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Probably be a really big hit with the Apple fanbois....
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Nah, it doesn't have the Apple logo.
EDIT: Although, it it were made of applewood, they might be interested... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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So, because I find the object of good design and visually appealing and done in wood (which I like) , I'm automatically an "apple fanbois" ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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I said I thought it would be a hit with Apple fanbois.
I don't see where I said anything about you.
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probably my paranoid twin... 
I'd rather be phishing!
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Hello, tech support?
Yes, well, you see, I was on vacation for a couple weeks, and when I got home, these termites had started gnawing through my keyboard, and now the spacebar doesn't work.
So I was wondering, is there a warranty on insect damage?
Marc
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You say I can't spell now and my grammar is atrocious gimme one of them and you won't be able to even understand me.
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Huh ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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No tactile feedback on the wooden keyboard.
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Reminds me[^]
Yes Leslie, I know I posted it before
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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So you can control your computer AND make bacon butties?
I'll take four.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm brazilian... Some days ago brazilian crackers defaced NASA site...
Some of the most respected newspapers there are talking they made a mistake and attacked the wrong target... They say the hackers missed NSA and hit NASA...
C'mon, those news... Those reporters know what is need to do this kind of mistake? haha
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To be honest I'm surprised the newspapers were aware of the difference.
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Ya, news there are like copy/paste...
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"Spofware" -- the software application that, if it fails, will stop the entire organization from operating.[^]
(I assumed this would be a commonly-used term, as it aptly describes several problematic applications I know of, but a Google search [^] seems to point only to some now-defunct company that apparently succumbed to their own portentious name).
(For that matter, "portentious" should also be a word.)
modified 12-Sep-13 13:35pm.
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A company I worked for had multiple mainframes with triple power systems with triple battery backups (literally rooms full of truck batteries and circuits to connect them) and triple diesel generators with automatic sensors to get everything started up as necessary. They used three giant flywheels to smooth the current and provide coverage while backup power systems were being switched in and out as necessary. A beautiful multi-layered, no chance in hell of ever losing power system - and it never did.
However, the water supply to cool said mainframes came in through one pipe from the local town supply and when that got accidentally broken during road repairs the whole data centre went down!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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modified 12-Sep-13 13:17pm.
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I haven't been watching it, but "OK" is a relative term: the premise would appear to be flawed.
A diesel engine does not "need" a spark, or any other form of ignition. All you need to to heat the cylinders, and the fuel combusts under compression. Indeed, early petrol engines used a "glow plug" - a rod sticking into the engine that was externally heated with a fire - to combust petrol. A steam engine also needs no electricity. It would not be impossible to run an engine - you'd just have to go back a few stages to more primitive ones, then improve down a different technology branch. (Christiaan Huygens designed a water pump that worked on gunpowder in the 17th Century!)
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Diesel engines are beautifully simple: they squash fuel, which gets it hot, so it explodes. Once they are up to working temperature, all they need is fuel and off they go - much more efficient than a gas / petrol engine, and (until recently) a lot less complex as well. My old Mitsubishi Shogun had mechanical fuel injection, and the only electricity it actually needed was to warm the cylinders at the start, and a solenoid to shut off the fuel to stop it running - both could be replaced with electricity-free versions very easily.
Take a test drive in a modern Diesel powered Ford and I think you will be pleasantly surprised - they are very nice engines these days (just not as many horsies as a gas / petrol of the same CC can be - a lot more torque though)
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OriginalGriff wrote: My old Mitsubishi Shogun had mechanical fuel injection, and the only electricity
it actually needed was to warm the cylinders at the start, and a solenoid to
shut off the fuel to stop it running - both could be replaced with
electricity-free versions very easily
Some of the larger diesels use compressed air to spin the engine to get it started. Not sure how the system works since I don't have one that large, but yes, if you spin a diesel long enough, you can even forgo the preheat/glowplug requirement.
OriginalGriff wrote: Take a test drive in a modern Diesel powered Ford..
Better yet.. go take a test drive in a modern diesel (TDI) Volkswagen.. I'm finding it pretty hard not to spin the tires from a standing takeoff in mine, and I get 36 MPG buzzing around town (50+ hwy). If you don't like VW, there's a bunch of automakers introducing small diesel passenger cars for the 2014 model year.
The Jetta's far from non-electric though.. but my 30 year old Mercedes diesel don't need no electrons for nuttin.. can be push started, all mechanical injection and throttle control, vacuum to shut it down. Kind of a pain sometimes, like when you turn off the ignition and the engine keeps running.
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patbob wrote: Not sure how the system works since I don't have one that large
If you compress something, it gets hot. Forcing the engine to spin will compress air in the cylinders, heating it (and them) up to the point where spontaneous combustion starts, and the reaction is self sustaining.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I haven't been watching it, but "OK" is a relative term: the premise would
appear to be flawed.
Presumably you are referring to the show and not the concept.
The fact that a stable growing society can produce such alternatives doesn't have much to do with the reality that the show is presenting.
First one sees only a segment of what exists. There could be some place with a bunch of engines.
Second, however, that isn't likely because this isn't really a society that is growing. Or it certainly is not one that has been stable and growing for a while. The show depicts a number of chaotic events occurring to communities and those represent destabilizing events. The ability to putter around in ones workshop and take an idea from that to produce a thriving economic market requires that one isn't being actively attacked every day and that one also has more than enough resources (food, heat, shelter) so that one has some free time left over. The show wouldn't seem to suggest that in general that that is the case.
Third one can also note that at least one stable community does exist but it has had a very real and obtainable goal for some time - restoring the electricity. And thus they might not have wished to allocate resources to projects that were less worthwhile.
Of course none of that really means that the writers for the show actually considered that, but then I am not sure there are any fictional shows on tv that reflect anything close to reality.
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It is possible that reality is an engineered illusion. However, it is very hard to change physics without ruining the cosmos. Stop electricity, the flow of electrons, and you will also stop the electron transport chain that our cells need to respire! It just so happens that an apparent fluke of physics puts a resonance of the carbon nucleus at just the right energy to allow stars to manufacture significant amounts of carbon, otherwise life would not exist as we know it. Tweek physics in the early universe, even slightly, and you may inadvertently shift that resonance and prevent life from occurring. Physics seems just right, at least for life as we know it. Then again, tweak physics and maybe life would be silicon based, so maybe the final outcome remains essentially unchanged.
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