While your argument looks good on the surface, it relies on the assumption that all of these turbines would be quite close to each other. The larger the geographic spread of these windmills, the more assured you are to be getting at least *some* power *all* of the time. It's the same reason that investors like to keep a variety of stocks in their portfolios. The probability that a single area will not have sufficient wind to generate power is relatively high, but the chance that all the air in the entire country will suddenly just decide to stop moving is basically 0. Yes, this does require building alot more windmills, and thus invest alot more money, but that dosen't stop the concept from feasible.
While converting over to wind power as a main source of energy production may sound appealing, there are still drawbacks. I've heard the argument that so many moving blades can kill off the birds who thought that the top of a windmill might be a good nesting site. And leave it to Americans to start suing everyone around for the damages that the windmills would cause, (from the noise they produce, the dangerous moving blades, or ruining the scenic vista).
Personally, I'm all for converting to wind power. Some complaints and a few dead birds are not detrimental enough to justify the continued use of fossil fuels. Unfortunately, there's alot of people out there looking for something to complain about, and it only takes a hand full of them to stop progress of any sort.
I got it, I think! It's a tubular lock, but a damn big one with weak springs. Use the scissors as a torque wrench to apply constant turning pressure. Use the pen to push in the individual pins. Very weak lock.
Honestly, I think that the only thing that as far as cost and performance ratios go, AMD has the upper hand. People who keep up with the industry are (I assume) fairly well aware of this fact.
From what I can tell, intel's only remaining advantages are in niche markets (not consumer desktops), and the fact that most people buying consumer-level desktops haven't even heard of AMD. I doubt that AMD will be able to overthrow intel's brand-recognition supremacy, but intel will be facing some tough decisions if they do...
In my personal experience (living on a college campus) It seems that people with cell phones are plenty willing to show them off and use them (nearly constantly). So what then, is the practical use of such a device? From the description it sounds like it would only detect a phone as it is receiving or sending a message anyway. Someone sending a message would be obvious enough anyway. When recieving a message, they seem to make pointlessly loud and obnoxious noises already. Pardon the skepticism, but I can't see much practical use for such a device (other than the obvious geek factor).
Now if you could integrate something similar into handheld console games, that would be a little more interesting. Imagine not only being able to play play the games against others, but getting a signal when someone around you has the same game and is willing to play agaisnt you.
With the OS wars that go on here, I'd assumed that they'd say which OS/distro these machines were shipping with. No, I didn't RTFA, and yeah, it's probably fairly safe to assume that it's winXP.
I'm just wondering how these will compare to the DIY solutions (both in cost and performance), and what OS homegrown solutions are available for.
Ok, when I saw the first GITS movie, I was impressed since it was one of my first experiences with anime. However, unless you're patient enough to look for deeper meanings among the drawn-out dialogues, it's not going to be all that entertaining.
Since then, I know that the stand-alone complex has come out, and has recieved some good reviews, but there's also a comic book series: Ghost in the Shell 2. The comics, like the first movie, require close attention to what's said and a good ability to keep track of who's who among the characters to really understand what's going on. I know that this is true of most literature and forms of entertainment, but it seems to be even more necessary for this series. Between body switching and other stuff that's going on, unless you keep close track of everything it becomes downright confusing.
My question is whether or not this new movie has anything to do with the original movie, the series, or the comic book series. Did Masamune Shirow (I think that's who did it) write this one as well? ... and no, I haven't rtfa, people have been complaining so consistently about the site that I doubt it's worth my time.
Kinda funny that they corrected the spelling with the name of the town yet utterly fail spanish spelling immediately afterwards. Spanish spellings should be easier since they're phoenetic. I'm assuming that it should be "Mi culpa"... a rough translation of the gutter-english phrase, "my bad."
Then again, who am I to say anything about spelling or grammer when I have an error in my sig that I'm too lazy to correct?
From the title, I made the quick assumption that this was either talking about the borg from star trek (quite confusing) or some variation on the rubik's cube, (which has baffled people since it came out). I was quite surprised to see security software instead (which is inherently confusing for almost everyone except slashdotters)...
Those same "army types" also keep us safe, nimrod.
I do admit that the military's recent performance has been less than inspiring, and even downright disturbing, but they're a necessary part of the livlihoods of almost everyone; no matter where you live.
