You are incorrect. The vendor pays a fee to Microsoft for pre-installing Windows on the computer for you, and they factor that fee into the price tag.
Just go to a website where they offer PCs with and without Microsoft Windows, and check the difference in price. It's typically around $90.
Solar power requires manufacture of the solar panels, construction of the plant, and (if I understand it right) all the more efficient known ways to convert the solar energy to electricity involve materials manufactured with toxic chemicals.
So while the actual solar energy itself is 100% clean, getting it and putting it into usable form is not.
My brother and sister both bought eMachines. The only problem they had was the Windows ME installed on them... the actual computers themselves work just fine.
I prefer the Porsche... 605 horsepower from a 5.7 liter engine, naturally aspirated. That's an incredible amount of power for its size. The only car I know of that makes that more power per liter without using forced induction is the Honda S2000.
I am not sure that diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines.
I am sure that diesel fuel is much more energy dense than gasoline.
A diesel engine will make more power than an equivalent sized gasoline engine and/or use much less fuel because it gets more power from every unit of fuel. If a tractor trailer wanted to run on gasoline, he would probably need to increase his engine and his gas tank size by at least 30%.
A 240 Watt air conditioner and a 500 Watt sound system both running full blast the entire time would drain less than 5% of your battery - probably much less.
Check out http://www.nedra.com, a drag racing association for electric cars.
The fastest electric car on the list can do the quarter mile from a dead stop in less than 9 seconds. To give you perspective, the Ferrari Enzo is the fastest production automobile Road and Track ever tested, and it does the quarter mile from a dead stop in 11.8 seconds.
The tzero may be quick, but it's not the fastest electric car.
Romans 10:9-10???? As long as you believe in your heart, it must be true?
Okay, then you believe in Jesus in your heart, and I'll believe that I am God in mine, and we must both be right.
Non-Christian historical documentation of Jesus is extremely sparse, and there is some evidence that it was faked. Furthermore, it's highly unusual that the hundreds of amazing miracles attributes to Jesus and his Apostles were likewise never recorded by a non-Christian.
Believe as you wish, but don't make claims that you can't substantiate.
Ask yourself - is it the engineers that are incompetent?
I don't mean to jump on the corporate management-bashing bandwagon, but I'd bet the real problem is cheapskates at the higher levels. I'd bet the engineers have wanted to make cooler cars for years, but they don't have the budget.
Case in point: the new Thunderbird had the V-8 from the Lincoln LS, DETUNED. Why was it detuned? Probably because some moron executive in Lincoln didn't want any run of the mill Ford to compete with the LS. As a result, the Thunderbird's performance can't hold a candle to that of the LS, which itself isn't a standout in that price range. The Thunderbird's now being discontinued for lack of sales. Big surprise.
Actually, at least near Philadelphia, you can get riding mowers up to 25 horsepower (I'll take your word for it that that is the theoretical max).
I have an old beat up thing that does the job quite well with 12 horsepower, though... so I imagine that the increased horsepower is just there for marketing reasons.
I don't think we lack the pure technical knowledge to do this now, just the knowledge of making a practical application.
I'm sure someone could build a humanoid robot with state of the arts sensors today. It's actions could be controlled remotely by a Beowulf Cluster of processors in a system with many Gigs of RAM. It would have all the physical capabilities and processing power you could possibly need to do any household or manufacturing chore you like.
Now all we need is 500 million lines of code required to make a program that runs it correctly. That's not a question of advancing technology, just a huge software development requirement.
I found Heroes of Might and Magic III and Heroes of Might and Magic IV to rank in my top five favorite computer games. I spent countless hours playing.
How were they conservative and formulaic? Most turn based strategy games of a similar nature, as far as I know, copied 3do and not vice versa!
The company I work for had a $30 million market cap and $9 million in the bank two years ago. Now it has a $200 million market cap and $50 million in the bank. We sell a good product, most of our sales are return business, and as far as the line workers know there is no corruption involved.
The VPs and CEO still scramble like crazy to play all the games to inflate our figures, because every time they don't we get creamed.
If someone buys the lot next to my house and puts up a factory, that's my tough luck. If he pollutes my yard, or is too noisy, I'll sue him for it. If he doesn't do that... it's his damn land, he can do what he wants.
Zoning laws, and restrictions on what color window you can have, and how far forward your driveway can be, all so that someone else can be a fascist for the sake of property value, is bullshit.
Unless the township and individuals that don't want the wind farm plant down the cash for the area it was going to be built on, it's none of their business. Put up the wind farm.
Pick one: Microsoft's software virus vulnerabilities are acceptable OR Microsoft's acquisition of a virus protection program to bundle into their software is acceptable. If both are unacceptable, then what the hell are they supposed to do?
Biking, swimming, stairstepper, elliptical trainer, running... I hate them all.
This is what I did. Get a stop watch. Go to a gym (or buy some weightlifting equipment). Pick 6-10 basic exercises to work most of your muscle groups. You'll probably want to use machines, if you can, because using free weights requires a partner to make sure you don't drop the bar on yourself. I use a leg curl (hamstrings), toe press (calves), chest press (chest and triceps), pull-down (back and biceps), lateral raise (shoulders), leg press (butt and thighs), and ab crunch machine (stomach muscles).
