> If Adobe can't build Flash to fit within the constraints of the device, then too bad.
They can and they have - at least the technical constraints.
Legal constraints are the issue - Apple have banned any other programming languages like flash from the platform. Adobe were working round that with a pre-processor / converter but Apple have changed the licence to demand that all apps be written directly in Apple-approved programming languages - no pre-processors allowed.
Emacs for iPhone - not allowed (before). Now, if you even use Bison / Yacc or anything similar to create your app, it's not allowed.
The armrest is the definitive gauge for a Customer of size. It serves as the boundary between seats and measures 17 inches in width. Customers who are unable to lower both armrests and/or who compromise any portion of adjacent seating should proactively book the number of seats needed prior to travel.
In fact that looks pretty darn simple and straightforward (and fair) - if you fit in the seat (that's the bit between the armrests) then sit in it, otherwise buy more than one seat.
It'll still be a lot cheaper for fat people than tall people who have to pay for business class (ain't no special offers for upgrades if you're too tall to fit your knees behind the cattle class seat, I've tried). Furthermore, fat people can lose weight, tall people are stuck being tall.
> There has never, and will never be a federal or state case where someone gets arrested because someone received spam that may have contained illegal items.
http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/AABBS_Thomases_Memphis/aabbs_case.docs Note:
I have a hand written and signed statement from Inspector
Dirmeyer in the form of a PERMISSION TO SEARCH document he
filled out to get his child pornography back.
In describing the property he wrote:
"namely priority mail package from Lance White sent without
his knowledge." and:
Inspector Dirmeyer made statements to me the morning of January 15th
which caused me a great deal of alarm. In conversation in
front of a San Jose Police officer, he stated that 1) sending
unsolicited child pornography to a person who operates a
computer bulletin board system and 2) executing a search
warrant of questionably legality within minutes of its
receipt is "normal investigative procedure."
The owners of this BBS were raided once for "child porn" - and had everything returned no charges, by california officers, because no CP found. Then they were raided again after being mailed (not emailed) unsolicted CP from Tenessee, sent to Tenessee and convicted of obscenity (by Tenessee standards, for the same stuff that california previously had no problem with). They were not convicted of the CP charge that got them raided and sent to Tenessee.
More like "Product Y is made in state A is illegal here, so it's now illegal for people in state A to ship to customers here."
Actually more like "Product Y is made in state A is illegal here, so it's now illegal for people in state A to display product Y in state A if it is visible to vistors from here."
And if it turns into a federal case in any way, then extradition is a non-issue.
And they have an easy, proven, way of doing that.
- Mail you some child porn, and then "find" it - Oh, now you're on a federal charge - Ship you to other state - Drop federal child porn charge (sorry, we mailed you child porn by mistake...) - Ah, but now you're here, there's this state charge... (so don't think you're going home anytime soon).
This has been done before, and withstood legal challenges, so don't think they won't do it again.
>> I suspect it's more that both hold because of the different mindset that each platform engenders. The Windows command line is mostly crap because the attitude in the Windows world
Except that the Windows command line, and MS focus on it, has improved massively (out of all recognition really) in the last 2 or 3 years.
- Used to recommend Ant / Nant from CruiseControl even for.Net projects, but now MSBuild (the command line behind visual studio) has appeared and improved and does all you need. - SharePoint looks like it is all GUI point-click admin and config... until you realise the power MS have now put in stsadm on the command line. - And then there is powershell.
For years ( maybe decades...) I cursed the crap that was batch files and/or left cygwin install droppings everywhere I wrote any scripts on Windows, but now it is Bash that suddenly looks and feels 20+ years old. Major MS products (Exchange, SQL server... others I've forgotten) are moving all admin to be commandline (powershell) driven with a GUI on top. MS had a commandline epiphany somewhere in the last few years. They were so far behind Unix in that area - but now they are ahead. They've copied / learnt a lot from Unix, but have now taken it much further. Powershell is where the Unix shell should and could have been ten years ago - but instead we have dozens of different shells to choose from (age old Unix story of stagnation through fragmentation ).
>> In other words, it's the same thinking of "we should do this in a GUI" that leads to both situations, not someone sitting down and thinking "I want to write this as a command line tool, but that'll make it a pain to use, so I'll write a GUI instead."
It could also be the other way round - on Unix you have the command line heritage, but also it's much more of a pain to create a GUI, so even if you start out thinking "this tool should have/be a GUI", you may end up with command line.
- You have to bolt your GUI onto the command line tool because a) this is Unix and b) one of your users _will_ only have a vt100.
