Yeah, probably a good point. Apple's Elk Grove facility appears to have become mostly a warehousing/distribution operation.
Apropos to nothing, I made a delivery there once back when I was driving an 18-wheeler. One of the best-run receiving operations I ever encountered--a bit more paperwork than usual but I was in and out in less than 45 minutes. To a truck driver who's paid by the mile and makes nothing while he's waiting to be unloaded, that's like money in the bank.
So these are either the real units, or they are a strategic deception by Apple.
I think that if Apple were to release a strategic deception, they would have released it somewhere other than Vietnam. My guess is that this thing was a test sample pulled off the production line in the Chinese factory that got away.
So, what, the same thing happens in your life every day of the week? How boring is that?
Oh, wait...
Two people who think that attempting to make humorous posts on Slashdot is what counts as a good time are probably not in any position to judge what's boring or not.
I had a professor once that pretty effectively argued that Crete was Atlantis
Yes, I've heard that too; in fact, one of the books I got my info on the Minoans from suggested the same. Also, that the eruption of Thera was possibly the cause of the parting of the Reed Sea, a shallow marshy area of northern Egypt, which is incorrectly translated as "Red Sea" in the Bible.
once you get past 50,000 years it's not at all impossible that there was a relatively advanced civilization on this planet that subsequently disappeared.
You don't even have to go back that far. The Minoan people of ancient Crete were well on the way to an industrial revolution of of their own that predated that of England by a couple of thousand years. If it wasn't for an inopportune volcanic eruption which completely wiped the Minoans out back around 1400 BCE, we might have had electronic computers by Roman times and those flying cars and jet packs we all wish for by now.
Wouldn't work for long--a crust of salt would build up in a very short time and bury the black tarmac in highly reflective crystals. I've worked in a salt production facility, I've seen it happen. You would need to scrape the tarmac clean every day to keep it black.
Brilliant indeed. It makes me very happy that in a world that often seems so full of stupidity, there are people who are smart enough to figure that sort of thing out.
The spacecraft absorbs the solar wind or other outside forces while measuring any change in relative position to the test mass and using micro-thrusters to keep itself centered on the mass and thus in the same free-fall drag-less orbit. Effin cool imo
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that to keep the mass in the proper orbit and, I have to assume, from banging against the walls of its containment chamber, the spacecraft adjusts its position in relation to the mass, right? Effin' A, that's effin' cool.
Anybody from an area of the world that has salt applied to their roads in the winter care to share stories about salt corroding their car's undercarriage?
How about someone who's worked at a facility that extracts salt from seawater using solar evaporation? Just parking my car out front a couple of hundred feet from the nearest evaporation pond for three years was enough to make it rust. Even metal inside the vehicle has rusted to the point that I can't adjust the passenger seat anymore.
Lets also ignore the possible impact of having that much salt pumped into the air...
Could be interesting; microscopic salt crystals from the ocean are a major source of the nuclei that precipitation condenses around. Deliberately throwing more could have some unexpected results.
They also fail to mention that most of those Android phones were distributed by Verizon for free as an attempt to wrest away some of AT&T's iPhone advantage. If Apple ever starts allowing other U.S. carriers to offer the iPhone, I'll bet Android sales number will make a big u-turn in a hurry.
Okay, thanks for the info. I use my XP machine exclusively for controlling my amateur radio station and my Linux box is a dedicated file server so the only real benchmark I have for Flash is how it works on my general-purpose computer, a 2 GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro, and that is "not very well." As soon as a Flash video loads, the fans start spooling up to the point that the thing begins to sound like an old DC-8 preparing for take-off.
I'm with you when it comes to wishing Flash an early demise. I don't know what kind of resources Adobe has on the project now but at one time, it was a grand total of four programmers, none of which were Mac specialists.
People keep saying this, but I was able to watch it on a 2.5 GHz machine on full screen with no issues. So I don't know what the fuck YOU people are doing, but you're obviously damn well doing it WRONG.
Yeah, but was that 2.5 GHz machine a Mac running OS X? The point being, while Flash may run okay on Windows, it's a dog on a Mac.
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Yeah, probably a good point. Apple's Elk Grove facility appears to have become mostly a warehousing/distribution operation.
Apropos to nothing, I made a delivery there once back when I was driving an 18-wheeler. One of the best-run receiving operations I ever encountered--a bit more paperwork than usual but I was in and out in less than 45 minutes. To a truck driver who's paid by the mile and makes nothing while he's waiting to be unloaded, that's like money in the bank.
So these are either the real units, or they are a strategic deception by Apple.
I think that if Apple were to release a strategic deception, they would have released it somewhere other than Vietnam. My guess is that this thing was a test sample pulled off the production line in the Chinese factory that got away.
