While I agree a lot of deaths are a bit too convenient, I have a feeling this wasn't one. Reason being, it's a lot less effective to point at a dead guy and say 'We think he did it.'
For someone to be an effective patsy, a strawman enemy to make you look like the hero, you need them to be alive, really. A dead enemy isn't a very effective manipulative tool; or at least, not as effective as a living one.
Those two look exactly the same to my eye, and they've both just average looking.
Of course, the only car I really consider ugly are those box-things. Dunno the name of them, I'm not a car guy, but they look just like large metal rectangles with a spot cut out for the hood/windshield.
I never said this was somehow a solution to global warming. It's incredibly stupid, and pretty much everyone else who has an interest in it has said so as well. I never called into question your chemistry, because I agree with it. What I disagree with is your moronic statement that this was somehow a 'greenie' idea. It was not. It's a Shell idea. (I had meant Shell, not Exxon.)
I'm not trying to shout you down, as you people who constantly portray yourself off as 'victims' claim. I was saying you were construing as if the entire environmental movement was behind this as a good solution (And thus, with your proof that it isn't, 'score a blow' against environmentalists) when in fact the only people who seem to like it is an oil company.
In short, you set up a straw man, boy. How does that kool-aid taste?
Oh come on. Is your head really that far up your ass? Your math was correct, your assumptions were far-fetched.
It cost him $36K (which really cost $50K, but let's say)
No, it really cost him $36k because that's how much he paid, so let's say $36k. You act like you are doing people a favor by using the real numbers.
So it'll take 109 months to get back the money, or 9 years, not adjusting for inflation and investment opportunity cost.
Investment opportunity cost? He's making an investment with it! What opportunity cost do you think he's losing out on?
Let's say that brings it up to 12 years.
Why the hell would you say that? And at 9 years that's an investment with an APR return of approximately 11%. Better than any savings account (Except some 401k's) and a hell of a lot better than just about any other item you can buy.
Not including maintenance and repairs. It might even need complete replacement at that point. At 50K, which is the real cost, we're talking more like 16-18 years.
No, $36k is the 'real' cost because that's how much he really paid.
Also, if you'd RTFA, you would have seen:
The Sunpower panels were appealing, partly because they're over 18% efficient, and partly for another reason: My wife's company, though an arrangement with Sunpower, offered an additional rebate. These particular panels were guaranteed to deliver 90% of their rated peak capacity for at the twelve year mark, and 80% at the 25 year mark. The overall installation would be simpler, too, requiring a single, 7KW inverter; both of the other bids would have required two inverters.
Rendering your supposed 'replacement cost' invalid.
You're a moron. 'The cultists, as you call them, have not given this article any credibility. And far from 'the cultists' wanting to stripmine the desert and haul it to the ocean, it is....*drumroll*
Exxon! Who wants to abuse the tax breaks intended for real solutions in order to subsidize their *drumroll again* drilling for natural gas!
The fact that your drivel was modded up is proof enough that all the whining about 'those liberal slashdotters' is nothing more than that. Baseless and stupid.
The dissection of a living creature is called a vivisection, actually. If you are dissecting something, it's generally accepted that it's already dead.
Being that gadget zone is still a fan of the Redmond, Washington, company (although we like Apple too), gadget zone contributor and computer expert, Vito Cassisi, has come up with the 20 Microsoft must do's to ensure the success of Windows 7.
20. Modularised OS
The great thing about being modular is that the OS can be modified easily. Think Linux here - in Linux everything is modular and replaceable. For example, you can replace the whole GUI component without affecting anything else. With the abundance of third party applications written for Windows, this would spur a whole new variety of customisation and open-source implementation.
19. XP Virtual Machine
It seems that the biggest issue with Vista was compatibility with older software/drivers. A solution may be to include an XP virtual machine which ensures compatibility with said software. Apple did a similar thing when they re-wrote their OS a few years back.
