Ubuntu was crashing more than Windows 7 before made Compiz mandatory, I can't see how this helps stability. But at least they realized after a 5 years of widescreen monitors that a dock on the side of the screen may be useful, so this was a necessity to stay relevant in my opinion.
Add some LEDS and the Wii controller will be able to do 3d tracking, or just throw a couple accelerometers on it.
Quake is open source, just code in to render two scenes from two different POVs and put them together into some acceptable 3d format.
Voila, quake in fully immersive 3d. Personally I'd like to add separate aiming and viewing so I don't always have to shoot in the center. This is only necessary if you are holding a gun that's being tracked as well.
ROFL, fly halfway across the galaxy just for a meal? I don't think Aliens exist anyway, so all this research and brain storming is all just in good fun.
Once we are more advanced it won't matter, and once we are more advanced I'd think we'd be doing spectral analysis of all the stars in the sky 24 hours a day.
An intelligent civilization will realize that a great way to let others know that intelligent life exists in that solar system is to put some Sulfur in the atmosphere of their star. Stars are well studied and the chemical ratios are well known, therefore, with an anomaly more than and order of magnitude above your uncertainty, you would know some intelligent being did this. Of course I do not recommend WE do this, as Aliens may not be friendly.
I had to go back and reread the title myself, at first I thought your post was just a joke. If you hadn't specifically mentioned Allen's name I wouldn't have thought it was wrong at all.
Well it's not America. Just look how long it look for looting to start in Japan, compared to Katrina. Cultures with history and a lack of diversity seem to get along much better.
It was illegal for US investors to invest in Facebook. They made a shady deal with Goldman Sachs that let them go public without financial disclosure, so shady that even Goldman wouldn't let US investors invest.
Good point, the geopolitical concerns and costs are not factored in and they should be. I still don't concede that switching to smaller engines is progress, even though it may be a necessity.
Well said, even with the lack of paragraphs. Each time the dollar loses value the poor and middle class suffer the most, if only they would understand that their demand for government spending is what's destroying their wealth and wages.
But just look at global solar production, it's been on a beautifully smooth exponential path for the last 20 years (see Kurzweil), and now that nano tech is starting to come online, we should see that only accelerate, and the pollution will continue from production will only decrease as you pointed out. Even if it just stays on the current trajectory we will be 100% solar within 16 years. Solar is the future, wind and tidal can never produce enough power in any meaningful way, although Wind farms are pretty to look at, so they have aesthetic value that shouldn't be ignored.
You're correct, it was probably clear I didn't have a strong point when I started supporting Ted Stevens. But, considering he's from Texas and they want to secede, he probably does think in that way to some extent, which isn't to say it's correct or intelligent to think that way.
Well then let them not work in the mines, I saw it as something they would wanna do. We could always let Americans work in the mines, they are plenty willing, and they live in the USA. There would still be plenty of profits left over to help them out.
There is something the government could do. They could force GM to release the Ovonics battery patent that they aren't using. This is really the only thing that could make a difference RIGHT NOW.
They could also provide small incentives to switch over to natural gas. The taxes made on profits from using natural gas could be used to pay for the incentives. Yes, it's a protectionist strategy, but I don't see anything wrong with being protective over the entire liquid fuel structure we rely on. They should do the same for any other locally produced alternative energy source for automobiles/trucking, it's revenue neutral and nonbiased, which is the only way not to distort the market in a negative way.
So we could open mines there that could produce enough money to rebuild the entire country, pay for the war, and provide millions of low skilled Afghanistan workers jobs. Well we definitely won't do that, it just makes far too much sense.
I think the Senator from Texas realizes that if they government takes money from his constituents and then spends it somewhere outside his district, his people are getting poorer. But you're correct, the problem is that the money taxed and spent in the first place.
If the money is spent outside his district, it's completely unrepresentative.
