An interesting article. I'll tell you though, I wasn't looking for the cheapest car around, so the extra few thousand was not a huge issue for me.
Two reasons we got the car. First, it's cool tech.:) That's worth extra just in itself.
The main reason we got it was time. The good ol' HOV lanes south of DC let 3-person carpools, motorcycles, and alternative fuel cars get up into DC without having to deal with rush hour traffic.
We commute (or I did, before I moved offices. My wife still does) 18 miles from Springfield to Arlington. That trip takes 45 mins to an hour in the regular lanes. On HOV, it's 20 minutes (most of the way the speed limit is 65).
So, we end up saving at least an hour a day on average in commuting time to and from. Factor in our salaries (if our free time was measured with the same amounts) and we pay for the car payments easily every month.
It'll be a bummer when they change the rules, but we'll cross that bridge when it comes to it.
Noone is suggesting that all geo data should be taken offline. FEMA, for instance, isn't worried in the least about flood plain data. They are, however, slightly worried about critical infrastructure data such as highway bridges (silly), water pipelines, emergency care facilities, nuclear power facilities, and so on.
The fibre optic map was useful because it put glaring spotlights on massive concentrations of cables: Where to target if you wanted to inflict the most damage.
I haven't seen any statistics, but I can tell you I haven't had any in the 5000 miles we put on it.:-D
It was funny, Toyota sales guy told us to expect very little maintenance because there are so few moving parts... then the witch in finance tried to sell us on all kinds of extra maintenance packages (the old trick to jack up the cost).
The engine in my Prius also stops when gliding down long shallow hills.
It also idles when running even upwards of 70 mph on highways. It's not uncommon for the mileage-o-meter to read > 75 mpg while driving > 75 mph.
We actually get a lot back from braking. Recharges the battery fast (when you slam on the brakes, yell "Chargin' up the battery!" or something similar), which then assists the gas engine most other times.
It's very impressive tech, for only being a couple years old.
But if I can get double the mileage out of a diesel then it's effectively two tanks in your car. Given the gas prices currently, 2 tanks on any sedan will likely be more than $43.
You are exactly right. I own an 04 Prius (60/51 mpg listed) and I just drove 80 miles across central VA this weekend at 54 mpg.
Plenty slower than I would have driven in my Mustang, but they are DIFFERENT CARS.
You have to drive differently than you would a normal car. It's not the car's fault people aren't bright enough to figure out the obvious feedback loops...
Come on now, Chaffee is awesome and Holland full of trailer parks. East Aurora's great if you don't mind an all-white high school filled with more spliffs than your average Jamaican village...
While I'm a fan of the Lew Rockwell-style libertarianism, I expect any disaster fantasy about the U.S. and the near term is just that: fantasy.
It's on a level with 1970s' world-wide famine scares.
The deficit does not scare me in the least: It's a small fraction of GDP, and note on the chart in the link you sent, how easily the deficit was wiped out in the mid/late 90's with just a modicum of spending control.
Homeless figures are a joke: Have you ever BEEN to a true third-world country? The poor in the U.S. can afford DirecTV (given by the number of dishes you see on top of mobile homes -- and I have seen plenty, south and east of Buffalo, NY).
What we need to do is keep preaching the lower-spending ideal and push for a far more fair taxation system (sales tax is a fine plan).
I shocked hardly anyone else has commented on it. I'm basically a live-and-let-live kind of guy, don't care too much if you call me names, but even I noticed that as just plain strange...
I am, actually, okay with that if their elected officials (school boards are elected here in the east. Forgive me if they're not out there) do what they're asked to do.
Some parts of the country produce more scientists, some produce the warriors. I'd rather have a 500k carpet that ends up turning out some men who'll protect my skinny butt rather than turn the nation into a bunch of wimps.
Local priorities are different. I fail to see the harm in having folks who aren't as educated as you and I, if that's what they've chosen for themselves.
This is actually pretty amazing when I think about it. I've been on the 'em' bandwagon for a while, but this knocks me off it hard.
For instance, images are usually given px sizes in CSS... but they don't need to if a user agent could handle on-the-fly resizing... which, aha, Mozilla and IE already do!
So you could easily say your image is 100px wide, and your text is 10px tall... and when the user agent of a 2000x1200 user comes along, it could auto-scale each to, say, 200px and 20px... why not?
