Shame he wasn't a CS major and when he brought it to a professor he should have brought it to the head of the Arts & Sciences department. They usually have a little pull and instead of getting suspended they would have probably contacted Cisco and said "WTF?! Fix this!"
"A printer in which I don't get a print in less than a few minutes isn't very useful to me."
Did you RTFA? This is the technology we read on/. oh so long ago: "new Memjet technology can print 60 full-color pages per minute. Instead of having a print head that moves side to side like current inkjets, the print head spans the full width of the page."
From TFA: "Edgeline uses a page-wide stationary print-head, decreasing wear and tear by removing contact with the paper."
Here's an amazing (unbelievable?) video of the Memjet printer in action
I've been waiting for this ever since I heard of it: All the photographic quality of a inkjet with faster speeds than laser printers and saving ink to boot. Very disappointed we won't see it at home now, but it's only a matter of time before it filters down.
"Are you seriously going to suggest that pro athletes don't have physical gifts superior to the average person"
that depends, are we talking marathon runners or NASCAR? Not to knock NASCAR but I don't think they're genetically gifted in any way because there was no gym class for race car driving. Let's say you (you the person reading) was genetically gifted to driving in circles at 200mph, did you have any exposure in your life where you were given the opportunity to become a NASCAR driver? Most NASCAR drivers now days had dad's or close friends that were drivers but that doesn't mean they're the best people for the job.
However baseball, basketball, football, soccer, runners and most other pro athletes started at a young age or in high school, so they probably do have some genetic traits that make them better than their peers.
"Technically, he could have been out a lot quicker had his parents hired a lawyer and bailed him out..."
What horrible parents! You're absolutely right, every parent should have at least 100 grand in their pocket to hire attorneys or bail money to rescue their children from the "legal" system when the police make a little boo-boo.
I'm tired of the illegal justice system in the US. The one that lets the rich go free and throws the poor in jail because they can't afford lawyers and don't want to sit in jail for a year for minor offenses while their public defender argues in court for months. Better to plead guilty to something you never did and get a few weeks in jail and probation and be labeled for life than wait in jail to see what happens only to find out they still found you guilty and you're getting even more jail time.
"People like you have no idea what it means to live in a society where everyone has a gun."
How do you know? Maybe he's Swedish, where every male is required by law to join the army as reserves from age 18 until 30 (34 for officers) and keep a weapon at home:
"The gun policy in Switzerland is unique in Europe. The personal weapon of militia personnel is kept at home as part of the military obligations. This, in addition to liberal gun laws and strong shooting traditions, has led to a very high gun count per capita."
Norway has a similar policy, yet they complain when "In the past 16 years at least 18 people have been killed following incidents involving the army's AG3 automatic assault rifle." If only the US had only 18 murders in 16 years!
"Still wouldn't mind a law striking gun free zones out of any/all government controlled/funded places. All they do is paint big targets on the innocent."
Yep. I figure if a place doesn't have at least 2 armed guards at all times they shouldn't be able to post "No Guns Allowed". Even the local gym has a "no guns" sign. What good is allowing concealed guns law if all the business has to do print out a piece of paper that says "no guns" and put it in the window? Incredibly stupid.
We aren't getting the profile of the perp wall to wall. No experts discussing why he went off.
Does it really matter what he looked like and why? Some crazy is always going to have a bad day and kill people, shouldn't we focus on how to keep the people alive next time instead of trying to keep the crazes from being... um, crazy?
"What happens if you see someone with a gun shoot someone else with a gun, then turn and point their gun at another guy with a gun?"
Well I'd hope I'd first run for cover, even if I did have a gun strapped to my waist, and once i felt less vulnerable I'd probably pull out my gun and shoot anyone pointing at me.
Think that's the issue here. We're not talking about a random hero in a classroom, we're suggesting if someone that was killed happened to have a gun and was targeted, perhaps they could have defended themselves.
