"The complaint that Americans (their major market in terms of customers) simply wouldn't buy a car with only a 300 mile driving radius is a tough one to argue against"
if you ignore that the vehicle cost nearly $60,000 to buy and it's a subcompact class car.
Americans have no problem with a 300 mile range, they have a problem with being robbed blind.
I have a sony playstation I'll sell you for $4,800.00US, you wont buy it? The playstation is a failure!
" A petrol driven vehicle's per-mile costs are FAR more expensive than just the fuel itself accounts for, because significant road taxes are integral to the price of the fuel. "
When I pay $3.85 for a gallon at the pump, there is no extra bill I get later. so that $3.85 will buy me 9610 Gallons of gas for the price difference of a new Civic Coupe versus a new Chevy Volt.
I drive 80 miles a day for my commute, I use 2.22 gallons a day 2 gallons a day if I stay below 68mph. So I can drive for 4328 days on the price difference, or for 12 years.
The Volt, without ever driving it is already a major loss. every second you drive it you increase it's expense, and I dont even cover the major cost difference on Insurance as a Volt's insurance is 2X that of the Civic.
Electric vehicles will continue to be an utter failure until they make a Honda civic base model priced one. $9,999.00US to $14,999.99 price point WITHOUT any tax rebates.
Oh boy, I know my neighbor will relish in running Python on his phone. 30,000 Debian packages.. of which 0 will have any interest to anyone running a cellphone.
except on the windows platform. There are still plenty that can infect without the user running it as administrator because of crapware called MS office and Adobe Reader that do not run sandboxed but run so that when they overflow they give the code root level access.
Again, it's the craptastic security model of Windows.
Multiple monitor support that is not horribly broken. Ability to put apps in folders of my choosing. disable the stupid pop up quick menu and go directly to my list of apps.
It's not the OS that drives Tablet popularity and sales figures. IT's the Apps available. Honestly a Ubuntu tablet will be a failure. Unless they can crank out 200,000+ free useful apps overnight.
ANY officer that stand there watching one of his own assult someone is just as bad as the guy pounding the life out of someone.
If you stand there ant watch or say nothing you are as big of a scumbag.
Honestly the lawns need to change to make officers personally responsible for their actions and can be SUED out of existance and blackballed from ever working pol,ice work again if they do what the scumbags with badges did in Oakland.
and every officer that kept his moth shut also needs to be fired. Police should be held to a HIGHER standard than the law. if you are a cop and you are speeding off duty, you lose your job.
Problem is it's the other way around. Cops live above the law and have no legal responsibility. they cant even be sued for misconduct.
Yup BSA raids. nothing like firing a couple of CS grenades in the face of the IT department guys when you respond to a call that they are re-using Office 2003 licenses on new computers.
37mm grenade launchers are LEGAL for civillians to own. I have one under my AR-15. I have a pair of flare rounds and a couple of smoke rounds that came with it.
Why did I get it? Because it makes the rifle look REALLY COOL, and everyone at the firing range oohs and ahhs all over the gun. It's like putting a wing on a car, but far less dorky.
FLIR is easily defeated, the $0.99 survival blankets completely block IR cameras and FLIR cameras from being effective, The cops are just lucky that criminals are too stupid to know this and use this tactic.
Think of it as a whole body tinfoil hat invented by nasa.
yours must have been defective. I get a solid 2 days out of my Fossil MSN watch. and this thing is well over 6 years old now and has been left dead for weeks which is bad for the battery.
and yes, for what you got it was expensive. if it was BT and talked to my phone, it would have use, but now I only wear it to nerdy events to out nerd the others nerds.
and failed because they tied it to their service that is horribly slow over FM broadcast. if they made them open and bluetooth then the MSN watch would have actually taken off a lot better.
And that is always Microsoft problem with hardware... Great idea, now let's crippled it with the software and close it up so people have to pay monthly to use it.
I made a personal prototype that I use and every single person that sees it wants one, just not at the $2200.00 price tag I have on them.. $1000 in parts and $1200 in my labor for a week comes with no warranty.
This would be an item that one of these china crap companies could make and dominate a market.
The watt (pronounced/wt/ wot; symbol: W) is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units (SI), named after the Scottish engineer James Watt (1736–1819). The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.
Durability is a HUGE issue. Anyone that wears glasses knows that when you get the anti-glare coating, that means the glasses are impossible to clean and will scratch if you even fart too close to them.
If they do this and it can withstand 10 psi of pressure on a 000 steel wool wad for 500 strokes witout any damage, I am suddenly very interested.
The problem was that government officials and Teller were trying to Cover their asses and that is why that was put into the official document that went to washington.
Oppenhimer himself said that Teller, "lacked the sense to shut up" about it.
I just hope we can get cars from Fallout. they take a little damage and go off like atomic bombs. This will solve two problems.
1 - people will stop driving like assholes if their cars will explode. 2 - any crashes will self clear as the explosion will throw everything from the roadway, just dodge the new pothole.
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No be happy for my idiot neighbor. He drives his Durango the same distance at 12.7 mpg.
"The complaint that Americans (their major market in terms of customers) simply wouldn't buy a car with only a 300 mile driving radius is a tough one to argue against"
if you ignore that the vehicle cost nearly $60,000 to buy and it's a subcompact class car.
Americans have no problem with a 300 mile range, they have a problem with being robbed blind.
