There's stuff that's far more valuable and easier to get to laying all over the place.
In Portland we've got miles and miles of cable suspended over the streets, and it's there 24 hours a day, and the owner isn't anywhere within sight, and yet somehow it doesn't all go missing every night.
I'd be more worried about a stereo protected by nothing more than a thin piece of glass than about somebody sawing through a 4" copper cable for the few cents they'll get recycling it. I've had my stereo stolen, too, but I've never met anyone in any city I've lived in who loses a dozen of them a year.
Yeah, theft will occasionally happen. So will vandalism. Happens to the current parking meters, too. You honestly think that running high voltage through a meter is going to make it more attractive to thieves?
This to me is one of the biggest obstacles to our plug-in future. Those of you who live in the 'burbs where everybody has their own two-car garage may be shocked to hear this, but millions of us live in urban areas where we park our cars on the street, can't be gauranteed to find a spot in front of our houses, and wouldn't be able to run an extension cord across the sidewalk even if we could.
Cities could put charging stations right up to the curb.
San Francisco already does this in some places, where an outlet is built into many parking meters.
And several businesses and parking garages around the Bay Area have "electric car only" spaces next to the handicap spots that have charging stations there.
And that was all built just to support the EV-1, which doesn't even exist anymore. This kind of infrastructure is relatively cheap and easy to do. This isn't some kind of pie-in-the-sky pipe dream.
I'm wondering why they're not talking about some kind of easily removable batteries.
I can see service stations getting banks of these things all charging - you can pull up and for a small fee remove your dead battery and get a fully charged one. They put "your" battery in the bank and when it's fully charged, they "sell" it to someone else. Pretty much how propane tanks work now.
With my old cell phone (AT&T), you could dial the voicemail number, escape from your voicemail (#+Something) and leave a message for any other AT&T customer.
You could also set up groups and leave the same voicemail for several people at once. I think you had to pay extra for that feature, but I never tried using it.
There is also a big difference between knowing a subject and knowing how to teach it.
Sometimes, being an expert in your field helps to teach it better. Sometimes, though, you've forgotten what it was like not to know the basics. Many of us here on Slashdot can figure out instantly that if 2x+3=11, then x=4. Some will go through a bit of a process involving subtraction and division. But if we had to explain it to others, how many of the experts will remember to explain why you can subtract 3 from both sides, or that x stands for a number, 2x means two times whatever x stands for, and that multiplication is commutative?
Or have the patience to realize that you've just introduced half a dozen important concepts here and no beginner is going to remember them all immediately...
It seems to work for Subcommandante Marcos. The Mexican government has claimed to have captured him at least a few times, but he keeps popping back up to tell them they've got the wrong guy.
Gah! I did that several months ago. It hasn't allowed me to watch my purchased DVDs since. Apparently, it doesn't like my VGA connection to my monitor.
I had to go learn how to rip DVDs just so I could watch the video I legitimately purchased.
Ironically, WMP 10 has no problem playing the ripped content, or any DVDs that I burned myself.
The original Macintosh was a failure? Because that's the last product Jobs worked on before returning.
Of course, he also worked on the Apple III and Lisa, but neither product sunk the company, or even came close. Both cost a lot of time an money, but both led to valuable lessons. And the losses were more than made up for by the Apple IIGS and the Macintosh, respectively.
Now if you want to talk about NeXT, you may have a case...
If Powell "didn't know about the Cheneys push for war", then that just makes him grossly incompetent instead of complicit. All those of us paying attention at the time knew about it. By the time Powell spoke to the U.N., there were already protests going on across the U.S. People were writing letters to their congressional representatives urging them to oppose it.
Bush had been beating the war drums for Iraq for quite some time. If Powell didn't know anything about any of this when the American public did, then he's nowhere near qualified enough to be president, or hold any other government post.
Judging from his previous record, I have a hard time believing in that level of incompetence from him. He is neither stupid nor naive as you seem to claim. The only other option I can think of is willingly complicity. As others have pointed out, the fact that he would have ended his career (as he did a couple of years later anyway) does not mean he had no options.
It might be worthwhile to do that if you're going to another carrier. But AT&T's standard unlimited data plan is $40/mo. The regular iPhone's is cheaper.
If gas is $10 a gallon he is promising to sell his for $9 a gallon (no matter how little it costs to produce). Not such a good deal now huh?
I drive approximately 400 miles per week.
Assuming two weeks off (because it makes that math easier), that's 20,000 miles per year. At 25mpg, that's 800 gallons of gas.
So, at $10/gallon, I'd be spending $8,000 per year. If he's selling for $9, that's a savings to me of $800/year. I won't be retiring on it, but it's not a bad bit of savings. If I owned a fleet of cars, that 10% savings could make the difference between staying in business or not.
So, still a pretty good deal.
Though I still agree about the red flags being raised in this case.
Which is worse, McCain skipping, or Obama present and voting yea?
Definitely Obama voting yea.
Anybody paying attention for the last four years knows that McCain has become a puppet to the exact same people that Bush works for, but some of us actually had some hope that Obama had some political backbone.
