In about 3 or 4 years when current Macbook Pros are up on eBay...
Actually MacBook hold their value pretty well on eBay. eBay has them listed as having relatively high prices. Right now a 17" 2.33 GHz Core Duo is listed above $1200. That's more than 2 year old, I'm typing this on a 17" 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo that's 2 years old.
Actually that's what I plan on doing when I get a new one, I'll scrub the disk and do a clean install of OS X, then auction it on eBay. Not half but I expect to get at least a 1/3 of the cost of the new one.
And Apple is getting 7 hour run times out of their normal laptops.
Citation needed.
Apple claims MacBook Airs have a battery life of 5 hours, and that's the longest of a MacBooks. I might get 4 hours on my MacBook Pro but not much more. I know because when the battery charge goes down too far the laptop automatically goes to sleep and will not wake up until it is plugged in or the battery is swapped with another, I've had it happen to me a few tymes. The first tyme I about panicked because I thought it had died, but when I plugged it in it woke up.
And what reason do we have to believe this isn't a just negotiating tactic against Microsoft?
Because there's nothing to stop Microsoft from releasing a version of Windows for Smartbooks. MS released one for phones and XP for netbooks so they can do it with smartbooks. That is if they don't do anything to try to stop them.
I mean, everyone seems to think that loading a ship full of explosives is some unstoppable defense, yet, we certainly have the means to board, inspect, and if necessary, sink pretty much any ship.
Perhaps you can inform the DEA and all the other drug warriors of your fantastic method of stopping smugglers. Even if the US really did get serious about stopping smugglers there's no way it could.
If any official claims this is to stop terrorist attacks, they're lying. This type of tech is to break the "mutually" part out of MAD. Once the US can confidently stop ICBMs 100% of the time with a mass-produced set of these things, it need not worry any longer about who it can threaten.
Sure the US will still have to worry, China and Russia could smuggle a bomb into LA Harbor easier than terrorists can.
If we make it so that our enemies have to get a ship into one our harbors, it becomes a much simpler problem. We would need to have more Coast Guard people to basically board every ship, with neutron detectors, but, its something we can do.
They can't stop drug and firearm smugglers, they wouldn't be able to stop smugglers with a suitcase bomb either. Heck, the Mexican narco-terriorists have bazookas, grenades, and rocket launchers. And you can't blame the trade in those on the US, they are just as illegal here as they are there.
We can track ships as they are approaching the USA, track them as they leave ports, follow them, and pretty much monitor every boat on the ocean.
Drug runners use fast boats, just as the boats were used during Prohibition. Now though they can use Cigarette boats. Or small subs can be used. The US has thousands of miles of coastline,Florida alone has 1100 miles of beach, which doesn't include all of the coastline. Florida also has more than 700 airports.
People talk about how porous the US Mexican border is but the US Canadian border is even more porous. Forget all the roads that cross the border between Minnesota, I live in MN and can drive into Canada without ever seeing a single border crossing, and Washington state there are thousands of miles anyone can hike across the border. What can the US do to stop people from crossing a US border, build a Berlin Wall, er Apartheid Wall, and plant minefields? The Soviets weren't able to stop people who were desperate enough.
This innovation might delay their attack enough for us to stop them.
It might slow terrorists down if they plan to launch a missile and not smuggle a bomb into LA harbor. Guess which method terrorists are likely to use, a method that requires an expensive rocket as well as a warhead, or one where most of the cost is in making a bomb?
Please inform the NRA-clown who asked you the question that the 30 billion can easily be taken from the military budget seeing that the US already spends more money on the military than the rest of the world combined
That wouldn't really help as a lot of military spending is off the books. On the other hand we didn't need to build a billion dollar embassy in Iraq about as big as Vatican City. Or the hundreds of millions spent on other embassies.
