Funny, but the three you mentioned all require some proximity on the part of the attacker.
* The bluetooth attacker has to actually be within 30 feet of you. You should be more worried for your own safety than about what's going to happen to your machine.
* For the bad inode one, you have to ALREADY BE LOGGED INTO THE MACHINE before you can attack it. If I'm logged into a windows machine, there is nothing further I need to do to attack it.
* The appletalk attacker has to be on the same network segment, i.e. probably in the same building with you. You can have your network admin track down the packets and have him/her arrested if you feel like it.
In contrast, the windows vulnerabilities always seem to be someone sending you a malicious email that masquerades as a cursor file or wallpaper, or just visiting a website will download something nasty. Things that can be done from the other side of the planet through 18 layers of proxies and reflectors and when it's done they have complete control of your computer.
That kind of stuff just doesn't seem to happen to linux, unix, or macos boxes as often. Mind you, it can happen I'm not saying they're immune, but unpatched linux boxes just soldier on, especially if they're behind a corporate firewall or home NAT. The same cannot be said of windows.
TFA was so positive and glowing, I'm surprised they didn't mention one of the more significant benefits, cylinder deactivation.
Sure it's already available in conjuction with mechanical valvetrains, but with electronic control of the valves there's no additional hardware or cost to provide the feature.
* Highly Effective Restriction of Personal Entertainment Systems * Had Ecstasy, Resigned to Pretty Excruciating Software * Hamstrung Electronic Reuse Platform--Extra Stupid * Half-assed Extra Rotten Playing Encryption Setup * Helps Evil Recording People Eat Sushi
>> You seem to imply that fixing software bugs (which is the purpose >> of patches) is not a solution!
Fixing two bugs this month and eight bugs next month and three bugs the following, and this goes on for years at a time, tells me there are probably *thousands* of undiscovered security holes in the average windows+office install. They are fixing maybe 1% a month, probably less or the same as the rate at which they introduce new bugs. *That* is not a solution, and I'm not implying it, I'M SAYING IT OUT LOUD.
If solaris or macos was that bad, I'm sure microsoft would waste no time issuing press releases to tell us about that. What do we get instead? "Every OS should have UAC!"
That's the best they can do: fix 1% of the bugs per month and pretend like UAC is something other than a poorly implemented rip off of sudo.
Well screw that. I'm typing this on a RHEL 4 box that I update/patch about once a year, if I get around to it. Total number of viruses, spybots, adware toolbars, keyloggers, popups? Zero.
The fine point is that you can get away with not patching desktop linux/unix/macos machines for *years* w/o any problems. Only full internet facing servers really need to be up to date on the patches. In contrast, any windows box that can surf the net or receive email is a sitting duck, whether it's behind a firewall or not.
What makes them sitting ducks? Probably a lot of factors. Throwing patches at machines is a coping strategy, not a solution.
>> You can get electricity from the grid at a cost similar >> to 50 cents a gallon.
where am i wrong?
50c of electricity ~= 3kwh ~= 10,000 btu (http://www.uwsp.edu/CNR/wcee/keep/Mod1/Whatis/ene rgyresourcetables.htm)
1 gallon of regular gas = 125,000 btu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Energy_cont ent)
I assume an electric or hybrid gasoline-electric car uses the electric energy more efficiently. 20% seems like a real-world value for ICE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_ engine#Engine_Efficiency) and even if we grant electric drive a 100% efficiency that's only 5:1, pretty far from the 12:1 implied above.
working back the other way, 125,000 btu * (1/5 of that needed for optimal electric drive) = 25000 btu equivalent needed 25000 btu / 3412 = 7.33 kwh 7.33 kwh * 0.16c/kwh (rough avg in my area) = $1.17
in the long run lost fuel taxes of about $0.40/gallon will need to be made up for, so I get $1.57/gallon. That's actually not bad in these days of $3/gallon gasoline, but significantly different from your 50c/gallon number.
Main thing is that vinyl records released these days are likely to be engineered by people who actually care about the quality of the recording. This is like 99% of the difference.
Now at least one of the digitizers claims 24 bits at 96 khz (the m-audio one). A CD is 16 bits at 44khz and a lot of stuff is lost at that rate. Plus cheap CD players have cheap digital filters so you don't get anywhere near the nyquist limit (22khz) out of them, and what you do get is out of phase in the upper registers. Fresh vinyl can get up to 30khz and in fact old quad vinyl used a subcarrier up there for the rear channels.
