They should license Panasonic to make a Wii that also plays HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, like they previously made the Q that was a Gamecube that played DVDs. They could crank the price right up and plenty of people would still buy it until the normal Wii caught up with demand.
you'll notice that demand never drops BELOW a certain point. This is the amount of "base load" power that must be constantly generated, 24/7. Think of it as "inflexible demand."
They care about their social relationships and standing. They care about the effects of this situation, not the situation directly. If this damages their social standing, embarrasses them, then they'll consider doing something about it. But if leaving Facebook would do even more damage, then they'll stay. Basically, the peer group will determine what happens. If the head cheerleader buys a vibrator from Amazon and it gets posted to FB, then it will matter. Otherwise, most people will cope.
Personally, I use a different email address for everything (and have some cross-site scripting stuff blocked), so I'm fairly sure none of my activities will automatically appear anywhere.
Agreed. All the Wipeout games have great music, even the N64 version (very impressive what they achieve with the limitations of a cartridge) and particularly the PSP version (Aphex Twin, yeah!). How could they exclude the entire family of Wipeout games?
If Microsoft developed a new Windows "lite" that ran on limited hardware but included some of the core advantages of XP over 98 (like not having to reboot after changing network settings, or shutting down properly) their market would not only be the OLPC, it would be everyone with an old PC that wanted a supported OS.
Seriously, MS needs to drop the bloat and make an efficient OS for once.
There are two good reasons (one shit each?) that facebook users cared about this. Some activities they might engage in are embarrassing (Porn, donating to Greenpeace, etc) and some activities are supposed to be a surprise to their friends (say, xmas and birthday gifts).
Facebook might look like everyone is an open book, but the information shared and public activities seen are carefully chosen for a variety of complex social reasons. Beacon was completely ignorant of this.
Veganism might be better for the earth, but it's certainly not as good for us.
While I agree in principle, most of the western world would be better off if it dumped the cheap, highly processed "meat" popular in fast food outlets (laced with steroids and antitbiotics) and ate vegetables instead. Personally, the cheaper the food the more vegetarian I am; By the time we're down to McDonald's crap I'm vegan, which they don't offer so I don't eat there.
The person that you describe is simply trying for too much too fast. Yes, vegan is more friendly than carnivore when you look at the resources needed to farm animals. Yes, much high technology results in excessive power usage and thus pollution, etc. However, if you simply reduce the amount of meat you eat, or look for energy efficient devices when you come to replace your existing equipment, you're still doing something positive.
Personally, I'm happy so long as people are going in the 'right' direction no matter what their pace.
The drugs stuff I have no interest in defending though.
For every idiot that will sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide there's someone intelligently involved in an ongoing reduction of their ecological footprint. To make any sweeping statement about what all (or even most) environmentalists are is misguided at best.
Why don't they just skip all this craziness and just ad-enable monitors.
It's been done. I can't find the details, but someone developed a way to add a few extra lines on a VGA display and use it for ads. This was at the height of the "get paid to view ads" craze.
Ten points and a hero bickie to anyone that can find a link to any details.
I'm not asserting the existence of some unprovable deity, or a teapot orbiting in space, I'm discussing a war that must, one assumes, have had some purpose. If all you're willing to say is that it's not what I'm saying then I'll have to assume you're nothing more than a troll. More literate than Fark's "FAKE!" trolls, but a troll none the less.
So what is the war in Iraq about? Non-existent weapons of mass destruction? A non-existent link between Saddam and 9/11? If it was just about America stepping in and helping an oppressed, dying people, why isn't there an American army in Darfur?
This isn't some religious belief, it's a position based on the presented facts. If you present an argument as to why I'm wrong, I'll consider my position. If you want to just keep calling me a nut because I don't agree with you, then we might as well end this now.
The reality is that pure electric vehicles need very little maintenance and consume few consumables. Also, many of the (quite well off) lessees of the car would have happily signed a contract saying that GM wasn't responsible for anything if they could have bought the car at whatever price GM wanted. But I suppose crushing them, despite saying they wouldn't, was the only course of action available to GM, just like how they fired all of their employees involved in the sale and promotion of the EV-1 rather than re-deploy them within the company. I'm sure it had nothing to do with upcoming legislation about minimum sales requirements of electric vehicles. When the head of promotion for the EV-1 says he was told he was the GM CEO's worst enemy in the fight against this legislation he was just trying to get attention.
