No, no! To make every book as good as the one before it, all he'd have to do would be hire a bunch of unknown authors to write for him! Then it could say inspired byWILLIAM GIBSON on the cover.
why not announce Neuromancer the movie, that would make my day!:) Hey, it came out a few years ago! Yes, I know it totally lacks the cyberpunkish and philosophical bent of Neuromancer. Unfortunately it stole its fire and any attempt to do a Neuromancer movie would have audiences crying 'matrix ripoff'.
All that bellyaching being said, I hope someone does take the risk and do it up! Or "Snow Crash" for that matter.
Vinyl will never die. It's just too handy. I see mp3s and vinyl as being a perfect pair. One is physical, one is digital. None of this half-assed CD stuff.
I can't shake the feeling that some of the photos on that site were photoshopped... The graffiti, for example, looks like it was added on after the fact. This, for example. Is it just an artifact from the GIF conversion? I suppose someone would have debunked this if it has been around since 1996 and was faked.
Whoah whoah, step back a minute. I think you're blowing this entirely out of proportion.
I didn't say that computer design should 'focus' on recycling, nor did I say that it should be 'mandated' to make computers recyclable.
My point is that if the cost of computer disposal/recycling was even partially borne by computer assemblers and manufacturers it would generate a market demand for more easily recyclable/disposable hardware.
There is no need to put in legislation to mandate recycling, that would only be clumsy and stifle manufacturers' design work. A fee for computer disposal would allow companies to decide for themselves what the best ways of dealing with this cost would be. Hopefully the result will be something similar to the progress made by Nokia which I mentioned in my previous post.
You seem pretty appalled at this suggestion. What is your answer? Send all the PCBs and lead to China?
I guess if you wanted to be scientific about it you could use the specific heat capacity of air with the average mass of air lost to the surroundings when the fridge door is open... It would probably work out to be about the same energy you would lose by taking an egg out of the fridge and eating it.
But really, I just want the lifty-countertop-fridge for the 'cool' factor...
Your analysis is bang on. Since PC manufacturers don't have to look at the computer once it leaves their factory (unless it's returned on warranty) there is no incentive to spend the extra $0.50 (or whatever) per unit to make it more easily recyclable. There's a lot their engineers could do to help re-use/recycling if management is forced to earmark some cash for it.
computers and computer materials have become so cheap that it is almost never worth the expense of hiring somebody to bust the thing up into separate materials.
I think the reasoning behind this legislation is to encourage computer manufacturers to make their designs more breakdown-and-recycle-friendly. Since they're the only ones really qualified to do it, why not place the responsibility on their heads?
As an example, Nokia has been preparing for similar legislation by altering the design and manufacturing processes of its phones to make them easily dissasemblable and reuse/recyclable. There's a lot of room for ingenuity, it's just that until a law like this passes there is no incentive for computer manufacturers to spend the extra dollar (or whatever) per unit.
Of course it does raise the cost of opening the refrigerator door, in comparison to the cost ratio now.
You know what I want? A fridge built into my countertop that pneumatically raises up at the touch of a button, leaving all the cold air still down in the refrigeration pit. It'd work just like your adjustable office chair. Yes, I know it would be a pain to clean when your cat knocks half a jug of juice down there, but isn't that a price worth paying?
Think about it... *whoooosh*... makes those 1950's techno-utopian dreams look almost attainable!;D
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No, no! To make every book as good as the one before it, all he'd have to do would be hire a bunch of unknown authors to write for him! Then it could say inspired by WILLIAM GIBSON on the cover.
What, are you talking about this?
Spam to date : zero. The only crap I get is that which is forwarded from my unexpectedly still-active university account.
FastMail has a 'bounce' option that lets you fake an 'undeliverable' error message. Good for ex-girlfriends too.
What, like Henry Kissinger?
I hear there's lots of UXO left over there from the Vietnam War era too. What's your point?
You want a button that takes you where you want to go today? It's on your keyboard, right between the alt and control keys...
You want some bread and circuses too?
Better yet, read Atlas Shrugged, Part Two: One hour later!
Hey, it came out a few years ago! Yes, I know it totally lacks the cyberpunkish and philosophical bent of Neuromancer. Unfortunately it stole its fire and any attempt to do a Neuromancer movie would have audiences crying 'matrix ripoff'.
All that bellyaching being said, I hope someone does take the risk and do it up! Or "Snow Crash" for that matter.
So you're talking about this strategy? As it was, only Gollum's intervention saved Frodo from being overcome at the last minute. Plot spoiler!
I haven't seen any of the movies yet but I hope they manage to convey just how powerful the ring actually is in corrupting those who come near it.
Now if you could summarize it in fewer than 20 lines it might get printed in the 'letters' section...
Port 69, the Linux Port of Discipline.... mmmm.
Good to hear they're up to 2.0, I hear that version 1 had some nasty bugs.
Or, much more likely, espionnage and assassination. Idealists.
If you really want them to fix it you could report the bug to them, rather than Slashdot... ;)
We have cuisine?
Should've made it into a k5 story instead.
Vinyl will never die. It's just too handy. I see mp3s and vinyl as being a perfect pair. One is physical, one is digital. None of this half-assed CD stuff.
In keeping with Slashdot tradition, their second honeymoon will happen sometime later this evening. Expect this story to still be on the front page. ;)
I can't shake the feeling that some of the photos on that site were photoshopped... The graffiti, for example, looks like it was added on after the fact. This, for example. Is it just an artifact from the GIF conversion? I suppose someone would have debunked this if it has been around since 1996 and was faked.
I didn't say that computer design should 'focus' on recycling, nor did I say that it should be 'mandated' to make computers recyclable.
My point is that if the cost of computer disposal/recycling was even partially borne by computer assemblers and manufacturers it would generate a market demand for more easily recyclable/disposable hardware.
There is no need to put in legislation to mandate recycling, that would only be clumsy and stifle manufacturers' design work. A fee for computer disposal would allow companies to decide for themselves what the best ways of dealing with this cost would be. Hopefully the result will be something similar to the progress made by Nokia which I mentioned in my previous post.
You seem pretty appalled at this suggestion. What is your answer? Send all the PCBs and lead to China?
But really, I just want the lifty-countertop-fridge for the 'cool' factor...
Your analysis is bang on. Since PC manufacturers don't have to look at the computer once it leaves their factory (unless it's returned on warranty) there is no incentive to spend the extra $0.50 (or whatever) per unit to make it more easily recyclable. There's a lot their engineers could do to help re-use/recycling if management is forced to earmark some cash for it.
I think the reasoning behind this legislation is to encourage computer manufacturers to make their designs more breakdown-and-recycle-friendly. Since they're the only ones really qualified to do it, why not place the responsibility on their heads?
As an example, Nokia has been preparing for similar legislation by altering the design and manufacturing processes of its phones to make them easily dissasemblable and reuse/recyclable. There's a lot of room for ingenuity, it's just that until a law like this passes there is no incentive for computer manufacturers to spend the extra dollar (or whatever) per unit.
You know what I want? A fridge built into my countertop that pneumatically raises up at the touch of a button, leaving all the cold air still down in the refrigeration pit. It'd work just like your adjustable office chair. Yes, I know it would be a pain to clean when your cat knocks half a jug of juice down there, but isn't that a price worth paying?
Think about it... *whoooosh*... makes those 1950's techno-utopian dreams look almost attainable!