Those are great concepts and can get some significant gas mileage. Unfortunately, they are typically far to expensive to sell/use as a daily commuter. If the economy of scale can be applied and the overall price can be dropped to around 6 to 7 thousand US Dollars, they would become significantly more viable.
Most especially if they are also easy to maintain, repair for the laymen.
If you really want a Wii, all it will take is one to two weeks of searching.
My wife and I did so back in November of 06. You know, right shortly after the launch of the Wii when NOBODY was finding them anywhere. We looked around, called around, discovered when shipments usually arrived at stores and worked our lunches from work around those time periods and checked one or two places on those set days.
My wife walked into one of those stores, the guy was taking them out of the box to put them on the shelf. He ended up handing every unit straight from the box into the hands of "hungry" shoppers. (This was during the holiday season, too.)
...that Wii Sports is JUST a technology sample to show off the new control mechanisms and therefor the whole set of minigames were purposefully made without all of those "key" features.
I bet you all the other Tennis and Golfing games on the Wii have all those features he said you don't need, yet they all include the nifty/novel feature Nintendo added to the genre with their Wiimote. (Yes, I know that there are some other swing a stick in front of a sensor golf games...)
Uhm... I was under the impression that a good number of these viral things, like the Flu and what is commonly called the "Stomach Flu" had more to do with little kids suddenly being pressed closely together by being in school and little kids spread plagues like... well... the plague.
...why can't this be a good thing where someone can actually see how a person has grown and changed over life or maybe has never grown and changed.
Opinions, views and personality of a person can alter over time. Having this available could prove to be exceptionally beneficialy in writing someone's biography and or considering them for important positions.
Would you want someone who once was foolish (as many/most of us were) who later developed into a very mature and well reasoned individual or someone who has never matured and still acts the part of the fool over the course of their life working an important position?
If that's what they did, then they broke what DirectX was about, simply because they wanted/needed a serious reason to force people to upgrade.
Do you recall the history of DirectX and how it wasn't ever supposed to be available on NT 4.0? What happened? They put it out for Windows NT 4.0 and then took it all the way up to version 5.something and eventually dropped DirectX for NT 4.0 support when practically nobody was using NT 4.0 as a Desktop OS anymore. They did the same with Windows 2000 DirectX Support, even though there was very little change between Windows2000 and Windows XP and now they are claiming total incompatibility, when there is little other reason for ANYONE to want to upgrade to Windows Vista...
Of course, previous posters upthread have mentioned substances already found to be safer being used in the EU. So, it's not like there isn't something else already available...
You would be better off downloading OpenOffice.org 2.1 for free and use that for free until the next version of it is released. Don't start up with the BS that it isn't capable, for the majority of Users OpenOffice.org 2.1 is well beyond what they would need, just like MS Office 200x is well beyond what the majority of users need.
The Register is not exactly known as being conservative in its remarks. They may dress up their pieces with outrageous sounding wording.
Are you denying that Windows makes up virtually every single 'botted' computer on the Internet? Are you disputing that Windows running PCs aren't what the majority of Spambot PCs happen to be running? Are you denying that Malware simply isn't spread by Windows PCs?
...is jumping on the latest "Darling" Distro in the Linux commmunity.
Whenever I hear about someone writing an article about how "bad" Linux is, they are always using the current "buzzword" version of Linux. For at least the past 6 months, that's been Ubuntu.
Just because something happens to be in the forefront of the minds of people ready to chime in about how 'teh awesome' they find their little darling of choice, this month, doesn't mean that it is seriously going to work for you.
Personally, I find it better to stick with one solid distro that has a long running history of "just working". For me, in regards to laptops, I have found that to be SuSe Linux and now OpenSuSe. I have had very consistent results with it. For him, he might be better going with something else entirely.
It's just that it wasn't so publicly shouted out as to the reason why. I cannot tell you how many attempts to break into my network come from IP Addresses in South Korea or how much spam my servers scrub away that originates in South Korea.
(I was wrong, the highest savings is $13,300, not $13,800.)
This is my last response and I only replied this time, in case anybody happens to read your inept keyboard droolings. I feel compelled to point out abject stupidity when I see it. Arguing further with you, when all your stupid ass had to do was do a quick Google to prove or disprove your claims, is certainly pointless.
I don't even own a hybrid, you drooling neanderthal.
