ABC's player automatically adjusts resolution depending on your connection. I've almost never had to pause and let it buffer, and I don't have to select a crappy resolution to ensure I don't have bumps and pauses. Typically the resolution is much better than other services. I had problems getting their player to work on FF, but it runs on IE just fine and I like it much better than Hulu. Another nice thing is you can pause the commercials on ABC's player- you can continue the show after 30 seconds whether or not you watch the commercial. Maybe people just give up after the first problem, but I've found ABC gets it right more often than most. The biggest glitch I've noticed is some episodes were doubled up, so if you let the video keep going you'd watch the episode again, but the commercials where only on the first viewing, so I was able to skip to the second run-though and watch the whole episode ad-free. I don't know how ABC is as far as letting international viewers access the videos.
The word "mile" comes from mille, latin for thousand (just like the milli- prefix). A mile is 1000 paces of the Roman legions (a pace is 2 steps). At least that is the basis for the general distance- the exact amount depended on who decided to define what exactly it meant (such as the English defining it as the above post points out).
There's lots of good eats out there that would suck to have to give up because we eventually figure out they suffer.
Chicago has a ban on foie gras. The dish gets large goose livers by having the geese be constantly overfed. It is a very controversial law, but given I've never tried the dish nor care to, so I don't have an opinion as long as I still get my Giordano's pizza. Geese are annoying due to overprotection, so I don't think many people around here care about ethical treatment of them.
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No one will pay those prices without those extra features.
$40000k for the car. I'll buy.
$2000 for the backseat screens and Bluray player? Add it.
$900 for the heated coffee mug holders. Yes please.
$100 for the floor mats? No $%$#ing way you greedy bastard!
One of the things that could happen with a large enough space weather event is the destruction of distribution transformers on a region wide (nationwide in the case of small countries like the Scandinavian ones) scale.
Do you have any idea how annoying it is to have a parenthetical one word from the end of a (I don't mean "a" as in "one", just in the sense of "any", nor do I mean as in "THE" like indicating it is specially important) sentence?
If you have a long parenthetical, finish your sentence, then clarify with a new sentence. Please.
(I hate to be a grammer nazi type, so yes it does bug me that much).
I don't get why Hummers have to be so environmentally unfriendly. Just make them entirely out of PVC and they'll be the lightest cars on the road! (Bonus: the new car smell will be at an intoxicating level since it is largely due to chemicals in PVC).
So you're suggesting color specs can cut weight?
Given that light-colored cars have to bounce the light back as opposed to absorb them, darker cars would have less apparent weight due to a smaller downward force created by the light (~22lbf/mi^2). BUT that 'weight' has no effect on the mass, therefore no effect on the power needed to accelerate, so your suggestion is untrue.
(I hope people realize I am going for humor- I don't seriously think I'm "oh so smart" because I take light into account (inaccurately or not); yes I've had problems before).
Parent is not offtopic (I'd mod it funny if I had points)- Battletoad was brought up in the other thread about the ISS/Colbert news. Mourning the loss of other favorite names is certainly on topic.
That 2-3 years might be made up of a few people dying much sooner than they would otherwise. Without the data it is hard to say how those years get distributed amongst the population. It would be like how life expectancy in places with high infant mortality is really low, even though plenty of adults live well past the expectancy. I'm sure most cases are a matter of losing a few years, but some percent of people will lose a large fraction of their life.
New zinc/silver batteries are well in development. One company (http://www.zpowerbattery.com/) is planning on a business model that although the initial cost is much higher, the batteries can be recycled, so by exchanging old for new you come out ahead, and the batteries have more recharges than Li batteries. Some students in a class I took last quarter did a poster on these batteries, and I'm looking forward to replacing my current battery that took a year to cut charge life from 2 hours to 20 minutes with something other than another Li battery. No, I'm not a shill, I just hate the current batteries like the average/.'er loves to hate M$.
They say they let it site idle, then do an intensive test, and average the two times to get some inaccurate number. Why not just present both numbers, and let users decide what that translates to for their usage? As the article even refers to, cars report two mileage numbers, so the idea isn't new.
People will pay for civilization out of good will? Pretty big assumption if you ask me.
(As another post points out, paying only for what you need is like not buying insurance- I'm willing to pay a hefty premium if it gets me civilization).
In the end you're relying on everyone to not be selfish and cheat the system. The only way to stop that is to enforce taxes. If you think charities are the solution, why is there still so much poverty and starvation? They can only cover a small part of the problem they hope to solve because voluntary donations will never be enough. You say there will be enough donations if we don't have taxes? Tax money doesn't disappear, someone gets it. That means those people aren't donating enough, and somehow they will once you streamline the government?
I agree with your sentiment, but I see no room for such an idea in reality.
Like cheating an inept and corrupt government is wrong somehow.
If you consider that true, then considering how a perfect government is never going to happen, that would imply taxes should never be paid.
So much for civilization.
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Pretend?
Cover it with metal spikes and skulls.
Oblig. Dimitri Martin quote: "I work quite a bit with glitter. Don't worry, I make tough stuff like daggers and skulls."
