The EPA numbers do tend to be a bit conservative for hiway driving, especially when they were "corrected" a few years ago. Effective drafting distance can be larger than you think, and I suspect that the EPA doesn't take this into account.
The Golf TDI is rated for 41 hiway, but 30 city. These aren't bad numbers, but it's rather uncommon for a petrol car to have such a large spread between the hiway and city numbers.
The Golf TDI is still getting 0-60 times of over 9 seconds. My rule of thumb is that 10sec is the absolute max you can buy a car at, because you'll have trouble making it up to hiway speed in the length of most on-ramps. 9sec is still really pushing it.
About the only petrol cars that do over 10sec are either really old or come from Korea.
The Honda Civic today gets about the same mileage as it did 30 years ago, despite the modern one having an engine with a lot more displacement, and having to lug around at least twice as much weight due to combination of safety equipment and creature comforts.
If you want a 100mpg car, you can put one together yourself by removing all the stereo equipment, airbags, soundproofing, and replacing the seats with lawn chairs. It will be noisy, uncomfortable, and a deathtrap, but you'll get 100mpg.
In addition to what the other poster said about direct injection, there has been some promising work in boosting octane with alcohol or hydrogen additives rather than lead.
My favorite one being the poster's uncle's-brother's-cousin's-father somehow "stacking" carbs back in the '70s to improve fuel atomization, yet somehow the oil industry always buried the patents. Except that fuel injectors do a better job of atomization than any silly arrangement of carbs.
The origin of this apparently started around 1930. The patent would now be public domain. It was never used, not because the oil companies buried it, but because it does not, in fact, work:
Wha? Inefficient compared to what? Carburetors? No way, even the most primitive injectors do a better job atomizing fuel than almost any carb. The one and only downside to injectors over carbs is throttle response.
The improved injection they're talking about is direct injectors (which have been around for a while) combined with a higher compression ratio (which hasn't). Direct injectors up until recently have mostly been slapped onto old engine designs. Which is still an improvement, but it didn't max out their potential.
They take into account different driving conditions. Diesels are good for hiway cruising, but are terrible in stop-and-go traffic. Hybrids are basically the opposite, and traditional petrol is somewhere in between.
For patents, not likely ever if you go to trial, and definitely never when the defense simply settles out of court (which is practically always). Trademarks you keep for as long as you're defending them, but patents go until the official expiration date. Unisys was able to sit around and wait for GIFs to become the standard lossless format on the Internet, then spring patent claims on everyone, and got away with it until the patent officially expired.
Mostly home gateways and some VoIP phones. Host OSen and business routers have had the necessary support for ages. Even most smartphones sold now probably do. But if you want an IPv6-capable Wireless N router, you're either going to have to look very carefully, or buy one that can load a custom firmware.
I think that fight was done and over by the end of the Clinton Administration. The clipper chip failed, the Phil Zimmermann investigation went nowhere, and exporting encryption was reduced to just needing to inform the government you're doing it. There was some flack about Osama Bin Laden using PGP in the 9/11 planning, but that didn't go anywhere, either. If the political will wasn't there to do then, it never will.
With every computer having SSL these days, strong encryption is ubiquitous and entrenched. The government simply couldn't ban it without giving companies and users a very good reason to switch.
No, not 220 thousand. Just 220. Even with domino effects into the small business workforce, the tax rate of 220 people cannot possibly have a significant impact on the economy.
If your business actually is reinvesting into itself, then it's easy to find all sorts of tax brakes that keep you out of that top bracket. So what the above really means is that 220 people need to fire their accountant.
I'm willing to continue, but you're really going to have to try harder than this, or we're both just wasting our time.
I'm not wasting my time. I'm having a blast. Since teabaggers can't possibly be here to form a coherent ideology based around reality, the only other explanation is that they're here for my personal amusement. I thought I was clear about this already.
Oh wow, oh wow. I've had this account for over 10 years. I have no other Slashdot login. I hit the karama cap years ago and just don't care anymore. My only self-interest in this is that I've had to deal with NAT problems for a long time (like trying to get two people to play C&C: Generals behind the same gateway at the same time) and want it dead.
If you want proof, go here or here or here or here or here. Or go look at my posting history, where for some reason, I'm using this shrill account to troll a teabagger. (And yes, I very much am trolling there, and pretty much admit to it in the thread. Like I said, I don't care about karama.)
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Are they claiming there's a contract involved? Or are they claiming there's a license? There's an important difference.
Yesh, before I drop $1000 on that, I'm going to have to know if its something more than a prop from a bad sci-fi show.
Just bought a Das Keyboard, myself. Love it.
Ook! Ook?
The EPA numbers do tend to be a bit conservative for hiway driving, especially when they were "corrected" a few years ago. Effective drafting distance can be larger than you think, and I suspect that the EPA doesn't take this into account.
I've driven plenty of gas powered vehicles that couldn't meet your acceleration specs
Yes, and I don't buy them, either.
