Well, the idea is that when your website gets hit hard you can just use some extra, idle capacity "in the cloud." Works great. Unless of course everyone else is doing the same thing....
You know, I'm trying very hard to try not to draw a parallel between your statement and the recent 'sub-prime' crisis.
I hate to say this, but things like this (and Anna Nichole Smith) make me weep for humanity.
We put too much interest in people whose saving grace is that they can put a song together
As far as I know the only thing Anna Nicole Smith ever put together were two oversized sillicone filled breasts. Having them exist simultaneously in the same universe, much less on the same torso, was itself a feat I admit.
A photographer can't publish your photo without your written consent.
IANAL but I think that can be challenged if the photo was taken in a public place, where you have "no reasonable expectation of privacy". After all, if a law works in favor of the government, it has to work in favor of the people too, right?
I can't imagine TV stations getting release forms every time they film some crowd, or people walking down the street behind an interviewer.
If you're stimulated by pictures of mature secondary sexual characteristics, you aren't likely to be all that interested in little girls.
If you selected specific children's faces to characterize the sexual image, then you likely are.
You are both guessing. Who knows which one of you is right. However the law is not supposed to be about guesses but about facts. How would you like to be put in jail after having 5 or 6 drinks at home because "you might have gotten in your car and driven drunk"?
"The algae-powered system hasn't yet been built, however..."
Another minor little detail:
"and the PlayPump, which uses energy derived from children playing to power the system."
I assume the children will volunteer to "play" at this "play pump" which I bet will be much more fascinating than say, Nintendo or beating up on little Timmy, or whatever their regular activities are.
Or is this a device in fact powered by child labor? Perhaps it will go over big in China and Malaysia.
but what about malware? That is what most people have to worry about these days.
If you're running a Microsoft OS, you've already installed the mother-of-all-malware anyway, so why worry? Trust Microsoft. No seriously, you don't have a choice. TRUST MICROSOFT.
We've both been around long enough to understand the counter-intuitive nature of mod point assignment...
Still, after some consideration, I imagine the flautist would actually start sucking musical notes out of the air. Quite a feat for a primitive Homo sapiens.
Seems silly to dump such a large sum into a company that is in fact making luxury cars. Sustainable? Sure, if you're upper-class white America.
If you look at the history of cars, they were always owned by the rich people first. EVENTUALLY Joe Average was able to afford one. But as GM and Chrysler (and numerous banks) have proven, you can't make money by selling something to the poor - by definition they don't have any money. If you want a poor person's car, TATA motors has a vehicle for you. But for under $3k, expect it to be a disposable piece of garbage. But hey, it beats waiting at the bus stop, and if you're not THAT poor, just buy two.
without the need to change the oil or pay at the pump.
You do have to pay for a new battery every once in a while though. Don't remember the estimated price (I think it was every 6 or 12 months), but it was steep. Hopefully if they make more cars the prices for those parts will come down, and it will turn into a real savings. But for now you're substituting fuel costs for battery costs and other maintenance fees.
we're in an "end of human civilization as we know it" scenario.
I like the way you consider all of human civilization to include the northern hemisphere. We here down south would probably be just fine. Actually a bit of cool weather would be a nice change. That way we could chill out as we watch the giant man eating parrots mutate into being in our jungles.
And if you filmed the discovery of this flute and play it backwards, you see a team of scientist burying a flute for 35,000 years only to have it discovered by some primitive human, who then picks it up and starts playing it....
the more convinced I am that the ancients were not the unsophisticated primitives that we often imagine them to be.
A quick trip to the countryside (of any nation) should change your mind. There are still plenty of unsophisticated primitives hanging around, and most of them would have no idea what to do with this rudimentary instrument besides scratch their backs with it.
OBVIOUSLY "God" put it there to trick people into following the DEVIL and believing in all this evolution crap, just like the dinosaur bones. You know, people are pretty smart and you have to make sure you trick them and trip them up, otherwise we can't all fit into heaven./more sarcasm
Then you run the risk of completely skewing elections for very silly reasons.
Perhaps that guy who would have been a kick ass administrator never gets voted for because people just don't like the fact that he downloads horse porn.
Or the guy who leads a regular, dull, and boring life turns out to be a horrible politician. Oh wait, we just had one of those.
This is an interesting concept. However I think there's a major flaw:
Open source software development works because it consists of people willing to sacrifice some of their spare time doing something that they enjoy. The actual cost is nil, or close to it. Distribution and collaboration are made easy via the internet.
However here you're talking hardware. Hardware has to be manufactured. It has cost. Then it has to be physically shipped to where you want to install it. Then you have to find (and pay) a guy to go up a ladder and bolt your hardware to that building, etc.
The real up front cost - without taking into account actually monitoring and administering the flow of information - is staggering if you aim to do this on a nationwide scale. So much so that even the governments (with apparently endless resources as 2008 has just taught us) haven't done it. And if it was cheap, I'm sure they would have.
I hate to be a naysayer, but I wouldn't like to see the bill for this project.
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There HAS to be a limit to stupidity...
Not according to Einstein.
I believe "cloggers" are tap dancers and the name is derived from the wooden shoes from Netherlands.
You obviously never had a job cleaning toilets in a public place when you were a teenager.
Well, the idea is that when your website gets hit hard you can just use some extra, idle capacity "in the cloud." Works great. Unless of course everyone else is doing the same thing....
You know, I'm trying very hard to try not to draw a parallel between your statement and the recent 'sub-prime' crisis.
I hate to say this, but things like this (and Anna Nichole Smith) make me weep for humanity.
