Not a good world for pirates these days, I'm afraid.
All this legislation crap would take all of the fun out of it. You wouldn't have '15 men on dead man's chest', you'd have a dozen lawyers. Just not the same.
Waste to Power Generators produce heavy polution. Even if they do create 5000mwh it is hardly ever worth building. Better to use a few city ordinances to keep waste managed. And then build a nuclear power plant, fucking 16,000mwh for only 40grand hell yes.
Must be either too early in the morning or too late at night for you.
Heavy pollution? Exactly why? This (according to TFA) is a catalytic cracking system that appears to work on 'organic' (ie, hydrocarbon) waste. While I am sure that there are various and sundry heavy metals, annoyingly stable but biologically reactive chemicals and perhaps even the occasional radioactive compound in the organic waste, it doesn't appear like this process grinds up laptops and burns them.
And a 16 MW nuclear reactor for $40,000??? That's some really, really good stuff you're smoking there. No fair.
The reason the tablets we've had since the 90's never really caught on was because they didn't do enough beyond what a notebook did to justify the difference in price.
Yet well before the iPad was this company which took your Apple laptop and made a tablet out of it. They have been around for a while so there must have already been a market for high priced tablets.
And Axiotron is doing how well? Not very. They're barely creeping along. Interesting you mention them however - their primary customers are arsty fartsy types who utilize the fact that they've married a Wacom tablet to a MacBook. Not many Enterprise users, I'll warrant. They're trying to develop a MacBook Pro based unit and their promo literature hints at expanded uses in business setting, but I don't even think the product is shipping.
Just a guess - you're not the target market. How about an 79 year old woman with bad hands, bad eyes and not much computer savvy?
That's my mother - who, after years of trying every single computerized gizmo that my brother and gave her (and failing rather dramatically) has fallen in love with her iPad. As have her neighbors at her Assisted Living place. We gave her the iPad a couple of months ago - I just visited the place and now there are perhaps a dozen of the things crawling around the place. The old folks are browsing the web, playing Mah jong, doing email and all those other fancy things (the home has a nice wireless setup). They're perfect for people that can't handle a 'real' computer and don't want / need a smartphone. The bigger screen is a big deal for some folks.
There are more things in heaven and earth, jhigh, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. The fact that Apple has sold millions of these things indicates that they know a teensy bit more about the market than you (or the rest of your rather narrow minded ilk) do.
The only real problem I can see is in an environment like the SoCal desert, where the soil pH is extremely high, and also very high in calcium salts. Seems to me you'd have to do a test-run to make sure you didn't get a runaway effect in such soils, for applications where cracks in the concrete extend all the way through.
Yes, one has to be careful of the Ice-Nine effect. We wouldn't want the entire planet to be concrete, would we?
How about when you're standing in the middle of a large outdoor event and 30,000 people all get a serious warning message all at once? Does panic stampede sounds as cool?
I vote for watching the traffic cams on an LA freeway. Micheal Bay wouldn't be able to touch it.
It would be a big thing if someone created anti-copper AND it didn't behave exactly like copper when supplied with an anti-potential from an anti-battery.
Would anti-physicists finally get the polarity correct on the anti-battery or would it still be backwards?
Y'all realize that 'Russia' (a fairly vague term covering a lot of territory, people and ideologies) and Israel have close ties, both personally and militarily.
It could very easily be both. FWIW, it's pretty clear to me that Israel is at least one of the actors in this play. Possibly the US - although I doubt it - we want things to go smoothly along our timeline and we have to sort of play nice with Iran (while having public hissy fits).
This. *THIS* is how WWIII will get started IMHO. We will go from DEFCON 5 to 1 in a hurry!
Time for your medication! And no more Rush for you, it upsets your delicate constitution. Sooner or later, somebody is going to detonate a lone nuclear weapon somewhere in the world as a terrorist act.
And aside from the outpouring of Love, the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, not much else will happen. Sure, we might go to a higher alert stage, but that doesn't mean that Col. Jack Ripper gets to start WWIII.
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Agree. Solid rocket boosters are only suitable for applications where killing people is a design goal.
Sure, and the escape motors in every ejection seat ever made would like to have a chat with you.
Not a good world for pirates these days, I'm afraid.
All this legislation crap would take all of the fun out of it. You wouldn't have '15 men on dead man's chest', you'd have a dozen lawyers. Just not the same.
Cool. They've managed to get the Shuttle up to geosynchronous orbit. Did they put Bruce Willis aboard?
Whatever floats your boat, dude. I mean, really, knock yourself out.
Crappy TFA site sports pernicious popups.
It does? You must be doing it wrong.
Screw the pony.
Yeah... I wish you had a girlfriend.
Well, your sexual preferences are your own issue. My wife, however, would certainly take issue to the girlfriend.
Being involved with more than one woman at a time is fucking insane. Literally and figuratively.
Of course the government is doing its very best to manufacture domestic terrorists so at some point you must assume that they will be successful.
Not to worry then. We can't manufacture anything these days. We'll have to outsource it.
