Their whole premise relies on Chinchillas (or more specifically, their poop habits/composition/relation to environmental water) not changing over the course of 14,000 years.
Modern OS's are such bloated Fisher Price Candy Coated GUI's with Swiss-Army-Do-Everything features that it's nearly impossible to code lean applications.
Even Steve Gibson doesn't hand compile app's for Win7.
Add in complicated IDE's that do way more then just "help you program" and my Toolkit is bigger then your Toolkit subroutines and massively fat applications is what you get.
Nobody even tries to program lean anymore. If it's too slow - instead of tightening up the code - they just throw bigger hardware at it.
Just check the minimum spec's on any modern game for proof.
3 week vacation and they allow their employees who supposedly are NOT on vacation to waste boatloads of time on nonsense - do they need a Molecular Biophysicist?
Good thing the airline industry was never put under the same scrutiny - otherwise there'd be no air travel.
Nuclear Power, at least for the near future, is pretty much the only hope for solving the upcoming energy crisis.
Biofuel is a joke (why can't treehuggers and politicians do simple math?).
Wind/Solar/Water power would require a massive buildout - costing lots and lots of money - and only cover a fraction of the energy needs - and then there's all the "not in my backyard/scenic vista/coastline" whiners, not to mention the birds (think of the poor birdies).
After the first season I was cheering on Sylar to kill them all.
Their whole premise relies on Chinchillas (or more specifically, their poop habits/composition/relation to environmental water) not changing over the course of 14,000 years.
I'm sure the book will be better.
Front door - sliding base - scissor jack launch pad - etc.
Sooooooo many things to go FUBAR.
Why not a cylinder hanger on a post with a simple hinged (or slide back) lid so the drone can directly take off and land?
A real iPhone Girlfriend app would have a avatar of Steve Jobs in drag for all his drooling fanboys to paw over.
Even Steve Gibson doesn't hand compile app's for Win7.
Add in complicated IDE's that do way more then just "help you program" and my Toolkit is bigger then your Toolkit subroutines and massively fat applications is what you get.
Nobody even tries to program lean anymore. If it's too slow - instead of tightening up the code - they just throw bigger hardware at it.
Just check the minimum spec's on any modern game for proof.
More "we're dreaming" engineering by MIT.
Let me know when (and by when I mean if) it hits the market.
Nuclear Power, at least for the near future, is pretty much the only hope for solving the upcoming energy crisis.
Biofuel is a joke (why can't treehuggers and politicians do simple math?).
Wind/Solar/Water power would require a massive buildout - costing lots and lots of money - and only cover a fraction of the energy needs - and then there's all the "not in my backyard/scenic vista/coastline" whiners, not to mention the birds (think of the poor birdies).
So nuke us baby - it's our only hope.