I'm sure you'll say how wonderful automated driverless cars are after the first accident involving one and small children, bikes, or large mudflows that flood three counties... or when an out-of-control large truck careens down the highway on fire... (recent news events in just two states)
It's not a bad idea, but it's still pushing tin when we don't want or need tin.
Is there a small market segment in one of the small fraction of the US population that isn't part of the 18 US states that are imposing global warming emissions controls (more than half the US economy)? Sure.
How much will the new roads cost? At a time when we can't even repair and replace our existing infrastructure - bridges, roads, etc.
BMW's are quite popular throughout America, and VW as well. I've seen them in NYC, DC, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, LA, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and most of America's major cities.
As a matter of fact, biodiesel capable cars are one of the fastest growing market segments in US auto sales.
That's what pie-in-the-sky greenies want. Most Americans don't want a diesel of any sort.
Then why do the diesel VW and diesel BMW sell so well here?
(that sound you hear is the sound... of inevitability... as the market shifts due to the 18 states that have half the US economy away from your old concepts)
To be fair, the cost of networking all of the major cities together with high-speed rail would be ridiculous... and I'd expect that the emissions and environmental impact from building them would pretty much balance out the airplanes.
Not really. Every other industrialized non-island nation (and some of the island ones) has done it fairly inexpensively, and at less cost than the current maintenance and operation of our existing airport and traffic control infrastructure.
There's a reason why Germany has twice the growth we do, and why my European and other stocks return twice as much as my American stocks. A lot of that is the inefficient and under-maintained transportation infrastructure in the USA.
The problem GM faces is that it's pushing tin at a time that people don't want tin.
We don't want chrome.
What we really want are inexpensive reliable plug-in biodiesel hybrids that get more than 100 mpg (60 mpg highway after 50 mile battery range).
What we want is not living our lives for ever faster speeds (performance), but instead our nation to invest in high-speed passenger trains like those in Europe and Japan that can get 200 or more mph and generate one-tenth the global warming emissions and pollution that flying does.
We don't need extra devices that shade the sun depending on where it is - we need a car that just works.
That's the problem.
And automated driverless cars aren't the solution for the problem - they're the solution to a problem that doesn't exist, unless you live near LA where the commute is 2-3 hours to get to work or get home.
Most of the residential dorms at universities can access some gigapop Internet speeds, but it's only certain facilities that can access the higher speeds used for medical imaging, remote surgery, and high-speed genetics database work.
The US commercial cable networks are much much slower - and even this Comcast 160 GB/sec is much slower than you get get if you work on medical imaging or biochemical structure data networks - in the USA.
Just think, if we had spent our nation's taxes on this instead of a foreign civil war in a nation that had nothing to do with 9-11, we would still have about $700 billion left over, and still get most of our oil and gas from Canada and Venezuala like we do today.
Plus, with such a system, the solar energy supply would make our national energy supply much less vulnerable to overseas terrorist attacks.
You mean Baldur's Gate 2009 (to be released Autumn 2008). Or as it's known internally 'BG2 with facial expressions'. And I've heard rumours of plans for a followup, known only by it's secret codename 'BG2 with facial expressions and realistic grass effects'
Is that the one with the Mohawk class of Night Elves?
Seriously tho, it's not digital, because we don't perceive things digitally, we perceive them as biochemical processes that are impacted by waves and they're not digital or even binary by any measure.
This is like saying that trees are digital because they are either there or not there, when we all know there is a difference between a ten foot growing tree and a ten foot dead tree and a five foot dying tree and a non-tree that was clearcut by someone.
Science: limited by the tools we use and the methods we use, and the concepts used to drive the process.
however, average joe blow is going to go to niagara falls in canada, he'll be scanned and scammed as he wanders around, and by the time he drives home to schenectady that evening, someone in russia will be selling his info to someone in china
While his comrades in the US loot the victims home for profit, pretending to be "carpet installers".
I think this piece of GWB legislation must have been co-written by the mafia.
Sorry, but the implications on this for not just electronic hacking, privacy, and stolen IDs, but also for people to loot your home while you're in another country just stagger the imagination.
You can never go wrong with the ingredients for Egg Nog and Cookies.
But I have bought materials at the Auction House that cost me 10 silver and I couldn't sell, even though the market looked like they were worth 5 gold, so maybe some pump and dump AH players are succeeding at such scams in WoW.
I totally agree with the bargaining position of 5 years for copyrights, with a final maximum of 15 years with extensions for LIVING artists and their LIVING spouses and children (younger than 25 yo).
In practice, this should end up with a bargained settlement at 7 years, with a maximum of 21 years with extensions for in-print in-media works, which would be more along the lines of what we started with when this nation was founded, as opposed to the Disneyfication we live with at this point.
The failure demonstrates why explosives, including this type, should have two sets of wires to the ignitors with two controller panels.
