Not very much money when you consider the amount of money that gets paid out to plaintiffs in lawsuits filed over drug side effects, such as the ones concerning Vioxx. This whole thing sounds a lot like the pharmaceutical companies are looking for a cheap fix, an alternative to the extensive drug trials they ought to be doing.
Don't forget morse code! Somewhere on youtube is the video of the morse code experts beating the world record holder for text messaging speed.
The problem with Morse code is that it's ephemeral--it creates no hard copy so you can only send as fast as your recipient can copy. It doesn't do much good if you can send at 60 WPM if the person on the end can only copy 20 WPM. And, yes, I know there are computer programs that can translate Morse (I have several, in fact) but they don't really work all that accurately on hand-sent code.
If that moron had spent five minutes reading the Wikipedia article on Haitian Voodoo, he would have realized that it is not Satanic worship at all. In fact, according to the article, it "[...] is based upon a merging of the beliefs and practices of West African peoples, with Roman Catholic Christianity, which was brought about as African slaves were brought to Haiti in the 16th century and forced to convert to the religion of their owners, while they largely still followed their traditional African beliefs[...]"
In other words, it's actually a variation on Christianity. Not that Robertson would recognize actual Christianity in the first place, only his own perversion of it.
A thirteen year old agreement (which has since expired) to develop software for the Mac is hardly what could be called "ownership." Nor is that $150 million in non-voting stock, which Microsoft sold long ago for a tidy profit.
I own a staggering fourteen shares of AAPL; that's nowhere near the amount that MS owned but because mine is real voting stock, I actually have more control over the destiny of Apple than Microsoft ever did.
Well Everest is just under 9km up, and people have scaled it without oxygen.
That may very well be true but, at least in the US, the pilot-in-command of an unpressurized aircraft is required by FAA regulations to use supplemental oxygen when flying at 10,000 or feet for more than a certain amount of time.
electric aircraft are much quieter than regular planes—at some 150 meters, it is as loud as 50 decibels, or roughly the volume of a conversation, making it roughly 10 times quieter than current low-noise helicopters.
I admit that I never have gotten a handle on math beyond algebra but am I wrong by being bothered by statements like 10 times quieter? Wouldn't be better to say "makes only one-tenth the noise?" Or am I being pedantic?
I'm not an engineer so I can't comment on the operating ceiling of the the thing but speaking as a former private pilot, 9,150 meters (FL 28, roughly) is already well above the point where the pilot-in-command would be allowed to operate without supplemental oxygen.In fact, up that high you'd be messing with the three-holer transport jets and would probably need a pretty high-quality heated flight suit.
I know what you mean, especially if you're living in the L.A. area. Down here in San Diego, things aren't quite as congested and if you're lucky enough to be able to avoid a couple of major choke points (portions of I-5, I-15 and I-805), you're likely to be be rolling at 70-75 MPH even during the rush hour.
Note that this law refers to the "normal" speed of traffic, not the "legal" speed of traffic.
Same deal in southern California. The CHP can (and occasionally does) cite people for "aggressive driving" if they're traveling at the speed limit in the left lane during the commute hours. The 65 MPH legal limit not withstanding, this is simply bowing to the reality of life on the freeways here.
Doesn't matter what their lawyer said. It is still possible and conceivable. Hell, it could happen due to forgetting to give someone the right paperwork. Or any other possible scenario, really. It doesn't really matter what Apple says.
You're right that it's possible. Given Apple's security policies, though, it's extremely unlikely.
I once worked for a company that contracted with Apple to tend Macintosh retail displays at Circuit City, Sears and other retailers. I had absolutely no access to advance, proprietary information or trade secrets but I still had to sign an Apple NDA. I suspect that anyone who visits 1 Infinite Loop has to sign one before they are even allowed to leave the lobby and I'd be very, very surprised if any of the prototypes of this new product (whatever it turns out to be) has ever been outside Apple's premises.
"the rover that slept with my now-ex-girlfriend, the whore" ?
It's that rover which is stuck? The hell with it, then--let it stay stuck! Serves that asshole robot right; I only wish my ex-girlfriend was up there with it.
I've had a couple of unfortunate encounters with electric fences. They are very unpleasant to say the least but in no way lethal. Lots of volts but very little current. It takes about 50 microamperes at a minimum of 30 volts to make a lethal dose for a human and it's only lethal if that current flows through directly through the victim's heart. The zap administered by an electric fence of the type used for animal control is typically about 10KV but at only 4-5 microamperes and lasts for about 10 microseconds. Most modern electric fence chargers use capacitive discharge through an induction coil to develop their high-voltage potential so the shock only lasts as long as it takes to discharge the capacitor.
Of course, there are other types of electric fences, ones that are designed to be deadly--urinate on the fence surrounding a prison at your own peril.
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Not very much money when you consider the amount of money that gets paid out to plaintiffs in lawsuits filed over drug side effects, such as the ones concerning Vioxx. This whole thing sounds a lot like the pharmaceutical companies are looking for a cheap fix, an alternative to the extensive drug trials they ought to be doing.
...porn servers all over the Internet report a record number of downloads. Film at eleven.
Don't forget morse code! Somewhere on youtube is the video of the morse code experts beating the world record holder for text messaging speed.
The problem with Morse code is that it's ephemeral--it creates no hard copy so you can only send as fast as your recipient can copy. It doesn't do much good if you can send at 60 WPM if the person on the end can only copy 20 WPM. And, yes, I know there are computer programs that can translate Morse (I have several, in fact) but they don't really work all that accurately on hand-sent code.
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Erm, FL 280, right?
