The calibration of the fuel flow at the injectors probably isn't that accurate, if the pump says one thing and the car's computer an other, i'd expect the pump to be more accurate.
EPA has improved its methods for estimating fuel economy, but your mileage will still vary. Your Mileage Will Still Vary
If the EPA Fuel Economy Estimate is 25 MPG, the expected range for most drivers is 21-29 MPG. My car is an 2002 Oldsmobile Aurora rated at 16 city. 25 highway and 19 combined, my real world experience is I get 27.8-29.2 combined and frequently 38 Highway and always 32MPG.
Since when do you need faith to *not* believe something? Why would you believe anything until it has been proven to be so?
Seems like many people are brain-wired that way. Most of the atheists believe in Apocalyptic Global Warming, which to me is just as whacko as the Apocalyptic Christian Fundamentalists or the Apocalyptic Muslim Shiites. Normally I'd say that the whackos have every right to be whacko as long as they don't pose a hazard or an excessive resource drain on society as a whole, but these Apocalypse embracing religions really are getting to be a hazard and resource drain.
The issue is in the database engine and it's clients, Vista and later OSes require Pervasive PSql V 9.5 or newer database clients, only version 11 is available now, and I was lead to believe the PSql v11 wouldn't run on the windows 2000 server SP4, but after some digging I found it will, so about $500.00 for Pervasive 11; we can ditch WinXP
That's definitely going to half to happen on the work-stations running Windows XP OEM, They will not let you change motherboards. I got a way with it on the server running Win 2000 it doesn't seem to stop running when you repair some busted hardware.
Many business I know of are still using XP on their desktops. I guess often due to specially written apps, or just that the mandate to change has not yet come from upon high
We're one, dental office, 9 employees and struggling not to lay anyone off, if we upgrade to new computers, (we are due, 3 Mobo's had capacitor catastrophe this last year) with Win7, we would have to go with Win2008 and an extra 5 or 10 CALs, then upgrade the database on the server. I'm not sure if the client for the upgraded DB that will run on Vista or win7, will run on XP; so that'll probably be an all or nothing upgrade on the client computers. We're in a can't afford to upgrade and can't afford not to situation.
TFA mentioned that the Corrections Officers were seen checking Gmail on their control computers, I rather doubt that COs would be able to install Mozilla or anything else on a linux box, where as Windows box comes with IE pre-installed and almost impossible to remove. What dumbfounded me is why the control computers aren't completely air-gapped from the public internet.
There are social issues involved. wikipedia says that in NYC, police arrest 200k black males every year, out of a total population of 1200k. 1/6th of that particular group gets arrested EVERY YEAR.
You can't solve that problem by making jail more inviting, but you can't necessarily solve it by making jail worse. Thats why its a difficult dilemma - it isn't easy to solve.
Make the jails that inviting, then it wouldn't be a problem, our prisons might even have to start having a waiting list.
Appeal to authority – (argumentum ad verecundiam) deductively fallacious; even legitimate authorities speaking on their areas of expertise may affirm a falsehood. However, if not using a deductive argument, a logical fallacy is only asserted when the source is not a legitimate expert on the topic at hand, or their conclusion(s) are in direct opposition to other expert consensus. Appeal to authority does not condone to agreeing to the argument. Formal fallacies
Prison's should be divided into those who can be rehabilitated and those that can't or shouldn't be. Both sides of the prison can do useful work, earn a wage that provides for their families, restitution to victims and pay their own cost of living. For those in the side supporting rehabilitation, giving them job skills and real life skills, that will serve them when they leave will dramatically reduce recidivism. Separating career criminals from young people who made a mistake, is a vital step in ending the criminal cycle. Keeping the most dangerous and violent offenders separate, and ensuring that they aren't in a position to do harm, will immediately enhance the security for both guards and inmates.
