Sounds like your government needs more taxes, and better way of running things. Other countries seem to do very well even with high taxes. I pay my taxes because I know it supports my country. Hell, paying taxes should be something patriotic -- or are you anti-American?
But now you have the potential for a car to end up in front of the train, unless you do it properly. I do like the part about people stuck in traffic watching the train sail past at over 3 times the speed they'd get on a good, traffic-free day. In Wellington NZ, we have an aging commuter train fleet, and I doubt they're even allowed to get up to 100km/h, but it's always a nice feeling sailing by with a harbour view on one side and traffic grinding to a halt on the other. And when you get there, you don't have to find a park. Of course, commuter trains only work well depending on the layout of the city and it's suburbs etc.
What about Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland? They all have good, high-speed rail systems, and some of those places probably have more civil rights than the US, or at least not as bad as China.
No, I want a case were some old lady was billed for an absurd amount that she can't afford to pay because of an insecure network and Comcast still decided to proceed with billing her even after the story made a lot of press coverage.
Amen. I have a 10GB cap on my plan in NZ -- anything more is too much $ at the moment. I just learn to live with it until the company(s) responsible for our crap internet experience pull their heads out of their asses. I guess I could get all angry about it, but there are many more important things to be angry about in the world than my ISP plan.
Well I imagine they'd treat it a lot differently to kids downloading torrents all day, so I'm not sure what you are on about with the bad press idea, unless you can link to a case of this happening?
Forget the whiners moaning about the power used by extra PSU's on the strips - plug in an energy monitor while they are all idle if you are that worried
Let's say you could, mechanically, put your Ford engine in your Bluebird. Would Nissan or Ford sue you for doing so?
No, but they may sue you for damaging their brand if you didn't make it clear to the customer that what you are doing isn't approved by the companies involved.
I immediately think how pathetic it is that a company which claims to be the best is so afraid of competition, and that their followers never realise this.
Yeah, they must be afraid -- couldn't be simply because they are a commercial company and just want to do everything possible to help insure the profitability of their business...
they will be forced to offer OS/X to anyone that wants it.
You can't be serious, right? Look at all the crap MS have gotten away with, and they have been convicted of being a monopoly. Do you really think anything like what you said is going to happen to a company who is far from being a monopoly, let alone never been convicted of being one?
Monopolistic behavior? Are they even in the double digits in terms of market share? Please, rant all you like about IP laws and if they are ethical or not, but lets not pretend that Apple is some big monopoly -- they aren't. Not yet, at least. BTW, if I release a product to the the market, why can't I try and tell people what they can't do with it? Freedom goes both ways, right?
Hydrogen also rises, whereas petrol can leak all over the place. Also, fuel cells are still a developing technology -- it's silly to say that we're going down the wrong track at the moment. You could have said the same about battery-powered cars before LiPos etc. came along.
Why is it ridiculous not to put an mic and radio in? I'd never use them, and I'd rather they make the device smaller and spend more time working on the areas that I use all the time. Sure, if you need radio etc., go and buy an iRiver or something. But Taco was still wrong because he failed to understand what most people wanted. Just because a product doesn't meet your own personal requirements, doesn't make it lame to others. The only radio I own is the wind-up powered one in my emergency kit.
Having to make a special competition just for green cars seems like, well, these cars are cool and all, but just not actually competitive with already existant technology.
You could say the very same about different classes of IC engine racing cars in general, though, as they can vary a lot from road-car technology, too.
In the RC model world, electric has taken over in terms of top performance, and now we have decent electric go-karts, soon they will get big enough for road-car use.
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Sounds like your government needs more taxes, and better way of running things. Other countries seem to do very well even with high taxes. I pay my taxes because I know it supports my country. Hell, paying taxes should be something patriotic -- or are you anti-American?
Since when was America a free country? Ah, that's right, about 100 years ago.
