You do realize that fuel cells are electric vehicles right? I think you meant to say battery powered cars. And in which case your wrong. Batteries don't have the energy storage capacity or quick refueling capability and battery technology and research is about 150 years old at this point. There have been electric battery powered cars throughout automotive history even in the early 1900s. They lost to better energy densities and quick refueling.
Personally I like bio fuels they use the infrastructure we already have hybrids aren't bad either. A small diesel engine hybrid burning bio diesel grown from algae is doable today no real research needed. So why is no one doing it?
The real issue as I see it is that Time Warner is a cable company. And it is very likely that these caps have everything to do with stopping the growth of a competitor IPTV or video on demand.
If you download a lot of content from hulu and netflix and amazon VOD you are going to run smack dab in to punitive caps with this type of service.
For years the cable companies have been doing well by selling packages of channels and most people watch a very small percentage of those channels and thus it's not really a good value. And of course with video on demand you get to watch exactly what you want when you want and pay just for what you watch.
This is very much a problem for them. Bit torrent and filesharing in general have been around for some time now this is not about those. Those actually gave broadband a purpose for a lot of people and for the most part just sold a lot of broadband accounts. This is about killing a competitor that would really save people money and generally make things better. So they are in a meta sense discriminating against IPTV and VOD packets. That does not sound very neutral to me.
I was in the navy and trained extensively in ASW operations. They don't use active sonar that is sonar that emits sound much if at all because it gives away your position like putting a giant bullseye on your sub or ship.
They generally use towed array passive sonar which is an array of sensitive acoustic listening devices towed well behind the sub to be separated from the cavitation of the prop. And it does not emit sound. So this whole oh noes the evil Military is buttfucking sweet mother Gaia sounds like BS in this case.
They do dump a lot of trash in the ocean though as I understand it they are incinerating much of that now.
Sorry but you are just plain wrong in every way possible.
In my experience with Vista on many computers by this point is nothing but frustration and that is what I hear from everyone except one guy I know who is actually a self avowed MS fanboi. I see more blue screens, more lockups, more hardware and software incompatibilities than XP and it's also way more annoying than XP (UAC). And the kicker is it's noticeably slower than XP on the same spec hardware Vista is even slower on higher spec hardware than XP is on lower spec hardware in my experience. So I don't know if you work for MS or some PR agency paid to AstroTurf for MS or just horribly horribly deluded. But the myth in my opinion is that Vista is anything but suck. Please stop perpetuating this myth because people are losing time and money over it.
Thing is though is it is entirely possible to gut the first world middle class through off shoring. I mean first the manufacturer jobs now the knowledge worker jobs?
I mean we can't all work at Wal Mart as plumbers or for the government can we? Funny thing is once these short sighted companies seeking to boost the bottom line for next quarterly earnings call with Wall St. succeed they will have destroyed our economy and thus themselves.
Because hiring Indian and Hungarians at low wages is great but selling to them on the same meager wages is not so profitable.
Perhaps their standards of living will rise fast enough to offset the decline of our standard of living but that is really a big unknown. So this just seems like more MBA asshats fucking all of us including themselves. And believe it or not I am not even a protectionist this is just getting to the point of. Hey are these people even thinking this through? I mean it is the consumption of the first world middle class that props this whole shared delusion we call an economy up. It's all a really big ponzi scheme in a way and if us schmucks at the bottom don't keep buying in the whole thing collapses.
Seriously in my experience helping people with Vista this is absolutely 100% untrue. You may personally have good luck with Vista but on average I see way more blue screen problems with peoples computers with Vista than I do with XP.
WTF this is a complete fallacy. UNIX is not a secure OS and was never designed from the ground up to be secure. Ever hear of the Lion worm?
Actually the Windows NT line has better fine grained access control than most NIXes. I mean seriously you get owner and group RWX permissions and that's it unless you bolt on RBAC or something. A Solaris OS system out of the box is horribly insecure. UNIX was designed as a time sharing system before security was even a real issue.
