I think you have a point about reliability for the Ford... but given Toyota's reliability reputation, and the Consumer Reports rating which put Prius #1 in customer satisfaction, I think the Prius is a pretty safe bet.
Toyota gives the batteries a 10 year warranty. The gas engine is the same as the engine in a Corolla, just adjusted to run on a different combustion cycle. There's no gearbox, so that leaves the transaxle and computer to worry about... Personally, I'll take that bet.
It still takes all the same materials and manufacturing processes to build, and poses the same disposal problem once it wears out.
Well, at the risk of sounding like a Toyota ad, the Prius is built using 90% recyclable materials. For the soundproofing, they literally use shredded material from old cars. They use a tenth of the lead and a tenth of the PVC they were using in their cars in 1996. They even use plant-derived bioplastic for the floor mats.
What you are apparently missing is that the VW Rabbit was a compact car, where the Prius is a midsize. You can sit four 6' adults comfortably in a Prius.
1. Any game that involves shooting things in 3D, and which only exists as slideware, should be praised as if it's the Second Coming.
2. Any game that doesn't involve shooting things in 3D should be quietly ignored.
3. Any game that has actually shipped should be derided as boring, bug-ridden and disappointing. This applies even if it was previously hyped in NextGen as the Second Coming (see 1).
4. When Bill Gates says "Kneel", you kneel, bitch.
"I bought Maxtor drives. They broke rapidly and had no warranty. I bought a Seagate drive, it had a 5 year warranty and hasn't broken. Should I maybe buy Seagate instead of Maxtor?"
Oooh, lemme ponder that tough question for a while.
What you don't understand about the difference between what Buddha/Confuscius said and what Jesus said is this: They said it in a negative light, as in, "I don't want my neighbor to kill me, so I won't kill him. I don't want him to steal from me, so I won't steal from him." It was all about what they didn't want their neighbor to do to them.
Where on earth did you get that bizarre idea about the Buddha's teachings?
Let me quote directly from The Buddha's Advice to Sariputra, which is the first example that comes to hand:
Let him not steal nor let him tell a lie,
Let him show amity to weak and strong;
And when he knows disquiet of the mind,
Let him expel that as dark Mara's gloom.
Nor must he fall a prey to wrath and pride,
But digging up their roots, let him stay poised;
And, as he wrestles, let him overcome
All that is dear to him, all that repels.
As you see, the focus isn't on how other people might react at all. It's not even mentioned. The Buddha's advice isn't even negative in the sense of focusing exclusively on avoiding misdeeds; there's also emphasis on positive attributes.
In fact, one of the common criticisms of Buddhism is exactly the opposite of yours--that it focuses too much on the individual, and doesn't pay enough attention to how that person should engage with the outside world, instead encouraging withdrawal and disconnection.
I've just moved four machines from assorted other distributions to Debian, via MEPIS.
MEPIS is what Ubuntu ought to be. It's Debian, with a decent installer and better hardware detection, and all the stuff you would expect to work working out of the box, all on a bootable CD.
And once you have it running, you can use anything from Debian unstable.
Compared to RedHat, Debian unstable isn't far behind, and is far more complete, stable and bug-free.
So presumably it's going to have better performance than the existing graphics cards which are fully supported by open source drivers, such as the Savage found on VIA M10000 Mini-ITX systems?
Ignoring the hilarity of who said it, this is ludicrous. We are decades away from having machine vision that's accurate and reliable enough to control vehicles on highways. Embedded sensors aren't a solution, we can't even get hydrogen and electrical refueling infrastructure deployed, let alone elaborate highway sensor systems. Even ignoring both of those issues, US unlimited legal liability will kill it.
Really, the "cars that refuse to crash" scenario is about as realistic as hover-bikes powered by nuclear fusion.
I'd like a PowerMac G5, but the 1.8GHz is underpowered compared to the iMac, so the cheapest worth getting is the dual 2GHz. Unfortunately I'm not sure I have that kind of money just now.
1. When you detect virus activity from their system, disconnect them.
2. When they ask to be reconnected, tell them they must ensure that they have removed all viruses. Give them free anti-virus and anti-spyware software.
3. Don't bother to check their computer; you don't have the time. Just charge them a $5 reconnection fee each time. Make sure they are aware that once the network is turned back on for them, if they have a virus, it'll switch off automatically again and they'll have to pay for reconnection again. If they want to get an expert to look at the computer, that's up to them to sort out.
