I was thinking a nice thick coat like a leopard or a tiger. With fluffy ankles. Just no rasp like tongue - I can brush it..
It would be nice to be a big kitty cat.
Now if only they'd make it a proper e-reader by including a Pixel Qi (or similar) daylight-readable screen, I'd be sold.
Huh? Make what a proper ereader? The Kindle? The kindle eInk is easily readable in broad daylight. It's useless in the dark.Or are you talking about the tablet? Your syntax is unclear. Please rephrase.
Interesting how you can go on such a long list of expenses and completely miss the pentagon which (in combination with defense related departments) eats trillions of dollars a year. Now why do you suppose you didn't see that, especially with a war in Iraq and Afghanistan that were started under false pretenses and neither of which attacked the USA on 9/11 (as it was Al Queda, a non-state org which attacted the USA)? Why are you blind to THAT bit of nastiness, eh?
and send the $176,427,000 in savings to ME, Ralph Spoilsport, in unmarked bills in a paper bag by a brown-shoed square in the dead of night. Cuz that's my idea and I copyright it right now, so they better pay me or I'll sue.
load up a terabyte drive full of books. If each book is about 4 - 5 megs in size, that should come out to about 200,000 books. If I can read for 70 more years, I would have to read about 8 books a day to plow through all 200,000. The terabyte drive costs all of what - $75? Something like that. People form sub rosa book trading networks. LAN parties where people are trading Lady Gaga tunes AND books by Mielville, Mellville, Machiavelli, and the Adams family: John, Henry, and Douglas...
The future is OFFLINE.
and lots of it for share-able download. WHERE? Sheet music goes out of print faster than stamps from Fiji. What I have I hold onto like gold. Example: Diamond Dogs by David Bowie. I bought the sheet music in 1975. Still have it. Haven't seen it since. Same thing with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's Dazzle Ships / Architecture and Morality. Bought the book in 1983. Haven't seen it since.
And then there's these composers who are TOTAL PRICKS, like (cough) Philip Glass (cough) whose work is simply not for sale. You have to RENT the score to his work with the assumption of public performance, and renting a score of his is like $4000. No. shit.
so if I want to sit down and learn that crazy keyboard part from Einstein on the Beach, I have to fork over $4k! What a bunch of bullshit.
I would LOVE to find a sheet music sharing site. If anyone knows of some good ones, please let me know.
Slashdot is not nearly as liberal as it pretends to be, and ideas that question, challenge, critique or otherwise stand in the way of a peculiar blend of technological determinism, corporate libertarianism, and blinkered industrialism usually gets blasted as Troll, Offtopic, Flamebait or whatever.
I think the cure to this is transparent modding. you should know who knocked you down.
but again, given the above as the modus operandi and theoretical formation of slashdot, that's not likely to happen.
Look at what you own, and how much of it is actually made in the USA. I am quite correct. Apple is an American company, but its production is overseas. Dell is an American company, but its production is overseas. etc. etc.
I had a funny discussion with some old geezer at the DMV about 15 years ago. We were in line talking about cars, and I said I drove a toyota corolla. He drove a big Ford Crown Vic.
He said "You drive one of those foreign cars."
I said HE drove a foreign car.
He said - Bull - Toyota's Japanese!
I said "the car was built in Fremont California with parts made mostly in Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas. Your car was built in Canada with parts made in Mexico. Now, you were saying?"
It's like that, dude. The states stopped making anything of value a LONG time ago.
The USA's biggest industry is the exercise of its imperial reach and the development of devices that do not produce wealth (outside the imperial model of invasion and theft), which means that its method of acquiring resources has met the law of diminishing returns and is in a state every empire faces prior to its collapse. (Tainter, Joseph A. The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1988.)
Don't get all huffy at me, I'm just reporting the news...
The more aggressive the Fair Trolls are, the better for the cause."
And how long until the Patent Trolls buy off the Fair Trolls, especially when they are Major corporations withe billions of dollars to piss away on this?
Feb 2010 is nearly identical to Feb 2009, so if passenger miles stay FLAT, then the 70% reduction in fuel will result in more miles flown and more fuel consumed, per Jevon's Paradox
If fuel continues to rise in price, and nullifies Jeavon's paradox, but the growth in air travel from 1996 to present continues, then the savings of the 70% will be used up within 10 years.
Game over. Thanks for playing.
I think a better use of material would be high speed electric trains, and only use aircraft for transcontinental travel, and to implement this ASAP.
If the govt hadn't pissed a trillion bucks away on war and hundreds of billions on propping up criminals in the banking industry, we could have paid for the whole thing in advance...
The problem isn't technology, the problem is twofold: geological limits on resource production and the political will to deal with it rationally and develop plans to transition society into a different energy basis.
I'd like to know how these kids are going to pay for bandwidth at even a fraction of Facebook. Hell - how Facebook comes up with the money is a mystery itself.
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I was thinking a nice thick coat like a leopard or a tiger. With fluffy ankles. Just no rasp like tongue - I can brush it.. It would be nice to be a big kitty cat.
and not in Arabic script?
Huh? Make what a proper ereader? The Kindle? The kindle eInk is easily readable in broad daylight. It's useless in the dark.Or are you talking about the tablet? Your syntax is unclear. Please rephrase.