Thats the second part of the "service" a blond Scandinavian woman to ensure that the "stored sperm in the epididymis is used up"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Gunderson, but you really don't need to come in for a treatment every day."
Stories like this make me happy to be a ham. I don't need a complex infrastructure and global political stability to communicate with anyone, woohoo!
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So, what, the same thing happens in your life every day of the week? How boring is that?
Oh, wait...
Two people who think that attempting to make humorous posts on Slashdot is what counts as a good time are probably not in any position to judge what's boring or not.
I had a professor once that pretty effectively argued that Crete was Atlantis
Yes, I've heard that too; in fact, one of the books I got my info on the Minoans from suggested the same. Also, that the eruption of Thera was possibly the cause of the parting of the Reed Sea, a shallow marshy area of northern Egypt, which is incorrectly translated as "Red Sea" in the Bible.
I'm tellin' ya, this country it going to hell in a handbasket. Buying crabs? Sheesh. In my day we got our crabs for free at a Grateful Dead show.
Now, get off my lawn.
Actually finding out about this technique makes me wonder how humanity ever survived the Cold War.
Humans survived the Cold War. I'm not convinced that humanity did.
What problems can't a nuclear explosion solve?
Erectile dysfunction?
No, it will work for that, too. For instance, it's well-known that Edward Teller got a huge boner whenever a thermonuclear device was tested.
what will happen (or not) on December 21st, 2012?
Probably more or less the same things that happen (or not) on December 20th and 22nd, 2012.
once you get past 50,000 years it's not at all impossible that there was a relatively advanced civilization on this planet that subsequently disappeared.
You don't even have to go back that far. The Minoan people of ancient Crete were well on the way to an industrial revolution of of their own that predated that of England by a couple of thousand years. If it wasn't for an inopportune volcanic eruption which completely wiped the Minoans out back around 1400 BCE, we might have had electronic computers by Roman times and those flying cars and jet packs we all wish for by now.
Dead people are easy to find
"I smell dead people..."
Wouldn't work for long--a crust of salt would build up in a very short time and bury the black tarmac in highly reflective crystals. I've worked in a salt production facility, I've seen it happen. You would need to scrape the tarmac clean every day to keep it black.
On the third hand (where did that come from?)
The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Brilliant indeed. It makes me very happy that in a world that often seems so full of stupidity, there are people who are smart enough to figure that sort of thing out.
The spacecraft absorbs the solar wind or other outside forces while measuring any change in relative position to the test mass and using micro-thrusters to keep itself centered on the mass and thus in the same free-fall drag-less orbit. Effin cool imo
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that to keep the mass in the proper orbit and, I have to assume, from banging against the walls of its containment chamber, the spacecraft adjusts its position in relation to the mass, right? Effin' A, that's effin' cool.
Sorry, deathcow, I should have thrown a smiley in there or something. It was meant as a joke.
Anybody from an area of the world that has salt applied to their roads in the winter care to share stories about salt corroding their car's undercarriage?
How about someone who's worked at a facility that extracts salt from seawater using solar evaporation? Just parking my car out front a couple of hundred feet from the nearest evaporation pond for three years was enough to make it rust. Even metal inside the vehicle has rusted to the point that I can't adjust the passenger seat anymore.
Your peculiar sexual predilections are of no interest to those of us here on Slashdot...
That should have read "Deliberately throwing more in the air could have some unexpected results."
Remember: always use the preview option, kids.
Lets also ignore the possible impact of having that much salt pumped into the air...
Could be interesting; microscopic salt crystals from the ocean are a major source of the nuclei that precipitation condenses around. Deliberately throwing more could have some unexpected results.
They also fail to mention that most of those Android phones were distributed by Verizon for free as an attempt to wrest away some of AT&T's iPhone advantage. If Apple ever starts allowing other U.S. carriers to offer the iPhone, I'll bet Android sales number will make a big u-turn in a hurry.
Okay, thanks for the info. I use my XP machine exclusively for controlling my amateur radio station and my Linux box is a dedicated file server so the only real benchmark I have for Flash is how it works on my general-purpose computer, a 2 GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro, and that is "not very well." As soon as a Flash video loads, the fans start spooling up to the point that the thing begins to sound like an old DC-8 preparing for take-off.
I'm with you when it comes to wishing Flash an early demise. I don't know what kind of resources Adobe has on the project now but at one time, it was a grand total of four programmers, none of which were Mac specialists.
Completely right, was just trying to save people the trouble of clicking on the link and effed it up.
People keep saying this, but I was able to watch it on a 2.5 GHz machine on full screen with no issues. So I don't know what the fuck YOU people are doing, but you're obviously damn well doing it WRONG.
Yeah, but was that 2.5 GHz machine a Mac running OS X? The point being, while Flash may run okay on Windows, it's a dog on a Mac.