Great: and with our friends at Comcast, etc. trying to charge for every device using NAT behind your connection, or charging you extra per IP, I can only guess what's going to happen to your ISP bill once the iDishwasher, iMicrowave and iRefrigerator get hooked up.
"Hello, this is Comcast. We've determined that your stove has been involved in a lot of KaZaA file sharing - a violation of our Terms of Agreement. We're cutting your connection."
I swear, if one more piece of software, hardware, or company comes out with goofy capitalization, I'll go postal.
I'm also losing patience with the "in" use of the letter "i" being tacked onto the front of every new "i"nternet enabled device. I almost completely lost it when they started putting "e" in the front of everything, but then a whole bunch of those companies went "e"xtinct.
Ah, but the US gov't has a pretty strong legal hold on your (US people in US) ability to shoot off really powerful rockets (Bureau of ATF, I figure), or even get into the air (FAA, for starters), so I figure your odds of getting high enough into the air to have a chance on your own are pretty slim.
"Salvage One" not withstanding;)
http://www.jumptheshark.com/s/salvagei.htm
Actually, "ceramic" is a generic word that can mean all sorts of things, including metal particles in the composition.
The term comes from the Greek word for "pottery", which in turn comes from the Sanskrit word for "burnt stuff."
The following site has a nice chart showing various compositions of some ceramic magnets.
Check the following official folks for the full scoop.
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Reminds me of that poor monkey in the anti-drug commercial who "turned down food, water, even sex, until he died" just for that cocaine hit he would get when he hit the lever in his cage.
Except now, the monkey just has to think about hitting the left-mouse button and he gets that new addiction we all have.
Yeah, I remember hearing about that once and had a chance to go through a few of the old "Cosmos" tapes from the local rental shop - the "billions per sentence" ratio never got above one.
On the other hand, he did release a book called "Billions and Billions" that seemed to cover all sorts of topics.
Johnny Carson's impersonation of Carl Sagan used it, and Sagan eventually said it years later. After a while, he was reported to have grown to hate the phrase and tried to refrain from even using the word "billions" in public. At a Planetary Society meeting in 1981, his speech eventually had to use the word "billions" (just once), and giggling broke out in the audience, and then he just glared.
Still, quite a few people have gotten fame (or more fame) for things they never said. I get that all the time at home...
Check out "They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Mis-Leading Attributions" on your favorite book/search site. (I'm not supplying a link because you're all grown-ups and know how to search!)
I'd like to get an electric for the pure "geek" of it all, but power storage is a big hole right now. Yeah, I know that 60-100 miles handles most commutes, etc. But you can only guess what happens to a car full of batteries in the dead of winter in a parking lot all day while you're at work.
Bought an Insight a month ago, and while it's still gas, the car is SULEV and the dash has more than enough geek factor for me for now.
BTW, we also own a VW wagon for driving the family around, but the round-trip to work every day is done in the hybrid. For most families, it really breaks down to "both cars do a commute during the day, one car drives the kids around at night and on weekends." If not for the "storage issue", most households in the US would do fine with one electric. That was the clincher for me and the Insight: one of the reviews said "makes a great second car," which is exactly what we were looking for.
I've posted elsewhere on this item. I bought an Insight in Dec. and also own a VW Passat Wagon, so disclaimers "on".
I think the catch is that it turns into a "bigger gun" concept, along the lines of the Cold War. You know: your neighbors all bought SUVs, so you get one, then when Super-SUVs came along (a la Excursion, Yukon, etc.) you have to get one to stay ahead.
I'm all for safety, but there is a certain point where you're actually saying "to h**l with everyone else: I'm getting the bigger gun."
In my neck of the woods (Midwest US), I routinely drive alongside soccer moms driving alone to work in four-ton Excursions. Maybe we can just ship these things with the airbags already inflated to really protect the occupants.:)
While more weight can be safer, the track record often can be dismal when automakers rely on that weight to supply the safety, hence a high percent of rollovers and other things. Also, driver confidence goes way up, and you end up passing lots of them in the ditches when the snow builds up.
Don't brand me as a environut or anything yet. I'm all in favor of "right tool for the job", but perhaps people are buying too much vehicle "in case" they need to buy a chair.
I could be spreading suburban legends here or something, but I thought I had once read that the electric milk trucks in Europe have little noise-makers on them to avoid this sort of thing.
I know in "deer-country" every has little whistles attached to the bumpers of their vehicles to avoid a run-in with large animals - everyone loses.
Bought the Insight in December. Looked at the Prius, but it cost more, had lower mileage, and had a four-month wait in my area (Midwest US).
Might have gotten the Toyota if four seats was a priority, but my wife and I already have a wagon for driving our daughter around, and if you're like most people, you're just driving alone to and from work everyday, anyway. Back seat is a waste of weight.
