That's ok; that's about when we'll finally make it through the fifty years until viable nuclear fusion (hey, they didn't say that it was the *next* 50 years . ..)
Anyway, range isn't much longer today than the 70s.
My 1972 Eldorado has a 27 gallon tank, giving it a highway range of about 300 with the largest engine ever put in a postwar car.
Heck, it should get well past 250 in heavy urban traffic.
I had a 'good 72 Impala 400 in college. Only a 22 gallon tank, and that smaller engine with only a two barrel would get 16 at a steady 60, so over 350. If you had the six and a four speed, probably over 400 . . .
Whereas my 72 super beetle had an 11 gallon tank (more than the 10 on the beetle), and got 26, so under 300 . . .
> For example, Christ's birthday of 25th December is the Gregorian calendar date but some counties such >as Russia use the 7th January as Christ's birthday because that is the old calendar equivalent date.
No, they don't in any way, shape, or form "Use" January 7th.
Rather, they use a calendar that says its December 25, while the rest of us are using January 7.
I assume that the Russians have switched to the Gregorian for secular use, but the overwhelming majority of Orthodox and most Eastern Catholics outside of the US still *use* the old calendar.
>There's also an adversarial arrangement at many of them where the customer is expected to negotiate for >the price of the car with an unseen sales manager with a 10-20 minute wait each time, so just agreeing >on a price can take hours.
It's *amazing* what standing and walking to the door does under those circumstances.
Have your financing ready *before* you go (not pre-qualification;, *actual* approval).
Tell the salesman, "If you pull out a four-square, use the word 'trade-in' or start talking about extended warranties, I walk."
And do it,
(besides, it's fun.:). when the salesman insisted he was required to read the babble about warranties, tracking systems, and such, my father pulled out a book and told the droid to let him know when he was done, and ignored him until he gave up).
Oh, and when they want you to sign that little slip about "if financing is denied" with daily and mileage charges--just refuse.
If they can *actually* give you a better rate/terms than you had, fine--but they have to write the paper and be stuck with it if they're wrong. I was ready to walk, and they tore that up.
He said using a pi. just add a rotary sensor with an open middle, and at random (but frequent) intervals, the pi issues a squeal and won't restart until you spin it 500 times.
> it was not uncommon for the tapes to get âoeeatenâ by players and recorders. It also was not uncommon for >the tapes to get folded inside the cassette, and for the tapes to just break.
See, nostalgic . . .
. . . sorting through your mother's kitchen drawers to find where she left those turkey stitching wires, the onbly way to hook the cassette and pull it out . . . spinning the reels with a pencil aftwer it was wound to tight and screeching . . . finally giving up and borrowing dad's tools to extract your radio from the dash and remove the lid to get the mangle tape out when all else fails . . .
. . . ahh, those days of yesteryear
hawk, who currently has a '95 Eldorado parts car with something stuck in the cassette deck that stops it from even turning off, but whose wife doesn't have turkey stitchers . . .
Aside from the myth that Lisa and Mac were derived from the PARC visit being thoroughly debunked, there is and was the significant issue of *price* . . .
Yes, the Xerox machine could do amazing things in its time (some of which were derived from the masters thesis of ma c designer Jeff Raskin . ..).
It was also built without a budget.
Selling it at a consumer price was *never* in the cards.
Just look at how few $10k Lisas and NeXTs sold--and the Xerox would have been a multiple of that.
Waymo's situation isn't even *vaguely* similar. They would not recover from even a *single* early catastrophic early failure by a vehicle; there will be no second chances for the pioneering models.
Apple's Newton would be a better analogy--pushged out too early, and mocked into failure.\\hawk
Of course, this can *also* be expressed as "the subsidy from residents of states with lower taxes to those in states in higher taxes has been reduced but not eliminated."
That subsidy (the SaLT deduction) means that by deducting taxes to the local government from federal income tax, residents of those states pay lower taxes on the same income as those in the low tax states.
I went out and found a VW engine, and swapped it into my corvette. Oooh, the bicyclists and pedestrians "ooh" in envy once we crest the hill and I pass them . . .
My next project *was* going to be putting Windows on a Pi, but since that's been done, I guess I'll move on to putting Microsoft BASIC 2.0 onto an Arduino . . .
I'm convinced that pdf stems from a far more malign drug experience than the LSD origins of HyperCard . . .
When I was practicing immigration law, we had to keep three different pdf programs to work with the government documents, as they are all hostile to one another. It seems that they *deliberately* find ways to add data that won't appear in other documents . . .
PDF is as standardized as the 16k RAM chips (for those young enough to chase off my lawn, the industry came up with a standard pinout--and then everyone did different things with them! ISTR that there *was* a pair of manufacturers whose chips could plug into the same design . ..)
