As for the general argument of batter technology hasnt advanced to a sufficient point to make this practical I have to ask how far do you commute to work everyday? Most of the americian studys show that the average commute is well inside the range of a well built electric car.
In a typical NE Ohio winter? For me that's 35 miles each way with the heater & defroster on full blast, as well as the headlights, running lights, windshield wipers and radio. Perhaps it could make the trip, but I'm guessing I gotta plug that puppy in once I get to work (and is my employer going to pay for the charge station and juice?). Not good if there's a family emergency that requires me to go home an hour after I got to work.
I have a friend in Detroit I like to visit once in a while, that's 200 some miles, 3.5 to 4 hours travel. I don't think an electric is up to that in a non-stop trip, and I'm certainly not interested in a 6 hour lay-over.
And that's the key - people want to jump in the car, turn the key and go without having to refuel every hour. This is why electric cars will never be as popular as gasoline.
...isn't tradable in the exchanges, stock in MSFT is. Third parties all over the world are interested in buying MSFT stock. This weakens the analogy quite a bit, IMO.
However, I don't recommend applying the latest service pack unless you are having some problems because in many cases a service pack can cause a bug that didn't previously exist.
Uh, how is this a dumb user problem? Am I alone in thinking that a patch that is supposed to fix bugs shouldn't wind up adding new ones?
A 10th level fighter gets hit with same, but his experience allows him to twist aside or whatever and takes less damage.
This makes sense right up to the point that a 1st level fighter falling off a 100' cliff dies and leaves a mess, whereas your 10th level fighter dusts himself off and continues on his way. If you can explain how experience trumps gravity, I'll be impressed.
Bottom line: D&D wasn't made to make sense, it was made to have fun with. Which I think it's managed quite admirably.
250 Million people to learn a new system v.s. 5.75 Billion. Hmm, that'll be a tough choice!
The "measurement inept" argument is going to be a hard sell 'round these parts, given the fact that the US is the only nation that put people on the moon.
Thirty years ago.
We use metric where it makes sense, and traditional meaurements where it's, err, tradtional. Sounds good to me.
The fact that NASA's left hand was metric and right hand was English is just another reason to defund'em before they waste more taxpayer money.
It all went wrong when Gygax lost control. He may have been a nutter but his heart was in the right place.
I respectfully disagree. I remember too many of the old "Sorcerer's Scroll" columns where he railed and thundered against rule variants like new player classes, spell points, critical hits, weapons specialization and so on.
I, and a lot of other players, used AD&D more-or-less "open source" - we'd keep what we liked, and chucked or hacked what we didn't. Gygax felt if you weren't playing AD&D just as he'd written it, well, you simply weren't playing AD&D!
Computers are not the gateway to knowledge. Literacy is.
Amen. Hard to beleive that the folks who built those moon rockets did it without the help of an internet connection.
Another observation: The same things I'm hearing about the 'net being a road to mass enlightenment and education were said about television back in the fifties. Now we have South Park and Laverne and Shirley re-runs.
What makes anyone think the internet will be any different?
Think about it -- if you're making a phone call, cellular or not, do you *expect* to be monitored?
Gee, here I am speaking into an unencrypted radio transmitter. Uh, yeah, I guess I do expect to be monitored. Kinda like if I stick my hand under a running lawnmower I expect to get it whacked off.
Wouldn't you be outraged to find your conversation broadcast?
That's what the phone was designed to do. Broadcast my conversation. Hopefully to a cell site, but just as the lawnmower doesn't know fingers from grass, the transmitter doesn't know a scanner from a cell site.
Humanity has a long history of taking advantage of people who don't understand the basic underpinnings of a technology (there are still folks trying to push "free energy" machines). Ignorance gets you burned - evolution in action.
The "freebee" kit is a good bargain but watch out, you only get one lamp module and will want to buy more.
