These new vehicles, while fantastic for the environment (and for many other things), will no doubt eat into the profit of major corporations that depend on America's crippling reliance on petroleum products.
Unfortunately, they will eat into the pockets of anyone that dares to buy one. The article mentioned that the engine alone is $40,000. That's part of the problem that the existing hybrids have. They are low production, high R&D. You have to pay a lot to get these first generation models.
your post states the worst effects are time and money. i'd much rather spend weeks (hell even years) restoring from backup, reinstalling, verifying 'good' status, etc, than have one friend of mine raped, and i would like the punishments for those crimes to match that sentiment.
You just assume that the punishment for rape shouldn't be changed. I think you should never get out of jail if you rape or murder someone.
what happened to the days would at least try to add tons of superfluous fluff around their restatements of the article when trying to karma whore.
I could care less about my Karma. The point of my post was stated entirely within the subject./. just requires that you put some text in the body. The point was that this is hardly news.
They are changing the name because people are getting confused about what.NET really is. It was a bad idea for Microsoft to try to add ".NET" to every single product they sell.
Call me shortsighted, but I don't see the market for the 12" Powerbook. I think they'll merely be cannibalizing the sales of the existing iBook models. Consumers will be confused, product lines blurred.
The 12" PowerBook won't sell at all. Why pay $500 more for +67MHz and a G4? Screw that. Just buy an iBook. The only people that will buy that thing are people that want the cheapest possible way to get the SuperDrive notebook.
I've opted to do a generic as possible degree, a masters in computer science, at a good, respected university (either Oriel college Oxford, Durham or Bristol).
Do yourself a favor and major in Mathematics. It will help you tremendously.
Sorry, if anyplace worth going is 3 1/2 miles away, you're probably in the boondocks. And if anyplace more interesting than a gas station and a grocery store is further away than 15 miles, it's a high probability
15 miles round trip. I live in a neighborhood surrounded by a preserve.
I agree. If I lived in a city where you had to drive 7 miles just to buy groceries, I'd shoot the city planner, guy in charge of zoning, and the asshole developers who built the residental areas. Do you even have sidewalks (and if you do, did they plant shade trees?), or mass transit?
No mass transit here (Tampa Bay area). Not much chance of a subway - there's water 3.5 feet down. Busing sucks.
There is a nice sidewalk (8ft wide) between my house and the grocery store. I just happen to live in the very back of the neighborhood. However, many of the houses around here (North Pinllas) are in my situation, with considerable distance to shopping, despite this being an overdeveloped county.
That thing only has a range of 15 miles. That's really not very far if you're not in college or living in Manhatten. It's 7 miles round trip for me to get to a grocery store. Beyond the grocery store (and a gas station), it's well more than 15 miles to get to anything else.
Before you ask: no, I don't live in the boondocks. I live in a metropolitan area (Tampa, FL, US).
So by this we can tell that companies are first wanting to make software that can run everywhere, and third software that will run no where. Interesting indeed.
Doubt that. The Java stuff is probably server side. VB will run on over 90% of computers. What part of nowhere is that, exactly?
Still, if you need admins for a 100,000 hit a day web site (which doesn't sound all that high to me), you need to hire people who can roll out identical, customized machines in short time, have experience monitoring, and can batch updates, etc.
Huh? Maybe something magical happens around 100,000 hits. Our webserver does 50,000+ dynamic pages per day. It's just one server (Win2k). Doesn't need much maintenance.
Not on my table. That's how the rods get bent. Spinning seems to be more common among people that are just starting to play. I think that once you get better at foosball, you just naturally stop spinning.
Would people drive less, because they're charged per mile?
They basically pay for their gas by the mile, and it has little effect. This wouldn't be much different, except for the possibility of a monthly bill telling them exactly how much they paid.
I did. There was nothing that explained why they felt that raising the gas tax wouldn't accomplish the same thing for less money, less hassle, and less Orwell.
They say that their gas tax revenue decreases as cars become more fuel efficient (especially with hybrids). The mileage tax would be based on the current gas-tax rate.
They can simply increase the rate of the gas tax...
Will the satellite GPS system go out during rainy weather? Satellite TV does that from time to time. Isn't that region of the country known for rainy weather?
The article fails to say why they would do this. Why not just increase the gas tax if you want more money? At least your citizens get relieved of some of the burden of the gas tax because visitors to the state pay as well. With this GPS thing, it will cost a lot to implement, and no visiting cars will pay the tax. Seems like a losing situation for the taxpayers of Oregon.
Not to mention that Eclipse let's you do really neat things, like stop the debugger right before an exception was thrown, fix the bug, and continue with the debugging as if nothing had happened!
Heck, even Visual Basic has this. I got used to it, and I've been disappointed that I couldn't get it elsewhere. It's quite nice.
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Perhaps $9.99/month for video, $2.99/minute for an "operator"?
Well, if you have a Hands Free (headset) device, you have a free hand for whatever else you might need it for. Forward thinking!
These new vehicles, while fantastic for the environment (and for many other things), will no doubt eat into the profit of major corporations that depend on America's crippling reliance on petroleum products.
