My guess is that besides engine size, he has a a manual tranmission, and you have automatic. A properly driven manual transmission is a great way to save gas.
I usually get about 35 mpg with my SC1, but that's with lots of small trips. When I take a longer trip, I get 40+ mpg as well, though I am impressed that an SL1 can do that well.
Of course, one of the best ways to save gas is to avoid needless acceleration/deceleration. You'd be surprised how much gasd you can save byslowing down by taking your foot of the accelerator, instead of using the brakes.
Yes, professors generally make decent salaries, but books are often written while on sabbatical. Professor often have to come up with other funding to pay their salaries while on sabbatical, and research funding won't always pay for writing a textbook.
Yes, it raises the question of what it means to be "online". Personally, I think that sending and receiving email should count as being online. Sending email across the internet is using the internet. Obviously there's quite a bit more out there that you can do online past email. I think that any use of internet-related services should count, otherwise it is too hard to decide where to draw the line.
I always thought that the right handed rule gave an advantage to lefties.
Lefties can be figuring out the direction with their right hand while they are writing with their left.
Of course lefties are put at a disadvantage in so many other ways that it is only fair that one ocassionally rolls their way.
Yeah, the only way it spawns multiple toolbars is if you spawn multiple instances of the program. I have done that by accident on occasion, and it seems like the sensible way for it to work. I don't like programs that check and see if they are already running, and then just pop up the already running version when you try to run them multiple times.
Does anyone else find it interesting that nuclear weapons are the only sort which actually destroy mass?
Not really. Conventional explosives like TNT also convert mass into energy, its just that that the amounts involved are so small that chemists don't usually bother to measure them. Chemical binding energy does get converted into mass and vice versa.
Apparently, the mean programmer pay in the U.S. is that high.
If there is a disparity between mean and median, mean would be higher here, since the high paying jobs would distort the distribution and pull up the mean.
That's not even counting the grad students who'd work for free as research.
Grad students in natural sciences, engineering and even CS rarely work for free. Usually they are paid stipends, free tuition, and other benefits. While the accounting practices at some universities might shift some of these costs to the school, usually the project that the grad student is working on has to pay the vast majority of these costs.
If you'll notice, nowhere in America are there two analog stations on adjacent (3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10, etc.) channels. The interference was too great, and it was against FCC rules to do so. So you couldn't fill in the VHF channels with the UHF channels, because there are not 12 channels. There are only 7 available.
This is not true. I know at least one example of stations that have consecutive numbers. In Minneapolis/St. Paul WCCO (CBS) and KSTP (ABC) are 4 and 5. Both stations have been around for fifty years or so I believe. I believe the reason stations generally are laid out with space in between them is to avoid interference from stations in nearby cities. Having two high powered stations in New York City and Philadelphia,
for example, would not be a good idea.
Yeah, and you can get it even cheaper from buy.com. Or cheaper still if you don't mind a used copy. Do yourself a favor and use a book search tool. I like addall.com, though there are many others to choose from.
You can argue about how DeCSS doesn't copy anything, but you all know it, DeCSS is used for ripping dvd's to vcd's and divx. We can keep living in la la land and pretend that DeCSS is perfectly ledgitimate, but it really isn't.
It may be used that way, but I don't use it that way. I use it to watch DVDs that I have purchased on my Linux laptop.
A photocopier can also be used to copy whole books, but they are still legal to own and use.
This whole case came about because MPAA is trying hold onto unreasonably tight control of DVDs. DeCSS should not be illegal to possess, distribute or use.
All right, I stand corrected. It still seems pretty funny that Barton decided to mention Red Hat, VA and Slackware. Though maybe they got their hardware from VA at one point.
I love my TivO, and I thought that the article was pretty interesting, but I think I found a couple of small problems with it.
Still-famous companies entered the GNU/Linux distribution business: Red Hat, VA Linux, Slackware, and others.
As I recall, VA Linux never had their own Linux distribution. The started out selling hardware with Linux pre-installed, grew too quickly into other areas, and then crashed.
Public domain soft-ware. This is software that has been made available for any use, with no restrictions. Many public domain packages are available, the most notable of which are the X Window System and BSD operating system.
While I can see how a category such as Barton's
"public domain software" could be useful, I think that he has named it very poorly. There is are crucial differences between software that is in public domain, which has no copyright, and BSD software. Public domain software can whith a few alterations be claimed by anyone as there own, while the copyright notices withing BSD software must not be removed. Of course, you can still do pretty much anything you want with BSD software, other than claim it as your own.
