Comment Re:how much it took (Score 1) 274
A similar system was developed for about 40 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
So the answer is ~.04 'billions'
A similar system was developed for about 40 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
So the answer is ~.04 'billions'
Similar system for 40 million dollars.
http://www.industrytap.com/40-...
Is it just me or are
Actually phasers leave a trail so moviegoers can follow the action in battles.
Hardly billions. The technology that goes into fibre lasers is very cheap and efficient. My guess is that this was made form mostly off the shelf components.
A burst from an A-10 main machine gun costs hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Nothing important should go on facebook!
Licenses and license plates originated as a form of tax, although I agree they offer various forms of social control.
I will take well written procedural code over poorly implemented OO any day... not to mention that I can't remember a single time where I refactored and the LOC wasn't significantly reduced.
It's an IQ test, and they failed!
The important thing to consider though is what the size of the therapeutic dose compared to a hazardous dose.
Our Corgi chewed up my entire GOT collection but won't touch an e-reader.
Or maybe the blogs were being blocked at many schools, businesses and libraries limiting their usefulness and by proxy having much of their non-sex content censored....
There are almost no private venues that are literally censorship free so the dictionary usage of the term is trivial in this context.
But not in the constitutional freedom of speech sense. Not sure why this is even news.
The NYT doesn't publish racy advertisements or articles either. Because they are Evil!
If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.