Ford is going to be producing a hybrid electric version of their new Escape, which is the smallish SUV (but still larger than a CRV) that they just recently came out with. This is coming out in 2003. It may not actually be available until model year 2004.
Its not quite as impressive as the Honda Insight since its so much bigger, but it will get 40 MPG (combined city and highway) and have a range of around 500 miles on a tank of gas. The price is expected to increase by about 3k over its current 18k base rate for the hybrid model. And its based on a car/unibody chassis so you wont flip over if someone breathes on you. More details are here.
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You sound like the only point of Linux is to get rid of Microsoft. I think you've just proved his point. There are two schools of thought on Linux. Either its "I want to develop Linux into a really cool and useful operating system," or "I want to use Linux to destroy Microsoft."
Personally, I really hope that Linus and the others really are just in category A. Because I think that when people are focused on improving linux and not destroying microsoft the development of the OS will be much better.
Once you get into industry you create software to the specs provided, but I'm sorry, I don't want to use RPN. Someone else decided to point out that I'm stupid for not "understanding be beauty of RPN as a CS major," but just because RPN is convenient to implement with a stack, that doesn't mean I want to think about it that way. I am a human, I am not a computer algorithm, ok?
This post will probably be modded troll like my first post, but I hardly care anymore. Its like the hive mind around here, any voice of dissent is going to be silenced. I like typing in 12*67 into my TI. Not 12 67 *.
So, to summarize...when I created a program that was a calculator that could do prefix, postfix, and infix notations, I still like infix. That is the way I'm used to doing it, and I don't have any love for making my life more complicated than necessary.
That not everyone needs or wants a calculator that is unusual or difficult. I am a college CS student, and for my Calc/probability/discrete math classes, even the TI-89 is vastly overpowered. I need to do occasional simple graphs, use a few functions, and every once in a while use a non-cartesian coordinate system. My favorite use for my TI, in fact, is the function that converts decimals to fractions. Also, being able to input a messy fraction with multiple terms is useful (and with factorials in it).
I would find it a real pain in the ass to have to learn even the HP way of entering in simple algebra....Of course, I'm not saying that HP shouldn't keep making calculators, but there are a lot of people complaining that TIs are cheap crappy imitations, and for most people thats just not the case.
This was one of my favorite games in middle school. I bought a copy, but never could get it to work. First, the sound card wouldn't work in DOS mode. I use a laptop in a port replicator, and I think it has something to do with how the sound card is integrated into it, but I couldn't find any way to get it working in DOS mode. The bigger problem is that without real mode drivers the game crashes when you try to enter a mission. I couldn't get these drivers working in Win98.
so, can't really help you, but I feel your pain!!:)
Multiplication tables are useful, but honestly I don't think that memorizing facts should be the point of math education. I was never taught during my 12 grades of school how to solve problems. Only how to memorize stuff like multiplication tables. And as a result I find a lot of college classes tough. We have to take 4 Calc classes, probability, 2 discrete math classes, and algorithm analysis. Though there is some formula memorization in calculus, mostly you need to have the thought process of figuring out solutions to the problems. These are only 200 level math classes anyway, its kids stuff to math majors....
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What i'm intersted in is how well those kids in Okemos can multiply when they get to high school. I spent forever studying flash cards of multiplication takes in elementary school, but I don't remember many of them. If you ask me to multiply 7 * 6 I would think 7,14, 21, times 2 is 42. It takes about a third of a second, but it isn't necessarily memorized.
The problem with these laptop giveaways that state governments want to do is that they don't usually take into account maintenance and training.
In michigan, the governor is spending a zillion dollars to give every kid a laptop. But there is no way to get it fixed, get any software you might need, or learn how to use it. And you wont be getting a new one in a few years when this one gets old.
Well, thats a waste of millions of dollars. Most teachers don't know how to use computers. The ones that do could probably make good use out of a laptop, but is it really worth it to give everyone a computer at a cost of tens of millions of dollars?
At least kids could put better use to them, but personally I think it would be better if needy kids who couldn't afford a desktop at home could apply and get one. And if a kid already has a computer, put that cash to good use on something else. Like an extra teacher, building repairs, a field trip, new books, etc.
Or, to take a more technology related course of action, develop a computer curriculum that doesn't suck. I graduated from a relatively well off community 4 years ago, and our High School had 2300 students. Our computer curriculum was two classes: Typing, and learning MS Office. And it was the windows 3.1 version of office when Office 95 was out...useless skills. And being MS I'm sure you all think useless in general. We need to be offering some higher quality tech classes.
Um, there really isn't that much automation in assembly plants. Having spent some time as a Ford intern this summer, I was in the assembly plant that produces the Ford Focus (Wayne Assembly), which is a very high volume vehicle. It is part of the same complex the makes the Expedition.
