I wouldn't exactly call the Escape a SUV. It's more like a car with extra headroom and higher ground clearance. All and all though the whole point of a hybrid is to ditch weight and increase efficiency and power. Sure it's not going to get 60 miles to the gallon, if I wanted 60miles to the gallon I'd buy a motorcycle. But if every light truck and utility vehicle suddenly got 30-35mpg instead of 18-24 you'd see a noticeable drop in demand for oil.
My question is when are they going to quit fooling around with these small cache sizes and start putting in 256mb-1gb+ of memory in there to be used as a RAM drive that is fed by it's HD component.
It would be nice to see HD's average transfer rate stay closer to it's peak rating for comonly used files.
Actually this could be a very usefull tool when trying to find information and meeting people. Most of my favorite websites I found through others, not a search enginee.
At the same time I'd see a need to have the "not connected" option, for when you want a little alone time while perusing your favorite beastial midget porn site.
The only thing dead in this story is the horse that they are beating.
The only way they'll kill the PC market off permanently is if a company starts offering an updated counsel ever year or one that can be updated at the whim of the user. The other requirement is that that counsel would also have to have games that are compatible with PC's directly. (PC gamers can play with Counsel gamers in the same games at the same time.)
Of course if this ever happened the PC market really wouldn't go away it would just be rolled together with the counsel market.
Yeah FedX is a pain where I live, since they won't deliver anything without a signature that is an express package, so I end up driving 100 miles round trip to go get my box, usually computer parts. I've begged companies to send it USPS or UPS or do FedX ground since I don't have a similar problem with a signature, and the bastards end up sending it 2nd day express anyway.
At $2.45 a gallon and 3 hours of driving I just find a different company to order from instead of fooling with FedX.
They do have a deal though that you can sign up for a preauthorized drop point, either at your house or another location that can solve my problem of them wanting a signature, but I haven't gotten around to doing it yet.
First off public transportation doesn't exist in most states, and two well who exactly cares what the Europeans think. They are mostly talk (bitch and moan) anyway, and very short on action.
As far as SUV's being large and fuel-greedy, they aren't that much worse than any other full size vehicle, and the desiel ones tend to be better than many cars. Those giant Dodge and Ford desiel pickups get 10 more mpg than my little Toyota Tacoma! Also if you go back just a couple of decades very few vehicles got more than 15mpg, cars included, which is about what the worst SUV get these days. Big vehicles from the same time period usually got about 7-8mpg!
Personally I would like to get one because my little pick-up truck isn't cutting it. Two seats are not enough room! Now don't get me wrong my commuter vehicle of choice is a motorcycle, 50mpg and it can blow the doors off of just about any car that comes along. The down side is you can't do much grocery shopping with a bike and I certainly can't use it to take a few friends, the dogs, and our gear to go out camping or what ever.
You have a valid point as far as the reduction, since we'll most likely just increase usage for any gains we make, and that is under the usumption that every since producer of raw materials actually uses it, which won't happen. It'll be like recycling aluminum cans, it'll be an option a few companies will take advantage of and if the situation is right will actually see a profit.
Speaking of farms there are a few interesting articles floating around about how an dairy farmer captures methane from his manure processing pits. He has a very small (150w) generator hooked up to it and it runs continuously for a month at a time off the gas. He only turns it off to dredge the pits. He generates enough electricity to cover all his ranches needs and sells the surplus to the power company.
Automobiles, that includes SUV's, only account for about 20% of the oil consumeed. Even if we all stopped driving tomorrow we would still need to import oil. The biggest users are energy producers (electric and heat) as well as home heating and other industrial uses.
While 500 barrels a day doesn't sound too exciting what it does provide is a way to dispose of material that is normally put into landfills. There is a company that has been doing something similar in Hawaii for some time. They collect the waste, convert it into desiel and other useable oils. They run all of their vehicles off of the desiel and sell the surplus at a nice profit.
As far as needing 10,000 of these plants, just think of how many meat packing plants, food processing plants, ranches, and farms there are in the US all of which would be suppliers of raw materials. If they were to tap into all of them, there is no reason why we couldn't drastically reduce our dependence on foriegn oil.
Looks pretty good, but I want to see some heavy lifting demos. Hot girls are certainly welcome, but something on the scale of Farcry, quantity and quality, would be more impressive than just a pretty smile.
