power goes out like once every couple of weeks or more.
Right idea, but in my experience, anywhere from 1 - 4 times a day. Except, as you say, in the most modern buildings in the most modern cities with their own backup generators, which are few.
Disclaimer: I speak from personal experience because that's all I have to contribute. I may be wrong, but this disclaimer says I can be.
In my experience many bikes in India are 100cc, which is definitely not enough to get around here in the states, but really all that is available in India (at least in Hyderabad). Money IS a huge factor buying cars in India, BUT I know many people who can easily afford cars there. My grandmother in India has about as much capital and flowing cash as we do here, but can she buy any car she wants? Nope. Availibility is a bigger factor than money, and is the single largest hurdle to overcome to buy one. India has some ridiculous anti-import laws (for example coke can only sell coke if they mix and bottle it over there, and they are one of the few American companies allowed over there).
Pretty much the only cars you will see in India are Tata cars, and Maruti/Suzukis. My uncle owns a Jaguar, and honestly, this is the the only car I have seen that wasn't Indian manufactured over there. From what I've seen, the waitlist on a car can be almost 4 years long, and motorcycles are even harder to get.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cars_in_India has a typically good article on Indian cars, though I've not acually seen most of these. The Maruti Indigo is really nice in comparison to the Honda Odyssey, and costs less in USD.
So I agree with you, cheap cars really will help (though there isn't any space to drive:\ ), but the question really is if Tata can produce these cars quickly enough.
If that's not "biblical" in it's details, then nothing is.
It's Biblical in proportions yes. The big bang would make quite a good creation story for any religion. It's not biblical in detail though, meaning there was no big bang in the Bible. The Bible specifies the 6 days of creation by god. The big bang is a non-mystical physical phenomena that happened, as you said, at a single moment. It also implies that the universe is much older than the earth, and that humans weren't the first thing on earth etcetera etc...
It's unexplainable, yes, but it actually is the first step towards all sorts of scientific phenomena that contradict with the Bible.
The game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors
One game pops into my head that actually meets this ridiculous requirement! Max Payne. There is an incredible artistic value in Max Payne. Unfortunately Max Payne does not meet the violence standards. Lets take a game that everyone has played. Solitare is not violent, but it doesn't meet the third criteria! There is no literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for anyone in this game. It can be argued either way, but the point is that this is such a ridiculous condition that even a game like solitare is questionable!
I suppose this means that until you are 18, you can't play anything but mathblaster and jumpstart. Oregon Trail - the classic game of my youth... brings out my morbid side because I like to cross the river and see if the oxen die... Guess that game is off the list for minors.
Actually I can think of one game that might make the list... America's Army- It has very limited violence, is supported by the government (so it's no GTA, clearly), and it has gasp! political value!
Hamachi's Chat, while no doubt useful, uses UDP, which means you'll end up with a lot of dropped messages. Only in practice its more like LOTS and LOTS of dropped messages. You are best off using third party internet chat or using Hamachi and a TCP LAN chat client.
On an unrelated note, Hamachi has allowed me to play Command & Conquer (yes the original) over the interweb!
Though it can't be denied that these problems exist predominantly on windows and not on OSX, I agree that users are much the reason. I have no AV enabled, no firewall, no security or automatic updates or whatever enabled (though I have it installed in case). I have not gotten a virus or a single piece of adware in over 2 years (except once when I connected to my school network with the firewall disabled, which I never did again). Now I've left my computer alone for 10 minutes while I went to get cookies from across the house (no the house is not large; the cookies were numerous). I come back and my brother is using my computer, which is fine, except I have spyware all of a sudden. True story.
Since the vulnerability is there, it *requires* that the user be able to defeat it, which sadly no one is capable of doing. Most users have a hell of a time recognizing that they are being attacked by adware and spyware; about as hard of a time an autistic might have determining facial expressions.
There were gun deaths that had nothing to do with Grand Theft Auto.
