Seems to me after watching Who Killed The Electric Car and at least a dozen Slashdot entries that this has been achieved already.
The problem is not in the technology, but rather with the political power of the fossil fuel industry, in collusion with automakers, to prevent us from choosing alternatives to fossil fuel.
Of course we have no one but ourselves to blame for embracing Hummers, SUVs, and oversized trucks.
What we need to do is convince Gore to motivate Jobs and Gates to create an alternative car that has no ties to existing automakers or oil. (Ignoring that Gore made his money from oil and sold it off for the 2000 election.)
... calling someone an idiot just because they disagree with you.
Dont forget, Evolution is a theory. There's strong evidence, but huge gaps. People who believe Evolution is a fact are also making a leap of faith - not a scientific deduction.
Unrelated situations. Fallacy - two wrongs (if such) don't not make a right.
Your whole attitude is why, instead of complying to the EU's totaliarian practices, Apple ands Microsoft should just pull out of those markets. China and India have more potential consumers.
But giving Europe's response to Apple and similar proprietary issues, I am kinda siding with Microsoft on this one. Europe is trying to force its socialist business practices on the the free world. If it wasn't right when the USSR did the same, it's not right now.
"Last year the industry saw about $2 billion in revenues from online music sales, and nearly $800 million of that stemmed from single-track sales, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's report. That leads me to estimate that at least 40 percent of sales are singles, which means that this quarter we could see something in the range of 70 million "singles" sold digitally.
The question is: how often does a consumer opt to buy just one or two songs off an album rather than buy the whole thing? This phenomenon must affect the top of the music charts quite viciously. I know I'm reluctant to buy an album, especially anything approaching a "hit album," unless I know that there's more than 2 to 3 songs on it that I like. Otherwise, I don't want to take the "risk."
But to answer the question of how often, let's just estimate based on what limited information we have. Given the estimate of 70 million digital singles, we could say that the ratio between consumers buying digital songs and entire CDs is approximately 1:1.22. That's quite a leveling. If my estimates have been conservative, the balance may be tipped even more in favor of digital singles."
Digital music sales are through the roof, and the used CD market is healthy. THe only big album in the last 6 mos were Cristina Aguilar and Justin Timberlake
Focusing on one type of sale does not represent the entire industry.
'one only had to look at the hard drive of any of the students' computers to see that bad content dominated over good.'"
Sounds like the college is a failure, not the students. Why havent they successfully taught students the right thing to do? Nancy Reagan could do a better job.
Thanks. I just want to confirm I understand the Falcon 1 is not the same size as the Saturns. What I meant is, SpaceX and whomever seems to be recreating the wheel in the sense that certain values and capacies have already been discovered. Retooling of factories has to happen whether you build an old design or a new design. None of these parts are "off the shelf". And, since SpaceX is brand new, they are experiencing all the same set up costs. But they are experiencing what they did today because they are using all new parameters.
Russia is using old technology successfully. There is something to be learned from that.
How is SpaceX's Falcon 1 different, improved over the Saturns (besides being private enterprise)?
Are they re-inventing the wheel? Isnt the Saturn technology avaialble? It would seem the profit is in actually reaching space, so using proven technology would be fastest to re-create and succeed.
This is how we should return to the moon. We are wasting too much time and money trying to be new and fancy.
I love Apples, so much so its hard to let go of them. Intested of speed, RAM or other requirements, I'd love it if OSse had the built in ability to link up for distributed processing. Example, if I had 5 Core Duo Mac minis, linked, I would really have a pent-processor. The linking would only depend on a module in the OS, not on hardware. Also, the control panel would suggest optimized settings for different apps and working conditions.
For Apples, I'd say that any machine capable of OS X should be capable of this feature. For Windows that would be WIN2K, XP, and Vista.
This way, each new computer upgrades your computing power, rather than replaces it. It would save on landfill space too.
I saw a show in the 80s where they were testing this typ of stuff in Australia. What I want is some kind of automatic bracking and acceleration. Stop and go traffic occurs because people drive erratically: tailgating, excessive braking, speeding, driving too slow, etc. If everyone drove like a semi-truck drive we'd have have much better traffic. With technology, we could limit speed and regulate distances relative to objects in front and in back of us. We could also eliminate blind spots by detecting horizontal obstacles. Furthermore, we could make turn signals semi automatic by triggering them when the car start to change lanes.
Imagine an end to pedestrian accidents if cars were not able to enter a cross walk when the light is red
Using rfid in street signs, we could help the car to navigate stops, merges, and even speed in critical areas such as school zones.
I know a lot a people will gripe about freedom, but its their expression of individuality on the road that cause traffic problems and accidents.
We could certainly use this technology in large metropolitan areas and on congested freeways as we have in the San Francisco bay area and in Los Angeles. Not only would we read our destinations faster and easier, but we would also conserve fuel.
On a side note, we should eliminate the carpool lanes. All they do is contribute to congestion. They were intended to increase ride sharing, but the increase seems insignificant. Its not saving fuel or the environment. I know we have been brainwashed to think carpool lanes are a good idea, but all they are is source of revenue for government.
