Diesel engines just aren't suited to being started and stopped constantly like that
But do all hybrids actually stop/start the gas engine very often? I thought that wasn't always used. So would a "use the battery until it's empty, then use the diesel engine to charge the battery" type of hybrid work?
You're right about the (ancient) notions of diesel in the U.S. though.
I did say "at least used to", though sometimes I'll smell a burning smell not coming from my car (heh).. Isn't that the smell of a diesel? Yeah, I should look around at nearby cars when that happens to look for a diesel badge.
Around here, gas stations have charged for tire inflation for a long time.
If you fill up your tank, you either get a token or they turn on the compressor for you. Otherwise you pay a quarter or whatever at the air/water machines. (I've never paid, and have never noticed anybody else paying.)
Because I can veg out and watch TV while doing it⦠(and I'd very likely be watching TV anyways).
It's such a "waste of time" walking/jogging outside. I have thought about biking more (and have used company bikes for some between-building transportation), but even if I did that, it wouldn't be an hour a day. Yes, some people consider watching TV a waste of time, but it's still something I'd prefer to do, and it keeps my mind off the exercising.
Not *all* the time, but e.g. you can get better location data (for your mapping use, not others tracking you) by using the WiFi networks' locations as well as GPS, as the iPhone tells you if you have WiFi off.
I turn off GPS & cell service (though often including WiFi, in "airplane mode") more often to save battery.
Fact: Feeding cooked food to cats causes disease and sterility after generations, proven during the mid 1900's. Cats fed raw fresh food were healthier over more generations. Fact: Eating raw and unprocessed foods is healthy.
If we were cats, maybe #2 would follow from #1. We aren't, so it doesn't (necessarily).
BTW, we have been cooking food for thousands of years. It was covered on a science program (I believe a very recent episode of Nova) in more detail than I had seen discussed before. Basically, cooking food allows us to more "lazily" get our required calories/nutrition out of it.
Why is it that every window manager feels that the mac-style top bar IS the way to go?
I haven't used any of the Linux desktops you refer to (at least to any serious extent), so can't answer the other issues.. But for this issue, it's simply an example of Fitt's law.
It's much easier to zoom the cursor to the top of the screen in a rough movement than to carefully aim at a specific place on the screen. (Yes, you DO end up aiming at specific places on the screen a lot, but the menubar is a very often used interface element, so getting to it quickly THEN interacting with it carefully is useful.)
BTW, I very often do keyboard navigation of the menubar (yes, on a Mac). There is a good reason to have it at the top of the screen. (There are additional historical reasons, where taking up a decent amount of the vertical space of a window for the menubar would mean even less space for your content. Though conversely, yes, the Apple IIGS toolbox, "effectively" a superset of the original Mac toolbox, does allow menubars to be put in windows, though not the 'main' menubar.)
and a new tier of xbox live would add a free video streaming library like netflix, AND HERE IS THE BIG ONE, a free video GAME library that works like netflix, you can only check out a certain number of games at a time and their save state is wiped when the game is returned. The only games in the this library are older and lower tier ones, much like the netflix movie library.
Since you compare to netflix, I don't think you actually mean free, do you? You mean "all you can eat", not free?
Since you say the save game is wiped, I think you MIGHT mean actually free (as in included in the base price of the system), but I don't think you really mean that.
A low price (lower than gamefly) for old/lower tier games might be reasonable, but not if it wipes out your saved games. Heck, I already wait until games are in the $20 range to get them. Sony has successfully gotten me into re-buying some PS2 games as PS3 collections, though so far the Sony published ones, so I end up getting them for no cash due to using my accumulated Sony credit card points.
Heck, are most readers of slashdot even old enough to remember this? Even if they were born, were they old enough to follow the news at that time? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay
(*) I realize THAT is a close to 50 year old reference!
We are talking about a software flaw that enables access to other students' data. He was trying to verify the fix is there, so it seems to me like he HAS to try to access another student's data to verify it's fixed.. Which is what is being called unauthorized access.
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Wow, ok, maybe I'm wrong.. I just knew they took quarters/tokens.
But do all hybrids actually stop/start the gas engine very often? I thought that wasn't always used. So would a "use the battery until it's empty, then use the diesel engine to charge the battery" type of hybrid work?
I did say "at least used to", though sometimes I'll smell a burning smell not coming from my car (heh).. Isn't that the smell of a diesel? Yeah, I should look around at nearby cars when that happens to look for a diesel badge.
