Environmentalists have always supported the Electric car, and a hydrogen car is simply a different type of electric car (the battery is replaced with the fuel cell). I've not met any greens who were anti-hydrogen, since it is a clean fuel. Some are anti-natural gas but most think H2 will eventually be produced from solar panels.
Personally I think H2 is too difficult to handle. I think after a few cars blowup, the consumers will flee. -or- If the manufacturers do manage to make safe, impervious hydrogen cars, the pricetag will be so high (~$100,000) that nobody will be able to afford it. The same flaw that plagues pure EVs.
>>>Us older geeks know this isn't true. We did things you might recognize like read books or even socialize with our coworkers! We read magazine and wrote stories and played D&D and programmed non-network computers.
And then you got fired. You can't read magazines or books or play D&D while on the job. Just like you can't do it now..... but what you Can do now is fill your ears with entertainment via the free stuff on the web.
>>>Too many "geeks" become asocial nerds unable to work effectively with others
I'd probably have jumped off a building by now, if the internet did not exist. Engineering pays very well, but is horribly boring. Fortunately the net allows me to stream radio, music, college lectures, books-on-tape, and even TV shows to shove the boredom aside.
I've accepted my life as a "cog" because I can spend the day distracting myself with entertainment. But if this was the year 1990, pre-internet, I'd probably have dropped out by now and been one of those "asocial geeks" you describe.
>>>These people are whining because they went from a 70% to a 40% profit margin on a product that requires no raw materials to "manufacture".
Your numbers are smelly. Did you pull them out of your ass? The profit margin on most books, after you subtract wages for the author and editor and publicist, is just a few percent. If the store suddenly adds a surcharge of 30%, that wipes out your profit completely.
Phones, tablets have more power than my Commodore 64 or Amiga or Quadra Mac, all of which I still use today (mainly for gaming). So it's a valid comparison. Not being able to run anything you wish on your phone or tablet makes as little sense as not being able to run anything I wished on my C64, A500, or Mac.
Smells like capitalism to me. Your business failed. C'est la vie.
I can't help wondering if you (and others) would be singing a different tune if this was Microsoft or Comcast. Remember how they shut-out AOL? Netscape? Or more recently: Skype on Linux?* Or 150GB datacaps to shutout Netflix, Hulu, etc?
* * hasn't happened yet, but it's easy to hypothesize the possibility
Kolibri OS is not 8 bit mister "I don't read before replying" or use his brain. It's 32 bit, fits on a floppy, and is perfectly capable of running a facebook server. And therefore is easy to find security holes.
In my experience Process Assurance means little. The board or software fails certification testing, and the managers over-rule the failure, and mark it "passed" anyway. PA is just a smokescreen and managers act like politicians.
>>>US even has trade deficit with CANADA, forget China.
Everyone in the US would be a lot better off if they were more like me (anti-consumer, anti-spending). Rampant borrowing and spending is destroying america. In fact I think it already has (hence the housing depression of 2007-09).
First my question wasn't intended to "bait flames". Second, I was surprised because I figured it would be China or Japan with the highest number. Or.biz or.tv
>>>really do not understand why some in politics are trying to replay the end of the cold war and get the USA to play the part of the crumbling USSR.
Because they want the US to be replaced by the EU or China as the new #1 player. They want to "spread the wealth" around the world, rather than have it all concentrated in North America. It makes logical sense to weaken the US, if that's your goal.
Vice-versa, I think the politicians are targeting the wrong product. Space is trivial. If they really want an impact on China, they should block importation of all products that come from factories with child labor, or where workers are forced to endure 60+ hour weeks. (Current chinese law forbids that, but the law is not enforced.)
>>>777 safely in the air. That is the type of scenario that we need discipline, not creativity.
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Never mind. My IP can be traced. Let's just say: Airplane Process assurance has as little to do with "discipline" or "assurance" as Bush's promise to balance the budget, or Obama's promise to not start any new wars.
>>>"Fine" is not what I'd call about 80% of the music rips on youtube
Wow you're anal. I like quality too, but if the youtube rip is not distinguishable from FM quality (50-15,000 hertz), then it really is like listening to the radio (being your own DJ). I wonder..... if I put you in a blind listener test, could you really tell the difference between FM and Youtube? Probably not.
Where's all this Utah hate coming from? I spent a year there, and didn't think the culture was any different from any other US state (except possibly california).
>>>Earth to cpu6502, comparing hertz of CPUs of vastly different generations and with significant design differences is not a useful metric.
If you truly think a 1 gigahertz ATOM with its simplified structure is faster than a 3 gigahertz P4 with its large cache, out-of-order execution, and speedy pipelining, then YOU are the one who needs to be calling earth.
The MP3 encoder "Lame" runs much faster on the Pentium 4 systems. So do Adobe Acrobat, iTunes, and WinZip. Atom is like driving a poor-man's $15,000 Civic.... even if it's a 2012 model, it won't be as fast as the 2002 P4 ferrari.
