Fortunately, these young people will not be able to afford to drive these out of their driveway.
You know that was my parent's logic when they off loaded their 1977 Caprice Classi on me (in 86). It got all of 15mpg on the highway. In reality it didn't slow me down all that much, cheap gas wasn't all that cheap at 80 cents a gallon and I was making $2.45 an hour part time, but the fact that I didn't have any bills what so ever other than gas and pocket money.
The typical teenager even with all the acutriments (personal electronics, clothes, cell phone, etc mommy and daddy pay for them) is pretty much in the same boat and even with gas at $4-5 dollars a gallon.
What a crock of shit. Every time I turn around they keep changing what exactly what "lower class" is.
When I was lower class, that meant wondering whether or not I'd be able to pay the rent at the end of the month or have more than $40 to spend on food, or can I afford two tanks of gas, or should I just stretch out one so I can have the $40 to spend on food. God forbid the car break down.
Now lower class is about, "What? I can't afford the payments on my 1500sf+ house, 1-3 year old car, and oh boo hoo I can only afford a 30" inch tv and not the 42.
The government does not act with contempt towards the common man, unless you live in the UK/Europe then boy are you fucked (taxes/prices), but it definitely doesn't cut him any slack when he is stupid with his money, which is exactly where the US economy is at the moment.
Being poor means no food, no house, no tranportation, no future.
Poor does not mean that you have to actually live within a budget to pay for cable, internet, portable devices, computers, game consoles, cell phones, clothes, cars, major appliances, a house, travel, and retirement. This is where most people have gone wrong these days.
My brother in-law makes 3-4 times as much as me, lives in the big 5400sf house has two SUV's and a truck (all less than 3 years old), and has something like $500,000 in debt and very little in the way of savings. He ends up sweating every time the economy hickups.
Me I have $4000 in debt and own everything I have including my BMW & Toyota truck. I rent a house and will have over $6+ million to retire off of by 65, that is if I don't stop working at 45, which then I'll only have around $75k a year in interest to live off of. By the current definition of "poor" I would be considered somewhere in the lower middle class.
If you are tired of being poor, get educated, get promoted, and most importantly live with in your means!
Someone could come up with a power source that is practically free in every sense, and the majority of the people on/. would tear it down.
If we could build a device to pick up all the negative waves around here, the amount of energy collected would cause the Sun to snuff out a septillionth of a second later.
Its a cool idea, even if its not 100% practical. Throwing around the standard "there's no free lunch" response doesn't prove your smart, it just proves you're an asshole.
Yeah the media in the UK is a bastion of truth and light.
I wonder what's the news on page 3? Nice tits, a brunett today, sweet.
I've seen nothing redeemable about the media in Europe during my two year of living here.
Europe screaming at the top of their lungs had more to do with the large unemployed muslim populations that refuse to integrate that have become breeding grounds for extremists looking for any excuse to go out with a bang, than whether or not Iraq had things they shouldn't.
I don't know maybe we should have listened since the middle east is a mess of European design, we should have left it to you guys to try and clean up.
They should have just come out with a format of 720p instead of getting into a pissing contest over 1080p. I would have been cheaper to develop for, and for the customer to upgrade to. Hell most 720p movies would have probably easily fit on a DVD (or two, or five for LotR director's cut) once you dumped all the pointles extras that noone watches more than once.
You're average home theater customer would have been thrilled and it all would have stuck with the planned obsolescence in five/ten years to sell us 1080p
My Tv/Movie DVD & MP3 collection has swamped 1.5TB without even trying, my digital photos from the last 10 years take up 35gb of space and I just picked up a new 12mp camera so the rate of growth is going to get worse, raw footage from old family movies from my childhood takes up a good 250gb by itself, and God forbid I get a 720p or 1080p video camera and start chasing the kids around. I've eaten up 2TB total of storage with no backups other than the photographs and the family movies. I'm contemplating adding two more 1TB drives this fall, that should buy me another year or so of empty storage space.
Most people do need multiple TB worth of drive space they just don't know it yet.
Well if he had it his way then Vista would have smoked OSX because MS would have stolen just about everything about it, since the "cutting edge" program Apple nuts can shut up about is over ten years old now. MS has always gotten its best ideas from someone else and the whole software IP enforcement has made it much more difficult for them to borrow them.
It seems to me that the same people who really want that fully integrated home theatre experience are not necessarily the same people who know how to set up and purchase the componenets for said system.
Every home theater nut that I've ever met either was motivated enough to learn how to do it themselves, knew someone who could show them how to do it, or had enough money to pay someone else to set it up for them.
