I use a W7 pro setup with two dual tuner cards in it. I can watch one show and record three. I can also use my xbox as a media extender to stream live channels to other tv's. I don't pay for cable, but have a standard mount on roof antenna, and I get quite a few HD channels. I do also use hulu plus since it allows streaming in HD in a lot of its content. It is pretty amazing. If you get this many tuners, it does require a pretty speedy storage medium though, and it can tear through space pretty quickly. A nice SSD array would be nice, but three drives in a stripe work well. Since I don't care about backing up the shows, no need to worry about redundancy.
I understand what you are saying... but the article says specifically that they don't know how much it would cost to install the metering equipment. That tells me that they weren't planning on using the default odometers already in the vehicle.
The overhead of this system alone is going to fail the feasibility test. If there are 230 million cars on the road, and if the cost per car is 500 dollars (for the actual electronic device, and the distributed cost per vehicle to get a reporting system up) then your cost just to initially implement this tax is 115 billion dollars. We all know the installers will be paid well more than they probably should, so I wouldn't be surprised if the total cost to implement approaches 200 billion. Then you have to build in regulations for tampering, reporting, tax code adjustments, etc.
Overall, this might be the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Why not tax people who drink more water because they urinate more, or tax bike riders or those people who walk to work because they aren't buying gas? Or, tax people who pay there bills by regular mail, since they aren't using the internet. This is just ridiculous.
Amazon.com or buy.com are the two other companies I have shopped from if newegg doesn't have what I am looking for. I have also placed an order from zipzoomfly and had good success from them as well, although that was only a single instance.
I do agree with everything you said above. RIGHT NOW it is more realistic to look into Bio fuels sorts, especially diesel, but I use a cautious approach when it comes to the distant future.
Will bio-fuels be the path we will probably take? Yes, but I fear it is only delaying the inevitable.
To sum this podcast up, switching over to biofuels actually has a negative carbon impact on the environment. This is because croplands which are being used as a food land are being converted to fuel land, and as a result the need for other food land is required. When further crop land is created, new land is plowed up to fill the void of 'FOOD' since we are no longer producing food from some of our land anymore.
Plowing up land has a release of carbon into the atmosphere which would require nearly 170 years of use of biofuels to make up for this difference.
Bottom line, if you are going to do it, why NOT try and use something like an electric car. Diesel, or even biofuel, is NOT the long term answer. You are still using resources that, although may be renewable, are still limited. The sun however, is not limited. Harnessing this energy is as clean as it can get.
If you are going to make a drastic change like this, why not do it right the first time?
It is going to be with an electric car. I'll admit, the electricity distribution system needs a drastic overhaul, but it is for all intents and purposes, in place.
Can Mercedes do it? Absolutely. As previously mentioned, Tesla Motors is doing it right now, and that's with a sports car faster than almost all exotics off the line. Toning down performance and allowing the technology to mature will all attribute to a successful conversion.
I seriously hope you are kidding. At best, a Human eye can distinguish 24 bit (16.7 million colors), although most experts expect that range to be around 10 million colors. At 36 bit you are looking at roughly what.... 68 BILLION colors. At 48 Bit... A little over 281 trillion colors.
Seems to me to be a little overkill.
You assume everyone is going to jump at the chance to upgrade, which isn't the case. A lot of companies currently skip generations to save money. This rental program may help them keep updated software, but at the same time, it will cost them more money. And as we all know, that doesn't always work in the budget.
On the one hand - updated software. On the other - an annual expense. The annual expense may turn out to be a killer for large corporations. How they handle it we will find out soon enough.
Why would you want to get a Ford Focus (Word / Excel Basic) for free when you can get an Acura TL for the same price?
When Microsoft starts giving away inferior apps compared to Open Source apps, the customer still doesn't win.
I currently use one of these as well, and auto mounting my network drive to/etc/fstab was cake in ubuntu 8.04. Throughputs are fairly fast. Again, it isn't a backup solution by any means, but does offer high availability.
