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Oh, so Apple is sending a dozen computers?
Oh, so Apple is sending a dozen computers?
But irrational people insist on it.
Yup, for a while, it has been my retirement dream to buy a couple "touring motorcycles", and a 6-place, twin-engine airplane modded with a cargo door/ramp (Cessna 421 Golden Eagle or the like,) and tour the world.
It would be great if the Terrefugia TF-X is ready by the time I'm ready to retire. (And, of course, to have the money for either option...)
This isn't a "flying car", it's a "roadable airplane", just like the Terrefugia Transition: http://www.terrafugia.com/airc...
It is licensed as an airplane, with many, MANY exceptions when licensed as a ground vehicle. The idea is that you drive it a short distance to an airport, then take off and fly as an airplane. Then drive a short distance to somewhere at the other end. It's not meant to be driven even as much as a high-end sports car on the ground. It's mean as "get to airport, fly, get to destination."
As for "production-ready", Terrefugia claims theirs is "production-ready," too...
Agreed. I learned about the Gravitational constant and the variability of gravity in high school physics in the US.
One of my proudest moments in high school physics was running a "measure gravity" experiment 3 times, getting to within 0.005 m/s^2 of the right answer all 3 times - for where I was! I thought for sure I was doing it wrong, until the teacher said "and if some of you are getting a number other than a simple 9.8, it's because the local gravity here is actually
No, that came out after I stopped buying. And the Death Star, and the Star Destroyer...
But I now have permission from my wife to buy TWO of the next similar "ridiculously expensive Ultimate" set. One to keep for myself, one to re-sell three years later.
Okay, give me your mailing address, and I will print out the relevant Wikipedia articles and mail them to you on a postcard.
"...the highest ranked and lowest ranked offerors were separated by a minor amount of total points and other factors were equally comparable."
AKA: "We were bottom, but dammit, not by that much!"
Lining the window sill of my home office. Pretty much every minifig-scale non-collectors set from the launch of LEGO Star Wars through 2003. Original Trilogy only. I also have the "Collectors" TIE Interceptor and the "Destroyer Droid" Technic; plus a smattering of prequel trilogy sets (that were all given to me as gifts by people that knew I had the SW collection, and didn't know better,) on a shelf.
Plus a few (less than a dozen) of my old childhood toys (all smaller ones,) in a "keepsake box" in the attic.
Oh, and on the LEGO front, I have one of each "primary" LEGO Space minifig from the launch of LEGO Space through the discontinuation of the LEGO Space theme. So not the one-offs, but if it appeared as a "generic" Space minifig at some point during the theme's run, it's in there.
Fahrenheit 451 wins because it is directly about the banning of books.
Yup, and I have alternate ROMs for my original iPhone that adds essentially all the features of iOS 7 (obviously excepting things that are missing in hardware, of course.)
Find me an Android from 2010 that can run KitKat.
Find me more than two Android devices that got KitKat on launch day.
Yes, Apple ruthless abandons old devices. But you KNOW it's happening. The iPad 1 was the only "surprise! We discontinued support earlier than you thought!" device, but even then, you knew when iOS 6 was first announced that it was going to happen. And if you get support, you get it on day 1. Today, the iPhone 4S and newer, iPad 2 and newer, and iPod touch 5 all get iOS 8.
Android devices are a complete mixed bag. You may get good support for 2-3 years, you might get screwed with zero updates ever. You might get the update on day 1, you might get it 6 months later.
Android has many ways it is far superior to iOS, but release reliability and long-term device support are *NOT* among them.
I like that he has a six-digit ID... New Here is older than the vast majority of
HAHAHAHAHHAHAA!!!!
The negativity of all the quotes bits should have clued you off.
That's exactly what I do. Main screen is for "use it every day" with no folders at all, second screen is for "use very often, divided by theme" such as "financial", "media" (which means media consumption for me, so Netflix, Hulu, etc,) "Photo", "science", "sports". Third screen is games, subdivided by category. Fourth screen is "I almost never use these, but space is cheap, so I'll just stuff them here" - mostly store apps that I only have so that Passbook works right with them, apps that Siri integrates with so that I can tap results and have them launch properly (Yelp, etc,) and other things that when I really want to use them, I end up launching them another way. (Google Doc, Sheet, Slide; which I launch via Drive almost exclusively.)
Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.