Environmentally speaking, there's also the energy savings of not running a lawnmover and hedge trimmer. And the little gas engines in gardening machines often put out a huge amount of pollutants.
Otherwise those with more aerodynamic cars essentially have to "pay less" than other drivers??
A more aerodynamic car will use less fuel than a less aerodynamic, but otherwise equivalent car. You would want to reward owners of such cars. Of course, this is a very round-about and inefficient way to do the same as a fuel tax. If only Americans were not conditioned to reject any proposal with the word "tax" in it...
The OLPC unit does not have a wind-up crank. It uses an ordinary battery. There is a cranked generator available as an accessory, but it was unfeasible to integrate. Most kids will be charging their machines from the grid (at school, if they don't have power at home.) (Technology Review)
I was being sarcastic. My point was that there is nothing in Alaska that people in the Russian Far East lack or vice versa, and the regions farther south are so far away that you might as well use a ship.
This has actually changed a bit. Core 2 runs on the same LGA775 socket as the late model Pentium 4/D. AMD's AM2+ and AM3 chips will run in the AM2 socket, but you miss out on the new features in the newer sockets: better power management in AM2+, DDR3 memory in AM3 (AM3 processors have both DDR2 and DDR3 controllers integrated).
Intel is finally getting an on-chip memory controller with Nehalem. Nehalem will succeed the Core 2 chip family towards the end of 2008. Nehalem follows the Penrym 45nm shrink under Intel's new achitecture->die shrink->new architecture cycle.
Russia and Alaska on the other hand could SERIOUSLY benefit from this tunnel though. Russian coal, gold, oil, natural gas, caviar, vodka going one way.
And Alaskan coal, gold, oil, natural gas, salmon and whiskey going the other? Everything that could be transported on this link could be transported to and from China and Japan much more cheaply. If you want to give welfare to people in the Arctic buy them a ticket back to civilization.
Like most other Russian infrastructure, the railways in the Far East are decrepit.
This map shows the main railways in Siberia and the Far East. Notice that the network stops very far away from Bering Strait, and it will be very expensive to extend the network trough the rough, roadless terrain. Most of the land is locked in permafrost, which will make maintenance very difficult.
Railroads use electrified rails all the time for powering locomotives. But those lines aren't built on permafrost.
Of course the grand parent poster, like most of the other people commenting on this article completely fail to grasp just how vast, empty and inhospitable the Russian Far East and Alaska are. Transmitting power over these distances is a ridiculous notion. Who is even going to use the power? Alaska and BC can get all the electricity they need from their own abundant hydro power.
I don't get this attitude that legal issues don't matter. The reality is that legal issues matter more than anything else. Do you really expect Fedora to ship software that they know is in violation of law or contracts?
On Windows, the sad fact is that Creative's mid-range X-Fi models are pretty much as good as it gets for audio quality. And unlike every other manufacturer's cards EAX actually works if you care about that.
The cards are pretty worthless in Linux, though. Anyone know the driver situation for VIA's Envy24 cards?
Long Term Support. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will be supported for three years for the desktop packages and five years for the server packages, while ordinary releases are only supported for 1.5 years.
The EU has very extensive legal authority over economic issues, particularly in regards to market competition. The member states are tied to the union by dozen of treaties and thousands of laws. The EU courts can order fines against individuals, corporations and governments if they violate the laws. Obviously, these rulings have to be enforced by German police, just like the rulings of US federal courts are usually enforced by local or state police. Unlike the US the EU doesn't have troops to send in if the local law is unreliable, but defying the union can (theoretically) lead to sanctions and even expulsion.
As far as I know the first ATI chips with dual-link DVI are the R300 series (Radeon 9500-9850 cards), but the Xorg radeon driver still only has experimental 3D support for R300.
THAAD isn't designed to be part of some national missile defense shield. It's a navy designed to be "theater" defense, which is much different and much easier. It's supposed to defend the fleet and, presumably, beachheads from balistic missile attack.
THAAD is an Army system, a longer-ranged system to complement PAC-3. You're thinking of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.
The america I was taught of, the USA of the founding fathers wasn't the grotesque human rights violator it has become over the past century.
The America of the "founding fathers" was the results of systematic marginalization and ethnic cleansing of the native peoples, and of the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans. In the historical contest these actions may be understandable, but they certainly don't allow you to hold up the early USA as a model of human rights.
What makes you think a less restrictive system would be worth the effort to Wikipedia? There are many, many thousands of casual contributors, but only a fairly small number of people with enough interest and ability to serve as moderators. Your individual contribution is insignificant to the project as a whole.