I've been using StarOffice, err, Open Office, I mean LibreOffice long enough that compatibility was a *reason* to use it instead of MS. It simply did better at importing from last year's (or next year's) version of MS than MS did.
And it wasn't even necessarily from different versions--I had to deal with students coming in with nominally the same versions of Windows and MS Office, yet the file wouldn't work *quite* the same way for both.
These days, for my practice, I just send what *does* need others to work with it in.doc (although LO seems to be getting up to speed on.docx).
The last version of MS Word I used (and what I'd call the last MS product worth paying for) was Word 5.1/Mac.
This urban legend gets repeated so often that most people think that it's true . . .
The Lisa did *not* originate in that tour. *Prior* to the tour, it was already being designed with a graphical interface, and there were mockups of the tentative interface. These have been available on the web for decades, although the link that I used to use stopped working years ago.
There were definitely changes made and design influences from the visit, an effect which should not be understated, but it is patently untrue that the Lisa design was inspired by the Alto.
Also, it is almost always left out that the Alto itself in turnh had a *heavy* debt to Jeff Raskin's Master's thesis--and Raskin was one of the mac design engineers . . .
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That's ok; that's about when we'll finally make it through the fifty years until viable nuclear fusion (hey, they didn't say that it was the *next* 50 years . . .)
hawk
>ItÃ(TM)s not the Ã70s or Ã80s anymore.
composing in word? :)
Anyway, range isn't much longer today than the 70s.
My 1972 Eldorado has a 27 gallon tank, giving it a highway range of about 300 with the largest engine ever put in a postwar car.
Heck, it should get well past 250 in heavy urban traffic.
I had a 'good 72 Impala 400 in college. Only a 22 gallon tank, and that smaller engine with only a two barrel would get 16 at a steady 60, so over 350. If you had the six and a four speed, probably over 400 . . .
Whereas my 72 super beetle had an 11 gallon tank (more than the 10 on the beetle), and got 26, so under 300 . . .
hawk
They also kill a lot of vermin.
The last study I saw found that they were the primary urban predator, and that NYC would have *twice* as much vermin without them . . .
They aren't too good at large rats, though.
hawk
>If Windows laptops can manage to include both USB type C and USB 3.x ports,
> a MacBook Pro should be able to do the same.
Yeah. There's that block of unused room between the 5.25" floppy and the parallel port . . . :)
hawk
> not 23.1.
I'm pretty sure it will be version 20.38 . . . :)
hawk
> For example, Christ's birthday of 25th December is the Gregorian calendar date but some counties such
>as Russia use the 7th January as Christ's birthday because that is the old calendar equivalent date.
No, they don't in any way, shape, or form "Use" January 7th.
Rather, they use a calendar that says its December 25, while the rest of us are using January 7.
I assume that the Russians have switched to the Gregorian for secular use, but the overwhelming majority of Orthodox and most Eastern Catholics outside of the US still *use* the old calendar.
hawk
>I blew up NT4 regularly.
As a graduate students, I got hired by a prof's outside company to handle some linux re-implementation.
They showed me their new "windows re-write" which had their customers complaining. This was actually the first computer I saw running NT.
And then they started growling at it. Something had hung, and was blocking part of the screen.
"But," I asked, "Isn't NT supposed to have something that can kill bad processes?"
He snarled back, "that's what crashed!"
hawk
>There's also an adversarial arrangement at many of them where the customer is expected to negotiate for
>the price of the car with an unseen sales manager with a 10-20 minute wait each time, so just agreeing
>on a price can take hours.
It's *amazing* what standing and walking to the door does under those circumstances.
Have your financing ready *before* you go (not pre-qualification;, *actual* approval).
Tell the salesman, "If you pull out a four-square, use the word 'trade-in' or start talking about extended warranties, I walk."
And do it,
(besides, it's fun. :). when the salesman insisted he was required to read the babble about warranties, tracking systems, and such, my father pulled out a book and told the droid to let him know when he was done, and ignored him until he gave up).
Oh, and when they want you to sign that little slip about "if financing is denied" with daily and mileage charges--just refuse.
If they can *actually* give you a better rate/terms than you had, fine--but they have to write the paper and be stuck with it if they're wrong. I was ready to walk, and they tore that up.
hawk
I, for one, welcome are new dark and cheesy overlords . . . :)
hawk
Easy.
He said using a pi. just add a rotary sensor with an open middle, and at random (but frequent) intervals, the pi issues a squeal and won't restart until you spin it 500 times.
