The Accord Hybrid is pathetic, I get better milage from my BMW 325Ci
Unless you've driven an Accord Hybrid, you can't compare your measured mileage in your BMW to the rated mileage for the Accord Hybrid. If you beat the BMW 325Ci's rated mileage of 19mpg/27mpg (city/hwy, automatic transmission), then you would probably also beat the Accord Hybrid's rated mileage of 29mpg/37mpg.
It's also worth noting that the Accord Hybrid is a much more powerful car than the BMW 325Ci. The Accord Hybrid has 255hp while the BMW 325Ci has only 184. So even if your BMW got better mileage, you would be trading off the Accord Hybrid's power. I don't care for horsepower myself--my car does 73hp and is perfectly adequate--but you have to consider that the Accord Hybrid is Honda's power play, not its mileage play.
I have found my hybrid's mileage to be in line with what the sticker said. The mileage does vary a lot depending on driving conditions--as with any car. I can get 87mpg on the highway in good weather whereas a short city trip in winter might only get 45mpg. Overall, the rated mileage numbers seem reasonable in my experience.
I suspect that the people disappointed with their mileage have mostly their driving habits to blame. People who accelerate to red lights or drive 90mph will get worse than the rated mileage, hybrid or not.
If you get ~35mpg with a non-hybrid Accord, then you would probably get better than the rated 37mpg in a hybrid Accord.
Gas mileage varies a lot depending on driving habits and environment. You can't really compare your own observed gas mileage with the rated gas mileage of a different car model.
Anyway, the Honda Accord Hybrid isn't really focused on fuel economy. On the other hand, the Accord Hybrid has more horsepower than any other Honda.
Hybrids today are heavy, fairly powerful, and their aerodynamics are questionable. [...] We need another Honda Civic CRX: 70hp, 2000lbs, bullet shaped, hatchback, 2 seater, a superb city, highway, commuter, and picnic car for 2 people and a dog.
Honda Insight: 73hp, 1850lbs, bullet shaped, hatchback, 2 seater, a superb city, highway, commuter, and picnic car for 2 people and a dog.
I've gone through four Canadian winters with my Honda Insight, and it has fared just fine, even with temperatures below -30 degrees Celsius. The fuel economy is noticeably worse in cold weather, but the same is true of any car.
The Honda Insight in brutally cold weather is still better for fuel economy than almost any non-hybrid in ideal driving weather.
Well considering that AFAICT all the currently available gas/electric hybrids on the market get considerably worse mileage on the freeway than they do in stop and go traffic [...]
Honda's hybrids all get better gas mileage on the highway than in the city:
However the gas mileage these things get is a joke. The Prius gets about 45mpg in realistic useage (based on the independent reviews I've read).
For any car, fuel economy varies depending on the driver's habits (e.g., accelerating to a red light) and the driving conditions (e.g., snow). When you hear people complain that they get less than the rated fuel economy, consider that it's probably the driver, not the car. A driver who gets 20% worse than the rated fuel economy in a hybrid would probably also get 20% worse than the rated fuel economy in a normal car.
With my Honda Insight, I have found the official fuel economy numbers to be reasonably accurate on average. In good weather, I easily beat the rated fuel economy. In bad weather, I don't.
I had the same complaint about cars generally looking the same, so I bought a Honda Insight. Looks unique, sips gas, pollutes very little. It's like a cool prototype that some marketing wonk forgot to kill before it went to market.
So why on earth is Slashdot _not_ specifying a character code?
It is.
$ telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 66.35.250.150...
Connected to slashdot.org (66.35.250.150).
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
Host: slashdot.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:23:42 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_perl/1.29
SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.003000
X-Bender: The laws of science be a harsh mistress.
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
I find the Honda Insight to be quite nice looking--not ugly at all. Of course, I may be biased since I drive an Insight.
I really like the Insight for its uniqueness. Multiple times I've had people shout "Sweet car!" as I drove by, so I don't think I'm alone in finding the Insight to be sexy.
Is there a federal tax rebate in Canada? I know that Ontario has a $1000 tax rebate (slated to be raised to $2000), but I'm not aware of a rebate from the federal government. Is there one? I'm curious where the "rest of the country" is getting the $1000 rebate that you mentioned.
I own a Honda Insight and would love a federal tax rebate to go with the $1000 that I got back from the Ontario government.
J2ME is a dedicated programming environment optimized for cell phones. If it included the full selection of java.util classes, it would be too large to fit on a lot of cell phones.
Do you really expect a lot of J2SE code reuse when you're limited to a JAR size of about 64K? (The limit varies depending on the device, but applications larger than 64K won't work on many MIDP devices. To work on all MIDP devices, you need to be under 30K.)
If you stick to standard MIDP 1.0 and take care to dance around device-specific bugs, it's possible to have an application that works on a wide variety of devices. In my previous job, I wrote a Web browser that works on about 70 different phones from 10 different manufacturers--all running the same JAR.
There is something preventing a SoBig for Linux and Unix-like systems: On those systems, you need to save the virus file, use chmod to make it executable, and then run it. On Windows, you just have to "open" it as you would to view a JPEG image or any other attachment.
That's a fundamental difference that makes Windows insecure by design.
Slashdot Mirror
He's actually a CS professor. You may be interested in an earlier Slashdot article about his research on spam filters.
(I was a student in one of his courses back in 1997. He's a good lecturer.)
60% of viewers died from watching the Discovery Channel last night?!
Uh, no thanks. I believe the fatality rate is lower while reading Slashdot.
Unless you've driven an Accord Hybrid, you can't compare your measured mileage in your BMW to the rated mileage for the Accord Hybrid. If you beat the BMW 325Ci's rated mileage of 19mpg/27mpg (city/hwy, automatic transmission), then you would probably also beat the Accord Hybrid's rated mileage of 29mpg/37mpg.