I have a sony playstation I'll sell you for $4,800.00US, you wont buy it? The playstation is a failure!
" A petrol driven vehicle's per-mile costs are FAR more expensive than just the fuel itself accounts for, because significant road taxes are integral to the price of the fuel. "
When I pay $3.85 for a gallon at the pump, there is no extra bill I get later. so that $3.85 will buy me 9610 Gallons of gas for the price difference of a new Civic Coupe versus a new Chevy Volt.
I drive 80 miles a day for my commute, I use 2.22 gallons a day 2 gallons a day if I stay below 68mph. So I can drive for 4328 days on the price difference, or for 12 years.
The Volt, without ever driving it is already a major loss. every second you drive it you increase it's expense, and I dont even cover the major cost difference on Insurance as a Volt's insurance is 2X that of the Civic.
Electric vehicles will continue to be an utter failure until they make a Honda civic base model priced one. $9,999.00US to $14,999.99 price point WITHOUT any tax rebates.
Oh boy, I know my neighbor will relish in running Python on his phone.
30,000 Debian packages.. of which 0 will have any interest to anyone running a cellphone.
Try again.
NOOB!
except on the windows platform. There are still plenty that can infect without the user running it as administrator because of crapware called MS office and Adobe Reader that do not run sandboxed but run so that when they overflow they give the code root level access.
Again, it's the craptastic security model of Windows.
Multiple monitor support that is not horribly broken.
Ability to put apps in folders of my choosing.
disable the stupid pop up quick menu and go directly to my list of apps.
try using it on a laptop with a synaptics touchpad.
I dont.
It's not the OS that drives Tablet popularity and sales figures. IT's the Apps available.
Honestly a Ubuntu tablet will be a failure. Unless they can crank out 200,000+ free useful apps overnight.
"And ppl wonder why there are so many crackers out there."
Mostly because the keep having children...
Oh wait, are we talking about the same thing?
ANY officer that stand there watching one of his own assult someone is just as bad as the guy pounding the life out of someone.
If you stand there ant watch or say nothing you are as big of a scumbag.
Honestly the lawns need to change to make officers personally responsible for their actions and can be SUED out of existance and blackballed from ever working pol,ice work again if they do what the scumbags with badges did in Oakland.
and every officer that kept his moth shut also needs to be fired. Police should be held to a HIGHER standard than the law. if you are a cop and you are speeding off duty, you lose your job.
Problem is it's the other way around. Cops live above the law and have no legal responsibility. they cant even be sued for misconduct.
Explain Oakland Police then.
Yup BSA raids. nothing like firing a couple of CS grenades in the face of the IT department guys when you respond to a call that they are re-using Office 2003 licenses on new computers.
Scumbag IT guys.
37mm grenade launchers are LEGAL for civillians to own. I have one under my AR-15. I have a pair of flare rounds and a couple of smoke rounds that came with it.
Why did I get it? Because it makes the rifle look REALLY COOL, and everyone at the firing range oohs and ahhs all over the gun. It's like putting a wing on a car, but far less dorky.
FLIR is easily defeated, the $0.99 survival blankets completely block IR cameras and FLIR cameras from being effective, The cops are just lucky that criminals are too stupid to know this and use this tactic.
Think of it as a whole body tinfoil hat invented by nasa.
It will be only a short time before drug lords and other baddies start getting anti aircraft missiles to take out the UAV's.
Do we really want the police encouraging the criminals to upgrade weaponry?
yours must have been defective. I get a solid 2 days out of my Fossil MSN watch. and this thing is well over 6 years old now and has been left dead for weeks which is bad for the battery.
and yes, for what you got it was expensive. if it was BT and talked to my phone, it would have use, but now I only wear it to nerdy events to out nerd the others nerds.
and failed because they tied it to their service that is horribly slow over FM broadcast. if they made them open and bluetooth then the MSN watch would have actually taken off a lot better.
And that is always Microsoft problem with hardware... Great idea, now let's crippled it with the software and close it up so people have to pay monthly to use it.
A double din android car stereo.
I made a personal prototype that I use and every single person that sees it wants one, just not at the $2200.00 price tag I have on them.. $1000 in parts and $1200 in my labor for a week comes with no warranty.
This would be an item that one of these china crap companies could make and dominate a market.
The watt (pronounced /wt/ wot; symbol: W) is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units (SI), named after the Scottish engineer James Watt (1736–1819). The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt
When talking about an electrical generator it is customary to express the energy created in watts, or in larger scale "Mega Watts"
So in fact it IS a measure of energy conversion.
Exactly,
For example SCO had investors.
Durability is a HUGE issue. Anyone that wears glasses knows that when you get the anti-glare coating, that means the glasses are impossible to clean and will scratch if you even fart too close to them.
If they do this and it can withstand 10 psi of pressure on a 000 steel wool wad for 500 strokes witout any damage, I am suddenly very interested.
The problem was that government officials and Teller were trying to Cover their asses and that is why that was put into the official document that went to washington.
Oppenhimer himself said that Teller, "lacked the sense to shut up" about it.
I just hope we can get cars from Fallout. they take a little damage and go off like atomic bombs. This will solve two problems.
1 - people will stop driving like assholes if their cars will explode.
2 - any crashes will self clear as the explosion will throw everything from the roadway, just dodge the new pothole.
Hey real scientists in the run up to the Nuclear and Hydrogen bomb said that detonating the bomb would ignite the atmosphere and destroy the planet.