Growing up with home computers with no distractions like MySpace and Facebook made me a better computer user. I had a lot less resources but I seemed to make more out of less. Today they're toys, in my youth they were toys that you actually had to know something about to get results from.
If the memory serves, the Prius has been a top selling car for two years, and the second and third place are also for hybrids
Can you cite something here? I was looking at best selling lists for 2009 in a few places and Prius is never mentioned on the top 10. None of the top cars are broken out into hybrid/non-hybrid numbers. The most consistent top selling vehicle is the Ford F-150 which has never been offered publicly as a hybrid or an EV.
It wasn't about his hollow promises and, yes, he has made many hollow promises. Sorry if you can't see it but I guess you probably have a hard time seeing beyond your anger. As for what you've supposedly proven? I never said he didn't do anything. You could only point out one frigging thing. Big whoop. He promised us the moon and the stars and he's failed on the vast majority of it. So *YOU* are the one who's wrong. Even so, that's not what I'm talking about. You're missing what I was really talking about. no surprising around here that a user reads the one sentence they want out of a full post and think that they've accomplished something.
But go ahead, keep feeding your angry little ego. I love to see people like you out there. It's vindicating.
If you can't go back and re-read my post and understand what you've proven then I'm afraid there is no real hope for you... Thanks for replying anyway.
You're essentially saying "They owe users something" as though Facebook were a charity. They absolutely are not, and it's intellectually dishonest to speak about them as though they were.
They're a business. Don't like it? Don't consume their product.
Why is this such a hard concept for these people? There are alternatives. There are options. Facebook isn't a necessity. You are not entitled to anything from Facebook.
Do you honestly think that parties that get to the size and influence as our big two really do that by honestly showing good will and trust to their subjects? Please. Those who voted for Obama in the hopes that he was going to loosen the grip of the intelligence community on the people he has been tasked to serve are seriously naive.
Look, I know most of you think that it is only the right that wears Klan robes, rub their hands together with greedy intent and kick puppies but the bottom line is that both parties have very active members who've proven they're no better than the other. Why do you keep drinking the kool aid when we have incident after incident of both Ds and Rs that are up to no good? Do you have the much of an investment in your party of choice that you can't afford to finally tell them that you've had enough of their bullshit by not voting for them or giving them your financial support?
While this doesn't mean that Obama himself is the evil henchman the fact is that he can't do much of anything by himself and the things he might be able to do by himself have long gone by the wayside as hollow promises. For as much as the Dems chanted that they didn't need the Reps to do what they needed to do in the name of humanity? Damn little of it ever gone done. And now? The chants that it's the "party of no" that made it impossible for them to do what is in your best interest. Are you still buying these lies? Please don't tell me you are.
Every product has defects, every product has failures. Its a fact. Creating great expectations from any product or brand is setting oneself up for disappointment.
For my driving habits this would nearly work* and I would only have a couple of reservations. Early adopters normally put up with a bit of pain to help spur a technology along. If this car would be available at a competitive price point I might actually buy one knowing that it is a stepping stone to what people really envision being offered in an electronic car.
* This car wouldn't have worked for 3 trips, that I can think of, in the last 2 years.
The airship is still going to need fuel to observe the hot spots. It's not just a matter of keeping it up in the sky, it needs to be over certain areas to do whatever observations it needs to do or it's useless to the researchers.
Hell, the researchers and engineers can keep a blimp afloat over my house for the next three months but it's not going to further their understanding of the Gulf spill.
sorry, but that's a pretty easy claim to disregard. Just like the droves of people who claimed that they would move in Bush Jr was re-elected or Obama was elected. If I were a business I wouldn't bother with a handful of my total customer base making these claims because I know that, when push comes to shove, nearly no one ever follows through on these kinds of promises. You may be the exception, more power to you if you are, but it's still easy to shrug it off.
The focus on natural gas may have been the intent from the beginning. Perhaps there are other studies that simply aren't posted here with other focus areas. Either way, to say that this report isn't scientific because it has a focus area doesn't mean it isn't scientific. Far from it, as I see things.
As for the public? The public takes what it wants from research. Scientists worrying about conveying their meaning to every Joe Sixpack is a more likely way for the science to be lost. Catering to those who don't care to understand is just a means of undermining your own efforts. I'd back any scientist that doesn't feel the need to worry about the masses in the matters of how research is perceived by the public at large.
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Growing up with home computers with no distractions like MySpace and Facebook made me a better computer user. I had a lot less resources but I seemed to make more out of less. Today they're toys, in my youth they were toys that you actually had to know something about to get results from.
If the memory serves, the Prius has been a top selling car for two years, and the second and third place are also for hybrids
Can you cite something here? I was looking at best selling lists for 2009 in a few places and Prius is never mentioned on the top 10. None of the top cars are broken out into hybrid/non-hybrid numbers. The most consistent top selling vehicle is the Ford F-150 which has never been offered publicly as a hybrid or an EV.