Interesting how you can go on such a long list of expenses and completely miss the pentagon which (in combination with defense related departments) eats trillions of dollars a year. Now why do you suppose you didn't see that, especially with a war in Iraq and Afghanistan that were started under false pretenses and neither of which attacked the USA on 9/11 (as it was Al Queda, a non-state org which attacted the USA)? Why are you blind to THAT bit of nastiness, eh?
MS buys Facebook?
fighting for our freedom? Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cBiOTvxXcY
and send the $176,427,000 in savings to ME, Ralph Spoilsport, in unmarked bills in a paper bag by a brown-shoed square in the dead of night. Cuz that's my idea and I copyright it right now, so they better pay me or I'll sue.
freeze in the dark. See what I care.
where Apple has all its stuff made is the world's largest consumer of semiconductors.
So you can show a movie like Eraserhead or Dawn of the Dead, but you can't show images of goatse or tub girl? Stupid right wing douchebag politicians.
No problem. Can it keep its aluminum smelters running without it is another issue....
load up a terabyte drive full of books. If each book is about 4 - 5 megs in size, that should come out to about 200,000 books. If I can read for 70 more years, I would have to read about 8 books a day to plow through all 200,000. The terabyte drive costs all of what - $75? Something like that. People form sub rosa book trading networks. LAN parties where people are trading Lady Gaga tunes AND books by Mielville, Mellville, Machiavelli, and the Adams family: John, Henry, and Douglas... The future is OFFLINE.
Next thing you know, he'll say skateboards are the Highway to Satanism, Goatse Worship, and the Global Domination of Barking Pumpkins and Douchebags.
Do your unit testing, but otherwise: Hire a QA engineer. If you test your own stuff you won't see the mistakes.
And then there's these composers who are TOTAL PRICKS, like (cough) Philip Glass (cough) whose work is simply not for sale. You have to RENT the score to his work with the assumption of public performance, and renting a score of his is like $4000. No. shit.
so if I want to sit down and learn that crazy keyboard part from Einstein on the Beach, I have to fork over $4k! What a bunch of bullshit.
I would LOVE to find a sheet music sharing site. If anyone knows of some good ones, please let me know.
RS
Slashdot is not nearly as liberal as it pretends to be, and ideas that question, challenge, critique or otherwise stand in the way of a peculiar blend of technological determinism, corporate libertarianism, and blinkered industrialism usually gets blasted as Troll, Offtopic, Flamebait or whatever.
I think the cure to this is transparent modding. you should know who knocked you down.
but again, given the above as the modus operandi and theoretical formation of slashdot, that's not likely to happen.
is the G20 itself.
Totally agree. Prudhoe Bay is only half the problem - wait until they get to Colombia and the road turns to shite...
I had a funny discussion with some old geezer at the DMV about 15 years ago. We were in line talking about cars, and I said I drove a toyota corolla. He drove a big Ford Crown Vic.
He said "You drive one of those foreign cars."
I said HE drove a foreign car.
He said - Bull - Toyota's Japanese!
I said "the car was built in Fremont California with parts made mostly in Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas. Your car was built in Canada with parts made in Mexico. Now, you were saying?"
It's like that, dude. The states stopped making anything of value a LONG time ago.
Everything I wrote is a documented FACT. And the only theoretical point I made, I backed up with a citation.
It seems some mods just can't face reality,
TVs? nope. (not on the map)
Radios? nope. (not on the map)
Computers? nope. (very distant 5th)
Refrigerators? nope. (not even on the map)
Steel? nope. (distant 4th)
Automobiles? nope. (distant 4th)
Trucks? nope. (distant 3rd)
Furniture? Nope.
So, if the USA basically doesn't make anything of significant value in quantity, HOW is it #2 in manufacturing?
Weapons.
Number #1 with a BULLET.
The USA's biggest industry is the exercise of its imperial reach and the development of devices that do not produce wealth (outside the imperial model of invasion and theft), which means that its method of acquiring resources has met the law of diminishing returns and is in a state every empire faces prior to its collapse. (Tainter, Joseph A. The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1988.)
Don't get all huffy at me, I'm just reporting the news...
RS
The biggest problem is the soil depletion from removing the cow's fertilizer production from the field.
And how long until the Patent Trolls buy off the Fair Trolls, especially when they are Major corporations withe billions of dollars to piss away on this?
System Passenger - Revenue Passenger Miles (Jan 1996 - Feb 2010)
http://www.bts.gov/xml/air_traffic/src/datadisp.xml
Jul 1996: 55,664,748
Jul 2007: 80,986,135 (peaked)
Jul 2009: 77,135,721 (due to recession)
Feb 2010 is nearly identical to Feb 2009, so if passenger miles stay FLAT, then the 70% reduction in fuel will result in more miles flown and more fuel consumed, per Jevon's Paradox
If fuel continues to rise in price, and nullifies Jeavon's paradox, but the growth in air travel from 1996 to present continues, then the savings of the 70% will be used up within 10 years.
Game over. Thanks for playing.
I think a better use of material would be high speed electric trains, and only use aircraft for transcontinental travel, and to implement this ASAP.
If the govt hadn't pissed a trillion bucks away on war and hundreds of billions on propping up criminals in the banking industry, we could have paid for the whole thing in advance...
The problem isn't technology, the problem is twofold: geological limits on resource production and the political will to deal with it rationally and develop plans to transition society into a different energy basis.
I'd like to know how these kids are going to pay for bandwidth at even a fraction of Facebook. Hell - how Facebook comes up with the money is a mystery itself.