GM is not building the next generation of Fuel Cell based cars to help out the enviroment. They are just like many greedy corporations, they will make money of the parts, service and maintance industry for a fuel cell powered car. Remember folks, industrial factories are still the leading pollution and natural resource draining offenders.
In pre-industrial Europe people were lucky to live to their mid-20s. The average life-span of someone born in the US in 1900 was about 49 years; now it's around 78, a rise of over 25 years in the course of a mere century. Anyone over 30 years of age today, give a silent 'Thank you' to the nearest, grimiest, sootiest smokestack you can find.
Which basically means that since there is so much fewer crap in the way, they have much more freedom with the outer design of the car. They are no longer restricted as far as seat placement and hood/trunk designs in general.
Actually they are still quite restricted for their design. Look at the footprint for parking spaces, garages, etc. A round car where all the passengers can sit in a circle and face each other would be great for playing poker on road trips, but you wouldn't be able to stash the car anywhere once you arrived.
There would be a nice chicken-egg issue until our car infrastructure was adapted for different sizes and shapes.
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I most respectfully disagree about this review. It gave me exactly what I needed to know to decide if the book might be something I would want to invest my time in.
Of course, I also loathe movie trailers that give away most of the plot. From any summary medium like a review or a trailer, I want to know what the subject matter is about, not the details of what the subject matter is.
Ow... I think I accidentally got Zen there for a moment and gave myself a headache...
Am I the only one who read the summary paragraph for this story multiple times and still didn't understand what he was talking about? I'm certainly not the fastest fish in the tank, but I can hold my own. Reading that paragraph gave me flashbacks of reading Finnegan's Wake in college.
I just want to know if other people shared this experience, or if I just need more caffeine this morning.
You can view the endings to all of your favorite shows on the Slashdot home page! It's free, it's quick, and you get the information before the show even airs on the West Coast.
I've been thinking about picking up one of these new recorders, but hadn't decided which yet. I do NOT like that TiVo think's it's ok to grab that kind of control over MY property.
I think I just made up my mind, unless anyone has any strong pro-TiVo or anti-ReplayTV information?
I suggest a strong dose of research. The Tivo Community is a great place to start for the Tivo side of the equation. For example, the site will explain how these promo recordings do not in any way interfere with your regular recording. It is just more information that Tivo sends to you, like the channel listings or "system mail".
I went through the DVR eval routine about 2 months ago and settled on Tivo because of overall ease of use, and features-per-dollar. The menus and interface on Tivo seemed much easier to use, but your mileage may vary. ReplayTV has the commerical skip and other features, but nothing that balanced out the price and other oddities.
Either way, just make sure you're basing your decision on healthy research and not a spot reaction to a headline on/.
I've been annoyed by ads, but never enraged. You might be more finely attuned to the subliminal mind control messages than I am.
All seriousness aside, I am a happy DirecTivo owner, and while this is a nuisance it really isn't that big of a deal. Tivo lets me watch the best quality programming on satellite (IMHO) at the time that is most convenient for me. The promo is not using up normal recording space, so the only cost to me is the added photons comprising the show listing going into my eyeballs, only to be ignored by my brain.
Spam in Hotmail costs me time to work around, it takes up my storage space, and forces me to use ergs managing it. I'd rather NOT have the promos, but I'm not going to fall on my sword (or DVR) about it.
As plot devices go that's up there with destroying an Alien battle fleet with a PowerMac and Word Macro Virus
I had no problem with that plot device. Any Alien battle fleet that doesn't keep up with the latest Office patches from Microsoft deserves what they get.
WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE?! Never heard of a single one of them
Back in the '80s I think these guys made some giant robot dogs that could combine into a mega-robot. I guess Spam is a more effective weapon than that giant sword.
At the risk of losing some Karma, wasn't it on this very site where I saw an ad at the top of the page depicting a giant penguin terrorizing Redmond? If the topic here is a company trashing a competing OS in their ads, it bears noting that this coin has two sides.
Hmmm... so now we're going to have an AC-X winged aircraft with lasers on it. Next month are we going to have a pilot named Luke flying it along a trench in Iraq trying to take out their biggest military installation?
I just hope no one is working on a genetically engineered fighting force of small, fuzzy, teddy bears...
If you had 100 pigeons wouldn't you only need 99 markers? When the pigeon flew out without a marker you would know who he was by the absence of a marker.
I know a guy who has a brother whose girlfriend has been sleeping with someone at Blizzard in an attempt to get him on the Beta list. She said that there is a typo on the Beta page and signup really isn't until the January 9th.
That's right, as a service to all of my fellow/.ers I am passing on this invaluable piece of information. So none of you should waste your precious time trying to register on the 7th. Spend that day downloading patches to your favorite OS, or go see LOTR for the 12th time. Don't go anywhere near the Blizzard site.
I appreciate... uh, I mean Blizzard appreciates your support.
Especially considering the movie doesn't have a conclusion!