18. New UAC
In theory UAC was a great idea. It protected people from themselves, but it was too intrusive. An alternate idea is to teach the user the importance of limited accounts and how they prevent the accessibility of nasties such as viruses. UAC should be a single dialogue with âContinueâ(TM) and âCancelâ(TM) and an explanation of why the user was interrupted.
17. Gaming Mode
Most Windows users like to dabble in a bit of gaming when on their PC. But the constant demand for computing power by the latest titles (read: Crysis) can leave the majority in the dark. Perhaps Microsoft can offer a mode similar to that of the current âSafe Modeâ(TM) which only initiates the required services for gaming. This would minimise overhead and increase performance.
16. Customised Install
The avid performance tweakers out there may have heard of the likes of NLite and VLite for XP and Vista respectively. These pieces of software allow you to remove unwanted components from the OS before you install it. This increases available HDD space, and also improves performance depending on the services cut out. Offering the same amount of control when installing Windows 7 would settle the âWindows is bloatwareâ(TM) activists out there.
15. Productive GUI
Microsoft bit the bullet with Vista and changed the GUI to be attractive. This is fine by all means, but the productivity of this new GUI wasnâ(TM)t exactly enhanced all that much. Small things such as multiple desktops and simpler open/save dialogues can make all the difference. Perhaps even let the user modify the GUI to their liking, i.e. toolbar sizes etc.
14. All for One and One for All
Vista came out in so many versions that even Chuck Norris was bewildered. There should only be three, Home, Business/Pro, and Server. This would lessen the current Windows ambiguity.
13. WinFS
Whatever happened to the infamous NTFS replacement? Windows 7 would really benefit from an improved file system, and such an improvement is bound to attract businesses that shunned Vista for its lack of innovation and improvement. The relational database structure should enhance overall system performance.
12. Home User Licensing
Letâ(TM)s say you have 3 PCs in your house, two desktops and a laptop. You want to upgrade to Windows 7, but have to pay three times for three separate licences. In a world where P2P and torrents are commonly used, how many users would slip into the world of cracks and keygens? The solution (to an extent) would be to offer a home licence. A small fee to be able to use the OS up to, for example, five times in the one household would surely benefit both Microsoft and the average home user.
11. Driver Availability
Arguably the Achilles heel of Vista was the slow uptake of drivers by device manufacturers. Although this is hard for Microsoft to dictate, it would be in their best interest to promote driver production during the OS development stage. Even if the drivers are beta, it sure beats being left with no hardwar
I'm tired of this crap about Prius being the same lifetime energy cost as a Hummer. It's total bunk, and here's why: The Hummer's energy cost is in moving a giant object around inefficiently, which expends a lot of energy (Gasoline). The Prius's energy cost is creating it's batteries, which it then uses to move it around a lot more efficiently. However, when the lifetime of the Prius is over, all that energy isn't wasted. The batteries don't disappear. They are still there and can easily (And it's incredibly cost-efficient to do so) be recycled. Thus the 'total energy cost' of the next set of batteries is drastically lower.
So yes, the initial 'startup cost' of the batteries is high, but thereafter the batteries can be recycled an theoretically infinite number of times, which brings it's 'total lifetime energy cost' far below what a Hummer could ever expect.
I'd suspect not. My own computer is a good bit faster than that but even still it locked me up a time or two, till I killed it. Actually, it was much worse for me in Firefox, when I tried it in IE it was actually smoother.
I should have specified a Scientific Theory, which was what the Parent post specified: Scientific Theory: A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results
It was slow. It was clunky. The interface was pretty disappointing. Hell, even the 'Avatar choosing' part was badly done. I couldn't tell if I was supposed to be designing my own somewhere or just 'using someone elses'. It seems to be a half-baked beta indeed.
However, with the way things are down here, this will grow. Many teachers will see this as basically a free license to teach their religion. What makes you think they'll only do it in regards to evolution?
I do agree that challenging viewpoints should be expressed, however ID is unprovable, and has no evidence at all to back it up. It's not a valid challenger.
Being from Louisiana, I can shed some light on this.
Let me give you some history.