4. Use the money collected to buy anti-virus and anti-spyware licenses, better network firewalls, and so on.
Believe it or not, there are Lisp systems for 4MHz 8 bit processors. I mean, what do you think they were using in the 50s when the language was invented?
(a) how can I be sure that they're actually only storing the template?
(b) if other systems from the same vendor use the same templates, what's to stop someone stealing the template database, and submitting the templates to other systems as if there were fingers present? (e.g. to rig ATM transactions)
It's more like a hash. Unless the people that designed the security sytem didn't have a clue, they wouldn't store reversable fingerprint information at all.
Well, the problem is I have to trust on blind faith that it's a hash, and that it's different from the hash used by other companies.
It doesn't matter if my fingerprint is hashed to an opaque 0x0116632c51bde43 if every other system made by the same manufacturer will accept that hash as representing my fingerprint. I'm still screwed, because I can't change my fingerprint and can't change the hash.
Think of hashed fingerprints as a PIN tattooed on your finger...
Actually, digital photo filenames are very useful, because they're unique identifiers. My mother can ask for a photo by name, and I'll know exactly which one to send her (and which folder, or which CD, it's on).
How does iPhoto cope with photo libraries spread across multiple disks? Does it work as well as iTunes does?
Crap from an Anonymous Coward, no surprises there.
1. Try giving some examples of the necessary functionality you allege is needed for page representation, you might sound more credible.
2. There are several standards for HTML documents in one single file, including Microsoft's web archives, Mozilla Archive Format, and simply packaging the whole thing as a single MIME document. Images can be included as JPEG and PNG, and vector graphics as SVG.
Satellite cannot give me high speed internet or phone service.
So what? Satellite won't change the oil in my car either, so I get services from more than one provider. I have cable Internet and satellite TV, and it costs me less than getting both Internet and TV from the cable company, as well as giving me better image quality.
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I think you have a point about reliability for the Ford... but given Toyota's reliability reputation, and the Consumer Reports rating which put Prius #1 in customer satisfaction, I think the Prius is a pretty safe bet.
Toyota gives the batteries a 10 year warranty. The gas engine is the same as the engine in a Corolla, just adjusted to run on a different combustion cycle. There's no gearbox, so that leaves the transaxle and computer to worry about... Personally, I'll take that bet.
Well, at the risk of sounding like a Toyota ad, the Prius is built using 90% recyclable materials. For the soundproofing, they literally use shredded material from old cars. They use a tenth of the lead and a tenth of the PVC they were using in their cars in 1996. They even use plant-derived bioplastic for the floor mats.
http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/news/03/0901a.html
What you are apparently missing is that the VW Rabbit was a compact car, where the Prius is a midsize. You can sit four 6' adults comfortably in a Prius.
I've driven a Cavalier, and I feel sorry for your parents. What a piece of shit. Did you even look at reviews of the car?
Don't forget the NextGen editorial guidelines:
1. Any game that involves shooting things in 3D, and which only exists as slideware, should be praised as if it's the Second Coming.
2. Any game that doesn't involve shooting things in 3D should be quietly ignored.
3. Any game that has actually shipped should be derided as boring, bug-ridden and disappointing. This applies even if it was previously hyped in NextGen as the Second Coming (see 1).
4. When Bill Gates says "Kneel", you kneel, bitch.
"I bought Maxtor drives. They broke rapidly and had no warranty. I bought a Seagate drive, it had a 5 year warranty and hasn't broken. Should I maybe buy Seagate instead of Maxtor?"
Oooh, lemme ponder that tough question for a while.
Where on earth did you get that bizarre idea about the Buddha's teachings?
Let me quote directly from The Buddha's Advice to Sariputra, which is the first example that comes to hand:
As you see, the focus isn't on how other people might react at all. It's not even mentioned. The Buddha's advice isn't even negative in the sense of focusing exclusively on avoiding misdeeds; there's also emphasis on positive attributes.
In fact, one of the common criticisms of Buddhism is exactly the opposite of yours--that it focuses too much on the individual, and doesn't pay enough attention to how that person should engage with the outside world, instead encouraging withdrawal and disconnection.
[Yeah, I know, way offtopic...]
MEPIS = Debian testing, + better hardware detection, + stuff like nVidia set up to work, + bootable CD and decent installer.