- Then you have to choose your widget set / toolkit, and hope in vain that you might find one with a decent visual designer.
- Oops, now your app looks all wrong for at least half your users
- and then you find it won't play nice with certain window managers
- and/or X Servers
- And eventually you give up and just maintain the command line, since _you_ know exactly how to use that anyway (and if users want a GUI they can go write their own)
- Or you decide it's less trouble to stick a web based front end on it
- and now you have an equally poor GUI on all platforms
On Windows, all your users have a GUI environment, they all have the same environment, you have one set of standard widgets / controls etc. etc. Maybe building maintaining and supporting a GUI app on Windows is just so much easier (despite the Windows APIs) than Unix / Linux, that people are prepared to do one but not the other.
(or download the full report - but that is payware).
Historical analysis shows regular five-day long calm periods across the whole of europe - ten day long calms every couple of decades. Oh, and typically in winter - so high demand time. That is across an area much more than "a few hundred clicks".
"Clean" peak load tech, like pumped storage hydro, simply doesn't have the capacity to cover that kind of gap.
The report also makes the point that nice clean gas gen capacity is too expensive (if only to be used occaisionally) and not necessarily good at being turned on and off regularly. The likely (only economic) backup for wind will be cheap and dirty fossil fuel kit - making the overall solution a lot dirtier.
Either that, or the lights start to go off on a regular basis. There are plenty of (reasonably welel developed) places in the world where that happens now, so we know what happens then - local backup through thousands upon thousands of small (cheap & dirty) diesel generators...
Wind simply isn't reliable enough for base load. Until someone solves the "storing electricity" problem. Somewhat ironically, I reckon the best hope for that will turn out to be creating artificial long chain hydrocarbons (from atmospheric CO2). Liquid hydrocarbons are very very energy dense, and we already have lots of knowledge and infrastructure for storing and transporting them efficiently.
> Because there are no cars on this planet that can go 650 miles at 75mph without stopping for gas.
Rubbish.
On regular urban commuting I get 55mpg (imperial) out of a car with approx 12 gallon (55L) tank - ie. range around 650. However, that is short commute into a city. Throw in some long trips and I often get 60+ off a tank - a range of 730 miles, and that is still including some short commutes on the tank. On those long trips I was typically cruising at around 80mph where the road is clear.
If I have more time on a long trip and am careful to keep it 65-70mph, the car will do 65-70mpg (about 10% or so better, as you surmised) - giving a range of well over 800 miles.
Now, this is a ten year old car (rated 55 combined mpg I think). It isn't the most economical car I've driven either - years ago I drove a citroen AX which was rated combined mpg of 65+ (and achieved it in real life). That would go much further (although I can't recall how big the tank was). However, it was small and not very pleasant at 80 mph.
New cars are better, take say VW Golf Bluemotion or Ford Fiesta Econetic, both rated around 75 combined mpg. If they come as close in the real world as my current drive does to it's test numbers, then the range must be around 900 miles at 70-80mph. Plenty of margin over your 650.
[ Of course you may be working on the assumption that "this planet" == "the USA" - in which case your conclusion might be correct, but only because your assumption is garbage... ]
and you cant find a 650 mile stretch of road that has no cars or delays in it.
> You are making a mistake if you use any formatting that is not simple. Bolds, font sizes, maybe bullet points
Unfortunately bullets have been a major compatibility problem between OO and Word. A few years ago this issue alone (even the simplest bulleted list would get mangled) derailed a corporate conversion to OO that I was involved in, and I've seen reports of bullets _still_ being a compatibilty problem today.
Example; driving test. I booked it with the DSA in June. With waiting lists and delays I didn't get to take it till mid September.
So don't book with the DSA.
You can book intensive courses with various driving schools which have the test included. These courses have existed for decades (I know) and still exist today (googled just now...). Looks like you can book with a week or so notice.
This approach might cost you a few hundred more than direct to the DSA, but hey that's competition right - you can have cheap and slow from the govt. or fast and pricey from private.
Except that you don't have to buy the second car. Rental rates are not that steep.
Same problem - doesn't add up. About 30 a day for basic model at a size I'd be happy driving long distance (being 6ft+) - and that is assuming you're happy with massive insurance excess (add another 10-15 a day to drop that).
I'll need maybe 20-30 days a year (only 2 or 3 days a month away), so that's 600-900. Assuming I find completely free electricity for the EV, I'll be "saving" around 600-700 in commuting fuel costs. Oops.
YMMV = and obviously your rental rates may vary...
If the trip is for work, expense it.
