Granted generally speaking you guys go for bigger engines - the 1.8 litre's you'd call economy we'd call excess, but if you want to buy something fuel efficient there's nothing stopping you.
Except that the car manufacturers simply aren't even selling smaller engines. About the smallest you can get, at least in Canada, is a 1.6L inline 4. Even European manufacturers like VW don't sell smaller engines in North America. It's not a question of people *wanting* bigger engines (well, it probably is to some extent), it's a question of not being offered anything smaller.
Standard is 87 octane, plus is 91, and supreme is 93 or 97 depending on which station you're buying from (Sunoco has the higher octane stuff). If you really feel like pushing the envelope, you can always go to an airport and fill up on avgas which is usually 130 or 145.:)
As for how that converts to the ratings used in Europe... I don't know off the top of my head, and I'm too lazy to look it up. Note, that's in Canada... I haven't checked prices on the higher octane stuff, but the 87 is $1.087/L as of yesterday evening when I was last out for a drive. (west end of Ottawa) Some stations sell a 10-15% Ethanol blend which is 91 octane for the same price as the basic 87 octane stuff, and I usually fill up on that stuff.
Anyway: If smaller fuel droplets help so much, I would assume engine engineers would have done this already by just adjusting the fuel injector with a different nozzle, much easier, much more trust worthy
A finer mist *does* improve fuel economy. That's why you should be having your car tuned up on a regular basis. Make sure the timing is accurate (if you have a car that doesn't have digital timing), make sure that the injectors are clean, etc. It makes a huge difference to fuel economy, and a parallel effect is better power/performance.
But that's the problem. Injectors are clean. People keep buying cheap gas, or driving their car too aggressively, and over time gunk builds up on the injector nozzles, affecting the misting ability, which hurts fuel economy. Engineers could design the best nozzle that's possible within the realm of physics, getting perfect misting, and if the owner doesn't take care of it then that gunk is still going to build up, and economy is still going to suffer over time.
Poor maintenance has a bigger effect on wasted fuel than bad driving and shitty design combined.
Slashdot is about as unbiased and balanced as Fox News.
Microsoft has been responsible for some really enormous fuckups and wrongs in the world of computers. They have some utterly nasty business practices that really are anti-competitive. They did, at one point, have a virtual monopoly, though that is crumbling naturally due to market forces, as more and more people in the market discover just how shitty Vista is, and how good Linux and OS/X are in comparison. That's only part of their monopoly (the other part being their office products, and that will come in time).
The thing being... for all their evils and wrongs, there's been a few good things that have come from them. And while I freely admit to being an idealist, I do like to think that the evil profit-mongering is limited to the upper echelons of the company only, and that at the lower ranks, you find people who really are trying to make the best product they can for computer users.
The version posted in TFA doesn't. It's got a DC power connector in the picture. That said, according to TFA, it runs on 3.3V and there's some empty space on the PCB. You could use some of that dead space and solder on a cell connector for a CR2032 or CR2450 if you wanted. Using a CR2032 wouldn't give as much life as a 2450, but wouldn't change the outside dimensions of the device much, either (the 1cm thick is for the ethernet connector). The real question is how long such a battery would last. If you're putting in a new battery every day, it's better to run it off a brick.
If not, what's the size of the power brick?
I didn't read it very thoroughly, but I don't think that's mentionned.
My car was exactly 0 processors in it. It has an AM-only radio which doesn't work, making the fuel gauge the most advanced piece of functional electronic equipment in the entire vehicle.
You just might find it more economical, and better for your bottom line, to buy a car that's been built at some point in the last 30 years, then. Browse the classifieds in your local paper. It's almost certain that you'll find something which has a computer already, which does what you're looking to have it do, for under $1000. Maybe even under $500. The savings in gas, alone, will make it worth your while. Bigger up front cost, but much better long-term savings.
The document they posted is quite brief, but for those who don't feel like reading the whole thing, the paragraph that answers your question is paragraph 4:
Among the extensive findings of fact presented in the report, the Court takes particular note of the following which occurred during the three-year period at issue in five counts in these cases: (1) respondent made false statements of material fact to courts and repeatedly violated a court order; (2) respondent communicated the subject of representation directly with clients of opposing counsel; (3) respondent engaged in prohibited ex parte communications; (4) respondent publicized and sent hundreds of pages of vitriolic and disparaging missives, letters, faxes, and press releases, to the affected individuals; (5) respondent targeted an individual who was not involved with respondent in any way, merely due to "the position [the individual] holds in state and national politics;" (6) respondent falsely, recklessly, and publicly accused a judge as being amenable to the "fixing" of cases; (7) respondent sent courts inappropriate and offensive sexual materials; (8) respondent falsely and publicly accused various attorneys and their clients of engaging in a conspiracy/enterprise involving "the criminal distribution of sexual materials to minors" and attempted to get prosecuting authorities to charge these attorneys and their clients for racketeering and extortion; (9) respondent harassed the former client of an attorney in an effort to get the client to use its influence to persuade the attorney to withdraw a defamation suit filed by the attorney against respondent; and (10) respondent retaliated against attorneys who filed Bar complaints against him for his unethical conduct by asserting to their clients, government officials, politicians, the media, female lawyers in their law firm, employees, personal friends, acquaintances, and their wives, that the attorneys were criminal Case Nos. SC07-80 and SC07-354 Page Three pornographers who objectify women.
