is to stop you from setting the thing down on an out of the way road and driving in? Yeah. Rules. What else? (I know the short answers, but will let y'all cover them. GPS chips, etc.
As an aero engineer, I'm excited at this possible advancement. But as someone who lives in a society run by lawyers, cybercops and pirates, I'm not that excited. It will die a smothering death, even if not ONE fatality ever results.
I've long thought that crossing dandelions and cannabis would be the best way to terraform Mars. If for no other reason than to get McDonald's and Hostess to set up a presence there.
Just an IT guy among non-it guys. But with the Firefox Awesome bar, I can usually get to every site I need with a unique pair of letters. "SL" will get me to Slashdot. And with my hands on the keyboard (working), I can hit SL faster than reaching for a mouse and bookmark.
Ok, it WOULD be a little tough to write a serious SQL query with a wheel... How did Stephen Hawking operate his thingee?
The way that my jobs works out, I could do MOST of it with a Wheel! And if I got the MacWheel Shuffle, I could NOT show up, and half the office wouldn't notice ;-)
--
Taxman
The Beatles
Revolver
Seriously, people. Have we failed somewhere in transmitting the message that the Beatles song is *satire* and Orwell's DYS-topia is a *warning*!? It's not a cook book for Governments to follow to do that voodoo that they do!
Oh, that's a great idea. So THAT's how we can do that and get away with it! Now, how do we tax their feet?