I'll admit 2-3 gallons per load is pretty good but my wife usually uses about 2 gallons, plus our dishwasher is at least 10 years old and I'm not too big on buying a brand new one.
75% of the time I end up catching up to them at every stop light. And my non accelerating ass gets up to 60 in about 8 seconds when there isn't a car in front of me. I tend to only hypermile when I'm going to have to stop shortly, otherwise I get up to speed and stay there (You know, five miles above that number on those white signs over there? Many of those people that blow by me do it when I'm at the speed limit too and wonder why I'm always catching up to them).
I think the creepy part is the ability of most all humans to ignore or deny the symptoms that indicate they should really just crash on a couch somewhere. Though some people are probably just wired in a way that means they should never touch intoxicants.
Mechanical devices are pretty well guaranteed to fail over time and need replaced. Software does not degrade over time and is much less expensive to fix any problems.
Al Gore is a primary shareholder in some of the companies that have been formed to trade carbon credits
So...you're saying it's a bad thing he puts his money where his mouth is, right?
Yeah I personally think Al Gore is an idiot but he seems to be an honest idiot which in some ways makes him better than a lot of people in both camps...
My wife uses our dish washer to store dirty dishes when company is over but not much else. She complains it costs money to use and produces worse results than washign by hand.
Like most everything its about using it when appropriate. Why do 0-60 in 4 seconds on an empty freeway entrance? Likewise why enter a packed freeway where all the cars are running 60 MPH at 35 MPH, you'll just have to stop.
I also don't get people who get pissed off when I let off the gas early coming up to a red light. Why blow by me when I am now 5 MPH under the speed limit approaching a light that just turned red, and then slam on the brakes at the stop light while I roll up beside you anyway. Just not driving aggressively would save a lot of net gas mileage.
Depends on what you are trying to conserve, from what I find his car is worth about $5k US and yours is worth about $20k US. I think I can use that $15k difference towards a lot better approaches to cut my energy use, such as solar panels or more efficient appliances. I mostly focus more on not driving a lot (~7500 miles a year) rather than using less gas and driving like crazy.
I've seen model based development try to replace coders. SCADE is becoming more widely used but still needs software developers to work with it. Seems to be more about the mindset of a developer being able to turn an input into an output without forgetting any possible conditions (which even developers often fail at).
Well the sports industry seems to be more than happy to support those in denial about their abilities. While those in denial about their abilities can often squeak by in the software industry, those truly in denial often get soundly squashed.
Say what? I learned to program really good in C and as a result can pick up any C like language pretty quickly and write good code in it. I don't relearn programming, I just pick up the minor (and sometimes major) syntax differences but the higher level concepts are all the same.
Then why do I keep getting (very good paying) work to fix things that were outsourced? And typically a dozen of us high payed workers cost less to completely rework the unusable results of outsourcing...
Well the Samsung adds influenced me to buy a Galaxy S5... after I did a ton of research and found no Motorola or LG phones that looks quite good enough and do not want an iOS device doing anything but playing music.
I don't use it at home, I just tune out. I use adblock at work to get rid of those annoying "IT has blocked this facebook ad because..." that are a hundred times larger than the original ad.
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I'll admit 2-3 gallons per load is pretty good but my wife usually uses about 2 gallons, plus our dishwasher is at least 10 years old and I'm not too big on buying a brand new one.
75% of the time I end up catching up to them at every stop light. And my non accelerating ass gets up to 60 in about 8 seconds when there isn't a car in front of me. I tend to only hypermile when I'm going to have to stop shortly, otherwise I get up to speed and stay there (You know, five miles above that number on those white signs over there? Many of those people that blow by me do it when I'm at the speed limit too and wonder why I'm always catching up to them).
Almost no sensors along the streets I drive and few filter lanes though the point is valid.
I think the creepy part is the ability of most all humans to ignore or deny the symptoms that indicate they should really just crash on a couch somewhere. Though some people are probably just wired in a way that means they should never touch intoxicants.
Mechanical devices are pretty well guaranteed to fail over time and need replaced. Software does not degrade over time and is much less expensive to fix any problems.
Al Gore is a primary shareholder in some of the companies that have been formed to trade carbon credits
So...you're saying it's a bad thing he puts his money where his mouth is, right?
Yeah I personally think Al Gore is an idiot but he seems to be an honest idiot which in some ways makes him better than a lot of people in both camps...
My wife uses our dish washer to store dirty dishes when company is over but not much else. She complains it costs money to use and produces worse results than washign by hand.
Like most everything its about using it when appropriate. Why do 0-60 in 4 seconds on an empty freeway entrance? Likewise why enter a packed freeway where all the cars are running 60 MPH at 35 MPH, you'll just have to stop.
I also don't get people who get pissed off when I let off the gas early coming up to a red light. Why blow by me when I am now 5 MPH under the speed limit approaching a light that just turned red, and then slam on the brakes at the stop light while I roll up beside you anyway. Just not driving aggressively would save a lot of net gas mileage.
Depends on what you are trying to conserve, from what I find his car is worth about $5k US and yours is worth about $20k US. I think I can use that $15k difference towards a lot better approaches to cut my energy use, such as solar panels or more efficient appliances. I mostly focus more on not driving a lot (~7500 miles a year) rather than using less gas and driving like crazy.
I can't see eliminating cash as also eliminating precious metals. Non government forms of trade good are hard to eliminate.
I've seen model based development try to replace coders. SCADE is becoming more widely used but still needs software developers to work with it. Seems to be more about the mindset of a developer being able to turn an input into an output without forgetting any possible conditions (which even developers often fail at).
Well the sports industry seems to be more than happy to support those in denial about their abilities. While those in denial about their abilities can often squeak by in the software industry, those truly in denial often get soundly squashed.
Say what? I learned to program really good in C and as a result can pick up any C like language pretty quickly and write good code in it. I don't relearn programming, I just pick up the minor (and sometimes major) syntax differences but the higher level concepts are all the same.
Around here the big money is going to people who can program Ada and understand DO-178b processes. Something not taught in any school I've been to.
Then why do I keep getting (very good paying) work to fix things that were outsourced? And typically a dozen of us high payed workers cost less to completely rework the unusable results of outsourcing...
Because it left the ground, these days anything operated outside of the military that is off the ground is bad... or so it seems.
In the same category as Obesity?
Only if you can donate more money to political campaigns than military contractors...
Stop trying to use reason to change my mind!
Anything that costs the share holders their daily profit is highly "arrogant".
You mean Russians from Siberia?
Well the Samsung adds influenced me to buy a Galaxy S5... after I did a ton of research and found no Motorola or LG phones that looks quite good enough and do not want an iOS device doing anything but playing music.
I don't use it at home, I just tune out. I use adblock at work to get rid of those annoying "IT has blocked this facebook ad because..." that are a hundred times larger than the original ad.
Can you wire me the money to relocate?
Yes but the ships sending them out there aren't, and humans usually require more massive ships.