Yes, everybody who was telling me Obama was no different from any other politician may now gloat.
I happen to believe that companies acting in good faith to help after 9/11, and who were given assurances that they would be immune from legal sanction, should in fact be immune from legal sanction.
If they were "given assurances that they would be immune from legal sanction", that only proves that they knew up front that what they were doing was illegal.
If my brother assured that he would make sure I faced no legal sanction if I broke into my neighbor's house, do you think I should therefore be immune to prosecution? What if my brother claims to have a good reason? Would the answer be the same if my brother is a policeman? What if he's the President?
If you can answer those questions, you might understand what the problem is here.
I feel reasonable minds can disagree on matters of public policy. But to you I am a traitor?
Were you paid large sums of money to deliberately violate the Constitution of the United States, and then try to block Senate investigations into the matter? If so, then, yes, you're a traitor.
If not, then I'd just say you really don't understand the entire point of America's existence, and the difference between a top-down government where the rulers are the law and a government "of the people, by the people, for the people" where laws are applicable to all people, regardless of their station.
I have to disagree with his criteria for what makes an RPG. He mentions having a character that can get more powerful as you play, which is a common element, but I think the essence of what really makes it a role-playing game would be the ability to interact with other characters and the world in a variety of ways. Having choices lets you select a "personality" for your character, even if it's only from a limited set of choices. Even if they all end up going the same place, being able to reply to the king wanting you to save the princess with "of course, your majesty. ", "What's in it for me?", or "Hm, I wonder what the Dragon's offering." can go a long way.
Of course, this is just a long-winded way of pointing out that Star Control 2 was by far the best CRPG ever made and I hope they do another one like that some day.
Call me an elitist jerk all you want, but I think you should have to be a property owner to vote. Not physical property, but some kind of net worth. I don't even pretend to be able to create such a system, but you should have something invested in the government before you are able to decide what is best for "everyone".
They executive branch was using legislation like the original FISA, passed by congress, to justify their spying.
No, the Bush administration was doing an end-run around FISA, claiming at various times that it was "too slow", "inefficient", or simply "obsolete".
The telecoms were complicit in this. If they had been using actual legislation and following a law somewhere, there'd be nothing to give them immunity from.
In 2000, yes, but not in 2004. In 2004, despite those of us who supported him earlier urging him not to, McCain abandoned his previous policies and swung in line solidly behind Bush. He has been there ever since.
At the time, I suggested that he'd probably made some kind of deal with the Republican central committee that he'll support Bush then and they'll make sure he's the nominee in 2008.
Nothing I've seen since has convinced me otherwise.
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You know, now that you mention it, I just thought of something else.
I don't think I've ever been to a gas station that didn't also sell lighters.
Heck, most of 'em will even give you a pack of matches for the asking...
What, never been inside a city before?
There's stuff that's far more valuable and easier to get to laying all over the place.
In Portland we've got miles and miles of cable suspended over the streets, and it's there 24 hours a day, and the owner isn't anywhere within sight, and yet somehow it doesn't all go missing every night.
I'd be more worried about a stereo protected by nothing more than a thin piece of glass than about somebody sawing through a 4" copper cable for the few cents they'll get recycling it. I've had my stereo stolen, too, but I've never met anyone in any city I've lived in who loses a dozen of them a year.
Yeah, theft will occasionally happen. So will vandalism. Happens to the current parking meters, too. You honestly think that running high voltage through a meter is going to make it more attractive to thieves?
Cities could put charging stations right up to the curb.
San Francisco already does this in some places, where an outlet is built into many parking meters.
And several businesses and parking garages around the Bay Area have "electric car only" spaces next to the handicap spots that have charging stations there.
And that was all built just to support the EV-1, which doesn't even exist anymore. This kind of infrastructure is relatively cheap and easy to do. This isn't some kind of pie-in-the-sky pipe dream.
I'm wondering why they're not talking about some kind of easily removable batteries.
I can see service stations getting banks of these things all charging - you can pull up and for a small fee remove your dead battery and get a fully charged one. They put "your" battery in the bank and when it's fully charged, they "sell" it to someone else. Pretty much how propane tanks work now.
Right. And all those people had to have SUVs because of all the off-roading they do.
What people need doesn't enter into it.
Those are those old phones that charge you extra money every time you call someone outside your immediate geographical area, right?
And charge you an extra monthly fee to even have voicemail?
And that you can only use when in your own home?
Yeah, I think I remember my grandfather talking about them.
Not just corporate voicemail packages either.
With my old cell phone (AT&T), you could dial the voicemail number, escape from your voicemail (#+Something) and leave a message for any other AT&T customer.
You could also set up groups and leave the same voicemail for several people at once. I think you had to pay extra for that feature, but I never tried using it.
You've obviously never worked for local government.
There is also a big difference between knowing a subject and knowing how to teach it.
Sometimes, being an expert in your field helps to teach it better. Sometimes, though, you've forgotten what it was like not to know the basics. Many of us here on Slashdot can figure out instantly that if 2x+3=11, then x=4. Some will go through a bit of a process involving subtraction and division. But if we had to explain it to others, how many of the experts will remember to explain why you can subtract 3 from both sides, or that x stands for a number, 2x means two times whatever x stands for, and that multiplication is commutative?
