We had someone rack up $24K on my wifes card before SHE CAUGHT IT because the card was denied for suddenly being over limit. Our only saving grace with the card company was the fraudster used it to buy lottsa funiture which had not been delivered yet, just billed.
Otherwise we would have been on the hook. Funny how they don't call you when buying $24K in furniture half way across the country, but will call you if you use it to book a hotel room two states over.
The new numbers are close to what I get with my '05 prius. Which gets (gen III prius) marginally better mileage than my old '02 (gen II prius).
The mileage completely depends on how and where you drive, and I'm glad to see the new highway mileage very closely matches what I get on very long trips.
Your also forgetting the Honda Civic Hybrid in the article is being used for strickly stop and go city driving. Many hybrid drivers who do heavy city driving report less than spectacular mileage. Mine drops when tooling arround boston.
The life time for my prius (2002, 82K miles) is 43 MPG. But this is due to me putting on a sicking amount of HighWay miles at speed(70 MPH+). If I keep the car under 65, I get about 45-47 summer, 42-43 winter. It is much better than my last car (93 shadow) which had a lifetime of 26 MPG.
The problem is people expect to exceed the EPA numbers which are overly optimistic. I am happy when the tank comes in between the two EPA numbers (45/52 EPA MPG on the '02). I can usually make the EPA in the spring,summer,fall... but once winter sets in, forget it.
I thought the CVT Insight chalked up better numbers than the Manual Insight.
US... 6 Launches towards Venus plus two flys by probes to other parts of the solar system (Galileo,Cassini). Only one Failure Mariner 1. First Sucessfull flyby, Four Atmospheric Probes, Never attempted a lander program.
USSR... 32 Launches towards Venus containing 42 vehicles (13 Flyby, 8 Orbiters, 21 Probes (landers, atmospheric probes, and baloons)) with 17 failures. Only country to really explore Venus, still managed to loose 17 of 42 Vehicles they sent to Venus. Much better than the mars record.
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US Mars Missions 16 Launches containing 21 different probes (4 fly by, 8 orbiter, 4 landers, 3 rovers, 2 penetrators) of which only 7 where lost (1 fly by, 3 orbiters, 1 lander, and both penetrators).
Communist missions 19 Launches containing 25 different probes (6 flyby, 12 orbiter, 7 landers, 0 rovers, 0 penetrators) of which all where lost or failed.
Hurray for ?
And for those keeping score the European orbiter and lander went up on a russia rocket (1 orbiter, one lost lander).
Hate to break it to you but the prius is not lite. The '01-'03's (classic) tipped the scales at 2700lbs, while the new '04 tips the scales at 2900lb.
For the classic ('01-'03) it is 200 lbs more than the corrolla (comparable sized vehicle from toyota) and 700 lbs more than the echo (toyotas micro vehicle). It is in the same weight class as some of the low end pickups our teenagers are constantly wrapping arround trees.
During a recent blizard road trip to and back from VT on FRS all that kept coming over from the 4x4 truck in our party was how are you keeping that 'golf cart' on the road and can you please slow down. At least the 'golf cart' did better than the VT snow plow we saw in the ditch.
It is worth noting the auto park is only available in the japanese market. A bit of overkill for a car that can turn circles inside of any SUV on the market.
go figure... '02 Moon Blue Pearl Prius with 70,000 miles.
I remember the programming departments from a company I work with doing that. They quit, formed a consulting company and now have the former company as a contract... Usually doesn't turn out quite as rosey as you would like... hint if you have kids or a pet fish to support, don't do it... very very scary and you might endup having to serve the kids the pet fish for supper.
Out in acton I can pickup that repeater on a cloudy day... as for the antenna, before my skyfi boombox arrived I played with the car antenna mounted on a cookie sheet inside my house (leominster). It gets better reception and does not have to be anywheres near a window in the house (and I get 3 bars out of four on the sat.) To bad the SkyFi BoomBox and Car Kit antenna's are not swapable:-(
I had a conversation with an RF eng. a few weeks ago and the SkyFi car is a phased array.
