Even if the battery pack had to be replaced every 1-2 years (not the case) Toyota has a $200 bounty on used batteries so that they can recycle them.
As for "reduced space" - there is no reduced space. The gas engine/tank/etc are reduced in size and the hybrid components fit in the space previously allotted to the gas engine. The Prius has 93.7 cubic feet of passenger space and 21.6 cubic feet of trunk space. Compare this to say, the Ford Focus which has 93.4 cubic feet of passenger space and only 14 cubic feet of trunk space. They're only 0.6 inches different in length.
Actually that's not what that states at all. It states that when revisiting the same data without the invalid assumption that a hummer will last over 300,000 miles and a Prius will only last 100,000 miles that the numbers prove the opposite point that the original study was claiming.
Well, when I interviewed a representative from the company putting in the wind farm in Kingston Ontario they said they're looking at a 50 year payback on 87 turbines.
I'd say the average person is more wasteful in the computers, cell phones, electronic gadgets, etc than any turbine/solar panel/etc.
Uranium is incredibly common and existing stocks can be rotated in. Typically nuclear plants only use 1% of the available energy in a fuel rod before swapping it out. Some plants are now recycling the older rods from 25+ years ago but few stations overall are capable of doing this.
I don't think we're fucked just yet, we're close. Personally I think the energy debate is moot - market forces have and will determine where we get it. The real debate should be about food and water. We're headed for a very serious collapse and globalization has created conditions where the second there are food shortages, protectionism is going to rear it's ugly head and there will be massive starvation in some areas. Canada already experienced this in a small way, no starvation obviously, but when Katrina hit food shipments were diverted down south instead of to Canada - many shelves were empty for weeks.
Unfortunately the article glosses over the fact that far more of those expensive and [s]potential[/s] actually hazardous materials are required to make carbon and nuclear based power generating stations. It also glosses over the lifespan of those products vs their counterparts (largely because no one bothers to collate the data on all the replacement parts that need to go into existing stations). The argument has never been that these solutions are perfect, nor infinite. The argument for green tech is that it's better overall and more sustainable than what we're currently doing.
UBB is great when it's charged at cost + reasonable markup. Exact figures vary but it's somewhere between $0.005 and $0.07 per gb depending on the area. Bhell would have you believe that it's more like $1.50 per gb. They of course won't release how they come up with that number. If I was asked to pay $0.10/gb I might have been inclined but only if there was 0 monthly fee (that fee is designed to cover their costs which they double charge for in UBB). That would put the maximum bill of a 5mb connection under $70/month - entirely reasonable.
Sadly this CRTC decision just offsets the costs of UBB from the consumer level to the wholesale level - the decision said that it's up to the incumbents to determine what their costs are and charge that plus a reasonable markup that is in line with other incumbents. MTS Allstream's costs are $218/100mbps - Bhell is somehow $2,300+/100mbps and they're going up to $22,000+/100mbps under this ruling. How it's going to cost them $21,782 more than MTS is anyone's guess but hey - we don't get UBB!?!
On a side note, this report is shit. paraphrasing... Bell Canada throttles 65% of the time... actually they throttle 100% of the time from 4pm to 2am weekdays and during another set time period on weekends. Rogers throttles 100% of the time period (they're facing some consequences for their 'accidental' game throttling)
And 4-5% false positives is a huge error rate and doesn't account for what level the throttling is taking place on (your ISP could be fine and an intermediary is not)
1) Doesn't have an Anglicized name 2) Profile goes back further than 2003 3) Obviously she's getting a lot of work still 4) Their source is some random person in the comments
The person in question's imdb profile only goes back to 2003 (see comment below about the Korean Harold article). Also Nicole is still getting work and her age has also been listed in her Wiki profile for some time.
Great for hot climates not so much for cold ones. But 5v 7w for a metre of the product? Might be able to power the lights in your house... but then of course you're blocking the natural light to use artificial light? The only application I can see that would make this practical would be tinting on a car... but I think 80% light blocking is too high for many regulated areas.