Fixed (by the tax man) per-mile rate for car travel.
But seriously, to replace a particular ICE car with an EV, the EV only has to do what the ICE car does, not what it can do.
Agreed, but it needs to do everything it does, even if it does some things very rarely - even for a few trips a year, having to buy alternative provision can easily wipe out your fuel savings. You get the same problem when looking at big vs. small cars - if only a few times a year you need a big 7 seater, then that is what you need, and unless you are doing really high mileage you will not be able to save enough on fuel to pay for a smaller car for the times you don't need the big one. Sure, you could rent, but a big 7 seater for a week away will cost me around 500, 2 of those a year and I will never make it back on fuel savings.
Contrary to your opinion, I suspect most cars never travel more than 100 miles from home, nevermind 500 miles in a day
YMMV - thinking around my extended family, friends, and work colleagues I can't think of any car driver who _never_ drives 100miles away.
500 miles a day would be very rare I think - I would always look to break that kind of distance overnight. On the other hand, 250 one day to get there, day or so on site, 250 to get back - that is somethng I do several times a year, and then you'd need to charge at the hotel. Lots of people have jobs like that (I work with a fair few) and plenty of people in sales will do a lot more mile a lot more often.
The EV + towed generator is interesting - effectively a serial hybrid (IMO a much better engineering solution than parallel - which I thnk is a whole lot of complexity for little gain over a decent ICE). But serial hybrids aren't a popular solution, at present, and some claim they are a lot less efficient than (complex) parallel, so why is this if it is so simple to just attach a generator to an EV like this, and why not just stick it in the car (still detachable) ? I have a suspicion (I may be wrong...) that the difference is between "generator" and "engine", and that if you stick it in the car you find it becomes the latter and all sorts of emmissions regs come into play and you find the generator isn't clean enough to be an engine. All in all it smells a bit like an interesting loophole in emmissions regs rather than a way to a cleaner transport system.
Where I think we need to be for really viable EV is probably 200 miles off a suitcase size (and weight) battery. Use one battery for commuting, throw in an extra couple for long journeys, and carry one into your hotel (or your house if you only have on-street parking) to charge overnight when needed.
Problem with that argument is the costs of the second (in my case diesel not gasoline) vehicle.
I do a bit over 100 miles per week commuting, plus several long distance (work & leisure) trips a year. At first glance, the commute would be ideal for EV, but if I still need the other car to cover the long trips it just doesn't add up. The fixed costs on the car (tax, insurance, servicing & repairs) are actually _more_ than the fuel costs of my commute over a year, so even if the electricity was free, buying an EV for the the commute would leave me out of pocket, even before looking at the cost of the car itself (finance / depreciation).
A viable EV needs to do practically everything a current ICE car can do so it can replace it. 500 mile range _plus_ a reliable charging infrastructure might just do it - 500+ miles a day is probably very unusual, but 500+ miles over several days away from home is routine for me (and, I suspect, for a lot of people). You would need to _know_ that you could get a re-charge overnight at each stop, and that is going to take a lot of infrastructure. Alternatively you need the fast charge at a dedicated charging station on the way, just as you now fill up with fuel - but that brings all the design problems already covered in other posts.
Essentially the problem is that liquid hydrocarbons are a very very efficient way of storing transporting and transferring energy, and EV tech somehow needs to match that.
> A full-size car may have a range well over 300 miles
Agreed, 300 miles is pretty poor.
2000 VW Golf, last tank was 60mpg, approx 12 gallon (55 litre) tank = range over 700 miles if you ran it dry - actually I filled up at around 670. That was (mostly) long distance driving - on short commutes into city I get less - 50-55mpg, typically fill up at around 620 miles. These figures are fairly typical for the car and not far off the combined and extra-urban numbers.
These are UK gallons - convert as appropriate if you get short measures.
Alfresco probably does most, if not all, of what you want - but crucially does not include lists.
Everything SharePoint does is based around lists and views, without them you don't have any metadata against your documents (document libraries are lists) and you also don't have any of the myriad list applications - surverys, issue lists, task lists etc. etc.
SharePoint also brings in a workflow engine now, which is likely to get increasing use and emphasis (2007 was the first releae using WF, I expect there will be a lot more of it on 2010) - so you really need a workflow engine hooked in as well.
For various reasons the industry in the US has shunned diesel for private vehicles.
Maybe because the public has shunned it?
Let's be honest here, the industry will do what the public wants when the public votes with their dollars.
The public in general (worldwide) will buy what they are told to by the marketers.