Yes, but Hilary would like to remind you that the day after GTA3 was released, 2 billion people died, not of AIDS, but in gang wars on the streets of New York. She has not officially quoted the death tolls after the following two GTA3 sequels, since she felt (rightly so) that the 8 billion deaths in Florida and California were fairly self-explanatory.
Remember when spiderman used to need to build webshooters, because he did not actually have the ability to make his own webbing? Well now he doesnt need the ability to climb walls! He just wears gloves and boots of this stuff, and he can climb walls! That and a bit of speed, and you the the Amazing Spiderman!
Palladium is the most often used catalyst for reducing (certain) compounds with Hydrogen Gas. Of course there are certain compounds that need more powerful reducing agents than hydrogen over palladium, but this is still quite useful.
Tangent:
The function of hydrogen in a fuel cell is, as far as I know, a redox reaction with oxygen, giving off water. By charging the fuel cell, you are running the current backwards, creating a reverse voltage and reversing the reaction, thus recharging and regenerating the fuel cell. Hydrogen cars do not "burn" hydrogen as one might suspect. They are electric cars, but use fuel cell batteries instead of lead acid ones. GM came out with a great electric car back in 1998 when such a thing was nearly unheard of, and I belive it used nickel cadmium batteries, though my memory fails me. My father worked on the EV1, and I had the privelige or riding in the coolest sounding car ever. (I'm quite serious, from the inside, this was THE coolest car ever, hands down). That car, with fuel cell batteries instead of whatever they had would be a hydrogen car.
It's only a matter of time until somebody picks up our signals and comes to crash the party.
I don't know... I can't even pick up signals in my house or on the freeway. I'd like to subscribe to the provider that gets me reception 241039000000000 miles away from a receiver!
I think people might have a problem with this since cell phones can easily be used to call people and simply talk to them. This service isn't for talking to people. It's for networking. All you people who have no friends can now have some thanks to this brilliant new program of Social Networking! Unfortunately, it can only be used with people you already know.
I would LOVE to have a gps reciever that I can track remotely! I would put it in my car and if someone steals it, screw lojack; I'll wait till they cross the border and deliver my own brand of goofy-the-cop justice!
I agree with having less driver aids. I personally hate anti-lock brakes. If I'm about to crash, I'm either gonna not lock my wheels because I have space to stop, or lock those damn wheels and skid to a stop. A driver can keep control during skidding, despite what antilock advertisements would say. Skidding will stop you MUCH faster than antilock because of the famous rubber-asphalt friction coefficient. Yeah, if you are a typical American (ok, people do drive worse in most other countries), and never bothered to learn to drive a car, and think it's easy (driving is NOT easy), then yeah; you need anti-lock brakes. But if you find driving easy, you could be driving better than you are. On the freeway, you should NEVER use your brakes unless there is an accident or you are getting off. If you do, you sir, are not a great driver.
Yep, it should still be in beta, because ironically, the link you gave gives a google news page, but the logo has the word "BETA" in it still. It's not on the homepage, but it is on that page.
I predict the end of google based righteousness:(
Trying to run MacOS on a windows machine seems much more interesting, since you can put in whatever hardware you want. Currently this is pretty diffucult, and near impossible for the average windows user, and requires the use of emulators (pearPC or what have you) which means it's really slow. But If Intel Mac uses no proprietary hardware, doesn't that mean theres nothing to differentiate an apple hardware build from my own? So theoretically I could install MacOS on my computer right now! Well, after they finally release it at least...
Actually I think an even bigger threat (and maybe more likely, but I'm not actually sure) is if our volcanic activity ceases. This is more likely than you may think, and it is a situation worth preparing for. If the volcanoes go out, we lose all of our ocean currents, and therefore the weather will change DRASTICALLY.
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Disclaimer: I speak from personal experience because that's all I have to contribute. I may be wrong, but this disclaimer says I can be.