(I like putting things in parentheses too!) Here games have gone up about $10 since then and they're having to hide the cost of games with DLC or freemium titles like AoE:O and Crimson Alliance. Crimson Alliance is my new favourite. "Free" but you have to pay 200msp for achievements, or 800msp to play a single character, or 1200msp to play the full (very short) game, another 400msp for the DLC. In other words, it's a demo which will cost you more if you buy it in bits and pieces.
Yeah, you can do that but how often do you have access to online resources like GameFAQs/TrueAchievements etc when you're in a used game store? Sure if you have a cell with a data plan but how many people are really going to stand there and research the title in store? Games are like movies and books, people like to browse and grab what looks interesting to them. That's the only thing they should be thinking about when purchasing a game, not "am I going to have to pay extra when I get home to play this?" "are the servers still up and does anyone play?"
I just moved back to PCs and dual booting Windows 7 and Linux.
That MacBook was a disaster... mis-applied thermal paste caused heating issues, after I got that resolved it was still hot enough to burn my wrists and become too hot to type on (repeatedly hit 105 degrees C and auto-shutdown on minimal use). The hard drive failed, the optical drive failed, the RAM failed, the network card failed twice, and finally it would only boot randomly and only if it hadn't been running for a while - once booted it would only stay running for a maximum of 10 minutes before it shut off without warning. Absolute nightmare and it cost twice as much prior to all the replacement parts/service.
As I said, I used it on a regular basis for not quite 2 years. 5-10 apps is not using it very much - in the circles I run in you'll have that many in use let alone needing a quick way to access to. My sister's and brother-in-law's docks must have a minimum of 60 items on them. The icons are so small and it takes them ages to find anything and manage it. Mine was the same way when I used it (for video production/web development/etc).
You obviously don't understand what Launchy is. DOS requires you to type in a full command to execute things. Launchy indexes your programs/shortcuts (even documents if you want) that you specify to give quick keyboard access to them. Alt+space (this is my defined shortcut to open it, you can set it to whatever), hit f and enter opens firefox as an example since it's the most common program I access that starts with F. If I want flash it's fl, etc. Compare this to how long it takes to move your hand off the keyboard, navigate the mouse to the doc/start menu/shortcut/etc click, and return your hand to the keyboard. Even faster if you want to do a search and you're in another program, alt+space type your search. If your browser is closed it opens it and searches in your default search engine, if it's open it does the search in a new tab and brings it to the front. The other advantage of this a lot less visual clutter on the OS and you don't even need to pay attention to the OS just use the apps.
Retail cost of a 2tb drive: $80. Number of profiles you could store on it (on the extremely generous side... 10mb/profile/game): 200,000+. $2 million dollars to operate a single computer for 200,000 people - I want some of what you're smoking.
Ours we bought for God of War and Final Fantasy XIII. FFXIII turned out to be garbage, God of War was so short I completed it 3 times in the first two days. The system hasn't been played in months. Wii even longer since it's been played. The multiple 360s get played daily and used as media centres. Wasn't planning on using it as a media centre but it worked out of the box with our laptops and streams beautifully. Only drawback is you have to be connected online to watch anything with anything but the most common codecs.
And if you buy a game and want to lend it to a friend or family member? They're to pay $10 to play it?
You create a second account for some reason and want to play your games on it? You're to pay $10 on top of the $60 you already paid?
You feel $60 is too much to pay and are willing to wait for the price to drop from the company, however, by the time they do the servers are scheduled to be shutdown so your only option is the used market to pay the price you're willing to. But then $10 to play online makes it almost as expensive as the new ones or more expensive. EB/Gamestop as an example $5 off new = used in many cases... so you're paying $5 more buying used?
Heck if I had to pay $10 for each and every game I bought used I'd be paying $1500 to play online long enough to realize that no one plays the games anymore (with the exception of maybe a half dozen of them). But of course I can't can't know that until I've paid the $10.
And what about that pass - I paid $10 for it for lifetime use, why can't I transfer that to someone else?
It's a cash grab plain and simple. The effects are clear and calculated. Limit the used and rental markets so more people buy new or pay their tax. Assuming this succeeds everyone is going to emulate it (as they've already begun to do). Customers will come to expect it, even if it doesn't happen absolutely everywhere. So if you're standing in a game store are you going to give that smaller title a chance or figure no one will be online so you'll buy the big title. Meaning more profit for big corporations, fewer titles, and that gives them even more control to do whatever the hell they want.
