Wrong. The electronics in cars are made as cheap as possible. So now you get to replace the charger pack, the BCM, etc.. the ONLY thing being changed from a normal car is the motor is replaced with electric.
you replace a mechanical device with a different mechanical device. they still have friction brakes, wheel hubs, steering racks, transmissions, and differentials.
When we get hovercars, THEN your statement becomes true.
It's not about making informed decisions anymore. It's all about being trendy, owning the newest shiny, and looking like I'm part of the crowd.
I just bought a new home for WAY WAY under appraised value because the sellers were downright desperate. I got the loan for $15,000 more than purchase price and still am $20,000 under what I could sell it for when the market pop's back.
What am I doing with the $15K? Replacing the furnace and AC with SEER 18 and >95% efficient as well as adding another 18" of insulation in the roof (walls are already good) as well as replacing the windows with triple pane LowE ($100.00 a window if you know where to get them)
The cost of living for my wife and I just dropped drastically. Mortgage will be $490.00 a month WITH insurance and taxes in escrow. After upgrades Heat and AC will be under $90.00 a month (Live in michigan) so that if we both were unemployed and worked at McDonalds flipping burgers at minimum wage we could afford to pay or bills.
What do friends say we should do with the cash? Remodel the kitchen with marble counters, add a theater room, Buy a Lexus or BMW, go on a vacation, etc... They are appalled that we are "wasting" that money on home improvements that are not visible. Things that are flat out stupid to do. People in general put a high value on things that are visible that others see and low value on invisible things that will pay back better than any Savings CD can ever hope to do. (I will make back that money in 5 years... 100% return in 5 years is something that everyone in wall street would literally kill for) Plus I limit my financial liability. Something that most people also do not understand.
I recently sold my SUV and bought a New Honda Civic, non hybrid. The gas saved is equal to the car payment at $2.90 a gallon, if gas goes up I save even more. Insurance saved is $30.00 a month. I'm net positive and also will have a lower TCO on the civic than the SUV.
The Cost difference between the Cvic and Civic hybrid is huge. So huge that it makes the car a net loss due to the insignificant increases in gas mileage compared to the Non hybrid civic. To this day I cant understand why anyone would buy a hybrid. The only hybrid I ever saw that made sense was the Honda Insight 1st gen. It got real gains, current hybrids get insignificant gains compared to the non hybrid same model.
Sane cars dont need to do 0-60 in 4.2 seconds. Only really silly or foolish people believe that a car is unsave because I cant accelerate fast... Honda Civic is a slow car, it's safer than any Mustang GT. It's more about uneducated drivers and really bad driving habits and far less about power and speed. Power and Speed only come into factor when you are pulling weight or racing. If an electric tops out at 70mph on the highway, it is perfectly safe you will NEVER need to overtake a car doing 70. It's all ego talking there... I'm important I deserve to do 75-85.....
In fact hybrids and electrics are NOT really for the united states in general. WE have more people that commute 30 miles on a highway to work daily than we have that live within 10 miles of work, have public transportation available or can walk there. So 30 miles 70mph means a car like a honda cvic wins for efficiency. My 2007 2dr coupe gets 44mpg on the highway regularly. This is better than most hybrids, and is very close to what the Civic hybrid gets. If I were to slow to 65mph I would get the same gas mileage as the Civic hybrid. and only add 2 minutes to my commute, if there was no traffic or slowdowns... Real world driving give me large time losses as the traffic congestion the last 10 miles would remove all time saved if I drove 90mph the whole way.
Paypal is a mess simply because it was designed to screw customers from day one. they worked like hell to make sure they operated outside banking rules where there are laws protecting people and their money. Paypal can steal all your money and you cant do crap about it because they are "not a bank"
People who are suprised by paypal problems simply dont pay attention or dont read what they agreed to. I've had zero problems with paypal for the past 11 years only because I know what they are, what their rules are and I play inside their ruleset. You have to play by Paypal's rules or they will go home taking their ball and your ball, chair, couch, ipod, and keys to your bank account.
This is the same for any BANK you might use. Learn their rules carefully. Because they also take joy in screwing you.... Just deposited a $5000.00 in cash at 9:00am if I write a check at 3:00pm the check will bounce. because they process debits before payments as a lump at 12:01am the next morning.
Yup it's a scam. and it blows my nind they call a "micropayment" amounts under $20.00US...
I know that bankers wipe their asses with $50's and $100's but most Americans don't call even $5.00 a "micro" payment. Most people consider under $2.00 a micropayment.
