Fold down the seats, and you can get a fridge in the back. It does better than the bosses great big BMW for carrying presentation boards to corporate meetings. And it drinks about half of the fuel
This is not strictly true. According to the Environment Protection Agency, your car uses 34 mpg for mixed driving. A BMW 528i uses 28 mpg. Half the fuel, you said?
Who said the BMW in question is a 528i? It could be a 750iL for all you know, or a classic M1.
Hypothetically because smaller cars are less safe. Not that I subscribe to that theory.
Smaller cars get hurt more going up against bigger cars and trucks... not so much against other small cars. If anything, such collisions should be safer, since there is less total energy involved to be transferred to the occupants.
Americans putting down America have yet a lot to learn. As they say, you think THIS is civil liberties violated? you ain't seen nothing yet..:)
What are you saying? We'd better keep our mouths shut, or else? Doesn't that sound familiar? We "Americans putting down America" are doing so because we don't want to see things get worse... do you?
Ah, the everlovin' anecdote! Ok I'll play. I was stopped more than once while walking down the street. I wasn't even crossing the city limits. Shall we keep going back and forth?
As long as we comply we have nothing to fear. Ain't life grand?... please, don't try to tell me the system is any less corrupt.
Where is the "corruption" in your example? Were you shaken down by the police for money, or something?
I recently read that the Concorde, while taxiing into takeoff position, used as much fuel as a modern airliner uses getting all the way to its destination
That says more about the reliability of your reading material than the fuel efficiency of the Concorde. It's incorrect by three orders of magnitude.
A 777 uses ~120000kg of fuel for a transatlantic flight. A Concorde uses ~80000kg for the same flight, and ~200kg to taxi into takeoff position.
To be fair, the Triple-7 carries a few more people than the Concorde in the process...
but yes, people should have access to computers in prison.
I'm just one of those old-fashoned type people that think that prison should be a strong deterrent against breaking the law. Violate someone else's rights and find yourself in a hole with all your privileges taken away for awhile.
I would think that, if you want what's best for the innocent, law-abiding citizenfolk, what we should really be after is whatever measures will minimize the risk of recidivism - after all, it's too late to prevent the original crime. So do you have data that shows that a "deterrence" policy works best to reduce recidivism? Or are you really after some kind of righteous "retribution"?
It's so sad on reflection when we look on how we (and I'm British) treated him, just because he was homosexual. I'm afraid that we've lost many greats over the ages because of their peccadillos.
Because of theirpeccadillos? Or because of the ignorance and intolerance of the majority?
Under the old classical definitions, the first world was Europe...
What "old classical definitions"? The terms "first/second/third world" were first used in the late 1940s at the UN, to describe the alignment of the world's nations under either the US/Euro sphere (1st), the Soviet sphere (2nd), or the non-aligned nations (3rd). They have nothing to do with economic standing, nor (specifically) with geography (e.g. Australia is closer to China and the Asian Third World geographically, but it's still considered First World).
To be fair, there is also the "Three Worlds Theory" put forth by Mao somewhere around the same time or slightly later, that grouped nations as 1st World = superpowers, 2nd World = allies of superpowers, and 3rd World = non-aligned. In either case, though, 3rd World = non-aligned nations.
I glanced through the aspects of the COSA model. It's not a computational model and hence, doesn't in any way replace a Turing machine. This can be simply illustrated by asking the question, "How much time and units of computing does it take to perform a certain task?" The Turing machine is designed to give a clear answer while that sort of detail is hidden from the programmer in COSA. Hence, you do not have an alternative to the Turing machine.
What I don't get is this: They could make equal money building out a fleet of say, 1000 F16 / F18 Superwhaterver BlockZ aircraft. Scary enough and potent enough to deal with any adversary in the next several decades. Cheap enough for generic use.
Building more of the same wouldn't keep all those defense systems engineers employed. Then they go off and find other jobs in other industries. Then some new enemy comes along and we really do need a super-capable new system, and where are the engineers to design it? Trying to stay out in front technically means you need to keep and maintain viable industry support, and that means keeping the defense contractors fed. Eisenhower tried to warn us about this over 50 years ago...:(
Let's look at it from a different, more productive way. Say 10 cents a mile fuel savings, $5k price differential. You make up the price differential after 50,000 miles, and save an additional $5k when your odometer rolls over. So the question is, how long do you plan on keeping your car? I tend to keep them mouth 150,000 miles, so it's a good bet for me.
$5K price difference? MSRP on a Leaf is over $35K, with tax incentives as low as $27K. MSRP on a Fiesta is as low as $13K depending on model. So it will take 140K of your 150K ownership before you break even, and you will see a whopping $1000 "windfall" at the end. (And it took a major handout from Uncle Sam to even make it that close - in a free market, the electric car would be a major loss vs. the gas car.) Thia is all assuming your Leaf (and its batteries, etc.) actually lasts you 150K miles, by the way - good luck with that...