It's also worth noting that the Accord Hybrid is a much more powerful car than the BMW 325Ci. The Accord Hybrid has 255hp while the BMW 325Ci has only 184. So even if your BMW got better mileage, you would be trading off the Accord Hybrid's power. I don't care for horsepower myself--my car does 73hp and is perfectly adequate--but you have to consider that the Accord Hybrid is Honda's power play, not its mileage play.
(Source for my mpg and hp numbers.)
How many years would it take to learn how to spell "hybrid"? ;)
I have found my hybrid's mileage to be in line with what the sticker said. The mileage does vary a lot depending on driving conditions--as with any car. I can get 87mpg on the highway in good weather whereas a short city trip in winter might only get 45mpg. Overall, the rated mileage numbers seem reasonable in my experience.
I suspect that the people disappointed with their mileage have mostly their driving habits to blame. People who accelerate to red lights or drive 90mph will get worse than the rated mileage, hybrid or not.
If you get ~35mpg with a non-hybrid Accord, then you would probably get better than the rated 37mpg in a hybrid Accord.
Gas mileage varies a lot depending on driving habits and environment. You can't really compare your own observed gas mileage with the rated gas mileage of a different car model.
Anyway, the Honda Accord Hybrid isn't really focused on fuel economy. On the other hand, the Accord Hybrid has more horsepower than any other Honda.
Honda Insight: 73hp, 1850lbs, bullet shaped, hatchback, 2 seater, a superb city, highway, commuter, and picnic car for 2 people and a dog.
It happens to be a hybrid.
I've gone through four Canadian winters with my Honda Insight, and it has fared just fine, even with temperatures below -30 degrees Celsius. The fuel economy is noticeably worse in cold weather, but the same is true of any car.
The Honda Insight in brutally cold weather is still better for fuel economy than almost any non-hybrid in ideal driving weather.
Honda's hybrids all get better gas mileage on the highway than in the city:
I've been very happy with the Honda Insight that I bought in 2001.
Only some APIs require signing. You can still write complex apps without paying anything if you stick to the unsigned APIs.
The BlackBerry also runs MIDlets, which you can write with no fees. As a bonus, MIDlets also work on hundreds of other mobile phones.
Sorry about that. MSN's extremely long lines led to a Perl segfault for which I just added a workaround.
The earlier MSN validation link works better now.
--
Liam, developer of the WDG HTML Validator
For any car, fuel economy varies depending on the driver's habits (e.g., accelerating to a red light) and the driving conditions (e.g., snow). When you hear people complain that they get less than the rated fuel economy, consider that it's probably the driver, not the car. A driver who gets 20% worse than the rated fuel economy in a hybrid would probably also get 20% worse than the rated fuel economy in a normal car.
With my Honda Insight, I have found the official fuel economy numbers to be reasonably accurate on average. In good weather, I easily beat the rated fuel economy. In bad weather, I don't.
I had the same complaint about cars generally looking the same, so I bought a Honda Insight. Looks unique, sips gas, pollutes very little. It's like a cool prototype that some marketing wonk forgot to kill before it went to market.
You're thinking of the Prius, but there are other hybrids. My Honda Insight gets over 80 MPG on long freeway trips.
RFC 2606 reserves domain names like example.com, so you can safely use those without hitting existing email addresses.
Have you not heard of the Commodore VIC-20 ?
It is.
$ telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 66.35.250.150...
Connected to slashdot.org (66.35.250.150).
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
Host: slashdot.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:23:42 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_perl/1.29
SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.003000
X-Bender: The laws of science be a harsh mistress.
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
That's not true.
That's not really true. The 365-pound figure is just a performance and efficiency guideline. See Is it a problem to exceed the 365 lb (165 kg) weight limit? from the very informative InsightCentral.net.
I find the Honda Insight to be quite nice looking--not ugly at all. Of course, I may be biased since I drive an Insight.
I really like the Insight for its uniqueness. Multiple times I've had people shout "Sweet car!" as I drove by, so I don't think I'm alone in finding the Insight to be sexy.
Is there a federal tax rebate in Canada? I know that Ontario has a $1000 tax rebate (slated to be raised to $2000), but I'm not aware of a rebate from the federal government. Is there one? I'm curious where the "rest of the country" is getting the $1000 rebate that you mentioned.
I own a Honda Insight and would love a federal tax rebate to go with the $1000 that I got back from the Ontario government.
J2ME is a dedicated programming environment optimized for cell phones. If it included the full selection of java.util classes, it would be too large to fit on a lot of cell phones.
Do you really expect a lot of J2SE code reuse when you're limited to a JAR size of about 64K? (The limit varies depending on the device, but applications larger than 64K won't work on many MIDP devices. To work on all MIDP devices, you need to be under 30K.)
If you stick to standard MIDP 1.0 and take care to dance around device-specific bugs, it's possible to have an application that works on a wide variety of devices. In my previous job, I wrote a Web browser that works on about 70 different phones from 10 different manufacturers--all running the same JAR.
Sun's J2ME Wireless Toolkit has worked out of the box with JDK 1.4 for ages--since J2MEWTK 1.0.3 at least.
If you're developing for today's phones (all MIDP 1.0), you should use J2MEWTK 1.0.4_01 rather than J2MEWTK 2.0 (which is for MIDP 2.0).
There is something preventing a SoBig for Linux and Unix-like systems: On those systems, you need to save the virus file, use chmod to make it executable, and then run it. On Windows, you just have to "open" it as you would to view a JPEG image or any other attachment.
That's a fundamental difference that makes Windows insecure by design.