I'm sure they built it that huge just for funsies. Surely it didn't occur to them to use smaller rotors, you know, like every single helicopter ever built on Earth. They probably just didn't think of it.
Man, people who do things that have never been done before are so dumb...
"Can i bring my reader to their store and walk out with an ebook loaded?"
I don't really disagree with what you've said, but I have no idea why you would want to go to a specific place to get an ebook. That's a use case I don't understand. Why would that be good?
True...absent monopoly interference.
That's a business decision by one business (who happens to be going out of business). So, yeah, not the same.
Don't forget about the landing fuel you have to tote with you along your whole trip. That is not trivial weight.
You just described the nature of the problem, and tried to say "See? No problem! As designed!" Good jorb?
You know that more than one person expressing different opinions is not, in fact, hypocrisy, right?
And the "intrepid imaginaut" can't imagine a world where people, I don't know, have a different experience?
What makes you think I haven't tried something else? I've got a perfectly good Kindle right here. It's fine...well designed, well made, nice piece of hardware...but I
(there's the key word, everybody)
the utility of an LCD (LED OLED whateverthehell) tablet.
The farce here is that one person somewhere thinks they've got some kind of read about Immutable Truths of How Reading Works, and that's just silly. You don't. I don't. GP doesn't. It will be OK.
"the simple reality is that you can't read books or even lengthy texts as easily from a luminescent monitor as from an e-ink display."
Simply not true. I can, and do, and your wishing won't stop me.
"but you didn't have people selling their book collections when laptops became common"
That's a form factor thing, not a backlit screen thing.
eink/epaper is great. I happen to prefer the flexibility of an LCD. Neither preference should get you all hot n' bothered, because it's just that: A preference. For
Space exploration is an intellectual curiosity. Space colonization and exploitation is, in the medium to long term, the only thing that matters.
...huh? Do you need a hug?
Lawsuits.
If you're thinking of the PowerMac 5300, no, nobody counts that as the Pro line.
What are you going to do? Not pay for the free service?
One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
