and they have internet sites mozilla.org and mozilla.com and they are presenting themselves as *Mozilla* the home of Firefox and Thunderbird. Mozilla Foundation created the Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Messaging entities, that now works very slowly on Thunderbird project side. Mozilla, i.e. Mozilla Foundation, is in position to change how these two department/subsidaries/whatever work together, but currently they seemed content that very little happening on Thunderbird side. I find this poor.
Before you say something like I should not complain about free software, I would like to mention that I have actually donated money for Firefox and Thunderbird to Mozilla.
Mozilla: Please put more effort into updating Thunderbird.
If that separation is the reason why Thunderbird progress at snail speed compared to Firefox, then that separation is poorly constructed and they should find a way to make Thunderbird progress.
Mozilla, thanks for Firefox 3.5x, now could you please put some focus on finishing Thunderbird 3.0? Why does this have to take forever? And perhaps even get Sunbird/Lightning ready for version 1.0.
Get the chemistry teacher to help you and make a trench(foxhole) radio. Then build a crystal radio. Then an audio amplifier circuit.
This is getting far out, but why stop with the chemistry teacher? They should go dig out the ore of the rare metals out of the ground, that will teach them...
The point here was to learn electronics. It already takes enough time, trouble and errors for children to learn to put ready made components together and understand how they interact. It is important for the future interest that they can actually achieve to make it work.
Windmills are not really "Man's best hope for energy".
For clean non-pulloting energy production, it has emerged a as working solution for deployment now, and with huge potential for increased deployment in the sea in the comming years.
Does that mean with should we should researching other clean ways of generating energy? Hell no, find some ways to create large scale cheap solar cells, wave energy that works, energy storage methods etc.. but until something better and cheap arrives wind energy is able to account for a significant part of electrical production.
When is there the most wind? Spring and fall. When are energy needs the highest? Summer and winter.
That depends on location, both for production and usage. The production data I have seen for windmill located in northern Europe show strong production in autum, winter and spring and lower production in summer. Because this behaviour is rather predicatable it can be factored in with energy from other sources, e.g. water power plants.
Besides this they are not very powerfull (large number needed to power a city), Besides this they are not very powerfull (large number needed to power a city), kill loads of migrating birds (strange/macabre but true), and the weather is not exactly something stable enough to build your energy grid on. Oh yeah: it can be cloudy and windless.
Well compared to solar cells as was subject of this story wind turbines are far more powerful. Do not even begin to discuss the difference in cost per KWh between these two.
About birds at most locations they actually coexist very well with windmills. Some bird do die from impacts with wind mill, but you forgot to mention the thousands of bird that also die every year from impact with highrise buildings and high voltage power cables. Does this make US flatten Manhattan? What about the million of birds and animals that die in traffic impacts every year. Do we stop driving or do we try find ways to alliviate the problem? Like fences and designated road stregthes with high likelyhood of animal crossings. With placements of wind turbines the impact on windlife should also be considered, but the problem is far less than you think. In Denmark there has been made studies about windlife and windmills. You can read some about it here: http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/env/birds.htm
I see much more potential in wave-energy; which probably hasn't taken off yet because one practice experiment in Norway got 'blown off' after a violent storm wrecked it, and because it isn't in the public eye much.
Yes wave power sounds like a great technology. But if wave power was a software projejct on Sourceforge it would have the project status of embroyic.
Indeed we should do research in this field, but for many comming years it is no where close to be a useful energy source that can be installed and deployed mass scale. In comparasion it is more likely that solar cells will be major business years before wave energy will be useful.
But now you will mention that they have some wave power unit on an island in Scotland, and the one in Norway. And far as I know there is even one in Portugal. But it is no more than experimental deployment. The problem with wave power done this way is that it requires very special natural conditions not found many places. You need a tall rock side, with ocean waves slamming right into it. Concreate construction in this enviroment is not easy and not cheap and you have to design for the strongest winter waves....And dont even get me started about problems with dolphins and baby-whales getting stucked in the internal pipings of your wave power plant:-).
Alternative is to use some sort of floating carpet that moves up and down with the waves passing under it. Again these things are just reasearch areas nowhere close to mass deployment.
The U.S. could also be a world leader in pizza speed-eating. Neither is relevant to energy policy.
Yeah right, but spending measly 53 million USD on a military project is going to save the energy production in US. As limited as wind turbine deployment currently is, it actually account for more than 20 times the energy production of solar cells. Get real man!