On the other hand, if you think health care is expensive now wait until it's free. Costs will either skyrocket or be health care will be rationed. What would help is a freer market in health care, medicine, and insurance. Either those who buy and pay for their own health insurance should get the same tax breaks as employers who offer insurance and the employees that get it, or those employers and employees should not get tax breaks. It should also be easier to open walk-in clinics with expanded use of Nurse practitioners and physician's assistances who practice under the supervision of doctors.
WHile I am a BIG believer in Gates(robert, not bill), I think that his idea to kill ABL was dead wrong. If anything, we should be building these faster.
Like these lasers are going to help prevent a smuggled bomb from being detonated in LA Harbor. And the US needs another treaty to break, well Bush already broke the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Are we going back to routine sorties similar to the old B-52 runs? How much will that cost??
That's what I was thinking too. The only way I could see something like this as being feasible would be to have planes up in the air all the tyme which would be expensive.
Love those B52 though. My dad retired from the Air Force as a mechanic on them and he used to take me to look at and explore them.
you probably need more resting time for your body than your mind.
This might be true of some but not all. Growing up I was both hyperactive and was refreshed after 5 or 6 hours sleep. This continued through my adulthood until I had an accident that left me with a disability. I enlisted in the Army in the infantry and only got 5 or 6 hours sleep while in. Later as a full-time student most days I was up and out of the door by 7, then 6am, and took an 8.6 mile ride to campus which took about half hour. I'd leave campus about 9 or 10pm to ride home again. And some of the classes I took were stage dance and martial arts. Later while working full-time in construction, specifically concrete work, I left home to ride my bike 45 minutes to the company yard by 5am. After at least 8 hours of work I again rode my bike home.
Try operating on 8 to 9 hours of sleep on average. You will feel like a total genius compared to now! And be able to do 8 hours of work in less than fours.
Some people can't sleep 8 or 9 hours. I can hit the sack tired and lay there an hour before I fall asleep, wake up then fall asleep again, then finally take an hour after I wake up to get out of bed. That's how I am now, since I had an accident that left me disabled, but I used to get about 5 or 6 hours sleep then get up in a heartbeat raring to go.
My wife's immune system seems to be ridiculously strong, but maybe it's partly due to the fact that she always gets plenty of sleep and if she starts feeling slightly sick she sleeps an extra couple of hours that night/day.
Though it's possible I doubt a lot of sleep is a cause of good health. Growing up I needed the least amount of sleep in my family yet I was the healthiest too. Even now my immune system is strong, while those around me get sick or catch a flu the most that I get is the sniffles or a stuffed nose. However I am now almost always tired.
I only needed a few hours of sleep and I didn't need an alarm clock to wake up. Now it can take me an hour after waking up before I can drag myself out of bed.
Sleep apnea does which, not needing much sleep nor having to drag myself out of bed? I'd guess having problems getting up, however I didn't have a problem breathing then and I don't now. Actually when I didn't sleep much I was if not hyperactive very active, and now I see little reason to live. I survived an injury caused by an accident I wish I hadn't.
Yes, longer sleep means perhaps a longer duration of potential vulnerability, but a longer less-deep sleep be trading depth for recoverability.
E.G. if a large predator comes stomping up when you're at level 5/10 sleep, then you have a good chance of waking up and getting the f*** out of there even though you're out for approx 8h. Alternately, if you're out for a 3h super-nap, and at 9/10 depth for most of that, perhaps the potential for being gobbled up during that period is greatly increased?
Well, just because a person doesn't need as much sleep it doesn't mean they sleep deeper, they may or may not. Growing up I was both an insomniac and a light sleeper, I needed only 5 to 6 hours sleep but I could practically hear a pin drop, like those old Sprint commercials. I'd hear others get up to go to the bathroom, or my mom getting ready for work. Besides being alert while only getting a few hours sleep, I was also very hyperactive. I was given a prescription for that, but it wasn't refilled as it made things bad for me.
I'm not a biologist and I don't know what sleep durations are for other mammals but the scientist in me wonders why we settled out at eight hours a day if we are more vulnerable with our eyes closed.
