Take a look at Google News and see where do they get most of the stories. That's right, newspaper websites. Most stories are just reprints of the same newswire articles, but you do get a little exclusive reporting from the local papers.
The USAF wanted the shuttle to launch from Vandenberg and land at the same site after one polar orbit. The large cross range requirement dictated the large delta wings.
You made some good points on fleet sales and biofuels, but...
CO2 emissions are pretty poorly tied to gasoline consumption, and regulation on tail-pipe CO2 emission would make a lot more environmental sense
What? CO2 emissions are directly proportional to fuel consumption. It's not a trace pollutant like carbon monoxide that you can clean up. It's the the main product of combustion along with water vapor.
Most bumps in the road do not exceed the suspension travel of the car. The few exceptions like parking lot speed bumps and dips for drainage are taken at very low speed.
I'm just waiting for the violent black market in bootleg DVDs to develop.
It may not be long. When you increase the criminal penalties on a black market item, it actually increases the violence because it drives away the more casual dealers and attracts the more hardcore criminals who are more willing to take risks.
I didn't get as far as the Torrent and Steam problem, but I struggled for a week with poor wireless performance before giving up and using my $15 Airlink router from Fry's. It sure did suck. At first I thought it was weak signal and interference, but when I couldn't get a good connection with a laptop 6 feet away in the room I knew it was time to give up.
I'm confused by this too. Verizon is distributing, more or less, an off-the-shelf embedded product. Yes, it's somewhat customized because of FIOS TV, but Actiontec is the manufacturer. Is a retailer like Best Buy liable for copyright infringement in any embedded devices they sell?
It's not locked down. Verizon gave me an Actiontec router free with FIOS service. You get the password, and you can reconfigure anything you want. You don't need to change anything, since the installer will get it working with your wireless laptop if you need the help (default setup is 64bit WEP). You can also use your own router, but if you get FIOS TV, you'll have to use the Actiontec because it has a coax out for the TV set-top box. I tossed it in the closet because wireless performance sucked. Not sure if it was WPA or incompatibility with the wireless client, but it barely worked in the same room.
The 2nd gen hard drive Zune only comes in 80GB. All 30GB Zunes are 1st gen, and the $90 sale on brown Zunes was likely to clear out old stock even if they were brand new vs. refurb.
Many states already have ballot initiatives where people can vote directly on passing state laws. IME the majority of state ballot measures are pretty stupid laws. Once in a while, the voters get a real chance to send a message like with medical marijuana. In all cases, the campaigns for ballot measures are just as dirty and expensive as campaigns for political office. It's not power to the people. You'll need some serious financial resources to get a state ballot measure passed.
The BSA also busts Mac shops on behalf of Adobe, Microsoft (for Office), etc. If we ever get Photoshop and MS Office on Linux, maybe we'll have to worry about the BSA too.
That's the problem. You can't any more. Populations are higher. Occupations are labor intensive, and the US Army has very high labor costs compared to, say, the Janjaweed militia of Sudan. The ease of global travel and global communications compared to the 1940s means you'll just create a diaspora of pissed off refugees while millions more sympathizers get the video online. Meanwhile, those refugees could easily follow us home and launch terrorist attacks on high value civilian targets. Look at the Russians in Chechnya, a tiny country of barely a million people. They blasted the whole place into rubble and look what it got them.
That's a very important point, electricity can be generated from a variety of heat sources, but internal combustion engines will never run on anything but combustible liquids and gases, and gases are less desirable than liquids because of limited fuel capacity. Oil is already much more expensive per unit heat than natural gas or coal. Practically no electric power plants run on oil. Our transportation system runs on nothing but oil. It's a huge risk putting all our eggs into one fuel basket.
You're right. The thermal efficiency of stationary power plants is so high that an electric car even running off a coal power plant emits less CO2 than a gasoline car. I'm not endorsing coal power, just saying that even the worst case scenario is still better than running cars on gasoline.
Correct. An example of QOS would be prioritizing all VoIP packets. Non-net-neutrality would be prioritizing the packets of the ISP's own VoIP service and degrading a competitor's VoIP traffic (say to Vonage). This article sounds like more fear mongering to promote a tiered Internet, i.e. non-neutral Internet.
