A NEW commercial supersonic plane. Is that better? Point remains, if ticket prices are even half what Concorde's were, this will be a niche market, serving coast to coast travelers and international travelers. Your odds of being impacted by the noise are low. REGULAR airliners have to follow strict noise abatement procedures. No reason to think a supersonic plane would be any different near a major airport,
yeah they are going to be absolutely CIRCLING your house... A commercial supersonic aircraft isn't coming any time soon even once the sonic boom is addressed. On top of that, when it DOES happen, it will be a few planes on a few daily runs for a long time to come. Assuming you're still alive at that point, and still living where you currently do, it's pretty slim odds that you would ever hear one of these things.
when you hear a thump two or three times a day, just pretend it's a tree falling in the woods and get all philosophical about it.
My understanding, from friends that have been to Japan, and watching japanophile shows like Japanology+, was that the trains in Japan were almost disgustingly punctual. Is that not the case?
My friends may have been amazed due to comparison to U.S rail systems.
Exactly. If you don't swap CPU's within a couple of years there's not much point keeping the mobo. Given how overpowered most CPU's are for typical game and productivity, I struggle to figure out why someone would do that. By the time most people start wanting a new computer these days the CPU/mobo are very long in the tooth.
This is cool and all, but if someone is going to hack a card and sell it to you, do you expect to have any recourse if you see that it's a fake after the sale?
A semester of statistics and a semester of geometry would be much more beneficial than the typical full semester of geometry to the majority of high school students.
wait a second. are you really saying that shit on the streets in one of the most heavily taxed and expensive cities in the country is acceptable because of someone's political views?
Reality check...you can't please enough people to make headway. There is ALWAYS some group large enough to wield power that opposes any large scale alternative energy. Jesus, they can't even agree on waste storage. Didn't congress end up demanding that Yucca mountain be proven secure for 1 million years? Thank the special interests for that clusterf***.
Nuclear: no scary atoms in my backyard
Large scale solar: You're killing the spotted rhinoceros beetle
Large scale wind: Chops up birds, also, my scenery sucks now
" rest of the world is moving off fossil fuels"
Making plans to be off fossil fuels by 20XX is not the same thing and is subject to change at any time.
How about some new games that aren't Pokemon? I love my Switch, but Nintendo really seems to have shot their wad in year one. I don't see anything of the quality of Zelda, Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 or even Arms coming anytime soon. I'm not impressed with the post launch release of ports of Doom, Skyrim and LA Noire. All games I loved on PC, but $50 for an older game? They are regularly in the bargain bin on Steam.
It's really disappointing to hear them talking about hardware refreshes.
Why would anyone be surprised? This is APPLE. A company that has done quite well being a hand holding, app curating, experience controlling nanny to millions of people. Why would they change?
Is this the most pressing need? CA is a state full of idealists that "fix" things, then move on to the next shiny issue. Five years later, they fix the "fix" that never worked. All the while bleeding money.
I see the nostalgic charm in 2D consoles where you expect simple, flat graphics. They really don't age that badly. 3D on the other hand...I've tried to go back and play some old PC games from GoG and it's too painful to deal with the primitive 3D. It's just too obvious and really overshadows the rest of the game, no matter how good.
yeah that's what I was thinking. We have a pretty good idea what will happen if we build it. We just can't build it with current tech. I'd love to see one in my lifetime.
Wonder what the practical applications of this Japanese project are.
But looking at statistics per capita is just fine when slagging off America about education, medical care or countless other things.
Hundreds of millions of citizens, hundreds of millions of guns, yet somehow the inanimate object is still held up as the problem. Millions of people living peacefully and owning guns without hurting anyone. I guess if there were no guns, there would be no death right? No stabbing, no bludgeoning, no driving through crowds. We'd be in a peaceful utopia of kindness, right? Like in Europe where nothing bad ever happens, right?
