Well, if you're going to allow faster than light travel, you might as well allow for a power source that can accelerate a ship for extended periods of time. If you can build a ship that can accelerate at a comfortable 10 m/s/s (or about one g) for long periods of time, you can go just about anywhere. Such a ship could travel to the Andromeda Galaxy, and you could even live to see it (the journey would take about 30 years or so ship time). Problem is that the energy costs are absolutely enormous - if you had a 100% efficient way to convert mass to energy (aka Mr. Fusion) and 100% efficient engines you're talking solar systems worth of mass to send an Apollo capsule. But I can still dream.
Problem with the Powerbook is that it no longer gets any updates, and no one makes any software for it anymore. It's the Windows 98 of Apple computers, only several years newer. Though you can always blow away the Apple crap and put Linux on it:)
I think the difference is split between stealing of the credit card number (as in the actual information printed on the card), and the unauthorized charges to the card. It's not the former that caused the harm, but the latter. Besides, I kind of doubt the actual information on the card is copyright-able, but if it was, I'm sure the issuing bank would have the copyright and not the "owner" of the card.
The mileage drop is probably due to winter gas versus summer gas. Winter gas has lighter, less energy dense components in it compared to summer gas. Supposedly this makes it easier to start your car in the winter, but the main reason why they do is that it's cheaper to make gasoline this way, whereas in the summer during warm weather they have to use more heavier and expensive components to reduce the evaporative pollutants. The short of this is, you can pretty much expect a 10-20% mileage drop burning winter gas versus summer gas.
The funny thing is, your aggressive driving doesn't just slow down everyone else by impeding the flow of traffic, it ultimately slows down your commute.
The Chevy S10 was discontinued in the US after 2004 (it's still made for other markets). The Colorado is the replacement for the S10.
I don't know what GM was thinking either, the S10 was hugely popular, but it's fairly uncommon to see a Colorado driving around. But then again, it's GM.
Fine, then the 0.001% percent of people who actually have to deal with that can justify their large truck or SUV. Everyone else can get away with something less.
You really have to look at accident rates. You may have a better chance to survive the crash, but that's negated by being more likely to be in a crash in the first place. This is especially true with a lot of SUVs which are a lot more likely to be in single-vehicle crashes (rollovers, going off the road. and such). Statistically the safest vehicles on the road are generally the large luxury sedans due to their larger size and advanced safety systems, such as the Lincoln Town Car (which is basically an upgraded Crown Vic).
The Crown Victoria was pretty much the last of the V8 powered, rear wheel drive, body-on-frame cars left - a direct descendant of the US cars popular in the 60's and 70's. I believe it's out of production now. The massive SUVs are a different thing entirely.
The point of those is to see how you think, so they want to see how you reason your way through them. If you just give them the answer like it's a trivia quiz it won't impress them much. At least this is the theory - not everyone applies it correctly, and I don't really buy into it myself as it is.
HD vs SD? By the time HD went on the market, it made zero sense to buy one, especially not one of the "HD-ready" TVs (which essentially meant that they have no problem receiving HD content and displaying it in SD... which was true for, like, EVERY TV out there),
Most of your SD CRT TVs pretty much only understand NTSC and that's it. They won't know what to do a HD signal, or even PAL for that matter (I'm assuming you're in the USA here). Of course, if you can get something to convert your HD signal to NTSC these TVs can display it just fine, which is exactly what those digital TV converter boxes do. So basically the "HD-ready" TVs could understand some HD format with resolution better than NTSC, even if they couldn't actually display the content without scaling it down. The big problem with those TVs though is that they were made before the standards were really nailed down so by the time HD went mainstream they were pretty much obsolete.
People bought HDTVs mainly because they liked that they were smaller and thinner and you could get a larger screen for a lot less money. This really had to do more with LCD and plasma technology more than anything else - CRT HDTVs had been around for a while but were always poor sellers. The TV makers could have made huge SD resolution panels and people would have snapped them up - look at the popularity of large 720p panels which are barely HD as it is. Or for that matter, the number of people who hook their fancy new TV up to an old composite analog source and don't seem to care about the shitty, stretched out image one bit.
My experience is that LG is about the worst of the name brands. So in other words, it's probably better than a no-name or some knock-off brand, but it's no match for brands like Panasonic, Sony, or Toshiba, However, I rank them about the same as Samsung, so if you're comfortable with Samsung you might be okay with LG.