I honnest doubt it'll be any of the big three, Apple, MS, or SONY, because they spend too much of their time on trying to set up something that gives them all the benefits that they forget that the whole point is that its supposed to benefit the consumer.
I doubt they'll ever upgrade so it can, for one simple point.
If you let the customer play DVD's on it they will, and they will end up wearing it out using it to play something that does not make them money.
Look online and see how many "I killed the DVD player watching movies in my PS/Xbox how do I replace it?" threads there are online and then look to see how many there are for the Wii.
The problem is that theater PCs are almost as rare as teeth on chickens.
Uh if you have a PC and a modern LCD/plasma with a DVI or HDMI input then you have a "Theater PC". There is absolutely nothing different between a Theater & a Regular PC
it's a pain in the behind to fit four players' bodies around a single 17" or 19" monitor
Most computers these days can hook up more than monitor, sound device, and input device. With a cheap SLI set-up you could run 4 of those monitors, one for each player which would be a hell of a lot easier than sitting around squinting at your little tiny chunk of the 480,720, or 1080 "tv" you are playing on. Four 24" 1900x1200 monitors will run you less than 1 50" LCD/plamsa tv these days.
It's a chicken or the egg thing. Gaming companies don't make games for systems like I'm talking about because noone has a clue that they can even be built, but the way the prices are tanking on hardware I wouldn't be surprised to see them become common place in a few years once they do.
It'll start off with a family computer that'll let more than 1 person use the computer with their own seperate monitor & mouse and then work it's way up from there.
For now maybe. In LA airport you'll see the smoking tubes, glass rooms with negative pressure to keep the smoke from escaping in the terminals. So far that's the only place I've seen them. Most of the resturants won't make the jump since you cannot serve food or drink in a smoking room.
The day that the console makers come out with a console on a card will be about the time you see some sort of standardization in PC gaming. Hell a Wii minus the DVD player could do that now. Plug it into your theater PC and you are good to go.
It's either that or PC makers/buyers wise up and tell Intel graphics to shove off and buy whatever is in the $50-100 range from Nvidia or ATI or one of their integrated solutions they've been talking about.
Looking at Valve's hardware survey that's about where the majority of PC gamers reside. Give it another year or two and Crysis level graphics will run nicely at that price point. Maybe then the PC gaming renaissance can commence.
A business owner should be allowed to have a business that caters to smokers.
Most anti-smoking laws do not prevent a business owner from catering to smokers, as long as they are willing to provide the proper environement for them to do so, outdoor areas, special ventilation indoors, etc. What they do prevent them from doing is just catering to smokers while making all the non-smokers stew in the smog.
The real reason why most bars/resturants just out right ban smoking is they can't be bothered to or don't have the money to make the changes needed.
There seems to be a tacit assumption in posts thus far that unmanned craft will be flying willy-nilly through the commercial lanes. That's just not the case. UAVs have pilots controlling them through encrypted datalinks. The few that have or are proposed to have "autonomous operation" will do so at altitudes that are far above normal flight levels or in restricted zones.
Uh this statement is not even remotely true. First off UAV's have been flying mixed in with regular traffic for some years now. They fly as IFR traffic which means that traffic control keeps an eye on them, but that's about it. That's great an all if you are flying IFR as well or VFR with flight following where control will call you with traffic that is around you, but if you are flying just VFR you are on your own. Most if not all UAV's cannot detect traffic around them, in other words, if the pilot in the control center is not flying then they can't see you. Even with the pilot on the stick the view is very limited and are unable to look around to see what is going on.
Go fly around Southern California and you'll come across them quite often at a wide variety of altitudes.
Sorry to disappoint. I moved out of my parents house, have a job, two degrees, working on my Masters, don't have any debt, have money put away for retirement, didn't have an illigit kid or two, never did drugs, never got arrested, and pay my taxes.
...they did it like the movie Wedlock. No walls and no guards just a big circle painted around the facility that was 300m in diameter. When they put you in the prison they put a colar on you with 1/4lb of plastic explosives in it. If you got more than 300m away from the other person you were "wedlocked" to (you never knew who that person was) then both your and their colar blew up.
Maybe then the little bastards might be motivated to stay in school.
Seriously though I think drop outs should be just drafted into a new branch of the Peace Corps and sent off to 3rd world countries to work in work groups creating infrastructure for poor people, then they might come to appreciate how good they have it back home and maybe do a little growing up while they are gone.
And if they still refuse to straighten out I say leave them overseas permanently, life is short and the world has an over abundance of assholes. We need to quit wasting so much time on those that don't want to participate
Actually they do have several things like what you are talking about, the thing seems to be cost is why you don't see them in cell towers. They have to be very accurately surveyed to provide better accuracy than GPS.
