If this guy is literally the only guy who can build these things....
If real physics is happening then people will be able to understand it.
OTOH I'll bet you $1000 that it isn't...
How do I know? Just from the way he's presenting his little show. Once you've seen a dozen of them then you start to notice a pattern.
During the big presentation there'll be "unexpected difficulties" due to some bullshit reason (fluorescent lights?). After that he'll go away and make excuses for a month or so. In a couple of years he'll reappear and do it all over again.
Scenario 1: You are standing fifty feet from a railroad track for a high speed train. You try to hit the engine with a baseball as it comes by at 150 miles per hour. You are unlikely to succeed.
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That's because baseballs travel slowly and they're only a single particle.
If you had a baseball hosepipe which fired 100 baseballs a second I bet you could hit it easily. Blindfold, even.
Similarly, if you've ever pointed a decent green laser at the sky you'd know that hitting a plane is easy.
What is to stop people from simply purchasing a $50 DVD burner, removing the laser mechanism, providing a power source and appropriate optics for the required application?
You really think the morons being discussed are going to do that?
Does anybody know why Israel gets an entry in the Eurovision Song Contest?
PS: America had spelling reform in the 1800s to try and clean up the godawful mess that was (is) British Spelling. That's where the difference comes from, not because they're illiterate oafs.
None of these lawsuits should be surprising to people who've been paying attention. It's always been part of the iPhone business plan. See 7:36 in this video.
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That's not even the same scam as this one...
I'm hoping it's true just so all Americans will be forced to drive electric cars.
If this guy is literally the only guy who can build these things....
If real physics is happening then people will be able to understand it.
OTOH I'll bet you $1000 that it isn't...
How do I know? Just from the way he's presenting his little show. Once you've seen a dozen of them then you start to notice a pattern.
During the big presentation there'll be "unexpected difficulties" due to some bullshit reason (fluorescent lights?). After that he'll go away and make excuses for a month or so. In a couple of years he'll reappear and do it all over again.
$1000 on it ... any takers?
The thing is ... when you submit a paper for peer review you're supposed to have experimental data, reproducible results, etc.
If your data and results are good then it will pass peer review. Even if it doesn't ... no big deal, the truth will always come out.
ie. No big scientific breakthrough will be lost because of peer review. Peer review only weeds out the frauds/deluded.
You know how I can tell you've never had a laser pointer pointed at you...?
In many countries commercial jets are required by lawto make at least one auto-landing per month. They lose their flight certification if they don't.
Yes, but:
a) The cheapo lasers are getting better all the time
b) The morons ARE pointing them at aircraft.
A better question to ask yourself rather than calculating nanowatts is this: "Would you be 100% happy if you were a passenger on that plane?"
Unless you're in dense fog, the beam itself is invisible.
Why did you bother posting if you've never even held/seen a laser pointer...?
Scenario 1: You are standing fifty feet from a railroad track for a high speed train. You try to hit the engine with a baseball as it comes by at 150 miles per hour. You are unlikely to succeed.
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That's because baseballs travel slowly and they're only a single particle.
If you had a baseball hosepipe which fired 100 baseballs a second I bet you could hit it easily. Blindfold, even.
Similarly, if you've ever pointed a decent green laser at the sky you'd know that hitting a plane is easy.
What is to stop people from simply purchasing a $50 DVD burner, removing the laser mechanism, providing a power source and appropriate optics for the required application?
You really think the morons being discussed are going to do that?
Obviously you need to get yourself a 1W laser so you can retaliate...
I'd think it'd be pretty hard to accurately aim a laser pointer at a moving aircraft. I'm surprised it's such an issue.
Didn't they start adding lasers to guns to make them easier to aim?
It only takes a millisecond to dazzle somebody with a laser. Get it somewhere close for a few seconds and the pilot is bound to get an eyeful.
(and with cheap lasers now in the hundreds-of-milliwatts range it only takes a millisecond to permanently damage his eye)
Apple is being two-faced no matter what you call it.
I thought "ax" was gang-speak for "ask"?
"Lemme ax you a question, dog..."
(or something like that)
Yeah and they mostly did a good job
I agree. I was brought up on British spelling but I've switched to American now I'm older.
British spelling looks all French to me these days. "Colour"? Yuck.
Does anybody know why Israel gets an entry in the Eurovision Song Contest?
PS: America had spelling reform in the 1800s to try and clean up the godawful mess that was (is) British Spelling. That's where the difference comes from, not because they're illiterate oafs.
2. Stealing involves taking something and making it your own; the original owner is left with nothing.
Ummm, not when you're stealing ideas.
Steve Jobs' next line in the video is: "Apple has always been shameless about stealing ideas"
Apple had a few years advantage, too...
Video is here.
HTML? How does that work?
Me? Nah, I'm just asking the fanbois.
None of these lawsuits should be surprising to people who've been paying attention. It's always been part of the iPhone business plan. See 7:36 in this video.
Contrast with this
Yeah, what happened to Apples "People are prepared to pay more for quality, and we're the best" philosophy.
It's because they employ a lot of very smart, creative people.
Seconded!
I've just been reading some of the early ones and it's incredible stuff...
Windows 7 has a built-in RAM diagnostic...
Yeah.. Big pharma is all about 'science'.
My first thought: "Why? If the girls haven't got it then most of the boys won't get it either..."
My second thought: "I guess somebody's getting a cut of the action..."