Any war with them with missiles would be concluded before you heard about it on Slashdot.
Isn't this the same attitude we had about Iraq and Afghanistan? The people of NK see us as the enemy, not as the liberator from their wicked dear leader. They'll continue to fight us until every person that can shoot a gun is killed.
Earth Hour isn't meant to actually save any energy, it's to build public awareness.
The problem with raising awareness like this is you create the mindset that to be "green" and save the earth you have to make sacrifices, such as no lights or HVAC. This simply isn't true, people could do wonders towards saving energy by installing more efficient lighting, insulating their attics and hot water pipes, and calking their windows. You don't have to remember to turn it on and off, it works when you sleep, and most important to most you don't have to change your current lifestyle or give something up.
Please call SPRINT at 1-800-xxx-xxxx
Telling people, who are looking for their lost phone, to call a number, might not be the most effective tactic. =)
"Originally it was set at $82,000 - but we've since casually chugged on past that point."
Who knows how much this really cost.
I think that hasn't been true in a long time. You might be able to get a similarly spec'ed laptop if you didn't care about form-factor or style that much, but then it's not really the same product. The new Mac Book Pro has taken things even further by giving the best resolution available for the money. Doing a quick price comparison can show you they aren't overpriced at all. The Dell Ultrabook XPS 13 currently retails for $999, while the Mac Book Air 13" retails at $1199. Of course the Mac is more, but it has a 1400x900 screen as opposed to 720p resolution, 1.8GHz CPU as opposed to 1.6GHz CPU and a height of 0.68 inches vs. 0.71 inches. The rest of the main features seem to be about the same, and while some may say, what's the difference between
They're overpriced regarding "How much money do I need to spend to get the task done" not "What gives me the most features for my dollar." A $400 laptop can type Word documents, create Excel spreadsheets, browse the internet, send email, haul it around a job site looking at PDFs, watch movies, and play games just as well as the $1200 mac book pro. I don't need to do that in 720p resolution, I don't need a super drive sitting idle, I don't need 500 gb of hard drive storage, or the cutting edge RAM speed.
This actually seems like a pretty sane plan for most people who aren't diehard pirates or Netflix users. Most users don't use 300GB.
I just hope they give the option to shut off buying extra bandwidth automatically. I'll buy the 300gb a month, but I don't want anymore. If I hit the cap, cut me off to just a Comcast website where I can buy more. None of this, "For an extra $10 a month we'll give you parental controls to limit the automatic purchase of more bandwidth" crap that cell phone companies pull with text messaging.
folks who find themselves in dangerous situations
I wonder if those folks will remember to put their phone on silent before sending a text message to 911, in the heat of the moment. Otherwise the reply message might attract some unwanted attention.
TSA employees took payments of up to $2,400 to provide drug couriers unfettered access at LAX over a six-month period last year.
Up to $2,400 bucks. That's less than the cost of a first class ticket for the average Joe who doesn't want to deal with TSA. It's also well within the budget of a terrorist organization. That's awfully cheap.
That's a bit like me building a big garage, installing a big-ass natural gas generator and saying my building returns power to the grid.
LEED doesn't recognize natural gas, coal, or large-impact hydro (like Hoover Dam) as sources of renewable energy. So while you could still LEED certify you're building with a natural gas harvester, or a coal fired power plant, or an oil rig (assuming the oil rig isn't movable and has a mailing address per the LEED minimum project requirements), you will have to do so without achieving the "On-site renewable energy" credit.
Also that being said, LEED projects are based on a theoretical energy modeling protocol that is full of holes and easily gamed. Per TFA the building hasn't even opened yet. I'd like to see an article after a year of operation stating the building does actually produce more energy than it consumes or if the energy model was full of crap and this is just a bunch of marketing hyperbole for the architect.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (10) Sorry, but that's too useful.
