It has NOTHING to do with weight, and everything to do with aerodynamics....
You can if you accept that gravity works the same everywhere.
Speaking of gravity, is it not true that the force of gravity between the Earth and a more massive object will be stronger than the force of gravity between the Earth and a less massive object? This effect is obviously very small, but it is true that the more massive object will fall faster.
How much of that work will not be picked up some other time? Unless companies were shutting down factory lines I really don't think there will be much effect.
Where? If people are taking time off work they are either using vacation/sick days that they won't be able to take later or they're not being paid. Either way I don't see where this loss of productivity is supposed to come from.
Who modded this insightful? Parent is wrong. There are plenty of uses for wireless mice and keyboards. Personally I use one with my MythTV machine, which is sitting on the other side of the room.
Dunno about art, but I know what I liked, and I enjoyed RD much better than Pulp Fiction.
So you're saying the list should be based on personal preference? Isn't that exactly what they've done: listed the movies they thought were the best?
And besides, it would be logically consistent with them choosing Star Wars over Empire - pick the lower-budget, earlier, raw breakthrough film.
Not so. Pulp Fiction stands alone. It's not a sequel, it doesn't have the same characters, the events of RD are not mentioned, so you don't need to have seen RD to understand or appreciate PF. But without Star Wars, Empire doesn't make much sense. So you could put them both in, like they have with Godfather I and II, or you can put Star Wars in alone. They chose alone, probably because Empire doesn't resolve anything so Star Wars + Empire is an unfinished story.
I've had the opposite experience: no problems with S/PDIF over coax, but trouble with S/PDIF over Toslink. Optical cables are also more expensive than coax, so I'd recommend trying coax first.
Since Microsoft has had MapPoint and TerraServer for so long, why are they making a big announcement now? Could it be because MapPoint and TerraServer do not provide the same functionality as Google Maps?
There is no doubt that Microsoft is playing catchup here (not that there is anything wrong with that). They have had mapping data and satellite data available, but they haven't made it useful in the way that Google has.
If his stories aren't interesting, then how do you account for their success? Between Star Wars and Indiana Jones he's been responsible for the stories behind many of the most successful movies of the last 30 years.
The '87 Escort I had did not have power steering from the factory. Other Escorts of that era did.
I'm relieved I did read you right!
My dad's Buick, for a while, had intermittent power steering. It would go out sometimes (randomly) when you tried to make a right turn. We never once hit another car or ANYTHING as a result of this. That's about as bad as a power steering problem can get and it STILL made no practical difference.
But you can't generalise that experience to every other car (which was the original post I replied to was trying to do: "loss of power steering at highway speeds is not a big problem". Generalising from older cars in particular seems like a bad idea: power steering was a lot newer in 70's and 80's and therefore a lot more conservative in it's effect.
I'm sure many cars, probably even most cars, will remain quite maneuverable. But most is not all.
I assumed from the wording of the post I replied to that the '87 Escort didn't have power steering by design, rather than by failure. If it had lost power steering it was designed to have, it's still irrelevant because a '87 Ford Escort is not a '94 Mitsubishi GTO. For one thing cars of that era often had power steering as an option so basic design was for unpowered steering and the assistance provided by the power steering option was a lot lower. It's also a fundamentally flawed argument: just because one car is fine without power steering does not imply that all cars are fine in that situation.
On the contrary, it absolutely, 100 percent IS designed to work without power.
I said they're not designed to be OPERATED without power, not that they're not designed to work without power.
Also I've never heard of safety being a rationale for drum brakes. Wait, let me think... as a matter of fact, I don't think I've ever heard any rationale at all for drum brakes.
Well I wouldn't say saftey was a rationale for drum brakes, but it's not a coincidence that before power assisted braking most cars used drum brakes all round. Unpowered drum brakes are easier to apply than unpowered disc brakes (for the same degree to braking). That's also why some cars with disc brakes all round used a separate drum brake for the emergency brake.
A 1987 Escort is designed to be steered without power steering. A 1994 Mitsubishi GTO (the car I'm refering to) is not. And it's a lot harder to steer without power than my other car, a 1995 Nissan Pulsar (which also has power steering). Now maybe the GTO is atypical, but that's my point: a blanket "you'll be fine" is a risky sentiment. It depends on the car.
Now the brakes are a different story. Yes, you'll probably be fine, and you've got the parking brake as well. But you've lost ABS, you've got much worse stopping distance, and you're not used to operating the brakes that way. Also a dangerous situation, especially if it's coupled with extremely stiff steering.
How is this a big problem? Have you never had a car stall and these things fail on you before? It's no big deal. You push the pedal a little harder and you put a little more effort into steering.
Depends on the car. Certainly with my car, we're not talking "a little harder" to brake and steer, we're talking much, much harder. With the engine off and people pushing it, my car is practically impossible to steer. Hopefully it would be better if it lost power steering at speed, but I really don't want to find out. It's simply not designed to be operated without power. As for the brakes, you're a lot better off if you've got at least one pair of drum brakes because they magnify the force you can apply. I've got disc brakes all round and again, they're pretty ineffective without power.
Exactly. And in addition, the people downloading the torrents (people the MPAA/RIAA also want to be considered criminals) often could have watched the show themselves for free. Admittedly not necessarily in the case of cable shows, but still. Anti-P2P campaigners are going to struggle to convince people they're wrong in downloading a copy of something that could have been obtained for free anyway.
But if copying the first can is ok, why shouldn't the second, third or 100th be?