Kind of a shame that a community with different standards and priorities as you gets mocked. I suppose in ancient Athens you'd be the philosopher goofing on the Spartans.
Ayup, them thar Texans is just stoopid, I reckon...
I don't have a problem with them changing the l&f in advance of 1.0, or heck, even after.
I just wonder about the veracity of continually making significant changes, calling it "rebranding" as their NYC image consultants, and generally sounding like they just can't make up their minds what they want their app to be.
Maybe I'm just aggravated by the use of the marketing term "rebranding"...:)
Will this be the last major change in the "branding" of thunderfoxbird?
All this talk by the mozilla people about "branding" makes me cry. I hear way too much of this from UE people at IBM... enough to drive a guy mad, I tell you...
(not to mention, how many times can you change the look and feel -- errrrrr branding, sorry -- of a product before people start looking elsewhere? Or get lost?
I hate to break teh news to you, but absolutely NOONE is going to do this: "If I get a email from this person mentioning this account number, then make a task to call this and that person and then try and make an appointment with X"
It's not gonna happen.
It's simple as dirt to define a filter in any modern email client, and most users DON'T TOUCH THEM.
It's bullshit because it requires too much user interaction to use. I am a unix guru, and the last thing I want to do is set up a hundred little metadata fields so I can track my own crap over time. Noone is going to care.
Yeah, makes me think that people are scared of the silliest things, and if GM food was labeled the way the crackheads want (giant, spoooooky letters!), the moronic public would freak out.
Ignorance is bliss, unless that ignorance tosses your company's bottom line to the bottom of a pit...
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An interesting article. I'll tell you though, I wasn't looking for the cheapest car around, so the extra few thousand was not a huge issue for me.
:) That's worth extra just in itself.
Two reasons we got the car. First, it's cool tech.
The main reason we got it was time. The good ol' HOV lanes south of DC let 3-person carpools, motorcycles, and alternative fuel cars get up into DC without having to deal with rush hour traffic.
We commute (or I did, before I moved offices. My wife still does) 18 miles from Springfield to Arlington. That trip takes 45 mins to an hour in the regular lanes. On HOV, it's 20 minutes (most of the way the speed limit is 65).
So, we end up saving at least an hour a day on average in commuting time to and from. Factor in our salaries (if our free time was measured with the same amounts) and we pay for the car payments easily every month.
It'll be a bummer when they change the rules, but we'll cross that bridge when it comes to it.
Ah, I don't think you work with geospatial data.
Noone is suggesting that all geo data should be taken offline. FEMA, for instance, isn't worried in the least about flood plain data. They are, however, slightly worried about critical infrastructure data such as highway bridges (silly), water pipelines, emergency care facilities, nuclear power facilities, and so on.
The fibre optic map was useful because it put glaring spotlights on massive concentrations of cables: Where to target if you wanted to inflict the most damage.
I haven't seen any statistics, but I can tell you I haven't had any in the 5000 miles we put on it. :-D
It was funny, Toyota sales guy told us to expect very little maintenance because there are so few moving parts... then the witch in finance tried to sell us on all kinds of extra maintenance packages (the old trick to jack up the cost).
Just to be a little contrarian, my 04 Prius has plenty of space inside. Just brought home a dozen 3-cubic-foot bags of mulch.
It's underpowered, for sure (only handling something like 875 lbs of people/cargo), but it's not small.
The engine in my Prius also stops when gliding down long shallow hills.
It also idles when running even upwards of 70 mph on highways. It's not uncommon for the mileage-o-meter to read > 75 mpg while driving > 75 mph.
We actually get a lot back from braking. Recharges the battery fast (when you slam on the brakes, yell "Chargin' up the battery!" or something similar), which then assists the gas engine most other times.
It's very impressive tech, for only being a couple years old.
But if I can get double the mileage out of a diesel then it's effectively two tanks in your car. Given the gas prices currently, 2 tanks on any sedan will likely be more than $43.
You are exactly right. I own an 04 Prius (60/51 mpg listed) and I just drove 80 miles across central VA this weekend at 54 mpg.
Plenty slower than I would have driven in my Mustang, but they are DIFFERENT CARS.
You have to drive differently than you would a normal car. It's not the car's fault people aren't bright enough to figure out the obvious feedback loops...
Haven't used Java in the last... oh... ever, have you asshead?
