But your S2000 gets the same mileage as many a 'large vehicle', so it's rather a moot point. It's not like you're doing the environment any favors by shunning SUVs in favor of a sports car.
That said, I drive an RX-8 in the summer and love every minute of it. But I have no illusions that it's a more environmentally conscious vehicle than, say, a Ford Windstar or Expedition.
Mileage is but one part of the equation. My S2000 and your RX-8 are pretty small and light and as such don't damage the pavement as much as a larger vehicle, and the smallish motors have lower emissions than something bigger.
Ha! Love that. Basically he is saying that yes, he does see a need for a larger car. But he'll let other people take care of that for him. I'm sure they are all just totally happy to provide practicality for him while he buys fun cars. Wish he were my friend. Guess they like the role of driving miss daisey.
His point is that he needs a truck so rarely that on the few occasions he needs one, he can borrow or rent. There's no reason to use a van-size vehicle so one person can commute.
I do quite well with an S2000, and the U-Haul literally up the street will rent a van for four hours for $20 plus mileage. So once or twice a year I rent the U-Haul and the rest of the time I don't worry about driving a large vehicle.
Get an Apple TV for $229 or a Mac mini for the same price already built into a sexy case... save yourself the trouble.
My ATV runs boxee great (no Netflix support due to their use of Silverlight as a media player - needs too much raw CPU)... but it gets Hulu, RSS torrents great, all other Boxee services and I've got a 1TB external attached where I store all my ripped DVDs and music collection.
I have a Mac mini and an eyeTV that do quite well as a DVR set-up. And we ditched cable TV last week because we never watched it. So now we have a Hulu queue with "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" and Netflix brings us something fun to watch every few days.
So what's the point of wasting hard disk space ripping DVDs you own? Just watch them on the computer (hooked to the TV).
Add an antennae and HD OTA receiver - no more cable.
Antennae is plural, and moreover refers to the things sticking out of a bug's head. You need to "add an antenna."
Specifically, the fact that her main use for the cable is watching those god-awful HGTV/TLC shows: "John and Kate Plus Eight", "Flip that House", "Property Virgins", "Clean House", that kind of thing.
If she likes that crap, you have grounds for divorce right there. No judge would deny it.
And that's the point, Apple uses their software to get you to buy their absurdly overpriced hardware.
Except if you bothered to do a fair comparison, Apple hardware isn't more expensive than a similarly-configured Dell. Now, it's true that Apple has ceded the low-price market to others, but they recognize that there's no profit in fighting the ankle-biters.
Blade Runner made $4,749 average per theater opening weekend, which in inflated dollars (as of 1992 when Reservoir Dogs opened) is $6899.50, less than Quentin Tarantino's pet project, per theatre.
However it went on to gross 32m over it's lifetime (domestically), but cost 14m to make. At release it was considered a spectacular failure.
It was a failure because the studio chopped it up and destroyed it.
HOAs do indeed suck... but they are not Marxist. In fact, just the opposite: they are all the fucking "shrink the government to nothing" conservative assholes who want to run their HOA like a private fiefdom. In other words, government sucks unless they're in charge.
Sounds like a job for Zepellin, customized to work near Everest. It would have to be big, and the weather probably would have to be ideal, but the maximum height for balloons is considerably higher.
Oh, great... make it even easier for unqualified rich fucks to attempt to summit Everest.
Every year the American Alpine Club publishes "accidents in mounteering" and the figures show that both total numbers and per capita deaths are higher for football - from children all the way up to adult football players.
You must be new to Michael Crichton's work. See also Sphere, Congo, Jurassic Park, etc. All of them have a major deus ex machina component to their endings.
Speaking of adapting books to movies, and deus ex machinas, the film Adaptation neatly ties this all together. Brian Cox plays a veteran screenwriter who offers the following advice to a depressed, panicky Charlie Kaufman:
"I'll tell you a secret. The last act makes a film. Wow them in the end, and you got a hit. You can have flaws, problems, but wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. Find an ending, but don't cheat, and don't you dare bring in a deus ex machina. Your characters must change, and the change must come from them. Do that, and you'll be fine."
I wonder what Crichton would've thought of THAT!
I mean, when he wasn't busy attempting to debunk global warming.
hi, it's phill from MAKE - we cover and celebrate what *makers* are doing, over 50,000 sales of arduinos means a lot of people are doing projects and sharing them.
that said, we do feature articles on basic stamp and we had a huge article on the parallax propeller chip, picaxe, you name it. it's more about what folks are making more than a chip.
if you don't like arduino because it's simple and there's "nothing to it" that's likely the reason it's so popular and it's good to see so many people from all walks of life and skill sets getting in to electronics.
