Will MS allow activation of XP after the cutoff date? For example, if I buy 50 copies of XP to hold my business over for a year, will I be able to activate them later or are they going to just cut it off?
Let's say the average size is 100GB, that means you have 10,000GB, or 10TB of storage. You can do 10TB of storage with 10 drives, which will use 10% of the energy of the 100 drives you have. You'll also be using new drives and have a lower probability of failure.
Assuming you sell the drives for $20 each, you can probably get close to 10TB of new storage for $2k, although I haven't checked prices lately.
There is no such thing as "renewable" energy. You cannot get around the second law of thermodynamics. The energy will always have to come from somewhere, and be converted into a form with higher entropy in order to make you move. That entropy can never be recovered, no matter what we do.
The only real option is not to expend the energy in the first place. We should all go back to living in caves with no amenities. No electricity, no fire, no nothing. The environment is too important for human beings to continue to dominate the Earth. The exception is that Al Gore can still fly his Gulfstream all over the planet to give speeches to groups of less than 50.
I had one of those! I loved it. 1.5L 57HP 3bbl motor, 5 speed, 0-60 at some point.
The best mileage I ever got was 67MPG on a highway trip where there was a significant tailwind for most of the day. After 350K miles, it was finally retired to the recyclers.
27MPG is absolutely horrible for a car that weighs 1500lbs. My car weighs 2780 lbs and gets 38 mpg hwy and 32mph city. You're paying a penalty of 10mpg for the capability of driving like an idiot.
An Elise could easily get 50 or 60mpg or more if it actually had an environmentally responsible drivetrain, for example, a 1.0L naturally aspirated 3 cylinder like the Geo Metro had. It's ludicrous to hold yourself up as an environmental hero when you drive a car that, for its weight, has higher CO2 emissions than a car nearly twice its mass.
Gee, who woulda thunk it? For-profit corporations responding to consumer demands in order to maximize revenue and shareholder value? THE HORROR!
The SUV is far from dead, however, and it is idiotic to declare "victory" over them. SUVs are entirely practical vehicles that have their uses. I cannot use my Mazda to load up 6 road bikes on the roof, put 4 people in it, our luggage in the back, all while towing a 5000lb trailer containing, among other things, the team support vehicle (which happens to BE the Mazda).
The self-righteous environmental nitwits would have us all living in caves or something. We're not supposed to drive. We're not supposed to eat. We're not supposed to have light or heat or a/c in our homes. We're supposed to live in caves so that Algore can fly his Gulfstream to India to give a speech to 100 people while leaving all the lights on in his 15000 square foot mansion in Tennessee that uses 30x the energy of an average home. We're supposed to hail him for reducing it to 15x.
We hit 102 at my house. It must be global warming. But wait a minute, we had the coldest winter on record, so that must also be global warming. We've had a lot of rain this year, probably because of global warming, but wait a minute. We had less than average rain last year, and that was also global warming. The grubs are particularly fierce in my lawn this spring, must be global warming.
As far as I am concerned, the fire-breathing Global Warming fanatics (and that is exactly what they are) have lost all credibility because it has long been observed that, over the course of history, the more fanatical someone has been about their argument, the less credible that argument has ended up being at the end of the day.
If you think McCain is anything like Bush, you're not paying attention. He's perhaps the most liberal republican out there. He hasn't earned the title of "RINO" for nothing.
If you feel that guilty about being alive and consuming energy as a human being, you could always free some up for people who actually like themselves and enjoy life.
Bigger drain on the health care system? That's BS. If it were true, health insurance companies wouldn't be willing to pay for your gym membership in the hope that you won't be a fat-ass and cost them millions in treatment of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and the dozens of other chronic, debilitating diseases that come for free with that great biggie fry.
I consume between 4000 and 6000 calories per day, depending on the length of my training ride that day. On a 200 mile distance training ride, I can eat up to 8000 calories.
I eat at least a full pound of pasta every day, sometimes two. If I go out to eat with the team after a long training ride, we'll each order a couple of full-sized salads and at least two entrées.
The last time the 6 of us went out after a long day the bill was $500. Hah..
It's neither a driveable airplane nor a flyable car. It's just the worst idea ever imagined. Anything that has to pass highway safety tests will be way too damn heavy to fly, and anything that can fly will be too incapable of surviving a roadway crash.
One of the only reason small aircraft even exist is because there is no requirement for the occupants to survive a crash. One of the only reasons cars are so heavy is so that they can pass crash testing.
I'm both a pilot and a radar designer, and I work for one of the largest avionics companies in the world, so this thread has been quite amusing to me.
In the strict sense, radar is radar, and a transponder is a transponder. They are completely different, and to call a transponder a radar is a misuse of the term. I don't care what the navy says, a transponder is not radar, primary or secondary, and has nothing to do with radar at all.