By the way, the problem with Samsung is that I have seen way, way too many dead Samsungs with bad capacitors, including ones made well after most other manufacturers have gotten their shit in order. I haven't found one yet that I haven't been able to pry apart and fix yet, but it really puts me off of the brand. It's too bad because they are otherwise pretty decent for the price.
Well, that's a bit different from what you were asserting above, but whatever.
I guess it boils down to relevant state or municipal laws. Around here, you are required to put the text "HANDICAPPED PARKING - STATE PERMIT REQUIRED - POLICE WILL ENFORCE." on handicapped parking signs, if said handicapped parking spot is required by law. And yes, the police are authorized to ticket vehicles who illegally park in handicapped spots regardless of whether or not the spot is on private property and whether or not the property owner requests enforcement. And yes, I know some people who tried to pull a 'Steve Jobs' and got slapped for it. A quick look at California's laws seems to say that in California the police don't enforce handicapped spots on private property unless the property owner requests, and even so, the property owner may still be responsible for removal of the offending vehicle(!). So with that, I suppose you might be right, in California you can park in handicapped spots so long as you are either the property owner, or at least with permission from the property owner in the sense that the property owner won't call the cops on you. Still doesn't save Steve Jobs from being a giant douchebag though.
I think the joke is that computers are being sold in 2011 that have 1024x600 screens. I mean, that was a shitty resolution when IE6 was released, let along 10 years later.
You also earned less then you do now. I really hate this argument as it never takes into account the rise of wages. $15 in 1998 != $15 in 2012 as it fails to account for changes in wages, purchasing power, inflation, cost of living et al. Yep life cost less dollars in the past but we had _a lot_ less disposable income.
And you're using the CPI index, which specifically excludes energy costs, in a discussion about gas prices? While I think the CPI is flawed, at least try and apply it correctly.
The problem for Microsoft is that they wouldn't have even had to worry about that. They could have pretty much not created Vista, 7 or 8 and kept on selling XP licenses, and it would probably have had little to no impact on their revenues even today.
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Actually, the SNES had one of the most comfortable controllers if you ask me. On the other hand, 16 hours on the N64 would absolutely kill me.
Well, if you're going to allow faster than light travel, you might as well allow for a power source that can accelerate a ship for extended periods of time. If you can build a ship that can accelerate at a comfortable 10 m/s/s (or about one g) for long periods of time, you can go just about anywhere. Such a ship could travel to the Andromeda Galaxy, and you could even live to see it (the journey would take about 30 years or so ship time). Problem is that the energy costs are absolutely enormous - if you had a 100% efficient way to convert mass to energy (aka Mr. Fusion) and 100% efficient engines you're talking solar systems worth of mass to send an Apollo capsule. But I can still dream.
On the other hand, you also have wrenches that are far too small to possibly damage a car's engine :)
Problem with the Powerbook is that it no longer gets any updates, and no one makes any software for it anymore. It's the Windows 98 of Apple computers, only several years newer. Though you can always blow away the Apple crap and put Linux on it :)
I think the difference is split between stealing of the credit card number (as in the actual information printed on the card), and the unauthorized charges to the card. It's not the former that caused the harm, but the latter. Besides, I kind of doubt the actual information on the card is copyright-able, but if it was, I'm sure the issuing bank would have the copyright and not the "owner" of the card.
The mileage drop is probably due to winter gas versus summer gas. Winter gas has lighter, less energy dense components in it compared to summer gas. Supposedly this makes it easier to start your car in the winter, but the main reason why they do is that it's cheaper to make gasoline this way, whereas in the summer during warm weather they have to use more heavier and expensive components to reduce the evaporative pollutants. The short of this is, you can pretty much expect a 10-20% mileage drop burning winter gas versus summer gas.
The funny thing is, your aggressive driving doesn't just slow down everyone else by impeding the flow of traffic, it ultimately slows down your commute.
The Chevy S10 was discontinued in the US after 2004 (it's still made for other markets). The Colorado is the replacement for the S10.
I don't know what GM was thinking either, the S10 was hugely popular, but it's fairly uncommon to see a Colorado driving around. But then again, it's GM.
Fine, then the 0.001% percent of people who actually have to deal with that can justify their large truck or SUV. Everyone else can get away with something less.