I agree with some things you say, but I think you misunderstood my point of $5,000. My point was that a 70mpg car would have to be LESS than $5,000 more than a 35 mpg car for it to make economic sense. My point was that $5,000 is a lot of money for me, and then you have to pay interest on top of it, which is money that could have been used for business loans or something.
I towed a $2,000 sailboat with my Subaru, renting a boat in a Marina or even paying for storage over Winter is far too expensive for me. Take your little 1.0 into a big city or on some highways in NJ and you'll quickly realize that you don't have miles to pass people.
Pickup trucks plow basically every driveway up here in Maine, and parking lots and small country roads as well, and they are excellent at it, a 4x4 with chains is excellent in the snow. I can't really think of anything better besides a plow truck with 10,000 lbs of salt over the back wheels, although my Subaru with snow tires does quite well. The F150 was the best selling vehicle in the USA for a reason, it's very versatile, and can deal with offroad trails, hunting, construction, towing, and whatever else you might need.
But otherwise most of my point was just to let the gas prices go up naturally and let the market take care of the rest, with Peak oil being the driving factor. You argument that we should go back 100years and be happy with model T speeds or Geo metro speeds is ridiculous, the whole point of economic development if FORWARD progress. By a truck taking longer than 20 something seconds to 60, you mean an 18 wheeler? Pickup trucks are plenty fast enough.
And yes my parents minivan handles an inch or three of snow decently, not a foot or two. But load 1000lbs of bricks in the back and you bottom out and it's just a hazard to drive on the road.
So if the representatives don't decide where the money is going who does?
Is it someone better informed than the representative?
It seems like everyone is opposed to earmarks besides Ron Paul, and I figured the rest have nothing but selfish interests in mind, so it just seemed statistically more likely that he was correct.
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Ubuntu was crashing more than Windows 7 before made Compiz mandatory, I can't see how this helps stability. But at least they realized after a 5 years of widescreen monitors that a dock on the side of the screen may be useful, so this was a necessity to stay relevant in my opinion.
Doesn't the law then REQUIRE me to keep logs for two years?
3d headset for under $1,000.
Add some LEDS and the Wii controller will be able to do 3d tracking, or just throw a couple accelerometers on it.
Quake is open source, just code in to render two scenes from two different POVs and put them together into some acceptable 3d format.
Voila, quake in fully immersive 3d. Personally I'd like to add separate aiming and viewing so I don't always have to shoot in the center. This is only necessary if you are holding a gun that's being tracked as well.
ROFL, fly halfway across the galaxy just for a meal? I don't think Aliens exist anyway, so all this research and brain storming is all just in good fun.
Once we are more advanced it won't matter, and once we are more advanced I'd think we'd be doing spectral analysis of all the stars in the sky 24 hours a day.
Wouldn't moving to another star be easier than moving something heavier than the earth?
An intelligent civilization will realize that a great way to let others know that intelligent life exists in that solar system is to put some Sulfur in the atmosphere of their star. Stars are well studied and the chemical ratios are well known, therefore, with an anomaly more than and order of magnitude above your uncertainty, you would know some intelligent being did this. Of course I do not recommend WE do this, as Aliens may not be friendly.
I had to go back and reread the title myself, at first I thought your post was just a joke. If you hadn't specifically mentioned Allen's name I wouldn't have thought it was wrong at all.
Well it's not America. Just look how long it look for looting to start in Japan, compared to Katrina. Cultures with history and a lack of diversity seem to get along much better.
correction, not go public, but do some wierd investment scheme that borders on it.
It was illegal for US investors to invest in Facebook. They made a shady deal with Goldman Sachs that let them go public without financial disclosure, so shady that even Goldman wouldn't let US investors invest.
Then read the front page of a newspaper and not Slashdot.
Good point, the geopolitical concerns and costs are not factored in and they should be. I still don't concede that switching to smaller engines is progress, even though it may be a necessity.
Well said, even with the lack of paragraphs. Each time the dollar loses value the poor and middle class suffer the most, if only they would understand that their demand for government spending is what's destroying their wealth and wages.