Vinyl falls down on noise floor, pops/crackles, subwoofer feedback, anyone remember wow & flutter, and RIAA* equalization errors.
*the RIAA back when it was concerned about sound quality!
not to be a downer, but the #1 thing is to protect your ears.
* keep the volume down, whether speakers or headphones * be careful of occupational noise...use foam earplugs or over-the-ear mufflers, make your employer pay for them and make sure your co-workers know about hearing damage too * stay away from loud concerts, parties, dance halls * get your hearing checked every couple of years by an audiologist * don't overdo the drugs, booze, or caffiene * if you are exposed to even moderately high sound levels, let your ears rest for a couple weeks before exposing them again. do not *ever* go to two rock concerts in the same weekend * at the first sign of infection or fluid buildup, see a doctor * hearing loss can be instantaneous and permanent, don't risk it
All the megabits and SNR in the world won't help if your nerve cells and eardrums are making little buzzes, whines, and clicking noises. You can buy a better sound card or nicer speakers but you cannot replace damaged hearing: PROTECT IT
Various cities near where I live have experimented with red light cameras. One of them installed a couple of cameras at the bottom slight hills, where people would be gaining momentum from gravity as they approached the traffic light. I had to stop short a few times myself and eventually just avoided the intersections entirely. Anyway, one day I saw some really long skid marks and the pavement was gouged pretty badly from what was probably a rollover accident. They removed both cameras the next day.
The local paper didn't carry news about the accident, but did say that there had been some mixed success: while red-light-runner-induced t-bone accidents had gone down somewhat, rear-end collisions were way up, probably from drivers scared of getting tickets and braking so soon that they caught the driver behind them off-guard.
At a previous employer, we experimented with a very thin desktop GUI. It used the host OS to display widgets but was entirely under control of a server. It worked remarkably well and as long as the client and server were on the same LAN there was no lag.
From my hazy memory, it had these successes: * a crashed app (which was rare anyway) could be restarted right where it left off * clicking, drag/drop, typing, copy/paste, scrolling, and resizing were as fast as the host OS was capable of since most of the time these didn't involve the server * very little installation headaches since there was no business logic, databases, or special-case code on the client side, and the set of available widgets didn't change that often anyway * new servers could be tested by just pointing the client at them * server could be upgraded at our convenience * one server could handle dozens of users and the load was much lower than citrix, RDP, or X11 type of model since the whole GUI stack was offloaded to the client not just the final bit slinging * protocol wasn't that complex. "this widget with this data goes here" then "send a message when the user finishes doing things with it" * multiple windows could be open and be unrelated, so a server could make it look like you were running multiple apps even though it was just one GUI process and one server process * response over slow network wasn't that bad. the most back-and-forth communication mostly happened at points in the app where users expected things to be slow, like when you click on "Okay" or select "New..." from a menu so we didn't get many complaints.
Okay, obviously we didn't invent this, but other attempts always seemed hobbled somehow. ActiveX and java applets are visually sandboxed and have a tough time breaking out into looking like a real app. Firefox had some experimental widgets that were actually pretty cool but in actual use they were laid out on the page in a very HTML-ish fashion and later withdrawn for security concerns.
Anyway, I just want to share this as kind of compromise between desktop and html-based apps that seemed to work particularly well for us.
>> the classic British Mini has been doing 30-40mpg >> for over 40 years. The fact that the average >> American car now does only 20mpg is just horrific.
It's slightly less horrific than you portray. The US gallon is about 20% smaller than an imperial gallon. The US EPA rating for the current mini is about 25mpg, so an average US car getting 20mpg isn't that bad, relative to that standard.
Increasing density increases efficiency in a lot of ways (especially transportation as you point out), but it has some significant social drawbacks. There's no inherent reason that cities have to be unpleasant but anyplace with highrise buildings tends to suffer from a lot of noise, overcrowding, lack of parks and open spaces, is inhospitable to children and pets, and because of the higher density, street traffic is actually far worse than a suburban commute. On top of that, the first hint of a low-income neighborhood anywhere nearby drives all the rich people far away.
If there was a way to get the benefits of having people closer together without compromising on some of these livability issues I think we could get somewhere, but I personally treasure my nice garage and big backyard so much that I'm willing to drive an extra hour a day if need be, and the sum total of 100 million other American families making the same choice is a very difficult hurdle to overcome. I think it's going to take something like $10/gallon gasoline before we collectively cave in to the pricing pressure and give up our lifestyle.