You'll also find that Empire Strikes Back is number 17 on IMDB, and I know many people, myself included, who feel it is the best of the SW movies. But a conclusion? Heck, it ended with a main character abducted, betrayal then help of a friend, the group split up, a hero in turmoil, and evil in control. Uh... sounds more like FOTR than I thought...
Anyway, I think Hollywood pushes too hard to wrap movies up with a bow. A good movie is a snapshot of life somewhen/somewhere else, and life doesn't always resolve things neatly.
The reason for the odd answer format has already been discussed, but lest anyone think less of Bruce I must post the following.
Bruce is one of the most genuine "showbiz" people I've ever met or even heard about. I met him at a book signing in Phoenix a few months ago. He was articulate, genuine, and funny. He stayed to sign autographs for oer 5 hours! The bookstore was past it's closing time but he had the employees stay until every single fan had their book (or Ash action figure, or DVD, etc) signed. Why he doesn't have an arm like Popeye from all those autographs, I have no idea.
Check his site to see if his is going to be in your area, and make the time to see him. The book is also a very good read, and you will learn far more about Bruce than you will from this interview.
Philip K Dick should certainly appear on the list. His stories are simply amazing, which is why so many have been the basis for movies (Blade Runner, Screamers, Total Recall, and the upcoming Minority Report).
Some think he was insane, some think he was a prophet, but either way his work is a must for SciFi fans.
This is the first time I've seen the airing of a piece of blatant, unapologetic propaganda directed at children since the World War 2 era
Really? Then you missed Joe Camel. I never gave much credence to that fellow until a friend's four year old son pointed at Joe on the side of a bus one day and said "Look, daddy, a camel! He smokes!"
I doubt it will make him pick up a cigarette in the face of parental education to the contrary, but it did influence him.
You're in a maze of twisty little Slashdot comments, all alike.
I miss the storytelling of those games, and the hours upon hours spent trying to figure out what the exact word the CENSORED parser was looking for. I guess that frustration has just been replaced with lag time in the new games.
Don't be surprised if your underlings are staying around out of loyatly to you. I was in a similar situation with a group of great people that were being led by incompotents right to the gallows. We were staying for each other, not for the company. Once we realized this and broke apart, we each ended up much happier, and in much better jobs.
You could be doing your coworkers a big favor by leaving.
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GM is not building the next generation of Fuel Cell based cars to help out the enviroment. They are just like many greedy corporations, they will make money of the parts, service and maintance industry for a fuel cell powered car. Remember folks, industrial factories are still the leading pollution and natural resource draining offenders.
In pre-industrial Europe people were lucky to live to their mid-20s. The average life-span of someone born in the US in 1900 was about 49 years; now it's around 78, a rise of over 25 years in the course of a mere century. Anyone over 30 years of age today, give a silent 'Thank you' to the nearest, grimiest, sootiest smokestack you can find.
- Paraphrased from Ayn Rand
Which basically means that since there is so much fewer crap in the way, they have much more freedom with the outer design of the car. They are no longer restricted as far as seat placement and hood/trunk designs in general.
Actually they are still quite restricted for their design. Look at the footprint for parking spaces, garages, etc. A round car where all the passengers can sit in a circle and face each other would be great for playing poker on road trips, but you wouldn't be able to stash the car anywhere once you arrived.
There would be a nice chicken-egg issue until our car infrastructure was adapted for different sizes and shapes.
I most respectfully disagree about this review. It gave me exactly what I needed to know to decide if the book might be something I would want to invest my time in.
Of course, I also loathe movie trailers that give away most of the plot. From any summary medium like a review or a trailer, I want to know what the subject matter is about, not the details of what the subject matter is.
Ow... I think I accidentally got Zen there for a moment and gave myself a headache...
This whole color change is just a cover. The government has already used all the hidden conspiracy information in the $20, so they need to add more.
Don't worry, though. Hundreds of Origami Experts and Interior Decorators are standing by to unravel the dastardly secrets.
I guess this means I can stop checking the mailbox for my Beta CD.
Am I the only one who read the summary paragraph for this story multiple times and still didn't understand what he was talking about? I'm certainly not the fastest fish in the tank, but I can hold my own. Reading that paragraph gave me flashbacks of reading Finnegan's Wake in college.
I just want to know if other people shared this experience, or if I just need more caffeine this morning.
You can view the endings to all of your favorite shows on the Slashdot home page! It's free, it's quick, and you get the information before the show even airs on the West Coast.
I've been thinking about picking up one of these new recorders, but hadn't decided which yet. I do NOT like that TiVo think's it's ok to grab that kind of control over MY property.
/.
I think I just made up my mind, unless anyone has any strong pro-TiVo or anti-ReplayTV information?
I suggest a strong dose of research. The Tivo Community is a great place to start for the Tivo side of the equation. For example, the site will explain how these promo recordings do not in any way interfere with your regular recording. It is just more information that Tivo sends to you, like the channel listings or "system mail".