That should read "incredible" bargain. And technically you get two modules (the RF receiver is an appliance module in and of itself) so you can control two things from the git-go. You also get a little handheld RF remote that talks to the reciever. The little serial port dongle is almost incidental. But for six bucks this is not to be missed.
Keep in mind that nobody buys software, they buy a license to use the software. You don't own it, and you aren't allowed to do things with it that the owners don't want you to (such as sell it to someone else). That's the fact, and somewhere along the installation line you pressed the little "whatever" button that said you agreed. This law seems to me an enforcement of what's already done today. What's getting everyone's nose out of joint is the mistaken idea that having put down money they somehow "own" the software.
And the law does have a silver lining - look at it from the point of view of someone who writes code for hire. They can now put a logic bomb in the code that shuts it down if the last payment isn't made or the check doesn't clear. Used to be illegal to do that.
>>Saying that trek is bad because they use words like 'warp core', 'plasma conduit', or 'tricorder' is like saying Home Improvement is a bad show because they use words like 'engine block', 'piston', or 'power drill'. If you saw an episode of Home Improvement that had Tim curing cancer by hooking his power drill up to his engine block, wouldn't you think that was a pretty stupid way to end the story?
I don't object to technobabble in and of itself. I object to technobabble as deus ex machina.
>>Now, lets apply these to people. Possibly the least intellectually oriented people on the surface of the earth: Rednecks (american southerners for those of you not familiar with the term. see also: trailer trash, hick). So Southerners == idiots. Hmm.
Given the bigotry inherent in your post, you'll excuse me if I take your opinions on intelligence with seven or eight tons of salt.
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As for the general argument of batter technology hasnt advanced to a sufficient point to make this practical I have to ask how far do you commute to work everyday? Most of the americian studys show that the average commute is well inside the range of a well built electric car.
In a typical NE Ohio winter? For me that's 35 miles each way with the heater & defroster on full blast, as well as the headlights, running lights, windshield wipers and radio. Perhaps it could make the trip, but I'm guessing I gotta plug that puppy in once I get to work (and is my employer going to pay for the charge station and juice?). Not good if there's a family emergency that requires me to go home an hour after I got to work.
I have a friend in Detroit I like to visit once in a while, that's 200 some miles, 3.5 to 4 hours travel. I don't think an electric is up to that in a non-stop trip, and I'm certainly not interested in a 6 hour lay-over.
And that's the key - people want to jump in the car, turn the key and go without having to refuel every hour. This is why electric cars will never be as popular as gasoline.
Gimme that gas, baby!
Company scrip!
...isn't tradable in the exchanges, stock in MSFT is. Third parties all over the world are interested in buying MSFT stock. This weakens the analogy quite a bit, IMO.
The proliferation of online music is introducing consumes to artists they don't know
What does soup have do with Napster?
Back in 1989, when Windows looked like crap, and they had many competing GUI's (OS/2, DESQview, among many others!)
DESQView was a GUI? A multitasker, yes - but it was all character-based. Which IMHO was just as well, it ran light & tight.
I really loved DV.
Had me laughing! From the article:
However, I don't recommend applying the latest service pack unless you are having some problems because in many cases a service pack can cause a bug that didn't previously exist.
Uh, how is this a dumb user problem? Am I alone in thinking that a patch that is supposed to fix bugs shouldn't wind up adding new ones?
A 10th level fighter gets hit with same, but his experience allows him to twist aside or whatever and takes less damage.
This makes sense right up to the point that a 1st level fighter falling off a 100' cliff dies and leaves a mess, whereas your 10th level fighter dusts himself off and continues on his way. If you can explain how experience trumps gravity, I'll be impressed.
Bottom line: D&D wasn't made to make sense, it was made to have fun with. Which I think it's managed quite admirably.
250 Million people to learn a new system v.s. 5.75 Billion. Hmm, that'll be a tough choice!
The "measurement inept" argument is going to be a hard sell 'round these parts, given the fact that the US is the only nation that put people on the moon.