Screw that, what about my $2800.00 Sensor input card for this pile of thermocouples and Ph probes in the lab? I guess it's time to go out and buy some PC gear with PCI to make sure the lab can have parts for repairs until the idiots in management give us money to buy new test gear.
That's the real rub. Those of us doing REAL work with computers are getting screwed. Most new scientific and high end test equipment still use PCI and RS232.
No but setting off the halon system or knocking the head off a fire sprinkler in the server room will.
Contractor knocked a head off in the crawl space above the server room. Nobody noticed the 2 feet of water up the glass until it hit the top of the first battery bank on the UPS system and it shorted. most of the servers happily ran for the 1 hour they were getting soaked.
I got to go home early every day for a week while new hardware was shipped to us. The Quake III games we played that week were a blast.
by psychologically unstable children who routinely make trivially imbecilic decisions for no readily apparent reason.
Have you ever dealt with teenagers or early 20's kids? They are by definition that exact statement..
"I was late to work, some guy in a honda challenged me at a red light by revving his engine, so I blew the engine in my Scion Xb racing him.... It was sooo worth it though.... That old lady in the civic never knew what hit her.... she was way behind be when the engine blew"
What moron wants to open a zipped file attachment on his PHONE. I want to see the email is there, then I open my laptop and grab the full email and do what I want.
I keep hearing this red-herring about attachments and zipped attachments on email on phones, and can not find one person that actually truely needs or would use this. What complete fool is gonna open a zip, open the spreadsheet and then edit it on his fricking phone? None. you see it's there, drop into the nearest coffee shop, whip open that laptop, vpn in to work and grab the file.
Like in Vietnam.. News covered how the Americans were butchers, killing women and children. And how they were unrefined even killing their own officers.
Yet the truth was that GI's were fragging officers because they would order them to kill the children or the scumbag enemy were forcing women to fight or they would kill their children (Sounds like the current cowards), or put the team in un-necessary danger... Oops 4 grenades went off in Lt. Dan's tent.... He must have been depressed....
And the way to do it? remove shoutcast, make it a module, put the module outside the usa, and make it auto install. call it "aol can go to hell-shuotcast plugin OSS version"
then say, "we cant control plugin makers, sorry, but our product does not have shoutcast compatability in it."
Do a video press release flipping the bird the entire time. ALA vietnam and korea war POW film reels.
Applites! time to strike is now.... The ipad is out of the barn, I repeat the iPad is out of the barn....
Green team go! Blue Team go! Red team go! Yellow team, you can mellow a bit.
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Palm Treo $699.00 Nokia smartphones $499-$999 Samsung phones in general NEVER have upgrades available... $499-999 in price. motorola phones outside the Android ones never get updates. and the Droid took forever to get 2.1 to it... mostly because of users screaming at Verizon about it...
And before you start chuckling about holding up an iPad to your head, two words - bluetooth headset.
Ignoring the fact that a BT headset will NOT pair with a iPad.
They done have a handsfree bluetooth profile in the iPad. you cant connect a bluetooth headset to it. you CAN pair an A2Dp headphone source to it though....
It only costs $2000.00 to add a air makeup unit that is an air/air heat exhanger on it. that is almost nothing in the cost of a new home,yet MOST homes are not built with one because homeowners are not educated enough to make sane decisions on their home design.
no they dont. 4" exterior walls are common now. it USED to be 6" was required for exterior walls. but contractors wanted to increase profit margins clamored to make houses more "shitty".
Homes should also be sheathed with 3/4" plywood instead of the craptastic fiber board they use now. I've been doing high end installs of whole house audio in $1,000,000+ homes on the side for 5 years now. Home construction has went down hill quite a bit from the late 80's where you had to have good construction quality.
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Wrong. The electronics in cars are made as cheap as possible. So now you get to replace the charger pack, the BCM, etc.. the ONLY thing being changed from a normal car is the motor is replaced with electric.
you replace a mechanical device with a different mechanical device. they still have friction brakes, wheel hubs, steering racks, transmissions, and differentials.
When we get hovercars, THEN your statement becomes true.
That is most people. Wat too stupid to look past the monthly payment number.
Yes I do. I still have a 1st gen DVD player it works great. I have a pile of dead current generation junk Dvd players.
The first ones are always built better. after they figure something out, then they try to build it as cheap as possible.
It's not about making informed decisions anymore. It's all about being trendy, owning the newest shiny, and looking like I'm part of the crowd.
