Yep, and if you can charge it at home then you actually eliminate all those trips to the gas station. How would anybody not want that?
If roadside cafes and/or mall parking lots with chargers become common, the only remaining problem would be the price. We all know what happens to the price of high-tech stuff...
When one of the founders bails you know the ship is sinking.
That's what he hopes people will think.
a) Everybody dumps their shares, share price plummets b) He buys back his shares, dirt cheap. c) RIM makes Apple-killing product announcement d) Profit!!
Radar is already secondary. Most information these days comes from GPS transponders on the aircraft, not radar. It's plotted on a radar screen but that's not where the info came from.
um.. we have about 50 channels or so on broadcast TV now and countless bullshit channels
And program quality has dropped down to Anerican levels, yes. The relationbetween program quality and number of channels has again been proven to be inversely proportional.
Worse, the BBC is now in a deep financial crisis from having to fill up multiple channels instead of just two, quality ones.
+100. Any Office program, any browser, anything else with embeddable content: the developer should default programmed content OFF until the user manually turns it on.
Which they will (all the virus has to do is promise them Britney Bewbs or whatever...)
I'm having trouble believing the "16g" part of this story.
a) It doesn't seem possible - equivalent civilian 'copters with smaller batteries weigh 30-40g.
b) Even if it's possible, why bother? They claim it's "to make it easy for troops to carry" but an extra 30g isn't going to break anybody's back (plus the controller looks like it weighs a kilo...)
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every few years I need to drive to somewhere odd that would be outside that range, and not knowing if I will be able to recharge would be a worry.
Rental?
Yep, and if you can charge it at home then you actually eliminate all those trips to the gas station. How would anybody not want that?
If roadside cafes and/or mall parking lots with chargers become common, the only remaining problem would be the price. We all know what happens to the price of high-tech stuff...
a) People also read about Ferraris, even though they'll never own one.
b) This sort of tech is what most people will be driving a few years from now.
Based on a sample size of two?
"Godwin"...
"Goodwin!" sounds like "good win!"
When one of the founders bails you know the ship is sinking.
That's what he hopes people will think.
a) Everybody dumps their shares, share price plummets
b) He buys back his shares, dirt cheap.
c) RIM makes Apple-killing product announcement
d) Profit!!
Maybe for some ideal chemicals but gasoline engines are very inefficient (just look at how much cooling they need...)
Maybe in an American state with a high percentage of trailer trash, yes.
Down in Mexico (for example), not so much...
That's the way it works for some of them, yes...
Others? Not so much.
Airport radar systems can fail, too.
Maybe you'd better call them and express your concerns...
Radar is already secondary. Most information these days comes from GPS transponders on the aircraft, not radar. It's plotted on a radar screen but that's not where the info came from.
um.. we have about 50 channels or so on broadcast TV now and countless bullshit channels
And program quality has dropped down to Anerican levels, yes. The relationbetween program quality and number of channels has again been proven to be inversely proportional.
Worse, the BBC is now in a deep financial crisis from having to fill up multiple channels instead of just two, quality ones.
It works for detecting stealth fighters over Iran, it should certainly work for non-stealth commercial aircraft.
What's a 'said'? What did it do?
fracking / fræk*ing
1. The number two contributor to global warming in the U.S.
2. The leading cause of throw-downs on Battlestar Galactica.
It was a video game long before either of those two.
+100. Any Office program, any browser, anything else with embeddable content: the developer should default programmed content OFF until the user manually turns it on.
Which they will (all the virus has to do is promise them Britney Bewbs or whatever...)
Try google...
Is it a "Smear Campaign" if it's true?
It's pot+kettle. You really think Microsoft doesn't do the same with hotmail?
Their followers, however...will be outraged that the USA has less of something (anything!) than some other country.
I'm having trouble believing the "16g" part of this story.
a) It doesn't seem possible - equivalent civilian 'copters with smaller batteries weigh 30-40g.
b) Even if it's possible, why bother? They claim it's "to make it easy for troops to carry" but an extra 30g isn't going to break anybody's back (plus the controller looks like it weighs a kilo...)
You can get most of that on a top-end $100 civilian model, available in most toy shops.
Add $50 for a miniature GPS receiver and a few hundred for a super high tech 30-minute battery. The rest is mostly software.
Help me out here, I'm having trouble figuring out where all the millions went.
If only there was a civilian product they could have used as a starting point for development. Oh, wait..
+1 insightful.
These toys will be worn out/broken long before they ever reach the battlefield.
The actual price of these things should fall dramatically over the next year or so as they get rolled out.
You don't know much about military contracting, do you?
That's not the point. The point is that my local toy store sells something very similar for £16.