This doesn't say anything at all - just because you and your wife don't use computers doesn't mean that the rest of the world will stop using computers. As adorable as the ipad is, it is a computer replacement only for people who don't use computers. It's great for media consumption, but an ipad is not a computer.
I have an ipad. I am not much of a media consumer: I don't like watching movies on a tablet, I don't subscribe to magazines, I don't read digital books and I'm not too big on facebook/twitter scene and portable gaming isn't my thing... so for me the ipad is just a big paperweight. But I can imagine for media consumers it is better than sliced bread - all the things they needed a computer for many years ago they can now do it on the ipad, good for them. That doesn't mean ipad is a computer replacement - it's only a computer replacement for people who didn't use computers in the first place.
The problem is that they expect people to pay over $600 per year to watch ads. That's what television is: an advertising machine. It's like a highway billboard ad, but right in your living room. They don't even try to hide it anymore. You get about 10 minutes of advertising in a 30 minute tv show, and that doesn't even include the product placement inside the show itself, and it doesn't include the banner ads the network overlays during the show.
$40000000 per year to have a Facebook page? They have 378585 "likes" on Facebook, so at most that many people care about their Facebook page. That comes out to a whopping $105.65 per person annually. Yeah...
No. The amount of fuel your power plant uses is proportional to the power it is supplying. In case of coal plant: there is less coal being burned, in case of hydroelectric: less water needs to go through the turbines, in case of nuclear: control rods are inserted into the reactor core to slow down the reaction of the fuel rods by absorbing neutrons.
Less power used = less power generated = less fuel used.
I'm afraid your information about ultracapacitors is not up to date, here's a 125 volt ultracapacitor
They don't have the capacity of lithium batteries, but they have very high charge/discharge rates and low internal resistance. This combined with a lithium battery will allow regenerative breaking to buffer big chunk of energy before slowly charging the battery with it, and it can provide a nice boost during acceleration to help reduce the load on the battery.
It could be that people had unreasonable expectations from the hybrid to begin with, if you look at the advertising they promised a green car that doesn't use fuel and has flowers grow in its wake. In reality you ended up getting something that was marginally better fuel mileage than a compact car, but costs a lot more.
I drive a prius, I am disappointed with the fact that they STILL use outdated nimh batteries instead of lithium. Afaik they also don't use any of these new awesome ultracapacitors, so what the hell are they doing? The industry's stagnation annoys me, and I doubt I am alone.
Very true, I agree! The homophobes make up a very small minority in this country, and even smaller percentage in the rest of the world (remember EA has customers worldwide) and the homophobic a-holes are not the target demographic for EA. The ancient minded idiots aren't the game playing type anyway. EA appeals to younger audience who realize that sexual orientation isn't cause for discrimination. Some people like fish, some like beef, whatever you happen to enjoy: it doesn't mean you're righteous or vile, it's just what you happen to enjoy. Younger generation realizes what you do in your bedroom is of no concern to people outside of your bedroom.
Let's face it, the fundies are simply opposed to reality. They can't handle the reality.
These same a-holes were bitching because JCPenney hired lesbian actress Ellen for their latest ads, and JCPenney basically told them to fuck off and they kept Ellen. I commend their decision and so do most people in this country. The homophobic a-holes are a loudmouth group and they're very loud and obnoxious, but they don't represent anyone. The market has spoken: nobody cares about the minority of loudmouth homophobic a-holes who hate everything.
This is a great full-proof way of destroying any information based business: claim there is a possibility they got child porn.
YouTube could have child porn: Let's take down YouTube!
Facebook profiles could have child porn! Lets take down Facebook!
Apple engineers could keep a stock of child porn on their secret labs: Let's raid the Apple headquarters and confiscate all their equipment!
Any computer could be used to store and view child porn! We must confiscate ALL computers!
The Internet could be used to send child porn! We must turn off the Internet, go back to a time where television and newspapers rule the world, to protect us from child porn.
Really, who needs SOPA PIPA ACTA when you can just claim "child porn" and get a free pass to do whatever the hell you want to do.
I see it this way: They keep knocking at your door trying to knock it down. It's not that you're doing anything illegal, you just don't want government in your living room while you're courting your wife. But they keep knocking and you tell them not to enter but they continue knocking. All it takes is one moment of distraction and you will be distracted long enough for them to barge and start monitoring for illegal activities.
It's an invasion of privacy, what you do in your private quarters is your business. Your communications with a third party is private between you and the third party. The government has no business trying to get pry itself into your privacy unless they are charging you with a crime.
A government needs to fear its people, not the other way around. The government needs to be punished for knocking and asking for this. You wouldn't let your government get away with trying to pass a law legalizing prima nocta, yet they try to pass this sort of invasion of privacy and all we do is give them a light slap on the wrist and say "no, not now". There needs to be stronger repercussions for this type of deviant behavior.
Regardless of who is guilty, the world will greatly miss no_limit_nigga. His bitches will miss being fucked by him, his school will miss suspending him, and we will all miss him showing off his grillz while he's giving fingers and telling us he's going to kill us all. It's a tragedy indeed.
