As someone who is certified to work on steel (MIG/TIG welding), an average geek, and can pilot a jet (ATP certificate FTW!), I take offense to your comment =) I lie, I would drop my tools in space just as often as on the ground, unless they were welded to me.
/goes off to dream about robotic arm replacement, with modular tools, mmmmmmm
Not to mention that it doesn't take 30 seconds to die when exposed to the vacuum of space. I believe it takes more like 2 minutes, plenty of time for someone to do something for you.
|Car anaology| So using magnets and coils is like a really efficient transmission, allowing extracting the maximum amount of energy possible from the wind at low through high wind speeds. Brilliant!
I own both a Prius (daily driver) and a Camry Hybrid for my wife. I've also ordered a Tesla Roadster.
I get around 55mpg average in the Prius. Note that the EPA combined cycle test now includes sustained speeds of 70+mph for the highway portion, which is going to reduce the average for any vehicle subjected to the EPA test. On the other hand, I easily get 40-44mpg doing 80-85mph in my wife's Camry Hybrid when we drive between Chicago and Allentown, PA.
Let's assume for the moment that you're right, and the payback period takes too long for a hybrid (also incorrect, the payback period for a Prius is around 3-4 years). "Foreign" cars, such as Toyota and Honda are always going to win on reliability.
A Prius doesn't have to be efficient to compensate for the price difference. Your GM vehicle is going to depreciate like a rock (due to incentives needed to move new vehicles off the lot) while a Prius or other Toyota hybrid is going to hold it's value extremely well.
Feel free to enjoy your GM purchase, just like I enjoy short-selling the hell out of GM stock.
Buying a Prius is pretty high up there on the stupid scale.
Says the person who bought a GM vehicle. Notice you said "drive really nicely on the highway" and you get 38mpg. The Prius gets 40mpg on the highway normally (not having to drive nicely) and 50mpg city. Throw in the tax credit that was around, the estimated fuel cost per year around $800 (the lowest of any vehicle out there), and the fact that over the last year most Prius' not only didn't depreciate but could be sold for *more* than MSRP at the dealer, and you see that buying a GM vehicle (which will be worthless very quickly) is much higher on the "stupid scale" than buying a Prius.
There's a material out there, google for it, that can go from a transparent material to a mirrored material in around 11 seconds when current is applied to it. I could see that being used as a windshield for whatever vehicle carries these devices, and activated before firing the weapon.
Have you ever seen the churn rates at callcenters? Using minimum wage callcenter agents for your business may work when you can build it into your cost and write off the customer goodwill (i.e. GoDaddy, 1&1, $insert_poor_customer_service_company_of_your_choosing).
I own a boutique web hosting firm. We're on track to do around $10 mil this year in revenue. We specialize in Fortune 500/5000 companies and the federal government. I wouldn't dare think about simply putting a process in place and hiring the cheapest person I could find if I wanted to keep my customer base. My customers came to us because they wanted amazing service. That doesn't come from process. Amazing service comes from your employees, and if you're in the service business and don't believe that, you don't belong in the service business.
You still have to fight the speed of light. Google did a study showing that every second an end user waits for results, the chance of them going elsewhere rises quickly.
Providing excellent service is expensive. If you can get a dedicated server with shitty service for $100/month and amazing support for $500/month, which one are you going to contract for? Clearly, as WalMart, LEGO, and any odd number of quality vs price examples have shown, the cheaper option.
Even if it doesn't generate more power than goes into it, just the high temp from the plasma is better than a simple burn of the trash, as more toxic molecules are broken down into their base components.
Too bad they couldn't have had a water tap run to their place and use the excess energy to make hydrogen through electrolysis. And than sell said hydrogen. I mean, if it's free energy...
Assume for a second I live in a colony on Mars. A company in the US patents something. We build the devices anyway (for whatever reason). Legally, US patents can't be enforced off-world of course (I make assumptions; crazy lawyers would have other ideas I'm sure). All of a suddent the US says patents apply off-planet. Does that mean I'm now violating the law?
A silly example to be sure, but the idea of property rights is hard to reconcile when talking about ideas.
As an ex-owner of a Mercedes SLK350, let me congratulate you on an excellent Slashdot car analogy. My Mercedes had "bling" factor, but for what I paid I could have afforded two reliable cars. I ended up handing it back when the lease ended and bought a Camry Hybrid.
Check out the Curve. It's much more friendly, I think, than the Pearl. I use the Curve with UMA/T-Mobile, and it's invaluable when I'm staying with family in Pennsylvania, where the nearest T-Mobile tower is several miles away.
Rhode Island is one of two states in which prostitution is legal, provided it takes place indoors, though there have been recent efforts to change this.[25]
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As someone who is certified to work on steel (MIG/TIG welding), an average geek, and can pilot a jet (ATP certificate FTW!), I take offense to your comment =) I lie, I would drop my tools in space just as often as on the ground, unless they were welded to me.
Not to mention that it doesn't take 30 seconds to die when exposed to the vacuum of space. I believe it takes more like 2 minutes, plenty of time for someone to do something for you.
|Car anaology| So using magnets and coils is like a really efficient transmission, allowing extracting the maximum amount of energy possible from the wind at low through high wind speeds. Brilliant!
