Maybe robots could build desalination plants?
It's pretty damn sure that humans never will...
We're well on our way to getting one built in Carlsbad, near San Diego. I hope there are more to follow.
"It will produce 50 million gallons of water per day and will provide 7% of the potable water needs for the San Diego region."
Cool. Now you only need to build another 14 of them to satisfy the water needs of the area...
Maybe robots could build desalination plants?
It''s pretty damn sure that humans never will; they'll plan them, and then shelve the plans, over and over. At least robots are single-minded enough to actually do the work.
Ohh FFS -- that was at the initial launch and not done as a fuck you but simply because they were more interested in just getting the new product and OS out the door.
It was definitely a "fuck you, this is a phone; this is not another fucking Newton".
Full disclosure: I was an Apple Core OS kernel team member at the time. I wrote 7% of the kernel that runs on the things.
IIRC FAR 103 doesn't allow flying over cities.
That's a misdemeanor.
No, it is made very clear that Pearson was a subcontractor to Apple. The total contract was Apples, so the fault/responsibility is Apples.
If they had simply sold the ipads and said 'go look for some software' it would be very different.. but they did not.
When someone preloads software that you request be preloaded on a device, that does *NOT* make the software vendor of that software a "subcontractor".
Unless, you know, (1) there was a contract between Apple and Pearson relating to contract line items, and (2) There was *no* contract between LA Unified and Pearson, and (3) LA Unified did not specify the curriculum software to use, and (4) Apple was acting as a slaes agent, rather than as an intermediary.
The breakdown they (LA Unified) gave was:
Special Case ($80);
3-year Apple Care warranty ($150);
Pre-loaded apps ($13-$21);
Pearson curriculum ($150-$300);
PD ($20); and
Buffer Pool ($20).
So it's pretty clear that they meet none of the criteria for subcontractor under the contract.
The felony wasn't.
It's my understanding that the gyrocopter in question was actually under the 250 pound limit that would require FAA registration.
This would mean the felony charge is bogus.
Can anyone confirm the vehicle total unladen weight?
OK I've read "various articles in the Seattle Times.
I read the one about the state auditor being indicted.
I read the one about the infant getting shot in the head in Kent in a drive-by.
I read the one about the whooping cough outbreak (which erroneously claims that herd immunity for Pertussis is mathematically even possible, given the diseases R(0) would require 94-96% immunization, and all unimmunized persons be uniformly distributed throughout the population.
I read the one about Shawn Kemp co-hosting a party because Thunder missed the playoffs.
None of these "various articles in the Seattle Times" supported your position.
Link one supporting article from the Seattle Times which is a post-analysis of the job market following the minimum wage being raised. I'll waive the numbers on the small businesses which have gone out of business over the minimum wage being raised (for now).
Read The Fine Manual (it's all online, various articles in Seattle Times, ignore the state numbers, read the last 2-3 paras which cover King County and Seattle)
Seriously, do you guys not grok the 100 Gbps Internet 2 or something?
Sure we grok it. Do you not grok the idea that if you are not pulling numbers out of your ass, then you probably have the reference material right in front of you, and can therefore paste the information a hell of a lot easier than having us go looking for supporting numbers for your made up statistics for you?
Thats the thing though, there is no cliff, just a pile of people all trying to climb to the top.
Stupidest zombie movie ever. Seriously.
way to stereotype all unions there. While some, or even many, but not all of them.
So.... #NotAllUnions ???
But if you raise the minimum wage to say $15/hour like Seattle and other places, statistics show job growth of US citizens will increase and they will hire more Americans to work!
Citation needed. Preferably one with a post-analysis of the Seattle job market, with another graph showing impact (if any) on number of small businesses in the immediate area.
WTF is AAA?
It's a grading system, based on three grading criteria, each of which can score up to an 'A':
Game success among critics/reviewers
"Innovative gameplay"
Financial success
Given the major reviewers comments on "Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel", the fact that it's "Yet Another First Person Shoot", and the company being unable to afford to remain in business, rather than "AAA Studio", it'd probably be better to describe 2K as a "BCF" studio.
They definitely get an F on their financial success, and YAFPS is hardly innovative game play, so they get a grudging C there, and the reviews at the top sites give them generally in the neighborhood of an 80% approval by reviewers (only GameStop rates them higher than 80%), so that's a B.
I really hate that people hype studios themselves as "AAA", as if that means they are going to get A's in all three categories, just because of who they are, or because of the marketing hype behind their games contributing to a likelihood of good reviews or financial success.
In reality, you are only as good as your last release in all three categories. 2K blew it in at least two of the categories, and turned in B grade work in the third, so it's no surprise they failed.
They were actually unhappy with Pearson.
The article makes this very clear. It wouldn't matter if the Pearson Curriculum were on an iPad or an Android device, they'd still be unhappy with it. The attachment of Apple to the story is a means of click-baiting it. Pretty clear in the quotes from their attorney:
L.A. schools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines “made the decision that he wanted to put them on notice, Pearson in particular, that he’s dissatisfied with their product,” said David Holmquist, general counsel for the nation’s second-largest school system. He said millions of dollars could be at stake.
In a letter sent Monday to Apple, Holmquist wrote that it “will not accept or compensate Apple for new deliveries of [Pearson] curriculum.” Nor does the district want to pay for further services related to the Pearson product.
Pretty ringing condemnation of Pearson's products by the school district; note that the Pearson products might not eve be at fault, given that the complaint was that it didn't help with the standardized testing scores.
"Simulations of fusion are only 50 years away!"
I suggested the funnel landing previously. You really wouldn't want to spin it.
I'm pretty sure the problem at that point would be thermal damage to the vehicle. You could perhaps do this on land, and of course you'd probably want fresh water as a coolant and noise suppression, same as the shuttle used to suppress acoustic energy reflected from the pad to prevent it damaging the shuttle. The shuttle usually went through about 1/3 million gallons of water per launch. Of course with the rocket exhause itself, that produced a lot of HCl, and you probably wouldn't want to sit your engines in that, any more than in the ocean.
It's probably be better if they just had flip-down feet to widen the base of the cone ( the falling over was always a result of the center of mass being outside the interior circle of the cone, as described by the landing base -- or it wouldn't have fallen.
The other suggestion would be a big-ass electromagnet to lock the base components into place as it currently exists, but getting power out to the platform for that might be problematic. Maybe they could use a bunch of Tesla batteries, since it's only have to hold until you could mechanically latch the landing legs down.
If all else fails, lower your standards.
