- Modern cars have small engines. This is great around the town, but on the highway, mileage suffers horribly. SUVs get much better highway mileage (not better than cars, but not all that far away) because they often put an appropriately sized engine in them./quote>
Does not compute. Power is more important around town than on the highway. Doesn't take a ton of power to maintain a steady state 70mph. Even the big rigs, which way 50,000lbs+ are only 400-600hp.
As for cars, you can get a VW Sportwagen or Passat TDI, both of which, while not Crown Vics are exactly Yarises (Yarii?) either. Comfortable seating for 4 adults, 5 in a pinch, with plenty of cargo space. Both easily get 40mpg highway, over 50mpg in favorable conditions. They're not slow cars either - 0-60 of ~9 seconds, which isn't blistering, but is certainly not slow, and the excellent low RPM torque of the turbo diesel gives them plenty of grunt around town. They can also tow 2,000 lbs comfortably.
Humble Bundle proves that when you have massive promotion and media attention you can sell some widgets. It does exactly zero to validate indie gaming as a sustainable ecosystem.
You need to really update your knowledge. This isn't 1960 any more. Also, several of your assumptions are flat out wrong.
$25,000 purchase price for a vehicle that is traded in every 100,000 miles is $0.25/mile - At 100k miles a 25k to purchase car will still be worth 8-10k, which you're ignoring
28mpg is crappy these days. Plenty of cars are capable of 35-40MPG (and that's combined cycle, not optimal highway)
Insurance is a fixed cost. Attributing that per-mile is just wrong.
If you're getting oil changes every 3k in a modern vechicle, you're probably getting ripped off. Modern oils are much better than what we had decades ago.
There's no such thing as a "tune up" on a modern car.
If you're changing your oil every 3000 miles, that's part of your problem. Even dino-juice is good for 5-8k in most vehicles, and synthetics can last 15-20k in many cases. Many manufacturers are speccing 10k to 15k change intervals now. 3000 miles is a number invented by Jiffy Lube.
That doesn't really bother me. Top Gear has gotten a bit tired and predictable. Take some time off, think of some actual new stuff, and get back to the roots - go back to being try'shardbutshite instead of ohwe'vegototoplasttimesowe'llrigandstagethingsveryobviously.
Untrue. Vinyl imposes lots of additional limitations, and is much more complicated than a binary "too loud" "not too loud". The louder you cut a record, the wider the groove is. The wider the groove is, the fewer grooves you can physically fit on the record, and thus the less music you can fit per side. If you cut an LP as hot as a typical modern CD (And I'm not even talking a LOUD modern CD, just an average one), you could only fit 12-14 minutes per side. A hot track, and that number will be more like 10 minutes. Whereas with the (sane) mastering common 40 years ago, 20-21 minutes per side was typical, although there were some compromises there too...optimal quality peaks at about 17 minutes per side or so. A recording without a lot of dynamic range, with the loudness turned down a bit (like a live album), and 25 minutes per side isn't at all unreasonable.
The larger you want your "sweet spot" to be, the more speakers you need. This will give MUCH better surround imaging in a large space, like the local multiplex.
It might be a start. Getting the best out of lilypond will require manual tweaking though. It certainly is a pretty idiosyncratic program, but if you half-way know what you're doing it'll produce output better than commercial packages costing hundreds of dollars. Maybe when I get home I'll typeset 8 bars or so from one of the variations in Lilypond, and also Notion 3 - Notion is commercial software (~$300) but it's much more useful than lilypond for _writing_ music, since it can do live play and enables quick experimentation. It's typesetting is OK but not superb.
That seems incredibly short sited. Lilypond is OSS, and ly files are plain text. I'd much rather have something in one format that produces excellent output, than crappy output from 10 different progs.
With gas at $4 a gallon running around town - or especially out of town to the beach or something - isn't exactly free. Plus many of the actually poor have to depend on public transportation, which has it's own set of costs - especially in time and travel range. Something that can be done from home has lots of advantages.
