I'm sure people have considered it. I don't think it's possible within the timelines they propose either but my guess would be they lower the cable from the counterweight. The main cable would be made of many thinner cables so the first would be lowered down with multiple control craft along it's length to assist in guiding the cable down on target. Once fixed, the next cable would be lowered, and the next etc etc. The control craft along the length of the cable would probably be permanent features depending on the strength of the cable etc. I've no clue what the minimum thickness a nanotube cable would have to be to allow it to support it's own weight plus all the stresses etc, but the thinner the better since inevitably they will have to be replaced over time. Once the cable is in place they have to figure out how to protect it from all sorts of temperature changes and stresses, impacts from space junk, missiles, etc etc
I would imagine that making carbon nanotubes of sufficent length is one of the the primary technical issues to be resolved. That breakthrough would have uses outside of space elevators though, so I would assume people are already throwing astrobucks at it.
Into the wild isn't all that deep, but microbes aren't very bright and I don't think the movie provides any great insights into ethanol production, so I'll go with never.
While I don't think it will happen this way, I believe the general idea is that
1. It will not be expensive to finance, the site and material costs will eventually be the largest expenses
2. Since construction costs have deminished, you're likely just selling the site and materials for recycling into a lanffill or something.
3. If everyone can print more or less anything they want, you will end up with daft houses, loads of daft house exist today that were built the old fashioned way.
I don't see that this technology will make houses cheaper any time soon though (if ever), so most of the arguments are mut.
I think that if you really want to "stick it to the MS"(joke?) you shouldn't buy it at all. I don't follow why people would want to stick it too them in this instance anyway. I haven't read the article but there's more to the unit than the cost of the hardware, there's software and research and QA etc. I haven't given much thought to wheather or not I agree with their pricing, other than it does seem high, however if they wanted to cut the desktop market out they wouldn't do that via pricing, they simply would not release a desktop version of the kinect at all.
If they used it all the time I suppose it would be like superman incinerating his opponents at the start of every fight, and I'd complain about that instead:S but I definitely agree that they lacked creativity with it.
Cheers, I didn't know that. I've learned that it's always prudent to use the word probably or maybe in my posts, it dramatically cuts down on the time I need to fact check my posts.
I always considered it strange that they rarely if ever thought to use the transporter as an offensive weapon since the uses are near endless. Transport large amounts of stuff into the path of oncoming torpedoes. Shoot large heavy cannon balls into the transporter and have them re materialize at speed in front of a boarding party of borg. Even easier, large quantities of that green gas stuff from first contact that dissolves organic matter. Use the transporter in combination with the replicator to rapidly rebuild a damaged ship. Transport heavy ceramic insulated cocoons in place around the enemy, they'd fry themselves to death if they tried to burn their way out.
fair enough they'd come up with some interference BS, but it would certainly have worked against most of the baddies in the Startrek universe.
Yup, you and Australia are doing pretty good. Just realised that the first link appears to be broken:( You can add currency symbols to compare fairly easily though they're all usdeur=x usdzwd=x (that's a good one) etc. Looking at these charts is almost enough to make me want to buy worthless gold before it all goes tits up...
We generally call them notes, a fifty euro note etc, and often we just say the number, a fifty, a twenty, a tenner, a fiver. I've never heard them referred to as bills. Hopefully the euro won't disappear any time soon, but if it does, I imagine most of the notes would be far too common to ever exceed their former face value. BTW, assuming you're from the USA, I wouldn't be bragging about the dollar either. You could argue that we're merely trying to catch up to the dollar...in a race to the bottom. (hit the max button)yahoo finance chart usd vs a few others random dollar decline chart I found online
I've always felt that with enough editing you could probably merge those other 2 movies (the ones that were somewhat like the matrix but not sequels) into one that would be better than the sum of it's parts. I'm not saying it would be a good movie, but at least it wouldn't end with that blasted sunrise scene.
Complete misunderstanding on my part. I always thought very generally that sueing ment in addition to whatever the dispute was that the sue er... was also seeking compensation. "Trademark dispute" sounds more like resolving a difference in the court, no compensation after legal fees required. I don't have a particularly strong grasp of how all this works:S, from both articles Apple obviously wanted the rights to the trademark, I'm unsure if they sought compensation.
I love bashing Apple as much as the next person (don't know why, it is irrational of me) but the linked atricle didn't mention anything about Apple sueing anybody. From the site
Apple has lost a trademark dispute in China.... As a result Apple may have to sell the iPad under a new name in China or pay up to $1.6 billion and purchase the trademark from a Chinese tech firm
You're blaming the gun and not the criminal for the crime. Proper use of CGI and practical effects results in movies like Terminator 2, I fail to see how more puppets and less CGI would have made that a better film.
