How would Mr. Jones feel about being imprisoned for three months so that police could take their sweet time figuring out what, if anything, to charge him with?
If Mr. Jones was a Muslim who attended hate-filled mosques and consorted with terrorist suspects, I'd prefer he actually be killed "resisting arrest", to be honest.
Frankly, a few more bombings or bombing attempts, and I see England rightfully expelling their Muslims, revoking native citizenship and sending the hellspawn to their parent's (or grandparent's) nation of origin.
Let's face it: America interned its citizens of Japanese origin for far less. Better to overreact now and let the historians apologize.
Glad to see this story got posted, even with my crappy submission.
The NYT seems a little breathless IMHO, with how wonderful Medicare is to be giving software away. VistA was IIRC _always_ public domain, as it was written under contract to the VA, and also IIRC the VA (and the USG) has the copyright.
That doesn't mean I like nuclear, or that this is a good thing...
But I do, and I think it's a _great_ thing.
I mean, until we discover fusion, or zero point energy, or we can leech off dark energy, or whatever.
Nook-you-ler is the way to go if you use modern PBR technology (the reactor type, not the beer). I mean, if France can go as long as they have without major catastrophes, just copy their operations manual fer chrissakes...
... On the one hand, you have the most blatant forms of corporate welfare, on the other you have a process that has recently become (or been found to be) net energy positive even with grain-based sourcing.
Biodiesel is still a far better choice, as its energy balance is undeniably and strongly net positive. Also, TDP should be included in any energy subsidy planning, since it combines effective waste management with fuel and energy creation with displaced CO2 (the process generates CO2, but that CO2 would have been created anyway or, worse, methane would have been created).
I'm still a fan of hydrogen, though, even if you have to build out local natural gas reformers piggybacked on the gas infrastructure as a stopgap to get you to a hydrogen pipeline system with nuclear-electrolyzed hydrogen (with anti-NIMBY legislation, the transition would take no more than 20 years). And yes, I'd have a reformer in my garage if I could, and frankly you wouldn't even need fuel cells to start: go with LNG-style conversions first.
That's got to be the widest 'standard' keyboard I've ever seen in my life! Where will our obsession with function keys end? First the PC/XT layout put them on the left-hand side, then the AT layout put them along the top.
I think this kybd is teh hawt, and I'd get one just so that I could map my WoW shortcut icons, or run futura modern keycaps.. Kubrick would DIE for one of these if he hadn't already...
Mildly ontopic, I think Apple could _kill_ with a smartphone, and with (hopefully priority) access to Intel's PXA chips, it makes sense.
Here's the dream:
'enlarged' iPod mini formfactor, with a touchscreen over the whole face instead of a clickwheel. Color TFT of course, say 480x270.
iPod mini HDD
OS X ported to PXA
Runs OS X.app bundles with PXA components ('crunchable' to include only PXA code as an option) and Dashboard widgets. Build OS X apps for the phone with a recompile (checkbox in XCode).
emulates iPod control scheme using the touchscreen when playing music, emulates phone keypad in phone mode
wireless everything of course, including AD2P
Optional PSP-style clamshell cover that 'docks', with integrated keyboard
internal shock-sensor ala the powerbook which not only protects the HDD but knows the unit's orientation and switches between 'portrait' and 'landscape' automagically.
It would seem that the advantages of a xServe cluster (altivec, 64-bit and good performance per watt) would be lost when Apple produces an x86 version when compared to a (inevitably) cheaper x86 Linux system.
By the time XServe migrates, I believe Apple will be using x86-64-capable CPUs in that line. Also, IIRC SSE3 has support for double-precision float arithmetic in its vector ops, whereas Altivec doesn't.
Also, Apple is pushing their Accelerate.framework, which should make vectorized code somewhat portable between Altivec and SSE3. Check Apple's guide to SSE for more details.
Leaving aside the particulates factor, NOx increases ozone, and urban areas tend to suffer from a 'heat island' effect which exacerbates ozone.
This is true even for cities that don't suffer from inconvenient geography, like LA or Mexico City.
Again, a hybrid diesel that shuts down entirely and runs on batteries (with regenerative braking) in stop-n-go traffic would be fine. But even with particulate traps and urea injection the optimal urban solution would be not to emit in the first place.
Besides, hybrids that can run on battery-only are quieter, and as big a fan as I am of diesels, they are not quiet and can't really be made to be. Most if not all urban areas suffer from significant noise pollution as it is.
