To go even further, boing and airbus make quite a big deal about the fact that you can buy their planes withthe option of Rolls Royce, Prat & Wittney, or GE engins, so not only do they have different manufactuers for different componets, they have different manuacuers for entire engines.
I can just see the airbus executive in the audience thinking "they're not getting OUR business".
But if this caught on, and people became regulars when it came to renting cars, a lot of that time overhead when filling otu forms etc. would be gone, becuase the rental companies would begin to simply keep their regular customers 'on file', so that when they came in they did not have to do all of that.
The big differance is the use of fuel. Your analogy with the workstation is flawed here, becuase power consuption with computers is not as big an issue as it is with cars. In that context the DVD analogy is more correct.
Wasn't there also a version of the gamecube that played DVDs as well? I think it was made by panasonic. I thought that was a good idea, offereing two different consoles, one with all teh features, one with just basic game playing. And with space at a premium, it's a good thing because people only need one device in their living rooms.
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Read what I said. And who said I live in teh USA
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Really the concern is why is America using 25% of the worlds energy, when Europe, with a similar number of people and similar standard of living are not?
1.) you are a troll, but I take the bait late at night.
2.) You are confused. On one hand you are saying that this woman should do what she is told by the judge (jail for a CIVIL matter????), and on the other you are saying that we should all start killing lawyers and RIAA exces, because we have as much freedom as we are willing to "kill and die for" (and as if that has worked for the past 2 centuries, look at Palistine and Northern Ireland)
3.) You are right. Those who don't vote deserve what they get. The least a person can do to serve democracy is to partake in it (voting is compulsory by law here in Australia).
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To go even further, boing and airbus make quite a big deal about the fact that you can buy their planes withthe option of Rolls Royce, Prat & Wittney, or GE engins, so not only do they have different manufactuers for different componets, they have different manuacuers for entire engines. I can just see the airbus executive in the audience thinking "they're not getting OUR business".
But if this caught on, and people became regulars when it came to renting cars, a lot of that time overhead when filling otu forms etc. would be gone, becuase the rental companies would begin to simply keep their regular customers 'on file', so that when they came in they did not have to do all of that.
The big differance is the use of fuel. Your analogy with the workstation is flawed here, becuase power consuption with computers is not as big an issue as it is with cars. In that context the DVD analogy is more correct.
There are pleanty of things that can be got for free, it's just that none of them can ever be depended on.
Type 2 diabetes is more often than not caused by excessive fat consumption, not sugar.
Wasn't there also a version of the gamecube that played DVDs as well? I think it was made by panasonic. I thought that was a good idea, offereing two different consoles, one with all teh features, one with just basic game playing. And with space at a premium, it's a good thing because people only need one device in their living rooms.
Read what I said. And who said I live in teh USA
Really the concern is why is America using 25% of the worlds energy, when Europe, with a similar number of people and similar standard of living are not?
1.) you are a troll, but I take the bait late at night. 2.) You are confused. On one hand you are saying that this woman should do what she is told by the judge (jail for a CIVIL matter????), and on the other you are saying that we should all start killing lawyers and RIAA exces, because we have as much freedom as we are willing to "kill and die for" (and as if that has worked for the past 2 centuries, look at Palistine and Northern Ireland) 3.) You are right. Those who don't vote deserve what they get. The least a person can do to serve democracy is to partake in it (voting is compulsory by law here in Australia).
A witty saying proves nothing --Voltaire Sorry, but I had to say it.