Yes. Diesel cars have the same problem. Pollution and consumption of a non-renewable resource.
"Toyota plans to use much of the technology it's developing for hybrids on fuel-cell vehicles, which the automaker expects will be mass-produced by 2010, Takimoto said." --- From the article.
So we can see hybrid vehicles as a stepping stone for fuel cell vehicles.
The sad part is, any system you come up with that will provide power and safety to the people, will be fought against tooth and nail by socialists, both private and government.
My vote still has to go to private interests. Yes I think the gluttons that run these companies are disgraceful. Layoff workers in the same year the CEO receives a $4 mill bonus.
However I would rather be a the mercy of a private company, than of any government. The government uses guns, violence, and threats to get what it wants. No one from Home Depot ever told me to buy something or else.
So if government control is out, and private control is out? What's left?
What the private sector has that government does not is accountability. Notice if a crook works for a private organization they get convicted (see WorldCom), if a government officials steals/wastes your money - they get elected (see hillary clinton.)
Besides your confusing libertarian-ism with no government control. This is incorrect. Libertarians believe in a strong local government that is used to protect the people, not enforce every twisted law they can come up with.
Your comments on Central America only prove this point. Corrupt officials look the other way when they receive donations, support, etc. from local businesses.
This would not happen since it wouldn't be a welfare state. The places with the biggest drug problems are coincidentially also the biggest nanny states. They won't be setting these people up at the Hilton at the taxpayers expense.
Drug laws do not stop drugs as it is. So why isn't 70% of the population using illegal drugs now.
Ending drug prohibition would only decrease the flow of drugs. Answer yourself, why do so many people risk their lives to bring drugs into this country? Because the money is worth the risk. If drugs would, say as cheap as cigarettes, you wouldn't see 'mules' carrying drugs in their stomach and people literally dying to cross the border. Not to mention putting money in the hands of murders, aka so-called Drug Cartels.
Drug laws have been in affect for years and drug use is on the rise.
Besides it's none of your business what someone else is doing.
California is the last place I think of when I think of liberty.
Doesn't the state steal money from the citizens for it's social programs, to run money losing subway systems (which if I am not mistaken cost $35,000 per year per rider), and to regulate 'so called' unregulated power.
Taxation = slavery = socialist state.
Californians, when you leave take New York with you!
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America needs to get college tuitions in check, and we also need a national health care system.
Yeah! We need a national healthcare system. We seen how well the government manages social security, national security, gun control, drug prohibition, national parks, the projects, welfare, and airline bailouts. If you want to lower the cost of healthcare then get rid of the FDA and every other government oversight committee.
As for college tuition, well you get what you pay for. You can easily go to a community college for less than $1,000/quarter. Or you can do what I did and joined the military so they can pay for college. I have zero college debt.
Stop complaining. If people were not taxed so heavily they could probably afford to send their kids to school, pay for health care, and save for retirement.
First off I must say I am deeply concerned by the comments posted by people (from both sides of the pond.)
After reading through some posts and through the article, which I see most people did not read. Farnsworth's invention used no mechanical parts, while Baird's did. According to a link posted by one insightful European poster:
"However, Baird's mechanical system was rapidly becoming obsolete as electronic systems were being developed, chiefly by Marconi in America. Although he had invested in the mechanical system in order to achieve early results, Baird had also been exploring electronic systems from an early stage. Nevertheless, a BBC committee of inquiry in 1935 prompted a side-by-side trial between Marconi's all-electronic television system, which worked on 405 lines to Baird's 240. Marconi won, and in 1937 Baird's system was dropped."
Who is Marconi? I have no idea and I really don't care to look it up.
But I think the point of the 75th anniversary of television article was not the invention of television it's self but the method used to create the picture on the screen. Does anyone here have a mechanical TV?
Ok, I know nothing about patents. But I thought you could patent the same idea over and over, modifying it slightly. And you were only infringing upon a particular patent if you followed it exactly.
The patent (No. 5,845,265) states "...using a database on one computer to store digital images, text descriptions, prices and legally binding offers..." But ebay does not do this. As far as I know ebay does not host images, they are hosted else where by the seller and are referenced from ebay. Ergo ebay isn't infringing upon this patent. Any patent lawyers out there that can explain this to me?
