"Whether you think Microsoft's position is meritless or not, Samsung entered into a contract with them. They didn't ask a court for a legal opinion, they just stopped paying. You can't make unilateral decisions like that. "

Err - no.
In very rare circumstances do you ask a court to rule on a contract before anything has happened.
Their general response will be 'dismissed, you bear court costs, that's why you pay lawyers'.
The courts are in general not interested in offering legal advice - that's what you get expensive lawyers for.

This is exactly how contract law normally works.
X does something.
Y thinks they breached their contract, and consults their lawyers who agree that X breached the contract and has no right to future payment.
X says they diddn't, and their lawyers disagree.
Y stops paying.
X takes Y to court for non-payment.

Y cannot - at the first step - in most cases ask the court for an opinion.

You can't really comment without seeing in full, the original agreement, and preferably scrutinising it in detail, along with any precedent in the relevant courts.

There could have, for example, been agreements as to Microsoft not doing some things in the phone space - such as for example selling android phones - that it's reasonable to argue (from Samsungs perspective) Microsoft has breached, voiding the original deal.

Nor were convection effects considered.
You don't need much airflow to generate 50 micronewtons.

In addition - fingerprinting the OS based on exactly how it probes for a USB device has been done, and is not particularly hard.
This can narrow down by a lot which OS you may be connected to - and have a dozen potential exploits based on the signature outcome.

As I understand it - the aim is to make of the order of 10^9 - one billion - lithium cells a year.
That's enough cells to go in 200K small electric cars, or about 60K of the high capacity Tesla 85kWh packs.

To a large extent, it's the small car vs large car problem.
Drag depends mostly on the frontal area.
Working out Cd*area for both cars.
http://ecomodder.com/wiki/inde... looks reasonable.
This gives Cd*area (ft^2) for the Leaf as 7,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... gives the Teslas as 6.1.
(Cd*ft^2)

The Tesla is - despite being a lot heavier and longer - not bigger in frontal area than the Leaf.
The Tesla is also marginally lower in absolute drag - making it 10% better in total drag or so.

This would lead to the conclusion that the 3.5* battery should give about 4* the range.
But, weight does matter a bit - there is extra drag in the tyres, which knock it back to 3.5*

' when it will cost billions of dollars every time it flies, due to the high development costs, low flight rate, and standing army and facilities required to launch it.'
This is as I understand it a vile calumny on the SLS program.
Most realistic estimates say it's only going to cost one billion per launch, not several.

Utter bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - and several other sources I find say Australia is paying $(us).30/kWh or so.

That's one and a half kWh.

Or, 80 times more efficient than the Tesla. (which has an 80kWh battery pack, and doesn't quite make the range at 66mph)

If it's a skinny tyred wholly aerodynamic very small bicycle I might believe that - otherwise - LOL.

While perhaps to be taken with a pinch of salt - http://www.teslamotors.com/en_... - with the larger battery - at 65MPH claims to get 261 miles.
To get a Tesla to 350 miles needs an extra 30kWh of battery - about 120kg at the same performance as the existing battery.
This will easily fit in the trunk.

I'm unsure - but suspect that if they were there permanently - with the profile done right, stamped out of the steel - they may improve stiffness, and reduce weight.
Stamping such a pattern would be 'interesting', and prone to lots of wear in the dies though.
For composite, in principle, it could almost be free.

It's a virus, so has pretty good antibiotic resistance.

To follow on from the other comment.
You're faced with people who you've never seen, look quite different than you, and turn up in suits that cover their entire body.
This happens shortly after, or even before the community notices an issue - as they are surveying populations nearby.
Then people start dying, and these people who don't speak your language want to take the bodies of your loved ones, and desecrate them.

Add to this that education in these places is basically non-existant in many cases.
It's no wonder that people can come to the conclusion that the health workers are causing the disease.

Especially given the centuries long history of exploitation. Fake vaccination programs by the CIA to fine OBL haven't helped either.

'some middle manager will whine endlessly about this sort of experimentation.'

And will be sacked by the board.
Around 60% of the total cost of the rocket is the first stage.
The aim is to have this reusable in a few hours turnaround time.
If this works, savings per launch are tens of millions of dollars, even if it only works half the time.
If the second stage can be made reusable as well, going from $60M price to launch 10 tons to LEO to half of that _and_ making more profit per launch is quite possible.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...

Sometimes.
A USB3 port, if you plug a USB3 hub into it, and 2 USB2 devices into it will go just as fast, and no faster than a USB2 hub.
Because that's what it is.
There are no transaction translators at all.
There are none even specced in the spec as optional, for high-end vendors to aspire to.

The internet was not (in 92) - for obvious reasons - about web pages.

Lynx was released mid 92, mosaic 93.