Yes, it is fast. We're talking practically instantaneous command prompt as soon as the BIOS screens are passed. You might have a bunch of TSRs and drivers loading in your startup files that will slow it down, but you can set up a startup menu to select which configuration to boot, or bypass the startup files altogether.
FreeDOS does in fact support power management. It doesn't really matter anyways; we're talking about booting up the laptop quickly, jotting some stuff down, then turning it back off again.
OK, in restrospect that's funny, but I was being serious. FreeDOS meets all his requirements. It boots to command line in just a few seconds, supports FAT32, is easy to use, and there are countless thousands of high quality text editors of all flavors available for it. It even has TCP/IP support and such, and it can be booted off the oldest, smallest, most worthless thumb drive that you possibly own.
I have the same laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled, and the ipw3945 driver is a piece of shit. It's buggy and apparently has memory leaks. After it has operated for a certain length of time (random, usually no more than a few days) network operations start timing out and finally won't work at all. The only solution is to shut down wicd, rmmod and modprobe iwl3945, then start wicd back up and reconnect to the wireless network.
While you have a point, you also have to keep in mind that in certain industries, some of these names may be well known, and thus there is no need to introduce themselves in an advertisement.
For example, think of Coca-Cola advertisements. They don't say anything other than "Coke" and some catchy phrase. They don't need to say anything else because the brand is well known. Same thing with certain smaller companies who operate in specific markets.
If you saw a similar advertisement for "Jack Henry and Associates, Inc." touting its "processing solutions", you might not know what the hell that company is or what it does, but anyone who is in the banking field in the U.S. likely knows who they are.
You are correct in the short term, but the point is, turning the GPU into a more general purpose massively parallel number crunching maching and integrating it into the CPU will allow us to do AMAZING things in the long term.
In the short term people will continue using APIs like OpenGL and DirectX, whose designers will basically have to add a lot of code to perform all the functions that the high end GPUs used to do. Or I could see NVidia/ATI releasing a new closed-source "driver" that looks like a GPU to the OpenGL API, but is actually a software implementation that performs all the work using the new CPU instructions.
Then in the medium term, this functionality will gradually be reimplemented into OpenGL/DirectX, which will allow the API designers to add new, interesting and amazing capabilities relatively easily. Bear in mind that these new features will work exactly the same on every CPU that contains the now-standardized "GPU" functionality, and there is no need to upgrade your CPU to use them.
Perhaps at some point in the future your GPU-integrated CPU won't be fast enough to run the latest and greatest game with its special new rendering features, but all you have to do is upgrade to CPU v2.0 with its new and much faster integrated GPU to enable those capabilities. Intel, AMD, doesn't matter, you pick whatever manufacturer you like and have one less part to upgrade.
In the long term, expect to see totally new APIs (now regular ole libraries, to replace OpenGL/DirectX) based around this new way of doing things, and allowing basically unlimited possibilities. There could be entire new rendering "paradigms" aside from the standard vertex/triangle/triangle patch deal (i.e. raytracing) that could be implemented at full speed practically effortlessly. They all have the same basic requirements, which is the ability to crunch a lot of numbers really fast.
Let's not also forget that this now-general-purpose "GPU" can also be used to process things such as physics calculations, etc. It's an all-in-one solution to tackling any sort of math/processing problem of that nature.
This is the direction we are currently headed. More general purpose = more flexibility = more possibilities. Combine this with advances that are happening elsewhere, and the future is looking very exciting.
For example, they don't want the bottom to fall out of the market of their other cars, because they know that this would be their top #1 seller, and most of their other cars would become a lot less popular.
How is this insightful?
Why would Ford want to avoid increasing their sales?
Ford has been unprofitable for years. They actually had planned to return to profitability in 2009, back before the economy went to shit. Not sure about their cars but right now (at least in this area) their trucks are selling at HALF price. That's right, you can walk out the door with a brand new $22k truck for $11k, and get many "thank yous" and "please come agains" on the way out. I don't think their car sales are doing much better.
