Ooh, about 10 years ago I had a similar incident. My friend was eating a chocolate bar (probably Hershey's, but not sure), having fun in not sharing it with me and my other friend, when he discovered little halves of worms wriggling about in the bar. To this day I never eat chocolate without looking to see if there were worms in it.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
What, you think Microsoft (or many other companies, but especially M$) wouldn't pay off reviewers to give good reviews? Jesus, what, were you born at 2PM this afternoon?
Another point is that trains have steel wheels. The rolling resistance of steel on steel is far lower than that of rubber on asphalt. Further, the length of trains means they have much less drag per ton than trucks. These both lower the energy losses significantly as the train rolls along.
Since when on Slashdot is $45k a pretty damn good wage? That's poverty wages in a lot of cities. They could make more money as janitors. Then again, you're just a damn troll.
Tell that to the 60 million people who live in Bangladesh. I'm sure they'd be happy to know that they deserve to die on account of their economic condition. I doubt they can build seawalls around half their country. The Dutch had hundreds of years and a trading empire. How long does Bangladesh have?
You Black Mesa hotshots get all the fat government contracts. Just you wait til we get GLaDOS out of beta (although, it's been in beta so long you'd think we were Google).
REGULATION is NOT the same as "interference" or "meddling". Your brain is broken and you're thinking about this the wrong way. Come back and argue when you can understand this distinction.
That's peak power, not average power used. Average power used is far less. There's nothing new about electric trucks and with battery technology improving like it is they can certainly deliver the necessary juice. The main obstacle is mass production of the batteries to get the cost down.
You're an idiot. Reducing our oil consumption means reducing our trade deficit, which would pretty much immediately improve our economy. Furthermore, infrastructure improvements need people to build them. Job growth will ensue.
Besides, the second something looks like it might get practical the usual suspects align against it. Hyrdo? NO! Geothermal? Already got protesters firing up over that. Wind? NIMBY! Kills birds, and so on.
Guess what? The usual suspects are you and people like you! You simultaneously blame environmentalists for hindering progress while doing the exact same thing.
Step one: We aren't about to run out of oil just yet. Putting our money into drilling will just put off the day when we have to find other sources of energy. Better just to figure out a more permanent solution now and skip the drilling. What, too reasonable for you? The only solution is to keep doing the wrong thing, but harder and more? Doesn't work in sex and it doesn't work in energy.
Step two: It's not the environmentalists that are the problem. That meme needs to die. Very few environmentalists oppose safe nuclear and alternative energies. The few that do are aren't listened to. It's the people who are more interested in pushing an ideology than seeing reasonable solutions to the problem. "drill baby drill" and all that. That said, I agree that we need to have a big program of energy infrastructure investment for the sake of the country. Better diversified than completely dependent on uranium, though.
Step three: Or, how about letting people who know that hydrogen is a stupid god damn idea make the decisions? The market is full of shysters who will spend billions to push vaporware solutions that do fuck all. Maybe the Department of Energy should have a say? Maybe spend a few tax dollars on research?
Probably. Of course, the increased demand won't be in proportion to offset the rebate with high prices, because people will have other things to spend that money on.
is to pretend you're doing a study on line cutting, and interview someone near the front just as they start letting people in. Then release an actual study to prevent reprisals. Then profit?
The same reason they haven't already raised them? If the market won't let them raise prices now, it won't let them raise prices if they get hit with a windfall tax.
From what I've heard, the VIA Nano is at least on par with the Atom, if not better. I'd love to see an HP mini-note with a Nano instead of the older VIA processor.
The reason people are encouraged to go to the doctor for checkups and the like is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Or $50 of prevention is worth $15000 of cure, these days. The system is more efficient if you can nip health problems in the bud, rather than having people drag themselves half-dead into the ER to get treatment.
I had to do a lot of fiddling with Xorg.conf in Hardy to get my Logitech G5 mouse working with all the buttons. When I upgraded to Intrepid, (it ignores the xorg.conf settings for mouse and keyboard) it set the mouse up perfectly. No muss, no fuss.
Linux: "you've got to admit it's getting better, it's getting better all the time"
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Ooh, about 10 years ago I had a similar incident. My friend was eating a chocolate bar (probably Hershey's, but not sure), having fun in not sharing it with me and my other friend, when he discovered little halves of worms wriggling about in the bar. To this day I never eat chocolate without looking to see if there were worms in it.
That can't be kosher.
Frankly, I didn't know he was a real person. I just kind of assumed it was a pseudonym for a blog whore.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
-H. P. Lovecraft
Credit where credit is due.
