Why is this modded troll? As a regular cyclist, it's all true stuff. Indeed. I realize there a lot of responsible cyclists out there, but they appear to be outnumbered by youngsters with crotch rockets who seem to think the laws of the road and physics don't apply to them.
Seriously though, you can't expect anything beyond the most vague truthiness from marketing. Even the FTC's guidelines for truth in advertising are brilliantly open for interpretation.
There you go trying to insinuate that the FTC has anything to do with OSS.
I am in the same boat. I even had an old computer I left on running SETI@home and a couple of other rarely used services. Then I thought about the real costs. Even if it were only a dollar or two a month, I wouldn't give them that money directly out of my wallet, but that was what I was essentially doing. Nowadays, my desktop and/or laptop are on a couple hours an evening at most, so there aren't really many "spare" cycles anyway.
My brother had a recurring dream as a kid. He was chased over and under his bed by an octopus. What kind of threat was he preparing for? Rising sea levels as a result of global warming. Duh.
Wow, I am truly flabbergasted that this AC's BS gets modded insightful and the guy that calls him out gets modded flamebait. Most of the northern US uses "concrete" in the cold months because you can't apply a hot asphalt patch in the winter, when most potholes appear anyhow. If Mr. AC has anything to substantiate his claim, I would love to hear it.
Pipes and water just sound like a bad idea in general. Sounds like high maintenance costs, not necessarily suitable for all weather environments, high installation cost, specialized labour and more unions,... it just sounds impractical. Right, certainly not as practical as your apparently low maintenance, all weather, low cost, monkey installed, made from unicorn horns electrical asphalt.
How many are staying out of this because they don't like the copyright 'protection' which really hurts the functionality and ends up hurting the experience of legitimate users? On slashdot these may be real concerns, but for most of the populace I bet this is a non-issue. I am reasonably tech savvy, but have never been interested in ripping any DVDs, watching them on my computer, etc. I think most of us sheeple are pretty much the same, in that we watch our DVDs once or twice and then enjoy the warm, fuzzy feeling of knowing that it is taking up space in the media center.
That 10-15 years is only on burned media. Great. How is one supposed to use this as a backup without burning it? Just write your data out on them with a Sharpie. Or even better, scratch it into the plastic with something sharp.
Agreed and my point way back up there was that greater volume in/near cities helps facilitate the wave effect. I imagine the critical minimum speed probably increases as the volume increases. I would tend to think that greater volume and greater jockeying for position to get on/off the highway are more likely explanations than lower speed limits when nearing a city.
The clutch is more or less is two plates that are brought into contact to transfer power from the rotating engine to stationary transmission (assuming you are stopped). When you engage the clutch, the plates are initially moving at different speeds causing friction and wear. When you "ride the clutch" you keep the clutch in this wearing state longer/more often and as a result end up replacing your clutch sooner than later.
I read it and saw the part where it says that volume is not the only factor but clearly plays a part. Perhaps you should consider why traffic jams happen more frequently during rush hour than 2am.
It doesn't help that speed limits on interstates get lowered as you approach larger cities. This is a good reason to remove enforced upper limits on these roads completely. Much of the braking is due to the few goody-goodies cramping the whole flow. Or it could just be that there are more people driving in and around major cities than in between them. When traffic is crawling along the interstate at 20mph, it isn't because some goody-goody wants to obey the 55mph speed limit.
I wonder why this isn't taught in driver's ed. Meh. I imagine they also teach you to use your signal, not speed, not tailgate, not run red lights, not drink and drive, stop at stop signs, and a million other rules and good driving practices that people ignore.
The catch is $200 worth of $1/watt panels only gets you 200 watts, enough to power 2-3 conventional lightbulbs or a dozen or so CFL's. At my house peak average usage in the winter is like 2.5kW. If I wanted to be very generous and assume 8 hours a day of usable light and perfect storage/conversion we would need like $8000 worth of panels. I imagine we would probably actually need like 3 times that. Of course in the spring/fall we might be able to sell some back to the power company.
I'm just curious, how the HELL do these people get caught??
I mean, if you light up an aircraft 500-1000ft up in the air, and you turn off the light and walk/run out of the area, how the hell are they going to find and PROVE it was you that did this??
I would guess that from distance they may not known it was a police helicopter (especially if it didn't have a spotlight on), pointed it at the helicopter for fun, and then continued goofing off with the laser while the helicopter determined their position.
That's all fine and good, but nevertheless I see nothing in the story at all to support that other than the fact that it was a police helicopter, which may not have been evident to the couple at 500 ft anyway.
Are they piloting the jet from Wonder Women where the entire craft is invisible? Is there no instrumentation underneath them that would block such a straight line from the shaky hand of the laser holder? Isn't the primary function of police helicopters to see what is on the ground, hence a lot of downward visibility?
Reading the story is sounds like the pilot noticed they where flashing a laser into they sky and decided to mess with them. There must be another version of the story that I missed because I cannot see how you possibly came to that conclusion. All I see is that the laser flashed into the cockpit, the pilot and observer located the source, and that the couple claimed they were just looking at stars or whatever.
By "messed with them", do you mean intentionally flew into the beam or just made the whole thing up? Neither of those strikes me as more probable than a couple of knuckleheads seeing if they could hit the helicopter, with or without ill intent.