Start out with a 2 minute gap between each exercise, and use insanely easy weights. If ten reps with 50 pounds on the chest machine almost makes you sweat, use 30 pounds. Your goal, for the first month, is to NOT sweat. Your body needs time to adapt to the exercise, and it's important that you don't start off viewing the experience as unpleasant. Just do 8-12 repetitions with each exercise before moving on to the next one.
Try it as many times a week as you want for a month. Do as many sets as you want. You could do the whole routine once and leave, or do it twice, or do each exercise twice before going on to the next - whatever you want. After the first month or so, when you feel ready, try to reduce the time between exercises by 15 seconds each week. Eventually, you will be walking from machine to machine with only the occasional break for water.
At that point, a few months into the routine, you will be having a decent workout for your cardiovascular system. Then, if you want, you can slowly start incrementing the resistance you use to turn it into a serious strength building workout too.
I do my workout once a week, and I worked my way up to a point where it is a brutally hard twenty five minutes for me. The time commitment is tiny, I'm never bored while exercising, and I still get stronger. It's possible I'd be in better shape now if I worked out more often - but more likely I would have quit because of boredom. Instead, I've only missed my weekly workout two or three times in over two years. That's got to be much better than nothing.
You've got to put some limits on your food intake, friend.
Three slices of pecan pie is almost 1800 calories. That's an hour a slice. If I ate as much pecan pie as I wanted (and if the cost of bigger clothes wasn't stopping me, I would go through about five pies a week), I would need to do a triathlon every damn day to lose fat.
If I keep eating what I eat now and add some additional exercise, that'll do the trick. You can't eat whatever you want and then hope to make it up with exercise unless you're blessed with a very light appetite.
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You are incorrect. The vendor pays a fee to Microsoft for pre-installing Windows on the computer for you, and they factor that fee into the price tag. Just go to a website where they offer PCs with and without Microsoft Windows, and check the difference in price. It's typically around $90.
Your store has been around almost 20 years, so you seem to know what you are doing.
However, I've dealt with local computer shops a couple of times and had lots of little problems that make me hesitant to try it again.
Solar power requires manufacture of the solar panels, construction of the plant, and (if I understand it right) all the more efficient known ways to convert the solar energy to electricity involve materials manufactured with toxic chemicals. So while the actual solar energy itself is 100% clean, getting it and putting it into usable form is not.
He still did the film... I think filming was delayed because of his injury, but it is still Tobey.
My brother and sister both bought eMachines. The only problem they had was the Windows ME installed on them... the actual computers themselves work just fine.
You're right... this summary fits the details better.
Looks like it will be action packed, but the motives for Anakin to turn evil don't strike me as convincing.
I prefer the Porsche... 605 horsepower from a 5.7 liter engine, naturally aspirated. That's an incredible amount of power for its size. The only car I know of that makes that more power per liter without using forced induction is the Honda S2000.
With the exception of the individual upthread who mentioned some problems, I have yet to hear of anyone who had health problems after Atkins.
That doesn't mean it's impossible for them to happen, but I'd say it's unlikely.
I had a subscription, but they sent me at least 3 letters a month attempting to get me to participate in various fundraisers and raffles.
I would have gladly paid 2-3 times as much for the subscription rather than put up with that nonsense. I cancelled the magazine as a result.
I am not sure that diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines.
I am sure that diesel fuel is much more energy dense than gasoline.
A diesel engine will make more power than an equivalent sized gasoline engine and/or use much less fuel because it gets more power from every unit of fuel. If a tractor trailer wanted to run on gasoline, he would probably need to increase his engine and his gas tank size by at least 30%.
200 horsepower is around 150 kilowatts.
A 240 Watt air conditioner and a 500 Watt sound system both running full blast the entire time would drain less than 5% of your battery - probably much less.
Check out http://www.nedra.com, a drag racing association for electric cars.
The fastest electric car on the list can do the quarter mile from a dead stop in less than 9 seconds. To give you perspective, the Ferrari Enzo is the fastest production automobile Road and Track ever tested, and it does the quarter mile from a dead stop in 11.8 seconds.
The tzero may be quick, but it's not the fastest electric car.
Romans 10:9-10???? As long as you believe in your heart, it must be true?
Okay, then you believe in Jesus in your heart, and I'll believe that I am God in mine, and we must both be right.
Non-Christian historical documentation of Jesus is extremely sparse, and there is some evidence that it was faked. Furthermore, it's highly unusual that the hundreds of amazing miracles attributes to Jesus and his Apostles were likewise never recorded by a non-Christian.
Believe as you wish, but don't make claims that you can't substantiate.
Ask yourself - is it the engineers that are incompetent?
I don't mean to jump on the corporate management-bashing bandwagon, but I'd bet the real problem is cheapskates at the higher levels. I'd bet the engineers have wanted to make cooler cars for years, but they don't have the budget.