If your driving needs ar compatible with an EV, then you can get an EV. If an EV can't meet your needs, then you can get a gasoline car..
But if you live within EV range of work, then you can save a lot more money by buying an efficient gasoline-powered car. The car itself will be a lot cheaper, and the savings in electricity vs. gas will not make up the difference. Figure on (where I live) 8 cents/kWh, and a 100-mile range for that Leaf and it's 24 kWh battery - that's about 2 cents a mile. Meanwhile, a Ford Fiesta gets a combined EPA rating of 33 mpg, which figuring on $4/gal gas (again where I live) gives about 12 cents per mile. So you save 10 cents/mile with the Leaf. Supposing you drive 5000 miles a year (remember, "if your driving needs are compatible with an EV"), then you save about $500 a year with the Leaf vs. the Fiesta. Which means a lot of years - even if the electricity were free - before you've saved back the price difference between the two cars...
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This is one more of many many reason why smart people spend their tourist money elsewhere.
No one with a brain is interested in visiting a police state, even if it is the half-assed sort of mess typical of everything else Canadians do.
Name me a country on this planet, apart from perhaps some South Pacific islands, that has not become a police state, if it wasn't one all along.
The idiot that initially typed in that password should be the one charged in this matter. It would have been more secure with 'Joshua' or 'CPE1704TKS'
Ah, but in the book, it was Joshua 5 , much more secure...
Although I laughed at your joke I do wonder if or when we'll let that go.
That meme will be around as long as human beings need someone to feel superior to. I.e., forever.
It's from a movie!
I love the smell of diesel in the morning ... smells like ... victory.
When I was in grade school, a classmate got in trouble for wearing a T-shirt that read "Diesel smoke makes me horny". (His dad was a trucker...)
Firefox reference! Nice!
Good movie with such a crappy ending. Obviously, once Gant went into his near-fatal spin, the Russian dude could have waxed him at any time.
Fold down the seats, and you can get a fridge in the back. It does better than the bosses great big BMW for carrying presentation boards to corporate meetings. And it drinks about half of the fuel
This is not strictly true. According to the Environment Protection Agency, your car uses 34 mpg for mixed driving. A BMW 528i uses 28 mpg. Half the fuel, you said?
Who said the BMW in question is a 528i? It could be a 750iL for all you know, or a classic M1.
Hypothetically because smaller cars are less safe. Not that I subscribe to that theory.
Smaller cars get hurt more going up against bigger cars and trucks... not so much against other small cars. If anything, such collisions should be safer, since there is less total energy involved to be transferred to the occupants.
Americans putting down America have yet a lot to learn. As they say, you think THIS is civil liberties violated? you ain't seen nothing yet.. :)
What are you saying? We'd better keep our mouths shut, or else? Doesn't that sound familiar? We "Americans putting down America" are doing so because we don't want to see things get worse... do you?
For every anti-Semitic statement Ahmadinejad has made, we can probably find an equivalent statement coming from a politician in the US.
Ahmadinejad isn't "a politician", he's the President of Iran. Heard many anti-Semitic statements from Obama lately, or Bush or Clinton before him?
Not to mention the anti-Arab statements coming out if the Israeli and US governments...
I haven't heard anything about "wiping the Arab world off the map"; have you?
Henry Ford also made anti-Semitic remarks, you still buy his cars...
Ford isn't a country, and it isn't trying to get its hands on nukes.
My fiance doesn't drive and doesn't have a license, just a state ID, and she can vote just fine.
Apparently she doesn't live in Pennsylvania.
Apparently you don't know the law as well as you think you do. Pennsylvania does not require a driver's license, nor does any other US state.
My fiance doesn't drive and doesn't have a license, just a state ID, and she can vote just fine.
But she has the state ID. What if she didn't?
Ah, the everlovin' anecdote! Ok I'll play. I was stopped more than once while walking down the street. I wasn't even crossing the city limits. Shall we keep going back and forth?
As long as we comply we have nothing to fear. Ain't life grand? ... please, don't try to tell me the system is any less corrupt.
Where is the "corruption" in your example? Were you shaken down by the police for money, or something?
Oh, come on. Are you saying they're going to throw rocks at us from space?
Build a mass driver on the moon aimed at china and russia. Now this is a good incentive for going back to the moon and putting up a permanent base.
Did you ever read the book referenced above? All fine and dandy until the mass driver gets taken over by people who don't like you...
I recently read that the Concorde, while taxiing into takeoff position, used as much fuel as a modern airliner uses getting all the way to its destination
That says more about the reliability of your reading material than the fuel efficiency of the Concorde. It's incorrect by three orders of magnitude.
