Quote from link: "The Australian Ecogeneration Association believes that wind could contribute at least 2,950 gigawatt hours of electricity out of the 9,500 gigawatt hours MRET target. The Association has stated that the MRET target should be increased to 21,400 gigawatt hours a year by 2010, with wind capable of contributing more than 10,000 gigawatt hours. "
The radical new keypad layout breaks all the rules
Like ease of use, or form follows function? Looks like a nice phone, but that keypad layout blows. I can't imagine dialing that thing without having to look at the phone while you dial. Annoying.
I agree with your point, but there may have been another factor stemming from this event that allowed humanity its chance to strut about at the top of the food chain. Namely, that the previous occupants were pretty damned bad-ass critters. There were some big, fast mammalian predators roaming around 2 million years ago, but, like most predators, their populations were pretty sensitive to rapid climactic shifts. Who knows, if that asteroid or whatver it was that wiped out the dinos hadn't hit, this planet might still be ruled by scaley giant beasts.
... Keanu Fricken' Reeves was in a suck-ass movie ("Chain Reaction") about a runaway reaction of this sort about 8 years ago (what a stupid idea...)? And I read about a theory of fusion occuring within the sonoluminescent effect in Science 10 years ago! This is really just a follow up report. And the effect itself has been known for what, 70 years? OK, so they finally detected some neutrons, big deal. You'd have to cover the earth with these devices to net enough surplus energy to boil the water for your tea.
Actually, I don't buy Kraft products because Kraft is a subsidiary of Phillip Morris. Nor do I buy Miller beer, Post cereals, Oscar Meyer, or Louis Rich products. Also, their products are crap. Does this hurt Phillip Morris? Of course not, but that's not why I do it. I do it because I have principles, which distinguishes me from Phillip Morris. As far as BGH is concerned, tobacco executives will tell you that cigarettes have *never* been proven to cause lung cancer.
And as for the comparison to Al Qaeda, they are obviously not out for anyone's good.
A) Try telling them that.
B) I wasn't comparing China to Al Qaeda, I was comparing an ideology which says that it's OK for corporations to assist in repression, torture, murder, etc, by providing the tools necessary to do so (Ford and the Nazis come to mind(Nazi? Did somebody say Nazi? Damn, thread over....), provided it's good for their bottom line, to an ideology that says that's not OK. You can't justify selling firewalls to China by your argument without simultaneously justifying selling encryption to Osama. It's just a matter of degree, and you find Osama's politics (as do I) somewhat more repellent even than China's.
And C) to say CISCO had no prior knowledge, um, I'll assume they are capable of putting 2 and 2 together, since they are clearly capable of making some damn fine routing equipment. It's rather like Winston-Salem saying "Oh, we had no idea people were actually going to smoke those things!"
The company is still footing the bill up front. If the record doesn't sell, the artist hasn't lost anything (and actually gained quite a bit).
Here's the obligitory link to Albini's "The Problem with Music". Read it.
In regards to cost of production, these costs are falling dramatically with the advent of high-quality, inexpensive, digital audio cards for pcs(no, I don't work for Aardvark, I'm just a very satisfied customer). I would guess that at least 50% of the "hit" records of the past ten years were digitally recorded using pro-tools, or even less expensive, gear. Cubase, cakewalk, or logic, a decent PC, and a good pro sound card are about the same cost as a decent guitar/amp setup. A good mic/mic-pre/mixer setup will cost another chunk of change, but not too much. There are numerous softsynths and effects packages out there for reasonable prices (or as warez, if you're ethically challenged). $500/hr studio fees for unproven, non-mega-star bands should disappear eventually.
I don't mean to disrespect any audio engineers out there, btw. A really top-notch production job is going to always be a valuable service, and anybody would rather record their master through a Neve board to 2" tape than through a Mackie to their hard drive, but these new methods of recording can, and do, yield impressive results on a budget. Most consumer grade stereo equipment is for shit, anyway, and if you're listening to compressed, lossy audio, then it hardly matters.
If you want to ban Cisco because they sold equipment to a government you don't like be my guest
Who said anything about banning anything? What the hell is it with you people? If someone gets a little criticism for putting their financial gain above their ethical obligations, a million libertarians come crawling out of the woodwork mewling about the holiness of property rights. It's like some kind of ridiculous cult!
