The oil companies are the one's promoting hydrogen and biofuels as opposed to battery-electric cars, as the idea of your local power company selling you your car's energy needs scares the shit out of them.
This won't change much however, because the oil companies (or shoul we say "hydrogen companies"?) would have access to the better equipment and will probably be able to make the fuel cheaper. (although it could make sure they don't rip you off too much)
Either way, I don't see hydrogen powered cars catching up with battery-electric vehiicles anymore, so I don't think this is an issue.
The thing is, electric cars need batteries, which are big, potentially dangerous in an accident, and difficult to dispose of when they wear out.
1. If you cut out all the bulk from an internal cumbustion engine and gearbox etc., you end up with a much smaller system, even counting the battery. 2. I wouldn't say they're particularly more danerous than a heavy engine or the fuel tank. 3. Recycling a NiMH battery is fairly straightforward, and economically lucrative, esepecially for something that could power a car.
It's relatively easy to convert existing engines to run on hydrogen (or natural gas, see below), so the automakers have an easier time switching over their productin lines
It would be rediculously cheap to switch prodution to electric vehicles. The reason for the automakes resistance is the tremendous lobbying from OEMs, and the fact that it would mean cheaper cars, less profit and less work. The amount of manual labour it takes to assemble a car engine is huge.
True, but considering the size of the eeepc 900 and 700, I don't think you can reasonably squeeze it down much more without making the keyboard and touchpad almost unusable. It's still meant to be more of a "Notebook" than a Palmtop.
We don't need higher capacity. What the market wants is for their 32GB drives to come down in price under the 100$ mark. I'd love to replace the hard drive in my notebook to a flash drive, but if it means splashing out hundreds of dollars for one, when there isn't really that much of a glaring advantage compared to a 30$ hard drive, I have to get back down to earth.
So, you played a wav file in the background, and had a few simplistic gifs respond to cursor position, and you think this qualifies as "Web 2.0"?
And you refuse to acess the content of professional web designers, because they use a technology which allows them to do their job faster, easier and better than what you suggest?
Have you ever thought about the limitations of your approach?
And when you get down to it, these technologies don't really address a really great need. I've only seen a couple of good uses for Flash other than for casual games. For most of the content available on the web, HTML and CSS (flawed as they are) are better solutions.
I don't really agree with that. I would guess you frequent different websites than the majority of the population, and are perfectly contempt with HTML and CSS 95% of the time.
But for (truly) animated menues, embedded video, and sound effects, I've never seen anything work as good as flash. And I don't think any of these should be seen as unnecessary bloat.
Your 4$/gallon gasoline is already outdated at the time of writing, and will be a lot more very soon. In Europe, the equivalent of 10$/gallon is the norm. In the last five years, prices have gone up by 50%. They'll probably go up a lot more in the next five.
OK, I'll give you the argument with using old monitors, but if you were to buy a new monitor, LCDs are the only real choice. On average CRTs sold today are probably more expensive than the LCDs, as they're mostly used for high-performance tasks. So yeah, this isn't really a problem for new computers anymore.
If it's a trademark Issue (as stated in the article) it would normally only apply to imported goods, i.e. someone buys L'oreal products for cheap in the U.S. and sells them in France where they cost more. But as soon as they enter the European Union, there can be no restrictions on trade. (Which pisses off some retailers so they keep blabbering on about grey market an how their country/retailer gets superior products)
So what's the difference to this and a budget priced PC? The PC would probably even work out cheaper (not to mention the laughable amount of money from a lotto jackpot vs. R&D for console hardware). You can even use your Wiimotes without a problem.
But the simple fact of the matter is it seems that the free open-source development philosophy doesn't really fit in well with videogames.
That's mainly due to the thermal capacity of the cup. The trick is to heat your cup before you pour it in, or use an insulated cup. That should be enough to ensure too-hot-to-drink coffee even after it's been sitting there for a few minutes.
I read an article where they done precisely this with a load of different audiophile baloney. None of them could tell the difference. When they were told the answers, their reactions were mainly denial and they started getting defensive. Things like "Even my Girlfreind can hear the difference, and she doesn't know anything about audio". And they started blaming certain parts of the equipment. One guy who brought along his speaker cable he paid hundreds for even tried to nail it down to the fact that he wasn't able to use his banana-plugs but had to connect the wire directly.
From the Amazon Customers Review:
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. ROFL
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Yeah, because those kind of people are going to totally suffer from financial hardship because of that.
That's really the parent's fault if they can't teach their kids to drive responsibly. Since when do we leave it up to parents to teach people how to drive?
sadly people rarely bother to pay heed to the instruction manual. Ok, how many manuals have you seen explaining how bad a product is compared to the competition?
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Jst thought I'd add a link for anyone who has a card with this chipset.
I'd hae had to give out many times the price if I wanted the same functionality from a creative card.
Everybody wants more storage, but not at a cost which is about as much as you want to spend on the laptop itslf.
IMO, it would be better to have the 32 Gig flash drive, and carry around your videos on an external drive for when you need them.
The oil companies are the one's promoting hydrogen and biofuels as opposed to battery-electric cars, as the idea of your local power company selling you your car's energy needs scares the shit out of them.
