Hybrids generally have a display which tells you your exact mileage at any moment. Thus, people are acutely aware when the cars don't measure up.
I will admit that one place the Honda Civic Hybrid is inaccurate is the in-dash MPG indicator. The number displayed in-dash is generally 2-4 MPG higher than actual results. Others have noted this too. Apparently the Prius is a little more accurate in its calculations.
No, Federal wise, it's a deduction. It reduces your AGI by $2000 so it's like you made $2000 less. That works out to about $600, depending on your tax bracket.
New York State, on the other hand, had a outright $2,000 credit for hybrid cars. THAT is like being given $2,000 outright.
The Federal tax deduction was $2000 before this year. It's not an outright credit of $2000. That probably amounted to about $600 reduced tax liability, depending on your professors income.
Unless things have changed, the current deduction is down to $1,500.
New York State offered a $2,000 tax credit on Hybrid cars, plus a refund of the sales tax on $3,000/incremental price of the car.
I did a calculation based on the price I paid, and the incremental cost of the Honda Civic Hybrid compared to a Honda Civic LX with side impact airbags was about $3,317 (That's also counting the dealer profit on the incremental cost). Subtracting $2,600, that means I'll end up paying $717 more for the Hybrid. Considering the price difference, and the cost of gas, I'll make up the difference in 6-8 years. (possibly less if prices increase.)
We're not using lead batteries, damnit! It's 120 1.2 v NiMH batteries. The battery pack weighs 63 pounds, not 200 as you assert, and the entire Honda Civic Hybrid manual car weighs only 129 pounds more than a comparable Honda Civic EX manual model.
There's no lead, no mercury, no cadmium in these batteries, and they're recyclable. Just like all the other NiMH batteries.
At my worst, my manual Honda Civic Hybrid got 35.7 mpg in a tank. (That tank lasted 3 weeks too). Mind you, this was in the dead cold of winter when it was riding over an inch of unplowed snow, over a relatively short commute of about 6 miles.
Now that the temperature has gone back up over freezing, my tanks are up 40-51 mpg range again (varying because of road conditions/trip types.)
For 2004, this has been an average of 43.54 mpg. YMMV. (it's here. (Slashdot doesn't seem to like dyndns.org links.) Try here: http://misch.dyndns.org/~misch/images/fuelefficien cy20040512.gif (My thanks to the people at newyorkstategasprices.com for the image).
Where's the outcry from ADTI about the effects of the automobile industry on horse whip manufacturers?
First, most free software such as Linux, (the most popular because of its operating system capability), comes with a license that dictates that any all development of the product (which would have been valuable intellectual property) becomes community property and must subsequently become free as well.
Incorrect. No organization that utilizes free software is obligated to distribute the modifications to the code they created. (Of course, if that orgaznization distributes the program tehy develop, then they have to distribute the code.
In a widely quoted study, Baruch Lev of the Brookings Institution reported that in 1982, 62% of the market value of companies in the S & P 500 Index could be attributed to tangible assets, and only 38% to intangibles. By 1992, Lev noted, the ratio had essentially reversed: 32% of the assets for S & P companies were tangible, while 68% were intangible. A follow-up study by Brookings in 1998 reported that the asset ratio had shifted even more, with 85% of assets intangible, and only 15% tangible.
When people say "widely quoted" and don't even bother to cite a source, their credibility takes a beating.
Second, Linux initiatives have enabled foreign-based information technology firms with zero IP costs and cheap labor to easily compete with U.S. software companies.
Oh? Competition isn't good? Oops. Our bad. But in one instance,a backboe built out of lots of free software played a role in saving US government organizations $3-10 billion. Where's the outcry over the loos in business revenue for the existing phone companies?
Open Source activists that want to see Linux succeed argue that eventually, they want all intellectual property protection to end, including patents and trademarks. The bottom line is this: a non-IP future means that all companies in the Baruch Lev study go to from 85% to 0% in intangible asset value.
No we don't! Trademarks are very important, and I can't think of anyone in the OSS community who wants trademarks to go away. (i know, people will prove me wrong on this assertion).
As for patents, onClick.do() shouldn't be patentable. X=X+1; repeat; shouldn't be patentable. Business models suck and should not be patentable.
Then tack on a Palm Power To Go unit. It connects into the universal port on the palm and is essentially a second battery to the unit. And they've significantly lowered the price on them too... they're now $50 at the Palm Store.