Modern ejection seats are rated for 0/0 operation (e.g. safe ejection from an airplane parked on the ramp. The rocket provides all the altitude needed.
Well, it's a lot more complicated than that, because the base TDI is MUCH better optioned than the gas Golf.
For instance, over a the base gas Golf, the TDI includes:
17" alloy wheels (vs 15" steel) Upgraded stereo (touchscreen, bluetooth, satelite radio, cd changer) Center armrest Heated seats Nicer interior Multifunction in-dash display, including phone dialing Upgraded suspension (same suspension as the GTI) and tires Leather steering wheel and shifter
A lot of that is not even available on the gas Golf, and those that are will push the price up by about 3 grand when optioned. The actual price premium for the engine is about $1500, which at current gas prices wouldn't take long to recoup if you drive even 1000 miles a month.
So, the Golf has emissions roughly 50% than the Prius, and identical smog particulates to the Corolla (while producing marginally less greenhouse gas), while getting much better mileage.
No. The new TDI's don't smoke at all. It passes CA emissions...hard to get much more stringent than that. Zero smoke, even if applying full WOT immediately after starting.
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If you want an efficient SUV, just buy a diesel, no hybrid.
The VW Tuareg TDI, for instance, gets 19 city/28 hw, which for a 5,000lb vehicle with a 7500lb towing capacity is nothing to sneeze at.
- Modern cars have small engines. This is great around the town, but on the highway, mileage suffers horribly. SUVs get much better highway mileage (not better than cars, but not all that far away) because they often put an appropriately sized engine in them. /quote>
Does not compute. Power is more important around town than on the highway. Doesn't take a ton of power to maintain a steady state 70mph. Even the big rigs, which way 50,000lbs+ are only 400-600hp.
As for cars, you can get a VW Sportwagen or Passat TDI, both of which, while not Crown Vics are exactly Yarises (Yarii?) either. Comfortable seating for 4 adults, 5 in a pinch, with plenty of cargo space. Both easily get 40mpg highway, over 50mpg in favorable conditions. They're not slow cars either - 0-60 of ~9 seconds, which isn't blistering, but is certainly not slow, and the excellent low RPM torque of the turbo diesel gives them plenty of grunt around town. They can also tow 2,000 lbs comfortably.
Oh, and they have 2.0L engines.
Humble Bundle proves that when you have massive promotion and media attention you can sell some widgets. It does exactly zero to validate indie gaming as a sustainable ecosystem.
You need to really update your knowledge. This isn't 1960 any more. Also, several of your assumptions are flat out wrong.
$25,000 purchase price for a vehicle that is traded in every 100,000 miles is $0.25/mile - At 100k miles a 25k to purchase car will still be worth 8-10k, which you're ignoring
28mpg is crappy these days. Plenty of cars are capable of 35-40MPG (and that's combined cycle, not optimal highway)
Insurance is a fixed cost. Attributing that per-mile is just wrong.
If you're getting oil changes every 3k in a modern vechicle, you're probably getting ripped off. Modern oils are much better than what we had decades ago.
There's no such thing as a "tune up" on a modern car.
If you're changing your oil every 3000 miles, that's part of your problem. Even dino-juice is good for 5-8k in most vehicles, and synthetics can last 15-20k in many cases. Many manufacturers are speccing 10k to 15k change intervals now. 3000 miles is a number invented by Jiffy Lube.
That doesn't really bother me. Top Gear has gotten a bit tired and predictable. Take some time off, think of some actual new stuff, and get back to the roots - go back to being try'shardbutshite instead of ohwe'vegototoplasttimesowe'llrigandstagethingsveryobviously.