On SlashDot people will dismiss actual numbers but believe impossible forecast of solar cell research results, or that large solar towers that has never been build will solve all energy production.
Next week on SlashDot: Since McDonald renamed French fries to Freedom fries the fries production has risen so much that the grease by-product can now power all the US cars.
About your speed eating... it is years ago since US heavy-weights lost out to skinny Japanese people in speed eating competitions. Japan btw. is the world leader in solar cell deployment. Not that these things are really related, but well you chose to put it together.
There are places where we do use alot of wind that are ahead of the curve, like out here in Tehachapi CA (don't get me wrong California is the land of big government and idiots galore), but they do have alot of windmills.
If you look on the wind turbine deployment within US, the state of California will come out favorably. But that matters very little in total numbers of US deployment.
Why cant the federal government make incentives to let most other states in US follow the example of California?
It is only when a majority of the states follow the example of California wind turbine deployment that there can be a significant change in the annual numbers, that can move US from a losing to a leading position.
I watch semi-flat bed trucks roll by carrying single blades (these things are huge) on my way to work almost everyday. They are constantly in a state of construction out there upgrading to ever larger towers all the time.
Remember this is just anecdotical evidence (which SlashDot is full of). What counts is the overall numbers of installed capacity versus power consumption. In this US has a long way to go.
What I don't get out here they haven't made it mandatory to use solar hotwater heating yet. I'd have to say about 1 in ten houses has it. We definitely get plenty of sun. The only place where I've seen nearly 100% adoption of solar (water heating) is in Maui, HI. Almost all the homes out there have solar and quite a few businesses have PV solar panels on their buildings as well.
A large percentage deployment of solar water heating could be a power saver as well, especially if it happens in many more states than just California.
Regarding wind turbines, why is it that there is so much deployment in California, but so little most elsewhere in US? What is it that has created this incentive there but not elsewhere?
I'm more optimistic about the America. Sure, we are short sighted at times and procrastinate. However, when push comes to shove, you can be damn sure that we get shit done....FAST!
But this is exactly not happening. In recent years US energy politics have been:
Deregulate the energy market, leading to massive graft and fraud by companies like Enron (and causing rolling powercuts in California).
Refuse to sign Kyoto agreement, while any other Western country have agreed and realised that action must be taken and they must pull ahead.
Invite the croonies from Halliburton and Enron and let them write the masterplan for comming years energy politics.
Have CIA fabricate fake reports on WMD, invade Iraq, make sure that Halliburton gets their share of the oil business.
Make plans to drill oil in Alaska.
Let lack of investment in grid structure and backup solutions leading to small problems turn into massive power failure in New York area.
Keep minimal taxes on petrol and other energy sources so as to not cause inconvenience US consumers and businesses (at least not right now).
Post dubious stories on SlashDot like making oil from oil-shale.
Invest 53 million USD in solar cells research (for military purpose).
You expect thing to turn around FAST. Well it better do because it is long overdue.
In the wind turbine usage US could be a world leader. US has access to the technology, US has the space for deployment, US has the money for the investment, US has the manpower to run the maintainance of large scale deployment. What is lacking is a willingness in the government to take the action.
In installed capacity of wind turbines India will this year overtake US. But dont worry in US you can still pride yourself for being ahead of countries like China, Russia, Nigeria, whatever...
Factor in the record high energy consumption in US per capita, and the situation looks even more bleak. Wake up guys! Actions needs to be taken!
Just wait. Once oil starts cutting into wallets and diminishes our lifestyles, you will see the free enterprise of America redefine "Energy Industry" above and beyond expectation of our wildest dreams. At this point, everyone with the capitol will want a piece of pie.
You mean with examples like Enron and Halliburton?
This is where the US goverment fails. They have kept minimal taxes on energy and let the market and consumers decide what is best. But that leads to shortsighted and egoistic solutions: "I do what is best for me right now".
Few consumers and businesses are able and willing to grasp large scale problems like resource limitations and pollution. This is why it is important that government takes a leading role and use taxes, public control and investment to stear the market and consumers in a direction of what is best for the common good and long term stable solutions.
Just imagine the next bubble in the future. This time, it will be the "Energy bubble".
Solar cells are not now, and will not in any near term (5-10 years) be a method for general electrical energy generation.