The overwhelming majority of gun deaths in the U.S. are drug/gang related. End the bullshit war on drugs and watch them drop. Next up, suicide. Stop gutting mental health treatment and revolving door committals for at risk people. There you go, massive decrease in gun deaths. That would cost money though. Gotta keep the prison industry rolling. Can't waste money on crazies when we need to fund pork. Easier to distract the masses with "guns bad, history bad, group-think good".
Hardly a word of praise for Valve/Steam for saying "we're tired of waiting for devs to get on board with linux support". Instead, the inevitable debate about how Wine is better, overlooking the work it takes to keep a game working in Wine long term. Linux users have bemoaned the lack of games on the platform, give them games and they bemoan the delivery method too. If you can't do it from the command line, it's just not "real" linux i guess.
If IBM is on it, the hype is indeed dying. They will sell this to as many dupes as they can find willing to pay those billable hours for a failed "solution".
Seriously? Anyone with criminal intent is NOT going to take the time to print a lower first. They aren't even going to buy a printed one. They will buy a complete rifle from some asshat street corner dealer, or some shmuck that thinks just because someone met them in the walmart parking lot, they still have to sell them their rifle despite them being dodgy looking. Except no they won't buy that either. They will get a handgun. The number of crimes involving guns, where a rifle of any type was used is such a small percentage that the FBI doesn't even break it out any further than "rifles".
Real guns are easier to get than this fairy tale. Sure, print yourself a complete Glock clone and watch it fail after 5 shots or pay $50 for a stolen one.
That's funny. I always found it amusing and sad that my office would freak out over a 3" pocket knife, but would gladly purchase razor sharp 10" scissors for everyone... derp...
How do you call that an improvement? Lead stays around damn near forever. Horse crap, or an infectious patch of it doesn't. Lead exposure is causing health issues decades after the last horse and buggy were off the streets.
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what do you mean? more expenses, higher prices passed on to customers. wonderful, now you're paying for service AND for the robocalls...
A NEW commercial supersonic plane. Is that better? Point remains, if ticket prices are even half what Concorde's were, this will be a niche market, serving coast to coast travelers and international travelers. Your odds of being impacted by the noise are low. REGULAR airliners have to follow strict noise abatement procedures. No reason to think a supersonic plane would be any different near a major airport,
yeah they are going to be absolutely CIRCLING your house... A commercial supersonic aircraft isn't coming any time soon even once the sonic boom is addressed. On top of that, when it DOES happen, it will be a few planes on a few daily runs for a long time to come. Assuming you're still alive at that point, and still living where you currently do, it's pretty slim odds that you would ever hear one of these things.
when you hear a thump two or three times a day, just pretend it's a tree falling in the woods and get all philosophical about it.
My understanding, from friends that have been to Japan, and watching japanophile shows like Japanology+, was that the trains in Japan were almost disgustingly punctual. Is that not the case?
My friends may have been amazed due to comparison to U.S rail systems.
There's a big difference between announcing a reachable goal but not reaching it and actually announcing a goal you KNOW in advance is unreachable.
Exactly. If you don't swap CPU's within a couple of years there's not much point keeping the mobo. Given how overpowered most CPU's are for typical game and productivity, I struggle to figure out why someone would do that. By the time most people start wanting a new computer these days the CPU/mobo are very long in the tooth.
This is cool and all, but if someone is going to hack a card and sell it to you, do you expect to have any recourse if you see that it's a fake after the sale?
A semester of statistics and a semester of geometry would be much more beneficial than the typical full semester of geometry to the majority of high school students.
wait a second. are you really saying that shit on the streets in one of the most heavily taxed and expensive cities in the country is acceptable because of someone's political views?
I can't wait for everything, everywhere to be censored as hate speech. Ahhh the silence...
" because _strawman_ won't let it."
Reality check...you can't please enough people to make headway. There is ALWAYS some group large enough to wield power that opposes any large scale alternative energy. Jesus, they can't even agree on waste storage. Didn't congress end up demanding that Yucca mountain be proven secure for 1 million years? Thank the special interests for that clusterf***.
Nuclear: no scary atoms in my backyard
Large scale solar: You're killing the spotted rhinoceros beetle
Large scale wind: Chops up birds, also, my scenery sucks now
" rest of the world is moving off fossil fuels"
Making plans to be off fossil fuels by 20XX is not the same thing and is subject to change at any time.
