What makes you think I make $150,000? I make less than half of that for my family of four. And I live in the US state with the highest tax rates, in the county with the highest property tax rates in the country.
Two identical cars at the same RPM regardless of speed will use the same fuel.
Really? A car at 0mph with the throttle slightly open to rev at 2500RPM will use as much gas as the same car doing 60mph in 5th gear at 2500RPM?
You are making the incorrect assumption that the amount of fuel put into the cylinders is proportional to the displacement. In a petrol engine, it is proportional to the amount of air going in, restricted by the throttle. In a diesel, the air/fuel ratio is not constant.
In a vacuum, that is true. But aerodynamic drag is proportional to the square of velocity.
RPMs do. You can do 30mph at 3k and i can be doing 60mph at 1500.
At wide open throttle that may be true. Fuel consumption is not linearly related to engine speed, but to how much air you are letting into the engine. If you have your throttle wide open to do 60mph at 1500RPM and I can do 30mph at 3000RPM with my foot off the gas, you are going to use more fuel than I am.
The gearing of most cars leads to an ideal speed for mileage somewhere between 50 and 60mph. They target the government tests, not the reality of people doing 80mph on the expressways.
There may be something wrong with your car. Or you may be correctly assessing a constant 80 as 80, but incorrectly assessing fluctuation between 65 and 70 as 70.
Because actually doing something to reduce pollution (promoting bicycling and mass transit, nuclear power, lower speed limits, better land use planning) will get you in trouble with powerful interests. So they had to do something useless so the politicians could claim to be green.
If the money is for road maintenance then I get to disable it when I am driving on private property; for example for farm work, racing, and snow plowing. And if it can be disabled, people will leave it disabled.
If I make the donation on the first day of my billing cycle and get my bill a few days after the end of the billing cycle and have a week or so pay it, that is about 40 days.
With the money having to take 3 steps to get from you to the charity, 30-90 days is still quick.
90 days was quick in the days of the Pony Express.
In the days of 500ms ping times around the world, 90 days in incredibly slow. I understand that the money is not there until you pay your wireless bill, but that is 45 days or less, so anything over 50 days is very slow.
That site drags Firefox 4 to a halt on my machine. It works fine in Chromium. Which is really too bad, because I prefer Firefox due to the UI and a couple of awesome plugins.
64-bit Debian on Intel Core 2 Dual E7500 @3GHz, 4GB RAM - 1GB still free, using nVidia binary driver.
How the FFFFFFFFFUUUUUU- does a moron like this get hired to write a tech column?
He writes articles with inflammatory headlines and gets clicks. He gets it into clueless middle managers' heads that IE is better than Firefox. There are people who will pay well for both of those things.
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Java was not a failure. Monetizing Java was a failure. The difference is significant.
And that is why my insurance premiums went up 20+% last year.
Dedicated eBook Readers are not going to die until somebody makes a tablet that can be used when the lighting is not optimal.
If I buy a used CD, there is no license.
Right. Because nobody has ever hijacked a domain.
Does the ISP need to look far enough into the packet to see that it is SMTP traffic, or even that it is TCP?
It could be an option when you sign up though.
What makes you think I make $150,000? I make less than half of that for my family of four. And I live in the US state with the highest tax rates, in the county with the highest property tax rates in the country.
If I could pay a lobbyist $5,000 to get a law that would have my taxes reduced by $10,000, you can bet I would do it.
If the tax system is complex, it can be gamed. We should just replace all taxes with a simple tax on energy use.
Really? A car at 0mph with the throttle slightly open to rev at 2500RPM will use as much gas as the same car doing 60mph in 5th gear at 2500RPM?
You are making the incorrect assumption that the amount of fuel put into the cylinders is proportional to the displacement. In a petrol engine, it is proportional to the amount of air going in, restricted by the throttle. In a diesel, the air/fuel ratio is not constant.
Well, it still is not true, but assuming ideal gearing and low speeds (relative to c), it is much closer to true.
In a vacuum, that is true. But aerodynamic drag is proportional to the square of velocity.
At wide open throttle that may be true. Fuel consumption is not linearly related to engine speed, but to how much air you are letting into the engine. If you have your throttle wide open to do 60mph at 1500RPM and I can do 30mph at 3000RPM with my foot off the gas, you are going to use more fuel than I am.
The gearing of most cars leads to an ideal speed for mileage somewhere between 50 and 60mph. They target the government tests, not the reality of people doing 80mph on the expressways.
There may be something wrong with your car. Or you may be correctly assessing a constant 80 as 80, but incorrectly assessing fluctuation between 65 and 70 as 70.
Because actually doing something to reduce pollution (promoting bicycling and mass transit, nuclear power, lower speed limits, better land use planning) will get you in trouble with powerful interests. So they had to do something useless so the politicians could claim to be green.
If the money is for road maintenance then I get to disable it when I am driving on private property; for example for farm work, racing, and snow plowing. And if it can be disabled, people will leave it disabled.
Maybe the company bought Office licenses second-hand.
If I make the donation on the first day of my billing cycle and get my bill a few days after the end of the billing cycle and have a week or so pay it, that is about 40 days.
CLI lovers may be welcome, but do they actually use it? Everybody I know who said that OS X was great because of the CLI has since switched to Linux.
90 days was quick in the days of the Pony Express.
In the days of 500ms ping times around the world, 90 days in incredibly slow. I understand that the money is not there until you pay your wireless bill, but that is 45 days or less, so anything over 50 days is very slow.
96% X, 3% Firefox.
That site drags Firefox 4 to a halt on my machine. It works fine in Chromium. Which is really too bad, because I prefer Firefox due to the UI and a couple of awesome plugins.
64-bit Debian on Intel Core 2 Dual E7500 @3GHz, 4GB RAM - 1GB still free, using nVidia binary driver.
He writes articles with inflammatory headlines and gets clicks. He gets it into clueless middle managers' heads that IE is better than Firefox. There are people who will pay well for both of those things.
It was stupid and offensive to you. It was not stupid and offensive to everybody.
With anything controversial, you are going to offend some people. You have to decide which group to offend.
Keep in mind that which group is larger probably changes every once in a while.
Why would they even bother releasing before passing the acid test?
Or maybe the world's definition of irony has splintered from the dictionaries.
The company is amoral. The management are evil.