Generating electric energy with solar cells is a great idea, but they are still a speciality, because the price of the cells are so high. Prices are falling, and have been doing so for many years, but they still have a long way to go to be competitive to other large scale energy sources.
Solar cells needs more researching and funding for R&D. It will be great once it becomes affordable. Until then it is only a niche energy source for use in special locations and applcations.
For the time being the are luckily other sources for large scale non-polluting energy production, namely electrical energy from wind power. Wind power is a proven technology that is readily available and can be installed for large scale usage. It also has the benefit of being a decentralised, scaleable technology (start small then scale up).
The installed capacity for wind energy is like 20 times larger than solar power. In 2002 the world wide capacity for wind power was 32.0 GW, for solar cells it was 1.3GW. Numbers are from report by BP (the oil/energy company).
In many countries wind power is the fastest growing energy source. In Denmark 19% of electric energy is made by windmills. In Spain it is 6%, in Germany 5%. In actual numbers for installed capacity Germany is by far the leader in the field, then followed by Spain and USA. See ewea.org and gwec.net site for further numbers.
While most European countries are racing ahead and installing windmills on land and in the sea, not much progress has been done in USA in recent years. This is especially sad due to the population size of USA and the high energy usage per person.
The PPI (Pixel Per Inch) resolution of this ebook dislay is really great, that will provide enough pixels to make nice shaped letters and make much it more pleasant to read from a display. Contrast and virtually zero battery consumption are added bonuses.
More PPI is the way monitors and displays should go. But for most of 20 years monitors has stayed more or less fixed with a dot size of 0.25~0.28mm giving about 100 PPI.
In the meantime hordes of consumers and marketing departments has kept all talk about monitors based on display size in inches 15", 17", 19"...
Most notable difference was when IBM introduced the T220 display in 2001 which has amazing 204 PPI giving a total display of 3840*2400 pixles at 22" - and it looks great. Unfotunately the price level for the time being is also great, about 8000 EUR.
They have a new version of it called T221 here: http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/intellistation/t22 1/
Hopefully in the future more consumers and manufactures will realise that display quality (PPI) is getting more important than size.
that MS Steve Ballmer jets over to Italy for talks with Silvio Berlusconi, the Italien prime minister and also owner of numerous TV channels. MS will then buy TV commercials for hundreds of millions EUR.
In a surprise move next week Berlusconi will then urgently recall the Italian official Mario Monti from his work at the European Commission to head the newly introduced 'Italian ministry for parking offences'.
For the post of European Competition Commissioner some new guy called Pinocchio will take over - with all strings attached to back home.
No Slashdot, the fine is not 613m USD, it is 497.2m EUR.... and with the way the USD has fallen the last two years, MS better pay up fast before it gets closer to 700m USD.
All MS are doing is giving their free software along with (hopefully not) your OS. ... This, my friends, is competition. Sounds even fair for me.
The problem is that MS is sitting on a 90%+ market share on the desktop systems, and is abusing this position to gain in other market segments, e.g. servers, Audio/Video formats.
If MS had something like a 30% market share this case would never had appeared, they could have put in whatever they wanted. It is because of their monopol position that they in EU are not free to do whatever they like.... And that is a very sensible law, because once a company reach monopol market shares it is far too easy control and exploit the market to its own advantage. In a monopol market situation the free market looses its self-regulation because of lack of competition.
> I do not know what "residuals" you are refering > too
How about bodywork resistance to rust (a classic Audi quality from since the 80/90/100 series). Longveity of clutch, gearbox, engine. Service interval for timing belt (60k, 100k, 120k km)?
But I do agree with you that many people just buy a brand name without actually checking the technical qualities of the product. That happens for cars, computers, clothing, consumer electronics etc.
Why are you bringing up a bunch of points that were already brought up and I acknowledged were correct.
Driving course about slippery surface driving was an additional argument about ABS and safe braking not mentioned elsewhere.
You did not answer the question about how fast you will drive on gravel roads, so I think you agree that you drive slower than on asphalt.
Your point about stopping on gravel road by letting the car dig in the dirt, is interesting but you can not steer with block wheels and you will drive slower on a gravel road than on a paved road, so I still think that ABS is the way to go.
What I said was correct
... and so were my points, then we can all be happy.
Most of these jobs will likely not need to have much special skills, chip fab work is in some way just another form of assembly line work. I guess it is at most 200 of them that needs to be highly skilled.
