Hmmm. Driving to Hawaii from NY could be a problem. Although I did have a Hawaiian Air agent tell me I should take a bus from the Big Island to Maui to catch a flight.
See, there's this thing called the Pacific Ocean...
I remember starting up a 286 running Windows 1.0. All it would do was boot. You couldn't run anything. That counted as a victory for Microsoft at the time.
In my youth, my friends and I routinely rode our bikes all over creation and my parents had NO idea where we were. We were often 10 miles from home with no way to contact us. Good thing there weren't any perverts back then!
Consider combining this Slashdot story with the next one about Bible.com. The obvious conclusion is that the lost launch codes are hidden in the Bible. I KNEW it! Clinton is off the hook.
Electricity is not subject to the taxes imposed on motor fuels. This artificially skews the cost comparisons being made. What happens if there is a substantial shift to electric power and states find that revenue from gas road taxes starts falling off? It makes sense to me that they will shift the tax burden to electricity use. This will cause some problem since electricity is used for many things other than transportation. A per mile tax on electric vehicles is the answer. Maybe. A legislative conundrum!
When I was a kid:
Erector Sets had many choking hazard screws and metal pieces with unfinished razor sharp edges.
Chemistry sets had actual chemicals in them. And I mixed them ALL together. And put electrodes in the goop and plugged it in the wall.
A microscope kit came with xylene and actual glass slides etc.
I set off rockets in the basement.
I hooked all the transformers my dad had end to end to try to make a million volts.
I took my prescription for potassium iodide to school and was called to the principal's office because some kid said I threw "acid" at him. I threw nothing at anyone.
I made free iodine from my medicine by mixing it with acetic acid. Cool purple clouds!!!
I made balsa airplanes using sharp razor blades and toxic glue. The rubber powered ones flew so high they looked like tiny dots in the sky.
I made model cars with working suspension and purple metalflake paint jobs.
I made a Battling Betsy tank with TWO electric motors that was nosebleed fast. Count me in for the Visible V8 and the Visible Radial Airplane Engine.
AND IT WAS ALL GREAT!!!!!
I am alive and well and have all my fingers and toes.
Today I hear people are worried about paperclips and rulers being dangerous and chemistry is reduced to baking soda and vinegar. This is pitiful and sad.
Being an old retired Electric Engineer dude of 62, I find I am just not jumping up and down salivating over the latest gadgets. The iPad is just the latest thing I don't need. Why is this better than a laptop? Weren't touch screens tried on HP terminals many years ago and failed because the screen gets full of fingerprints etc.? (I have >10 PCs/laptops in my home so I am no Luddite.)
Texting is mostly useless since I can't type on a tiny keyboard and it costs 15cents a shot. Yesterday a girl on the news said she had sent 10000 text messages in one month. I don't have that much to say.
Facebook is a big time waster and Farmville is like digital valium. I would rather blow up teenagers on Unreal or QuakeLive.
I am supposed to watch movies on my tiny cell phone screen. Why would I do this when there are big TVs? Oh, I forgot about the "coolness" factor.
I am supposed to surf the web on my small phone. I already pay for RoadRunner (with recent price increase to $55/mo), why would I pay $100 for a cell data plan for the same data?
So when I hear that iPad$ will replace books, I am mystified. I guess I am no longer part of the "target demographic". Sniff.
Wait, am I now off topic? Sometimes I get confused.
PS: I have had PCs since 1983 ($200 to replace a floppy drive!), and so far Windows 7 works wonderfully well, much better than Windows 1.0.
If the whole thing is a touch screen how am I supposed to hold it up? Maybe it just floats in space and I gesture wildly in front of it like trying to talk to some alien that can't understand my language.
I believe one of the injured was a Burger King worker who had her head out the drive-thru window when the explosion happened. Ear pain was associated with hearing the noise. The other was the driver of the truck who was doing the tank exchange (a GM employee). My guess is he didn't follow the safety procedure although no blame has been assigned yet. I am in Rochester, so I must be correct! The Hindenburg Syndrome will get a boost from this.
I thought "clean coal" was a myth or at least an oxymoron, an attempt to make coal relevant in an age of renewable energy. Anyway, mining deaths (especially if you include China) are enough to make coal more dangerous than serpentine or nuclear energy (no troll intended).
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how does designating something as the state rock cause it to give people cancer?
PS: The state rock of Utah is coal which has led to more than 100000 deaths and injuries due to mining (never mind the air pollution issue...).
I noticed the "cancerous materials" signs in every restaurant in California the last time I was there. What am I supposed to do? Not eat there? It is true that if warnings are everywhere, they stop being useful. The government feels it has an obligation to protect citizens and therefore requires itself to do these dumb things. Make it stop.
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Hmmm. Driving to Hawaii from NY could be a problem. Although I did have a Hawaiian Air agent tell me I should take a bus from the Big Island to Maui to catch a flight. See, there's this thing called the Pacific Ocean...
I remember starting up a 286 running Windows 1.0. All it would do was boot. You couldn't run anything. That counted as a victory for Microsoft at the time.