"Well they have to manufacture something! It's obviously not gaming consoles."
Yep, like quotes from their marketing department. They came out last November and you still can't buy one anywhere. That's 6 months for those of you doing the math. 6 month's they've been sold out. That's BS. My old roommate stood in line a few hours and picked one up. I figured "naw, i'll just get one in a month". Boy was I wrong!
These guys already get 100+ mpg easily: "Wayne honks to get a judge to run through the rain to record his fcd. It reads as high as the Insight can record: 150 mpg. Afterward, the Insight's owner hits a switch that shows Wayne's mark in kilometers per liter, which has a higher limit. It reads 1.3 L/100 km. That's 180.91 mpg. "
so either the x-price people have never heard of hypermilers or they plan on having special obstacle courses and requiring drivers to accelerate at a certain speed.
I'm pretty disappointed this link didn't show up in the first 5 posts on this topic, it's a sad day on/. when an article about 100+ mpg cars has more threads about "EuroEnglish" than about cars.
"The DS may just be the perfect gaming machine... but it's adult friendly too in the fact that you can pick it up and play it when you've only got a few minutes to spare. Just flip it closed and it goes into standby until you open it back up."
give me +5 Flamebait but i'm sooo tired of all the DS fanboy crap I read online. Your big argument that it's "adult friendly" is that you can put it in standby easily? So if the only game it played was tic-tac-toe it'd still be "adult friendly", right?
I'm an adult and I've played the DS and just hate the games for it. It's a great system, and stupid DS fanboys keep me going back to the DS and playing it thinking something's change but it hasn't, the games still look crappy, even Metroid looked jagged compared to PSP games like Metal Gear Solid (video), Prince of Persia Revelations (video, more video) or Call of Duty (video).
Those are adult games with adult graphics, I'm tired of playing Mario with cutesy graphics and a having to use a klunky stylus, especially when the DS is suppose to be a portable system.
Yes, for once I agree with limiting internet access. Unlimited internet definitely killed my social status in college, and really there's only a few things you need the internet for after midnight: surfing for porn, chatting about porn, or downloading porn.
If they really really need internet that bad after midnight let them go to a 24 hour computer lab or sign-up for their own dsl/cable internet.
The story is absolute crap and I've already emailed The Recorder's Editor-in-Chief Mark Rowan a week ago when the story appeared on digg
From the article:
"The new tests which affect all 2008 models give a much more realistic rating with highway speeds of 80mph and acceleration of 8mph per second. This has dropped the Prius's EPA down by 25 percent to an average of 45mpg. This now puts the Toyota within spitting distance of cars like the Chevy Aveo, which costs less then half what the Prius costs."
HOW THE HELL DO YOU Call 23 city compared to 48 city "spitting distance". Even 45mpg highway and 31mpg highway isn't "spitting distance".
The guy is a complete liar and should never write another article. If the reader has to look up every claim the guy makes and prove which ones are true and which ones are false what good is the article?
"Obviously that's a long way in the future so I take that with huge chunks of salt, but I would definitely appreciate a slowing down of next gen arms race propagation."
I believe it because this is the first time in... forever, that consoles are actually much faster than modern PCs.
The Xbox360 came out May 2005 with 3 processors each clocked at 3.2 ghz. Even today, almost 2 years later, you won't find any personal computers with three 3+ ghz processors, and remember all of these are dedicated to processing games, so even when we do have three and four core 3ghz processors in our PCs it's unlikely they'll even approach what the Xbox360 is capable of. The Xbox360 graphics GPU is based on the next generation ATI R600, still unavailable in PCs but should be released sometime in 2007.
It will be many years before PC hardware will match what is currently available in a ~$400 Xbox360. Makes me wish I could run Windows on it;)
"People in the tuning industry have been controlling "knock" in various ways for a long time."
Exactly. This sounds a lot like water injection, which has been around forever and does increase mpg by about 10% in turbo cars and allows lower octane fuel.