I was shocked at how LITTLE automation there was. Basically, the only thing that was automated was painting, and putting the tire onto the rim and inflating it. Other than that, it is all hand made. Other than that, it is conveyor technology and tools to make installing parts faster and easier.
For example, there is this thing that a guy pushed over that slides into an instrument panel on a cart. It is on hydraulics so he can pick it up with almost no effor, slide it over into the body of the vehicle, and by pressing a button all the screws are automatically put in, and it takes about 15 seconds.
Now, you could have four guys pick up this heavy thing, clamber over the raw chassis and use hand screwdrive to attach it, but I doubt they'd like it. You could also have people manually pushing the cars along, but I doubt they'd like that much. It would also suck to have to paint 1200 cars in a day by hand (thats how many Focuses can come out of the plant in a day). Really, the robotic tools are limited to jobs that a human COULDN'T do, and manual tools assist them in making their job much much easier.
I know its mean to be a rallying cry, but this doesn't really have anything to do with Linux. No software currently is meeting the regulations this law would require because they don't exist yet.
So, Linux will still be perfectly legal afterwards as long as they put in the required changes. Linux will be treated exactly as MacOS and Windows.
That being said, this bill is pure evil and we all have a duty to lobby our congresscritters to get it destroyed, with extreme prejudice. This is not an attack on Free software (free as in money, anyway), but an attack on ALL software.
What I would do is figure out some way to generate a post script file of the image. I assume this can be done in one of these programs, although I can't say I know for sure.
Then, instead of printing them A4 sized, I would use email or a disk and get it to a geniune printer. You seem to want a strange size, but they might be able to tape together two E size plots of the image (E size is I think 3ft by 4 ft, or whatever a standard architectural blueprint is). It would probably cost $50-80, but considering the cost of inkjet cartriges, this isn't bad.
Look for a place that does duplication or provides blueprint services. Kinkos will also sometimes have the equipment for this, but be prepared for their horrid pricing.
I attended a seminar put on by Microsoft recruiters at my college, and they spent a lot of time talking about how product managers and test engineers work together.
basically, the test engineers find the bugs. Then the project managers decide whether its worth the effort to fix the bugs, or just leave them.
I'm sure its no surprise to anyone, but they don't really strive to create software with the lowest number of bugs possible, they just decide whether its easy to fix or not. And if its not easy, oh well....
These products would include things like Tablet PCs and wearable computers, ultra-dense servers, networking equipment, printers and set-top boxes, he said.
"As people want to go and include things like wireless technology in these things, where do you put the wireless chip? There wasn't any room left on the board," Ditzel said.
Maybe you want a Transmeta processor for something other than a desktop. There are lots of other specialized uses for them out there.
Here is a rundown of the top 3 microprocessors in 1998:
80x86 - 120 million
68k - 74 million
MIPS - 54 million
I don't know if Transmeta is focusing on the desktop market or not, but there are lots of uses out there for things like MIPS, which are almost never found in desktops. Try video games, laser printers, cars, etc., etc.
Sure, they have a right to _want_ to be paid, but they don't have the right _to_ get paid. That's up to us, and whether we decide to give them money
Try using this argument when you buy a car. Yes, I know you WANT to be paid for this car, but I'm just going to take it and its up to me to decide if I want to pay you for it.
Yes, I know its unfinished software, but no one if forcing anyone to buy unfinished software. You could always wait until it is released open source, or finished. People that want it now now now can pay for it an facilitate development. But this sense of pure entitlement is bogus.
Oh, come now. People deserve to be paid. If you don't want to pay $5 a month, you don't have to....If $5 a month is worth it to you to play DirectX games with WINE, then great, go for it!
People don't have some kind of obligation to give away their code open source. Many do, out of the goodness of their heart. These people are willing to do so, but they want some kind of compensation. I think this is a good thing....one big problem with OSS is that it is too reliant on volunteers and others who don't have a real stake in getting the job done. Thats why so many projects never get off the ground, never work, or never get finished.
Hopefully, with some kind of monetary compensation, it will provide more of an assurance that this project would be taken to completion (if such a thing truly exists in software). And it sounds like very useful software, so lets cross our fingers.
I know thinking that someone deserves money for their work is evil, so feel free to mod this down...
It sickens me how any comment that isn't 100% gung-ho in favor of something will immediately be modded as Troll/Flamebait.
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I had tried mozilla a long while back, and it was pretty buggy. So after the last release, I downloaded a new copy because I heard it was much improved, and was in fact nearly a production release.
The first thing I tried to do, was sell something on eBay. Mozilla didn't handle eBay's listing screens very well. I couldn't get it to work, I had to switch to IE.
But, I figured, there are lots of unusual things on that page like the category selection and iPix and stuff.
So, next I went to the weather channel's site. Part of the top of the page didn't display, but it was only graphics and the rest of the site seemed functional. I typed in my zip code, hit ok, and it wouldn't display the resulting page correctly. Again, I had to switch to IE.
