I think its safe to say nearly every major semiconductor company is toying with the idea of massive parallelism via small processors for a variety of tasks.
You miss the point about the white minority. She's simply stating a fact of population growth. In a far flung future earth its logical to see a bunch of nonwhite characters as, over time, the earth's ethnic groups mix (and darken). To have spaceship crew of all whites in a 500 year from now earth is just dumb.
Ethnicity is important in her books because its not important. Just as in Red Dwarf (mentioned earlier) the ethnicity of the characters is meaningless as much as it is meaningful. Ged is brown, not because it means anything but because he is. Making him white asian or whatever is less of an issue than the fact that nearly EVERYONE has been whitened. What this says is that the producers feel that a largely non-white cast would not have been as marketable. It sucks for the same reason that they considered Lucy Liu for Electra in the Daredevil movie. She (and asians in general) were a *hot item* at the time and some marketriod thought it would make more money that way. Never mind that Electra isn't asian and her Greekness is integral to who she is.
um, hello: >Sure it emits more NOX, but with better fuel and better pollution control systems coming in 2006, this will become a non issue.
If everyone in the US/World drove a diesel, the diesel engines would have the pollution controls that gasoline engines have. Since the 70's, gasoline engine emmissions have falled dramatically, because people have been trying their best to get emmisions down. With ULSD and BIO diesel, which are BOTH technologically (but not politcally) available NOW, particulate and NOX traps can be put in diesels to make the cleaner than gas cars.
Sure, everyone's in a love fest for H2, which will be fantastic when its viable, but no one in America wants to talk about passenger diesels. My Golf TDI gets 40MPG even under my lead foot, will outperform any gas/electic hybrid, has much more cargo space (and passenger space). As far as emmissions go, the hybrids are much greener, but the modern passenger diesel emits less greenhouse gasses then the average gas car. Sure it emits more NOX, but with better fuel and better pollution control systems coming in 2006, this will become a non issue.
This is really kinda lame. Sure its novel, but not really all that creative. I enjoyed the Force Fiction comic much better. Its a much higher quality meshing of Star Wars and Pulp Fiction.
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But private healthcare does the same thing by charging smokers more for health insurance.
I think its safe to say nearly every major semiconductor company is toying with the idea of massive parallelism via small processors for a variety of tasks.
You miss the point about the white minority. She's simply stating a fact of population growth. In a far flung future earth its logical to see a bunch of nonwhite characters as, over time, the earth's ethnic groups mix (and darken). To have spaceship crew of all whites in a 500 year from now earth is just dumb.
Ethnicity is important in her books because its not important. Just as in Red Dwarf (mentioned earlier) the ethnicity of the characters is meaningless as much as it is meaningful. Ged is brown, not because it means anything but because he is. Making him white asian or whatever is less of an issue than the fact that nearly EVERYONE has been whitened. What this says is that the producers feel that a largely non-white cast would not have been as marketable.
It sucks for the same reason that they considered Lucy Liu for Electra in the Daredevil movie. She (and asians in general) were a *hot item* at the time and some marketriod thought it would make more money that way. Never mind that Electra isn't asian and her Greekness is integral to who she is.
I think a slow-mo toss of twin 9mm's to the side as you reach around and grab 2 more is a cool action sequence (matrix anyone?)
Reloading can be cool too.
um, hello:
>Sure it emits more NOX, but with better fuel and better pollution control systems coming in 2006, this will become a non issue.
If everyone in the US/World drove a diesel, the diesel engines would have the pollution controls that gasoline engines have. Since the 70's, gasoline engine emmissions have falled dramatically, because people have been trying their best to get emmisions down.
With ULSD and BIO diesel, which are BOTH technologically (but not politcally) available NOW, particulate and NOX traps can be put in diesels to make the cleaner than gas cars.
Sure, everyone's in a love fest for H2, which will be fantastic when its viable, but no one in America wants to talk about passenger diesels. My Golf TDI gets 40MPG even under my lead foot, will outperform any gas/electic hybrid, has much more cargo space (and passenger space). As far as emmissions go, the hybrids are much greener, but the modern passenger diesel emits less greenhouse gasses then the average gas car. Sure it emits more NOX, but with better fuel and better pollution control systems coming in 2006, this will become a non issue.
This is really kinda lame. Sure its
novel, but not really all that creative.
I enjoyed the Force Fiction comic much better.
Its a much higher quality meshing of Star Wars and Pulp Fiction.
Don't let the CIA bite.
Sure..magnetic fields...
More or less the same way plasma is contained in a tokamak reactor.
The Jetta 2 door is indeed available
s to ry.html
in the US...or was. I wasn't very popular, so VW dropped it when the did the JettaIII.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8783/coupehi
That car, however, IS a sedan.