I play videos. Who cares about TV? At least with a video game I'm *doing* something, and I control the outcome.
Is it seriously "surprising" to people that some people don't watch TV by choice? Saying some people don't bathe by choice would surprise me, but watching TV, a passive hobby activity?
Tweeker: The "reserve" is enough fuel to get to the furthest place you could possibly need to divert to, plus 45 minutes. It's more than sufficient. Plus, any pilot that wants can ask for more fuel, they have the final say.
They've never, in the history of aviation, filled the fuel tank full. Unless it just so-happened to be a long enough flight to require the entire fuel tank.
I agree that this article is just scare-mongering. A 777 isn't your family minivan; it's not 'safer' or 'better' with a full fuel tank than an empty one; in fact, smaller planes are safer with less fuel since they lack fuel dump capability.
I agree with the first post. Firefox has many, many positive traits, but "speed" sure ain't one of them. IE7 completely trounces Firefox on my work computer, both in startup time and page rendering time. Click a download link in Firefox and expect to wait literally 15-20 seconds before the little download manager window opens-- that's simply pathetic.
Again, I'm not dissing Firefox. It has a lot of good features, and great web development plugins. But fast? Not even.
Great article, but Doom wasn't the first Shareware game (if nothing else, id's first earlier game Wolfenstein 3D was shareware and incredibly popular, but there were many shareware games before then also.) And Mystery House is far from the first computer game with graphics... maybe the first Apple ][ game with graphics at best.
You can buy a powered USB hub ( < $15, available anywhere), and simply not plug in the computer cable, and you'd have the same thing as this except: 1) With more ports (4 or 8 instead of 1) 2) A long power cord, making it easier to place where you want it 3) Much, much cheaper
This product announcement is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
What the F? Are they trying to sell this as something new?
My standard (and extremely popular) Motorola RAZR phone came with one of these, and I doubt it cost Motorola $47 to make it. Oh, and my iPod came with one... in fact, I'm kind of a tech junkie, I bet I have 4-5 of these just laying around the house.
This is just crazy. You can't introduce products that already exist!
Is it seriously "surprising" to people that some people don't watch TV by choice? Saying some people don't bathe by choice would surprise me, but watching TV, a passive hobby activity?
I agree that this article is just scare-mongering. A 777 isn't your family minivan; it's not 'safer' or 'better' with a full fuel tank than an empty one; in fact, smaller planes are safer with less fuel since they lack fuel dump capability.
Take a look at this case, for example, and imagine how bad it could have been with a full tank of fuel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBlue_Airways_Flight_292
Again, I'm not dissing Firefox. It has a lot of good features, and great web development plugins. But fast? Not even.
You can buy a powered USB hub ( < $15, available anywhere), and simply not plug in the computer cable, and you'd have the same thing as this except:
1) With more ports (4 or 8 instead of 1)
2) A long power cord, making it easier to place where you want it
3) Much, much cheaper
This product announcement is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
My standard (and extremely popular) Motorola RAZR phone came with one of these, and I doubt it cost Motorola $47 to make it. Oh, and my iPod came with one... in fact, I'm kind of a tech junkie, I bet I have 4-5 of these just laying around the house.
This is just crazy. You can't introduce products that already exist!