I'd regard the Segway more as a proof-of-concept, rather like the Apple Lisa. The Lisa gave us the Mac, and the Segway gave us the iBOT. (And I do think it's fair to call the iBOT life-changing.)
In the mid-90s I did tech support for a regional ISP with a pretty large presence in its home city. We ran our own POP there with several hundred lines. The lines were digital right up to the demarc, where they were split/converted/whatever out to several hundred copper pairs. On our side, the several hundred copper pairs were immediately converted *back* to digital and sent off to our USR Courier digital modem banks. The reason for this was that analog lines were tariffed cheaper than digital ones, so it was actually cheaper for us, even though it was more work and complexity both for them and for us.
They're considering "energy efficiency" for a closed system when they talk about hydrogen electrolysis. When they talk about biodiesel production from soy they're considering an open system.
That's because the sun doesn't give you any free benefits when you're electrolyzing hydrogen. Sure, you can use solar energy to do so, but you've got to buy expensive photovoltaic cells, etc. With the algae, you just have to not build a roof and let the sun and the algae do the work for you.
Taking a step back, the issue is not "how much total energy is involved in producing the fuel," the issue is "how much energy do human beings have to invest in producing the fuel."
If they watch TV, they do. Every "dead" channel has a message up pointing to the Dish Info channel, which is continuously running a ~2 minute explanation by Charlie himself of what's going on.
No longer true. Earlier this year, Blockbuster ended all its deals with the studios. They now buy their DVDs from regular wholesalers, just like any retailer.
I could write on my door that you owe me five bucks whenever you come into my house, that does not mean I can extort the money out of visitors, even though it's MY door.
Sure you can. Nightclubs call it a "cover charge." Remember, it's your house. You can set whatever conditions you want on people entering it. Pay money, go naked, recite the Pledge of Allegiance...as long as they know up front what the conditions are and the conditions are not themselves illegal, you're perfectly free to do so. Your potential visitors are equally free to choose to go hang with someone else.
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I ran into the same problem when I was doing some web design a few years ago. I discovered the hard way that Netscape and IE use different baselines for setting indentation (one uses the left edge of the page, the other uses the left edge of the main body text). The solution that worked for me was to create two different style sheets, one for Netscape and one for IE, and drop a tiny JavaScript into the page itself that queried the viewer's browser to determine which it was and then loaded the appropriate style sheet. Worked great.
Absolute nonsense. There are any number of hotels, golf courses, and what have you that charge more during peak seasons and less during off-peak seasons. This is entirely reasonable and ethical.
Yep, you're wrong. From http://www.dvdreview.com/html/dvd_myths.html
8. DVD is a worldwide standard. In addition to regional codes that can be used to prevent playback in different areas, DVD uses different formats for NTSC or PAL playback. Almost no US players can play PAL DVDs. Most European players can play both PAL and NTSC TVs, but only on a 60-Hz-capable PAL TV or a multistandard TV. Most DVD-equipped computers can play both NTSC and PAL discs.
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> The Tron games for the Intellivision were great > fun...I'd kill to play "Tron Deadly Discs" > again...or "Solar Sailer".
The one dud in the bunch was the Maze-A-Tron game...pointless, boring, and tedious only begin to describe it.
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I'd regard the Segway more as a proof-of-concept, rather like the Apple Lisa. The Lisa gave us the Mac, and the Segway gave us the iBOT. (And I do think it's fair to call the iBOT life-changing.)
Dav2.718
In the mid-90s I did tech support for a regional ISP with a pretty large presence in its home city. We ran our own POP there with several hundred lines. The lines were digital right up to the demarc, where they were split/converted/whatever out to several hundred copper pairs. On our side, the several hundred copper pairs were immediately converted *back* to digital and sent off to our USR Courier digital modem banks. The reason for this was that analog lines were tariffed cheaper than digital ones, so it was actually cheaper for us, even though it was more work and complexity both for them and for us.
They're considering "energy efficiency" for a closed system when they talk about hydrogen electrolysis. When they talk about
biodiesel production from soy they're considering an open system.
That's because the sun doesn't give you any free benefits when you're electrolyzing hydrogen. Sure, you can use solar energy to do so, but you've got to buy expensive photovoltaic cells, etc. With the algae, you just have to not build a roof and let the sun and the algae do the work for you.
Taking a step back, the issue is not "how much total energy is involved in producing the fuel," the issue is "how much energy do human beings have to invest in producing the fuel."
Dav2.718
If they watch TV, they do. Every "dead" channel has a message up pointing to the Dish Info channel, which is continuously running a ~2 minute explanation by Charlie himself of what's going on.
Dav2.718
No longer true. Earlier this year, Blockbuster ended all its deals with the studios. They now buy their DVDs from regular wholesalers, just like any retailer.
Dav2.718
I could write on my door that you owe me five bucks whenever you come into my house, that does not mean I can extort the money out of visitors, even though it's MY door.
Sure you can. Nightclubs call it a "cover charge." Remember, it's your house. You can set whatever conditions you want on people entering it. Pay money, go naked, recite the Pledge of Allegiance...as long as they know up front what the conditions are and the conditions are not themselves illegal, you're perfectly free to do so. Your potential visitors are equally free to choose to go hang with someone else.
Dav2.718
I ran into the same problem when I was doing some web design a few years ago. I discovered the hard way that Netscape and IE use different baselines for setting indentation (one uses the left edge of the page, the other uses the left edge of the main body text). The solution that worked for me was to create two different style sheets, one for Netscape and one for IE, and drop a tiny JavaScript into the page itself that queried the viewer's browser to determine which it was and then loaded the appropriate style sheet. Worked great.
Dav2.718
Absolute nonsense. There are any number of hotels, golf courses, and what have you that charge more during peak seasons and less during off-peak seasons. This is entirely reasonable and ethical.
Yep, you're wrong. From http://www.dvdreview.com/html/dvd_myths.html
8. DVD is a worldwide standard.
In addition to regional codes that can be used to prevent playback in different areas, DVD uses different formats for
NTSC or PAL playback. Almost no US players can play PAL DVDs. Most European players can play both PAL and NTSC
TVs, but only on a 60-Hz-capable PAL TV or a multistandard TV. Most DVD-equipped computers can play
both NTSC and PAL discs.
> The Tron games for the Intellivision were great > fun...I'd kill to play "Tron Deadly Discs" > again...or "Solar Sailer".
The one dud in the bunch was the Maze-A-Tron game...pointless, boring, and tedious only begin to describe it.
Dav2.718