I bet you'd have no problem finding security flaws in Commodore 64's GEOS. Or KolibriOS. It's so frickin' small that it's humanly possible to scan every line of code for security holes.
Which is the key I think - software needs to be less bloated, so it's easier to debug.
I think Comcast, Cox, Time-Warner, et cetera should be sued by the US DOJ under antitrust laws. Time to break them up and/or bring them under direct government control (like the phone and electricity monopolies). i.e. price-fixing
>>>actively defend the idea of a multi-billion dollar advertising company controlling content
We are defending it, because we are not dumbasses. Google isn't controlling the content. The CUSTOMER controls the content and uploads it (or not) to his "cloud" hard drive. It's simply a storage area - no different than storing your grandma's wedding ring in a bank vault. Or storing a favorite song in yahoomail.
Welcome to the world 99% of the other wage-slaves have to deal with. Do you think WE get to tell our bosses how/when we wish to be paid? Of course not. The corporation dictates how laborers get paid, and there's no reason to think Musicians, Actors, Authors, etc should be any different. I figure in the future they'll all be paid by the Hour, rather than per sale.
Google's service is no different than storing your iTunes collection on a Hard Disk Drive. Except that the hard drive is located in rural New York State (just outside buffalo). It's not stealing to store your OWN property in a remote location (think safety deposit boxes).
"BMI argues that the public performing right has long applied to on-demand, interactive streaming. Additionally, it makes no difference if the audience for the transmission is only one person, who may receive the program at a unique time, and that MP3tunesâ(TM) attempt to make one to one transmissions into private performances is contrary to established law. We stress that it was only the existence of the unique copy made by each subscriber that was the critical factor that saved Cablevision from being an infringer. MP3tunes cannot evade that essential aspect of the courtâ(TM)s ruling on the grounds it would be more efficient to infringe with one copy in storage for all recipients."
>>>remember when they had a 90+% hold on the PC market?...Amiga, Commodore and IBM and the rest fractured the market.
There was never a time when Apple held that high share. The #1 selling computer of the late 1970s was the Tandy-Randy Shack 80 (TRS-80). In 1982 Atari 400/800 briefly held the crown. From 1983-86 the Commodore 64 dominated the market. And then finally the IBM PC/clones (1987 to present).
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Environmentalists have always supported the Electric car, and a hydrogen car is simply a different type of electric car (the battery is replaced with the fuel cell). I've not met any greens who were anti-hydrogen, since it is a clean fuel. Some are anti-natural gas but most think H2 will eventually be produced from solar panels.
Personally I think H2 is too difficult to handle. I think after a few cars blowup, the consumers will flee. -or- If the manufacturers do manage to make safe, impervious hydrogen cars, the pricetag will be so high (~$100,000) that nobody will be able to afford it. The same flaw that plagues pure EVs.
Honda does. They built a solar cell fueling station that converts water to H2, and which they use for the hydrogen test cars.
>>>Us older geeks know this isn't true. We did things you might recognize like read books or even socialize with our coworkers! We read magazine and wrote stories and played D&D and programmed non-network computers.
And then you got fired.
You can't read magazines or books or play D&D while on the job. Just like you can't do it now..... but what you Can do now is fill your ears with entertainment via the free stuff on the web.
>>>"McVeigh became interested in computers and hacked into government computer systems on his Commodore 64"
Wow. Impressive for a 1 megahertz machine.
>>>Too many "geeks" become asocial nerds unable to work effectively with others
I'd probably have jumped off a building by now, if the internet did not exist. Engineering pays very well, but is horribly boring. Fortunately the net allows me to stream radio, music, college lectures, books-on-tape, and even TV shows to shove the boredom aside.
I've accepted my life as a "cog" because I can spend the day distracting myself with entertainment. But if this was the year 1990, pre-internet, I'd probably have dropped out by now and been one of those "asocial geeks" you describe.
>>>These people are whining because they went from a 70% to a 40% profit margin on a product that requires no raw materials to "manufacture".
Your numbers are smelly.
Did you pull them out of your ass?
The profit margin on most books, after you subtract wages for the author and editor and publicist, is just a few percent. If the store suddenly adds a surcharge of 30%, that wipes out your profit completely.
Phones, tablets have more power than my Commodore 64 or Amiga or Quadra Mac, all of which I still use today (mainly for gaming). So it's a valid comparison. Not being able to run anything you wish on your phone or tablet makes as little sense as not being able to run anything I wished on my C64, A500, or Mac.
Smells like capitalism to me.
Your business failed.
C'est la vie.
I can't help wondering if you (and others) would be singing a different tune if this was Microsoft or Comcast. Remember how they shut-out AOL? Netscape? Or more recently: Skype on Linux?* Or 150GB datacaps to shutout Netflix, Hulu, etc?
*
* hasn't happened yet, but it's easy to hypothesize the possibility
>>>people hold up 8-bit code
Kolibri OS is not 8 bit mister "I don't read before replying" or use his brain. It's 32 bit, fits on a floppy, and is perfectly capable of running a facebook server. And therefore is easy to find security holes.