The worst part for me is that the way I enjoy gaming the most is via Co-op. CoD/GoW/etc are all the same... run, kill/get killed/do some objective you've done over and over, repeat. Co-op on the other hand you get to have fun going through a story with a friend. Maybe you'll do it a second time if you enjoy the game but usually it's moving on to the next title. $10 for that + the cost of the game to play through co-op once or twice? No thanks.
I bought one used title with an online pass by accident, I didn't pay the $10 and I've not purchased any game with an online pass and that will remain the case until it's removed or the game itself becomes free and you only pay to play online.
Yeah, bash is great and can do a lot that the GUI can't. Bash != Launchy though in terms of interface. Launchy vanishes automatically after executing a query, it can be extended via plugins, can start the browser and do a search automatically, can index more than just the start menu, etc. Bash can do many of these things but it's a lot more typing and knowledge required to operate it.
In terms of OS vs OS if bash/terminal are required to execute/configure some options/programs then knowledge of those commands and their flags is required and if that's the case then why bother with OSX? Linux would be the better alternative because you can see/create source code and is far more open than OSX in very way. Windows has the advantage of both command line and GUI options. While I'm not a fan of the direction Microsoft is heading with their GUI, it is far far more complete than either OSX or Linux.
Interesting you choose to attack the person instead of the argument. I used the dock for as long as my MacBook Pro 2,1 hardware lasted (less than 2 years). The problem with the dock is that the more programs you have on it the harder it becomes to use. It also requires you to be able to remember the icon for each and every item on it or add in the text name which clutters the interface and also does not deal with long names well.
I'm neither a troll nor ignorant, just acutely aware of UI issues.
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Even if the battery pack had to be replaced every 1-2 years (not the case) Toyota has a $200 bounty on used batteries so that they can recycle them.
As for "reduced space" - there is no reduced space. The gas engine/tank/etc are reduced in size and the hybrid components fit in the space previously allotted to the gas engine. The Prius has 93.7 cubic feet of passenger space and 21.6 cubic feet of trunk space. Compare this to say, the Ford Focus which has 93.4 cubic feet of passenger space and only 14 cubic feet of trunk space. They're only 0.6 inches different in length.
Actually that's not what that states at all. It states that when revisiting the same data without the invalid assumption that a hummer will last over 300,000 miles and a Prius will only last 100,000 miles that the numbers prove the opposite point that the original study was claiming.
Well, when I interviewed a representative from the company putting in the wind farm in Kingston Ontario they said they're looking at a 50 year payback on 87 turbines.
I'd say the average person is more wasteful in the computers, cell phones, electronic gadgets, etc than any turbine/solar panel/etc.
Uranium is incredibly common and existing stocks can be rotated in. Typically nuclear plants only use 1% of the available energy in a fuel rod before swapping it out. Some plants are now recycling the older rods from 25+ years ago but few stations overall are capable of doing this.
I don't think we're fucked just yet, we're close. Personally I think the energy debate is moot - market forces have and will determine where we get it. The real debate should be about food and water. We're headed for a very serious collapse and globalization has created conditions where the second there are food shortages, protectionism is going to rear it's ugly head and there will be massive starvation in some areas. Canada already experienced this in a small way, no starvation obviously, but when Katrina hit food shipments were diverted down south instead of to Canada - many shelves were empty for weeks.
... they're still better over the lifetime of the vehicle. MIT: http://www.pacinst.org/topics/integrity_of_science/case_studies/hummer_vs_prius.pdf
Unfortunately the article glosses over the fact that far more of those expensive and [s]potential[/s] actually hazardous materials are required to make carbon and nuclear based power generating stations. It also glosses over the lifespan of those products vs their counterparts (largely because no one bothers to collate the data on all the replacement parts that need to go into existing stations). The argument has never been that these solutions are perfect, nor infinite. The argument for green tech is that it's better overall and more sustainable than what we're currently doing.