I think most people like to "try before they buy", and very few of them would see that as morally or ethically wrong, even if it is illegal (as it is in the case of downloading copyrighted material). But the 100th can is clearly not "trying" out the product, and it's debatable even in the case of the second can.
I wouldn't give a Linux based media PC to my mother, it's not that easy to use. My wife is comfortable with finding what she wants to playback, but so far has never set up a program to record, she just leaves that up to me. Personally, I wouldn't watch TV without it.
Frankly speaking, MythTV isn't TiVO, and your mileage may vary. My current uptime is 18 days on my mythtv box. For my wife, a MythTV crash (frontend or backend, she can't tell) results in a computer reboot to bring it back up for her because she's willing to hit the power button but not willing to learn to restart it.
I take care of frontend crashes by having a X session that simply runs MythFrontEnd and nothing else. If MythFrontEnd exits for any reason the X session terminates and X brings up the login screen, which is set to log in the mythtv user automatically. Backend crashes haven't been a problem for me, though I do get occassional lockups when recording in the middle of the night.
It's the other way round. Universal won't allow Fox (or anyone) to make a new TV series for the duration of the movie deal (potentially up to three films). After that the rights revert to Fox and they can do whatever they want, including making a new TV series. If they're smart they will, and I think they will, but because they're not smart they'll make it with a different cast and crew and it'll be terrible.
I'm not saying we should all drive fast (set it too fast and some crash and everyone ends up moving really slowly). But I'm saying there really is such a thing as too slow. Most people have other things they want to do with their lives than spending it on the same road everyday.
I agree. I'm not saying the limit is too high (or even necessarily too low), I'm saying it's arbitrary. If people want to argue that breaking that arbitrary limit is "bad", then they need to show why that limit is at the correct point.
That's exactly my point. It's a trade-off, and I've yet to see any justification for 55mph (or whatever) being the optimal limit. Just lots of stuff about "speed kills".
So, while accidents may happen less often, the average and total damage caused in an accident may increase, including death rates. Accident rate is only part of the equation. Again, the death rate may have indeed dropped, but it isn't a given just because the accident rate dropped.
The problem with that argument is that it applies no matter what speed limit you choose. If you argue that 70mph is too fast because of the increased fatality rate (and I realise you weren't, but bear with me), then the obvious question is: what makes 55mph the best limit? Why not 40, or 25, or 10? I bet there wouldn't be many fatalities at 10. I've seen plenty of proof from the "lower limit" side of the argument that higher speeds result in more deaths, but I haven't seen anything from them to show why the particular limits they nominate are actually the best tradeoff between efficiency of road transport and accident and fatality rates.
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How much of that work will not be picked up some other time? Unless companies were shutting down factory lines I really don't think there will be much effect.
Who modded this insightful? Parent is wrong. There are plenty of uses for wireless mice and keyboards. Personally I use one with my MythTV machine, which is sitting on the other side of the room.
I've had the opposite experience: no problems with S/PDIF over coax, but trouble with S/PDIF over Toslink. Optical cables are also more expensive than coax, so I'd recommend trying coax first.
There is no doubt that Microsoft is playing catchup here (not that there is anything wrong with that). They have had mapping data and satellite data available, but they haven't made it useful in the way that Google has.
If his stories aren't interesting, then how do you account for their success? Between Star Wars and Indiana Jones he's been responsible for the stories behind many of the most successful movies of the last 30 years.
I'm sure many cars, probably even most cars, will remain quite maneuverable. But most is not all.
I assumed from the wording of the post I replied to that the '87 Escort didn't have power steering by design, rather than by failure. If it had lost power steering it was designed to have, it's still irrelevant because a '87 Ford Escort is not a '94 Mitsubishi GTO. For one thing cars of that era often had power steering as an option so basic design was for unpowered steering and the assistance provided by the power steering option was a lot lower. It's also a fundamentally flawed argument: just because one car is fine without power steering does not imply that all cars are fine in that situation.
- You've lost ABS,
- You've got much worse stopping distance, and
- You're not used to operating the brakes that way.
You're stopping distance is worse because the brakes are less effective.I'm appalled at the reading comprehension around here sometimes.
Now the brakes are a different story. Yes, you'll probably be fine, and you've got the parking brake as well. But you've lost ABS, you've got much worse stopping distance, and you're not used to operating the brakes that way. Also a dangerous situation, especially if it's coupled with extremely stiff steering.
Exactly. And in addition, the people downloading the torrents (people the MPAA/RIAA also want to be considered criminals) often could have watched the show themselves for free. Admittedly not necessarily in the case of cable shows, but still. Anti-P2P campaigners are going to struggle to convince people they're wrong in downloading a copy of something that could have been obtained for free anyway.
I wouldn't give a Linux based media PC to my mother, it's not that easy to use. My wife is comfortable with finding what she wants to playback, but so far has never set up a program to record, she just leaves that up to me. Personally, I wouldn't watch TV without it.
Rottentomatoes has RotS showing 28/30 reveiws positive, and an average rating of 8.1/10. Is that enough evidence of "goodness" for you?
It's the other way round. Universal won't allow Fox (or anyone) to make a new TV series for the duration of the movie deal (potentially up to three films). After that the rights revert to Fox and they can do whatever they want, including making a new TV series. If they're smart they will, and I think they will, but because they're not smart they'll make it with a different cast and crew and it'll be terrible.
That's exactly my point. It's a trade-off, and I've yet to see any justification for 55mph (or whatever) being the optimal limit. Just lots of stuff about "speed kills".