Right. Forgot the zero, but it's actually closer to FL 300. See below.
Robot actors
How about Steven Segal? Or Tom Cruise? Dolph Lundgren? Ah-nuld Schwartzenegger? Sylvester Sallone? Jean-Claude Van Damme? Vin Diesel?
There's already been a number of successful robotic actors.
If that moron had spent five minutes reading the Wikipedia article on Haitian Voodoo, he would have realized that it is not Satanic worship at all. In fact, according to the article, it "[...] is based upon a merging of the beliefs and practices of West African peoples, with Roman Catholic Christianity, which was brought about as African slaves were brought to Haiti in the 16th century and forced to convert to the religion of their owners, while they largely still followed their traditional African beliefs[...]"
In other words, it's actually a variation on Christianity. Not that Robertson would recognize actual Christianity in the first place, only his own perversion of it.
A thirteen year old agreement (which has since expired) to develop software for the Mac is hardly what could be called "ownership." Nor is that $150 million in non-voting stock, which Microsoft sold long ago for a tidy profit.
I own a staggering fourteen shares of AAPL; that's nowhere near the amount that MS owned but because mine is real voting stock, I actually have more control over the destiny of Apple than Microsoft ever did.
since the longest time, so no surprise here. Feel free to do some fact checking.
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Your about 10,000 feet off.
Yeah, I accidentally left the zero off my seat of my pants meters-to-feet-to-flight-level conversion. In fact, 9,150 meters is more like FL 300.
Well Everest is just under 9km up, and people have scaled it without oxygen.
That may very well be true but, at least in the US, the pilot-in-command of an unpressurized aircraft is required by FAA regulations to use supplemental oxygen when flying at 10,000 or feet for more than a certain amount of time.
But it was a really, really impressive Post-It note...
From TFA:
electric aircraft are much quieter than regular planes—at some 150 meters, it is as loud as 50 decibels, or roughly the volume of a conversation, making it roughly 10 times quieter than current low-noise helicopters.
I admit that I never have gotten a handle on math beyond algebra but am I wrong by being bothered by statements like 10 times quieter? Wouldn't be better to say "makes only one-tenth the noise?" Or am I being pedantic?
I'm not an engineer so I can't comment on the operating ceiling of the the thing but speaking as a former private pilot, 9,150 meters (FL 28, roughly) is already well above the point where the pilot-in-command would be allowed to operate without supplemental oxygen.In fact, up that high you'd be messing with the three-holer transport jets and would probably need a pretty high-quality heated flight suit.
I know what you mean, especially if you're living in the L.A. area. Down here in San Diego, things aren't quite as congested and if you're lucky enough to be able to avoid a couple of major choke points (portions of I-5, I-15 and I-805), you're likely to be be rolling at 70-75 MPH even during the rush hour.
the aforementioned Peruvian Murder Spud (rough translation) that the CIA used in an assasination attempt on the husband of Evita Peron.
No, you've gotten it all wrong. There's no such thing as the Peruvian Murder Spud. The CIA used the Argentinian
Murder Spud on Juan Peron. He was an Argentinian, after all.
Note that this law refers to the "normal" speed of traffic, not the "legal" speed of traffic.
Same deal in southern California. The CHP can (and occasionally does) cite people for "aggressive driving" if they're traveling at the speed limit in the left lane during the commute hours. The 65 MPH legal limit not withstanding, this is simply bowing to the reality of life on the freeways here.
the copyright on Windows 1.0 expires in 2080. Do you think anyone will have a binary sitting around [...] at that date?
For the sake of future generations (and their computers), I certainly hope not.
I doubt you have both a girlfriend *AND* a wife seeing as you are Slashdot.
Shouldn't that have been:
"I doubt you have both a girlfriend *OR* a wife seeing as you are Slashdot"?
With all the misinformation in this thread, Schroedinger's cat is rolling over in its grave...
Not exactly. It will be neither rolling or still until we open the coffin.
The company that offers this phone.
Doesn't matter what their lawyer said. It is still possible and conceivable. Hell, it could happen due to forgetting to give someone the right paperwork. Or any other possible scenario, really. It doesn't really matter what Apple says.
You're right that it's possible. Given Apple's security policies, though, it's extremely unlikely.
I once worked for a company that contracted with Apple to tend Macintosh retail displays at Circuit City, Sears and other retailers. I had absolutely no access to advance, proprietary information or trade secrets but I still had to sign an Apple NDA. I suspect that anyone who visits 1 Infinite Loop has to sign one before they are even allowed to leave the lobby and I'd be very, very surprised if any of the prototypes of this new product (whatever it turns out to be) has ever been outside Apple's premises.
Yeah, I meant on the iPhone. Should have been more specific.
"the rover that slept with my now-ex-girlfriend, the whore" ?
It's that rover which is stuck? The hell with it, then--let it stay stuck! Serves that asshole robot right; I only wish my ex-girlfriend was up there with it.
At the very most Apple would allow users to change their search engine
Apple already allows this.
I've had a couple of unfortunate encounters with electric fences. They are very unpleasant to say the least but in no way lethal. Lots of volts but very little current. It takes about 50 microamperes at a minimum of 30 volts to make a lethal dose for a human and it's only lethal if that current flows through directly through the victim's heart. The zap administered by an electric fence of the type used for animal control is typically about 10KV but at only 4-5 microamperes and lasts for about 10 microseconds. Most modern electric fence chargers use capacitive discharge through an induction coil to develop their high-voltage potential so the shock only lasts as long as it takes to discharge the capacitor.
Of course, there are other types of electric fences, ones that are designed to be deadly--urinate on the fence surrounding a prison at your own peril.