UBB is great when it's charged at cost + reasonable markup. Exact figures vary but it's somewhere between $0.005 and $0.07 per gb depending on the area. Bhell would have you believe that it's more like $1.50 per gb. They of course won't release how they come up with that number. If I was asked to pay $0.10/gb I might have been inclined but only if there was 0 monthly fee (that fee is designed to cover their costs which they double charge for in UBB). That would put the maximum bill of a 5mb connection under $70/month - entirely reasonable.
Sadly this CRTC decision just offsets the costs of UBB from the consumer level to the wholesale level - the decision said that it's up to the incumbents to determine what their costs are and charge that plus a reasonable markup that is in line with other incumbents. MTS Allstream's costs are $218/100mbps - Bhell is somehow $2,300+/100mbps and they're going up to $22,000+/100mbps under this ruling. How it's going to cost them $21,782 more than MTS is anyone's guess but hey - we don't get UBB!?!
Consumers got fucked as usual.
Indeed. The second one is obviously a target range for high powered lasers (vehicles destroyed but no explosion craters). The rest I'm stumped on...
Except that they have a vested interest in keeping the US solvent...
Thank you. +1
On a side note, this report is shit. paraphrasing... Bell Canada throttles 65% of the time... actually they throttle 100% of the time from 4pm to 2am weekdays and during another set time period on weekends. Rogers throttles 100% of the time period (they're facing some consequences for their 'accidental' game throttling)
And 4-5% false positives is a huge error rate and doesn't account for what level the throttling is taking place on (your ISP could be fine and an intermediary is not)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_aircraft
It'll happen, give it time.
1) Doesn't have an Anglicized name
2) Profile goes back further than 2003
3) Obviously she's getting a lot of work still
4) Their source is some random person in the comments
The person in question's imdb profile only goes back to 2003 (see comment below about the Korean Harold article). Also Nicole is still getting work and her age has also been listed in her Wiki profile for some time.
My money is on http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1169837/
Great for hot climates not so much for cold ones. But 5v 7w for a metre of the product? Might be able to power the lights in your house... but then of course you're blocking the natural light to use artificial light? The only application I can see that would make this practical would be tinting on a car... but I think 80% light blocking is too high for many regulated areas.
(I like putting things in parentheses too!) Here games have gone up about $10 since then and they're having to hide the cost of games with DLC or freemium titles like AoE:O and Crimson Alliance. Crimson Alliance is my new favourite. "Free" but you have to pay 200msp for achievements, or 800msp to play a single character, or 1200msp to play the full (very short) game, another 400msp for the DLC. In other words, it's a demo which will cost you more if you buy it in bits and pieces.
Yeah, you can do that but how often do you have access to online resources like GameFAQs/TrueAchievements etc when you're in a used game store? Sure if you have a cell with a data plan but how many people are really going to stand there and research the title in store? Games are like movies and books, people like to browse and grab what looks interesting to them. That's the only thing they should be thinking about when purchasing a game, not "am I going to have to pay extra when I get home to play this?" "are the servers still up and does anyone play?"
I just moved back to PCs and dual booting Windows 7 and Linux.
That MacBook was a disaster... mis-applied thermal paste caused heating issues, after I got that resolved it was still hot enough to burn my wrists and become too hot to type on (repeatedly hit 105 degrees C and auto-shutdown on minimal use). The hard drive failed, the optical drive failed, the RAM failed, the network card failed twice, and finally it would only boot randomly and only if it hadn't been running for a while - once booted it would only stay running for a maximum of 10 minutes before it shut off without warning. Absolute nightmare and it cost twice as much prior to all the replacement parts/service.
As I said, I used it on a regular basis for not quite 2 years. 5-10 apps is not using it very much - in the circles I run in you'll have that many in use let alone needing a quick way to access to. My sister's and brother-in-law's docks must have a minimum of 60 items on them. The icons are so small and it takes them ages to find anything and manage it. Mine was the same way when I used it (for video production/web development/etc).