WAAS - wide area augmentation system begain deploying a few years back. It has 25 ground sations in the US that recieve the signal and then send corrected signals back up to the satellite.
The next one, is called LAAS, local area augmentations system, like the WAAS but much more local. It is designed specifically for aviation and is only good in a 20 mile proximity to the airport. It's supposed to be a cheaper replacement for ILS systems.
Take a look on wikipedia under WAAS GPS & LAAS GPS there are some pretty decent articles on them.
Have you seen the size of industrial wind turbines up close? I used to live near Tehachapi, CA and its big wind farm. Each blade took up an entire semi truck when they hauled them in, and once up and running did not spin so fast that you couldn't see them.
A bird retarded/near sighted enough to run into one of those things would have difficulty missing other objectes such as trees, houses, telephone poles, etc.
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You know that was my parent's logic when they off loaded their 1977 Caprice Classi on me (in 86). It got all of 15mpg on the highway. In reality it didn't slow me down all that much, cheap gas wasn't all that cheap at 80 cents a gallon and I was making $2.45 an hour part time, but the fact that I didn't have any bills what so ever other than gas and pocket money.
The typical teenager even with all the acutriments (personal electronics, clothes, cell phone, etc mommy and daddy pay for them) is pretty much in the same boat and even with gas at $4-5 dollars a gallon.
When I was lower class, that meant wondering whether or not I'd be able to pay the rent at the end of the month or have more than $40 to spend on food, or can I afford two tanks of gas, or should I just stretch out one so I can have the $40 to spend on food. God forbid the car break down.
Now lower class is about, "What? I can't afford the payments on my 1500sf+ house, 1-3 year old car, and oh boo hoo I can only afford a 30" inch tv and not the 42.
The government does not act with contempt towards the common man, unless you live in the UK/Europe then boy are you fucked (taxes/prices), but it definitely doesn't cut him any slack when he is stupid with his money, which is exactly where the US economy is at the moment.
Being poor means no food, no house, no tranportation, no future.
Poor does not mean that you have to actually live within a budget to pay for cable, internet, portable devices, computers, game consoles, cell phones, clothes, cars, major appliances, a house, travel, and retirement. This is where most people have gone wrong these days.
My brother in-law makes 3-4 times as much as me, lives in the big 5400sf house has two SUV's and a truck (all less than 3 years old), and has something like $500,000 in debt and very little in the way of savings. He ends up sweating every time the economy hickups.
Me I have $4000 in debt and own everything I have including my BMW & Toyota truck. I rent a house and will have over $6+ million to retire off of by 65, that is if I don't stop working at 45, which then I'll only have around $75k a year in interest to live off of. By the current definition of "poor" I would be considered somewhere in the lower middle class.
If you are tired of being poor, get educated, get promoted, and most importantly live with in your means!
If we could build a device to pick up all the negative waves around here, the amount of energy collected would cause the Sun to snuff out a septillionth of a second later.
Its a cool idea, even if its not 100% practical. Throwing around the standard "there's no free lunch" response doesn't prove your smart, it just proves you're an asshole.
I wonder what's the news on page 3? Nice tits, a brunett today, sweet.
I've seen nothing redeemable about the media in Europe during my two year of living here.
Europe screaming at the top of their lungs had more to do with the large unemployed muslim populations that refuse to integrate that have become breeding grounds for extremists looking for any excuse to go out with a bang, than whether or not Iraq had things they shouldn't.
I don't know maybe we should have listened since the middle east is a mess of European design, we should have left it to you guys to try and clean up.
Screw toys, I want to be able to download a car or computer part files.
BT throttling? If you mean crashing for random reasons every couple of hours then yes BT throttles alot in my area.
You're average home theater customer would have been thrilled and it all would have stuck with the planned obsolescence in five/ten years to sell us 1080p
You are absolutely right, they need 5 of them.
My Tv/Movie DVD & MP3 collection has swamped 1.5TB without even trying, my digital photos from the last 10 years take up 35gb of space and I just picked up a new 12mp camera so the rate of growth is going to get worse, raw footage from old family movies from my childhood takes up a good 250gb by itself, and God forbid I get a 720p or 1080p video camera and start chasing the kids around. I've eaten up 2TB total of storage with no backups other than the photographs and the family movies. I'm contemplating adding two more 1TB drives this fall, that should buy me another year or so of empty storage space.
Most people do need multiple TB worth of drive space they just don't know it yet.
If they are water cooling, then not having the servers stacked vertically would keep you from frying everything below the one that springs a leak.