I'm going to nominate the Advent 201 cassette deck here. I got one as a hand-me down from my dad and it was really something special.
One of the design goals was that the user should be able to operate the unit in complete darkness going only by feel. To that end, controls were placed far apart, on a couple different planes of the unit, had distinct shapes, and switched in different directions. Stateful controls changed position enough that you could feel what state it was in without looking. There were no status lights (other than the VU meter) to look at as I recall.
Anyway, ever since then I've always felt that user interfaces should be tactile and show their state in a physical sense. You should be able to make changes even with the power off, and you shouldn't have to look at indicator lights to figure out what's going on.
While a lot of appliances don't require this level of UI "analogness", it is something that should be carefully considered for automotive instrument panel design, since that is definitely a "must be operable in total darkness" situation.
Or one could take it as an indication that circuit city's management allowed the situation to go on for so long that it became a cost crisis and PR nightmare.
Frankly, I think their management is as overpaid and under-performing as they accuse their sales staff of being. The layoffs didn't go far enough, and they started at the wrong end.
I don't think (b) is quite right. College CS programs tend to have the same desktop/windows/visual studio setups as anywhere else. The unix machines (if they even have them) are probably donations of obsolete hardware, stuff you could get on ebay for $500.
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The pattern for the last 20 or 30 years has been for movie studios to create movies that appeal especially to teenagers. They are the most likely to want to get out of the house on friday and saturday evenings, and the most willing to part with $10 for a movie ticket. It's fun, they get to hang out with their friends, see a movie, have some popcorn, get away from homework and the parents. Whatever.
The only reason the studioes release anything else is because they make money on DVD sales and rentals downstream. You want more sci-fi? Buy every battlestar galacta, star trek, star wars, dr. who, dune, LoTR, etc DVD. Individually they are about the same as a movie ticket + some popcorn; it will look awesome on your widescreen LCD; and it sends the message that sci-fi will be supported by the audience. (Star Wars actually went against this model because it took so long to get ep 1-3 onto DVD)
I've seen google do similar things. If they have to register and get a log in to crawl a web site, they will do that rather than restrict themselves to just the public stuff. Sometimes you can see stuff by clicking on the cache link that you couldn't ordinarily see w/o registering.
I haven't seen anyone mention this one yet: the music industry burns out their few talented people very quickly. Fame, drugs, parties, hip-hop shootings, paparazzi. I'm sure a lot of very talented people just don't want to deal with the problems that come with fame, and record companies really don't make any effort to protect their cash cows...any publicity is good publicity to them.
Could you imagine if Fleetwood Mac were still together? Sure, they wouldn't be cranking out "Rumours" level success every year, but it would be a solid addition to the record company's catalog. What if Jimi Hendrix were still around? Or John Lennon? I'm not saying it's always the cocaine or anything, but fame is dangerous not just to the performers, but to record company profits down the road, and that's where the record companies went wrong, in their own metric.
I suppose some of it might be that gifted children could have a degree of asperger's syndrome and aren't as able to relate to the oh-baby-baby emotive style of typical pop music.
I'm a bit disappointed that it doesn't have some basic tivo functionality. You can't control a cable or satellite box, you can't tune in over-the-air broadcasts, analog or digital. All you can watch is iTunes content, most of which you have to *pay* for.
I would have snapped up an "HD iTivo" in a second but that's not what it is.
The water vapor stays close the ground so it does not participate in global warning. In fact the demos I've seen all show water dripping out the tailpipe and very little water vapor. The water just runs down the street and into the nearest river or ocean back where it probably came from. (If it is a problem, a passive heat exchanger can probably condense the rest of the vapor too.)
Also it's not "new" water in any sense. To make the hydrogen you have to break up a water molecule so there is no net increase in available water.
Whereas, the CO2 from burning fossil fuels is new, in sense that it was trapped in hydrocarbons underground for a few hundred million years and once it's released it will take another 100 million years to get back underground.
(If you were being sarcastic, I get it, but I didn't see any sign of levity in your message so I responded seriously).
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Funny, but the three you mentioned all require some proximity on the part of the attacker.
* The bluetooth attacker has to actually be within 30 feet of you. You should be more worried for your own safety than about what's going to happen to your machine.
