Sounds like it's basically a Diesel most of which will run on vegitable oils. It's the performance that sounds impressive. Diesels have a lot of power but aren't known for their 0 to 60 abilities. Just good to see one of the excuses for gasoline disproven. Soy oil is expensive but if you compare the mileage against a normal sports car it isn't that far off. The problem is demand. There isn't enough soy oil produced on the planet to keep the US in fuel. The biodiesel itself would likely come from multiple sources and be blended. I lean on the side of alcohol based fuels since it's far easier to grow sugar crops than oil crops. The real problem will be going to 100% alcohol. The ATF is not going to be happy with that one. You may never see a commercial grain alcohol fuel availible since there is easy access then to cheap drinkable alcohol. I'm guessing they will always blend it with something to keep it from being potable.
It also places an absentee vote for all Republican cannidates in the next election. The fact the disk was authored by Diebold should have been a clue. It did make me suspicous that it asked for the names of any friends or relatives that died in the last year. Look on the brightside we may finally have 110% voter turnout.
The ideas have been around in one form or the other for hundreds of years. There's a competing theory that the two Marys are one in the same. This is a money grab pure and simple. Some religous sects actually have had the belief that Christ had a wife for many years. I've even heard references to him having children. The only thing earth shattering was putting it on paper.
Maybe the Canadians can get their pharmacies to fill prescriptions for US customers and accept payment in blank CDs!
Been there done that. I'm making a CD exchange run this weekend. A case of CDs will bring a hundred count bottle of Viagra or half a kilo of medical Marijuana. Both items are easy to move in this country. I'm hoping the tax extends to blank DVDs. I should be able to get double for DVDs. If business keeps up I hope to hire a lobbyist to push for tougher laws. Last time they dropped the law it put me out of business. I was going to file a restraint of trade protest but I thought that might be pushing it. It's easier and safer to just hire a lobbyist to push for tougher laws like the big corporations do.
The aquisition of Pixar more closely resembled a merger. It was a sale mostly because the Pixar holders got Disney stock. The assets were merged though. Pixar is acting as an independent company but Disney has access to the talent pool. If Disney and Apple joined it would probably be a more formalized merger since both companies are of a similar size. There'd be a stock value placed on the joined company and the share holders would recieve the new company stock. It actually could be a win win for all since Apple stock has done really well lately and Disney's stock is expected to do well with Pixar on board. What is to be gained? Content. Suddenly all those Disney films that were retired can be released on the iPod. Not to mention decades of Disney TV programming. The companies are complimentary and don't compete so it's a good fit. Hurting deals with other content sources for iPod? Entertainment isn't a bunch of warring camps. iPod is a great revenue stream. If the Devil himself had come up with iPod they'd be lined up around the block to sell him content. Disney gains direct access to technology and Apple gains content. The combined company could pose a serious threat to Microsoft since they already have under one roof what Microsoft is trying to build. All they lack is an Xbox style gaming system to attack them on every front. With the rep they have now Apple could pose a serious threat to gaming. Imagine they start a gaming division through the Pixar wing to develope games. Keep a lot of them family friendly using the Disney name. Keep the bulk of the games for the under 18 crowd so they are seen as family safe but still make the games challenging and fun with stunning graphics. The combined company could be terrifying and would be involved in virtually every aspect of entertainment. If they didn't loose focas and blow it they would wind up being the 800lb gorilla.
Damn. I forgot plutonium is health food. Now which one of us has drunk the kool aide? Hey uranium tipped rounds are safe too. All the ground water contamination and illness is just a coincidence. Those anti nuke commies just don't want us to have any fun. The moron is the one that believes what he's told. Fuel isn't the only form of waste. Everything that goes into or comes out of a reactor is contaminated. There's hundreds of tons of waste already without ever getting more than 15% of our power from nuclear. Worldwide we are talking about millions of tons of waste over the next hundred years. Higher life forms have been around for hundreds of millions of years and we can't seem to go a hundred without totally screwing up the planet. Civilization has been around in one form or the other for at least ten thousand years. Can you imagine ten thousand years of treating the environment like we have been? Trust me you can't. That's a 100X what damage we've done in the last hundred years if there was no increase at all. A lot of resources are almost already used up. Saying I'll be dead before it happens is irresponsible and makes you a Darwian looser since you are making it the next generation's problem.