Don't worry, if they don't have the carrot of DX10, they'll still have the stick of support end-of-life to force upgrades. Have fun surfing the net with an unpatched, EOL OS. I know XP won't be end of life until 2012, but four years isn't a whole lot of time to release Windows 7 if Vista bombs and everybody skips it.
In all likelyhood, the existing Xbox1 backward compatibility uses recompiled executables while reading graphics and game data off the original DVD. Look at the huge disk usage of the backward compatibility updates. Emulation shouldn't use so much space.
Political considerations. Launching air strikes from a land base in Iraq would shred any remaining fig leaf of Iraqi sovereignty. Launching from sea means never having to ask permission from (or risk embarrassment to) the host country of the land base.
You're correct that the x86 instruction set is still cruft, and a pure RISC CPU is theoretically more efficient. However, the real world disadvantage of x86 support is minimal. With each die shrink, the x86 to micro-op translator occupies less die space proportionally, and the advantages of the installed hardware and software base gives x86 CPUs a huge lead in economies of scale.
I know we're both just putting different spins on the same facts, but in the end, practical considerations outweigh engineering purity. x86 is even competing against ARM in the embedded space now, not just in higher powered UMPCs, but also routers too like this one with a 486 class CPU.
The feds have always spied secretly on phone calls, but the incident where Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card went to John Ashcroft's hospital bed to get him to sign off on the spying program points to something much worse. You can either believe a) John Ashcroft is a principled civil libertarian and doesn't believe in spying on Americans or b) the spying program under Bush was so egregiously illegal that it far exceeded any secret spying that we may have conducted previously.
Imagine how you would perceive the end of 1984 if the book had continued after Winston's story was done? If it had gone on for another 50 pages, rambling on with what's happening to others in the story, or the continued strengthening of the Party?
Did you see the Lord of the Rings movies? The finale of the trilogy did exactly that. After Frodo was done, they spent a good 15-20 minutes on everybody going home, celebrating, saying goodbye. I was expecting the credits to roll, but it just went on and on.
I doubt studios will use that extra space because they're still in the mindset of "one feature length movie per disc". The extra space will be useful for data storage by PC users, but not until media and drive prices come way down.
That's easy. So the feds go to five banks instead of two credit card payment processors (small groceries don't usually take American Express). What does that cover, maybe 75% of all credit cards?
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Take a look at Google News and see where do they get most of the stories. That's right, newspaper websites. Most stories are just reprints of the same newswire articles, but you do get a little exclusive reporting from the local papers.
The USAF wanted the shuttle to launch from Vandenberg and land at the same site after one polar orbit. The large cross range requirement dictated the large delta wings.
What? CO2 emissions are directly proportional to fuel consumption. It's not a trace pollutant like carbon monoxide that you can clean up. It's the the main product of combustion along with water vapor.
Most bumps in the road do not exceed the suspension travel of the car. The few exceptions like parking lot speed bumps and dips for drainage are taken at very low speed.
It may not be long. When you increase the criminal penalties on a black market item, it actually increases the violence because it drives away the more casual dealers and attracts the more hardcore criminals who are more willing to take risks.
I didn't get as far as the Torrent and Steam problem, but I struggled for a week with poor wireless performance before giving up and using my $15 Airlink router from Fry's. It sure did suck. At first I thought it was weak signal and interference, but when I couldn't get a good connection with a laptop 6 feet away in the room I knew it was time to give up.
I'm confused by this too. Verizon is distributing, more or less, an off-the-shelf embedded product. Yes, it's somewhat customized because of FIOS TV, but Actiontec is the manufacturer. Is a retailer like Best Buy liable for copyright infringement in any embedded devices they sell?
It's not locked down. Verizon gave me an Actiontec router free with FIOS service. You get the password, and you can reconfigure anything you want. You don't need to change anything, since the installer will get it working with your wireless laptop if you need the help (default setup is 64bit WEP). You can also use your own router, but if you get FIOS TV, you'll have to use the Actiontec because it has a coax out for the TV set-top box. I tossed it in the closet because wireless performance sucked. Not sure if it was WPA or incompatibility with the wireless client, but it barely worked in the same room.
The 2nd gen hard drive Zune only comes in 80GB. All 30GB Zunes are 1st gen, and the $90 sale on brown Zunes was likely to clear out old stock even if they were brand new vs. refurb.