Actually, for $99 (or less, depending on which micro you want to use) you can get a Silicon Labs kit. And that kit comes with a JTAG dongle for program download and in-circuit debug.
One might argue whether the ATMega is better or worse than the SiLabs 8051 variants.
But please tell me why the Arduino developer did NOT bring the debugWire out to a header. The chip has fine in-circuit debug capability but if you can't attach your debug adapter to it, it's of no use. Well, I suppose a Maker could hack the board and glue a header to it.
Then again, the Atmel JTAGICE costs another $299 while the SiLabs JTAG interface is included with the kit, or you can buy it for $35.
So, really, I'm glad a lot of folks are getting into microcontrollers, but Arduino isn't the only game in town, and I think that the SiLabs kits, with the debug interface, make it easier to actually learn.
I once defended my girlfriend against a similar creep in Philadelphia. She'd probably be dead today if I had not aimed my gun at his head. I never seen anybody run so fast.
So why didn't you just kill him, so he wouldn't have the opportunity to rape again?
Arduino is nice as an introduction to microcontrollers, but there isn't a whole lot worth protecting in the first place; it's a microcontroller with an USB UART, a crystal and voltage regulator. There is nothing novel about the design, it's all copied from the reference designs in the datasheets. The board is nothing any remotely competent electrical engineer couldn't design in a couple of hours.
The Wired article makes it sound like it's a huge advancement in electrical engineering, and they're giving it away!
Wish I had mod points... this post sums up exactly how I feel about the whole Arduino thing.
I stopped reading Make because they just won't stop creaming their pants over Arduino. Yawn.
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sudo make me a sandwich
Zap, you're a sandwich.
But your S2000 gets the same mileage as many a 'large vehicle', so it's rather a moot point. It's not like you're doing the environment any favors by shunning SUVs in favor of a sports car. That said, I drive an RX-8 in the summer and love every minute of it. But I have no illusions that it's a more environmentally conscious vehicle than, say, a Ford Windstar or Expedition.
Mileage is but one part of the equation. My S2000 and your RX-8 are pretty small and light and as such don't damage the pavement as much as a larger vehicle, and the smallish motors have lower emissions than something bigger.
I'm working on a GWT framework for the iphone ...
GWT == Global War on Terror?
Ha! Love that. Basically he is saying that yes, he does see a need for a larger car. But he'll let other people take care of that for him. I'm sure they are all just totally happy to provide practicality for him while he buys fun cars. Wish he were my friend. Guess they like the role of driving miss daisey.
His point is that he needs a truck so rarely that on the few occasions he needs one, he can borrow or rent. There's no reason to use a van-size vehicle so one person can commute.
I do quite well with an S2000, and the U-Haul literally up the street will rent a van for four hours for $20 plus mileage. So once or twice a year I rent the U-Haul and the rest of the time I don't worry about driving a large vehicle.
Get an Apple TV for $229 or a Mac mini for the same price already built into a sexy case... save yourself the trouble.
My ATV runs boxee great (no Netflix support due to their use of Silverlight as a media player - needs too much raw CPU)... but it gets Hulu, RSS torrents great, all other Boxee services and I've got a 1TB external attached where I store all my ripped DVDs and music collection.
I have a Mac mini and an eyeTV that do quite well as a DVR set-up. And we ditched cable TV last week because we never watched it. So now we have a Hulu queue with "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" and Netflix brings us something fun to watch every few days.
So what's the point of wasting hard disk space ripping DVDs you own? Just watch them on the computer (hooked to the TV).
Add an antennae and HD OTA receiver - no more cable.
Antennae is plural, and moreover refers to the things sticking out of a bug's head. You need to "add an antenna."
My big road block to ditching cable? My wife.
Specifically, the fact that her main use for the cable is watching those god-awful HGTV/TLC shows: "John and Kate Plus Eight", "Flip that House", "Property Virgins", "Clean House", that kind of thing.
If she likes that crap, you have grounds for divorce right there. No judge would deny it.
Believe it or not there are actually "channels" that you can tune in using an "antenna" for "free" in "HD"
Shocking....
ummmmmm, Digital != HD
But your point is otherwise correct.
And that's the point, Apple uses their software to get you to buy their absurdly overpriced hardware.
Except if you bothered to do a fair comparison, Apple hardware isn't more expensive than a similarly-configured Dell. Now, it's true that Apple has ceded the low-price market to others, but they recognize that there's no profit in fighting the ankle-biters.
Not only that, but the Mr. Blue, Mr. Orange, etc. shtick is lifted directly from "The Taking of Pelham 123".
Which is being remade, coincidentally with Ridley Scott's brother Tony at the helm!
Blade Runner made $4,749 average per theater opening weekend, which in inflated dollars (as of 1992 when Reservoir Dogs opened) is $6899.50, less than Quentin Tarantino's pet project, per theatre.
