All of GM's full size trucks and SUVs - GMC Yukon and Yukon XL, Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV, and pickup trucks and fleet vehicles - will have the most advanced two-mode full hybrid system to date on nearly any consumer vehicle for MY2008.
Well in the future I expect to be driving a De Lorean with an advanced MisterFusion garbage-powered engine.
Oh, and an "advanced hybrid" from the future is about as efficient as your average European or Japanese sedan from yesterday.
And no, you can't have the freedom to pollute my air, destroy my roads and gridlock my city. Not yours.
That's quite the pointless figure. Australia could blow up dozens of nukes and still come ahead in radioactive pollution... per land mass.
And if you want to counter the otherwise irrelevant republican argument, that Kyoto would harm the economy, look at the European example, where oil consumption per GDP unit is half the US.
I pay 29 EUR a month for 24 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up. Plus free international phone. Plus wifi. Plus TV. Free PVR which I don't even use for lack of a TV. Also 1 GB of hosting space, unmetered.
Within a year I should get 50 Mbps (symmetrical) FTTH.
It costs quite a lot to do the accounting. You have to handle complaints, etc.
Plus users can get nasty surprises: someone hijacks your wifi and downloads pr0n, that kind of shit.
By going flat rate you don't have to deal with this, and instead of spending money on administrative & police costs, you just spend the cash on actual bandwidth. I know, that's just... wrong?
That must be why you're so late in the game. This French ISP used Videolan Client to do the exact same shit, and delivered years ago. Probably cost them a whole lot less, too.
I work with insurance companies on IT issues, and if it's anything like bank -- it's the same kind of business -- they suck hard at computer security.
Their password policies for acessing extranets, for instance, are in most cases completely insane. They impose so many arbitrary constraints (such as changing the password monthly) in the name of security, no less, that invariably passwords en up being "password1", "password2" and so on. Furthermore most of them block an account after three unsuccesful login attempts; apparently, those highly paid bozos have never heard of "DoS" since they upgraded to Windows 3.11.
None of the big companies I work with use PKI for authentification. I understand this could be problematic when dealing with the general public, but I'm talking extranets here.
Kidding aside, the best use of MySQL and MyISAM is for data you modify very often compared to how often you read them; either short lived-data such as session data (cookies) or logs.
It's so much better to have your logs in MySQL than on a flat file, you can do all kind of analysis real time etc.
The sum of the employed and unemployed is not 100%, that's the key to this while issue.
As I mentioned, those include for example people in jail. The US has 10x more inmates than Europe. Those are conveniently not included in the unemployed stats.
Other tricks exist, some European countries (UK I believe is one of them) just classify long term job seekers as handicapped and unemployable, give them a monthly allowance, et voila, clean unemployment numbers!
And yes, I'm obviously speaking of ratios, unless explictly stated otherwise. There's little point counting absolute number in those matters, except for obfuscation purposes.
GDP growth rates higher than the US, positive balance of payments, higher life expectancy and literacy, lower infant mortality, lower crime rate, TEN TIMES less people in prison, much higher savings rate, lower personal debt,...
Oh yeah, you're right, unemployment is higher. Great. You know what? It doesn't mean shit.
4th quarter 2004, unemployment rate men aged 25-54: 7.4% in France, 4.6% in the US.
You're right, it (look)s bad.
At the same quarter, the employment rate, that is, the number of people working vs. the total number of people in that sex/age group was 86.7% in France as opposed to 86.3%. That's right, more people working in France than in the US. (Source: OECD Employment Outlook 2005 (pdf))
There's a few reasons for this discrepancy, one being that we don't put 1.5% of our active population in jail, most of whom are poor blacks, likely candidates for the "unemployment" row.
I didn't have my registration card (moved), they had to look it up for me in the Returned to Sender Stack, signed it.
What took the longest was picking up each of the 16 ballots. Shitty recycled paper sheet stuck together -- except Sarko's, which kinda looked like someone stepped on it.
There's no fucking point to this machines, esp. not in France, where we only have ONE question per vote, not 200 initiatives like in California. It's a highly parallelizable process. 90% of precincts had preliminary results before many electronic precincts had even finished/polling/, due to delays.
I voted on the good ole paper & ballot box system, it took a whole 1 min.
My cousin, in another part of the country, had to vote on a machine. He protested to the head of the polling station, who laughed it off (after all, what does he know about machines, he's just an average electrical engineer), cause, you see, it's been validated by the ministry of interior.
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Works just fine here on my MacBook.
All of GM's full size trucks and SUVs - GMC Yukon and Yukon XL, Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV, and pickup trucks and fleet vehicles - will have the most advanced two-mode full hybrid system to date on nearly any consumer vehicle for MY2008.
Well in the future I expect to be driving a De Lorean with an advanced MisterFusion garbage-powered engine.
Oh, and an "advanced hybrid" from the future is about as efficient as your average European or Japanese sedan from yesterday.
And no, you can't have the freedom to pollute my air, destroy my roads and gridlock my city. Not yours.
That's quite the pointless figure. Australia could blow up dozens of nukes and still come ahead in radioactive pollution ... per land mass.
And if you want to counter the otherwise irrelevant republican argument, that Kyoto would harm the economy, look at the European example, where oil consumption per GDP unit is half the US.
Clinton comes from an unpriviledged, to say the least, background. IIRC he was raised by his mother alone.
