>>>- I do not like being at "car level". I feel more secure at "truck level". Better visibility.
Until it rolls over, as I witnessed in Michigan one time. The woman swerved to miss a piece of tire, and then she was on her side. She didn't even swerve that much..... I can do the same manuever in my car and the tires never lift off the ground. After I saw that, I'm afraid to ride in an Rollsover-UV.
- If the kids can't all fit, then take two cars on your family vacate. Over a lifetime you'll still save more gasoline with two cars then two SUVs that are mostly-empty on the daily work commute.
- Don't tow a camper. Rent a u-haul. Or a hotel.
- I put a full-sized tire in my car. Though I've never used it. AAA is only a cellphone call away from giving you a brandnew tire.
- CNG is even more inconvenient than that tiny-spare tire you were bitching about. I can't find a CNG pump in the middle of Nebraska along I-80.
I've never owned an SUV, and never felt any "pain" for the lack thereof. You people who think you "need" an SUV are as deluded as those people who think they "need" an iPhone. It is a WANT not a need. A luxury not a necessity. Huge difference.
>>> - Modern cars have small engines. This is great around the town, but on the highway, mileage suffers horribly.
My Honda Insight is a car with a teeny-tiny 67 hp engine. It gets 80 MPG on the highway without any problem. Show me an SUV that can anywhere near that. The fact of the matter is that the smaller the engine, the less gasoline is sips, and the more miles can be "squeezed" out of each gallon.
A suburban is not one of them. The SUV was specifically developed in the 1980s in order to avoid the federal emissions standards/CAFE MPG limits. The suburban does not qualify as a "light truck" that is exempt like a true SUV.
I don't see that the Diesel Jetta is $5000 more than the equivalent gasoline Jetta. Where did you get your number? It's about $1000 extra and I think it's worth the extra cost since diesel gives more torque (acceleration). $1000/4 per gallon == 250 gallon-equivalents in extra cost. The diesel saves that much fuel in less than 20,000 miles, and after that point you're saving money.
(1) The 3-cylinder version gets around 85mpg on the highway. Of course with the greater air resistance of an SUV, so you might have to use a 4-cylinder version which burns more fuel, but that's still a huge improvement.
(2) Supplement the tiny engine with an electric motor to give extra bursts of power, such as when accelerating. Basically the Honda model.
(3) Dump the SUV, because it's a highly-inefficient form factor. Nobody needs an SUV unless they own a carpentry business and carry stuff with them all day long. A car is a better aerodynamic shape. My generation never had SUVs (not invented yet), and yet my parents were able to get us to the soccer games just fine with their 4-door sedan.
First Apple, then Microsoft, and now Canonical seem obsessed with making their desktops "pretty" rather than functional.
Mozilla also seems to have the same obsession..... just installed Firefox 13 on my brother's laptop, and I swear it looked like Chromium. He asked me to "make it look like it used to look" so I backed it off to Firefox 10 LTS which has the full dropdown menu. Change for the sake of change is usually bad, especially when the users just want it to work.
Take a look at cars: They've kept the same standard interface for as long as I can remember (back to the 60s at least). The shifter moved from the steering wheel to the floor, but otherwise I could drive an old 60s car or a modern 2013 car without difficulty.
I'm not sure but I suspect this is the main reason I couldn't get Ubuntu to run on my 386 MB laptop. Unity was using too much memory and ran like a snail (similar to Vista). I switched to LXDE (lubuntu).
>>>>>Or better yet: The state >> >>And with those words, you would drive half the people of this country into hysterics.
Not if you label the 100-fiber installation as a "public road project". The state already maintains the roads with pavement, metal barriers, and electricity. Now we're just adding internet.
As for NPR and PBS, we live in an age of hundreds of channels and billions of webpages. We don't need government-run channels because the "need" is already being fulfilled. NPR/PBS made sence in the 1960s when they were born and the number of channels was 3. Today they don't.
It's a funny cartoon, but not funny when you look at the actual athletes. These people destroy their bodies pushing themselves to the limit. Even in ice skating which looks like a nice "easy" sport, people tear-up their knees or hips, and have permanent pain for the rest of their lives. In running Florence Griffith Joyner pushed herself so hard, she died before age 40. She had been training for the next olympics.
Let's NOT have an olympics where athletes use steroids and other enhancements to kill themselves prematurely.
I still have my Mac box..... it was big and bulky and hard to carry: filled with a lot of empty space. But yes it was beautifully designed.
In contrast my PC came in a plain cardboard box, sealed with tape that I had to use my car key to cut. Not easy to open. But it also cost half as much. I'll take the 50% savings and forego the pretty.
Ouch. I resell stuff on ebay, and yes it's been used, but you will get a lot more money if you can advertise it as "new" in appearance. I've received a lot of + feedbacks and 5 stars, because people said "It looks like you never even used it." I did but was just very careful not to scratch the DVD, unit, et cetera.