* For the bad inode one, you have to ALREADY BE LOGGED INTO THE MACHINE before you can attack it. If I'm logged into a windows machine, there is nothing further I need to do to attack it.
* The appletalk attacker has to be on the same network segment, i.e. probably in the same building with you. You can have your network admin track down the packets and have him/her arrested if you feel like it.
In contrast, the windows vulnerabilities always seem to be someone sending you a malicious email that masquerades as a cursor file or wallpaper, or just visiting a website will download something nasty. Things that can be done from the other side of the planet through 18 layers of proxies and reflectors and when it's done they have complete control of your computer.
That kind of stuff just doesn't seem to happen to linux, unix, or macos boxes as often. Mind you, it can happen I'm not saying they're immune, but unpatched linux boxes just soldier on, especially if they're behind a corporate firewall or home NAT. The same cannot be said of windows.
TFA was so positive and glowing, I'm surprised they didn't mention one of the more significant benefits, cylinder deactivation.
Sure it's already available in conjuction with mechanical valvetrains, but with electronic control of the valves there's no additional hardware or cost to provide the feature.
* Highly Effective Restriction of Personal Entertainment Systems
* Had Ecstasy, Resigned to Pretty Excruciating Software
* Hamstrung Electronic Reuse Platform--Extra Stupid
* Half-assed Extra Rotten Playing Encryption Setup
* Helps Evil Recording People Eat Sushi
>> You seem to imply that fixing software bugs (which is the purpose
>> of patches) is not a solution!
Fixing two bugs this month and eight bugs next month and three bugs the following, and this goes on for years at a time, tells me there are probably *thousands* of undiscovered security holes in the average windows+office install. They are fixing maybe 1% a month, probably less or the same as the rate at which they introduce new bugs. *That* is not a solution, and I'm not implying it, I'M SAYING IT OUT LOUD.
If solaris or macos was that bad, I'm sure microsoft would waste no time issuing press releases to tell us about that. What do we get instead? "Every OS should have UAC!"
That's the best they can do: fix 1% of the bugs per month and pretend like UAC is something other than a poorly implemented rip off of sudo.
Well screw that. I'm typing this on a RHEL 4 box that I update/patch about once a year, if I get around to it. Total number of viruses, spybots, adware toolbars, keyloggers, popups? Zero.
Why can't microsoft be as good as that?
The fine point is that you can get away with not patching desktop linux/unix/macos machines for *years* w/o any problems. Only full internet facing servers really need to be up to date on the patches. In contrast, any windows box that can surf the net or receive email is a sitting duck, whether it's behind a firewall or not.
What makes them sitting ducks? Probably a lot of factors. Throwing patches at machines is a coping strategy, not a solution.
>> You can get electricity from the grid at a cost similar
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where am i wrong?
50c of electricity ~= 3kwh ~= 10,000 btu (http://www.uwsp.edu/CNR/wcee/keep/Mod1/Whatis/en
1 gallon of regular gas = 125,000 btu
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Energy_con
I assume an electric or hybrid gasoline-electric car uses the electric energy more efficiently. 20% seems like a real-world value for ICE
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion
and even if we grant electric drive a 100% efficiency that's only 5:1, pretty far from the 12:1 implied above.
working back the other way,
125,000 btu * (1/5 of that needed for optimal electric drive) = 25000 btu equivalent needed
25000 btu / 3412 = 7.33 kwh
7.33 kwh * 0.16c/kwh (rough avg in my area) = $1.17
in the long run lost fuel taxes of about $0.40/gallon will need to be made up for, so I get $1.57/gallon. That's actually not bad in these days of $3/gallon gasoline, but significantly different from your 50c/gallon number.
>> What am I missing?
Main thing is that vinyl records released these days are likely to be engineered by people who actually care about the quality of the recording. This is like 99% of the difference.
Now at least one of the digitizers claims 24 bits at 96 khz (the m-audio one). A CD is 16 bits at 44khz and a lot of stuff is lost at that rate. Plus cheap CD players have cheap digital filters so you don't get anywhere near the nyquist limit (22khz) out of them, and what you do get is out of phase in the upper registers. Fresh vinyl can get up to 30khz and in fact old quad vinyl used a subcarrier up there for the rear channels.
Vinyl falls down on noise floor, pops/crackles, subwoofer feedback, anyone remember wow & flutter, and RIAA* equalization errors.
*the RIAA back when it was concerned about sound quality!
not to be a downer, but the #1 thing is to protect your ears.