What, you think Microsoft (or many other companies, but especially M$) wouldn't pay off reviewers to give good reviews? Jesus, what, were you born at 2PM this afternoon?
As someone who used xp 64-bit for two years: no, it can't. If you call that "just fine" you must be using windows 95 and liking it.
Another point is that trains have steel wheels. The rolling resistance of steel on steel is far lower than that of rubber on asphalt. Further, the length of trains means they have much less drag per ton than trucks. These both lower the energy losses significantly as the train rolls along.
Since when on Slashdot is $45k a pretty damn good wage? That's poverty wages in a lot of cities. They could make more money as janitors. Then again, you're just a damn troll.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:White_LED.png
Not exactly a spiky mess. Not blackbody, but not a spiky mess.
Tell that to the 60 million people who live in Bangladesh. I'm sure they'd be happy to know that they deserve to die on account of their economic condition. I doubt they can build seawalls around half their country. The Dutch had hundreds of years and a trading empire. How long does Bangladesh have?
See, this is actually an elegant solution, as the bloat will act as a redundant buoyancy system in case of the inevitable blue-screen crush.
You Black Mesa hotshots get all the fat government contracts. Just you wait til we get GLaDOS out of beta (although, it's been in beta so long you'd think we were Google).
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1355#comic
REGULATION is NOT the same as "interference" or "meddling". Your brain is broken and you're thinking about this the wrong way. Come back and argue when you can understand this distinction.
I imagine in this day and age that having a giant fuckoff microwave transmitter would make the bomber more visible, not less.
That's peak power, not average power used. Average power used is far less. There's nothing new about electric trucks and with battery technology improving like it is they can certainly deliver the necessary juice. The main obstacle is mass production of the batteries to get the cost down.
You're an idiot. Reducing our oil consumption means reducing our trade deficit, which would pretty much immediately improve our economy. Furthermore, infrastructure improvements need people to build them. Job growth will ensue.
Besides, the second something looks like it might get practical the usual suspects align against it. Hyrdo? NO! Geothermal? Already got protesters firing up over that. Wind? NIMBY! Kills birds, and so on.
Guess what? The usual suspects are you and people like you! You simultaneously blame environmentalists for hindering progress while doing the exact same thing.
Step one: We aren't about to run out of oil just yet. Putting our money into drilling will just put off the day when we have to find other sources of energy. Better just to figure out a more permanent solution now and skip the drilling. What, too reasonable for you? The only solution is to keep doing the wrong thing, but harder and more? Doesn't work in sex and it doesn't work in energy.
Step two: It's not the environmentalists that are the problem. That meme needs to die. Very few environmentalists oppose safe nuclear and alternative energies. The few that do are aren't listened to. It's the people who are more interested in pushing an ideology than seeing reasonable solutions to the problem. "drill baby drill" and all that. That said, I agree that we need to have a big program of energy infrastructure investment for the sake of the country. Better diversified than completely dependent on uranium, though.
Step three: Or, how about letting people who know that hydrogen is a stupid god damn idea make the decisions? The market is full of shysters who will spend billions to push vaporware solutions that do fuck all. Maybe the Department of Energy should have a say? Maybe spend a few tax dollars on research?
Step four: Yes, R&D is important.
Probably. Of course, the increased demand won't be in proportion to offset the rebate with high prices, because people will have other things to spend that money on.
is to pretend you're doing a study on line cutting, and interview someone near the front just as they start letting people in. Then release an actual study to prevent reprisals. Then profit?
The same reason they haven't already raised them? If the market won't let them raise prices now, it won't let them raise prices if they get hit with a windfall tax.
No! It's "frist b0ama"!
America was stabbed in the back by the left wing, as usual.
Wow, NAZI much? Holy shit, you've Godwinned this thread so hard it's not even funny.
From what I've heard, the VIA Nano is at least on par with the Atom, if not better. I'd love to see an HP mini-note with a Nano instead of the older VIA processor.
The reason people are encouraged to go to the doctor for checkups and the like is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Or $50 of prevention is worth $15000 of cure, these days. The system is more efficient if you can nip health problems in the bud, rather than having people drag themselves half-dead into the ER to get treatment.
I had to do a lot of fiddling with Xorg.conf in Hardy to get my Logitech G5 mouse working with all the buttons. When I upgraded to Intrepid, (it ignores the xorg.conf settings for mouse and keyboard) it set the mouse up perfectly. No muss, no fuss.
Linux: "you've got to admit it's getting better, it's getting better all the time"