I just bought a new home for WAY WAY under appraised value because the sellers were downright desperate. I got the loan for $15,000 more than purchase price and still am $20,000 under what I could sell it for when the market pop's back.
What am I doing with the $15K? Replacing the furnace and AC with SEER 18 and >95% efficient as well as adding another 18" of insulation in the roof (walls are already good) as well as replacing the windows with triple pane LowE ($100.00 a window if you know where to get them)
The cost of living for my wife and I just dropped drastically. Mortgage will be $490.00 a month WITH insurance and taxes in escrow. After upgrades Heat and AC will be under $90.00 a month (Live in michigan) so that if we both were unemployed and worked at McDonalds flipping burgers at minimum wage we could afford to pay or bills.
What do friends say we should do with the cash? Remodel the kitchen with marble counters, add a theater room, Buy a Lexus or BMW, go on a vacation, etc... They are appalled that we are "wasting" that money on home improvements that are not visible. Things that are flat out stupid to do. People in general put a high value on things that are visible that others see and low value on invisible things that will pay back better than any Savings CD can ever hope to do. (I will make back that money in 5 years... 100% return in 5 years is something that everyone in wall street would literally kill for) Plus I limit my financial liability. Something that most people also do not understand.
I recently sold my SUV and bought a New Honda Civic, non hybrid. The gas saved is equal to the car payment at $2.90 a gallon, if gas goes up I save even more. Insurance saved is $30.00 a month. I'm net positive and also will have a lower TCO on the civic than the SUV.
The Cost difference between the Cvic and Civic hybrid is huge. So huge that it makes the car a net loss due to the insignificant increases in gas mileage compared to the Non hybrid civic. To this day I cant understand why anyone would buy a hybrid. The only hybrid I ever saw that made sense was the Honda Insight 1st gen. It got real gains, current hybrids get insignificant gains compared to the non hybrid same model.
Sane cars dont need to do 0-60 in 4.2 seconds. Only really silly or foolish people believe that a car is unsave because I cant accelerate fast... Honda Civic is a slow car, it's safer than any Mustang GT. It's more about uneducated drivers and really bad driving habits and far less about power and speed. Power and Speed only come into factor when you are pulling weight or racing. If an electric tops out at 70mph on the highway, it is perfectly safe you will NEVER need to overtake a car doing 70. It's all ego talking there... I'm important I deserve to do 75-85.....
In fact hybrids and electrics are NOT really for the united states in general. WE have more people that commute 30 miles on a highway to work daily than we have that live within 10 miles of work, have public transportation available or can walk there. So 30 miles 70mph means a car like a honda cvic wins for efficiency. My 2007 2dr coupe gets 44mpg on the highway regularly. This is better than most hybrids, and is very close to what the Civic hybrid gets. If I were to slow to 65mph I would get the same gas mileage as the Civic hybrid. and only add 2 minutes to my commute, if there was no traffic or slowdowns... Real world driving give me large time losses as the traffic congestion the last 10 miles would remove all time saved if I drove 90mph the whole way.
Paypal is a mess simply because it was designed to screw customers from day one. they worked like hell to make sure they operated outside banking rules where there are laws protecting people and their money. Paypal can steal all your money and you cant do crap about it because they are "not a bank"
People who are suprised by paypal problems simply dont pay attention or dont read what they agreed to. I've had zero problems with paypal for the past 11 years only because I know what they are, what their rules are and I play inside their ruleset. You have to play by Paypal's rules or they will go home taking their ball and your ball, chair, couch, ipod, and keys to your bank account.
This is the same for any BANK you might use. Learn their rules carefully. Because they also take joy in screwing you.... Just deposited a $5000.00 in cash at 9:00am if I write a check at 3:00pm the check will bounce. because they process debits before payments as a lump at 12:01am the next morning.
Banks love screwing people this way.
Yup it's a scam. and it blows my nind they call a "micropayment" amounts under $20.00US...
I know that bankers wipe their asses with $50's and $100's but most Americans don't call even $5.00 a "micro" payment. Most people consider under $2.00 a micropayment.
No. Because those of us that do real work use them.
Rs232 is still a big standard in the commercial and industrial world.
Screw that, what about my $2800.00 Sensor input card for this pile of thermocouples and Ph probes in the lab? I guess it's time to go out and buy some PC gear with PCI to make sure the lab can have parts for repairs until the idiots in management give us money to buy new test gear.
That's the real rub. Those of us doing REAL work with computers are getting screwed. Most new scientific and high end test equipment still use PCI and RS232.