As to OS, when I worked on the Space Needle database, it was an Oracle DBMS on Linux boxen, which we did migrate to WinOS later. The main failure point is the constant lightning strikes that burn out the systems more frequently than other protected ones.
All I want is the thing to ignore the region on the disc so import games work.
While many Wii games are region-free, it would really be cool to be able to pop in a Japan-only Wii game and play it.
Some of us in North America can understand Kanji and in fact many primary, middle, and high schools teach Japanese... and Mandarin Chinese is also fairly common on the West Coast of the US and Canada.
It's amazing how gullible the electronics press was, in believing that bigger is always better.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to fire up the generator for my personal computer that takes up my entire basement... I built it based on Popular Mechanics designs by hand...
Funding isn't even at the nominal rate of inflation (4 percent) - NIH/NIIT/NIA/etc is about 0.5 percent higher for 2008 than 2007. And with the cost of research materials being about 8 to 10 percent, this represents a substantial cut in US funding.
But, it's a great time to be working on medical genetics as a bioinformatician.
While I totally agree that Wii Sports was one of the best games played this year in my family, technically, we did buy it in 2006. When we bought our Wii on game launch day.
1. If they put too much money into ramping up production now for the Wii, will that make it easier - or harder - when they come out with the 1080p HDTV-supporting Wii2 console?
2. Even if they doubled production again, who's to say the true market is not four times the size, and there will still be lines?
3. Do they have enough Wiimotes and Nunchuks for all those consoles, if they did double production - again?
One hopes they will be ready for all the demand when they bring out the higher resolution Wii2 with the even more improved high definition storage drives (probably HD-DVD, but if Sony pulls an upset, I can see having Blu-Ray) and the better processors. It might even have a new name, since the chip designs will be radically different.
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I'm sure you'll say how wonderful automated driverless cars are after the first accident involving one and small children, bikes, or large mudflows that flood three counties ... or when an out-of-control large truck careens down the highway on fire ... (recent news events in just two states)
It's not a bad idea, but it's still pushing tin when we don't want or need tin.
Is there a small market segment in one of the small fraction of the US population that isn't part of the 18 US states that are imposing global warming emissions controls (more than half the US economy)? Sure.
How much will the new roads cost? At a time when we can't even repair and replace our existing infrastructure - bridges, roads, etc.
Pushing tin.
Arizona is not America.
BMW's are quite popular throughout America, and VW as well. I've seen them in NYC, DC, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, LA, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and most of America's major cities.
As a matter of fact, biodiesel capable cars are one of the fastest growing market segments in US auto sales.
That's what pie-in-the-sky greenies want. Most Americans don't want a diesel of any sort.
... of inevitability ... as the market shifts due to the 18 states that have half the US economy away from your old concepts)
Then why do the diesel VW and diesel BMW sell so well here?
(that sound you hear is the sound
To be fair, the cost of networking all of the major cities together with high-speed rail would be ridiculous... and I'd expect that the emissions and environmental impact from building them would pretty much balance out the airplanes.
Not really. Every other industrialized non-island nation (and some of the island ones) has done it fairly inexpensively, and at less cost than the current maintenance and operation of our existing airport and traffic control infrastructure.
There's a reason why Germany has twice the growth we do, and why my European and other stocks return twice as much as my American stocks. A lot of that is the inefficient and under-maintained transportation infrastructure in the USA.
The problem GM faces is that it's pushing tin at a time that people don't want tin.
We don't want chrome.
What we really want are inexpensive reliable plug-in biodiesel hybrids that get more than 100 mpg (60 mpg highway after 50 mile battery range).
What we want is not living our lives for ever faster speeds (performance), but instead our nation to invest in high-speed passenger trains like those in Europe and Japan that can get 200 or more mph and generate one-tenth the global warming emissions and pollution that flying does.
We don't need extra devices that shade the sun depending on where it is - we need a car that just works.
That's the problem.
And automated driverless cars aren't the solution for the problem - they're the solution to a problem that doesn't exist, unless you live near LA where the commute is 2-3 hours to get to work or get home.
Most of the residential dorms at universities can access some gigapop Internet speeds, but it's only certain facilities that can access the higher speeds used for medical imaging, remote surgery, and high-speed genetics database work.
Unlike, say, South Korea. Or anywhere else.
The US commercial cable networks are much much slower - and even this Comcast 160 GB/sec is much slower than you get get if you work on medical imaging or biochemical structure data networks - in the USA.
Just think, if we had spent our nation's taxes on this instead of a foreign civil war in a nation that had nothing to do with 9-11, we would still have about $700 billion left over, and still get most of our oil and gas from Canada and Venezuala like we do today.
Plus, with such a system, the solar energy supply would make our national energy supply much less vulnerable to overseas terrorist attacks.
