My 2000 Honda Civic has consistently averaged 35mpg on my commute (plenty of rush hour, but I take it easy - manual transmission). The highest I ever got on it was 40mpg on a long road trip. Over 35 on a tank with regular driving (stop and go and highway) was not uncommon.
I didn't have to replace any batteries and I paid $16,000 for the car, which served me well for 10 years and 180,000 miles.
I repeatedly crunched the numbers on hybrids, and couldn't make the math work, even with state and federal subsidies.
And it seems like the savings in fuel ain't that hot either. And who knows what the costs are for producing those battery packs.
Personally, I'm thinking that biofuels are a more reliable way to go - build incrementally on existing tech. High energy densities, use existing infrastructure, and if the algae based ones take off, don't use food. Or maybe something like CWT's tech, or similar projects, which use basically any organic waste material.
And if that Transonic fuel injector I've been reading about that they will begin producing in a couple of years is all that, I can slap that into my existing car and double my miles per gallon.
He slowly drew out from the wallet a single and insanely exciting piece of plastic that was nestling amongst a bunch of receipts.
It wasn't insanely exciting to look at. It was rather dull in fact. It was smaller and a little thicker than a credit card and semi-transparent. If you held it up to the light you could see a lot of holographically encoded information and images buried pseudo-inches deep beneath its surface .
It was an Ident-i-Eeze, and was a very naughty and silly thing for Harl to have lying around in his wallet, though it was perfectly understandable. There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant -- a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.
Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all- purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
And that the people should have been using WPA if they wanted a private network, and DEFINITELY HTTPS for passwords and such if they didn't mind opening their network...
Despite that, Google should have had more sense. Why, if they only needed packet headers, did they not wipe the packet contents before saving 'em?
Seems like a simple and obvious thing to do to prevent possible future action against them.
My understanding is that Firefox disables hcp:// by default: network.protocol-handler.external.hcp = false
And since the only other demo I saw in code was using Windows Media Player plugin which apparently, for some insane reason, parses HTML in MSHTML, can't you just disable the WMP plugin in Addons?
``It's just a documentary,'' he called out. ``This is not a good bit. Terribly sorry, trying to find the rewind control...''
``... is what billions of billions of innocent...''
``Do not,'' called out Slartibartfast floating past again, and fiddling furiously with the thing that he had stuck into the wall of the Room of Informational Illusions and which was in fact still stuck there, ``agree to buy anything at this point.''... [SNIP SNIP SNIP]...
Slartibartfast floated past again at this moment.
``Found it,'' he said. ``We can lose all this rubbish. Just don't nod, that's all.''
``Now, let us bow our heads in payment,'' intoned the voice, and then said it again, much faster and backwards.
"I made an estimate some years ago, when I appeared before a committee of the House of Lords, that we had published in this country since the Declaration of Independence 220,000 books. They have all gone. They had all perished before they were ten years old. It is only one book in 1000 that can outlive the forty-two-year limit.
Therefore why put a limit at all? You might as well limit the family to twenty-two children. "
Which is interesting, since, our problem now is the many many many works that have not disappeared, that cannot be used by new authors.
That and concept of corporate ownership which he didn't seem to really be concerned about (Disney).
Not all posts are partisan. Judges usually are not considered partisan although in practice the democrats and republicans field their own judges. They just aren't identified as such on the ballot.
In this case the democrats and republicans had agreed to field 2 dems and 1 rep, to avoid any actual need to have a contest.
The actual names on the ballot had no affiliation though.
One was that a set of non-partisan posts were divided between the 2 parties. There was no competition.
The other was that voters were not aware they were voting for a Republican judge even if they were strongly opposed to Republicans
The final one was that it wasn't about selling anything. They simply handed people sample ballots at the station and people copied them down. In essence, they were voting for the entire Democratic apparatus, which is a difficult momentum to overcome.
And finally, we certainly haven't given up. We keep trying, we keep fielding candidates. I'm just noting that simply saying that people shouldn't complain since they elected those people is too simplistic a response.
Ranked voting will probably help some, as well possibly proportional representation.
The simplest one was a judge. In theory, no party affiliation. Democrats and Republicans splitting the judges, no one really knows much about judges, the Libertarian lawyer is well qualified. We're manning the polls. Easy. Right?
Wrong. Everyone just picks their sample ballot printed by the Dems that says to vote for the 2 Democratic judges and the 1 Republican one. They just copy from the "sample" onto the real. That's their entire act of voting, even when we could get them to accept alternate literature.
'This subsection of the Muppetlabs website is maintained by Brian Raiter (aka Organic Worker Drone BR903), who is the author of the contents where not otherwise indicated. '
Since no one else was indicated that I could see. (And, yeah, was kinda fun to reread this after all these years) seems odd to assume Brian is a she...
Oh, and of course a major cause of death for women, childbirth. That hurt their average too. Anyway, by the time Romeo got to marrying age, given he was of a wealthy family, to boot, he could easily hit 50-75.