Radar works in two dimensions, and the transponders are sometimes used to supplement the x-y location of the target with altitude data (in the case of Mode-C or mode S). Mode-S is cool because it responds to interrogation with its own X-Y from the GPS as well as the pressure altitude.
Normally, transponders sit there and send the squawk code along with identification info (if ident is on). Within 30nm of a class-B airport, Mode-C altitude encoding is REQUIRED. When you show up on ATC radar, your squawk code is overlaid with your target indication on the map. It allows ATC to keep track of you from facility to facility.
Not all commercial airports even have radar, or even a tower for that matter. There are some very busy non-towered fields out there that use someone else's radar facility for approaches.
If you put a kilo of flour in a plastic bag in your trunk, it is because you want the cop to THINK you have a kilo of cocaine.
Guess what, you're still going to jail for it.
It is a fundamental flaw in logic to say that, if someone fabricates what is on the outside visible as proof of wrongdoing and is punished for it, the punisher is at fault since the punishee didn't actually do anything wrong. They created the appearance of wrongdoing for some ulterior motive. Either way, it's not on the punisher.
This brings up an important point about "Stealth Emitters" of greenhouse gasses. There are many products out there touted as "saviors" of the planet that are actually more damaging and polluting than the "non-green" products they intend to replace.
Most people don't think that the computer they leave on all the time because it takes too long to boot is just sitting there churning out mercury, sulfur, NOx gases, and of course CO2, all back at the coal-fired power plant that is providing its electricity.
The data center at my office (of about 300 employees) is on 24x7 and consumes an entire 3-phase 208V circuit - about 20kW. This doesn't even include the 400+ workstations that are required to be left on 24x7 so that updates and security patches can be pushed every night.
I wonder how many power plants we could simply turn off if we were not to leave millions and millions of computers on all the time.
I won't get into listing other Stealth emitters, but they are not hard to find in our homes, on the road, or on some commercial rooftops.
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It just so happens that I am uncorking a 15 year old bottle of Mondavi Reserve Cabernet tonight.
Congrats to all of those who have labored over this product for so long...
Will MS allow activation of XP after the cutoff date? For example, if I buy 50 copies of XP to hold my business over for a year, will I be able to activate them later or are they going to just cut it off?
Let's say the average size is 100GB, that means you have 10,000GB, or 10TB of storage. You can do 10TB of storage with 10 drives, which will use 10% of the energy of the 100 drives you have. You'll also be using new drives and have a lower probability of failure.
Assuming you sell the drives for $20 each, you can probably get close to 10TB of new storage for $2k, although I haven't checked prices lately.
There is no such thing as "renewable" energy. You cannot get around the second law of thermodynamics. The energy will always have to come from somewhere, and be converted into a form with higher entropy in order to make you move. That entropy can never be recovered, no matter what we do.
The only real option is not to expend the energy in the first place. We should all go back to living in caves with no amenities. No electricity, no fire, no nothing. The environment is too important for human beings to continue to dominate the Earth. The exception is that Al Gore can still fly his Gulfstream all over the planet to give speeches to groups of less than 50.
I had one of those! I loved it. 1.5L 57HP 3bbl motor, 5 speed, 0-60 at some point.
The best mileage I ever got was 67MPG on a highway trip where there was a significant tailwind for most of the day. After 350K miles, it was finally retired to the recyclers.
27MPG is absolutely horrible for a car that weighs 1500lbs. My car weighs 2780 lbs and gets 38 mpg hwy and 32mph city. You're paying a penalty of 10mpg for the capability of driving like an idiot.
An Elise could easily get 50 or 60mpg or more if it actually had an environmentally responsible drivetrain, for example, a 1.0L naturally aspirated 3 cylinder like the Geo Metro had. It's ludicrous to hold yourself up as an environmental hero when you drive a car that, for its weight, has higher CO2 emissions than a car nearly twice its mass.
Haha... self righteous nitwits amuse me..
Can you cite any of these claims? Can you point me to a single mileage requirement for any vehicle (hint: there aren't any)?
Didn't think so...
But, but, but, if we'd had a warm winter, that'd ALSO be an expected effect of global warming...
Spare me your garbage.
Gee, who woulda thunk it? For-profit corporations responding to consumer demands in order to maximize revenue and shareholder value? THE HORROR!
The SUV is far from dead, however, and it is idiotic to declare "victory" over them. SUVs are entirely practical vehicles that have their uses. I cannot use my Mazda to load up 6 road bikes on the roof, put 4 people in it, our luggage in the back, all while towing a 5000lb trailer containing, among other things, the team support vehicle (which happens to BE the Mazda).
The self-righteous environmental nitwits would have us all living in caves or something. We're not supposed to drive. We're not supposed to eat. We're not supposed to have light or heat or a/c in our homes. We're supposed to live in caves so that Algore can fly his Gulfstream to India to give a speech to 100 people while leaving all the lights on in his 15000 square foot mansion in Tennessee that uses 30x the energy of an average home. We're supposed to hail him for reducing it to 15x.
