Makes sense. The EPA rates cars at 55 mph for the highway test. If the car is geared so that the 'sweet' spot comes at a higher speed, you'll get better mileage at that speed. Example: Car and Driver did a long-term test on a last-generation Camaro Z28 a couple of years ago. They averaged over 26 mpg at 100 mph going through Montana. The six-speed overdrive puts the engine in that sweet spot at higher speeds.
And don't forget OFFICE UPDATE if they're using Outlook through Microsoft Office. The reason people are getting viruses through Outlook is that it's a completely different site than Windows Update. Go to the Windows Update site and click "Office Update" at the top. Then use it to patch Office.
13 batteries would run under $1,300 (Exide Orbitals are under $100 each in quantity), and you could pay any handyman or electrician to do it if you didn't want to do it yourself. (It is, after all, just a string of standard automotive batteries connected by cables with standard automotive posts.) Brush replacement is every 80,000 miles or so, costs under $200, and can be done by any electric motor shop.
Electricity costs vary by region, but here in SoCal, you can get a special rate for nighttime charging of EV's, and there are public charging stations everywhere.
The problem noted with other battery chemistries in this particular vehicle is that they're lighter than PbA, but usually take up more space--space which the Sparrow might not have. In addition, the Sparrow relies on the weight of the batteries for its low center of gravity. If replaced with lighter batteries, I would imagine the owner would have to either cut the top speed or ballast the car.
Personally, I'd rather convert a Civic to electric instead of spending the money on such a limited vehicle. It's not often that I need cargo room, but for that one time I need room for a monitor or something, I won't have it in the Sparrow.
True, but if the laptop is replacing a desktop and will never leave the desk, simply pop the battery out before you deliver it to the user. No early death from overcharging, and you even have a ton of spares for those users that do go home.
Though from the maintenance/repair/theftability standpoint, I do agree with you that lower power desktop machines are better buys.
I had the same issue with my Pismo (Bronze) Powerbook. My solution was to take out the audio board (a very small piece) and take it to an electronics repair shop. The guy there resoldered it, no charge, and it has been fine since. Apparently the factory solder connections were a bit thin.
What's fascinating about Asimov is that he had some great ideas, but exactly backwards. His stories usually involved computers that filled buildings and communicated by special codes output onto Teletype machines and translated by men in white coats, but featured robots that were fully sentient and useful companions. In reality, we have incredibly small and fast computers, but robots are limited to lumbering contraptions that are essentially useless.
Leave the built-in battery and charging circuitry from the laptop, and when it detects that it's running off battery, it assumes the power has gone out and turns the screen bright white to help you get around in the dark.
Simple. I accept check, personal check or money order. The payment must clear before I ship. This is quite clear in the text of the auction, and if the buyer isn't comfortable with this, they can pay for escrow. Sure, this might reduce my potential buyer base a bit, but it hasn't prevented me from getting a fair price for the stuff I've sold.
Not only that, but there's usually no protection at all. In my case, they determined that the other party took my money and didn't deliver, but when they went to debit their account, it was empty. Still, the seller was later able to keep using PayPal to receive payments with no penalty--no "lien" was placed on the account to pay me back.
PayPal reserves 60 days to "investigate" the dispute before ruling--just enough time for your credit card issuer's statute of limitations for claims to run out. Avoid PayPal if you can.
Considering that it is undisputed that this guy donated nearly 3 years of his time to this county before asking for anything, I find it much more likely that his side of the story is more accurate. You don't see greedy/selfish people work selflessly for 3 years with no return on investment.
If they think they're going to get a $300,000 payoff at the end of that time, they sure will.
Let's face it, maintaining ONE website does not take that much time out of the average day--not enough to average over $100k a year, even including the T1 costs.
IIRC MC/V generally do not allow for minimum purchases for transactions - yes, the convenience store just lost 80 cents to make 20 on your pack of gum, but they just sold a case of beer or the 20 gallon truck fillup on 80 cents a minute ago.
Visa and Mastercard do not allow merchants to charge a fee for credit card transactions, and do not allow merchants to set a 'minimum purchase amount' (although due to some network limitations, the generally accepted minimum purchase is $1.00.) They can simply refuse to sell to you, but you can then report them to Visa/Mastercard and they will receive a nasty letter, and if they persist, will have their merchant account terminated.
