I've been beta testing this feature and you are right about it being useful with the News and Stockmarket app. It seems buggy though because I can get it to turn past the 2016 NASA news release about an unseen asteroid suddenly passing by the moon heading for earth. The only apps that continues further into the future is the weather app which reports blackout skies, and 2700K surface temperatures with rains of ash and nitric acid. And The health app shows my pulse rapidly rising then flat lining about that time. Facebook shows I was unfriended by the whole world and all the you tubes are of a fireball in the sky, but nothing past that date.

The watch actually allows you to travel into the future as well. It's a beta version so the rate of travel is really slow right now, but you can feel youself travel about 1/sec into the future every 1/sec if you watch mickey mouse's hands. If you put it in developer mode there's also a timetravel stop watch. It freezes the whole world except you. I was using it to rob a bank one day and I dropped it. So I traveled back in time to post this on slashdot to warn everyone about this.

Much as a Fencing operation or a chop shop might occupy similar premises to legitimate businesses?

Sside from all the niceties of whether copying does or doesn't take the original from its owner, or whether one is legally entitled to copy something, isn't the basic notion of copying or making available someone else's works, for which they fully wish to have a copyright, ethically wrong?

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THey claimed selling point, that it's gentler on the aircraft seems questionable. Why? Steam just provides a force, how quickly you change that into momentum should be up to you. It's not like steam is an explosion that can't be accurately regulated. It's just valves.

Here's my guess. When they built the steam system they decided to make it failsafe so that one the acceleration started it completed itself just by physics not by precision timing of valves. That way you didn't huck planes into the ocean due to a stuck valve. Presumably this led to less fine grained control of the force versus velocity curve.

I would guess that the electrical one will not have that desirable characteristic. What happens if one of the capacitor banks fails or the electro magnet blows up right during the discharge process? Nothing good I would bet.

No doubt this thought has not eluded them but it sounds to me like people on a project overselling their good features and ignoring possible showstoppers early in the development process. After all maybe they won't show up down the road as being important.

Perhaps an ideal system would be a hybrid. You run the steam with 120% of the FxDistance to get the plane in the sky, and then you run the electrical system in opposition, trimming off 20% of the force. That way it fails safe, but it also has the perfect force curve on the airframe.

Steam seems like an ideal solution to me. Steam expands so well the dynamic range of it's force curve seems apropos to the task. How much of the EM energy goes into force? surge currents and magneto striction are usually things people find shorten the lifetime of electo devices yet here they are at the extreme in these. Presumably there's no shortage of steam available and it's a great way to store energy.

This reminded me of Dining Philiopher Problem
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And you post seems to indicate the Philophers got Diabetes from eating too much.

While obesity is rampant it's not always a matter of bad habits. There are lots of reasons people have difficulty controlling their weight and it's not just self control around food.

Spider silk in equivalent quantities has tensile strenght above mild steel and it's tougher than kelvlar. (yes toughness is actually a real quantiative metric if a bad choice of words).

Holy crap the video is impressive. It clearly parses phrased and dependent logical statements like " what is the population of the capitol of the country in which the space needle is located. " It alos parsed paragraph long multi-part questions. I was floored.

As for homophones, how do you (human) recognize them. Well you parse the logical context. If you are doing single word dictation homophones will always be a problem but for queries there's context. And the demo shows this thing can handle some staggering conditional contexts and long phrases. So I would guess that if your query is not ambiguous in the use of the word Waze, then this thing is approachi8ng a level where it will indeed get the right homophone.

2.3M isn't much for even one supersonic research project. 2.3M for 8 is 300K. That's less than the cost of 2-engineer years at most companies. If they need an actual lab forget it.

The voltage curve for most Alkaline batteries hits 1.3 volts after about 20 to 30% of it's usefully extracable energy. then the curve flattens out dropping the next 0.3 volts to 1 volt after about 70 to 80% of the energy after which is drops like a rock.

So if you could reclaim that 80% energy that might seem like 4x more or a total of 5x energy recovery. But the boost to 1.5v takes the energy out faster so in terms of time rather than energy recovery the lifetime is not increased so much.

let's make some guesses and see where that gets us. Assume that there is a 0.2 volt diode drop somewhere in the system--- this seems pretty likely for any active circuit. So that means it's effectively boosting to 1.7 volts then the diode takes a cut. I can't do the integral in my brain so lets assume that the mean voltage it is boosting from is 1.1volts. So going from 1.1v to 1.7 volts means it is extracting about 33% more current than is actually in use. Thus it seems like this thing is going to suck down the battery pretty fast.

So yeah it recovers all the energy which might be 5x a normal 1.3 volts cut out. But it wont last 5x longer cause it takes a big cut.

No I use a bigger font so it's an new work of art

I suspect that the ATM won't recognize your personally unless you have your mouth open and your eyes closed.

Since copyright is dead I just created an new web site called slashdot.com. It copies all the content from slashdot.org and uses that site as its backend. I just replace the ads with my own, but you won't notice any difference really. Oh and it also deletes all the Dice Astroturf articles for added value to you my viewers. So please start using my new site instead of the old one. You can check it out while you are pirating some music or videos in this age of copyright nullity.

Subsidies are policy implementation devices. When people take the subsidies under the condition the subsidies are offered the result is that something the government wants to happen happens. Theoretically its an inexpensive way to get things done without the government doing it and assuring private investment in the outcome. (so there's vested interest in successes and usually commercialization).

Just because one guy happens to feed at the trough isn't a problem neccessarily. It could be. But that's why you have oversight.