I am currently looking at building a FreeNAS setup with an intel atom setup though, so if Raid 1+0 or Raid 10 was your ultimate goal, I would probably go that route myself.
Windmills are arguably the most eco friendly form of power production presently available. Solar power has great potential, but the impact on whatever is underneath it is more drastic. With windpower, all we are doing is slowing down wind which sweeps across the land.
Which brings me back to a point I made in a previous post = off shore wind farms. I don't foresee anything being built on the ocean that would cause major headaches.
I understand the pretty picture drawn with an overly efficient idea like this that sprouts gold from everything within, but it isn't realistic.
[quote]Yes, but windmills require wind to be useful[/quote]
If the land in question doesn't provide wind or ample sun to provide a green power solution, maybe we should just let it be? We don't need to go building domes to create power just because naturally it doesn't provide, when there are thousands of other locations available to produce the power we need in a green manner, including off shore wind farms, solar plants in the southwest, etc.
It's more worthwhile to take what is already here, rather than make what isn't.
You're right. Removing 'wind energy' would definitely have drastic effects on how the climate works, and would definitely be of greater concern than melting ice-caps, rising ocean temperatures, disappearing eco-systems, and polluted air.
You sir, are an idiot.
I wonder how much land this takes up? It's a great deal for farmers, who, if willing to sacrifice a little bit of farmable land, could make some serious extra cash.
How many windmills can you get on a 1000 acre plot? 10,000 acre plot? Seems like a good deal.
Being a former Charter subscriber, I assure you that you will not find another 'technology' company that lacks even the basic customer service tools available to its end users. I want to transfer an account? No, you can't do that over the internet... OR over the phone. You need to drive to our location (albeit 2 hours away) and SIGN A PIECE OF PAPER. What???
Beyond that, customer service redirecting you back to there website does a lot of good. I would have found gouging out my eyes with a blunt object more fun and entertaining. At least then I came blame that on my own stupidity. Charters website however... rediculous.
Batteries would be highly inefficient, at best, and don't even get me started on the environmental impact of batteries.
Concentrated solar is the way of the future, in which you concentrate the heat provided during the day by way of some type of parabolic mirror, and super heat some form of liquid; most frequently used right now is ethylene glycol. This super heated liquid would be pumped into large storage tanks (sometimes even using underground caverns) in a manner such that the heat can be extracted at night to power a steam turbine.
Alternatively, you can just use large fields of photovoltaic farms to power electric motors, which powers compressors, which stores pressurized air in storage tanks at very high PSI's. This can then be extracted at any time to produce electricity, wether the sun is out or not.
Obviously, large grids would have to be set up in case the plant underproduces because of clouds or whatever... but in the places they intend to build these farms, cloudy days are few and far between.
Somehow to me, tossing in TIRES and tossing in subway cars HARDLY seems like an apples to apples comparison. It's more like an apples to rotting-car-tires comparison.
I think I would rather have an EVER expanding forest coverage instead of reducing costs of oil. High price of fuel and finished goods which use petroleum puts pressure on finding greener energy solutions which don't use either as a source. Harnessing the energy from the sun, geothermal sources, and wind power should be on top of the list.
Next time someone asks you paper or plastic, take plastic. Drive the price of oil up. Keep the forest growing. Eventually all the oil in the world will have a much smaller effect when all we are using it for is to create finished goods.
I disagree. As technology improves in the media field, communication of your work will become important not only to the person trying to make a living off of it, but also the everyday user. Currently, it isn't uncommon to see a 10 Megapixel camera out, and personal HD-DVD camcorders. Chances are, sharing this media is done in a degraded state, not because of choice, but because people don't want to wait a day or more to upload there video.
Bottom line: Give the users a bigger backbone, and they will FIND a way to use it.