Welcome to Slashdot where non partyline standpoints are uniformly modded down. Nuclear is good and saying it's not makes you a flamebait commie. The fact that in sixty years we haven't found a way of dealing with nuclear waste or contaminated ground is no reason not to have a reactor on every street corner. Sticking it in a hole in the ground or dumping it in the ocean doesn't make it go away it just delays dealing with it and potentially puts it off on future generations. Nuclear power is only cheap because tax payers pay for the clean up. It's cheap for Russia because they don't clean it up at all so large parts of Russia are contaiminated. There's a very famous road sign that is on the major road connecting east and western parts of Russia that suggests rolling up your windows and driving very fast because of the contamination. Nuclear is considered high tech but in truth all it is for is boiling water for steam. The concept is pretty simple. It just produces a lot of heat. Why big business is for Nuclear is it maintains the status quo. Alterate sources tend to function better decentralized which has major benefits. I was around LA during the power shortages when Enron reamed the area for hundreds of millions in over priced power. If every roof had solar cells the situation would have never occured. Can we get a 100% of our power from solar? No. FYI we don't get a 100% from one source now. The big sources are Coal, oil, hydroelectric and nuclear. I think other sources make up less than 5%. Why? Those four have massive lobbying groups backing them and get heavy government subsidies. Oil and coal get the largest subsidies and I believe Nuclear is next. The amount given to alternative sources is tiny by comparision. So long as there are lobbying groups in Washington the government will never push power that gives the control of power to smaller groups over the major corporations. This is about profits not helping the average citizen. There are lots of solution but most of them hurt the big power companies.
How is an image search substantially different than a text search? Wouldn't making a thumbnail with a link to the original image fall under fair use, the same as google cache or even the partial webpage text displayed in a regular google query?
They are displaying the entire copyrighted work not an excerpt. The owner has legal control of where and how the work is displayed. They would have to recieve permission to use the work in any form. A thumbnail is still the image itself just greatly reduced. They might get away with showing a modified alias of the work where it's stylized in some way but that's the only way around the issue I can think of.
Absolutely. Same holds true on cars. To aford equipment I've often drove junk cars. None of them were stolen. Over the years I had two sports cars and both were stolen and trashed by the thieves. I drive a decent car now but it's alarmed and clubbed to within an inch of it's life. If I go into a 7/11 for 60 seconds I club it. Like I say all you can do is make them go to the next guy who's less well protected. Notebooks at times are expensive enough to warrant a tracking device. Since they have internal power already the device wouldn't have to be that large. Just needs to send GPS information. Seems like a good add-on feature to pro notebooks.
Back when I worked as a model and prop maker I had a serious problem with lost tools. For a number of years I painted all the tools with a type of hot pink until it was discontinued. It was offensive looking but the entire time I used it I never lost a tool to thieft. People laughed but they left them alone. It's serious business when you start loosing thousands in tools a year. The color was so intense that I could stand in the middle of the room and point to every tool of mine. If some one wants to steal all you can do is make your stuff less attractive so they'll go on to the next person. It may be possible to repaint the computer but if they have the choice between your laptop and one that's unpainted they'll go for the unpainted one. Resale value? Well with laptops everyone I've had by the time I was finished with it the resale was so low that I gave them away. I've sold dozens of computers but I've never sold a laptop.
I'm sure you'll be able to buy an upgrade but the point is to make computers attractively priced companies will be installing Basic knowing customers will be back for the upgrade. As a pro user it annoys me because how do I know which bloody version will have the support I need? Do I have to buy the Ultimate version just to be sure when maybe the basic professional version will work. Sounds like an upgrade nightmare. Are you going to have to upgrade over the internet to get the right version? There's seven potential upgrades a store would need to stock on top of eight full versions. What will happen is the stores will have two or three full versions and a couple of upgrades and good luck to you if you need something else. Another great idea brought to you by Microsquash.
The first time it happened it was semi for real. Eric Idle as a joke burnt toast and scrapped it for ashes. He told everyone it was Graham's ashes then proceeded to sneeze and blow the ashes all over the audience. Michael Palin thought it was really Graham at the time. This came from one of their personal assistents who is a friend. He later found out it was fake and was in on the later jokes.
