There's no way the planet got to where it was without a cooling mechanism. More cloud cover is likely one. More heat means more evaluation means more clouds. The ice caps don't cool the planet, they help keep the temperature stable.

As earth heats up, cooling mechanisms should increase. It's not instantaneous of course. Until the cooling mechanisms outpace the heating mechanisms, ice is going to keep melting year after year. The speed ice melts probably has more to do with surface area, ice depth, and cloud cover more than ambient temperature.

Yes there is, because you could create it on demand rather than carrying the gases with you all the time.

So nobody's invented a ballast tank that works by creating a vacuum yet? No lightweight material that can maintain shape at 14 psi?

To me a helicopter/hot air ballon/motorcycle hybrid seems feasible.

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Shouldn't the patent be on how it's done and not that it's done at all? That's like patenting the concept of a machine that seperates fibers from its seeds and not actually patenting the cotton gin itself.

some 'tard mod clearly didn't get the 40 year old virgin quote

You know when you grab a woman's breast... and it's... and you feel it and it feels like a bag of sand when you touch it...

I was going to say, how does this perform on large queries in a large database.

Sticking with the subject of attaching a credit card reader to an Apple device, there's a business in my city that uses an iPad with a credit card reader on it to do their transactions. Pretty slick considering point of sale (POS) systems used to run for $1.5k-$2k each.

But then on one busy day I saw the cashier constantly swapping the charger and credit card reader in and out because there's only one slot on an iPad. So clearly there's a drawback with that system.

Seems like the natural upgrade is to just have a tablet that can be on a charger AND support a credit/debit card reader at the same time. Bingo, cheap touch screen POS system. Is there one out there that already does this?

If the data you are cramming into a file doesn't naturally fit into a tabular format that you would want to selectively recall at random times, then I would question why you would ever "realize" you need a database.

My wife got her account by going through this thing where you e-mail them from another e-mail and you have to answer questions like subject lines, contacts, recent e-mails, etc. We had the right answers and the foreign retards on the other end kept denying us. Eventually I realized that they don't understand what I'm saying when I put "clearly I'm not a robot" in my e-mail, so you have to answer every question they give and leave out anything extra.

This is also why I no longer associate phone numbers with any account anymore.

I think hotmail has a security bug where old login/challenge hashes become reusable after some time. My wife had a strong password and after months of inactivity her account got hacked and was spamming emails just like this guy described. The worse part is she had an old phone number on her account and ms required that she send a text from it to unlock her account.

You can still access hotmail via pop3. If you want to dump your emails this is the only way

Once kickstarter becomes overloaded with projects it won't be much of a service anymore. I think now is a good time to jump in, though.

If you look at the donations compared to the money donated, almost all successful projects require someone or multiple people to shell out way more than a copy of the product would cost.