" You are now at the mercy of those who decided how things should function, rather than your own choices."
Sounds like a certain company with a fruity name. Sadly, large numbers of people are obviously willing to accept that kind of hand holding.
How about some new games that aren't Pokemon? I love my Switch, but Nintendo really seems to have shot their wad in year one. I don't see anything of the quality of Zelda, Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 or even Arms coming anytime soon. I'm not impressed with the post launch release of ports of Doom, Skyrim and LA Noire. All games I loved on PC, but $50 for an older game? They are regularly in the bargain bin on Steam.
It's really disappointing to hear them talking about hardware refreshes.
Before VLC for Android, MX was my main video app.
Why would anyone be surprised? This is APPLE. A company that has done quite well being a hand holding, app curating, experience controlling nanny to millions of people. Why would they change?
Is this the most pressing need? CA is a state full of idealists that "fix" things, then move on to the next shiny issue. Five years later, they fix the "fix" that never worked. All the while bleeding money.
I see the nostalgic charm in 2D consoles where you expect simple, flat graphics. They really don't age that badly. 3D on the other hand...I've tried to go back and play some old PC games from GoG and it's too painful to deal with the primitive 3D. It's just too obvious and really overshadows the rest of the game, no matter how good.
yeah that's what I was thinking. We have a pretty good idea what will happen if we build it. We just can't build it with current tech. I'd love to see one in my lifetime.
Wonder what the practical applications of this Japanese project are.
But looking at statistics per capita is just fine when slagging off America about education, medical care or countless other things.
Hundreds of millions of citizens, hundreds of millions of guns, yet somehow the inanimate object is still held up as the problem. Millions of people living peacefully and owning guns without hurting anyone. I guess if there were no guns, there would be no death right? No stabbing, no bludgeoning, no driving through crowds. We'd be in a peaceful utopia of kindness, right? Like in Europe where nothing bad ever happens, right?
The overwhelming majority of gun deaths in the U.S. are drug/gang related. End the bullshit war on drugs and watch them drop. Next up, suicide. Stop gutting mental health treatment and revolving door committals for at risk people. There you go, massive decrease in gun deaths. That would cost money though. Gotta keep the prison industry rolling. Can't waste money on crazies when we need to fund pork. Easier to distract the masses with "guns bad, history bad, group-think good".
Hardly a word of praise for Valve/Steam for saying "we're tired of waiting for devs to get on board with linux support". Instead, the inevitable debate about how Wine is better, overlooking the work it takes to keep a game working in Wine long term. Linux users have bemoaned the lack of games on the platform, give them games and they bemoan the delivery method too. If you can't do it from the command line, it's just not "real" linux i guess.
"it'll be first and foremost their products, the missiles, dishing out the nuclear hell."
As if SpaceX wouldn't take a bite if the government offered them a bit of the ballistic missile pie.
If IBM is on it, the hype is indeed dying. They will sell this to as many dupes as they can find willing to pay those billable hours for a failed "solution".
Seriously? Anyone with criminal intent is NOT going to take the time to print a lower first. They aren't even going to buy a printed one. They will buy a complete rifle from some asshat street corner dealer, or some shmuck that thinks just because someone met them in the walmart parking lot, they still have to sell them their rifle despite them being dodgy looking. Except no they won't buy that either. They will get a handgun. The number of crimes involving guns, where a rifle of any type was used is such a small percentage that the FBI doesn't even break it out any further than "rifles".
Real guns are easier to get than this fairy tale. Sure, print yourself a complete Glock clone and watch it fail after 5 shots or pay $50 for a stolen one.
That's funny. I always found it amusing and sad that my office would freak out over a 3" pocket knife, but would gladly purchase razor sharp 10" scissors for everyone... derp...
How do you call that an improvement? Lead stays around damn near forever. Horse crap, or an infectious patch of it doesn't. Lead exposure is causing health issues decades after the last horse and buggy were off the streets.