I think this is the first actually useful TLD to be introduced in years. Congrats ICANN, you actually did something worthwhile and managed to justify about two weeks of this year's operating budget.
Now of course, we'll see who actually moves from COM to XXX voluntarily.
Still waiting for a/. article that doesn't turn into a political discussion...
This one didn't turn into one, but it does contain one. Since most matters of any import have at least some area where the large reach of politics overlaps, it would be quite surprising if the majority of large discussions didn't contain at least one sub-thread on that subject.
(Myself, I'm still waiting for a/. thread where a couple hundred college graduates don't utterly fail to compose a proper sentence in their native tongue.)
The only barrier now is to prove that it is economically viable.
Ahh, but that's not so much of an issue. It can reasonably be assumed that the process will become more efficient as time passes and throughput increases, and oil will, of course, become more expensive. As these two trends progress, it can't help but become cost effective. It's only a question of *how* cost effective and when.
Well, that and how long it is before I replace my aging 240sx with a TDI Jetta. I'm fairly certain those can be cheaply adapted to run biodiesel, yes?
I guess you're only gonna get responses from people who have stepped off the grid and then returned.
Or perhaps there are some out there who are essentially off-grid but still have access to it via non-traditional means. So where exactly do you draw the line?
I've wondered once or twice in the dead of night whether it might be good to step off the grid permanently, so that if the pessimistic peak oil predictions come true, I'll have already made the transition and won't be one of the billion newbies trying to figure out how to feed myself. But then the sun rises, the birds chirp, and I drive to work again...
I used to carry a Volkswagon ignition coil and a couple of lantern batteries in my backpack with a wire run down each sleeve. You couldn't get the visible blue arcs or the range, but you could get damn near the same effect if you were careful about it.
The bitch of it is that in my high school electronics class, when we covered Tesla Coils and Van de Graff Generators, our teacher showed us how to have a light saber fight by holding a flourescent tube in one hand and the center tap of a Tesla Coil in the other. Sure, you've gotta be careful not to break the thin glass tube, but at least the results aren't quite so nasty if you do. Probably looks more convincing as well.
And if you work it right, it also gives you the ability to do the ever popular Jedi trick of throwing someone across the room with the open palm of your hand.
High voltage beats high temperature any day of the week.
It's a shame that R2D2 lost so much functionality in the ~twenty years between episodes III and IV.
And why oh why do you need to hand a droid a walkie talkie to communicate with it? I mean c'mon, R2D2 and C3P0 can't communicate wirelessly without also piping it to their built in speakers? I realize that a lot of the verbalizing of robots is necessary for the story telling, but having to throw R2 a communicator that then gives his position away by its incessant squawking is ridiculous and serves only to call attention to these huge oversights.
Even the People's Broadcasting System (excuse me, that's Public...) is starting to acknowledge that their being consistently to the left of Mao-Tse Tung might not qualify them as covering all sides.
Whew, glad I live in America. We've got an excellent institution called the Public Broadcasting System that is remarkably well run and is usually the most consistently unbiased source of news around. Every decade or two some group tries to take control of it and politicize the news, but the American people have so far seen through every attempt.
Hopefully your nation will some day build such an institution, too.
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I understand what you're saying, and of course I'd love to be getting 60+mpg. My point was simply that I was surprised to learn that I'm already getting mileage comparable to many hybrids, and that the famed Prius is only somewhat more efficient than my car, rather than being monstrously more efficient as I'd previously assumed.
While I agree with you about the ROI in dollars alone, wouldn't you agree that if the money worked out the same yet you burned a third less fuel, you'd still be looking at a net positive?
My Honda Insight has a meter than tells you what MPG you are getting
I don't know how those work in modern cars, but in days of yore, MPG guages were actually vacuum guages, and didn't directly measure fuel consumption, and therefore required much salt in their interpretation.
It's good. As far as I know, the phrase was coined by my friend Jazz about ten years ago. I've never been sure of the literal meaning, if there ever was one, I just like the brutal poetry of it. And, when you think about it, 'brutal poetry' is a good way to describe the optimal use of tight suspension at high speed.
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I think this is the first actually useful TLD to be introduced in years. Congrats ICANN, you actually did something worthwhile and managed to justify about two weeks of this year's operating budget.
Now of course, we'll see who actually moves from COM to XXX voluntarily.
*sound of crickets chirping*
Did you really just go all feng shui on the various home directory pathnames?
Please tell me you really didn't just go all feng shui on the various home directory pathnames.
Man, I need more coffee.
I suppose it is the taint of science-fiction
Eww. The naturally occuring form is one thing, but the science fiction version? The mind boggles.
Still waiting for a /. article that doesn't turn into a political discussion...