>If they give the full DriecTV service for only $10 a month they better be ready for a serious backlash from their current subscribers
Isn't all the hack cards on the market the consumer backlash to current Direct TV Pricing?
I have yet to see an XM or Sirius hack... Maybe it's the pricing. You need to remember the XM/Sirius target market. Drivers who spend time in the vehicle on long drives. Satelite Radio is very popular with truckers, I don't see them giving up XM/Sirius for this. I do see them replacing the current Direct TV dishes they own with this new antenna for when they are parked at night. Setting up the dish each night is a pain.
I also like the new XM Delphi module, removable receiver that you can move from car to desk to home all on one $10 subscription. I got mine:-)
It is sad to see them go though, I did like most of the components they produced. I blame this failure on Microsoft's success in capturing the windows development tools market. They had a good solid product.
This is the second Delphi tools company I've seen open source the tools when they exited the market. The other was component create.
Delphi has been primary RAD for 5 years and counting (and no I won't touch DB's or MS compiler's)
I don't see a price or Windows XP Tablet addition on the spec. sheet. Looks like it's only available with windows XP Pro. I would be interested if it came with tablet edition.
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We had someone rack up $24K on my wifes card before SHE CAUGHT IT because the card was denied for suddenly being over limit. Our only saving grace with the card company was the fraudster used it to buy lottsa funiture which had not been delivered yet, just billed.
Otherwise we would have been on the hook. Funny how they don't call you when buying $24K in furniture half way across the country, but will call you if you use it to book a hotel room two states over.
The new numbers are close to what I get with my '05 prius. Which gets (gen III prius) marginally better mileage than my old '02 (gen II prius).
The mileage completely depends on how and where you drive, and I'm glad to see the new highway mileage very closely matches what I get on very long trips.
Isn't Sco on the west coast, as in three hours behind the east coast. So it's like 7:30 in the morning now.
So what's more embarassing, being defaced, or not being a 24/7 type of company?
Your also forgetting the Honda Civic Hybrid in the article is being used for strickly stop and go city driving. Many hybrid drivers who do heavy city driving report less than spectacular mileage. Mine drops when tooling arround boston.
The life time for my prius (2002, 82K miles) is 43 MPG. But this is due to me putting on a sicking amount of HighWay miles at speed(70 MPH+). If I keep the car under 65, I get about 45-47 summer, 42-43 winter. It is much better than my last car (93 shadow) which had a lifetime of 26 MPG.
The problem is people expect to exceed the EPA numbers which are overly optimistic. I am happy when the tank comes in between the two EPA numbers (45/52 EPA MPG on the '02). I can usually make the EPA in the spring,summer,fall... but once winter sets in, forget it.
I thought the CVT Insight chalked up better numbers than the Manual Insight.
>Must not mention Venus. Must not mention Venus.
... 6 Launches towards Venus plus two flys by probes to other parts of the solar system (Galileo,Cassini). Only one Failure Mariner 1. First Sucessfull flyby, Four Atmospheric Probes, Never attempted a lander program.
... 32 Launches towards Venus containing 42 vehicles (13 Flyby, 8 Orbiters, 21 Probes (landers, atmospheric probes, and baloons)) with 17 failures. Only country to really explore Venus, still managed to loose 17 of 42 Vehicles they sent to Venus. Much better than the mars record.
Hmmm... Venus
From the big list
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USSR
>stupid mars probe. Also, hooray for communism!
Lets see,
links for the history of missions to the red planet
US Mars Missions
16 Launches containing 21 different probes (4 fly by, 8 orbiter, 4 landers, 3 rovers, 2 penetrators) of which only 7 where lost (1 fly by, 3 orbiters, 1 lander, and both penetrators).
Communist missions
19 Launches containing 25 different probes (6 flyby, 12 orbiter, 7 landers, 0 rovers, 0 penetrators) of which all where lost or failed.
Hurray for ?
And for those keeping score the European orbiter and lander went up on a russia rocket (1 orbiter, one lost lander).
Hate to break it to you but the prius is not lite. The '01-'03's (classic) tipped the scales at 2700lbs, while the new '04 tips the scales at 2900lb.
