It's 40 miles per journey, since you can charge at both ends, and if you are commuting an 80 mile a day round trip then you should seriously consider moving house or job .
You can charge at both ends only if there are facilities at both ends.
There is the problem of the bridge or expressway that closes because of gale force winds or blinding snow.
Where we call home, that adds tens of miles to your commute.
Under conditions that will put every system in your electric car under maximum load/maximum stress.
It easy to talk about relocating.
But the good jobs, the best schools and the most attractive and affordable housing is often to be found in the outer suburbs.
In the northeast, suburbanization didn't begin with the automobile in 1908, it began with the railroads and the ferries of the 1850s.
If they attach it to my car without my permission, doesn't it become MINE to do whatever I want with? .
You can't begin with the assumption that the GPS was installed without a warrant. It would be even more dangerous to assume that you were being tracked because of some minor traffic offense.
You can be the good citizen who reports the incident to the police - and there it will probably end - or you can do something irretrievably geek and stupid.
That won't play well if you find yourself in a courtroom somewhere down the road.
Bengt Kayser, the director of a sports medicine institute at the University of Geneva argues...that legalizing doping would "encourage more sensible, informed use of drugs in amateur sport, leading to an overall decline in the rate of health problems associated with doping. .
"I represent the new owners of a landmark bridge over the East River. Inquires from investors can reach me c/o of Nigeria House, 828 2nd Avenue, New York."
The most telling incident about the Olympic opening ceremonies wasn't the technical glitch of a visible BSOD.
It was the Politburo's decision to force a seven year old girl to dub for her more photogenic replacement.
You legitimize drugs, you legitimize corruption on a scale that would dwarf the Tour de France.
That was pretty brilliant of the record companies, though, don't you think? Make the medium out of nice, soft vinyl, and make the worthless, replaceable needle out of the hardest mineral on the Mohs scale. .
You do know that the acoustic recordings were recorded on wax and played with steel needles that bore the weight of the "tone arm and speaker?" In the early days you could expect perhaps twenty-five plays.
The diamond stylus was never worthless.
Thomas Edison used it in public demonstrations - blind "Tone Tests" - to establish the validity of phonographic recordings as music, something the Geek takes for granted.
The live performance was often by a singer from the Met - or an instrumentalist of national reputation.
I find it troubling that hobbyists are less trusted than corporations (assuming that these same experiments, performed by a corporation, would pose no problem .
Well, of course, it is not a problem.
The commercial lab is zoned industrial. There are standards for storage and handling of materials. Financial responsibility.
Ideally, the corporation will have a close working relationship with first responders.
Is a suburban basement really an appropriate working environment for an industrial chemist?
I am not that far removed in time or space from the Love Canal district in Niagara Falls, where chemical wastes penetrated the cellars of a residential neighborhood.
I would think long and hard before buying a house that had been used as a lab.
Every single one of those systems sold goes down on paper as a Vista sale, though .
I repeat myself here. Net Applications is - not - tracking licenses. It is tracking users on the web. I haven't heard any complaints about the numbers they post for Firefox 3.
I don't know one single person who is using Vista as their home OS. Zero. Nada. None. .
The ratio of OEM Vista to OEM Linux at Walmart.com is about 50:1. The Athlon LE at $350. The HP Elite Intel Quad Core with 64 bit Vista at $1700.
Walmart isn't known for keeping product in stock that isn't moving.
I spend a fair bit of time in hipster coffee shops (don't judge me, it's part of my job), the patrons of which I take as a fairly good bellwether of consumer tech
And unless you do something about it, like vote with your wallet, you are simply helping Bill and his minions make bad engineering acceptable. .
The geek wants it both ways. He wants to run the untested - uncertified - third party driver of his choice -- wile keeping the option to blame Microsoft if anything goes wrong.
Microsoft's Crash Analysis in Windows often returns a plain English explanation of what went wrong and how to fix it. That can be useful enough to make the rare BSOD palatable.
For the same reason that people do not want to use the DirectX 10 Engine, because it is proprietary and serves little...purpose outside of the hardware and operating system it was built to run efficiently on. .
But that is going to be a lot of hardware not so very far down the road.
DX10 isn't just graphics - and the first generation integrated DX10 graphics chip sets from Intel and AMD are here now.
32 Bit MS Vista -> 64 Bit Windows 7. DX10 -> DX11.
You can't let OGL slip further and further behind the versatility and performance of what will become the mass market Windows PC - and not see the guys in engineering and the sciences begin to jump ship.
I've worked for two major Fortune 500 companies who both purchase new computers with Vista, and then wipes them and puts their XP VLK image on the boxes. .
