Because the vast majority of people just want to take pictures, and the last thing camera companies want to do is spend lots of time documenting stuff and answering support questions from the ten or so people who might want to do this.
Why "save" it? It's not like 1969, when it was the only SF show available. I can name five shows right now that are better than anything Star Trek has done in a decade.
Let "Star Trek" die and shovel the money into more projects like "Battlestar Galactica".
"When Robert Moran drove back to his law offices in Rome, N.Y., after a plane trip to Arizona in July 2003, he had no idea he was being followed by an unmarked police car, without a court order by state police."
When you burn gasoline in a car, the amount of pollution emitted depends on what the car is doing. At cruising speed, the car emits less pollution because it is running at the speed the engine is designed for. When idling or at lower speeds (and at starts and stops) the car emits much more pollution because the engine is being run less efficiently.
When you burn gasoline in a power plant, you run at one speed, the most efficient one. This means that a gallon of gas burned in a power plant will generally speaking cause less pollution than a gallon of gas burned in an automobile.
The upshot of this is that even if all of the hydrogen used in automobiles were created in power plants fueled with gasoline, there'd still be a huge reduction in the amount of pollution emitted.
This is not even getting into the fact that it is easier to create technologies to trap polluting emissions in a few power plants than a million cars.
As a thought experiment, imagine if instead of having coal fire plants generate electricity, we just put coal-based generators in everyone's house. Do you think the amount of overall pollution would be the same? After all, the electricity is just "moving around" where the coal is burned.
The final reason that this is important is that it is much easier to add new alternative fuel power plant online than it is to create an alternative fuel car. Right now, there is absolutely no way to make a car run on solar power, period. If, however, there were large numbers of hydrogen powered cars around on the road today, you could move toward non-polluting sources simply by putting a solar power plant on the grid.
So no, a hydrogen economy is not perfect. However, it is better than what we've got. It's also a first step towards an economy that doesn't use fossil fuels.
Kubrick and Clarke wrote 2001 together based on an earlier Clarke short story, and then Clarke went and turned the movie into a novel. Kubrick was as much responsible for the "original content" as Clarke was.
I've noticed that Peanut Press sells books for Palm devices for less than retail for new books, at least. I picked up all three volumes of Stephenson's latest for $26 and new books only in hardcover seem to run around $15-20 .
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On the other hand, try reading "War and Peace standing up on a packed commuter train with one hand.
I did exactly that on my Clie. Being able to fit a big ol' ox-killer book in the breast pocket of my jacket is nice.
I've read something on the order of twenty or thirty novels on PDAs as well as about four years of monthly SF magazines. I've enjoyed most of that. (When I haven't, it is because the book sucked, not the author.) It's not perfect, true, but it's perfectly doable.
I've done both. Longest period of employment as a contractor: six years, I quit. Longest period of employment as an employee: just under five years.
Overall, I've worked five places as a contractor and six as an employee. As an employee, I've unexpectedly lost my job twice. As a contractor, I've only unexpectantly lost my position once (though twice I had fixed-term contracts end.)
In general, I've not found contracting to be any less stable than full-time employment. You do have to plan for downtime, which is annoying, but if the economy is hot enough to get work, it is likely hot enough to get contracts.
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Check "Alpha Centauri". It is a nice middle ground between CivII and CivIII.
Don't joke.
I'm suffering with people who did exactly that. (Well, not C...another language.)
If you don't get it, you're part of that September.
Some farmer did that decades ago.
Yeah. Right. People used to reverse engineer their cameras before the DMCA.
Because the vast majority of people just want to take pictures, and the last thing camera companies want to do is spend lots of time documenting stuff and answering support questions from the ten or so people who might want to do this.
Why "save" it? It's not like 1969, when it was the only SF show available. I can name five shows right now that are better than anything Star Trek has done in a decade.
Let "Star Trek" die and shovel the money into more projects like "Battlestar Galactica".
Bullshit. You don't need a warrant to follow someone and it isn't "stalking" unless someone gets a restraining order.
Disc 6 has "Escape from Planet Goatse" on it.
Unless you are a Nielson family, whether or not you watch or not doesn't matter.
er....I mean watch them all. I certainly haven't watched them yet...uh...not at all.
Seriously, though. If any of the torrent links had come with commercials, I'd still have watched. Are you listening, you idiots in Hollywood?
Saying "Hey, can you tell me what Apple's working on!" to an Apple employee is not "industrial espionage" just because he decides to tell you.
"When Robert Moran drove back to his law offices in Rome, N.Y., after a plane trip to Arizona in July 2003, he had no idea he was being followed by an unmarked police car, without a court order by state police."
When you burn gasoline in a power plant, you run at one speed, the most efficient one. This means that a gallon of gas burned in a power plant will generally speaking cause less pollution than a gallon of gas burned in an automobile.
The upshot of this is that even if all of the hydrogen used in automobiles were created in power plants fueled with gasoline, there'd still be a huge reduction in the amount of pollution emitted.
This is not even getting into the fact that it is easier to create technologies to trap polluting emissions in a few power plants than a million cars.
As a thought experiment, imagine if instead of having coal fire plants generate electricity, we just put coal-based generators in everyone's house. Do you think the amount of overall pollution would be the same? After all, the electricity is just "moving around" where the coal is burned.
The final reason that this is important is that it is much easier to add new alternative fuel power plant online than it is to create an alternative fuel car. Right now, there is absolutely no way to make a car run on solar power, period. If, however, there were large numbers of hydrogen powered cars around on the road today, you could move toward non-polluting sources simply by putting a solar power plant on the grid.
So no, a hydrogen economy is not perfect. However, it is better than what we've got. It's also a first step towards an economy that doesn't use fossil fuels.
RTFA: They came up with it by counting clicks on the website.
So why use Trillian?
Kubrick and Clarke wrote 2001 together based on an earlier Clarke short story, and then Clarke went and turned the movie into a novel. Kubrick was as much responsible for the "original content" as Clarke was.
That reminds me: did you hear they're going to final do a movie adaption Elric of Melnibone? It's going to star Wesley Snipes as Elric.
I watched MTV from the beginning (nearly). It always had commercials, even back when they actually played videos.
u guys are to hard on those guys there just trying to do there job not get a lit degree!
I've noticed that Peanut Press sells books for Palm devices for less than retail for new books, at least. I picked up all three volumes of Stephenson's latest for $26 and new books only in hardcover seem to run around $15-20 .
I did exactly that on my Clie. Being able to fit a big ol' ox-killer book in the breast pocket of my jacket is nice.
I've read something on the order of twenty or thirty novels on PDAs as well as about four years of monthly SF magazines. I've enjoyed most of that. (When I haven't, it is because the book sucked, not the author.) It's not perfect, true, but it's perfectly doable.
The rubik's cube had the same parity issue. You could make it unsolvable by flipping a side peice.
Overall, I've worked five places as a contractor and six as an employee. As an employee, I've unexpectedly lost my job twice. As a contractor, I've only unexpectantly lost my position once (though twice I had fixed-term contracts end.)
In general, I've not found contracting to be any less stable than full-time employment. You do have to plan for downtime, which is annoying, but if the economy is hot enough to get work, it is likely hot enough to get contracts.
Some of the shorts can be found on their feature film DVDs. IIRC, the snowglobe short is on the "Monsters, Inc." DVD.