:\ ), but the question really is if Tata can produce these cars quickly enough.
In my experience many bikes in India are 100cc, which is definitely not enough to get around here in the states, but really all that is available in India (at least in Hyderabad). Money IS a huge factor buying cars in India, BUT I know many people who can easily afford cars there. My grandmother in India has about as much capital and flowing cash as we do here, but can she buy any car she wants? Nope. Availibility is a bigger factor than money, and is the single largest hurdle to overcome to buy one. India has some ridiculous anti-import laws (for example coke can only sell coke if they mix and bottle it over there, and they are one of the few American companies allowed over there).
Pretty much the only cars you will see in India are Tata cars, and Maruti/Suzukis. My uncle owns a Jaguar, and honestly, this is the the only car I have seen that wasn't Indian manufactured over there.
From what I've seen, the waitlist on a car can be almost 4 years long, and motorcycles are even harder to get.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cars_in_India has a typically good article on Indian cars, though I've not acually seen most of these. The Maruti Indigo is really nice in comparison to the Honda Odyssey, and costs less in USD.
So I agree with you, cheap cars really will help (though there isn't any space to drive
I'm sure any alien civilization that can receive radio waves also uses gmail.
that would be a major boon to the less wartorn parts of Africa.
And we can use this technology to blow up the more wartorn parts of Africa.
If that's not "biblical" in it's details, then nothing is.
It's Biblical in proportions yes. The big bang would make quite a good creation story for any religion. It's not biblical in detail though, meaning there was no big bang in the Bible. The Bible specifies the 6 days of creation by god. The big bang is a non-mystical physical phenomena that happened, as you said, at a single moment. It also implies that the universe is much older than the earth, and that humans weren't the first thing on earth etcetera etc...
It's unexplainable, yes, but it actually is the first step towards all sorts of scientific phenomena that contradict with the Bible.
Of course P2P has slowed down! I already downloaded everything!
Lets take a game that everyone has played. Solitare is not violent, but it doesn't meet the third criteria! There is no literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for anyone in this game. It can be argued either way, but the point is that this is such a ridiculous condition that even a game like solitare is questionable!
I suppose this means that until you are 18, you can't play anything but mathblaster and jumpstart. Oregon Trail - the classic game of my youth... brings out my morbid side because I like to cross the river and see if the oxen die... Guess that game is off the list for minors.
Actually I can think of one game that might make the list... America's Army- It has very limited violence, is supported by the government (so it's no GTA, clearly), and it has gasp! political value!
Hamachi's Chat, while no doubt useful, uses UDP, which means you'll end up with a lot of dropped messages. Only in practice its more like LOTS and LOTS of dropped messages. You are best off using third party internet chat or using Hamachi and a TCP LAN chat client. On an unrelated note, Hamachi has allowed me to play Command & Conquer (yes the original) over the interweb!
Though it can't be denied that these problems exist predominantly on windows and not on OSX, I agree that users are much the reason. I have no AV enabled, no firewall, no security or automatic updates or whatever enabled (though I have it installed in case). I have not gotten a virus or a single piece of adware in over 2 years (except once when I connected to my school network with the firewall disabled, which I never did again). Now I've left my computer alone for 10 minutes while I went to get cookies from across the house (no the house is not large; the cookies were numerous). I come back and my brother is using my computer, which is fine, except I have spyware all of a sudden. True story. Since the vulnerability is there, it *requires* that the user be able to defeat it, which sadly no one is capable of doing. Most users have a hell of a time recognizing that they are being attacked by adware and spyware; about as hard of a time an autistic might have determining facial expressions.
I don't know... at these guys intelligence levels, they just may be doing the world a favor. At least, they would be if they won some darwin awards.
There were gun deaths that had nothing to do with Grand Theft Auto.
Yes, but Hilary would like to remind you that the day after GTA3 was released, 2 billion people died, not of AIDS, but in gang wars on the streets of New York. She has not officially quoted the death tolls after the following two GTA3 sequels, since she felt (rightly so) that the 8 billion deaths in Florida and California were fairly self-explanatory.