I own both a Prius (daily driver) and a Camry Hybrid for my wife. I've also ordered a Tesla Roadster.
I get around 55mpg average in the Prius. Note that the EPA combined cycle test now includes sustained speeds of 70+mph for the highway portion, which is going to reduce the average for any vehicle subjected to the EPA test. On the other hand, I easily get 40-44mpg doing 80-85mph in my wife's Camry Hybrid when we drive between Chicago and Allentown, PA.
Let's assume for the moment that you're right, and the payback period takes too long for a hybrid (also incorrect, the payback period for a Prius is around 3-4 years). "Foreign" cars, such as Toyota and Honda are always going to win on reliability.
A Prius doesn't have to be efficient to compensate for the price difference. Your GM vehicle is going to depreciate like a rock (due to incentives needed to move new vehicles off the lot) while a Prius or other Toyota hybrid is going to hold it's value extremely well.
Feel free to enjoy your GM purchase, just like I enjoy short-selling the hell out of GM stock.
Buying a Prius is pretty high up there on the stupid scale.
Says the person who bought a GM vehicle. Notice you said "drive really nicely on the highway" and you get 38mpg. The Prius gets 40mpg on the highway normally (not having to drive nicely) and 50mpg city. Throw in the tax credit that was around, the estimated fuel cost per year around $800 (the lowest of any vehicle out there), and the fact that over the last year most Prius' not only didn't depreciate but could be sold for *more* than MSRP at the dealer, and you see that buying a GM vehicle (which will be worthless very quickly) is much higher on the "stupid scale" than buying a Prius.
Couple the Kindle or any other ebook reader to open source textbooks and *poof*, you've just cut the cost of education by a pretty large fraction.
There's a material out there, google for it, that can go from a transparent material to a mirrored material in around 11 seconds when current is applied to it. I could see that being used as a windshield for whatever vehicle carries these devices, and activated before firing the weapon.
Truer words were never spoken. Tax what you want to prevent and subsidize what you want to encourage.
Have you ever seen the churn rates at callcenters? Using minimum wage callcenter agents for your business may work when you can build it into your cost and write off the customer goodwill (i.e. GoDaddy, 1&1, $insert_poor_customer_service_company_of_your_choosing).
I own a boutique web hosting firm. We're on track to do around $10 mil this year in revenue. We specialize in Fortune 500/5000 companies and the federal government. I wouldn't dare think about simply putting a process in place and hiring the cheapest person I could find if I wanted to keep my customer base. My customers came to us because they wanted amazing service. That doesn't come from process. Amazing service comes from your employees, and if you're in the service business and don't believe that, you don't belong in the service business.
You still have to fight the speed of light. Google did a study showing that every second an end user waits for results, the chance of them going elsewhere rises quickly.
If you're smart about it, the facility would be unmanned, similar to LEGO's manufacturing facility.
Providing excellent service is expensive. If you can get a dedicated server with shitty service for $100/month and amazing support for $500/month, which one are you going to contract for? Clearly, as WalMart, LEGO, and any odd number of quality vs price examples have shown, the cheaper option.
Heh, when I was 15-16 working on something with Legos, I'd use my teeth to separate blocks I couldn't pry apart with my hands. Welcome to Legos =)
Even if it doesn't generate more power than goes into it, just the high temp from the plasma is better than a simple burn of the trash, as more toxic molecules are broken down into their base components.
Now THAT would deserve the whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag.
Eggs are definitely required.
For now. Give it half a decade.
Too bad they couldn't have had a water tap run to their place and use the excess energy to make hydrogen through electrolysis. And than sell said hydrogen. I mean, if it's free energy...
Assume for a second I live in a colony on Mars. A company in the US patents something. We build the devices anyway (for whatever reason). Legally, US patents can't be enforced off-world of course (I make assumptions; crazy lawyers would have other ideas I'm sure). All of a suddent the US says patents apply off-planet. Does that mean I'm now violating the law?
A silly example to be sure, but the idea of property rights is hard to reconcile when talking about ideas.
We've done database servers with SSD and RAID1+0. Amazingly fast, and the power savings aren't bad either.
As an ex-owner of a Mercedes SLK350, let me congratulate you on an excellent Slashdot car analogy. My Mercedes had "bling" factor, but for what I paid I could have afforded two reliable cars. I ended up handing it back when the lease ended and bought a Camry Hybrid.
With regards to the scene you described (jump into atmosphere, unload fighters, jump out), that was probably one of my favorite parts of the series.
Check out the Curve. It's much more friendly, I think, than the Pearl. I use the Curve with UMA/T-Mobile, and it's invaluable when I'm staying with family in Pennsylvania, where the nearest T-Mobile tower is several miles away.
Not at all. I'm a huge fan of Bill Cosby for telling it how it his.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island#Law_and_government
Rhode Island is one of two states in which prostitution is legal, provided it takes place indoors, though there have been recent efforts to change this.[25]
Someone resorting to survival sex shows that the social net in that country has failed. Laws against prostitution fix the symptom, not the problem.