Considering 95% of all tablets in the wild (meaning the iPad) have no SD Card, having a card reader in a tablet is still somewhat of a novelty. How Apple gets away with that kind of thing I'll never know.
Apparently because that something like 95% of people in the market for a tablet don't feel like they need an SD slot? Just guessing.
Perhaps Microsoft should investigate why people are still using XP and haven't upgraded. The new Linux distributions are much nicer in many ways (I've been using Linux since 1998 in the server, on the desktop, and sometimes the laptop), so people want to upgrade. Why don't people want to upgrade to 7?
Perhaps because the vendor of THE mission critical software package hasn't upgraded the software to run under 7. Even in the compatibility mode? Not every bit of Windows software is for word processing, spreadsheet manipulation or virus accumulation.
bullshit. bullshit. who cares about whether or not it gets updates? it doesn't matter in the least when it comes to who owns the software. Linux belongs to the people!
Son, you might want to quit sprinkling so much sugar on the Froot Loops next time.
Bulk up the fleet with a cheaper plane that can do 99% of what our air forces need to do, and then keep a smaller number of F-22's ready for if we really do end up going to war with another superpower.
The cheaper and more sensible way to do this would be to just keep the F16 / F18 fighters on an upgrade and replace cycle. They're still better than pretty much anything else out there. Christ, we're still flying C-130's. Sometimes enough is enough.
I'm definitely courting the trolls on this one, but for that "cheating spouse" angle, do they have the Accelerometer data too?
You sir, have some seriously weird sexual peccadilloes - seeking out conjugal visits with large, not particularly sexy, imaginary creatures while wearing your iPhone during the act.
The PDF is a very interesting read. If nothing else it reinforces the issue that it's all in the details. Little details. Annoying little details. Everyone who thinks that doing something in space is "easy" from the viewpoint of technology, everybody who thinks that "they just look like Apollo - boring" should read TFA.
But if we don't then the OTHER half of the Slashdot readership complains about slow responses, timeouts and the smoke coming from the server. This is a hard crowd you're running with here.
Counterexample: Cable modems work fine without an antenna.
So does my bicycle, but that doesn't have much to do with devices with radios. Radio frequency receivers need something to pick up the radio waves, hence the antenna. The signal from a cable modem comes from, wait for it, a cable. While one can start down the road to pedantry by pointing out that electronic cables can and do act as antennas we will, for the purposes of this discussion, ignore that.
The same cost when oil was easy to find, and extract. Hell most of the profitable coal mines in the world are sitting with no use.
Right Coal gasification is easy, simple and low energy. Because crude oil prices running at 100 dollars a gallon you're seeing bunches of coal gasification plants come on line.
Go run around the Oil Drum for a bit and wrap yourself around the concept of EROEI (Energy Return On Energy Invested). It's a crucial concept for synfuels, biofuels and other similar ideas.
You could easily make a drilling guide that can zip along a length of square material. Think of couple of clamps and rollers or slides. The problem will be drilling lots of holes (if that's what you're thinking about). Drilling is 'expensive' in terms of energy and materials if you do it in bulk unless you use a soft material like aluminum as vlm points out. That has it's own set of advantages or disadvantages.
Sounds like you're envisioning a 'pipe clamp' type system that people use for temporary scaffolding. That uses round material (duh) which is considerably stronger (which may or may not be important). The clamps are reuseable. The commercial kits are quite expensive since they are designed to be high use / high strength systems but you could easily come up with a lighter duty design if that fits your engineering parameters.
I think your eventual problem is that it is going to be hard to compete with dimensional lumber and screws. That's about as cheap and easy as you can get. You can backpack in a small lumber cutting kit (chainsaw based). You can buy bulk construction screws for pennies.
My fear is that Silicon Valley has become more like Hollywood," says Glenn Kelman, chief executive officer of online real estate brokerage Redfin, who has been a software executive for 20 years. "An entertainment-oriented, hit-driven business that doesn't fundamentally increase American competitiveness
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But I did forget to thank you for the link. It's in there as you mention. Just in econbabble.
Right. If I wanted to read that gobblydegook I'd subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. How about English? Or at least, an automobile analogy.
I rather agree, but the marketing numbers seem to indicate that few people are buying laptops these days and nobody is buying desktops.
It appears to be iPhones, all the way down.
Considering 95% of all tablets in the wild (meaning the iPad) have no SD Card, having a card reader in a tablet is still somewhat of a novelty. How Apple gets away with that kind of thing I'll never know.
Apparently because that something like 95% of people in the market for a tablet don't feel like they need an SD slot? Just guessing.
A remarkable bit of sleuthing from a Windows blog. Any evidence for this particular factoid?