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I use a W7 pro setup with two dual tuner cards in it. I can watch one show and record three. I can also use my xbox as a media extender to stream live channels to other tv's. I don't pay for cable, but have a standard mount on roof antenna, and I get quite a few HD channels. I do also use hulu plus since it allows streaming in HD in a lot of its content. It is pretty amazing. If you get this many tuners, it does require a pretty speedy storage medium though, and it can tear through space pretty quickly. A nice SSD array would be nice, but three drives in a stripe work well. Since I don't care about backing up the shows, no need to worry about redundancy.
I understand what you are saying... but the article says specifically that they don't know how much it would cost to install the metering equipment. That tells me that they weren't planning on using the default odometers already in the vehicle.
The overhead of this system alone is going to fail the feasibility test. If there are 230 million cars on the road, and if the cost per car is 500 dollars (for the actual electronic device, and the distributed cost per vehicle to get a reporting system up) then your cost just to initially implement this tax is 115 billion dollars. We all know the installers will be paid well more than they probably should, so I wouldn't be surprised if the total cost to implement approaches 200 billion. Then you have to build in regulations for tampering, reporting, tax code adjustments, etc. Overall, this might be the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Why not tax people who drink more water because they urinate more, or tax bike riders or those people who walk to work because they aren't buying gas? Or, tax people who pay there bills by regular mail, since they aren't using the internet. This is just ridiculous.
Amazon.com or buy.com are the two other companies I have shopped from if newegg doesn't have what I am looking for. I have also placed an order from zipzoomfly and had good success from them as well, although that was only a single instance.
I do agree with everything you said above. RIGHT NOW it is more realistic to look into Bio fuels sorts, especially diesel, but I use a cautious approach when it comes to the distant future. Will bio-fuels be the path we will probably take? Yes, but I fear it is only delaying the inevitable.
Listen to the following podcast.
http://podcasts.aaas.org/science_podcast/SciencePodcast_080208.mp3
To sum this podcast up, switching over to biofuels actually has a negative carbon impact on the environment. This is because croplands which are being used as a food land are being converted to fuel land, and as a result the need for other food land is required. When further crop land is created, new land is plowed up to fill the void of 'FOOD' since we are no longer producing food from some of our land anymore.
Plowing up land has a release of carbon into the atmosphere which would require nearly 170 years of use of biofuels to make up for this difference.
Bottom line, if you are going to do it, why NOT try and use something like an electric car. Diesel, or even biofuel, is NOT the long term answer. You are still using resources that, although may be renewable, are still limited. The sun however, is not limited. Harnessing this energy is as clean as it can get.
If you are going to make a drastic change like this, why not do it right the first time?
It is going to be with an electric car. I'll admit, the electricity distribution system needs a drastic overhaul, but it is for all intents and purposes, in place. Can Mercedes do it? Absolutely. As previously mentioned, Tesla Motors is doing it right now, and that's with a sports car faster than almost all exotics off the line. Toning down performance and allowing the technology to mature will all attribute to a successful conversion.
I seriously hope you are kidding. At best, a Human eye can distinguish 24 bit (16.7 million colors), although most experts expect that range to be around 10 million colors. At 36 bit you are looking at roughly what.... 68 BILLION colors. At 48 Bit... A little over 281 trillion colors. Seems to me to be a little overkill.
You assume everyone is going to jump at the chance to upgrade, which isn't the case. A lot of companies currently skip generations to save money. This rental program may help them keep updated software, but at the same time, it will cost them more money. And as we all know, that doesn't always work in the budget. On the one hand - updated software. On the other - an annual expense. The annual expense may turn out to be a killer for large corporations. How they handle it we will find out soon enough.
Why would you want to get a Ford Focus (Word / Excel Basic) for free when you can get an Acura TL for the same price? When Microsoft starts giving away inferior apps compared to Open Source apps, the customer still doesn't win.
I currently use one of these as well, and auto mounting my network drive to /etc/fstab was cake in ubuntu 8.04. Throughputs are fairly fast. Again, it isn't a backup solution by any means, but does offer high availability.