Actually, the kicker with my Insight is the CVT. With an infinite number of gears, it's always in the right gear. For the Insight, the electric sort of acts like a turbo, supplying extra power when needed. It actually levels out the "stops and goes" so well that it gets better MPG in the city than the highway (57/56 EPA).
Yeah, there was a price premium for a three cylinder car with an electric motor in series with the gas, but I tend to think of it as "putting the money where the mouth is".
If you're a real geek, take a look at these cars. The technology in them actually makes getting to work fun!
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Is it just me, or does anyone else think it looks like an old Macintosh or something?
"Hello, this is Comcast. We've determined that your stove has been involved in a lot of KaZaA file sharing - a violation of our Terms of Agreement. We're cutting your connection."
I'm also losing patience with the "in" use of the letter "i" being tacked onto the front of every new "i"nternet enabled device. I almost completely lost it when they started putting "e" in the front of everything, but then a whole bunch of those companies went "e"xtinct.
"Salvage One" not withstanding ;)
http://www.jumptheshark.com/s/salvagei.htm
http://www.acers.org/acers/aboutceramics.asp
The term comes from the Greek word for "pottery", which in turn comes from the Sanskrit word for "burnt stuff."
The following site has a nice chart showing various compositions of some ceramic magnets. Check the following official folks for the full scoop.
Except now, the monkey just has to think about hitting the left-mouse button and he gets that new addiction we all have.
Poor Monkey...
On the other hand, he did release a book called "Billions and Billions" that seemed to cover all sorts of topics.
Johnny Carson's impersonation of Carl Sagan used it, and Sagan eventually said it years later. After a while, he was reported to have grown to hate the phrase and tried to refrain from even using the word "billions" in public. At a Planetary Society meeting in 1981, his speech eventually had to use the word "billions" (just once), and giggling broke out in the audience, and then he just glared.
Still, quite a few people have gotten fame (or more fame) for things they never said. I get that all the time at home...
Check out "They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Mis-Leading Attributions" on your favorite book/search site. (I'm not supplying a link because you're all grown-ups and know how to search!)
...Billions and Billions...
</sagan voice>
Boy, I'll miss that guy! One of the many people who triggered lots of tech interest in me and made me who I am!
Bought an Insight a month ago, and while it's still gas, the car is SULEV and the dash has more than enough geek factor for me for now.
BTW, we also own a VW wagon for driving the family around, but the round-trip to work every day is done in the hybrid. For most families, it really breaks down to "both cars do a commute during the day, one car drives the kids around at night and on weekends." If not for the "storage issue", most households in the US would do fine with one electric. That was the clincher for me and the Insight: one of the reviews said "makes a great second car," which is exactly what we were looking for.
I think the catch is that it turns into a "bigger gun" concept, along the lines of the Cold War. You know: your neighbors all bought SUVs, so you get one, then when Super-SUVs came along (a la Excursion, Yukon, etc.) you have to get one to stay ahead.
I'm all for safety, but there is a certain point where you're actually saying "to h**l with everyone else: I'm getting the bigger gun."
In my neck of the woods (Midwest US), I routinely drive alongside soccer moms driving alone to work in four-ton Excursions. Maybe we can just ship these things with the airbags already inflated to really protect the occupants. :)
While more weight can be safer, the track record often can be dismal when automakers rely on that weight to supply the safety, hence a high percent of rollovers and other things. Also, driver confidence goes way up, and you end up passing lots of them in the ditches when the snow builds up.
Don't brand me as a environut or anything yet. I'm all in favor of "right tool for the job", but perhaps people are buying too much vehicle "in case" they need to buy a chair.
the electric milk trucks in Europe have little noise-makers on them to avoid this sort of thing.
I know in "deer-country" every has little whistles attached to the bumpers of their vehicles
to avoid a run-in with large animals - everyone loses.
and had a four-month wait in my area (Midwest US).
Might have gotten the Toyota if four seats was a priority, but my wife and I already have
a wagon for driving our daughter around, and if you're like most people, you're just driving
alone to and from work everyday, anyway. Back seat is a waste of weight.
Actually, the kicker with my Insight is the CVT. With an infinite number of gears, it's always
in the right gear. For the Insight, the electric sort of acts like a turbo, supplying extra power
when needed. It actually levels out the "stops and goes" so well that it gets better MPG
in the city than the highway (57/56 EPA).
Yeah, there was a price premium for a three cylinder car with an electric motor in series with
the gas, but I tend to think of it as "putting the money where the mouth is".
If you're a real geek, take a look at these cars. The technology in them actually makes getting
to work fun!
-no Sig: I'm new here