I know people who buy a bottle of Everclear just about everytime they get fuel for their car, so this won't be a big deal. One bottle for them, one bottle for the car.
People already mod their 2liter motors to produce 5-600hp, but the fuel consumption rate would get them labeled gas guzzlers. But it sounds like this technology is aimed at producing engines that very efficient.
I would think they would use it to steer their clients away from the "bad" area and give the sellers in the "good" area even more reason to jack their prices up.
No, parents just need to be clued into what their kids are doing. Some may just think that it's just a game machine and may not even know that it has the ability to surf the web. Calling it a "porn portal" is over the top, but sometimes that's the only way you can reach some people.
I have the same problem with my Nokia, although the previous (non-GSM) Nokia that I had was able to store multiple phone numbers for each person and was able to sync via IR with my Palm PDA. I miss both of those features with the new phone, but Cingular wasn't going to support it anymore, so I had to get a different one (different provider too).
I actually like Australian TV shows better than most of the US ones and use bittorrent to get the shows I like. I wish another season of Pizza would come out soon.
No, the other parts of the world just have higher taxes on it.
This BBC page shows how much tax is levied against a liter of gasoline in the UK and other parts of Europe. http://www.internationalfuelprices.com/ has a PDF with the prices of fuel world wide and the maps show if fuel is taxed or subsidized. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_tax also has some of the rate information.
You've set yourself an impossible trap here, haven't you. If a large amount of people don't want broadband, then ipso facto, they aren't technologically advanced, are they?
Not really. Many people are satisfied with being able to get it at work. Not to mention that there are even tech people who don't want to touch a computer when they get home from work. They'd rather pursue other hobbies and forms of entertainment. It's probably/. blasphemy, but the internet isn't the end-all be-all that you need to be connected to 24/7.
that would have been my 2nd choice. A Pakistani guy I knew in college asked some people in an airport bar "do you have a fag on you?" and got some really strange looks.
From a "how fast is your internet connection" discussion on an Australia webforum, it didn't seem like their speeds were much different than what is available in the US.
People who don't care about broadband or the internet in general aren't going to make the effort get the service, even if it's available to them. The percentage of households with broadband is going to be lower because of this. That's a "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" sort of problem. A friend at work is the only person in his neighborhood for several blocks that has cable internet. It's available to all his neighbors, but they don't want it (a condition that he loves, BTW ). Still, I'd be surprised if the people in a city with a population as small as 25-100K didn't have broadband available to them. That's why I used my parents as an example. Their town has around 1400 people. The 'big city' of 15000 is 60 miles away and the county is one of the 100 poorest by per capita income in the US. But, they can still get DSL if they want it and have been able to for at least a couple years.
I'm sure if the US Federal Govt subsidized the cost of laying fiber to each house, more people in the US would have nice speedy connections like the Koreans. But that would create yet another form of corporate welfare that would waste even more taxpayers' money.
My dad's major use for net access: viewing his bank account activity and downloading the cleared transactions into quicken. It will be faster now, but it's not going to make that big a difference for what he does.
Is the percentage of people on broadband a even valid benchmark of technological ability of a nation? Maybe a large amount of people don't have broadband because they don't want it? My parents live in a little town in the northern Great Plains and they recently got DSL, not because they were chomping at the bit to get broadband, but because the internal modem in their computer went bad and it would have cost them as much to get that replaced by the local computer guy as it would for the DSL installation charge. Otherwise, they would have stayed with dialup because that is sufficient for their online usage.
IMHO, the only people who harp about this are the companies trying to get a govt subsidy.
posting on slashdot or any other discussion site could hardly be considered a need by anyone in their right mind. however, there are always people saying "I live in [some northern state|BFE w/o paved roads]" or "I have kids" followed by "that's why I need an SUV". no, they WANT an SUV because they've bought the auto company's marketing BS. Given that I grew up in a northern state in an area where most of the roads weren't paved, I know for a fact that people got along just fine for decades w/o SUVs. it's not surprising that most of the vehicles I've seen lately stuck in ditches are SUVs: the drivers believe the marketing BS and drive like they are invincible.
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what if it scores better on the emissions ratings?
I know people who buy a bottle of Everclear just about everytime they get fuel for their car, so this won't be a big deal. One bottle for them, one bottle for the car.