With ATM's, anything goes, as long as the fees and minimum purchase amounts are spelled out before you make the purchase.
(BTW, the "3% discount for cash" scam is legitimate, as long as they charge the 3% for EVERY other transaction type. If it turns out that they also give the 3% discount for checks, traveller's checks, their private financing, etc., you can report them for that as well.)
It's my understanding that on a merchant account, the fee for processing a credit card transaction is only around $.30 USD for Visa, MC, Discover, etc.
All of the major cards charge a percentage plus a per-transaction fee. (Some can price it 'bundled', but the two components are usually there.) Higher rates are charged for manually keyed transactions. ATM fees are a flat $.20 to $.50 per transaction, depending on the merchant's volume.
My Pismo (G3/500, 640MB RAM) goes from lid opening to screen saver password prompt in less than five seconds. I only restart it once a week or less, and that's by choice.
It was a contemporary of Windows 3.0, and every review at the time said that it wiped the floor with Microsoft's baby. Of course, the company had zero marketing skill while Microsoft, well, we know their marketing strategy. So Windows won and GEOS, which I still consider to be one of the best idiot-friendly interfaces ever created, eventually petered out.
What killed them off was that they kept delaying the SDK. They actually had a comfortable installed base for a while, but when Windows came out with WFW 3.11, with its networking and TrueType, Geoworks hadn't moved forward for a year.
Geoworks Ensemble was awesome. Faster on my 286 than Windows was on a 386, superb quality printing, WYSIWYG and scalable fonts before TrueType was available to the masses, and some killer apps. They promised an SDK, but kept delaying until Windows for Workgroups came out, essentially killing off Geoworks.
the pontiac Fiero, even the 1984 version had one of the most bullet proof engines made, the iron duke... this enging block is still used in newer vehicles, and is a popular 4cyl racing engine....
Ugh. I had an "Iron Duke" in my '82 Camaro. The valvetrain sounded like a diesel, it went from 0 to 60 in about 35 seconds, and netted me a whopping 13 mpg.
In a cruel joke, the previous owner (a girl) bought big "Iroc-Z" stickers for each door. It's sad when an '85 Honda Accord becomes an "upgrade" for you.
Right, but it doesn't matter. The only person to read his response will be just above intern, and the responses will come in two forms: those that have/promise payment, and those that don't. Those that don't probably get filed away regardless of the response.
Exactly, hence the "wasting my time" statement. SCO has been told exactly what information to provide him so that he can proceed with an audit. If the "just above intern" files his letter without reading it, and another baseless form letter license demand gets sent, Just Sports probably has the basis to sue for wasted time and harrassment. IANAL, of course--just my take on the situation.
If workplace computers are still allowing users to click on an attachment without making them save the file first, and are not up to date with the latest virus definitions, the IT staff should be the first to go. Don't blame the user if at least the most basic steps haven't been taken by the IT department.
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The Lincoln Town Car will hold five adults quite comfortably and gets 24+ mpg on the freeway.
Makes sense. The EPA rates cars at 55 mph for the highway test. If the car is geared so that the 'sweet' spot comes at a higher speed, you'll get better mileage at that speed. Example: Car and Driver did a long-term test on a last-generation Camaro Z28 a couple of years ago. They averaged over 26 mpg at 100 mph going through Montana. The six-speed overdrive puts the engine in that sweet spot at higher speeds.
And don't forget OFFICE UPDATE if they're using Outlook through Microsoft Office. The reason people are getting viruses through Outlook is that it's a completely different site than Windows Update. Go to the Windows Update site and click "Office Update" at the top. Then use it to patch Office.
Electricity costs vary by region, but here in SoCal, you can get a special rate for nighttime charging of EV's, and there are public charging stations everywhere.
Personally, I'd rather convert a Civic to electric instead of spending the money on such a limited vehicle. It's not often that I need cargo room, but for that one time I need room for a monitor or something, I won't have it in the Sparrow.
Though from the maintenance/repair/theftability standpoint, I do agree with you that lower power desktop machines are better buys.
So what if the media is exposed to water, say from a flood or a soda spill?