Here's what's going to kill the technology from TFA: "Ethanol would be stored in its own tank or compartment and would be introduced by a separate direct-injection system. The ethanol would have to be replenished only once every few months, roughly as often as the oil is changed. A vehicle that used this approach would operate around 25 percent more efficiently than a vehicle with a conventional engine."
This is exactly like water-injection and it's why we don't see water-injection in vehicles. No one wants to have a separate tank that we need to remember to fill-up, and the 10% increase provided by water just isn't enough. This is the same story except it's ethanol, not as easy to find as water, and it's 25% better mpg instead of 10%.
We will never see a production ethanol injection vehicle. Vaporware with a capital V
"This isn't a cable/DSL issue. This is a "we don't tell you how much but we cut you off anyhow" issue."
I guess I'm alone when I say I think the ISP's are right as long as they warn users. In the article they called the lady in December telling her she was using too much. They didn't shut her off until February.
Now I've been known to use a lot of bandwidth and I'm sure I've used 100-200 gigs some months and I've never received a call. The article suggests the "limit" is closer to 250-500 gigabytes. If you're downloading that much you're likely:
A) doing something illegal
B) sharing your wireless router with everyone in the apartment/dorm building
Either one would warrant shutting off your account. I can't imagine downloading 500 gigs every month continuously on my own PC, I'd need a new hard drive every month, but you get a dozen people together each with 300+ gig drives (3.6 terabytes) each downloading a dozen movies a month: 5 gig movie X 12 = 60 gigs x 12 people = 720 gigs and all you're paying is $30-$40 for basic cable internet and I could see why the ISP would be upset.
And don't give me this crap that it's VOIP or youtube videos like the article suggests. VOIP for a single line uses very little bandwidth, and Youtube uses FLV Video Compression which is somewhere around 2 megabytes per minute. With only 43,200 minutes in a month, or 90,000 megabytes = 90 gigs, so even if you continuously watched Youtube video for an entire month you wouldn't approach the limit. Even if my math is wrong and it's 3 megs/minute that still only 120 gigs, well below the threshold.
Since Nintendo and Sony are both battling for the same market now we might see new portable consoles come out more frequently, but it's not uncommon to go 10+ years before a new console is introduced. Also remember battery life: it would be difficult (impossible?) to run three Cell processors on a 5-volt rechargeable battery.
Um... how would you send a signal back? How would you upload? Wifi works because you're usually in close proximity of the router and your PC has enough signal strength to send the signal back.
Wireless internet works through cellphone towers similar to cellphones sending and receiving calls, would this work in a similar way? Seems like that'd be a major cost to upgrade all the towers when cellphone providers already offer the service.
"George Pullman did this for his railcar company here in the Chicago area in the mid- to late-1800's, and he overstepped his bounds."
I was just thinking that when I read this article. He rented employees houses and apartments and gave employees credit for items purchased at local company-owned stores. If I recall correctly he started with employee-only rented houses and apartments for dirt cheap which put other close landlords out of business and ended up slowly increasing rent until he was getting back entire paychecks plus interest from items purchased at company-owned local stores.
Employees were stuck. They never made enough to fully pay off the rent and food, and they couldn't quit because they'd lose their house, etc.
A better system might be what the U.S. Military does: either free housing on post (or in this case, close to google) or a credit to help pay rent or mortgage off post.
"How many or what type of people would marry and reproduce when you could have a robot mate.... If every 15 year old could easily/cheapily buy their own robot that could do all those things, then the only reason to find a human parnter would be to mate/reproduce.
That's a bit scary. I imagine robots will be like cars now, where the upper class have the best vehicles available, middle class have average vehicles, and the poor have the old used ones or none at all.
If this car logic applies to sexbots then we may very well find the wealthy and middle-class not reproducing or reproducing very little, while the poor reproduce normally, affecting future generations. My worry is the vast majority of the poor are poor for a reason, from poor decisions, laziness, or lack of intelligence. Do we really want future generations of stupid, lazy people? Don't we have enough now? Already the poor reproduce at a rate 2-3x that of the upper-class, do we really need to widen that margin?