So yes, Ford would love to bring such a vehicle to the US, but I imagine there must be some serious reasons why they can't. Probably something to do with emissions laws, state environmental concerns, along with the standard safety redesign required for pretty much any vehicle brought to the US that was not originally designed for the US market.
The whole "nobody would buy it because it's a diesel" is pretty much a self-perpetuating myth. It was certainly true during the 80s, and maybe during the 90s, all thanks to the failed Olds 350 diesel, but it is certainly not true in 2008. Build a reasonably priced small diesel car and US customers will flock to it.
Personally I'd take something 100x safer than a motorcycle that got me 50 MPG even if it was only slightly less safe than an SUV.
Actually motorcycles themselves are very safe, the main problem is a motorcycle driver who doesn't pay sharp attention to what's going on around him, and doesn't drive as defensively as he should, combined with other idiots out on the road who for sure aren't paying attention. Then when an accident occurs, if the motorcyclist is not wearing proper gear, what might have been a few bruises and soreness for a week turns into serious injuries.
Riding on a motorcycle is overall more dangerous than riding in a car, sure, but I'd bet that driving a motorcycle safely is safer than driving a car dangerously.
My motorcycle gets 84 MPG, BTW. For less than $10, I can fill the tank and drive over 200 miles. It's also a lot cheaper to maintain, far more reliable, and easier/cheaper to repair if something does go wrong.
Simply put. Most of my American brethren are absolute idiots.
What an ass. The only idiot here is you, a person who thinks his way of thinking is the only correct way. And just like clockwork, saying that "Americans are idiots" = instant karma.
Of course, you could simply not get so wasted they can take those pictures. You could choose not to smoke illegal substances.
You know, act like the responsible person that you want to be seen as.
You could choose your friends better. I'm not sure how much I'd think of "friends" who post pictures of others out of control on public web pages just to humiliate them.
You could always not use Facebook, as others have pointed out. ... or you can thank God that you didn't get this job, knowing that you have saved yourself from working for a retard. A retard who, for some reason, believes that the things you do in your spare time (drinking and hanging out with friends, smoking a harmless plant, etc) is any of his business or would have any bearing on your on-the-job performance.
Like there isn't a person the fucking world who has never griped about a former boss, or never at any point in their lives acted like anything other than a mindless worker drone.
If that's the type of person a boss wants to hire, it only points to how sad and pathetic that boss--and company--is. I'll work elsewhere, thanks.
I have one of the Inspiron E1505 machines that Dell began selling last year with Linux on it. The Linux version of this machine has slightly different (more compatible, and more expensive) hardware. I don't recall all the details but I know the wireless card is different from the Windows version. I would not be surprised if something similar is going on here.
.. the third class should prepare juniors and seniors to enter the workforce and start a career in computers.
The point of high school is not (or should not be) to prepare kids to be mindless worker drones. The point of high school is (or should be) to give them a good, basic education.
I stand corrected. I still think it's a good idea to avoid CAUSING forest fires, i.e. from camp fires, cigarettes, etc. Let them happen naturally. Unfortunately, we can't just let them burn since unchecked they'll burn down a lot of houses and towns. Maybe it's not possible in this instance to allow things to happen naturally and simultaneously protect our own interests.
Stopping forest fires causes a buildup of underbrush? Apparently you have never been inside an old (i.e. untouched by humans) forest before. They are typically very open, easily navigable, and underbrush-free, because the tall canopy blocks most of the light from coming through and thus retards vegetation growth. Recently (i.e. in the past 50-100 years) logged/burnt lands, on the other hand, are typically choked with underbrush, briars, honeysuckle, etc. It takes at least a hundred years for a typical forest to return back to normal, longer in places with slower growing trees.
Looks like we won't get that back without a bit of organized political action. I still recommend General Strikes. Shut the economy down and let the elites twist.
Sounds good until you realize that the average American household has $8,000 worth of credit card debt--not to mention mortgages, car loans, etc. Most Americans are one or two paychecks away from financial ruin. Americans in general are too spineless, and dependent on the "system", to ever revolt against it.
