Here in the Pacific Northwest, almost all our power is electric - provided by over 90 percent hydroelectric, wind, and natural gas (the latter is used to shape the load).
Converting to plug-in hybrids on a massive scale in a region where almost 40 percent of pollution is from vehicles - is not a problem.
We own more cars than we have people.
The problem is the quantity of plug-in hybrids available to SELL in our market, not the DEMAND. Electricity costs about 1/10th what gasoline does, and diesel is not much cheaper, so cost-wise converting to plug-in hybrids here makes overwhelming economic sense.
The problem with large-scale adoption is not the new vehicles bought - it's the EXISTING vehicles that need to be converted, frequently at a cost of around $4000 to $8000 per vehicle, which is more than said vehicles are "worth", and thus a lot harder to do.
The highest bang-for-the-buck economic return would be converting low-mpg SUVs, passenger trucks, and commercial vans/trucks that are not in constant usage (e.g. takes workers to/from job sites or do hauls every hour or so, not trucks delivering groceries from 1000 miles away that are driven 23 hours a day).
(note - when I say $100 a month I'm tallying up True Cost - basic fee, standard add ons, local sales tax, county sales tax, state sales tax, fed sales tax, fed fees - your mileage may vary but it will probably be in the $90 to $120 a month range when you add it all up)
The problem is that WiMax is really just a method to get higher revenues from an unsuspecting mobile wireless public - a solution, in other words, in search of a question for which it can be the answer.
But this leads us to the end result that we don't Need WiMax, we don't Want WiMax, and we sure as heck don't want to pay $100 a month for something when the slightly slower but much more available alternative is mostly free.
It's like a Hedge Fund. The markets got along fine without them, and they cause more trouble and suck money out of consumers far more than they deliver value.
Even though all independent news agencies in the EU have reported that Gore in fact did win in Florida, the reality is the only VOTE that had to change was the US Supreme Court.
It all comes down to one bitter female justice who hated Gore, actually - Sandra Day O'Connor.
She is the one to blame for our long national nightmare and our massive national debt and string of failures.
Actually, even encryption isn't that secure. The external nature of the port makes a contact cover replacement fairly easy to pull off and you can use the system power to operate the transmitter for easy espionage.
People have a habit of not looking for things they don't think are there.
Actually, they just said the size of the flash drive will be 160GB.
Remember, it's an alpha release, so all code modules include debug code and other information that a release candidate won't have. This assists in stepping through the debugging and allowing you to dump the status of objects and variables, including statics, at the time of a crash or problem.
But, admittedly, code bloat is a problem at Microsoft.
I hope the final version won't autoload all the libraries and all the possible apps that you might ever need or want - this is one of the reasons why WinVista is such a dog of an OS - on startup it loads a lot of chrome most people don't want and don't need - and this is why they can trick you into "choosing" a stripped down WinVista with all these optional chrome apps and libraries not there on load as "better" than WinXP.
But, given their past behavior, I wouldn't bet on them releasing a lean OS, even for business users.
We of the Eco-Guerrilla Duck Front demand, nay, insist, that our friends the ducks be set free from their glacial chains and replaced with Organic Jello Slugs.
Slugs don't mind being frozen on ice floes and don't quack piteously when their little rubber feet shatter under the glacial tides... they just glide over such things.
You do realise that once you return the game, the store can't return games purchased to the publisher right?
You're just fucking over EB and Gamestop because as far as EA is concerned they've made a sale.
Not really. You're sending a very strong economic message to EB and Gamestop that they had better strongly fight for consumer rights or they will pay the price for allowing DRM games on their shelves.
This is the power of the boycott - it magnifies the economic message manyfold, causing disruption up and down the economic food chain, and forcing quick action from many economic partners.
The media then report that Store A in their city is seeing "unprecedented returns" of the games, causing the message to get even more strongly reinforced.
There's consumerism. And there's economic warfare.
You rarely get what you want by being a sheep, but by being a warrior you succeed far more often.
Much as I love Will Wright's gaming prowess, the reality is that DRM is something that everyone should be concerned about, and insist on fixes that turn it off entirely.
And if the Mac version of Spore has the same DRM problems, I won't be playing it (sad, as I had planned to buy it this weekend...)
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Here in the Pacific Northwest, almost all our power is electric - provided by over 90 percent hydroelectric, wind, and natural gas (the latter is used to shape the load).
Converting to plug-in hybrids on a massive scale in a region where almost 40 percent of pollution is from vehicles - is not a problem.
We own more cars than we have people.
The problem is the quantity of plug-in hybrids available to SELL in our market, not the DEMAND. Electricity costs about 1/10th what gasoline does, and diesel is not much cheaper, so cost-wise converting to plug-in hybrids here makes overwhelming economic sense.
The problem with large-scale adoption is not the new vehicles bought - it's the EXISTING vehicles that need to be converted, frequently at a cost of around $4000 to $8000 per vehicle, which is more than said vehicles are "worth", and thus a lot harder to do.
The highest bang-for-the-buck economic return would be converting low-mpg SUVs, passenger trucks, and commercial vans/trucks that are not in constant usage (e.g. takes workers to/from job sites or do hauls every hour or so, not trucks delivering groceries from 1000 miles away that are driven 23 hours a day).
That is the problem.
thank you for agreeing with my truthful statement.
note the phrase ... "for the first x months"
I said the ACTUAL PRICE.
