I'm lucky to live in a unique area of the US where the energy alternatives (mainly ethanol) are actually cheaper than the regular fuels because of all of the tax cuts.
It is cheaper for you because tax dollars are subsidizing ethanol production. Do you realize how convoluted a statement that is? That 2-5 cents difference is an illusion. What runs the harvesting tools that collect corn? What fires the burner at the plant? What runs the truck that delivers it? All that and it requires tax subsidies and tax rebates to make it cheaper than currently high gas prices. Ethanol is less energy dense than gasoline, so you burn more per mile. (Google it or read this months U.S. News.) That alone negates your 2-5 cents/gallon savings.
The current production/distribution process is highly dependent on fossil fuels. Without a breakthrough in the ethanol production process (possibly already here if someone would invest the billions it would take to bring the process from the lab to large scale production/distribution) or a new plant that yields a much higher energy density fuel, ethanol is a read herring that is political suicide to argue against.
Why in the hell was this modded down offtopic? It directly relates to the comment it is replying to and corrects the abject incorrectness of said post. I really hope whoever did this gets metamoderated into oblivion.
I honestly think yahoo is slashdotted right now. Well, atleast partially. It is extremely slow to load and the searches are taking an amazingly long time. 1405EST
(hey, you don't know if he has a bomb strapped to him, or a gun hidden in his clothing)
What are the chances this might set the bomb off, especially if it is a low-tech bomb? I, personally, have no problem with this.
I have read in the past that the "Fisher-Price" appearance makes them easy to identify so that if a load are stolen by "bad guys," the "good guys" can tell. It also attaches the stigma of stealing from a child to whoever did so.
Why was there never a class action suit brought against Sony for defective DVD drives in there PS2 consoles? Stories abound about generation one drives wearing out because they were not spec'ed for the continuous spin required for DVD movie playback. That being said, Nintendo has acknowledged a defect and issued a Wii-mote wrist strap recall.
wouldn't you leave the doors open more than a couple days? What would be the purpose to close it down so quickly?
If they let people criticize the government for too long, other people start to listen. That runs the risks of more people criticizing the goverment. Those freely spoken ideas begin to spread and suddenly you have a square full of student protesters. They you have to call in the tanks. But what goverment would ever do that to its youth?
I do not think Ug had a problem shuffling over to his Cro-Magnon counterpart, wonking her on the head and dragging her back to his cave. For that matter, neither did Ugina...
The axe guy probably would have snapped against someone else, eventually.
Except that in real life, would someone have pushed this guy as far as he was pushed in this chat room. I am not condoning this in the least. He had a 70 mile drive to cool off, but there is a severe lack of tact on the internet these days. While the importance of maintaining ones anonymity is mentioned, what about being civil to another human being?
You could do exactly the same thing using paper resources if you had the time and patience.
This does not make doing it electronically un-creepy. In fact, I believe it confirs the creepiness factor. Instead of pointing out the importance of anonymity on the web, this should point out the importance of not being a wanker on the web. There are people who do not take kindly to being called names, and while it is correct to think they should not be so sensitive, the broken jaw that can result from insulting the wrong person is an very strong argument for descretion. This is exacerbated on the web were you do not have access to physiological cues (body stance, facial expression, physical size) that alert you to trouble. Like delivering a deliciously dry and sarcastically witty comeback to an ill-tempered (American) footballer.
I have seen a marked decrease in gaoline prices during the past month. They have dropped from $0.25-0.35 per gallon, depending upon the station. I have heard rumor prices could hit $1.15 per gallon by Christmas. Which is just in time to inject capital into the economy. While any new development in energy storage/delivery efficiency is welcome, in the near term, gas prices will not be the driving force for the American public to switch to anything radically new.
This is the major problem I see with this program. As I graduated from high school 9 years ago, I have no personal experience with this system. False positives would theoretically decrease as sample set size increased. However, I would imagine the styles of students all taught by the same English teacher and influenced by the same subject teacher (I have always adjusted my style from teacher to teacher depending upon their preferences) would appear very similar. All this system can do is compare letters, words and sentence length. It cannot compare ideas.