While we're on the subject, why does every application/operating system on the fucking planet need to have a fancy codename for every release, or for ANY release for that matter? For example, Ubuntu-- it irritates the shit out of me having to remember all these release names (Hoary, Gutsy, etc etc). Which one is the newest? Which one am I running? Who the fuck knows? If developers want to use these code names internally, I don't really care, but don't expect me (the end user) to remember this arbitrary bullshit.
There are a lot of factors involved that cause fuel tank gauges to not read linearly. For one, there is a "float" in the tank attached to a pivot arm that moves an arm across a rheostat to change resistance depending on tank level. Since the arm swings in an arc, the resistance change is not linear. Second, the tank is oddly shaped which throws off the reading. Third, there is usually a "reserve" capacity built in where the gauge may read empty, but there is still fuel in the tank below the level of the float. Fourth, there is usually a sump at the bottom of the tank whose purpose is to hold fuel while the vehicle turns around corners and such to avoid starving the engine of fuel during maneuvers. Fifth, during heavy maneuvers, fuel will slosh around the tank and cause the float to move up and down as it rides the waves, distorting the reading.
As you can see, it's complicated. Modern vehicles do a bit of signal processing to smooth out the reading (especially in cases like example #5 above, fuel sloshing around the tank) but it's not perfect. It's close enough though, and that's what counts.
Take a hint from the car manufacturers. Today, high-end cars are using LED tail lights. They are also used on trucks. The main advantage is they do not burn out.
I've seen plenty of cars and trucks driving around with several LEDs burned out in their tail lamps.
Mods, please mod my previous post down, I screwed up the formatting. (Doh, should have used Preview.)
If that were the case why are so many students coming out of college with 6 figure debt from student loans that will be a ball and chain around their neck for most of their life.
Because they made poor choices, like deciding to go to an ivy-league school on a community college budget. That's not the system's fault.
Instead they seem to favor stop loss so once you join the military its extremely difficult to get out when your enlistment is up. Being maimed or killed by an IED in Iraq is a pretty steep price to pay for an education.
Or you could join the Air Force, where there is no stop loss and the chances of getting killed by an IED in Iraq are extremely remote. If you go overseas with a typical Air Force deployment, you'll most likely be sitting in safety on Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, or somewhere similar.
And how many Navy personnel have been killed in Iraq?
I spent six years in the Air National Guard, up until late 2007, and I was never deployed. I also got a four year degree for pretty cheap, and a steady monthly paycheck.
Cuba's medical education is so good they train doctors many other countries in Central and South America. The U.S. can't even provide adequate general practitioners to its own rural areas.
By rural, you mean extremely remote. How many third world countries do you know of that have vast expanses of nothingness the size of Texas, Nebraska, etc? These places most likely would not even have telephone or electrical service if it weren't for the U.S. government requiring it with the Rural Electrification Act. This is a logistical problem, not a problem with our health care system.
And yes, the U.S. does train THOUSANDS of health care professionals (doctors, nurses, etc) from all over the world. We have some of the best medical technology, training, facilities, etc available anywhere in the world.
Dude you are seriously out of touch with reality. If that were the case why are their 40+ million uninsured Americans and the number is growing every day.
Well, I can't speak for the other 40+ million, but *I* don't have health insurance because I don't need it and don't want it. I am a perfectly healthy 20-something and getting insurance is not a priority. If I wanted insurance, I could get it no problem. When I was in school I got free insurance through my mom, whose insurance plan covered any children of hers who are in school. When I was in the military I got super cheap health and dental insurance, and if I decided to stay in I could still be getting it. I can still get a great rate through Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Insurance is really cheap for young folks who don't smoke, etc. We are the ones who have the least disposable income. If you can't afford insurance by the time you're 40-50+ years old, that's your own fault; perhaps you should have made some better choices in life. It's not my responsibility to pay for your health care.
If you think health care in the U.S. is so great I think you ought to go sit in the emergency room at a hospital that takes the uninsured, if you can find one.