But now you have the potential for a car to end up in front of the train, unless you do it properly. I do like the part about people stuck in traffic watching the train sail past at over 3 times the speed they'd get on a good, traffic-free day. In Wellington NZ, we have an aging commuter train fleet, and I doubt they're even allowed to get up to 100km/h, but it's always a nice feeling sailing by with a harbour view on one side and traffic grinding to a halt on the other. And when you get there, you don't have to find a park. Of course, commuter trains only work well depending on the layout of the city and it's suburbs etc.
What about Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland? They all have good, high-speed rail systems, and some of those places probably have more civil rights than the US, or at least not as bad as China.
That's funny, taxes are higher where I live, yet not many people I know cheat the system.
Income tax = more money for the government to spend on public services. Or do you think that free health care is the tool of the devil or something?
No, I want a case were some old lady was billed for an absurd amount that she can't afford to pay because of an insecure network and Comcast still decided to proceed with billing her even after the story made a lot of press coverage.
We run 2 business and 3 people off a 10GB plan. "Enough" is entirely relative.
Amen. I have a 10GB cap on my plan in NZ -- anything more is too much $ at the moment. I just learn to live with it until the company(s) responsible for our crap internet experience pull their heads out of their asses. I guess I could get all angry about it, but there are many more important things to be angry about in the world than my ISP plan.
Well I imagine they'd treat it a lot differently to kids downloading torrents all day, so I'm not sure what you are on about with the bad press idea, unless you can link to a case of this happening?
My Apple keyboard says "page up". Does that mean they're in the clear?
Now we just need a decent phone to run them on.
Because using different wavelengths may get you some weird surface interpretations.
Forget the whiners moaning about the power used by extra PSU's on the strips - plug in an energy monitor while they are all idle if you are that worried
Or buy a powerstrip with individual switches.
Let's say you could, mechanically, put your Ford engine in your Bluebird. Would Nissan or Ford sue you for doing so?
No, but they may sue you for damaging their brand if you didn't make it clear to the customer that what you are doing isn't approved by the companies involved.
I immediately think how pathetic it is that a company which claims to be the best is so afraid of competition, and that their followers never realise this.
Yeah, they must be afraid -- couldn't be simply because they are a commercial company and just want to do everything possible to help insure the profitability of their business...
Then explain to me why Apple is making iLife, OS X, iPhone OS, iTunes, etc.
Hmmm... Because Apple knows that making decent software helps sell their hardware?
they will be forced to offer OS/X to anyone that wants it.
You can't be serious, right? Look at all the crap MS have gotten away with, and they have been convicted of being a monopoly. Do you really think anything like what you said is going to happen to a company who is far from being a monopoly, let alone never been convicted of being one?
Monopolistic behavior? Are they even in the double digits in terms of market share? Please, rant all you like about IP laws and if they are ethical or not, but lets not pretend that Apple is some big monopoly -- they aren't. Not yet, at least. BTW, if I release a product to the the market, why can't I try and tell people what they can't do with it? Freedom goes both ways, right?
Hydrogen also rises, whereas petrol can leak all over the place. Also, fuel cells are still a developing technology -- it's silly to say that we're going down the wrong track at the moment. You could have said the same about battery-powered cars before LiPos etc. came along.
Why is it ridiculous not to put an mic and radio in? I'd never use them, and I'd rather they make the device smaller and spend more time working on the areas that I use all the time. Sure, if you need radio etc., go and buy an iRiver or something. But Taco was still wrong because he failed to understand what most people wanted. Just because a product doesn't meet your own personal requirements, doesn't make it lame to others. The only radio I own is the wind-up powered one in my emergency kit.
Guess you've never actually driven a true, high-performance go-kart. Driving is a lot more fun that watching.
Given how many laptops and iPods have gone up in flames, shouldn't it be obvious that you don't need flammable liquids to have cool, flaming carnage?
So? No reason it can't be efficient enough to make a real difference -- doesn't have to be perfect.
Having to make a special competition just for green cars seems like, well, these cars are cool and all, but just not actually competitive with already existant technology.
You could say the very same about different classes of IC engine racing cars in general, though, as they can vary a lot from road-car technology, too.
In the RC model world, electric has taken over in terms of top performance, and now we have decent electric go-karts, soon they will get big enough for road-car use.