Any information is really only valuable when you have enough creativity and common sense to make something of it. People aren't trained to think "outside of the box", but given enough time and motivation, things will happen.
I'm not saying that we should keep all of this info under lock and key(among dozens of other safeguards), but we should at least make a few more independent analysies(sp?) of the threat the data poses.
The thing that I think would be alot more interesting is to take the layouts of some of these buildings; turn them into maps for some FPS games (UT2k4 is my fav) and figure out the best way to attack/defend them. (I've been wanting to do this for my college campus for awhile now.... let players spawn in their dorm rooms... consider it preparation for the giant paintball war we're planning for halloween) yeah, just my 2 cents..
I was kinda wondering; what are the requirements for a launch licence for a series of sub-orbital flights over a one-year period? Other than the obvious: being able to get it up that high, and promising not to mess with anything on the way there and back.
since KDE 3.2 and is available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik).
But is it available in Idiot? that's where the real market share in computers is anymore. Look at XP's dominance of desktop market; who do you think they're appealing to?
Using electric cars is the logical next step in our society, synthetic alchohol fuels are a good idea as well, but the problem with those is the flammability issue.
Forgive my ignorance, but how is there an issue with the flamibility of alcohol, that's different from the flamibility issues with regular gas? As I understand it, Alcohols are infinitly renewable, significantly less polluting, and can be used in most vehicles with only minor alterations (valve settings and different material for the head gasket or something.). Why isn't this being persued as actively as fuel cells? The only reason I can think of is that High schoolers would be able to pull up to the gas station and get their resources for the kegger that weekend, (and how is that any different than now anyway?) Just a thought..
And as long as we're talking about electric cars, here's the obligatory Tesla refference: Tesla Electric Car #1
It'll be nice to have a new brand on the market, too, one that doesn't have the same ties to oil companies.
Since we all know that aircraft makers would never consider designing a plane that used fossil fuels...
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Well, since it supposedly only works for 10 minutes at a shot.... I don't think that using it for illegal means would be that easy. However, the problem is that from the sounds of it, the needed input signal (fingerprint that is then translated into a digital activation signal) is already stored on the card itself. I'm sure that it wouldn't take too long even without the owners fingerprint to crack whatever signal they're using, and make stealing cards a very very proffitable business. Makes Identity theft all the easier....
Why exactly is it that when those "install spyware (under some other name)" windows pop up, there's an option to
1: install it (sadly, the defauly option) 2: not install it and 3: automatically trust the company and install every bit of spyware ever sent your way again.....
Why on earth don't they include the option to "Never Trust content from this manufacturer" It would make things alot easier, and alot less frusterating to those of us who feel obligated to provide tech support "why am I getting all these popup windows?" to our less educated friends and family. With all the lawsuits against the people that create spam, you'd think that there would be more against those like Gator and Gain.
Personally, I think that SETI@home would be the best place for alot of those sci-fi fanboys to find a mate; after all, alot of are after alien chicks. They just see the one-species local personal listings as very limiting in their selection.
What a great day it is. I can now start to try on all kinds of women's lingerie and swimwear without the people behind the counter telling me that the company has issues with me doing so. wonder what the computer would make of that......
I believe that TomsHardware ran a review recently of barebones laptops that are coming more and more into the mainstream. Like and self respecting geek, I would actually go after one of those as my choice; partially for the geek factor and partially because I know exactly what it is that's going into the system.
Outside of a workplace environment (where the brand of system is monitored by the big-wigs), I don't think I'd ever really go after a PC or Laptop that was manufactured by the big name manufacturers. Especially after the previous discussions we've had here on/. about many of them coming with spyware pre-installed.
Besides, even big name Manufacturers like AMD have taken alot of flak for their numbering scheme with respect to their processors, so it could just be a case of other companies seeing that they can safely follow suit.
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While your argument looks good on the surface, it relies on the assumption that all of these turbines would be quite close to each other. The larger the geographic spread of these windmills, the more assured you are to be getting at least *some* power *all* of the time. It's the same reason that investors like to keep a variety of stocks in their portfolios. The probability that a single area will not have sufficient wind to generate power is relatively high, but the chance that all the air in the entire country will suddenly just decide to stop moving is basically 0. Yes, this does require building alot more windmills, and thus invest alot more money, but that dosen't stop the concept from feasible.