Many states already have ballot initiatives where people can vote directly on passing state laws. IME the majority of state ballot measures are pretty stupid laws. Once in a while, the voters get a real chance to send a message like with medical marijuana. In all cases, the campaigns for ballot measures are just as dirty and expensive as campaigns for political office. It's not power to the people. You'll need some serious financial resources to get a state ballot measure passed.
The BSA also busts Mac shops on behalf of Adobe, Microsoft (for Office), etc. If we ever get Photoshop and MS Office on Linux, maybe we'll have to worry about the BSA too.
That's the problem. You can't any more. Populations are higher. Occupations are labor intensive, and the US Army has very high labor costs compared to, say, the Janjaweed militia of Sudan. The ease of global travel and global communications compared to the 1940s means you'll just create a diaspora of pissed off refugees while millions more sympathizers get the video online. Meanwhile, those refugees could easily follow us home and launch terrorist attacks on high value civilian targets. Look at the Russians in Chechnya, a tiny country of barely a million people. They blasted the whole place into rubble and look what it got them.
That's a very important point, electricity can be generated from a variety of heat sources, but internal combustion engines will never run on anything but combustible liquids and gases, and gases are less desirable than liquids because of limited fuel capacity. Oil is already much more expensive per unit heat than natural gas or coal. Practically no electric power plants run on oil. Our transportation system runs on nothing but oil. It's a huge risk putting all our eggs into one fuel basket.
You're right. The thermal efficiency of stationary power plants is so high that an electric car even running off a coal power plant emits less CO2 than a gasoline car. I'm not endorsing coal power, just saying that even the worst case scenario is still better than running cars on gasoline.
Correct. An example of QOS would be prioritizing all VoIP packets. Non-net-neutrality would be prioritizing the packets of the ISP's own VoIP service and degrading a competitor's VoIP traffic (say to Vonage). This article sounds like more fear mongering to promote a tiered Internet, i.e. non-neutral Internet.
Heinlein's book portrayed a fascist utopia. The movie was a deliberate spoof of that. Check the DVD extras.
Don't worry, if they don't have the carrot of DX10, they'll still have the stick of support end-of-life to force upgrades. Have fun surfing the net with an unpatched, EOL OS. I know XP won't be end of life until 2012, but four years isn't a whole lot of time to release Windows 7 if Vista bombs and everybody skips it.
In all likelyhood, the existing Xbox1 backward compatibility uses recompiled executables while reading graphics and game data off the original DVD. Look at the huge disk usage of the backward compatibility updates. Emulation shouldn't use so much space.
Political considerations. Launching air strikes from a land base in Iraq would shred any remaining fig leaf of Iraqi sovereignty. Launching from sea means never having to ask permission from (or risk embarrassment to) the host country of the land base.
You're correct that the x86 instruction set is still cruft, and a pure RISC CPU is theoretically more efficient. However, the real world disadvantage of x86 support is minimal. With each die shrink, the x86 to micro-op translator occupies less die space proportionally, and the advantages of the installed hardware and software base gives x86 CPUs a huge lead in economies of scale.
I know we're both just putting different spins on the same facts, but in the end, practical considerations outweigh engineering purity. x86 is even competing against ARM in the embedded space now, not just in higher powered UMPCs, but also routers too like this one with a 486 class CPU.
The feds have always spied secretly on phone calls, but the incident where Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card went to John Ashcroft's hospital bed to get him to sign off on the spying program points to something much worse. You can either believe a) John Ashcroft is a principled civil libertarian and doesn't believe in spying on Americans or b) the spying program under Bush was so egregiously illegal that it far exceeded any secret spying that we may have conducted previously.
Did you see the Lord of the Rings movies? The finale of the trilogy did exactly that. After Frodo was done, they spent a good 15-20 minutes on everybody going home, celebrating, saying goodbye. I was expecting the credits to roll, but it just went on and on.
I doubt studios will use that extra space because they're still in the mindset of "one feature length movie per disc". The extra space will be useful for data storage by PC users, but not until media and drive prices come way down.
That's easy. So the feds go to five banks instead of two credit card payment processors (small groceries don't usually take American Express). What does that cover, maybe 75% of all credit cards?
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/banking/2005nov/Art2table2.html
Remember Bank of America bought MBNA.
I saw another headline that said that. It illustrates the stupidity even better because falafel isn't a Persian food.