I'm perplexed as to how you propose these "people" be divided into those who can be rehabilitated and those that can't or shouldn't be, especially the one you feel shouldn't be. I know in my state, all inmates are in-processed at a central location and given intensive psychological and behavioral evaluations. After that they are transferred to correctional facilities based on their violence potential, treatment and or vocational needs and type of offense they were convicted of. Our Judicial and Correctional systems have a high degree of separation. While every state has their own system, Texas tends to be an outlier of the general trends nationally, and most of what you say is needed has been SOP for decades.
It wouldn't surprise me if the cost establish the capital equipment to replicate the manufacturing process wouldn't greatly exceed the cost of just plain buying it from the Russians. The Russians have amortised their capital costs over thousands of units, all they have to do is maintain that infra-structure. The amount of un-repaired fences, un-swept floors and unpainted iron in the factory does make one skeptical that the Russians are treating the factory like a going concern.
When I was stationed at Redstone, we found that MSFC had some junk-piles with uber space geek appeal. No fences around them, once you was on post, you could just walk up and look around, touch things, pick them up. Once a security guard stopped and check our ID, we told him what we were doing and he said "don't get hurt and just take pictures" and left.
Iranians can be very intelligent people, with the emotional maturity of a 13 year old. this wouldn't be the first time they've insanely self-destructive.
If just 0.3% of the Saharan Desert was used for a concentrating solar plant, it would produce enough power to provide all of Europe with clean renewable energy. That is why 20 blue chip German companies are gathering together next month to discuss plans and investments to create such a massive project. Both the meeting and project are being promoted by the Desertec Foundation , which is proposing to erect 100 GW of concentrating solar power plants throughout Northern Africa. World’s Largest Solar Project Planned for Saharan Desert
Boy that's what I was thinking, where's the "change we can believe in"? We were literally targeting Gadaffi even after we decided we were out of the assassination business decades ago. We basically told Gadaffi give up your nuclear and WMD ambitions, and pay the Lockerbie Settlement and we'll leave you alone, now since Obama and the EU went all cowboy on Gadaffi, what do you think the chance of anyone else ever listening? "Remember the Alamo" really meant since the Mexicans weren't taking prisoners, every fight with them would be a win or die situation and we saw how that turned out for Mexico, now Obama has made the same mistake.
There are twenty-two principal hot springs in the Callejon de Huaylas, of which the 2073m above sea level Monterrey stands out for its swimming pools and individual and family ponds. Bathing in its 49 C sodium chloride laced water is prescribed for such health conditions as rheumatism, Anxiety, and palsy. Hot springs are also found at Chancos (30 km north of Huaraz), Chacas, Chavín, Mancos, Pomabamba, Andamarca, Jocos, Tablachaca, Pato, Olleros and Llaclla. Cordillera Blanca
but that doesn't make them wrong either. Any village idiot know hot salt water and glaciers don't play together well.
I'll be honest I just looked at the graphs from Mauna Loa and the data itself and to my eye it's been pretty flat since early 2009, do you have a reference for you claim? I always understood that the cap and traders were blaming the flat CO2 levels on everybody's economies being in the crapper.
Why does everybody assume that every time a glacier recedes it's due to global warming caused by human activities, neither the article or the referenced paper mention a possible cause for the recession but everybody assumes it's due to warming even after last year where
"3 Aug 10 – “Over 1 million fish (now updated to 6 million) and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in numerous Bolivian rivers in the three eastern/southern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija."
"For a second day running it snowed Wednesday in Southern Brazil and in twelve of Argentina’s 24 provinces including parts of Buenos Aires as a consequence of the polar front covering most of the continent’s southern cone with zero and below zero temperatures." Snow in Brazil! That's pretty much what you would expect during a La Niña, and this year is shaping up that way too.
Here's a clue, it takes a lot of energy to melt ice and air just doesn't have the specific heat capacity to do much of it, Rain has a lot of specific heat, insolation is also a good candidate, as is wind, but the most likely candidate is almost always a the good old wintertime drought where it's just not snowing enough to replace normal summer melt. Let's wait for some credible research before we get all "Chicken Little" with it.