No as in no. I am a long time fan of Nvidia, but I switched to ATI this last time, since they've been fooling around too much with their chipsets without producing any real results. The only real reason for their latest offering being a bigger jump than normal is due to the fact I was hardly alone in my switch to ATI and the marketing people got the message loud and clear. Hence their latest card being so much faster than the 9800 series.
Here is a good example why being a fan boy is plain stupid. Look at what happened with long distance service. Before the price wars (early nineties) I was paying around $.25 a minute to talk long distance. After a decade of people just up and dumping their phone service for the next lowest priced offering you can now get unlimited long distnace plus local service for about the same price as a 2 hour long distance call in 1990.
The less loyalty people (fan boys) show to either company the bigger the advances we'll see with each new card that is released as well as a lower price. Buy the fastest card you can afford for the cheapest price and forget who's name is branded on the side. Before you know it we'll have hardware capable of photo-realistic on the fly rendering for under $200.
Now if we get the rest of them to go along.
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It's about time. The only way I watch TV any more is through downloads or season DVD's who has the time to play the network games when they bounce your favorite shows around every other week chasing ratings numbers.
I just upgraded from a Minolta Dimage 7i to a Canon digital Rebel. The higher megapixal rating was just the icing on the cake. While I realy liked the Dimage it had several short comming that made the upgrade to the Rebel a must. Slow autofocus, slow picture process time, heat, short battery life, problematic viewer, and the single option on the lense. The Rebel is just the opposite, and at the right price as well.
Those are the real reason to upgrade, though I'm sure the writer of the article will get to that, those improvements also tend to go hand in hand with a higher MP rating. The same goes for the processor rating game. Most people, enthusiasts aside, don't buy a new processor they buy a new computer. Sure it comes with a higher rated processor, but it also tends to have a better motherboard, a faster harddrive/CD/DVD, newer video card, faster/more RAM, etc...etc...etc... People know this, so I don't think it's exactly fair to bash the industry's method of marketing.
The other thing the writer didn't point out is that at 2/3 the sensor size it uses a lot less power than older cameras. My orginal 1MP Kodak weighed more than my current Canon and took 4 AA which lasted all of 30-45 minutes. I carried 4-5 sets of rechargeables with me everywhere I went. The latest cameras last for hours on typically 2 AA batteries or as in the case of my Canon for most of the day on one Li battery back.
Most people just take snap shots. That's what those cameras, even then "Pro-sumer" cameras target. They are more interested in the price, how long the batteries last, how big the camera is, it's zoom capability, how many photos it holds, and whether or not it takes a half-way decent photo. Personally I think the manufactures are delivering those wants and then some for a very low price. There has always been various levels of cameras, and the serious photographer will almost always steer clear of the mass-market consumer stuff.
To expect that market segement to deliver pro-quality photos is just silly.
Wow that's still going around. I remember people joking about that in my physics class(a long time ago). The proffessor who taught the class explained how he discovered his love of physics by dropping cats (held upside down) from various hights as a child. (To see how they landed on their feet)
They sell a product called the Jackrabbit. Orginally it was used for oil survey sleds that were towed. This way you could mount them without having to build anything elaborate to change the water flow. This should work nicely for what you are wanting.
Lining the pockets of the low class don't you mean?
The latest time I checked I'm either upper-lower or lower-middle (~$35k a year)
I own stock in a number of the "evil" corporations and very much expect a return on my investment. Karl Marx was an idiot because of the simple fact that even the poor can scrap some cash together and invest in/start companies and improve their lot, but in his system, you are more or less stuck at what ever level you are born into.
What we really need to do is have free trade with conditions such as a minimum wage or a trade deficite limit.
As far as the game not costing less than $50, well that's your own damn fault. I haven't paid more than $40-45 for a game in some time, since I do a very simple thing, don't buy the fucking thing until it costs less! It's called being an inteligent consumer. Unfortunately most gamers would wet themselves if they didn't run out buy it at the over-priced retail chain on the intial release date.
Try looking around online or waiting a month or two, or hell even a year or so if you are really tight. I picked up the two pack of C&C Generals/Zero Hour for $45, can't beat that with a stick. (Actually I thought it sucked based on previous C&C titles so I ignored it till last month)
Well anyway anyone can invest in companies and move themselves up out of lower/middle class. If these companies are making a killing then you would be an idiot not to entertain the idea of investing in them.