You really have to look at accident rates. You may have a better chance to survive the crash, but that's negated by being more likely to be in a crash in the first place. This is especially true with a lot of SUVs which are a lot more likely to be in single-vehicle crashes (rollovers, going off the road. and such). Statistically the safest vehicles on the road are generally the large luxury sedans due to their larger size and advanced safety systems, such as the Lincoln Town Car (which is basically an upgraded Crown Vic).
The Crown Victoria was pretty much the last of the V8 powered, rear wheel drive, body-on-frame cars left - a direct descendant of the US cars popular in the 60's and 70's. I believe it's out of production now. The massive SUVs are a different thing entirely.
You always have to watch out for the occasional company that isn't serious about hiring, but brings interviewees in to use them as free consultants.
The point of those is to see how you think, so they want to see how you reason your way through them. If you just give them the answer like it's a trivia quiz it won't impress them much. At least this is the theory - not everyone applies it correctly, and I don't really buy into it myself as it is.
Most of your SD CRT TVs pretty much only understand NTSC and that's it. They won't know what to do a HD signal, or even PAL for that matter (I'm assuming you're in the USA here). Of course, if you can get something to convert your HD signal to NTSC these TVs can display it just fine, which is exactly what those digital TV converter boxes do. So basically the "HD-ready" TVs could understand some HD format with resolution better than NTSC, even if they couldn't actually display the content without scaling it down. The big problem with those TVs though is that they were made before the standards were really nailed down so by the time HD went mainstream they were pretty much obsolete.
People bought HDTVs mainly because they liked that they were smaller and thinner and you could get a larger screen for a lot less money. This really had to do more with LCD and plasma technology more than anything else - CRT HDTVs had been around for a while but were always poor sellers. The TV makers could have made huge SD resolution panels and people would have snapped them up - look at the popularity of large 720p panels which are barely HD as it is. Or for that matter, the number of people who hook their fancy new TV up to an old composite analog source and don't seem to care about the shitty, stretched out image one bit.
My experience is that LG is about the worst of the name brands. So in other words, it's probably better than a no-name or some knock-off brand, but it's no match for brands like Panasonic, Sony, or Toshiba, However, I rank them about the same as Samsung, so if you're comfortable with Samsung you might be okay with LG.
By the way, the problem with Samsung is that I have seen way, way too many dead Samsungs with bad capacitors, including ones made well after most other manufacturers have gotten their shit in order. I haven't found one yet that I haven't been able to pry apart and fix yet, but it really puts me off of the brand. It's too bad because they are otherwise pretty decent for the price.
But that's a projector, not a TV. For TVs, 52" is large.
I demand at least 3x10^8+1 seconds advance warning.
FTFY
FTFY.
Well, that's a bit different from what you were asserting above, but whatever.
I guess it boils down to relevant state or municipal laws. Around here, you are required to put the text "HANDICAPPED PARKING - STATE PERMIT REQUIRED - POLICE WILL ENFORCE." on handicapped parking signs, if said handicapped parking spot is required by law. And yes, the police are authorized to ticket vehicles who illegally park in handicapped spots regardless of whether or not the spot is on private property and whether or not the property owner requests enforcement. And yes, I know some people who tried to pull a 'Steve Jobs' and got slapped for it. A quick look at California's laws seems to say that in California the police don't enforce handicapped spots on private property unless the property owner requests, and even so, the property owner may still be responsible for removal of the offending vehicle(!). So with that, I suppose you might be right, in California you can park in handicapped spots so long as you are either the property owner, or at least with permission from the property owner in the sense that the property owner won't call the cops on you. Still doesn't save Steve Jobs from being a giant douchebag though.
The 70s Chrysler has crumple zones, it's called the other car. Now, a collision between two 70s Chryslers is where it's going to get really ugly.
I think the joke is that computers are being sold in 2011 that have 1024x600 screens. I mean, that was a shitty resolution when IE6 was released, let along 10 years later.
And you're using the CPI index, which specifically excludes energy costs, in a discussion about gas prices? While I think the CPI is flawed, at least try and apply it correctly.
Too bad you can't install OSX 10.7 on a $200 computer.
That's $28 for the case and power supply. Between that and the motherboard that computer is complete and utter garbage.
The problem for Microsoft is that they wouldn't have even had to worry about that. They could have pretty much not created Vista, 7 or 8 and kept on selling XP licenses, and it would probably have had little to no impact on their revenues even today.