Sigh. Then you push the big 'start charging now' button on the dash. I know this is Slashdot where perfect is the enemy of good, but for the majority, charging the car in the wee hours of the morning is perfectly fine, and is the solution to the OMG THE GRID WON'T HANDLE IT response.
Not if the charging occurs between midnight at 6am. Install smart meters and charge less to charge at night. Build cars that have an option to only switch on their charging circuits after midnight, or, even better, after the meter 'tells' them it's time to start slurping juice.
I could *perhaps* be convinced of the death penalty if the USA was willing to truly fund its justice system to ensure that trials were fair - And I mean fund to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars. You're never going to convince me of state-sanctioned killing while rich white guys are getting away with murder and poor black guys are being executed.
People that like to be able to watch what goes on inside their homes when they're gone
Hard to believe that for thousands of years people went out without having the ability to watch what was going on inside their homes when they were gone. How ever did they manage?
Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) there's been a multi-year program to install bike lanes throughout the city. It's caused a lot of tension between drivers and cyclists because there's a sense amongst drivers (and pedestrians too, for that matter) that we're spending millions of tax dollars catering to a group who a) don't follow the rules of the road and b) feel that the rules don't apply to them. They ride fixie bikes with no brakes and no bells. They blow through crosswalks, shouting and terrifying grannies. They ride at night dressed in black with no lights and then shout at me when I nearly run them over after they blow through a stop sign. They ride on sidewalks right next to bike lanes - And there's zero enforcement for any of this, and none of the bike advocacy groups seem willing to shame the bad apples.
You try finding a manual car which doesn't have its clutch burned out or which has been well maintained. They are virtually impossible to find.
Those things can be fixed.
I once bought a used truck with a bad clutch and synchro problems. $1500 at AAMCO to make it like new and I subsequently drove it for a decade. Sold for what I paid for it once we had our first kid.
What drives me bananas is when friends (well, friends of friends really) say "My car needs $1500 worth of repairs! I can't afford that, so I'm just going to get rid of it and buy a 2013."
WFT?
You can't afford $1500, but you can afford $4800 / year in new car payments?
Did the terrorist benefit from 9/11...???? I would say nope.
9/11 was a huge PR coup for Al-Qaeda. Most Americans had never even heard of them prior to 9/11. Afterwards they were a household name. The terrorists also turned the USA into a nation that is now afraid of its own shadow and gropes toddlers at checkpoints.
The invasion of Iraq also turned many more people to Al-Qaeda's side and caused much more funding to be directed their way.
So yes, the terrorists benefited tremendously from 9/11.
I remember not that long ago...accompanying friends or family to their gate to see them off...or to meet them AT the gate to greet and help them carry luggage, etc.
Man, I don't miss those days. Airport terminals are crowded enough as it is with people actually getting on and off planes - When you added all the family members, balloons, flowers and other assorted madness it was just chaos, particularly at places like ORD that already had/have very small gate areas.
A sub-orbital space flight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches space, but its trajectory intersects the atmosphere or surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched, so that it does not complete one orbital revolution.
For example, the path of an object launched from Earth that reaches 100 km (62 mi) above sea level, and then falls back to Earth, is considered a sub-orbital spaceflight.
Commercial jetliners sure as heck don't reach 62 miles up.
What is the benefit of cloud-based office software?
If you work in an enterprise with 1000 users running Office, with cloud-Office all you need to do is give your users a hyperlink. No suites to install, no version management, no software to maintain, no IT staff that you need to keep employed. And if your users collaborate around the country or around the world you don't have all these giant email attachments flying back and forth - It's all in the cloud.
I'm not Catholic, but where I live the Catholic Church does a lot of good works. In the mid-80s the Catholic-run hospital was the only one where the nuns were taking in AIDs patients. When interviewed, they stated that that's what Jesus said to do. The United church runs a lot of good programs to feed the hungry and get runaways off the streets... And on and on - All because of Jesus's teachings.