Hypocritical morons..
We hit 102 at my house. It must be global warming. But wait a minute, we had the coldest winter on record, so that must also be global warming. We've had a lot of rain this year, probably because of global warming, but wait a minute. We had less than average rain last year, and that was also global warming. The grubs are particularly fierce in my lawn this spring, must be global warming.
As far as I am concerned, the fire-breathing Global Warming fanatics (and that is exactly what they are) have lost all credibility because it has long been observed that, over the course of history, the more fanatical someone has been about their argument, the less credible that argument has ended up being at the end of the day.
I've had enough...
If you think McCain is anything like Bush, you're not paying attention. He's perhaps the most liberal republican out there. He hasn't earned the title of "RINO" for nothing.
25MHz will travel the world under the right conditions...
If you feel that guilty about being alive and consuming energy as a human being, you could always free some up for people who actually like themselves and enjoy life.
You know what to do...
Free Speech does not protect inciting violence any more than it protects yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
Bigger drain on the health care system? That's BS. If it were true, health insurance companies wouldn't be willing to pay for your gym membership in the hope that you won't be a fat-ass and cost them millions in treatment of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and the dozens of other chronic, debilitating diseases that come for free with that great biggie fry.
I consume between 4000 and 6000 calories per day, depending on the length of my training ride that day. On a 200 mile distance training ride, I can eat up to 8000 calories.
I eat at least a full pound of pasta every day, sometimes two. If I go out to eat with the team after a long training ride, we'll each order a couple of full-sized salads and at least two entrées.
The last time the 6 of us went out after a long day the bill was $500. Hah..
The USA simply needs to have more tact.
:)
Tact, defined, is simply the ability to tell someone to go to hell in a way that makes them look forward to the trip
It's neither a driveable airplane nor a flyable car. It's just the worst idea ever imagined. Anything that has to pass highway safety tests will be way too damn heavy to fly, and anything that can fly will be too incapable of surviving a roadway crash.
One of the only reason small aircraft even exist is because there is no requirement for the occupants to survive a crash. One of the only reasons cars are so heavy is so that they can pass crash testing.
The two are just mutually exclusive.
Oh, sorry for the confusion :-)
It's sometimes hard not to get confused when there is so much misinformation around.
I'm both a pilot and a radar designer, and I work for one of the largest avionics companies in the world, so this thread has been quite amusing to me.
In the strict sense, radar is radar, and a transponder is a transponder. They are completely different, and to call a transponder a radar is a misuse of the term. I don't care what the navy says, a transponder is not radar, primary or secondary, and has nothing to do with radar at all.
Radar works in two dimensions, and the transponders are sometimes used to supplement the x-y location of the target with altitude data (in the case of Mode-C or mode S). Mode-S is cool because it responds to interrogation with its own X-Y from the GPS as well as the pressure altitude.
Normally, transponders sit there and send the squawk code along with identification info (if ident is on). Within 30nm of a class-B airport, Mode-C altitude encoding is REQUIRED. When you show up on ATC radar, your squawk code is overlaid with your target indication on the map. It allows ATC to keep track of you from facility to facility.
Not all commercial airports even have radar, or even a tower for that matter. There are some very busy non-towered fields out there that use someone else's radar facility for approaches.
I hear Cirrus has already bought 100,000 gallons of it... it will be standard feature starting in the 2010 model year.
If you put a kilo of flour in a plastic bag in your trunk, it is because you want the cop to THINK you have a kilo of cocaine.
Guess what, you're still going to jail for it.
It is a fundamental flaw in logic to say that, if someone fabricates what is on the outside visible as proof of wrongdoing and is punished for it, the punisher is at fault since the punishee didn't actually do anything wrong. They created the appearance of wrongdoing for some ulterior motive. Either way, it's not on the punisher.
Since when did we live in a democracy? Last I checked, it was a republic.
This brings up an important point about "Stealth Emitters" of greenhouse gasses. There are many products out there touted as "saviors" of the planet that are actually more damaging and polluting than the "non-green" products they intend to replace.
Most people don't think that the computer they leave on all the time because it takes too long to boot is just sitting there churning out mercury, sulfur, NOx gases, and of course CO2, all back at the coal-fired power plant that is providing its electricity.
The data center at my office (of about 300 employees) is on 24x7 and consumes an entire 3-phase 208V circuit - about 20kW. This doesn't even include the 400+ workstations that are required to be left on 24x7 so that updates and security patches can be pushed every night.
I wonder how many power plants we could simply turn off if we were not to leave millions and millions of computers on all the time.
I won't get into listing other Stealth emitters, but they are not hard to find in our homes, on the road, or on some commercial rooftops.