For the classic ('01-'03) it is 200 lbs more than the corrolla (comparable sized vehicle from toyota) and 700 lbs more than the echo (toyotas micro vehicle). It is in the same weight class as some of the low end pickups our teenagers are constantly wrapping arround trees.
Drives like a golf cart
During a recent blizard road trip to and back from VT on FRS all that kept coming over from the 4x4 truck in our party was how are you keeping that 'golf cart' on the road and can you please slow down. At least the 'golf cart' did better than the VT snow plow we saw in the ditch.
It is worth noting the auto park is only available in the japanese market. A bit of overkill for a car that can turn circles inside of any SUV on the market.
go figure...
'02 Moon Blue Pearl Prius with 70,000 miles.
I remember seeing something about it's location being in a migratory flight path and other wind projects did not have the same problem.
> (Problem might be with your personal info related to your internet provider getting stolen...)
Simple solution, use a wireless card with a decent antenna and piggy back off of a neighbor. Let them get busted instead.
But they have a cool swimming pool to talk on the phone in.
>Didn't Novell's NETWARE used to do this as well? Is this something to do with Utah companies?
;-)
I don't see why, Utah software should be into the monogamy (multiple copy) thing
A quick check on Spacetoday.com points to several good articles ...
SpaceFlightNow article
Florida Today article and it has three video's of the test
Orlando Sentinel article
Washington Post article
Houston Chronicle article
I remember the programming departments from a company I work with doing that. They quit, formed a consulting company and now have the former company as a contract ... Usually doesn't turn out quite as rosey as you would like ... hint if you have kids or a pet fish to support, don't do it... very very scary and you might endup having to serve the kids the pet fish for supper.
Out in acton I can pickup that repeater on a cloudy day ... as for the antenna, before my skyfi boombox arrived I played with the car antenna mounted on a cookie sheet inside my house (leominster). It gets better reception and does not have to be anywheres near a window in the house (and I get 3 bars out of four on the sat.) :-(
To bad the SkyFi BoomBox and Car Kit antenna's are not swapable
I had a conversation with an RF eng. a few weeks ago and the SkyFi car is a phased array.
Pay once, listen anywhere
>If they give the full DriecTV service for only $10 a month they better be ready for a serious backlash from their current subscribers
... Maybe it's the pricing. You need to remember the XM/Sirius target market. Drivers who spend time in the vehicle on long drives. Satelite Radio is very popular with truckers, I don't see them giving up XM/Sirius for this. I do see them replacing the current Direct TV dishes they own with this new antenna for when they are parked at night. Setting up the dish each night is a pain.
:-)
Isn't all the hack cards on the market the consumer backlash to current Direct TV Pricing?
I have yet to see an XM or Sirius hack
I also like the new XM Delphi module, removable receiver that you can move from car to desk to home all on one $10 subscription. I got mine
Best? No, TeeMach Tee Chart Pro has my vote ... ;-)
It is sad to see them go though, I did like most of the components they produced. I blame this failure on Microsoft's success in capturing the windows development tools market. They had a good solid product.
This is the second Delphi tools company I've seen open source the tools when they exited the market. The other was component create.
Delphi has been primary RAD for 5 years and counting (and no I won't touch DB's or MS compiler's)
You really think it was the kid and not the uncle that posted? Smells like someone in Estari's marketing department ...
I don't see a price or Windows XP Tablet addition on the spec. sheet. Looks like it's only available with windows XP Pro. I would be interested if it came with tablet edition.
you mean replaces /dev/null with your file?
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Oh I love doing things as root
Hey, you just rebooted my machine ...
HI and HELLO in forth (depending on flavor) reboot.
Can't wait to get my hands on the new book, we are heavy forth users.
I vote Red Herring ...
I'll be impressed if instead of dropping the bus out of a plane, they base jump with it :-)
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Now that would be a thrill ride
Mmm ... A bus of forty microsoft employees ... ... I better stop here before I get branded a terrorist and sent to cuba.
BBC has an article about a possibly similar incident in the North Sea.