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Longstanding "move files" issue has alarmed Leopard users {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 6th 2007 1:53PM I wonder what happens if the time machine volume gets disconnected or fails during a backup? Do all of your changed files get lost? Who wants to test this out?
iTunes 7.5 and QuickTime 7.3 {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 6th 2007 12:57PM Any of you use Yahoo Mail Beta out there? Ever since these two updates, both Safari and Firefox has been crashing rather frequently while Yahoo Mail Beta is open in either of the two browsers. Not sure if this is just a coincidence...
Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown {Engadget}
Oct 27th 2007 6:14PM that's not entirely true teejay. Mine and several other Santa Rosa MBPs that I support were kernal panicing at least once a week while on Airport until Apple repleased new Airport software after the 10.4.10 update.
American Eddie Cheever wins wet, wild GP Masters U.K. event {Autoblog}
Aug 14th 2006 8:28PM does that go for Marco as well?
Toyota announces "touring edition" Prius {Autoblog}
Aug 9th 2006 12:14PM Actually ventilated seats that cool have been shown to increase fuel economy by reducing the use of AC:
http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/release.cfm/release_id=32
Also there's no reason that comfort, vanity and being environmentally conscious have to be mutually exclusive. I don't see anything wrong or hypocritical with that...
Vodafone brings 3G to MacBooks via USB {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 3rd 2006 10:56AM You can already do this via Bluetooth with the LG CU500. Cingular even has a write up on how to hook it up to a machine running Mac OS X. Go to their support section, select Phone/Device support, select the LG CU500 and select the link that say "Connect Device and Laptop/PDA to access internet".
Mazda delivers first street-legal hydrogen-powered RX-8s {Autoblog}
Mar 27th 2006 3:03PM Chad, while you say that I am sadly mistaken, you just added to my point (which is pretty similar to yours). Please re-read my post. I never argued that nuclear power plants are unsafe, only that they have a stigma of being unsafe. There is a difference.
Regarding figures: There are actually 441 nuclear power plants operating worldwide according to Wikipedia.
There were 56 total deaths directly related to the Chernobyl according to IAEA, with as many as 4000 deaths related to accident illnesses (this is a very important number to leave out Chad) (Source: Wikipedia). That's where the stigma comes in... I think in the public's eyes, dying from cancer is scarier than other forms of death- that's not to say that fossil fuel technologies don't cause cancer or other occupational hazard deaths, just that nuclear technology has that stigma attached to it. While nuclear technology may be statistically safer, the thought of one plant causing many deaths or four legged babies, etc to the general population surrounding the plant, whether rational or not, causes malaise in the public.
Fox News commentator: Ford's 'Green strategy' a mistake {Autoblog}
Mar 27th 2006 11:36AM HJ and Mooseman, you guys aren't making any sense. How does demanding clean air, clean water, less dependence on hydrocarbon fuels equate to being "anti-populist" and "anti-american socialistic in nature"?
Being "socialistic" is an economic point of view whereas having concerns with ones surroundings and energy policy of the country (being an environmentalist) is a politcal point of view and are not mutually exclusive. Therefore it is possible for an environmentalist to also be a capitalist contrary to HJ's opinion.
American companies aren't the only ones being protested- a Google search on corpoate protests will show that. But it would make sense that American environmental groups would protest American companies more often since American companies are likely to affect our (America's) environment more often due to their locality.
Contrary to the beliefs of some commenters, using ones first amendment right to protest and critisize those who directly affect ones standard of living does not make them "anti-populist", "socialist" or "anti-American".
Mazda delivers first street-legal hydrogen-powered RX-8s {Autoblog}
Mar 27th 2006 10:36AM As much as all you blame mongers want to blame the "enviros" or "greenies" for not supporting nuclear technology, no one wants a nuclear power plant in their backyard no matter what political belief one has.
John Blake, I haven't done the research to back up your claim that Japan and France have had no major problems. But people are likely to think of the near catastrophe of 3 Mile Island and uber-catastrophe of Chernobyl when a nuclear power plant is propsed in their neighborhood.
However, current nuclear powerplant designs, limit the risks that caused 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl to occur. A better solution than blaming the "enviros" is reducing the stigma that nuclear powerplants have in our society as a whole. Education is a lot better than spreading useless ignornant opinion about those whose opinion you don't agree with.
There is nothing wrong with having concern for the place we inhabit and demanding that there are no environmental or safety concerns with whatever technology is put into production.
Gasoline gets some respect in annual 'Green Car' survey {Autoblog}
Feb 16th 2006 2:47AM You might want have your dealer check out your car because I own a 2.3L Mazda 3 hatchback drive on surface streets around 70% of the time (in LA) and get around 23MPG. I wouldn't say I drive very conservatively either- sometimes 5K RPM ships, most of the time 3-4K.
Anyway, it was the 2.0L Mazda 3 that placed 4th in the Green Car article not the 2.3L hatchback as shown in the picture. The 2.0L only comes as a sedan. California 2.3L Mazda 3's are also PZEV like the 2.0L though.