Our last Governor was Blanco, who was never very strong. She only won because her competition was yet another corrupt old white guy no one liked, and Jindal, an Indian. The apathetic white male population basically didn't show up, and so women carried the vote. I'm all for a good female candidate, but Blanco was never it. My mother and Aunt were both organizers of NOW, my mother founded the Women Business Owners Association of Baton Rouge, and was a very politically active feminist. When Blanco was elected, both my mom and Aunt were PISSED. Because basically, the woman was a wishy-washy wimp. When Katrina and Rita hit, all she could ever manage to do was cry and whine.
This made Jindal a shoo-in for the next election. While he looks fine on paper, he's anything but mainstream. He was a proponent of teaching ID in schools well before he was ever elected. To suggest Jindal would attempt to veto this would be akin to suggesting Bush would have tried to veto the Patriot Act.
You know, not all of us who live here are 'backwoods hicks'. Louisiana is just the same as the USA. It's as fair to call everyone from Louisiana a 'backwoods hick' for this and saying we have no one to blame but ourselves as it is calling everyone from the USA 'idiot cowboys' because the USA elected Bush and he did all the crap he did.
I'm personally embarrassed that this bullshit has happened, and am very upset about it, but you're just being a douchebag.
Oh, and before I get any crap about 'Then why don't you just move?', ask yourself the same question whenever the USA does anything you don't like.
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While I agree a lot of deaths are a bit too convenient, I have a feeling this wasn't one. Reason being, it's a lot less effective to point at a dead guy and say 'We think he did it.'
For someone to be an effective patsy, a strawman enemy to make you look like the hero, you need them to be alive, really. A dead enemy isn't a very effective manipulative tool; or at least, not as effective as a living one.
You're ignoring the fact that the trees use the energy in the light to grow, instead of just absorbing it and creating heat.
Asphalt, Rocks, Etc take Light and make heat.
Trees take light and make, well, more tree. But the thing is very little gets turned into heat.
So, yes, trees do a damn good job at cooling the planet as far as that goes.
Those two look exactly the same to my eye, and they've both just average looking.
Of course, the only car I really consider ugly are those box-things. Dunno the name of them, I'm not a car guy, but they look just like large metal rectangles with a spot cut out for the hood/windshield.
If only the best cars make sparks then my car is freaking awesome.
Does it get bonus points for smoking a lot?
I never said this was somehow a solution to global warming. It's incredibly stupid, and pretty much everyone else who has an interest in it has said so as well. I never called into question your chemistry, because I agree with it. What I disagree with is your moronic statement that this was somehow a 'greenie' idea. It was not. It's a Shell idea. (I had meant Shell, not Exxon.)
I'm not trying to shout you down, as you people who constantly portray yourself off as 'victims' claim. I was saying you were construing as if the entire environmental movement was behind this as a good solution (And thus, with your proof that it isn't, 'score a blow' against environmentalists) when in fact the only people who seem to like it is an oil company.
In short, you set up a straw man, boy. How does that kool-aid taste?
Oh come on. Is your head really that far up your ass? Your math was correct, your assumptions were far-fetched.
It cost him $36K (which really cost $50K, but let's say)
No, it really cost him $36k because that's how much he paid, so let's say $36k. You act like you are doing people a favor by using the real numbers.
So it'll take 109 months to get back the money, or 9 years, not adjusting for inflation and investment opportunity cost.
Investment opportunity cost? He's making an investment with it! What opportunity cost do you think he's losing out on?
Let's say that brings it up to 12 years.
Why the hell would you say that? And at 9 years that's an investment with an APR return of approximately 11%. Better than any savings account (Except some 401k's) and a hell of a lot better than just about any other item you can buy.
Not including maintenance and repairs. It might even need complete replacement at that point. At 50K, which is the real cost, we're talking more like 16-18 years.
No, $36k is the 'real' cost because that's how much he really paid.
Also, if you'd RTFA, you would have seen:
The Sunpower panels were appealing, partly because they're over 18% efficient, and partly for another reason: My wife's company, though an arrangement with Sunpower, offered an additional rebate. These particular panels were guaranteed to deliver 90% of their rated peak capacity for at the twelve year mark, and 80% at the 25 year mark. The overall installation would be simpler, too, requiring a single, 7KW inverter; both of the other bids would have required two inverters.