While converting over to wind power as a main source of energy production may sound appealing, there are still drawbacks. I've heard the argument that so many moving blades can kill off the birds who thought that the top of a windmill might be a good nesting site. And leave it to Americans to start suing everyone around for the damages that the windmills would cause, (from the noise they produce, the dangerous moving blades, or ruining the scenic vista).
Personally, I'm all for converting to wind power. Some complaints and a few dead birds are not detrimental enough to justify the continued use of fossil fuels. Unfortunately, there's alot of people out there looking for something to complain about, and it only takes a hand full of them to stop progress of any sort.
I got it, I think! It's a tubular lock, but a damn big one with weak springs. Use the scissors as a torque wrench to apply constant turning pressure. Use the pen to push in the individual pins. Very weak lock.
Congratulations!, you've won a lawsuit!
Honestly, I think that the only thing that as far as cost and performance ratios go, AMD has the upper hand. People who keep up with the industry are (I assume) fairly well aware of this fact.
From what I can tell, intel's only remaining advantages are in niche markets (not consumer desktops), and the fact that most people buying consumer-level desktops haven't even heard of AMD. I doubt that AMD will be able to overthrow intel's brand-recognition supremacy, but intel will be facing some tough decisions if they do...
In my personal experience (living on a college campus) It seems that people with cell phones are plenty willing to show them off and use them (nearly constantly).
So what then, is the practical use of such a device? From the description it sounds like it would only detect a phone as it is receiving or sending a message anyway. Someone sending a message would be obvious enough anyway. When recieving a message, they seem to make pointlessly loud and obnoxious noises already. Pardon the skepticism, but I can't see much practical use for such a device (other than the obvious geek factor).
Now if you could integrate something similar into handheld console games, that would be a little more interesting. Imagine not only being able to play play the games against others, but getting a signal when someone around you has the same game and is willing to play agaisnt you.
Just my uninformed two cents
With the OS wars that go on here, I'd assumed that they'd say which OS/distro these machines were shipping with. No, I didn't RTFA, and yeah, it's probably fairly safe to assume that it's winXP.
I'm just wondering how these will compare to the DIY solutions (both in cost and performance), and what OS homegrown solutions are available for.
Ok, when I saw the first GITS movie, I was impressed since it was one of my first experiences with anime. However, unless you're patient enough to look for deeper meanings among the drawn-out dialogues, it's not going to be all that entertaining.
Since then, I know that the stand-alone complex has come out, and has recieved some good reviews, but there's also a comic book series: Ghost in the Shell 2. The comics, like the first movie, require close attention to what's said and a good ability to keep track of who's who among the characters to really understand what's going on. I know that this is true of most literature and forms of entertainment, but it seems to be even more necessary for this series. Between body switching and other stuff that's going on, unless you keep close track of everything it becomes downright confusing.
My question is whether or not this new movie has anything to do with the original movie, the series, or the comic book series. Did Masamune Shirow (I think that's who did it) write this one as well?
... and no, I haven't rtfa, people have been complaining so consistently about the site that I doubt it's worth my time.
Rio Rancho, not Rio Ranch. Mea culpa.
Kinda funny that they corrected the spelling with the name of the town yet utterly fail spanish spelling immediately afterwards. Spanish spellings should be easier since they're phoenetic. I'm assuming that it should be "Mi culpa"... a rough translation of the gutter-english phrase, "my bad."
Then again, who am I to say anything about spelling or grammer when I have an error in my sig that I'm too lazy to correct?
From the title, I made the quick assumption that this was either talking about the borg from star trek (quite confusing) or some variation on the rubik's cube, (which has baffled people since it came out). I was quite surprised to see security software instead (which is inherently confusing for almost everyone except slashdotters)...
Toyota's concept, um, car, the PM. In addition to seating only one person...
Will the sport edition be called the PMS?
You army types make me sick
Those same "army types" also keep us safe, nimrod.
I do admit that the military's recent performance has been less than inspiring, and even downright disturbing, but they're a necessary part of the livlihoods of almost everyone; no matter where you live.
I didn't even take the time to rtfa.... why on earth would I take the time to spell check?