* keep the volume down, whether speakers or headphones
* be careful of occupational noise...use foam earplugs or over-the-ear mufflers, make your employer pay for them and make sure your co-workers know about hearing damage too
* stay away from loud concerts, parties, dance halls
* get your hearing checked every couple of years by an audiologist
* don't overdo the drugs, booze, or caffiene
* if you are exposed to even moderately high sound levels, let your ears rest for a couple weeks before exposing them again. do not *ever* go to two rock concerts in the same weekend
* at the first sign of infection or fluid buildup, see a doctor
* hearing loss can be instantaneous and permanent, don't risk it
All the megabits and SNR in the world won't help if your nerve cells and eardrums are making little buzzes, whines, and clicking noises. You can buy a better sound card or nicer speakers but you cannot replace damaged hearing: PROTECT IT
Various cities near where I live have experimented with red light cameras. One of them installed a couple of cameras at the bottom slight hills, where people would be gaining momentum from gravity as they approached the traffic light. I had to stop short a few times myself and eventually just avoided the intersections entirely. Anyway, one day I saw some really long skid marks and the pavement was gouged pretty badly from what was probably a rollover accident. They removed both cameras the next day.
The local paper didn't carry news about the accident, but did say that there had been some mixed success: while red-light-runner-induced t-bone accidents had gone down somewhat, rear-end collisions were way up, probably from drivers scared of getting tickets and braking so soon that they caught the driver behind them off-guard.
At a previous employer, we experimented with a very thin desktop GUI. It used the host OS to display widgets but was entirely under control of a server. It worked remarkably well and as long as the client and server were on the same LAN there was no lag.
From my hazy memory, it had these successes:
* a crashed app (which was rare anyway) could be restarted right where it left off
* clicking, drag/drop, typing, copy/paste, scrolling, and resizing were as fast as the host OS was capable of since most of the time these didn't involve the server
* very little installation headaches since there was no business logic, databases, or special-case code on the client side, and the set of available widgets didn't change that often anyway
* new servers could be tested by just pointing the client at them
* server could be upgraded at our convenience
* one server could handle dozens of users and the load was much lower than citrix, RDP, or X11 type of model since the whole GUI stack was offloaded to the client not just the final bit slinging
* protocol wasn't that complex. "this widget with this data goes here" then "send a message when the user finishes doing things with it"
* multiple windows could be open and be unrelated, so a server could make it look like you were running multiple apps even though it was just one GUI process and one server process
* response over slow network wasn't that bad. the most back-and-forth communication mostly happened at points in the app where users expected things to be slow, like when you click on "Okay" or select "New..." from a menu so we didn't get many complaints.
Okay, obviously we didn't invent this, but other attempts always seemed hobbled somehow. ActiveX and java applets are visually sandboxed and have a tough time breaking out into looking like a real app. Firefox had some experimental widgets that were actually pretty cool but in actual use they were laid out on the page in a very HTML-ish fashion and later withdrawn for security concerns.
Anyway, I just want to share this as kind of compromise between desktop and html-based apps that seemed to work particularly well for us.
>> the classic British Mini has been doing 30-40mpg
>> for over 40 years. The fact that the average
>> American car now does only 20mpg is just horrific.
It's slightly less horrific than you portray. The US gallon is about 20% smaller than an imperial gallon. The US EPA rating for the current mini is about 25mpg, so an average US car getting 20mpg isn't that bad, relative to that standard.
Increasing density increases efficiency in a lot of ways (especially transportation as you point out), but it has some significant social drawbacks. There's no inherent reason that cities have to be unpleasant but anyplace with highrise buildings tends to suffer from a lot of noise, overcrowding, lack of parks and open spaces, is inhospitable to children and pets, and because of the higher density, street traffic is actually far worse than a suburban commute. On top of that, the first hint of a low-income neighborhood anywhere nearby drives all the rich people far away.
If there was a way to get the benefits of having people closer together without compromising on some of these livability issues I think we could get somewhere, but I personally treasure my nice garage and big backyard so much that I'm willing to drive an extra hour a day if need be, and the sum total of 100 million other American families making the same choice is a very difficult hurdle to overcome. I think it's going to take something like $10/gallon gasoline before we collectively cave in to the pricing pressure and give up our lifestyle.
that's an article from a UK web site, so it was probably miles per imperial gallon.
in US terms it would be more like 83 mpg.