Whatever. Your sorry attempt to turn the tables is extremely sophomoric. Kinda like the rest of your posts.
It wasn't about his hollow promises and, yes, he has made many hollow promises. Sorry if you can't see it but I guess you probably have a hard time seeing beyond your anger. As for what you've supposedly proven? I never said he didn't do anything. You could only point out one frigging thing. Big whoop. He promised us the moon and the stars and he's failed on the vast majority of it. So *YOU* are the one who's wrong. Even so, that's not what I'm talking about. You're missing what I was really talking about. no surprising around here that a user reads the one sentence they want out of a full post and think that they've accomplished something.
But go ahead, keep feeding your angry little ego. I love to see people like you out there. It's vindicating.
You've proven where you stand. What more needs to be said? Sorry if that's a problem for you, angry little prick.
I can't help it you have a reading problem. What else should I expect from an angry little prick like you? Have a nice day.
If you can't go back and re-read my post and understand what you've proven then I'm afraid there is no real hope for you... Thanks for replying anyway.
You're essentially saying "They owe users something" as though Facebook were a charity. They absolutely are not, and it's intellectually dishonest to speak about them as though they were.
They're a business. Don't like it? Don't consume their product.
Why is this such a hard concept for these people? There are alternatives. There are options. Facebook isn't a necessity. You are not entitled to anything from Facebook.
Thank you for helping to prove my point.
Do you honestly think that parties that get to the size and influence as our big two really do that by honestly showing good will and trust to their subjects? Please. Those who voted for Obama in the hopes that he was going to loosen the grip of the intelligence community on the people he has been tasked to serve are seriously naive.
Look, I know most of you think that it is only the right that wears Klan robes, rub their hands together with greedy intent and kick puppies but the bottom line is that both parties have very active members who've proven they're no better than the other. Why do you keep drinking the kool aid when we have incident after incident of both Ds and Rs that are up to no good? Do you have the much of an investment in your party of choice that you can't afford to finally tell them that you've had enough of their bullshit by not voting for them or giving them your financial support?
While this doesn't mean that Obama himself is the evil henchman the fact is that he can't do much of anything by himself and the things he might be able to do by himself have long gone by the wayside as hollow promises. For as much as the Dems chanted that they didn't need the Reps to do what they needed to do in the name of humanity? Damn little of it ever gone done. And now? The chants that it's the "party of no" that made it impossible for them to do what is in your best interest. Are you still buying these lies? Please don't tell me you are.
You're just going to get some dumb-ass to blow his hand off.
I fail to see the problem with that. This kind of twisted Darwinism is one of the few things that make me smile on the nightly news.
More like being a fanboi makes you a bitch.
Every product has defects, every product has failures. Its a fact. Creating great expectations from any product or brand is setting oneself up for disappointment.
100 miles? That's it?
It's a step in the right direction.
For my driving habits this would nearly work* and I would only have a couple of reservations. Early adopters normally put up with a bit of pain to help spur a technology along. If this car would be available at a competitive price point I might actually buy one knowing that it is a stepping stone to what people really envision being offered in an electronic car.
* This car wouldn't have worked for 3 trips, that I can think of, in the last 2 years.
The airship is still going to need fuel to observe the hot spots. It's not just a matter of keeping it up in the sky, it needs to be over certain areas to do whatever observations it needs to do or it's useless to the researchers.
Hell, the researchers and engineers can keep a blimp afloat over my house for the next three months but it's not going to further their understanding of the Gulf spill.
News at 11.
Ok, if you want to be an asshole about it, I also found better resolution images from WMAP.
Are you serious? My first hit on Google Images beat that little image.
I'm just saying...
Drink your Ovaltine.
Why is it such a shame that it's a Republican?
That's suppose to be "move if"... Sorry.
sorry, but that's a pretty easy claim to disregard. Just like the droves of people who claimed that they would move in Bush Jr was re-elected or Obama was elected. If I were a business I wouldn't bother with a handful of my total customer base making these claims because I know that, when push comes to shove, nearly no one ever follows through on these kinds of promises. You may be the exception, more power to you if you are, but it's still easy to shrug it off.
The focus on natural gas may have been the intent from the beginning. Perhaps there are other studies that simply aren't posted here with other focus areas. Either way, to say that this report isn't scientific because it has a focus area doesn't mean it isn't scientific. Far from it, as I see things.
As for the public? The public takes what it wants from research. Scientists worrying about conveying their meaning to every Joe Sixpack is a more likely way for the science to be lost. Catering to those who don't care to understand is just a means of undermining your own efforts. I'd back any scientist that doesn't feel the need to worry about the masses in the matters of how research is perceived by the public at large.
What in this report makes you think it is not scientific?
The same kind of people who consider WinMo7 and the Kin as having the same OS. At least they should according to the logic of symbolset.