...doing 400 kph the entire time (and it can't be, right?)
Well, technically it could... but good luck finding a suitable road.
I don't see what Tesla's problem is. If you can thrash the hell out of a Tesla Roadster for 55 miles then I'd say that's pretty good for an electric car. Every over car ever built also gets low mileage if you thrash it, why should theirs be any different?
Yep. If Tesla is right then they could lend Top Gear another car for a couple of days to test in front of a crowd of reporters and let the Pesky Facts(tm) speak for themselves.
You wouldn't even need to go in a circle. Mankind will have populated the entire galaxy by the time you drop out of light speed.
By this same logic we can also know for certain that traveling backwards in time is impossible. If it were possible then the first time machine would have been 'invented' shortly after the big bang, ie. somebody would use their machine to travel back there so they could claim to be the inventor of time travel.
Because it's smaller, lighter and much easier to carry around?
If netbooks have a problem its because the manufacturers started trying to make them into mini laptops. Why does a netbook need a 320Gb hard disk, etc? Concentrate on size and battery life instead.
The really great thing is that the free version has less lock-in than the expensive ones. If you're just coding portable C++ you should look into it - the VC++ compiler and IDE are about as good as it gets on any platform.
Why does charging money for something make a company "evil"?
Evil is when they sue you, install viruses on your PC without asking, make CDs that won't play on PCs, try to lock you in to their products at every turn (eg. memory sticks), use proprietary connectors everywhere, overcharge for replacement batteries, etc. It's all in a days work at SONY.
The reason that materials with half lives of 200k years last so long is because they don't emit much radiation, i.e. they're relatively safe to work with (unless they're poisonous).
The ones you need to worry about are the ones which are decaying rapidly, i.e. the ones with short half-lives.
Yawn, come back when there's something other than "may"
On the one hand we've got the whole of established physics (electromagnetic waves produced by cell phones aren't ionizing). On the other a bunch of self-interested scaremongers who only want to sell books/articles.
Yes, cell phones can heat you up a tiny amount but going outside in the sunshine or doing some exercise heats you up orders of magnitude more and they're both considered healthy by the exact same scaremongers.
The coal reactors solved their "nuclear waste" problem by slowly releasing it into the air. Nobody seems to be in a panic over that, can't nuclear power stations do the same?
Or... maybe we could build some of those new-fangled breeder reactors which gobble up their own waste.
The thing that mostly makes them expensive is the ten years of approval process and the five years of meetings you have to have with the NIMBYs to eventually get to build one.
The only way to convince investors to sign up for all that crap is to promise them a massive return on their money, ie. the debt repayment ends up costing you an order of magnitude more than the sum of the materials/labor needed to actually build it. See Economics of Nuclear Power Plants
Still, you could be supplying the entire country with cheap energy for less than the cost of the banking bailout. Imagine what that could do for the economy...(as opposed to giving the bankers a taste for free money which will just make them do it all over again).
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...doing 400 kph the entire time (and it can't be, right?)
Well, technically it could ... but good luck finding a suitable road.
I don't see what Tesla's problem is. If you can thrash the hell out of a Tesla Roadster for 55 miles then I'd say that's pretty good for an electric car. Every over car ever built also gets low mileage if you thrash it, why should theirs be any different?
Yep. If Tesla is right then they could lend Top Gear another car for a couple of days to test in front of a crowd of reporters and let the Pesky Facts(tm) speak for themselves.
... the breaks had failed.
"Brakes".
The word is "brakes".
You wouldn't even need to go in a circle. Mankind will have populated the entire galaxy by the time you drop out of light speed.
By this same logic we can also know for certain that traveling backwards in time is impossible. If it were possible then the first time machine would have been 'invented' shortly after the big bang, ie. somebody would use their machine to travel back there so they could claim to be the inventor of time travel.
If I was writing a trojan to hack RSA I wouldn't send the CEO an email saying exactly what was compromised.
In fact I'd try to leave as few traces and as many doubts as possible.
You don't put background music in the spreadsheets you email to people? Weird. Numbers are so boring without some Slipknot playing.
I'm sure Microsoft would *never* use their dominance in other things to try and sneak the Bing toolbar into your machine, right?
Oh, wait ... they've added it to everything in sight! Everything you could possible download and install from Microsoft will try to sneak it past you.
Um, I think those came *before* the tablet...
Because it's smaller, lighter and much easier to carry around?
If netbooks have a problem its because the manufacturers started trying to make them into mini laptops. Why does a netbook need a 320Gb hard disk, etc? Concentrate on size and battery life instead.
Did netbooks go somewhere...?
Last time I looked the shops were full of them
The really great thing is that the free version has less lock-in than the expensive ones. If you're just coding portable C++ you should look into it - the VC++ compiler and IDE are about as good as it gets on any platform.
Visual Studio is mostly a free download these days...you lock-in doesn't cost a penny.
"Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time" - Bill Gates, 24 January 2004.
Why does charging money for something make a company "evil"?
Evil is when they sue you, install viruses on your PC without asking, make CDs that won't play on PCs, try to lock you in to their products at every turn (eg. memory sticks), use proprietary connectors everywhere, overcharge for replacement batteries, etc. It's all in a days work at SONY.
Radiated energy has to be ionizing to have any effect on tissues?
Yes.
It's basic physics, known since Einstein.
The reason that materials with half lives of 200k years last so long is because they don't emit much radiation, i.e. they're relatively safe to work with (unless they're poisonous).
The ones you need to worry about are the ones which are decaying rapidly, i.e. the ones with short half-lives.
Yawn, come back when there's something other than "may"
On the one hand we've got the whole of established physics (electromagnetic waves produced by cell phones aren't ionizing). On the other a bunch of self-interested scaremongers who only want to sell books/articles.
Yes, cell phones can heat you up a tiny amount but going outside in the sunshine or doing some exercise heats you up orders of magnitude more and they're both considered healthy by the exact same scaremongers.
Simple: A rolled up screen can be much larger than the keyboard it's attached to...
(A useful rolled up screen would have a lot less diameter than the one the "visionary" in the article is proposing)
The coal reactors solved their "nuclear waste" problem by slowly releasing it into the air. Nobody seems to be in a panic over that, can't nuclear power stations do the same?
Or ... maybe we could build some of those new-fangled breeder reactors which gobble up their own waste.
Reactors are built in nasty, ugly places, far from civilisation. CEOs don't want to live there ... and you're surprised?
The contrary would be to build reactors in nice places near lots of people. You think that's going to happen?
The thing that mostly makes them expensive is the ten years of approval process and the five years of meetings you have to have with the NIMBYs to eventually get to build one.
The only way to convince investors to sign up for all that crap is to promise them a massive return on their money, ie. the debt repayment ends up costing you an order of magnitude more than the sum of the materials/labor needed to actually build it. See Economics of Nuclear Power Plants
Still, you could be supplying the entire country with cheap energy for less than the cost of the banking bailout. Imagine what that could do for the economy...(as opposed to giving the bankers a taste for free money which will just make them do it all over again).
In the meantime the coal reactors will keep on pumping more radiation into the air than a nuclear station ever would. And mercury, etc.
eBay cited e-gold's policy of non-reversible transactions as a detriment to the buyer experience.[26]
eBay *loves* buyers who can 'buy' your stuff then reverse the transaction right after receive it.
Nope. "Spec" means nothing these days. They're all fast enough.
It's much more important to go to the shop and touch them. Try the trackpad buttons. Get one that feels right.
And the sound...check out the speakers if they're at all important.