Diesel used to have a noisy/dirty/slow reputation in Europe too (20 odd years ago) and it persisted after the technology improved - but the car mfrs here marketed the hell out of new diesels and economy, economy, economy. They had to - it was the only way they could get their fleet average emissions to meet the EU laws.
The US left a truck-sized loophole in its laws for CAFE targets, with the result that if the mfrs could sell the public a 70's technology truck instead of a car they could avoid having to improve fuel economy at all. What's more, because the truck is bigger (but simpler and cheaper) they can charge the dumb public _more_ for something that costs them _less_ to make.
So what did the US mfrs do? They told the public they needed a truck not a car. And you bought it. Then, having got used to big fat profit margins and not having invested in new tech in US factories, they maintained that the US public "wouldn't buy cars for economy".
Then along came the Japs and blew that argument out of the water with clever marketing for hybrids - and clever targeting of the market (ie. the US). They almost didn't bother marketing the Prius etc. over this side of the pond, and you see very few of them, probably because we already have conventional cars that get better real world mpg without all the extra expensive electrics.
So now, with the US public appearing to want economy cars, and higher fuel prices, recession etc., the US car mfrs are stuck with out of date US factories that make stuff no one wants. They can make the right stuff, they have the technology, right now, because they already do make it. Just not in the US. Ford sells 60+ mpg (yes, US mpg) family hatchbacks... but not in the US. Yes, it's the same Ford.
So, what do they do - pitch for some government money to fix their previous bad choice of direction and lack of investment of course. Now, which pitch do you think they are using:
"we need federal money to upgrade our factories to make the efficient cars we already make in Europe, because we never bothered to update our US factories"
Or
"we need federal money to develop brand new American technology for more efficient cars, and tool up our plants to build them, because the American public won't buy the diesels we sell in Europe"
Yep - they are telling you that you won't buy diesels (which of course you won't, because they won't sell them to you...). If Ford put its latest diesels on US forecourts and set its marketing to tell you to buy them, you would - but Ford won't do that, because they won't get as much money (your tax $) that way.
As Opera has been complaint to most standards for years, while it took other browsers years to do the same, it is the websites that have the incompatibilities, not Opera.
Not always true. Opera has bugs and non-compliances like any other browser. Sometimes they are critical to what you are trying to do.
I have personal experience of tha (a few years ago) - a site designed to be standards compliant, worked in IE and Mozilla, failed in Opera. Turned out to be an Opera javascript issue (bug or non-compliance, take your pick). Working around it would have meant writing a good chunk of javascript code just for Opera - no budget to do that.
Actually there was no budget to even test Opera, I just did that as I was hoping it would "just work" on nice, new, standard input. It didn't, so support for Opera ended there.
For the major browsers, if things don't work you end up having to code round it, for the minor players there are very few people that have the budget and/or time to do that.
I seem to recall that people from the UK have been extradited to the US and charged, for things they did in the UK that the UK authorities decided were legal (or at least things that they should not be prosecuted for).
And a certain Russian programmer was arrested and jailed in the US for things he did in Russia that were legal there... remember that one ?
It explicitly covers the uk law "fair dealing" provisions, which is NOT the same as "fair use". Stating that the UK does not have fair use (in comparison with the US) is technically correct - it isn't called fair use, it doesn't appear to have had the same aims, and it defintely doesn't provide the same rights / exemptions.
> No one uses distros fron 2001, because Linux distros get regular updates.
XP has had three service releases, and the tools are available (slipstream) to push SPs and even further driver updates into the install. That is how OEMs build working installs to ship with their no-floppy SATA based machines.
In some places, and for some people, standard advice if you find a "device" attached to your car is to call out the bomb (disposal) squad...
Now doing that for a police gps tracker is going to waste a lot of police time but finding an unknown device under your car is legitiamte reason to call them out. In the US you could probably then sue them for emotional distress or something for thinking someone has put a bomb under your car. That would probably be more lucrative than ebaying the tracker as well...
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> Congratulations. In one sentence you have just removed all trace of malice from human endeavors.
Er, no. Hanlon may have, but not the poster, who merely quoted the line and acknowledged the source.
Congratulations for failing to notice that something was quoted and attributed, in a discussion on plagarism and lack of attribution...
Nope, it's in all browsers.
Google got ./ed ? Neat.
> If Adobe can't build Flash to fit within the constraints of the device, then too bad.
They can and they have - at least the technical constraints.
Legal constraints are the issue - Apple have banned any other programming languages like flash from the platform. Adobe were working round that with a pre-processor / converter but Apple have changed the licence to demand that all apps be written directly in Apple-approved programming languages - no pre-processors allowed.