Neither Windows nor Mac OS X nor Linux or UNIX would be considered secure by most security professionals. They can be made to be secure to a point and that point fails quickly when users are allowed to surf the web or read email on them.
Bottom line if you are using an unmodified default install of any of these OSes at the NSA you are doing it wrong unless you are setting up a honey pot.
The whole Mac is immune to viruses is a myth. Most trojans would easily be able to trick a Mac user in to installing as they would Windows users.
Imagine thing pops up on web page and says you need xyz program to view this funny video download here they download it open the dmg and install it except it's a trojan pwned! The only thing that has prevented this thus far is a lack of interest in the OS X platform on virus writers part. Also many Windows exploits take advantage of drive by web browser infections by taking advantage of flaws in the browser or it's plugins. Again OS X is not immune to these either if the virus writers start targeting OS X. Ok so they get user level privilege but that's probably enough to steal keystrokes or exploit a race condition to get root. And if you think all of the myriad programs on OS X aren't susceptible to having a few race conditions you are nuts.
So she had a PHB that needed convincing and invented the Powerpoint. Sorta debatable the value of that. Can't we just get rid of all the little monarchs?
Actually if the DEA drug dogs or the X-ray machine turns up something suspicious you can bet your ass the USPS will open that package to protect their system from misuse.
The car analogy is really bad using torrent to pirate shit and use up all the local bandwidth is more akin to doing donuts in the dealers lot which I am pretty sure they would take a dim view of and probably call the cops.
It's called a society and there are acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. Being a filthy pirate and hogging all the bandwidth is not nor should be acceptable behavior even though you really like all the free stuff you get from it.
So here's the real deal on this. This money was set aside back in September of this year by congress as low interest loans for automakers to try and get them to make something besides gas guzzling SUVs.
Hey guess who's actually already building electric cars that's right Tesla.
They stepped and said hey this is right up our alley. How about a loan for us so we can tool up and start building a 4 door sedan electric car for around 50k.
So here is where it almost got turned in to a bailout. Detroit big three came to Washington in their private jets recently and gave some BS sob story and said hey those Wall street guys did a broad daylight bloodless coup and got some money where's our share?
And congress says well hey why don't we just turn that 25 billion we earmarked to get you morons to stop driving your companies in to the ground and start building cleaner tech cars in to a bailout and you can just have it.
So as near as I can tell Tesla is probably the only group here trying to do the right thing. Oh and personally I could not give a crap about Tesla or electric cars.
I would have to totally disagree with you there. There are tons of closed source developers that have been milking the same product for years with only minor evolutionary changes. Ever hear of Adobe?
So in many cases closed source devs do have the luxury of largely sitting on there duffs and collecting upgrade fees.
Where as open source devs seem to have to beg for donations, sell T-Shirts, CDs, or support. Really open source development is good for the commons but I am not sure it is a good business model.
I suppose if you need something developed and want to derive the benefit of the developed software without going it alone to develop then open source is a good business decision.
But a company that relies on open source with closed source extensions just seems like a bad business model.
As a business person I would look at that and conclude that doing business on the PC is just plain stupid.
I contend they are very very wrong in their conclusion that the pirates would not have actually bought a copy if they could not steal it.
The way to prove that would compare World of Goo sales figures to a popular console downloadable only release like Braid and compare total sales number. I have no doubt the Braid sales figures would end up higher without a convenient pirate copy to steal. People will pay for these types of indie games on Xbox arcade because they HAVE to if they want it.
As a PC gamer I think this is really really sad. And as a developer I would target the console download able content space not the PC as a business decision it seems cut and dried.
Well my point still stands this ESA module has a lot in common with the Apollo program.
And that the really innovative thinking is in the private sector right now. I doubt though can not prove that ballistic rocket with capsules or reentry vehicles or what have you will NOT be what lowers the cost of access to space and will NOT be safe anytime soon. It will take someone like Rutan or Zubrin to challenge traditional thinking with a new idea.
Three stage jet/scramjet/rocket plane perhaps? Who knows as we can't really predict what SS3 will look like. mid air refueling is a proven technology that could also be utilized and has yet to be. Wings by their very nature are useful I.E. provide lift and as Rutan proved can be reconfigured to act as reentry brakes are far from useless so the summary IS quite trollish.
