What if we run BOINC projects in the winter, when the heat would be otherwise generated by a furnace?
This strategy worked well for me when I came home from college; my room was across the house from the furnace, so in the winter my room would be very cold (around 45F, if it was 0F outside). I'd turn on my main computer and play Counterstrike for a couple hours with the video card overclocked, and I'd turn on my server, running BOINC. It would put the room up to a much more comfortable temperature (~60F), and I could sleep without shivering!:)
I think another large factor dealing heavily into the American preference for large cars besides safety:
Europe is fairly cramped, overall. Citizens live in dense cities and towns, and drive on narrow roads that were once oxcart paths or cobblestone streets, and small cars are easy to maneuver in these situations. Since this isn't really an issue in most of the US, we prefer to buy larger cars so we can have more legroom, and ride in greater comfort. Performance aside, given the choice between a Golf or a Passat in Europe, I'd take the Golf, but I'd take the Passat in the U.S.
Gas prices factor in somewhat, but most people don't often base a car choice on that alone.
There's some interest in small cars with small engines in the US, but you've got to admit that it isn't that substantial. Small cars sell in Europe and Japan, but larger cars sell in the US. A large part of this is due to perceptions of safety; your family will be perfectly safe if they're encased by a 4-ton steel cage.
The Top 10 Best-Selling Cars of 2008 * Ford F-Series: 515,513 * Chevy Silverado: 465,065 * Toyota Camry: 436,617 * Honda Accord: 372,789 * Toyota Corolla: 351,007 * Honda Civic: 339,289 * Nissan Altima: 269,668 * Chevy Impala: 265,840 * Dodge Ram: 245,840 * Honda CR-V: 197,279
Three large trucks, and a crossover SUV make the list. Notice also that the Accord outsells the Civic, and the Camry outsells the Corolla. Large cars sell.
Personally, I believe that maneuverability is more important to safety than structural integrity, so my personal choice for less than $50k would be a Lotus Elise, but I don't have kids, and I realize I'm not in the majority.
My workplace has a robust wifi system in place, but still has ethernet switches on the conference tables. Wired ethernet is much faster, less flaky in all OSes, and more secure than wireless ethernet.
If you don't want to break even an unjust law, then it does affect you.
Let's say you wanted a "speech code" law overturned. The only way to do that, other than lobbying for the legislature to repeal the law, is to break the law by speaking in an illegal manner, and getting arrested. At this time, you now have recourse to try to get the law overturned. This is essentially what happened with the famous Scopes Trial. John Scopes intentionally broke the law by teaching evolution, for the purpose of testing the law in court.
A small grammar correction: every use of "effect" in your post should be "affect", except the last one.
But SCOTUS can only rule a law unconstitutional based on a court case. Someone affected by the law must sue the appropriate government entity before any court can rule on it.
For example, in the original case that led to D.C. v Heller from last year, the plaintiffs had to have applied for a firearm permit under the current system, and been denied. Then the denial would be the basis of the case.
Heh... I have an interesting story about "Book-It!".
In elementary school I was way ahead of most of my class in reading level, and back then I took up reading during almost all of my free time, so I was reading Michael Crichton and Arthur C. Clarke books by 5th grade. I read 2001, The Andromeda Strain, Airframe, and Jurassic Park that year, and my teacher gave me double-credit for Book-It because of their difficulty.
The problem was that for our Language Arts program, we had a piece of software that let us log in and take a comprehension test of books we'd read. The books I was reading weren't on the list that we could test with, and we had to pass the test for three books per month. So after reading through fairly thick (for my age) books like 2001 and Airframe, I had to rush through books at a 3rd-or-4th-grade level that I could take the tests on. I could read through those books in
The principal called my parents because he was worried that my reading level was below the class.:)
Unfortunately, college killed my reading streak, and in the past 5 years I've averaged one book per year. The only exception was my trip to Europe, when I had enough time sitting in train terminals to go through the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, plus The Black Dahlia, and the autobiography of Major Dick Winters.
Even better for me, this payoff is related to your performance on tests, not grades. I'm a huge slacker, but I test well, so despite my 3.2 GPA in high school, and 2.65 GPA in college (from a state school, no less), I would've been paid quite a bit from taking these tests!
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What if you can only "change lanes" to other parallel dimensions, and can't "change speed" relative to our own timeline?
Well why not invest in this? It's bound to get a better return than most stocks nowadays!
...inefficient in terms of both heat...
What if we run BOINC projects in the winter, when the heat would be otherwise generated by a furnace?
This strategy worked well for me when I came home from college; my room was across the house from the furnace, so in the winter my room would be very cold (around 45F, if it was 0F outside). I'd turn on my main computer and play Counterstrike for a couple hours with the video card overclocked, and I'd turn on my server, running BOINC. It would put the room up to a much more comfortable temperature (~60F), and I could sleep without shivering! :)
Or do what I did during school: use those old machines as webservers or fileservers, and also run BOINC.
Personally, I'd be more scared of an Evil Sorceress than an Evil Sorcerer.
I see the "Superspeed", but I don't see an "SS". Do you mean the red and blue arrows?
USB 2.0 was called "Hi-Speed", so if you don't like that designation, just use the version number.
Portal too. Glados even tells you "You're not a good person, you know that, right? Good people don't end up here."