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The calibration of the fuel flow at the injectors probably isn't that accurate, if the pump says one thing and the car's computer an other, i'd expect the pump to be more accurate.
Your lucky, mine tops out at 70MPG, even going downhill with the transmission in neutral.
You must be from one of those places where the kids dress up like members of an outlaw motorcycle gang and ride 50cc mopeds
Well here's the deal
If the EPA Fuel Economy Estimate is 25 MPG, the expected range for most drivers is 21-29 MPG. My car is an 2002 Oldsmobile Aurora rated at 16 city. 25 highway and 19 combined, my real world experience is I get 27.8-29.2 combined and frequently 38 Highway and always 32MPG.
Since when do you need faith to *not* believe something? Why would you believe anything until it has been proven to be so?
Seems like many people are brain-wired that way. Most of the atheists believe in Apocalyptic Global Warming, which to me is just as whacko as the Apocalyptic Christian Fundamentalists or the Apocalyptic Muslim Shiites. Normally I'd say that the whackos have every right to be whacko as long as they don't pose a hazard or an excessive resource drain on society as a whole, but these Apocalypse embracing religions really are getting to be a hazard and resource drain.
The issue is in the database engine and it's clients, Vista and later OSes require Pervasive PSql V 9.5 or newer database clients, only version 11 is available now, and I was lead to believe the PSql v11 wouldn't run on the windows 2000 server SP4, but after some digging I found it will, so about $500.00 for Pervasive 11; we can ditch WinXP
I have paid money to see Mission: Impossible, which made $130 million in the last two weeks, and I have not paid any money to see Young Adult,
Well there is your problem, if your going to pay any money to see the clambake meister Tom Cruse, they know they've got a rube on the hook.
We are running PracticeWorks
That's definitely going to half to happen on the work-stations running Windows XP OEM, They will not let you change motherboards. I got a way with it on the server running Win 2000 it doesn't seem to stop running when you repair some busted hardware.
Actually..not really a troll.
Many business I know of are still using XP on their desktops. I guess often due to specially written apps, or just that the mandate to change has not yet come from upon high
We're one, dental office, 9 employees and struggling not to lay anyone off, if we upgrade to new computers, (we are due, 3 Mobo's had capacitor catastrophe this last year) with Win7, we would have to go with Win2008 and an extra 5 or 10 CALs, then upgrade the database on the server. I'm not sure if the client for the upgraded DB that will run on Vista or win7, will run on XP; so that'll probably be an all or nothing upgrade on the client computers. We're in a can't afford to upgrade and can't afford not to situation.
I think your MBA-type was confusing privacy with anonymity, today not so much.
TFA mentioned that the Corrections Officers were seen checking Gmail on their control computers, I rather doubt that COs would be able to install Mozilla or anything else on a linux box, where as Windows box comes with IE pre-installed and almost impossible to remove. What dumbfounded me is why the control computers aren't completely air-gapped from the public internet.
There are social issues involved. wikipedia says that in NYC, police arrest 200k black males every year, out of a total population of 1200k. 1/6th of that particular group gets arrested EVERY YEAR.
You can't solve that problem by making jail more inviting, but you can't necessarily solve it by making jail worse. Thats why its a difficult dilemma - it isn't easy to solve.
Make the jails that inviting, then it wouldn't be a problem, our prisons might even have to start having a waiting list.
My text book on Logic disagrees with you,
as does Wikipedia.
Prison's should be divided into those who can be rehabilitated and those that can't or shouldn't be. Both sides of the prison can do useful work, earn a wage that provides for their families, restitution to victims and pay their own cost of living. For those in the side supporting rehabilitation, giving them job skills and real life skills, that will serve them when they leave will dramatically reduce recidivism. Separating career criminals from young people who made a mistake, is a vital step in ending the criminal cycle. Keeping the most dangerous and violent offenders separate, and ensuring that they aren't in a position to do harm, will immediately enhance the security for both guards and inmates.