For New York, the money is passed on to the New York State comptrollers office, and they have a system for searching unclaimed funds. I'm taking a guess, but unclaimed funds for people in other states will be turned over to the comptroller/secretary of state/department of treasury for those states.
He's been doing one hell of a job, though once in a blue moon I think he might let some companies off too easily. AG's do have discretion to do that though.
Besides, NY has a pretty advanced system for getting people in touch with their lost money
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Strange... They specifically reference the Palm III and the Palm III handbook in the patent application.
But, yeah, the Palm III X was noted for having this feature on 25 January 1999. The Palm III which preceded it specifically was noted for this feature back when it was released, which was a hell of a while before 5 January 1999 which was when Microsoft filed the original patent that was covering some aspects of this.
You don't have to get rid of the Electoral College. Only your state needs to use the instant runoff system.
Let me put it another way. You win a nationwide popularity contest by 50 votes. Your opponent wants a recount. You have to recount every ballot cast across the country. Some backwater hole could toss in an extra 60 votes for the other guy, and *boom* you lose.
Yeah, that's nice and all, but what if your laptop has only a USB 1.0/1.1 interface and no firewire adapter? Have you ever tried moving 300 GB of files over a USB 1.x connection?
Then again, I'll admit that I ran out and bought a WD 120 GB external Firewire/USB 2.0 drive a couple of days before a business trip and my project had its butt saved when one of my cow orkers showed up with a Firewire->Mini Firewire adapter... Firewire moved the files so much faster than the USB 1.1 did.
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So I guess he bartered christian services for MS Office development and support services.
A sad state of affairs when a minister barters with the devil...
It was supposed to be about love, but in the end it wasn't. C'est la vie.
At least she didn't give you a virus.
Like Livejournal. They use Akamai for hosting userpics. This morning my buddy list was having trouble loading the images. (as they note here.)
People that don't know about Google should go google for Google.
Oh.. wait...
nah, those of us working on the guts of it with the BS'es and MS'es in CS like it because it keeps us employed.
But, then again, I'm reading slashdot... hmm...
Linus is in Finland. AdTI is located in the US. To my knowledge, there is no international treaty on libel.
Okay, then drive a Ford Explorer around town with the plate "TM OZONE" as in "Too Much Ozone".
Automatic qualifier for the "I'm changing the environment, ask me how!" bumper sticker.
Hybrids generally have a display which tells you your exact mileage at any moment. Thus, people are acutely aware when the cars don't measure up.
I will admit that one place the Honda Civic Hybrid is inaccurate is the in-dash MPG indicator. The number displayed in-dash is generally 2-4 MPG higher than actual results. Others have noted this too. Apparently the Prius is a little more accurate in its calculations.
No, Federal wise, it's a deduction. It reduces your AGI by $2000 so it's like you made $2000 less. That works out to about $600, depending on your tax bracket.
New York State, on the other hand, had a outright $2,000 credit for hybrid cars. THAT is like being given $2,000 outright.
The Federal tax deduction was $2000 before this year. It's not an outright credit of $2000. That probably amounted to about $600 reduced tax liability, depending on your professors income.
Unless things have changed, the current deduction is down to $1,500.
New York State offered a $2,000 tax credit on Hybrid cars, plus a refund of the sales tax on $3,000/incremental price of the car.
I did a calculation based on the price I paid, and the incremental cost of the Honda Civic Hybrid compared to a Honda Civic LX with side impact airbags was about $3,317 (That's also counting the dealer profit on the incremental cost). Subtracting $2,600, that means I'll end up paying $717 more for the Hybrid. Considering the price difference, and the cost of gas, I'll make up the difference in 6-8 years. (possibly less if prices increase.)
Stop spreading FUD.
We're not using lead batteries, damnit! It's 120 1.2 v NiMH batteries. The battery pack weighs 63 pounds, not 200 as you assert, and the entire Honda Civic Hybrid manual car weighs only 129 pounds more than a comparable Honda Civic EX manual model.
There's no lead, no mercury, no cadmium in these batteries, and they're recyclable. Just like all the other NiMH batteries.
At my worst, my manual Honda Civic Hybrid got 35.7 mpg in a tank. (That tank lasted 3 weeks too). Mind you, this was in the dead cold of winter when it was riding over an inch of unplowed snow, over a relatively short commute of about 6 miles.
n cy20040512.gif (My thanks to the people at newyorkstategasprices.com for the image).
Now that the temperature has gone back up over freezing, my tanks are up 40-51 mpg range again (varying because of road conditions/trip types.)