I am currently looking at building a FreeNAS setup with an intel atom setup though, so if Raid 1+0 or Raid 10 was your ultimate goal, I would probably go that route myself.
Windmills are arguably the most eco friendly form of power production presently available. Solar power has great potential, but the impact on whatever is underneath it is more drastic. With windpower, all we are doing is slowing down wind which sweeps across the land. Which brings me back to a point I made in a previous post = off shore wind farms. I don't foresee anything being built on the ocean that would cause major headaches.
I understand the pretty picture drawn with an overly efficient idea like this that sprouts gold from everything within, but it isn't realistic. [quote]Yes, but windmills require wind to be useful[/quote] If the land in question doesn't provide wind or ample sun to provide a green power solution, maybe we should just let it be? We don't need to go building domes to create power just because naturally it doesn't provide, when there are thousands of other locations available to produce the power we need in a green manner, including off shore wind farms, solar plants in the southwest, etc. It's more worthwhile to take what is already here, rather than make what isn't.
Or, you could just build windmills and let nature run its course around them.
You're right. Removing 'wind energy' would definitely have drastic effects on how the climate works, and would definitely be of greater concern than melting ice-caps, rising ocean temperatures, disappearing eco-systems, and polluted air. You sir, are an idiot.
I wonder how much land this takes up? It's a great deal for farmers, who, if willing to sacrifice a little bit of farmable land, could make some serious extra cash. How many windmills can you get on a 1000 acre plot? 10,000 acre plot? Seems like a good deal.
Overnight, hundreds of polygraph based forums spring up over the internet, completely skewing this data set.
Being a former Charter subscriber, I assure you that you will not find another 'technology' company that lacks even the basic customer service tools available to its end users. I want to transfer an account? No, you can't do that over the internet... OR over the phone. You need to drive to our location (albeit 2 hours away) and SIGN A PIECE OF PAPER. What???
Beyond that, customer service redirecting you back to there website does a lot of good. I would have found gouging out my eyes with a blunt object more fun and entertaining. At least then I came blame that on my own stupidity. Charters website however... rediculous.
Batteries would be highly inefficient, at best, and don't even get me started on the environmental impact of batteries. Concentrated solar is the way of the future, in which you concentrate the heat provided during the day by way of some type of parabolic mirror, and super heat some form of liquid; most frequently used right now is ethylene glycol. This super heated liquid would be pumped into large storage tanks (sometimes even using underground caverns) in a manner such that the heat can be extracted at night to power a steam turbine. Alternatively, you can just use large fields of photovoltaic farms to power electric motors, which powers compressors, which stores pressurized air in storage tanks at very high PSI's. This can then be extracted at any time to produce electricity, wether the sun is out or not. Obviously, large grids would have to be set up in case the plant underproduces because of clouds or whatever... but in the places they intend to build these farms, cloudy days are few and far between.
Somehow to me, tossing in TIRES and tossing in subway cars HARDLY seems like an apples to apples comparison. It's more like an apples to rotting-car-tires comparison.
I think I would rather have an EVER expanding forest coverage instead of reducing costs of oil. High price of fuel and finished goods which use petroleum puts pressure on finding greener energy solutions which don't use either as a source. Harnessing the energy from the sun, geothermal sources, and wind power should be on top of the list.
Next time someone asks you paper or plastic, take plastic. Drive the price of oil up. Keep the forest growing. Eventually all the oil in the world will have a much smaller effect when all we are using it for is to create finished goods.
I disagree. As technology improves in the media field, communication of your work will become important not only to the person trying to make a living off of it, but also the everyday user. Currently, it isn't uncommon to see a 10 Megapixel camera out, and personal HD-DVD camcorders. Chances are, sharing this media is done in a degraded state, not because of choice, but because people don't want to wait a day or more to upload there video.
Bottom line: Give the users a bigger backbone, and they will FIND a way to use it.
I don't have removable storage for my phone. I have a removable phone for my storage.