there are huge benefits of decoupling the direct use of energy from the use of petroleum. 1) efficiency: large power production facilities are much, much more efficient than small power plants (like car engines) 2) upgradability: if there is new exhaust cleaning technology invented, its much easier to upgrade central plants than millions of indiviual cars, and ther is a transiition path to large scale alternative power sources like solar towers, wave power, geothermal, nuclear, whatever. 3) cleaning air of urban environments: people in inner cities have really high rates of asthma from all the particulate matter thrown into the air in car exhaust.
measure the CO2 in the atmosfere of a closed system on january first. on the 2nd, i plant some grass, which pulls some CO2 out of the air as it grows, on april 1st, i cutthe grass and burn it... on april 2nd, take another CO2 reading... and you have the exact same amount of CO2.
conduct the same with fosil fuels and there will be an increase.
if you want a tiny form factor like these have and the (gasp) ability to choose your songs visually when you are stuck on the train away from your computer to make a playlist, then your only choice is the sony. personally i was waiting for exactly this, the shuffles form factor is awsome, but lack of screen is crap.
here:
http://www.mirrordot.com/media/6618b1e724285f72e28 aac26efa2cd72/e17_movie-02.avi
http://www.mirrordot.com/media/2978aafd7d4b9db6d5a d66b7b972331e/e17_movie-03.avi
i'll definitely install this on my laptop to have something cool to show off to people... but gnome will remain for my acutal work interface;)
there was a time a while back, when the articles about this appeared, where this did happen. if you watched too many movies your queue would pretty much turn to all "long wait", but they fixed that a long time ago. i'm an avid and obsessive user, and right now in my 498 movie long q only 3 movies are listed as "short wait".
i do hear good things about greencine though, if netflix ever does go south im all on that.
well, now they have a free license to build a commecial game, which means they need to come up with $350,000 less initial investment to get a small company started. sounds like a good deal to me:)
i agree, though gtk+ has been pretty darned decent on windows for a while... gaim has really helped push it forward i think (at least the large amount of gaim win32 users). its come a long way in the last 12-18 months. it could be faster and there are a couple bugs with tooltips that get annoying (the sometimes get stuck on top of all windows until you click around a bunch). definitely good news on the evo front though, i wonder if i will switch to it from thunderbird...
feel free to turn this into some little pissing contest flame war, doesnt really matter.
Yeah, it's all those working class families such as the Kennedys, the Kerrys, the Cronkites and the Romneys. yep. What exactly is your definition of "working class"? Last time I was in that area I didn't see any housing that working class families could afford that were along the shore.
so they only let people who live on the shore have access to it? i think not. its a *national* park, and the only one for the accessable to the region. so absolutely this is the place you take your family to see unspoiled nature if you cant afford to take two weeks off to drive accross the country.
By your standards the massive air pollution [cnn.com] is OK, but looking at some wind turbines is a bad thing. "Well lil' working
class Billy, enjoy that view of the sound, unobstructed by wind turbines, while you hack your lungs out because of the ozone and
particulate pollution".
i know you are trying to paint this as a flamewar, but it isnt. hillarious in fact since you are somehow trying to paint me as pro pollution. I gotta say, thats a first.
the fact is, that both sides are pro alternative energy, this isnt an issue of "wind power or not", but where the wind farm should be located. people like kennedy who are opposing putting a massive industrial commercial power production facility in the middle of a national park have continually suggested that they support this wind farm being put just a few miles offshore, where all of the competing wind farms are already located. the developer is trying to exploit a national trust for his own profit at the expense of the public good.
The groups opposing this are full of shit, they're only in favor of alternate sources of energy if they don't have to make any sacrifices. If this wind farm were being built in an area not inhabited by rich white fux they wouldn't be saying one fucking word, regardless of impact.
clearly you have neve ractually listened to their position as it has nothing to do with protecting the rich. their position is really quite sensible: move the wind farm site a few miles offshore to protect this precious piece of public land.