In think that the 8 hours of sleep goes back to the 8 hour workday, 8 hours of work, 8 hours of leisure, and 8 hours of sleep.
Perhaps (since the two subjects noted were ages 40 and 70) this only becomes apparent with the onset of age that we never made it to back in the day?
I grew up like that, even as a baby I was an insomniac. My mother used to say how she'd check on me in the crib and I'd be quite but wide awake. In high school I'd get 5 to 6 hours sleep. To make sure I was up on tyme and to wake up my sister she'd call the house from work at 5:45am, she started work at 5 herself. I'd be standing at the phone already ready to catch the bus when she did, and like these women I didn't use an alarm clock.
Sure, they probably get better sleep then I do and feel more refreshed
I wouldn't count on that. I know people who don't sleep at all, and will tell you they're doing fine. Except that everything about their attitude to life, their diet, their lifestyle, their health, and their general wellbeing says otherwise.
Well there is a difference between getting a few hours sleep a day and not getting any sleep. Growing up as an insomniac I only got a few hours sleep yet was raring to go when I did get up. I had fellow students sign my yearbook saying I was always cheerful and smiling. I started eating health-food in high school as well as taking supplements. And I never missed a day of school because I was sick, though I was sent home early twice. Once when I got the runs and again when I was stung by a wasp.
I used to be like these two women, I only needed a few hours of sleep and I didn't need an alarm clock to wake up. Now it can take me an hour after waking up before I can drag myself out of bed.
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I'm not going to cite every thing in my posts.
You make an assertion, you back it up.
If you don't want to, you don't want to debate or inform.
Falcon
In about 3 or 4 years when current Macbook Pros are up on eBay...
Actually MacBook hold their value pretty well on eBay. eBay has them listed as having relatively high prices. Right now a 17" 2.33 GHz Core Duo is listed above $1200. That's more than 2 year old, I'm typing this on a 17" 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo that's 2 years old.
Actually that's what I plan on doing when I get a new one, I'll scrub the disk and do a clean install of OS X, then auction it on eBay. Not half but I expect to get at least a 1/3 of the cost of the new one.
Falcon
And Apple is getting 7 hour run times out of their normal laptops.
Citation needed.
Apple claims MacBook Airs have a battery life of 5 hours, and that's the longest of a MacBooks. I might get 4 hours on my MacBook Pro but not much more. I know because when the battery charge goes down too far the laptop automatically goes to sleep and will not wake up until it is plugged in or the battery is swapped with another, I've had it happen to me a few tymes. The first tyme I about panicked because I thought it had died, but when I plugged it in it woke up.
Falcon
And what reason do we have to believe this isn't a just negotiating tactic against Microsoft?
Because there's nothing to stop Microsoft from releasing a version of Windows for Smartbooks. MS released one for phones and XP for netbooks so they can do it with smartbooks. That is if they don't do anything to try to stop them.
Falcon
I mean, everyone seems to think that loading a ship full of explosives is some unstoppable defense, yet, we certainly have the means to board, inspect, and if necessary, sink pretty much any ship.
Perhaps you can inform the DEA and all the other drug warriors of your fantastic method of stopping smugglers. Even if the US really did get serious about stopping smugglers there's no way it could.
Falcon
If any official claims this is to stop terrorist attacks, they're lying. This type of tech is to break the "mutually" part out of MAD. Once the US can confidently stop ICBMs 100% of the time with a mass-produced set of these things, it need not worry any longer about who it can threaten.
Sure the US will still have to worry, China and Russia could smuggle a bomb into LA Harbor easier than terrorists can.
Falcon
If we make it so that our enemies have to get a ship into one our harbors, it becomes a much simpler problem. We would need to have more Coast Guard people to basically board every ship, with neutron detectors, but, its something we can do.
They can't stop drug and firearm smugglers, they wouldn't be able to stop smugglers with a suitcase bomb either. Heck, the Mexican narco-terriorists have bazookas, grenades, and rocket launchers. And you can't blame the trade in those on the US, they are just as illegal here as they are there.