Net Applications doesn't give a damn about the locked-down corporate desktop - it is selling stats about the home market to retailers like Target.
Every user I know personally who has tried Vista rolled back to XP or moved to Linux.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Net Applications builds its stats from 160 million page views each month.
yet for all the new Vista licenses being sold, XP dominates the statistics you linked from 70 to 17 percent.
The Net Applications stats are global.
There are by some measures a billion users world-wide running Windows - most on older hardware that cannot be realistically upgraded to Vista.
But something like 1 in 5 users will have made a very significant investment in hardware and in Vista in less than two years.
Is that counting sales of Vista licenses, or people actually using Vista? .
FIY:
We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from approximately 160 million visitors per month.
Additional estimates about the website population:
76% participate in pay per click programs to drive traffic to their sites.
43% are commerce sites
18% are corporate sites
10% are content sites
29% classify themselves as other (includes gov, org, search engine marketers etc..About Our Market Share Statistics
Net Applications stats are global.
Its clients - for reasons which should be blindingly obvious - are interested only in meaningful stats about users, not licenses.
Plenty of people are buying computers with Vista and switching to another OS, or downgrading to XP.
The numbers simply aren't there to support this argument.
Hopefully as Linux...continue to get better and become more "newbie" friendly; it will become interesting for more companies to invest in Linux versions of their games. .
Vista is approaching 20% of the market. Top Operating System Share Trend You can't expect expect Linux ports if entry level DX9l/DX10 outperforms OGL.
There is a fundamental, philosophical, problem with the traditional means of distribution: the product is abundant. .
But production is not.
Consider Black Isle and Bioware's legacy: Fallout, Baldur's Gate, MDK2, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, Mass Effect, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale.
These games - and their sequels - are the stuff of legend.
"The Essentials" - to borrow a useful phrase from Turner Classic Movies.
The single-player RPG demands a strong sense of theater and story - and the skill to keep the backstage manipulation from becoming visible to the player.
The technical challenges - apart from [the scarcely trivial problems of] programming an RPG and its UI - are similar to those of an animated feature: character design and animation, dialog and vocal performance, background art, music, sets, props, special effects and so on...
---except that Pixar only has to hold an audience for an hour and a half - not the twenty to sixty hours of a deep and engaging RPG
---and Pixar has four hundred people permently on staff - talent banging on the door for entry - and can budget high-risk 100 million dollars projects, knowing that Disney has a dozen revenue streams to draw on to cover any losses.
Production does not remain abundant if production does not show a profit.
Production does not remain diverse if only the mass-market franchise game sells in numbers that can overcome losses to the pirate. The 50th incarnation of The Sims. The 10th of GTA.
Who will take the risks inherent in a game that departs from what is now the norm? Who will take a bet the farm on the next Half-Life, the Fallout or Bioshock?
"Near the end of the operation, a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police cruiser drove by the parking lot to see what was going on. Hill and his team waved. The police officers waved back and drove off.'" .
and the next time the geek pulls some damn full stunt in Vegas will the cops be so warm and fuzzy?
You know that Mussolini's party is still active in Italy right? .
Mussolini had his own way of dealing with the petty thief - and that - stripped of all pretense - is what the downloader has become. Films like The Dark Knight aren't produced as a free gift to the geek with a network connection and a DVD burner.
most people just don't feel copyright infringement is immoral anymore. .
I distrust any definition of "most" which - for all practical purposes - translates to "the young adult who has broadband service and a mid-line PC with a DVD burner."
If you had free access to 10-year old games, books, and music, wouldn't that lower the incentive to commit infringement on the current-day stuff?
Not in the slightest.
I abandoned the P2P nets after it became perfectly clear that they were in a race to deliver a screener of the latest Hollywood blockbuster.
That P2P is about nothing more than the adrenaline boost of that free movie fix.
I don't have a life savings. I don't trust economies or currencies and I don't like participating in modern capitalism, so I don't keep large amounts of liquidity or financial investments .
which implies that the state will be supporting you - and your dependents - from the moment when - and not if - your reserves are depleted or you are no longer able to work.
sometimes, I think the movies have the geek just about right. GoldenEye
When these closed source companies are maintaining an increasingly complex codebase for a shrinking segment of the market, the cost to the shrunken segment is going to increase until there is no longer a business case for using it. .
I believe it was the IBM exec whose best estimate put Linux at 0.6% of the market.
If we had a system that enshrined the peoples right to have access to ideas, rather than one that enshrined the right of individuals and corporations to erect barriers, this wouldn't be happening.