We put too much interest in people whose saving grace is that they can put a song together
As far as I know the only thing Anna Nicole Smith ever put together were two oversized sillicone filled breasts. Having them exist simultaneously in the same universe, much less on the same torso, was itself a feat I admit.
What, you mean computers were actually capable of opening more than one window at a time?
A five-mile run followed by 50 continuous push-ups followed by sex with a girl
Funny, for me it's usually trying to have sex with 50 girls, ending up doing what amounts to one push up during the act, and watching her run a mile.
and kiddie fondling, you have to admit...
Well HE certainly never admitted to it.... only doled out a lot of cash, twice, but that's not an admission of guilt.
A photographer can't publish your photo without your written consent.
IANAL but I think that can be challenged if the photo was taken in a public place, where you have "no reasonable expectation of privacy". After all, if a law works in favor of the government, it has to work in favor of the people too, right?
I can't imagine TV stations getting release forms every time they film some crowd, or people walking down the street behind an interviewer.
You are both guessing. Who knows which one of you is right. However the law is not supposed to be about guesses but about facts. How would you like to be put in jail after having 5 or 6 drinks at home because "you might have gotten in your car and driven drunk"?
we're thoroughly impressed by his innovative spirit.
Lies. What really impressed them was a 9 letter acronym like VERSATILE.
One small caveat:
"The algae-powered system hasn't yet been built, however..."
Another minor little detail:
"and the PlayPump, which uses energy derived from children playing to power the system."
I assume the children will volunteer to "play" at this "play pump" which I bet will be much more fascinating than say, Nintendo or beating up on little Timmy, or whatever their regular activities are.
Or is this a device in fact powered by child labor? Perhaps it will go over big in China and Malaysia.
but what about malware? That is what most people have to worry about these days.
If you're running a Microsoft OS, you've already installed the mother-of-all-malware anyway, so why worry? Trust Microsoft. No seriously, you don't have a choice. TRUST MICROSOFT.
We've both been around long enough to understand the counter-intuitive nature of mod point assignment...
Still, after some consideration, I imagine the flautist would actually start sucking musical notes out of the air. Quite a feat for a primitive Homo sapiens.
"Anyone without wings is guilty in my book - BWAAAAAAAK - polly wanna crack your skull - we hereby find you GUILTY"
Seems silly to dump such a large sum into a company that is in fact making luxury cars. Sustainable? Sure, if you're upper-class white America.
If you look at the history of cars, they were always owned by the rich people first. EVENTUALLY Joe Average was able to afford one. But as GM and Chrysler (and numerous banks) have proven, you can't make money by selling something to the poor - by definition they don't have any money. If you want a poor person's car, TATA motors has a vehicle for you. But for under $3k, expect it to be a disposable piece of garbage. But hey, it beats waiting at the bus stop, and if you're not THAT poor, just buy two.
without the need to change the oil or pay at the pump.
You do have to pay for a new battery every once in a while though. Don't remember the estimated price (I think it was every 6 or 12 months), but it was steep. Hopefully if they make more cars the prices for those parts will come down, and it will turn into a real savings. But for now you're substituting fuel costs for battery costs and other maintenance fees.
we're in an "end of human civilization as we know it" scenario.
I like the way you consider all of human civilization to include the northern hemisphere. We here down south would probably be just fine. Actually a bit of cool weather would be a nice change. That way we could chill out as we watch the giant man eating parrots mutate into being in our jungles.
I can't walk away from a commitment like that.
No, you will literally be blown away from that commitment. But then said apartment won't exist anymore anyway so what's to worry?
Nobody ever lost a once-in-al-lifetime chance to take a photograph because they weren't clean-shaven.
No, but they may have lost a once-in a lifetime chance to go out with a "real" woman though!
Why not just build the battery right into the camera. End of story.
Battery problems? Take your camera to an authorized Panasonic repair shop...
Either way, the market will decide on this. Panasonic isn't the only player in town.
And if you filmed the discovery of this flute and play it backwards, you see a team of scientist burying a flute for 35,000 years only to have it discovered by some primitive human, who then picks it up and starts playing it....
the more convinced I am that the ancients were not the unsophisticated primitives that we often imagine them to be.
A quick trip to the countryside (of any nation) should change your mind. There are still plenty of unsophisticated primitives hanging around, and most of them would have no idea what to do with this rudimentary instrument besides scratch their backs with it.
OBVIOUSLY "God" put it there to trick people into following the DEVIL and believing in all this evolution crap, just like the dinosaur bones. You know, people are pretty smart and you have to make sure you trick them and trip them up, otherwise we can't all fit into heaven. /more sarcasm
Then you run the risk of completely skewing elections for very silly reasons.
Perhaps that guy who would have been a kick ass administrator never gets voted for because people just don't like the fact that he downloads horse porn.
Or the guy who leads a regular, dull, and boring life turns out to be a horrible politician. Oh wait, we just had one of those.
This is an interesting concept. However I think there's a major flaw:
Open source software development works because it consists of people willing to sacrifice some of their spare time doing something that they enjoy. The actual cost is nil, or close to it. Distribution and collaboration are made easy via the internet.
However here you're talking hardware. Hardware has to be manufactured. It has cost. Then it has to be physically shipped to where you want to install it. Then you have to find (and pay) a guy to go up a ladder and bolt your hardware to that building, etc.
The real up front cost - without taking into account actually monitoring and administering the flow of information - is staggering if you aim to do this on a nationwide scale. So much so that even the governments (with apparently endless resources as 2008 has just taught us) haven't done it. And if it was cheap, I'm sure they would have.
I hate to be a naysayer, but I wouldn't like to see the bill for this project.