Railways may be the primary mode of passenger transport, but most european freight goes by truck (surprise!). That's why having 1 tunnel fire in Switzerland wreaks havoc with the entire european freight delivery system.....
Even better is the revolutionary hybrid cable-stayed/suspension design of the Gibralter bridge. They should try that in Italy instead of the boring plain jane suspension bridge they are planning now.
According to the US DOT Transportation Data Book, in 1999, Americans used 154 _billion_ gallons of gasoline. So, it would only cost 30 billion dollars to scrub CO2 from the air! Think of all the trees we could plant!
This is a bit offtopic, so sue me.....but if I recall correctly, Princeton has a human-machine interaction lab. They don't study ergonomics or anything of that sort--it is more of a parapsychological type undertaking.
They do studies as to whether people miles away from a turing-type machine can make it spit out a 1 instead of a zero, or something like this. A bit strange for an institution of this sort to be promoting something that one would normally see on Sally Jesse!
Well this guy is certainly knowledgable and is racking up the karma today.
however, I must say if you would consider a single division flanking manouver the largest in history, then I would suggest that you look at the Red Army in WWII. there *has* to be an example of a larger force flaking in the eastern front--the battles there we absolutely monumental in size.
Any plane loaded with fuel will ALWAYS be a giant firecracker! Until people are willing to ride in planes without fuel, they will be dangerous...
...Even if a plane were constructed out of some impact-resistant uber composite material, what about that 50,000 gallons of fuel? All it takes is 1 spark or a little heat and BOOM!
And fitting planes with parachutes? What happens to the passengers when this giant parachute deploys at 600 mph? Bags and people flying all over the place, getting killed...what would happen if it accidentally (or deliberately) deployed?
Instead of criticising airplane manufacturers for rediculous reasons, why not ask the obvious:
1) Why can't they put x-ray machines in airports for checked luggages so people don't put bombs in them?
2) Why can't airlines maintain their aircraft so the engines don't fall off?
The solution being touted for fuel-cell automobiles is fairly simple: compressed storage.
Now, I have no idea how much compressed storage would be needed to hold an optimal amount of gaseous hydrogen for an airplane. In addition, compressed hydrogen would make for one HECK of a bomb. Yeah, there wouldn't be a fire;instead, the 60000 lbs of hydrogen would explode with tremendous force, blowing the buildings instantly to smithereens.....
Well, you can always use a milling machine to make stuff out of metal. Of course, that would require any space mission to haul around large hunks of aluminium (not to mention a fancy-dancy milling machine; those are quite large, no?).
Now, I am no expert on materials science (but since when does not being an expert prevent you from posting on slashdot?), but it seems like it would be possible to make one of these prototypers that used metals. Only, you would have to make the machine apply really minute (molecules thick?) layers of metal, then figure out how to bond them.
Or, alternatively, you could just use the prototyper to make a mold and then forge the part out of metal. Obviously this would require a forge.
Still, I am sure it could be done, if we put enough money into it (like Star Wars, right...........).
...why is my office-issued dell p3-700-128meg-o-ram p.o.s. currently on its knees trying to expand my dataset?
Oh forgot, Winowze 2k is prolly leaving me 400k for actual work.
Nevertheless, my point is, there are tons of non-game applications out there that can use every mflop or mb of ram.....I sure would love a fast athlon box wik 1 gig mem.
The real difference is, how many legit applications need a fast processor, tons of memory AND a blazingly fast 3-d graphics card? Not many---and most of those have to be rendering 3-d graphics.
I guess there are always real-time simulated colonoscopies.
It may be already too late for the machine in the US. At $300, it is going to be (street price) prolly $100 more than both ps2 and gamecube. So right there you have lost the middle class buyers.
Now, throw in the fact that nintendo has Pokemon, Mario and Zelda, and Ps2 has GT3, while Xbox has Halo. Nintendo is gonna have the kids market in a lockbox, with the key thrown away. Not to mention that MGS2 is coming out for the ps2....
...personally I can't wait for all the video of Ballmer trying to speak so fast that no one can understand that MS lost a shitload of money on the Xbox.
Seriously, for a large apartment complex, this would be a really great setup for the building, even if you did have to hire someone to run/maintain everything full time. I think it would be really inexpensive for a large building (say, 200 units)......
But seriously, don't those screenshots look just like Parrapa-the-Rappa?