The geek is as prone to escalating feuds and factions into holy warfare as any medieval theologian. I am quite confident that where I would see an open passage another would see a wall.
It can be both - restful - and engaging - to bargain with someone who thinks simply in terms of self-interest, the profit to be made in the goods and services they provide.
But then I was raised in the elementally capitalist environment of the Farmer's Market.
there's something severely wrong when an OS that's been pre-installed on 90% of the PCs sold for for the last 2 years... .
The OEM Vista install began in late January 07. DX10 systems began entering the market only in late spring and summer of 07. XP has been around since August 01. OEM Vista sales have been strongest at the Vista Premium level. That implies an investment in hardware equivalent to the mid-line Mac.
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You can charge at both ends only if there are facilities at both ends.
There is the problem of the bridge or expressway that closes because of gale force winds or blinding snow.
Where we call home, that adds tens of miles to your commute.
Under conditions that will put every system in your electric car under maximum load/maximum stress.
It easy to talk about relocating.
But the good jobs, the best schools and the most attractive and affordable housing is often to be found in the outer suburbs.
In the northeast, suburbanization didn't begin with the automobile in 1908, it began with the railroads and the ferries of the 1850s.
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You can't begin with the assumption that the GPS was installed without a warrant. It would be even more dangerous to assume that you were being tracked because of some minor traffic offense.
You can be the good citizen who reports the incident to the police - and there it will probably end - or you can do something irretrievably geek and stupid.
That won't play well if you find yourself in a courtroom somewhere down the road.
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You're quite right, of course.
But that is just rubbing salt into the wound.
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The $150 clearance special, in store only.
"Step up to the Everex Vista Basic system with 1 GB RAM for only $68 more."
In the states - the OEM Linux system with bottom-feeder specs and the shelf life of a housefly remains the reality in big box retail.
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"I represent the new owners of a landmark bridge over the East River.
Inquires from investors can reach me c/o of Nigeria House, 828 2nd Avenue, New York."
The most telling incident about the Olympic opening ceremonies wasn't the technical glitch of a visible BSOD.
It was the Politburo's decision to force a seven year old girl to dub for her more photogenic replacement.
You legitimize drugs, you legitimize corruption on a scale that would dwarf the Tour de France.
.
You do know that the acoustic recordings were recorded on wax and played with steel needles that bore the weight of the "tone arm and speaker?" In the early days you could expect perhaps twenty-five plays.
The diamond stylus was never worthless.
Thomas Edison used it in public demonstrations - blind "Tone Tests" - to establish the validity of phonographic recordings as music, something the Geek takes for granted.
The live performance was often by a singer from the Met - or an instrumentalist of national reputation.
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setting asside any questions of bad taste....
there is a real argument to be made here for "security through obscurity."
for choosing the small town industrial site that the locals haven't given a thought to in thirty-five years.
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Well, of course, it is not a problem.
The commercial lab is zoned industrial. There are standards for storage and handling of materials. Financial responsibility.
Ideally, the corporation will have a close working relationship with first responders.
Is a suburban basement really an appropriate working environment for an industrial chemist?
I am not that far removed in time or space from the Love Canal district in Niagara Falls, where chemical wastes penetrated the cellars of a residential neighborhood.
I would think long and hard before buying a house that had been used as a lab.
.
I repeat myself here. Net Applications is - not - tracking licenses. It is tracking users on the web. I haven't heard any complaints about the numbers they post for Firefox 3.
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The ratio of OEM Vista to OEM Linux at Walmart.com is about 50:1. The Athlon LE at $350. The HP Elite Intel Quad Core with 64 bit Vista at $1700.
Walmart isn't known for keeping product in stock that isn't moving. I spend a fair bit of time in hipster coffee shops (don't judge me, it's part of my job), the patrons of which I take as a fairly good bellwether of consumer tech
The hipster coffee shop has fallen on hard times. Starbucks coffee is too expensive, new survey says
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The geek wants it both ways. He wants to run the untested - uncertified - third party driver of his choice -- wile keeping the option to blame Microsoft if anything goes wrong.
Microsoft's Crash Analysis in Windows often returns a plain English explanation of what went wrong and how to fix it. That can be useful enough to make the rare BSOD palatable.
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but for an event like the opening ceremonies, why not have a back-up system running the projection - and simply switch from one to the other?
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But that is going to be a lot of hardware not so very far down the road.
DX10 isn't just graphics - and the first generation integrated DX10 graphics chip sets from Intel and AMD are here now.
32 Bit MS Vista -> 64 Bit Windows 7. DX10 -> DX11.
You can't let OGL slip further and further behind the versatility and performance of what will become the mass market Windows PC - and not see the guys in engineering and the sciences begin to jump ship.