The main problem is the definition of failure. The definition of failure for Sony and Microsoft is vastly different than for Nintendo. Everyone thinks of the Sony/MS definition - market dominance/media purvasion/household presence. Nintendo does not need this. All Nintendo needs is one little box sitting in an 11 year olds bedroom hooked up to a standard 25" TV.
- No need for buying special cables.
- No need for buying a special TV.
- No need to share special TV with dad on Sunday afternoon (for there is truly no greater use of a widescreen, HDTV with full surround sound than NFL Football in HD.)
- No need for third party support.
- Bonus if you have broadband, DS and old GC games.
Guys, Nintendo knows the hardcore gamer does not want a Nintendo product. Its kiddy, its not 1337, its not edgy. So, Nintendo is not trying to cater to you anymore. You are really are a small portion of the market, or will be soon if Nintendo has anything to say about it. And even if the paradigm does not shift, the little engine that could will keep on chugging along.
How can you type more than three characters without realizing you have the Capslock on? Do you not look at the screen as you type? If you cannot touch type, you have no business supplying any feedback on keyboard layout.
How about putting this kind of effort behind something useful, like feeding children or developing cleaner forms of energy? Or is that too hard?
Microsoft's new Shadowrun diverges so far from the classic that the company producing the pen and paper version, FanPro LLC, has all but disowned the title, distancing themselves from the project by explaining that "Microsoft has finally unveiled their Shadowrun FPS computer game for X-box 360 and Windows Vista. Fair warning, however: Microsoft rewrote the timeline and setting for this game, so it is not in continuity with the tabletop RPG. It may be more accurately described as a game loosely based on Shadowrun."
I tend to go with the company producing the source material, because they usually understand what the game is supposed to be and they are producing the source material. I am still waiting on the Shadowrun MMOG. EVE for now, but let me be a runner!
Everything reaches a point of diminishing returns. Truly, how much of this new stuff is necessary in an OS? Maybe Jobs seems lackluster because he has lackluster material to work with. You can only shine a turd so much. No, OSX is not a turd, but that is not what he is shining. He is shining the delta between the Leopard and versions. Perhaps he is just tired from fighting the EU. Maychance he just has the flu.
I still think its point of diminishing returns. OSes and desktops are suffering from SUV-itus. Why do computers continue to get faster and OSes and software in general fail to get any more efficient? Why do kernels continue to grow? Why is every innovation in power directed towards making the vehicle larger instead of more efficient? SUV-itus.
If slashdot is grouped with MySpace does that mean we are also a haven for online sexual predators? Personally, I stick to making women my own uncomfortable.
It is a shame this has not been modded up as of yet. Renting is paying someone elses mortgage and increasing their equity. Purchasing a piece of property is always less expensive than renting. All property, baring buying in the midst of a housing bubble, appreciates in value. Even if you only by a townhome or condo, purchasing is a much better choice than renting or living on campus. After your four (or five) years, you can sell at a profit or keep it and rent to other college students who are not smart enough to buy. At $600 per month, seven months a year over four years, renting would cost you $16,800. If you buy a townhome for $125,000, if you could sell for $108,200 and break even. Yes, I neglected taxes, closing costs and interest payments, but if a property depreciates $17k in four years, you did something wrong. Adjust numbers for your area and stay away from interest only loans. They are forclosure bait.
A) This story was not about a patent.
B) I would say retrofitting a cargo ship with a sail in tandem with a computer system that can direct the sail mast to the correct angle to generate the most power from the available wind, dependent upon while altering the ships course, sounds pretty novel to me.
C) If you had RTFA, you would discover this is not some SCO'ish trying to build a patent porfolio, but a company that has achieved a sale of their first sail.
D) This is a German based company, so I would expect they would be patenting in the EU before the US.
In the future, if you wish to make baseless suppositions about articles, I request you post AC so I can filter you out like the other flametrolls. Or go read digg with all the other trend chasers.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm lucky to live in a unique area of the US where the energy alternatives (mainly ethanol) are actually cheaper than the regular fuels because of all of the tax cuts.