A 777 uses ~120000kg of fuel for a transatlantic flight. A Concorde uses ~80000kg for the same flight, and ~200kg to taxi into takeoff position.
To be fair, the Triple-7 carries a few more people than the Concorde in the process...
I'm just one of those old-fashoned type people that think that prison should be a strong deterrent against breaking the law. Violate someone else's rights and find yourself in a hole with all your privileges taken away for awhile.
I would think that, if you want what's best for the innocent, law-abiding citizenfolk, what we should really be after is whatever measures will minimize the risk of recidivism - after all, it's too late to prevent the original crime. So do you have data that shows that a "deterrence" policy works best to reduce recidivism? Or are you really after some kind of righteous "retribution"?
It's so sad on reflection when we look on how we (and I'm British) treated him, just because he was homosexual. I'm afraid that we've lost many greats over the ages because of their peccadillos.
Because of theirpeccadillos? Or because of the ignorance and intolerance of the majority?
Under the old classical definitions, the first world was Europe...
What "old classical definitions"? The terms "first/second/third world" were first used in the late 1940s at the UN, to describe the alignment of the world's nations under either the US/Euro sphere (1st), the Soviet sphere (2nd), or the non-aligned nations (3rd). They have nothing to do with economic standing, nor (specifically) with geography (e.g. Australia is closer to China and the Asian Third World geographically, but it's still considered First World). To be fair, there is also the "Three Worlds Theory" put forth by Mao somewhere around the same time or slightly later, that grouped nations as 1st World = superpowers, 2nd World = allies of superpowers, and 3rd World = non-aligned. In either case, though, 3rd World = non-aligned nations.
Where ever they film "Jersey shore" certainly seems to be a complete nightmare to most people...
Because it's filled with loud, obnoxious, big-haired people with more money than brains, not because it's poor or dangerous.
I glanced through the aspects of the COSA model. It's not a computational model and hence, doesn't in any way replace a Turing machine. This can be simply illustrated by asking the question, "How much time and units of computing does it take to perform a certain task?" The Turing machine is designed to give a clear answer while that sort of detail is hidden from the programmer in COSA. Hence, you do not have an alternative to the Turing machine.
Indeed. All he's done is recapitulate LabVIEW.
It's called COSA and it's inherently parallel and reactive. Current processors would have to be redesigned to handle COSA at the instruction level.
Also, we're going to need to evolve much bigger hands to be able to do the kind of gigantic hand-waving you seem to do in such a carefree manner...
What I don't get is this: They could make equal money building out a fleet of say, 1000 F16 / F18 Superwhaterver BlockZ aircraft. Scary enough and potent enough to deal with any adversary in the next several decades. Cheap enough for generic use.
Building more of the same wouldn't keep all those defense systems engineers employed. Then they go off and find other jobs in other industries. Then some new enemy comes along and we really do need a super-capable new system, and where are the engineers to design it? Trying to stay out in front technically means you need to keep and maintain viable industry support, and that means keeping the defense contractors fed. Eisenhower tried to warn us about this over 50 years ago... :(
Let's look at it from a different, more productive way. Say 10 cents a mile fuel savings, $5k price differential. You make up the price differential after 50,000 miles, and save an additional $5k when your odometer rolls over. So the question is, how long do you plan on keeping your car? I tend to keep them mouth 150,000 miles, so it's a good bet for me.
$5K price difference? MSRP on a Leaf is over $35K, with tax incentives as low as $27K. MSRP on a Fiesta is as low as $13K depending on model. So it will take 140K of your 150K ownership before you break even, and you will see a whopping $1000 "windfall" at the end. (And it took a major handout from Uncle Sam to even make it that close - in a free market, the electric car would be a major loss vs. the gas car.) Thia is all assuming your Leaf (and its batteries, etc.) actually lasts you 150K miles, by the way - good luck with that...
If your driving needs ar compatible with an EV, then you can get an EV. If an EV can't meet your needs, then you can get a gasoline car. .
But if you live within EV range of work, then you can save a lot more money by buying an efficient gasoline-powered car. The car itself will be a lot cheaper, and the savings in electricity vs. gas will not make up the difference. Figure on (where I live) 8 cents/kWh, and a 100-mile range for that Leaf and it's 24 kWh battery - that's about 2 cents a mile. Meanwhile, a Ford Fiesta gets a combined EPA rating of 33 mpg, which figuring on $4/gal gas (again where I live) gives about 12 cents per mile. So you save 10 cents/mile with the Leaf. Supposing you drive 5000 miles a year (remember, "if your driving needs are compatible with an EV"), then you save about $500 a year with the Leaf vs. the Fiesta. Which means a lot of years - even if the electricity were free - before you've saved back the price difference between the two cars...