This is especially true for laptops. Given that two Taiwanese box shifters make over half of all laptops and the brander just stick a label on them then a 'fake' one seems like pretty good value if you can get the same hardware for less.
I don't particularly want to see more reactors built but it is starting to look inevitable. But if we have to build them at least look at safer designs like pebble reactors which, unless anyone else on the board has more information, look like a better option.
Of course we could drastically reduce the power needs of the populace if we just saved more energy. Leaving computers on all night, and worse monitors, is shockingly wasteful and we need tax incentives to insulate the current housing stock and regulation on new building projects. I'm over in Finland a lot and they are the puppies packet at this sort of thing; the average modern home needs one or two wood stoves to meet most energy needs.
It's also important to remember that the major cost on nukes comes not in building the things, but in dismantling them and storing the waste - something that the pro-nuke lobby often forgets.
The more we see the more we can understand, and the more questions occur.
Given the possible variation in black hole sizes this poses some interesting problems for long term space travel. Mini-holes will pose major danger during high speed travel unless some fast detection method is found. This has resonances with Arthur C Clarke's story about the star mangled spanner...
I've had five media players and none of them was an iPod. Like you I dislike the marketing hype arounf the iPod, especially the Shuffle or iChav. Only Steve Jobs could tell people that not having a screen on a player is an advantage.
But like it or not the iPod is by far the easiest music player to use and that's the key to its success.
Bear in mind also the difficulty in defending such a weapons base on the moon. One decent sized nuke and teh EMP and vibration should knock out any weapons.
Utter tosh. An AIDS cure would benefit every sufferer, irrespective of colour. Malaria-carrying mosquitoes aren't known for just attacking black people, it's just that citizens of the rich Western nations can afford preventative medicine or large scale eradication programs.
Here is the West we live a charmed life compared to three quarters of the population. Whinging because someone's helping the poorest on the planet rather than the entitled minority either shows stunning self-absorption or wilful ignorance.
Bill is doing a lot of good with his charitable work and that deserves recognition. But if he steps back guess who's going to be running the show. Steve Ballmer has shown himself to be more ruthless than Bill, more aggressive and much more willing to threaten competitors.
On the other hand Ballmer is also impetuous, and may lead Microsoft back to the law courts.
Years of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland have made us pretty good at urban situations but it's wrong to blame this on the troops. One British army officer said the best tactic his men used was to wear berets rather than helmets and play football with the locals. You can't defeat a guerrilla army with firepower alone, you neeed local support as well.
The invasion was messed up in so many ways, even before the troops got there (lack of manpower, no post-victory plan, underfunding or misappropriated funds) that Iraq was always going to turn into a nightmare.
That said this device could be useful. Rescue teams in earthquakes and building collapses, fire crews and even individuals worried about muggers will love it. It's also going to be a boon to burglars.
The myth of competition.
In Europe we agreed a GSM standard and let competition commence. Competition over initial standards set the US mobile market back 5+ years. Competition has an important role but it isn't all that. Besides, there are so many anti-competitive tactics in use worldwide that the best product doesn't always win.
Your last point is very telling. A lot of older actors are stuffing their pension plans now, because when HD TV goes mass market they are going to be to painful to watch.
I've tried the 770 and it's crying out for a SIM card slot.
Nokia are very proud of their creation (and with a better battery that pride would be justified) but adding cellular connectivity would really catapult it into the 'must have' category. There's still not enough pervasive Wi-Fi to make it a good communications tool, although for use in a corporate environment it does the job.
It's a fair point, but some of the studios seem to be preparing to release film in both mediums. This will make content less of an issue and I don't see any one studio has enough 'must see' films to gain a dominant hand.
As with VHS/Betamax a key driver will be which way the pornography industry goes.
One of the things the media companies love about the discs is that to an extent copy protection won't be as important.
Because the media will be designed for high-def TV the files are going to be huge. That makes a substantial disincentive to file sharers since the files will be so large to download the casual downloader may not bother.
In time, with fasteer network access, this will change but in the meantime they'll have less of a problem with privacy.
I think that price quoted was without any subsidy. Interesting that it made no mention of the tax credits, governmnet boondoggles and other price supports gien to the oil industry.
It's a statement of fact, not a threat.
The fact is Oracle has a lousy record at dealing with flaws, waiting up to two years in some cases. Sometimes they need a kick up the backside to get them moving.
The Blu-Ray/HD DVD standards war is going to cause a lot of problems as consumers are smart enough to stay out of it.
Everyone with a few brain cells to rub together knows about the VHS/Betamax struggle and know that the best technology doesn't always win. Since DVDs work fun for all but the most anal film buff I think most people will hold off on buying players.
Overall Sony has the edge, it is building Blu-Ray drives into the PS3 and that install base should give them the edge.
The site suggests the cost per gallon is about $8. Petrol will cost that in five or ten years anyway and isn't a renewable resource. That's why ethanol makes sense.
Well there'll always be people needed to dig ditches
Seriously I felt the same way for a long time but the practical benefits of the mobile makes it difficult to live without once you get used to having one.
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Fair point I suppose, but it just seems a tad silly. To each their own I suppose.
I'm sure I could pop down to the shops in an F1 car but what would be the point. Use tech for what it's good for please.