Oh boy tell that to the Challenger crew oh yeah their dead. Some biggish roman candles that can not be shut off once lit killed them. The shuttle has a 1 in 55 failure rate but is still safer than a throw away which is 1 in 20. We are talking about cheaper safer manned flight. And clearly Rutan's design doesn't work that's been proven right? Also doctor Robert Zubrin must be out to lunch too because he also wanted to build a rocket plane.
minimizing the rocket burn by getting to altitude first is safer. Also not using solid fuel rockets and using liquid fuel aerospike motors only which perform better at altitude and can be shut off is safer. Big aluminum lawn darts that go boom a lot are not.
Since when have wings become useless? Also looks to me like it is based very much on the Apollo program in terms of technology. Vertical lift multistage chemical rocket. Small capsule on top etc...
The real innovation in this space is coming from private companies like Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites. By doing things like using useless wings to get up to altitude before launch thus requiring less propellant. And using useless reconfigurable wings to act as air brakes etc..
They had something like 1.6 million preorders http://gizmodo.com/5062688/t+mobile-sells-15-million-g1-pre+orders
It took Apple 18 days to sell 1 million iPhones so it already beat the iPhone before it even shipped.
The no lines thing is easy to explain normal ppl order via amazon or preorder via t-mobile's website they aren't college students with enough free time and lack of sense to wait in line all day for a phone.
The nay saying take of this post seems very apple biased sorry apple cock suckers reality bites back.
But your assertion of a stranglehold simply does not hold up they have some %50 of the search market. And nothing is stopping anyone such as cuil from entering the market with a better algorithm.
Outside of being a media/geek darling there is nothing really stopping Google being replaced tomorrow by the next big thing. There is no real lock in as there is with application and format compatibility as is the case with Windows.
Go ahead try another search engine hell bookmark it make it your homepage there is nothing stopping you certainly not google. I actually suspect this will happen as googles coolness begins to fade with time. Investors should always be ready for the latest web 2.0 property to be replaced by the latest web 2.0 property.
What I want to know is when AGW is proven as false as eugenics will people involved be properly disgraced as they should be? Al Gore? Somehow I doubt it. It will all be forgotten as if it never happened. I am sure they feel justified fighting evil consumption with scare tactics if that's what it takes to finally stop the capitalist juggernaut.
I run Photoshop CS2 (Which no kidding I actually paid 600 bucks for) on Ubuntu via WINE just fine. Other software I paid for on Linux includes noise ninja (great noise reduction software for pro photography), and Bibble Pro (raw conversion software) and I will probably buy a LightZone license for Linux when it comes out of beta. I am not concerned about cost as much as I am about a stable, reliable, usable Operating System infrastructure that is open and allows competition around a standard OS platform. This is something neither Microsoft or Apple provide.
A little known MMO that I have never heard of has pulled a publicity stunt and gotten some free coverage from Slashdot. What what what? Slashdot is there target demographic. Congratulations sirs PT Barnum would be proud.
Why do I need this update? So it can brick my phone. Hrmm sounds like I don't need it. I thought about this eventuality before I bought and unlocked the phone. It's not really a big deal at all. What functionality does the update provide that would make me want to apply it? None nadda zip. So I won't be. iTunes music store wifi crap could not care less about. I don't buy music from any source that sells DRM music. iTunes want's to force me to update. I will use a third party synch tool or just good old FTP SFTP. I am perfectly happy with the way my unlocked iPhone works right now. And more importantly I get far more value from the new applications the hackers have provided than I do from anything new Apple is talking about. I mean the NES emulator is by far the coolest thing on my iPhone. So in short meh whatever.
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You do realize that fuel cells are electric vehicles right? I think you meant to say battery powered cars. And in which case your wrong. Batteries don't have the energy storage capacity or quick refueling capability and battery technology and research is about 150 years old at this point. There have been electric battery powered cars throughout automotive history even in the early 1900s. They lost to better energy densities and quick refueling.