Compare what they are doing with the Zelda graphics with a game with cartoon-like graphics, like Jet Grind Radio. Face it: Jet Grind looks cool, and Zelda like this looks LAME. And no one wants to buy a game that looks like poop.
Tax on CD-R's: not gonna happen in the US
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Given that most of the companies that have a vested interest in CD-R's (drive and CD makers) are US companies, I don't think we will see a Canadian/euro tax on CD-R's anytime soon.
But we can all expect a large florida-shark-type convergence of lobbyists on Washington....
Actually, this is more convenient than going to the video store. Yeah sure, the download will be 1/2 hour, but you won't be forced to sit in traffic, find parking in the blockbuster lot, and argue with your sig. other over what movie to get.
You can do something else while it downloads! And, you don't have to watch it on "their" schedule like regular pay-per-view. sounds good to me!
...Yes, a country might actually USE a suitcase nuke. But, as you say, having an ICBM makes you a member of the "nuclear club", i.e. a country that uses the presence of nukes to its own geopolitical advantage.
The ONLY country ever crazy enough to use nukes is the US. period.
Apparently, Toyota is coming out with a hybrid gas-electric motor that will have a very small price premium over regular cars. With a tax credit, it would be cheaper...
Already, the Prius gets 900 miles on a tank of gas and 55 MPG in the city--45 on the higways. (Electric motor improves mileage in the city!). I am gonna buy one of their new models, probably, if they get some style sense ever.....
1984: And with hard drives being noisy and expensive, you can imagine how many people will buy their computers elsewhere.
And the rest is history. Apple's schtick is to leave out essential components for no apparent reason. They did it with the original Mac and everyone has paid for it since....
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Railways may be the primary mode of passenger transport, but most european freight goes by truck (surprise!). That's why having 1 tunnel fire in Switzerland wreaks havoc with the entire european freight delivery system.....
Even better is the revolutionary hybrid cable-stayed/suspension design of the Gibralter bridge. They should try that in Italy instead of the boring plain jane suspension bridge they are planning now.
I do transportation research, and I can tell you that in regards to traffic and such, SimCity pretty much uses the same equations as we do.
"...20 cents per gallon of gasoline"...
According to the US DOT Transportation Data Book, in 1999, Americans used 154 _billion_ gallons of gasoline. So, it would only cost 30 billion dollars to scrub CO2 from the air! Think of all the trees we could plant!
This is a bit offtopic, so sue me.....but if I recall correctly, Princeton has a human-machine interaction lab. They don't study ergonomics or anything of that sort--it is more of a parapsychological type undertaking.
They do studies as to whether people miles away from a turing-type machine can make it spit out a 1 instead of a zero, or something like this. A bit strange for an institution of this sort to be promoting something that one would normally see on Sally Jesse!
Their webpage!Level makes nice gloves with wrist protectors built in...you should check them out (if you plan on boarding again, that is!).
Well this guy is certainly knowledgable and is racking up the karma today.
however, I must say if you would consider a single division flanking manouver the largest in history, then I would suggest that you look at the Red Army in WWII. there *has* to be an example of a larger force flaking in the eastern front--the battles there we absolutely monumental in size.
Any plane loaded with fuel will ALWAYS be a giant firecracker! Until people are willing to ride in planes without fuel, they will be dangerous...
...Even if a plane were constructed out of some impact-resistant uber composite material, what about that 50,000 gallons of fuel? All it takes is 1 spark or a little heat and BOOM!
And fitting planes with parachutes? What happens to the passengers when this giant parachute deploys at 600 mph? Bags and people flying all over the place, getting killed...what would happen if it accidentally (or deliberately) deployed?
Instead of criticising airplane manufacturers for rediculous reasons, why not ask the obvious:
1) Why can't they put x-ray machines in airports for checked luggages so people don't put bombs in them?
2) Why can't airlines maintain their aircraft so the engines don't fall off?
Think, man.
The solution being touted for fuel-cell automobiles is fairly simple: compressed storage.
Now, I have no idea how much compressed storage would be needed to hold an optimal amount of gaseous hydrogen for an airplane. In addition, compressed hydrogen would make for one HECK of a bomb. Yeah, there wouldn't be a fire;instead, the 60000 lbs of hydrogen would explode with tremendous force, blowing the buildings instantly to smithereens.....
Because if you looked like a person from an Arab country......
Your reception would not have been so great.
Israel only has liberty for 5/6 of its inhabitants. I should hope we never get to that point.