We can track ships as they are approaching the USA, track them as they leave ports, follow them, and pretty much monitor every boat on the ocean.
Drug runners use fast boats, just as the boats were used during Prohibition. Now though they can use Cigarette boats. Or small subs can be used. The US has thousands of miles of coastline,Florida alone has 1100 miles of beach, which doesn't include all of the coastline. Florida also has more than 700 airports.
People talk about how porous the US Mexican border is but the US Canadian border is even more porous. Forget all the roads that cross the border between Minnesota, I live in MN and can drive into Canada without ever seeing a single border crossing, and Washington state there are thousands of miles anyone can hike across the border. What can the US do to stop people from crossing a US border, build a Berlin Wall, er Apartheid Wall, and plant minefields? The Soviets weren't able to stop people who were desperate enough.
Falcon
I enjoyed seeing (and coming close enough to touch) a SR-22 Blackbird at the Boeing museum in Seattle.
The SR-71 was the Blackbird. More than just seeing one, I'd love to fly it.
Falcon
This innovation might delay their attack enough for us to stop them.
It might slow terrorists down if they plan to launch a missile and not smuggle a bomb into LA harbor. Guess which method terrorists are likely to use, a method that requires an expensive rocket as well as a warhead, or one where most of the cost is in making a bomb?
Falcon
Please inform the NRA-clown who asked you the question that the 30 billion can easily be taken from the military budget seeing that the US already spends more money on the military than the rest of the world combined
That wouldn't really help as a lot of military spending is off the books. On the other hand we didn't need to build a billion dollar embassy in Iraq about as big as Vatican City. Or the hundreds of millions spent on other embassies.
On the other hand, if you think health care is expensive now wait until it's free. Costs will either skyrocket or be health care will be rationed. What would help is a freer market in health care, medicine, and insurance. Either those who buy and pay for their own health insurance should get the same tax breaks as employers who offer insurance and the employees that get it, or those employers and employees should not get tax breaks. It should also be easier to open walk-in clinics with expanded use of Nurse practitioners and physician's assistances who practice under the supervision of doctors.
Falcon
WHile I am a BIG believer in Gates(robert, not bill), I think that his idea to kill ABL was dead wrong. If anything, we should be building these faster.
Like these lasers are going to help prevent a smuggled bomb from being detonated in LA Harbor. And the US needs another treaty to break, well Bush already broke the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Falcon
This technology will be quite useful when we are facing the Space Chinese in 2385.
By then we'll be cruising around in Fireflies. In another star system because the earth became too crowded.
Falcon
Are we going back to routine sorties similar to the old B-52 runs? How much will that cost??
That's what I was thinking too. The only way I could see something like this as being feasible would be to have planes up in the air all the tyme which would be expensive.
Love those B52 though. My dad retired from the Air Force as a mechanic on them and he used to take me to look at and explore them.
Falcon
you probably need more resting time for your body than your mind.
This might be true of some but not all. Growing up I was both hyperactive and was refreshed after 5 or 6 hours sleep. This continued through my adulthood until I had an accident that left me with a disability. I enlisted in the Army in the infantry and only got 5 or 6 hours sleep while in. Later as a full-time student most days I was up and out of the door by 7, then 6am, and took an 8.6 mile ride to campus which took about half hour. I'd leave campus about 9 or 10pm to ride home again. And some of the classes I took were stage dance and martial arts. Later while working full-time in construction, specifically concrete work, I left home to ride my bike 45 minutes to the company yard by 5am. After at least 8 hours of work I again rode my bike home.
Falcon
Yeah that's just what we need; a legitimate excuse for employers to work people more.
If you don't stand up for yourself it's your problem.
Falcon
Try operating on 8 to 9 hours of sleep on average. You will feel like a total genius compared to now! And be able to do 8 hours of work in less than fours.