Thirty years ago.
We use metric where it makes sense, and traditional meaurements where it's, err, tradtional. Sounds good to me.
The fact that NASA's left hand was metric and right hand was English is just another reason to defund'em before they waste more taxpayer money.
It all went wrong when Gygax lost control. He may have been a nutter but his heart was in the right place.
I respectfully disagree. I remember too many of the old "Sorcerer's Scroll" columns where he railed and thundered against rule variants like new player classes, spell points, critical hits, weapons specialization and so on.
I, and a lot of other players, used AD&D more-or-less "open source" - we'd keep what we liked, and chucked or hacked what we didn't. Gygax felt if you weren't playing AD&D just as he'd written it, well, you simply weren't playing AD&D!
(Like we cared.)
Computers are not the gateway to knowledge. Literacy is.
Amen. Hard to beleive that the folks who built those moon rockets did it without the help of an internet connection.
Another observation: The same things I'm hearing about the 'net being a road to mass enlightenment and education were said about television back in the fifties. Now we have South Park and Laverne and Shirley re-runs.
What makes anyone think the internet will be any different?
Think about it -- if you're making a phone call, cellular or not, do you *expect* to be monitored?
Gee, here I am speaking into an unencrypted radio transmitter. Uh, yeah, I guess I do expect to be monitored. Kinda like if I stick my hand under a running lawnmower I expect to get it whacked off.
Wouldn't you be outraged to find your conversation broadcast?
That's what the phone was designed to do. Broadcast my conversation. Hopefully to a cell site, but just as the lawnmower doesn't know fingers from grass, the transmitter doesn't know a scanner from a cell site.
Humanity has a long history of taking advantage of people who don't understand the basic underpinnings of a technology (there are still folks trying to push "free energy" machines). Ignorance gets you burned - evolution in action.
The "freebee" kit is a good bargain but watch out, you only get one lamp module and will want to buy more.
That should read "incredible" bargain. And technically you get two modules (the RF receiver is an appliance module in and of itself) so you can control two things from the git-go. You also get a little handheld RF remote that talks to the reciever. The little serial port dongle is almost incidental. But for six bucks this is not to be missed.
Destroying one or more television sets will do liberty no good. It can merely decrease one or more people's access to information.
Sometimes the information is shit and you're better off without it (this decision, of course, belonging to the individual).
You increase someone's freedom when you give that person more options to choose from.
Destroying your TV gives you back the time you spent watching it - and that opens up options as to what to do with that time.
Therefore, a hammer through the boob tube can increase your freedom. QED.
Keep in mind that nobody buys software, they buy a license to use the software. You don't own it, and you aren't allowed to do things with it that the owners don't want you to (such as sell it to someone else). That's the fact, and somewhere along the installation line you pressed the little "whatever" button that said you agreed. This law seems to me an enforcement of what's already done today. What's getting everyone's nose out of joint is the mistaken idea that having put down money they somehow "own" the software.
And the law does have a silver lining - look at it from the point of view of someone who writes code for hire. They can now put a logic bomb in the code that shuts it down if the last payment isn't made or the check doesn't clear. Used to be illegal to do that.
>>Saying that trek is bad because they use words like 'warp core', 'plasma conduit', or 'tricorder' is like saying Home Improvement is a bad show because they use words like 'engine block', 'piston', or 'power drill'.
If you saw an episode of Home Improvement that had Tim curing cancer by hooking his power drill up to his engine block, wouldn't you think that was a pretty stupid way to end the story?
I don't object to technobabble in and of itself. I object to technobabble as deus ex machina.
>>Now, lets apply these to people. Possibly the least intellectually oriented people on the surface of the earth: Rednecks (american southerners for those of you not familiar with the term. see also: trailer trash, hick).
So Southerners == idiots. Hmm.
Given the bigotry inherent in your post, you'll excuse me if I take your opinions on intelligence with seven or eight tons of salt.