For something like the Volt, with a somewhat large battery and a gas tank, the 40 miles on 99 days helps them size the battery and the 400 miles on the 1 day helps them size the tank.
The limits of agriculture are still a good ways off, at least all the ones that don't involve cheap energy (and those energy problems are at least partly political, fission is plenty cheap in comparison to letting people die of starvation).
It's only troublesome to avoid it if you studiously ignore the easy way.
(And I say this more in the sense that I wish more people actually thought about the terms of their cell phone contract and refused the obnoxious and less in the sense that I think it is a revelation that a person could choose to go without AT&T phone service)
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When some jumpy person accidentally gets in a ride share pickup line and then freaks out when someone goes ahead and gets in their car.
Apparently she is from midwest New York City.
There's something really strange about smugly bragging about driving 1.7 miles.
Ah, justice, that thing you get when the judge likes you.
I always wonder if that joke was intended to bother people rather than amuse them.
I mean, is prison rape really the most hilarious rape?
Front door?
This is more like don't leave your valuables in a paper bag on a shelf at the grocery store.
That's not a flip side, the other poster directly mentioned that the data rates were quite expensive.
My county has a density of 41 people per square mile.
That's in rural Michigan. Go somewhere where there are less people and it gets lower.
Some of the caps being discussed are the ones on DSL and Cable, not just cellular.
The hard line caps are a joke, not based on any sort of physical reality.
Nothing is fool proof, fools are too persistent and too clever.
On the other hand the idea that Truecrypt is compromised is quite a claim.
Most of the benefits of a hybrid drive train are during starting and stopping.
If the ICE is needed to maintain speed (like on a freeway), the hybrid stuff is just extra weight.
Now imagine a world where Starbucks provided internet access.
Much of the interface of Firefox is written in javascript and XUL.
It's part of the reason the extension ecosystem is so robust.
Just stop expecting a coherent 'we'.
Problem solved, right in the face.
For something like the Volt, with a somewhat large battery and a gas tank, the 40 miles on 99 days helps them size the battery and the 400 miles on the 1 day helps them size the tank.
Right. For comparison, it would be interesting to see how much the government is spending on peanuts.
I wouldn't think it would be very important, the interesting members of a population (re evolution) are the ones that actually reproduce.
The limits of agriculture are still a good ways off, at least all the ones that don't involve cheap energy (and those energy problems are at least partly political, fission is plenty cheap in comparison to letting people die of starvation).
Would some other plagiarism checks work, or is TurnItIn the only one with legal muster?
So someone should market a usb stick as a physical bitcoin wallet?
They could brand it as "The Magic Bullet".
CSI is serious, like marshmallows.
It's only troublesome to avoid it if you studiously ignore the easy way.
(And I say this more in the sense that I wish more people actually thought about the terms of their cell phone contract and refused the obnoxious and less in the sense that I think it is a revelation that a person could choose to go without AT&T phone service)
Why imagine it?
There were plenty of colonists that sided with the British.
Apple isn't bigger than HP. Compare the revenues here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=HPQ+Income+Statement&annual
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AAPL+Income+Statement&annual
Apple makes more income for every dollar of revenue, but HP has a lot more revenues.
I have 900 megabytes of physical memory not doing anything. I'm fine with Firefox using 400 megabytes, it isn't a problem.