Bush, just like Kerry, comes from wealth and power.
Definitely not the same cloth.
I pay 29 EUR a month for 24 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up. Plus free international phone. Plus wifi. Plus TV. Free PVR which I don't even use for lack of a TV. Also 1 GB of hosting space, unmetered.
Within a year I should get 50 Mbps (symmetrical) FTTH.
http://www.free.fr
2 MB/s guaranted bandwidth, backed up, /unlimited traffic/ ... in a datacenter is a few hundred .
At least that's what my hosting service charges.
It costs quite a lot to do the accounting. You have to handle complaints, etc.
... wrong?
Plus users can get nasty surprises: someone hijacks your wifi and downloads pr0n, that kind of shit.
By going flat rate you don't have to deal with this, and instead of spending money on administrative & police costs, you just spend the cash on actual bandwidth. I know, that's just
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That must be why you're so late in the game. This French ISP used Videolan Client to do the exact same shit, and delivered years ago. Probably cost them a whole lot less, too.
I'm getting symetric 50Mbps FTTH within a year in Paris for 30 (up from current 20/1 DSL2+)
So basically you want to cripple Linux's very succesful development model, just to accomodate nVidia proprietary crap?
No thanks.
I work with insurance companies on IT issues, and if it's anything like bank -- it's the same kind of business -- they suck hard at computer security.
Their password policies for acessing extranets, for instance, are in most cases completely insane. They impose so many arbitrary constraints (such as changing the password monthly) in the name of security, no less, that invariably passwords en up being "password1", "password2" and so on. Furthermore most of them block an account after three unsuccesful login attempts; apparently, those highly paid bozos have never heard of "DoS" since they upgraded to Windows 3.11.
None of the big companies I work with use PKI for authentification. I understand this could be problematic when dealing with the general public, but I'm talking extranets here.
Kidding aside, the best use of MySQL and MyISAM is for data you modify very often compared to how often you read them; either short lived-data such as session data (cookies) or logs.
It's so much better to have your logs in MySQL than on a flat file, you can do all kind of analysis real time etc.
The sum of the employed and unemployed is not 100%, that's the key to this while issue.
As I mentioned, those include for example people in jail. The US has 10x more inmates than Europe. Those are conveniently not included in the unemployed stats.
Other tricks exist, some European countries (UK I believe is one of them) just classify long term job seekers as handicapped and unemployable, give them a monthly allowance, et voila, clean unemployment numbers!
And yes, I'm obviously speaking of ratios, unless explictly stated otherwise. There's little point counting absolute number in those matters, except for obfuscation purposes.
A EU without Microsoft is a wet dream.
Please let it happen.
GDP growth rates higher than the US, positive balance of payments, higher life expectancy and literacy, lower infant mortality, lower crime rate, TEN TIMES less people in prison, much higher savings rate, lower personal debt, ...
Oh yeah, you're right, unemployment is higher. Great. You know what? It doesn't mean shit.
4th quarter 2004, unemployment rate men aged 25-54: 7.4% in France, 4.6% in the US.
You're right, it (look)s bad.
At the same quarter, the employment rate, that is, the number of people working vs. the total number of people in that sex/age group was 86.7% in France as opposed to 86.3%. That's right, more people working in France than in the US. (Source: OECD Employment Outlook 2005 (pdf))
There's a few reasons for this discrepancy, one being that we don't put 1.5% of our active population in jail, most of whom are poor blacks, likely candidates for the "unemployment" row.
... which, in several EU country if not all, allows the government to regulate the prices charged by monopolies.
And yes, having a 90%+ market share on preinstalled operating systems is a monopoly, it's higher a market share than Standard Oil ever had.
This is the European Union, not the United Republicrat States of Corpo-fascism wonderland of America.
We have a Human Rights declaration, and plutocratico-aristocratic capitalistic sons of bitches aren't listed on it as a protected species.
Linux FTW.
I didn't have my registration card (moved), they had to look it up for me in the Returned to Sender Stack, signed it.
What took the longest was picking up each of the 16 ballots. Shitty recycled paper sheet stuck together -- except Sarko's, which kinda looked like someone stepped on it.
Oh c'm'on, you know what "aimes", Microsoft, George Bush and "taxe" mean!
There's no fucking point to this machines, esp. not in France, where we only have ONE question per vote, not 200 initiatives like in California. It's a highly parallelizable process. 90% of precincts had preliminary results before many electronic precincts had even finished /polling/, due to delays.
I voted on the good ole paper & ballot box system, it took a whole 1 min.
My cousin, in another part of the country, had to vote on a machine. He protested to the head of the polling station, who laughed it off (after all, what does he know about machines, he's just an average electrical engineer), cause, you see, it's been validated by the ministry of interior.
Who's the minister of interior? Oh, that's right, that fascist hugging, Microsoft cocksucking, software patent supporting son of a motherfucking female dog (my apologies to our canine friends).
Tu aimes payer la taxe Microsoft?
Tu aimes les brevets logiciels?
Tu aimes George Bush?
Qu'est-ce que tu fais, exactement, sur Slashdot?
Which isn't to say that the Shah was exactly a nice fellow that you'd want to invite over for dinner,
Shah was a murderous dictator, he was put in place in 1953 when the CIA deposed democratically elected Mossadegh.
Gee, you've gotta wonder why they're not such big fans of the US of A.