Strange, a number of people posting on here have directly quoted prices that work out to what I said.
You must mean the initial teaser price.
(note - when I say $100 a month I'm tallying up True Cost - basic fee, standard add ons, local sales tax, county sales tax, state sales tax, fed sales tax, fed fees - your mileage may vary but it will probably be in the $90 to $120 a month range when you add it all up)
The problem is that WiMax is really just a method to get higher revenues from an unsuspecting mobile wireless public - a solution, in other words, in search of a question for which it can be the answer.
But this leads us to the end result that we don't Need WiMax, we don't Want WiMax, and we sure as heck don't want to pay $100 a month for something when the slightly slower but much more available alternative is mostly free.
It's like a Hedge Fund. The markets got along fine without them, and they cause more trouble and suck money out of consumers far more than they deliver value.
Just. Say. NO.
I'm not talking about the ones sold to you poor slobs in backwards America.
I'm talking about the ones on sale now in Japan.
You know, where the future is today.
Is that this would be a patent on finding whitespace.
Look, as an ethnic white person, our ethnosocial rights to our own space are under attack by IBM, the Big Blue.
If this is allowed to go forward, the entire world will be blue, and then our meals will look really really yucky.
Well, except for the blueberries. Those are good.
It's called a Nokia cell phone.
It has a camera, plays music, and games.
Plus, it has this extra bonus feature which allows it to replace my watch, and I can even phone people with it.
(caveat - I own hundreds of shares of both Nokia (NOK) and Nintendo (NTDOY.PK))
Even though all independent news agencies in the EU have reported that Gore in fact did win in Florida, the reality is the only VOTE that had to change was the US Supreme Court.
It all comes down to one bitter female justice who hated Gore, actually - Sandra Day O'Connor.
She is the one to blame for our long national nightmare and our massive national debt and string of failures.
NEVER forget this FACT.
only if the battery is salt powered or a potato battery ...
Actually, even encryption isn't that secure. The external nature of the port makes a contact cover replacement fairly easy to pull off and you can use the system power to operate the transmitter for easy espionage.
People have a habit of not looking for things they don't think are there.
Child is still booting his OS ...
Open the pod bay doors, Hal!
2010 ...
Personally, I hope they just go to Windows 9 and skip the code bloat of both 7 and 8.
I used to literally flip switches to load programs, and when we got a cassette drive I was thrilled.
Then again, I made my own S-100 bus computer back in the day, so having skills with a soldering iron was useful too.
Actually, they just said the size of the flash drive will be 160GB.
Remember, it's an alpha release, so all code modules include debug code and other information that a release candidate won't have. This assists in stepping through the debugging and allowing you to dump the status of objects and variables, including statics, at the time of a crash or problem.
But, admittedly, code bloat is a problem at Microsoft.
I hope the final version won't autoload all the libraries and all the possible apps that you might ever need or want - this is one of the reasons why WinVista is such a dog of an OS - on startup it loads a lot of chrome most people don't want and don't need - and this is why they can trick you into "choosing" a stripped down WinVista with all these optional chrome apps and libraries not there on load as "better" than WinXP.
But, given their past behavior, I wouldn't bet on them releasing a lean OS, even for business users.
So, if we get pre-beta on Oct 28, does that mean the hotfix for major holes in the OS gets released in SP1 or SP2 next year?
By the way, USB flash drives, by their nature, are inherently insecure.
The new movie by Bill Maher, which my son and I saw at a sneak preview last night, covers this - in fact it's one of the movie's main themes.
However, the corollary, that skepticism is itself an ideology, is mostly ignored by the movie.
We of the Eco-Guerrilla Duck Front demand, nay, insist, that our friends the ducks be set free from their glacial chains and replaced with Organic Jello Slugs.
Slugs don't mind being frozen on ice floes and don't quack piteously when their little rubber feet shatter under the glacial tides ... they just glide over such things.
I for one will welcome our Japanese emo-enabled warrior child-men with open arms and a good swift kick in the pants ...
Ah, but it does work.
Hence the slashdot effect, the EFF, and many other fine examples of how such actions result in fixes.
In warfare you don't just use tanks (lawsuits), you use infantry (boycotts), and a whole host of other elements to achieve the objectives.
Most of us which involve the projection of chaos on the enemy and the removal of chaos on your own forces.
You do realise that once you return the game, the store can't return games purchased to the publisher right?
You're just fucking over EB and Gamestop because as far as EA is concerned they've made a sale.
Not really. You're sending a very strong economic message to EB and Gamestop that they had better strongly fight for consumer rights or they will pay the price for allowing DRM games on their shelves.
This is the power of the boycott - it magnifies the economic message manyfold, causing disruption up and down the economic food chain, and forcing quick action from many economic partners.
The media then report that Store A in their city is seeing "unprecedented returns" of the games, causing the message to get even more strongly reinforced.
There's consumerism. And there's economic warfare.
You rarely get what you want by being a sheep, but by being a warrior you succeed far more often.
Much as I love Will Wright's gaming prowess, the reality is that DRM is something that everyone should be concerned about, and insist on fixes that turn it off entirely.
And if the Mac version of Spore has the same DRM problems, I won't be playing it (sad, as I had planned to buy it this weekend ...)
Well, I must admit my male blood elf hunter looks all spiffy in his leathers and furs ...
I mean, does anyone bother to read those popup license agreements on Windows anyway?
I sure don't.
It ain't a contract if I didn't sign it.