What do you mean "if I can find one"? Any hospital or health care facility in the U.S. will take an uninsured patient, especially in the case of life threatening illness or injury.
Socialism sucks in a lot of ways but it does seem to provide health care better than anything Capitalism can manage.
Really? Kinda like the Canadian health care system, where patients wait for months or years to receive care even when they need critical operations like surgeries? Where they can travel right across the border to the U.S. and go straight to the operating room the same day? Sounds like a real paradise up there.
You should probably try getting out of your cocoon a little more often.
Cocoon? LOL so I'm in a "cocoon" because I disagree with you? I've travelled ALL over the world, buddy, and seen quite a few things. No "cocoon" here.
If that were the case why are so many students coming out of college with 6 figure debt from student loans that will be a ball and chain around their neck for most of their life.
Because they made poor choices, like deciding to go to an ivy-league school on a community college budget. That's not the system's fault.
Instead they seem to favor stop loss so once you join the military its extremely difficult to get out when your enlistment is up. Being maimed or killed by an IED in Iraq is a pretty steep price to pay for an education.
Or you could join the Air Force, where there is no stop loss and the chances of getting killed by an IED in Iraq are extremely remote. If you go overseas with a typical Air Force deployment, you'll most likely be sitting in safety on Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, or somewhere similar.
And how many Navy personnel have been killed in Iraq?
I spent six years in the Air National Guard, up until late 2007, and I was never deployed. I also got a four year degree for pretty cheap, and a steady monthly paycheck.
Cuba's medical education is so good they train doctors many other countries in Central and South America. The U.S. can't even provide adequate general practitioners to its own rural areas.
By rural, you mean extremely remote. How many third world countries do you know of that have vast expanses of nothingness the size of Texas, Nebraska, etc? These places most likely would not even have telephone or electrical service if it weren't for the U.S. government requiring it with the Rural Electrification Act. This is a logistical problem, not a problem with our health care system.
And yes, the U.S. does train THOUSANDS of health care professionals (doctors, nurses, etc) from all over the world. We have some of the best medical technology, training, facilities, etc available anywhere in the world.
Dude you are seriously out of touch with reality. If that were the case why are their 40+ million uninsured Americans and the number is growing every day.
Well, I can't speak for the other 40+ million, but *I* don't have health insurance because I don't need it and don't want it. I am a perfectly healthy 20-something and getting insurance is not a priority. If I wanted insurance, I could get it no problem. When I was in school I got free insurance through my mom, whose insurance plan covered any children of hers who are in school. When I was in the military I got super cheap health and dental insurance, and if I decided to stay in I could still be getting it. I can still get a great rate through Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Insurance is really cheap for young folks who don't smoke, etc. We are the ones who have the least disposable income. If you can't afford insurance by the time you're 40-50+ years old, that's your own fault; perhaps you should have made some better choices in life. It's not my responsibility to pay for your health care.
If you think health care in the U.S. is so great I think you ought to go sit in the emergency room at a hospital that takes the uninsured, if you can find one.
What do you mean "if I can find one"? Any hospital or health care facility in the U.S. will take an uninsured patient, especially in the case of life threatening illness or injury.
Socialism sucks in a lot of ways but it does seem to provide health care better than anything Capitalism can manage.
Really? Kinda like the Canadian health care system, where patients wait for months or years to receive care even when they need critical operations like surgeries? Where they can travel right across the border to the U.S. and go straight to the operating room the same day? Sounds like a real paradise up there.
You should probably try getting out of your cocoon a little more often.
Cocoon? LOL so I'm in a "cocoon" because I disagree with you? I've travelled ALL over the world, buddy, and seen quite a few things.
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Yes, it is fast. We're talking practically instantaneous command prompt as soon as the BIOS screens are passed. You might have a bunch of TSRs and drivers loading in your startup files that will slow it down, but you can set up a startup menu to select which configuration to boot, or bypass the startup files altogether.
