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That image is very laughable. Who would dog-fight in an A-10? Only crazy people. Crazy people like the United States Marine Corps.
Do any of the DLC's have Mad Max's Interceptor or Pursuit Special?
Zero friction is impossible due to one thing-> reality. In an absolute vacuum, at 0 Kelvins, there is no atomic vibrations in space. But you'll also have to achieve a gravitational accelartion of 0, as well as a maintain total mass of 0 to achieve zero friction. In modern machinery, there is no situation where you can achieve a "zero state", such as it were. Machinery often run in damp, humid areas, frigid tundra, high pressure vessels, super-heated or super-cooled liquids etc etc. There isnt a single machine in the world that requires an absolutely complete zero state to function, which is to say, there will never be a chance that a machine will be in a situation in which zero friction can be achieved. Just the mere movement of a piston will cause the "zero state" to destabilize into a higher energy state due to energy conservation.

IE, a machine to be in a zero state,to achieve zero friction, it is a machine that does no work,and produces no energy, not just empirically but also in practicality .

So for Stoerns Zero Friction bearings to work, it has to actually NOT work, to achieve zero friction (if no work is applied to an object, than the sum total of friction forces is zero).

This alone shows that Stoerns Orbo machine will not work,because there will always be friction forces, in every industrial and consumer application. Friction forces alone will reduce total energy production significantly below 100 percent of conversion from motion to electricity.

Phew, man, this just shows that the modern USA education system is completely bankrupt when logical reasoning and critical thinking is devoid from commentary on a TECHNOLOGY blog.
Tales of Garcia? Is this about Carlos Garcia and the Pittsburgh Pirates?
That UI is from Blender. Thats a free 3D graphics app. This is most definitely not a Factor 5 model.
Also remember that EULA's are proliferating into areas where they really have no business being. Monsanto,for example, is an agribusiness that sells genetically modified seeds. BUT! they have the most restrictive EULA's around for using those seeds. For many farmers, the EULA's are basically locks control of the farm with Monsanto, who can give or take "user capabilities" at a drop of a hat. Im in the camp of dumping EULA's altogether, and just let copyrights and patents cover things. The First Sale doctrine should over-ride any EULA, as the First Sale doctrine is upheld in court, and EULA's are not.
That would be a Yugo. UGO is worse quality than a Yugo though.
This would be great with a new Mechwarrior or Steel Battalion game.
The next revision will have two touch screens and a camera.
This doesnt make any sense. Arent the X360 chips based on X86, and the Cell chips based on PowerPC?
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I own an iPhone 3G and I'm looking for a decent speaker / alarm clock for it. I am going to listen music in a mid-sized room, so I want nice quality speakers with solid bass. I also want to use it as an alarm clock, so it would be great if there is such a feature. The price can be low-mid to mid-high range. I was looking at the Klipsch iGroove SXT; it's powerful, slick and the reviews are good, but it doesn't have an alarm clock feature. It's no deal breaker if I can set it up from the iPhone, but I'm not sure. Thanks!"
 

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