Other than that I think your argument of an ecomony knock-off effect do hold.
AMD, based in Sunnyvale, California, has no plans to convert its existing Dresden fab to 300 millimeters because it wouldn't be a cost-effective way to introduce that technology, Prairie said.
Probably also because it would for a longer time block the main production facility for Athlon and Optoron chips.
If you have many fabs doing the same kind of chip process like Intel it is much easier to temporary stop one of them.
except ABS does worse on a dirt road vs. locking the wheel.
How fast do you drive on these dirt roads as compared to asphalt roads? Hopefully a lot slower.
In general note that a car with ABS rarely make use of the ABS, only in extreme braking condition the ABS will come into play. When they do come into play it sounds really bad, something like metal grinding against stone.
If driving on slippery surface was never part of the lessons for taking your driving license I can strongly suggest you to later take a slippery driving course. I did last summer.
On a large surface the driving school had painted the asphalt with the same reflective paint as used for traffic marking. When pouring water over this area the surface became slippery like a snow covered road, giving icy conditions at 25C (75F).
On this surface they let us do brake test with and without ABS. With ABS it was easy to brake and control the car, without the ABS it required many repeated practice runs to merely get close to the same result.
For both test the same Opel car was used, it had a special installed switch so they could turn the ABS func. on/off.
All modern cars should have ABS and airbags because it helps safety, and ofcourse you should always use seatbelts.
A country that cares for the wellbeing of its citizens should should decrease tax on cars that include these safety measures and increase tax on cars without. Same should go for fuel consumption.
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My work allows me to live a very nice lifestyle, with plenty of time for friends and family.
Congratiulation with that, just a pity that in the US more than 1 in 10 has to live on income below poverty line.
US : purchasing power parity - $36,300 (2002 est.)... and these numbers was brought to you from the same organisation that one year ago fabricated reports about weapon of mass destruction.
Note these are estimate for 2002 not even final numbers from 2002. From Jan 2002 till Jan 2004 the USD has fallen 30% against the EUR. So once these information-twisters update their figures the numbers will surely look different.
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Mozilla is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Messaging
and they have internet sites mozilla.org and mozilla.com and they are presenting themselves as *Mozilla* the home of Firefox and Thunderbird. Mozilla Foundation created the Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Messaging entities, that now works very slowly on Thunderbird project side. Mozilla, i.e. Mozilla Foundation, is in position to change how these two department/subsidaries/whatever work together, but currently they seemed content that very little happening on Thunderbird side. I find this poor.
Before you say something like I should not complain about free software, I would like to mention that I have actually donated money for Firefox and Thunderbird to Mozilla.
Mozilla: Please put more effort into updating Thunderbird.
It is more like two departments of the same company. Their internet sites are completely interweaved.
http://www.mozilla.org/
http://www.mozilla.com/
If that separation is the reason why Thunderbird progress at snail speed compared to Firefox, then that separation is poorly constructed and they should find a way to make Thunderbird progress.
Mozilla, thanks for Firefox 3.5x, now could you please put some focus on finishing Thunderbird 3.0? Why does this have to take forever? And perhaps even get Sunbird/Lightning ready for version 1.0.
Get the chemistry teacher to help you and make a trench(foxhole) radio. Then build a crystal radio. Then an audio amplifier circuit.
This is getting far out, but why stop with the chemistry teacher? They should go dig out the ore of the rare metals out of the ground, that will teach them...
The point here was to learn electronics. It already takes enough time, trouble and errors for children to learn to put ready made components together and understand how they interact. It is important for the future interest that they can actually achieve to make it work.
It may seem strange but I value human rights more that blind allegiance to some lofty entity called "country".
You are spot on. US Patriotism = egoism on a national scale.
And there were also an earlier attempt of using a hijacked plane as a misile- in 1994 on FedEx cargo flight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx_Flight_705
Windmills are not really "Man's best hope for energy".
...And dont even get me started about problems with dolphins and baby-whales getting stucked in the internal pipings of your wave power plant :-).
For clean non-pulloting energy production, it has emerged a as working solution for deployment now, and with huge potential for increased deployment in the sea in the comming years.
Does that mean with should we should researching other clean ways of generating energy? Hell no, find some ways to create large scale cheap solar cells, wave energy that works, energy storage methods etc.. but until something better and cheap arrives wind energy is able to account for a significant part of electrical production.
When is there the most wind? Spring and fall. When are energy needs the highest? Summer and winter.