I had the same issue with my Pismo (Bronze) Powerbook. My solution was to take out the audio board (a very small piece) and take it to an electronics repair shop. The guy there resoldered it, no charge, and it has been fine since. Apparently the factory solder connections were a bit thin.
What's fascinating about Asimov is that he had some great ideas, but exactly backwards. His stories usually involved computers that filled buildings and communicated by special codes output onto Teletype machines and translated by men in white coats, but featured robots that were fully sentient and useful companions. In reality, we have incredibly small and fast computers, but robots are limited to lumbering contraptions that are essentially useless.
Leave the built-in battery and charging circuitry from the laptop, and when it detects that it's running off battery, it assumes the power has gone out and turns the screen bright white to help you get around in the dark.
Simple. I accept check, personal check or money order. The payment must clear before I ship. This is quite clear in the text of the auction, and if the buyer isn't comfortable with this, they can pay for escrow. Sure, this might reduce my potential buyer base a bit, but it hasn't prevented me from getting a fair price for the stuff I've sold.
This timeline was accurate when I encountered the problem. Perhaps with the purchase by eBay, things are better.
PayPal reserves 60 days to "investigate" the dispute before ruling--just enough time for your credit card issuer's statute of limitations for claims to run out. Avoid PayPal if you can.
(Avoid eBay seller 'zmish' as well.)
If they think they're going to get a $300,000 payoff at the end of that time, they sure will.
Let's face it, maintaining ONE website does not take that much time out of the average day--not enough to average over $100k a year, even including the T1 costs.
Visa and Mastercard do not allow merchants to charge a fee for credit card transactions, and do not allow merchants to set a 'minimum purchase amount' (although due to some network limitations, the generally accepted minimum purchase is $1.00.) They can simply refuse to sell to you, but you can then report them to Visa/Mastercard and they will receive a nasty letter, and if they persist, will have their merchant account terminated.
With ATM's, anything goes, as long as the fees and minimum purchase amounts are spelled out before you make the purchase.
(BTW, the "3% discount for cash" scam is legitimate, as long as they charge the 3% for EVERY other transaction type. If it turns out that they also give the 3% discount for checks, traveller's checks, their private financing, etc., you can report them for that as well.)
All of the major cards charge a percentage plus a per-transaction fee. (Some can price it 'bundled', but the two components are usually there.) Higher rates are charged for manually keyed transactions. ATM fees are a flat $.20 to $.50 per transaction, depending on the merchant's volume.
My Pismo (G3/500, 640MB RAM) goes from lid opening to screen saver password prompt in less than five seconds. I only restart it once a week or less, and that's by choice.
Anybody have a free solution for imaging machines with a Sysprep'd NTFS image from a network? Cheap company doesn't want to pay for Ghost. Thanks.
What killed them off was that they kept delaying the SDK. They actually had a comfortable installed base for a while, but when Windows came out with WFW 3.11, with its networking and TrueType, Geoworks hadn't moved forward for a year.
Geoworks Ensemble was awesome. Faster on my 286 than Windows was on a 386, superb quality printing, WYSIWYG and scalable fonts before TrueType was available to the masses, and some killer apps. They promised an SDK, but kept delaying until Windows for Workgroups came out, essentially killing off Geoworks.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a motorbike full of... oh, wait.
Bought one book for $16 used on Half.com; sold it at the end of the semester for $16 on Half.com. I was only out some postage.
Ugh. I had an "Iron Duke" in my '82 Camaro. The valvetrain sounded like a diesel, it went from 0 to 60 in about 35 seconds, and netted me a whopping 13 mpg.
In a cruel joke, the previous owner (a girl) bought big "Iroc-Z" stickers for each door. It's sad when an '85 Honda Accord becomes an "upgrade" for you.
Exactly, hence the "wasting my time" statement. SCO has been told exactly what information to provide him so that he can proceed with an audit. If the "just above intern" files his letter without reading it, and another baseless form letter license demand gets sent, Just Sports probably has the basis to sue for wasted time and harrassment. IANAL, of course--just my take on the situation.
If workplace computers are still allowing users to click on an attachment without making them save the file first, and are not up to date with the latest virus definitions, the IT staff should be the first to go. Don't blame the user if at least the most basic steps haven't been taken by the IT department.