If you are a reall astronomy buff, go see the world's largest refractor at Yereks Observatory.
As long as you are in the Chicago area, you might as well check out
Fermi Lab (though it looks like security is a little more of a pain recently) and The Museum of Science and Industry.
And has he never seen one of those little devices that has a little spinner on a needle in an evacuated piece of glass? The spinner has a bunch of vanes on it, each painted black on one side and white on the other. Surprisingly, when exposed to sunlight, it spins. So the proof-of-concept is there for the solar wind mirror.
Those little spinner things do not work on radiation pressure - they are a sham. The
real explanation is more complicated.
I find it frankly a bit bizarre that Europeans constantly use this argument. The fact is that the U.S. government pulls in FAR more money in tax revenue than ANY country in Europe, and we *should* be getting the services you guys get, but we *don't*.
Do you mean the US collects more tax dollars total, or more tax dollars per capita? Because I would believe the former, but it does not prove anything since the US has a much bigger economy and population than any single country in Europe.
As far as corruption and waste go, I think the US probably is better than the average European country in this regard. The reason we have fewer services in the US than in Europe is we spend much more per capita on the military and we have a lower tax burden.
Gas taxes in most states are set at cents/gallon, not as a percentage. So the fact that gas prices have not risen much in the past 20 years isn't really relevant. Gas taxes revenues have not been keeping up with the rising cost of road repair because the tax rate has been at a constant price per gallon.
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I usually get about 35 mpg with my SC1, but that's with lots of small trips. When I take a longer trip, I get 40+ mpg as well, though I am impressed that an SL1 can do that well.
Of course, one of the best ways to save gas is to avoid needless acceleration/deceleration. You'd be surprised how much gasd you can save byslowing down by taking your foot of the accelerator, instead of using the brakes.
Yes, professors generally make decent salaries, but books are often written while on sabbatical. Professor often have to come up with other funding to pay their salaries while on sabbatical, and research funding won't always pay for writing a textbook.
Who uses "H" for heat? I have never seen anything but "Q" for heat? Of course "h" is used for enthalpy.
Yes, it raises the question of what it means to be "online". Personally, I think that sending and receiving email should count as being online. Sending email across the internet is using the internet. Obviously there's quite a bit more out there that you can do online past email. I think that any use of internet-related services should count, otherwise it is too hard to decide where to draw the line.
How is getting (non-local) email not "online"? What internet related activities would you consider use to define being "online"?
Of course lefties are put at a disadvantage in so many other ways that it is only fair that one ocassionally rolls their way.
Yeah, the only way it spawns multiple toolbars is if you spawn multiple instances of the program. I have done that by accident on occasion, and it seems like the sensible way for it to work. I don't like programs that check and see if they are already running, and then just pop up the already running version when you try to run them multiple times.
If there is a disparity between mean and median, mean would be higher here, since the high paying jobs would distort the distribution and pull up the mean.
Sounds like Hawaii, which is another impressive palce to visit.
I'd suggest a related method using netcat, sometimes called Ghetto Ghost.
Yeah, and you can get it even cheaper from buy.com. Or cheaper still if you don't mind a used copy. Do yourself a favor and use a book search tool. I like addall.com, though there are many others to choose from.
A photocopier can also be used to copy whole books, but they are still legal to own and use. This whole case came about because MPAA is trying hold onto unreasonably tight control of DVDs. DeCSS should not be illegal to possess, distribute or use.
All right, I stand corrected. It still seems pretty funny that Barton decided to mention Red Hat, VA and Slackware. Though maybe they got their hardware from VA at one point.
I'd be awfuly surprised if Contiki supported PCMCIA. I'd try an older version of Linux. I've got a 486 running an old version of Debian.
As long as you are in the Chicago area, you might as well check out Fermi Lab (though it looks like security is a little more of a pain recently) and The Museum of Science and Industry.
It sounds like you fell for a line. Starting a truck doesn't waste much fuel. In fact, "fuel consumption during engine start-up is equivalent to about 30 seconds of engine idling."
As far as corruption and waste go, I think the US probably is better than the average European country in this regard. The reason we have fewer services in the US than in Europe is we spend much more per capita on the military and we have a lower tax burden.
You can, its just more difficult.
Gas taxes in most states are set at cents/gallon, not as a percentage. So the fact that gas prices have not risen much in the past 20 years isn't really relevant. Gas taxes revenues have not been keeping up with the rising cost of road repair because the tax rate has been at a constant price per gallon.