That depends on location, both for production and usage. The production data I have seen for windmill located in northern Europe show strong production in autum, winter and spring and lower production in summer. Because this behaviour is rather predicatable it can be factored in with energy from other sources, e.g. water power plants.
Besides this they are not very powerfull (large number needed to power a city), Besides this they are not very powerfull (large number needed to power a city), kill loads of migrating birds (strange/macabre but true), and the weather is not exactly something stable enough to build your energy grid on. Oh yeah: it can be cloudy and windless.
Well compared to solar cells as was subject of this story wind turbines are far more powerful. Do not even begin to discuss the difference in cost per KWh between these two.
About birds at most locations they actually coexist very well with windmills. Some bird do die from impacts with wind mill, but you forgot to mention the thousands of bird that also die every year from impact with highrise buildings and high voltage power cables. Does this make US flatten Manhattan? What about the million of birds and animals that die in traffic impacts every year. Do we stop driving or do we try find ways to alliviate the problem? Like fences and designated road stregthes with high likelyhood of animal crossings. With placements of wind turbines the impact on windlife should also be considered, but the problem is far less than you think. In Denmark there has been made studies about windlife and windmills. You can read some about it here:
http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/env/birds.htm
I see much more potential in wave-energy; which probably hasn't taken off yet because one practice experiment in Norway got 'blown off' after a violent storm wrecked it, and because it isn't in the public eye much.
Yes wave power sounds like a great technology. But if wave power was a software projejct on Sourceforge it would have the project status of embroyic.
Indeed we should do research in this field, but for many comming years it is no where close to be a useful energy source that can be installed and deployed mass scale. In comparasion it is more likely that solar cells will be major business years before wave energy will be useful.
But now you will mention that they have some wave power unit on an island in Scotland, and the one in Norway. And far as I know there is even one in Portugal. But it is no more than experimental deployment. The problem with wave power done this way is that it requires very special natural conditions not found many places. You need a tall rock side, with ocean waves slamming right into it. Concreate construction in this enviroment is not easy and not cheap and you have to design for the strongest winter waves.
Alternative is to use some sort of floating carpet that moves up and down with the waves passing under it. Again these things are just reasearch areas nowhere close to mass deployment.
Anyway, with new deployment of wind turbines in
The U.S. could also be a world leader in pizza speed-eating. Neither is relevant to energy policy.
Yeah right, but spending measly 53 million USD on a military project is going to save the energy production in US. As limited as wind turbine deployment currently is, it actually account for more than 20 times the energy production of solar cells. Get real man!
On SlashDot people will dismiss actual numbers but believe impossible forecast of solar cell research results, or that large solar towers that has never been build will solve all energy production.
Next week on SlashDot: Since McDonald renamed French fries to Freedom fries the fries production has risen so much that the grease by-product can now power all the US cars.
About your speed eating... it is years ago since US heavy-weights lost out to skinny Japanese people in speed eating competitions. Japan btw. is the world leader in solar cell deployment. Not that these things are really related, but well you chose to put it together.
There are places where we do use alot of wind that are ahead of the curve, like out here in Tehachapi CA (don't get me wrong California is the land of big government and idiots galore), but they do have alot of windmills.
If you look on the wind turbine deployment within US, the state of California will come out favorably. But that matters very little in total numbers of US deployment.
Why cant the federal government make incentives to let most other states in US follow the example of California?
It is only when a majority of the states follow the example of California wind turbine deployment that there can be a significant change in the annual numbers, that can move US from a losing to a leading position.
I watch semi-flat bed trucks roll by carrying single blades (these things are huge) on my way to work almost everyday. They are constantly in a state of construction out there upgrading to ever larger towers all the time.
Remember this is just anecdotical evidence (which SlashDot is full of). What counts is the overall numbers of installed capacity versus power consumption. In this US has a long way to go.
What I don't get out here they haven't made it mandatory to use solar hotwater heating yet. I'd have to say about 1 in ten houses has it. We definitely get plenty of sun. The only place where I've seen nearly 100% adoption of solar (water heating) is in Maui, HI. Almost all the homes out there have solar and quite a few businesses have PV solar panels on their buildings as well.
A large percentage deployment of solar water heating could be a power saver as well, especially if it happens in many more states than just California.
Regarding wind turbines, why is it that there is so much deployment in California, but so little most elsewhere in US? What is it that has created this incentive there but not elsewhere?
