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Comment Re: Apple Music - too expensive (Score 1) 415

What are you comparing? pandora is $5 a month so your $45 for 18 month seems like a discount. And for that you don't get arbitrary music playlists, just more skips of some algorithmic genre ordering. There's no comparison to here and it's not much of a savings if you really care about what you are listening too. If not just tune in an internet radio station that plays what you like there's thousands of channels out there so you can find one you like.

Comment Re:24/7 Live Global Radio (Score 2) 415

Which doubles as a juicer as well. Just push the carrots through the fan and a revitalizing and nutritious drink is server right on your desktop. Turn that minty green nerd complexion into a sexy carotine tan. This is why all the apple execs look so tan.

Comment Re:Apple Music - too expensive (Score 1) 415

First three months free, $9.99 a month or $14.99 a month for family plan for up to six.

So it's either $10 per person if you're single with only one pay check or $2.50 to $7.50 per person if you're a family with possibly two incomes.

Dear JealousSingleMan, I'll adopt you for $50 a year, so you can qualify for the family plan. Think of the savings!

Comment Future Shock (Score 4, Funny) 415

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.

Comment The fence's warehouse (Score 1) 205

You may personally dislike the guy, but running a public cloud storage service isn't supposed to be illegal. The service had substantial, non-infringing uses, which was previously the litmus test for whether a product exists solely to enable copyright infringement.

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

Comment Ethics (Score 1) 205

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?

Comment Re:intuitively I would think steam would be better (Score 3, Funny) 217

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.

Comment intuitively I would think steam would be better (Score 4, Interesting) 217

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.

Comment The Dining Philosopher and the Musical Kindey (Score 1) 130

This reminded me of Dining Philiopher Problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

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.

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