So I've gone back to IE. I'll wait for 1.0 I guess, which will presumably be completely functional. But these kinds of issue *must* be worked out before average people will consider using it for their browser.
Being on a college campus, I have watched the local communist/socialist groups since the day of the attacks condemning the bloody war America was waging. Despite the fact that not a shot had been fired.
Well, its been several weeks now, and our government has looked for the most peaceful solution possible. The fact that that taliban was unwilling to cooperate even in the slightest makes the bombing both justified, and appropriate.
I really dread the rhetoric of those who think that we should just do nothing.
Shouldn't Yahoo Serious get the trademark on "Yahoo Serious," while Yahoo! gets a trademark on "Yahoo!"?
It seems to me that a trademark on a name doesn't tradmark everything remotely similar. Yahoo! has punctuation, Yahoo Serious is a weird Australian violin-playing genius. I don't expect to see too much confusion...
I had a charge back on a paypal transaction, and all eBay did was send me a letter explaining that it had happened, and that they were absorbing the cost of the item and the chargeback fees on my behalf.
Why? Because I followed the fucking "Seller Protection Policy". They are a middle man. You follow their rules to minimize fraud, and they protect you from liability. If you take a payment from some guy in Romania and send him $7k worth of electronics, don't be surprised if you get ripped off.
Your friend sounds like he's been ripped of....guess what, I was ripped off a few years back too. You learn from your mistake, and minimize your risk for the next time.
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Its not quite as impressive as the Honda Insight since its so much bigger, but it will get 40 MPG (combined city and highway) and have a range of around 500 miles on a tank of gas. The price is expected to increase by about 3k over its current 18k base rate for the hybrid model. And its based on a car/unibody chassis so you wont flip over if someone breathes on you. More details are here.
Personally, I really hope that Linus and the others really are just in category A. Because I think that when people are focused on improving linux and not destroying microsoft the development of the OS will be much better.
This post will probably be modded troll like my first post, but I hardly care anymore. Its like the hive mind around here, any voice of dissent is going to be silenced. I like typing in 12*67 into my TI. Not 12 67 *.
So, to summarize...when I created a program that was a calculator that could do prefix, postfix, and infix notations, I still like infix. That is the way I'm used to doing it, and I don't have any love for making my life more complicated than necessary.
I would find it a real pain in the ass to have to learn even the HP way of entering in simple algebra....Of course, I'm not saying that HP shouldn't keep making calculators, but there are a lot of people complaining that TIs are cheap crappy imitations, and for most people thats just not the case.
It links to the Himanchal High School page there. Its timing out for me right now, so here is a google cache
so, can't really help you, but I feel your pain!!
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What i'm intersted in is how well those kids in Okemos can multiply when they get to high school. I spent forever studying flash cards of multiplication takes in elementary school, but I don't remember many of them. If you ask me to multiply 7 * 6 I would think 7,14, 21, times 2 is 42. It takes about a third of a second, but it isn't necessarily memorized.
In michigan, the governor is spending a zillion dollars to give every kid a laptop. But there is no way to get it fixed, get any software you might need, or learn how to use it. And you wont be getting a new one in a few years when this one gets old.
Well, thats a waste of millions of dollars. Most teachers don't know how to use computers. The ones that do could probably make good use out of a laptop, but is it really worth it to give everyone a computer at a cost of tens of millions of dollars?
At least kids could put better use to them, but personally I think it would be better if needy kids who couldn't afford a desktop at home could apply and get one. And if a kid already has a computer, put that cash to good use on something else. Like an extra teacher, building repairs, a field trip, new books, etc.
Or, to take a more technology related course of action, develop a computer curriculum that doesn't suck. I graduated from a relatively well off community 4 years ago, and our High School had 2300 students. Our computer curriculum was two classes: Typing, and learning MS Office. And it was the windows 3.1 version of office when Office 95 was out...useless skills. And being MS I'm sure you all think useless in general. We need to be offering some higher quality tech classes.
I was shocked at how LITTLE automation there was. Basically, the only thing that was automated was painting, and putting the tire onto the rim and inflating it. Other than that, it is all hand made. Other than that, it is conveyor technology and tools to make installing parts faster and easier.
For example, there is this thing that a guy pushed over that slides into an instrument panel on a cart. It is on hydraulics so he can pick it up with almost no effor, slide it over into the body of the vehicle, and by pressing a button all the screws are automatically put in, and it takes about 15 seconds.
Now, you could have four guys pick up this heavy thing, clamber over the raw chassis and use hand screwdrive to attach it, but I doubt they'd like it. You could also have people manually pushing the cars along, but I doubt they'd like that much. It would also suck to have to paint 1200 cars in a day by hand (thats how many Focuses can come out of the plant in a day). Really, the robotic tools are limited to jobs that a human COULDN'T do, and manual tools assist them in making their job much much easier.
