Comment Re:It didn't go entirely to plan (Score 1) 76
I believe the Apollo capsule landed at ~20mph, and was certified for landing on solid ground if it missed the sea (e.g. launch pad abort).
I believe the Apollo capsule landed at ~20mph, and was certified for landing on solid ground if it missed the sea (e.g. launch pad abort).
The US and UK looked at aircraft carrier submarines in the between WWI and WWII and eventually gave up on the idea because of the technical and operational problems.
If, by 'looked at', you mean 'built'. Can't vouch for America, but Britain's M2 was operational for a few years before it sank in the mid-20s.
That's on its face illegal in the USA, though. You'd have to go through the hard mile with the SEC and the IRS before that type of scheme could happen.
Yes.
Thanks to the US government 'protecting' you from companies that take your money, promise a share of the business and then never deliver, you're only allowed to give your money to companies that take your money, don't promise a share of the business, and may or may not do anything. Which is clearly much, much better.
So now we'll have to pay for million dollar bullets on top of everything else?
Cheap at double the price!
We're supposed to believe this will "[pass] light around the individual drops and improving visibility"?
This was mentioned a few years ago, for example: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-s...
I presume this must be the same people. But I agree, I'd rather pay $5 for a replacement headlight bulb than $5,000.
That must have been quite a task. Apparently, Google had no clue about how the the software they write, maintain and distribute, would work on a piece of hardware that they themselves chose.
At the time they released the original Nexus 7, Android was slow as molasses on any hardware I used. Performance has been one of the biggest steps forward in the last few Android releases, though they still seem to need significantly more CPU and RAM than an iPad.
Yeah, when my Nexus 7 dies, I'll probably be getting an iPad, unless Google produce a sane-sized tablet with sane permission controls.The new ones are too big, too expensive, and too full of spyware.
Whereas 5.0 was fine for me, but 5.1 seems to be a clunker. The Kindle app, for example, now likes to hang up so I have to kill it.
No, the Constitution was written to prevent these people gaining power, by giving the Federal government so little power that there was no point trying to buy them.
Sadly, the 'Progressives' came along demanding that government must be given more and more power, and it's been downhill ever since.
When people talk about 'innovation in aviation', I don't think they mean 'stuffing more people into smaller seats'.
I'd imagine easy money is the big problem. Why spend time inventing something actually useful, when a VC will lend you millions of dollars to build some new hipster site that you can sell to pension funds for a billion dollars.
And you'll always be able to turn off Windows Boot on a new PC.
Ha-ha-ha. How dumb do you think we are?
Yes. With Microsoft working so hard to keep alternate operating systems off the PC, they'll soon just be legacy devices to run crusty old Windows software for which there's no alternative on other devices.
Microsoft have been pushing this for over ten years. I remember a Microsoft talk in 2001 where they told us they wanted hardware DRM in graphics cards to beat the evil pirates.
Now, when Windows has become almost irrelevant, particularly as a media consumption platform, they've finally achieved their goal. Microsoft FTW!
This. XP is dead, get on with the times, especially something like iTunes where the old excuse of corporate software forcing you to stay on XP most certainly doesn't apply since it's strictly a consumer application.
We keep an XP machine around solely to run iTurds, because we could never get it to work in Wine.
So you're saying I should have to go and pay Microsoft for that Window 8 crap just so my girlfriend can continue to load music on her iPod?
Of course, fuel efficiency is not the only problem with SUVs. That extra ground clearance makes them awful for road visibility because it's much more difficult to see through or around them from a regular sized vehicle, so every SUV on the road makes driving more dangerous for everyone.
And, when I was driving my mid-engined sports car, I couldn't even see past a Volvo, because my eyes were level with its door handle. Should they be banned, too?
Basically, your argument reduces to 'WAH! WAH! WAH! ME NOT LIKE! WAH! WAH!'.
Happiness is twin floppies.