Come on now, Chaffee is awesome and Holland full of trailer parks. East Aurora's great if you don't mind an all-white high school filled with more spliffs than your average Jamaican village...
(hint: grew up in said HS)
While I'm a fan of the Lew Rockwell-style libertarianism, I expect any disaster fantasy about the U.S. and the near term is just that: fantasy.
It's on a level with 1970s' world-wide famine scares.
The deficit does not scare me in the least: It's a small fraction of GDP, and note on the chart in the link you sent, how easily the deficit was wiped out in the mid/late 90's with just a modicum of spending control.
Homeless figures are a joke: Have you ever BEEN to a true third-world country? The poor in the U.S. can afford DirecTV (given by the number of dishes you see on top of mobile homes -- and I have seen plenty, south and east of Buffalo, NY).
What we need to do is keep preaching the lower-spending ideal and push for a far more fair taxation system (sales tax is a fine plan).
I shocked hardly anyone else has commented on it. I'm basically a live-and-let-live kind of guy, don't care too much if you call me names, but even I noticed that as just plain strange...
I am, actually, okay with that if their elected officials (school boards are elected here in the east. Forgive me if they're not out there) do what they're asked to do.
Some parts of the country produce more scientists, some produce the warriors. I'd rather have a 500k carpet that ends up turning out some men who'll protect my skinny butt rather than turn the nation into a bunch of wimps.
Local priorities are different. I fail to see the harm in having folks who aren't as educated as you and I, if that's what they've chosen for themselves.
You could pretty easily just define that CSS with display: inline (as I'm sure you're aware).
This is actually pretty amazing when I think about it. I've been on the 'em' bandwagon for a while, but this knocks me off it hard.
For instance, images are usually given px sizes in CSS... but they don't need to if a user agent could handle on-the-fly resizing... which, aha, Mozilla and IE already do!
So you could easily say your image is 100px wide, and your text is 10px tall... and when the user agent of a 2000x1200 user comes along, it could auto-scale each to, say, 200px and 20px... why not?
Kind of a shame that a community with different standards and priorities as you gets mocked. I suppose in ancient Athens you'd be the philosopher goofing on the Spartans.
Ayup, them thar Texans is just stoopid, I reckon...
I don't have a problem with them changing the l&f in advance of 1.0, or heck, even after.
:)
I just wonder about the veracity of continually making significant changes, calling it "rebranding" as their NYC image consultants, and generally sounding like they just can't make up their minds what they want their app to be.
Maybe I'm just aggravated by the use of the marketing term "rebranding"...
Will this be the last major change in the "branding" of thunderfoxbird?
All this talk by the mozilla people about "branding" makes me cry. I hear way too much of this from UE people at IBM... enough to drive a guy mad, I tell you...
(not to mention, how many times can you change the look and feel -- errrrrr branding, sorry -- of a product before people start looking elsewhere? Or get lost?
I hate to break teh news to you, but absolutely NOONE is going to do this: "If I get a email from this person mentioning this account number, then make a task to call this and that person and then try and make an appointment with X"
It's not gonna happen.
It's simple as dirt to define a filter in any modern email client, and most users DON'T TOUCH THEM.
It's bullshit because it requires too much user interaction to use. I am a unix guru, and the last thing I want to do is set up a hundred little metadata fields so I can track my own crap over time. Noone is going to care.
I like how you quote "food", as if GM crops aren't food. What are they then?
Yeah, makes me think that people are scared of the silliest things, and if GM food was labeled the way the crackheads want (giant, spoooooky letters!), the moronic public would freak out.
Ignorance is bliss, unless that ignorance tosses your company's bottom line to the bottom of a pit...
My reply to the "I use it; get over it" bullshit is, "Well, fuck off then."
If there was ever a more appropriately-named /.er, I've never seen him...
Yes, and we all have blazing fast connections that can handle running GNOME or KDE shit over ssh/X.
When I want to edit a single damn file out on a server somewhere, why the hell would I want to wait 30 seconds for a stupid editor window to open?
(Granted, VFS etc can open the file remotely, but not always available / possible).
Way to help the guy actually learn something. Real friendly there, buddy.
Too bad the rest of us aren't experienced mail administrators like you are.
We know that New York is going to go to Kerry, no matter what happens during the campaign. NY's liberal leaning is a foregone conclusion.
You don't think the Stonecutters would pay a lot of money to DDOS all the servers in NY?