Untrue. Vinyl imposes lots of additional limitations, and is much more complicated than a binary "too loud" "not too loud". The louder you cut a record, the wider the groove is. The wider the groove is, the fewer grooves you can physically fit on the record, and thus the less music you can fit per side. If you cut an LP as hot as a typical modern CD (And I'm not even talking a LOUD modern CD, just an average one), you could only fit 12-14 minutes per side. A hot track, and that number will be more like 10 minutes. Whereas with the (sane) mastering common 40 years ago, 20-21 minutes per side was typical, although there were some compromises there too...optimal quality peaks at about 17 minutes per side or so. A recording without a lot of dynamic range, with the loudness turned down a bit (like a live album), and 25 minutes per side isn't at all unreasonable.
You might be advised to check your history. The iTunes store was over 18 months after (April 28th, 2003) the first iPod (November 10th, 2001)
The larger you want your "sweet spot" to be, the more speakers you need. This will give MUCH better surround imaging in a large space, like the local multiplex.
Yea, I was a bit miffed with that. I bought it to get rid of the ads, and like 2 weeks later they made it free.
It wasn't during the time period that they were actually innovating.
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It might be a start. Getting the best out of lilypond will require manual tweaking though. It certainly is a pretty idiosyncratic program, but if you half-way know what you're doing it'll produce output better than commercial packages costing hundreds of dollars. Maybe when I get home I'll typeset 8 bars or so from one of the variations in Lilypond, and also Notion 3 - Notion is commercial software (~$300) but it's much more useful than lilypond for _writing_ music, since it can do live play and enables quick experimentation. It's typesetting is OK but not superb.
That seems incredibly short sited. Lilypond is OSS, and ly files are plain text. I'd much rather have something in one format that produces excellent output, than crappy output from 10 different progs.
You can upgrade to 1680x1050 on the 15", $50 for a glossy, $150 for matte
So, buy a Mac Book Pro?
Quad Core i7
500GB HD
4GB RAM
1680x1050 screen
$1850 = 1420EUR
With gas at $4 a gallon running around town - or especially out of town to the beach or something - isn't exactly free. Plus many of the actually poor have to depend on public transportation, which has it's own set of costs - especially in time and travel range. Something that can be done from home has lots of advantages.
I'd rather have a virus than run anti-virus. I'm firmly convinced it would be less destructive to system performance.
But just buy a fucking iPad.
Modern ejection seats are rated for 0/0 operation (e.g. safe ejection from an airplane parked on the ramp. The rocket provides all the altitude needed.
A 100 mph train making a stop every 8-10 miles isn't hitting 100mph.
Well, it's a lot more complicated than that, because the base TDI is MUCH better optioned than the gas Golf.
For instance, over a the base gas Golf, the TDI includes:
17" alloy wheels (vs 15" steel)
Upgraded stereo (touchscreen, bluetooth, satelite radio, cd changer)
Center armrest
Heated seats
Nicer interior
Multifunction in-dash display, including phone dialing
Upgraded suspension (same suspension as the GTI) and tires
Leather steering wheel and shifter
A lot of that is not even available on the gas Golf, and those that are will push the price up by about 3 grand when optioned. The actual price premium for the engine is about $1500, which at current gas prices wouldn't take long to recoup if you drive even 1000 miles a month.
The Passat does, the Golf and Jetta do not.
And here's photographic proof, if you still doubt me:
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m240/jlock92/DSC_0006.jpg
I answered it with the first word of my comment.
Look, this info is available from the EPA.
Golf TDI: http://ofmpub.epa.gov/greenvehicles/Detailsresult.do?vehicle_ID=148072
Prius: http://ofmpub.epa.gov/greenvehicles/Detailsresult.do?vehicle_ID=148099
Toyota Corolla: http://ofmpub.epa.gov/greenvehicles/Detailsresult.do?vehicle_ID=148072
So, the Golf has emissions roughly 50% than the Prius, and identical smog particulates to the Corolla (while producing marginally less greenhouse gas), while getting much better mileage.
Doesn't exactly sound like I'm killing the air.
No. The new TDI's don't smoke at all. It passes CA emissions...hard to get much more stringent than that. Zero smoke, even if applying full WOT immediately after starting.