But this is exactly not happening. In recent years US energy politics have been:
You expect thing to turn around FAST. Well it better do because it is long overdue.
In the wind turbine usage US could be a world leader. US has access to the technology, US has the space for deployment, US has the money for the investment, US has the manpower to run the maintainance of large scale deployment. What is lacking is a willingness in the government to take the action.
In installed capacity of wind turbines India will this year overtake US. But dont worry in US you can still pride yourself for being ahead of countries like China, Russia, Nigeria, whatever...
Factor in the record high energy consumption in US per capita, and the situation looks even more bleak. Wake up guys! Actions needs to be taken!
Just wait. Once oil starts cutting into wallets and diminishes our lifestyles, you will see the free enterprise of America redefine "Energy Industry" above and beyond expectation of our wildest dreams. At this point, everyone with the capitol will want a piece of pie.
You mean with examples like Enron and Halliburton?
This is where the US goverment fails. They have kept minimal taxes on energy and let the market and consumers decide what is best. But that leads to shortsighted and egoistic solutions: "I do what is best for me right now".
Few consumers and businesses are able and willing to grasp large scale problems like resource limitations and pollution. This is why it is important that government takes a leading role and use taxes, public control and investment to stear the market and consumers in a direction of what is best for the common good and long term stable solutions.
Just imagine the next bubble in the future. This time, it will be the "Energy bubble".
No thanks, one time Enron is more than enough.
Solar cells are not now, and will not in any near term (5-10 years) be a method for general electrical energy generation.
Generating electric energy with solar cells is a great idea, but they are still a speciality, because the price of the cells are so high. Prices are falling, and have been doing so for many years, but they still have a long way to go to be competitive to other large scale energy sources.
Solar cells needs more researching and funding for R&D. It will be great once it becomes affordable. Until then it is only a niche energy source for use in special locations and applcations.
For the time being the are luckily other sources for large scale non-polluting energy production, namely electrical energy from wind power. Wind power is a proven technology that is readily available and can be installed for large scale usage. It also has the benefit of being a decentralised, scaleable technology (start small then scale up).
The installed capacity for wind energy is like 20 times larger than solar power. In 2002 the world wide capacity for wind power was 32.0 GW, for solar cells it was 1.3GW. Numbers are from report by BP (the oil/energy company).
In many countries wind power is the fastest growing energy source. In Denmark 19% of electric energy is made by windmills. In Spain it is 6%, in Germany 5%. In actual numbers for installed capacity Germany is by far the leader in the field, then followed by Spain and USA. See ewea.org and gwec.net site for further numbers.
While most European countries are racing ahead and installing windmills on land and in the sea, not much progress has been done in USA in recent years. This is especially sad due to the population size of USA and the high energy usage per person.
Google news... Google news... Google news nuisance...
I look forward to the day that Slashdot admins sell their Google stocks so there can come other news stories than these Google stock price nursings.
Just goes to show again how "sooo advanced" US is.
/. will post it as news. It is about time that /. administrators gets a world view and do some research before stories.
Yet
The PPI (Pixel Per Inch) resolution of this ebook dislay is really great, that will provide enough pixels to make nice shaped letters and make much it more pleasant to read from a display. Contrast and virtually zero battery consumption are added bonuses.
2 1/
More PPI is the way monitors and displays should go. But for most of 20 years monitors has stayed more or less fixed with a dot size of 0.25~0.28mm giving about 100 PPI.
In the meantime hordes of consumers and marketing departments has kept all talk about monitors based on display size in inches 15", 17", 19"...
Most notable difference was when IBM introduced the T220 display in 2001 which has amazing 204 PPI giving a total display of 3840*2400 pixles at 22" - and it looks great. Unfotunately the price level for the time being is also great, about 8000 EUR.
They have a new version of it called T221 here:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/intellistation/t2
Hopefully in the future more consumers and manufactures will realise that display quality (PPI) is getting more important than size.
The worse thing that can now happen is... ;-)
that MS Steve Ballmer jets over to Italy for talks with Silvio Berlusconi, the Italien prime minister and also owner of numerous TV channels. MS will then buy TV commercials for hundreds of millions EUR.
In a surprise move next week Berlusconi will then urgently recall the Italian official Mario Monti from his work at the European Commission to head the newly introduced 'Italian ministry for parking offences'.