She kinda hurt my feelings... :(
I acknowledge the level of commercial use in pickup trucks, but my point about the Camry vs Corolla and Accord vs Civic still stands.
I think another large factor dealing heavily into the American preference for large cars besides safety:
Europe is fairly cramped, overall. Citizens live in dense cities and towns, and drive on narrow roads that were once oxcart paths or cobblestone streets, and small cars are easy to maneuver in these situations. Since this isn't really an issue in most of the US, we prefer to buy larger cars so we can have more legroom, and ride in greater comfort. Performance aside, given the choice between a Golf or a Passat in Europe, I'd take the Golf, but I'd take the Passat in the U.S.
Gas prices factor in somewhat, but most people don't often base a car choice on that alone.
There's some interest in small cars with small engines in the US, but you've got to admit that it isn't that substantial. Small cars sell in Europe and Japan, but larger cars sell in the US. A large part of this is due to perceptions of safety; your family will be perfectly safe if they're encased by a 4-ton steel cage.
The Top 10 Best-Selling Cars of 2008
* Ford F-Series: 515,513
* Chevy Silverado: 465,065
* Toyota Camry: 436,617
* Honda Accord: 372,789
* Toyota Corolla: 351,007
* Honda Civic: 339,289
* Nissan Altima: 269,668
* Chevy Impala: 265,840
* Dodge Ram: 245,840
* Honda CR-V: 197,279
Three large trucks, and a crossover SUV make the list. Notice also that the Accord outsells the Civic, and the Camry outsells the Corolla. Large cars sell.
Personally, I believe that maneuverability is more important to safety than structural integrity, so my personal choice for less than $50k would be a Lotus Elise, but I don't have kids, and I realize I'm not in the majority.
A question for the conspiracy theory crowd:
If the was so much demand for an electric car back in the 90's
[starts singing]
Who keeps back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do! We do!
Sure is nice that you spent your money on SUVs for the last eight years, that they didn't have any financial incentive to do research like this.
Goose is sappin' mah sentry!
So... -1 Funny, or +1 Troll?
Cmon mods, make it happen!
I've been looking for open source POS software for several years now
You mean like Open Office?
Oh, you mean "Point Of Sale". Ah, okay then.
I kid, I kid! :)
My workplace has a robust wifi system in place, but still has ethernet switches on the conference tables. Wired ethernet is much faster, less flaky in all OSes, and more secure than wireless ethernet.
If you don't want to break even an unjust law, then it does affect you.
Let's say you wanted a "speech code" law overturned. The only way to do that, other than lobbying for the legislature to repeal the law, is to break the law by speaking in an illegal manner, and getting arrested. At this time, you now have recourse to try to get the law overturned. This is essentially what happened with the famous Scopes Trial. John Scopes intentionally broke the law by teaching evolution, for the purpose of testing the law in court.
A small grammar correction: every use of "effect" in your post should be "affect", except the last one.
But SCOTUS can only rule a law unconstitutional based on a court case. Someone affected by the law must sue the appropriate government entity before any court can rule on it.
For example, in the original case that led to D.C. v Heller from last year, the plaintiffs had to have applied for a firearm permit under the current system, and been denied. Then the denial would be the basis of the case.
If we do that, it must be pronounced "five-oh".
Then I can buy a five-oh Mustang, and get a car computer running five-oh Linux! :)
Hell I gave my nearly 5 year old 3.6GHz P4 to my oldest and he is blasting zombies in Left4Dead even as we speak
I read this sentence, and at first I thought you were saying you let your "nearly 5 year old" kid play Left 4 Dead!
People who are still using DDR ram or older, which doesn't cost $25 for 2GB.
I'm upgrading this fall, I swear! ;)
If those kids get used to be bribed like that, what stops them from taking bribes once they have jobs, to do something not very, eh, ethical perhaps?
All it means is that kids will expect to be paid for work they do at their job. To me, this is a fair expectation.
Heh... I have an interesting story about "Book-It!".
In elementary school I was way ahead of most of my class in reading level, and back then I took up reading during almost all of my free time, so I was reading Michael Crichton and Arthur C. Clarke books by 5th grade. I read 2001, The Andromeda Strain, Airframe, and Jurassic Park that year, and my teacher gave me double-credit for Book-It because of their difficulty.
The problem was that for our Language Arts program, we had a piece of software that let us log in and take a comprehension test of books we'd read. The books I was reading weren't on the list that we could test with, and we had to pass the test for three books per month. So after reading through fairly thick (for my age) books like 2001 and Airframe, I had to rush through books at a 3rd-or-4th-grade level that I could take the tests on. I could read through those books in
The principal called my parents because he was worried that my reading level was below the class. :)
Unfortunately, college killed my reading streak, and in the past 5 years I've averaged one book per year. The only exception was my trip to Europe, when I had enough time sitting in train terminals to go through the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, plus The Black Dahlia, and the autobiography of Major Dick Winters.
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Can you really blame kids for being too short-sighted though?
It's one thing to blame a 40-year-old who doesn't plan ahead, it's quite another to blame a 12-year-old.
Even better for me, this payoff is related to your performance on tests, not grades. I'm a huge slacker, but I test well, so despite my 3.2 GPA in high school, and 2.65 GPA in college (from a state school, no less), I would've been paid quite a bit from taking these tests!