Quoted, unmodified. Every paragraph of the filing is pertinent... it's only about a page's worth of text, so well worth the read. And IMHO, it's well worth disbarring him. And the only way he's affected *me* personally was that, thanks to one of his initiatives, I had to ask the staff at EB Games to sell me a copy of Bully, because they didn't have it actually *on* the shelves.
It's also worth pointing out, while you're normalizing the numbers, that broadband penetration and internet penetration are two different statistics. Canada has much higher broadband penetration as a proportion of Internet penetration at the US... at least, it did last time I actually bothered to look at the numbers.
They may have held a dominant position for hosting warez and porn sites, but this will barely make a dent in the spam scene, largely because most of it is coming from botnets.
The username and first + last name, yes. Either or, no.
By that logic, my work e-mail address (the address itself) would have to be encrypted. Good luck with that... afaik it's not possible to encrypt something like that and have the mail still be deliverable....
{firstname}_{lastname}@{companyname}.com
Not only does it include my full name, it also has my user name within the company computer networks.
I'm reasonably sure that there's more to it than your interpretation...
Why not include a 24-bit 192 or 96 khz lossless format, and maybe something in 5.1 instead? DVD-Audio and SACD didn't take off because no one adopted the players, but it might take off if you made it easily playable. I might even pay a slight premium
Because the maximum capacity is 1GB. That's only 300mb more than a CD, which is, itself, a lossy format. DVD-A was able to carry 5.1 surround in a lossless format (more accurately, a *less lossy* format, since it's still a digital recording, and because of the sampling method can't record as smooth a curve as analog), because it had/has a much higher capacity. If you wanted to provide the recording in a lossless format equivalent to DVD-A, you'd have to settle for 1/4th the maximum recording length, or about nothing longer than an EP.
I'm not too keen on MP3 either, because it is lossy. But they're trying to push a product that everybody can already use, rather than trying to push a new player on the world. *THAT* is why DVD-A failed. Everybody and their dog has *something* that can play MP3s. Off the top of my head, I could play this "new" format in my cell phone, my notebook computer, my HTPC, my TV supports video/audio playback from USB mass storage, my DVD player, too.... They don't need to worry about penetration, because everybody already has the ability to use it.
That's why they're going for MP3. Your idea would provide better music, but it would be at the expense of having to market a new player at the same time. Not gonna fly.
The power a laser carries with it drops off exponentially as the range gets further away. That's why industrial cutting lasers, for example, tend to cut from less than 1' away. It has to do with atmospheric diffraction.
Or have a cell phone which takes voice memos... Mine will record literally hours of voice memo with just the 20mb or so that's left on the 1GB SD card.
But perhaps the guy who submitted the question has a reason for wanting something to actually write the notes on. Possibly he wants to use it during meetings, where he can't speak?
good idea, except that the "safe mode with command prompt" option that comes with XP boots up fully into safe mode, and the only difference is that it loads cmd.exe in a window as the shell instead of Explorer. You can actually exit out of cmd, give it a 3-finger salute, run program, and run "explorer" to get into "normal" safe mode.
XP doesn't have the underlying DOS that was there in Windows 9X. It's NT-based. Installing a multi-boot with FreeDOS might be an option, though. That was certainly my first thought.
I'm not sure they've really thought this through... according to TFA, one of the things they're accusing Ray of doing is trying to make the RIAA look bad. He doesn't need to: they do a pretty good job of it themselves.
India's legal system, like the USA's, is based on the British Common Law system. In it, a suspect is innocent until proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.
It's a miscarriage of justice, even if this technology is ultimately vetted and proven 100% reliable, because right now, the technology is in question.
People being the way we are, we will probably continue to fail to make spamming unprofitable so we should focus on increasing the risks. I think the CEOs of corporations that harbor and enable spammer botnets should be flogged, tarred and feathered... are you listening Comcast? Rogers? Cox?
