Let me be the first to say: fuck off and die, you spamming cunt. I don't give a shit what your rationalizations may be, my e-mail is not for your use to try to sell me anything, unless I ASK for information from you.
A newly engineered generator that can handle that low of a temp.
A 140 degree heat source should be plenty to drive a Stirling cycle engine, or a closed turbine system with a working fluid that boils at a fairly low temperature.
I saw a property for sale in Idaho a while back. 77 acres, with a hot spring (140F at the surface). I love the idea of being able to go off-grid with my own power source, not because I'm any kind of tree-hugger, but because utility companies haven't been the best vendors I've ever dealt with.
Mind telling me what the difference is between a selling point and removing a barrier to sale, exactly?
A selling point is a reason why a product is superior to another product. A barrier to sale is a reason why a customer might be bound to stay with a different product.
You don't buy a Mac because it can run a windows app, since the cheap shit from Dell will do that, too. You buy the Mac for the things that it offers over and above what the Dell box can do.
I think this is a preparatory move to start offering a native implementation of the.NET platform for OS X.
Not likely. Apple's not about to sign up to support a Microsoft API on OS X. They very explicitly state that you're on your own if you run Windows with boot camp, for example. They don't supply a WMA plug-in for Quicktime (leaving that up to a third party), and they know better than to try going down that rathole.
I think that recognizing PE files is all about EFI, and nothing more.
I think you're a bit confused about the definition of "impose", particularly when that imposition is done by slander and malicious litigation. Preaching is fine and dandy, I can ignore it trivially. Litigating is another matter altogether.
Well, if there was a proposal to run a maglev train under a major city in tunnels that are below sea level, with it being a government project to boot, I could see the cost being that high.
Just out of curiosity, I looked up a couple of things you can buy for a hundred million bucks.. That amount of money will buy three airplanes like this one, for a start.
Yes, it is. An evil person, by definition, is one who does evil things. Thompson seeks to impose his values on others through malicious, frivolous litigation, slander, and harassment. That's evil, even if he himself believes otherwise.
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Let me be the first to say: fuck off and die, you spamming cunt. I don't give a shit what your rationalizations may be, my e-mail is not for your use to try to sell me anything, unless I ASK for information from you.
-jcr
Oh, so being an atheist, you presume to speak for all of us? Sorry, I never voted for you and you don't represent me.
-jcr
A newly engineered generator that can handle that low of a temp.
A 140 degree heat source should be plenty to drive a Stirling cycle engine, or a closed turbine system with a working fluid that boils at a fairly low temperature.
-jcr
I saw a property for sale in Idaho a while back. 77 acres, with a hot spring (140F at the surface). I love the idea of being able to go off-grid with my own power source, not because I'm any kind of tree-hugger, but because utility companies haven't been the best vendors I've ever dealt with.
-jcr
Even your atheist buddies are afraid to look you in the eye now.
Why would you presume to know how atheists would react to his post? Does your superstition preclude a sense of humor?
-jcr
I bought it for the very basic expectation that it should just "work"
That's over and above what you can expect from the windows box, QED.
-jcr
You've got it. Jumping on a microsoft bandwagon is a very bad business decision, as any company who signed up for "plays for sure" now knows.
-jcr
right now, .NET looks like a pretty good bet.
I'm sure that jumping on the Windows NT bandwagon looked like a good bet to Tandem, DEC, and SGI.
-jcr
Is that enough of a quantification for you?
Nope. Do you even know what "quantification" means?
-jcr
Bingo! Give the man a cigar!
-jcr
You realise it's an open standard, do you?
.NET, without losing much.
So what?
Apple would gain a _lot_ by providing support for
Can you quantify this supposed gain? Do you have any idea of what the costs of support it would be?
Didn't think so.
-jcr
Mind telling me what the difference is between a selling point and removing a barrier to sale, exactly?
A selling point is a reason why a product is superior to another product. A barrier to sale is a reason why a customer might be bound to stay with a different product.
You don't buy a Mac because it can run a windows app, since the cheap shit from Dell will do that, too. You buy the Mac for the things that it offers over and above what the Dell box can do.
-jcr
one of Apple's biggest selling points for the Mac if you go into any store that sells one is that it can "still run all of your Windows stuff."
No. The big selling points are what you can do with the Mac OS. Boot camp is more in the vein of removing a common barrier to a sale.
-jcr
I think this is a preparatory move to start offering a native implementation of the .NET platform for OS X.
Not likely. Apple's not about to sign up to support a Microsoft API on OS X. They very explicitly state that you're on your own if you run Windows with boot camp, for example. They don't supply a WMA plug-in for Quicktime (leaving that up to a third party), and they know better than to try going down that rathole.
I think that recognizing PE files is all about EFI, and nothing more.
-jcr
In case you haven't heard, he's running for president. That involves a lot of traveling, so missing quite a few votes is expected.
-jcr
If you're talking about Ron Paul, he wasn't present for that vote.
-jcr
I think you're a bit confused about the definition of "impose", particularly when that imposition is done by slander and malicious litigation. Preaching is fine and dandy, I can ignore it trivially. Litigating is another matter altogether.
-jcr
Well, if there was a proposal to run a maglev train under a major city in tunnels that are below sea level, with it being a government project to boot, I could see the cost being that high.
-jcr
Just out of curiosity, I looked up a couple of things you can buy for a hundred million bucks.. That amount of money will buy three airplanes like this one, for a start.
-jcr
I mean really it's not like he's truly evil
Yes, it is. An evil person, by definition, is one who does evil things. Thompson seeks to impose his values on others through malicious, frivolous litigation, slander, and harassment. That's evil, even if he himself believes otherwise.
-jcr
Sorry to nit-pick, but it's not a moral agenda. It's a self-aggrandizing agenda.
-jcr
A hundred million bucks a mile? Do they have to coat the trains with moon rocks?
-jcr
I concur. It sucks, and I wouldn't buy it, but it's not spam.
-jcr
In your dreams, Mr. Kennedy.
-jcr
Sure, Microsoft is paying an extra $.25 or whatever per unit to include FM, but it's a nice feature that a lot of people will use.
Nope. It's a feature that a small segment of a very small pool of customers will use.
-jcr