This won't change much however, because the oil companies (or shoul we say "hydrogen companies"?) would have access to the better equipment and will probably be able to make the fuel cheaper. (although it could make sure they don't rip you off too much)
Either way, I don't see hydrogen powered cars catching up with battery-electric vehiicles anymore, so I don't think this is an issue.
The thing is, electric cars need batteries, which are big, potentially dangerous in an accident, and difficult to dispose of when they wear out.
1. If you cut out all the bulk from an internal cumbustion engine and gearbox etc., you end up with a much smaller system, even counting the battery.
2. I wouldn't say they're particularly more danerous than a heavy engine or the fuel tank.
3. Recycling a NiMH battery is fairly straightforward, and economically lucrative, esepecially for something that could power a car.
It's relatively easy to convert existing engines to run on hydrogen (or natural gas, see below), so the automakers have an easier time switching over their productin lines
It would be rediculously cheap to switch prodution to electric vehicles. The reason for the automakes resistance is the tremendous lobbying from OEMs, and the fact that it would mean cheaper cars, less profit and less work. The amount of manual labour it takes to assemble a car engine is huge.
They still sell the 900 series, so what's the problem with closing the gap?
True, but considering the size of the eeepc 900 and 700, I don't think you can reasonably squeeze it down much more without making the keyboard and touchpad almost unusable. It's still meant to be more of a "Notebook" than a Palmtop.
We don't need higher capacity. What the market wants is for their 32GB drives to come down in price under the 100$ mark. I'd love to replace the hard drive in my notebook to a flash drive, but if it means splashing out hundreds of dollars for one, when there isn't really that much of a glaring advantage compared to a 30$ hard drive, I have to get back down to earth.
Japan and Europe have a higher rate of unionization than the U.S. Your point exactly?
I move along and therefore I don't see your content.
I refuse to purchase more bandwidth just because a few folks insist on using Flash and other piggish content.
I seriously doubt I'm missing anything other than larger ISP bills.
1. Your loss.
2. If visiting a flash site makes a difference of purchasing more bandwidth and not, I would seriously contemplate your provider's service.
3. Same goes for the price of access.
So, you played a wav file in the background, and had a few simplistic gifs respond to cursor position, and you think this qualifies as "Web 2.0"?
And you refuse to acess the content of professional web designers, because they use a technology which allows them to do their job faster, easier and better than what you suggest?
Have you ever thought about the limitations of your approach?
And when you get down to it, these technologies don't really address a really great need. I've only seen a couple of good uses for Flash other than for casual games. For most of the content available on the web, HTML and CSS (flawed as they are) are better solutions.
I don't really agree with that. I would guess you frequent different websites than the majority of the population, and are perfectly contempt with HTML and CSS 95% of the time.
But for (truly) animated menues, embedded video, and sound effects, I've never seen anything work as good as flash. And I don't think any of these should be seen as unnecessary bloat.
Your 4$ /gallon gasoline is already outdated at the time of writing, and will be a lot more very soon. In Europe, the equivalent of 10$/gallon is the norm.
In the last five years, prices have gone up by 50%. They'll probably go up a lot more in the next five.
I'd go with the VW. It has airbags and a high-tech monocoque carbon body. On a motorcycle, the crumple zone's your spine.
OK, I'll give you the argument with using old monitors, but if you were to buy a new monitor, LCDs are the only real choice. On average CRTs sold today are probably more expensive than the LCDs, as they're mostly used for high-performance tasks.
So yeah, this isn't really a problem for new computers anymore.
If it's a trademark Issue (as stated in the article) it would normally only apply to imported goods, i.e. someone buys L'oreal products for cheap in the U.S. and sells them in France where they cost more. But as soon as they enter the European Union, there can be no restrictions on trade. (Which pisses off some retailers so they keep blabbering on about grey market an how their country/retailer gets superior products)
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on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange Don't think the tape fits that description anymore.Then he should go to a store without such a crappy return policy.
So what's the difference to this and a budget priced PC? The PC would probably even work out cheaper (not to mention the laughable amount of money from a lotto jackpot vs. R&D for console hardware). You can even use your Wiimotes without a problem.
But the simple fact of the matter is it seems that the free open-source development philosophy doesn't really fit in well with videogames.
That's mainly due to the thermal capacity of the cup. The trick is to heat your cup before you pour it in, or use an insulated cup.
That should be enough to ensure too-hot-to-drink coffee even after it's been sitting there for a few minutes.
I read an article where they done precisely this with a load of different audiophile baloney. None of them could tell the difference. When they were told the answers, their reactions were mainly denial and they started getting defensive.
Things like "Even my Girlfreind can hear the difference, and she doesn't know anything about audio". And they started blaming certain parts of the equipment. One guy who brought along his speaker cable he paid hundreds for even tried to nail it down to the fact that he wasn't able to use his banana-plugs but had to connect the wire directly.
Just found the link, but it's in german.
Yeah, because those kind of people are going to totally suffer from financial hardship because of that.
Yeah, cause SSBB has like what, dozens of words!