These plants are not what you would expect.
So, Linux will still be perfectly legal afterwards as long as they put in the required changes. Linux will be treated exactly as MacOS and Windows.
That being said, this bill is pure evil and we all have a duty to lobby our congresscritters to get it destroyed, with extreme prejudice. This is not an attack on Free software (free as in money, anyway), but an attack on ALL software.
Then, instead of printing them A4 sized, I would use email or a disk and get it to a geniune printer. You seem to want a strange size, but they might be able to tape together two E size plots of the image (E size is I think 3ft by 4 ft, or whatever a standard architectural blueprint is). It would probably cost $50-80, but considering the cost of inkjet cartriges, this isn't bad.
Look for a place that does duplication or provides blueprint services. Kinkos will also sometimes have the equipment for this, but be prepared for their horrid pricing.
basically, the test engineers find the bugs. Then the project managers decide whether its worth the effort to fix the bugs, or just leave them.
I'm sure its no surprise to anyone, but they don't really strive to create software with the lowest number of bugs possible, they just decide whether its easy to fix or not. And if its not easy, oh well....
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One of their prime purposes is to handle online fraud.
PowerPC would rank 6th, with 13 million units.
Sorry for the confusion
These products would include things like Tablet PCs and wearable computers, ultra-dense servers, networking equipment, printers and set-top boxes, he said.
"As people want to go and include things like wireless technology in these things, where do you put the wireless chip? There wasn't any room left on the board," Ditzel said.
Here is a rundown of the top 3 microprocessors in 1998:
I don't know if Transmeta is focusing on the desktop market or not, but there are lots of uses out there for things like MIPS, which are almost never found in desktops. Try video games, laser printers, cars, etc., etc.
Try using this argument when you buy a car. Yes, I know you WANT to be paid for this car, but I'm just going to take it and its up to me to decide if I want to pay you for it.
Yes, I know its unfinished software, but no one if forcing anyone to buy unfinished software. You could always wait until it is released open source, or finished. People that want it now now now can pay for it an facilitate development. But this sense of pure entitlement is bogus.
Oh, come now. People deserve to be paid. If you don't want to pay $5 a month, you don't have to....If $5 a month is worth it to you to play DirectX games with WINE, then great, go for it!
People don't have some kind of obligation to give away their code open source. Many do, out of the goodness of their heart. These people are willing to do so, but they want some kind of compensation. I think this is a good thing....one big problem with OSS is that it is too reliant on volunteers and others who don't have a real stake in getting the job done. Thats why so many projects never get off the ground, never work, or never get finished.
Hopefully, with some kind of monetary compensation, it will provide more of an assurance that this project would be taken to completion (if such a thing truly exists in software). And it sounds like very useful software, so lets cross our fingers.
I know thinking that someone deserves money for their work is evil, so feel free to mod this down...
It sickens me how any comment that isn't 100% gung-ho in favor of something will immediately be modded as Troll/Flamebait.
The first thing I tried to do, was sell something on eBay. Mozilla didn't handle eBay's listing screens very well. I couldn't get it to work, I had to switch to IE.
But, I figured, there are lots of unusual things on that page like the category selection and iPix and stuff.
So, next I went to the weather channel's site. Part of the top of the page didn't display, but it was only graphics and the rest of the site seemed functional. I typed in my zip code, hit ok, and it wouldn't display the resulting page correctly. Again, I had to switch to IE.
So I've gone back to IE. I'll wait for 1.0 I guess, which will presumably be completely functional. But these kinds of issue *must* be worked out before average people will consider using it for their browser.
Well, its been several weeks now, and our government has looked for the most peaceful solution possible. The fact that that taliban was unwilling to cooperate even in the slightest makes the bombing both justified, and appropriate.
I really dread the rhetoric of those who think that we should just do nothing.
Of all the luck! You've got 3 Million burning a hole in your pocket, and they ruin the sale by posting it on eBay...
It seems to me that a trademark on a name doesn't tradmark everything remotely similar. Yahoo! has punctuation, Yahoo Serious is a weird Australian violin-playing genius. I don't expect to see too much confusion...
Keep in mind, this is the same man who has been bringing us fine cinema such as "Young Einstein" for many many years.
On the other hand, Yahoo! provides an outstanding method of locating pr0n.
I guess the courts will just have to decide this one.
Why? Because I followed the fucking "Seller Protection Policy". They are a middle man. You follow their rules to minimize fraud, and they protect you from liability. If you take a payment from some guy in Romania and send him $7k worth of electronics, don't be surprised if you get ripped off.
Your friend sounds like he's been ripped of....guess what, I was ripped off a few years back too. You learn from your mistake, and minimize your risk for the next time.