Many carpool users don't even have multiple licensed drivers in the vehicle! Thats not even carpooling in the sense of conservation and environment.
Minimumly, we should reverse the hours of the carpool. Open up the roads when the demand is highest. this will put off the need for more lanes.
A radical idea is to change the concept of the carpool lane and disallow SUVs and other fuel inefficient vehicles.Open it up to light weight vehicles, hybrids, alternate fuel, and low emission vehicles. This might encourage a more rapid adoption of alternate fuel cars.
The EU is essentially complaining that a cassette doesnt play in a CD player. If they would rip the music to audio CD, it would play in any audio CD players. CDs don't play in any CD player, specifically CD players attached to computers. That requires extra software, and sometimes is blocked completely.
With Apple songs, specifically, you can play it on a variety of computers. The iPod is one such variety.
When you buy a song, you own the media, not the content. Do people who buy books automatically get free books-on-tape?
If you read space news we *can't* put a man on the moon. Projections are for 10-20 years, if ever. If this analogy is true, does MySpace get 20 years to validate an age?
Yeah, the Democrats at this moment are trying to terminate the Iraq war budget... and spend it on mores social services that they can't seem to manage for themselves: healthcare.
"Only 20% of the increase is to fuel military spending, which at 4% of the GDP is the lowest wartime defense budget in history.
The other 80% of the increase goes to the social welfare programs that repeatedly have failed achieve the stated social goals.
he quagmire of the war on poverty has it that today, after 42 years after this war began, the nation's Official Poverty Rate has stagnated at 13% for most of the last 35 years. Either someone is lying to make sure that we keep their federal agency going, or else we are losing this war.
In fact, the military budget increase of 4.1% is smaller than the overall 4.9% growth in the federal budget. At a time of war!
So much for the lefty lie that military spending is harming the budget."
THe US wont go to the moon. China or maybe INdia but not the US. Our country's space aspirations were snuffed out forever by the liberal revolution. The Democrats' constant need for tax-funded services cause they cant get their own lives together will direct taxes collected in to more and more social services leaving few dollars for NASA and other research for the future.
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Seems to me after watching Who Killed The Electric Car and at least a dozen Slashdot entries that this has been achieved already.
The problem is not in the technology, but rather with the political power of the fossil fuel industry, in collusion with automakers, to prevent us from choosing alternatives to fossil fuel.
Of course we have no one but ourselves to blame for embracing Hummers, SUVs, and oversized trucks.
What we need to do is convince Gore to motivate Jobs and Gates to create an alternative car that has no ties to existing automakers or oil. (Ignoring that Gore made his money from oil and sold it off for the 2000 election.)
... calling someone an idiot just because they disagree with you.
Dont forget, Evolution is a theory. There's strong evidence, but huge gaps. People who believe Evolution is a fact are also making a leap of faith - not a scientific deduction.
of playing the Wii if you arent moving your arms around?
Unrelated situations. Fallacy - two wrongs (if such) don't not make a right. Your whole attitude is why, instead of complying to the EU's totaliarian practices, Apple ands Microsoft should just pull out of those markets. China and India have more potential consumers.
THANK YOU. Microsoft is not a *true* monopoly. Apple's success since this ruling proves such. As does the expansion of Linux worldwide.
It may be *labeled* antitrust law, but the EU is interferring too much. Regulation is pure socialism, not capitalism.
But giving Europe's response to Apple and similar proprietary issues, I am kinda siding with Microsoft on this one. Europe is trying to force its socialist business practices on the the free world. If it wasn't right when the USSR did the same, it's not right now.
If this is cause for firing someone, I'd like to see everyone who says much worse about Bush fired. Oops that would include both Hilary and Obama!
Digital album sales are strong
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"Last year the industry saw about $2 billion in revenues from online music sales, and nearly $800 million of that stemmed from single-track sales, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's report. That leads me to estimate that at least 40 percent of sales are singles, which means that this quarter we could see something in the range of 70 million "singles" sold digitally.
The question is: how often does a consumer opt to buy just one or two songs off an album rather than buy the whole thing? This phenomenon must affect the top of the music charts quite viciously. I know I'm reluctant to buy an album, especially anything approaching a "hit album," unless I know that there's more than 2 to 3 songs on it that I like. Otherwise, I don't want to take the "risk."
But to answer the question of how often, let's just estimate based on what limited information we have. Given the estimate of 70 million digital singles, we could say that the ratio between consumers buying digital songs and entire CDs is approximately 1:1.22. That's quite a leveling. If my estimates have been conservative, the balance may be tipped even more in favor of digital singles."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070321-acc
Digital music sales are through the roof, and the used CD market is healthy. THe only big album in the last 6 mos were Cristina Aguilar and Justin Timberlake
Focusing on one type of sale does not represent the entire industry.
'one only had to look at the hard drive of any of the students' computers to see that bad content dominated over good.'"
Sounds like the college is a failure, not the students. Why havent they successfully taught students the right thing to do? Nancy Reagan could do a better job.
I say its Windows/MS that is to blame. We need Apple and Sony's tech call records.
