So fast cars, Filet Mignon, and dual-core processors are all waste because your Kia gets you to work, Ramen fills you up, and your Pentium II can get you to Slashdot, please. Some of us enjoy watching TV and playing video games. Just because you only buy crappy TV's doesn't mean that HD sets are pointless. I wouldn't spend $300 on Blu-Ray if i had a 13 inch black and white TV either.
Up converted DVD is probably "good enough" like you say but SD television compared to HD is a big difference. Especially given that in the last few years 4:3 aspect ration TVs became very rare. Watching a SD 4:3 source on my 1080p capable TV stretched to 16x9 is just painful.
So when you buy a new TV you are most likely going to buy a HD set and if you want to utilize that HD set you need to spend around $100 on a decent up-converting DVD player. At this point you already spend at least $1500 on the TV so the extra $200 over the up-converting DVD player to get Blu-Ray is not that big of a deal.
But the Challenger and Columbia disasters weren't caused by something unforeseen going wrong. They were caused by bureaucracy. NASA knew about both issues, they had 9 o-ring failures before Challenger and 7 foam strikes before Columbia. The root cause of both failures was NASA trying to meet launch schedules to appease Congress.
Are you "effing" serious? Do you really believe that everything should cost the same as when it is cutting edge technology forever? If so I think you under-paid for your computer by a couple of million.
I'm sorry but do you have to pay several hundred dollars in registration "fees" aka taxes that maintain the roads to ride your bicycle on them every year. What's that, no license plates required on bicycles you say. Sure lets build you some nice roads for free, after all you show us motorists so much common courtesy by following the rules of said roads that it is the least we can do. Would you still be for building more bike paths if you had to pay $400 a year to ride on them, were required to get insurance at around $1000 a year, and were not allowed to ride on the roads that my motorist taxes pay for?
The nearest train station? Are you kidding? America is not Europe. Unless you are talking about the suburbs that surround Manhattan or Chicago and not the vast majority of the US then I think you should retract your offer to bet. If by train you meant bus then I agree, but realize that your hour commute just turned into a 2-3 hour commute, if the bus happens to have a bike rack.
The average commute distance in America is not 6 miles it is 16 miles. Now if you think it is practical for the four million people living in the Phoenix area to commute an average of 16 miles by bicycle to work every day of the summer at 110-118 degrees Fahrenheit then there is no point in discussing this with you further. Everyone does not live in cities. We drive cars. Bicycles are not practical for the majority of the American population as a primary means of transportation. Buses and trains aren't either. I know these facts anger you but your whining on the Internet would be put to better use saying "we need electric cars!!!!" The "we need more bike paths!!!!!" thing isn't going to happen. If you cannot see these simple truths then perhaps nature should "cull you from the herd."
Being a customer of the largest Nuclear plant in the US, Palo Verde, I can say that even though my power is not 100% nuclear I only pay $.03864/KWh. Granted that is off-peak hours which is 7pm to Noon mon-fri, all day weekends and holidays. The rest of the time I pay $0.07833. This is during the summer. The rest of the year I pay $0.03784 off-peak and $0.05150 on-peak.
Cheap power is great, now I just need my damn electric car.
Except that hydrogen is not "chiefly extracted" from water using electrolysis because that is too expensive and uses more energy then is created. Hydrogen is "chiefly extracted" from natural gas.
Comparing this to Apple is pretty silly.
A: Apple did not have to deal with the manufacturers of their customers most expensive personal possession claiming the use of an Apple computer would void their warranty and destroy said possession.
B: Apple wasn't relying on free or near free supplies to remain profitable. e.g Company A gives away biomass until bio-fuel factory is built next door then decides it is no longer worthless and starts charging.
C: Not buying an Apple meant you bought something that was drastically different than the Apple computer. Not buying Bio-Fuel means that you are buying something else that is almost exactly the same.
D: Buying diesel from a Chevron station is not inherently risky. Buying bio-diesel from Fly-By-Night inc. station is inherently risky because you just spent $100 to fill up your truck with fuel that is unproven.
These points are reasons why bio-diesel is not "profitable from day 1 like Apple." They are not arguments to not use Bio-Fuel.
I think Lotus actually manufactures much of the car as well as having been integral in its design.
On another note, if a small firm can design a car as fast as the Tesla using laptop batteries while achieving a 250 mile range and a 3-4 hour charge time, why can't Honda or Toyota do the same. They could only make it as fast as a civic or camry and under $40,000. I really see no logical engineering problem stopping a major manufacturer from releasing an electric car that could complete performance-wise,range-wise, and cost-wise with the current small cars offered.
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So fast cars, Filet Mignon, and dual-core processors are all waste because your Kia gets you to work, Ramen fills you up, and your Pentium II can get you to Slashdot, please. Some of us enjoy watching TV and playing video games. Just because you only buy crappy TV's doesn't mean that HD sets are pointless. I wouldn't spend $300 on Blu-Ray if i had a 13 inch black and white TV either.