However it went on to gross 32m over it's lifetime (domestically), but cost 14m to make. At release it was considered a spectacular failure.
It was a failure because the studio chopped it up and destroyed it.
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HOAs do indeed suck ... but they are not Marxist. In fact, just the opposite: they are all the fucking "shrink the government to nothing" conservative assholes who want to run their HOA like a private fiefdom. In other words, government sucks unless they're in charge.
Sounds like a job for Zepellin, customized to work near Everest. It would have to be big, and the weather probably would have to be ideal, but the maximum height for balloons is considerably higher.
Oh, great ... make it even easier for unqualified rich fucks to attempt to summit Everest.
Every year the American Alpine Club publishes "accidents in mounteering" and the figures show that both total numbers and per capita deaths are higher for football - from children all the way up to adult football players.
Indeed, climbing doesn't make it into the top 15 - see, http://www.livescience.com/health/060614_sport_injuries.html
One suspects that there are a lot more people playing football than climbing mountains.
This is slashdot, our professions are computer related not literature based. You're on the wrong website.
If your code was as crappy as your spoken language, would it compile? Precision and correctness counts.
Yes, it is, loserboy nerd.
"Doctor! There's an axe murderer in my house!" "Fire two .38 shots into his head and call me tomorrow".
So why is your hypothetical person calling a doctor instead of the police?
Didn't you RTFA?
You must be new here, in spite of that two-digit user ID!
You must be new to Michael Crichton's work. See also Sphere, Congo, Jurassic Park, etc. All of them have a major deus ex machina component to their endings.
Speaking of adapting books to movies, and deus ex machinas, the film Adaptation neatly ties this all together. Brian Cox plays a veteran screenwriter who offers the following advice to a depressed, panicky Charlie Kaufman:
"I'll tell you a secret. The last act makes a film. Wow them in the end, and you got a hit. You can have flaws, problems, but wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. Find an ending, but don't cheat, and don't you dare bring in a deus ex machina. Your characters must change, and the change must come from them. Do that, and you'll be fine."
I wonder what Crichton would've thought of THAT!
I mean, when he wasn't busy attempting to debunk global warming.
hi, it's phill from MAKE - we cover and celebrate what *makers* are doing, over 50,000 sales of arduinos means a lot of people are doing projects and sharing them.
that said, we do feature articles on basic stamp and we had a huge article on the parallax propeller chip, picaxe, you name it. it's more about what folks are making more than a chip.
if you don't like arduino because it's simple and there's "nothing to it" that's likely the reason it's so popular and it's good to see so many people from all walks of life and skill sets getting in to electronics.
Actually, for $99 (or less, depending on which micro you want to use) you can get a Silicon Labs kit. And that kit comes with a JTAG dongle for program download and in-circuit debug.
One might argue whether the ATMega is better or worse than the SiLabs 8051 variants.
But please tell me why the Arduino developer did NOT bring the debugWire out to a header. The chip has fine in-circuit debug capability but if you can't attach your debug adapter to it, it's of no use. Well, I suppose a Maker could hack the board and glue a header to it.
Then again, the Atmel JTAGICE costs another $299 while the SiLabs JTAG interface is included with the kit, or you can buy it for $35.
So, really, I'm glad a lot of folks are getting into microcontrollers, but Arduino isn't the only game in town, and I think that the SiLabs kits, with the debug interface, make it easier to actually learn.
I once defended my girlfriend against a similar creep in Philadelphia. She'd probably be dead today if I had not aimed my gun at his head. I never seen anybody run so fast.
So why didn't you just kill him, so he wouldn't have the opportunity to rape again?
Arduino is nice as an introduction to microcontrollers, but there isn't a whole lot worth protecting in the first place; it's a microcontroller with an USB UART, a crystal and voltage regulator. There is nothing novel about the design, it's all copied from the reference designs in the datasheets. The board is nothing any remotely competent electrical engineer couldn't design in a couple of hours.
The Wired article makes it sound like it's a huge advancement in electrical engineering, and they're giving it away!
Wish I had mod points ... this post sums up exactly how I feel about the whole Arduino thing.
I stopped reading Make because they just won't stop creaming their pants over Arduino. Yawn.
You've completely forgotten about the cost to actually produce the content.
Studio time, recording equipment, instruments, etc. are not free.
Point being that you don't just pay for the plastic, you pay for the content and the cost to create that content.
Somehow I expected better from /. though.
Oh well...
you must be new here.
Right-wing terrorists.
Tautology.
Cox has "award winning customer service" even thought their customer service is just plain crap.
Well, they DID win the award for "crappiest customer service."
You must be new to the Intertubes. Ever hear of "Usenet"? Threadjacking has been around a lot longer than twitter ...