Also, Tequila …

Sorry.

[5:46pm] bug_laptop: http://twitter.com/jknight - scroll down, its one of the last 10 or so
[5:56pm] slashmc: is the question over the calcuation of how bad you felt after watching 2 hrs of KR ?
[5:57pm] bug_laptop: haha
[5:57pm] bug_laptop: no
[5:57pm] bug_laptop: and i was wrong
[5:57pm] bug_laptop: but i’ll explain
[5:57pm] bug_laptop: at the end of the show, kitt stops and allows itself to be broadsided by a suburban
[5:57pm] bug_laptop: which immediately crumples against kitt, stopping virtually immediately
[5:58pm] bug_laptop: kitt never even budges
[5:58pm] slashmc: ah
[5:58pm] bug_laptop: so the question was, assuming the lack of magic, how much did kitt have to weigh to stop a moving suburban completely
[5:58pm] jbradley1: that is because when you weren’t looking kitt replaced himself with a giant chunk of lead
[5:58pm] hugbot: but that is a strange factoid, jbradley1
[5:58pm] bug_laptop: my assumptions were 100Km/h, Suburban weighs 6000lbs, or 2700 Kg
[5:58pm] jbradley1: he is a magical car after all
[5:58pm] hugbot: but he is in full psychotic rampage mode now, jbradley1
[5:59pm] bug_laptop: so last night, under the influence of wine, i used an F=ma calculation, and came up with 55000 pounds, assuming it took 3 seconds to dissipate the crash energy
[5:59pm] bug_laptop: but using a pure elastic collision based on momentum (m1v1 + m2v2)/m1 + m2
[5:59pm] lj left the chat room. (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out))
[6:00pm] bug_laptop: (m1v1 + m2v2)/(m1 + m2)
[6:00pm] slashmc: yeah, that’s not an elastic collision
[6:00pm] bug_laptop: but for the sake of the math
[6:00pm] bug_laptop: and m2v2 is 0
[6:00pm] bug_laptop: m1v1 is 72000 Kgm/s
[6:00pm] bug_laptop: m1 is 2700 kg
[6:01pm] bug_laptop: so m2 must be 69300 kg
[6:01pm] bug_laptop: converting to pounds, thats 160K
[6:01pm] bug_laptop: or 80 tons
[6:02pm] • slashmc will give it some thought just as soon as he can get the boss of this silly telecon
[6:02pm] bug_laptop: or about 12 tons more than an M1A2 main battle tank
[6:02pm] bug_laptop: also, about 78 tons more than a mustang
[6:02pm] bug_laptop: thats some magical nanotechnology
[6:03pm] slashmc: Kitt has to move a little bit
[6:04pm] slashmc: no matter how cool it is
[6:09pm] bug_laptop: well, yes, my calc. has final velocity at 1m/s
[6:09pm] bug_laptop: to make the math easy
[6:09pm] bug_laptop: and avoid divide by 0
[6:09pm] bug_laptop: interestingly, density of kitt at that moment, assuming that you just fill out the whole cube that kitt occupies, is only 5300 Kg/m3
[6:10pm] bug_laptop: about twice that of concrete, but only 2/3rds that of steel
[6:10pm] bug_laptop: and half that of lead
[6:10pm] bug_laptop: now, if you assume that kitt only takes up 2/3rds of the volume of the cube bounding its outer edges, then kitt basically transformed itself into a solid block of steel for the moment of collision
[6:11pm] bug_laptop: this conversation is getting posted on my blog shortly.
[6:11pm] hugbot: but this conversation is getting too politically incorrect, but I love it…, bug_laptop
[6:12pm] bug_laptop: if you assume that by VOLUME, KITT only takes up about 10% of the total space of the cube, and can’t transform air, then density jumps to 5 times that of lead
[6:12pm] bug_laptop: and 2.5 times the density of gold
[6:12pm] bug_laptop: sweet
[6:13pm] bug_laptop: not quite to neutron star yet, tho

Why can’t you just fix the problem? Or tell me where the file is you want me to delete? Or just not fucking SUCK.

See John’s Comments here.

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the Air today, and discussing with those that make fun of me for my penchant for immediately purchasing newly minted Apple products, but …

I think the Air fits far more closely into the market described by Tim here, in that I really don’t care (when push comes to shove) about MBA v. MB v. MBP. I have an 8-core at work, a 4-core at home, both with terabytes of disk and gigabytes of RAM and gigapixels of screen real estate, and while I tried to make a clean break and use a warranty-voided 17″ MPB with a minor (320GB) HD upgrade as my “workstation” while pretending to be a manager in 2007, my heart lies with the three machine setup. Give me power at home, power at work and a little portable so I can be productive with a glass of wine on a beautiful Friday (Tuesday) afternoon (late morning (early morning)) at Smith & Wollensky near the office.

Its not about driving screen real estate, or CPU power, what I need is to be able to fullscreen my desktop over the network and make sure that THAT power is being used effectively. Plus check some email.

Note to Steve Jobs: WTF were you thinking not putting a SIM slot and 3G HSDPA or UMTS hardware in the Air?