I wasn't joking, but thanks for posting, I'll have to give that one a try
FreeDOS does in fact support power management. It doesn't really matter anyways; we're talking about booting up the laptop quickly, jotting some stuff down, then turning it back off again.
OK, in restrospect that's funny, but I was being serious. FreeDOS meets all his requirements. It boots to command line in just a few seconds, supports FAT32, is easy to use, and there are countless thousands of high quality text editors of all flavors available for it. It even has TCP/IP support and such, and it can be booted off the oldest, smallest, most worthless thumb drive that you possibly own.
How about DOS?
OK, so where do I download my copy of DirectX for Linux?
I have the same laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled, and the ipw3945 driver is a piece of shit. It's buggy and apparently has memory leaks. After it has operated for a certain length of time (random, usually no more than a few days) network operations start timing out and finally won't work at all. The only solution is to shut down wicd, rmmod and modprobe iwl3945, then start wicd back up and reconnect to the wireless network.
While you have a point, you also have to keep in mind that in certain industries, some of these names may be well known, and thus there is no need to introduce themselves in an advertisement.
For example, think of Coca-Cola advertisements. They don't say anything other than "Coke" and some catchy phrase. They don't need to say anything else because the brand is well known. Same thing with certain smaller companies who operate in specific markets.
If you saw a similar advertisement for "Jack Henry and Associates, Inc." touting its "processing solutions", you might not know what the hell that company is or what it does, but anyone who is in the banking field in the U.S. likely knows who they are.
You are correct in the short term, but the point is, turning the GPU into a more general purpose massively parallel number crunching maching and integrating it into the CPU will allow us to do AMAZING things in the long term.
In the short term people will continue using APIs like OpenGL and DirectX, whose designers will basically have to add a lot of code to perform all the functions that the high end GPUs used to do. Or I could see NVidia/ATI releasing a new closed-source "driver" that looks like a GPU to the OpenGL API, but is actually a software implementation that performs all the work using the new CPU instructions.
Then in the medium term, this functionality will gradually be reimplemented into OpenGL/DirectX, which will allow the API designers to add new, interesting and amazing capabilities relatively easily. Bear in mind that these new features will work exactly the same on every CPU that contains the now-standardized "GPU" functionality, and there is no need to upgrade your CPU to use them.
Perhaps at some point in the future your GPU-integrated CPU won't be fast enough to run the latest and greatest game with its special new rendering features, but all you have to do is upgrade to CPU v2.0 with its new and much faster integrated GPU to enable those capabilities. Intel, AMD, doesn't matter, you pick whatever manufacturer you like and have one less part to upgrade.
In the long term, expect to see totally new APIs (now regular ole libraries, to replace OpenGL/DirectX) based around this new way of doing things, and allowing basically unlimited possibilities. There could be entire new rendering "paradigms" aside from the standard vertex/triangle/triangle patch deal (i.e. raytracing) that could be implemented at full speed practically effortlessly. They all have the same basic requirements, which is the ability to crunch a lot of numbers really fast.
Let's not also forget that this now-general-purpose "GPU" can also be used to process things such as physics calculations, etc. It's an all-in-one solution to tackling any sort of math/processing problem of that nature.
This is the direction we are currently headed. More general purpose = more flexibility = more possibilities. Combine this with advances that are happening elsewhere, and the future is looking very exciting.
For example, they don't want the bottom to fall out of the market of their other cars, because they know that this would be their top #1 seller, and most of their other cars would become a lot less popular.
How is this insightful?
Why would Ford want to avoid increasing their sales?
Ford has been unprofitable for years. They actually had planned to return to profitability in 2009, back before the economy went to shit. Not sure about their cars but right now (at least in this area) their trucks are selling at HALF price. That's right, you can walk out the door with a brand new $22k truck for $11k, and get many "thank yous" and "please come agains" on the way out. I don't think their car sales are doing much better.
So yes, Ford would love to bring such a vehicle to the US, but I imagine there must be some serious reasons why they can't. Probably something to do with emissions laws, state environmental concerns, along with the standard safety redesign required for pretty much any vehicle brought to the US that was not originally designed for the US market.