Some people can't sleep 8 or 9 hours. I can hit the sack tired and lay there an hour before I fall asleep, wake up then fall asleep again, then finally take an hour after I wake up to get out of bed. That's how I am now, since I had an accident that left me disabled, but I used to get about 5 or 6 hours sleep then get up in a heartbeat raring to go.
Falcon
Then is must be related to the ultimate question.
42 is the answer to what question?
Falcon
My wife's immune system seems to be ridiculously strong, but maybe it's partly due to the fact that she always gets plenty of sleep and if she starts feeling slightly sick she sleeps an extra couple of hours that night/day.
Though it's possible I doubt a lot of sleep is a cause of good health. Growing up I needed the least amount of sleep in my family yet I was the healthiest too. Even now my immune system is strong, while those around me get sick or catch a flu the most that I get is the sniffles or a stuffed nose. However I am now almost always tired.
Falcon
I only needed a few hours of sleep and I didn't need an alarm clock to wake up. Now it can take me an hour after waking up before I can drag myself out of bed.
Sleep apnea does which, not needing much sleep nor having to drag myself out of bed? I'd guess having problems getting up, however I didn't have a problem breathing then and I don't now. Actually when I didn't sleep much I was if not hyperactive very active, and now I see little reason to live. I survived an injury caused by an accident I wish I hadn't.
Falcon
Except primates are not all vegetarians. Many use sticks to dig out insects, chimpanzees hunt and use sticks to dig out termites to eat.
Falcon
Yes, longer sleep means perhaps a longer duration of potential vulnerability, but a longer less-deep sleep be trading depth for recoverability.
E.G. if a large predator comes stomping up when you're at level 5/10 sleep, then you have a good chance of waking up and getting the f*** out of there even though you're out for approx 8h. Alternately, if you're out for a 3h super-nap, and at 9/10 depth for most of that, perhaps the potential for being gobbled up during that period is greatly increased?
Well, just because a person doesn't need as much sleep it doesn't mean they sleep deeper, they may or may not. Growing up I was both an insomniac and a light sleeper, I needed only 5 to 6 hours sleep but I could practically hear a pin drop, like those old Sprint commercials. I'd hear others get up to go to the bathroom, or my mom getting ready for work. Besides being alert while only getting a few hours sleep, I was also very hyperactive. I was given a prescription for that, but it wasn't refilled as it made things bad for me.
Falcon
I'm not a biologist and I don't know what sleep durations are for other mammals but the scientist in me wonders why we settled out at eight hours a day if we are more vulnerable with our eyes closed.
In think that the 8 hours of sleep goes back to the 8 hour workday, 8 hours of work, 8 hours of leisure, and 8 hours of sleep.
Perhaps (since the two subjects noted were ages 40 and 70) this only becomes apparent with the onset of age that we never made it to back in the day?
I grew up like that, even as a baby I was an insomniac. My mother used to say how she'd check on me in the crib and I'd be quite but wide awake. In high school I'd get 5 to 6 hours sleep. To make sure I was up on tyme and to wake up my sister she'd call the house from work at 5:45am, she started work at 5 herself. I'd be standing at the phone already ready to catch the bus when she did, and like these women I didn't use an alarm clock.
Falcon
In other words, doing what makes life worth living. I'd join you if I could.
Falcon
Sure, they probably get better sleep then I do and feel more refreshed
I wouldn't count on that. I know people who don't sleep at all, and will tell you they're doing fine. Except that everything about their attitude to life, their diet, their lifestyle, their health, and their general wellbeing says otherwise.
Well there is a difference between getting a few hours sleep a day and not getting any sleep. Growing up as an insomniac I only got a few hours sleep yet was raring to go when I did get up. I had fellow students sign my yearbook saying I was always cheerful and smiling. I started eating health-food in high school as well as taking supplements. And I never missed a day of school because I was sick, though I was sent home early twice. Once when I got the runs and again when I was stung by a wasp.
Falcon
I used to be like these two women, I only needed a few hours of sleep and I didn't need an alarm clock to wake up. Now it can take me an hour after waking up before I can drag myself out of bed.
Falcon