It's not a phone form factor. It didn't even have GSM or GRPS and required wifi or usb to connect to the internet. It wasn't the first wifi tablet, either. The first Maemo based device which even has the ability to function without being near wifi is the N900, released in 2009, 2 years after the first iphone went on sale.
TFT means Thin Film Transistor, and from what I understand is a method of manufacturing transparent electronics behind the display. If it's still an e-ink display, those transistors will presumably only be powered on when it's time to flip the capsules.
Why not make people super strong so we can run/walk/bike more and reduce the need for vehicles and trucks? Perhaps instead of engineering us to hate meat, engineer us to better handle large quantities of sugar, so we can eat cake and cookies all the time. Improve our eyesight so we can see without nearly as much electric lighting. Strengthen our ability to sweat so we're comfortable with less air conditioning. If you're going to do this, there are a lot of ways you could go. Making people have a distaste for beef seems like a really odd way to about it.
The technology to send electricity long distances with low losses was invented by Tesla, it's not exactly new. You don't need 0 resistance, you just need it to be low enough to still be economical.
It replaces the evil communist nanny state with glorious benevolent private business, making everyone free to do anything they want whenever they want for almost free.
There are no laws that prevent you from doing this. You just have to keep those cars on your own private property instead of on the socialist roads that are provided to you for "the good of the whole".
We could easily solve this by privatizing all roads and making them toll roads and letting businesses decide if they require these safety features to allow you on their roadways.
You can get much cheaper cars built overseas and use them all you want. You just have to use them on private roads instead of roads built by the nanny state that insists on making it cheap for you to get to work.
Nobody is claiming that burning fossil fuels is causing an issue from heat released from the chemical reaction. Sort of like how if you detonate an atomic bomb, the fallout kills far more than the initial bomb blast.
Are you suggesting that mass is converted into energy in a chemical reaction?
The government is spending your tax money to subvert the laws of a foreign nation in order to increase the profits of a domestic business. I suppose this is considered "pro business" by the neo-conservative types and applauded.
Newscorp has hired many presidential candidates and former GOP congressmen. They've donated millions to republican causes. It won't get investigated in the US.
Can we split flights into handgun and non-handgun allowed flights, at least? I don't want to die because some idiot leaves a round chambered in the gun in their bag and shoots through the control cabling.
I'm all for the rights to carry weapons. In a big city though, I recommend against it as they seem to cause more problems than they solve. If someone is jumps out at you from around a corner to mug you, you probably won't have time to pull out your weapon. Most likely they'll just steal it and use it to commit a crime. Alternately, if you do have some warning, you have the option of getting in a shooting spree with several other armed people, possibly injuring those around you. Your best bet is still to give up the $50-100 in your wallet and have them leave you unharmed. I don't buy that they deter crime at all because most of the guns that criminals use are stolen from law abiding citizens who clearly were not helped by owning them. People are stupid and don't lock up their guns when they're not home, then they get robbed while not home and a criminal uses their stolen weapon to rob or kill.
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"instant" meaning at the speed of light? It's theoretically impossible to transfer information any faster than that.
It's not a phone form factor. It didn't even have GSM or GRPS and required wifi or usb to connect to the internet. It wasn't the first wifi tablet, either. The first Maemo based device which even has the ability to function without being near wifi is the N900, released in 2009, 2 years after the first iphone went on sale.
It's in a bunch cell phones and increasingly larger TVs.
TFT means Thin Film Transistor, and from what I understand is a method of manufacturing transparent electronics behind the display. If it's still an e-ink display, those transistors will presumably only be powered on when it's time to flip the capsules.
I thought cannibalism in dogs was kind of rare.
The problem is that we're addicted to using their oil. It's not like we're giving them money out of charity.
Why not make people super strong so we can run/walk/bike more and reduce the need for vehicles and trucks? Perhaps instead of engineering us to hate meat, engineer us to better handle large quantities of sugar, so we can eat cake and cookies all the time. Improve our eyesight so we can see without nearly as much electric lighting. Strengthen our ability to sweat so we're comfortable with less air conditioning. If you're going to do this, there are a lot of ways you could go. Making people have a distaste for beef seems like a really odd way to about it.
The technology to send electricity long distances with low losses was invented by Tesla, it's not exactly new. You don't need 0 resistance, you just need it to be low enough to still be economical.
I never understood why they didn't just stick a cheap metal detector in front of or behind the full body scanner.
It replaces the evil communist nanny state with glorious benevolent private business, making everyone free to do anything they want whenever they want for almost free.
There are no laws that prevent you from doing this. You just have to keep those cars on your own private property instead of on the socialist roads that are provided to you for "the good of the whole".
We could easily solve this by privatizing all roads and making them toll roads and letting businesses decide if they require these safety features to allow you on their roadways.
You can get much cheaper cars built overseas and use them all you want. You just have to use them on private roads instead of roads built by the nanny state that insists on making it cheap for you to get to work.
As long as you drive your OWN car on your OWN roads, and not roads owned by the public, you won't be punished.
While I agree with you entirely, it appears that we need to do more than just legalize it, as Adderall is legal and there are still shortages.
Would it be easy to tell through genetic testing whether it was a second hand monsanto seed or a hybrid of it and another breed?
Aren't those much more expensive to operate?
I think you mean "reduced subsidies."
With Sony DRM, your devices will fail to authenticate most of the time, saving a lot of electricity.
Do all of your cars need that type of range? Most people only need one of their family vehicles to have it.
Nobody is claiming that burning fossil fuels is causing an issue from heat released from the chemical reaction. Sort of like how if you detonate an atomic bomb, the fallout kills far more than the initial bomb blast.
Are you suggesting that mass is converted into energy in a chemical reaction?
The government is spending your tax money to subvert the laws of a foreign nation in order to increase the profits of a domestic business. I suppose this is considered "pro business" by the neo-conservative types and applauded.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project
Newscorp has hired many presidential candidates and former GOP congressmen. They've donated millions to republican causes. It won't get investigated in the US.
Can we split flights into handgun and non-handgun allowed flights, at least? I don't want to die because some idiot leaves a round chambered in the gun in their bag and shoots through the control cabling.
I'm all for the rights to carry weapons. In a big city though, I recommend against it as they seem to cause more problems than they solve. If someone is jumps out at you from around a corner to mug you, you probably won't have time to pull out your weapon. Most likely they'll just steal it and use it to commit a crime. Alternately, if you do have some warning, you have the option of getting in a shooting spree with several other armed people, possibly injuring those around you. Your best bet is still to give up the $50-100 in your wallet and have them leave you unharmed. I don't buy that they deter crime at all because most of the guns that criminals use are stolen from law abiding citizens who clearly were not helped by owning them. People are stupid and don't lock up their guns when they're not home, then they get robbed while not home and a criminal uses their stolen weapon to rob or kill.