Wow, all that about TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP, being far more than the cost of fuel just flew right over your head...
Did you even read the part about how I said the Hybrid uses Gasoline and Oil?
Did you read the part about how there's more to owning a car then just the cost of gasoline and oil changes?
Are you just willfully ignoring that the study I quoted took into consideration far more than what you are flapping your gums about or are you actually mentally deficient enough to belive your own bullshit? Seriously.
This study took into account ALL aspects of ownership, not just the small aspect of ownership you quoted regarding Gas Prices.
So, go ahead and call BS all you want. All I know is that there's much more to owning an automobile outside of spending money on Gasoline.
People, like you, are the reason that nobody takes morons seriously. You spew bogus information out without even taking into consideration all aspects of a given study you are foolishly attempting to refute, using only a small portion of the equation...
Seriously. Did you take into account the cost of oil for oil changes? Hybrids use far less oil and I seem to recall the fuel engines run less, therefore increasing the mean time between oil changes. Do you know the difference in cost between the standard 4 to 6 quarts of oil most engines take and the vastly decreased amount needed for a Hybrid's Gasoline engine?
So let's take that Fuel Cost thingy you quoted and add in the 3 month oil change program most people run on...
I'll be conservative and suggest a price of $50, every three months. That's 4 times a year, which brings the yearly cost up to about $200 a year for oil changes. What's $200 times 5? Oh yeah, $1,000. So, now we are even closer to the figure (Which isn't exactly $14,000. It's actually around $13,800 and some change, I rounded up because most people do such things in casual conversation. Saying "Almost $14,000" as I did, is quicker than saying, $13,832.34 is.) I usually pay around $70 for oil changes myself, because I get the full synthetic stuff. I also am able to stretch out oil changes to almost 6 months in the fall and winter because of this, as my car's engine has sensors that can detect when the oil is starting to really wear out and needs replacement. (Summer heat causes me to need a change after about 4 months.)
Alright, so where are we now... With your suggested fuel costs of $11,375 and the conservative costs of oil changes that people have we are at $12,375. (Which is still hardly an accurate measure of TOTAL cost difference, becase the Hybrid still uses some fuel and it still ignores the Total Cost of Ownership.)
My point is, the study took into account ALL aspects of ownership, your moronic, knee-jerk gum flapping response is hardly worthy of being called a "study" and most certainly is far from being an accurate representation of the facts.
A Hybrid Car, based upon comparing the Hybrid Prius to the Standard Camri, will save you close to $14,000 over the course of 5 years, with current gas prices. I think that's a significant payback and that is why our next car will be a Hybrid.
A number of ISPs list their entire range of addresses as "Dynamic" even when they lease out large numbers of those addresses as static.
I hope that you fall prey to this problem and have to deal with many hours of fighting your way up level 1, 2 and 3 tech support at an ISP that does so, only to be given a phone number to call a small office on the other side of the country that handles their DNS Entries and then deal with their staff being unable or unwilling to input the exact entries you are looking for.
Then going back to SORBS and having them tell you to go away, because they won't remove you from the list.
SORBS appears to never have an actual human being look at your rDNS records. So, if you are able to get your ISP to alter their DNS records for the block of IP Addresses you "own" and it isn't EXACTLY what the SORBS Robot Script is looking for, all you will receive is a form letter the same as the first form letter you received after you went to their site to see about getting your static IP removed from their list.
The form letter will, once again, be written to appear to have been reviewed by a human being, only it isn't.
SORBS appears to be an extortion service geared towards hitting small businesses who likely don't have the time or funds to persue lengthy international court proceedings.
Instead of unplugging all of those things, you could simply get a good surge protector and flip the switch to off or if you really wanted to be sure, you could have easy access to your fuse box and simply flip those switches to off when you are using items in a particular room.
That is, if you were interested in saving electricity.
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I don't know where you live, but where _I_ live, most power is either coal, hydro, or nuclear.
I checked the US as well, oil was the source of only 3% of the nation's power in 2005.
http://www.teachengineering.com/collection/cub_/lessons/cub_images/cub_earth_lesson08_figure5.jpg
Last time I checked...
Coal, Nuclear material and components to repair/build and upkeep those plants all arrive via... Oil Driven machinery.
Oil is still a factor, whether we like it or not.
No, they only openly have negative feelings and outright banish anyone who is Gay.