ABC's player automatically adjusts resolution depending on your connection. I've almost never had to pause and let it buffer, and I don't have to select a crappy resolution to ensure I don't have bumps and pauses. Typically the resolution is much better than other services. I had problems getting their player to work on FF, but it runs on IE just fine and I like it much better than Hulu. Another nice thing is you can pause the commercials on ABC's player- you can continue the show after 30 seconds whether or not you watch the commercial. Maybe people just give up after the first problem, but I've found ABC gets it right more often than most. The biggest glitch I've noticed is some episodes were doubled up, so if you let the video keep going you'd watch the episode again, but the commercials where only on the first viewing, so I was able to skip to the second run-though and watch the whole episode ad-free. I don't know how ABC is as far as letting international viewers access the videos.
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What is a mile?
The word "mile" comes from mille, latin for thousand (just like the milli- prefix). A mile is 1000 paces of the Roman legions (a pace is 2 steps). At least that is the basis for the general distance- the exact amount depended on who decided to define what exactly it meant (such as the English defining it as the above post points out).
There's lots of good eats out there that would suck to have to give up because we eventually figure out they suffer.
Chicago has a ban on foie gras. The dish gets large goose livers by having the geese be constantly overfed. It is a very controversial law, but given I've never tried the dish nor care to, so I don't have an opinion as long as I still get my Giordano's pizza. Geese are annoying due to overprotection, so I don't think many people around here care about ethical treatment of them.
fire ant [...] the workers [...]
Incidentally, they kill scallops the same way as lobsters: by dumping them in boiling water
The fire ants dump scallops in boiling water? I didn't know they could boil water, much less drop things in it without killing themselves.
You can't put DRM on a rock.
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No one will pay those prices without those extra features.
$40000k for the car. I'll buy.
$2000 for the backseat screens and Bluray player? Add it.
$900 for the heated coffee mug holders. Yes please.
$100 for the floor mats? No $%$#ing way you greedy bastard!
One of the things that could happen with a large enough space weather event is the destruction of distribution transformers on a region wide (nationwide in the case of small countries like the Scandinavian ones) scale.
Do you have any idea how annoying it is to have a parenthetical one word from the end of a (I don't mean "a" as in "one", just in the sense of "any", nor do I mean as in "THE" like indicating it is specially important) sentence? If you have a long parenthetical, finish your sentence, then clarify with a new sentence. Please. (I hate to be a grammer nazi type, so yes it does bug me that much).
At this rate may as well just ban brakes since they are such a well-known source of inefficiency.
I don't get why Hummers have to be so environmentally unfriendly. Just make them entirely out of PVC and they'll be the lightest cars on the road! (Bonus: the new car smell will be at an intoxicating level since it is largely due to chemicals in PVC).
You'd get more efficiency by cutting out weight.
So you're suggesting color specs can cut weight? Given that light-colored cars have to bounce the light back as opposed to absorb them, darker cars would have less apparent weight due to a smaller downward force created by the light (~22lbf/mi^2). BUT that 'weight' has no effect on the mass, therefore no effect on the power needed to accelerate, so your suggestion is untrue.
(I hope people realize I am going for humor- I don't seriously think I'm "oh so smart" because I take light into account (inaccurately or not); yes I've had problems before).
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly...
Parent is not offtopic (I'd mod it funny if I had points)- Battletoad was brought up in the other thread about the ISS/Colbert news. Mourning the loss of other favorite names is certainly on topic.
Throughout history there have always been those crying "end of the world". Many of them cooks and manipulators.
Note to self: when someone says the world is ending, do NOT try their soup.
That 2-3 years might be made up of a few people dying much sooner than they would otherwise. Without the data it is hard to say how those years get distributed amongst the population. It would be like how life expectancy in places with high infant mortality is really low, even though plenty of adults live well past the expectancy. I'm sure most cases are a matter of losing a few years, but some percent of people will lose a large fraction of their life.
New zinc/silver batteries are well in development. One company (http://www.zpowerbattery.com/) is planning on a business model that although the initial cost is much higher, the batteries can be recycled, so by exchanging old for new you come out ahead, and the batteries have more recharges than Li batteries. Some students in a class I took last quarter did a poster on these batteries, and I'm looking forward to replacing my current battery that took a year to cut charge life from 2 hours to 20 minutes with something other than another Li battery. No, I'm not a shill, I just hate the current batteries like the average /.'er loves to hate M$.
They say they let it site idle, then do an intensive test, and average the two times to get some inaccurate number. Why not just present both numbers, and let users decide what that translates to for their usage? As the article even refers to, cars report two mileage numbers, so the idea isn't new.
If New Orleans in the Hurricane aftermath, while the government was absent, was civilization, I'd rather stick to whatever it is I'm in right now.
People will pay for civilization out of good will? Pretty big assumption if you ask me. (As another post points out, paying only for what you need is like not buying insurance- I'm willing to pay a hefty premium if it gets me civilization).
In the end you're relying on everyone to not be selfish and cheat the system. The only way to stop that is to enforce taxes. If you think charities are the solution, why is there still so much poverty and starvation? They can only cover a small part of the problem they hope to solve because voluntary donations will never be enough. You say there will be enough donations if we don't have taxes? Tax money doesn't disappear, someone gets it. That means those people aren't donating enough, and somehow they will once you streamline the government? I agree with your sentiment, but I see no room for such an idea in reality.
Like cheating an inept and corrupt government is wrong somehow.
If you consider that true, then considering how a perfect government is never going to happen, that would imply taxes should never be paid.
So much for civilization.
And my numbers are old and off the cuff. It could be far more expensive now.
True. Accounting for inflation it should be about 93 pounds per cubic foot by now.
to keep museums afloat
He deserves it for this one.