Well, you can always use a milling machine to make stuff out of metal. Of course, that would require any space mission to haul around large hunks of aluminium (not to mention a fancy-dancy milling machine; those are quite large, no?).
Now, I am no expert on materials science (but since when does not being an expert prevent you from posting on slashdot?), but it seems like it would be possible to make one of these prototypers that used metals. Only, you would have to make the machine apply really minute (molecules thick?) layers of metal, then figure out how to bond them.
Or, alternatively, you could just use the prototyper to make a mold and then forge the part out of metal. Obviously this would require a forge.
Still, I am sure it could be done, if we put enough money into it (like Star Wars, right...........).
...why is my office-issued dell p3-700-128meg-o-ram p.o.s. currently on its knees trying to expand my dataset?
Oh forgot, Winowze 2k is prolly leaving me 400k for actual work.
Nevertheless, my point is, there are tons of non-game applications out there that can use every mflop or mb of ram.....I sure would love a fast athlon box wik 1 gig mem.
The real difference is, how many legit applications need a fast processor, tons of memory AND a blazingly fast 3-d graphics card? Not many---and most of those have to be rendering 3-d graphics.
I guess there are always real-time simulated colonoscopies.
Install.
Reboot.
Crash.
Re-Install. Run game. Jump. Jump. Crash.
Restart game. Jump. Jump. Land in water.
Un-Install game.
It may be already too late for the machine in the US. At $300, it is going to be (street price) prolly $100 more than both ps2 and gamecube. So right there you have lost the middle class buyers.
Now, throw in the fact that nintendo has Pokemon, Mario and Zelda, and Ps2 has GT3, while Xbox has Halo. Nintendo is gonna have the kids market in a lockbox, with the key thrown away. Not to mention that MGS2 is coming out for the ps2....
...personally I can't wait for all the video of Ballmer trying to speak so fast that no one can understand that MS lost a shitload of money on the Xbox.
Hey where do you live? Sign me up!
Seriously, for a large apartment complex, this would be a really great setup for the building, even if you did have to hire someone to run/maintain everything full time. I think it would be really inexpensive for a large building (say, 200 units)......
But seriously, don't those screenshots look just like Parrapa-the-Rappa?
Compare what they are doing with the Zelda graphics with a game with cartoon-like graphics, like Jet Grind Radio. Face it: Jet Grind looks cool, and Zelda like this looks LAME. And no one wants to buy a game that looks like poop.
Given that most of the companies that have a vested interest in CD-R's (drive and CD makers) are US companies, I don't think we will see a Canadian/euro tax on CD-R's anytime soon.
But we can all expect a large florida-shark-type convergence of lobbyists on Washington....
Actually, this is more convenient than going to the video store. Yeah sure, the download will be 1/2 hour, but you won't be forced to sit in traffic, find parking in the blockbuster lot, and argue with your sig. other over what movie to get.
You can do something else while it downloads! And, you don't have to watch it on "their" schedule like regular pay-per-view. sounds good to me!
"I wonder if he'd be singing the same tune if China passed a law carrying the death penalty for being an attorney and started coming after him..."
What a service China would be doing the world if they started executing 747s full of American Lawyers!
You argue yourself into a corner....
...Yes, a country might actually USE a suitcase nuke. But, as you say, having an ICBM makes you a member of the "nuclear club", i.e. a country that uses the presence of nukes to its own geopolitical advantage.
The ONLY country ever crazy enough to use nukes is the US. period.
That NRDC report is 100 times more interesting and pertinent than the posted article......It is really worth a read!
Apparently, Toyota is coming out with a hybrid gas-electric motor that will have a very small price premium over regular cars. With a tax credit, it would be cheaper...
Already, the Prius gets 900 miles on a tank of gas and 55 MPG in the city--45 on the higways. (Electric motor improves mileage in the city!). I am gonna buy one of their new models, probably, if they get some style sense ever.....
I just want to get stuff done, too, BUT, unfortunately, it is hard to get stuff done on a Mac when the software you need isnt there!
Linux and windows are the killer for me--windows for communication with others in the office, using excel, linux for the programming....
...not only does it depend on the apps, but the price!
My athlon box cost me over a $1000 less than a similarly equipped mac (built it myself)....dual boot, better for games...
...why would i pay extra to loose that???
1984: And with hard drives being noisy and expensive, you can imagine how many people will buy their computers elsewhere.
And the rest is history. Apple's schtick is to leave out essential components for no apparent reason. They did it with the original Mac and everyone has paid for it since....