Personally I like bio fuels they use the infrastructure we already have hybrids aren't bad either. A small diesel engine hybrid burning bio diesel grown from algae is doable today no real research needed. So why is no one doing it?
Maybe he will show them how to design the iPhone such that it overheats and dies.
Seriously hardware wise the Xbox 360 is pretty unreliable and nothing special. Timing of the release and price was well done but not the hardware.
The real issue as I see it is that Time Warner is a cable company. And it is very likely that these caps have everything to do with stopping the growth of a competitor IPTV or video on demand.
If you download a lot of content from hulu and netflix and amazon VOD you are going to run smack dab in to punitive caps with this type of service.
For years the cable companies have been doing well by selling packages of channels and most people watch a very small percentage of those channels and thus it's not really a good value. And of course with video on demand you get to watch exactly what you want when you want and pay just for what you watch.
This is very much a problem for them. Bit torrent and filesharing in general have been around for some time now this is not about those. Those actually gave broadband a purpose for a lot of people and for the most part just sold a lot of broadband accounts. This is about killing a competitor that would really save people money and generally make things better. So they are in a meta sense discriminating against IPTV and VOD packets. That does not sound very neutral to me.
I was in the navy and trained extensively in ASW operations. They don't use active sonar that is sonar that emits sound much if at all because it gives away your position like putting a giant bullseye on your sub or ship.
They generally use towed array passive sonar which is an array of sensitive acoustic listening devices towed well behind the sub to be separated from the cavitation of the prop. And it does not emit sound. So this whole oh noes the evil Military is buttfucking sweet mother Gaia sounds like BS in this case.
They do dump a lot of trash in the ocean though as I understand it they are incinerating much of that now.
Sorry but you are just plain wrong in every way possible.
In my experience with Vista on many computers by this point is nothing but frustration and that is what I hear from everyone except one guy I know who is actually a self avowed MS fanboi. I see more blue screens, more lockups, more hardware and software incompatibilities than XP and it's also way more annoying than XP (UAC). And the kicker is it's noticeably slower than XP on the same spec hardware Vista is even slower on higher spec hardware than XP is on lower spec hardware in my experience. So I don't know if you work for MS or some PR agency paid to AstroTurf for MS or just horribly horribly deluded. But the myth in my opinion is that Vista is anything but suck. Please stop perpetuating this myth because people are losing time and money over it.
Thing is though is it is entirely possible to gut the first world middle class through off shoring. I mean first the manufacturer jobs now the knowledge worker jobs?
I mean we can't all work at Wal Mart as plumbers or for the government can we? Funny thing is once these short sighted companies seeking to boost the bottom line for next quarterly earnings call with Wall St. succeed they will have destroyed our economy and thus themselves.
Because hiring Indian and Hungarians at low wages is great but selling to them on the same meager wages is not so profitable.
Perhaps their standards of living will rise fast enough to offset the decline of our standard of living but that is really a big unknown. So this just seems like more MBA asshats fucking all of us including themselves. And believe it or not I am not even a protectionist this is just getting to the point of. Hey are these people even thinking this through? I mean it is the consumption of the first world middle class that props this whole shared delusion we call an economy up. It's all a really big ponzi scheme in a way and if us schmucks at the bottom don't keep buying in the whole thing collapses.
Citation needed
Seriously in my experience helping people with Vista this is absolutely 100% untrue. You may personally have good luck with Vista but on average I see way more blue screen problems with peoples computers with Vista than I do with XP.
WTF this is a complete fallacy. UNIX is not a secure OS and was never designed from the ground up to be secure. Ever hear of the Lion worm?
Actually the Windows NT line has better fine grained access control than most NIXes. I mean seriously you get owner and group RWX permissions and that's it unless you bolt on RBAC or something. A Solaris OS system out of the box is horribly insecure. UNIX was designed as a time sharing system before security was even a real issue.
Neither Windows nor Mac OS X nor Linux or UNIX would be considered secure by most security professionals. They can be made to be secure to a point and that point fails quickly when users are allowed to surf the web or read email on them.
