Maybe you should figure that reason out before going off half-cocked about the whole affair.
Do you really think it's easier for them to write the software to pretend to be an iPod to sync with iTunes than it would be to write software that reads an XML file and cp's a few files that are listed there?
I don't see what was particularly veiled about the commentary in the show. Half the time, Serling himself would outright state the moral the end, or the beginning.
You can clean your streets without having the banner of five rings looming over them. Do you think that the olympic committee comes in and does the work?
You can invest money in infrastructure without an international committee overseeing the work, too. Where do you think those "billions invested" come from? It's not the organization that runs the olympics.
Instead of adding those billions to the "benefits", you should subtract them. And when figuring the boost, you have to recall six years of spending with no payoff until the end. What would that spending have gone towards if it hadn't been directed at grown men playing children's games? Growth, I'll bet.
There is no economic reason for any city to host any sporting event. Let the event organizers pay for and reap the profits if it's so great.
That said, Chicago didn't lose. Rio won the decision. They weren't voting against chicago. Are we really so vain that we probably think the choice was about US?
Tourism dollars are visible dollars, so many legislative bodies chase them.
Unfortunately, they're very miniscule dollars, so when you ignore say manufacturing concerns, to free up time to pass art grants, you never get what you lose in return. You might not notice, though, as your state theme-park-ifies, that it lacks the depth necessary to have real prosperity.
Frankly, Chicago is better off for not having the olympics than Rio will be for having them.
We're still at 91% employment rate, nationally. The reason people might not want to buy stuff right away is that the employment situation is not exactly improving.
People are hoarding money (pretty stupid idea right now because the stimulus related inflation is soon to kick in) out of somewhat justifiable fears.
People are rebuilding savings after a period of over-extended borrowing.
People are *not* making substantially less at the moment unless they are out of work.
And all the major cities on Amtrak routes have commuter flights between them which cost the same or less, are more frequent, and except for Boston - Providence, take much less time.
Amtrak doesn't compete with planes. Amtrak simply has found an alternate source of revenue that doesn't depend on actually satisfying customers.
I haven't seen a ranked list of distractions in a while, but when the debate was going on in the early aughts, AAA had a list of "causes of distracted driving" on which cell phone was somewhere around #7 or #10, and "food or beverage" was #1, by like an order of magnitude.
IOW, we're not going after the low hanging fruit first, which bewilders me.
Don't be ridiculous. "and" and "or" can be logical operators. The can also be used to enumerate members of a set. You are expected to know which is which based on context, as anyone over the age of four should be competent to figure out. You're not dumber than a four year old, are you?
There is no thermodynamic reason why an electric motor cannot achieve arbitrarily close to perfect efficiency. With heat engines, you are limited by the maximum temperature your materials can accommodate, and by needing to have a cycle that doesn't have forty thousand year long isothermal expansion/compression steps
Heck even windmills, in some areas, could be an option (you plug in your car to the "windmill feed" which obviously only actually charges when there is wind) if the capacity is large enough to get past the doldrums. 500miles, I'd guess, would be sufficient for 95%+ of drivers to get through all but the longest stretches of no wind. It is certainly a number that can be calculated for many areas.
What we need is the will to build more electric generating capacity. Which at the moment, we don't have, due to irrational environmentalists, recently deceased wealthy and politically connected coastal landowners, NIMBYism, and people whose principle environmental education was to watch the film, "The China Syndrome."
Everyone will still go to the movie theater, but they'll watch the film on their iPhones. They will be confused when the "turn off your annoying cellphones (psst: you can buy annoying cell phones from AT&T)" message comes on, though.
Don't be daft. With per-cell switching, you just arrange hundreds of shallow cells in parallel for normal operation and in one gigantic series bank to charge at 1 amp and 200 V across the stack. Then you can use 18 gauge wires if the run is short enough.
The only downside is that you can't power the phone while charging it.
The only downside is the plutonium that's either 15 mm from your ear (with, obviously, 15mm or less of shielding) or 15 mm from your groin, with the same amount of shielding.
Yes, it was definitely BS. Thermite doesn't detonate. It might deflagrate if you keep it in a sturdy enough container, but mostly it just combusts, rather like gunpowder, except that gunpowder doesn't evolve a pool of liquid iron.
The 3D description file could probably be converted to XML (if it isn't already) and printed to a manageable number of paper pages or microfiche slides.
1) people have been killed for less than someone will be paid in royalties for a successful production.
I think you have stumbled upon the real reason George Lucas destroyed the original Original Trilogy when he created the "original vision" Original Trilogy, and later the original Prime Trilogy with 30% more JarJar. No one would bother going down for murder to accelerate the release of something that no longer exists!
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For whatever reason?
Maybe you should figure that reason out before going off half-cocked about the whole affair.
Do you really think it's easier for them to write the software to pretend to be an iPod to sync with iTunes than it would be to write software that reads an XML file and cp's a few files that are listed there?
And if you look at that MS user agent string, you'll see that IE was itself faking a Netscape user agent string...
Why should your bank have a right to your SSN? Only your employer and the SSA have an actual need for the number, to remit the required payments.