1. its not about rich white guys, its about working class families who have a right to unspoiled natural parks in their vacinity. most families can't afford the time or travel expenses to go to yellowstone or yosemite, so all they have access to is Nantucket Sound.
2. the groups opposing this instalation are all in fact pro alternative energy, all they ask is that the new wind farm be placed a few miles offshore so as to not destroy the sound, the only reason the developer wont is because it would raise his oportunity costs.
sticking a massive commercial power generation facility in the middle of the last piece of pristine protected coastline in the area isnt a very good idea.
i agree... i've tried several times to use dragon naturally speaking, and while it has gotten a hell of a lot better in recent releases, i think that these days the biggest block is myself. i suppose i could get use to a dictation style of speaking though, lots of people are used to using tape recorders for that.
aparently you didnt follow. the swift boat vets barely bought any airtime, but the media storm about them drove the story to rediculous levels, with fox shamlessly repeating their discredited claims til they were blue in the face. that is not journalism, that is biased propaganda.
its just a trojan, i get like 10 trojans a day, claiming to be pictures of my hot neighbor, a new antivirus program, a utility to "Secure" my personal finances... this just has nothing to do with the lycos spam DDOS thing, other than name.
"As an end result, depending on how the Lycos client works, the screen savers downloaded from MakeLoveNotSpam.com might be attacking the download site itself," F-Secure said in a notice.
I love how they get quoted as "experts" when they are clearly just spouting stuff they pulled out of their ass.
it has no resemblance to google news. google news just aggregates storys on traditional media sites and creates a main page. wikinews actually creates the content itself.
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there are huge benefits of decoupling the direct use of energy from the use of petroleum. 1) efficiency: large power production facilities are much, much more efficient than small power plants (like car engines) 2) upgradability: if there is new exhaust cleaning technology invented, its much easier to upgrade central plants than millions of indiviual cars, and ther is a transiition path to large scale alternative power sources like solar towers, wave power, geothermal, nuclear, whatever. 3) cleaning air of urban environments: people in inner cities have really high rates of asthma from all the particulate matter thrown into the air in car exhaust.
there are city buses and trucks powered with propane, which would be much more dangerous than compressed air, somehow those are street legal.
measure the CO2 in the atmosfere of a closed system on january first. on the 2nd, i plant some grass, which pulls some CO2 out of the air as it grows, on april 1st, i cutthe grass and burn it... on april 2nd, take another CO2 reading... and you have the exact same amount of CO2. conduct the same with fosil fuels and there will be an increase.
there IS a gimp port for windows, it works quite well: http://gimp.org/windows/
this still happens all the time on windows xp sp 2
that would be pretty handy, but i'm not holding my breath :)
if you want a tiny form factor like these have and the (gasp) ability to choose your songs visually when you are stuck on the train away from your computer to make a playlist, then your only choice is the sony. personally i was waiting for exactly this, the shuffles form factor is awsome, but lack of screen is crap.
here:
e 28 aac26efa2cd72/e17_movie-02.avi
d 5a d66b7b972331e/e17_movie-03.avi
;)
http://www.mirrordot.com/media/6618b1e724285f72
http://www.mirrordot.com/media/2978aafd7d4b9db6
i'll definitely install this on my laptop to have something cool to show off to people... but gnome will remain for my acutal work interface
here: http://www.mirrordot.com/media/6618b1e724285f72e28 aac26efa2cd72/e17_movie-02.avi
http://www.mirrordot.com/media/2978aafd7d4b9db6d5a d66b7b972331e/e17_movie-03.avi
i'll definitely install this on my laptop to have something cool to show off to people... but gnome will remain for my acutal work interface ;)
there was a time a while back, when the articles about this appeared, where this did happen. if you watched too many movies your queue would pretty much turn to all "long wait", but they fixed that a long time ago. i'm an avid and obsessive user, and right now in my 498 movie long q only 3 movies are listed as "short wait". i do hear good things about greencine though, if netflix ever does go south im all on that.
