This guy's been jumping out of planes with jet-powered wings for *years*.. to the point that the big story over a year ago was that the army was considering developing one to give air-dropped troops more flexibility. Supposedly the wings can hold like 200 lbs worth of gear in addition to the "pilot."
It'll be news again when he finally achieves his goal of taking off with just the wing. Not jumping out of a plane.
It has hovered on tether. I don't know about ground translation, but I imagine that would be easier to test. His device meets the bare minimum technical definition for "flying car" and "roadable airplane"
In other words, he has a *lot* more built than Terrafugia, but he's still perpetually four years away from selling anything.
Also, if the neat-o 3d images are anything to go by, they're going to have a hell of a time getting the bifold wings to fold through the tail booms.
Oh, come on now. Just about every music player functions like "tapedeck" but without the godawful "real device" skin. It's almost a 1:1 map with whatever winamp everyone was using in '99.
Tape players are easy to learn because there are only five functions. A monkey could figure it out by mashing keys, even without labels.
Blender will never suck as bad as GIMP; the developers are really trying. At least..they don't go out of their way to say things like, "No, you don't really want that." Instead they work hand-in-hand with various open-movie projects, and try to add features that are needed.
If the blender devs were doing GIMP, you'd have had CMYK and 16 bit per channel colors and 90% of the popular gripes a decade ago. Some of it would be hidden under a cryptic button on an initially non-intuitive dialog, but after months of using it, you'd swear that that was in the appropriate place.
There is no difference.. except that on the same machine, under windows I can create more complicated scenes than I can manipulate under linux.*
*They'll load, but they'll be so stutteringly slow that it is impossible to work with. Smaller scenes work fine. It's just that the limit of usability is smaller for me under linux.
You put in a ballistic parachute. They're common among experimental aircraft enthusiasts.
They're not practical for commercial airliners due to square/cube problems however economies of scale make other enhancements more practical in that regime.
And.. Oh, Terrafugia's design does call for one. Big surprise there. IOW, unless your regularly inspected and certified safety system fails, you're not going to die from poor maintenance in other areas, although if it's anything like skydiving, you might just lose your license for a period if negligence is the reason for parachute deployment.
What even IS super unleaded gas? Is it gas whose lead content is "really, really low?" Or is it "premium" gas (which is actually an anti-knock formulation for poorly designed or aging vehicles, but labeled premium to make people think it's "better")?
Moller claims to get about 18 mpg on ethanol with his M400 volantor, despite it's seemingly fuel-hungry 8 engines. I think he's cheating, though, since he's only actually built a 2-passenger model, and he hasn't flown it off the tether yet, let alone FAA-certified production models.
Better than linux, in fact. At least, to this dabbler. I've tried it under my chosen linux distro (Ubuntu) and when I want to do anything more than rotating the starter-cube, I reboot into windows.
Granted that could be because my (now ancient) Radeon 9600 XT is not very well supported in Ubuntu, and the interface is a bit sluggish there on my machine compared to XP, even for non- complicated3dgraphicsfiddlingtasks, like web browsing. So I'm not ready to blame the blender team for its usability under linux on my computer. Especially as render-times are quite similar.
I have two otherwise nearly identical Lexar Jumpdrives from between 6 and 8 years ago, one of which was purchased following the other one having spent some time in a pants pocket during which said pants were both washed and dried, and one of which is now pretty finnicky. But strangely, the good one is the one that went through the wash. If only I'd checked it before driving to Best Buy...
It is not the triangular sail (fore and aft rigging, really, regardless of sail shape) which allows you to travel up wind, but the keel.
Tacking is actually two-fluid sailing, which implies that you need a sail in both fluids (and, obviously, a velocity difference between them also). Of course, with the density of water, the wet-sail doesn't need to be nearly as large as the air-sail, and with small enough boats, the hull itself acts as a fairly inefficient keel.
You do need to be able to rotate the sails, but square-rigged vessels are perfectly capable of this, albeit not necessarily to the degree that a Bermuda-rigged sloop would be able to.
In the US, the cabinet in the started out completely at the pleasure of the President. Washington *created it* out of whole cloth during his administration, and other presidents just ran with it. The cabinet heads really have no authority at all, except that which the president assigns to them.
And now you're going to make me read the high-numbered amendments to check whether the practice has been cemented in the constitution (I think it has), which would make it a case of the cabinet gaining authority over time, not losing it.
Hindenberg had Hydrogen instead of Helium because helium is a byproduct of natural gas production, of which the majority of the wells at the time (as well as now, IIRC) were in the US. A country which was anticipating a World War, and so was stockpiling precious Helium and restricting its sale for strategic reasons.
Now, funny story, as it turns out, there WAS a war, and the enemy WAS Germany, and NAVY reconnaissance blimps WERE effective anti-submarine platforms.