A "conspiracy" involving thousands of people and hundreds of organisations is hard to believe. A decision by a single company, probably made by a handful of people, to kill a new (progressive, environmentally friendly) product line because it risked affecting the profitability of an old environmentally unfriendly legacy technology is easy to believe. So long as the economic environment allows car makers to ignore the pollution and waste issues generated by their arcane technology they'll continue to produce it.
And, yeah, Iraq is about the oil. Anyone who says otherwise is ignoring reality.
You can get flash card adapters for the DS. I have one that takes MicroSD cards and a matching 2 Gig card. If you don't mind a little bulk, CF adapters are available and they must be up to 16 Gig by now.
That's because GM knew what they really cost to build.
Which is why they canceled the leases on all of them, refused to sell them to anyone at any price and had them all crushed.
No, I think it wasn't about the economics of that specific car, it was about the economics of the support industry for the ICE that they'd be making redundant.
One small stumble for AT&T, one giant leap backwards for sustainability. 10,000 or so people will now be commuting to work where previously they used modern technology to avoid burning fossil fuels. Many will have chosen homes further away from work than average in the knowledge that they don't have this commute, so they will mostly likely be burning a greater than average amount of fuel. Some may even have to buy a second car for the family, where previously one was enough. Road infrastructure surrounding AT&T's offices will be strained by this extra load, affecting other commuters.
I can only imagine this is the product of a bunch of old white men. What's next? One day a week where you're not allowed to send email?
Oh well, if you're one of AT&T competitors, you're about to see their best and brightest looking for work, if you're willing to let them telecommute.
I need to upgrade an old PC that's built to be quiet, thus doesn't have a fan on the video card. Anyone know if these chips could be used to make a passively cooled desktop video card, and if they're likely to be?
I skip AdBlock Plus and instead use Proxomitron with the jd5000 filter set. The author of Proxomitron died back in 2004, and the website for jd5000 appears to have expired, but this page seems to be current. Proxomitron not only blocks ads, but also selectively mangles a lot of obnoxious javascript.
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They should license Panasonic to make a Wii that also plays HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, like they previously made the Q that was a Gamecube that played DVDs. They could crank the price right up and plenty of people would still buy it until the normal Wii caught up with demand.
And batteries aren't the beginning and end of power storage. Try Flywheels, or other "grid energy storage" options.
They care about their social relationships and standing. They care about the effects of this situation, not the situation directly. If this damages their social standing, embarrasses them, then they'll consider doing something about it. But if leaving Facebook would do even more damage, then they'll stay. Basically, the peer group will determine what happens. If the head cheerleader buys a vibrator from Amazon and it gets posted to FB, then it will matter. Otherwise, most people will cope.
Personally, I use a different email address for everything (and have some cross-site scripting stuff blocked), so I'm fairly sure none of my activities will automatically appear anywhere.
Agreed. All the Wipeout games have great music, even the N64 version (very impressive what they achieve with the limitations of a cartridge) and particularly the PSP version (Aphex Twin, yeah!). How could they exclude the entire family of Wipeout games?
If Microsoft developed a new Windows "lite" that ran on limited hardware but included some of the core advantages of XP over 98 (like not having to reboot after changing network settings, or shutting down properly) their market would not only be the OLPC, it would be everyone with an old PC that wanted a supported OS.
Seriously, MS needs to drop the bloat and make an efficient OS for once.
There are two good reasons (one shit each?) that facebook users cared about this. Some activities they might engage in are embarrassing (Porn, donating to Greenpeace, etc) and some activities are supposed to be a surprise to their friends (say, xmas and birthday gifts).
Facebook might look like everyone is an open book, but the information shared and public activities seen are carefully chosen for a variety of complex social reasons. Beacon was completely ignorant of this.
It's a little glitchy, but it does mostly work. Mostly.
It means our blogs will write us.
Actiblizz is no Squeenix. I think Blizzact is more likely. At least the "a" overlaps.
