Oh, well- if so it will be easier than ever to "carry" it almost
everywhere.

How soon will they perfect GPS specifically to help me find my way to
the john in the middle of the night? :-)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/02/f...n100-unveiled/


Maybe one can program in all the donut shops and other "hazards" on
this thing. A few years from now, we will only shut off our ipods long
enought to talk on our cell phones and we'll all be staring at a screen
to help us navigate around the block when the dog needs to take a pee.

Remember a few years back when we all thought GPS was so miraculous?
When you would ask somebody about their boat, the first (often excited)
portion of the answer was, typically, "It's got GPS!!" Things change.

Remember when it was cool to have a Ray Jeff radio direction finder?
Bubba Jim
wrote in message
ups.com...
Oh, well- if so it will be easier than ever to "carry" it almost
everywhere.

How soon will they perfect GPS specifically to help me find my way to
the john in the middle of the night? :-)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/02/f...n100-unveiled/


Maybe one can program in all the donut shops and other "hazards" on
this thing. A few years from now, we will only shut off our ipods long
enought to talk on our cell phones and we'll all be staring at a screen
to help us navigate around the block when the dog needs to take a pee.

Remember a few years back when we all thought GPS was so miraculous?
When you would ask somebody about their boat, the first (often excited)
portion of the answer was, typically, "It's got GPS!!" Things change.

Jim wrote:
Remember when it was cool to have a Ray Jeff radio direction finder?
Bubba Jim
wrote in message
ups.com...
Oh, well- if so it will be easier than ever to "carry" it almost
everywhere.

How soon will they perfect GPS specifically to help me find my way to
the john in the middle of the night? :-)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/02/f...n100-unveiled/


Maybe one can program in all the donut shops and other "hazards" on
this thing. A few years from now, we will only shut off our ipods long
enought to talk on our cell phones and we'll all be staring at a screen
to help us navigate around the block when the dog needs to take a pee.

Remember a few years back when we all thought GPS was so miraculous?
When you would ask somebody about their boat, the first (often excited)
portion of the answer was, typically, "It's got GPS!!" Things change.


When I was a kid, we went on road trips, camping along the way. I had
to have my own map, so that I could follow it and mark every little
town we went through. I still like maps.

wrote in message
ups.com...
Oh, well- if so it will be easier than ever to "carry" it almost
everywhere.

How soon will they perfect GPS specifically to help me find my way to
the john in the middle of the night? :-)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/02/f...n100-unveiled/


Maybe one can program in all the donut shops and other "hazards" on
this thing. A few years from now, we will only shut off our ipods long
enought to talk on our cell phones and we'll all be staring at a screen
to help us navigate around the block when the dog needs to take a pee.

Remember a few years back when we all thought GPS was so miraculous?
When you would ask somebody about their boat, the first (often excited)
portion of the answer was, typically, "It's got GPS!!" Things change.


Amazing.

You have to wonder where we will be with these electronic devices in another
1,5 or 10 years.

" JimH" jimh UNDERSCORE osudad@yahooDOTcom wrote in message
. ..

wrote in message
ups.com...
Oh, well- if so it will be easier than ever to "carry" it almost
everywhere.

How soon will they perfect GPS specifically to help me find my way to
the john in the middle of the night? :-)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/02/f...n100-unveiled/


Maybe one can program in all the donut shops and other "hazards" on
this thing. A few years from now, we will only shut off our ipods long
enought to talk on our cell phones and we'll all be staring at a screen
to help us navigate around the block when the dog needs to take a pee.

Remember a few years back when we all thought GPS was so miraculous?
When you would ask somebody about their boat, the first (often excited)
portion of the answer was, typically, "It's got GPS!!" Things change.


Amazing.

You have to wonder where we will be with these electronic devices in
another 1,5 or 10 years.


One of the reason for the oil and energy shortages. The average home uses
4x the power of 20 years ago. Those nice Plasma TV's on their own consume
4x the energy of a CRT TV.

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
. net...