/. thread where a couple hundred college graduates don't utterly fail to compose a proper sentence in their native tongue.)
This one didn't turn into one, but it does contain one. Since most matters of any import have at least some area where the large reach of politics overlaps, it would be quite surprising if the majority of large discussions didn't contain at least one sub-thread on that subject.
(Myself, I'm still waiting for a
Really? I thought there was some fairly easy conversion process that had to be done, at least extra filtration of some sort. Cool, good to know.
That depends on what the definition of 'obviously' is.
The only barrier now is to prove that it is economically viable.
Ahh, but that's not so much of an issue. It can reasonably be assumed that the process will become more efficient as time passes and throughput increases, and oil will, of course, become more expensive. As these two trends progress, it can't help but become cost effective. It's only a question of *how* cost effective and when.
Well, that and how long it is before I replace my aging 240sx with a TDI Jetta. I'm fairly certain those can be cheaply adapted to run biodiesel, yes?
I guess you're only gonna get responses from people who have stepped off the grid and then returned.
Or perhaps there are some out there who are essentially off-grid but still have access to it via non-traditional means. So where exactly do you draw the line?
I've wondered once or twice in the dead of night whether it might be good to step off the grid permanently, so that if the pessimistic peak oil predictions come true, I'll have already made the transition and won't be one of the billion newbies trying to figure out how to feed myself. But then the sun rises, the birds chirp, and I drive to work again...
Welcome back!
I used to carry a Volkswagon ignition coil and a couple of lantern batteries in my backpack with a wire run down each sleeve. You couldn't get the visible blue arcs or the range, but you could get damn near the same effect if you were careful about it.
The bitch of it is that in my high school electronics class, when we covered Tesla Coils and Van de Graff Generators, our teacher showed us how to have a light saber fight by holding a flourescent tube in one hand and the center tap of a Tesla Coil in the other. Sure, you've gotta be careful not to break the thin glass tube, but at least the results aren't quite so nasty if you do. Probably looks more convincing as well.
And if you work it right, it also gives you the ability to do the ever popular Jedi trick of throwing someone across the room with the open palm of your hand.
High voltage beats high temperature any day of the week.
It's a shame that R2D2 lost so much functionality in the ~twenty years between episodes III and IV.
And why oh why do you need to hand a droid a walkie talkie to communicate with it? I mean c'mon, R2D2 and C3P0 can't communicate wirelessly without also piping it to their built in speakers? I realize that a lot of the verbalizing of robots is necessary for the story telling, but having to throw R2 a communicator that then gives his position away by its incessant squawking is ridiculous and serves only to call attention to these huge oversights.
It is vitally important to get a receipt when using the lavatory!
I'm no longer a part of this society.
Dude. You're on slashdot. You most likely haven't been part of society for many years now.
Ok, Apple's somehow really brainwashed people with this H.264 thing.
--snip--
Apple's not the only company to use it either
They've got you brainwashed, too, if you see H.264 and think the poster must be referring to Apple.
The difference being that eBay doesn't go after people who have Saturday morning yard sales.
I'm not saying that's a 100% perfect analogy, just that there's a fundamental difference between middlemen and a cartel.
Even the People's Broadcasting System (excuse me, that's Public...) is starting to acknowledge that their being consistently to the left of Mao-Tse Tung might not qualify them as covering all sides.
Whew, glad I live in America. We've got an excellent institution called the Public Broadcasting System that is remarkably well run and is usually the most consistently unbiased source of news around. Every decade or two some group tries to take control of it and politicize the news, but the American people have so far seen through every attempt.
Hopefully your nation will some day build such an institution, too.
Yeah, but ski lift operators in hell will all rejoice.
I didn't know Michael Savage trolled these forums!
You must be new here.
Yeah, I found one:Oh, was that not what you meant?
I understand what you're saying, and of course I'd love to be getting 60+mpg. My point was simply that I was surprised to learn that I'm already getting mileage comparable to many hybrids, and that the famed Prius is only somewhat more efficient than my car, rather than being monstrously more efficient as I'd previously assumed.
While I agree with you about the ROI in dollars alone, wouldn't you agree that if the money worked out the same yet you burned a third less fuel, you'd still be looking at a net positive?
My Honda Insight has a meter than tells you what MPG you are getting
I don't know how those work in modern cars, but in days of yore, MPG guages were actually vacuum guages, and didn't directly measure fuel consumption, and therefore required much salt in their interpretation.
It's good. As far as I know, the phrase was coined by my friend Jazz about ten years ago. I've never been sure of the literal meaning, if there ever was one, I just like the brutal poetry of it. And, when you think about it, 'brutal poetry' is a good way to describe the optimal use of tight suspension at high speed.