The 35 thing is an oft repeated but inaccurate statement. In fact, people back then lived to 70 or 80 all the time. There's a reason four score was the lifespan of a man.
What dragged down the average incredibly was infant mortality which was very very high, which kinda compensated for low availability of contraceptives.
Basically if you eliminate the under 5 year olds, people might die early of a number of misadventures, but still managed to approach modern lifespans.
When Verizon Fios arrived in our area, I signed up happily. Canceled after one weekend.
Why? Well. They lied to me. I asked repeatedly. "Do you block ports?"
Over and over, multiple representatives, they told me. "No, we do not."
Well. They do. Their justification that I eventually got after going to tier 2 tech support for blocking ports I use on my little home server (25, 53, 80, 443) is that it is to encourage upgrade to the incredibly expensive business plan. Is why those folks on Verizon Fios tend to use 8080, and get blocked at particularly hardcore firewalls (you know, those ones that only allow through 80 and 443).
I'm just fine w/ my Comcast service. They leave me alone, they don't block ports, their terms of service say I can a server for personal reasons and they don't care.
It costs me $50 a month for high speed with the digital cable channels I care about included (Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Discovery, etc). And changing channels isn't ridiculously sluggish like it was w/ the Fios netbox.
Oh, and if anyone suggests it was perhaps due to the Verizon router that I had the port blocking, I actually had them activate the ether drop, and plugged a laptop directly into the external box. The ports were still blocked.
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Ok, never having had a need for using Flash, I'm kinda curious what that different purpose is?
So far the only features it seems I would need flash for would be microphone and camera support, and I haven't had a need for those.
Canvas and video tags integrate better with the page HTML, CSS and JS. Why wouldn't you use them if you can?
Oh, you mean like in the 3rd portion of that article you posted?
Well, specifically, $3.25 of it is taken out directly at the pump.
Of course, there are taxes all across the chain of business that are higher too.
Most of that is taxes, that is nowhere near the cost of the actual fuel.
In fact, if fuel *really* cost that much, biofuel would be worth producing.
But of course, in Germany, they would tax it.
My 2000 Honda Civic has consistently averaged 35mpg on my commute (plenty of rush hour, but I take it easy - manual transmission). The highest I ever got on it was 40mpg on a long road trip. Over 35 on a tank with regular driving (stop and go and highway) was not uncommon.
I didn't have to replace any batteries and I paid $16,000 for the car, which served me well for 10 years and 180,000 miles.
I repeatedly crunched the numbers on hybrids, and couldn't make the math work, even with state and federal subsidies.
And it seems like the savings in fuel ain't that hot either. And who knows what the costs are for producing those battery packs.
Personally, I'm thinking that biofuels are a more reliable way to go - build incrementally on existing tech. High energy densities, use existing infrastructure, and if the algae based ones take off, don't use food. Or maybe something like CWT's tech, or similar projects, which use basically any organic waste material.
And if that Transonic fuel injector I've been reading about that they will begin producing in a couple of years is all that, I can slap that into my existing car and double my miles per gallon.
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100601/innovation-taking-aim-at-gas-guzzlers.html
And clearly we have plenty of room to improve current efficiencies.
He slowly drew out from the wallet a single and insanely exciting piece of plastic that was nestling amongst a bunch of receipts.
It wasn't insanely exciting to look at. It was rather dull in fact. It was smaller and a little thicker than a credit card and semi-transparent. If you held it up to the light you could see a lot of holographically encoded information and images buried pseudo-inches deep beneath its surface .
It was an Ident-i-Eeze, and was a very naughty and silly thing for Harl to have lying around in his wallet, though it was perfectly understandable. There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant -- a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.
Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all- purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
And that the people should have been using WPA if they wanted a private network, and DEFINITELY HTTPS for passwords and such if they didn't mind opening their network...
Despite that, Google should have had more sense.
Why, if they only needed packet headers, did they not wipe the packet contents before saving 'em?
Seems like a simple and obvious thing to do to prevent possible future action against them.
My understanding is that Firefox disables hcp:// by default:
network.protocol-handler.external.hcp = false
And since the only other demo I saw in code was using Windows Media Player plugin which apparently, for some insane reason, parses HTML in MSHTML, can't you just disable the WMP plugin in Addons?
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/
And that would suck for Firefox in the corporate world where they need to apply a company-wide extension.
So I just retested the latest Chrome Frame.
Appears to still have same bugs with HTML parsing reported by multiple users back in original chrome frame a year ago.
These are issues that don't exist in IE or Chrome.
Just Chrome Frame.
Slartibartfast floated past, waving.
``It's just a documentary,'' he called out. ``This is not a good bit. Terribly sorry, trying to find the rewind control ...''
``... is what billions of billions of innocent ...''