Emacs for iPhone - not allowed (before). Now, if you even use Bison / Yacc or anything similar to create your app, it's not allowed.
Just go buy a decent diesel right now and you'll get better real-world efficiency than the claimed efficiency of this vapour-ware.
Eg. Ford fiesta econetic, vw golf bluemotion etc. All in the 65 mpg range (oh, and that's combined cycle, highway is 70mpg+). http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/b4099060491065.htm
The terms don't exactly look secret. From: http://www.southwest.com/travel_center/cos_qa.html
The armrest is the definitive gauge for a Customer of size. It serves as the boundary between seats and measures 17 inches in width. Customers who are unable to lower both armrests and/or who compromise any portion of adjacent seating should proactively book the number of seats needed prior to travel.
In fact that looks pretty darn simple and straightforward (and fair) - if you fit in the seat (that's the bit between the armrests) then sit in it, otherwise buy more than one seat.
It'll still be a lot cheaper for fat people than tall people who have to pay for business class (ain't no special offers for upgrades if you're too tall to fit your knees behind the cattle class seat, I've tried). Furthermore, fat people can lose weight, tall people are stuck being tall.
> There has never, and will never be a federal or state case where someone gets arrested because someone received spam that may have contained illegal items.
http://w2.eff.org/legal/cases/AABBS_Thomases_Memphis/aabbs_case.docs
Note:
I have a hand written and signed statement from Inspector
Dirmeyer in the form of a PERMISSION TO SEARCH document he
filled out to get his child pornography back.
In describing the property he wrote:
"namely priority mail package from Lance White sent without
his knowledge."
and:
Inspector Dirmeyer made statements to me the morning of January 15th
which caused me a great deal of alarm. In conversation in
front of a San Jose Police officer, he stated that 1) sending
unsolicited child pornography to a person who operates a
computer bulletin board system and 2) executing a search
warrant of questionably legality within minutes of its
receipt is "normal investigative procedure."
The owners of this BBS were raided once for "child porn" - and had everything returned no charges, by california officers, because no CP found.
Then they were raided again after being mailed (not emailed) unsolicted CP from Tenessee, sent to Tenessee and convicted of obscenity (by Tenessee standards, for the same stuff that california previously had no problem with). They were not convicted of the CP charge that got them raided and sent to Tenessee.
Ridiculous ? Yep.
Never occurred ? Wrong.
More like "Product Y is made in state A is illegal here, so it's now illegal for people in state A to ship to customers here."
Actually more like "Product Y is made in state A is illegal here, so it's now illegal for people in state A to display product Y in state A if it is visible to vistors from here."
And if it turns into a federal case in any way, then extradition is a non-issue.
And they have an easy, proven, way of doing that.
- Mail you some child porn, and then "find" it
- Oh, now you're on a federal charge
- Ship you to other state
- Drop federal child porn charge (sorry, we mailed you child porn by mistake...)
- Ah, but now you're here, there's this state charge... (so don't think you're going home anytime soon).
This has been done before, and withstood legal challenges, so don't think they won't do it again.
>> I suspect it's more that both hold because of the different mindset that each platform engenders. The Windows command line is mostly crap because the attitude in the Windows world
Except that the Windows command line, and MS focus on it, has improved massively (out of all recognition really) in the last 2 or 3 years.
- Used to recommend Ant / Nant from CruiseControl even for .Net projects, but now MSBuild (the command line behind visual studio) has appeared and improved and does all you need.
- SharePoint looks like it is all GUI point-click admin and config... until you realise the power MS have now put in stsadm on the command line.
- And then there is powershell.
For years ( maybe decades...) I cursed the crap that was batch files and/or left cygwin install droppings everywhere I wrote any scripts on Windows, but now it is Bash that suddenly looks and feels 20+ years old. Major MS products (Exchange, SQL server... others I've forgotten) are moving all admin to be commandline (powershell) driven with a GUI on top. MS had a commandline epiphany somewhere in the last few years. They were so far behind Unix in that area - but now they are ahead. They've copied / learnt a lot from Unix, but have now taken it much further. Powershell is where the Unix shell should and could have been ten years ago - but instead we have dozens of different shells to choose from (age old Unix story of stagnation through fragmentation ).
>> In other words, it's the same thinking of "we should do this in a GUI" that leads to both situations, not someone sitting down and thinking "I want to write this as a command line tool, but that'll make it a pain to use, so I'll write a GUI instead."