The whole "nobody would buy it because it's a diesel" is pretty much a self-perpetuating myth. It was certainly true during the 80s, and maybe during the 90s, all thanks to the failed Olds 350 diesel, but it is certainly not true in 2008. Build a reasonably priced small diesel car and US customers will flock to it.
Personally I'd take something 100x safer than a motorcycle that got me 50 MPG even if it was only slightly less safe than an SUV.
Actually motorcycles themselves are very safe, the main problem is a motorcycle driver who doesn't pay sharp attention to what's going on around him, and doesn't drive as defensively as he should, combined with other idiots out on the road who for sure aren't paying attention. Then when an accident occurs, if the motorcyclist is not wearing proper gear, what might have been a few bruises and soreness for a week turns into serious injuries.
Riding on a motorcycle is overall more dangerous than riding in a car, sure, but I'd bet that driving a motorcycle safely is safer than driving a car dangerously.
My motorcycle gets 84 MPG, BTW. For less than $10, I can fill the tank and drive over 200 miles. It's also a lot cheaper to maintain, far more reliable, and easier/cheaper to repair if something does go wrong.
Simply put. Most of my American brethren are absolute idiots.
What an ass. The only idiot here is you, a person who thinks his way of thinking is the only correct way. And just like clockwork, saying that "Americans are idiots" = instant karma.
Of course, you could simply not get so wasted they can take those pictures. You could choose not to smoke illegal substances.
You know, act like the responsible person that you want to be seen as.
You could choose your friends better. I'm not sure how much I'd think of "friends" who post pictures of others out of control on public web pages just to humiliate them.
You could always not use Facebook, as others have pointed out. ... or you can thank God that you didn't get this job, knowing that you have saved yourself from working for a retard. A retard who, for some reason, believes that the things you do in your spare time (drinking and hanging out with friends, smoking a harmless plant, etc) is any of his business or would have any bearing on your on-the-job performance.
Like there isn't a person the fucking world who has never griped about a former boss, or never at any point in their lives acted like anything other than a mindless worker drone.
If that's the type of person a boss wants to hire, it only points to how sad and pathetic that boss--and company--is. I'll work elsewhere, thanks.
I have one of the Inspiron E1505 machines that Dell began selling last year with Linux on it. The Linux version of this machine has slightly different (more compatible, and more expensive) hardware. I don't recall all the details but I know the wireless card is different from the Windows version. I would not be surprised if something similar is going on here.
.. the third class should prepare juniors and seniors to enter the workforce and start a career in computers.
The point of high school is not (or should not be) to prepare kids to be mindless worker drones. The point of high school is (or should be) to give them a good, basic education.
"Robots Learn to Swallow"
then I reread it
imagine my disappointment
Good to see a long prison sentence for one of those jerks, hopefully that friendly bold guy who teaches you "how to run the computer" will be next.
Your post intrigued me so I did a brief google search:
http://www.infomercialscams.com/scams/video_professor
I have seen these infomercials, but I didn't know they were scams. Then again, I have never ordered anything from any of them either.
Good point, I didn't think of that. I think you may be right. Maybe there is some hope for the US after all.
I stand corrected. I still think it's a good idea to avoid CAUSING forest fires, i.e. from camp fires, cigarettes, etc. Let them happen naturally. Unfortunately, we can't just let them burn since unchecked they'll burn down a lot of houses and towns. Maybe it's not possible in this instance to allow things to happen naturally and simultaneously protect our own interests.
Stopping forest fires causes a buildup of underbrush? Apparently you have never been inside an old (i.e. untouched by humans) forest before. They are typically very open, easily navigable, and underbrush-free, because the tall canopy blocks most of the light from coming through and thus retards vegetation growth. Recently (i.e. in the past 50-100 years) logged/burnt lands, on the other hand, are typically choked with underbrush, briars, honeysuckle, etc. It takes at least a hundred years for a typical forest to return back to normal, longer in places with slower growing trees.