We're not narrow sighted, we just disagree with anyone who doesn't agree with us (We are almost always right didn't you know?)
Xenophobic, naw we like aliens (Ewoks, ET, Vulcans) just not the illegal/annoying variety (Boarder crossers, terrorists, the French).
Impossibly arrogant, yes we are but then again we have only been at it for the last hundred years or so, the French have been at it for the better part of a millenia.
Easily brainwashed, for some odd reason it hurts to think about that one. Instead of answering that one I have a strong desire to go gas up my SUV and get McDonald's for lunch.
The last time we had a consistent budget surplus was during the expansion era, but then again that was after we "expanded" (a.k.a. stole at gunpoint) into the Native American's land and sold it to pay the bills.
The FBI has been able to tap phone and wireless communication for decades they are just getting with the times, nothing to get worked up over.
Screaming at the "Man" to pay their own bills is like yelling at yourself to pay the bills. When you pay the taxes that's where you are sending them.
NOTE: If you are over the age of 18 and still don't make enough to actually have to pay taxes, well then my friend you are a loser. Get a job already.
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Of course do I really need to keep every episode of Enterprise or the Simpsons that I've downloaded?
It would be nice to see HD's average transfer rate stay closer to it's peak rating for comonly used files.
Music 80gb DVD's 300gb TV shows 200gb
I want a single hard drive drive that can fit ever single piece of recorded media in human history. Then maybe I'll be satisfied.
A rental DVD doesn't keep showing you ads on your tv six months after you've returned it to the video store. REALmedia does.
At the same time I'd see a need to have the "not connected" option, for when you want a little alone time while perusing your favorite beastial midget porn site.
The only way they'll kill the PC market off permanently is if a company starts offering an updated counsel ever year or one that can be updated at the whim of the user. The other requirement is that that counsel would also have to have games that are compatible with PC's directly. (PC gamers can play with Counsel gamers in the same games at the same time.)
Of course if this ever happened the PC market really wouldn't go away it would just be rolled together with the counsel market.
Take a look a the long history of "secured" content that no one would buy, and how many of those are still around today?
At $2.45 a gallon and 3 hours of driving I just find a different company to order from instead of fooling with FedX.
They do have a deal though that you can sign up for a preauthorized drop point, either at your house or another location that can solve my problem of them wanting a signature, but I haven't gotten around to doing it yet.
As far as SUV's being large and fuel-greedy, they aren't that much worse than any other full size vehicle, and the desiel ones tend to be better than many cars. Those giant Dodge and Ford desiel pickups get 10 more mpg than my little Toyota Tacoma! Also if you go back just a couple of decades very few vehicles got more than 15mpg, cars included, which is about what the worst SUV get these days. Big vehicles from the same time period usually got about 7-8mpg! Personally I would like to get one because my little pick-up truck isn't cutting it. Two seats are not enough room! Now don't get me wrong my commuter vehicle of choice is a motorcycle, 50mpg and it can blow the doors off of just about any car that comes along. The down side is you can't do much grocery shopping with a bike and I certainly can't use it to take a few friends, the dogs, and our gear to go out camping or what ever.
Speaking of farms there are a few interesting articles floating around about how an dairy farmer captures methane from his manure processing pits. He has a very small (150w) generator hooked up to it and it runs continuously for a month at a time off the gas. He only turns it off to dredge the pits. He generates enough electricity to cover all his ranches needs and sells the surplus to the power company.
While 500 barrels a day doesn't sound too exciting what it does provide is a way to dispose of material that is normally put into landfills. There is a company that has been doing something similar in Hawaii for some time. They collect the waste, convert it into desiel and other useable oils. They run all of their vehicles off of the desiel and sell the surplus at a nice profit.
As far as needing 10,000 of these plants, just think of how many meat packing plants, food processing plants, ranches, and farms there are in the US all of which would be suppliers of raw materials. If they were to tap into all of them, there is no reason why we couldn't drastically reduce our dependence on foriegn oil.
Looks pretty good, but I want to see some heavy lifting demos. Hot girls are certainly welcome, but something on the scale of Farcry, quantity and quality, would be more impressive than just a pretty smile.
