Anecdotally, everyone I know with VWs have had plenty of annoying problems. Ford & GM, not so many. I am surprised that VW comes in even worse than Chrysler, though.
My theory is that a lot of European manufacturers just don't fully understand just how much Americans drive. In addition to having almost twice as many vehicles per capita than the EU (any statistics that say otherwise are probably excluding light trucks in the US numbers), each of those vehicles gets driven almost twice as many miles in a year. Basically, American drive 3-4 times as much as Europeans.
My other theory is that the fact that their home markets are protected from the Japanese manufacturers has allowed them to rest on their laurels a bit. US manufacturers suffered vs the quality of the Japanese cars for years, but they eventually upped their game.
I'm tempted to ditch Firefox since I once or twice a day seem to have some random DNS issue (maybe related to my DHCP/DNS setup) which results in Firefox being unable to resolve site names. No problem with Chrome or IE.
Many Americans drive, as their family vehicle as well as work vehicle, "light" trucks (e.g. Dodge RAM 3500) and SUVs which have much larger Diesel engines in them than the ones being discussed in these VW cars.
I'd say you're only half right. The vast majority of Americans who drive a truck or SUV as their family vehicle are driving the gasoline engine variant. The people with the larger diesels generally need the hauling capacity. The gas engines are still not very efficient, but they are not diesels.
the Kappa platform cars--Sky and Solstice--are most definitely not crap.
Here's what Edmund's has to say: "A used Solstice is a mixed bag, equal parts seductive sheet metal, hit-or-miss driving dynamics and disappointing reliability and quality." That sounds crap to me compared to, say, a Miata.
You've also failed to mention that the Volt is a much more technologically interesting and advanced car than the most boring of motorized conveyances, the Prius.
I do think the Volt is very cool, however you have to admit that it hasn't really dented the sales of the Prius. If they came out with a convertible I would buy one in a second.
Couple of reasons why this kid may have been invited, and the others not: The first two examples you cite were both just doing something simple, involving pretend guns. Of course their punishments were stupid, but you also don't want to hold them up as examples of how you should behave. The dinosaur story writer was arrested which is worse, but it seems that the arrest was for becoming irate at the cops who were searching his locker. The kid with the clock had built something which required some skill, and STEM is a big deal in schools right now. He made no threats, mentioned no weapons, and his action in actually putting science and engineering into practice is something which should be encouraged.
I do develop for iOS. I couldn't even make a freaking app run in the background forever. No problem in Android. Apple removed this feature for some got forsaken reason.
I would venture to guess that the reason is battery life. My Android tablet, which is always updating tons of apps in the background, has abysmal battery life; even if I don't do anything on it, it dies within a day and a half. My wife's iPad 2 (which is older) lasts a lot longer (days) when just sitting untouched. Sure, it's nice that my Android devices will upload my photos to dropbox without me having to open dropbox, but it seems to me that Apple has prioritized "stuff the user is doing" over "stuff an app developer wants to do", and when I pick up my tablet to find it dead, I can't say it's a totally wrong choice.
I pay $35 for pretty much the same deal as the Verizon loyalty plan on Cricket, and I get AT&T coverage rather than T-Mobile. I find it's quite a lot better, worth the extra $5 a month to me. Of course, the $500 subsidy on the gp's phone phone is worth $20/month, so if you want that phone the Verizon deal is pretty good, especially considering that their coverage is even better than AT&T. I'm not willing to call 3 different people to get that though.
I got Cricket (owned by AT&T) to unlock a freebie phone after the required 4 months (I think they now raised it to 6). Just went to their chat support, made the request, no problems. This may be just another example of prepaid being better than postpaid.
In my state, it's done at a state inspection facility every two years and costs $15. I don't think it's a huge moneymaker for the state. But we do have pretty bad air quality sometimes; today it's a code yellow day, for example. So, here at least, I do think it's for air quality.
Maybe... but every review site will be comparing the two, and if the Porsche isn't actually better, or at least as good, I bet only Porsche fanbots would buy them. As an example, consider that Tesla sold 10000+ Model S cars in Q1; BMW, with its reputation and marketing muscle, sold about 4500 i8s in Q1 & Q2.
I get 2% back on gas on my credit card, and at least 1% everywhere else. Other than gas stations, you're paying the card fee either way, so I figure why not use a card?
I can't comprehend why people still buy Germans and the like when they are inferior to cell phones in pretty much every way.
