Actually I believe it was the formation of solid fatty compounds in the high pressure rail system which clogged the injectors, these were brand new lab engines so there was no gunk in the lines.
I guess if you don't value the warranty you can do whatever you want but VW only warranty's the use of B5. All of the new of Volkswagen TDI clean diesel models are warranted to run on a biodiesel blend known as B5, which consists of 5 percent biodiesel and 95 percent petroleum diesel. And by the way, that’s covered by our new car limited warranty. The reason they didn't warranty B20 which they are running in the lab is that they ran into problems with the high pressure injection system clogging. They are working towards a solution but so far have not found one that's cost effective and maintains fuel economy.
Considering diesel contains 11% more energy I'd say that's a bargain, not to mention that modern diesel's are more efficient than even direct injected variable valved gasoline engines and you will pay less per year on diesel. For 20k miles per year and assuming gas at $4 and diesel at $4.20 the $5k upgrade on the VW Jetta sportswagon pays off over 10 years and the TDI comes with quite a few more features which you basically get for free if you plan to own it that long.
Meh, as long as you don't blindly follow GPS directions it's fine to rely on it for driving. Now for situations that could endanger my life (backwoods hiking or mountain climbing or sea kayaking) I don't even start with GPS but use a simple compass and waterproof map that I've studied before starting my trip (should I lose the map).
I'm having good luck with the GE bulbs carried by Sams Club, started using them as replacements 6.5 years ago when I bought my house and so far only 2 have failed (an additional 2 were broken but any bulb but an LED would have broken in those situations). The only incandescents I have left are in the basement where we rarely go and so they haven't burned out yet and in the auto-dimming porch light which I haven't found a CFL that can handle the combination of very cold winters and the dimming circuit.
I bet you also buy all your goods locally produced, eh? Oh, wait, you have a computer which means you use the international product distribution system (including roads) you twit.
I'm talking about with SSD's, I use RAID6 for anything not performance critical on my EVA with traditional disk but the added redundancy of RAID6 would be wiped out on an SSD based array by the fact that you are doing that many more writes.
Since the MDL drives command a 250-300% premium over their SATA cousins I doubt WDC will kill them off (heck they kept the Raptor line around for forever even though those had to sell a ton less than MDL drives).
I do more than 20GB per week just from my PVR. Sure if I watch stuff that goes down but I often get caught up with large projects at work and won't watch anything for a couple months and then have some downtime and catch up. At one point I had a backlog/archive of 1TB and had to delete stuff I wasn't planning on watching.
MLC still has crap life IF you are pushing it hard, for instance using it for a high transaction OLTP database. Even SLC for capacity equal to database size is expected to wear out at around 5 years based on our usage pattern but that's sufficient for our needs and we'll probably need to buy a bigger pair of drives at some time during this servers lifetime anyways =)
It's R45 per inch vs 7.2 for the best commercially available foil faced insulation so it could reduce bills by a significant percentage. One interesting use is thermalblok, a 10mmx1.75" strip that you can apply to the studs to increase the structures R value by up to 40%. Only costs $1/ft.
If $.10 is going to seriously harm your investment decisions then you are probably doing something which is non-productive for the larger economy and so I don't really care. If you are a day trader or a HFT go find something productive to do. If you are a long term investor interested in the performance of the companies you invest in or are buying a basket of funds which changes perhaps quarterly then the tax has very little impact. The exact amount could obviously be tweaked so say $.01 per 10 shares traded, all I know is the GP's proposal would be an accounting nightmare and would be no more effective at curbing the unwanted behavior.
You can trade shares on any market you wish to, you just lose the protection of the government oversight boards. Heck already most of the worldwide stock transactions are handled over the counter, such a tax would likely just push even more volume that way.
As a percentage of wealth or income I already kick in a LOT more than anyone who could be described as wealthy. Remember Warren Buffet pays a much smaller percentage in taxes than his secretary does.
Think about how freaking complex the Schedule OMG would be for such a scheme and how simple a point of sale tax on the transaction would be. They both accomplish the goal of punishing unfair trading but one creates bureaucracy and headaches and the other is just like any other simple sales tax.
Nah, ping times in a HFT complex should be on the order of 100 nanoseconds (Infiniband port to port times). Even 10Gb Ethernet is only around 10us latency for short runs.
Nothing that crazy is needed just add a 10c per trade tax, the only problem is all the major trading countries would need to do it simultaneously or else the market would just move. I thought we were close a few years ago when the central banks and regulators started moving in lock step on policy but that only lasted until the first European debt crisis hit and China and the US got in the spat about currency valuations.
The upgrade to ME was to install 98SE, very few machines that shipped with ME (nobody was stupid enough to actually install it!) were powerful enough to run XP very well without serious money invested in upgrades.
Why would you need an ISA slot, DOS runs just fine on machines with PCI. The only thing required is support for INT13h which anything with an IDE/ATA interface supports. For DOS 1.x you'd need a FDD controller but those were available on a southbridge emulated ISA bus up until a few years ago. Though you could technically start with DOS 7.1 with FAT32 using w3xstart to load win 1.x and do the whole thing without even needing to touch the partition until you got to Win 7 with the need for a partition larger than 2GB and NTFS.
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Actually I believe it was the formation of solid fatty compounds in the high pressure rail system which clogged the injectors, these were brand new lab engines so there was no gunk in the lines.
I guess if you don't value the warranty you can do whatever you want but VW only warranty's the use of B5.