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Not to mention the fact that Apple is your only source for an OSX laptop In the OEM Windows market, any number can play.
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Net Applications doesn't give a damn about the locked-down corporate desktop - it is selling stats about the home market to retailers like Target.
Every user I know personally who has tried Vista rolled back to XP or moved to Linux.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Net Applications builds its stats from 160 million page views each month.
yet for all the new Vista licenses being sold, XP dominates the statistics you linked from 70 to 17 percent.
The Net Applications stats are global.
There are by some measures a billion users world-wide running Windows - most on older hardware that cannot be realistically upgraded to Vista.
But something like 1 in 5 users will have made a very significant investment in hardware and in Vista in less than two years.
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FIY:
We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from approximately 160 million visitors per month.
Additional estimates about the website population:
76% participate in pay per click programs to drive traffic to their sites.
43% are commerce sites
18% are corporate sites
10% are content sites
29% classify themselves as other (includes gov, org, search engine marketers etc.. About Our Market Share Statistics
Net Applications stats are global.
Its clients - for reasons which should be blindingly obvious - are interested only in meaningful stats about users, not licenses.
Plenty of people are buying computers with Vista and switching to another OS, or downgrading to XP.
The numbers simply aren't there to support this argument.
.
Vista is approaching 20% of the market. Top Operating System Share Trend You can't expect expect Linux ports if entry level DX9l/DX10 outperforms OGL.
.
But production is not.
Consider Black Isle and Bioware's legacy: Fallout, Baldur's Gate, MDK2, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, Mass Effect, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale.
These games - and their sequels - are the stuff of legend.
"The Essentials" - to borrow a useful phrase from Turner Classic Movies.
The single-player RPG demands a strong sense of theater and story - and the skill to keep the backstage manipulation from becoming visible to the player.
The technical challenges - apart from [the scarcely trivial problems of] programming an RPG and its UI - are similar to those of an animated feature:
character design and animation, dialog and vocal performance, background art, music, sets, props, special effects and so on...
---except that Pixar only has to hold an audience for an hour and a half - not the twenty to sixty hours of a deep and engaging RPG
---and Pixar has four hundred people permently on staff - talent banging on the door for entry - and can budget high-risk 100 million dollars projects, knowing that Disney has a dozen revenue streams to draw on to cover any losses.
Production does not remain abundant if production does not show a profit.
Production does not remain diverse if only the mass-market franchise game sells in numbers that can overcome losses to the pirate. The 50th incarnation of The Sims. The 10th of GTA.
Who will take the risks inherent in a game that departs from what is now the norm? Who will take a bet the farm on the next Half-Life, the Fallout or Bioshock?
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and the next time the geek pulls some damn full stunt in Vegas will the cops be so warm and fuzzy?
.
Mussolini had his own way of dealing with the petty thief - and that - stripped of all pretense - is what the downloader has become. Films like The Dark Knight aren't produced as a free gift to the geek with a network connection and a DVD burner.
The link: Top Operating System Share Trend
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I distrust any definition of "most" which - for all practical purposes - translates to "the young adult who has broadband service and a mid-line PC with a DVD burner."
If you had free access to 10-year old games, books, and music, wouldn't that lower the incentive to commit infringement on the current-day stuff?
Not in the slightest.
I abandoned the P2P nets after it became perfectly clear that they were in a race to deliver a screener of the latest Hollywood blockbuster.
That P2P is about nothing more than the adrenaline boost of that free movie fix.
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which implies that the state will be supporting you - and your dependents - from the moment when - and not if - your reserves are depleted or you are no longer able to work.
sometimes, I think the movies have the geek just about right. GoldenEye
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I believe it was the IBM exec whose best estimate put Linux at 0.6% of the market.
The numbers haven't much improved since. Top Operating System Share Trend
If we had a system that enshrined the peoples right to have access to ideas, rather than one that enshrined the right of individuals and corporations to erect barriers, this wouldn't be happening.
The geek is as prone to escalating feuds and factions into holy warfare as any medieval theologian. I am quite confident that where I would see an open passage another would see a wall.
It can be both - restful - and engaging - to bargain with someone who thinks simply in terms of self-interest, the profit to be made in the goods and services they provide.
But then I was raised in the elementally capitalist environment of the Farmer's Market.
.
The OEM Vista install began in late January 07. DX10 systems began entering the market only in late spring and summer of 07. XP has been around since August 01.
OEM Vista sales have been strongest at the Vista Premium level. That implies an investment in hardware equivalent to the mid-line Mac.