Oh come on, doesn't everybody know that Columbo's car was a Peugeot?
Around here, gas stations have charged for tire inflation for a long time.
If you fill up your tank, you either get a token or they turn on the compressor for you. Otherwise you pay a quarter or whatever at the air/water machines. (I've never paid, and have never noticed anybody else paying.)
They (at least used to) stink and let out lots of soot.
Though I wish there were more (any?) diesel hybrids instead of gas hybrids.
(Assuming this is referring to the U.S. Constitution, which is reasonable, since Google is headquartered in the U.S.)
Anyone who claims this is about freedom of speech doesn't understand the U.S. Constitution.
Because I can veg out and watch TV while doing it⦠(and I'd very likely be watching TV anyways).
It's such a "waste of time" walking/jogging outside. I have thought about biking more (and have used company bikes for some between-building transportation), but even if I did that, it wouldn't be an hour a day. Yes, some people consider watching TV a waste of time, but it's still something I'd prefer to do, and it keeps my mind off the exercising.
Not *all* the time, but e.g. you can get better location data (for your mapping use, not others tracking you) by using the WiFi networks' locations as well as GPS, as the iPhone tells you if you have WiFi off.
I turn off GPS & cell service (though often including WiFi, in "airplane mode") more often to save battery.
So, that means your bank did stupid, browser-specific sites rather than using web standards.
If we were cats, maybe #2 would follow from #1. We aren't, so it doesn't (necessarily).
BTW, we have been cooking food for thousands of years. It was covered on a science program (I believe a very recent episode of Nova) in more detail than I had seen discussed before. Basically, cooking food allows us to more "lazily" get our required calories/nutrition out of it.
As Sam Kinison said: go WHERE THE FOOD IS!
I don't think your wife will appreciate you charging up hot chicks.
I use my treadmill every single day. Nowadays I am using a mini iPad to watch shows from my TiVo when I walk on it.
Plus, it was an elliptical trainer in TFA, not a treadmill.
Umm, if he stole stuff from you, you called the cops, right?
No, iPods sold because they work and are easy to use.
I haven't used any of the Linux desktops you refer to (at least to any serious extent), so can't answer the other issues.. But for this issue, it's simply an example of Fitt's law.
It's much easier to zoom the cursor to the top of the screen in a rough movement than to carefully aim at a specific place on the screen. (Yes, you DO end up aiming at specific places on the screen a lot, but the menubar is a very often used interface element, so getting to it quickly THEN interacting with it carefully is useful.)
BTW, I very often do keyboard navigation of the menubar (yes, on a Mac). There is a good reason to have it at the top of the screen. (There are additional historical reasons, where taking up a decent amount of the vertical space of a window for the menubar would mean even less space for your content. Though conversely, yes, the Apple IIGS toolbox, "effectively" a superset of the original Mac toolbox, does allow menubars to be put in windows, though not the 'main' menubar.)
Nobody else watched "Decoding Neanderthals" on Nova?
http://video.pbs.org/video/2323758207
That was already stated in the grandparent to your post.)
Mr. Wonderful, is that you?
(This is a reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_O'Leary_(entrepreneur).)
Since you compare to netflix, I don't think you actually mean free, do you? You mean "all you can eat", not free?
Since you say the save game is wiped, I think you MIGHT mean actually free (as in included in the base price of the system), but I don't think you really mean that.
A low price (lower than gamefly) for old/lower tier games might be reasonable, but not if it wipes out your saved games. Heck, I already wait until games are in the $20 range to get them. Sony has successfully gotten me into re-buying some PS2 games as PS3 collections, though so far the Sony published ones, so I end up getting them for no cash due to using my accumulated Sony credit card points.
Holy almost 20 year old reference, Batman!(*)
Heck, are most readers of slashdot even old enough to remember this? Even if they were born, were they old enough to follow the news at that time?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay
(*) I realize THAT is a close to 50 year old reference!
It was made between July 27 and September 1 of the same year.. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)#Development
OK, you mean the arcade games 'half', right?
This (company's/companies') story is really confusing, and I used to know the various machinations.
I don't, necessarily, but I do think that BOTH sides have to agree to the changes.
Take a photo OF WHAT?
We are talking about a software flaw that enables access to other students' data. He was trying to verify the fix is there, so it seems to me like he HAS to try to access another student's data to verify it's fixed.. Which is what is being called unauthorized access.