Probably true in the US, but in Europe most small cars are diesels, and a large part of all other car classes too, up to the premium and even some sports car brands. Audi has won the 24 hours of Le Mans with a diesel. Diesel fuel is cheaper here, and diesel engines use less of it. Modern diesels (with turbos, common-rail injection et al.) have high torque, are silent and fun to drive. They also produce a large amount of micro particles, which was realized as a problem not long ago, and which only the next generation of engines will really get a handle on.
Battery-powered cars are not zero-emission at all. That would only be true if battery production had no emissions and the electric power was created completely from renewable sources.
Also, why is it ok for some people using 2 of the rare parking spaces in cities for their stupid SUVs? It may be different in the US, but most European cities suffer when people radically increase their car sizes. Same for Japan and many other parts of the world.
You haven't paid attention at all, right? Ever heard of particulate matter (PM10)? Whether or not soot is easy to dispose of depends on the particle size, and it turns out that modern engines tend to produce larger amounts of the more dangerous small particles (= 10 m). These are not at all easy to filter, and the filters in modern Diesel engines need to regularly burn it off, which does not work well during city driving cycles.
In short, you are largely right. The Cortex activity (recognizing, searching for meaning,...) takes around 0.3 seconds. The brain has a built-in time delay that makes it seem to you that what you experience that way is the present, when it is actually already past. It seems that certain changes in the brain, some of which induced through meditation and related techniques, can reconfigure the processing to leave that part out. The "perceiving more directly" or "living in the present" that these techniques often quote in their teaching actually has a material counterpart in the brain.
I haven't tried Mandriva, but as far as I read, the Gnome version is much less polished and integrated. The same is true for Kubuntu compared to Ubuntu. With Suse it at least was the case that the Gnome variant was worse, dunno how it is today.
Bottom-line: it's a lot of work to polish a desktop, and polishing two doubles this work. With limited resources, why not concentrate on one (at least officially) and make it really shine? I don't think laziness enters into it.
Indeed. It's just monopolistic laziness really. And MS, when you are at it, please implement some rules, such as "asking for the installation CD to install a bugfix update is stupid and drives away customers. Don't do it." (Hi, Adobe!)
And by just works - I mean all programs installed, not just the OS
Um, basically all Linux distros I used in the last 10 years installed the applications along with the OS. The problem was more that often they installed _too _many applications. It is Windows that forces you to install apps independent of the OS (and forces all apps to have their own separate update facility, etc.)
I don't believe it. When a colleague of mine was at the biggest Apple shop in Berlin on release day at 9:30am or so, there were just three people in the line, and no significant extra sales force either.
You are a misogynist idiot. Hole produced a fabulous album (Pretty on the Inside) long before Nirvana, and you might want to listen to Live Through This, to me one of the top 100 rock albums of all time. And yeah, Nirvana gained more fame by being a major rock star band, and found death. Great deal.
Yeah, I also linked to it in another reply. Just in case you don't know it, here's one by Steve Albinie that's along the same lines but more rigorous: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
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Diesel is primarily used in heavier vehicles
Probably true in the US, but in Europe most small cars are diesels, and a large part of all other car classes too, up to the premium and even some sports car brands. Audi has won the 24 hours of Le Mans with a diesel.
Diesel fuel is cheaper here, and diesel engines use less of it. Modern diesels (with turbos, common-rail injection et al.) have high torque, are silent and fun to drive. They also produce a large amount of micro particles, which was realized as a problem not long ago, and which only the next generation of engines will really get a handle on.
PM10 are "up to 10 micrometers", I forgot the html codes.
Battery-powered cars are not zero-emission at all. That would only be true if battery production had no emissions and the electric power was created completely from renewable sources.
Also, why is it ok for some people using 2 of the rare parking spaces in cities for their stupid SUVs? It may be different in the US, but most European cities suffer when people radically increase their car sizes. Same for Japan and many other parts of the world.
Where does the government come into this?
It was invited to the party by yet another market failure.
Right, because Ford Escorts and SUVs are the only cars in existance. Nice BMWs et al. that get 50 mpg on the highway are a pipe dream
You haven't paid attention at all, right? Ever heard of particulate matter (PM10)? Whether or not soot is easy to dispose of depends on the particle size, and it turns out that modern engines tend to produce larger amounts of the more dangerous small particles (= 10 m). These are not at all easy to filter, and the filters in modern Diesel engines need to regularly burn it off, which does not work well during city driving cycles.
What are you talking about?
Since all the signals our body produce take time to register in the brain, wouldn't all events by some strange definition always be "in retrospect"?
...) takes around 0.3 seconds. The brain has a built-in time delay that makes it seem to you that what you experience that way is the present, when it is actually already past. It seems that certain changes in the brain, some of which induced through meditation and related techniques, can reconfigure the processing to leave that part out. The "perceiving more directly" or "living in the present" that these techniques often quote in their teaching actually has a material counterpart in the brain.
Read these amazing books by James H. Austin, both MIT Press: Zen and the Brain and Zen-Brain Reflections.
In short, you are largely right. The Cortex activity (recognizing, searching for meaning,
I just tried it. People lie to you.
I haven't tried Mandriva, but as far as I read, the Gnome version is much less polished and integrated. The same is true for Kubuntu compared to Ubuntu. With Suse it at least was the case that the Gnome variant was worse, dunno how it is today.
Bottom-line: it's a lot of work to polish a desktop, and polishing two doubles this work. With limited resources, why not concentrate on one (at least officially) and make it really shine? I don't think laziness enters into it.
What ever happened to asking the user during the install?
It caused too much maintenance and integration work and was ditched.
Indeed. It's just monopolistic laziness really. And MS, when you are at it, please implement some rules, such as "asking for the installation CD to install a bugfix update is stupid and drives away customers. Don't do it." (Hi, Adobe!)
And by just works - I mean all programs installed, not just the OS
Um, basically all Linux distros I used in the last 10 years installed the applications along with the OS. The problem was more that often they installed _too _many applications. It is Windows that forces you to install apps independent of the OS (and forces all apps to have their own separate update facility, etc.)
I see. I had thought I had read about a European release last year. Anyway, that makes the "10% market share" numbers even more exaggerated.
Zune models occupy the #1 (yeah, #1), #9, #16 and #20 slots in the Amazon top 100
I can't fail to note that Apple occupies the following top-20 slots: #2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #8, #10, #11, #12, #13, #17, #18, #19.
The first generation was enough to take Microsoft to greater than 10% market share
I am in Germany, and I have never seen a Zune or have heard anyone mention it.
In the end, population wins
Oh yes? Then I hope you have already sent your regards to your new Chinese and Indian overlords.
I don't believe it. When a colleague of mine was at the biggest Apple shop in Berlin on release day at 9:30am or so, there were just three people in the line, and no significant extra sales force either.
Do you have any idea what ideology I've got?
Yes, you have demonstrated it sufficiently. Thank you very much.
Are you equating intelligence with value to society? That's even more fucked up than your other drivel, if that's possible.
Dunno where the e in "Albinie" came from ...
You are a misogynist idiot. Hole produced a fabulous album (Pretty on the Inside) long before Nirvana, and you might want to listen to Live Through This, to me one of the top 100 rock albums of all time. And yeah, Nirvana gained more fame by being a major rock star band, and found death. Great deal.
Yeah, I also linked to it in another reply. Just in case you don't know it, here's one by Steve Albinie that's along the same lines but more rigorous: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
But "house insurance" does not cover accidents at home. You'd have to know how those risks are calculated into health insure premiums, and the like.