Now everybody will want jet powered wings to save money on gas.
Yes, car companies are morons because they don't make their cars look like golf balls. Right.
When can I buy it??
In my youth, my friends and I routinely rode our bikes all over creation and my parents had NO idea where we were. We were often 10 miles from home with no way to contact us. Good thing there weren't any perverts back then!
I only have a handful of brain cells left.
That's the best description of a Salvatore Dali painting I've ever read!
Consider combining this Slashdot story with the next one about Bible.com. The obvious conclusion is that the lost launch codes are hidden in the Bible. I KNEW it! Clinton is off the hook.
Electricity is not subject to the taxes imposed on motor fuels. This artificially skews the cost comparisons being made. What happens if there is a substantial shift to electric power and states find that revenue from gas road taxes starts falling off? It makes sense to me that they will shift the tax burden to electricity use. This will cause some problem since electricity is used for many things other than transportation. A per mile tax on electric vehicles is the answer. Maybe. A legislative conundrum!
When I was a kid: Erector Sets had many choking hazard screws and metal pieces with unfinished razor sharp edges. Chemistry sets had actual chemicals in them. And I mixed them ALL together. And put electrodes in the goop and plugged it in the wall. A microscope kit came with xylene and actual glass slides etc. I set off rockets in the basement. I hooked all the transformers my dad had end to end to try to make a million volts. I took my prescription for potassium iodide to school and was called to the principal's office because some kid said I threw "acid" at him. I threw nothing at anyone. I made free iodine from my medicine by mixing it with acetic acid. Cool purple clouds!!! I made balsa airplanes using sharp razor blades and toxic glue. The rubber powered ones flew so high they looked like tiny dots in the sky. I made model cars with working suspension and purple metalflake paint jobs. I made a Battling Betsy tank with TWO electric motors that was nosebleed fast. Count me in for the Visible V8 and the Visible Radial Airplane Engine. AND IT WAS ALL GREAT!!!!! I am alive and well and have all my fingers and toes. Today I hear people are worried about paperclips and rulers being dangerous and chemistry is reduced to baking soda and vinegar. This is pitiful and sad.
I predict the death of Nicholas Negroponte within five years.
Being an old retired Electric Engineer dude of 62, I find I am just not jumping up and down salivating over the latest gadgets. The iPad is just the latest thing I don't need. Why is this better than a laptop? Weren't touch screens tried on HP terminals many years ago and failed because the screen gets full of fingerprints etc.? (I have >10 PCs/laptops in my home so I am no Luddite.) Texting is mostly useless since I can't type on a tiny keyboard and it costs 15cents a shot. Yesterday a girl on the news said she had sent 10000 text messages in one month. I don't have that much to say. Facebook is a big time waster and Farmville is like digital valium. I would rather blow up teenagers on Unreal or QuakeLive. I am supposed to watch movies on my tiny cell phone screen. Why would I do this when there are big TVs? Oh, I forgot about the "coolness" factor. I am supposed to surf the web on my small phone. I already pay for RoadRunner (with recent price increase to $55/mo), why would I pay $100 for a cell data plan for the same data? So when I hear that iPad$ will replace books, I am mystified. I guess I am no longer part of the "target demographic". Sniff. Wait, am I now off topic? Sometimes I get confused. PS: I have had PCs since 1983 ($200 to replace a floppy drive!), and so far Windows 7 works wonderfully well, much better than Windows 1.0.
Amazingly, they expect to build this vehicle for 1/5 the cost of a Tesla roadster. Right.
So now I'll write a book explaining about how the Pentagon bought up the other book and they'll have to buy my book too = Profit.
Your emails must be REALLY important!
If the whole thing is a touch screen how am I supposed to hold it up? Maybe it just floats in space and I gesture wildly in front of it like trying to talk to some alien that can't understand my language.
I believe one of the injured was a Burger King worker who had her head out the drive-thru window when the explosion happened. Ear pain was associated with hearing the noise. The other was the driver of the truck who was doing the tank exchange (a GM employee). My guess is he didn't follow the safety procedure although no blame has been assigned yet. I am in Rochester, so I must be correct! The Hindenburg Syndrome will get a boost from this.
an aluminum foil hat was enough. This guy is way ahead of the curve: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01407/foil-car_1407008i.jpg
Well that certainly fills in the blanks...
Sorry. That's on a need to know basis...
I did say, "never mind the air pollution issue".
I thought "clean coal" was a myth or at least an oxymoron, an attempt to make coal relevant in an age of renewable energy. Anyway, mining deaths (especially if you include China) are enough to make coal more dangerous than serpentine or nuclear energy (no troll intended).
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how does designating something as the state rock cause it to give people cancer? PS: The state rock of Utah is coal which has led to more than 100000 deaths and injuries due to mining (never mind the air pollution issue...).
I noticed the "cancerous materials" signs in every restaurant in California the last time I was there. What am I supposed to do? Not eat there? It is true that if warnings are everywhere, they stop being useful. The government feels it has an obligation to protect citizens and therefore requires itself to do these dumb things. Make it stop.