No, we live in a nation where people can make shit up and get modded insightful.
Well you have to remember, 45% of statistics are made up on the spot...
Remember when spiderman used to need to build webshooters, because he did not actually have the ability to make his own webbing? Well now he doesnt need the ability to climb walls! He just wears gloves and boots of this stuff, and he can climb walls! That and a bit of speed, and you the the Amazing Spiderman!
Palladium is the most often used catalyst for reducing (certain) compounds with Hydrogen Gas. Of course there are certain compounds that need more powerful reducing agents than hydrogen over palladium, but this is still quite useful. Tangent: The function of hydrogen in a fuel cell is, as far as I know, a redox reaction with oxygen, giving off water. By charging the fuel cell, you are running the current backwards, creating a reverse voltage and reversing the reaction, thus recharging and regenerating the fuel cell. Hydrogen cars do not "burn" hydrogen as one might suspect. They are electric cars, but use fuel cell batteries instead of lead acid ones. GM came out with a great electric car back in 1998 when such a thing was nearly unheard of, and I belive it used nickel cadmium batteries, though my memory fails me. My father worked on the EV1, and I had the privelige or riding in the coolest sounding car ever. (I'm quite serious, from the inside, this was THE coolest car ever, hands down). That car, with fuel cell batteries instead of whatever they had would be a hydrogen car.
I'm pretty sure downtown Long Beach, CA, has also implemented free wifi. Should have tested that yesterday when I was there.
I think people might have a problem with this since cell phones can easily be used to call people and simply talk to them. This service isn't for talking to people. It's for networking. All you people who have no friends can now have some thanks to this brilliant new program of Social Networking! Unfortunately, it can only be used with people you already know.
I would LOVE to have a gps reciever that I can track remotely! I would put it in my car and if someone steals it, screw lojack; I'll wait till they cross the border and deliver my own brand of goofy-the-cop justice!
I agree with having less driver aids. I personally hate anti-lock brakes. If I'm about to crash, I'm either gonna not lock my wheels because I have space to stop, or lock those damn wheels and skid to a stop. A driver can keep control during skidding, despite what antilock advertisements would say. Skidding will stop you MUCH faster than antilock because of the famous rubber-asphalt friction coefficient. Yeah, if you are a typical American (ok, people do drive worse in most other countries), and never bothered to learn to drive a car, and think it's easy (driving is NOT easy), then yeah; you need anti-lock brakes. But if you find driving easy, you could be driving better than you are. On the freeway, you should NEVER use your brakes unless there is an accident or you are getting off. If you do, you sir, are not a great driver.
But is it open source? I think not! Future Bill Gates who will one day terrorize the world!!
Yep, it should still be in beta, because ironically, the link you gave gives a google news page, but the logo has the word "BETA" in it still. It's not on the homepage, but it is on that page. I predict the end of google based righteousness :(
Trying to run MacOS on a windows machine seems much more interesting, since you can put in whatever hardware you want. Currently this is pretty diffucult, and near impossible for the average windows user, and requires the use of emulators (pearPC or what have you) which means it's really slow. But If Intel Mac uses no proprietary hardware, doesn't that mean theres nothing to differentiate an apple hardware build from my own? So theoretically I could install MacOS on my computer right now! Well, after they finally release it at least...
So if you put lots of them in a room, which one will win the battle royale? They are technically identical!
Actually I think an even bigger threat (and maybe more likely, but I'm not actually sure) is if our volcanic activity ceases. This is more likely than you may think, and it is a situation worth preparing for. If the volcanoes go out, we lose all of our ocean currents, and therefore the weather will change DRASTICALLY.
Well 90% of everyone buys Windows and thinks thier computer is actually doing stuff. I guess HDTV awareness is much higher than microsoft awareness!