But just look at global solar production, it's been on a beautifully smooth exponential path for the last 20 years (see Kurzweil), and now that nano tech is starting to come online, we should see that only accelerate, and the pollution will continue from production will only decrease as you pointed out. Even if it just stays on the current trajectory we will be 100% solar within 16 years. Solar is the future, wind and tidal can never produce enough power in any meaningful way, although Wind farms are pretty to look at, so they have aesthetic value that shouldn't be ignored.
You're correct, it was probably clear I didn't have a strong point when I started supporting Ted Stevens. But, considering he's from Texas and they want to secede, he probably does think in that way to some extent, which isn't to say it's correct or intelligent to think that way.
It appears I was quite misinformed. I appreciate your insight and thanks for informing me.
Well then let them not work in the mines, I saw it as something they would wanna do. We could always let Americans work in the mines, they are plenty willing, and they live in the USA. There would still be plenty of profits left over to help them out.
There is something the government could do. They could force GM to release the Ovonics battery patent that they aren't using. This is really the only thing that could make a difference RIGHT NOW.
They could also provide small incentives to switch over to natural gas. The taxes made on profits from using natural gas could be used to pay for the incentives. Yes, it's a protectionist strategy, but I don't see anything wrong with being protective over the entire liquid fuel structure we rely on. They should do the same for any other locally produced alternative energy source for automobiles/trucking, it's revenue neutral and nonbiased, which is the only way not to distort the market in a negative way.
So we could open mines there that could produce enough money to rebuild the entire country, pay for the war, and provide millions of low skilled Afghanistan workers jobs. Well we definitely won't do that, it just makes far too much sense.
Ron Paul on earmarks.
I think the Senator from Texas realizes that if they government takes money from his constituents and then spends it somewhere outside his district, his people are getting poorer. But you're correct, the problem is that the money taxed and spent in the first place.
If the money is spent outside his district, it's completely unrepresentative.
I thought the earmark would simply direct the money to the NSF, instead of it going someplace else.
I agree with some things you say, but I think you misunderstood my point of $5,000. My point was that a 70mpg car would have to be LESS than $5,000 more than a 35 mpg car for it to make economic sense. My point was that $5,000 is a lot of money for me, and then you have to pay interest on top of it, which is money that could have been used for business loans or something.
I towed a $2,000 sailboat with my Subaru, renting a boat in a Marina or even paying for storage over Winter is far too expensive for me. Take your little 1.0 into a big city or on some highways in NJ and you'll quickly realize that you don't have miles to pass people.
Pickup trucks plow basically every driveway up here in Maine, and parking lots and small country roads as well, and they are excellent at it, a 4x4 with chains is excellent in the snow. I can't really think of anything better besides a plow truck with 10,000 lbs of salt over the back wheels, although my Subaru with snow tires does quite well. The F150 was the best selling vehicle in the USA for a reason, it's very versatile, and can deal with offroad trails, hunting, construction, towing, and whatever else you might need.
But otherwise most of my point was just to let the gas prices go up naturally and let the market take care of the rest, with Peak oil being the driving factor. You argument that we should go back 100years and be happy with model T speeds or Geo metro speeds is ridiculous, the whole point of economic development if FORWARD progress. By a truck taking longer than 20 something seconds to 60, you mean an 18 wheeler? Pickup trucks are plenty fast enough.
And yes my parents minivan handles an inch or three of snow decently, not a foot or two. But load 1000lbs of bricks in the back and you bottom out and it's just a hazard to drive on the road.
So if the representatives don't decide where the money is going who does? Is it someone better informed than the representative? It seems like everyone is opposed to earmarks besides Ron Paul, and I figured the rest have nothing but selfish interests in mind, so it just seemed statistically more likely that he was correct.
Earmarks just direct the funding to specific sources, which is the point of having a representative, it's doesn't increase funding at all.