WHAT? Before his death, this Trayvor guy was almost an adult, caught bringing drugs to school, caught with women's jewelry, this asshole would barely be considered human but somehow after his death he becomes a sweet innocent 12 year old boy with a bright future loved by everyone. My disdain for him is not because he's black or what he looks like. There are plenty of this type of idiots running around and they come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Look at him, this Trayvon asshole is too much of a scumbag to even be on Jerry Springer.
And to make it worse, people are getting rich over his corpse. They're trademarking "trayvon" sentences, selling t-shirts, mugs, hats, bumper stickers etc. This is worse than Sony raising Whitney Houston's CD prices 30 minutes after her death. The vultures are stirring the wound to profit from the ensuing hysteria. They will start a race riot if it means extra $$$$ lining their pockets, they will cruising on their luxury yacht when society breaks down because of them.
At around 10 minutes there's a "real passwords obscured" block that fades in... really quick before the fade you can see the "real passwords"
They are:
Foxtrot42
42b8dfedd5
Not sure what the point of "obscuring" if you can see them anyway.
I see Google as the white pages and yellow pages for the Internet:
"I want the white pages to remove the phone numbers of convicted sex offenders, drug dealers, thieves and anyone else who has been convicted of anything."
-- British Bloke
"I want the white pages to remove the listings for anyone else who has the same name as me, because it confuses people trying to find me."
-- Japanese Guy
"We don't want you to list any of our businesses in the yellow pages."
-- Authors Guild
So? Chris Dodd is a fraud, you don't see him being arrested. Nobody is even investigating him, even after he openly admitted to congressional bribery... because the people who would need to start the investigation are the same people who he bribed.
Let's face it, Kim Dotcom is a fraud, but so are the people he's fighting against. Kim is guilty of not bribing the right people. He should have used some of his massive profits to bribe politicians like Chris Dodd of MPAA did, then he wouldn't be in this situation. In a world of frauds, I root for the newcomer fraud.
What seems like beating a dead horse is necessary in this case. You must continue to beat the horse even after the horse is long dead. It's like a course of antibiotics, it may seem like the infection is gone but if you stop too soon a resistant strain might come back.
Slashdot Mirror
Soon the EULA will be:
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you says will be used against you.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html U.S.A! #1
This doesn't say anything at all - just because you and your wife don't use computers doesn't mean that the rest of the world will stop using computers. As adorable as the ipad is, it is a computer replacement only for people who don't use computers. It's great for media consumption, but an ipad is not a computer.
I have an ipad. I am not much of a media consumer: I don't like watching movies on a tablet, I don't subscribe to magazines, I don't read digital books and I'm not too big on facebook/twitter scene and portable gaming isn't my thing... so for me the ipad is just a big paperweight. But I can imagine for media consumers it is better than sliced bread - all the things they needed a computer for many years ago they can now do it on the ipad, good for them. That doesn't mean ipad is a computer replacement - it's only a computer replacement for people who didn't use computers in the first place.
I doubt he's going to prison for four counts of burglary. He'll probably pay a small fine, that's about it.
The problem is that they expect people to pay over $600 per year to watch ads. That's what television is: an advertising machine. It's like a highway billboard ad, but right in your living room. They don't even try to hide it anymore. You get about 10 minutes of advertising in a 30 minute tv show, and that doesn't even include the product placement inside the show itself, and it doesn't include the banner ads the network overlays during the show.
$40000000 per year to have a Facebook page? They have 378585 "likes" on Facebook, so at most that many people care about their Facebook page. That comes out to a whopping $105.65 per person annually. Yeah...
on toe-jam.
Keeping you safe from 4 year old girls and their grandmothers since 2001.
This is nothing new. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html
watch out, The Tetris Company LLC is going to sue them for trademark violation...
No. The amount of fuel your power plant uses is proportional to the power it is supplying. In case of coal plant: there is less coal being burned, in case of hydroelectric: less water needs to go through the turbines, in case of nuclear: control rods are inserted into the reactor core to slow down the reaction of the fuel rods by absorbing neutrons.
Less power used = less power generated = less fuel used.
they don't have oil. :)
I'm afraid your information about ultracapacitors is not up to date, here's a 125 volt ultracapacitor
They don't have the capacity of lithium batteries, but they have very high charge/discharge rates and low internal resistance. This combined with a lithium battery will allow regenerative breaking to buffer big chunk of energy before slowly charging the battery with it, and it can provide a nice boost during acceleration to help reduce the load on the battery.
It could be that people had unreasonable expectations from the hybrid to begin with, if you look at the advertising they promised a green car that doesn't use fuel and has flowers grow in its wake. In reality you ended up getting something that was marginally better fuel mileage than a compact car, but costs a lot more.
I drive a prius, I am disappointed with the fact that they STILL use outdated nimh batteries instead of lithium. Afaik they also don't use any of these new awesome ultracapacitors, so what the hell are they doing? The industry's stagnation annoys me, and I doubt I am alone.