Bottom line if you are using an unmodified default install of any of these OSes at the NSA you are doing it wrong unless you are setting up a honey pot.
The whole Mac is immune to viruses is a myth. Most trojans would easily be able to trick a Mac user in to installing as they would Windows users.
Imagine thing pops up on web page and says you need xyz program to view this funny video download here they download it open the dmg and install it except it's a trojan pwned! The only thing that has prevented this thus far is a lack of interest in the OS X platform on virus writers part. Also many Windows exploits take advantage of drive by web browser infections by taking advantage of flaws in the browser or it's plugins. Again OS X is not immune to these either if the virus writers start targeting OS X. Ok so they get user level privilege but that's probably enough to steal keystrokes or exploit a race condition to get root. And if you think all of the myriad programs on OS X aren't susceptible to having a few race conditions you are nuts.
So she had a PHB that needed convincing and invented the Powerpoint. Sorta debatable the value of that. Can't we just get rid of all the little monarchs?
Actually if the DEA drug dogs or the X-ray machine turns up something suspicious you can bet your ass the USPS will open that package to protect their system from misuse.
The car analogy is really bad using torrent to pirate shit and use up all the local bandwidth is more akin to doing donuts in the dealers lot which I am pretty sure they would take a dim view of and probably call the cops.
It's called a society and there are acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. Being a filthy pirate and hogging all the bandwidth is not nor should be acceptable behavior even though you really like all the free stuff you get from it.
So here's the real deal on this. This money was set aside back in September of this year by congress as low interest loans for automakers to try and get them to make something besides gas guzzling SUVs.
Hey guess who's actually already building electric cars that's right Tesla.
They stepped and said hey this is right up our alley. How about a loan for us so we can tool up and start building a 4 door sedan electric car for around 50k.
So here is where it almost got turned in to a bailout. Detroit big three came to Washington in their private jets recently and gave some BS sob story and said hey those Wall street guys did a broad daylight bloodless coup and got some money where's our share?
And congress says well hey why don't we just turn that 25 billion we earmarked to get you morons to stop driving your companies in to the ground and start building cleaner tech cars in to a bailout and you can just have it.
So as near as I can tell Tesla is probably the only group here trying to do the right thing. Oh and personally I could not give a crap about Tesla or electric cars.
I would have to totally disagree with you there. There are tons of closed source developers that have been milking the same product for years with only minor evolutionary changes. Ever hear of Adobe?
So in many cases closed source devs do have the luxury of largely sitting on there duffs and collecting upgrade fees.
Where as open source devs seem to have to beg for donations, sell T-Shirts, CDs, or support. Really open source development is good for the commons but I am not sure it is a good business model.
I suppose if you need something developed and want to derive the benefit of the developed software without going it alone to develop then open source is a good business decision.
But a company that relies on open source with closed source extensions just seems like a bad business model.
As a business person I would look at that and conclude that doing business on the PC is just plain stupid.
I contend they are very very wrong in their conclusion that the pirates would not have actually bought a copy if they could not steal it.
The way to prove that would compare World of Goo sales figures to a popular console downloadable only release like Braid and compare total sales number. I have no doubt the Braid sales figures would end up higher without a convenient pirate copy to steal. People will pay for these types of indie games on Xbox arcade because they HAVE to if they want it.
As a PC gamer I think this is really really sad. And as a developer I would target the console download able content space not the PC as a business decision it seems cut and dried.
Well my point still stands this ESA module has a lot in common with the Apollo program.
And that the really innovative thinking is in the private sector right now. I doubt though can not prove that ballistic rocket with capsules or reentry vehicles or what have you will NOT be what lowers the cost of access to space and will NOT be safe anytime soon. It will take someone like Rutan or Zubrin to challenge traditional thinking with a new idea.
Three stage jet/scramjet/rocket plane perhaps? Who knows as we can't really predict what SS3 will look like. mid air refueling is a proven technology that could also be utilized and has yet to be. Wings by their very nature are useful I.E. provide lift and as Rutan proved can be reconfigured to act as reentry brakes are far from useless so the summary IS quite trollish.