Up converted DVD is probably "good enough" like you say but SD television compared to HD is a big difference. Especially given that in the last few years 4:3 aspect ration TVs became very rare. Watching a SD 4:3 source on my 1080p capable TV stretched to 16x9 is just painful. So when you buy a new TV you are most likely going to buy a HD set and if you want to utilize that HD set you need to spend around $100 on a decent up-converting DVD player. At this point you already spend at least $1500 on the TV so the extra $200 over the up-converting DVD player to get Blu-Ray is not that big of a deal.
But the Challenger and Columbia disasters weren't caused by something unforeseen going wrong. They were caused by bureaucracy. NASA knew about both issues, they had 9 o-ring failures before Challenger and 7 foam strikes before Columbia. The root cause of both failures was NASA trying to meet launch schedules to appease Congress.
Are you "effing" serious? Do you really believe that everything should cost the same as when it is cutting edge technology forever? If so I think you under-paid for your computer by a couple of million.
You just need a lot of robots and a lot of alcohol.
I'm sorry but do you have to pay several hundred dollars in registration "fees" aka taxes that maintain the roads to ride your bicycle on them every year. What's that, no license plates required on bicycles you say. Sure lets build you some nice roads for free, after all you show us motorists so much common courtesy by following the rules of said roads that it is the least we can do. Would you still be for building more bike paths if you had to pay $400 a year to ride on them, were required to get insurance at around $1000 a year, and were not allowed to ride on the roads that my motorist taxes pay for?
The nearest train station? Are you kidding? America is not Europe. Unless you are talking about the suburbs that surround Manhattan or Chicago and not the vast majority of the US then I think you should retract your offer to bet. If by train you meant bus then I agree, but realize that your hour commute just turned into a 2-3 hour commute, if the bus happens to have a bike rack.
The average commute distance in America is not 6 miles it is 16 miles. Now if you think it is practical for the four million people living in the Phoenix area to commute an average of 16 miles by bicycle to work every day of the summer at 110-118 degrees Fahrenheit then there is no point in discussing this with you further. Everyone does not live in cities. We drive cars. Bicycles are not practical for the majority of the American population as a primary means of transportation. Buses and trains aren't either. I know these facts anger you but your whining on the Internet would be put to better use saying "we need electric cars!!!!" The "we need more bike paths!!!!!" thing isn't going to happen. If you cannot see these simple truths then perhaps nature should "cull you from the herd."
Life is not a video game.
Yeah but all that fancy new fangled hardware probably cost you as much as $400 dollars. Ridiculous.
Cue the 400 posts arguing whether or not "Internet" should be capitalized.
Best first post ever.
Being a customer of the largest Nuclear plant in the US, Palo Verde, I can say that even though my power is not 100% nuclear I only pay $.03864/KWh. Granted that is off-peak hours which is 7pm to Noon mon-fri, all day weekends and holidays. The rest of the time I pay $0.07833. This is during the summer. The rest of the year I pay $0.03784 off-peak and $0.05150 on-peak.
Cheap power is great, now I just need my damn electric car.
No, it's their Dad!!
So there wasn't even any Apollo mission before JFK's birth.
No shit?
So you are saying OCD is a cure for absent-mindedness?
Except that hydrogen is not "chiefly extracted" from water using electrolysis because that is too expensive and uses more energy then is created. Hydrogen is "chiefly extracted" from natural gas.
Comparing this to Apple is pretty silly. A: Apple did not have to deal with the manufacturers of their customers most expensive personal possession claiming the use of an Apple computer would void their warranty and destroy said possession. B: Apple wasn't relying on free or near free supplies to remain profitable. e.g Company A gives away biomass until bio-fuel factory is built next door then decides it is no longer worthless and starts charging. C: Not buying an Apple meant you bought something that was drastically different than the Apple computer. Not buying Bio-Fuel means that you are buying something else that is almost exactly the same. D: Buying diesel from a Chevron station is not inherently risky. Buying bio-diesel from Fly-By-Night inc. station is inherently risky because you just spent $100 to fill up your truck with fuel that is unproven. These points are reasons why bio-diesel is not "profitable from day 1 like Apple." They are not arguments to not use Bio-Fuel.
I wouldn't want the fuel to ignite early due to the heat generated by compression.
Diesel engines work in exactly this way.
The reason you didn't burn your hand is not because alcohol doesn't burn at a high enough temperature to do so. Think evaporation.
I hate to be the one to break this to you.....we are going to be in Iraq for the next 8 years either way. Sorry.
I think Lotus actually manufactures much of the car as well as having been integral in its design. On another note, if a small firm can design a car as fast as the Tesla using laptop batteries while achieving a 250 mile range and a 3-4 hour charge time, why can't Honda or Toyota do the same. They could only make it as fast as a civic or camry and under $40,000. I really see no logical engineering problem stopping a major manufacturer from releasing an electric car that could complete performance-wise,range-wise, and cost-wise with the current small cars offered.
It's actually "Hold my beer and watch this!!"
He didn't say the temp of the water to start with now did he.
No you aren't.