I was replying to someone who was suggesting putting it on both sides of the wall, who was replying to someone saying ...all sorts of stuff...

Anyway. I think it's unlikely that this would offer much protection in a tornado. Pressure differences between inside and outside are more likely to be the main problem - causing the roof to blow out which then brings down the walls regardless of what tricky wall paper you're using.

I think this will work great in the application that TFA talks about - protection from bomb blasts.

Come on guys - it's physics.

This material is great in tension - that's it. If you 'bend' a material, the surface closest the the force goes into compression, and the surface away from the force goes into tension. How do you strengthen a wall? Increase the compressive strength of the surface closest outside, or increase the tensile strength of the surface on the inside. Put this stuff on the inside, smack the outside with a wreaking ball, and whatdoyouknow - the wall stands up.

I'm not saying that this isn't cool, but it's not unique - thinking composite materials here. Laminated glass does this kind of thing easily for example, when using the right kinds of laminates.

I used to think that. Then I had a daughter. Her preference for playing with soft toys, 'frilly' things, and pink developed well prior to her being aware of gender differences. And developed in spite of her parents actively discouraging stereotyped clothes, toys, and experiences.

Awesome. Increases in Caribou population are now a key indicator of global environmental stability and local ecological health. We'll have to remodel everything.

Check out the T-Class amplifiers. Cheep, but with audio quality almost unmatched.

Minmatar will kill you all!

Ok, wrong game.

This isn't quite true. There are plenty (a clear majority?!) of wholesale agreement that charge by volume (ie - traffic).

In Australia we've been dealing with this for years now, as a result of the limited international connection here.

Most common ISP plans will have a cap, after which you get throttled. So you don't lose connection, or pay out the nose - you just need to be careful with your allotted download quota if you want to maintain good speeds. This is not to say that there aren't ISP's out to gouge you on additional fees - but there are plenty to choose from who actually play fair.

Additionally many places allow you to purchase more download at reasonable rates once you hit your cap.

Capping is no big deal. Many people wonder why you Yanks get yourselves worked up about it.

I would hazard a guess that the introduction of cap plans will also allow more competition from smaller ISP's who probably currently cannot subsidize their power-users from their light user base.

God man, just go to Thailand and get around a bit in an unregistered car there. Then come back (if you can) and tell us that registration and inspections don't increase safety!

The cameras in the phones don't even come close to the image quality of a canon ixis, which most people seem to carry in addition to their phones (I've got my daugter with me, which guarentees a steady stream of photos).

Sure, phones have a decent resolution camera, but that doesn't get you image quality. Sure enough, some people do use their phones to take photos ( hell, even I do) but for the most, people seem to be using real cameras.

I've also seen a surprising number of iPhones. Mostly in use by businessmen/adult men. All the kids and women still have their flip phones (can't call them clamshells anymore - they're the wrong proportions).

Here in Japan right now. The phones like always are kinda cool, but they're also big, and full of useless features that the kids use for about a week and then don't bother with.

Yes, people use them for video calls and watching TV. Great.

The interfaces make you want to kill yourself though.

I wish this was true, but I still get the bloody things - averaging about 1 a month.

Yes, I know, must be hardware/drivers/rouge sheep/etc/etc. I do work them pretty hard.

But the fact is, I get them on my windows machines. I haven't got a kernel panic on the macs since early 10.4 days.

You're like the guy who arrives late to the party and then begins to tell the same jokes that everyone's been laughing at already for the past 2 hours.

They're only funny once. Grow up.

It does in almost every other country than the US. I'd say that's more a reflection of the USA telecom industry than Apple's ambitions.

A strong possibility, eh?

But according to you, Correlation does not imply Causation!!!