Yes, but do you really need such a powerful car just to drive your body to work? It makes more sense to do what a poster above does: Have 1 car for the hauling, and a 2nd main car for daily use.
The "Sport" mode on the Honda Insight and Civic hybrids (and also the Lupo 3L) was essentially a passing gear. Normally you'd run in the "econo" mode but if you needed a sudden burst of power to pass a car, you could tap the "S" button, the engine would rev to redline, and take off rapidly.
The S mode in this 1L Volkswagen probably operates the same way. Basically the equivalent of downshifting in an automatic.
>>>Diesel-electric drives are not hybrids any way you want to look at it.
Nonsense. By that reasoning, Honda Insight and Civic are not hybrids. BUT you've overlooked that different KINDS of hybrids exist: - series - parallel
Honda and Volkswagen are doing Parallel hybrids with both engine and motor attached to the driveshaft, and yes the word "hybrid" applies. In contrast a train would be a Series hybrid: Engine---motor---driveshaft.
>>>you could get run over on some patches of highway down here doing that...
Really??? I've never been any place in the US where drivers moved faster than 90 (actual speed limit was 85).
Oh and I wouldn't be using Lithium with cars. Like bourbon and beans, an explosive combination! NiMH would be a better choice, especially since NiMH doesn't contain any toxic metals/chemicals to damage the environment.
Just like the "1 Liter" car or the "3 Liter" Lupo, you won't be able to buy it outside Germany. Which is sad. Best you could find in the United States is the 70mpg Honda insight, but it was discontinued due to lack of interest.:-(
All I need is a commuter car. That's it, and any these high MPG units from Volkswagen would be more than adequate. I don't require a Ford Living Room SUV.
First-off, the Amiga had 40% of the 1985-89 mass market according to arstechnica.com. Which is a damn sight higher than the 0.0001% market the flopped OS/2 sold.
>>>something was running on an Apple product before it was on a Microsoft product
LOTS of things first saw the light of day on those old 8-bit machines: - windows/mouse interfaces (Apple, Atari, Commodore) - security cameras & alarms run by my Commodore=64 - 128-color porn on Ataris - music & voice coming from the 1977 Atari console - full-scale video on my C=64 - ripped music from the radio, or downloaded off the net, playing back on the Commodore SID and Amiga Paula - and on and on and on.
There's very little that is truly new. Most of it was invented in the late 70s and 80s, but it was not widely adopted until later.
Although the 3G Speed seems rather slow (200 kbit/s). Probably not worth my friend upgrading, and not fast enough to watch hulu.com. Dialup internet with compressed text/images can load faster than that. Looks like crap but it works.
Which reminds me: I need a Firefox Addon that can download Youtube videos as 3GP files (again: for my friend's dialup). The one he was using stopped working last month.
What other alternatives exist for Broadband internet that cost less than that? I'm asking because I have a friend stuck on 50k Dialup with no DSL or cable available.
"A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit weighed in Wednesday [that's yesterday]."
So how is this story "at least a year old"? RTFA!
Oh and I can't help noticing the description about D&D is reminiscent of ANY organization. A Master ordering people what to do? Sounds like the President of my country or the CEO of my company.
Not bad... just commenting that the PSP-2 and PS2 are about the same graphics resolution.
1/16th the size? Dang you must have a big TV. Mine is only 19 inches, so the PSP-2 is about 1/4th the size. I can see pixelation on my PS2, so we'll probably see pixelation on the PSP-2 as well. (shrug)
Anyway - Sony's claim that the PSP-2 is as powerful as the PS3? Ridiculous.
So it will be less powerful than the PS3, and with resolution barely better than a PS2 (720x480). That would make it better than the Nintendo DS (comparable to a high-res N64).
I have no use for a portable gaming system. I'm either driving (can't play), at work (can't play), or at home (prefer the full screen console).
Even the attraction of PSP-2 exclusives is not enough to draw me, because the exclusives eventually end-up being ported to PS2 or PS3. At least that's what happened with the original PSP.
>>>"nine-pounder", "pieces of eight", "scurvy dogs", and "Arrrrrrr"
Arrrrrr that lass was so curvy, she be carrying two nine-pounders in her chest! So I threw 'er four pieces-of-eight, and she slapped me! Thee scurvy wench.
>>>Some might say that downloading a torrent instead of buying the product in question is evil.
Some might say that Refusal to Allow Returns is also evil. Hell even candybar makers have a "satisfaction guaranteed, or return the product for a full refund" policy, so why can't movie companies? If I buy a movie like Transformers 2 on DVD, and it's crap, then I should be able to return it. Or at least get store credit.
But since I can't, I downloaded it instead and saved myself the money and hassle. Just click "delete" and T-2 is gone forever. I consider "try before you buy" I perfectly legitimate reason for using torrent.
Oh and before you comment about reviews: Most of them are bought-and-paid-for by the movie companies. You can't trust what you read from reviewers. They often recommend movies (like T-2) that are total pants, due to being employed or getting kick-backs from the RIAA/MPAA-affiliated companies.
>>>Some might say that downloading a torrent instead of buying the product in question is evil.
