Ford licences the technology, it doesn't develop it from scratch. There are probably 2 or 3 car manufacturers that are actively persuing hybrid drive systems. The rest prefer to buy results.
While it may stifle some potential better designs, it makes the job of a car mechanic much less complicated.
I don't think kids are growing up faster than we did in the 80s. I used to play "adult" games when I was 13, but all we had at that time was Leisure Suit Larry and Strip Yahzee.
These days, adult games not only show the occasional nipple (in 16 million colors, not 16 of them), they also incorporate murder, stealing and whatever else the publishers manage to put in there. So when kids pick up an adult game today, it's not the same adult game as 15 years ago.
Re:I'm buying Fahrenheit 9/11 the day it comes out
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Guerrilla Drive-Ins
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How grand of you. Hitler's anti-semitic movies were shown before movies in Germany, Americna propaganda "news" reels were shown in the US, and here we are, 50 years later, with not much changing.
Instead of using some distorted version of the truth to sway voters, why don't you educate them with something that actually holds water?
Bush isn't the best president you've ever had, Kerry isn't the best presidential candidate you ever had. But you can still support one without resorting to blatent lies.
When's the next platform due - 2005? That's a year or so away. If developers were abandoning a future system before it hit the market, Nintendo would be in trouble. Right now they can just coast to the next system on sequels to their best games (Metroid 2, Wind Waker 2, Mario Tennis).
Kudos to the moderator(s) who gave this a +1, Insightful. I think your tolerance level for sarcasm has become so high that you don't even know when you read sarcasm anymore.
Professor Frink: "We studied traffic patterns and found that drivers move the fastest through yellow lights, so now we just have the red and yellow lights, mm-haiai."
Lenny [flooring it]: "Stay yellow! Stay yellow!"
The article was written by an idiot.
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The End of the Oil Age
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From the article:
The best way to curb the demand for oil and promote innovation in oil alternatives is to tell the world's energy markets that the "externalities" of oil consumption--security considerations and environmental issues alike--really will influence policy from now on. And the way to do that is to impose a gradually rising gasoline tax.
The effect of that will be smaller and more efficient combustion engines. Just look at what they drive in Europe and the gas prices there.
The only way a gasoline tax will ever work is if alternatives (hydrogen, electricity, fuel cells) have an infrastructure equal to that of current gas stations. Until I can charge my car in 2 minutes or fill it up with hydrogen at any station, this won't happen.
If you want to have a red rectangle you would have to do something like that in your SVG: <rect x="10" y="10" width="100" height="100" style="fill: red"/> Quite intuitive, isn't it?>
All these Linux newbies will be thrilled to hear this!
Seeing as Gutenberg made his press in the middle of the 15th century and that the first ads weren't printed until mass literacy came around, we haven't been exposed to flyers advertising stuff for 9.99 and 99.99 until very recently - maybe a few decades. Ditto for the TV ads.
But your point is correct - people don't want to buy something that costs $10.00. They want it for $9.99 - maybe because it has less digits.
They mention that the cells can be refilled, but no mention where or how. Somehow I don't think people will want to buy 6 or 8 hours of extra battery time if they have to pay $200 bucks for it.
They also mention that the infrastructure's not there yet to support these cells. I'm guessing that means there are no places that will refill them.
So if you desperately need that much battery power, pay the price each time until refill stations come along. yay.
I used to run an old distro (RH 5.1) for the longest time (it had everything I needed) and it was full of security holes after doing the install. But disable some services, update some packages and presto - you're ok to go.
It's the same thing with Windows - check out the services turned on by default after installing Win 2k. Half of them will never be used by a home user.
So patch your box, remove unnecessary services and you should be alright. If you know what you're doing, you'll be ok.
You bring up a valid point, but a massive blackout like this one happens because the already-loaded grids are used to supply the blacked out grid. The more grids black out, the greater the demand on the other grids, increasing their chance of failure.
Kind of like a domino effect.
The system is probably way too slow to handle (or predict?) near-by grid failures, which is why other grids are popping, too.
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Ford licences the technology, it doesn't develop it from scratch. There are probably 2 or 3 car manufacturers that are actively persuing hybrid drive systems. The rest prefer to buy results.
While it may stifle some potential better designs, it makes the job of a car mechanic much less complicated.
I don't think kids are growing up faster than we did in the 80s. I used to play "adult" games when I was 13, but all we had at that time was Leisure Suit Larry and Strip Yahzee.
These days, adult games not only show the occasional nipple (in 16 million colors, not 16 of them), they also incorporate murder, stealing and whatever else the publishers manage to put in there. So when kids pick up an adult game today, it's not the same adult game as 15 years ago.