Even besides all this how can someone possible patent such simple concepts as "accepting payment" and "a marketplace for used goods." Currency was invented a long time ago, as was flea markets.
Perhaps it's time for the patent office to be run by a non-profit group instead of the government. Which is clearly incapable of handling money, security and 'now' patents.
You forgot to mention how much it would cost the public just to prosecute "advertisers." The no ad law would have to be enforced or else it will do no good.
Perhaps all those laid off workers could become ad-cops.
And where does the state get it's money? From you... You are paying for it. Now the problem is you're not deciding what is going to be on TV, some politician is. The idea of commercials or pay per view make so popular shows stay on the air and less popular shows go the way of the dodo.
Yes we US guys do live in a sad world. A world full of government controlled lives, entire populations giving up their freedom for illusion of security. Yup, it's a sad world alright.
And I did visit Europe. I lived in Germany in fact. I didn't watch TV in the 3 years I was there. That's how good the programming was.
Yeah, but whales are an endangered species. Rabbits, well they breed like rabbits.
I used to be a Bradley driver. We would go out of our way to prevent harm to animals. If we were doing live fires and a deer crossed onto the range. We shut down until civilian officials verified the area was clear.
Destroying the environment to protect ourselves is counter-productive.
Check out EB Worlds by StageCast. By simply assigning rules to objects, you can create fairly complex games very quickly. It comes with a collection of graphics or you can use your own. The games are limited to the 2-D type however.
It creates Java-based games which you can share on the web.
The writer should have used XP longer before submitting his article. He will soon discover IE 6 and the desktop will begin to crash constantly.
I run both Windows XP, Linux Redhat 7.1, and Windows 2000 on some 7 different boxes at home. I have found XP after a period of time will become highly unstable and prone to constant crashes. I finally had to remove it from the laptop I use for work because Outlook (company email client-stop laughing) stopped opening - only to replace it with Windows 2000.
And I raved on XP when I first got it! I soon found out it suffers from the same symptoms as Windows ME. It simply becomes corrupted over time.
I appreciate how Linux stays consistently stable.
The writer of the article might find he will be switching back at the next re-install of windows. Which MS recommends once a year, I recommend once every 3 months (at least.)
I installed Mozilla and OpenOffice on Redhat 7.1 and didn't compile anything. I suggest you download binaries and read the included readme file. The install file is titled setup.
The only tricky part I can see of installing linux apps is the need to be root. Since I don't log in as root I open a command prompt, type su, type root password, then run the install file from that window. Now if there is an easier way to do this I would appreciate it. Such as right click and say "run as..."
Some people need to do their research a lot better before posting.
I agree, starting with you.
b. they consume more fuel than the small cars already available - yes, you'll spend more money on electricity (from an oil fired power plant) than on fuel
You don't charge the battery. Hybrid cars recharge via regenerative braking. And they are still big enough to put my groceries in.
I saw a very recent benchmark about a month ago that once again confirmed this. Sorry, can't find the link now...
Oh I can't find the link now? How convienent. Did you try looking on oracle.com?
Why don't you define real-world scenerio? How was the research done in this subject? Did they try replacing each instance of Oracle with a MySQL server and test that? I can't wait to see this article that pits every database server against MySQL. I never thought it got that much attention.
If you say that it works better in most real-world scenarios then you obviously don't work in the real world. I have worked extensively with Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, and DB2. And if you think that Oracle is faster than MySQL then you have clearly never used it. Since you clearly have no facts to backup anything you say I have no idea why you post at all. See how I posted an article supporting my claim?
The better question is...who uses Oracle? MySQL out performs Oracle. PL/SQL should be renamed to POS/SQL. Oracle is the worst database system money can buy.
Even MS SQL Server is better than Oracle. It sounds like your dad was a pretty smart man. To bad it doesn't run in the family.
Call me a troll, but when the postal rates change and it doesn't make slashdot (nerds do pay bills)
Who uses mail? I get all my bills delivered to my Amex bill center and it get's handled from there. Nerds may pay bills, but they don't use the USPS. Give us a break.
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If I sign a 12 month lease for a building and my company folded two months, I still owe rent for the next 10 months.
Just because the company goes out of business doesn't mean it automatically get's off the hook for its financial obligations.