I'm not aware of a single 'good work' our local "Church" of Scientology does.
In many cases where you have a flight over two hours you'll have a routing option that includes an "Economy Plus / Premium Economy" option where you can pay more for a seat with more legroom - United, Air Canada, EVA, British Airways - On and on. Even with the surcharge chances are you'll be paying less in today's dollars than your parents would have for that same route in 1975.
It has nothing to do with the plane. The seats are not made by Airbus or Boeing directly. They're made by other companies and then fitted to the aircraft based on what the airline has ordered. For example -
Once you start hanging out at a municipal airport, general aviation starts looking a lot more feasible
If you have deep enough pockets to fly transcontinental (or intercontinental) via private plane then just buy a business class ticket on a commercial flight instead. You'll get free bags, move to the front of the queue at security, board first, get a comfortable seat, legroom, free meals and still money over flying privately..
The fact that you have the opportunity to succeed beyond your wildest dreams or crash and burn because you can't compete.
You're so right. There are no entrepreneurs in Canada, Britain, Germany, Japan or France. Heck, look at Korea - Samsung, Daewoo and LG are definitely run by socialist pussies.
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So, uh, I live in Arizona, so we're pretty much still not bracing for any sort of natural disaster other than it being hot again this summer...
Not really a natural disaster per se, but what would the effect on Arizona be if the electric grid went down for a prolonged period in a the summer?
I have no interest in a location service
Ah, I see. YOU have no interest, ergo nobody else could possibly find it useful either. Thanks for clearing that up.
Sigh. Then you push the big 'start charging now' button on the dash. I know this is Slashdot where perfect is the enemy of good, but for the majority, charging the car in the wee hours of the morning is perfectly fine, and is the solution to the OMG THE GRID WON'T HANDLE IT response.
more grid capacity will be needed
Not if the charging occurs between midnight at 6am. Install smart meters and charge less to charge at night. Build cars that have an option to only switch on their charging circuits after midnight, or, even better, after the meter 'tells' them it's time to start slurping juice.
My 73 year old dad rips disks. I'm sure if he bothered, he would upload too.
I rip disks, but I've never uploaded, and never will. Too much risk for no benefit.
Didn't you notice it's always the same groups that release your TV shows?
Dunno... The groups that release *my* shows are the TV broadcasters, my TV provider's on-demand service, Netflix and DVD retailers.
You mean like O J Simpson?
Yep. The only thing not rich and white about OJ was the colour of his skin.
I could *perhaps* be convinced of the death penalty if the USA was willing to truly fund its justice system to ensure that trials were fair - And I mean fund to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars. You're never going to convince me of state-sanctioned killing while rich white guys are getting away with murder and poor black guys are being executed.
People that like to be able to watch what goes on inside their homes when they're gone
Hard to believe that for thousands of years people went out without having the ability to watch what was going on inside their homes when they were gone. How ever did they manage?
Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) there's been a multi-year program to install bike lanes throughout the city. It's caused a lot of tension between drivers and cyclists because there's a sense amongst drivers (and pedestrians too, for that matter) that we're spending millions of tax dollars catering to a group who a) don't follow the rules of the road and b) feel that the rules don't apply to them. They ride fixie bikes with no brakes and no bells. They blow through crosswalks, shouting and terrifying grannies. They ride at night dressed in black with no lights and then shout at me when I nearly run them over after they blow through a stop sign. They ride on sidewalks right next to bike lanes - And there's zero enforcement for any of this, and none of the bike advocacy groups seem willing to shame the bad apples.
You try finding a manual car which doesn't have its clutch burned out or which has been well maintained. They are virtually impossible to find.
Those things can be fixed.
I once bought a used truck with a bad clutch and synchro problems. $1500 at AAMCO to make it like new and I subsequently drove it for a decade. Sold for what I paid for it once we had our first kid.