I don't see what was particularly veiled about the commentary in the show. Half the time, Serling himself would outright state the moral the end, or the beginning.
You can clean your streets without having the banner of five rings looming over them. Do you think that the olympic committee comes in and does the work?
You can invest money in infrastructure without an international committee overseeing the work, too. Where do you think those "billions invested" come from? It's not the organization that runs the olympics.
Instead of adding those billions to the "benefits", you should subtract them. And when figuring the boost, you have to recall six years of spending with no payoff until the end. What would that spending have gone towards if it hadn't been directed at grown men playing children's games? Growth, I'll bet.
There is no economic reason for any city to host any sporting event. Let the event organizers pay for and reap the profits if it's so great.
That said, Chicago didn't lose. Rio won the decision. They weren't voting against chicago. Are we really so vain that we probably think the choice was about US?
Tourism dollars are visible dollars, so many legislative bodies chase them.
Unfortunately, they're very miniscule dollars, so when you ignore say manufacturing concerns, to free up time to pass art grants, you never get what you lose in return. You might not notice, though, as your state theme-park-ifies, that it lacks the depth necessary to have real prosperity.
Frankly, Chicago is better off for not having the olympics than Rio will be for having them.
We're still at 91% employment rate, nationally. The reason people might not want to buy stuff right away is that the employment situation is not exactly improving.
People are hoarding money (pretty stupid idea right now because the stimulus related inflation is soon to kick in) out of somewhat justifiable fears.
People are rebuilding savings after a period of over-extended borrowing.
People are *not* making substantially less at the moment unless they are out of work.
And this different from how 32 bit glacially replaced 16 bit, how, exactly?
And all the major cities on Amtrak routes have commuter flights between them which cost the same or less, are more frequent, and except for Boston - Providence, take much less time.
Amtrak doesn't compete with planes. Amtrak simply has found an alternate source of revenue that doesn't depend on actually satisfying customers.
I haven't seen a ranked list of distractions in a while, but when the debate was going on in the early aughts, AAA had a list of "causes of distracted driving" on which cell phone was somewhere around #7 or #10, and "food or beverage" was #1, by like an order of magnitude.
IOW, we're not going after the low hanging fruit first, which bewilders me.
and *my* ideal would be to take advantage of the silicon revolution and get the driver out of the equation.
Don't be ridiculous. "and" and "or" can be logical operators. The can also be used to enumerate members of a set. You are expected to know which is which based on context, as anyone over the age of four should be competent to figure out. You're not dumber than a four year old, are you?
No more fiddling around with plastic gloves/wait for your fingers to stop smelling of diesel.
If you're that sloppy with the nozzle, you should probably let the station attendant take care of your refilling.
There is no thermodynamic reason why an electric motor cannot achieve arbitrarily close to perfect efficiency. With heat engines, you are limited by the maximum temperature your materials can accommodate, and by needing to have a cycle that doesn't have forty thousand year long isothermal expansion/compression steps
Yeah, we have it. It's nuclear.
Heck even windmills, in some areas, could be an option (you plug in your car to the "windmill feed" which obviously only actually charges when there is wind) if the capacity is large enough to get past the doldrums. 500miles, I'd guess, would be sufficient for 95%+ of drivers to get through all but the longest stretches of no wind. It is certainly a number that can be calculated for many areas.
What we need is the will to build more electric generating capacity. Which at the moment, we don't have, due to irrational environmentalists, recently deceased wealthy and politically connected coastal landowners, NIMBYism, and people whose principle environmental education was to watch the film, "The China Syndrome."
Everyone will still go to the movie theater, but they'll watch the film on their iPhones. They will be confused when the "turn off your annoying cellphones (psst: you can buy annoying cell phones from AT&T)" message comes on, though.
You can get them in aluminum or fiberglass. Plastic is not standard.
Don't be daft. With per-cell switching, you just arrange hundreds of shallow cells in parallel for normal operation and in one gigantic series bank to charge at 1 amp and 200 V across the stack. Then you can use 18 gauge wires if the run is short enough.
The only downside is that you can't power the phone while charging it.
But, like any other phone, you can buy a connector at any pharmacy that will drain a pair of lithiums into the cell phone in 20 minutes.
When the singularity happens, both of those statements will be equivalent.
It's a cell phone. Without the radio, it's just an mp3 player with poor battery life. How do you think cell phones work, anyway?
The only downside is the plutonium that's either 15 mm from your ear (with, obviously, 15mm or less of shielding) or 15 mm from your groin, with the same amount of shielding.
Yes, it was definitely BS. Thermite doesn't detonate. It might deflagrate if you keep it in a sturdy enough container, but mostly it just combusts, rather like gunpowder, except that gunpowder doesn't evolve a pool of liquid iron.
The 3D description file could probably be converted to XML (if it isn't already) and printed to a manageable number of paper pages or microfiche slides.
I think you have stumbled upon the real reason George Lucas destroyed the original Original Trilogy when he created the "original vision" Original Trilogy, and later the original Prime Trilogy with 30% more JarJar. No one would bother going down for murder to accelerate the release of something that no longer exists!