Tentatively acceptable... I thought of 'creationists' as anyone who believes 'God created the universe and everything in it' - a broad term. I guess 'Creationists', with a capital 'C', would be those who believe in the Bible, and strick Catholic views, in a literal sense. Works for me. But you can believe in Genesis, metaphorically, and not be a Creationist, so I stick by my first comment, and accept your viewpoint.
Believe it or not, there are progressive Christians, who don't still believe the universe revolves around the Earth, and can accept that God made the universe from the Big Bang, billions of years ago. Which wouldn't change the metaphorical meaning behind Genesis.
I'd say the War of the Worlds terrified the people of the '40s because the aliens were blowing everything up - not simply because they existed. But that's me.
Muslims/Islam could be broadly assimilated into Christianity, being that they do believe in the same God. Same as the Jews. Of course, that would make 'Christianity' a misnomer, but the base religion could called similar.
The "pagan" religions - those of Asian, African and native American descent - however are indeed left out of the authors loop.
The report, and photos had been around for months before getting released. Anyone who watched the hearing on thge matter knows this. Yet another little bit of "technology rules all" BS.
SmartTags may have been scaled back, but they continue to exist. Anyone using Office2003 will tell you so. Surprisingly, they aren't very obtrusive, and they are actually useful in a lot fo situations (address in a document? click, click, you've got driving directions).
I submitted this article, from PopSci, 2 days ago: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,12543, 358540,00.html
It has actaul programing relevance, and it was rejected. But this Press Release, on a car that hasn't been able to hit it's production date for over a year, is/. worthy?
It's hard to clasify this as outsourcing, when the largest pharmaceutical company in the word has been based in India for years: Merck. (Not sure on today's metrics of "largest", as Pfizer blew up [Viagra!] and merged with GlaxoSmithKline to become the world's largest "research-based" pharm.co. for a time.) This story is just a scare tactic. Not every industry is central to the US.
Not the same as SmartTags (which are Office related, not IE). I got a free copy of Office2k3, which has the SmartTags 'feature' and have found it be be fairly useful - mostly for mapping directions to address (though it obviously goes thru MSN maps).
I had a similar situation, and the amount of mail I got afterwards was staggering. I didn't bother counting the letters (since I was innocent, and didn't need a lawyer), but the stack was about 5 inches high.
And I wasn't allowed to make a phone call b/c cellphones don't take collect calls, and I didn't know anybody local's number (was arrested out of town). And, yes, there are very few cops who are doing the job right.
In California (where this story takes place), you are allowed 3 phone calls. One to your family, one to your lawyer, and one to your bondsman (that's the reasoning behind 3 calls, they don't have to be used that way).
So it did require both tests, but counted the driving test out, b/c another state said you could do that already. I did generalize, but I believe all states require a written and driving test.
And 70%?! Now I understand my Mass.-imported friends' usage of the term "Massholes" to describe bad drivers!
Then come the lawsuits caused by people having accidents when the car they are following breaks the law....
How's that work? You set your CC for, say 70mph, and if the car in front of you slows to 60, you don't smash into them. It doesn't follow them, nor does it increase speed.
How long before "Law-Enforcement" or the insurance company, or car rental company will find a way to charge more, or charge you with something based on the "black box" in your car....
Er... how's that? They'd be more likely to charge you less (though you'd likely be paying more already, since this would first appear in high priced cars).
Very nice car/sytem, but the CVT does reduce the towing capacity - not a huge concern for most, but notable.
I'll be interested in seeing stronger CVTs, as they coming into more common use, b/c they really are a great adition to automobiles (along w/hybrid engines).
The conclusion depends on the other cars and their drivers, but if you trap a 4WD monsters into a space they are just going to crush your smart-ass sideways-mobile into a little cube to make space to get out.
And rightly so.
Someone once thought it a good idea to park in front of my fraternity's driveway. My brother's new Explorer showed him how much of a bad idea it was, a few minutes before the tow truck picked it up.
Go out and test drive a prius before making such comments. I work with a guy who just bought one and after taking a short drive I am seriously considering one as my next vehicle. Very slick with a good amount of power and decent passenger/cargo room. Oh and excellent gas mileage of course!
I was going to make a quick snipe about our definitions of "a good amount of power" being quite disparate, but I decided to do a quick bit of research first.
It's not the easiest to understand, due to the hybrid parts, but this did stand out to me: Electric Motor Torque 295 lb.-ft. @ 0-1,200 rpm (metric measurements on the linked page)
That is amazing for such a small car! The "Hybrid System Net Power" of 110 hp may limit it's top speed (as if someone expected a sports car out of it), but that 300+ lb.-ft. torque will get it there pretty quick (more torque is added by the gas engine).
I still think I'd never drive one ($20k+ could get me an early C5 Corvette, which can get almost 30mpg, and is leaps and bounds ahead in both style and 'cool-factor'. But, I wouldn't mind test-driving one to see what kind of burn-outs I could put those front P185/65R15s through.