It could also be the other way round - on Unix you have the command line heritage, but also it's much more of a pain to create a GUI, so even if you start out thinking "this tool should have/be a GUI", you may end up with command line.
- You have to bolt your GUI onto the command line tool because a) this is Unix and b) one of your users _will_ only have a vt100.
- Then you have to choose your widget set / toolkit, and hope in vain that you might find one with a decent visual designer.
- Oops, now your app looks all wrong for at least half your users
- and then you find it won't play nice with certain window managers
- and/or X Servers
- And eventually you give up and just maintain the command line, since _you_ know exactly how to use that anyway (and if users want a GUI they can go write their own)
- Or you decide it's less trouble to stick a web based front end on it
- and now you have an equally poor GUI on all platforms
On Windows, all your users have a GUI environment, they all have the same environment, you have one set of standard widgets / controls etc. etc. Maybe building maintaining and supporting a GUI app on Windows is just so much easier (despite the Windows APIs) than Unix / Linux, that people are prepared to do one but not the other.
RT another FA:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/wind_power_needs_dirty_pricey_gas_backup_report/
(or download the full report - but that is payware).
Historical analysis shows regular five-day long calm periods across the whole of europe - ten day long calms every couple of decades. Oh, and typically in winter - so high demand time. That is across an area much more than "a few hundred clicks".
"Clean" peak load tech, like pumped storage hydro, simply doesn't have the capacity to cover that kind of gap.
The report also makes the point that nice clean gas gen capacity is too expensive (if only to be used occaisionally) and not necessarily good at being turned on and off regularly. The likely (only economic) backup for wind will be cheap and dirty fossil fuel kit - making the overall solution a lot dirtier.
Either that, or the lights start to go off on a regular basis. There are plenty of (reasonably welel developed) places in the world where that happens now, so we know what happens then - local backup through thousands upon thousands of small (cheap & dirty) diesel generators...
Wind simply isn't reliable enough for base load. Until someone solves the "storing electricity" problem. Somewhat ironically, I reckon the best hope for that will turn out to be creating artificial long chain hydrocarbons (from atmospheric CO2). Liquid hydrocarbons are very very energy dense, and we already have lots of knowledge and infrastructure for storing and transporting them efficiently.
> Because there are no cars on this planet that can go 650 miles at 75mph without stopping for gas.
Rubbish.
On regular urban commuting I get 55mpg (imperial) out of a car with approx 12 gallon (55L) tank - ie. range around 650. However, that is short commute into a city. Throw in some long trips and I often get 60+ off a tank - a range of 730 miles, and that is still including some short commutes on the tank. On those long trips I was typically cruising at around 80mph where the road is clear.
If I have more time on a long trip and am careful to keep it 65-70mph, the car will do 65-70mpg (about 10% or so better, as you surmised) - giving a range of well over 800 miles.
Now, this is a ten year old car (rated 55 combined mpg I think). It isn't the most economical car I've driven either - years ago I drove a citroen AX which was rated combined mpg of 65+ (and achieved it in real life). That would go much further (although I can't recall how big the tank was). However, it was small and not very pleasant at 80 mph.
New cars are better, take say VW Golf Bluemotion or Ford Fiesta Econetic, both rated around 75 combined mpg. If they come as close in the real world as my current drive does to it's test numbers, then the range must be around 900 miles at 70-80mph. Plenty of margin over your 650.
[ Of course you may be working on the assumption that "this planet" == "the USA" - in which case your conclusion might be correct, but only because your assumption is garbage... ]
and you cant find a 650 mile stretch of road that has no cars or delays in it.
> You are making a mistake if you use any formatting that is not simple. Bolds, font sizes, maybe bullet points
Unfortunately bullets have been a major compatibility problem between OO and Word. A few years ago this issue alone (even the simplest bulleted list would get mangled) derailed a corporate conversion to OO that I was involved in, and I've seen reports of bullets _still_ being a compatibilty problem today.
Example; driving test. I booked it with the DSA in June. With waiting lists and delays I didn't get to take it till mid September.
So don't book with the DSA.
You can book intensive courses with various driving schools which have the test included. These courses have existed for decades (I know) and still exist today (googled just now...). Looks like you can book with a week or so notice.
This approach might cost you a few hundred more than direct to the DSA, but hey that's competition right - you can have cheap and slow from the govt. or fast and pricey from private.
Same problem - doesn't add up. About 30 a day for basic model at a size I'd be happy driving long distance (being 6ft+) - and that is assuming you're happy with massive insurance excess (add another 10-15 a day to drop that).