I'm going to nominate the Advent 201 cassette deck here. I got one as a hand-me down from my dad and it was really something special.
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One of the design goals was that the user should be able to operate the unit in complete darkness going only by feel. To that end, controls were placed far apart, on a couple different planes of the unit, had distinct shapes, and switched in different directions. Stateful controls changed position enough that you could feel what state it was in without looking. There were no status lights (other than the VU meter) to look at as I recall.
Here's a picture:
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue16/advent.h
Anyway, ever since then I've always felt that user interfaces should be tactile and show their state in a physical sense. You should be able to make changes even with the power off, and you shouldn't have to look at indicator lights to figure out what's going on.
While a lot of appliances don't require this level of UI "analogness", it is something that should be carefully considered for automotive instrument panel design, since that is definitely a "must be operable in total darkness" situation.
Or one could take it as an indication that circuit city's management allowed the situation to go on for so long that it became a cost crisis and PR nightmare.
Frankly, I think their management is as overpaid and under-performing as they accuse their sales staff of being. The layoffs didn't go far enough, and they started at the wrong end.
>> or they need the stock boost that comes from
>> indiscriminately firing workers - Wall Street loves that.
CC is down 71c so far today.
wall street knows a dumb move when it sees one.
I don't think (b) is quite right. College CS programs tend to have the same desktop/windows/visual studio setups as anywhere else. The unix machines (if they even have them) are probably donations of obsolete hardware, stuff you could get on ebay for $500.
a, c, d and right on the mark though.
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The pattern for the last 20 or 30 years has been for movie studios to create movies that appeal especially to teenagers. They are the most likely to want to get out of the house on friday and saturday evenings, and the most willing to part with $10 for a movie ticket. It's fun, they get to hang out with their friends, see a movie, have some popcorn, get away from homework and the parents. Whatever.
The only reason the studioes release anything else is because they make money on DVD sales and rentals downstream. You want more sci-fi? Buy every battlestar galacta, star trek, star wars, dr. who, dune, LoTR, etc DVD. Individually they are about the same as a movie ticket + some popcorn; it will look awesome on your widescreen LCD; and it sends the message that sci-fi will be supported by the audience. (Star Wars actually went against this model because it took so long to get ep 1-3 onto DVD)
I've seen google do similar things. If they have to register and get a log in to crawl a web site, they will do that rather than restrict themselves to just the public stuff. Sometimes you can see stuff by clicking on the cache link that you couldn't ordinarily see w/o registering.
I haven't seen anyone mention this one yet: the music industry burns out their few talented people very quickly. Fame, drugs, parties, hip-hop shootings, paparazzi. I'm sure a lot of very talented people just don't want to deal with the problems that come with fame, and record companies really don't make any effort to protect their cash cows...any publicity is good publicity to them.
Could you imagine if Fleetwood Mac were still together? Sure, they wouldn't be cranking out "Rumours" level success every year, but it would be a solid addition to the record company's catalog. What if Jimi Hendrix were still around? Or John Lennon? I'm not saying it's always the cocaine or anything, but fame is dangerous not just to the performers, but to record company profits down the road, and that's where the record companies went wrong, in their own metric.
I suppose some of it might be that gifted children could have a degree of asperger's syndrome and aren't as able to relate to the oh-baby-baby emotive style of typical pop music.
I'm a bit disappointed that it doesn't have some basic tivo functionality. You can't control a cable or satellite box, you can't tune in over-the-air broadcasts, analog or digital. All you can watch is iTunes content, most of which you have to *pay* for.
I would have snapped up an "HD iTivo" in a second but that's not what it is.
You don't get 300,000 miles of use out of a hummer.
Correct that down to a more realistic 120,000 and the rest of the article's conclusions crumble.
The water vapor stays close the ground so it does not participate in global warning. In fact the demos I've seen all show water dripping out the tailpipe and very little water vapor. The water just runs down the street and into the nearest river or ocean back where it probably came from. (If it is a problem, a passive heat exchanger can probably condense the rest of the vapor too.)
Also it's not "new" water in any sense. To make the hydrogen you have to break up a water molecule so there is no net increase in available water.
Whereas, the CO2 from burning fossil fuels is new, in sense that it was trapped in hydrocarbons underground for a few hundred million years and once it's released it will take another 100 million years to get back underground.
(If you were being sarcastic, I get it, but I didn't see any sign of levity in your message so I responded seriously).