Yes! China's government SUCKS! There, satisfied? If China's government didn't suck, this whole issue wouldn't exist. It's f*cking self-evident! Why do I have to spell it out?
CISCO, Yahoo, et al have the right to do business with whomever they choose. But if CISCO wants to help Al Qaeda cells pass encrypted messages to each other, are you going to say "Oh, you should blame Al Qaeda for being evil, CISCO is just trying to make an honest buck!". When you support institutions which are fundamentally opposed to your very right to exist, you're not only acting hypocritically, you're being STUPID.
The CP of China denies that CISCO has the right to exist. CISCO assist the CP of China in suppressing the speech of chinese citizens. This makes CISCO wealthier, but it also makes them stupid hypocrites. As such, they are worthy of derision, not banning!
You cannot expect western businesses to defend democracy, when it is completely outside their purview.
Who are you to tell me what I can expect of those I do business with? If I tell you I'm only going to buy your widgets if you dress up like a leprechaun, you damn well better be wearing green knickers and shoes with buckles next time I see you if you want to make the sale. I see you've defined capitalism and democracy nicely, but you seem to have forgotten that these ideas only apply to human societies. In a human society, such as we have here, we can influence each others behavior with a wide variety of subtle and not-so-subtle pressures, of which the law and the dollar are but two. For instance, if I see a tobacco company executive or a tobacco farmer on the street, I won't hesitate to let that person know what a worthless, parasitical waste of flesh that person is. I'd defend their right to grow and sell tobacco, but I'd think that they're scum for doing it.
They have no reason to care, and that is how it should be.
If only you were alone in this disturbing sentiment... Maybe someday you'll be in a position where you'll need help, but since I have no reason to care, why should I? Imagine yourself choking to death in a crowded restaurant, while everyone else goes about their "business", ignoring you. The chinese people are having their freedom to speak choked off, but why should western corps. care? Heck, it's a great opportunity to make a buck!
What, do you wipe your ass with $100 bills or something? If the hardware costs you $800, you think it's OK to pay a 12.5% markup for an OS you won't even use? I'd rather spend that $100 on more RAM, a better video card, bigger HD, or faster cpu, thanks...
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What's the matter, you afraid of getting sued by BT?;)
This is why I use mailshell. I have only recieved one spam so far to bounce-slashdot@smitty.mailshell.com, for instance, and these are easy enough to filter out. Of course, you don't get this service for nothing - mailshell sends you their own spam, but it cuts the ratio down considerably, and you can see where spammers are getting your address from.
...who uses an ibm scrollpoint? After using a mouse with a joystick, you'll never want to use a scroll wheel again. Force sensitive vertical and horizontal scrolling just rules. I wish more companies would use this technology, maybe ibm has a patent, I dunno...
SOLED - Stacked Organic Light Emitting Device
This display is composed of three stacked layers of TOLEDs (red, green, and blue). This means that there is an almost 100% fill factor for each pixel no matter the color, leading to higher resolution displays and better color tunability. The resolution on these displays has the potential of being three times that of normal displays because of the stacked as opposed to the side-by-side layout of old. Pixels can also be made as large as wanted. Because of the stacked display, it would no longer be possible to see the individual color pixels, just the one full-color pixel. This will be most useful in small displays and very large high definition displays(like a movie screen, perhaps?).
I'd install oled screens, and just pipe the movies to each screen from a server. The picture would be much better. Who knows, this might cut distribution costs enough to enable me to switch to a subscription business model, maybe $20/person/month, all the movies you (and overpriced junk food;)) you can eat. No PFYs on the payroll standing around selling and tearing up costly paper tickets, no lines for the customers. I wouldn't have to hire any projectionists, either, another cost savings.
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I wasn't planning on buying one. What's your point?
Magic has nothing to do with it.
Quote from link:
"The Australian Ecogeneration Association believes that wind could contribute at least 2,950 gigawatt hours of electricity out of the 9,500 gigawatt hours MRET target. The Association has stated that the MRET target should be increased to 21,400 gigawatt hours a year by 2010, with wind capable of contributing more than 10,000 gigawatt hours. "
Like ease of use, or form follows function? Looks like a nice phone, but that keypad layout blows. I can't imagine dialing that thing without having to look at the phone while you dial. Annoying.
if(!anglophile){
conkers = chestnuts;
catapult = slingshot; }
They don't call it the "Red Planet" for nothing.