Sharks are over rwated as human preditors but they do occationally take a human or two. A white nailed a couple of suffers a few years ago in the LA. Usually a case of mistaken identity with whites. Black bears and cougars are also easily frightened but still kill people. Grizzly bears are less impressed with yelling and arm waving and tend to think of it as dinner and a show.
I spent some time in London and actually liked the tube system alot. I spent six months in France but found the Metros confusing. The bizzarre logic of naming a line based on the last stop was hard to deal with and left you staring at maps and often missing trains.
The real point I was trying to make is without out technological advantages we lack the preditor equipment for survival. Take away our brain size and we'd go extinct. You throw a human, American or not, naked into winter conditions and we'd die. Judging Americans on Bush or your average resident of the local MacDonalds is like saying all Moslims are terrorist. Personally I grew up in the north and can handle myself quite well in the cold. I've also been all over the world and never had a problem adapting or getting by. When I was in New Zealand the average Kiwii had no tolerance to the cold. I walked around in a t-shirt when they wore heavy coats. Humans are very adaptable but we need our technology to survive. The reference to a camera getting stuck in ones teeth was pointing out stupid tourist are often victims. People lean out of the windows of car or walk right up to bears to get a good picture. The rule of thumb with a bear is he can out run you, out swim you, out climb you and if he's too big to climb a tree he can push it over. If a bear is starving and you are unarmed you are dinner. A human can't hurt 500 kilos+ of grizzly bear. People automically think of big cats but a bear is a better preditor. They have been known to track humans for days when they are hungry. They'll climb trees for food, they've been known to dive for food. Bears will dig small mammals out of their burrows. They're incredible survival machines and extremely intellegent.
I know some bears, sharks and lions that might disagree with you. If they don't happen to have a sharp stick handy humans tend to be tender and don't have any annoying claws and sharp teeth. You might get an occational camera stuck in your teeth but otherwise good eating.
Always reminds me of the short story Sunjammer. It brings to mind the massive racing yachts. Ever since I read the story in my teens the slow motion image of the ships colliding has stuck in my mind. I'd love to see a solar sail race. The scale alone would be epic.
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Cool! I'm spraying my house and car with pine tar. Hell I'm spraying thew cat with pine tar! Come on tax break!
The hassel is having to write two versions, just like election night.
"Perfect Launch," or the more common, "Shuttle blows up on launch again."
Sounds like it's basically a Diesel most of which will run on vegitable oils. It's the performance that sounds impressive. Diesels have a lot of power but aren't known for their 0 to 60 abilities. Just good to see one of the excuses for gasoline disproven. Soy oil is expensive but if you compare the mileage against a normal sports car it isn't that far off. The problem is demand. There isn't enough soy oil produced on the planet to keep the US in fuel. The biodiesel itself would likely come from multiple sources and be blended. I lean on the side of alcohol based fuels since it's far easier to grow sugar crops than oil crops. The real problem will be going to 100% alcohol. The ATF is not going to be happy with that one. You may never see a commercial grain alcohol fuel availible since there is easy access then to cheap drinkable alcohol. I'm guessing they will always blend it with something to keep it from being potable.
It also places an absentee vote for all Republican cannidates in the next election. The fact the disk was authored by Diebold should have been a clue. It did make me suspicous that it asked for the names of any friends or relatives that died in the last year. Look on the brightside we may finally have 110% voter turnout.
The ideas have been around in one form or the other for hundreds of years. There's a competing theory that the two Marys are one in the same. This is a money grab pure and simple. Some religous sects actually have had the belief that Christ had a wife for many years. I've even heard references to him having children. The only thing earth shattering was putting it on paper.
Been there done that. I'm making a CD exchange run this weekend. A case of CDs will bring a hundred count bottle of Viagra or half a kilo of medical Marijuana. Both items are easy to move in this country. I'm hoping the tax extends to blank DVDs. I should be able to get double for DVDs. If business keeps up I hope to hire a lobbyist to push for tougher laws. Last time they dropped the law it put me out of business. I was going to file a restraint of trade protest but I thought that might be pushing it. It's easier and safer to just hire a lobbyist to push for tougher laws like the big corporations do.
