Not correct. The jeep they used was filled with propane canisters, petrol and nails. The Ammonium Nitrate acts as an oxidiser, and these guys didn't have it.
Propane canisters are designed to not explode. The Glasgow terrorists clearly thought that if they just lit a fire under one of them it would explode (playing too much GTA methinks). They didn't even attempt to make proper explosive with an oxidiser.
There will continue to be off road capable vehicles for as long as there is farmers. The difference is these will only be owned by people who use them for their purpose.
I can't see the need for this. Probably 80% of SUV's produced now are hardly capable off road anyway, and so saving them wouldn't really get us anywhere. There will continue to be enough demand for Land Rover Defenders, basic Jeeps etc to make these profitable (or perhaps the companies that make these will go bust, and the rights to build their utilitarian vehicles bought by smaller manufacturers). The SUV craze is a relatively recent phenomenon, and if off road vehicle production goes back to what it was in the sixties and seventies, so be it.
Anyway, it would probably take a year at the most to retool a factory to produce off road vehicles should they be needed. I don't think the problem is as great as you see it.
I'd compare a Macbook to an XPS M1330 rather than an inspiron, as the M1330 has the same screen size.
The two are very similar laptops in fact. The main difference is the expandability - you can get the M1330 with a graphics card (or with the same Intel graphics as the MacBook), and the M1330 comes with an Expresscard slot. After that, there is very little in it, and even price is similar. Really, it is a tradeoff between OSX and Expresscard/option to get extra graphics. I'm currently in the I-need-a-laptop-for-university situation, and I'm really finding it hard to decide what to go for.
I'm hoping the next iteration (rumoured to be Q3) of the macbook will add an expresscard. Then I'll be sold!
It really depends what kind of engineer you mean. There is almost certainly lots of programmers without CS degree's that could outprogram most CS grads, but I think you'd struggle to find an amateur without a degree in Maths or Engineering that had the skillset of a graduate Mech Eng, Civil Eng or any other kind of Eng...
I'm sorry, but in my mind you are certainly a heavy user. Perhaps not to you, but if you average out internet use, the monthly bandwidth usage per account will probably be below 10GB. You cannot download 256GB/month and claim to not be a heavy user - as the great grandparent said, that means you're pulling 800kbit/s constantly. What do you download?
stationary objects by definition cannot orbit. To obtain Low Earth Orbit, you need to be travelling at approximately 17,448 mph.
To understand orbits, have a look at the wikipedia image demonstrating orbits and velocities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Newton_Cannon.svg
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Not correct. The jeep they used was filled with propane canisters, petrol and nails. The Ammonium Nitrate acts as an oxidiser, and these guys didn't have it. Propane canisters are designed to not explode. The Glasgow terrorists clearly thought that if they just lit a fire under one of them it would explode (playing too much GTA methinks). They didn't even attempt to make proper explosive with an oxidiser.
There will continue to be off road capable vehicles for as long as there is farmers. The difference is these will only be owned by people who use them for their purpose. I can't see the need for this. Probably 80% of SUV's produced now are hardly capable off road anyway, and so saving them wouldn't really get us anywhere. There will continue to be enough demand for Land Rover Defenders, basic Jeeps etc to make these profitable (or perhaps the companies that make these will go bust, and the rights to build their utilitarian vehicles bought by smaller manufacturers). The SUV craze is a relatively recent phenomenon, and if off road vehicle production goes back to what it was in the sixties and seventies, so be it. Anyway, it would probably take a year at the most to retool a factory to produce off road vehicles should they be needed. I don't think the problem is as great as you see it.
I'd compare a Macbook to an XPS M1330 rather than an inspiron, as the M1330 has the same screen size. The two are very similar laptops in fact. The main difference is the expandability - you can get the M1330 with a graphics card (or with the same Intel graphics as the MacBook), and the M1330 comes with an Expresscard slot. After that, there is very little in it, and even price is similar. Really, it is a tradeoff between OSX and Expresscard/option to get extra graphics. I'm currently in the I-need-a-laptop-for-university situation, and I'm really finding it hard to decide what to go for. I'm hoping the next iteration (rumoured to be Q3) of the macbook will add an expresscard. Then I'll be sold!
It really depends what kind of engineer you mean. There is almost certainly lots of programmers without CS degree's that could outprogram most CS grads, but I think you'd struggle to find an amateur without a degree in Maths or Engineering that had the skillset of a graduate Mech Eng, Civil Eng or any other kind of Eng...
I'm sorry, but in my mind you are certainly a heavy user. Perhaps not to you, but if you average out internet use, the monthly bandwidth usage per account will probably be below 10GB. You cannot download 256GB/month and claim to not be a heavy user - as the great grandparent said, that means you're pulling 800kbit/s constantly. What do you download?
stationary objects by definition cannot orbit. To obtain Low Earth Orbit, you need to be travelling at approximately 17,448 mph. To understand orbits, have a look at the wikipedia image demonstrating orbits and velocities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Newton_Cannon.svg