The person that you describe is simply trying for too much too fast. Yes, vegan is more friendly than carnivore when you look at the resources needed to farm animals. Yes, much high technology results in excessive power usage and thus pollution, etc. However, if you simply reduce the amount of meat you eat, or look for energy efficient devices when you come to replace your existing equipment, you're still doing something positive.
Personally, I'm happy so long as people are going in the 'right' direction no matter what their pace.
The drugs stuff I have no interest in defending though.
The music industry will be "on its last legs" when the artists realise that table can look more like:
$.20 - Apple
$.75 - Artist
And that once they're really popular they can just sell stuff direct from their website and it looks like this:
$1 - Artist
For every idiot that will sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide there's someone intelligently involved in an ongoing reduction of their ecological footprint. To make any sweeping statement about what all (or even most) environmentalists are is misguided at best.
Ten points and a hero bickie to anyone that can find a link to any details.
I'm not asserting the existence of some unprovable deity, or a teapot orbiting in space, I'm discussing a war that must, one assumes, have had some purpose. If all you're willing to say is that it's not what I'm saying then I'll have to assume you're nothing more than a troll. More literate than Fark's "FAKE!" trolls, but a troll none the less.
So what is the war in Iraq about? Non-existent weapons of mass destruction? A non-existent link between Saddam and 9/11? If it was just about America stepping in and helping an oppressed, dying people, why isn't there an American army in Darfur?
This isn't some religious belief, it's a position based on the presented facts. If you present an argument as to why I'm wrong, I'll consider my position. If you want to just keep calling me a nut because I don't agree with you, then we might as well end this now.
Great counter argument there. I suppose you also think global warming is a vast left-wing conspiracy.
Try the link without the extra ".".
The reality is that pure electric vehicles need very little maintenance and consume few consumables. Also, many of the (quite well off) lessees of the car would have happily signed a contract saying that GM wasn't responsible for anything if they could have bought the car at whatever price GM wanted. But I suppose crushing them, despite saying they wouldn't, was the only course of action available to GM, just like how they fired all of their employees involved in the sale and promotion of the EV-1 rather than re-deploy them within the company. I'm sure it had nothing to do with upcoming legislation about minimum sales requirements of electric vehicles. When the head of promotion for the EV-1 says he was told he was the GM CEO's worst enemy in the fight against this legislation he was just trying to get attention.
A "conspiracy" involving thousands of people and hundreds of organisations is hard to believe. A decision by a single company, probably made by a handful of people, to kill a new (progressive, environmentally friendly) product line because it risked affecting the profitability of an old environmentally unfriendly legacy technology is easy to believe. So long as the economic environment allows car makers to ignore the pollution and waste issues generated by their arcane technology they'll continue to produce it.
And, yeah, Iraq is about the oil. Anyone who says otherwise is ignoring reality.
You can get flash card adapters for the DS. I have one that takes MicroSD cards and a matching 2 Gig card. If you don't mind a little bulk, CF adapters are available and they must be up to 16 Gig by now.
No, I think it wasn't about the economics of that specific car, it was about the economics of the support industry for the ICE that they'd be making redundant.
One small stumble for AT&T, one giant leap backwards for sustainability. 10,000 or so people will now be commuting to work where previously they used modern technology to avoid burning fossil fuels. Many will have chosen homes further away from work than average in the knowledge that they don't have this commute, so they will mostly likely be burning a greater than average amount of fuel. Some may even have to buy a second car for the family, where previously one was enough. Road infrastructure surrounding AT&T's offices will be strained by this extra load, affecting other commuters.
I can only imagine this is the product of a bunch of old white men. What's next? One day a week where you're not allowed to send email?
Oh well, if you're one of AT&T competitors, you're about to see their best and brightest looking for work, if you're willing to let them telecommute.
I need to upgrade an old PC that's built to be quiet, thus doesn't have a fan on the video card. Anyone know if these chips could be used to make a passively cooled desktop video card, and if they're likely to be?
I skip AdBlock Plus and instead use Proxomitron with the jd5000 filter set. The author of Proxomitron died back in 2004, and the website for jd5000 appears to have expired, but this page seems to be current. Proxomitron not only blocks ads, but also selectively mangles a lot of obnoxious javascript.