Maintain them properly and save some money.
Exactly right.
What drives me bananas is when friends (well, friends of friends really) say "My car needs $1500 worth of repairs! I can't afford that, so I'm just going to get rid of it and buy a 2013."
WFT?
You can't afford $1500, but you can afford $4800 / year in new car payments?
It was a human experience.
You don't need to be at the gate for that - The arrivals hall works perfectly fine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUoxXpqof8A
Did the terrorist benefit from 9/11...???? I would say nope.
9/11 was a huge PR coup for Al-Qaeda. Most Americans had never even heard of them prior to 9/11. Afterwards they were a household name. The terrorists also turned the USA into a nation that is now afraid of its own shadow and gropes toddlers at checkpoints.
The invasion of Iraq also turned many more people to Al-Qaeda's side and caused much more funding to be directed their way.
So yes, the terrorists benefited tremendously from 9/11.
I remember not that long ago...accompanying friends or family to their gate to see them off...or to meet them AT the gate to greet and help them carry luggage, etc.
Man, I don't miss those days. Airport terminals are crowded enough as it is with people actually getting on and off planes - When you added all the family members, balloons, flowers and other assorted madness it was just chaos, particularly at places like ORD that already had/have very small gate areas.
Every time someone flies across the planet in a jetliner it's a "manned suborbital space program"
Incorrect, Anonymous Coward. "Suborbital space flight" is a defined term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-orbital_spaceflight
A sub-orbital space flight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches space, but its trajectory intersects the atmosphere or surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched, so that it does not complete one orbital revolution. For example, the path of an object launched from Earth that reaches 100 km (62 mi) above sea level, and then falls back to Earth, is considered a sub-orbital spaceflight.
Commercial jetliners sure as heck don't reach 62 miles up.
I meant give them a hyperlink to the Office Suite in the Cloud, not the document.
As for sharing in Office 365, you just click share and pick from your distro list. Very easy.
What is the benefit of cloud-based office software?
If you work in an enterprise with 1000 users running Office, with cloud-Office all you need to do is give your users a hyperlink. No suites to install, no version management, no software to maintain, no IT staff that you need to keep employed. And if your users collaborate around the country or around the world you don't have all these giant email attachments flying back and forth - It's all in the cloud.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
All of religion is fraud:
I'm not Catholic, but where I live the Catholic Church does a lot of good works. In the mid-80s the Catholic-run hospital was the only one where the nuns were taking in AIDs patients. When interviewed, they stated that that's what Jesus said to do. The United church runs a lot of good programs to feed the hungry and get runaways off the streets... And on and on - All because of Jesus's teachings.
I'm not aware of a single 'good work' our local "Church" of Scientology does.
In many cases where you have a flight over two hours you'll have a routing option that includes an "Economy Plus / Premium Economy" option where you can pay more for a seat with more legroom - United, Air Canada, EVA, British Airways - On and on. Even with the surcharge chances are you'll be paying less in today's dollars than your parents would have for that same route in 1975.
This depends on the plane
It has nothing to do with the plane. The seats are not made by Airbus or Boeing directly. They're made by other companies and then fitted to the aircraft based on what the airline has ordered. For example -
http://www.recaro-as.com/
If a flight attendant sees you using a Knee Defender, you will be required to remove it and it will be confiscated.
Once you start hanging out at a municipal airport, general aviation starts looking a lot more feasible
If you have deep enough pockets to fly transcontinental (or intercontinental) via private plane then just buy a business class ticket on a commercial flight instead. You'll get free bags, move to the front of the queue at security, board first, get a comfortable seat, legroom, free meals and still money over flying privately..
The fact that you have the opportunity to succeed beyond your wildest dreams or crash and burn because you can't compete.
You're so right. There are no entrepreneurs in Canada, Britain, Germany, Japan or France. Heck, look at Korea - Samsung, Daewoo and LG are definitely run by socialist pussies.