North American natural gas production has peaked and will decline. Where are you going to get this extra gas from?
Undersea deposits, reformulating coal and tar sand, capturing feedlot methane, even using plasma to burn carboniferous waste... Can be done...
Get yourself an electric car and all you need is a cord that's long and fat enough.
Where am I gonna find a 500mi cord that'll fit in the trunk, let alone the insurance from the inevitable whip-related injuries and damage?
Electric isn't going anywhere for most of America's driving requirements (200+ mi range with 4 passengers and up to 100lbs of groceries), there just isn't an energy store that people will live with or isn't classifiable as a WMD component.
Maybe if Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg, or MTA Chairman Kalikow were required to take the subways to work, they'd fix them.
Bloomberg does, and Pataki's beholden to the same forces that rape NYC each and every year when it comes to state tax drainage so he can safely be expected to not give a shit.
However, I'm in agreement about Kalikow et al. IMHO every MTA employee, from the car cleaners to the board of directors, should be required to live in the five boros and take at least 1 form of MTA mass transit to and from work each day.
Then again, they'd just move to Riverdale and buy a nice express bus company...
NYC taxis already suck. The Crown Vics are absolutely awful: no rearseat leg room whatsoever.
I'm all for hybrid taxis, but definitely not hybrid economy car taxis. No hybrid SUV taxis either: those things haven't got enough rear seat legroom either.
Hybrid minivans or London-style taxis? All for it!
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How would Mr. Jones feel about being imprisoned for three months so that police could take their sweet time figuring out what, if anything, to charge him with?
If Mr. Jones was a Muslim who attended hate-filled mosques and consorted with terrorist suspects, I'd prefer he actually be killed "resisting arrest", to be honest.
Frankly, a few more bombings or bombing attempts, and I see England rightfully expelling their Muslims, revoking native citizenship and sending the hellspawn to their parent's (or grandparent's) nation of origin.
Let's face it: America interned its citizens of Japanese origin for far less. Better to overreact now and let the historians apologize.
Glad to see this story got posted, even with my crappy submission.
The NYT seems a little breathless IMHO, with how wonderful Medicare is to be giving software away. VistA was IIRC _always_ public domain, as it was written under contract to the VA, and also IIRC the VA (and the USG) has the copyright.
Hard to believe they missed my favorite..
http://www.yourethemannowdog.com/
(and the related http://www.itsatrap.net/
The guy actually built a site where you can come up with your own, using templates and wildcard subdomains..
http://www.ytmnd.com/
There is some hilarious stuff on there..
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
I wonder if Stirling engines could be used to convert heat from, say, HVAC coils, into usable power for a car? Or as an add-on to a turbo intercooler?
Damn smart Utah kids...
So, do they win an extra wife now?
KIDDING!
Naah, now they don't _have_ to get married..
KIDDING!!!!
Sir Sanford Flemming -- world famous Scottish engineer, Scottish descent.
Or James Watt perhaps?
... Got it with my EVGA 7800GTX board (got sick of the SLI skitzing all over the place in WoW).
This game is starved of RAM at 1GB if you play on uberhigh settings, you need 2GB. Yes, that's obnoxious.
Also, where's the shooting range so I can practice with the iron sights?
The Chinese aren't being left behind in the obesity wars either..
(Anyone else reminded of Thunder from Big Trouble in Little China?)
... so I can put it in my plonk box.
I can't see the value in a video iPod that didn't have a full-size touchscreen instead of a little window on top of a clickwheel.
I mean, do the Archos but with a touchscreen instead of those ugly little control keys.
Hasn't history taught us that in the long run battery life is tertiary (or lower) to color and features?
I mean, can you even buy a B&W PDA or cellphone anymore?
That doesn't mean I like nuclear, or that this is a good thing...
But I do, and I think it's a _great_ thing.
I mean, until we discover fusion, or zero point energy, or we can leech off dark energy, or whatever.
Nook-you-ler is the way to go if you use modern PBR technology (the reactor type, not the beer). I mean, if France can go as long as they have without major catastrophes, just copy their operations manual fer chrissakes...
... On the one hand, you have the most blatant forms of corporate welfare, on the other you have a process that has recently become (or been found to be) net energy positive even with grain-based sourcing.