The aquisition of Pixar more closely resembled a merger. It was a sale mostly because the Pixar holders got Disney stock. The assets were merged though. Pixar is acting as an independent company but Disney has access to the talent pool. If Disney and Apple joined it would probably be a more formalized merger since both companies are of a similar size. There'd be a stock value placed on the joined company and the share holders would recieve the new company stock. It actually could be a win win for all since Apple stock has done really well lately and Disney's stock is expected to do well with Pixar on board. What is to be gained? Content. Suddenly all those Disney films that were retired can be released on the iPod. Not to mention decades of Disney TV programming. The companies are complimentary and don't compete so it's a good fit. Hurting deals with other content sources for iPod? Entertainment isn't a bunch of warring camps. iPod is a great revenue stream. If the Devil himself had come up with iPod they'd be lined up around the block to sell him content. Disney gains direct access to technology and Apple gains content. The combined company could pose a serious threat to Microsoft since they already have under one roof what Microsoft is trying to build. All they lack is an Xbox style gaming system to attack them on every front. With the rep they have now Apple could pose a serious threat to gaming. Imagine they start a gaming division through the Pixar wing to develope games. Keep a lot of them family friendly using the Disney name. Keep the bulk of the games for the under 18 crowd so they are seen as family safe but still make the games challenging and fun with stunning graphics. The combined company could be terrifying and would be involved in virtually every aspect of entertainment. If they didn't loose focas and blow it they would wind up being the 800lb gorilla.
Damn. I forgot plutonium is health food. Now which one of us has drunk the kool aide? Hey uranium tipped rounds are safe too. All the ground water contamination and illness is just a coincidence. Those anti nuke commies just don't want us to have any fun. The moron is the one that believes what he's told. Fuel isn't the only form of waste. Everything that goes into or comes out of a reactor is contaminated. There's hundreds of tons of waste already without ever getting more than 15% of our power from nuclear. Worldwide we are talking about millions of tons of waste over the next hundred years. Higher life forms have been around for hundreds of millions of years and we can't seem to go a hundred without totally screwing up the planet. Civilization has been around in one form or the other for at least ten thousand years. Can you imagine ten thousand years of treating the environment like we have been? Trust me you can't. That's a 100X what damage we've done in the last hundred years if there was no increase at all. A lot of resources are almost already used up. Saying I'll be dead before it happens is irresponsible and makes you a Darwian looser since you are making it the next generation's problem.
No. Next question.
Welcome to Slashdot where non partyline standpoints are uniformly modded down. Nuclear is good and saying it's not makes you a flamebait commie. The fact that in sixty years we haven't found a way of dealing with nuclear waste or contaminated ground is no reason not to have a reactor on every street corner. Sticking it in a hole in the ground or dumping it in the ocean doesn't make it go away it just delays dealing with it and potentially puts it off on future generations. Nuclear power is only cheap because tax payers pay for the clean up. It's cheap for Russia because they don't clean it up at all so large parts of Russia are contaiminated. There's a very famous road sign that is on the major road connecting east and western parts of Russia that suggests rolling up your windows and driving very fast because of the contamination. Nuclear is considered high tech but in truth all it is for is boiling water for steam. The concept is pretty simple. It just produces a lot of heat. Why big business is for Nuclear is it maintains the status quo. Alterate sources tend to function better decentralized which has major benefits. I was around LA during the power shortages when Enron reamed the area for hundreds of millions in over priced power. If every roof had solar cells the situation would have never occured. Can we get a 100% of our power from solar? No. FYI we don't get a 100% from one source now. The big sources are Coal, oil, hydroelectric and nuclear. I think other sources make up less than 5%. Why? Those four have massive lobbying groups backing them and get heavy government subsidies. Oil and coal get the largest subsidies and I believe Nuclear is next. The amount given to alternative sources is tiny by comparision. So long as there are lobbying groups in Washington the government will never push power that gives the control of power to smaller groups over the major corporations. This is about profits not helping the average citizen. There are lots of solution but most of them hurt the big power companies.
Guess the Amiga stores are screwed. That's assuming there's one left in Japan.
For a second there I thought you were applying for a government contract. I think Haliburton uses the same approach for getting government contracts.
....when a legless TV tray gets posted as news. All that was missing was the Ronco name brand.
They are displaying the entire copyrighted work not an excerpt. The owner has legal control of where and how the work is displayed. They would have to recieve permission to use the work in any form. A thumbnail is still the image itself just greatly reduced. They might get away with showing a modified alias of the work where it's stylized in some way but that's the only way around the issue I can think of.