Those are great concepts and can get some significant gas mileage. Unfortunately, they are typically far to expensive to sell/use as a daily commuter. If the economy of scale can be applied and the overall price can be dropped to around 6 to 7 thousand US Dollars, they would become significantly more viable.
Most especially if they are also easy to maintain, repair for the laymen.
If you really want a Wii, all it will take is one to two weeks of searching.
My wife and I did so back in November of 06. You know, right shortly after the launch of the Wii when NOBODY was finding them anywhere. We looked around, called around, discovered when shipments usually arrived at stores and worked our lunches from work around those time periods and checked one or two places on those set days.
My wife walked into one of those stores, the guy was taking them out of the box to put them on the shelf. He ended up handing every unit straight from the box into the hands of "hungry" shoppers. (This was during the holiday season, too.)
I bet you all the other Tennis and Golfing games on the Wii have all those features he said you don't need, yet they all include the nifty/novel feature Nintendo added to the genre with their Wiimote. (Yes, I know that there are some other swing a stick in front of a sensor golf games...)
Uhm... I was under the impression that a good number of these viral things, like the Flu and what is commonly called the "Stomach Flu" had more to do with little kids suddenly being pressed closely together by being in school and little kids spread plagues like... well... the plague.
Am I completely offbase?
Opinions, views and personality of a person can alter over time. Having this available could prove to be exceptionally beneficialy in writing someone's biography and or considering them for important positions.
Would you want someone who once was foolish (as many/most of us were) who later developed into a very mature and well reasoned individual or someone who has never matured and still acts the part of the fool over the course of their life working an important position?
Sometimes, I really dislike the behavior of some of my fellow Americans.
If that's what they did, then they broke what DirectX was about, simply because they wanted/needed a serious reason to force people to upgrade.
Do you recall the history of DirectX and how it wasn't ever supposed to be available on NT 4.0? What happened? They put it out for Windows NT 4.0 and then took it all the way up to version 5.something and eventually dropped DirectX for NT 4.0 support when practically nobody was using NT 4.0 as a Desktop OS anymore. They did the same with Windows 2000 DirectX Support, even though there was very little change between Windows2000 and Windows XP and now they are claiming total incompatibility, when there is little other reason for ANYONE to want to upgrade to Windows Vista...
I already beat you to it.
Industry doesn't like to change, ever.
Of course, previous posters upthread have mentioned substances already found to be safer being used in the EU. So, it's not like there isn't something else already available...
When our annual contract for NAV comes up every year, I tell the guy on the phone that he is asking for to much money.
He starts giving me the run around and I say, "Thanks, but no thanks. I am going to seek alternatives to your product, have a nice day."
That usually drops the price right then and there.
You would be better off downloading OpenOffice.org 2.1 for free and use that for free until the next version of it is released. Don't start up with the BS that it isn't capable, for the majority of Users OpenOffice.org 2.1 is well beyond what they would need, just like MS Office 200x is well beyond what the majority of users need.
The Register is not exactly known as being conservative in its remarks. They may dress up their pieces with outrageous sounding wording.
Are you denying that Windows makes up virtually every single 'botted' computer on the Internet? Are you disputing that Windows running PCs aren't what the majority of Spambot PCs happen to be running? Are you denying that Malware simply isn't spread by Windows PCs?
Whenever I hear about someone writing an article about how "bad" Linux is, they are always using the current "buzzword" version of Linux. For at least the past 6 months, that's been Ubuntu.
Just because something happens to be in the forefront of the minds of people ready to chime in about how 'teh awesome' they find their little darling of choice, this month, doesn't mean that it is seriously going to work for you.
Personally, I find it better to stick with one solid distro that has a long running history of "just working". For me, in regards to laptops, I have found that to be SuSe Linux and now OpenSuSe. I have had very consistent results with it. For him, he might be better going with something else entirely.
It already is a clear and obvious error.
It's just that it wasn't so publicly shouted out as to the reason why. I cannot tell you how many attempts to break into my network come from IP Addresses in South Korea or how much spam my servers scrub away that originates in South Korea.
Yawn.
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Here's an easy reader description of the report for you.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/03/cr_
(I was wrong, the highest savings is $13,300, not $13,800.)
This is my last response and I only replied this time, in case anybody happens to read your inept keyboard droolings. I feel compelled to point out abject stupidity when I see it. Arguing further with you, when all your stupid ass had to do was do a quick Google to prove or disprove your claims, is certainly pointless.
