$0.70/per day ($0.055/KWh) I reduced my bill by 400-500KWh/month by eliminating waste, and the Volt adds about 300KWh/month, so even with the Volt my bill is lower. Don't forget it takes 8 KWh of electricity to produce a gallon of gas, my grid usage is still less.
You think gasoline is created without using electricity? It takes 8 KWh of electricity to create/deliver a gallon of gas. My Volt eliminated 2 gallons of gas per day (16 KWh) and only takes 12.5 KWh of electricity to charge. Knowledge and opinion are very different, you're apparently only familiar with one.
I don't think 27k is going to get you Mustang/Taurus with Navigation, sat radio, backup camera, leather seats, and remote control smart phone app. Comparing it to a Focus is ridiculous. I traded in a Lexus for a Volt. The other brands I was shopping were Jaguar and Audi. Comparing it to a BMW is no stretch. The drivetrain is smoother and quieter than a Rolls-Royce Phantom. Having 273 ft-lbs of torque available at 0 RPM is entertaining too. For some reason a Volt must pay justify itself immediately on economic terms. Why doesn't a Porsche 911 get reduced to a calculation?
The electricity to run it is very cheap for me, I get a special rate at night, $0.055/KWh. So a completely dead battery takes $0.70 to charge (~12.5KWh). The Volt is adding roughly 300 KWh/month to my bill, but before I bought it I eliminated wasted around my house (computers running all day, switched to LED lights) to the tune of 400-500 KWh/month. So I'm driving around on electricity that I was wasting a year ago. And for those who think the power needs are going to collapse the grid, please remember that it takes around 8 KWh of electricity to create/deliver a gallon of gas. So I eliminated 16 KWh/day (2 gallons of gas in my old car) and replaced it with ~13 KWh in battery charging
Short distances? 40 miles covers the daily driving of 90% of Americans. Low speeds? The Volt will attain 100 MPH on battery power alone, look for "autobahn volt" on youtube if you want to see it. No real benefit? My lifetime fuel economy is 255 MPG, is a Civic gonna do that? Prius?
Unlike you, I own a Volt, so, unlike you, I don't need to lie about the numbers.
It gets 25 (winter) to 46 (mild weather) miles per charge for me. When the battery runs low and the gas engine is powering the car, it delivers 38-40 MPG depending on speed. My lifetime economy (4.75 months, 4350 miles) is 255 MPG. I'd say that's pretty good, considering my Lexus was getting 19 MPG on the same commute.
Apparently you're also not smart enough to do the math, it turns out the Volt is cheaper than the average car.
$45.5k sticker (loaded) $7.5k tax credit (complain about this and I'll complain about the child deductions I'm funding with my six figure income) $11k gas savings (5 years, for me) = $27k gas vehicle equivalent (the average new car sale price in the US is ~$29k )
They can because they often want you to sign a contract that says "anything you do with/without company resource, with/without others, belongs to us". If you sign it, you're screwed.
I'm working on a Web application currently running on MySQL and I am interested in having work with any database (Perl/DBI). One feature that is especially nice when searching the database is using LIMIT in the select statement so that I don't retrieve 50,000 rows when someone searchs for "the". Does Oracle have anything like that? From what I've seen the answer is no.
Let's see, I'm working at a startup with a bunch of options and starting my own company on the side and I just got back from my vacation in Hawaii. What else do I need?
Give me one reason you can't change the VARCHAR's to CHAR's. There is no reason. And I can only find a couple of places in the code that refer to a column being NULL. It wouldn't take that long. Everyone acts like the slash code is so big and ungainly, what a joke. I'm working on a project with a friend of mine that's well over 10,000 lines of code without any problems.
Fixing the schema would take about 5 minutes wouldn't it? And the part about the primitive join holds for any database not just MySQL, so it could have been fixed before Mr. Dubois' book was printed right?
I find it very strange that I can buy a DVD like the Matrix for $16.99 and the soundtrack on CD has roughly the same price. One is full length major motion picture and the other is just a bunch of songs. What this all comes down to is a simple equation: price someone is willing to pay = (perceived quality) / (ease of copying) Unfortunately for artists the ease of copying is very small in the case of music. My price: a downloadable 128k MP3 should cost between 25 and 50 cents, 256k = $1. The prices I've seen so far ($2.50 - $4) are well outside this range.
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There will never be a Moon base, we will never live on Mars, get over it
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/category/space/
$0.70/per day ($0.055/KWh) I reduced my bill by 400-500KWh/month by eliminating waste, and the Volt adds about 300KWh/month, so even with the Volt my bill is lower. Don't forget it takes 8 KWh of electricity to produce a gallon of gas, my grid usage is still less.