Case in point: Person X goes to store 1 and asks for a wii, then proceeds to search through store(s) 1-10... they may even place orders at each store... when person X gets a wii, they cancel all other orders. So "10" orders really was 1 order. *sigh* I thought "case in point" usually involved a real world, factual example and not some made up bullshit. While you have shown the fallacy of only counting orders to determine demand, you have not shown that anyone is actually doing that.
Yes, but if you were Nintendo would you rather have that $1 billion for sure now or possibly in the future? Wouldn't it be better to get the consoles in the customers hands and have them buying games as soon as possible? And for some people the money for a console and a couple of games may have been rebudgeted for other Christmas presents and won't be available again for a while.
No, not really. Actually in the article it says that Nintendo is "giving up $1 billion or more in sales in the ever-important holiday retail season". The truth is that they are giving up sales in the short term. Whether or not that may even out in the long term remains to be seen, but I think most businesses would prefer a definite sale now over a likely sale later.
Beyond the consoles they are also missing out on the sale of games, etc. Somebody who has to wait a year to buy a console will have one less year to buy games before the next gen system comes out and they will have more used games available to buy as well.
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There you go trying to insinuate that the FTC has anything to do with OSS.
I am in the same boat. I even had an old computer I left on running SETI@home and a couple of other rarely used services. Then I thought about the real costs. Even if it were only a dollar or two a month, I wouldn't give them that money directly out of my wallet, but that was what I was essentially doing. Nowadays, my desktop and/or laptop are on a couple hours an evening at most, so there aren't really many "spare" cycles anyway.
Wow, I am truly flabbergasted that this AC's BS gets modded insightful and the guy that calls him out gets modded flamebait. Most of the northern US uses "concrete" in the cold months because you can't apply a hot asphalt patch in the winter, when most potholes appear anyhow. If Mr. AC has anything to substantiate his claim, I would love to hear it.
Agreed and my point way back up there was that greater volume in/near cities helps facilitate the wave effect. I imagine the critical minimum speed probably increases as the volume increases. I would tend to think that greater volume and greater jockeying for position to get on/off the highway are more likely explanations than lower speed limits when nearing a city.
The clutch is more or less is two plates that are brought into contact to transfer power from the rotating engine to stationary transmission (assuming you are stopped). When you engage the clutch, the plates are initially moving at different speeds causing friction and wear. When you "ride the clutch" you keep the clutch in this wearing state longer/more often and as a result end up replacing your clutch sooner than later.
I read it and saw the part where it says that volume is not the only factor but clearly plays a part. Perhaps you should consider why traffic jams happen more frequently during rush hour than 2am.
The catch is $200 worth of $1/watt panels only gets you 200 watts, enough to power 2-3 conventional lightbulbs or a dozen or so CFL's. At my house peak average usage in the winter is like 2.5kW. If I wanted to be very generous and assume 8 hours a day of usable light and perfect storage/conversion we would need like $8000 worth of panels. I imagine we would probably actually need like 3 times that. Of course in the spring/fall we might be able to sell some back to the power company.
I think the ability to get it "right now" is debatable based on this portion of the eBay listing:
This solar panel is currently in Seller's possession but it will be held in escrow until 6/1/2009 before local pick-up by the winning bidder
I mean, if you light up an aircraft 500-1000ft up in the air, and you turn off the light and walk/run out of the area, how the hell are they going to find and PROVE it was you that did this??
I would guess that from distance they may not known it was a police helicopter (especially if it didn't have a spotlight on), pointed it at the helicopter for fun, and then continued goofing off with the laser while the helicopter determined their position.That's all fine and good, but nevertheless I see nothing in the story at all to support that other than the fact that it was a police helicopter, which may not have been evident to the couple at 500 ft anyway.
There must be another version of the story that I missed because I cannot see how you possibly came to that conclusion. All I see is that the laser flashed into the cockpit, the pilot and observer located the source, and that the couple claimed they were just looking at stars or whatever.
By "messed with them", do you mean intentionally flew into the beam or just made the whole thing up? Neither of those strikes me as more probable than a couple of knuckleheads seeing if they could hit the helicopter, with or without ill intent.
And how are they going to take away your press credentials that you never had? This isn't for joe-everybody, it is for people with press credentials.
I don't see anywhere where he says it keeps him up at night or anything, just that it would be devastating if it were to happen.
*sigh* I thought "case in point" usually involved a real world, factual example and not some made up bullshit. While you have shown the fallacy of only counting orders to determine demand, you have not shown that anyone is actually doing that.
Yes, but if you were Nintendo would you rather have that $1 billion for sure now or possibly in the future? Wouldn't it be better to get the consoles in the customers hands and have them buying games as soon as possible? And for some people the money for a console and a couple of games may have been rebudgeted for other Christmas presents and won't be available again for a while.
No, not really. Actually in the article it says that Nintendo is "giving up $1 billion or more in sales in the ever-important holiday retail season". The truth is that they are giving up sales in the short term. Whether or not that may even out in the long term remains to be seen, but I think most businesses would prefer a definite sale now over a likely sale later.
Beyond the consoles they are also missing out on the sale of games, etc. Somebody who has to wait a year to buy a console will have one less year to buy games before the next gen system comes out and they will have more used games available to buy as well.