For the post of European Competition Commissioner some new guy called Pinocchio will take over - with all strings attached to back home.
EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially
... and with the way the USD has fallen the last two years, MS better pay up fast before it gets closer to 700m USD.
No Slashdot, the fine is not 613m USD, it is 497.2m EUR.
All MS are doing is giving their free software along with (hopefully not) your OS.
...
... And that is a very sensible law, because once a company reach monopol market shares it is far too easy control and exploit the market to its own advantage. In a monopol market situation the free market looses its self-regulation because of lack of competition.
This, my friends, is competition.
Sounds even fair for me.
The problem is that MS is sitting on a 90%+ market share on the desktop systems, and is abusing this position to gain in other market segments, e.g. servers, Audio/Video formats.
If MS had something like a 30% market share this case would never had appeared, they could have put in whatever they wanted. It is because of their monopol position that they in EU are not free to do whatever they like.
> I do not know what "residuals" you are refering
> too
How about bodywork resistance to rust (a classic Audi quality from since the 80/90/100 series). Longveity of clutch, gearbox, engine. Service interval for timing belt (60k, 100k, 120k km)?
But I do agree with you that many people just buy a brand name without actually checking the technical qualities of the product. That happens for cars, computers, clothing, consumer electronics etc.
Driving course about slippery surface driving was an additional argument about ABS and safe braking not mentioned elsewhere.
You did not answer the question about how fast you will drive on gravel roads, so I think you agree that you drive slower than on asphalt.
Your point about stopping on gravel road by letting the car dig in the dirt, is interesting but you can not steer with block wheels and you will drive slower on a gravel road than on a paved road, so I still think that ABS is the way to go.
What I said was correct
employing 1000 highly skilled workers
Most of these jobs will likely not need to have much special skills, chip fab work is in some way just another form of assembly line work. I guess it is at most 200 of them that needs to be highly skilled.
Other than that I think your argument of an ecomony knock-off effect do hold.
AMD, based in Sunnyvale, California, has no plans to convert its existing Dresden fab to 300 millimeters because it wouldn't be a cost-effective way to introduce that technology, Prairie said.
Probably also because it would for a longer time block the main production facility for Athlon and Optoron chips.
If you have many fabs doing the same kind of chip process like Intel it is much easier to temporary stop one of them.
except ABS does worse on a dirt road vs. locking the wheel.
How fast do you drive on these dirt roads as compared to asphalt roads? Hopefully a lot slower.
In general note that a car with ABS rarely make use of the ABS, only in extreme braking condition the ABS will come into play. When they do come into play it sounds really bad, something like metal grinding against stone.
If driving on slippery surface was never part of the lessons for taking your driving license I can strongly suggest you to later take a slippery driving course. I did last summer.
On a large surface the driving school had painted the asphalt with the same reflective paint as used for traffic marking. When pouring water over this area the surface became slippery like a snow covered road, giving icy conditions at 25C (75F).
On this surface they let us do brake test with and without ABS. With ABS it was easy to brake and control the car, without the ABS it required many repeated practice runs to merely get close to the same result.
For both test the same Opel car was used, it had a special installed switch so they could turn the ABS func. on/off.
All modern cars should have ABS and airbags because it helps safety, and ofcourse you should always use seatbelts.
A country that cares for the wellbeing of its citizens should should decrease tax on cars that include these safety measures and increase tax on cars without. Same should go for fuel consumption.
My work allows me to live a very nice lifestyle, with plenty of time for friends and family.
... and these numbers was brought to you from the same organisation that one year ago fabricated reports about weapon of mass destruction.
Congratiulation with that, just a pity that in the US more than 1 in 10 has to live on income below poverty line.
US : purchasing power parity - $36,300 (2002 est.)
Note these are estimate for 2002 not even final numbers from 2002. From Jan 2002 till Jan 2004 the USD has fallen 30% against the EUR. So once these information-twisters update their figures the numbers will surely look different.
Bush gets opposite viewpoints from say Powell and Rumsfeld, then makes his decision.
Oh come on, Powell and Rumsfeld are not opposite viewpoints of Bush. They are just part of a narrowminded administration.
It's not like all the President's staff are in collusion
Actually it looks like that. Take Paul O'Neill the former Treasury Secretary, he was disagreeing with Bush policy on tax cuts. He got fired.
LOL! Mod parent up!
You need to remove the space between venda and goatpage to the link right.