Well if he had it his way then Vista would have smoked OSX because MS would have stolen just about everything about it, since the "cutting edge" program Apple nuts can shut up about is over ten years old now. MS has always gotten its best ideas from someone else and the whole software IP enforcement has made it much more difficult for them to borrow them.
I took the BIG Hammer to the roommate, nothing wrong with the computer.
OOOOOOOOOO! Shiny!
That about sums up the average Apple customer.
Every home theater nut that I've ever met either was motivated enough to learn how to do it themselves, knew someone who could show them how to do it, or had enough money to pay someone else to set it up for them.
I honnest doubt it'll be any of the big three, Apple, MS, or SONY, because they spend too much of their time on trying to set up something that gives them all the benefits that they forget that the whole point is that its supposed to benefit the consumer.
If you let the customer play DVD's on it they will, and they will end up wearing it out using it to play something that does not make them money.
Look online and see how many "I killed the DVD player watching movies in my PS/Xbox how do I replace it?" threads there are online and then look to see how many there are for the Wii.
Uh if you have a PC and a modern LCD/plasma with a DVI or HDMI input then you have a "Theater PC". There is absolutely nothing different between a Theater & a Regular PC
it's a pain in the behind to fit four players' bodies around a single 17" or 19" monitor
Most computers these days can hook up more than monitor, sound device, and input device. With a cheap SLI set-up you could run 4 of those monitors, one for each player which would be a hell of a lot easier than sitting around squinting at your little tiny chunk of the 480,720, or 1080 "tv" you are playing on. Four 24" 1900x1200 monitors will run you less than 1 50" LCD/plamsa tv these days.
It's a chicken or the egg thing. Gaming companies don't make games for systems like I'm talking about because noone has a clue that they can even be built, but the way the prices are tanking on hardware I wouldn't be surprised to see them become common place in a few years once they do.
It'll start off with a family computer that'll let more than 1 person use the computer with their own seperate monitor & mouse and then work it's way up from there.
For now maybe. In LA airport you'll see the smoking tubes, glass rooms with negative pressure to keep the smoke from escaping in the terminals. So far that's the only place I've seen them. Most of the resturants won't make the jump since you cannot serve food or drink in a smoking room.
It's either that or PC makers/buyers wise up and tell Intel graphics to shove off and buy whatever is in the $50-100 range from Nvidia or ATI or one of their integrated solutions they've been talking about.
Looking at Valve's hardware survey that's about where the majority of PC gamers reside. Give it another year or two and Crysis level graphics will run nicely at that price point. Maybe then the PC gaming renaissance can commence.
Most anti-smoking laws do not prevent a business owner from catering to smokers, as long as they are willing to provide the proper environement for them to do so, outdoor areas, special ventilation indoors, etc. What they do prevent them from doing is just catering to smokers while making all the non-smokers stew in the smog.
The real reason why most bars/resturants just out right ban smoking is they can't be bothered to or don't have the money to make the changes needed.
Uh this statement is not even remotely true. First off UAV's have been flying mixed in with regular traffic for some years now. They fly as IFR traffic which means that traffic control keeps an eye on them, but that's about it. That's great an all if you are flying IFR as well or VFR with flight following where control will call you with traffic that is around you, but if you are flying just VFR you are on your own. Most if not all UAV's cannot detect traffic around them, in other words, if the pilot in the control center is not flying then they can't see you. Even with the pilot on the stick the view is very limited and are unable to look around to see what is going on.
Go fly around Southern California and you'll come across them quite often at a wide variety of altitudes.
So when are you going to get past the first one?
That is usually true, but not typically in the country doing the deporting. Just look at US history.
Maybe then the little bastards might be motivated to stay in school.
Seriously though I think drop outs should be just drafted into a new branch of the Peace Corps and sent off to 3rd world countries to work in work groups creating infrastructure for poor people, then they might come to appreciate how good they have it back home and maybe do a little growing up while they are gone.
And if they still refuse to straighten out I say leave them overseas permanently, life is short and the world has an over abundance of assholes. We need to quit wasting so much time on those that don't want to participate
Land of the not so free and home of the stupid. I lived in CA for six years, nothing they come up with surprises me a bit.
WAAS - wide area augmentation system begain deploying a few years back. It has 25 ground sations in the US that recieve the signal and then send corrected signals back up to the satellite.
The next one, is called LAAS, local area augmentations system, like the WAAS but much more local. It is designed specifically for aviation and is only good in a 20 mile proximity to the airport. It's supposed to be a cheaper replacement for ILS systems.
Take a look on wikipedia under WAAS GPS & LAAS GPS there are some pretty decent articles on them.
A bird retarded/near sighted enough to run into one of those things would have difficulty missing other objectes such as trees, houses, telephone poles, etc.