The fact is that fossil fuels and our current internal combustion engines are so inefficient that the big oil companies know that they'll be able to keep selling us lots of their product.
If we're talking solar or battery power, what kind of hold do they have on the consumer? Certainly not the perpetual one they do now, with our incredible dependence on gasoline and oil. Once the battery car is bought, or the house is outfitted with solar panels, the major corporation's job is over.
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Who are we kidding? As long as oil companies have the power and money that they do, alternative power sources will never come into their own. Think what would happen if suddenly a new technology became available and oil wasn't necessary anymore. Many *major* companies would find themselves in economic turmoil and that isn't something that those companies are ready to have happen just yet.
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But it's the *same* island as in "JP2: The Lost World"...and the *same* "monsters". The only thing that was different was the huge nasty with the fin.
Other than that, it's just: "Oh no a T-Rex, don't move! Its vision is based on movement." "Oh no, Raptors. They are smart, they set up us the trap".
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I don't know about anybody else, but I often come out of the store, and open the CD right there so I can play it in my car on the way home. If I *ever* find that I can't play a CD on my car's CD player because of this retarded attempt by Macrovision to reduce copyright infrigement, I can personally guarantee that I will *never* buy another CD again. It's just not worth my time or money. -- Join my fight against Subway's new cut! http://spine.cx/subway/
This might at least yield better flames in the next computer animated movie du jour:) -- Join my fight against Subway's new cut! http://spine.cx/subway/
I think the real issue here is who's holding onto your information. Would the privacy concerns be as great if it wasn't Microsoft (or some other equally malevolent corporation) doing it? I believe the concept is sound. It's just the intentions of our generous host that's in question. If there was a benevolent body willing to do this sort of thing, and *not* sell or trade any of people's private information, it wouldn't be such a big deal for them to have access to it.
I, for one, use the passport system (all my spam goes to my hotmail account:), and some of the web applications that Microsoft makes available for free are great. I'm not evangelizing Microsoft; far from it, I'm a die hard Slackware user:) But I do think that they do some good stuff. They make wicked awesome keyboards (not those small cursor key ones, the other ones). -- Join my fight against Subway's new cut! http://spine.cx/subway/
For the same reason I abandonned my land line for a cell phone, I would be all over this. Why in the world would you want to be locked down to a particular location in order to use a phone or use the Internet?
As devices become smaller and smaller, this is going to be a much bigger deal. Even now, wouldn't it be cool (if it weren't so dorky) to whip out your laptop on the bus and browse web sites while you have nothing better to do?
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People like this shouldn't be arrested, they should be applauded. For example, without this guy's work Adobe would never be forced to do anything about their (obviously) shoddy protection on PDF files. -- Join my fight against Subway's new cut! http://spine.cx/subway/
Until now, I was thinking of a front projection screen for my home theater, but this would blow it away (I hope)! Does anyone know the quality of this thing? -- Join my fight against Subway's new cut! http://spine.cx/subway/
This sounds like the sort of thing we need for the ultimete PDAs of the future. Who cares about
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1GB hard drive when you can have a 5GB card that's *almost* as fast.
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Yes! I also have great hopes for the
Nokia Communicator. It's a cellphone that splits in half lengthways to reveal a 4096 color screen on one half and what looks like a full keyboard on the other. It's supposed to be available (according to the
web site) in North America by 2002.
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I see your sarcasm, and I raise you more sarcasm:
I'm very interested in watching ripped DVD movies on my handheld. I still can't really do that with only a 1GB drive.
Seriously, how much power does a handheld have to have? I've made the same argument before about the games on Nokia phones...If you can't last the time you're between computers without playing some kind of game, perhaps a more powerful handheld isn't your biggest problem right now.
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What we really need is a PDA with the flexibility, openness and convenience of a Palm, the connectivity of a RIM Blackberry, and the ability to act as a cell phone to boot. Until I can stop carrying around 5 different electronic communication appliances, I'm not going to be happy
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Here's all the stuff that I have in my home theatre. All prices are in Canadian $.