Just called my local EB. They say they don't have it yet due to a delay in shipping caused by winter storms!
Is there no end to the maddness?
You're leaving out Hydrogen. That's always available.
An interesting note, it was "Microsoft Extended Color Basic"
Yes. Diesel cars have the same problem. Pollution and consumption of a non-renewable resource.
"Toyota plans to use much of the technology it's developing for hybrids on fuel-cell vehicles, which the automaker expects will be mass-produced by 2010, Takimoto said." --- From the article.
So we can see hybrid vehicles as a stepping stone for fuel cell vehicles.
Either way hybrid beats Diesel.
The sad part is, any system you come up with that will provide power and safety to the people, will be fought against tooth and nail by socialists, both private and government.
My vote still has to go to private interests. Yes I think the gluttons that run these companies are disgraceful. Layoff workers in the same year the CEO receives a $4 mill bonus.
However I would rather be a the mercy of a private company, than of any government. The government uses guns, violence, and threats to get what it wants. No one from Home Depot ever told me to buy something or else.
So if government control is out, and private control is out? What's left?
What the private sector has that government does not is accountability. Notice if a crook works for a private organization they get convicted (see WorldCom), if a government officials steals/wastes your money - they get elected (see hillary clinton.)
Besides your confusing libertarian-ism with no government control. This is incorrect. Libertarians believe in a strong local government that is used to protect the people, not enforce every twisted law they can come up with.
Your comments on Central America only prove this point. Corrupt officials look the other way when they receive donations, support, etc. from local businesses.
This would not happen since it wouldn't be a welfare state. The places with the biggest drug problems are coincidentially also the biggest nanny states. They won't be setting these people up at the Hilton at the taxpayers expense.
Drug laws do not stop drugs as it is. So why isn't 70% of the population using illegal drugs now.
Ending drug prohibition would only decrease the flow of drugs. Answer yourself, why do so many people risk their lives to bring drugs into this country? Because the money is worth the risk. If drugs would, say as cheap as cigarettes, you wouldn't see 'mules' carrying drugs in their stomach and people literally dying to cross the border. Not to mention putting money in the hands of murders, aka so-called Drug Cartels.
Drug laws have been in affect for years and drug use is on the rise.
Besides it's none of your business what someone else is doing.
California is the last place I think of when I think of liberty.
Doesn't the state steal money from the citizens for it's social programs, to run money losing subway systems (which if I am not mistaken cost $35,000 per year per rider), and to regulate 'so called' unregulated power.
Taxation = slavery = socialist state.
Californians, when you leave take New York with you!
Yeah! We need a national healthcare system. We seen how well the government manages social security, national security, gun control, drug prohibition, national parks, the projects, welfare, and airline bailouts. If you want to lower the cost of healthcare then get rid of the FDA and every other government oversight committee.
As for college tuition, well you get what you pay for. You can easily go to a community college for less than $1,000/quarter. Or you can do what I did and joined the military so they can pay for college. I have zero college debt.
Stop complaining. If people were not taxed so heavily they could probably afford to send their kids to school, pay for health care, and save for retirement.
I hate to rant but socialists piss me off.
I think you are referring to this article that was featured on /.
First off I must say I am deeply concerned by the comments posted by people (from both sides of the pond.)
After reading through some posts and through the article, which I see most people did not read. Farnsworth's invention used no mechanical parts, while Baird's did. According to a link posted by one insightful European poster:
"However, Baird's mechanical system was rapidly becoming obsolete as electronic systems were being developed, chiefly by Marconi in America. Although he had invested in the mechanical system in order to achieve early results, Baird had also been exploring electronic systems from an early stage. Nevertheless, a BBC committee of inquiry in 1935 prompted a side-by-side trial between Marconi's all-electronic television system, which worked on 405 lines to Baird's 240. Marconi won, and in 1937 Baird's system was dropped."
Who is Marconi? I have no idea and I really don't care to look it up.
But I think the point of the 75th anniversary of television article was not the invention of television it's self but the method used to create the picture on the screen. Does anyone here have a mechanical TV?
Ok, I know nothing about patents. But I thought you could patent the same idea over and over, modifying it slightly. And you were only infringing upon a particular patent if you followed it exactly.