Unlike Ubuntu, you basically end up with a Debian system and can use all the Debian testing packages safely.
I've just moved four machines from assorted other distributions to Debian, via MEPIS.
MEPIS is what Ubuntu ought to be. It's Debian, with a decent installer and better hardware detection, and all the stuff you would expect to work working out of the box, all on a bootable CD.
And once you have it running, you can use anything from Debian unstable.
Compared to RedHat, Debian unstable isn't far behind, and is far more complete, stable and bug-free.
I for one am grateful for this article. Wink is exactly what I've been looking for, for building drool-proof tutorials for people.
So presumably it's going to have better performance than the existing graphics cards which are fully supported by open source drivers, such as the Savage found on VIA M10000 Mini-ITX systems?
Ignoring the hilarity of who said it, this is ludicrous. We are decades away from having machine vision that's accurate and reliable enough to control vehicles on highways. Embedded sensors aren't a solution, we can't even get hydrogen and electrical refueling infrastructure deployed, let alone elaborate highway sensor systems. Even ignoring both of those issues, US unlimited legal liability will kill it.
Really, the "cars that refuse to crash" scenario is about as realistic as hover-bikes powered by nuclear fusion.
And made of chocolate.
I'd like a PowerMac G5, but the 1.8GHz is underpowered compared to the iMac, so the cheapest worth getting is the dual 2GHz. Unfortunately I'm not sure I have that kind of money just now.
Well, FWIW Elements of Java Style says to use 'this.'.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of glyphs on variable names; though this brings to mind Ruby's use of @ and @@, and isn't all that offensive.
In my own code, I never reuse the same name for local and instance variables.
1. When you detect virus activity from their system, disconnect them.
2. When they ask to be reconnected, tell them they must ensure that they have removed all viruses. Give them free anti-virus and anti-spyware software.
3. Don't bother to check their computer; you don't have the time. Just charge them a $5 reconnection fee each time. Make sure they are aware that once the network is turned back on for them, if they have a virus, it'll switch off automatically again and they'll have to pay for reconnection again. If they want to get an expert to look at the computer, that's up to them to sort out.
4. Use the money collected to buy anti-virus and anti-spyware licenses, better network firewalls, and so on.
Of course, if only Sun had gotten the language right the first time, we wouldn't have five different array implementations to choose from.
Underscores for instance variables? Never heard of that one, and I've just checked The Elements of Java Style and can't find any reference to it.
Believe it or not, there are Lisp systems for 4MHz 8 bit processors. I mean, what do you think they were using in the 50s when the language was invented?
Well, there's a difference between biased presentation of facts, and insisting on the right to broadcast things you acknowledge are outright lies...
Two problems:
(a) how can I be sure that they're actually only storing the template?
(b) if other systems from the same vendor use the same templates, what's to stop someone stealing the template database, and submitting the templates to other systems as if there were fingers present? (e.g. to rig ATM transactions)
Well, the problem is I have to trust on blind faith that it's a hash, and that it's different from the hash used by other companies.
It doesn't matter if my fingerprint is hashed to an opaque 0x0116632c51bde43 if every other system made by the same manufacturer will accept that hash as representing my fingerprint. I'm still screwed, because I can't change my fingerprint and can't change the hash.
Think of hashed fingerprints as a PIN tattooed on your finger...
Actually, digital photo filenames are very useful, because they're unique identifiers. My mother can ask for a photo by name, and I'll know exactly which one to send her (and which folder, or which CD, it's on).
How does iPhoto cope with photo libraries spread across multiple disks? Does it work as well as iTunes does?
Crap from an Anonymous Coward, no surprises there.
1. Try giving some examples of the necessary functionality you allege is needed for page representation, you might sound more credible.
2. There are several standards for HTML documents in one single file, including Microsoft's web archives, Mozilla Archive Format, and simply packaging the whole thing as a single MIME document. Images can be included as JPEG and PNG, and vector graphics as SVG.
The difference is, iTunes organizes the MP3 files into a meaningful folder hierarchy. iPhoto doesn't.
If iPhoto put things in folders by category and date, I would probably use it.
Order should be cumulative. iTunes lets me add order to the folders of MP3 files; iPhoto takes away order from the folders of JPEG files.
So what? Satellite won't change the oil in my car either, so I get services from more than one provider. I have cable Internet and satellite TV, and it costs me less than getting both Internet and TV from the cable company, as well as giving me better image quality.