You think gasoline is created without using electricity? It takes 8 KWh of electricity to create/deliver a gallon of gas. My Volt eliminated 2 gallons of gas per day (16 KWh) and only takes 12.5 KWh of electricity to charge. Knowledge and opinion are very different, you're apparently only familiar with one.
I don't think 27k is going to get you Mustang/Taurus with Navigation, sat radio, backup camera, leather seats, and remote control smart phone app. Comparing it to a Focus is ridiculous. I traded in a Lexus for a Volt. The other brands I was shopping were Jaguar and Audi. Comparing it to a BMW is no stretch. The drivetrain is smoother and quieter than a Rolls-Royce Phantom. Having 273 ft-lbs of torque available at 0 RPM is entertaining too. For some reason a Volt must pay justify itself immediately on economic terms. Why doesn't a Porsche 911 get reduced to a calculation?
The electricity to run it is very cheap for me, I get a special rate at night, $0.055/KWh. So a completely dead battery takes $0.70 to charge (~12.5KWh). The Volt is adding roughly 300 KWh/month to my bill, but before I bought it I eliminated wasted around my house (computers running all day, switched to LED lights) to the tune of 400-500 KWh/month. So I'm driving around on electricity that I was wasting a year ago. And for those who think the power needs are going to collapse the grid, please remember that it takes around 8 KWh of electricity to create/deliver a gallon of gas. So I eliminated 16 KWh/day (2 gallons of gas in my old car) and replaced it with ~13 KWh in battery charging
Short distances? 40 miles covers the daily driving of 90% of Americans. Low speeds? The Volt will attain 100 MPH on battery power alone, look for "autobahn volt" on youtube if you want to see it. No real benefit? My lifetime fuel economy is 255 MPG, is a Civic gonna do that? Prius?
Unlike you, I own a Volt, so, unlike you, I don't need to lie about the numbers.
It gets 25 (winter) to 46 (mild weather) miles per charge for me. When the battery runs low and the gas engine is powering the car, it delivers 38-40 MPG depending on speed. My lifetime economy (4.75 months, 4350 miles) is 255 MPG. I'd say that's pretty good, considering my Lexus was getting 19 MPG on the same commute.
Apparently you're also not smart enough to do the math, it turns out the Volt is cheaper than the average car.
$45.5k sticker (loaded)
$7.5k tax credit (complain about this and I'll complain about the child deductions I'm funding with my six figure income)
$11k gas savings (5 years, for me)
= $27k gas vehicle equivalent (the average new car sale price in the US is ~$29k )
If you're still not convinced the Volt is a good idea, I suggest you start reading this blog http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/
They can because they often want you to sign a contract that says "anything you do with/without company resource, with/without others, belongs to us". If you sign it, you're screwed.
I'm working on a Web application currently running on MySQL and I am interested in having work with any database (Perl/DBI). One feature that is especially nice when searching the database is using LIMIT in the select statement so that I don't retrieve 50,000 rows when someone searchs for "the". Does Oracle have anything like that? From what I've seen the answer is no.
Let's see, I'm working at a startup with a bunch of options and starting my own company on the side and I just got back from my vacation in Hawaii. What else do I need?
Give me one reason you can't change the VARCHAR's to CHAR's. There is no reason. And I can only find a couple of places in the code that refer to a column being NULL. It wouldn't take that long. Everyone acts like the slash code is so big and ungainly, what a joke. I'm working on a project with a friend of mine that's well over 10,000 lines of code without any problems.
..because I dared criticize the almighty Slash code. I tell you how to fix it, and the reply is "do a patch". You can all blow me.
Fixing the schema would take about 5 minutes wouldn't it? And the part about the primitive join holds for any database not just MySQL, so it could have been fixed before Mr. Dubois' book was printed right?
The Alicebot is a real piece of junk. All the responses I got were seemingly unrelated to what I typed in.
I find it very strange that I can buy a DVD like the Matrix for $16.99 and the soundtrack on CD has roughly the same price. One is full length major motion picture and the other is just a bunch of songs. What this all comes down to is a simple equation: price someone is willing to pay = (perceived quality) / (ease of copying) Unfortunately for artists the ease of copying is very small in the case of music. My price: a downloadable 128k MP3 should cost between 25 and 50 cents, 256k = $1. The prices I've seen so far ($2.50 - $4) are well outside this range.