Or have the patience to realize that you've just introduced half a dozen important concepts here and no beginner is going to remember them all immediately...
It seems to work for Subcommandante Marcos. The Mexican government has claimed to have captured him at least a few times, but he keeps popping back up to tell them they've got the wrong guy.
Gah!
I did that several months ago. It hasn't allowed me to watch my purchased DVDs since. Apparently, it doesn't like my VGA connection to my monitor.
I had to go learn how to rip DVDs just so I could watch the video I legitimately purchased.
Ironically, WMP 10 has no problem playing the ripped content, or any DVDs that I burned myself.
What device do you use to measure to over 50 significant digits in any measuring system?
The original Macintosh was a failure?
Because that's the last product Jobs worked on before returning.
Of course, he also worked on the Apple III and Lisa, but neither product sunk the company, or even came close. Both cost a lot of time an money, but both led to valuable lessons. And the losses were more than made up for by the Apple IIGS and the Macintosh, respectively.
Now if you want to talk about NeXT, you may have a case...
If Powell "didn't know about the Cheneys push for war", then that just makes him grossly incompetent instead of complicit. All those of us paying attention at the time knew about it. By the time Powell spoke to the U.N., there were already protests going on across the U.S. People were writing letters to their congressional representatives urging them to oppose it.
Bush had been beating the war drums for Iraq for quite some time. If Powell didn't know anything about any of this when the American public did, then he's nowhere near qualified enough to be president, or hold any other government post.
Judging from his previous record, I have a hard time believing in that level of incompetence from him. He is neither stupid nor naive as you seem to claim. The only other option I can think of is willingly complicity. As others have pointed out, the fact that he would have ended his career (as he did a couple of years later anyway) does not mean he had no options.
Yeah, but at least they lie about it.
It might be worthwhile to do that if you're going to another carrier. But AT&T's standard unlimited data plan is $40/mo. The regular iPhone's is cheaper.
I drive approximately 400 miles per week.
Assuming two weeks off (because it makes that math easier), that's 20,000 miles per year. At 25mpg, that's 800 gallons of gas.
So, at $10/gallon, I'd be spending $8,000 per year. If he's selling for $9, that's a savings to me of $800/year. I won't be retiring on it, but it's not a bad bit of savings. If I owned a fleet of cars, that 10% savings could make the difference between staying in business or not.
So, still a pretty good deal.
Though I still agree about the red flags being raised in this case.
"The purpose of the Official Secrets Act is to protect officials, not secrets." (Torchwood)
Definitely Obama voting yea.
Anybody paying attention for the last four years knows that McCain has become a puppet to the exact same people that Bush works for, but some of us actually had some hope that Obama had some political backbone.
Yes, everybody who was telling me Obama was no different from any other politician may now gloat.
If they were "given assurances that they would be immune from legal sanction", that only proves that they knew up front that what they were doing was illegal.
If my brother assured that he would make sure I faced no legal sanction if I broke into my neighbor's house, do you think I should therefore be immune to prosecution? What if my brother claims to have a good reason? Would the answer be the same if my brother is a policeman? What if he's the President?
If you can answer those questions, you might understand what the problem is here.
Were you paid large sums of money to deliberately violate the Constitution of the United States, and then try to block Senate investigations into the matter? If so, then, yes, you're a traitor.
If not, then I'd just say you really don't understand the entire point of America's existence, and the difference between a top-down government where the rulers are the law and a government "of the people, by the people, for the people" where laws are applicable to all people, regardless of their station.
I have to disagree with his criteria for what makes an RPG. He mentions having a character that can get more powerful as you play, which is a common element, but I think the essence of what really makes it a role-playing game would be the ability to interact with other characters and the world in a variety of ways. Having choices lets you select a "personality" for your character, even if it's only from a limited set of choices. Even if they all end up going the same place, being able to reply to the king wanting you to save the princess with "of course, your majesty. ", "What's in it for me?", or "Hm, I wonder what the Dragon's offering." can go a long way.
Of course, this is just a long-winded way of pointing out that Star Control 2 was by far the best CRPG ever made and I hope they do another one like that some day.
Including what is "best" for non-property-owners?
Or you can go down to your local Salvation Army or Goodwill and pick up a used for anywhere from $1 - $3.
No, the Bush administration was doing an end-run around FISA, claiming at various times that it was "too slow", "inefficient", or simply "obsolete".
The telecoms were complicit in this. If they had been using actual legislation and following a law somewhere, there'd be nothing to give them immunity from.
In 2000, yes, but not in 2004.
In 2004, despite those of us who supported him earlier urging him not to, McCain abandoned his previous policies and swung in line solidly behind Bush.
He has been there ever since.
At the time, I suggested that he'd probably made some kind of deal with the Republican central committee that he'll support Bush then and they'll make sure he's the nominee in 2008.
Nothing I've seen since has convinced me otherwise.