The Golf TDI is rated for 41 hiway, but 30 city. These aren't bad numbers, but it's rather uncommon for a petrol car to have such a large spread between the hiway and city numbers.
The Golf TDI is still getting 0-60 times of over 9 seconds. My rule of thumb is that 10sec is the absolute max you can buy a car at, because you'll have trouble making it up to hiway speed in the length of most on-ramps. 9sec is still really pushing it.
About the only petrol cars that do over 10sec are either really old or come from Korea.
I dunno. How many acres does it get?
The Honda Civic today gets about the same mileage as it did 30 years ago, despite the modern one having an engine with a lot more displacement, and having to lug around at least twice as much weight due to combination of safety equipment and creature comforts.
If you want a 100mpg car, you can put one together yourself by removing all the stereo equipment, airbags, soundproofing, and replacing the seats with lawn chairs. It will be noisy, uncomfortable, and a deathtrap, but you'll get 100mpg.
In addition to what the other poster said about direct injection, there has been some promising work in boosting octane with alcohol or hydrogen additives rather than lead.
My favorite one being the poster's uncle's-brother's-cousin's-father somehow "stacking" carbs back in the '70s to improve fuel atomization, yet somehow the oil industry always buried the patents. Except that fuel injectors do a better job of atomization than any silly arrangement of carbs.
The origin of this apparently started around 1930. The patent would now be public domain. It was never used, not because the oil companies buried it, but because it does not, in fact, work:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.asp
Wha? Inefficient compared to what? Carburetors? No way, even the most primitive injectors do a better job atomizing fuel than almost any carb. The one and only downside to injectors over carbs is throttle response.
The improved injection they're talking about is direct injectors (which have been around for a while) combined with a higher compression ratio (which hasn't). Direct injectors up until recently have mostly been slapped onto old engine designs. Which is still an improvement, but it didn't max out their potential.
In a modern turbo diesel you get the torque from the engine exactly when you need it.
Which is why the Golf TDI get's a 0-60 time of 5 seconds. Oh, wait . . .
They take into account different driving conditions. Diesels are good for hiway cruising, but are terrible in stop-and-go traffic. Hybrids are basically the opposite, and traditional petrol is somewhere in between.
That's for the Mazda2 you can buy right now, not the one coming down the pipeline.
For patents, not likely ever if you go to trial, and definitely never when the defense simply settles out of court (which is practically always). Trademarks you keep for as long as you're defending them, but patents go until the official expiration date. Unisys was able to sit around and wait for GIFs to become the standard lossless format on the Internet, then spring patent claims on everyone, and got away with it until the patent officially expired.
Mostly home gateways and some VoIP phones. Host OSen and business routers have had the necessary support for ages. Even most smartphones sold now probably do. But if you want an IPv6-capable Wireless N router, you're either going to have to look very carefully, or buy one that can load a custom firmware.
And then we can use multicast to heat up 2^64 Pop Tarts at the same time.
Except IPv6 is hierarchical, for that very reason. Routing tables can be much, much smaller than they are on IPv4.
I buy my certs from Thawte. McDonalds quality on a filet mignon budget.
I think that fight was done and over by the end of the Clinton Administration. The clipper chip failed, the Phil Zimmermann investigation went nowhere, and exporting encryption was reduced to just needing to inform the government you're doing it. There was some flack about Osama Bin Laden using PGP in the 9/11 planning, but that didn't go anywhere, either. If the political will wasn't there to do then, it never will.
With every computer having SSL these days, strong encryption is ubiquitous and entrenched. The government simply couldn't ban it without giving companies and users a very good reason to switch.
Phooey. You could have hit the hole I left in my argument, but you missed it by that much.
Let's not be pedantic, these effects are more direct than you seem to be willing to realize.
Here we go, then. In 2007, the number of taxpayers in the top bracket was . . .
220
No, not 220 thousand. Just 220. Even with domino effects into the small business workforce, the tax rate of 220 people cannot possibly have a significant impact on the economy.
If your business actually is reinvesting into itself, then it's easy to find all sorts of tax brakes that keep you out of that top bracket. So what the above really means is that 220 people need to fire their accountant.
I'm willing to continue, but you're really going to have to try harder than this, or we're both just wasting our time.
I'm not wasting my time. I'm having a blast. Since teabaggers can't possibly be here to form a coherent ideology based around reality, the only other explanation is that they're here for my personal amusement. I thought I was clear about this already.
Oh wow, oh wow. I've had this account for over 10 years. I have no other Slashdot login. I hit the karama cap years ago and just don't care anymore. My only self-interest in this is that I've had to deal with NAT problems for a long time (like trying to get two people to play C&C: Generals behind the same gateway at the same time) and want it dead.
If you want proof, go here or here or here or here or here. Or go look at my posting history, where for some reason, I'm using this shrill account to troll a teabagger. (And yes, I very much am trolling there, and pretty much admit to it in the thread. Like I said, I don't care about karama.)
That's for point-to-point links. It doesn't work for 2 hosts plus a gateway.