Yes, I was thinking of putting a lock on my front door, but then I thought "Fuggit, I'll just forget to lock it sooner or later, so why waste the money?"
That's a ridiculous argument. Are you seriously suggesting that a completely new search engine could burst into an established market, challenge the entrenched incumbents, and grab massive marketshare simply by giving users what they want? That's inconceivable.
Is it wrong for me to hope that the same thing happens to Obama so that when either of them win, they remember the idiocy that is the DMCA and reform it?
Obama was 8* when the DMCA was passed. McCain voted for it. I know which one I'd rather see burned by it now.
Question to Mr Nash: exactly what's wrong with the Windows 5.x kernel? (2K / 2K3 / XP / Vista)? Really, I'm still pretty happy with my 2K Pro install. What's wrong with me, Mr Nash?
Question #1 for any vendor of rainbow-harvesting energy technologies is: "So, your office / lab / factory is powered using the results of your own process, is it?"
Oh, for mod points. Most people (well, most men anyway) are competitive, and we like to beat our "high scores". Tachometers show us speed, clocks show us time, but neither of those contributes to efficiency. Adding a fuel economy display gives a better goal to beat.
Heh, thanks. Although, honest to God, this isn't rocket science and any owner who didn't see it coming, or who is still in denial about it? Well, there's one born every minute.
Unless you're planning to keep the car yourself for another 7+ years and 100K+ miles, and have seriously budgeted to amortise the cost of the replacement, then there's no incentive to replace the battery. You're unlikely to be able to recoup the cost even if you sell the vehicle immediately, since there won't be a big pool of purchasers willing to gamble that much on a 7+ year old car, even with the assurance of a new battery.
Oh, and watch the used prices of all hybrids plummet as word gets out, and purchasers decide not to gamble that the battery will last until they pass on the ticking parcel.
Speaking of ticking, (retail) hybrids and electrics are environmental timebombs, since they are effectively disposable at 7 to 10 years. They won't get passed on down the value chain and repaired piecemeal like gasoline cars, they'll get just scrapped when the battery goes, creating more bad vibes as they die: soon, everyone will have a Cousin Bob's Friend Arnie Who Took A Fucking $7K Bath On A POS Used Prius.
The silver lining is that there's a nascent industry in reconditioning / recycling these batteries waiting to emerge, but only when there's enough of them dying to make it worthwhile, which means that it's a silver lining on a cloud that's raining pure acid on early adopters.
I mean, individual salesweasels. Cow-orker went across to Currys to pick up a Acer One, and reports that the salesweasel was virtually begging with him not to buy it because it ran Linux. Presumably their sales system can tie returns to individual salesweasels, and they're getting pressure to not sell these devices to Sarah Sixpack.
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I hope you get eaten by a Grue, repeatedly.
Presumably he'll stop pointing out that TSA is still an expensive clusterfuck when it stops being one.
Nothing says "eternal low level peon" like someone who pisses and moans about the techniques used by more valuable people.
You just pick it up and carry it home.
And that is why we need Eddie Van Halen. [Air guitar]
It does take patience; it only started to rock the fuck out in season 4. Then it rocked the fuck out like it was 2399.
Yes, I was thinking of putting a lock on my front door, but then I thought "Fuggit, I'll just forget to lock it sooner or later, so why waste the money?"
That's a ridiculous argument. Are you seriously suggesting that a completely new search engine could burst into an established market, challenge the entrenched incumbents, and grab massive marketshare simply by giving users what they want? That's inconceivable .
Pragmatically, if they can't run cool, then it's more efficient to run them hot than to spend more energy actively cooling them.
You are Karl Rove, and I claim my £5.
Obama was 8* when the DMCA was passed. McCain voted for it. I know which one I'd rather see burned by it now.
* Some rounding is involved here.
You know that "ventilation" is not necessarily passive, right?
Did it elope with DirectX 4?
Question to Mr Nash: exactly what's wrong with the Windows 5.x kernel? (2K / 2K3 / XP / Vista)? Really, I'm still pretty happy with my 2K Pro install. What's wrong with me, Mr Nash?
When did we start letting economists register accounts here?
Question #1 for any vendor of rainbow-harvesting energy technologies is: "So, your office / lab / factory is powered using the results of your own process, is it?"
Oh, for mod points. Most people (well, most men anyway) are competitive, and we like to beat our "high scores". Tachometers show us speed, clocks show us time, but neither of those contributes to efficiency. Adding a fuel economy display gives a better goal to beat.
How? Please try to be precise in your doom-mongering.
People didn't stop demanding getting from A to B either. How that goal was delivered - by buggy or by horseless carriage - was not secondary.
An axe is a garden tool, so aren't most things "easily removable" by that standard?
And technology makes the cows smarter... how?
"Darl McBride" sounds nice and trustworthy.
Heh, thanks. Although, honest to God, this isn't rocket science and any owner who didn't see it coming, or who is still in denial about it? Well, there's one born every minute.
Unless you're planning to keep the car yourself for another 7+ years and 100K+ miles, and have seriously budgeted to amortise the cost of the replacement, then there's no incentive to replace the battery. You're unlikely to be able to recoup the cost even if you sell the vehicle immediately, since there won't be a big pool of purchasers willing to gamble that much on a 7+ year old car, even with the assurance of a new battery.
Oh, and watch the used prices of all hybrids plummet as word gets out, and purchasers decide not to gamble that the battery will last until they pass on the ticking parcel.
Speaking of ticking, (retail) hybrids and electrics are environmental timebombs, since they are effectively disposable at 7 to 10 years. They won't get passed on down the value chain and repaired piecemeal like gasoline cars, they'll get just scrapped when the battery goes, creating more bad vibes as they die: soon, everyone will have a Cousin Bob's Friend Arnie Who Took A Fucking $7K Bath On A POS Used Prius.
The silver lining is that there's a nascent industry in reconditioning / recycling these batteries waiting to emerge, but only when there's enough of them dying to make it worthwhile, which means that it's a silver lining on a cloud that's raining pure acid on early adopters.
You tow a generator.
I mean, individual salesweasels. Cow-orker went across to Currys to pick up a Acer One, and reports that the salesweasel was virtually begging with him not to buy it because it ran Linux. Presumably their sales system can tie returns to individual salesweasels, and they're getting pressure to not sell these devices to Sarah Sixpack.
Pfft, of course they have a Windows partition. They just didn't pay for it, because they're Sticking It To The Man.