I run Waze for 90% of my navigation. However, I still have a Garmin. The main reasons: - I travel to areas with no cell/data service on a regular basis (~10 weekends a year). Until Here for Android was released, the options for offline maps were pretty crappy; the Garmin just works. - The "find me the nearest Starbucks" type stuff on the Garmin is fast, needs no data, and is easy enough that I can do it while driving. With Waze et al, it can be a lot more steps, and my wife doesn't like messing with that when I'm driving. It doesn't have everything, but I really only use it to get to a Starbucks anyway. - It's always there, and turns itself on when the car starts. If I want to use my phone for Pandora or whatever, I still have my directions. - It was ~$120, and I have lifetime maps and traffic. So why not have it?
Hmm. I have Mint 17 running on an older Vaio. I have suspend issues but it hasn't bothered me enough to actually look into if it's possible to correct it or not.
Well, in 1952 there was a Conservative government in the UK (the first purely Conservative government since before the war); presumably they could have dropped his prosecution but didn't.
As a side note, Gordon Brown issued an apology in 2009, but David Cameron has ruled out a pardon.
Just installed it, and I can't see any difference from 12. I have it set pretty minimal, just tabs at the top, no menu bar or skins. I haven't seen a reason to switch yet, either to IE or Chrome...
The problem is making the transition from a gun owing society to a non-gun owning society. If there are already a ton of guns out there in private hands (as I guess is the case in Venezuela) and you then just take the guns away from those people who follow the law & hand them in, you're going to be left with a lot of guns in the hands of people who don't follow the law. Would there be less homicides if all the guns disappeared magically? Almost certainly. Will there be less homicides if a substantial portion of the population (criminals) keeps their guns and feel that most law abiding citizens are now incapable of defending themselves? I'm not sure.
This is the problem exactly. I can deal with odd formatting from a PG book (though as you say, most are fine); what pisses me off is recent, full price ebooks where there has obviously not been the slightest attempt at editing or typesetting. One I got recently had a consistent problem where quoted text changed font & size after the first paragraph, which is pretty jarring. A full price book on my Nook should be a better experience than PG or scanned & OCR'd pdb were on my old Palm Pilot but sometimes these types of glitches just take you out of the experience & actually seem worse.
The Oatmeal's book "5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth" I luckily got out of the library (through Overdrive) - the images are so small as to be unreadable, both on the PC & ipad. If you look at the Play store, there are lots of good reviews, but they're all from Goodreads & such for the paper version. I'm sure it's funny, if you can read it; if I'd paid money for this pile of bits I'd be pissed. Does the publisher not own an ipad or a Kindle Fire? Did they not load it on one single device & say to themselves, "hmm, this really sucks, let's fix it"?
But if you're running BES (or the free Professional if you're small), everything is encrypted end to end with your own key. That's why they are so secure; 3rd parties don't have access to your data. In India & Saudi Arabia the government has put taps on the telco provided BES, but they still can't tap your private BES communications if your server is outside.
If you want Exchange, it's worth looking at SBS - it's pretty much all you'd need, and it works fine with mobile. Not sure about how OSX would play on the domain though.
No, thanks to an AMERICAN. He immigrated here, accepted citizenship and is now an American.
That really is a big difference between the US & a lot of other countries - you can truly become an American, no matter where you're from. It's not just words, people really do accept immigrants (despite the anti immigrant rhetoric which is so much in the news) in a way that I haven't seen in say, France or the UK. Third generation immigrants still don't seem to be a part of French society; third generation Americans almost always are completely assimilated. When my wife became a citizen, it was pretty moving to see the other people at the ceremony from all over the world being welcomed. It wasn't just typical bureaucratic form filling, it really was an open armed welcome, complete with video welcome from the president.
Maybe she can move her head, or just her whole hand; there could be any number of ways to use this when you can't move a mouse. ALS is horrible, anything which can make life easier for her is a good thing.
Oh, if I were doing this stuff on a regular basis or was taking a class on it, I would buy it in a heartbeat. But I'm just an interested amateur, so I won't be buying it. It's an interesting question, though, whether or not they would make more money at a lower price by expanding their market beyond those who have to have it to those who'd just like to.
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VW make better cars than American companies.
Umm, JD Powers disagrees:
http://www.jdpower.com/press-r...
Anecdotally, everyone I know with VWs have had plenty of annoying problems. Ford & GM, not so many. I am surprised that VW comes in even worse than Chrysler, though.
