How much emission does manufacturing 6800 lithium-ion batteries produce?
Not to mention the emissions produced in charging all those batteries, over and over and over... Electric cars are no more of a panacea than hydrogen cars; the energy still comes from somewhere.
And I s'pose you pay for all the software you use, right?
Well, yeah, actually, if the author/publisher wants money for it. If it's a fair price, I pay it. If not, I do without, or look for a free alternative. If I don't need it to be flashy or fast etc., maybe I'll write my own. Anything else is known as "stealing".
What you see on the TV isn't *really* what americans like. It's what bullshit TV execs think americans like.
No, it is what Americans like. TV networks spend a lot of money to find out what Americans like. It just isn't what you (or I, for that matter) like. (Well, I like some of it - e.g. Seinfeld and several of the HBO Original Series, especially The Sopranos and Sex and the City, but by no means all of it.)
My battered old StarTac phone has two bands of CDMA, plus a fallback to analog. I can use that phone pretty much anywhere in the USA that has cell phone service at all. The same cannot be said of the new combination ones.
I'm with you. I had a Treo 180, but dumped it due to the terrible T-Mobile GSM coverage. Fortunately, I held onto my trusty CDMA StarTAC, and I'm still using it today. (It's too bad, though. I loved the Treo except for the cell coverage, and it came in handy on trips to Europe, too.)
1. The VIC-20 shipped in 1980 [commodore.ca] and the Commodore 64 in 1982 [emugaming.com]. The Apple I shipped in 1976 [apple2history.org] and Apple II in 1977
The article states they burn through 1680 kilos per hour. That's 1680*24*365 = 15 million kilos a year. That's 15.000 acres of trees to keep this powerplant running, or about the entire production of Hawaii in a bad year, for 1.5 megawatts.
So what? Isn't that still better than throwing away 15000 acres' worth of shells? Might as well use them for something, no?
Unibody has advantages and disadvantages. For a car the compromise is different than for a truck. SUVs sit in the middle, sometimes you need the full frame under for a task, and other times you don't. Guess what, you can already buy small SUVs with unibody construction. They are all image machines with no SUV abilities that I would want, but you can get them.
The new Porsche Cayenne and VW Touareg are among the most capable SUVs in the world, and they're unibody IIRC.
Qt, GTK, tcl/tk, Fox, FLTK, all run on Windows, and are being used to develop Windows applications.
A few percent of Windows apps, maybe. I think it's safe to say that the large majority are developed using either VC++ with MFC or WTL or straight Win32 API, or VB - the runtimes for all of which are supported natively/supplied with Windows, and are therefore transparent to "joe".
From all that I've read about the 959, it's apparently reasonably easy to drive at sane speeds, and if you up the ante a bit four-wheel-drive tends to tame the handling characteristics of cars quite nicely.
Plus the thing's got a full roll cage IIRC - necessary due to the super-light Kevlar bodywork. The thing was designed for rallying, after all (it won 1st/2nd/6th in the Paris-Dakar rally one year). Probably safer than most cars on the road today.
It seems to me that most of the reasons given pertain pretty specifically to launching satellites. I wasn't aware that too many people were against launching satellites...?
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No, there's no actual proof that they're ever going to make one, but c'mon, isn't it the obvious next step?
You can have this now, from Neuros - plus FM in and out, and swappable HD or flash "sleds" to boot. I'm seriously considering buying one.
I mean, really. A substantial chunk of artistry is knowing what isn't worth publishing. Now, we've got Douglas Adams and Heinlein releasing stuff from beyond the grave that they might not deem publishable, given the option.
The fact that it was rejected for publishing would seem to imply that, at least at some point in the past, Heinlein did seek to get this published.
Software that works (your computer never *ever* crashes)
A computer that's easy to use (think about all the stuff you have to know just to write and print a simple letter)
You want that? Then build that; i.e. a machine that has nothing on it but the essentials required for word processing, rather than a general-purpose OS meant for a machine that can do virtually anything. I'll bet it stays up for years on end.
You claim the Prius rides more smoothly than a traditional car, but I suspect your experience with cars is merely limited to low-end econoboxes. Try hopping into a decent mid-range Benz one day for a smooth ride.
OK, so let's have hybrid Benzes, then. (Hybrid-diesel, of course...)
A Peter Principle Postulate: If President of the United States is the highest position a person can hold in this country, and people always rise to the level of their incompetence, does this mean we have never had a competent President?
Who says that POTUS is the highest position one can hold? I'd much rather be in Bill Gates's shoes than Dubya's.
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Anyone got a mirror? Damn thing's /.ed already.
Does there exist a good replacement for C?
At the risk of having my head handed to me... C++? I'm kinda fond of it.
Anything that requires government intervention to protect is against the true principles of capitalism.
Nonsense. By that reasoning, laws against murder are "against the true principles of capitalism".
How much emission does manufacturing 6800 lithium-ion batteries produce?
Not to mention the emissions produced in charging all those batteries, over and over and over... Electric cars are no more of a panacea than hydrogen cars; the energy still comes from somewhere.
And I s'pose you pay for all the software you use, right?