I don't even own a hybrid, you drooling neanderthal.
Wow, all that about TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP, being far more than the cost of fuel just flew right over your head...
Did you even read the part about how I said the Hybrid uses Gasoline and Oil?
Did you read the part about how there's more to owning a car then just the cost of gasoline and oil changes?
Are you just willfully ignoring that the study I quoted took into consideration far more than what you are flapping your gums about or are you actually mentally deficient enough to belive your own bullshit? Seriously.
I didn't do the math.
This was release from a study.
This study took into account ALL aspects of ownership, not just the small aspect of ownership you quoted regarding Gas Prices.
So, go ahead and call BS all you want. All I know is that there's much more to owning an automobile outside of spending money on Gasoline.
People, like you, are the reason that nobody takes morons seriously. You spew bogus information out without even taking into consideration all aspects of a given study you are foolishly attempting to refute, using only a small portion of the equation...
Seriously. Did you take into account the cost of oil for oil changes? Hybrids use far less oil and I seem to recall the fuel engines run less, therefore increasing the mean time between oil changes. Do you know the difference in cost between the standard 4 to 6 quarts of oil most engines take and the vastly decreased amount needed for a Hybrid's Gasoline engine?
So let's take that Fuel Cost thingy you quoted and add in the 3 month oil change program most people run on...
I'll be conservative and suggest a price of $50, every three months. That's 4 times a year, which brings the yearly cost up to about $200 a year for oil changes. What's $200 times 5? Oh yeah, $1,000. So, now we are even closer to the figure (Which isn't exactly $14,000. It's actually around $13,800 and some change, I rounded up because most people do such things in casual conversation. Saying "Almost $14,000" as I did, is quicker than saying, $13,832.34 is.) I usually pay around $70 for oil changes myself, because I get the full synthetic stuff. I also am able to stretch out oil changes to almost 6 months in the fall and winter because of this, as my car's engine has sensors that can detect when the oil is starting to really wear out and needs replacement. (Summer heat causes me to need a change after about 4 months.)
Alright, so where are we now... With your suggested fuel costs of $11,375 and the conservative costs of oil changes that people have we are at $12,375. (Which is still hardly an accurate measure of TOTAL cost difference, becase the Hybrid still uses some fuel and it still ignores the Total Cost of Ownership.)
My point is, the study took into account ALL aspects of ownership, your moronic, knee-jerk gum flapping response is hardly worthy of being called a "study" and most certainly is far from being an accurate representation of the facts.
A Hybrid Car, based upon comparing the Hybrid Prius to the Standard Camri, will save you close to $14,000 over the course of 5 years, with current gas prices. I think that's a significant payback and that is why our next car will be a Hybrid.
There's still the difference that those Firefox vulnerabilities weren't all listed as providing full "root" level access to the attacker.
Whereas a significantly higher number of the IE Exploits have given "root" level access to the attacker.
It's not just the number of vulnerabilities a particular program receives, but the severity of the vulnerability that is also important.
A number of ISPs list their entire range of addresses as "Dynamic" even when they lease out large numbers of those addresses as static.
I hope that you fall prey to this problem and have to deal with many hours of fighting your way up level 1, 2 and 3 tech support at an ISP that does so, only to be given a phone number to call a small office on the other side of the country that handles their DNS Entries and then deal with their staff being unable or unwilling to input the exact entries you are looking for.
Then going back to SORBS and having them tell you to go away, because they won't remove you from the list.
SORBS appears to never have an actual human being look at your rDNS records. So, if you are able to get your ISP to alter their DNS records for the block of IP Addresses you "own" and it isn't EXACTLY what the SORBS Robot Script is looking for, all you will receive is a form letter the same as the first form letter you received after you went to their site to see about getting your static IP removed from their list.
The form letter will, once again, be written to appear to have been reviewed by a human being, only it isn't.
SORBS appears to be an extortion service geared towards hitting small businesses who likely don't have the time or funds to persue lengthy international court proceedings.
The same place that we have always been, with one mutation away from another crazy pandemic the likes of which hasn't been seen in 100 years.
Instead of unplugging all of those things, you could simply get a good surge protector and flip the switch to off or if you really wanted to be sure, you could have easy access to your fuse box and simply flip those switches to off when you are using items in a particular room.
That is, if you were interested in saving electricity.