Unfortunately, they will eat into the pockets of anyone that dares to buy one. The article mentioned that the engine alone is $40,000. That's part of the problem that the existing hybrids have. They are low production, high R&D. You have to pay a lot to get these first generation models.
Err, #1, #5, and #6 can be summarized as: Don't trust user input.
your post states the worst effects are time and money. i'd much rather spend weeks (hell even years) restoring from backup, reinstalling, verifying 'good' status, etc, than have one friend of mine raped, and i would like the punishments for those crimes to match that sentiment.
You just assume that the punishment for rape shouldn't be changed. I think you should never get out of jail if you rape or murder someone.
what happened to the days would at least try to add tons of superfluous fluff around their restatements of the article when trying to karma whore.
/. just requires that you put some text in the body. The point was that this is hardly news.
I could care less about my Karma. The point of my post was stated entirely within the subject.
They are changing the name because people are getting confused about what .NET really is. It was a bad idea for Microsoft to try to add ".NET" to every single product they sell.
Call me shortsighted, but I don't see the market for the 12" Powerbook. I think they'll merely be cannibalizing the sales of the existing iBook models. Consumers will be confused, product lines blurred.
The 12" PowerBook won't sell at all. Why pay $500 more for +67MHz and a G4? Screw that. Just buy an iBook. The only people that will buy that thing are people that want the cheapest possible way to get the SuperDrive notebook.
I've opted to do a generic as possible degree, a masters in computer science, at a good, respected university (either Oriel college Oxford, Durham or Bristol).
Do yourself a favor and major in Mathematics. It will help you tremendously.
It's interesting when MS released the tablet, the majority of /. said "ho hum".
From the article itself:
biggest battle for the most worthless market sector (Tablet PCs)
Sorry, if anyplace worth going is 3 1/2 miles away, you're probably in the boondocks. And if anyplace more interesting than a gas station and a grocery store is further away than 15 miles, it's a high probability
15 miles round trip. I live in a neighborhood surrounded by a preserve.
I agree. If I lived in a city where you had to drive 7 miles just to buy groceries, I'd shoot the city planner, guy in charge of zoning, and the asshole developers who built the residental areas. Do you even have sidewalks (and if you do, did they plant shade trees?), or mass transit?
No mass transit here (Tampa Bay area). Not much chance of a subway - there's water 3.5 feet down. Busing sucks.
There is a nice sidewalk (8ft wide) between my house and the grocery store. I just happen to live in the very back of the neighborhood. However, many of the houses around here (North Pinllas) are in my situation, with considerable distance to shopping, despite this being an overdeveloped county.
Bicycles can certainly go on the sidewalk, they're just dangerous and inconsiderate for the pedestrians.
Sure, they can, however, in many states bicycles are to behave as automobiles, riding in the street and following traffic laws.
That thing only has a range of 15 miles. That's really not very far if you're not in college or living in Manhatten. It's 7 miles round trip for me to get to a grocery store. Beyond the grocery store (and a gas station), it's well more than 15 miles to get to anything else.
Before you ask: no, I don't live in the boondocks. I live in a metropolitan area (Tampa, FL, US).
So by this we can tell that companies are first wanting to make software that can run everywhere, and third software that will run no where. Interesting indeed.
Doubt that. The Java stuff is probably server side. VB will run on over 90% of computers. What part of nowhere is that, exactly?
Still, if you need admins for a 100,000 hit a day web site (which doesn't sound all that high to me), you need to hire people who can roll out identical, customized machines in short time, have experience monitoring, and can batch updates, etc.
Huh? Maybe something magical happens around 100,000 hits. Our webserver does 50,000+ dynamic pages per day. It's just one server (Win2k). Doesn't need much maintenance.
North Korea is planning an attack on Iraq if they don't stop production of "weapons of mass destruction".
Not on my table. That's how the rods get bent. Spinning seems to be more common among people that are just starting to play. I think that once you get better at foosball, you just naturally stop spinning.
Would people drive less, because they're charged per mile?
They basically pay for their gas by the mile, and it has little effect. This wouldn't be much different, except for the possibility of a monthly bill telling them exactly how much they paid.
Try actually reading the article.
I did. There was nothing that explained why they felt that raising the gas tax wouldn't accomplish the same thing for less money, less hassle, and less Orwell.
They say that their gas tax revenue decreases as cars become more fuel efficient (especially with hybrids). The mileage tax would be based on the current gas-tax rate.
They can simply increase the rate of the gas tax...
Maybe the rich snobs in their Lincoln Navigators and Ford Excursions don't like paying more than the poor guy in the Geo Metro?
Will the satellite GPS system go out during rainy weather? Satellite TV does that from time to time. Isn't that region of the country known for rainy weather?
The article fails to say why they would do this. Why not just increase the gas tax if you want more money? At least your citizens get relieved of some of the burden of the gas tax because visitors to the state pay as well. With this GPS thing, it will cost a lot to implement, and no visiting cars will pay the tax. Seems like a losing situation for the taxpayers of Oregon.
Not to mention that Eclipse let's you do really neat things, like stop the debugger right before an exception was thrown, fix the bug, and continue with the debugging as if nothing had happened!
Heck, even Visual Basic has this. I got used to it, and I've been disappointed that I couldn't get it elsewhere. It's quite nice.