Here is a good example why being a fan boy is plain stupid. Look at what happened with long distance service. Before the price wars (early nineties) I was paying around $.25 a minute to talk long distance. After a decade of people just up and dumping their phone service for the next lowest priced offering you can now get unlimited long distnace plus local service for about the same price as a 2 hour long distance call in 1990.
The less loyalty people (fan boys) show to either company the bigger the advances we'll see with each new card that is released as well as a lower price. Buy the fastest card you can afford for the cheapest price and forget who's name is branded on the side. Before you know it we'll have hardware capable of photo-realistic on the fly rendering for under $200.
It's about time. The only way I watch TV any more is through downloads or season DVD's who has the time to play the network games when they bounce your favorite shows around every other week chasing ratings numbers.
Those are the real reason to upgrade, though I'm sure the writer of the article will get to that, those improvements also tend to go hand in hand with a higher MP rating. The same goes for the processor rating game. Most people, enthusiasts aside, don't buy a new processor they buy a new computer. Sure it comes with a higher rated processor, but it also tends to have a better motherboard, a faster harddrive/CD/DVD, newer video card, faster/more RAM, etc...etc...etc... People know this, so I don't think it's exactly fair to bash the industry's method of marketing.
The other thing the writer didn't point out is that at 2/3 the sensor size it uses a lot less power than older cameras. My orginal 1MP Kodak weighed more than my current Canon and took 4 AA which lasted all of 30-45 minutes. I carried 4-5 sets of rechargeables with me everywhere I went. The latest cameras last for hours on typically 2 AA batteries or as in the case of my Canon for most of the day on one Li battery back.
Most people just take snap shots. That's what those cameras, even then "Pro-sumer" cameras target. They are more interested in the price, how long the batteries last, how big the camera is, it's zoom capability, how many photos it holds, and whether or not it takes a half-way decent photo. Personally I think the manufactures are delivering those wants and then some for a very low price. There has always been various levels of cameras, and the serious photographer will almost always steer clear of the mass-market consumer stuff.
To expect that market segement to deliver pro-quality photos is just silly.
I guess all the best ideas are timeless.
Thank you my friend, I fell much better, images of the bad man are fading.
Need to find a fork, must gouge out eyeeess.
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They sell a product called the Jackrabbit. Orginally it was used for oil survey sleds that were towed. This way you could mount them without having to build anything elaborate to change the water flow. This should work nicely for what you are wanting.
or pretty much any large online chain after a couple of months. No reason to pay $50 for a game.
The latest time I checked I'm either upper-lower or lower-middle (~$35k a year)
I own stock in a number of the "evil" corporations and very much expect a return on my investment. Karl Marx was an idiot because of the simple fact that even the poor can scrap some cash together and invest in/start companies and improve their lot, but in his system, you are more or less stuck at what ever level you are born into.
What we really need to do is have free trade with conditions such as a minimum wage or a trade deficite limit.
As far as the game not costing less than $50, well that's your own damn fault. I haven't paid more than $40-45 for a game in some time, since I do a very simple thing, don't buy the fucking thing until it costs less! It's called being an inteligent consumer. Unfortunately most gamers would wet themselves if they didn't run out buy it at the over-priced retail chain on the intial release date.
Try looking around online or waiting a month or two, or hell even a year or so if you are really tight. I picked up the two pack of C&C Generals/Zero Hour for $45, can't beat that with a stick. (Actually I thought it sucked based on previous C&C titles so I ignored it till last month)
Well anyway anyone can invest in companies and move themselves up out of lower/middle class. If these companies are making a killing then you would be an idiot not to entertain the idea of investing in them.
Xenophobic, naw we like aliens (Ewoks, ET, Vulcans) just not the illegal/annoying variety (Boarder crossers, terrorists, the French).
Impossibly arrogant, yes we are but then again we have only been at it for the last hundred years or so, the French have been at it for the better part of a millenia.
Easily brainwashed, for some odd reason it hurts to think about that one. Instead of answering that one I have a strong desire to go gas up my SUV and get McDonald's for lunch.
The FBI has been able to tap phone and wireless communication for decades they are just getting with the times, nothing to get worked up over.
Screaming at the "Man" to pay their own bills is like yelling at yourself to pay the bills. When you pay the taxes that's where you are sending them.
NOTE: If you are over the age of 18 and still don't make enough to actually have to pay taxes, well then my friend you are a loser. Get a job already.
I've disliked the French long before 2001. I've been making fun of them all the way back since 88'.