Despite being a 'gear-head', and loving big V8s, I am very interested in hybrid tech. I've read about the Honda Civic Hybrid, and that's the one I'd get if I were going that route (since it looks like a 'normal' car, not some wannbe futuristic thing, like the Prius, and others). The Prius' gas engine being mounted in what looks like the glove-box, or under the passenger seat is... interesting. I still don't know why kenetic energy from braking isn't used it some fashion in 'normal' cars, as I always saw that as a big waste of energy.
GM is supposed to be working on a hybrid design for it's full-size truck platofrm, which should at least prove an advancement over the current crop of single digit MPG ratings behemoths. Their DoD (displacement on demand) tech is already making its way into Cadillacs, and should hit the truck platforms within a year or two, which will also help.
I've tried to be open minded about this apparent misconception, but I've found it to be true (at least in my unscientific, limited survey). My mother, of course, doesn't share my view, but I gave he a test: when you see someone in a full-size truck or SUV do something stupid, see who's driving. 9 times out of 10, it will be a woman.
By no means conclusive, but it reason enough to sleep (so as to avoid white-knuckles and an accelerated heart-rate) whenever I'm a passenger in a female-driven car. As if the constant tail-gaiting wasn't enough (though some of my male acquaintenaces are just as bad).
Isn't the far left lane the passing lane? I'd agree with the parent, on the BMW thing, since I was almost ran over by an X5 recently.
My minute Civic, a lot of rain, and speeds already over the posted limit, heading along a 3-lane freeway to Sacremento. Jackass in an X5 w/HIDs a blarring barrels down on me, cruising in the center lane. No one else around, on either side. BMW gets closer and clsoer and closer. I finally start slowing down to under the posted limit, and he wakes from his "I've got more money than sense" book-on-tape and goes the fuck around me, in the fast-lane, like he should've when he first encountered me.
If you wanna die in the rain, on some desolate freeway, fine, I'm all for that. but don't try and take me with you.
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Tentatively acceptable... I thought of 'creationists' as anyone who believes 'God created the universe and everything in it' - a broad term. I guess 'Creationists', with a capital 'C', would be those who believe in the Bible, and strick Catholic views, in a literal sense. Works for me. But you can believe in Genesis, metaphorically, and not be a Creationist, so I stick by my first comment, and accept your viewpoint.
-bZj
Which doesn't change anything about my statement.
Believe it or not, there are progressive Christians, who don't still believe the universe revolves around the Earth, and can accept that God made the universe from the Big Bang, billions of years ago. Which wouldn't change the metaphorical meaning behind Genesis.
-bZj
I'd say the War of the Worlds terrified the people of the '40s because the aliens were blowing everything up - not simply because they existed. But that's me.
-bZj
Except that Genesis doesn't say anything about 4,000-5,000yrs. That was "calculations" done by early monks.
-bZj
Only if they had developed Warp drives.
-bZj
Muslims/Islam could be broadly assimilated into Christianity, being that they do believe in the same God. Same as the Jews. Of course, that would make 'Christianity' a misnomer, but the base religion could called similar.
The "pagan" religions - those of Asian, African and native American descent - however are indeed left out of the authors loop.
-bZj
The report, and photos had been around for months before getting released. Anyone who watched the hearing on thge matter knows this. Yet another little bit of "technology rules all" BS.
-bZj
SmartTags may have been scaled back, but they continue to exist. Anyone using Office2003 will tell you so. Surprisingly, they aren't very obtrusive, and they are actually useful in a lot fo situations (address in a document? click, click, you've got driving directions).
-bZj
I submitted this article, from PopSci, 2 days ago: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,12543, 358540,00.html
/. worthy?
It has actaul programing relevance, and it was rejected. But this Press Release, on a car that hasn't been able to hit it's production date for over a year, is
Oh well, poor me, I guess.
-bZj
Gas tank is probably over 20gal. And even on a track, no cars run at full-bore the entire time.
-bZj
1st: there is an electric car with outstanding performance - I believe it was on /. beofre, but I won't be doing the research for ya on this one.
2nd: since when do rotaries get insane mileage? Oh, right, they don't. They get mileage comparable to any normal internal combustion engine.
3rd: the Lexus RX330h will be a hybrid with AWD. Of course, it's an SUV, so I'm sure you'll be torn.
-bZj
It's hard to clasify this as outsourcing, when the largest pharmaceutical company in the word has been based in India for years: Merck. (Not sure on today's metrics of "largest", as Pfizer blew up [Viagra!] and merged with GlaxoSmithKline to become the world's largest "research-based" pharm.co. for a time.) This story is just a scare tactic. Not every industry is central to the US.
-bZj
Not the same as SmartTags (which are Office related, not IE). I got a free copy of Office2k3, which has the SmartTags 'feature' and have found it be be fairly useful - mostly for mapping directions to address (though it obviously goes thru MSN maps).