I went through the DVR eval routine about 2 months ago and settled on Tivo because of overall ease of use, and features-per-dollar. The menus and interface on Tivo seemed much easier to use, but your mileage may vary. ReplayTV has the commerical skip and other features, but nothing that balanced out the price and other oddities.
Either way, just make sure you're basing your decision on healthy research and not a spot reaction to a headline on
I've been annoyed by ads, but never enraged. You might be more finely attuned to the subliminal mind control messages than I am.
All seriousness aside, I am a happy DirecTivo owner, and while this is a nuisance it really isn't that big of a deal. Tivo lets me watch the best quality programming on satellite (IMHO) at the time that is most convenient for me. The promo is not using up normal recording space, so the only cost to me is the added photons comprising the show listing going into my eyeballs, only to be ignored by my brain.
Spam in Hotmail costs me time to work around, it takes up my storage space, and forces me to use ergs managing it. I'd rather NOT have the promos, but I'm not going to fall on my sword (or DVR) about it.
As plot devices go that's up there with destroying an Alien battle fleet with a PowerMac and Word Macro Virus
I had no problem with that plot device. Any Alien battle fleet that doesn't keep up with the latest Office patches from Microsoft deserves what they get.
WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE?! Never heard of a single one of them
Back in the '80s I think these guys made some giant robot dogs that could combine into a mega-robot. I guess Spam is a more effective weapon than that giant sword.
At least now I know no major characters die at the end of the movie. Otherwise it would have been mentioned on Slashdot's main page.
Isn't this the same thing?
Maybe they will compromise and use Caveman Lawyer of SNL fame.
"Your modern games and lawsuits confuse and anger me!"
At the risk of losing some Karma, wasn't it on this very site where I saw an ad at the top of the page depicting a giant penguin terrorizing Redmond? If the topic here is a company trashing a competing OS in their ads, it bears noting that this coin has two sides.
Hmmm... so now we're going to have an AC-X winged aircraft with lasers on it. Next month are we going to have a pilot named Luke flying it along a trench in Iraq trying to take out their biggest military installation?
I just hope no one is working on a genetically engineered fighting force of small, fuzzy, teddy bears...
If you had 100 pigeons wouldn't you only need 99 markers? When the pigeon flew out without a marker you would know who he was by the absence of a marker.
I know a guy who has a brother whose girlfriend has been sleeping with someone at Blizzard in an attempt to get him on the Beta list. She said that there is a typo on the Beta page and signup really isn't until the January 9th.
/.ers I am passing on this invaluable piece of information. So none of you should waste your precious time trying to register on the 7th. Spend that day downloading patches to your favorite OS, or go see LOTR for the 12th time. Don't go anywhere near the Blizzard site.
That's right, as a service to all of my fellow
I appreciate... uh, I mean Blizzard appreciates your support.
You'll also find that Empire Strikes Back is number 17 on IMDB, and I know many people, myself included, who feel it is the best of the SW movies. But a conclusion? Heck, it ended with a main character abducted, betrayal then help of a friend, the group split up, a hero in turmoil, and evil in control. Uh... sounds more like FOTR than I thought...
Anyway, I think Hollywood pushes too hard to wrap movies up with a bow. A good movie is a snapshot of life somewhen/somewhere else, and life doesn't always resolve things neatly.
So now the newspapers will call your company "Software"?
Bruce is one of the most genuine "showbiz" people I've ever met or even heard about. I met him at a book signing in Phoenix a few months ago. He was articulate, genuine, and funny. He stayed to sign autographs for oer 5 hours! The bookstore was past it's closing time but he had the employees stay until every single fan had their book (or Ash action figure, or DVD, etc) signed. Why he doesn't have an arm like Popeye from all those autographs, I have no idea.
Check his site to see if his is going to be in your area, and make the time to see him. The book is also a very good read, and you will learn far more about Bruce than you will from this interview.
Philip K Dick should certainly appear on the list. His stories are simply amazing, which is why so many have been the basis for movies (Blade Runner, Screamers, Total Recall, and the upcoming Minority Report).
Some think he was insane, some think he was a prophet, but either way his work is a must for SciFi fans.
This is the first time I've seen the airing of a piece of blatant, unapologetic propaganda directed at children since the World War 2 era
Really? Then you missed Joe Camel. I never gave much credence to that fellow until a friend's four year old son pointed at Joe on the side of a bus one day and said "Look, daddy, a camel! He smokes!"
I doubt it will make him pick up a cigarette in the face of parental education to the contrary, but it did influence him.
You're in a maze of twisty little Slashdot comments, all alike.
I miss the storytelling of those games, and the hours upon hours spent trying to figure out what the exact word the CENSORED parser was looking for. I guess that frustration has just been replaced with lag time in the new games.
Don't be surprised if your underlings are staying around out of loyatly to you. I was in a similar situation with a group of great people that were being led by incompotents right to the gallows. We were staying for each other, not for the company. Once we realized this and broke apart, we each ended up much happier, and in much better jobs. You could be doing your coworkers a big favor by leaving.