Some might also say that Refusal to Allow Returns is also evil. Hell even candybar makers have a "satisfacttion guaranteed, or return the product for a full refund" policy. If I buy a movie like Transformers 2, and it's crap, then I should be able to return it.
But since I can't, I downloaded it instead and saved myself the money and hassle. Just click "delete" and T-2 is gone forever.
>>>OS/2 was actually the first multi-tasking OS for the mass market
False. :-) The first multitasking OS was the Commodore Amiga OS released in 1985, and the A500 model eventually became the second-best selling computer ever made (after the C=64). i.e. Mass marketed.
Plus Amiga OS was more than just multitasking. It was *preemptive* multitasking, which meant a single program could not command control of the CPU and never release it (aka a freeze-up). This feature was not integrated into Windows until 98, and Mac until OS 10 (2001).
>>I was a member of the Republican party decades ago, but that doesn't make me a Republican.
Well then listen to what White House adviser Van Jones is saying NOW. He's calling for people to rise-up and revolt. Those are his actual words. Clearly he has not given-up his beliefs even though he quit the Communist Party in 2004 (i.e. just a short while ago). .
>>>>>Press Secretary Anita Dunn said, "My favorite philosopher is Mao Tse-dung" who of course was a communist. >> >>My favorite philosopher was Plato, but that doesn't make me Platonic.
Saying your favorite philosopher is Mao Tse-tung is equivalent to saying your favorite philosopher was Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot or Stalin. He's a mass murderer and she should never say anything like what she said..... there is nothing of any value these men can contribute to society. Except in Anita Dunn's mind apparently. - "In order to make an omelet, you have to kill a few million people... oops I mean, eggs." Yeah what a great philosopher. My favorite. (cough)
Oh and yes Obama's father was an AVOWED communist. His dad saying, "I am communist," is not taken out of context. It's as clear as the words he wrote. Plus the fact he was a member of the Communist Party.
This just means Google will not autofill "torrent" just as they don't autofill "breast".
- But that certainly hasn't stopped people from searching for porn, and won't stop them from searching for free music/TV shows either.
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Yes, but do you really need such a powerful car just to drive your body to work? It makes more sense to do what a poster above does: Have 1 car for the hauling, and a 2nd main car for daily use.
Most Americans own 2-3 cars anyway.
The "Sport" mode on the Honda Insight and Civic hybrids (and also the Lupo 3L) was essentially a passing gear. Normally you'd run in the "econo" mode but if you needed a sudden burst of power to pass a car, you could tap the "S" button, the engine would rev to redline, and take off rapidly.
The S mode in this 1L Volkswagen probably operates the same way. Basically the equivalent of downshifting in an automatic.
>>>Diesel-electric drives are not hybrids any way you want to look at it.
Nonsense. By that reasoning, Honda Insight and Civic are not hybrids. BUT you've overlooked that different KINDS of hybrids exist:
- series
- parallel
Honda and Volkswagen are doing Parallel hybrids with both engine and motor attached to the driveshaft, and yes the word "hybrid" applies. In contrast a train would be a Series hybrid: Engine---motor---driveshaft.
>>>you could get run over on some patches of highway down here doing that...
Really??? I've never been any place in the US where drivers moved faster than 90 (actual speed limit was 85).
Oh and I wouldn't be using Lithium with cars. Like bourbon and beans, an explosive combination! NiMH would be a better choice, especially since NiMH doesn't contain any toxic metals/chemicals to damage the environment.
Just like the "1 Liter" car or the "3 Liter" Lupo, you won't be able to buy it outside Germany. Which is sad. Best you could find in the United States is the 70mpg Honda insight, but it was discontinued due to lack of interest. :-(
All I need is a commuter car. That's it, and any these high MPG units from Volkswagen would be more than adequate. I don't require a Ford Living Room SUV.
Nice MALWARE there bud. Froze my Mozilla seamonkey browser. (marks longhairedgnome as "foe")
>>>3% is not mass market.
First-off, the Amiga had 40% of the 1985-89 mass market according to arstechnica.com. Which is a damn sight higher than the 0.0001% market the flopped OS/2 sold.
>>>something was running on an Apple product before it was on a Microsoft product
LOTS of things first saw the light of day on those old 8-bit machines:
- windows/mouse interfaces (Apple, Atari, Commodore)
- security cameras & alarms run by my Commodore=64
- 128-color porn on Ataris
- music & voice coming from the 1977 Atari console
- full-scale video on my C=64
- ripped music from the radio, or downloaded off the net, playing back on the Commodore SID and Amiga Paula
- and on and on and on.
There's very little that is truly new. Most of it was invented in the late 70s and 80s, but it was not widely adopted until later.
Is there an alternative link I can use? I want to read about these Apple computers and their interface.
>>>it beats the heck out of 3G
That's all my friend has - 3G - according to Clear's coverage map. One of the bad parts of living in a small city instead of a major one.
P.S.
Although the 3G Speed seems rather slow (200 kbit/s). Probably not worth my friend upgrading, and not fast enough to watch hulu.com. Dialup internet with compressed text/images can load faster than that. Looks like crap but it works.