Neither do the Army and Navy. I know what you're getting at, but all of the branches fall under the Department of Defense. And although the Marines are a part of the Navy, they still get a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Yes, yes, we get it. You never understood Capitalism, OR Millsian ethics. OR even values-ethics. Therefore everyone who doesn't subscribe to your depressing view of an ideal world must be a sociopath. Congratulations, Mr. Marxannabe, on your ignorance, you've certainly taken it to an impressive level.
It is extremely unlikely that the greek text from which the bible you are using is translated used a word that translates to "threescore" in anything but a mathematical sense.
The actual American English translation used by the Catholic Church translates it as follows: Revelation 13:18: "Wisdom is needed here; one who understands can calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number that stands for a person. His number is six hundred and sixty-six."
That page also includes the explanation that it is likely a numerological way to obfuscate the name of the tyrant, Nero. who himself is used as a symbolic reference.
That's simply not true. The "can't get anywhere else bit." Also the "medium well" is a good steak bit.
If you're cooking your steak any more than medium rare (and NY strip should absolutely never be cooked more than that under any circumstances. It should be seared like tuna (which itself should be served completely raw...)) or pretending fillet mignon is a tasty cut, and/or using any quantity of A1 at all, you don't really like steak.
It's perfectly possible to construct a diet without meat which allows you to obtain all of the necessary nutrients. It's not as easy, but it's well researched.
Also, bos taurus has just about the least interesting meat of all of the animals you might like to consume. There's also nothing like ostrich, roast boar, venison, yellowtail, octopus, buffalo,... (and the list of animals I haven't tried yet is much longer...)
In 50 years, we will either be living on this planet or dead on this planet. Some of us may be living somewhere else at some point, but 50 years is incredibly optimistic.
"So you wouldn't consider investing in Power companies? Or Oil/Gas production companies? or telecoms? You're cutting out an awful lot of highly profitable and stable investment opportunities"
Power companies are a steady income, by virtue of their monopolies. But they're not particularly exciting, due to their cost+ style pricing.
Oil companies, post "windfall profits tax" would be a terrible investment.
Telecoms.. Well, a few seem to have done okay so far, but quite a few have failed completely. Did you bet on the right one?
Every industry is regulated. But that doesn't mean that all regulation is bearable. OR that bearable regulation doesn't affect investment patterns.
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This guy's been jumping out of planes with jet-powered wings for *years*.. to the point that the big story over a year ago was that the army was considering developing one to give air-dropped troops more flexibility. Supposedly the wings can hold like 200 lbs worth of gear in addition to the "pilot."
It'll be news again when he finally achieves his goal of taking off with just the wing. Not jumping out of a plane.
It has hovered on tether. I don't know about ground translation, but I imagine that would be easier to test. His device meets the bare minimum technical definition for "flying car" and "roadable airplane"
In other words, he has a *lot* more built than Terrafugia, but he's still perpetually four years away from selling anything.
Also, if the neat-o 3d images are anything to go by, they're going to have a hell of a time getting the bifold wings to fold through the tail booms.
Oh, come on now. Just about every music player functions like "tapedeck" but without the godawful "real device" skin. It's almost a 1:1 map with whatever winamp everyone was using in '99.
Tape players are easy to learn because there are only five functions. A monkey could figure it out by mashing keys, even without labels.
Blender will never suck as bad as GIMP; the developers are really trying. At least..they don't go out of their way to say things like, "No, you don't really want that." Instead they work hand-in-hand with various open-movie projects, and try to add features that are needed.
If the blender devs were doing GIMP, you'd have had CMYK and 16 bit per channel colors and 90% of the popular gripes a decade ago. Some of it would be hidden under a cryptic button on an initially non-intuitive dialog, but after months of using it, you'd swear that that was in the appropriate place.
Nope. Not even by Alanis' standards. A well-known plan succeeding once more is not, in any way, ironic.
There is no difference.. except that on the same machine, under windows I can create more complicated scenes than I can manipulate under linux.*
*They'll load, but they'll be so stutteringly slow that it is impossible to work with. Smaller scenes work fine. It's just that the limit of usability is smaller for me under linux.
I really don't think it's a blender issue per se.
You put in a ballistic parachute. They're common among experimental aircraft enthusiasts.
They're not practical for commercial airliners due to square/cube problems however economies of scale make other enhancements more practical in that regime.
And.. Oh, Terrafugia's design does call for one. Big surprise there. IOW, unless your regularly inspected and certified safety system fails, you're not going to die from poor maintenance in other areas, although if it's anything like skydiving, you might just lose your license for a period if negligence is the reason for parachute deployment.
True. And if you think Moller is cheating, what must you think of Terrafugia!
What even IS super unleaded gas? Is it gas whose lead content is "really, really low?" Or is it "premium" gas (which is actually an anti-knock formulation for poorly designed or aging vehicles, but labeled premium to make people think it's "better")?
