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Reply to hydrogen-powered car VS diesel in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

So why don't you hate all that radioactive waste that nuclear plants produce that will last for tens (or hundreds) of thousands of years? On the other hand, pollution from internal combustion engines is cleaned by the normal environment every day. The pollution controls simply allow us to use more vehicles before we overload the cleaning capability of the environment. As for riding to work, I'd hate to ride a bicycle 36 miles to work and back again every day, rain, snow, cold,

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Reply to hydrogen-powered car VS diesel in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Why can't there be a generator on the car that uses the cars motion to generate power? Oh, they can do that, but it would slow you down. Then you would have to use extra energy to maintain speed, etc. Actually kona, they've solved many of the pro

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Reply to hydrogen-powered car VS diesel in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Why Hydrogen powered vehicles are bad for the environment: It takes more energy to extract and compress Hydrogen into a form that vehicles can use than it does to use that energy directly without the intermediate step, i.e. Hydrogen. Where will the energy to extract and compress the Hydrogen come from? Nuclear plants? Coal fired plans? Gas turbines? It won't come from solar or wind. Hydroelectric power won't increase much either, we've already placed dams on most of the ri

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NextStart and CoolPlayer in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Before downloading NextStart I have a couple questions about it for those who have used it. 1) Just how useful is it? 2) How easy is it to work with and customize? With regards to CoolPlayer, how does it compare against Winamp(2/3)? (memory usage, load time, audio quality, ease of building/managing playlist etc.)

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Reply to WB 4 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hibernate does not equal standby. They are two very different functions. When doing WinXP the folks at M$FT chose to hide the Hibernate button because they though the regular dumb Windows consumer would be confused by the differences between Standby and Hibernate. I think they were wrong, but the choice has been made. What I'm asking is whether or not I can add a hibernate button to that dialogue box.

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WB 4 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I haven't played much with the new capabilities in WB 4, but I know you can now skin the 'Restart | Stand By | Shut Down' box. What I'm wondering is that in addition to skinning that box, can you add additional controls to it? Such as 'Hibernate'?

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Reply to 3D Desktops in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Shakey, I like the 'Cage' concept you linked to. I think 3D desktops have definite potential. I think what would be really good would be Win3D style features, combined with Microsoft Task Gallery methods for handling applications and windows, combined with 3DNA Desktop visual appeal, combined with ActiveWorlds modding ability and community features. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" bo

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Reply to 3D Desktops in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

BoXXi, I don't have the link handy, but you might want to do a search on "Microsoft Task Gallery" If you find it, look around and report back with your thoughts on it It's ugly as heck, but the functionality aspects are intriguing. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddl

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Reply to DesktopX - form vs function in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

My view: If I had a broadband connection I'd definitely want weather, news, and stocks on my desktop. But with a dial-up connection, it just isn't worth it since they would slow down other stuff I downloadloa over the the inet. The other reason I'm not too big into DesktopX is that I almost always have a maximized window up and so for me the desktop might as well not be there. What OD components I use: WindowBlinds IconPackager ObjectDock ObjectBar (th

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Reply to 3D Desktops in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

http://www.3dna.net 3DNA! Weeeeeeee!!!!!! BTW, as far as I know, nothing in Object Desktop can do 3D stuff. It would be interesting to see Stardock try though <A HREF="https://www.wincustomize.com/index.asp?Cmd=full&

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