I'll need maybe 20-30 days a year (only 2 or 3 days a month away), so that's 600-900. Assuming I find completely free electricity for the EV, I'll be "saving" around 600-700 in commuting fuel costs. Oops.
YMMV = and obviously your rental rates may vary...
Fixed (by the tax man) per-mile rate for car travel.
Agreed, but it needs to do everything it does, even if it does some things very rarely - even for a few trips a year, having to buy alternative provision can easily wipe out your fuel savings. You get the same problem when looking at big vs. small cars - if only a few times a year you need a big 7 seater, then that is what you need, and unless you are doing really high mileage you will not be able to save enough on fuel to pay for a smaller car for the times you don't need the big one. Sure, you could rent, but a big 7 seater for a week away will cost me around 500, 2 of those a year and I will never make it back on fuel savings.
YMMV - thinking around my extended family, friends, and work colleagues I can't think of any car driver who _never_ drives 100miles away.
500 miles a day would be very rare I think - I would always look to break that kind of distance overnight. On the other hand, 250 one day to get there, day or so on site, 250 to get back - that is somethng I do several times a year, and then you'd need to charge at the hotel. Lots of people have jobs like that (I work with a fair few) and plenty of people in sales will do a lot more mile a lot more often.
The EV + towed generator is interesting - effectively a serial hybrid (IMO a much better engineering solution than parallel - which I thnk is a whole lot of complexity for little gain over a decent ICE). But serial hybrids aren't a popular solution, at present, and some claim they are a lot less efficient than (complex) parallel, so why is this if it is so simple to just attach a generator to an EV like this, and why not just stick it in the car (still detachable) ? I have a suspicion (I may be wrong...) that the difference is between "generator" and "engine", and that if you stick it in the car you find it becomes the latter and all sorts of emmissions regs come into play and you find the generator isn't clean enough to be an engine. All in all it smells a bit like an interesting loophole in emmissions regs rather than a way to a cleaner transport system.
Where I think we need to be for really viable EV is probably 200 miles off a suitcase size (and weight) battery. Use one battery for commuting, throw in an extra couple for long journeys, and carry one into your hotel (or your house if you only have on-street parking) to charge overnight when needed.
Problem with that argument is the costs of the second (in my case diesel not gasoline) vehicle.
I do a bit over 100 miles per week commuting, plus several long distance (work & leisure) trips a year. At first glance, the commute would be ideal for EV, but if I still need the other car to cover the long trips it just doesn't add up. The fixed costs on the car (tax, insurance, servicing & repairs) are actually _more_ than the fuel costs of my commute over a year, so even if the electricity was free, buying an EV for the the commute would leave me out of pocket, even before looking at the cost of the car itself (finance / depreciation).
A viable EV needs to do practically everything a current ICE car can do so it can replace it. 500 mile range _plus_ a reliable charging infrastructure might just do it - 500+ miles a day is probably very unusual, but 500+ miles over several days away from home is routine for me (and, I suspect, for a lot of people). You would need to _know_ that you could get a re-charge overnight at each stop, and that is going to take a lot of infrastructure. Alternatively you need the fast charge at a dedicated charging station on the way, just as you now fill up with fuel - but that brings all the design problems already covered in other posts.
Essentially the problem is that liquid hydrocarbons are a very very efficient way of storing transporting and transferring energy, and EV tech somehow needs to match that.
> A full-size car may have a range well over 300 miles
Agreed, 300 miles is pretty poor.
2000 VW Golf, last tank was 60mpg, approx 12 gallon (55 litre) tank = range over 700 miles if you ran it dry - actually I filled up at around 670. That was (mostly) long distance driving - on short commutes into city I get less - 50-55mpg, typically fill up at around 620 miles. These figures are fairly typical for the car and not far off the combined and extra-urban numbers.
These are UK gallons - convert as appropriate if you get short measures.
You forgot Lists.
Alfresco probably does most, if not all, of what you want - but crucially does not include lists.
Everything SharePoint does is based around lists and views, without them you don't have any metadata against your documents (document libraries are lists) and you also don't have any of the myriad list applications - surverys, issue lists, task lists etc. etc.
SharePoint also brings in a workflow engine now, which is likely to get increasing use and emphasis (2007 was the first releae using WF, I expect there will be a lot more of it on 2010) - so you really need a workflow engine hooked in as well.
For various reasons the industry in the US has shunned diesel for private vehicles.
Maybe because the public has shunned it?
Let's be honest here, the industry will do what the public wants when the public votes with their dollars.
The public in general (worldwide) will buy what they are told to by the marketers.