Rendering your supposed 'replacement cost' invalid.
Your math was fine. Your logic was not.
You're a moron. 'The cultists, as you call them, have not given this article any credibility. And far from 'the cultists' wanting to stripmine the desert and haul it to the ocean, it is....*drumroll*
Exxon! Who wants to abuse the tax breaks intended for real solutions in order to subsidize their *drumroll again* drilling for natural gas!
The fact that your drivel was modded up is proof enough that all the whining about 'those liberal slashdotters' is nothing more than that. Baseless and stupid.
The dissection of a living creature is called a vivisection, actually. If you are dissecting something, it's generally accepted that it's already dead.
The More You Know!
(Yes, I am aware the GP was a joke)
The Golden Shower Age, maybe?
And I thought I couldn't find the link because I was a damn retard or something.
Being that gadget zone is still a fan of the Redmond, Washington, company (although we like Apple too), gadget zone contributor and computer expert, Vito Cassisi, has come up with the 20 Microsoft must do's to ensure the success of Windows 7.
20. Modularised OS
The great thing about being modular is that the OS can be modified easily. Think Linux here - in Linux everything is modular and replaceable. For example, you can replace the whole GUI component without affecting anything else. With the abundance of third party applications written for Windows, this would spur a whole new variety of customisation and open-source implementation.
19. XP Virtual Machine
It seems that the biggest issue with Vista was compatibility with older software/drivers. A solution may be to include an XP virtual machine which ensures compatibility with said software. Apple did a similar thing when they re-wrote their OS a few years back.
18. New UAC
In theory UAC was a great idea. It protected people from themselves, but it was too intrusive. An alternate idea is to teach the user the importance of limited accounts and how they prevent the accessibility of nasties such as viruses. UAC should be a single dialogue with âContinueâ(TM) and âCancelâ(TM) and an explanation of why the user was interrupted.
17. Gaming Mode
Most Windows users like to dabble in a bit of gaming when on their PC. But the constant demand for computing power by the latest titles (read: Crysis) can leave the majority in the dark. Perhaps Microsoft can offer a mode similar to that of the current âSafe Modeâ(TM) which only initiates the required services for gaming. This would minimise overhead and increase performance.
16. Customised Install
The avid performance tweakers out there may have heard of the likes of NLite and VLite for XP and Vista respectively. These pieces of software allow you to remove unwanted components from the OS before you install it. This increases available HDD space, and also improves performance depending on the services cut out. Offering the same amount of control when installing Windows 7 would settle the âWindows is bloatwareâ(TM) activists out there.
15. Productive GUI
Microsoft bit the bullet with Vista and changed the GUI to be attractive. This is fine by all means, but the productivity of this new GUI wasnâ(TM)t exactly enhanced all that much. Small things such as multiple desktops and simpler open/save dialogues can make all the difference. Perhaps even let the user modify the GUI to their liking, i.e. toolbar sizes etc.
14. All for One and One for All
Vista came out in so many versions that even Chuck Norris was bewildered. There should only be three, Home, Business/Pro, and Server. This would lessen the current Windows ambiguity.
13. WinFS
Whatever happened to the infamous NTFS replacement? Windows 7 would really benefit from an improved file system, and such an improvement is bound to attract businesses that shunned Vista for its lack of innovation and improvement. The relational database structure should enhance overall system performance.
12. Home User Licensing
Letâ(TM)s say you have 3 PCs in your house, two desktops and a laptop. You want to upgrade to Windows 7, but have to pay three times for three separate licences. In a world where P2P and torrents are commonly used, how many users would slip into the world of cracks and keygens? The solution (to an extent) would be to offer a home licence. A small fee to be able to use the OS up to, for example, five times in the one household would surely benefit both Microsoft and the average home user.