Biodiesel is still a far better choice, as its energy balance is undeniably and strongly net positive. Also, TDP should be included in any energy subsidy planning, since it combines effective waste management with fuel and energy creation with displaced CO2 (the process generates CO2, but that CO2 would have been created anyway or, worse, methane would have been created).
I'm still a fan of hydrogen, though, even if you have to build out local natural gas reformers piggybacked on the gas infrastructure as a stopgap to get you to a hydrogen pipeline system with nuclear-electrolyzed hydrogen (with anti-NIMBY legislation, the transition would take no more than 20 years). And yes, I'd have a reformer in my garage if I could, and frankly you wouldn't even need fuel cells to start: go with LNG-style conversions first.
I just hope they get Mark Wahlberg to sing it..
What, Michael Bay isn't scary enough?
At least it isn't Paul W.S. Anderson or Uwe Boll.. The other members of the axis of stinkbombs...
That's got to be the widest 'standard' keyboard I've ever seen in my life! Where will our obsession with function keys end? First the PC/XT layout put them on the left-hand side, then the AT layout put them along the top.
Too young to remember the Northgate keyboards?
I think this kybd is teh hawt, and I'd get one just so that I could map my WoW shortcut icons, or run futura modern keycaps.. Kubrick would DIE for one of these if he hadn't already...
Took long enough, but it looks like OS X will finally be 'snappy' ;)
PXA
MVNO
AD2P
Here's the dream:
It would seem that the advantages of a xServe cluster (altivec, 64-bit and good performance per watt) would be lost when Apple produces an x86 version when compared to a (inevitably) cheaper x86 Linux system.
By the time XServe migrates, I believe Apple will be using x86-64-capable CPUs in that line. Also, IIRC SSE3 has support for double-precision float arithmetic in its vector ops, whereas Altivec doesn't.
Also, Apple is pushing their Accelerate.framework, which should make vectorized code somewhat portable between Altivec and SSE3. Check Apple's guide to SSE for more details.
Leaving aside the particulates factor, NOx increases ozone, and urban areas tend to suffer from a 'heat island' effect which exacerbates ozone.
This is true even for cities that don't suffer from inconvenient geography, like LA or Mexico City.
Again, a hybrid diesel that shuts down entirely and runs on batteries (with regenerative braking) in stop-n-go traffic would be fine. But even with particulate traps and urea injection the optimal urban solution would be not to emit in the first place.
Besides, hybrids that can run on battery-only are quieter, and as big a fan as I am of diesels, they are not quiet and can't really be made to be. Most if not all urban areas suffer from significant noise pollution as it is.
North American natural gas production has peaked and will decline. Where are you going to get this extra gas from?
Undersea deposits, reformulating coal and tar sand, capturing feedlot methane, even using plasma to burn carboniferous waste... Can be done...
Get yourself an electric car and all you need is a cord that's long and fat enough.
Where am I gonna find a 500mi cord that'll fit in the trunk, let alone the insurance from the inevitable whip-related injuries and damage?
Electric isn't going anywhere for most of America's driving requirements (200+ mi range with 4 passengers and up to 100lbs of groceries), there just isn't an energy store that people will live with or isn't classifiable as a WMD component.
Maybe if Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg, or MTA Chairman Kalikow were required to take the subways to work, they'd fix them.
Bloomberg does, and Pataki's beholden to the same forces that rape NYC each and every year when it comes to state tax drainage so he can safely be expected to not give a shit.
However, I'm in agreement about Kalikow et al. IMHO every MTA employee, from the car cleaners to the board of directors, should be required to live in the five boros and take at least 1 form of MTA mass transit to and from work each day.
Then again, they'd just move to Riverdale and buy a nice express bus company...
Get minivans or other taller vehicles. Crown Vics don't have shit for legroom, especially with the bulletproof divider that's installed for taxi use.
TLC has permitted some other vehicle types for taxis, and by far my favorite is the Honda Odyssey. Nice and tall, great legroom and cargo capacity.
Of course, I'd also love the London cab.
And there's no technical reason why any of those couldn't have hybrid powertrains, or LNG.
NYC taxis already suck. The Crown Vics are absolutely awful: no rearseat leg room whatsoever.
I'm all for hybrid taxis, but definitely not hybrid economy car taxis. No hybrid SUV taxis either: those things haven't got enough rear seat legroom either.
Hybrid minivans or London-style taxis? All for it!