Thanks. I just want to confirm I understand the Falcon 1 is not the same size as the Saturns. What I meant is, SpaceX and whomever seems to be recreating the wheel in the sense that certain values and capacies have already been discovered. Retooling of factories has to happen whether you build an old design or a new design. None of these parts are "off the shelf". And, since SpaceX is brand new, they are experiencing all the same set up costs. But they are experiencing what they did today because they are using all new parameters.
Russia is using old technology successfully. There is something to be learned from that.
And yet Saturns worked well and put stuff into space regularly... I am not sure what you are saying.
How is SpaceX's Falcon 1 different, improved over the Saturns (besides being private enterprise)?
Are they re-inventing the wheel? Isnt the Saturn technology avaialble? It would seem the profit is in actually reaching space, so using proven technology would be fastest to re-create and succeed.
This is how we should return to the moon. We are wasting too much time and money trying to be new and fancy.
It looks like they are starting up the engines. There is white smoke coming out the side.
I love Apples, so much so its hard to let go of them. Intested of speed, RAM or other requirements, I'd love it if OSse had the built in ability to link up for distributed processing. Example, if I had 5 Core Duo Mac minis, linked, I would really have a pent-processor. The linking would only depend on a module in the OS, not on hardware. Also, the control panel would suggest optimized settings for different apps and working conditions.
For Apples, I'd say that any machine capable of OS X should be capable of this feature. For Windows that would be WIN2K, XP, and Vista.
This way, each new computer upgrades your computing power, rather than replaces it. It would save on landfill space too.
Mark all prime-time content as "Viewer discretion is advised" and "Parenting is required"
I saw a show in the 80s where they were testing this typ of stuff in Australia. What I want is some kind of automatic bracking and acceleration. Stop and go traffic occurs because people drive erratically: tailgating, excessive braking, speeding, driving too slow, etc. If everyone drove like a semi-truck drive we'd have have much better traffic. With technology, we could limit speed and regulate distances relative to objects in front and in back of us. We could also eliminate blind spots by detecting horizontal obstacles. Furthermore, we could make turn signals semi automatic by triggering them when the car start to change lanes.
Imagine an end to pedestrian accidents if cars were not able to enter a cross walk when the light is red
Using rfid in street signs, we could help the car to navigate stops, merges, and even speed in critical areas such as school zones.
I know a lot a people will gripe about freedom, but its their expression of individuality on the road that cause traffic problems and accidents.
We could certainly use this technology in large metropolitan areas and on congested freeways as we have in the San Francisco bay area and in Los Angeles. Not only would we read our destinations faster and easier, but we would also conserve fuel.
On a side note, we should eliminate the carpool lanes. All they do is contribute to congestion. They were intended to increase ride sharing, but the increase seems insignificant. Its not saving fuel or the environment. I know we have been brainwashed to think carpool lanes are a good idea, but all they are is source of revenue for government.
Many carpool users don't even have multiple licensed drivers in the vehicle! Thats not even carpooling in the sense of conservation and environment.
Minimumly, we should reverse the hours of the carpool. Open up the roads when the demand is highest. this will put off the need for more lanes.
A radical idea is to change the concept of the carpool lane and disallow SUVs and other fuel inefficient vehicles.Open it up to light weight vehicles, hybrids, alternate fuel, and low emission vehicles. This might encourage a more rapid adoption of alternate fuel cars.
The EU is essentially complaining that a cassette doesnt play in a CD player. If they would rip the music to audio CD, it would play in any audio CD players. CDs don't play in any CD player, specifically CD players attached to computers. That requires extra software, and sometimes is blocked completely.
With Apple songs, specifically, you can play it on a variety of computers. The iPod is one such variety.
When you buy a song, you own the media, not the content. Do people who buy books automatically get free books-on-tape?
EyeTV is a wonderful, cheap, affordable solution to PVR.
If you read space news we *can't* put a man on the moon. Projections are for 10-20 years, if ever. If this analogy is true, does MySpace get 20 years to validate an age?
California is a prime example. As the dollar investment goes up over time, student performance has declined in the state.
Yeah, the Democrats at this moment are trying to terminate the Iraq war budget ... and spend it on mores social services that they can't seem to manage for themselves: healthcare.
h e-military-is-the-budget-scapegoat/
"Only 20% of the increase is to fuel military spending, which at 4% of the GDP is the lowest wartime defense budget in history.
The other 80% of the increase goes to the social welfare programs that repeatedly have failed achieve the stated social goals.
he quagmire of the war on poverty has it that today, after 42 years after this war began, the nation's Official Poverty Rate has stagnated at 13% for most of the last 35 years. Either someone is lying to make sure that we keep their federal agency going, or else we are losing this war.
In fact, the military budget increase of 4.1% is smaller than the overall 4.9% growth in the federal budget. At a time of war!
So much for the lefty lie that military spending is harming the budget."
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2007/02/05/t
THe US wont go to the moon. China or maybe INdia but not the US. Our country's space aspirations were snuffed out forever by the liberal revolution. The Democrats' constant need for tax-funded services cause they cant get their own lives together will direct taxes collected in to more and more social services leaving few dollars for NASA and other research for the future.