The patent (No. 5,845,265) states "...using a database on one computer to store digital images, text descriptions, prices and legally binding offers..." But ebay does not do this. As far as I know ebay does not host images, they are hosted else where by the seller and are referenced from ebay. Ergo ebay isn't infringing upon this patent. Any patent lawyers out there that can explain this to me?
Even besides all this how can someone possible patent such simple concepts as "accepting payment" and "a marketplace for used goods." Currency was invented a long time ago, as was flea markets.
Perhaps it's time for the patent office to be run by a non-profit group instead of the government. Which is clearly incapable of handling money, security and 'now' patents.
You forgot to mention how much it would cost the public just to prosecute "advertisers." The no ad law would have to be enforced or else it will do no good.
Perhaps all those laid off workers could become ad-cops.
And where does the state get it's money? From you... You are paying for it. Now the problem is you're not deciding what is going to be on TV, some politician is. The idea of commercials or pay per view make so popular shows stay on the air and less popular shows go the way of the dodo.
Yes we US guys do live in a sad world. A world full of government controlled lives, entire populations giving up their freedom for illusion of security. Yup, it's a sad world alright.
And I did visit Europe. I lived in Germany in fact. I didn't watch TV in the 3 years I was there. That's how good the programming was.
Yeah, but whales are an endangered species. Rabbits, well they breed like rabbits.
I used to be a Bradley driver. We would go out of our way to prevent harm to animals. If we were doing live fires and a deer crossed onto the range. We shut down until civilian officials verified the area was clear.
Destroying the environment to protect ourselves is counter-productive.
Klik'n Play is available here.
They also have something called The Games Factory which I haven't tried yet.
Check out EB Worlds by StageCast. By simply assigning rules to objects, you can create fairly complex games very quickly. It comes with a collection of graphics or you can use your own. The games are limited to the 2-D type however.
It creates Java-based games which you can share on the web.
The writer should have used XP longer before submitting his article. He will soon discover IE 6 and the desktop will begin to crash constantly.
I run both Windows XP, Linux Redhat 7.1, and Windows 2000 on some 7 different boxes at home. I have found XP after a period of time will become highly unstable and prone to constant crashes. I finally had to remove it from the laptop I use for work because Outlook (company email client-stop laughing) stopped opening - only to replace it with Windows 2000.
And I raved on XP when I first got it! I soon found out it suffers from the same symptoms as Windows ME. It simply becomes corrupted over time.
I appreciate how Linux stays consistently stable.
The writer of the article might find he will be switching back at the next re-install of windows. Which MS recommends once a year, I recommend once every 3 months (at least.)
I installed Mozilla and OpenOffice on Redhat 7.1 and didn't compile anything. I suggest you download binaries and read the included readme file. The install file is titled setup.
The only tricky part I can see of installing linux apps is the need to be root. Since I don't log in as root I open a command prompt, type su, type root password, then run the install file from that window. Now if there is an easier way to do this I would appreciate it. Such as right click and say "run as..."
Oh I can't find the link now? How convienent. Did you try looking on oracle.com?
Why don't you define real-world scenerio? How was the research done in this subject? Did they try replacing each instance of Oracle with a MySQL server and test that? I can't wait to see this article that pits every database server against MySQL. I never thought it got that much attention.
If you say that it works better in most real-world scenarios then you obviously don't work in the real world. I have worked extensively with Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, and DB2. And if you think that Oracle is faster than MySQL then you have clearly never used it. Since you clearly have no facts to backup anything you say I have no idea why you post at all. See how I posted an article supporting my claim?
Sorry Larry, but no one's biting.
To: Larry Ellison (a.k.a. Anonymous Coward)
Oracle on SLOWaris is slighty faster then mySQL on a 286 running Slackware 95.
Sorry Larry. Oracle is POS. Time to go back to the drawing board.
Huh, let's see. Could it be NASA !
The better question is...who uses Oracle? MySQL out performs Oracle. PL/SQL should be renamed to POS/SQL. Oracle is the worst database system money can buy.
Even MS SQL Server is better than Oracle. It sounds like your dad was a pretty smart man. To bad it doesn't run in the family.
I know it's a Troll but I had to respond anyway.
Who uses mail? I get all my bills delivered to my Amex bill center and it get's handled from there. Nerds may pay bills, but they don't use the USPS. Give us a break.