It's not just the director's salary...somebody, somewhere has taken the decision that students will die if they don't all have individual rooms with plasma TVs, 100Mb Internet connections, etc., plus en-suite sports facilities to rival those of many professional teams.
I bet if somebody was proposing use of dead badgers as psychic channels to guide fiscal policy you wouldn't be all "every viewpoint is valid!" and "let the voters decide".
Life is too short to listen to every viewpoint. Let's make a minimum of effort to weed out the idiots.
(And not pay them a salary to propose stuff like this...)
All Samsung needs now is to to make a bunch of clip-on square corners for their tablets and they'll be able to thumb their nose at Apple with impunity.
And... if the customers decide to customize their tablets by removing the corners that's none of Samsung's business.
This is the real problem - when a flywheel (or its mounting) fails the results are truly catastrophic.
If the wheel stays together then everything in the vicinity gets shredded.
If it doesn't then the shrapnel from the ex-wheel will take care of business. I don't know about your dust explosion but the thought of a million carbon shards traveling at armor-penetrating speeds is enough to put me off wanting one in every car on the road.
The real problem with flywheels is what happens in an accident. A whole lot of extra kinetic energy appears from nowhere and destroys everything in the vicinity.
Would you want a 100kg flywheel coming through your living-room window at 200,000 RPM?
If you're going to argue that that particular shape is radically different from dozens of others which came before it or that it's somehow not obvious or simply the next step from designs like the one below then you're an idiot.
eg. Take away this device's keyboard (which is needed because it's Windows and people expect to be able to do some work, not just 'browse') and it looks an awful lot like an iPad to me: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Tablet.jpg
Um, no...because a console's case has no 'function' other than to look exciting and stop people touching the innards.
A 'pad' computer has to have a touchscreen covering the top side of it. There's no choice about what the principal surface looks like - It's a screen. Period.
It has to be slim so the side walls are pretty much done. Maybe you can use a different color plastic, I dunno.
The back has to be flat and smooth so you can lay it down on things.
That's all sides covered methinks. The only real design choices are whether the corners are rounded and where the connectors go. I don't think Samsung copied Apple's connectors. Arguing about exactly how round the corners are isn't making anybody look intelligent.
Even then, this has no practical consequence whatsoever. If you want to compute the circumference of the galaxy, to accuracy such that your answer is off by less than a nanometer, you still need only ~100 digits of pi.
That assumes we know the radius of the galaxy to within a nanometer, which, ummm...we don't. Best estimates are more like "rounded to the nearest million light years".
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So what's the FBI "Library Awareness Program" all about then?
Yes, but the library would never use that information to try to sell you something
No... but they do alert the FBI if you take out any 'subversive' books.
And I think that's worse.
It's not just the director's salary...somebody, somewhere has taken the decision that students will die if they don't all have individual rooms with plasma TVs, 100Mb Internet connections, etc., plus en-suite sports facilities to rival those of many professional teams.
I thought the whole "war on...XXX" thing was a way to learn some geography.
Keep voting for candidates who are paid corporate lackeys, because the "free market" can't survive without government welfare/protection.
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Is there a candidate who isn't a paid corporate lackey?
It's becoming clearer every day... Obama was a wasted draft pick.
Problem is ... the other weasel wasn't any better.
I bet if somebody was proposing use of dead badgers as psychic channels to guide fiscal policy you wouldn't be all "every viewpoint is valid!" and "let the voters decide".
Life is too short to listen to every viewpoint. Let's make a minimum of effort to weed out the idiots.
(And not pay them a salary to propose stuff like this...)
It's not the actual proposal that bothers me, it's the complete lack of clue displayed by it.
If I'm paying somebody to do some thinking I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to be educated and in possession of a brain.
Yep. Why isn't he instantly being replaced with somebody who's got useful things on their mind?
Yep. Somebody needs to ask him why there aren't video cameras in politician's houses/offices so we can watch them and prevent corruption.
Lead us by example!
I googled her and there were no nude pictures. I think there's an easier way to boost her career than all this...
All Samsung needs now is to to make a bunch of clip-on square corners for their tablets and they'll be able to thumb their nose at Apple with impunity.
And ... if the customers decide to customize their tablets by removing the corners that's none of Samsung's business.
Humor. You don't have it.
Um, yeah. Isn't it easier to just go to google and type "Jessica Lange dresses" then to go through a whole 'select your celebrity' wizard.
They were walking around in front of it. Leads me to believe it's not particularly dangerous.
People used to go down to Vegas for the weekend to watch the atomic bombs going off...
This is the real problem - when a flywheel (or its mounting) fails the results are truly catastrophic.
If the wheel stays together then everything in the vicinity gets shredded.
If it doesn't then the shrapnel from the ex-wheel will take care of business. I don't know about your dust explosion but the thought of a million carbon shards traveling at armor-penetrating speeds is enough to put me off wanting one in every car on the road.
The real problem with flywheels is what happens in an accident. A whole lot of extra kinetic energy appears from nowhere and destroys everything in the vicinity.
Would you want a 100kg flywheel coming through your living-room window at 200,000 RPM?
Didn't think so.
Maybe if you actually read the patent and had some imagination
Maybe if you'd read the 'patent' you'd know, it, ummmm, isn't a patent.
It's a registered design that's being disputed, ie. the shape.
Here it is: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61944044/Community-Design-000181607-0001
If you're going to argue that that particular shape is radically different from dozens of others which came before it or that it's somehow not obvious or simply the next step from designs like the one below then you're an idiot.
eg. Take away this device's keyboard (which is needed because it's Windows and people expect to be able to do some work, not just 'browse') and it looks an awful lot like an iPad to me: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Tablet.jpg
Note date of that photo: 2006
Um, no...because a console's case has no 'function' other than to look exciting and stop people touching the innards.
A 'pad' computer has to have a touchscreen covering the top side of it. There's no choice about what the principal surface looks like - It's a screen. Period.
It has to be slim so the side walls are pretty much done. Maybe you can use a different color plastic, I dunno.
The back has to be flat and smooth so you can lay it down on things.
That's all sides covered methinks. The only real design choices are whether the corners are rounded and where the connectors go. I don't think Samsung copied Apple's connectors. Arguing about exactly how round the corners are isn't making anybody look intelligent.
The best part is: The iPad does still have one button on it but it's not shown in the registered design...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/61944044/Community-Design-000181607-0001
And what you don't get is that "form follows function". All tablet designers were headed in that direction:
eg.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/samsungpictureframe.jpg
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Tablet.jpg
To help prevent STDs when the choirboys are being blessed by more then one priest.
Even then, this has no practical consequence whatsoever. If you want to compute the circumference of the galaxy, to accuracy such that your answer is off by less than a nanometer, you still need only ~100 digits of pi.
That assumes we know the radius of the galaxy to within a nanometer, which, ummm...we don't. Best estimates are more like "rounded to the nearest million light years".
Oh, also it is a bacterium. Dunno why you thought otherwise.
Maybe because the article summary says "virus".
How a four line summary can make so many fundamental mistakes is another matter...
PS: Is that even an iPad? Where's the button?
The difference is much like the difference between a Chevy Impala and a Fiero as a Ferrarri kit car.
Have you actually seen the 'design' this court case is revolving around?
Here ya go: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61944044/Community-Design-000181607-0001
A pencil sketch of a rectangle with rounded corners and a square drawn on the front.
Yeah, that could only have been done by an utter design genius.