\me lifts king back upright
hawk
> it was not uncommon for the tapes to get âoeeatenâ by players and recorders. It also was not uncommon for
>the tapes to get folded inside the cassette, and for the tapes to just break.
See, nostalgic . . .
. . . sorting through your mother's kitchen drawers to find where she left those turkey stitching wires, the onbly way to hook the cassette and pull it out . . . spinning the reels with a pencil aftwer it was wound to tight and screeching . . . finally giving up and borrowing dad's tools to extract your radio from the dash and remove the lid to get the mangle tape out when all else fails . . .
. . . ahh, those days of yesteryear
hawk, who currently has a '95 Eldorado parts car with something stuck in the cassette deck that stops it from even turning off, but whose wife doesn't have turkey stitchers . . .
I'm holding out for Etherium 98 . . .
"Uber tech support . . . it crahed? Have you tried rebooting?" :)
hawk
Aside from the myth that Lisa and Mac were derived from the PARC visit being thoroughly debunked, there is and was the significant issue of *price* . . .
Yes, the Xerox machine could do amazing things in its time (some of which were derived from the masters thesis of ma c designer Jeff Raskin . . .).
It was also built without a budget.
Selling it at a consumer price was *never* in the cards.
Just look at how few $10k Lisas and NeXTs sold--and the Xerox would have been a multiple of that.
Waymo's situation isn't even *vaguely* similar. They would not recover from even a *single* early catastrophic early failure by a vehicle; there will be no second chances for the pioneering models.
Apple's Newton would be a better analogy--pushged out too early, and mocked into failure.\\hawk
It has *plenty* of options.
My favorite is the detonation option for the battery.
Taking a cue from variable nukes, the battery can now be set to detonate over the entire range from 5 microtons to 1 milliton . . . :)
hawk
\{begin homer _voice}
"Damn you, Law of Conservation of Matter"
\{end homer _voice}
hawk
Of course, this can *also* be expressed as "the subsidy from residents of states with lower taxes to those in states in higher taxes has been reduced but not eliminated."
That subsidy (the SaLT deduction) means that by deducting taxes to the local government from federal income tax, residents of those states pay lower taxes on the same income as those in the low tax states.
hawk, economist at large
I went out and found a VW engine, and swapped it into my corvette. Oooh, the bicyclists and pedestrians "ooh" in envy once we crest the hill and I pass them . . .
My next project *was* going to be putting Windows on a Pi, but since that's been done, I guess I'll move on to putting Microsoft BASIC 2.0 onto an Arduino . . .
hawk
I'm convinced that pdf stems from a far more malign drug experience than the LSD origins of HyperCard . . .
When I was practicing immigration law, we had to keep three different pdf programs to work with the government documents, as they are all hostile to one another. It seems that they *deliberately* find ways to add data that won't appear in other documents . . .
PDF is as standardized as the 16k RAM chips (for those young enough to chase off my lawn, the industry came up with a standard pinout--and then everyone did different things with them! ISTR that there *was* a pair of manufacturers whose chips could plug into the same design . . .)
hawk
>One word: compatibility.
I've been using StarOffice, err, Open Office, I mean LibreOffice long enough that compatibility was a *reason* to use it instead of MS. It simply did better at importing from last year's (or next year's) version of MS than MS did.
And it wasn't even necessarily from different versions--I had to deal with students coming in with nominally the same versions of Windows and MS Office, yet the file wouldn't work *quite* the same way for both.
These days, for my practice, I just send what *does* need others to work with it in .doc (although LO seems to be getting up to speed on .docx).
The last version of MS Word I used (and what I'd call the last MS product worth paying for) was Word 5.1/Mac.
hawk
I prefer a five-thousandth of a earthing, though.
A ten-thousandth of a ha'penny is simply pretentious . . .
hawk
The price of the *remaining* bitcoin didn't change . . .
There should presumably be a positive effect due to increased scarcity, and a negative effect due to loss of confidence in the asset class.
This urban legend gets repeated so often that most people think that it's true . . .
The Lisa did *not* originate in that tour. *Prior* to the tour, it was already being designed with a graphical interface, and there were mockups of the tentative interface. These have been available on the web for decades, although the link that I used to use stopped working years ago.
There were definitely changes made and design influences from the visit, an effect which should not be understated, but it is patently untrue that the Lisa design was inspired by the Alto.
Also, it is almost always left out that the Alto itself in turnh had a *heavy* debt to Jeff Raskin's Master's thesis--and Raskin was one of the mac design engineers . . .
hawk
>very bit of it gets recycled damn it.
No, just the more valuable 1s.
he 0s go to landfills.
hawk
Poorly knocking off an apple product?
How much more microsoftish can you get?
hawk