Like say a compact pickup. I'd buy one if I could. (preferably turbo diesel, while I am dreaming) But the Ranger was discontinued, the Colorado is big enough to be a full size pickup of 10 years ago, and the Durango is big enough to be a semi truck, much less the "full sized" trucks. And it's not just the "merican" companies. The last time the Tacoma was mid sized was in 2004, now it's ginormous (same thing with the Frontier).
He kinda cherry picked what phones he used to make the point he wanted to make.
When I switched off my original Motorola Droid a few months ago it was up to date and had gone through two major upgrades in the time I had it..
With Android being so diverse and wide a market I say picking your MFG is the important part. And what I see in that list.. HTC is the brand to avoid. But I already knew that. Motorola or Samsung for me please.
How about just switching their phones off the antiquated BES teat and supporting activsync natively like every other phone out there? That would fix their server crashing problem once and for all.
There really should be a minimum time that you must own stock & futures. Right now it is just all games and millisecond gambling. I mean really if you only own the stock for 1/10th of a second, why do you care if the company is doing good or failing. And if you can sell futures before they mature, how does that in any way relate to the real product that the paper represents.
Non voting stock should have a minimum 3 month ownership, if you buy stock in a company, you shouldn't be able to sell it again for a minimum of 3 months.. This would cause investors to actually investigate the stock they are buying.
And futures must be held till they come due.. If you are buying oil futures 6 months out, the actual value of the oil 6 months later should be what will determine if you gain or lose money.. You shouldn't be able to sell those futures before then.
That would put some stability back into the markets.
Of course I am just a layman and have no experience in the actual markets.
How well can humans adapt when the climate changes (coastal areas underwater, rivers flood, fertile land does not get rain)?
Just fine thank you very much.
Humans are the masters of adapting and surviving. I have no doubt that even if the very worst predictions of the global warming alarmists comes true the human race will survive. And prosper. Oh there will be a thinning of the herd, possibly myself included in that number. But do we really need or want 7,8,9 billion or more humans? By environmentalists own words we are the problem.. well then we are also the solution, a self correcting one. Like bacteria that bloom in a petri dish when food is added, then most (but not all) die off when the food supply is exhausted.
Besides evolution and Darwinism requires some to fail, if there were no failures there would be no evolution.. Dinosaurs would still roam the earth. Stop trying to prevent change. Change is good in the big picture, even if bad in the small.
If you are so worried about it, move to Greenland where you will benefit from the coming changes.
I am sure there is a good reason, but why are we always fusing hydrogen? Why not heavier, easier to grab - move - focus elements? Like fusing Iron or something, it'll turn into something higher up the elements ladder. Because we can shuffle iron about with magnets quite easily, compared to hydrogen that isn't magnetic. Just some very fine iron dust into the big magnet thingy and hit it with all that pressure. Or if not Iron, something else.. Why always hydrogen?
I hope they just pull out of California entirely, lock stock and barrel.. And offer incentives to their current partners in California to relocate to other states.
That might just wake up the legislators to some inkling of the modern world.. But probably not, most of them think digital watches are high tech.
It is because of these policies that I set my profiles to private and not searchable, and why I don't put my picassa pictures to public. I'd share more if I didn't have to provide my real name, but as it is, I share as little as possible and still have the services be usable.
So.. Just how "different" are/were they? It sounds to me like we are calling neanderthals non homosapiens when in reality they are no more different from us than say a tall blond Scandinavian is from a short Asian.. Or a chihuahua from a great dane.
Seems to me that a good copper wire and high voltage AC would be far more efficient and at a high enough voltage the wires could be very thin and still deliver loads of power..
Instead of converting electricity to light and back again, just keep it electric.
But if we use breeder reactors that burn the plutonium then the only place at risk is the plant itself.. It's our backasswards old plants that are the problem, not modern nuclear plants.
It's like arguing against modern hybrid or electric cars because ones built in the 70's were gas hogs.
efficiency doesn't matter to me at all. Price / watt does
I don't care if they are 100% efficient if they cost $20billion / watt.
But show me one that is cheap enough to afford to cover my roof with that the end total wattage is enough to cover something close to my power use (or more) and I'll do it.
The % efficiency make absolutely no difference to me at all, zip, zero, nada. DON"T CARE!
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The Germans should just ship their nuclear plants to Kenya! Problem solved!
Like say a compact pickup. I'd buy one if I could. (preferably turbo diesel, while I am dreaming) But the Ranger was discontinued, the Colorado is big enough to be a full size pickup of 10 years ago, and the Durango is big enough to be a semi truck, much less the "full sized" trucks. And it's not just the "merican" companies. The last time the Tacoma was mid sized was in 2004, now it's ginormous (same thing with the Frontier).
He kinda cherry picked what phones he used to make the point he wanted to make.
When I switched off my original Motorola Droid a few months ago it was up to date and had gone through two major upgrades in the time I had it..
With Android being so diverse and wide a market I say picking your MFG is the important part. And what I see in that list.. HTC is the brand to avoid. But I already knew that. Motorola or Samsung for me please.