It is cheaper for you because tax dollars are subsidizing ethanol production. Do you realize how convoluted a statement that is? That 2-5 cents difference is an illusion. What runs the harvesting tools that collect corn? What fires the burner at the plant? What runs the truck that delivers it? All that and it requires tax subsidies and tax rebates to make it cheaper than currently high gas prices. Ethanol is less energy dense than gasoline, so you burn more per mile. (Google it or read this months U.S. News.) That alone negates your 2-5 cents/gallon savings.
The current production/distribution process is highly dependent on fossil fuels. Without a breakthrough in the ethanol production process (possibly already here if someone would invest the billions it would take to bring the process from the lab to large scale production/distribution) or a new plant that yields a much higher energy density fuel, ethanol is a read herring that is political suicide to argue against.
Why in the hell was this modded down offtopic? It directly relates to the comment it is replying to and corrects the abject incorrectness of said post. I really hope whoever did this gets metamoderated into oblivion.
I honestly think yahoo is slashdotted right now. Well, atleast partially. It is extremely slow to load and the searches are taking an amazingly long time. 1405EST
(hey, you don't know if he has a bomb strapped to him, or a gun hidden in his clothing)
What are the chances this might set the bomb off, especially if it is a low-tech bomb? I, personally, have no problem with this.
I have read in the past that the "Fisher-Price" appearance makes them easy to identify so that if a load are stolen by "bad guys," the "good guys" can tell.
It also attaches the stigma of stealing from a child to whoever did so.
Why was there never a class action suit brought against Sony for defective DVD drives in there PS2 consoles? Stories abound about generation one drives wearing out because they were not spec'ed for the continuous spin required for DVD movie playback. That being said, Nintendo has acknowledged a defect and issued a Wii-mote wrist strap recall.
wouldn't you leave the doors open more than a couple days? What would be the purpose to close it down so quickly?
If they let people criticize the government for too long, other people start to listen. That runs the risks of more people criticizing the goverment. Those freely spoken ideas begin to spread and suddenly you have a square full of student protesters. They you have to call in the tanks. But what goverment would ever do that to its youth?
I do not think Ug had a problem shuffling over to his Cro-Magnon counterpart, wonking her on the head and dragging her back to his cave. For that matter, neither did Ugina...
Six words was all it took to change his universe.
The axe guy probably would have snapped against someone else, eventually.
Except that in real life, would someone have pushed this guy as far as he was pushed in this chat room. I am not condoning this in the least. He had a 70 mile drive to cool off, but there is a severe lack of tact on the internet these days. While the importance of maintaining ones anonymity is mentioned, what about being civil to another human being?
You could do exactly the same thing using paper resources if you had the time and patience.
This does not make doing it electronically un-creepy. In fact, I believe it confirs the creepiness factor. Instead of pointing out the importance of anonymity on the web, this should point out the importance of not being a wanker on the web. There are people who do not take kindly to being called names, and while it is correct to think they should not be so sensitive, the broken jaw that can result from insulting the wrong person is an very strong argument for descretion. This is exacerbated on the web were you do not have access to physiological cues (body stance, facial expression, physical size) that alert you to trouble. Like delivering a deliciously dry and sarcastically witty comeback to an ill-tempered (American) footballer.
Dear God, no! Not that! Engineers will never be able to keep up with the Alchemist or Taylor lobbiests!
In the wake of rising gasoline costs
I have seen a marked decrease in gaoline prices during the past month. They have dropped from $0.25-0.35 per gallon, depending upon the station. I have heard rumor prices could hit $1.15 per gallon by Christmas. Which is just in time to inject capital into the economy. While any new development in energy storage/delivery efficiency is welcome, in the near term, gas prices will not be the driving force for the American public to switch to anything radically new.
This is the major problem I see with this program. As I graduated from high school 9 years ago, I have no personal experience with this system. False positives would theoretically decrease as sample set size increased. However, I would imagine the styles of students all taught by the same English teacher and influenced by the same subject teacher (I have always adjusted my style from teacher to teacher depending upon their preferences) would appear very similar. All this system can do is compare letters, words and sentence length. It cannot compare ideas.