Rogers blocks all traffic on port 25 which doesnn't go to their own internal mail servers, and now requires authentication, even for mail that originates on their own network. They won't relay unless you've specifically tied your reply-to address to your account, by means of creating an alias through their account management portal, and you're limited to a maximum of 8 aliases per e-mail address. They also routinely portscan you and have been known to shut people down for running servers or suspected virus infection.
I don't know about the others you listed, but Rogers has improved their security significantly.
Kopete is also not KDE-only on Linux... yes, you do need to install some of the KDE libraries, but I'm using it under XFCE for the simple reason that Pidgin is not to my liking.
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Granted generally speaking you guys go for bigger engines - the 1.8 litre's you'd call economy we'd call excess, but if you want to buy something fuel efficient there's nothing stopping you.
Except that the car manufacturers simply aren't even selling smaller engines. About the smallest you can get, at least in Canada, is a 1.6L inline 4. Even European manufacturers like VW don't sell smaller engines in North America. It's not a question of people *wanting* bigger engines (well, it probably is to some extent), it's a question of not being offered anything smaller.
Standard is 87 octane, plus is 91, and supreme is 93 or 97 depending on which station you're buying from (Sunoco has the higher octane stuff). If you really feel like pushing the envelope, you can always go to an airport and fill up on avgas which is usually 130 or 145. :)
As for how that converts to the ratings used in Europe... I don't know off the top of my head, and I'm too lazy to look it up. Note, that's in Canada... I haven't checked prices on the higher octane stuff, but the 87 is $1.087/L as of yesterday evening when I was last out for a drive. (west end of Ottawa) Some stations sell a 10-15% Ethanol blend which is 91 octane for the same price as the basic 87 octane stuff, and I usually fill up on that stuff.
Indeed... my first car was a 1988 Firefly. A tank of gas was $7 CAD (in 1998), and it lasted 3 weeks. I really miss it. :(
I'm driving an Aveo, which gets about 3 weeks on $45 worth of gas, but that's still not as good as I was getting in the Firefly.
They did bust a magnet style device.
Anyway: If smaller fuel droplets help so much, I would assume engine engineers would have done this already by just adjusting the fuel injector with a different nozzle, much easier, much more trust worthy
A finer mist *does* improve fuel economy. That's why you should be having your car tuned up on a regular basis. Make sure the timing is accurate (if you have a car that doesn't have digital timing), make sure that the injectors are clean, etc. It makes a huge difference to fuel economy, and a parallel effect is better power/performance.
But that's the problem. Injectors are clean. People keep buying cheap gas, or driving their car too aggressively, and over time gunk builds up on the injector nozzles, affecting the misting ability, which hurts fuel economy. Engineers could design the best nozzle that's possible within the realm of physics, getting perfect misting, and if the owner doesn't take care of it then that gunk is still going to build up, and economy is still going to suffer over time.
Poor maintenance has a bigger effect on wasted fuel than bad driving and shitty design combined.
Slashdot is about as unbiased and balanced as Fox News.
Microsoft has been responsible for some really enormous fuckups and wrongs in the world of computers. They have some utterly nasty business practices that really are anti-competitive. They did, at one point, have a virtual monopoly, though that is crumbling naturally due to market forces, as more and more people in the market discover just how shitty Vista is, and how good Linux and OS/X are in comparison. That's only part of their monopoly (the other part being their office products, and that will come in time).
The thing being... for all their evils and wrongs, there's been a few good things that have come from them. And while I freely admit to being an idealist, I do like to think that the evil profit-mongering is limited to the upper echelons of the company only, and that at the lower ranks, you find people who really are trying to make the best product they can for computer users.
The version posted in TFA doesn't. It's got a DC power connector in the picture. That said, according to TFA, it runs on 3.3V and there's some empty space on the PCB. You could use some of that dead space and solder on a cell connector for a CR2032 or CR2450 if you wanted. Using a CR2032 wouldn't give as much life as a 2450, but wouldn't change the outside dimensions of the device much, either (the 1cm thick is for the ethernet connector). The real question is how long such a battery would last. If you're putting in a new battery every day, it's better to run it off a brick.
I didn't read it very thoroughly, but I don't think that's mentionned.
You just might find it more economical, and better for your bottom line, to buy a car that's been built at some point in the last 30 years, then. Browse the classifieds in your local paper. It's almost certain that you'll find something which has a computer already, which does what you're looking to have it do, for under $1000. Maybe even under $500. The savings in gas, alone, will make it worth your while. Bigger up front cost, but much better long-term savings.
