Comment Dyneema (Score 1) 248
There are examples of cable that are strong enough in long stretches (2.5km), light (~10kg) and have a high break strength. Such as used in a glider winch. I guess there are extra demands to an elevator.
I don't want my fucking computer to feel like it's on a first name basis with me. I don't want to talk to it. I don't want my computer constantly listening to and parsing everything I say. I sure as shit don't want that crap integrated with an ad platform.
While I get it, and I understand... it is the future...
Just not in the current version...
I've played around with Siri on my iPhone, it works, sort of, most of the time...
It needs to work all the time and be smarter... but it will get better...
The "vision" is the way people talk to the computer on Star Trek: TNG. It won't happen in 5 or 10 years, but I think we'll see that within our lifetimes...
With a magical lightweight power cord, perhaps?
Power it using lasers - duh.
The problem really isn't and hasn't ever been animation sites. The problem is that Flash has often been used where it doesn't belong; forms on business sites, ENTIRE web sites built using flash so you cannot bookmark a page, and stuff like that, and Flash doesn't work particularly well on touch screens. Like BLINK, Flash has been used and abused to the point where it is an abomination.
Well that's the whole problem: democracy is subject to the voters, so if the voters are blithering idiots, well you're not going to get a very good government.
This is why democracy simply doesn't work in countries with moronic, uneducated populaces such as Zimbabwe, Egypt, or the United States.
the bottom line is, even if people know Vivaldi wrote a a well known piece of music with 4 suites like the program (get it),
More generally, Vivaldi wrote more than forty operas. Which, I think is the actual reference - he founded/wrote Opera.
It is not hard to find large numbers of cheap motherboards with IDE controllers...
Heck, you can still buy addin cards new with such controllers.
This won't be an issue for awhile and the data should be moved to newer drives by then anyway.
I don't think it's an interferometer. It's a standard diffraction lens, just like the Canon one you linked, that produces a real image, not an interference pattern. You could stand at the focal point and see an image.
It would be an interferometer if you put a ring of telescopes on the rim instead of at the focus.
So long as you're not looking at something really close, the little bit of parallax you get by going around the planet isn't going to cause too many problems. And if you're looking at something where it does matter, you just take shorter exposures and stack them. As a bonus you get 3D measurements.
"Grandpa, what are those things called, again?"
Suck it youngsters!
I live in Virginia Beach and still have a copper POTS line with Verizon -- my TV and internet are via coax from Cox. Having copper has it's advantages, like (1) still working in an extended power outage, (2) not having to pay for the replacement battery in the eMTA modem and (3) being able to get phone service from third-party provider. Once you switch to FiOS or simply phone over fiber, you're stuck having to use Verizon over that media and they will *not* ever switch you back to copper.
During one of the last bad hurricanes that caused an extended power outage of a few days, copper landlines were of the few working phones (land or wireless) in my neighborhood / area. I've only been w/o phone service *once* here since 1985, when the power when out across the city for over a week after a hurricane, when the Verizon generators finally ran out of fuel.
No, you're missing the point... In Texas, you fool me twice... you won't be fooling anyone ever again... that is the idea...
Over 50 million guns are in Texas... it is estimated that 20% of all the guns in the US are in Texas...
And the irony? We actually have one of the lowest murder rates via gun of any state in the country.
When companies can "effectively" just "buy laws" (and/or Politicians) corruption knows no bounds for price gouging.
Not just companies. The political network overseen by the Koch brothers is getting ready to spend $900 Million on the 2016 elections.
Now the Kochs’ network will embark on its largest drive ever to influence legislation and campaigns across the country, leveraging Republican control of Congress and the party’s dominance of state Capitols to push for deregulation, tax cuts and smaller government.
The documents revealed today show just how deeply Comcast is involved with certain politicians, and how they were able to get them on board.
"on board"
I always thought Pascal was better for most purposes than C and its offspring.
Ok, has anyone ever written an OS kernel in Pascal? How about bare-metal code which tweaks registers?
For commercial airliners built for multiple customers, the company designing/building the aircraft usually has at least a few test articles that they have full ownership of. These get tested with their own pilots.
^ This..
Boeing has test pilots on full time salary who do nothing but fly for Boeing...
Boeing also owns the planes and builds them...
But keep in mind that Virgin Galactic is the airline here, with a spaceplane being built for them. So VG shouldn't really be involved in tested, it should be 100% within Scaled, unless VG actually owns this thing, in which case it should be 100% within VG.
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.