Looks like we won't get that back without a bit of organized political action. I still recommend General Strikes. Shut the economy down and let the elites twist.
Sounds good until you realize that the average American household has $8,000 worth of credit card debt--not to mention mortgages, car loans, etc. Most Americans are one or two paychecks away from financial ruin. Americans in general are too spineless, and dependent on the "system", to ever revolt against it.
While we're on the subject, why does every application/operating system on the fucking planet need to have a fancy codename for every release, or for ANY release for that matter? For example, Ubuntu-- it irritates the shit out of me having to remember all these release names (Hoary, Gutsy, etc etc). Which one is the newest? Which one am I running? Who the fuck knows? If developers want to use these code names internally, I don't really care, but don't expect me (the end user) to remember this arbitrary bullshit.
There are a lot of factors involved that cause fuel tank gauges to not read linearly. For one, there is a "float" in the tank attached to a pivot arm that moves an arm across a rheostat to change resistance depending on tank level. Since the arm swings in an arc, the resistance change is not linear. Second, the tank is oddly shaped which throws off the reading. Third, there is usually a "reserve" capacity built in where the gauge may read empty, but there is still fuel in the tank below the level of the float. Fourth, there is usually a sump at the bottom of the tank whose purpose is to hold fuel while the vehicle turns around corners and such to avoid starving the engine of fuel during maneuvers. Fifth, during heavy maneuvers, fuel will slosh around the tank and cause the float to move up and down as it rides the waves, distorting the reading.
As you can see, it's complicated. Modern vehicles do a bit of signal processing to smooth out the reading (especially in cases like example #5 above, fuel sloshing around the tank) but it's not perfect. It's close enough though, and that's what counts.
Take a hint from the car manufacturers. Today, high-end cars are using LED tail lights. They are also used on trucks. The main advantage is they do not burn out.
I've seen plenty of cars and trucks driving around with several LEDs burned out in their tail lamps.
Mods, please mod my previous post down, I screwed up the formatting. (Doh, should have used Preview.)
If that were the case why are so many students coming out of college with 6 figure debt from student loans that will be a ball and chain around their neck for most of their life.
Because they made poor choices, like deciding to go to an ivy-league school on a community college budget. That's not the system's fault.
Instead they seem to favor stop loss so once you join the military its extremely difficult to get out when your enlistment is up. Being maimed or killed by an IED in Iraq is a pretty steep price to pay for an education.
Or you could join the Air Force, where there is no stop loss and the chances of getting killed by an IED in Iraq are extremely remote. If you go overseas with a typical Air Force deployment, you'll most likely be sitting in safety on Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, or somewhere similar.
And how many Navy personnel have been killed in Iraq?
I spent six years in the Air National Guard, up until late 2007, and I was never deployed. I also got a four year degree for pretty cheap, and a steady monthly paycheck.
Cuba's medical education is so good they train doctors many other countries in Central and South America. The U.S. can't even provide adequate general practitioners to its own rural areas.
By rural, you mean extremely remote. How many third world countries do you know of that have vast expanses of nothingness the size of Texas, Nebraska, etc? These places most likely would not even have telephone or electrical service if it weren't for the U.S. government requiring it with the Rural Electrification Act. This is a logistical problem, not a problem with our health care system.
And yes, the U.S. does train THOUSANDS of health care professionals (doctors, nurses, etc) from all over the world. We have some of the best medical technology, training, facilities, etc available anywhere in the world.
Dude you are seriously out of touch with reality. If that were the case why are their 40+ million uninsured Americans and the number is growing every day.
Well, I can't speak for the other 40+ million, but *I* don't have health insurance because I don't need it and don't want it. I am a perfectly healthy 20-something and getting insurance is not a priority. If I wanted insurance, I could get it no problem. When I was in school I got free insurance through my mom, whose insurance plan covered any children of hers who are in school. When I was in the military I got super cheap health and dental insurance, and if I decided to stay in I could still be getting it. I can still get a great rate through Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Insurance is really cheap for young folks who don't smoke, etc. We are the ones who have the least disposable income. If you can't afford insurance by the time you're 40-50+ years old, that's your own fault; perhaps you should have made some better choices in life. It's not my responsibility to pay for your health care.