Also saving the box means you don't have to pay UPS or the post office ~$20 to buy a new box to pack your computer, DVR, whatever.
>>>How do you like that extra 10 or 20% tacked on to your hospital bill to cover the cost of people showing up at the Emergency Room to get treatment that they can't otherwise pay for?
Better than introducing a 3rd party (government or insurance) which will add an extra 50% to the hospital bill to pay for the politicians & bureaucrats. When I visit my doctor or dentist they actually give me a 10% *discount* for paying immediately & without the bureacratic mess (paperwork). Paying cash saves THEM money, and it saves me money.
Also it is a mistake to think the customers pay all the cost of those "free" ER patients. The cost gets spread out. Yes some of it comes from the customers' wallet, but some of it comes from internal cuts on employees and managers' wages. That is preferable because then I'm only paying some of the burden, while the evil corporation pays the rest of the burden out of its profits. It's a shared load.
>>>I broke my right ankle in a car accident in 2002. It went over $100,000.
That's why I have car insurance. Cars are freakin' dangerous. As for the hospital cost, I saw my dad's bill when he was treated, and the room rent was about $500 a day.
That was a joke. I was teasing the Anon.Coward Troll who claimed Ubuntu was a bug-ridden piece of junk. (Which it isn't...at least not the older 2010 version I use.)
Or better yet: The state could run 100-fiber bundles under all the state-owned roads, and let the customer decide. If you want Comcast connect to the Comcast fiber #1. If you want Verizon choose fiber #2. If you want AppleTV or MSN or Time-warner connect to fiber 3 or 4 or 5. Et cetera.
How come when I tried to install Ubuntu 12 on my laptop, it went khaka? I know my laptop only has 384 megabytes, but ubuntu.com says I only need 256. Maybe the CPU is too slow (P3 at ~700 MHz).
It ran better than Vista but not by much. It also failed to let me install Flash Player or Google Chome. Kept saying something about "missing installation file".
It seems odd to hear you say that, because Vista 6.0 was a pile of bugs, but Seven (6.1) is actually quite good. My company did a long jump from XP to Seven, and I would expect most companies to do the same.
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>>>- I do not like being at "car level". I feel more secure at "truck level". Better visibility.
Until it rolls over, as I witnessed in Michigan one time. The woman swerved to miss a piece of tire, and then she was on her side. She didn't even swerve that much..... I can do the same manuever in my car and the tires never lift off the ground. After I saw that, I'm afraid to ride in an Rollsover-UV.
As for your other comments:
- If the kids can't all fit, then take two cars on your family vacate. Over a lifetime you'll still save more gasoline with two cars then two SUVs that are mostly-empty on the daily work commute.
- Don't tow a camper. Rent a u-haul. Or a hotel.
- I put a full-sized tire in my car. Though I've never used it. AAA is only a cellphone call away from giving you a brandnew tire.
- CNG is even more inconvenient than that tiny-spare tire you were bitching about. I can't find a CNG pump in the middle of Nebraska along I-80.
I've never owned an SUV, and never felt any "pain" for the lack thereof. You people who think you "need" an SUV are as deluded as those people who think they "need" an iPhone. It is a WANT not a need. A luxury not a necessity. Huge difference.
>>> - Modern cars have small engines. This is great around the town, but on the highway, mileage suffers horribly.
My Honda Insight is a car with a teeny-tiny 67 hp engine. It gets 80 MPG on the highway without any problem. Show me an SUV that can anywhere near that. The fact of the matter is that the smaller the engine, the less gasoline is sips, and the more miles can be "squeezed" out of each gallon.
So ask my not-so-smart alumni on facebook.
A suburban is not one of them. The SUV was specifically developed in the 1980s in order to avoid the federal emissions standards/CAFE MPG limits. The suburban does not qualify as a "light truck" that is exempt like a true SUV.
I don't see that the Diesel Jetta is $5000 more than the equivalent gasoline Jetta. Where did you get your number?
It's about $1000 extra and I think it's worth the extra cost since diesel gives more torque (acceleration). $1000/4 per gallon == 250 gallon-equivalents in extra cost. The diesel saves that much fuel in less than 20,000 miles, and after that point you're saving money.
(1) The 3-cylinder version gets around 85mpg on the highway. Of course with the greater air resistance of an SUV, so you might have to use a 4-cylinder version which burns more fuel, but that's still a huge improvement.
(2) Supplement the tiny engine with an electric motor to give extra bursts of power, such as when accelerating. Basically the Honda model.
(3) Dump the SUV, because it's a highly-inefficient form factor. Nobody needs an SUV unless they own a carpentry business and carry stuff with them all day long. A car is a better aerodynamic shape. My generation never had SUVs (not invented yet), and yet my parents were able to get us to the soccer games just fine with their 4-door sedan.
First Apple, then Microsoft, and now Canonical seem obsessed with making their desktops "pretty" rather than functional.