The main problem is the definition of failure. The definition of failure for Sony and Microsoft is vastly different than for Nintendo. Everyone thinks of the Sony/MS definition - market dominance/media purvasion/household presence. Nintendo does not need this. All Nintendo needs is one little box sitting in an 11 year olds bedroom hooked up to a standard 25" TV.
- No need for buying special cables.
- No need for buying a special TV.
- No need to share special TV with dad on Sunday afternoon (for there is truly no greater use of a widescreen, HDTV with full surround sound than NFL Football in HD.)
- No need for third party support.
- Bonus if you have broadband, DS and old GC games.
Guys, Nintendo knows the hardcore gamer does not want a Nintendo product. Its kiddy, its not 1337, its not edgy. So, Nintendo is not trying to cater to you anymore. You are really are a small portion of the market, or will be soon if Nintendo has anything to say about it. And even if the paradigm does not shift, the little engine that could will keep on chugging along.
The beret is a dead give away.
How can you type more than three characters without realizing you have the Capslock on? Do you not look at the screen as you type? If you cannot touch type, you have no business supplying any feedback on keyboard layout.
How about putting this kind of effort behind something useful, like feeding children or developing cleaner forms of energy? Or is that too hard?
FTFA
Microsoft's new Shadowrun diverges so far from the classic that the company producing the pen and paper version, FanPro LLC, has all but disowned the title, distancing themselves from the project by explaining that "Microsoft has finally unveiled their Shadowrun FPS computer game for X-box 360 and Windows Vista. Fair warning, however: Microsoft rewrote the timeline and setting for this game, so it is not in continuity with the tabletop RPG. It may be more accurately described as a game loosely based on Shadowrun."
I tend to go with the company producing the source material, because they usually understand what the game is supposed to be and they are producing the source material. I am still waiting on the Shadowrun MMOG. EVE for now, but let me be a runner!
Everything reaches a point of diminishing returns. Truly, how much of this new stuff is necessary in an OS? Maybe Jobs seems lackluster because he has lackluster material to work with. You can only shine a turd so much. No, OSX is not a turd, but that is not what he is shining. He is shining the delta between the Leopard and versions. Perhaps he is just tired from fighting the EU. Maychance he just has the flu. I still think its point of diminishing returns. OSes and desktops are suffering from SUV-itus. Why do computers continue to get faster and OSes and software in general fail to get any more efficient? Why do kernels continue to grow? Why is every innovation in power directed towards making the vehicle larger instead of more efficient? SUV-itus.
If slashdot is grouped with MySpace does that mean we are also a haven for online sexual predators? Personally, I stick to making women my own uncomfortable.
It is a shame this has not been modded up as of yet. Renting is paying someone elses mortgage and increasing their equity. Purchasing a piece of property is always less expensive than renting. All property, baring buying in the midst of a housing bubble, appreciates in value. Even if you only by a townhome or condo, purchasing is a much better choice than renting or living on campus. After your four (or five) years, you can sell at a profit or keep it and rent to other college students who are not smart enough to buy. At $600 per month, seven months a year over four years, renting would cost you $16,800. If you buy a townhome for $125,000, if you could sell for $108,200 and break even. Yes, I neglected taxes, closing costs and interest payments, but if a property depreciates $17k in four years, you did something wrong. Adjust numbers for your area and stay away from interest only loans. They are forclosure bait.
Nah, more like private and protected data members. And probably one or five mutex locks.
Her twin came down on her birthday and I was there when they opened their cards...
Forget when they opened their cards. Twins, dude! Twins! Were you there when they opened their legs?
A) This story was not about a patent.
B) I would say retrofitting a cargo ship with a sail in tandem with a computer system that can direct the sail mast to the correct angle to generate the most power from the available wind, dependent upon while altering the ships course, sounds pretty novel to me.
C) If you had RTFA, you would discover this is not some SCO'ish trying to build a patent porfolio, but a company that has achieved a sale of their first sail.
D) This is a German based company, so I would expect they would be patenting in the EU before the US.
In the future, if you wish to make baseless suppositions about articles, I request you post AC so I can filter you out like the other flametrolls. Or go read digg with all the other trend chasers.
So he either has oversized keyboard keys or an undersized johnson.