Which reminds me: I need a Firefox Addon that can download Youtube videos as 3GP files (again: for my friend's dialup). The one he was using stopped working last month.
$35 a month is a good deal.
What other alternatives exist for Broadband internet that cost less than that? I'm asking because I have a friend stuck on 50k Dialup with no DSL or cable available.
>>>I told her she's probably spending more than $20 in frustration
Should have told her to try Thunderbird instead of Lotus, since it's free, and in addition to going back to the Cable internet.
They really do suck.
Drive them into bankruptcy the same way we did to Circuit Shitty.
"A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit weighed in Wednesday [that's yesterday]."
So how is this story "at least a year old"? RTFA!
Oh and I can't help noticing the description about D&D is reminiscent of ANY organization. A Master ordering people what to do? Sounds like the President of my country or the CEO of my company.
Not bad... just commenting that the PSP-2 and PS2 are about the same graphics resolution.
1/16th the size? Dang you must have a big TV. Mine is only 19 inches, so the PSP-2 is about 1/4th the size. I can see pixelation on my PS2, so we'll probably see pixelation on the PSP-2 as well. (shrug)
Anyway - Sony's claim that the PSP-2 is as powerful as the PS3? Ridiculous.
Correction:
PS2 720x [576] so this new PSP2 is about the same resolution.
>>>Quad Core A9 [ARM] CPU
>>>960 x 544 res.
So it will be less powerful than the PS3, and with resolution barely better than a PS2 (720x480). That would make it better than the Nintendo DS (comparable to a high-res N64).
I have no use for a portable gaming system. I'm either driving (can't play), at work (can't play), or at home (prefer the full screen console).
Even the attraction of PSP-2 exclusives is not enough to draw me, because the exclusives eventually end-up being ported to PS2 or PS3. At least that's what happened with the original PSP.
>>>"nine-pounder", "pieces of eight", "scurvy dogs", and "Arrrrrrr"
Arrrrrr that lass was so curvy, she be carrying two nine-pounders in her chest! So I threw 'er four pieces-of-eight, and she slapped me! Thee scurvy wench.
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>>>Some might say that downloading a torrent instead of buying the product in question is evil.
Some might say that Refusal to Allow Returns is also evil. Hell even candybar makers have a "satisfaction guaranteed, or return the product for a full refund" policy, so why can't movie companies? If I buy a movie like Transformers 2 on DVD, and it's crap, then I should be able to return it. Or at least get store credit.
But since I can't, I downloaded it instead and saved myself the money and hassle. Just click "delete" and T-2 is gone forever. I consider "try before you buy" I perfectly legitimate reason for using torrent.
Oh and before you comment about reviews: Most of them are bought-and-paid-for by the movie companies. You can't trust what you read from reviewers. They often recommend movies (like T-2) that are total pants, due to being employed or getting kick-backs from the RIAA/MPAA-affiliated companies.
>>>Some might say that downloading a torrent instead of buying the product in question is evil. Some might also say that Refusal to Allow Returns is also evil. Hell even candybar makers have a "satisfacttion guaranteed, or return the product for a full refund" policy. If I buy a movie like Transformers 2, and it's crap, then I should be able to return it. But since I can't, I downloaded it instead and saved myself the money and hassle. Just click "delete" and T-2 is gone forever.
>>>OS/2 was actually the first multi-tasking OS for the mass market
False. :-) The first multitasking OS was the Commodore Amiga OS released in 1985, and the A500 model eventually became the second-best selling computer ever made (after the C=64). i.e. Mass marketed.
Plus Amiga OS was more than just multitasking. It was *preemptive* multitasking, which meant a single program could not command control of the CPU and never release it (aka a freeze-up). This feature was not integrated into Windows until 98, and Mac until OS 10 (2001).
>>I was a member of the Republican party decades ago, but that doesn't make me a Republican.
Well then listen to what White House adviser Van Jones is saying NOW. He's calling for people to rise-up and revolt. Those are his actual words. Clearly he has not given-up his beliefs even though he quit the Communist Party in 2004 (i.e. just a short while ago).
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>>>>>Press Secretary Anita Dunn said, "My favorite philosopher is Mao Tse-dung" who of course was a communist.
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>>My favorite philosopher was Plato, but that doesn't make me Platonic.
Saying your favorite philosopher is Mao Tse-tung is equivalent to saying your favorite philosopher was Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot or Stalin. He's a mass murderer and she should never say anything like what she said..... there is nothing of any value these men can contribute to society. Except in Anita Dunn's mind apparently. - "In order to make an omelet, you have to kill a few million people... oops I mean, eggs." Yeah what a great philosopher. My favorite. (cough)
Oh and yes Obama's father was an AVOWED communist. His dad saying, "I am communist," is not taken out of context. It's as clear as the words he wrote. Plus the fact he was a member of the Communist Party.
This just means Google will not autofill "torrent" just as they don't autofill "breast".
- But that certainly hasn't stopped people from searching for porn, and won't stop them from searching for free music/TV shows either.