Read the Kotaku link on it... as of this writing, it's still up, while the other one is slashdotted...
http://kotaku.com/5054772/jack-thompson-disbarred
The document they posted is quite brief, but for those who don't feel like reading the whole thing, the paragraph that answers your question is paragraph 4:
Quoted, unmodified. Every paragraph of the filing is pertinent... it's only about a page's worth of text, so well worth the read. And IMHO, it's well worth disbarring him. And the only way he's affected *me* personally was that, thanks to one of his initiatives, I had to ask the staff at EB Games to sell me a copy of Bully, because they didn't have it actually *on* the shelves.
It's also worth pointing out, while you're normalizing the numbers, that broadband penetration and internet penetration are two different statistics. Canada has much higher broadband penetration as a proportion of Internet penetration at the US... at least, it did last time I actually bothered to look at the numbers.
They may have held a dominant position for hosting warez and porn sites, but this will barely make a dent in the spam scene, largely because most of it is coming from botnets.
It's also worth pointing out that animal husbandry, which is what they're talking about, is something we've been doing for a very long time.
And a rat to train them. Don't forget the rat.
By that logic, my work e-mail address (the address itself) would have to be encrypted. Good luck with that... afaik it's not possible to encrypt something like that and have the mail still be deliverable....
{firstname}_{lastname}@{companyname}.com
Not only does it include my full name, it also has my user name within the company computer networks.
I'm reasonably sure that there's more to it than your interpretation...
Because the maximum capacity is 1GB. That's only 300mb more than a CD, which is, itself, a lossy format. DVD-A was able to carry 5.1 surround in a lossless format (more accurately, a *less lossy* format, since it's still a digital recording, and because of the sampling method can't record as smooth a curve as analog), because it had/has a much higher capacity. If you wanted to provide the recording in a lossless format equivalent to DVD-A, you'd have to settle for 1/4th the maximum recording length, or about nothing longer than an EP.
I'm not too keen on MP3 either, because it is lossy. But they're trying to push a product that everybody can already use, rather than trying to push a new player on the world. *THAT* is why DVD-A failed. Everybody and their dog has *something* that can play MP3s. Off the top of my head, I could play this "new" format in my cell phone, my notebook computer, my HTPC, my TV supports video/audio playback from USB mass storage, my DVD player, too.... They don't need to worry about penetration, because everybody already has the ability to use it.
That's why they're going for MP3. Your idea would provide better music, but it would be at the expense of having to market a new player at the same time. Not gonna fly.
Look more like tracers to me. Those actually do look like that.
The power a laser carries with it drops off exponentially as the range gets further away. That's why industrial cutting lasers, for example, tend to cut from less than 1' away. It has to do with atmospheric diffraction.
... and people wonder why programs like Pico/Nano are more popular....
And you get no geek cred for using vi instead. Real hardcore geeks use ed.
Or have a cell phone which takes voice memos... Mine will record literally hours of voice memo with just the 20mb or so that's left on the 1GB SD card.
But perhaps the guy who submitted the question has a reason for wanting something to actually write the notes on. Possibly he wants to use it during meetings, where he can't speak?
good idea, except that the "safe mode with command prompt" option that comes with XP boots up fully into safe mode, and the only difference is that it loads cmd.exe in a window as the shell instead of Explorer. You can actually exit out of cmd, give it a 3-finger salute, run program, and run "explorer" to get into "normal" safe mode.
XP doesn't have the underlying DOS that was there in Windows 9X. It's NT-based. Installing a multi-boot with FreeDOS might be an option, though. That was certainly my first thought.
I'm not sure they've really thought this through... according to TFA, one of the things they're accusing Ray of doing is trying to make the RIAA look bad. He doesn't need to: they do a pretty good job of it themselves.
India's legal system, like the USA's, is based on the British Common Law system. In it, a suspect is innocent until proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.
It's a miscarriage of justice, even if this technology is ultimately vetted and proven 100% reliable, because right now, the technology is in question.
Rogers blocks all traffic on port 25 which doesnn't go to their own internal mail servers, and now requires authentication, even for mail that originates on their own network. They won't relay unless you've specifically tied your reply-to address to your account, by means of creating an alias through their account management portal, and you're limited to a maximum of 8 aliases per e-mail address. They also routinely portscan you and have been known to shut people down for running servers or suspected virus infection.
I don't know about the others you listed, but Rogers has improved their security significantly.
Duh. That vac tube powered cell phone is not only a phone, it's a portable furnace!
Kopete is also not KDE-only on Linux... yes, you do need to install some of the KDE libraries, but I'm using it under XFCE for the simple reason that Pidgin is not to my liking.
If you're really lazy, you could also unplug their network cables and see what breaks... :P