"I am trying to get it work but it does not at all... Weird."
yeah didn't work for me either on Firefox 2.0.0.2, XP SP2, logged in as admin. The text popped up saying "you should see your boot.ini file below. If you don't... maybe I screwed something up." and nothing was below it and I do have a boot.ini file on the c: root
"I take it you've never actually paid a professional to install (and wire) a distribution center, then run the wire to each desk, then to wire an outlet at each desk?"
The only way the battery idea would work is if they used large batteries, like car batteries, and even those would likely need to be charged after 8-16 hours of use. The teacher really wants to run around swapping out 20 lbs batteries every other day?
Also i'm a little confused why this is on/. since it's obvious the teacher didn't even google the topic because there's several of sources with information about running PCs from 12 volt car batteries.
And the teacher should have asked the experts on putting PCs in cars over at dashpc.com or at least googled "car computer" for ideas on other PCs running from a 12-volt source. We might be pretty knowledgeable, but we're not all trying to run PCs on 12 volt batteries like guys in the mp3car forum is.
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"He is trying to cover his ass."
Shame he wasn't a CS major and when he brought it to a professor he should have brought it to the head of the Arts & Sciences department. They usually have a little pull and instead of getting suspended they would have probably contacted Cisco and said "WTF?! Fix this!"
"He is 26 years old."
26 and going on 46. (more images)
The about article proved my point exactly.
"A printer in which I don't get a print in less than a few minutes isn't very useful to me."
/. oh so long ago:
Did you RTFA? This is the technology we read on
"new Memjet technology can print 60 full-color pages per minute. Instead of having a print head that moves side to side like current inkjets, the print head spans the full width of the page."
From TFA:
"Edgeline uses a page-wide stationary print-head, decreasing wear and tear by removing contact with the paper."
Here's an amazing (unbelievable?) video of the Memjet printer in action
I've been waiting for this ever since I heard of it: All the photographic quality of a inkjet with faster speeds than laser printers and saving ink to boot. Very disappointed we won't see it at home now, but it's only a matter of time before it filters down.
"Are you seriously going to suggest that pro athletes don't have physical gifts superior to the average person"
that depends, are we talking marathon runners or NASCAR? Not to knock NASCAR but I don't think they're genetically gifted in any way because there was no gym class for race car driving. Let's say you (you the person reading) was genetically gifted to driving in circles at 200mph, did you have any exposure in your life where you were given the opportunity to become a NASCAR driver? Most NASCAR drivers now days had dad's or close friends that were drivers but that doesn't mean they're the best people for the job.
However baseball, basketball, football, soccer, runners and most other pro athletes started at a young age or in high school, so they probably do have some genetic traits that make them better than their peers.
"Feel free to tell his principal how you feel about the whole guilty until proven innocent thing she has going on."
and get mixed up with another email that emailed her a threat and end up sitting in jail for 11 days?? No thanks!
"Technically, he could have been out a lot quicker had his parents hired a lawyer and bailed him out..."
What horrible parents! You're absolutely right, every parent should have at least 100 grand in their pocket to hire attorneys or bail money to rescue their children from the "legal" system when the police make a little boo-boo.
In my wonderful state you can only sue for twice your loss income or 20 grand, whatever is greater. So this kid could get a whopping 20 grand from this mess from the police. Yippy! I'm sure that'd make the police think twice.
I'm tired of the illegal justice system in the US. The one that lets the rich go free and throws the poor in jail because they can't afford lawyers and don't want to sit in jail for a year for minor offenses while their public defender argues in court for months. Better to plead guilty to something you never did and get a few weeks in jail and probation and be labeled for life than wait in jail to see what happens only to find out they still found you guilty and you're getting even more jail time.
"People like you have no idea what it means to live in a society where everyone has a gun."