You mean Baldur's Gate 2009 (to be released Autumn 2008). Or as it's known internally 'BG2 with facial expressions'. And I've heard rumours of plans for a followup, known only by it's secret codename 'BG2 with facial expressions and realistic grass effects'
Is that the one with the Mohawk class of Night Elves?
Mi>Nice, but will it run Pen Drive Linux?
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No, it requires WinVista, and you can't have the patches installed either.
After all, nobody will ever need more than 832 Gig.
And we all know that plugging in a flash drive in an unprotected socket, is totally safe
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That said, this would make for a cool back up drive for most laptops
There is only Spoon.
Seriously tho, it's not digital, because we don't perceive things digitally, we perceive them as biochemical processes that are impacted by waves and they're not digital or even binary by any measure.
This is like saying that trees are digital because they are either there or not there, when we all know there is a difference between a ten foot growing tree and a ten foot dead tree and a five foot dying tree and a non-tree that was clearcut by someone.
Science: limited by the tools we use and the methods we use, and the concepts used to drive the process.
however, average joe blow is going to go to niagara falls in canada, he'll be scanned and scammed as he wanders around, and by the time he drives home to schenectady that evening, someone in russia will be selling his info to someone in china
While his comrades in the US loot the victims home for profit, pretending to be "carpet installers".
I think this piece of GWB legislation must have been co-written by the mafia.
(obligatory)
Sorry, but the implications on this for not just electronic hacking, privacy, and stolen IDs, but also for people to loot your home while you're in another country just stagger the imagination.
Want security? This is not the way to go.
Convenience is just another word for Gullible.
You can never go wrong with the ingredients for Egg Nog and Cookies.
But I have bought materials at the Auction House that cost me 10 silver and I couldn't sell, even though the market looked like they were worth 5 gold, so maybe some pump and dump AH players are succeeding at such scams in WoW.
No, that is what the physical disconnect on primer sets is for - only one is wired in, the other is not and is only fired if the first fails.
... so what do I know about safety, huh?
But, hey, I have many years of practical experience with demolitions
I totally agree with the bargaining position of 5 years for copyrights, with a final maximum of 15 years with extensions for LIVING artists and their LIVING spouses and children (younger than 25 yo).
In practice, this should end up with a bargained settlement at 7 years, with a maximum of 21 years with extensions for in-print in-media works, which would be more along the lines of what we started with when this nation was founded, as opposed to the Disneyfication we live with at this point.
The failure demonstrates why explosives, including this type, should have two sets of wires to the ignitors with two controller panels.
As to OS, when I worked on the Space Needle database, it was an Oracle DBMS on Linux boxen, which we did migrate to WinOS later. The main failure point is the constant lightning strikes that burn out the systems more frequently than other protected ones.
All I want is the thing to ignore the region on the disc so import games work.
... and Mandarin Chinese is also fairly common on the West Coast of the US and Canada.
While many Wii games are region-free, it would really be cool to be able to pop in a Japan-only Wii game and play it.
Some of us in North America can understand Kanji and in fact many primary, middle, and high schools teach Japanese
So it's an untapped market, IMHO.
The best Wii homebrew hack would be one that lets you play World of Warcraft on the Wii, and use the controller to perform attack combos.
But, alas, we won't see that this year, and probably not until 2009 at the earliest.
And go with smaller LCD HDTV units.
... I built it based on Popular Mechanics designs by hand ...
It's amazing how gullible the electronics press was, in believing that bigger is always better.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to fire up the generator for my personal computer that takes up my entire basement
Funding isn't even at the nominal rate of inflation (4 percent) - NIH/NIIT/NIA/etc is about 0.5 percent higher for 2008 than 2007. And with the cost of research materials being about 8 to 10 percent, this represents a substantial cut in US funding.
But, it's a great time to be working on medical genetics as a bioinformatician.
While I totally agree that Wii Sports was one of the best games played this year in my family, technically, we did buy it in 2006. When we bought our Wii on game launch day.
Otherwise it would have been my first choice.
You all know you use it.
You just won't admit that you're as addicted to it as you are to WoW.
1. If they put too much money into ramping up production now for the Wii, will that make it easier - or harder - when they come out with the 1080p HDTV-supporting Wii2 console?
2. Even if they doubled production again, who's to say the true market is not four times the size, and there will still be lines?
3. Do they have enough Wiimotes and Nunchuks for all those consoles, if they did double production - again?
One hopes they will be ready for all the demand when they bring out the higher resolution Wii2 with the even more improved high definition storage drives (probably HD-DVD, but if Sony pulls an upset, I can see having Blu-Ray) and the better processors. It might even have a new name, since the chip designs will be radically different.
But the boot process is so long I just gave up.
So, I guess I'll use my son's Mac Mini to watch it!