Does your average 35MPG car go 0-60 in under 4 seconds? Is the usual 35MPG rating measured in driving conditions that involve start, warm-up (using the choke), two miles of driving in moderate traffic, and shut down?
In highway riding my bike has gotten over 50MPG cruising at 80MPH and carrying a passenger.
90 kilo slacker that enjoys riding a motorcycle, and is not averse to exercise, but an extra 2.5 hours a week in the Arizona sun in the sort of clothing necessary for comfortable bike riding would tend to leave me looking like a boiled lobster. Sunscreen can only do so much for me.
In short, keep your obnoxious assumptions to yourself and don't be a dick.
Let's see; I've got a 4 mile round trip, on a motorcycle that gets 35MPG, with free parking, plus $75/year insurance and $12/year registration, say $200/year for maintenance... I'm looking at $350 per year in in commuting costs.
Has a mainboard for x86 ever, in the entire history of Intel, ever drawn 5 Watts in total? Obviously not.
I'm not quite sure if you're referring to mainboards using just Intel x86 processors, but I have worked with numerous products that used other manufacturers x86 processors that were way under 5 watts. The Lantronix XPort and NS/AMD Geode SC1100 come to mind.
We don't know the Earth exists at all. It could all be your own insanity, or a computer simulation. It's certainly convenient to assume that the Earth exists, but it's impossible to prove one way or the other.
Solipsism is mostly mental masturbation, but it is useful for reminding people to question their assumptions.
Sure; after we disbanded their military, restructured their government, and engineered a retrovirus to genetically alter their genome to rechannel all their aggression into a bizarre pop culture.
Do you think that we could have just nuked them, let them surrender, FDR could have said "Well all right then. No more funny business", MacArthur could have sailed home, and that would have been the end of it?
If you've already got (and like) NoScript you wouldn't want flashblock.
For people that don't have NoScript and don't want to deal with constantly managing what is and isn't blocked, flashblock is a nice choice. It doesn't mess with any non-flash page rendering and it's easy to see what you're missing or allow permanently if you like.
So how would water vapor emissions alone be worse than water vapor + carbon dioxide? Especially considering water vapor tends to be self limiting in the atmosphere.
And did you read the post I was replying to? The dude was talking about replacing existing electric power infrastructure with wireless. There is absolutely no way that you are going to transmit power via RF through air as efficiently as you can via low frequency AC through metallic conductors.
Yes, this is an interesting experiment that may have useful applications. No, it is not going to eliminate wires.
The point wasn't that investment in infrastructure is a waste.
Wireless power transmission is wasteful. Between the inverse square law and eddy currents induced in everything remotely conductive between point A and point B, wireless power would lose a huge percentage of the useful energy generated.
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Does your average 35MPG car go 0-60 in under 4 seconds? Is the usual 35MPG rating measured in driving conditions that involve start, warm-up (using the choke), two miles of driving in moderate traffic, and shut down?
In highway riding my bike has gotten over 50MPG cruising at 80MPH and carrying a passenger.
90 kilo slacker that enjoys riding a motorcycle, and is not averse to exercise, but an extra 2.5 hours a week in the Arizona sun in the sort of clothing necessary for comfortable bike riding would tend to leave me looking like a boiled lobster. Sunscreen can only do so much for me.
In short, keep your obnoxious assumptions to yourself and don't be a dick.
That's already happened, but the other guy's insurance was actually rather generous in their compensation.
Let's see; I've got a 4 mile round trip, on a motorcycle that gets 35MPG, with free parking, plus $75/year insurance and $12/year registration, say $200/year for maintenance... I'm looking at $350 per year in in commuting costs.
Lincoln wouldn't have cared much one way or the other. He would have just supported whatever was necessary to avoid a successful secession.
Has a mainboard for x86 ever, in the entire history of Intel, ever drawn 5 Watts in total? Obviously not.
I'm not quite sure if you're referring to mainboards using just Intel x86 processors, but I have worked with numerous products that used other manufacturers x86 processors that were way under 5 watts. The Lantronix XPort and NS/AMD Geode SC1100 come to mind.
We don't know the Earth exists at all. It could all be your own insanity, or a computer simulation. It's certainly convenient to assume that the Earth exists, but it's impossible to prove one way or the other.
Solipsism is mostly mental masturbation, but it is useful for reminding people to question their assumptions.
Sure; after we disbanded their military, restructured their government, and engineered a retrovirus to genetically alter their genome to rechannel all their aggression into a bizarre pop culture.
D'oh!
It was a typo, I swear. The F, D, and R keys are right next to the T, r, u, m, a, and n. Yeah, that's the ticket.
The US did occupy Japan after they surrendered.
Do you think that we could have just nuked them, let them surrender, FDR could have said "Well all right then. No more funny business", MacArthur could have sailed home, and that would have been the end of it?
I was going to moderate your reply, but there is no option is the moderation box for "rambling and incoherent".
If you've already got (and like) NoScript you wouldn't want flashblock.
For people that don't have NoScript and don't want to deal with constantly managing what is and isn't blocked, flashblock is a nice choice. It doesn't mess with any non-flash page rendering and it's easy to see what you're missing or allow permanently if you like.
This was a single board computer that I determined was unrepairable:
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I love Tannerite.
I can't believe he hasn't been found in a cheap motel room; dead from autoerotic asphyxiation, wearing a gimp suit and a dildo in his ass.
So how would water vapor emissions alone be worse than water vapor + carbon dioxide? Especially considering water vapor tends to be self limiting in the atmosphere.
Do you realize that one of the primary combustion products of a conventional hydrocarbon burning engine is water vapor?
And did you read the post I was replying to? The dude was talking about replacing existing electric power infrastructure with wireless. There is absolutely no way that you are going to transmit power via RF through air as efficiently as you can via low frequency AC through metallic conductors.
Yes, this is an interesting experiment that may have useful applications. No, it is not going to eliminate wires.
The point wasn't that investment in infrastructure is a waste.
Wireless power transmission is wasteful. Between the inverse square law and eddy currents induced in everything remotely conductive between point A and point B, wireless power would lose a huge percentage of the useful energy generated.
I don't see where you disagree with my post at all.
Do you seriously think that there is some vast pool of people that would suddenly choose to become drug addicts if only it were legal?
Every one of the people that inclined to become a substance abuser already is.
In all likelihood, most of the sites being spidered want to be indexed by Google. If they don't, they can say so in their robots.txt file.
What a shitty excuse for an analogy.
Let me know when a candy bar can be infinitely duplicated and transported around the world at nearly zero cost.
Funny? Hell, I'm serious.
I have no ill intentions, but I hate going anywhere unarmed. Maybe I could finally fly without having to give up my knife and sidearm.
Can it also detect replicants?