All of the new of Volkswagen TDI clean diesel models are warranted to run on a biodiesel blend known as B5, which consists of 5 percent biodiesel and 95 percent petroleum diesel. And by the way, that’s covered by our new car limited warranty.
The reason they didn't warranty B20 which they are running in the lab is that they ran into problems with the high pressure injection system clogging. They are working towards a solution but so far have not found one that's cost effective and maintains fuel economy.
Considering diesel contains 11% more energy I'd say that's a bargain, not to mention that modern diesel's are more efficient than even direct injected variable valved gasoline engines and you will pay less per year on diesel. For 20k miles per year and assuming gas at $4 and diesel at $4.20 the $5k upgrade on the VW Jetta sportswagon pays off over 10 years and the TDI comes with quite a few more features which you basically get for free if you plan to own it that long.
Except you can't run even B10 in the TDI! VW ran tests and they fouled the injectors so they won't warranty the engine to run even 10% biodiesel.
Meh, as long as you don't blindly follow GPS directions it's fine to rely on it for driving. Now for situations that could endanger my life (backwoods hiking or mountain climbing or sea kayaking) I don't even start with GPS but use a simple compass and waterproof map that I've studied before starting my trip (should I lose the map).
I'm having good luck with the GE bulbs carried by Sams Club, started using them as replacements 6.5 years ago when I bought my house and so far only 2 have failed (an additional 2 were broken but any bulb but an LED would have broken in those situations). The only incandescents I have left are in the basement where we rarely go and so they haven't burned out yet and in the auto-dimming porch light which I haven't found a CFL that can handle the combination of very cold winters and the dimming circuit.
Yeah since version 8 in the fall.
It's faster than most common civilian rounds (.22LR, 9mm, .45ACP basically anything other than a high power long rifle)
I bet you also buy all your goods locally produced, eh? Oh, wait, you have a computer which means you use the international product distribution system (including roads) you twit.
I'm talking about with SSD's, I use RAID6 for anything not performance critical on my EVA with traditional disk but the added redundancy of RAID6 would be wiped out on an SSD based array by the fact that you are doing that many more writes.
Since the MDL drives command a 250-300% premium over their SATA cousins I doubt WDC will kill them off (heck they kept the Raptor line around for forever even though those had to sell a ton less than MDL drives).
We're actually going to do software RAID1 using FusionIO cards, the write amplification from RAID6 would negate any benefit.
Sibling death in storage systems in pretty widely reported, however it's generally noted at the beginning of the bathtub curve more than the end.
I do more than 20GB per week just from my PVR. Sure if I watch stuff that goes down but I often get caught up with large projects at work and won't watch anything for a couple months and then have some downtime and catch up. At one point I had a backlog/archive of 1TB and had to delete stuff I wasn't planning on watching.
MLC still has crap life IF you are pushing it hard, for instance using it for a high transaction OLTP database. Even SLC for capacity equal to database size is expected to wear out at around 5 years based on our usage pattern but that's sufficient for our needs and we'll probably need to buy a bigger pair of drives at some time during this servers lifetime anyways =)
It's R45 per inch vs 7.2 for the best commercially available foil faced insulation so it could reduce bills by a significant percentage. One interesting use is thermalblok, a 10mmx1.75" strip that you can apply to the studs to increase the structures R value by up to 40%. Only costs $1/ft.
If $.10 is going to seriously harm your investment decisions then you are probably doing something which is non-productive for the larger economy and so I don't really care. If you are a day trader or a HFT go find something productive to do. If you are a long term investor interested in the performance of the companies you invest in or are buying a basket of funds which changes perhaps quarterly then the tax has very little impact. The exact amount could obviously be tweaked so say $.01 per 10 shares traded, all I know is the GP's proposal would be an accounting nightmare and would be no more effective at curbing the unwanted behavior.
You can trade shares on any market you wish to, you just lose the protection of the government oversight boards. Heck already most of the worldwide stock transactions are handled over the counter, such a tax would likely just push even more volume that way.
As a percentage of wealth or income I already kick in a LOT more than anyone who could be described as wealthy. Remember Warren Buffet pays a much smaller percentage in taxes than his secretary does.
Don't live in farm country eh? I'd just go across the street to the neighbors barn =)
Think about how freaking complex the Schedule OMG would be for such a scheme and how simple a point of sale tax on the transaction would be. They both accomplish the goal of punishing unfair trading but one creates bureaucracy and headaches and the other is just like any other simple sales tax.
Nah, ping times in a HFT complex should be on the order of 100 nanoseconds (Infiniband port to port times). Even 10Gb Ethernet is only around 10us latency for short runs.
Nothing that crazy is needed just add a 10c per trade tax, the only problem is all the major trading countries would need to do it simultaneously or else the market would just move. I thought we were close a few years ago when the central banks and regulators started moving in lock step on policy but that only lasted until the first European debt crisis hit and China and the US got in the spat about currency valuations.
The upgrade to ME was to install 98SE, very few machines that shipped with ME (nobody was stupid enough to actually install it!) were powerful enough to run XP very well without serious money invested in upgrades.
Why would you need an ISA slot, DOS runs just fine on machines with PCI. The only thing required is support for INT13h which anything with an IDE/ATA interface supports. For DOS 1.x you'd need a FDD controller but those were available on a southbridge emulated ISA bus up until a few years ago. Though you could technically start with DOS 7.1 with FAT32 using w3xstart to load win 1.x and do the whole thing without even needing to touch the partition until you got to Win 7 with the need for a partition larger than 2GB and NTFS.