I agree with your point, but there may have been another factor stemming from this event that allowed humanity its chance to strut about at the top of the food chain. Namely, that the previous occupants were pretty damned bad-ass critters. There were some big, fast mammalian predators roaming around 2 million years ago, but, like most predators, their populations were pretty sensitive to rapid climactic shifts. Who knows, if that asteroid or whatver it was that wiped out the dinos hadn't hit, this planet might still be ruled by scaley giant beasts.
... Keanu Fricken' Reeves was in a suck-ass movie ("Chain Reaction") about a runaway reaction of this sort about 8 years ago (what a stupid idea...)? And I read about a theory of fusion occuring within the sonoluminescent effect in Science 10 years ago! This is really just a follow up report. And the effect itself has been known for what, 70 years? OK, so they finally detected some neutrons, big deal. You'd have to cover the earth with these devices to net enough surplus energy to boil the water for your tea.
Actually, I don't buy Kraft products because Kraft is a subsidiary of Phillip Morris. Nor do I buy Miller beer, Post cereals, Oscar Meyer, or Louis Rich products. Also, their products are crap. Does this hurt Phillip Morris? Of course not, but that's not why I do it. I do it because I have principles, which distinguishes me from Phillip Morris. As far as BGH is concerned, tobacco executives will tell you that cigarettes have *never* been proven to cause lung cancer.
Please mod this up... this is the best idea I've heard in a long, long time :)
Co-op sattelite networks *dr00l*
OK, no flame war ;)
I still have to disagree with you, though...
And as for the comparison to Al Qaeda, they are obviously not out for anyone's good.
A) Try telling them that.
B) I wasn't comparing China to Al Qaeda, I was comparing an ideology which says that it's OK for corporations to assist in repression, torture, murder, etc, by providing the tools necessary to do so (Ford and the Nazis come to mind(Nazi? Did somebody say Nazi? Damn, thread over....), provided it's good for their bottom line, to an ideology that says that's not OK. You can't justify selling firewalls to China by your argument without simultaneously justifying selling encryption to Osama. It's just a matter of degree, and you find Osama's politics (as do I) somewhat more repellent even than China's.
And
C) to say CISCO had no prior knowledge, um, I'll assume they are capable of putting 2 and 2 together, since they are clearly capable of making some damn fine routing equipment. It's rather like Winston-Salem saying "Oh, we had no idea people were actually going to smoke those things!"
The company is still footing the bill up front. If the record doesn't sell, the artist hasn't lost anything (and actually gained quite a bit).
Here's the obligitory link to Albini's "The Problem with Music". Read it.
In regards to cost of production, these costs are falling dramatically with the advent of high-quality, inexpensive, digital audio cards for pcs(no, I don't work for Aardvark, I'm just a very satisfied customer). I would guess that at least 50% of the "hit" records of the past ten years were digitally recorded using pro-tools, or even less expensive, gear. Cubase, cakewalk, or logic, a decent PC, and a good pro sound card are about the same cost as a decent guitar/amp setup. A good mic/mic-pre/mixer setup will cost another chunk of change, but not too much. There are numerous softsynths and effects packages out there for reasonable prices (or as warez, if you're ethically challenged). $500/hr studio fees for unproven, non-mega-star bands should disappear eventually.
I don't mean to disrespect any audio engineers out there, btw. A really top-notch production job is going to always be a valuable service, and anybody would rather record their master through a Neve board to 2" tape than through a Mackie to their hard drive, but these new methods of recording can, and do, yield impressive results on a budget. Most consumer grade stereo equipment is for shit, anyway, and if you're listening to compressed, lossy audio, then it hardly matters.
Now, I value my right to free speach as much as you...
...don't feel I have the right to critisize the Chinese way of doing things.
You couldn't possibly because you
If all free speech is good for is saying happy things about the status quo, it's not very useful, is it?
If you want to ban Cisco because they sold equipment to a government you don't like be my guest
Who said anything about banning anything? What the hell is it with you people? If someone gets a little criticism for putting their financial gain above their ethical obligations, a million libertarians come crawling out of the woodwork mewling about the holiness of property rights. It's like some kind of ridiculous cult!