WE should hold a meeting about that.
Better yet, let's hold meetings to build a focus group who can have meetings to find out more information about that,
No but setting off the halon system or knocking the head off a fire sprinkler in the server room will.
Contractor knocked a head off in the crawl space above the server room. Nobody noticed the 2 feet of water up the glass until it hit the top of the first battery bank on the UPS system and it shorted. most of the servers happily ran for the 1 hour they were getting soaked.
I got to go home early every day for a week while new hardware was shipped to us. The Quake III games we played that week were a blast.
There are a LOT of good ideas. It's just that hollywood execs are too stupid to try anything new...
HEY this made money 30 years ago.... let's remake it!
Hey let's remake CasaBlanca but this time use Vin Diesel!
We can remake the epic Ben Hur in 3d with laser swords on a sand planet.... Let's combine Dune and Ben Hur! Dune Hur!
I agree. Silent running was far more of a masterpiece than Logans Run.
by psychologically unstable children who routinely make trivially imbecilic decisions for no readily apparent reason.
Have you ever dealt with teenagers or early 20's kids? They are by definition that exact statement..
"I was late to work, some guy in a honda challenged me at a red light by revving his engine, so I blew the engine in my Scion Xb racing him.... It was sooo worth it though.... That old lady in the civic never knew what hit her.... she was way behind be when the engine blew"
Dont worry, the Studio Execs will take out all the great parts and add in Jar-Jar esque moments. or other equally stupid things to mess it up.
Logans Run Starring Hulk Hogan....
Never underestimate Hollywoods ability to royally screw up a good thing.
What moron wants to open a zipped file attachment on his PHONE. I want to see the email is there, then I open my laptop and grab the full email and do what I want.
I keep hearing this red-herring about attachments and zipped attachments on email on phones, and can not find one person that actually truely needs or would use this. What complete fool is gonna open a zip, open the spreadsheet and then edit it on his fricking phone? None. you see it's there, drop into the nearest coffee shop, whip open that laptop, vpn in to work and grab the file.
Like in Vietnam.. News covered how the Americans were butchers, killing women and children. And how they were unrefined even killing their own officers.
Yet the truth was that GI's were fragging officers because they would order them to kill the children or the scumbag enemy were forcing women to fight or they would kill their children (Sounds like the current cowards), or put the team in un-necessary danger... Oops 4 grenades went off in Lt. Dan's tent.... He must have been depressed....
Yes Shoutcast and icecast stations are all over. Lots of awesome radio is on shoutcast and icecast stations.
Most have moved to icecast, but some are running on really out of date shoutcast servers.
What is the suckiest is the WNA and RM streams... only real idiots use those for streaming radio.
And the way to do it? remove shoutcast, make it a module, put the module outside the usa, and make it auto install. call it "aol can go to hell-shuotcast plugin OSS version"
then say, "we cant control plugin makers, sorry, but our product does not have shoutcast compatability in it."
Do a video press release flipping the bird the entire time. ALA vietnam and korea war POW film reels.
Shhh! you are not supposed to let that out...
Oh BTW...
Applites! time to strike is now.... The ipad is out of the barn, I repeat the iPad is out of the barn....
Green team go! Blue Team go! Red team go! Yellow team, you can mellow a bit.
Palm Treo $699.00
Nokia smartphones $499-$999
Samsung phones in general NEVER have upgrades available... $499-999 in price.
motorola phones outside the Android ones never get updates. and the Droid took forever to get 2.1 to it... mostly because of users screaming at Verizon about it...
And before you start chuckling about holding up an iPad to your head, two words - bluetooth headset.
Ignoring the fact that a BT headset will NOT pair with a iPad.
They done have a handsfree bluetooth profile in the iPad. you cant connect a bluetooth headset to it. you CAN pair an A2Dp headphone source to it though....
people can watch you type the email.
It only costs $2000.00 to add a air makeup unit that is an air/air heat exhanger on it. that is almost nothing in the cost of a new home ,yet MOST homes are not built with one because homeowners are not educated enough to make sane decisions on their home design.
no they dont. 4" exterior walls are common now. it USED to be 6" was required for exterior walls. but contractors wanted to increase profit margins clamored to make houses more "shitty".
Homes should also be sheathed with 3/4" plywood instead of the craptastic fiber board they use now. I've been doing high end installs of whole house audio in $1,000,000+ homes on the side for 5 years now. Home construction has went down hill quite a bit from the late 80's where you had to have good construction quality.