Let's try implementing things like solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal power on a large scale before we conclude nuclear fission is environmentally friendly
That has been done since Jimmy Carter. We know it is worthless to meet demands.
Silicon Valley on windmills, I can see it now. "Lack of wind shuts down chip production."
For years I have been hearing California lecture to the rest of us on "green" living. I have been watching them prohibit new power plants, conventional and nuclear.
And now it come time to pay the piper and they start whining about it.
I can wish them a few good power outages so they can learn to power their electrical plants with environmentalists.
What most people miss in this discussion is the post war rise of the suburbs. Before then cities were like New York City today, people actually lived there and if you did not you were most likely a farmer or rich.
Street cars were perfect in that environment. The lines ran from the residential to the working part of town on straight streets. As the city grew the streets were simply extended along with the trolley rails.
But suburbs were designed to get away from the city. They were much less densely populated. They required people to have cars just to get groceries so there were even fewer potential passengers.
The competition between Beta and VHS was over tape length. And at the time not much was being released on tape and what little was $79.95 an up. Therefore "copying for private use" became popular.
The first tapes for both were 30 minutes and cost $20. Rapidly 1 hr, 2 hr and 4 hr machines and tapes came out and the two formats were neck and neck. Us copiers for private use were all putting off our next buy when VHS introduced the SLP for six hours until we saw what Beta would do with its 4.5 hour machines.
And sure enough the next Beta release was still 4.5 hours. The cost of blank tapes had gotten down to about $15. Therefore VHS won.
One extra movie per tape when bragging began at having at least 300 movies was real money.
It was not until after the 6 hr machines became the standard that price competition began dropping prices below $1000. One hundred extra movies was $500 savings in tape. Two hundred paid for the recorder.
Another announcement? Sigh!
on
IBMs CMOS 9S
·
· Score: 1
If chips were as faster as announcements about chips...
They read like Guiness Book entries. The world's largest submarine sandwich, largest grilled cheeze, largest ________ sandwich.
They are all chips but our special feature in doing it is _________ and that means we can put out a Gee Whiz press release.
The rules say we should be impressed but pardon if I don't have enough "impressed" emotions to go around.
Slashdot Mirror
Would that be anything like WGET set at one level run as a daily chron task?
Windows and linux can't talk to each other? Where have I been?
That has been done since Jimmy Carter. We know it is worthless to meet demands.
Silicon Valley on windmills, I can see it now. "Lack of wind shuts down chip production."
And now it come time to pay the piper and they start whining about it.
I can wish them a few good power outages so they can learn to power their electrical plants with environmentalists.
I have no interest in being protected but unless they are killing the email spam they are only hitting the tip of the iceberg in blocking websites.
If the unique chip identifying code could be used to track you around the net, so can the unique code on these hard drives.
There is no privacy if anything is unique on the computer, chip or drives.
Anyone can write the software to query it.
Time-Warner is my TV and internet cable provider.
You were wondering why the buyout?
Street cars were perfect in that environment. The lines ran from the residential to the working part of town on straight streets. As the city grew the streets were simply extended along with the trolley rails.
But suburbs were designed to get away from the city. They were much less densely populated. They required people to have cars just to get groceries so there were even fewer potential passengers.
The first tapes for both were 30 minutes and cost $20. Rapidly 1 hr, 2 hr and 4 hr machines and tapes came out and the two formats were neck and neck. Us copiers for private use were all putting off our next buy when VHS introduced the SLP for six hours until we saw what Beta would do with its 4.5 hour machines.
And sure enough the next Beta release was still 4.5 hours. The cost of blank tapes had gotten down to about $15. Therefore VHS won.
One extra movie per tape when bragging began at having at least 300 movies was real money.
It was not until after the 6 hr machines became the standard that price competition began dropping prices below $1000. One hundred extra movies was $500 savings in tape. Two hundred paid for the recorder.
They read like Guiness Book entries. The world's largest submarine sandwich, largest grilled cheeze, largest ________ sandwich.
They are all chips but our special feature in doing it is _________ and that means we can put out a Gee Whiz press release.
The rules say we should be impressed but pardon if I don't have enough "impressed" emotions to go around.