Yes! China's government SUCKS! There, satisfied? If China's government didn't suck, this whole issue wouldn't exist. It's f*cking self-evident! Why do I have to spell it out?
CISCO, Yahoo, et al have the right to do business with whomever they choose. But if CISCO wants to help Al Qaeda cells pass encrypted messages to each other, are you going to say "Oh, you should blame Al Qaeda for being evil, CISCO is just trying to make an honest buck!". When you support institutions which are fundamentally opposed to your very right to exist, you're not only acting hypocritically, you're being STUPID.
The CP of China denies that CISCO has the right to exist. CISCO assist the CP of China in suppressing the speech of chinese citizens. This makes CISCO wealthier, but it also makes them stupid hypocrites. As such, they are worthy of derision, not banning!
You cannot expect western businesses to defend democracy, when it is completely outside their purview.
Who are you to tell me what I can expect of those I do business with? If I tell you I'm only going to buy your widgets if you dress up like a leprechaun, you damn well better be wearing green knickers and shoes with buckles next time I see you if you want to make the sale. I see you've defined capitalism and democracy nicely, but you seem to have forgotten that these ideas only apply to human societies. In a human society, such as we have here, we can influence each others behavior with a wide variety of subtle and not-so-subtle pressures, of which the law and the dollar are but two. For instance, if I see a tobacco company executive or a tobacco farmer on the street, I won't hesitate to let that person know what a worthless, parasitical waste of flesh that person is. I'd defend their right to grow and sell tobacco, but I'd think that they're scum for doing it.
They have no reason to care, and that is how it should be.
If only you were alone in this disturbing sentiment... Maybe someday you'll be in a position where you'll need help, but since I have no reason to care, why should I? Imagine yourself choking to death in a crowded restaurant, while everyone else goes about their "business", ignoring you. The chinese people are having their freedom to speak choked off, but why should western corps. care? Heck, it's a great opportunity to make a buck!
You might save $100 bucks on a software license
What, do you wipe your ass with $100 bills or something? If the hardware costs you $800, you think it's OK to pay a 12.5% markup for an OS you won't even use? I'd rather spend that $100 on more RAM, a better video card, bigger HD, or faster cpu, thanks...
What's the matter, you afraid of getting sued by BT? ;)
Here's some links, folks:
brainium.com
quickpad.com
calcuscribe.com
alphasmart.com
Also on display is a pair of Diana Rigg's leather pants from the hit British TV spy series "The Avengers."
The difference is that North Korea turns around and sells weapons to states like Iran,...
Yeah, we just trade 'em for hostages.
Fortunately, Jiffy Pop was able to productively plowshare that technology, so it wasn't a total wash.
This is why I use mailshell. I have only recieved one spam so far to bounce-slashdot@smitty.mailshell.com, for instance, and these are easy enough to filter out. Of course, you don't get this service for nothing - mailshell sends you their own spam, but it cuts the ratio down considerably, and you can see where spammers are getting your address from.
...who uses an ibm scrollpoint? After using a mouse with a joystick, you'll never want to use a scroll wheel again. Force sensitive vertical and horizontal scrolling just rules. I wish more companies would use this technology, maybe ibm has a patent, I dunno...
more and better info here. Salient quote:
SOLED - Stacked Organic Light Emitting Device
This display is composed of three stacked layers of TOLEDs (red, green, and blue). This means that there is an almost 100% fill factor for each pixel no matter the color, leading to higher resolution displays and better color tunability. The resolution on these displays has the potential of being three times that of normal displays because of the stacked as opposed to the side-by-side layout of old. Pixels can also be made as large as wanted. Because of the stacked display, it would no longer be possible to see the individual color pixels, just the one full-color pixel. This will be most useful in small displays and very large high definition displays (like a movie screen, perhaps?).
I'd install oled screens, and just pipe the movies to each screen from a server. The picture would be much better. Who knows, this might cut distribution costs enough to enable me to switch to a subscription business model, maybe $20/person/month, all the movies you (and overpriced junk food ;)) you can eat. No PFYs on the payroll standing around selling and tearing up costly paper tickets, no lines for the customers. I wouldn't have to hire any projectionists, either, another cost savings.
1) Not a single typo.. I guess whe you care, you can do it..
Mr. Pot, I'd like to introduce you to my esteemed friend, Mr. Kettle...