I'm not trying to discourage anyone from editing Wiki. Your contribution is still significant to the people reading it. Just don't expect the project to bend over backwards for you.
There have been much more powerful marine powerplants than this, but they're usually multi-engine turbine systems.
Turbines have much higher fuel consumption and maintenance requirements than diesels. The point of building giant ships with giant engines is to maximize fuel and crew efficiency.
There's an annoying tendency in commercial shipping to have only one engine on large ships, which occasionally leads to accidents.
The point of commercial shipping is to make money. If the risk of running on only one very reliable engine costs less than the higher running cost of multiple engines, that's the best solution.
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The point is that producing ethanol from corn is so inefficent that there is little or no environmental or geopolitical gain.
Environmentally speaking, there's also the energy savings of not running a lawnmover and hedge trimmer. And the little gas engines in gardening machines often put out a huge amount of pollutants.
A more aerodynamic car will use less fuel than a less aerodynamic, but otherwise equivalent car. You would want to reward owners of such cars. Of course, this is a very round-about and inefficient way to do the same as a fuel tax. If only Americans were not conditioned to reject any proposal with the word "tax" in it...
The OLPC unit does not have a wind-up crank. It uses an ordinary battery. There is a cranked generator available as an accessory, but it was unfeasible to integrate. Most kids will be charging their machines from the grid (at school, if they don't have power at home.) (Technology Review)
I was being sarcastic. My point was that there is nothing in Alaska that people in the Russian Far East lack or vice versa, and the regions farther south are so far away that you might as well use a ship.
This has actually changed a bit. Core 2 runs on the same LGA775 socket as the late model Pentium 4/D. AMD's AM2+ and AM3 chips will run in the AM2 socket, but you miss out on the new features in the newer sockets: better power management in AM2+, DDR3 memory in AM3 (AM3 processors have both DDR2 and DDR3 controllers integrated).
Intel is finally getting an on-chip memory controller with Nehalem. Nehalem will succeed the Core 2 chip family towards the end of 2008. Nehalem follows the Penrym 45nm shrink under Intel's new achitecture->die shrink->new architecture cycle.
The point of the article is that current fonts don't have enough kerning, not thar there is none at all.
Railroads use electrified rails all the time for powering locomotives. But those lines aren't built on permafrost.
Of course the grand parent poster, like most of the other people commenting on this article completely fail to grasp just how vast, empty and inhospitable the Russian Far East and Alaska are. Transmitting power over these distances is a ridiculous notion. Who is even going to use the power? Alaska and BC can get all the electricity they need from their own abundant hydro power.
I don't get this attitude that legal issues don't matter. The reality is that legal issues matter more than anything else. Do you really expect Fedora to ship software that they know is in violation of law or contracts?
On Windows, the sad fact is that Creative's mid-range X-Fi models are pretty much as good as it gets for audio quality. And unlike every other manufacturer's cards EAX actually works if you care about that.
The cards are pretty worthless in Linux, though. Anyone know the driver situation for VIA's Envy24 cards?
Long Term Support. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will be supported for three years for the desktop packages and five years for the server packages, while ordinary releases are only supported for 1.5 years.
The EU has very extensive legal authority over economic issues, particularly in regards to market competition. The member states are tied to the union by dozen of treaties and thousands of laws. The EU courts can order fines against individuals, corporations and governments if they violate the laws. Obviously, these rulings have to be enforced by German police, just like the rulings of US federal courts are usually enforced by local or state police. Unlike the US the EU doesn't have troops to send in if the local law is unreliable, but defying the union can (theoretically) lead to sanctions and even expulsion.
As far as I know the first ATI chips with dual-link DVI are the R300 series (Radeon 9500-9850 cards), but the Xorg radeon driver still only has experimental 3D support for R300.
THAAD is an Army system, a longer-ranged system to complement PAC-3. You're thinking of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.
There is no Total War, Civilization or SimCity 4 on consoles. Thus, consoles are worthless to me.
Because Intel offers better performance per watt than AMD?
What makes you think a less restrictive system would be worth the effort to Wikipedia? There are many, many thousands of casual contributors, but only a fairly small number of people with enough interest and ability to serve as moderators. Your individual contribution is insignificant to the project as a whole.
I'm not trying to discourage anyone from editing Wiki. Your contribution is still significant to the people reading it. Just don't expect the project to bend over backwards for you.
Unfortunately, 3D Realms doesn't actually make anything. (Prey was developed by Human Head Studios.)
You obviously have no idea how sudo works. And what's wrong with POSIX ACLs?