``Do not,'' called out Slartibartfast floating past again, and fiddling furiously with the thing that he had stuck into the wall of the Room of Informational Illusions and which was in fact still stuck there, ``agree to buy anything at this point.'' ... [SNIP SNIP SNIP] ...
Slartibartfast floated past again at this moment.
``Found it,'' he said. ``We can lose all this rubbish. Just don't nod, that's all.''
``Now, let us bow our heads in payment,'' intoned the voice, and then said it again, much faster and backwards.
"A Sanswire Stratellite(TM) is designed to operate at 65,000 feet"
http://www.sanswiretao.com/
"I made an estimate some years ago, when I appeared before a committee of the House of Lords, that we had published in this country since the Declaration of Independence 220,000 books. They have all gone. They had all perished before they were ten years old. It is only one book in 1000 that can outlive the forty-two-year limit.
Therefore why put a limit at all? You might as well limit the family to twenty-two children. "
Which is interesting, since, our problem now is the many many many works that have not disappeared, that cannot be used by new authors.
That and concept of corporate ownership which he didn't seem to really be concerned about (Disney).
http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/zoomcomic.html
Yahoo redirected https to http
Plenty of actual Google properties (gmail etc) use https, but offering it for something as massively high volume as search is rather unusual.
I think they are actually ahead of the pack on this.
Those are the high values, even.
Average on Wikipedia is 53% for IE, w/ some major stat sites even lower, in the high 40s.
In the US, according to StatCounter, IE is at 53% on weekdays, 48% on weekends, and IE6 is at 6% on weekdays, 3% on weekends.
Not all posts are partisan.
Judges usually are not considered partisan although in practice the democrats and republicans field their own judges. They just aren't identified as such on the ballot.
In this case the democrats and republicans had agreed to field 2 dems and 1 rep, to avoid any actual need to have a contest.
The actual names on the ballot had no affiliation though.
I was making several points there.
One was that a set of non-partisan posts were divided between the 2 parties. There was no competition.
The other was that voters were not aware they were voting for a Republican judge even if they were strongly opposed to Republicans
The final one was that it wasn't about selling anything. They simply handed people sample ballots at the station and people copied them down. In essence, they were voting for the entire Democratic apparatus, which is a difficult momentum to overcome.
And finally, we certainly haven't given up. We keep trying, we keep fielding candidates. I'm just noting that simply saying that people shouldn't complain since they elected those people is too simplistic a response.
Ranked voting will probably help some, as well possibly proportional representation.
Totally pointless as I know.
I've tried getting Libertarians elected.
The simplest one was a judge. In theory, no party affiliation. Democrats and Republicans splitting the judges, no one really knows much about judges, the Libertarian lawyer is well qualified. We're manning the polls. Easy. Right?
Wrong. Everyone just picks their sample ballot printed by the Dems that says to vote for the 2 Democratic judges and the 1 Republican one. They just copy from the "sample" onto the real. That's their entire act of voting, even when we could get them to accept alternate literature.
'This subsection of the Muppetlabs website is maintained by Brian Raiter (aka Organic Worker Drone BR903), who is the author of the contents where not otherwise indicated. '
Since no one else was indicated that I could see. (And, yeah, was kinda fun to reread this after all these years) seems odd to assume Brian is a she...
Oh, and of course a major cause of death for women, childbirth.
That hurt their average too.
Anyway, by the time Romeo got to marrying age, given he was of a wealthy family, to boot, he could easily hit 50-75.
The 35 thing is an oft repeated but inaccurate statement.
In fact, people back then lived to 70 or 80 all the time. There's a reason four score was the lifespan of a man.
What dragged down the average incredibly was infant mortality which was very very high, which kinda compensated for low availability of contraceptives.
Basically if you eliminate the under 5 year olds, people might die early of a number of misadventures, but still managed to approach modern lifespans.
When Verizon Fios arrived in our area, I signed up happily. Canceled after one weekend.
Why? Well. They lied to me. I asked repeatedly. "Do you block ports?"
Over and over, multiple representatives, they told me. "No, we do not."
Well. They do. Their justification that I eventually got after going to tier 2 tech support for blocking ports I use on my little home server (25, 53, 80, 443) is that it is to encourage upgrade to the incredibly expensive business plan. Is why those folks on Verizon Fios tend to use 8080, and get blocked at particularly hardcore firewalls (you know, those ones that only allow through 80 and 443).
I'm just fine w/ my Comcast service. They leave me alone, they don't block ports, their terms of service say I can a server for personal reasons and they don't care.
It costs me $50 a month for high speed with the digital cable channels I care about included (Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Discovery, etc). And changing channels isn't ridiculously sluggish like it was w/ the Fios netbox.
Oh, and if anyone suggests it was perhaps due to the Verizon router that I had the port blocking, I actually had them activate the ether drop, and plugged a laptop directly into the external box. The ports were still blocked.
Oh, and yes, 221 words, but I was using 1222 / 5. I'm pretty sure 5 chars is considered a "word".