Case in point: the new Thunderbird had the V-8 from the Lincoln LS, DETUNED. Why was it detuned? Probably because some moron executive in Lincoln didn't want any run of the mill Ford to compete with the LS. As a result, the Thunderbird's performance can't hold a candle to that of the LS, which itself isn't a standout in that price range. The Thunderbird's now being discontinued for lack of sales. Big surprise.
What percentage of copyright works that are illegally downloaded fit into those categories? 0.1%? 0.01%? Probably less than that.
Everyone I know that keeps MP3 copies of the music they own just rips it from the disk that they have.
Some CD stores (e.g. The Wall) will replace a broken CD for free, for the life of the owner.
Actually, at least near Philadelphia, you can get riding mowers up to 25 horsepower (I'll take your word for it that that is the theoretical max).
I have an old beat up thing that does the job quite well with 12 horsepower, though... so I imagine that the increased horsepower is just there for marketing reasons.
I don't think we lack the pure technical knowledge to do this now, just the knowledge of making a practical application.
I'm sure someone could build a humanoid robot with state of the arts sensors today. It's actions could be controlled remotely by a Beowulf Cluster of processors in a system with many Gigs of RAM. It would have all the physical capabilities and processing power you could possibly need to do any household or manufacturing chore you like.
Now all we need is 500 million lines of code required to make a program that runs it correctly. That's not a question of advancing technology, just a huge software development requirement.
It's funny you should say that.
I found Heroes of Might and Magic III and Heroes of Might and Magic IV to rank in my top five favorite computer games. I spent countless hours playing.
How were they conservative and formulaic? Most turn based strategy games of a similar nature, as far as I know, copied 3do and not vice versa!
The company I work for had a $30 million market cap and $9 million in the bank two years ago. Now it has a $200 million market cap and $50 million in the bank. We sell a good product, most of our sales are return business, and as far as the line workers know there is no corruption involved.
The VPs and CEO still scramble like crazy to play all the games to inflate our figures, because every time they don't we get creamed.
screw you, man.
If someone buys the lot next to my house and puts up a factory, that's my tough luck. If he pollutes my yard, or is too noisy, I'll sue him for it. If he doesn't do that... it's his damn land, he can do what he wants.
Zoning laws, and restrictions on what color window you can have, and how far forward your driveway can be, all so that someone else can be a fascist for the sake of property value, is bullshit.
Unless the township and individuals that don't want the wind farm plant down the cash for the area it was going to be built on, it's none of their business. Put up the wind farm.
That isn't insightful. It's flat out brilliant.
Pick one: Microsoft's software virus vulnerabilities are acceptable OR Microsoft's acquisition of a virus protection program to bundle into their software is acceptable. If both are unacceptable, then what the hell are they supposed to do?
Hey... are you in the cube next to me? This sounds awfully accurate. :)
Biking, swimming, stairstepper, elliptical trainer, running... I hate them all.
This is what I did. Get a stop watch. Go to a gym (or buy some weightlifting equipment). Pick 6-10 basic exercises to work most of your muscle groups. You'll probably want to use machines, if you can, because using free weights requires a partner to make sure you don't drop the bar on yourself. I use a leg curl (hamstrings), toe press (calves), chest press (chest and triceps), pull-down (back and biceps), lateral raise (shoulders), leg press (butt and thighs), and ab crunch machine (stomach muscles).
Start out with a 2 minute gap between each exercise, and use insanely easy weights. If ten reps with 50 pounds on the chest machine almost makes you sweat, use 30 pounds. Your goal, for the first month, is to NOT sweat. Your body needs time to adapt to the exercise, and it's important that you don't start off viewing the experience as unpleasant. Just do 8-12 repetitions with each exercise before moving on to the next one.
Try it as many times a week as you want for a month. Do as many sets as you want. You could do the whole routine once and leave, or do it twice, or do each exercise twice before going on to the next - whatever you want. After the first month or so, when you feel ready, try to reduce the time between exercises by 15 seconds each week. Eventually, you will be walking from machine to machine with only the occasional break for water.
At that point, a few months into the routine, you will be having a decent workout for your cardiovascular system. Then, if you want, you can slowly start incrementing the resistance you use to turn it into a serious strength building workout too.
I do my workout once a week, and I worked my way up to a point where it is a brutally hard twenty five minutes for me. The time commitment is tiny, I'm never bored while exercising, and I still get stronger. It's possible I'd be in better shape now if I worked out more often - but more likely I would have quit because of boredom. Instead, I've only missed my weekly workout two or three times in over two years. That's got to be much better than nothing.
Good luck, whatever you choose.
You've got to put some limits on your food intake, friend.
Three slices of pecan pie is almost 1800 calories. That's an hour a slice. If I ate as much pecan pie as I wanted (and if the cost of bigger clothes wasn't stopping me, I would go through about five pies a week), I would need to do a triathlon every damn day to lose fat.
If I keep eating what I eat now and add some additional exercise, that'll do the trick. You can't eat whatever you want and then hope to make it up with exercise unless you're blessed with a very light appetite.
That's a very cool set of links, thanks for posting.
Of course, in my case you're preaching to the converted. At least you made the effort.