11. Driver Availability
Arguably the Achilles heel of Vista was the slow uptake of drivers by device manufacturers. Although this is hard for Microsoft to dictate, it would be in their best interest to promote driver production during the OS development stage. Even if the drivers are beta, it sure beats being left with no hardwar
Actually...they already do this.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0818_050818_urinebattery.html
I'm tired of this crap about Prius being the same lifetime energy cost as a Hummer. It's total bunk, and here's why: The Hummer's energy cost is in moving a giant object around inefficiently, which expends a lot of energy (Gasoline). The Prius's energy cost is creating it's batteries, which it then uses to move it around a lot more efficiently. However, when the lifetime of the Prius is over, all that energy isn't wasted. The batteries don't disappear. They are still there and can easily (And it's incredibly cost-efficient to do so) be recycled. Thus the 'total energy cost' of the next set of batteries is drastically lower.
So yes, the initial 'startup cost' of the batteries is high, but thereafter the batteries can be recycled an theoretically infinite number of times, which brings it's 'total lifetime energy cost' far below what a Hummer could ever expect.
It would make sense that just before an earthquake the rocks would start to stress, pull and break just before a cascading collapse.
The real question is how much would this system cost?
Yeah, it might save lives, but if an early detection system would cost an area a few hundred million, I'm guessing it won't happen.
Because you never know what may be the next big thing.
And seriously, would you prefer Google to be a company who only did Safe, and popular things?
Lively is a gamble.
That's not a bad thing.
I'd suspect not. My own computer is a good bit faster than that but even still it locked me up a time or two, till I killed it. Actually, it was much worse for me in Firefox, when I tried it in IE it was actually smoother.
I should have specified a Scientific Theory, which was what the Parent post specified:
Scientific Theory: A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results
It was slow. It was clunky. The interface was pretty disappointing. Hell, even the 'Avatar choosing' part was badly done. I couldn't tell if I was supposed to be designing my own somewhere or just 'using someone elses'. It seems to be a half-baked beta indeed.
I see your point.
However, with the way things are down here, this will grow. Many teachers will see this as basically a free license to teach their religion. What makes you think they'll only do it in regards to evolution?
You've heard of 'Scope Creep?'
This law will ensure that no one from Louisiana will ever receive a real education.
So then no change, right? :P
I resamble that re-marque, ewe insenatve clood!
Fair enough, I should have been more precice.
I do agree that challenging viewpoints should be expressed, however ID is unprovable, and has no evidence at all to back it up. It's not a valid challenger.
Being from Louisiana, I can shed some light on this.
Let me give you some history.
Our last Governor was Blanco, who was never very strong. She only won because her competition was yet another corrupt old white guy no one liked, and Jindal, an Indian. The apathetic white male population basically didn't show up, and so women carried the vote. I'm all for a good female candidate, but Blanco was never it. My mother and Aunt were both organizers of NOW, my mother founded the Women Business Owners Association of Baton Rouge, and was a very politically active feminist. When Blanco was elected, both my mom and Aunt were PISSED. Because basically, the woman was a wishy-washy wimp. When Katrina and Rita hit, all she could ever manage to do was cry and whine.
This made Jindal a shoo-in for the next election. While he looks fine on paper, he's anything but mainstream. He was a proponent of teaching ID in schools well before he was ever elected. To suggest Jindal would attempt to veto this would be akin to suggesting Bush would have tried to veto the Patriot Act.
Would you stop spreading that crap? Astrology is at best a Hypothesis. Never a Theory. And it's debatable that it's even a Hypothesis.
You know, not all of us who live here are 'backwoods hicks'. Louisiana is just the same as the USA. It's as fair to call everyone from Louisiana a 'backwoods hick' for this and saying we have no one to blame but ourselves as it is calling everyone from the USA 'idiot cowboys' because the USA elected Bush and he did all the crap he did.
I'm personally embarrassed that this bullshit has happened, and am very upset about it, but you're just being a douchebag.
Oh, and before I get any crap about 'Then why don't you just move?', ask yourself the same question whenever the USA does anything you don't like.
The problem is is that ID ISN'T science. It's like having Harry Potter being taught in History class. It's retarded.