Any information is really only valuable when you have enough creativity and common sense to make something of it. People aren't trained to think "outside of the box", but given enough time and motivation, things will happen.
I'm not saying that we should keep all of this info under lock and key(among dozens of other safeguards), but we should at least make a few more independent analysies(sp?) of the threat the data poses.
The thing that I think would be alot more interesting is to take the layouts of some of these buildings; turn them into maps for some FPS games (UT2k4 is my fav) and figure out the best way to attack/defend them. (I've been wanting to do this for my college campus for awhile now.... let players spawn in their dorm rooms... consider it preparation for the giant paintball war we're planning for halloween)
yeah, just my 2 cents..
Suit includes, " a robotic third arm "... just imagine the possibilities (other than wrestling with bears of course)
Or try imagining what he was thinking of when he decided to add it in as a feature... I'm not sure which is scarier.
I can see this opening up a new segment in the pr0n industry. What size/shape are these things, and can we get one to vibrate?
I was kinda wondering; what are the requirements for a launch licence for a series of sub-orbital flights over a one-year period? Other than the obvious: being able to get it up that high, and promising not to mess with anything on the way there and back.
since KDE 3.2 and is available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik). But is it available in Idiot? that's where the real market share in computers is anymore. Look at XP's dominance of desktop market; who do you think they're appealing to?
Using electric cars is the logical next step in our society, synthetic alchohol fuels are a good idea as well, but the problem with those is the flammability issue.
Forgive my ignorance, but how is there an issue with the flamibility of alcohol, that's different from the flamibility issues with regular gas? As I understand it, Alcohols are infinitly renewable, significantly less polluting, and can be used in most vehicles with only minor alterations (valve settings and different material for the head gasket or something.). Why isn't this being persued as actively as fuel cells? The only reason I can think of is that High schoolers would be able to pull up to the gas station and get their resources for the kegger that weekend, (and how is that any different than now anyway?) Just a thought..
And as long as we're talking about electric cars, here's the obligatory Tesla refference: Tesla Electric Car #1
It'll be nice to have a new brand on the market, too, one that doesn't have the same ties to oil companies.
Since we all know that aircraft makers would never consider designing a plane that used fossil fuels...
Well, since it supposedly only works for 10 minutes at a shot.... I don't think that using it for illegal means would be that easy. However, the problem is that from the sounds of it, the needed input signal (fingerprint that is then translated into a digital activation signal) is already stored on the card itself. I'm sure that it wouldn't take too long even without the owners fingerprint to crack whatever signal they're using, and make stealing cards a very very proffitable business. Makes Identity theft all the easier....
Why exactly is it that when those "install spyware (under some other name)" windows pop up, there's an option to
1: install it (sadly, the defauly option)
2: not install it and
3: automatically trust the company and install every bit of spyware ever sent your way again.....
Why on earth don't they include the option to "Never Trust content from this manufacturer" It would make things alot easier, and alot less frusterating to those of us who feel obligated to provide tech support "why am I getting all these popup windows?" to our less educated friends and family.
With all the lawsuits against the people that create spam, you'd think that there would be more against those like Gator and Gain.
so, where can I copyright my own personal info and sue the pants off of all these freakers passing around unauthorized copies?
Personally, I think that SETI@home would be the best place for alot of those sci-fi fanboys to find a mate; after all, alot of are after alien chicks. They just see the one-species local personal listings as very limiting in their selection.
What a great day it is. I can now start to try on all kinds of women's lingerie and swimwear without the people behind the counter telling me that the company has issues with me doing so. wonder what the computer would make of that......
I believe that TomsHardware ran a review recently of barebones laptops that are coming more and more into the mainstream. Like and self respecting geek, I would actually go after one of those as my choice; partially for the geek factor and partially because I know exactly what it is that's going into the system.
/. about many of them coming with spyware pre-installed.
Outside of a workplace environment (where the brand of system is monitored by the big-wigs), I don't think I'd ever really go after a PC or Laptop that was manufactured by the big name manufacturers. Especially after the previous discussions we've had here on
Besides, even big name Manufacturers like AMD have taken alot of flak for their numbering scheme with respect to their processors, so it could just be a case of other companies seeing that they can safely follow suit.
Just my uninformed 2 cents...