Instead of using some distorted version of the truth to sway voters, why don't you educate them with something that actually holds water?
Bush isn't the best president you've ever had, Kerry isn't the best presidential candidate you ever had. But you can still support one without resorting to blatent lies.
I've resigned from my subscription to Penthouse when I got married. And there was no press release on Slashdot.
Honestly, who cares? The guy has strong feelings about the war in Iraq. And just because he runs a LUG his opinion is God's word?
When's the next platform due - 2005? That's a year or so away. If developers were abandoning a future system before it hit the market, Nintendo would be in trouble. Right now they can just coast to the next system on sequels to their best games (Metroid 2, Wind Waker 2, Mario Tennis).
They should use a red tractor trailer to build Optimus Prime.
You also have to bring your own corpse back to get the money.
But I guess your corpse could take about 909 trips (10,000,000/11,000) after winning.
It's only 39 megs.
It's funny because it's true.
16.00 pounds, plus 4 for shipping... I'd rather get an old magneto, though. Lots more voltage.
There should be a hack to merge all comments related to both stories (original and dupe) into a single page - with scoring and sorting options.
That way you wouldn't have to check both stories to find the comments you prefer reading.
Kudos to the moderator(s) who gave this a +1, Insightful. I think your tolerance level for sarcasm has become so high that you don't even know when you read sarcasm anymore.
If you look at the MS ads that have been running for the past few months, it seems that the only reason why /. is alive is because of their cash.
Professor Frink: "We studied traffic patterns and found that drivers move the fastest through yellow lights, so now we just have the red and yellow lights, mm-haiai."
Lenny [flooring it]: "Stay yellow! Stay yellow!"
The best way to curb the demand for oil and promote innovation in oil alternatives is to tell the world's energy markets that the "externalities" of oil consumption--security considerations and environmental issues alike--really will influence policy from now on. And the way to do that is to impose a gradually rising gasoline tax.
The effect of that will be smaller and more efficient combustion engines. Just look at what they drive in Europe and the gas prices there.
The only way a gasoline tax will ever work is if alternatives (hydrogen, electricity, fuel cells) have an infrastructure equal to that of current gas stations. Until I can charge my car in 2 minutes or fill it up with hydrogen at any station, this won't happen.
From the article:
If you want to have a red rectangle you would have to do something like that in your SVG: <rect x="10" y="10" width="100" height="100" style="fill: red"/>
Quite intuitive, isn't it?>
All these Linux newbies will be thrilled to hear this!
Seeing as Gutenberg made his press in the middle of the 15th century and that the first ads weren't printed until mass literacy came around, we haven't been exposed to flyers advertising stuff for 9.99 and 99.99 until very recently - maybe a few decades. Ditto for the TV ads.
But your point is correct - people don't want to buy something that costs $10.00. They want it for $9.99 - maybe because it has less digits.
"The three small objects the astronomers spotted - given the prosaic names 2003 BF91, 2003 BG91 and 2003 BH91 - range in size from 15 to 28 miles
Hence the size of Philadelphia varies from 15 to 28 miles. Oh, and Philadelphia is a also an irregular sphere.
They mention that the cells can be refilled, but no mention where or how. Somehow I don't think people will want to buy 6 or 8 hours of extra battery time if they have to pay $200 bucks for it.
They also mention that the infrastructure's not there yet to support these cells. I'm guessing that means there are no places that will refill them.
So if you desperately need that much battery power, pay the price each time until refill stations come along. yay.
Or your admin makes it.
I used to run an old distro (RH 5.1) for the longest time (it had everything I needed) and it was full of security holes after doing the install. But disable some services, update some packages and presto - you're ok to go.
It's the same thing with Windows - check out the services turned on by default after installing Win 2k. Half of them will never be used by a home user.
So patch your box, remove unnecessary services and you should be alright. If you know what you're doing, you'll be ok.
and I still got spammed with the Dean for America crap (issued by some third party).
.ca - you'd think they would remove any country-specific addresses.
The worst part is that my e-mail address ends in a
Or maybe the spammers are inflating their mailing lists with Canadians.
You bring up a valid point, but a massive blackout like this one happens because the already-loaded grids are used to supply the blacked out grid. The more grids black out, the greater the demand on the other grids, increasing their chance of failure.
Kind of like a domino effect.
The system is probably way too slow to handle (or predict?) near-by grid failures, which is why other grids are popping, too.
Unless they were being fed hot grits.
Or being walked by a petrified Natalie Portman.
Or being sued by SCO.
Bart
P.S. Please come up with a new slashdot meme.
For a brief moment I read that as crash prizes...
Are these the same guys who measured heads and lumps on skulls to determine who's a potential criminal?