Comment Disney was a long time ago (Score 3, Funny) 55
Apple was obviously going to buy Disney back when Power Mac G3 came out, as shown by the hidden Mickey on the side of the computer.
(Hint: Rotate the the image 270 degrees)
Apple was obviously going to buy Disney back when Power Mac G3 came out, as shown by the hidden Mickey on the side of the computer.
(Hint: Rotate the the image 270 degrees)
One scalable carbon capture technology turns the CO2 into limestone.
Which is awesome! Where is this deployed!?
Oh. Nowhere. But they may have something next year.
I appreciate all the great technologies that we can look forward to. Personally, my favorite is geothermal--drill a hole in the middle of a coal plant and use that heat instead of the heat from the coal to boil water.. But should we not build solar energy plants because something like this could come along any day now and would make solar obsolete?
Carbon capture could very well give new life to coal/oil/natural gas plants. And if it works, I'm all for it. But while we're waiting, how about we go with solar?
Samsung makes a number of Galaxy Book models, but this is the first one of the past few years that has really targeted the deep-pocketed professional user -- that is, the core audience for Apple's high-powered and wildly expensive MacBook Pro 16.
"The last time I listened to AM radio was in the late 1970s," writes long-time Slashdot reader non-e-moose. "And then it was mostly because there were either no FM stations in reception range, or I was riding my bicycle and only had a transistor radio."
Hell they don't even accidentally reach 140 kph.
Depends on the car...
140 kph is 87 mph. I remember driving a V8-powered car for the first time after years of small cars. I was going highway speed and thought, "What happens if I mash the gas pedal?"
I was doing 90 before I knew it. And it was still accelerating.
Not used to a car with that much power...
If I were an automotive engineer who had decades, or even just years, of experience designing machines that reliably get from point a to point b several hundred miles away [...]
...I wouldn't be working for Dodge.
(rimshot)
How sad can you be where you need artificial engine noises?
I can somewhat understand the desire for artificial engine noises. I grew up driving a stick shift and no tachometer and, yes, I listened to the engine to determine when to shift (up or down). So having some sort of noise which represents the speed or efficiency of the car might be a better solution than some gauge that you look at (versus the road).
That said, there's no excuse for having the noise outside the cabin.
If you get me a soda-fetching robot, I will return to the office.
Every smartphone before iPhone was a full blown piece of shit at anything other than email, which is where the Blackberry stood out.
Actually, they were really good at making phone calls...
You kids today with your texting and your tweeting...
I can do the house faster with my ancient panasonic canister, and the one room carpet gets the shark with beaterbar.
Actually, my Neato cleans the house faster than I can because it does it and I don't have to. I have nice clean carpets and it took zero amount of my time.
We don't know how much 1/6 gravity redresses these problems.
I gotta admit, this is something that annoys me.
When the ISS was first started, one of the modules was going to contain a set of centrifuges for experiments on different amounts of G forces. You could stick mice in there and have them live for 6 months in 1/6G or 1/8G or 1G or 2G or whatever and see what issues they had. It never got off the ground. So all we can do is sit around and go, "Gosh, I don't know how we'll react in different G levels."
Which seems kind of important.
First, for travel. If we're going to have some sort of spinning thing to create "artificial gravity", how fast does it need to spin? Do we need 1G? Can we get by with 0.5G? Do we need to spend all our time in 1G? Can we, say, sleep in 1G for eight hours and work in 0G for 16 hours? Or vice-versa? How would that affect the design of spacecraft, if we had a zero G bunkhouse and 1G working environment (versus having to have room for beds and the working environment all spinning around)
Second, for long-term habitation. Working in a shirt-sleeve environment in 1/6G might be a problem. The solution, though, might be to walk around in a 1000 lb. (on Earth) spacesuit for a few hours. But, again, just because your muscles are getting the workout doesn't mean your heart is necessarily having to work as hard to pump blood in 1/6G. How does that affect things?
We had a lab ready to go to at least try to figure some of that stuff out. Let's get that up there while we still have an ISS where we can research this stuff...
For example, factory workers want to eat something for lunch, so a few restaurants will come into existence.
Assuming that...
Most of the people I know who do assembly-type work are paid very little and have a 30 minute lunch break.
Oh that huge manatee!
With your bare hands?!?