Comment Re:150Kg person (Score 1) 170
Well that is where you are wrong. Mark II will use liposuction to provide propulsion and body sculpting.
Well that is where you are wrong. Mark II will use liposuction to provide propulsion and body sculpting.
Those damn porpoises - the badass brother of the humble dolphin.
Will if Mythbusters can't do it then I guess no-one can. I am sure the guys in compliance labs would love to be replaced by a fat guy who likes diving and a skinny one who does what exactly?
Even more important where I work would be a crapper cleaning robot! Never ever go to trap 1.
That is why they cost more. Both versions can make it to market by passing the governing body test suite and from experience this is far from adequate. I would hope to see more testing and beta trials for the more expensive version. I would never pursue 100% reliablity and did not say so in the post.
The only purpose of a handgun is to kill. It's that plain and simple, you buy the handgun with only one thing in mind so the manufacture is not liable for your actions. If however you buy a device that can be made into a weapon such as a deactivated one the manufacture has to be seen to have made reasonable steps to prevent this.
The discerning customer already does care about reliability of software. Look at the various prices you can pay for PVRs for example, the forums are full of complaints about the cheapo ones crashing and the expensive ones less so.
Another example is on aircraft. Have you ever been on a long-haul flight where the entertainment system is off or the telephone/Internet system does not work? In these cases the airline has a policy not to reset a system while in flight. They kick up a hell of a fuss about this as they lose revenue. The software has to be reliable as a simple reboot is not possible.
There is the inconvenience factor. If your cheap device breaks how long it is before you get a replacement? What if it fails in such a way to cause damage - the cheap laptop replacement power supplies from china for example. 10 euro gizmo versus the cost of a life or a house?
Yes it is the CEO or Engineering director they should go after. We had a boss who was insistent that we did not waste money getting our equipment tested by an external body for electrical safety, until he was informed that he was the person that could go to prison if some died as a result.
Legimate content to me is content that I have paid for or which is distributed free by the publisher. Why should I subsidise the distribution of software/movie theft?
I am sure that the prison population, assuming the tax money you refer to is them and not the utilities companies as that would be a subsidy, are glad that their efforts are rewarding people with a better internet connection.
Do you watch streaming content? Do you think for every packet you receive you send one back and that it is the same size? Yin and yang is not applicable to digital communication.
The modem you receive is subsidised by you with increased prices from the ISP.
My ISP bill has decreased by over 5 fold over the last 10 years for a 400 fold increase in bandwidth. How much has yours decreased/increased over this time?
You obviously fail at basic comprehension. I may fail at physics as you put it but I didn't fail my degree in Electronics. Power is going to be used somewhere and someone has to pay for it.
Someone has to upgrade the infrastructure to cope with the increased bandwidth required - oh but maybe the sweat coming off the men and women digging the holes and climbing the poles to support this is neutral as well because the water came from the sea or whatever and that doesn't cost anything.
You may argue that they should use lower power servers. That's fair enough but they have to invest in those too and someone has to pay for that too - oh but the server manufactures give them away don't they. The shareholders don't want a return on their money and the employees certainly don't want paid.
I am more than happy not to pay for services that I do not wish to have but do not want to subsidise those who want to take advantage of the perception that the internet is free of cost. I halved my internet bill by moving to a more restricted package and noticed no difference. I can still stream legitimate content. But hang on maybe my new ISP isn't charging me for power as it is free - I'll have to sue may old ISP for the free power they were charging me for all these years.
Hackers of the world, unite!