You obviously don't understand what Launchy is. DOS requires you to type in a full command to execute things. Launchy indexes your programs/shortcuts (even documents if you want) that you specify to give quick keyboard access to them. Alt+space (this is my defined shortcut to open it, you can set it to whatever), hit f and enter opens firefox as an example since it's the most common program I access that starts with F. If I want flash it's fl, etc. Compare this to how long it takes to move your hand off the keyboard, navigate the mouse to the doc/start menu/shortcut/etc click, and return your hand to the keyboard. Even faster if you want to do a search and you're in another program, alt+space type your search. If your browser is closed it opens it and searches in your default search engine, if it's open it does the search in a new tab and brings it to the front. The other advantage of this a lot less visual clutter on the OS and you don't even need to pay attention to the OS just use the apps.
Retail cost of a 2tb drive: $80. Number of profiles you could store on it (on the extremely generous side... 10mb/profile/game): 200,000+. $2 million dollars to operate a single computer for 200,000 people - I want some of what you're smoking.
Ours we bought for God of War and Final Fantasy XIII. FFXIII turned out to be garbage, God of War was so short I completed it 3 times in the first two days. The system hasn't been played in months. Wii even longer since it's been played. The multiple 360s get played daily and used as media centres. Wasn't planning on using it as a media centre but it worked out of the box with our laptops and streams beautifully. Only drawback is you have to be connected online to watch anything with anything but the most common codecs.
And if you buy a game and want to lend it to a friend or family member? They're to pay $10 to play it?
You create a second account for some reason and want to play your games on it? You're to pay $10 on top of the $60 you already paid?
You feel $60 is too much to pay and are willing to wait for the price to drop from the company, however, by the time they do the servers are scheduled to be shutdown so your only option is the used market to pay the price you're willing to. But then $10 to play online makes it almost as expensive as the new ones or more expensive. EB/Gamestop as an example $5 off new = used in many cases... so you're paying $5 more buying used?
Heck if I had to pay $10 for each and every game I bought used I'd be paying $1500 to play online long enough to realize that no one plays the games anymore (with the exception of maybe a half dozen of them). But of course I can't can't know that until I've paid the $10.
And what about that pass - I paid $10 for it for lifetime use, why can't I transfer that to someone else?
It's a cash grab plain and simple. The effects are clear and calculated. Limit the used and rental markets so more people buy new or pay their tax. Assuming this succeeds everyone is going to emulate it (as they've already begun to do). Customers will come to expect it, even if it doesn't happen absolutely everywhere. So if you're standing in a game store are you going to give that smaller title a chance or figure no one will be online so you'll buy the big title. Meaning more profit for big corporations, fewer titles, and that gives them even more control to do whatever the hell they want.
The worst part for me is that the way I enjoy gaming the most is via Co-op. CoD/GoW/etc are all the same... run, kill/get killed/do some objective you've done over and over, repeat. Co-op on the other hand you get to have fun going through a story with a friend. Maybe you'll do it a second time if you enjoy the game but usually it's moving on to the next title. $10 for that + the cost of the game to play through co-op once or twice? No thanks.
I bought one used title with an online pass by accident, I didn't pay the $10 and I've not purchased any game with an online pass and that will remain the case until it's removed or the game itself becomes free and you only pay to play online.
Yeah, bash is great and can do a lot that the GUI can't. Bash != Launchy though in terms of interface. Launchy vanishes automatically after executing a query, it can be extended via plugins, can start the browser and do a search automatically, can index more than just the start menu, etc. Bash can do many of these things but it's a lot more typing and knowledge required to operate it.
In terms of OS vs OS if bash/terminal are required to execute/configure some options/programs then knowledge of those commands and their flags is required and if that's the case then why bother with OSX? Linux would be the better alternative because you can see/create source code and is far more open than OSX in very way. Windows has the advantage of both command line and GUI options. While I'm not a fan of the direction Microsoft is heading with their GUI, it is far far more complete than either OSX or Linux.
Interesting you choose to attack the person instead of the argument. I used the dock for as long as my MacBook Pro 2,1 hardware lasted (less than 2 years). The problem with the dock is that the more programs you have on it the harder it becomes to use. It also requires you to be able to remember the icon for each and every item on it or add in the text name which clutters the interface and also does not deal with long names well.
I'm neither a troll nor ignorant, just acutely aware of UI issues.