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I'm sure people have considered it. I don't think it's possible within the timelines they propose either but my guess would be they lower the cable from the counterweight. The main cable would be made of many thinner cables so the first would be lowered down with multiple control craft along it's length to assist in guiding the cable down on target. Once fixed, the next cable would be lowered, and the next etc etc. The control craft along the length of the cable would probably be permanent features depending on the strength of the cable etc. I've no clue what the minimum thickness a nanotube cable would have to be to allow it to support it's own weight plus all the stresses etc, but the thinner the better since inevitably they will have to be replaced over time. Once the cable is in place they have to figure out how to protect it from all sorts of temperature changes and stresses, impacts from space junk, missiles, etc etc
I would imagine that making carbon nanotubes of sufficent length is one of the the primary technical issues to be resolved. That breakthrough would have uses outside of space elevators though, so I would assume people are already throwing astrobucks at it.
I demand that the airports hire A Team to do it...
Into the wild isn't all that deep, but microbes aren't very bright and I don't think the movie provides any great insights into ethanol production, so I'll go with never.
While I don't think it will happen this way, I believe the general idea is that
1. It will not be expensive to finance, the site and material costs will eventually be the largest expenses
2. Since construction costs have deminished, you're likely just selling the site and materials for recycling into a lanffill or something.
3. If everyone can print more or less anything they want, you will end up with daft houses, loads of daft house exist today that were built the old fashioned way.
I don't see that this technology will make houses cheaper any time soon though (if ever), so most of the arguments are mut.
Cheers, it was just the "that Hitler" bit that threw me. Pity about the overrated mods, I thought the parent was witty enough.
Which Hitler?
Where's the profit? Unless you add a step with profit into your process, people will not do it.
I think that if you really want to "stick it to the MS"(joke?) you shouldn't buy it at all. I don't follow why people would want to stick it too them in this instance anyway. I haven't read the article but there's more to the unit than the cost of the hardware, there's software and research and QA etc. I haven't given much thought to wheather or not I agree with their pricing, other than it does seem high, however if they wanted to cut the desktop market out they wouldn't do that via pricing, they simply would not release a desktop version of the kinect at all.
If they used it all the time I suppose it would be like superman incinerating his opponents at the start of every fight, and I'd complain about that instead :S but I definitely agree that they lacked creativity with it.
Just add an online game server to the space station, then people could play without the tourism bit.
Part of a larger class of "soft" errors if wikipedia is to be believed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error#Cosmic_rays_creating_energetic_neutrons_and_protons
Cheers, I didn't know that. I've learned that it's always prudent to use the word probably or maybe in my posts, it dramatically cuts down on the time I need to fact check my posts.
true, but I believe they have also been blamed for flipping bits in ram.
I always considered it strange that they rarely if ever thought to use the transporter as an offensive weapon since the uses are near endless.
Transport large amounts of stuff into the path of oncoming torpedoes.
Shoot large heavy cannon balls into the transporter and have them re materialize at speed in front of a boarding party of borg.
Even easier, large quantities of that green gas stuff from first contact that dissolves organic matter.
Use the transporter in combination with the replicator to rapidly rebuild a damaged ship.
Transport heavy ceramic insulated cocoons in place around the enemy, they'd fry themselves to death if they tried to burn their way out.
fair enough they'd come up with some interference BS, but it would certainly have worked against most of the baddies in the Startrek universe.
The law would probably agree that it was the same car. That said, this seems relevant triggers broom
or cosmic rays.
It must be one hell of an attitude if he can let it loose.
Wild guessing, but if there was any significantly increased out-gassing it might have further reduced the heat conductance.
Yup, you and Australia are doing pretty good. Just realised that the first link appears to be broken :( You can add currency symbols to compare fairly easily though they're all usdeur=x usdzwd=x (that's a good one) etc. Looking at these charts is almost enough to make me want to buy worthless gold before it all goes tits up...
We generally call them notes, a fifty euro note etc, and often we just say the number, a fifty, a twenty, a tenner, a fiver. I've never heard them referred to as bills.
Hopefully the euro won't disappear any time soon, but if it does, I imagine most of the notes would be far too common to ever exceed their former face value. BTW, assuming you're from the USA, I wouldn't be bragging about the dollar either. You could argue that we're merely trying to catch up to the dollar...in a race to the bottom.
(hit the max button)yahoo finance chart usd vs a few others
random dollar decline chart I found online
I've always felt that with enough editing you could probably merge those other 2 movies (the ones that were somewhat like the matrix but not sequels) into one that would be better than the sum of it's parts. I'm not saying it would be a good movie, but at least it wouldn't end with that blasted sunrise scene.
Complete misunderstanding on my part. I always thought very generally that sueing ment in addition to whatever the dispute was that the sue er... was also seeking compensation. "Trademark dispute" sounds more like resolving a difference in the court, no compensation after legal fees required. I don't have a particularly strong grasp of how all this works :S, from both articles Apple obviously wanted the rights to the trademark, I'm unsure if they sought compensation.
Apple has lost a trademark dispute in China....
As a result Apple may have to sell the iPad under a new name in China or pay up to $1.6 billion and purchase the trademark from a Chinese tech firm
You're blaming the gun and not the criminal for the crime. Proper use of CGI and practical effects results in movies like Terminator 2, I fail to see how more puppets and less CGI would have made that a better film.