Yes, noticed the Typo the moment I hit publish.. even preview didn't save me.
How about just switching their phones off the antiquated BES teat and supporting activsync natively like every other phone out there? That would fix their server crashing problem once and for all.
Storing Hydrogen in Carbon brings back memories of this: http://slashdot.org/~GMontag/journal/22583 :D
NASA is one of the FEW places where the $ spent MORE THAN PAYS OFF in actual $$s into our economy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Economic_impact_of_NASA_funding
Every dollar spent on NASA actually GENERATES between $7 and $22 for our economy:
http://www.bu.edu/sjmag/scimag2005/features/NASA.htm
People who think spending $ on NASA is bad are the same kind of people that think treating an infected wound with HIV infected dog poop is good.
There really should be a minimum time that you must own stock & futures. Right now it is just all games and millisecond gambling. I mean really if you only own the stock for 1/10th of a second, why do you care if the company is doing good or failing. And if you can sell futures before they mature, how does that in any way relate to the real product that the paper represents.
Non voting stock should have a minimum 3 month ownership, if you buy stock in a company, you shouldn't be able to sell it again for a minimum of 3 months.. This would cause investors to actually investigate the stock they are buying.
And futures must be held till they come due.. If you are buying oil futures 6 months out, the actual value of the oil 6 months later should be what will determine if you gain or lose money.. You shouldn't be able to sell those futures before then.
That would put some stability back into the markets.
Of course I am just a layman and have no experience in the actual markets.
How well can humans adapt when the climate changes (coastal areas underwater, rivers flood, fertile land does not get rain)?
Just fine thank you very much.
Humans are the masters of adapting and surviving. I have no doubt that even if the very worst predictions of the global warming alarmists comes true the human race will survive. And prosper. Oh there will be a thinning of the herd, possibly myself included in that number. But do we really need or want 7,8,9 billion or more humans? By environmentalists own words we are the problem.. well then we are also the solution, a self correcting one. Like bacteria that bloom in a petri dish when food is added, then most (but not all) die off when the food supply is exhausted.
Besides evolution and Darwinism requires some to fail, if there were no failures there would be no evolution.. Dinosaurs would still roam the earth. Stop trying to prevent change. Change is good in the big picture, even if bad in the small.
If you are so worried about it, move to Greenland where you will benefit from the coming changes.
I am sure there is a good reason, but why are we always fusing hydrogen? Why not heavier, easier to grab - move - focus elements? Like fusing Iron or something, it'll turn into something higher up the elements ladder. Because we can shuffle iron about with magnets quite easily, compared to hydrogen that isn't magnetic. Just some very fine iron dust into the big magnet thingy and hit it with all that pressure. Or if not Iron, something else.. Why always hydrogen?
I hope they just pull out of California entirely, lock stock and barrel.. And offer incentives to their current partners in California to relocate to other states.
That might just wake up the legislators to some inkling of the modern world.. But probably not, most of them think digital watches are high tech.
So with blue and green 1w handheld lasers... are there Red ones available? With that we could get white!
It is because of these policies that I set my profiles to private and not searchable, and why I don't put my picassa pictures to public. I'd share more if I didn't have to provide my real name, but as it is, I share as little as possible and still have the services be usable.
So.. Just how "different" are/were they? It sounds to me like we are calling neanderthals non homosapiens when in reality they are no more different from us than say a tall blond Scandinavian is from a short Asian.. Or a chihuahua from a great dane.
How is squished up insects worse than bones??
Insects are a good source of protein, common food in some parts of the world, and if humans ate more of them it'd help with the global food supply.
time to cancel DVD delivery.. hardly use it anyway, not worth $8..
why did they do the CCDs first? Over the course of the next year those are the things most likely to improve from advancing technology..
Like building a hybrid car by starting with lead acid batteries and taking decades to build the chassis.. By that time Lithium Ions would be out. etc.
Seems to me that a good copper wire and high voltage AC would be far more efficient and at a high enough voltage the wires could be very thin and still deliver loads of power..
Instead of converting electricity to light and back again, just keep it electric.
But if we use breeder reactors that burn the plutonium then the only place at risk is the plant itself.. It's our backasswards old plants that are the problem, not modern nuclear plants.
It's like arguing against modern hybrid or electric cars because ones built in the 70's were gas hogs.
wish I had mod points..
+1 Futurama reference.
efficiency doesn't matter to me at all. Price / watt does
I don't care if they are 100% efficient if they cost $20billion / watt.
But show me one that is cheap enough to afford to cover my roof with that the end total wattage is enough to cover something close to my power use (or more) and I'll do it.
The % efficiency make absolutely no difference to me at all, zip, zero, nada. DON"T CARE!
can't wait till people realize this is just opt in spam and go ahead an start opting out of it.
I tried it for a bit, it was the most annoying thing imaginable.
Umm: http://www.quakelive.com/
Of course it will outrun any human, it's Cheetahing.
It's better that you give up a few freedoms in the name of security so that you can get what you deserve..