Oh boy tell that to the Challenger crew oh yeah their dead. Some biggish roman candles that can not be shut off once lit killed them. The shuttle has a 1 in 55 failure rate but is still safer than a throw away which is 1 in 20. We are talking about cheaper safer manned flight. And clearly Rutan's design doesn't work that's been proven right? Also doctor Robert Zubrin must be out to lunch too because he also wanted to build a rocket plane.
minimizing the rocket burn by getting to altitude first is safer. Also not using solid fuel rockets and using liquid fuel aerospike motors only which perform better at altitude and can be shut off is safer. Big aluminum lawn darts that go boom a lot are not.
references
http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Blackstar_(spaceplane)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/moon.html
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Rocketplane
Since when have wings become useless? Also looks to me like it is based very much on the Apollo program in terms of technology. Vertical lift multistage chemical rocket. Small capsule on top etc...
The real innovation in this space is coming from private companies like Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites. By doing things like using useless wings to get up to altitude before launch thus requiring less propellant. And using useless reconfigurable wings to act as air brakes etc..
What an absolutely trollish summary
They had something like 1.6 million preorders http://gizmodo.com/5062688/t+mobile-sells-15-million-g1-pre+orders
It took Apple 18 days to sell 1 million iPhones so it already beat the iPhone before it even shipped.
The no lines thing is easy to explain normal ppl order via amazon or preorder via t-mobile's website they aren't college students with enough free time and lack of sense to wait in line all day for a phone.
The nay saying take of this post seems very apple biased sorry apple cock suckers reality bites back.
Why not just suggest calling it the Gruntmaster 6000 to your PHB. And when they ask why point out because it is more advanced than the 5000 series.
But your assertion of a stranglehold simply does not hold up they have some %50 of the search market. And nothing is stopping anyone such as cuil from entering the market with a better algorithm.
Outside of being a media/geek darling there is nothing really stopping Google being replaced tomorrow by the next big thing. There is no real lock in as there is with application and format compatibility as is the case with Windows.
Go ahead try another search engine hell bookmark it make it your homepage there is nothing stopping you certainly not google. I actually suspect this will happen as googles coolness begins to fade with time. Investors should always be ready for the latest web 2.0 property to be replaced by the latest web 2.0 property.
Try several planets in the neighborhood.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_jr.html
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1998/triton.html
What I want to know is when AGW is proven as false as eugenics will people involved be properly disgraced as they should be? Al Gore? Somehow I doubt it. It will all be forgotten as if it never happened. I am sure they feel justified fighting evil consumption with scare tactics if that's what it takes to finally stop the capitalist juggernaut.
I run Photoshop CS2 (Which no kidding I actually paid 600 bucks for) on Ubuntu via WINE just fine. Other software I paid for on Linux includes noise ninja (great noise reduction software for pro photography), and Bibble Pro (raw conversion software) and I will probably buy a LightZone license for Linux when it comes out of beta. I am not concerned about cost as much as I am about a stable, reliable, usable Operating System infrastructure that is open and allows competition around a standard OS platform. This is something neither Microsoft or Apple provide.
Because that is definitely a DC 20 attempt.
A little known MMO that I have never heard of has pulled a publicity stunt and gotten some free coverage from Slashdot. What what what? Slashdot is there target demographic. Congratulations sirs PT Barnum would be proud.
Why do I need this update? So it can brick my phone. Hrmm sounds like I don't need it. I thought about this eventuality before I bought and unlocked the phone. It's not really a big deal at all. What functionality does the update provide that would make me want to apply it? None nadda zip. So I won't be. iTunes music store wifi crap could not care less about. I don't buy music from any source that sells DRM music. iTunes want's to force me to update. I will use a third party synch tool or just good old FTP SFTP. I am perfectly happy with the way my unlocked iPhone works right now. And more importantly I get far more value from the new applications the hackers have provided than I do from anything new Apple is talking about. I mean the NES emulator is by far the coolest thing on my iPhone. So in short meh whatever.