Perhaps Microsoft should investigate why people are still using XP and haven't upgraded. The new Linux distributions are much nicer in many ways (I've been using Linux since 1998 in the server, on the desktop, and sometimes the laptop), so people want to upgrade. Why don't people want to upgrade to 7?
Perhaps because the vendor of THE mission critical software package hasn't upgraded the software to run under 7. Even in the compatibility mode? Not every bit of Windows software is for word processing, spreadsheet manipulation or virus accumulation.
bullshit. bullshit. who cares about whether or not it gets updates? it doesn't matter in the least when it comes to who owns the software. Linux belongs to the people!
Son, you might want to quit sprinkling so much sugar on the Froot Loops next time.
Bulk up the fleet with a cheaper plane that can do 99% of what our air forces need to do, and then keep a smaller number of F-22's ready for if we really do end up going to war with another superpower.
The cheaper and more sensible way to do this would be to just keep the F16 / F18 fighters on an upgrade and replace cycle. They're still better than pretty much anything else out there. Christ, we're still flying C-130's. Sometimes enough is enough.
I'm definitely courting the trolls on this one, but for that "cheating spouse" angle, do they have the Accelerometer data too?
You sir, have some seriously weird sexual peccadilloes - seeking out conjugal visits with large, not particularly sexy, imaginary creatures while wearing your iPhone during the act.
Do.Not.Want.
Hurray, networks and computers full of no USEFUL information!
Could be useful for Facebook and Twitter.
But 'euphemism' is too hard to pronounce or spell. It makes you talk like a fag and your shit gets all retarded.
They must like a challenge.
Remember, you're talking about the same general group of people that named a pixel editor "GIMP".
Challenge doesn't even begin to cover the concept.
Probably not CET, it's already 2117 here in Budapest...
Do you have jetpacks yet?
Yeah, Six tabs and no Photoshop (or Maya or 3DS or Final Cut or $3D_Graphics or $Video application). Some software really does push hardware limits.
The PDF is a very interesting read. If nothing else it reinforces the issue that it's all in the details. Little details. Annoying little details. Everyone who thinks that doing something in space is "easy" from the viewpoint of technology, everybody who thinks that "they just look like Apollo - boring" should read TFA.
It's called Rocket Science for a reason.
What is this "side mount escape system" that they're going on about?
A window with a handle. Think "Emergency Exit Row".
But if we don't then the OTHER half of the Slashdot readership complains about slow responses, timeouts and the smoke coming from the server. This is a hard crowd you're running with here.
Counterexample: Cable modems work fine without an antenna.
So does my bicycle, but that doesn't have much to do with devices with radios. Radio frequency receivers need something to pick up the radio waves, hence the antenna. The signal from a cable modem comes from, wait for it, a cable. While one can start down the road to pedantry by pointing out that electronic cables can and do act as antennas we will, for the purposes of this discussion, ignore that.
The same cost when oil was easy to find, and extract. Hell most of the profitable coal mines in the world are sitting with no use.
Right Coal gasification is easy, simple and low energy. Because crude oil prices running at 100 dollars a gallon you're seeing bunches of coal gasification plants come on line.
Go run around the Oil Drum for a bit and wrap yourself around the concept of EROEI (Energy Return On Energy Invested). It's a crucial concept for synfuels, biofuels and other similar ideas.
You could easily make a drilling guide that can zip along a length of square material. Think of couple of clamps and rollers or slides. The problem will be drilling lots of holes (if that's what you're thinking about). Drilling is 'expensive' in terms of energy and materials if you do it in bulk unless you use a soft material like aluminum as vlm points out. That has it's own set of advantages or disadvantages.
Sounds like you're envisioning a 'pipe clamp' type system that people use for temporary scaffolding. That uses round material (duh) which is considerably stronger (which may or may not be important). The clamps are reuseable. The commercial kits are quite expensive since they are designed to be high use / high strength systems but you could easily come up with a lighter duty design if that fits your engineering parameters.
I think your eventual problem is that it is going to be hard to compete with dimensional lumber and screws. That's about as cheap and easy as you can get. You can backpack in a small lumber cutting kit (chainsaw based). You can buy bulk construction screws for pennies.
Boy are you in the wrong place.
My fear is that Silicon Valley has become more like Hollywood," says Glenn Kelman, chief executive officer of online real estate brokerage Redfin, who has been a software executive for 20 years. "An entertainment-oriented, hit-driven business that doesn't fundamentally increase American competitiveness
Movies. Microcode. Pizza Delivery.
I only get my Facebook account with a small selection of what interests me and who I have befriended publicly. Hardly my "entire life." :S
The sad thing is that for the rest of us that is our entire life.
Can I plug the battery in to my tin foil hat directly, or will I need some sort of adapter?
This would seem to be a classic call for duct tape.
Sorry, on the insides, we're all pink.
Don't go reading too much into that statement, though.