-bZj
These seem to have been around for a while now. You'll notice they don't work in mozilla based browsers, just IE. :)
-bZj
I had a similar situation, and the amount of mail I got afterwards was staggering. I didn't bother counting the letters (since I was innocent, and didn't need a lawyer), but the stack was about 5 inches high.
And I wasn't allowed to make a phone call b/c cellphones don't take collect calls, and I didn't know anybody local's number (was arrested out of town). And, yes, there are very few cops who are doing the job right.
-bZj
In California (where this story takes place), you are allowed 3 phone calls. One to your family, one to your lawyer, and one to your bondsman (that's the reasoning behind 3 calls, they don't have to be used that way).
-bZj
So it did require both tests, but counted the driving test out, b/c another state said you could do that already. I did generalize, but I believe all states require a written and driving test.
And 70%?! Now I understand my Mass.-imported friends' usage of the term "Massholes" to describe bad drivers!
-bZj
How's that work? You set your CC for, say 70mph, and if the car in front of you slows to 60, you don't smash into them. It doesn't follow them, nor does it increase speed.
Er... how's that? They'd be more likely to charge you less (though you'd likely be paying more already, since this would first appear in high priced cars).
-bZj
Very nice car/sytem, but the CVT does reduce the towing capacity - not a huge concern for most, but notable.
I'll be interested in seeing stronger CVTs, as they coming into more common use, b/c they really are a great adition to automobiles (along w/hybrid engines).
-bZj
And rightly so.
Someone once thought it a good idea to park in front of my fraternity's driveway. My brother's new Explorer showed him how much of a bad idea it was, a few minutes before the tow truck picked it up.
That curb is painted red for a reason!
-bZj
Both the new Cadillac XLR, and the coming 2005 Corvette have the same feature (RFID is in the key fob).
-bZj
"Slower vehicles use right lane" -Freeway sign
Right lane is for trucks (speed limit being 55mph), and grannies. Middle lane is the cruising lane. Left lane is the passing lane.
Going slower than any lane to your right should be punishable by suspension of license, though.
-bZj
I was going to make a quick snipe about our definitions of "a good amount of power" being quite disparate, but I decided to do a quick bit of research first.
http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/2004/prius/specs.h
It's not the easiest to understand, due to the hybrid parts, but this did stand out to me:
Electric Motor
Torque 295 lb.-ft. @ 0-1,200 rpm (metric measurements on the linked page)
That is amazing for such a small car! The "Hybrid System Net Power" of 110 hp may limit it's top speed (as if someone expected a sports car out of it), but that 300+ lb.-ft. torque will get it there pretty quick (more torque is added by the gas engine).
I still think I'd never drive one ($20k+ could get me an early C5 Corvette, which can get almost 30mpg, and is leaps and bounds ahead in both style and 'cool-factor'. But, I wouldn't mind test-driving one to see what kind of burn-outs I could put those front P185/65R15s through.
Despite being a 'gear-head', and loving big V8s, I am very interested in hybrid tech. I've read about the Honda Civic Hybrid, and that's the one I'd get if I were going that route (since it looks like a 'normal' car, not some wannbe futuristic thing, like the Prius, and others). The Prius' gas engine being mounted in what looks like the glove-box, or under the passenger seat is... interesting. I still don't know why kenetic energy from braking isn't used it some fashion in 'normal' cars, as I always saw that as a big waste of energy.
GM is supposed to be working on a hybrid design for it's full-size truck platofrm, which should at least prove an advancement over the current crop of single digit MPG ratings behemoths. Their DoD (displacement on demand) tech is already making its way into Cadillacs, and should hit the truck platforms within a year or two, which will also help.
Thought all over the board,
-bZj
I've tried to be open minded about this apparent misconception, but I've found it to be true (at least in my unscientific, limited survey). My mother, of course, doesn't share my view, but I gave he a test: when you see someone in a full-size truck or SUV do something stupid, see who's driving. 9 times out of 10, it will be a woman.
By no means conclusive, but it reason enough to sleep (so as to avoid white-knuckles and an accelerated heart-rate) whenever I'm a passenger in a female-driven car. As if the constant tail-gaiting wasn't enough (though some of my male acquaintenaces are just as bad).
-bZj
Isn't the far left lane the passing lane? I'd agree with the parent, on the BMW thing, since I was almost ran over by an X5 recently.
My minute Civic, a lot of rain, and speeds already over the posted limit, heading along a 3-lane freeway to Sacremento. Jackass in an X5 w/HIDs a blarring barrels down on me, cruising in the center lane. No one else around, on either side. BMW gets closer and clsoer and closer. I finally start slowing down to under the posted limit, and he wakes from his "I've got more money than sense" book-on-tape and goes the fuck around me, in the fast-lane, like he should've when he first encountered me.
If you wanna die in the rain, on some desolate freeway, fine, I'm all for that. but don't try and take me with you.
-bZj