How do you know? Maybe he's Swedish, where every male is required by law to join the army as reserves from age 18 until 30 (34 for officers) and keep a weapon at home:
"The gun policy in Switzerland is unique in Europe. The personal weapon of militia personnel is kept at home as part of the military obligations. This, in addition to liberal gun laws and strong shooting traditions, has led to a very high gun count per capita."
and yet they have far less murders than we do. Every 18-30 yr old Swiss male has an assault rifle at home, yet they have one of the lowest murders per capita in the world, #56 out of 62 countries (US is #24).
Norway has a similar policy, yet they complain when "In the past 16 years at least 18 people have been killed following incidents involving the army's AG3 automatic assault rifle." If only the US had only 18 murders in 16 years!
"Still wouldn't mind a law striking gun free zones out of any/all government controlled/funded places. All they do is paint big targets on the innocent."
Yep. I figure if a place doesn't have at least 2 armed guards at all times they shouldn't be able to post "No Guns Allowed". Even the local gym has a "no guns" sign. What good is allowing concealed guns law if all the business has to do print out a piece of paper that says "no guns" and put it in the window? Incredibly stupid.
We aren't getting the profile of the perp wall to wall. No experts discussing why he went off.
Does it really matter what he looked like and why? Some crazy is always going to have a bad day and kill people, shouldn't we focus on how to keep the people alive next time instead of trying to keep the crazes from being... um, crazy?
"What happens if you see someone with a gun shoot someone else with a gun, then turn and point their gun at another guy with a gun?"
Well I'd hope I'd first run for cover, even if I did have a gun strapped to my waist, and once i felt less vulnerable I'd probably pull out my gun and shoot anyone pointing at me.
Think that's the issue here. We're not talking about a random hero in a classroom, we're suggesting if someone that was killed happened to have a gun and was targeted, perhaps they could have defended themselves.
"Well they have to manufacture something! It's obviously not gaming consoles."
Yep, like quotes from their marketing department. They came out last November and you still can't buy one anywhere. That's 6 months for those of you doing the math. 6 month's they've been sold out. That's BS. My old roommate stood in line a few hours and picked one up. I figured "naw, i'll just get one in a month". Boy was I wrong!
These guys already get 100+ mpg easily:
/. when an article about 100+ mpg cars has more threads about "EuroEnglish" than about cars.
"Wayne honks to get a judge to run through the rain to record his fcd. It reads as high as the Insight can record: 150 mpg. Afterward, the Insight's owner hits a switch that shows Wayne's mark in kilometers per liter, which has a higher limit. It reads 1.3 L/100 km. That's 180.91 mpg. "
so either the x-price people have never heard of hypermilers or they plan on having special obstacle courses and requiring drivers to accelerate at a certain speed.
I'm pretty disappointed this link didn't show up in the first 5 posts on this topic, it's a sad day on
"The DS may just be the perfect gaming machine... but it's adult friendly too in the fact that you can pick it up and play it when you've only got a few minutes to spare. Just flip it closed and it goes into standby until you open it back up."
give me +5 Flamebait but i'm sooo tired of all the DS fanboy crap I read online. Your big argument that it's "adult friendly" is that you can put it in standby easily? So if the only game it played was tic-tac-toe it'd still be "adult friendly", right?
I'm an adult and I've played the DS and just hate the games for it. It's a great system, and stupid DS fanboys keep me going back to the DS and playing it thinking something's change but it hasn't, the games still look crappy, even Metroid looked jagged compared to PSP games like Metal Gear Solid (video), Prince of Persia Revelations (video, more video) or Call of Duty (video).
Here's a great video comparison: True Swing golf for DS vs Tiger Woods PGA 07 for PSP
Those are adult games with adult graphics, I'm tired of playing Mario with cutesy graphics and a having to use a klunky stylus, especially when the DS is suppose to be a portable system.
"You with me?"