Reciever:
DenonAVR-2800. Very good, clean sound. It does both DTS and DD decoding, and I can bi-wire my main speakers. ($1300)
DVD Player:
Panasonic A-120. It's a little older than most (1 1/2 years old...it's not even on the web site anymore), but it does the job nicely. It passes a DTS bitstream, which is all I was really looking for at the time.($500)
Television:
ToshibaTW40X81 A good T.V. is something that you definately shouldn't scrimp on. I agonized for 8 months over this purchase, but it's the best thing I've ever bought Widescreen baby, YEAH! ($3600)
Speakers:
All my speakers are by
Sound Dynamics. RTS-11's for mains ($1000), RTS-7's for rears ($600), and an RTS-C2 for a center ($300). They kick ass, and compare favourably to similar sounding speakers in the price area too.
Sub Woofer:
A Sub is
essential to quality movie-watching. It's not only about base you hear, it's about the rumbling you can feel. Mine is a Velodyne CT-100 with a 10" driver. ($750)
Looking back, I guess I spent quite a bit of money, but I don't regret a cent of it. I routinely enjoy watching DVD's at home more than going to the theater. I guess that's what it's all about, eh?:)
Not only that, but I've found that Netscape 6 (aka Mozilla) doesn't properly render some of the pages that I regularly view. Under 4.75 they were fine, but things like http://www.chapters.ca, Canada's answer to Amazon.com. Especially evident on the "DVD" tab, the text is displayed right over images instead of beside it like they should be.
I can't believe that I was the only one impressed with the appearance of Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes reprising their roles of Jay and Silent Bob. My friends and I seemed to be the only people in the theatre laughing at their cameo.
I thought it was priceless. Oh well.
Surely some other people have watched and enjoyed Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma.
My god man, truer words have never been spoken. I'm glad someone else had the good sense to agree with me on this point.
The human wrist simply wasn't designed to be cocked upward like most typewriters and keyboards want it to go. Ideally, you would want a keyboard that lets your hands drape naturally over it. I, personally think that this would be a keyboard build into the desk, that drops down and away from you. This way, your arms can rest on the desk and your hands can be placed comfortably on the keys.
Until that comes along, I guess I'm stuck with my first edition MS natural, which is the best keyboard I've found so far...
How about broadcasting to a subnet, or at least everyone in your collision domain (such as an office network), via UDP packets? This would allow everyone on that subnet to listen to your mp3's (or whatever) with only the bandwidth that it takes for one person to play one mp3.
I had this idea before SHOUTcast came out...not that I think it's better:) My idea would necessitate a new client app to play the stream:(
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The fact is that fossil fuels and our current internal combustion engines are so inefficient that the big oil companies know that they'll be able to keep selling us lots of their product.
If we're talking solar or battery power, what kind of hold do they have on the consumer? Certainly not the perpetual one they do now, with our incredible dependence on gasoline and oil. Once the battery car is bought, or the house is outfitted with solar panels, the major corporation's job is over.
There's not even a remotely similar chance for recurring revenue in more efficient energy sources. And when you're all about making money, that's the bottom line.
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Who are we kidding? As long as oil companies have the power and money that they do, alternative power sources will never come into their own. Think what would happen if suddenly a new technology became available and oil wasn't necessary anymore. Many *major* companies would find themselves in economic turmoil and that isn't something that those companies are ready to have happen just yet.
No matter how much better solar power, battery power, or natural gas power is, it's just not going to become prominent until some of the big players are good and ready for it to happen.
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But it's the *same* island as in "JP2: The Lost World"...and the *same* "monsters". The only thing that was different was the huge nasty with the fin.
Other than that, it's just: "Oh no a T-Rex, don't move! Its vision is based on movement." "Oh no, Raptors. They are smart, they set up us the trap".
You can only do this so many times before it becomes tried and boring, like JP3. Don't even bother going.
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I don't know about anybody else, but I often come out of the store, and open the CD right there so I can play it in my car on the way home. If I *ever* find that I can't play a CD on my car's CD player because of this retarded attempt by Macrovision to reduce copyright infrigement, I can personally guarantee that I will *never* buy another CD again. It's just not worth my time or money.
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How will I play Bejeweled?!