Diesel used to have a noisy/dirty/slow reputation in Europe too (20 odd years ago) and it persisted after the technology improved - but the car mfrs here marketed the hell out of new diesels and economy, economy, economy. They had to - it was the only way they could get their fleet average emissions to meet the EU laws.
The US left a truck-sized loophole in its laws for CAFE targets, with the result that if the mfrs could sell the public a 70's technology truck instead of a car they could avoid having to improve fuel economy at all. What's more, because the truck is bigger (but simpler and cheaper) they can charge the dumb public _more_ for something that costs them _less_ to make.
So what did the US mfrs do? They told the public they needed a truck not a car. And you bought it. Then, having got used to big fat profit margins and not having invested in new tech in US factories, they maintained that the US public "wouldn't buy cars for economy".
Then along came the Japs and blew that argument out of the water with clever marketing for hybrids - and clever targeting of the market (ie. the US). They almost didn't bother marketing the Prius etc. over this side of the pond, and you see very few of them, probably because we already have conventional cars that get better real world mpg without all the extra expensive electrics.
So now, with the US public appearing to want economy cars, and higher fuel prices, recession etc., the US car mfrs are stuck with out of date US factories that make stuff no one wants. They can make the right stuff, they have the technology, right now, because they already do make it. Just not in the US. Ford sells 60+ mpg (yes, US mpg) family hatchbacks... but not in the US. Yes, it's the same Ford.
So, what do they do - pitch for some government money to fix their previous bad choice of direction and lack of investment of course. Now, which pitch do you think they are using:
"we need federal money to upgrade our factories to make the efficient cars we already make in Europe, because we never bothered to update our US factories"
Or
"we need federal money to develop brand new American technology for more efficient cars, and tool up our plants to build them, because the American public won't buy the diesels we sell in Europe"
Yep - they are telling you that you won't buy diesels (which of course you won't, because they won't sell them to you...). If Ford put its latest diesels on US forecourts and set its marketing to tell you to buy them, you would - but Ford won't do that, because they won't get as much money (your tax $) that way.
As Opera has been complaint to most standards for years, while it took other browsers years to do the same, it is the websites that have the incompatibilities, not Opera.
Not always true. Opera has bugs and non-compliances like any other browser. Sometimes they are critical to what you are trying to do.
I have personal experience of tha (a few years ago) - a site designed to be standards compliant, worked in IE and Mozilla, failed in Opera. Turned out to be an Opera javascript issue (bug or non-compliance, take your pick). Working around it would have meant writing a good chunk of javascript code just for Opera - no budget to do that.
Actually there was no budget to even test Opera, I just did that as I was hoping it would "just work" on nice, new, standard input. It didn't, so support for Opera ended there.
For the major browsers, if things don't work you end up having to code round it, for the minor players there are very few people that have the budget and/or time to do that.
I seem to recall that people from the UK have been extradited to the US and charged, for things they did in the UK that the UK authorities decided were legal (or at least things that they should not be prosecuted for).
And a certain Russian programmer was arrested and jailed in the US for things he did in Russia that were legal there... remember that one ?
Why should the reverse not apply ?
Facts are good, but they need reading. The page you linked to is a general commentary on copyright law, and specifically states:
"The actual specifics of what is acceptable will be governed by national laws"
The page you want for uk law is: http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law
It explicitly covers the uk law "fair dealing" provisions, which is NOT the same as "fair use". Stating that the UK does not have fair use (in comparison with the US) is technically correct - it isn't called fair use, it doesn't appear to have had the same aims, and it defintely doesn't provide the same rights / exemptions.
> No one uses distros fron 2001, because Linux distros get regular updates.
XP has had three service releases, and the tools are available (slipstream) to push SPs and even further driver updates into the install. That is how OEMs build working installs to ship with their no-floppy SATA based machines.
In some places, and for some people, standard advice if you find a "device" attached to your car is to call out the bomb (disposal) squad...
Now doing that for a police gps tracker is going to waste a lot of police time but finding an unknown device under your car is legitiamte reason to call them out. In the US you could probably then sue them for emotional distress or something for thinking someone has put a bomb under your car. That would probably be more lucrative than ebaying the tracker as well...
> Why are lawyers immune to the evil effects of looking at these images? Why does anyone else run the risk of becoming a depraved sex fiend?
Well there's a really obvious answer to that one... (think lawyer jokes)
> Single-instancing attachments is a really easy problem to solve if you have an actual database as your mail store. Surely someone has done this?
Exchange has it (for years) and Groupwise at least. I think Notes has too.