Moller claims to get about 18 mpg on ethanol with his M400 volantor, despite it's seemingly fuel-hungry 8 engines. I think he's cheating, though, since he's only actually built a 2-passenger model, and he hasn't flown it off the tether yet, let alone FAA-certified production models.
Well.. certainly more math than you've demonstrated the capacity for...
Better than linux, in fact. At least, to this dabbler. I've tried it under my chosen linux distro (Ubuntu) and when I want to do anything more than rotating the starter-cube, I reboot into windows.
Granted that could be because my (now ancient) Radeon 9600 XT is not very well supported in Ubuntu, and the interface is a bit sluggish there on my machine compared to XP, even for non- complicated3dgraphicsfiddlingtasks, like web browsing. So I'm not ready to blame the blender team for its usability under linux on my computer. Especially as render-times are quite similar.
And if you live inside this mile-wide swath? What country are you part of, then?
I have two otherwise nearly identical Lexar Jumpdrives from between 6 and 8 years ago, one of which was purchased following the other one having spent some time in a pants pocket during which said pants were both washed and dried, and one of which is now pretty finnicky. But strangely, the good one is the one that went through the wash. If only I'd checked it before driving to Best Buy...
It is not the triangular sail (fore and aft rigging, really, regardless of sail shape) which allows you to travel up wind, but the keel.
Tacking is actually two-fluid sailing, which implies that you need a sail in both fluids (and, obviously, a velocity difference between them also). Of course, with the density of water, the wet-sail doesn't need to be nearly as large as the air-sail, and with small enough boats, the hull itself acts as a fairly inefficient keel.
You do need to be able to rotate the sails, but square-rigged vessels are perfectly capable of this, albeit not necessarily to the degree that a Bermuda-rigged sloop would be able to.
How is building a house in any way simpler than navigating a vast, mostly barren body of water?
In the US, the cabinet in the started out completely at the pleasure of the President. Washington *created it* out of whole cloth during his administration, and other presidents just ran with it. The cabinet heads really have no authority at all, except that which the president assigns to them.
And now you're going to make me read the high-numbered amendments to check whether the practice has been cemented in the constitution (I think it has), which would make it a case of the cabinet gaining authority over time, not losing it.
Uh.. Greed???
Hindenberg had Hydrogen instead of Helium because helium is a byproduct of natural gas production, of which the majority of the wells at the time (as well as now, IIRC) were in the US. A country which was anticipating a World War, and so was stockpiling precious Helium and restricting its sale for strategic reasons.
Now, funny story, as it turns out, there WAS a war, and the enemy WAS Germany, and NAVY reconnaissance blimps WERE effective anti-submarine platforms.
Yes, yes, we get it. You never understood Capitalism, OR Millsian ethics. OR even values-ethics. Therefore everyone who doesn't subscribe to your depressing view of an ideal world must be a sociopath. Congratulations, Mr. Marxannabe, on your ignorance, you've certainly taken it to an impressive level.
More like, trial balloon didn't blow over so well this time around.
It'll be back. Don't you worry. Just not this year.
It is extremely unlikely that the greek text from which the bible you are using is translated used a word that translates to "threescore" in anything but a mathematical sense.
The actual American English translation used by the Catholic Church translates it as follows: Revelation 13:18: "Wisdom is needed here; one who understands can calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number that stands for a person. His number is six hundred and sixty-six."
That page also includes the explanation that it is likely a numerological way to obfuscate the name of the tyrant, Nero. who himself is used as a symbolic reference.
That's simply not true. The "can't get anywhere else bit." Also the "medium well" is a good steak bit.
... (and the list of animals I haven't tried yet is much longer...)
If you're cooking your steak any more than medium rare (and NY strip should absolutely never be cooked more than that under any circumstances. It should be seared like tuna (which itself should be served completely raw...)) or pretending fillet mignon is a tasty cut, and/or using any quantity of A1 at all, you don't really like steak.
It's perfectly possible to construct a diet without meat which allows you to obtain all of the necessary nutrients. It's not as easy, but it's well researched.
Also, bos taurus has just about the least interesting meat of all of the animals you might like to consume. There's also nothing like ostrich, roast boar, venison, yellowtail, octopus, buffalo,
In 50 years, we will either be living on this planet or dead on this planet. Some of us may be living somewhere else at some point, but 50 years is incredibly optimistic.
"So you wouldn't consider investing in Power companies? Or Oil/Gas production companies? or telecoms? You're cutting out an awful lot of highly profitable and stable investment opportunities"
Power companies are a steady income, by virtue of their monopolies. But they're not particularly exciting, due to their cost+ style pricing.
Oil companies, post "windfall profits tax" would be a terrible investment.
Telecoms.. Well, a few seem to have done okay so far, but quite a few have failed completely. Did you bet on the right one?
Every industry is regulated. But that doesn't mean that all regulation is bearable. OR that bearable regulation doesn't affect investment patterns.