Absolutely. Same holds true on cars. To aford equipment I've often drove junk cars. None of them were stolen. Over the years I had two sports cars and both were stolen and trashed by the thieves. I drive a decent car now but it's alarmed and clubbed to within an inch of it's life. If I go into a 7/11 for 60 seconds I club it. Like I say all you can do is make them go to the next guy who's less well protected. Notebooks at times are expensive enough to warrant a tracking device. Since they have internal power already the device wouldn't have to be that large. Just needs to send GPS information. Seems like a good add-on feature to pro notebooks.
Back when I worked as a model and prop maker I had a serious problem with lost tools. For a number of years I painted all the tools with a type of hot pink until it was discontinued. It was offensive looking but the entire time I used it I never lost a tool to thieft. People laughed but they left them alone. It's serious business when you start loosing thousands in tools a year. The color was so intense that I could stand in the middle of the room and point to every tool of mine. If some one wants to steal all you can do is make your stuff less attractive so they'll go on to the next person. It may be possible to repaint the computer but if they have the choice between your laptop and one that's unpainted they'll go for the unpainted one. Resale value? Well with laptops everyone I've had by the time I was finished with it the resale was so low that I gave them away. I've sold dozens of computers but I've never sold a laptop.
I'm sure you'll be able to buy an upgrade but the point is to make computers attractively priced companies will be installing Basic knowing customers will be back for the upgrade. As a pro user it annoys me because how do I know which bloody version will have the support I need? Do I have to buy the Ultimate version just to be sure when maybe the basic professional version will work. Sounds like an upgrade nightmare. Are you going to have to upgrade over the internet to get the right version? There's seven potential upgrades a store would need to stock on top of eight full versions. What will happen is the stores will have two or three full versions and a couple of upgrades and good luck to you if you need something else. Another great idea brought to you by Microsquash.
The first time it happened it was semi for real. Eric Idle as a joke burnt toast and scrapped it for ashes. He told everyone it was Graham's ashes then proceeded to sneeze and blow the ashes all over the audience. Michael Palin thought it was really Graham at the time. This came from one of their personal assistents who is a friend. He later found out it was fake and was in on the later jokes.
I spent some time in London and actually liked the tube system alot. I spent six months in France but found the Metros confusing. The bizzarre logic of naming a line based on the last stop was hard to deal with and left you staring at maps and often missing trains.
The real point I was trying to make is without out technological advantages we lack the preditor equipment for survival. Take away our brain size and we'd go extinct. You throw a human, American or not, naked into winter conditions and we'd die. Judging Americans on Bush or your average resident of the local MacDonalds is like saying all Moslims are terrorist. Personally I grew up in the north and can handle myself quite well in the cold. I've also been all over the world and never had a problem adapting or getting by. When I was in New Zealand the average Kiwii had no tolerance to the cold. I walked around in a t-shirt when they wore heavy coats. Humans are very adaptable but we need our technology to survive. The reference to a camera getting stuck in ones teeth was pointing out stupid tourist are often victims. People lean out of the windows of car or walk right up to bears to get a good picture. The rule of thumb with a bear is he can out run you, out swim you, out climb you and if he's too big to climb a tree he can push it over. If a bear is starving and you are unarmed you are dinner. A human can't hurt 500 kilos+ of grizzly bear. People automically think of big cats but a bear is a better preditor. They have been known to track humans for days when they are hungry. They'll climb trees for food, they've been known to dive for food. Bears will dig small mammals out of their burrows. They're incredible survival machines and extremely intellegent.
I know some bears, sharks and lions that might disagree with you. If they don't happen to have a sharp stick handy humans tend to be tender and don't have any annoying claws and sharp teeth. You might get an occational camera stuck in your teeth but otherwise good eating.
Fast food was called serve yourself back then.
$20 isn't enough for a high priced call girl. High priced call girls have all their teeth and aren't generally related to you.
Hey at least they didn't claim it ran on Zero Point energy. My favorite current flavor of snake oil.
Always reminds me of the short story Sunjammer. It brings to mind the massive racing yachts. Ever since I read the story in my teens the slow motion image of the ships colliding has stuck in my mind. I'd love to see a solar sail race. The scale alone would be epic.
It's a quantum party line!