A typical aircraft economy cruise is 55% of peak power. Fast cruise is 75% power. 1 kW would not go all that long of a ways towards powering the aircraft. Also, while the 140 is a beautiful aircraft, it's not exactly a speed demon.
Every iDevice works with every USB spec charger, it just won't draw more than 500 mA. It wouldn't know how much more than 500 mA to pull without purposely tripping the over-current circuitry in the charger.
You mean like the Google maps app that comes with every iPhone? Or the fact that Google employees use either Linux or Macs, and not Windows PCs? People seem to want a soap opera with every relationship. Each company may have issues with the direction of the other, due to vastly different business models, but "antagonistic" describes human relationships.
a device to crank the engine through a battery is "stick motor on engine" a method to make the engine work reliably is "put oil on wear surface" a linkage to make an engine to connect to the wheels is just a shaft, or some gears
Basically, anything can be called trivial depending on how you spin it, and obvious in hindsight. "stick motor on wheels" was revolutionary the first time it was done.
Have you looked at the magazine? It's targeted at quite a niche audience, and while it gets its message across and is a decent attempt, would not be considered a reference standard of graphic design. In the real world, graphic designers don't know Perl. Nor should they be expected to.
Adobe software is not particularly nice nowadays (feature bloat and bugs), and I'd love to see a truly viable competitor. The open source tools have improved as well. But there's a certain refinement professionals expect of their tools (analogous to Snap-On among car mechanics, high end scopes among electrical engineers, etc) that just isn't there yet.
Convenient to call all of the those periods the glory days and not the tech boom of the 90s and early 2000s. A tech boom largely funded by private capital investment that doesn't exist when you tax at 90%.
We also have the most "progressive" tax system of any first world country. Our poor and lower middle class don't pay tax at all. So yes, wealthy americans have a low tax rate, but poor americans have an even lower one. Go look at Europe - the middle class pays their fair share, they hose the rich, and it pays for social services. Hosing the rich alone doesn't work.
I like driving cars and flying airplanes. I don't want this vehicle...it's definitely not going to drive as well of a good car, doesn't have the useful load of even a Cessna 172, and leaves me asking, "what problem does this really solve?" it's not like you're going to be able to take off from freeways. So you drive to the airport, and take off there. Just like you do today...
Would you rather be t-boned by an idiot driver who runs a stop sign or hit in a glancing blow by an idiot driver who can't navigate a roundabout? A good roundabout where the curbing forces tangential entry is safer.
Maybe because in the millennia before patents the costs of development were low and the reward was high? There was little cost to inventing fire, but the benefit of survival on a cold night sure would have been nice. You can argue that possibly high cost development is a waste and that we're not better off as a society with that sort of R&D, but it seems a stretch to think that it would continue without the promise of financial compensation.
So it's a lot like an iPad, but heavier, bulkier, and with a smaller screen, for more money. And your IT manager can stop you from putting apps on it. Sounds like a winner!
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A typical aircraft economy cruise is 55% of peak power. Fast cruise is 75% power. 1 kW would not go all that long of a ways towards powering the aircraft. Also, while the 140 is a beautiful aircraft, it's not exactly a speed demon.
Best post I've seen on Slashdot in years...
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The whole premise of this article is bunk.
Great idea. Go use a lead acid battery with your laptop.
And you've never tried to implement a state of charge estimation algorithm. If you had, you'd understand that it is an extremely hard problem.
Every iDevice works with every USB spec charger, it just won't draw more than 500 mA. It wouldn't know how much more than 500 mA to pull without purposely tripping the over-current circuitry in the charger.
The odd part is that the iPads are all unlocked, and the Android tablets aren't.
One could argue that $30 for the software plus $48 for the bandwidth is still pretty cheap for an OS upgrade.
You mean like the Google maps app that comes with every iPhone? Or the fact that Google employees use either Linux or Macs, and not Windows PCs?
People seem to want a soap opera with every relationship. Each company may have issues with the direction of the other, due to vastly different business models, but "antagonistic" describes human relationships.
a device to crank the engine through a battery is "stick motor on engine"
a method to make the engine work reliably is "put oil on wear surface"
a linkage to make an engine to connect to the wheels is just a shaft, or some gears
Basically, anything can be called trivial depending on how you spin it, and obvious in hindsight. "stick motor on wheels" was revolutionary the first time it was done.
There were carriages before the car, and there were engines before the car. Therefore innovation was absent when the car was "invented".
http://refit.sourceforge.net/myths/
Have you looked at the magazine? It's targeted at quite a niche audience, and while it gets its message across and is a decent attempt, would not be considered a reference standard of graphic design. In the real world, graphic designers don't know Perl. Nor should they be expected to.
Adobe software is not particularly nice nowadays (feature bloat and bugs), and I'd love to see a truly viable competitor. The open source tools have improved as well. But there's a certain refinement professionals expect of their tools (analogous to Snap-On among car mechanics, high end scopes among electrical engineers, etc) that just isn't there yet.
By your rationale, no company develops anything. Combining ideas from disparate companies into a single product practically defines innovation.
The bits are spaced 100 picoseconds apart - there are now several bit transitions on a single 2m cable. Not trivial.
Convenient to call all of the those periods the glory days and not the tech boom of the 90s and early 2000s. A tech boom largely funded by private capital investment that doesn't exist when you tax at 90%.
We also have the most "progressive" tax system of any first world country. Our poor and lower middle class don't pay tax at all. So yes, wealthy americans have a low tax rate, but poor americans have an even lower one.
Go look at Europe - the middle class pays their fair share, they hose the rich, and it pays for social services. Hosing the rich alone doesn't work.
I like driving cars and flying airplanes. I don't want this vehicle...it's definitely not going to drive as well of a good car, doesn't have the useful load of even a Cessna 172, and leaves me asking, "what problem does this really solve?" it's not like you're going to be able to take off from freeways. So you drive to the airport, and take off there. Just like you do today...
Would you rather be t-boned by an idiot driver who runs a stop sign or hit in a glancing blow by an idiot driver who can't navigate a roundabout? A good roundabout where the curbing forces tangential entry is safer.
Maybe because in the millennia before patents the costs of development were low and the reward was high? There was little cost to inventing fire, but the benefit of survival on a cold night sure would have been nice.
You can argue that possibly high cost development is a waste and that we're not better off as a society with that sort of R&D, but it seems a stretch to think that it would continue without the promise of financial compensation.
It is property because the law allows you to buy, sell, and transfer it.
You've never priced out fibre channel cables and drives then. $50 is chap in comparison.
Exactly. And all the litigation and planning isn't free. We all pay.
So it's a lot like an iPad, but heavier, bulkier, and with a smaller screen, for more money. And your IT manager can stop you from putting apps on it. Sounds like a winner!