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This might at least yield better flames in the next computer animated movie du jour
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I think the real issue here is who's holding onto your information. Would the privacy concerns be as great if it wasn't Microsoft (or some other equally malevolent corporation) doing it? I believe the concept is sound. It's just the intentions of our generous host that's in question. If there was a benevolent body willing to do this sort of thing, and *not* sell or trade any of people's private information, it wouldn't be such a big deal for them to have access to it.
I, for one, use the passport system (all my spam goes to my hotmail account
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For the same reason I abandonned my land line for a cell phone, I would be all over this. Why in the world would you want to be locked down to a particular location in order to use a phone or use the Internet?
As devices become smaller and smaller, this is going to be a much bigger deal. Even now, wouldn't it be cool (if it weren't so dorky) to whip out your laptop on the bus and browse web sites while you have nothing better to do?
Wireless Internet? I can't wait!
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People like this shouldn't be arrested, they should be applauded. For example, without this guy's work Adobe would never be forced to do anything about their (obviously) shoddy protection on PDF files.
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Until now, I was thinking of a front projection screen for my home theater, but this would blow it away (I hope)! Does anyone know the quality of this thing?
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This sounds like the sort of thing we need for the ultimete PDAs of the future. Who cares about a 1GB hard drive when you can have a 5GB card that's *almost* as fast.
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Yes! I also have great hopes for the Nokia Communicator. It's a cellphone that splits in half lengthways to reveal a 4096 color screen on one half and what looks like a full keyboard on the other. It's supposed to be available (according to the web site) in North America by 2002.
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I see your sarcasm, and I raise you more sarcasm:
I'm very interested in watching ripped DVD movies on my handheld. I still can't really do that with only a 1GB drive.
Seriously, how much power does a handheld have to have? I've made the same argument before about the games on Nokia phones...If you can't last the time you're between computers without playing some kind of game, perhaps a more powerful handheld isn't your biggest problem right now.
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What we really need is a PDA with the flexibility, openness and convenience of a Palm, the connectivity of a RIM Blackberry, and the ability to act as a cell phone to boot. Until I can stop carrying around 5 different electronic communication appliances, I'm not going to be happy
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Reciever:
- Denon AVR-2800. Very good, clean sound. It does both DTS and DD decoding, and I can bi-wire my main speakers. ($1300)
DVD Player:- Panasonic A-120. It's a little older than most (1 1/2 years old...it's not even on the web site anymore), but it does the job nicely. It passes a DTS bitstream, which is all I was really looking for at the time.($500)
Television:- Toshiba TW40X81 A good T.V. is something that you definately shouldn't scrimp on. I agonized for 8 months over this purchase, but it's the best thing I've ever bought Widescreen baby, YEAH! ($3600)
Speakers:- All my speakers are by
- Sound Dynamics. RTS-11's for mains ($1000), RTS-7's for rears ($600), and an RTS-C2 for a center ($300). They kick ass, and compare favourably to similar sounding speakers in the price area too.
Sub Woofer:Looking back, I guess I spent quite a bit of money, but I don't regret a cent of it. I routinely enjoy watching DVD's at home more than going to the theater. I guess that's what it's all about, eh? :)
Not only that, but I've found that Netscape 6 (aka Mozilla) doesn't properly render some of the pages that I regularly view. Under 4.75 they were fine, but things like http://www.chapters.ca, Canada's answer to Amazon.com. Especially evident on the "DVD" tab, the text is displayed right over images instead of beside it like they should be.
I thought it was priceless. Oh well.
Surely some other people have watched and enjoyed Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma.
The human wrist simply wasn't designed to be cocked upward like most typewriters and keyboards want it to go. Ideally, you would want a keyboard that lets your hands drape naturally over it. I, personally think that this would be a keyboard build into the desk, that drops down and away from you. This way, your arms can rest on the desk and your hands can be placed comfortably on the keys.
Until that comes along, I guess I'm stuck with my first edition MS natural, which is the best keyboard I've found so far...
I had this idea before SHOUTcast came out...not that I think it's better :) My idea would necessitate a new client app to play the stream :(