" JimH" jimh UNDERSCORE osudad@yahooDOTcom wrote in message
. ..

wrote in message
ups.com...
Oh, well- if so it will be easier than ever to "carry" it almost
everywhere.

How soon will they perfect GPS specifically to help me find my way to
the john in the middle of the night? :-)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/02/f...n100-unveiled/


Maybe one can program in all the donut shops and other "hazards" on
this thing. A few years from now, we will only shut off our ipods long
enought to talk on our cell phones and we'll all be staring at a screen
to help us navigate around the block when the dog needs to take a pee.

Remember a few years back when we all thought GPS was so miraculous?
When you would ask somebody about their boat, the first (often excited)
portion of the answer was, typically, "It's got GPS!!" Things change.


Amazing.

You have to wonder where we will be with these electronic devices in
another 1,5 or 10 years.


One of the reason for the oil and energy shortages. The average home uses
4x the power of 20 years ago. Those nice Plasma TV's on their own consume
4x the energy of a CRT TV.


Industry, though, is smartening up. More and more of my industrial and
commercial customers are replacing old fluorescent or halide lighting with
the new T8 and T5 linear fluorescent lighting, saving 30%~40% in lighting
energy costs. Quite often it costs a company zero-nada to have these
fixtures installed by using contractors who own the fixtures and install
them at no cost in exchange for an annual lamp replacement contract.

One of the reason for the oil and energy shortages. The average home uses
4x the power of 20 years ago. Those nice Plasma TV's on their own consume
4x the energy of a CRT TV.

Uh no, generally it's about 2x. But also consider you're not getting a 50"
CRT so you're not making a direct comparision. This has little to do with
added energy consumption, at least not for oil. That's more attributable to
automobile use, not residential energy consumption. So don't spout junk
science.

"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
...
One of the reason for the oil and energy shortages. The average home
uses
4x the power of 20 years ago. Those nice Plasma TV's on their own
consume
4x the energy of a CRT TV.

Uh no, generally it's about 2x. But also consider you're not getting a
50"
CRT so you're not making a direct comparision. This has little to do with
added energy consumption, at least not for oil. That's more attributable
to
automobile use, not residential energy consumption. So don't spout junk
science.


Not junk science. Our cars are more efficient over 10 years ago, but look
at the increase in number of cars, amount of plastic packaging, amount of
computers, etc.

Not junk science. Our cars are more efficient over 10 years ago, but look
at the increase in number of cars, amount of plastic packaging, amount of
computers, etc.

So cite numbers that back it up. The little bit I've seen over the years
clearly shows vehicle consupmtion as the leading consumer of hydrocarbons.
By quantity totals as well as percentages of increase. This isn't to say
that electronic devices aren't more prevalent or that they can, in some
circumstances, consume greater wattage. Just that they're nowhere near the
same load as vehicular consumption. That cars are less inefficient that 10
years ago (in and of itself an additionally questionable statement) doesn't
begin to put a dent in the MUCH larger conumption they're require.

wrote in message
ups.com...
Oh, well- if so it will be easier than ever to "carry" it almost
everywhere.

How soon will they perfect GPS specifically to help me find my way to
the john in the middle of the night? :-)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/02/f...n100-unveiled/


Maybe one can program in all the donut shops and other "hazards" on
this thing. A few years from now, we will only shut off our ipods long
enought to talk on our cell phones and we'll all be staring at a screen
to help us navigate around the block when the dog needs to take a pee.

Remember a few years back when we all thought GPS was so miraculous?
When you would ask somebody about their boat, the first (often excited)
portion of the answer was, typically, "It's got GPS!!" Things change.


I worked on a project like that at one time in the past. Cell phones were
going to require a GPS internally for the 911 feature to tell the dispatcher
where you really were. A company we were supplying was adding a compass
also, and you could use the phone as a web browser, and point the phone in
the direction you were interested in and ask for restaurants, history of the
building, etc. Probably would have had public pee facilities programmed in
to the host computer.