Very true, I agree! The homophobes make up a very small minority in this country, and even smaller percentage in the rest of the world (remember EA has customers worldwide) and the homophobic a-holes are not the target demographic for EA. The ancient minded idiots aren't the game playing type anyway. EA appeals to younger audience who realize that sexual orientation isn't cause for discrimination. Some people like fish, some like beef, whatever you happen to enjoy: it doesn't mean you're righteous or vile, it's just what you happen to enjoy. Younger generation realizes what you do in your bedroom is of no concern to people outside of your bedroom.
Let's face it, the fundies are simply opposed to reality. They can't handle the reality.
Luckily http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/poll-suggests-america-has-turned-a-corner-on-homophobia.php
These same a-holes were bitching because JCPenney hired lesbian actress Ellen for their latest ads, and JCPenney basically told them to fuck off and they kept Ellen. I commend their decision and so do most people in this country. The homophobic a-holes are a loudmouth group and they're very loud and obnoxious, but they don't represent anyone. The market has spoken: nobody cares about the minority of loudmouth homophobic a-holes who hate everything.
I read this as "Insider Traders are about to make fortune from Monsanto"
This is a great full-proof way of destroying any information based business: claim there is a possibility they got child porn.
YouTube could have child porn: Let's take down YouTube!
Facebook profiles could have child porn! Lets take down Facebook!
Apple engineers could keep a stock of child porn on their secret labs: Let's raid the Apple headquarters and confiscate all their equipment!
Any computer could be used to store and view child porn! We must confiscate ALL computers!
The Internet could be used to send child porn! We must turn off the Internet, go back to a time where television and newspapers rule the world, to protect us from child porn.
Really, who needs SOPA PIPA ACTA when you can just claim "child porn" and get a free pass to do whatever the hell you want to do.
I see it this way: They keep knocking at your door trying to knock it down. It's not that you're doing anything illegal, you just don't want government in your living room while you're courting your wife. But they keep knocking and you tell them not to enter but they continue knocking. All it takes is one moment of distraction and you will be distracted long enough for them to barge and start monitoring for illegal activities.
It's an invasion of privacy, what you do in your private quarters is your business. Your communications with a third party is private between you and the third party. The government has no business trying to get pry itself into your privacy unless they are charging you with a crime.
A government needs to fear its people, not the other way around. The government needs to be punished for knocking and asking for this. You wouldn't let your government get away with trying to pass a law legalizing prima nocta, yet they try to pass this sort of invasion of privacy and all we do is give them a light slap on the wrist and say "no, not now". There needs to be stronger repercussions for this type of deviant behavior.
Regardless of who is guilty, the world will greatly miss no_limit_nigga. His bitches will miss being fucked by him, his school will miss suspending him, and we will all miss him showing off his grillz while he's giving fingers and telling us he's going to kill us all. It's a tragedy indeed.
WHAT? Before his death, this Trayvor guy was almost an adult, caught bringing drugs to school, caught with women's jewelry, this asshole would barely be considered human but somehow after his death he becomes a sweet innocent 12 year old boy with a bright future loved by everyone. My disdain for him is not because he's black or what he looks like. There are plenty of this type of idiots running around and they come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Look at him, this Trayvon asshole is too much of a scumbag to even be on Jerry Springer.
And to make it worse, people are getting rich over his corpse. They're trademarking "trayvon" sentences, selling t-shirts, mugs, hats, bumper stickers etc. This is worse than Sony raising Whitney Houston's CD prices 30 minutes after her death. The vultures are stirring the wound to profit from the ensuing hysteria. They will start a race riot if it means extra $$$$ lining their pockets, they will cruising on their luxury yacht when society breaks down because of them.
They are:
Foxtrot42
42b8dfedd5
Not sure what the point of "obscuring" if you can see them anyway.
I see Google as the white pages and yellow pages for the Internet:
"I want the white pages to remove the phone numbers of convicted sex offenders, drug dealers, thieves and anyone else who has been convicted of anything." -- British Bloke
"I want the white pages to remove the listings for anyone else who has the same name as me, because it confuses people trying to find me." -- Japanese Guy
"We don't want you to list any of our businesses in the yellow pages." -- Authors Guild
So? Chris Dodd is a fraud, you don't see him being arrested. Nobody is even investigating him, even after he openly admitted to congressional bribery... because the people who would need to start the investigation are the same people who he bribed.
Let's face it, Kim Dotcom is a fraud, but so are the people he's fighting against. Kim is guilty of not bribing the right people. He should have used some of his massive profits to bribe politicians like Chris Dodd of MPAA did, then he wouldn't be in this situation. In a world of frauds, I root for the newcomer fraud.
What seems like beating a dead horse is necessary in this case. You must continue to beat the horse even after the horse is long dead. It's like a course of antibiotics, it may seem like the infection is gone but if you stop too soon a resistant strain might come back.
If your name is Bundy, it means you are either a serial killer or a pathetic shoe salesman.
This story is somewhat similar to the Los Alfaques story where search results to a sunny beach resort returns pictures of burned corpses.
At 7kg it has very low power to weight ratio, so it's terrible for flying things. Go with lithium polymer batteries instead.