Yes, for once I agree with limiting internet access. Unlimited internet definitely killed my social status in college, and really there's only a few things you need the internet for after midnight: surfing for porn, chatting about porn, or downloading porn.
If they really really need internet that bad after midnight let them go to a 24 hour computer lab or sign-up for their own dsl/cable internet.
The story is absolute crap and I've already emailed The Recorder's Editor-in-Chief Mark Rowan a week ago when the story appeared on digg
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From the article: "The new tests which affect all 2008 models give a much more realistic rating with highway speeds of 80mph and acceleration of 8mph per second. This has dropped the Prius's EPA down by 25 percent to an average of 45mpg. This now puts the Toyota within spitting distance of cars like the Chevy Aveo, which costs less then half what the Prius costs."
Here's the 2008 mpg Aveo getting 23/31 according to the EPA's 2008 website http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/calculatorCompareS
and the 2008 mpg for the Prius getting 48/45: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/calculatorSelectEn
HOW THE HELL DO YOU Call 23 city compared to 48 city "spitting distance". Even 45mpg highway and 31mpg highway isn't "spitting distance".
The guy is a complete liar and should never write another article. If the reader has to look up every claim the guy makes and prove which ones are true and which ones are false what good is the article?
"they tried to recover and it cost them $71,800."
they paid the neighbor kid $71,800 to run norton data recovery? That was a waste.
"Obviously that's a long way in the future so I take that with huge chunks of salt, but I would definitely appreciate a slowing down of next gen arms race propagation."
;)
I believe it because this is the first time in... forever, that consoles are actually much faster than modern PCs.
The Xbox360 came out May 2005 with 3 processors each clocked at 3.2 ghz. Even today, almost 2 years later, you won't find any personal computers with three 3+ ghz processors, and remember all of these are dedicated to processing games, so even when we do have three and four core 3ghz processors in our PCs it's unlikely they'll even approach what the Xbox360 is capable of. The Xbox360 graphics GPU is based on the next generation ATI R600, still unavailable in PCs but should be released sometime in 2007.
It will be many years before PC hardware will match what is currently available in a ~$400 Xbox360. Makes me wish I could run Windows on it
"People in the tuning industry have been controlling "knock" in various ways for a long time."
Exactly. This sounds a lot like water injection, which has been around forever and does increase mpg by about 10% in turbo cars and allows lower octane fuel.
Here's what's going to kill the technology from TFA:
"Ethanol would be stored in its own tank or compartment and would be introduced by a separate direct-injection system. The ethanol would have to be replenished only once every few months, roughly as often as the oil is changed. A vehicle that used this approach would operate around 25 percent more efficiently than a vehicle with a conventional engine."
This is exactly like water-injection and it's why we don't see water-injection in vehicles. No one wants to have a separate tank that we need to remember to fill-up, and the 10% increase provided by water just isn't enough. This is the same story except it's ethanol, not as easy to find as water, and it's 25% better mpg instead of 10%.
We will never see a production ethanol injection vehicle. Vaporware with a capital V
"This isn't a cable/DSL issue. This is a "we don't tell you how much but we cut you off anyhow" issue."
I guess I'm alone when I say I think the ISP's are right as long as they warn users. In the article they called the lady in December telling her she was using too much. They didn't shut her off until February.
Now I've been known to use a lot of bandwidth and I'm sure I've used 100-200 gigs some months and I've never received a call. The article suggests the "limit" is closer to 250-500 gigabytes. If you're downloading that much you're likely:
A) doing something illegal
B) sharing your wireless router with everyone in the apartment/dorm building
Either one would warrant shutting off your account. I can't imagine downloading 500 gigs every month continuously on my own PC, I'd need a new hard drive every month, but you get a dozen people together each with 300+ gig drives (3.6 terabytes) each downloading a dozen movies a month: 5 gig movie X 12 = 60 gigs x 12 people = 720 gigs and all you're paying is $30-$40 for basic cable internet and I could see why the ISP would be upset.
