lesson partially learned

The people that made the internet viable early on were people who both understood what the network could provide and wanted it.

Those of us who spent our nights dialing between BBSes and trading phone numbers were waiting in the shadows for something more connected. Once the internet became more available (i.e. not just military or universities) climbed on board as soon as we could. It is this kind of group that made the network valuable. This Viewtron system was very closed and controlled. As a user you had access to commercial stuff, but nothing shared between users other than email. The one major thing it missed was porn -- 20/20.

Otherwise it is a barely usable brick targeted to people who don't care anyway. It's a certain flop. No surprise.

It is interesting how forward thinking it was though. 15000 people is quite a few, but only 1/1000th of what was needed to recover costs.

After quickly reading the report, it seems that pedestrians are more likely to be hit when a hybrid is going very slow, like when turning a corner in a low speed area. The blanket solution is to have EV making sound all the time, which to me is ridiculous. However, maybe it is worth emitting sound when the brake is freshly released and the EV is speeding up. Maybe a pedestrian can be alerted to the fact that the previously stopped EV is not stopped anymore and should start running for their lives!

Needless to say, a fast running car makes tons of sound from it's tires and other crap -- EV or not. A stopped EV is much like a parked car, and it might be worth knowing it has started to roll from a pedestrian/cyclist point of view. The recommendations just show a lack of imagination, really. The recommendation could easily have been that everyone must always have loud music playing while driving. That would also be sufficient. Pump up the Volume

I was always under the impression that the 68k vs 8086 architecture produced far less heat for the same throughput.

If that was true then, and is still true, then current processors could be consuming less power under a different architecture and doing the same work. Given that my cell phone's ARM chip is more powerful than my old PC, and heats up far less no matter how much I gab on it might give some credence to the concept.

I think that it is better to refer to "dissidents" rather than "criminals" in conversations like this one. Everyone gets bent up on the fact that someone is breaking a reasonable law, and being labelled a criminal. No one cares if a criminal, in the sanest sense, is caught.

However, those that are fed up with insane public policy, gathering together, say, at a mall, then being tracked by these license plate finders. So, now we have license plates. We have times that a set of plates are together. We know a couple of people we want to keep an eye on with license plates X, Y, and Z. Looky looky, these people are at Mall A at the same time... hopefully the slippery slope is a little more obvious.

Yes, we have to assume that we are being tracked. Yes, we have to assume all these things can and will be monitored. "To what end?" Is the question. "Find my car" is the end? Probably not, but maybe.

why a cable? and why hdmi?

I do some of this now with flingo.org for video - and the reading crap on my laptop..

Which makes it more horrible IMO

And, how many times have you done that 'action' and felt like a smuck once you've realized how much of your life has just been wasted? If addiction and gamification is required to make you do something, I worry about important things being done that aren't gamified.

I'm all for making things fun, musical stairs

But does my next pay day get determined by how many bugs I fix, or how many hours I stay at work in 'overtime'? I certainly hope not!

Everybody enjoys fun things, and making dull things fun has been around since the beginning of recorded history. Ever heard the phrase "Life is a Game"?

This term is as useful as a punch to the groin. See what I did there? I made writing, and I maybe reading, a bit more fun. I wonder how many I's I can use in a sentence? See, I did it again. Fun!

This whole concept makes me afraid of business latching on to this stupid idea and causing a crap load of problems. Partly because of the work that is never fun, thus never gets done. Or the work that gets barely done because it is not fun enough. Or just simply people who won't learn how to do something new, because someone else hasn't made a game out if it yet (i.e.never will).

This is a terrible idea to push, let alone adopt. It might have its place it limited settings, like for 7 year olds in school, like, for every book you read you get 5 points. Oh ya, I did that when I was a kid. I recall that I could care less about the points, but I did want to read more books than Danny. Funny.

Just last year my family had to go through my fathers collection of stuff. There were 10s of thousands of books, magazines, etc. None of them were deemed worth keeping and my father was upset at this notion (understandably).

Here's why we chucked them:
1) nobody had space to keep these.
2) libraries are not interested in old books.
3) nobody was willing to spend their meagre vacation sorting through the pile. Keep in mind if you could go through 100 a day, it would still take 100s of days
4) nobody looked at these books for 40 years, why start now?
5) they were covered in dust, spider webs, and whatnot.

I personally think a computer system is a much more reliable way to keep and use books (aside from the altering bit). Here's my simplistic reasoning

1) a working computer can hold so very many books - even the smallest laptop or ebook device
2) a hard drive can last a decade easily enough.
3) backing up a hard drive takes minutes to hours (just considering books here) - and put onto a CD/DVD (or set)
4) nearly anybody can store it - warmish, dry place is all it takes
5) I can search
6) I can browse
7) I can readily share them

Libraries are increasingly irrelevant - although they can become public/community meeting places, like a Library Club House, dropping the Library bit.

The last time I was in a library was about 5 years ago... and they didn't have the book I wanted to look at anyway. And at that time, I bought a better one online and waited a week. An ebook would have suited me fine too.

Thanks for that; I was going to say the same thing but yours is so much better.

The only other thing I could add, is that we are so far beyond 1.5 earths just because the majority of food is made possible because of consuming fertilizer... which is made using natural gas.

I think we are in the catapult and pressed so tightly against the spoon that we will barely see the ground rushing towards us.

you can take a look at Election Buddy - it would probably do what you are asking for. http://electionbuddy.com/
I'm not sure what you mean by 'not enough bandwidth', but 200 web pages isn't that much.