People already mod their 2liter motors to produce 5-600hp, but the fuel consumption rate would get them labeled gas guzzlers. But it sounds like this technology is aimed at producing engines that very efficient.
I would think they would use it to steer their clients away from the "bad" area and give the sellers in the "good" area even more reason to jack their prices up.
The US pays out a little over $36 billion a year in entitlement payment mistakes. Congress could find the money if they wanted to.
No, parents just need to be clued into what their kids are doing. Some may just think that it's just a game machine and may not even know that it has the ability to surf the web. Calling it a "porn portal" is over the top, but sometimes that's the only way you can reach some people.
I have the same problem with my Nokia, although the previous (non-GSM) Nokia that I had was able to store multiple phone numbers for each person and was able to sync via IR with my Palm PDA. I miss both of those features with the new phone, but Cingular wasn't going to support it anymore, so I had to get a different one (different provider too).
I actually like Australian TV shows better than most of the US ones and use bittorrent to get the shows I like. I wish another season of Pizza would come out soon.
hmm..I already have a CRT tan, so I suppose I could light the place with monitors hooked up to each machine to display top or scrolling log files. :)
so what pandemic do you want to save the world?
No, the other parts of the world just have higher taxes on it. This BBC page shows how much tax is levied against a liter of gasoline in the UK and other parts of Europe. http://www.internationalfuelprices.com/ has a PDF with the prices of fuel world wide and the maps show if fuel is taxed or subsidized. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_tax also has some of the rate information.
why not just demand that they be turned into a recyling center or at least buried. Why outlaw a nice little carbon sink?
flamewars aren't bad if they result in code patches that make something work better.
that would have been my 2nd choice. A Pakistani guy I knew in college asked some people in an airport bar "do you have a fag on you?" and got some really strange looks.
that sounds like a better deal than the 6M/384K service that costs me $40.
From a "how fast is your internet connection" discussion on an Australia webforum, it didn't seem like their speeds were much different than what is available in the US.
I have a 6Mb service from Comcast and it costs me $40.
People who don't care about broadband or the internet in general aren't going to make the effort get the service, even if it's available to them. The percentage of households with broadband is going to be lower because of this. That's a "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" sort of problem. A friend at work is the only person in his neighborhood for several blocks that has cable internet. It's available to all his neighbors, but they don't want it (a condition that he loves, BTW ). Still, I'd be surprised if the people in a city with a population as small as 25-100K didn't have broadband available to them. That's why I used my parents as an example. Their town has around 1400 people. The 'big city' of 15000 is 60 miles away and the county is one of the 100 poorest by per capita income in the US. But, they can still get DSL if they want it and have been able to for at least a couple years.
I'm sure if the US Federal Govt subsidized the cost of laying fiber to each house, more people in the US would have nice speedy connections like the Koreans. But that would create yet another form of corporate welfare that would waste even more taxpayers' money.
My dad's major use for net access: viewing his bank account activity and downloading the cleared transactions into quicken. It will be faster now, but it's not going to make that big a difference for what he does.
basically behave like a dialup user. YouTube & other high bandwidth sites aren't that important. The VoIP users might not like it though.
Is the percentage of people on broadband a even valid benchmark of technological ability of a nation? Maybe a large amount of people don't have broadband because they don't want it? My parents live in a little town in the northern Great Plains and they recently got DSL, not because they were chomping at the bit to get broadband, but because the internal modem in their computer went bad and it would have cost them as much to get that replaced by the local computer guy as it would for the DSL installation charge. Otherwise, they would have stayed with dialup because that is sufficient for their online usage.
IMHO, the only people who harp about this are the companies trying to get a govt subsidy.
posting on slashdot or any other discussion site could hardly be considered a need by anyone in their right mind. however, there are always people saying "I live in [some northern state|BFE w/o paved roads]" or "I have kids" followed by "that's why I need an SUV". no, they WANT an SUV because they've bought the auto company's marketing BS. Given that I grew up in a northern state in an area where most of the roads weren't paved, I know for a fact that people got along just fine for decades w/o SUVs. it's not surprising that most of the vehicles I've seen lately stuck in ditches are SUVs: the drivers believe the marketing BS and drive like they are invincible.
people in those areas got along just fine with normal cars before SUVs became popular, so they don't really NEED SUVs either.