If you think health care in the U.S. is so great I think you ought to go sit in the emergency room at a hospital that takes the uninsured, if you can find one.
What do you mean "if I can find one"? Any hospital or health care facility in the U.S. will take an uninsured patient, especially in the case of life threatening illness or injury.
Socialism sucks in a lot of ways but it does seem to provide health care better than anything Capitalism can manage.
Really? Kinda like the Canadian health care system, where patients wait for months or years to receive care even when they need critical operations like surgeries? Where they can travel right across the border to the U.S. and go straight to the operating room the same day? Sounds like a real paradise up there.
You should probably try getting out of your cocoon a little more often.
Cocoon? LOL so I'm in a "cocoon" because I disagree with you? I've travelled ALL over the world, buddy, and seen quite a few things. No "cocoon" here.
If that were the case why are so many students coming out of college with 6 figure debt from student loans that will be a ball and chain around their neck for most of their life.
Because they made poor choices, like deciding to go to an ivy-league school on a community college budget. That's not the system's fault.
Instead they seem to favor stop loss so once you join the military its extremely difficult to get out when your enlistment is up. Being maimed or killed by an IED in Iraq is a pretty steep price to pay for an education.
Or you could join the Air Force, where there is no stop loss and the chances of getting killed by an IED in Iraq are extremely remote. If you go overseas with a typical Air Force deployment, you'll most likely be sitting in safety on Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, or somewhere similar.
And how many Navy personnel have been killed in Iraq?
I spent six years in the Air National Guard, up until late 2007, and I was never deployed. I also got a four year degree for pretty cheap, and a steady monthly paycheck.
Cuba's medical education is so good they train doctors many other countries in Central and South America. The U.S. can't even provide adequate general practitioners to its own rural areas.
By rural, you mean extremely remote. How many third world countries do you know of that have vast expanses of nothingness the size of Texas, Nebraska, etc? These places most likely would not even have telephone or electrical service if it weren't for the U.S. government requiring it with the Rural Electrification Act. This is a logistical problem, not a problem with our health care system.
And yes, the U.S. does train THOUSANDS of health care professionals (doctors, nurses, etc) from all over the world. We have some of the best medical technology, training, facilities, etc available anywhere in the world.
Dude you are seriously out of touch with reality. If that were the case why are their 40+ million uninsured Americans and the number is growing every day.
Well, I can't speak for the other 40+ million, but *I* don't have health insurance because I don't need it and don't want it. I am a perfectly healthy 20-something and getting insurance is not a priority. If I wanted insurance, I could get it no problem. When I was in school I got free insurance through my mom, whose insurance plan covered any children of hers who are in school. When I was in the military I got super cheap health and dental insurance, and if I decided to stay in I could still be getting it. I can still get a great rate through Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Insurance is really cheap for young folks who don't smoke, etc. We are the ones who have the least disposable income. If you can't afford insurance by the time you're 40-50+ years old, that's your own fault; perhaps you should have made some better choices in life. It's not my responsibility to pay for your health care.
If you think health care in the U.S. is so great I think you ought to go sit in the emergency room at a hospital that takes the uninsured, if you can find one.
What do you mean "if I can find one"? Any hospital or health care facility in the U.S. will take an uninsured patient, especially in the case of life threatening illness or injury.
Socialism sucks in a lot of ways but it does seem to provide health care better than anything Capitalism can manage.
Really? Kinda like the Canadian health care system, where patients wait for months or years to receive care even when they need critical operations like surgeries? Where they can travel right across the border to the U.S. and go straight to the operating room the same day? Sounds like a real paradise up there.
You should probably try getting out of your cocoon a little more often.
Cocoon? LOL so I'm in a "cocoon" because I disagree with you? I've travelled ALL over the world, buddy, and seen quite a few things.