And don't give me this crap that it's VOIP or youtube videos like the article suggests. VOIP for a single line uses very little bandwidth, and Youtube uses FLV Video Compression which is somewhere around 2 megabytes per minute. With only 43,200 minutes in a month, or 90,000 megabytes = 90 gigs, so even if you continuously watched Youtube video for an entire month you wouldn't approach the limit. Even if my math is wrong and it's 3 megs/minute that still only 120 gigs, well below the threshold.
"With that said, how far off can the PSP's successor be?"
The PSP has been out what, 2 years now? We're 11 days away from the 2 year anniversary of the US release of the PSP. While this would be about the half way mark for a home console the Gameboy sold practically unchange for 12 years before the Gameboy Advance, and some could argue the DS was only released as a competitor to the PSP because the DS came out only 4 months before the PSP.
Since Nintendo and Sony are both battling for the same market now we might see new portable consoles come out more frequently, but it's not uncommon to go 10+ years before a new console is introduced. Also remember battery life: it would be difficult (impossible?) to run three Cell processors on a 5-volt rechargeable battery.
Um... how would you send a signal back? How would you upload? Wifi works because you're usually in close proximity of the router and your PC has enough signal strength to send the signal back.
Wireless internet works through cellphone towers similar to cellphones sending and receiving calls, would this work in a similar way? Seems like that'd be a major cost to upgrade all the towers when cellphone providers already offer the service.
"George Pullman did this for his railcar company here in the Chicago area in the mid- to late-1800's, and he overstepped his bounds."
I was just thinking that when I read this article. He rented employees houses and apartments and gave employees credit for items purchased at local company-owned stores. If I recall correctly he started with employee-only rented houses and apartments for dirt cheap which put other close landlords out of business and ended up slowly increasing rent until he was getting back entire paychecks plus interest from items purchased at company-owned local stores.
Employees were stuck. They never made enough to fully pay off the rent and food, and they couldn't quit because they'd lose their house, etc.
A better system might be what the U.S. Military does: either free housing on post (or in this case, close to google) or a credit to help pay rent or mortgage off post.
"How many or what type of people would marry and reproduce when you could have a robot mate.... If every 15 year old could easily/cheapily buy their own robot that could do all those things, then the only reason to find a human parnter would be to mate/reproduce.
That's a bit scary. I imagine robots will be like cars now, where the upper class have the best vehicles available, middle class have average vehicles, and the poor have the old used ones or none at all.
If this car logic applies to sexbots then we may very well find the wealthy and middle-class not reproducing or reproducing very little, while the poor reproduce normally, affecting future generations. My worry is the vast majority of the poor are poor for a reason, from poor decisions, laziness, or lack of intelligence. Do we really want future generations of stupid, lazy people? Don't we have enough now? Already the poor reproduce at a rate 2-3x that of the upper-class, do we really need to widen that margin?
"I am trying to get it work but it does not at all... Weird."
yeah didn't work for me either on Firefox 2.0.0.2, XP SP2, logged in as admin. The text popped up saying "you should see your boot.ini file below. If you don't... maybe I screwed something up." and nothing was below it and I do have a boot.ini file on the c: root
"I take it you've never actually paid a professional to install (and wire) a distribution center, then run the wire to each desk, then to wire an outlet at each desk?"
/. since it's obvious the teacher didn't even google the topic because there's several of sources with information about running PCs from 12 volt car batteries.
The only way the battery idea would work is if they used large batteries, like car batteries, and even those would likely need to be charged after 8-16 hours of use. The teacher really wants to run around swapping out 20 lbs batteries every other day?
Also i'm a little confused why this is on
And the teacher should have asked the experts on putting PCs in cars over at dashpc.com or at least googled "car computer" for ideas on other PCs running from a 12-volt source. We might be pretty knowledgeable, but we're not all trying to run PCs on 12 volt batteries like guys in the mp3car forum is.