My theory is that a lot of European manufacturers just don't fully understand just how much Americans drive. In addition to having almost twice as many vehicles per capita than the EU (any statistics that say otherwise are probably excluding light trucks in the US numbers), each of those vehicles gets driven almost twice as many miles in a year. Basically, American drive 3-4 times as much as Europeans.
My other theory is that the fact that their home markets are protected from the Japanese manufacturers has allowed them to rest on their laurels a bit. US manufacturers suffered vs the quality of the Japanese cars for years, but they eventually upped their game.
I'm tempted to ditch Firefox since I once or twice a day seem to have some random DNS issue (maybe related to my DHCP/DNS setup) which results in Firefox being unable to resolve site names. No problem with Chrome or IE.
Many Americans drive, as their family vehicle as well as work vehicle, "light" trucks (e.g. Dodge RAM 3500) and SUVs which have much larger Diesel engines in them than the ones being discussed in these VW cars.
I'd say you're only half right. The vast majority of Americans who drive a truck or SUV as their family vehicle are driving the gasoline engine variant. The people with the larger diesels generally need the hauling capacity. The gas engines are still not very efficient, but they are not diesels.
the Kappa platform cars--Sky and Solstice--are most definitely not crap.
Here's what Edmund's has to say: "A used Solstice is a mixed bag, equal parts seductive sheet metal, hit-or-miss driving dynamics and disappointing reliability and quality."
That sounds crap to me compared to, say, a Miata.
You've also failed to mention that the Volt is a much more technologically interesting and advanced car than the most boring of motorized conveyances, the Prius.
I do think the Volt is very cool, however you have to admit that it hasn't really dented the sales of the Prius. If they came out with a convertible I would buy one in a second.
Couple of reasons why this kid may have been invited, and the others not:
The first two examples you cite were both just doing something simple, involving pretend guns. Of course their punishments were stupid, but you also don't want to hold them up as examples of how you should behave. The dinosaur story writer was arrested which is worse, but it seems that the arrest was for becoming irate at the cops who were searching his locker.
The kid with the clock had built something which required some skill, and STEM is a big deal in schools right now. He made no threats, mentioned no weapons, and his action in actually putting science and engineering into practice is something which should be encouraged.
I do develop for iOS. I couldn't even make a freaking app run in the background forever. No problem in Android. Apple removed this feature for some got forsaken reason.
I would venture to guess that the reason is battery life. My Android tablet, which is always updating tons of apps in the background, has abysmal battery life; even if I don't do anything on it, it dies within a day and a half. My wife's iPad 2 (which is older) lasts a lot longer (days) when just sitting untouched. Sure, it's nice that my Android devices will upload my photos to dropbox without me having to open dropbox, but it seems to me that Apple has prioritized "stuff the user is doing" over "stuff an app developer wants to do", and when I pick up my tablet to find it dead, I can't say it's a totally wrong choice.
I pay $35 for pretty much the same deal as the Verizon loyalty plan on Cricket, and I get AT&T coverage rather than T-Mobile. I find it's quite a lot better, worth the extra $5 a month to me.
Of course, the $500 subsidy on the gp's phone phone is worth $20/month, so if you want that phone the Verizon deal is pretty good, especially considering that their coverage is even better than AT&T. I'm not willing to call 3 different people to get that though.
I got Cricket (owned by AT&T) to unlock a freebie phone after the required 4 months (I think they now raised it to 6). Just went to their chat support, made the request, no problems.
This may be just another example of prepaid being better than postpaid.
In my state, it's done at a state inspection facility every two years and costs $15. I don't think it's a huge moneymaker for the state. But we do have pretty bad air quality sometimes; today it's a code yellow day, for example. So, here at least, I do think it's for air quality.
My Toto Drake low flow toilet is awesome. In toilets, at least, it seems you can have both economy and performance.
Maybe... but every review site will be comparing the two, and if the Porsche isn't actually better, or at least as good, I bet only Porsche fanbots would buy them. As an example, consider that Tesla sold 10000+ Model S cars in Q1; BMW, with its reputation and marketing muscle, sold about 4500 i8s in Q1 & Q2.
I get 2% back on gas on my credit card, and at least 1% everywhere else. Other than gas stations, you're paying the card fee either way, so I figure why not use a card?
Sure, but your Keepass database isn't generally world-accessible. You can keep it on a thumb drive if you want.
