Yes, electric cars rely on power plants. Hybrids, however, do not. The required electricity is generated from the gasoline; therefore, it's more efficient than a gasoline-only system. This isn't a case of equivalent pollution coming from the car exhaust or from the power plant--one never 'plugs in' the Insight.
If you think that's too expensive, I'm afraid you'll find hybrid vehicles unacceptable in the intermediate future. Honda is selling the Insight as a loss-leader; the batteries alone are incredibly expensive, and all the components combined are more expensive than $20,000. The question on many Insight owners' minds is, will service parts be priced at their actual cost or the adjusted (loss-leader) price?
However, Honda is set to introduce a hybrid Civic in the 2001 model year, so perhaps the engineering has improved enough since the introduction of the Insight to make hybrids profitable.
to dead formats. Heck, Sony's no stranger to breaking backwards compatibility with its own dead formats. Oh, and insert obligatory Betamax reference here. So this new format won't go anywhere... who cares? We can thank Sony for creating some standards with sticking power. Weighing their successes and failures, I'd say the scale's still tipped towards success.
Jason McIntosh has created a catalog of Mac open source software boasting 149 titles, which I consider pretty impressive for a platform usually considered barren of open source.
The Mozilla project does indeed include Composer. However, the need for a more powerful graphical editor in the same realm as Dreamweaver is great, IMHO. Composer could possibly be extended to provide such functionality, but its greatest strength in most cases is its simplicity... I'd hate to see that compromised. I'm assisting in the creation of the curriculum for a high-school-level class in Linux. Tentatively, one section of the class is on building Apache and managing a small Web presence. I'd like to couple the Web serving unit with a unit on Web design, but I'm in need of a design tool comparable to Dreamweaver, I believe. So, in essence, is anyone working on one? If I can't find a suitable application, I'd settle for running Dreamweaver within WINE. Has anyone experimented with this? The reports on WineHQ are a bit sketchy.
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Yes, electric cars rely on power plants. Hybrids, however, do not. The required electricity is generated from the gasoline; therefore, it's more efficient than a gasoline-only system. This isn't a case of equivalent pollution coming from the car exhaust or from the power plant--one never 'plugs in' the Insight.
If you think that's too expensive, I'm afraid you'll find hybrid vehicles unacceptable in the intermediate future. Honda is selling the Insight as a loss-leader; the batteries alone are incredibly expensive, and all the components combined are more expensive than $20,000. The question on many Insight owners' minds is, will service parts be priced at their actual cost or the adjusted (loss-leader) price?
However, Honda is set to introduce a hybrid Civic in the 2001 model year, so perhaps the engineering has improved enough since the introduction of the Insight to make hybrids profitable.
to dead formats. Heck, Sony's no stranger to breaking backwards compatibility with its own dead formats. Oh, and insert obligatory Betamax reference here. So this new format won't go anywhere... who cares? We can thank Sony for creating some standards with sticking power. Weighing their successes and failures, I'd say the scale's still tipped towards success.
Jason McIntosh has created a catalog of Mac open source software boasting 149 titles, which I consider pretty impressive for a platform usually considered barren of open source.
--ianThe Mozilla project does indeed include Composer. However, the need for a more powerful graphical editor in the same realm as Dreamweaver is great, IMHO. Composer could possibly be extended to provide such functionality, but its greatest strength in most cases is its simplicity... I'd hate to see that compromised. I'm assisting in the creation of the curriculum for a high-school-level class in Linux. Tentatively, one section of the class is on building Apache and managing a small Web presence. I'd like to couple the Web serving unit with a unit on Web design, but I'm in need of a design tool comparable to Dreamweaver, I believe. So, in essence, is anyone working on one? If I can't find a suitable application, I'd settle for running Dreamweaver within WINE. Has anyone experimented with this? The reports on WineHQ are a bit sketchy.