I'm perplexed as to how you propose these "people" be divided into those who can be rehabilitated and those that can't or shouldn't be, especially the one you feel shouldn't be. I know in my state, all inmates are in-processed at a central location and given intensive psychological and behavioral evaluations. After that they are transferred to correctional facilities based on their violence potential, treatment and or vocational needs and type of offense they were convicted of. Our Judicial and Correctional systems have a high degree of separation. While every state has their own system, Texas tends to be an outlier of the general trends nationally, and most of what you say is needed has been SOP for decades.
It wouldn't surprise me if the cost establish the capital equipment to replicate the manufacturing process wouldn't greatly exceed the cost of just plain buying it from the Russians. The Russians have amortised their capital costs over thousands of units, all they have to do is maintain that infra-structure. The amount of un-repaired fences, un-swept floors and unpainted iron in the factory does make one skeptical that the Russians are treating the factory like a going concern.
When I was stationed at Redstone, we found that MSFC had some junk-piles with uber space geek appeal. No fences around them, once you was on post, you could just walk up and look around, touch things, pick them up. Once a security guard stopped and check our ID, we told him what we were doing and he said "don't get hurt and just take pictures" and left.
They'll just lay the pipe toward the pacific and sell the oil-sand oil to China.
Iranians can be very intelligent people, with the emotional maturity of a 13 year old. this wouldn't be the first time they've insanely self-destructive.
Right people but wrong answer;
,
considering that Libya exports about 1.8 million barrels per day verses Every year, each square kilometre of desert receives solar energy equivalent to 1.5 million barrels of oil. I'd say Libyan open desert is worth much more than it's oil.
Boy that's what I was thinking, where's the "change we can believe in"? We were literally targeting Gadaffi even after we decided we were out of the assassination business decades ago. We basically told Gadaffi give up your nuclear and WMD ambitions, and pay the Lockerbie Settlement and we'll leave you alone, now since Obama and the EU went all cowboy on Gadaffi, what do you think the chance of anyone else ever listening? "Remember the Alamo" really meant since the Mexicans weren't taking prisoners, every fight with them would be a win or die situation and we saw how that turned out for Mexico, now Obama has made the same mistake.
Neither is wikipedia;
but that doesn't make them wrong either. Any village idiot know hot salt water and glaciers don't play together well.
I'll be honest I just looked at the graphs from Mauna Loa and the data itself and to my eye it's been pretty flat since early 2009, do you have a reference for you claim? I always understood that the cap and traders were blaming the flat CO2 levels on everybody's economies being in the crapper.
Heretic, Blasphemer, supplicate before the Altar of Gaea, say 25 Hail Gores and send a tithe to the Brotherhood of Mann.
Why does everybody assume that every time a glacier recedes it's due to global warming caused by human activities, neither the article or the referenced paper mention a possible cause for the recession but everybody assumes it's due to warming even after last year where
"3 Aug 10 – “Over 1 million fish (now updated to 6 million) and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in numerous Bolivian rivers in the three eastern/southern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija."
"For a second day running it snowed Wednesday in Southern Brazil and in twelve of Argentina’s 24 provinces including parts of Buenos Aires as a consequence of the polar front covering most of the continent’s southern cone with zero and below zero temperatures." Snow in Brazil!
That's pretty much what you would expect during a La Niña, and this year is shaping up that way too.
Here's a clue, it takes a lot of energy to melt ice and air just doesn't have the specific heat capacity to do much of it, Rain has a lot of specific heat, insolation is also a good candidate, as is wind, but the most likely candidate is almost always a the good old wintertime drought where it's just not snowing enough to replace normal summer melt. Let's wait for some credible research before we get all "Chicken Little" with it.