This is especially true for laptops. Given that two Taiwanese box shifters make over half of all laptops and the brander just stick a label on them then a 'fake' one seems like pretty good value if you can get the same hardware for less.
I don't particularly want to see more reactors built but it is starting to look inevitable. But if we have to build them at least look at safer designs like pebble reactors which, unless anyone else on the board has more information, look like a better option.
Of course we could drastically reduce the power needs of the populace if we just saved more energy. Leaving computers on all night, and worse monitors, is shockingly wasteful and we need tax incentives to insulate the current housing stock and regulation on new building projects. I'm over in Finland a lot and they are the puppies packet at this sort of thing; the average modern home needs one or two wood stoves to meet most energy needs.
It's also important to remember that the major cost on nukes comes not in building the things, but in dismantling them and storing the waste - something that the pro-nuke lobby often forgets.
Indeed, it isn't a proper demo unless something screws up at some point.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars - Oscar Wilde.
The more we see the more we can understand, and the more questions occur.
Given the possible variation in black hole sizes this poses some interesting problems for long term space travel. Mini-holes will pose major danger during high speed travel unless some fast detection method is found. This has resonances with Arthur C Clarke's story about the star mangled spanner...
I've had five media players and none of them was an iPod. Like you I dislike the marketing hype arounf the iPod, especially the Shuffle or iChav. Only Steve Jobs could tell people that not having a screen on a player is an advantage.
But like it or not the iPod is by far the easiest music player to use and that's the key to its success.
If you think might outvotes legality.
Bear in mind also the difficulty in defending such a weapons base on the moon. One decent sized nuke and teh EMP and vibration should knock out any weapons.
Utter tosh. An AIDS cure would benefit every sufferer, irrespective of colour. Malaria-carrying mosquitoes aren't known for just attacking black people, it's just that citizens of the rich Western nations can afford preventative medicine or large scale eradication programs.
Here is the West we live a charmed life compared to three quarters of the population. Whinging because someone's helping the poorest on the planet rather than the entitled minority either shows stunning self-absorption or wilful ignorance.
Only in its dreams. Ownership of the moon was settled by the UN in 1967. Details can be found here.
Bill is doing a lot of good with his charitable work and that deserves recognition. But if he steps back guess who's going to be running the show. Steve Ballmer has shown himself to be more ruthless than Bill, more aggressive and much more willing to threaten competitors.
On the other hand Ballmer is also impetuous, and may lead Microsoft back to the law courts.
Years of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland have made us pretty good at urban situations but it's wrong to blame this on the troops. One British army officer said the best tactic his men used was to wear berets rather than helmets and play football with the locals. You can't defeat a guerrilla army with firepower alone, you neeed local support as well.
The invasion was messed up in so many ways, even before the troops got there (lack of manpower, no post-victory plan, underfunding or misappropriated funds) that Iraq was always going to turn into a nightmare.
That said this device could be useful. Rescue teams in earthquakes and building collapses, fire crews and even individuals worried about muggers will love it. It's also going to be a boon to burglars.
The myth of competition.
In Europe we agreed a GSM standard and let competition commence. Competition over initial standards set the US mobile market back 5+ years. Competition has an important role but it isn't all that. Besides, there are so many anti-competitive tactics in use worldwide that the best product doesn't always win.
Your last point is very telling. A lot of older actors are stuffing their pension plans now, because when HD TV goes mass market they are going to be to painful to watch.
I've tried the 770 and it's crying out for a SIM card slot. Nokia are very proud of their creation (and with a better battery that pride would be justified) but adding cellular connectivity would really catapult it into the 'must have' category. There's still not enough pervasive Wi-Fi to make it a good communications tool, although for use in a corporate environment it does the job.
It's a fair point, but some of the studios seem to be preparing to release film in both mediums. This will make content less of an issue and I don't see any one studio has enough 'must see' films to gain a dominant hand. As with VHS/Betamax a key driver will be which way the pornography industry goes.
Lucky devil. Here in the UK I've only just got an 8MB connection and it costs.
One of the things the media companies love about the discs is that to an extent copy protection won't be as important. Because the media will be designed for high-def TV the files are going to be huge. That makes a substantial disincentive to file sharers since the files will be so large to download the casual downloader may not bother. In time, with fasteer network access, this will change but in the meantime they'll have less of a problem with privacy.
I think that price quoted was without any subsidy. Interesting that it made no mention of the tax credits, governmnet boondoggles and other price supports gien to the oil industry.
It's a statement of fact, not a threat. The fact is Oracle has a lousy record at dealing with flaws, waiting up to two years in some cases. Sometimes they need a kick up the backside to get them moving.
The Blu-Ray/HD DVD standards war is going to cause a lot of problems as consumers are smart enough to stay out of it. Everyone with a few brain cells to rub together knows about the VHS/Betamax struggle and know that the best technology doesn't always win. Since DVDs work fun for all but the most anal film buff I think most people will hold off on buying players. Overall Sony has the edge, it is building Blu-Ray drives into the PS3 and that install base should give them the edge.
The site suggests the cost per gallon is about $8. Petrol will cost that in five or ten years anyway and isn't a renewable resource. That's why ethanol makes sense.
Well there'll always be people needed to dig ditches Seriously I felt the same way for a long time but the practical benefits of the mobile makes it difficult to live without once you get used to having one.
How can we take a survey seriously when it's paid for by a company you are a partner with and investigates their software.