For 2004, this has been an average of 43.54 mpg. YMMV. (it's here. (Slashdot doesn't seem to like dyndns.org links.) Try here: http://misch.dyndns.org/~misch/images/fuelefficie
Where's the outcry from ADTI about the effects of the automobile industry on horse whip manufacturers?
First, most free software such as Linux, (the most popular because of its operating system capability), comes with a license that dictates that any all development of the product (which would have been valuable intellectual property) becomes community property and must subsequently become free as well.
Incorrect. No organization that utilizes free software is obligated to distribute the modifications to the code they created. (Of course, if that orgaznization distributes the program tehy develop, then they have to distribute the code.
In a widely quoted study, Baruch Lev of the Brookings Institution reported that in 1982, 62% of the market value of companies in the S & P 500 Index could be attributed to tangible assets, and only 38% to intangibles. By 1992, Lev noted, the ratio had essentially reversed: 32% of the assets for S & P companies were tangible, while 68% were intangible. A follow-up study by Brookings in 1998 reported that the asset ratio had shifted even more, with 85% of assets intangible, and only 15% tangible.
When people say "widely quoted" and don't even bother to cite a source, their credibility takes a beating.
Second, Linux initiatives have enabled foreign-based information technology firms with zero IP costs and cheap labor to easily compete with U.S. software companies.
Oh? Competition isn't good? Oops. Our bad. But in one instance,a backboe built out of lots of free software played a role in saving US government organizations $3-10 billion. Where's the outcry over the loos in business revenue for the existing phone companies?
Open Source activists that want to see Linux succeed argue that eventually, they want all intellectual property protection to end, including patents and trademarks. The bottom line is this: a non-IP future means that all companies in the Baruch Lev study go to from 85% to 0% in intangible asset value.
No we don't! Trademarks are very important, and I can't think of anyone in the OSS community who wants trademarks to go away. (i know, people will prove me wrong on this assertion).
As for patents, onClick.do() shouldn't be patentable. X=X+1; repeat; shouldn't be patentable. Business models suck and should not be patentable.
But, we are talking a spammer here. The English language and how to use it is not going to be a strong point for him.
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I remember the last time there was a big brouhaha over something that Google did, which was when we acquired the Usenet archives from Deja.com
/. in one day.
The last brouhaha people had was when Google de-listed xenu.net completeley over a complaint from Scientology.
It was March 2002. Buying out Deja was 2/12/2001. Scientology lead with 2 stories on
R would be Rand.
18 Million Rand = about 2.56 million dollars (US).
(According to xe.com)
Then tack on a Palm Power To Go unit. It connects into the universal port on the palm and is essentially a second battery to the unit. And they've significantly lowered the price on them too... they're now $50 at the Palm Store.
For New York, the money is passed on to the New York State comptrollers office, and they have a system for searching unclaimed funds. I'm taking a guess, but unclaimed funds for people in other states will be turned over to the comptroller/secretary of state/department of treasury for those states.
He's been doing one hell of a job, though once in a blue moon I think he might let some companies off too easily. AG's do have discretion to do that though.
Besides, NY has a pretty advanced system for getting people in touch with their lost money
Not exactly. It's been on /. twice before.
Lots of groups do. etree and etreenews are two good sites to look at for information about trading.
Strange... They specifically reference the Palm III and the Palm III handbook in the patent application.
But, yeah, the Palm III X was noted for having this feature on 25 January 1999. The Palm III which preceded it specifically was noted for this feature back when it was released, which was a hell of a while before 5 January 1999 which was when Microsoft filed the original patent that was covering some aspects of this.
You don't have to get rid of the Electoral College. Only your state needs to use the instant runoff system.
Let me put it another way. You win a nationwide popularity contest by 50 votes. Your opponent wants a recount. You have to recount every ballot cast across the country. Some backwater hole could toss in an extra 60 votes for the other guy, and *boom* you lose.
State-by-state electoral college is good.
Yeah, that's nice and all, but what if your laptop has only a USB 1.0/1.1 interface and no firewire adapter? Have you ever tried moving 300 GB of files over a USB 1.x connection?
Then again, I'll admit that I ran out and bought a WD 120 GB external Firewire/USB 2.0 drive a couple of days before a business trip and my project had its butt saved when one of my cow orkers showed up with a Firewire->Mini Firewire adapter... Firewire moved the files so much faster than the USB 1.1 did.
Or people dreaming up scenarios of hijacked planes being used as weapons to crash them into buildings.