Well, yeah, actually, if the author/publisher wants money for it. If it's a fair price, I pay it. If not, I do without, or look for a free alternative. If I don't need it to be flashy or fast etc., maybe I'll write my own. Anything else is known as "stealing".
What you see on the TV isn't *really* what americans like. It's what bullshit TV execs think americans like.
No, it is what Americans like. TV networks spend a lot of money to find out what Americans like. It just isn't what you (or I, for that matter) like. (Well, I like some of it - e.g. Seinfeld and several of the HBO Original Series, especially The Sopranos and Sex and the City, but by no means all of it.)
My battered old StarTac phone has two bands of CDMA, plus a fallback to analog. I can use that phone pretty much anywhere in the USA that has cell phone service at all. The same cannot be said of the new combination ones.
I'm with you. I had a Treo 180, but dumped it due to the terrible T-Mobile GSM coverage. Fortunately, I held onto my trusty CDMA StarTAC, and I'm still using it today. (It's too bad, though. I loved the Treo except for the cell coverage, and it came in handy on trips to Europe, too.)
1. The VIC-20 shipped in 1980 [commodore.ca] and the Commodore 64 in 1982 [emugaming.com]. The Apple I shipped in 1976 [apple2history.org] and Apple II in 1977
What about the Commodore PET? '76, wasn't it?
The article states they burn through 1680 kilos per hour. That's 1680*24*365 = 15 million kilos a year. That's 15.000 acres of trees to keep this powerplant running, or about the entire production of Hawaii in a bad year, for 1.5 megawatts.
So what? Isn't that still better than throwing away 15000 acres' worth of shells? Might as well use them for something, no?
In fact, why aren't we trying to replace 3rd world drug crops with biomass fuel crops?
Because no one is going to pay hundreds of dollars for a gram of macadamia nut shells.
Unibody has advantages and disadvantages. For a car the compromise is different than for a truck. SUVs sit in the middle, sometimes you need the full frame under for a task, and other times you don't. Guess what, you can already buy small SUVs with unibody construction. They are all image machines with no SUV abilities that I would want, but you can get them.
The new Porsche Cayenne and VW Touareg are among the most capable SUVs in the world, and they're unibody IIRC.
Qt, GTK, tcl/tk, Fox, FLTK, all run on Windows, and are being used to develop Windows applications.
A few percent of Windows apps, maybe. I think it's safe to say that the large majority are developed using either VC++ with MFC or WTL or straight Win32 API, or VB - the runtimes for all of which are supported natively/supplied with Windows, and are therefore transparent to "joe".
They don't call it "Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison" for nothing.
From all that I've read about the 959, it's apparently reasonably easy to drive at sane speeds, and if you up the ante a bit four-wheel-drive tends to tame the handling characteristics of cars quite nicely.
Plus the thing's got a full roll cage IIRC - necessary due to the super-light Kevlar bodywork. The thing was designed for rallying, after all (it won 1st/2nd/6th in the Paris-Dakar rally one year). Probably safer than most cars on the road today.
I don't understand why Qt assumes VC++ on Windows, as opposed to Borland and/or GCC.
Because VC++ is far and away the most popular IDE for Windows? Just a guess.
It seems to me that most of the reasons given pertain pretty specifically to launching satellites. I wasn't aware that too many people were against launching satellites...?
No, there's no actual proof that they're ever going to make one, but c'mon, isn't it the obvious next step?
You can have this now, from Neuros - plus FM in and out, and swappable HD or flash "sleds" to boot. I'm seriously considering buying one.
I mean, really. A substantial chunk of artistry is knowing what isn't worth publishing. Now, we've got Douglas Adams and Heinlein releasing stuff from beyond the grave that they might not deem publishable, given the option.
The fact that it was rejected for publishing would seem to imply that, at least at some point in the past, Heinlein did seek to get this published.
Software that works (your computer never *ever* crashes)
A computer that's easy to use (think about all the stuff you have to know just to write and print a simple letter)
You want that? Then build that; i.e. a machine that has nothing on it but the essentials required for word processing, rather than a general-purpose OS meant for a machine that can do virtually anything. I'll bet it stays up for years on end.
You claim the Prius rides more smoothly than a traditional car, but I suspect your experience with cars is merely limited to low-end econoboxes. Try hopping into a decent mid-range Benz one day for a smooth ride.
OK, so let's have hybrid Benzes, then. (Hybrid-diesel, of course...)
Isn't anything MEMS closer to origami than science?
Is this mean to imply that there is no science behind origami? What is it, magic or something?
A Peter Principle Postulate: If President of the United States is the highest position a person can hold in this country, and people always rise to the level of their incompetence, does this mean we have never had a competent President?
Who says that POTUS is the highest position one can hold? I'd much rather be in Bill Gates's shoes than Dubya's.
Have these people never heard of Stella Artois or Kronenbourg 1664
I have. You can keep 'em.
How many in management know how to use software to plan things using a project-planning program for example?
That would be a valid question - that is, if there were any decent project-planning applications out there...
Always target power users, make them happy, and you will not lose.
You mean the way BeOS and OS/2 targeted power users? While MS targeted Joe Average and won really really big?