It makes sense to spend several million on a new technology that has great promise, even if the first implementaion is not efficient. Not that MagLev is new, though.
Whoever wrote that had better study his physics -- you use energy, not power to lift something. You could lift a car one mile with the power used by an LED, but it would take a while.
Perhaps the author meant "can produce a magnetic field that can lift a 50,000 car 1/4 inch".
I missed a zero, sorry. However, I will argue your second point
Flying right side up does prevent you from falling down to earth, and flying upside down should provide downward thrust (unless you change the angle of attack of the wings). So it should allow you to go at faster than the escape velocity.
I tought that commercial planes were mostly driven by computer (system recommendations:it is recommended that the pilot let the computer do the entire flight. However, in case of bad weather, it is mandatory for the computer to do the flight)
In any case, it is a bad comparison -- commercial planes built for safe flying vs millitary planes that must be very fast and maeuverable (and therefore hav difficulty going at low speeds and are unstable)
The faster it flies, the more flights it can make. But most of the airport wait isn't waiting for the plane to arrive, and they wouldn't allow there to be too many flights anyway (as it would reduce the price).
This will be nice for international flight, though.
Mach5 is about 1500 m/s. Escape velocity (the speed at which you need to go to leave earth and go to space without accelerating more) is 1100 m/s. Would that mdan that a hypersonic plane must fly uside down so is not to fly out into space?
A few posters pointed out that the US supplied weapons to Saddam. If the US gave him WMD and he didn't use them all, then I bet that's how the US knows* they have WMD. How embarrassing.
*Disclaimer: I am not claiming that Iran does have WMD.
the game industry's race to develop an all-in-one digital 'uberdevice' to combine gaming, television, computing, and other consumer technologies in a single box.
But, what will I do with my computer, my TV, my GameBoy, my iPod, my/.Sig, my...?
To my knowledge, there is no law that says you don't own a material object that you bought. Like you're allowed to destroy the things you buy, no? But don't trust me, I'm not very well informed about laws.
What do the taxpayers get by building an infrastructure that will be turned over to private providers? Just wondering why I wouldn't want the private providers to build their own infrastructure.
There are things known as "natural monopolies", in which producion costs decrease as the size of the firm increases. Networks (cables, piping, roads/railroads) belong to this category. It is more efficient for there to be a single shared network, than many small ones owned by some company who does not want to share it, reducing (potentially, at least) the cost for everyone. Just my $0.02; I did not RTFA.
Yes, the punishment should fit the crime. However, I vote for no crime. Like, if you could face 20 years in jail for sending spam, don't send spam. It's not that hard, is it?
I, for one, welcome our new internet spammer overkills.
Evil plan: send all emails through each state before it arrives at its destination. Then whichever state has the best anti-spam law can blast the hell out of the spammers. I wouldn't mind the increased latency in an email.
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It makes sense to spend several million on a new technology that has great promise, even if the first implementaion is not efficient. Not that MagLev is new, though.
Whoever wrote that had better study his physics -- you use energy, not power to lift something. You could lift a car one mile with the power used by an LED, but it would take a while.
Perhaps the author meant "can produce a magnetic field that can lift a 50,000 car 1/4 inch".
I missed a zero, sorry. However, I will argue your second point
Flying right side up does prevent you from falling down to earth, and flying upside down should provide downward thrust (unless you change the angle of attack of the wings). So it should allow you to go at faster than the escape velocity.
So you don't like that automation is replacing jobs? No problem! Go to some third world country and become a farmer.
Automation is a long way from replacing cheap labor
The world of tomorrow will not be available until tomorrow.
Also, today was cancelled for lack of interest.
We appologize for the inconvenience.
I tought that commercial planes were mostly driven by computer (system recommendations:it is recommended that the pilot let the computer do the entire flight. However, in case of bad weather, it is mandatory for the computer to do the flight)
In any case, it is a bad comparison -- commercial planes built for safe flying vs millitary planes that must be very fast and maeuverable (and therefore hav difficulty going at low speeds and are unstable)
The faster it flies, the more flights it can make. But most of the airport wait isn't waiting for the plane to arrive, and they wouldn't allow there to be too many flights anyway (as it would reduce the price).
This will be nice for international flight, though.
Mach5 is about 1500 m/s. Escape velocity (the speed at which you need to go to leave earth and go to space without accelerating more) is 1100 m/s. Would that mdan that a hypersonic plane must fly uside down so is not to fly out into space?
A few posters pointed out that the US supplied weapons to Saddam. If the US gave him WMD and he didn't use them all, then I bet that's how the US knows* they have WMD. How embarrassing.
*Disclaimer: I am not claiming that Iran does have WMD.
the game industry's race to develop an all-in-one digital 'uberdevice' to combine gaming, television, computing, and other consumer technologies in a single box.
/.Sig, my...?
But, what will I do with my computer, my TV, my GameBoy, my iPod, my
They met to discuss privacy matters on the internet (among other things).
I wonder what their policy will be?
To my knowledge, there is no law that says you don't own a material object that you bought. Like you're allowed to destroy the things you buy, no? But don't trust me, I'm not very well informed about laws.
no, no, nooooo! Oh, wait, its ITMS
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Its called "creative commons" and its licenced under the "creative commons licence"
go here[google talk.religion.christian]
I thought that Napster had an iTunes-like store first?
So how come the Food and Drug Administration is the organization approving the sale of transgenic fish?
:-)
Depends. Do they also approve cat food?
What do the taxpayers get by building an infrastructure that will be turned over to private providers? Just wondering why I wouldn't want the private providers to build their own infrastructure.
There are things known as "natural monopolies", in which producion costs decrease as the size of the firm increases. Networks (cables, piping, roads/railroads) belong to this category. It is more efficient for there to be a single shared network, than many small ones owned by some company who does not want to share it, reducing (potentially, at least) the cost for everyone. Just my $0.02; I did not RTFA.
KARMA Attemts to Repress Meaningless Assholes
or something like that
But I'm a real fake nerd.
All of which raises some frightening implications. Could it be that there are more nerds today than there were before?
And then there is a further, more troubling possibility. Just what constitutes a nerd these days anyway?
We're geeks, dammit!
The reduced crew of the shuttle would make an ejection seat a viable option.
"Press the big red button to eject.
Warning: no air outside, and it's a loooong fall"
Yes, the punishment should fit the crime. However, I vote for no crime. Like, if you could face 20 years in jail for sending spam, don't send spam. It's not that hard, is it?
I, for one, welcome our new internet spammer overkills.
Evil plan: send all emails through each state before it arrives at its destination. Then whichever state has the best anti-spam law can blast the hell out of the spammers. I wouldn't mind the increased latency in an email.
He could get several years in prison. That'll teach them spammers. I do hope he was a spammer, not an innocent idiot.