Ahh, I knew it wasn't real.
Waste to Power Generators produce heavy polution. Even if they do create 5000mwh it is hardly ever worth building. Better to use a few city ordinances to keep waste managed. And then build a nuclear power plant, fucking 16,000mwh for only 40grand hell yes.
Must be either too early in the morning or too late at night for you.
Heavy pollution? Exactly why? This (according to TFA) is a catalytic cracking system that appears to work on 'organic' (ie, hydrocarbon) waste. While I am sure that there are various and sundry heavy metals, annoyingly stable but biologically reactive chemicals and perhaps even the occasional radioactive compound in the organic waste, it doesn't appear like this process grinds up laptops and burns them.
And a 16 MW nuclear reactor for $40,000??? That's some really, really good stuff you're smoking there. No fair.
I wish I had a Pony...
It would work well here in Minnesota durring the 5 months of winter
No No No! It's infrared! It would melt everything. Besides, it would likely exacerbate Global Warming.
The reason the tablets we've had since the 90's never really caught on was because they didn't do enough beyond what a notebook did to justify the difference in price.
Yet well before the iPad was this company which took your Apple laptop and made a tablet out of it. They have been around for a while so there must have already been a market for high priced tablets.
And Axiotron is doing how well? Not very. They're barely creeping along. Interesting you mention them however - their primary customers are arsty fartsy types who utilize the fact that they've married a Wacom tablet to a MacBook. Not many Enterprise users, I'll warrant. They're trying to develop a MacBook Pro based unit and their promo literature hints at expanded uses in business setting, but I don't even think the product is shipping.
Just a guess - you're not the target market. How about an 79 year old woman with bad hands, bad eyes and not much computer savvy?
That's my mother - who, after years of trying every single computerized gizmo that my brother and gave her (and failing rather dramatically) has fallen in love with her iPad. As have her neighbors at her Assisted Living place. We gave her the iPad a couple of months ago - I just visited the place and now there are perhaps a dozen of the things crawling around the place. The old folks are browsing the web, playing Mah jong, doing email and all those other fancy things (the home has a nice wireless setup). They're perfect for people that can't handle a 'real' computer and don't want / need a smartphone. The bigger screen is a big deal for some folks.
There are more things in heaven and earth, jhigh, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. The fact that Apple has sold millions of these things indicates that they know a teensy bit more about the market than you (or the rest of your rather narrow minded ilk) do.
seems like there's a problem in that logic that I can't quite put my finger on.
That's cuz you're just rushing around. Slow down a bit. In fact, slow down a hell of a lot...
it's a nasty place, hot and wet.
Sounds kinda interesting to me.
You have paid the price for your lack of vision.
The only real problem I can see is in an environment like the SoCal desert, where the soil pH is extremely high, and also very high in calcium salts. Seems to me you'd have to do a test-run to make sure you didn't get a runaway effect in such soils, for applications where cracks in the concrete extend all the way through.
Yes, one has to be careful of the Ice-Nine effect. We wouldn't want the entire planet to be concrete, would we?
Ah, thank you. A real article. Not some chopped up incoherently distilled PR release written by a first year Liberal Arts major....
Now, to figure out just what the hell it means.
How about when you're standing in the middle of a large outdoor event and 30,000 people all get a serious warning message all at once? Does panic stampede sounds as cool?
I vote for watching the traffic cams on an LA freeway. Micheal Bay wouldn't be able to touch it.
This is an idea so horribly annoying, I'm surprised it hasn't been done sooner.
Yeah! Another Bad Attitude! FWIW, I agree with your entire rant.
The rest of you get off our lawn.
It would be a big thing if someone created anti-copper AND it didn't behave exactly like copper when supplied with an anti-potential from an anti-battery.
Would anti-physicists finally get the polarity correct on the anti-battery or would it still be backwards?
Or just post it on the Internet?
I can. What I can't believe is that apple phones aren't required equipment in S&M parlors yet.
It's the crappy battery technology. A few shocks and that's the end of the iSM session until recharge.
And I don't think they work well with the leather gloves.
These, of course, are just uneducated guesses. No firsthand knowledge at all.
Y'all realize that 'Russia' (a fairly vague term covering a lot of territory, people and ideologies) and Israel have close ties, both personally and militarily.
It could very easily be both. FWIW, it's pretty clear to me that Israel is at least one of the actors in this play. Possibly the US - although I doubt it - we want things to go smoothly along our timeline and we have to sort of play nice with Iran (while having public hissy fits).
This. *THIS* is how WWIII will get started IMHO. We will go from DEFCON 5 to 1 in a hurry!
Time for your medication! And no more Rush for you, it upsets your delicate constitution. Sooner or later, somebody is going to detonate a lone nuclear weapon somewhere in the world as a terrorist act.
And aside from the outpouring of Love, the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, not much else will happen. Sure, we might go to a higher alert stage, but that doesn't mean that Col. Jack Ripper gets to start WWIII.
Simmer down dude.