I can't comprehend why people still buy Germans and the like when they are inferior to cell phones in pretty much every way.
I run Waze for 90% of my navigation. However, I still have a Garmin. The main reasons:
- I travel to areas with no cell/data service on a regular basis (~10 weekends a year). Until Here for Android was released, the options for offline maps were pretty crappy; the Garmin just works.
- The "find me the nearest Starbucks" type stuff on the Garmin is fast, needs no data, and is easy enough that I can do it while driving. With Waze et al, it can be a lot more steps, and my wife doesn't like messing with that when I'm driving. It doesn't have everything, but I really only use it to get to a Starbucks anyway.
- It's always there, and turns itself on when the car starts. If I want to use my phone for Pandora or whatever, I still have my directions.
- It was ~$120, and I have lifetime maps and traffic. So why not have it?
Hmm. I have Mint 17 running on an older Vaio. I have suspend issues but it hasn't bothered me enough to actually look into if it's possible to correct it or not.
Well, in 1952 there was a Conservative government in the UK (the first purely Conservative government since before the war); presumably they could have dropped his prosecution but didn't.
As a side note, Gordon Brown issued an apology in 2009, but David Cameron has ruled out a pardon.
Just installed it, and I can't see any difference from 12. I have it set pretty minimal, just tabs at the top, no menu bar or skins. I haven't seen a reason to switch yet, either to IE or Chrome...
The problem is making the transition from a gun owing society to a non-gun owning society. If there are already a ton of guns out there in private hands (as I guess is the case in Venezuela) and you then just take the guns away from those people who follow the law & hand them in, you're going to be left with a lot of guns in the hands of people who don't follow the law. Would there be less homicides if all the guns disappeared magically? Almost certainly. Will there be less homicides if a substantial portion of the population (criminals) keeps their guns and feel that most law abiding citizens are now incapable of defending themselves? I'm not sure.
This is the problem exactly. I can deal with odd formatting from a PG book (though as you say, most are fine); what pisses me off is recent, full price ebooks where there has obviously not been the slightest attempt at editing or typesetting. One I got recently had a consistent problem where quoted text changed font & size after the first paragraph, which is pretty jarring. A full price book on my Nook should be a better experience than PG or scanned & OCR'd pdb were on my old Palm Pilot but sometimes these types of glitches just take you out of the experience & actually seem worse.
The Oatmeal's book "5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth" I luckily got out of the library (through Overdrive) - the images are so small as to be unreadable, both on the PC & ipad. If you look at the Play store, there are lots of good reviews, but they're all from Goodreads & such for the paper version. I'm sure it's funny, if you can read it; if I'd paid money for this pile of bits I'd be pissed. Does the publisher not own an ipad or a Kindle Fire? Did they not load it on one single device & say to themselves, "hmm, this really sucks, let's fix it"?
They meant to say "literally pwning it."
But if you're running BES (or the free Professional if you're small), everything is encrypted end to end with your own key. That's why they are so secure; 3rd parties don't have access to your data. In India & Saudi Arabia the government has put taps on the telco provided BES, but they still can't tap your private BES communications if your server is outside.
If you want Exchange, it's worth looking at SBS - it's pretty much all you'd need, and it works fine with mobile. Not sure about how OSX would play on the domain though.
> Thanks to a South African entrepreneur
No, thanks to an AMERICAN. He immigrated here, accepted citizenship and is now an American.
That really is a big difference between the US & a lot of other countries - you can truly become an American, no matter where you're from. It's not just words, people really do accept immigrants (despite the anti immigrant rhetoric which is so much in the news) in a way that I haven't seen in say, France or the UK. Third generation immigrants still don't seem to be a part of French society; third generation Americans almost always are completely assimilated. When my wife became a citizen, it was pretty moving to see the other people at the ceremony from all over the world being welcomed. It wasn't just typical bureaucratic form filling, it really was an open armed welcome, complete with video welcome from the president.
Maybe she can move her head, or just her whole hand; there could be any number of ways to use this when you can't move a mouse. ALS is horrible, anything which can make life easier for her is a good thing.
Oh, if I were doing this stuff on a regular basis or was taking a class on it, I would buy it in a heartbeat. But I'm just an interested amateur, so I won't be buying it.
It's an interesting question, though, whether or not they would make more money at a lower price by expanding their market beyond those who have to have it to those who'd just like to.