there are now more dev's working on this than before... nice definition of "drop"
well, now they have a free license to build a commecial game, which means they need to come up with $350,000 less initial investment to get a small company started. sounds like a good deal to me :)
i agree, though gtk+ has been pretty darned decent on windows for a while... gaim has really helped push it forward i think (at least the large amount of gaim win32 users). its come a long way in the last 12-18 months. it could be faster and there are a couple bugs with tooltips that get annoying (the sometimes get stuck on top of all windows until you click around a bunch). definitely good news on the evo front though, i wonder if i will switch to it from thunderbird...
not to mention mozilla, etc. plenty of designers are very into the open source way.
tnx for the laugh... good stuff.
feel free to turn this into some little pissing contest flame war, doesnt really matter.
Yeah, it's all those working class families such as the Kennedys, the Kerrys, the Cronkites and the Romneys. yep. What exactly is your definition of "working class"? Last time I was in that area I didn't see any housing that working class families could afford that were along the shore.
so they only let people who live on the shore have access to it? i think not. its a *national* park, and the only one for the accessable to the region. so absolutely this is the place you take your family to see unspoiled nature if you cant afford to take two weeks off to drive accross the country.
By your standards the massive air pollution [cnn.com] is OK, but looking at some wind turbines is a bad thing. "Well lil' working class Billy, enjoy that view of the sound, unobstructed by wind turbines, while you hack your lungs out because of the ozone and particulate pollution".
i know you are trying to paint this as a flamewar, but it isnt. hillarious in fact since you are somehow trying to paint me as pro pollution. I gotta say, thats a first.
the fact is, that both sides are pro alternative energy, this isnt an issue of "wind power or not", but where the wind farm should be located. people like kennedy who are opposing putting a massive industrial commercial power production facility in the middle of a national park have continually suggested that they support this wind farm being put just a few miles offshore, where all of the competing wind farms are already located. the developer is trying to exploit a national trust for his own profit at the expense of the public good.
The groups opposing this are full of shit, they're only in favor of alternate sources of energy if they don't have to make any sacrifices. If this wind farm were being built in an area not inhabited by rich white fux they wouldn't be saying one fucking word, regardless of impact.
clearly you have neve ractually listened to their position as it has nothing to do with protecting the rich. their position is really quite sensible: move the wind farm site a few miles offshore to protect this precious piece of public land.
1. its not about rich white guys, its about working class families who have a right to unspoiled natural parks in their vacinity. most families can't afford the time or travel expenses to go to yellowstone or yosemite, so all they have access to is Nantucket Sound.
2. the groups opposing this instalation are all in fact pro alternative energy, all they ask is that the new wind farm be placed a few miles offshore so as to not destroy the sound, the only reason the developer wont is because it would raise his oportunity costs.
sticking a massive commercial power generation facility in the middle of the last piece of pristine protected coastline in the area isnt a very good idea.
i agree... i've tried several times to use dragon naturally speaking, and while it has gotten a hell of a lot better in recent releases, i think that these days the biggest block is myself. i suppose i could get use to a dictation style of speaking though, lots of people are used to using tape recorders for that.
aparently you didnt follow. the swift boat vets barely bought any airtime, but the media storm about them drove the story to rediculous levels, with fox shamlessly repeating their discredited claims til they were blue in the face. that is not journalism, that is biased propaganda.
its just a trojan, i get like 10 trojans a day, claiming to be pictures of my hot neighbor, a new antivirus program, a utility to "Secure" my personal finances... this just has nothing to do with the lycos spam DDOS thing, other than name.
in the wikipedia you have a heiarchy of "editors" the moderate sections, i imagine they will have something similar in wikinews.
"As an end result, depending on how the Lycos client works, the screen savers downloaded from MakeLoveNotSpam.com might be attacking the download site itself," F-Secure said in a notice.
I love how they get quoted as "experts" when they are clearly just spouting stuff they pulled out of their ass.
it has no resemblance to google news. google news just aggregates storys on traditional media sites and creates a main page. wikinews actually creates the content itself.
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