Bad developers OR bad managers.
In my experience Process Assurance means little. The board or software fails certification testing, and the managers over-rule the failure, and mark it "passed" anyway. PA is just a smokescreen and managers act like politicians.
>>>US even has trade deficit with CANADA, forget China.
Everyone in the US would be a lot better off if they were more like me (anti-consumer, anti-spending). Rampant borrowing and spending is destroying america. In fact I think it already has (hence the housing depression of 2007-09).
First my question wasn't intended to "bait flames". Second, I was surprised because I figured it would be China or Japan with the highest number. Or .biz or .tv
>>>really do not understand why some in politics are trying to replay the end of the cold war and get the USA to play the part of the crumbling USSR.
Because they want the US to be replaced by the EU or China as the new #1 player. They want to "spread the wealth" around the world, rather than have it all concentrated in North America. It makes logical sense to weaken the US, if that's your goal.
Vice-versa, I think the politicians are targeting the wrong product. Space is trivial. If they really want an impact on China, they should block importation of all products that come from factories with child labor, or where workers are forced to endure 60+ hour weeks. (Current chinese law forbids that, but the law is not enforced.)
>>>777 safely in the air. That is the type of scenario that we need discipline, not creativity.
[delete]
Never mind. My IP can be traced. Let's just say: Airplane Process assurance has as little to do with "discipline" or "assurance" as Bush's promise to balance the budget, or Obama's promise to not start any new wars.
>>>"Fine" is not what I'd call about 80% of the music rips on youtube
Wow you're anal. I like quality too, but if the youtube rip is not distinguishable from FM quality (50-15,000 hertz), then it really is like listening to the radio (being your own DJ). I wonder..... if I put you in a blind listener test, could you really tell the difference between FM and Youtube? Probably not.
Where's all this Utah hate coming from? I spent a year there, and didn't think the culture was any different from any other US state (except possibly california).
>>>Earth to cpu6502, comparing hertz of CPUs of vastly different generations and with significant design differences is not a useful metric.
If you truly think a 1 gigahertz ATOM with its simplified structure is faster than a 3 gigahertz P4 with its large cache, out-of-order execution, and speedy pipelining, then YOU are the one who needs to be calling earth.
The MP3 encoder "Lame" runs much faster on the Pentium 4 systems. So do Adobe Acrobat, iTunes, and WinZip. Atom is like driving a poor-man's $15,000 Civic.... even if it's a 2012 model, it won't be as fast as the 2002 P4 ferrari.
I bet you'd have no problem finding security flaws in Commodore 64's GEOS. Or KolibriOS. It's so frickin' small that it's humanly possible to scan every line of code for security holes.
Which is the key I think - software needs to be less bloated, so it's easier to debug.
I think Comcast, Cox, Time-Warner, et cetera should be sued by the US DOJ under antitrust laws. Time to break them up and/or bring them under direct government control (like the phone and electricity monopolies). i.e. price-fixing
>>>actively defend the idea of a multi-billion dollar advertising company controlling content
We are defending it, because we are not dumbasses. Google isn't controlling the content. The CUSTOMER controls the content and uploads it (or not) to his "cloud" hard drive. It's simply a storage area - no different than storing your grandma's wedding ring in a bank vault. Or storing a favorite song in yahoomail.
I think the music on youtube and other video sites sounds just fine. Not CD quality, but better than the FM Radio I typically listen to.
>>>Google dictating how musicians are paid
Welcome to the world 99% of the other wage-slaves have to deal with. Do you think WE get to tell our bosses how/when we wish to be paid? Of course not. The corporation dictates how laborers get paid, and there's no reason to think Musicians, Actors, Authors, etc should be any different. I figure in the future they'll all be paid by the Hour, rather than per sale.
Stealing?!?!?
Google's service is no different than storing your iTunes collection on a Hard Disk Drive. Except that the hard drive is located in rural New York State (just outside buffalo). It's not stealing to store your OWN property in a remote location (think safety deposit boxes).
"BMI argues that the public performing right has long applied to on-demand, interactive streaming. Additionally, it makes no difference if the audience for the transmission is only one person, who may receive the program at a unique time, and that MP3tunesâ(TM) attempt to make one to one transmissions into private performances is contrary to established law. We stress that it was only the existence of the unique copy made by each subscriber that was the critical factor that saved Cablevision from being an infringer. MP3tunes cannot evade that essential aspect of the courtâ(TM)s ruling on the grounds it would be more efficient to infringe with one copy in storage for all recipients."
Wow.
What a sellout this lawyer fuck is.
>>>remember when they had a 90+% hold on the PC market? ...Amiga, Commodore and IBM and the rest fractured the market.
There was never a time when Apple held that high share. The #1 selling computer of the late 1970s was the Tandy-Randy Shack 80 (TRS-80). In 1982 Atari 400/800 briefly held the crown. From 1983-86 the Commodore 64 dominated the market. And then finally the IBM PC/clones (1987 to present).