Mozilla also seems to have the same obsession..... just installed Firefox 13 on my brother's laptop, and I swear it looked like Chromium. He asked me to "make it look like it used to look" so I backed it off to Firefox 10 LTS which has the full dropdown menu. Change for the sake of change is usually bad, especially when the users just want it to work.
Take a look at cars: They've kept the same standard interface for as long as I can remember (back to the 60s at least). The shifter moved from the steering wheel to the floor, but otherwise I could drive an old 60s car or a modern 2013 car without difficulty.
I'm not sure but I suspect this is the main reason I couldn't get Ubuntu to run on my 386 MB laptop. Unity was using too much memory and ran like a snail (similar to Vista). I switched to LXDE (lubuntu).
>>>>>Or better yet: The state
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>>And with those words, you would drive half the people of this country into hysterics.
Not if you label the 100-fiber installation as a "public road project". The state already maintains the roads with pavement, metal barriers, and electricity. Now we're just adding internet.
As for NPR and PBS, we live in an age of hundreds of channels and billions of webpages. We don't need government-run channels because the "need" is already being fulfilled. NPR/PBS made sence in the 1960s when they were born and the number of channels was 3. Today they don't.
It's a funny cartoon, but not funny when you look at the actual athletes. These people destroy their bodies pushing themselves to the limit. Even in ice skating which looks like a nice "easy" sport, people tear-up their knees or hips, and have permanent pain for the rest of their lives. In running Florence Griffith Joyner pushed herself so hard, she died before age 40. She had been training for the next olympics.
Let's NOT have an olympics where athletes use steroids and other enhancements to kill themselves prematurely.
I still have my Mac box..... it was big and bulky and hard to carry: filled with a lot of empty space. But yes it was beautifully designed.
In contrast my PC came in a plain cardboard box, sealed with tape that I had to use my car key to cut. Not easy to open. But it also cost half as much. I'll take the 50% savings and forego the pretty.
Ouch.
I resell stuff on ebay, and yes it's been used, but you will get a lot more money if you can advertise it as "new" in appearance. I've received a lot of + feedbacks and 5 stars, because people said "It looks like you never even used it." I did but was just very careful not to scratch the DVD, unit, et cetera.
Also saving the box means you don't have to pay UPS or the post office ~$20 to buy a new box to pack your computer, DVR, whatever.
Google and Yahoo are the same company. The negative treatment of customers on Youtube is a direct reflection upon Google as they are one and the same.
>>>endless stream of Awful Experiences by the ignoble and inhumane hand of commerce.
So you're going to stop reading /.'s front page then?
>>>How do you like that extra 10 or 20% tacked on to your hospital bill to cover the cost of people showing up at the Emergency Room to get treatment that they can't otherwise pay for?
Better than introducing a 3rd party (government or insurance) which will add an extra 50% to the hospital bill to pay for the politicians & bureaucrats. When I visit my doctor or dentist they actually give me a 10% *discount* for paying immediately & without the bureacratic mess (paperwork). Paying cash saves THEM money, and it saves me money.
Also it is a mistake to think the customers pay all the cost of those "free" ER patients. The cost gets spread out. Yes some of it comes from the customers' wallet, but some of it comes from internal cuts on employees and managers' wages. That is preferable because then I'm only paying some of the burden, while the evil corporation pays the rest of the burden out of its profits. It's a shared load.
>>>I broke my right ankle in a car accident in 2002. It went over $100,000.
That's why I have car insurance. Cars are freakin' dangerous. As for the hospital cost, I saw my dad's bill when he was treated, and the room rent was about $500 a day.
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>>>Earlier Debian "sucked ass" and now this
That was a joke. I was teasing the Anon.Coward Troll who claimed Ubuntu was a bug-ridden piece of junk. (Which it isn't...at least not the older 2010 version I use.)
Or better yet: The state could run 100-fiber bundles under all the state-owned roads, and let the customer decide. If you want Comcast connect to the Comcast fiber #1. If you want Verizon choose fiber #2. If you want AppleTV or MSN or Time-warner connect to fiber 3 or 4 or 5. Et cetera.
Since OS X is open-source, has anyone attempted to recompile 10.6 or 10.7 to run on PowerPC?
How come when I tried to install Ubuntu 12 on my laptop, it went khaka? I know my laptop only has 384 megabytes, but ubuntu.com says I only need 256. Maybe the CPU is too slow (P3 at ~700 MHz).
It ran better than Vista but not by much. It also failed to let me install Flash Player or Google Chome. Kept saying something about "missing installation file".
>>>MS is onto something...
Can I have some? I'll just roll it in my ZigZag paper hear and light up.
It seems odd to hear you say that, because Vista 6.0 was a pile of bugs, but Seven (6.1) is actually quite good. My company did a long jump from XP to Seven, and I would expect most companies to do the same.
Will they be clearanced on October 26? Or should I grab one earlier. (When do the computer makers phase-out old models and bring-in new ones? August?)