I understand, I recently recovered a Word document that I made with Word and that wouldn't open with Word anymore on the same computer. Opened it with OpenOffice.org 2.2 and saved it as doc, and Word could open it again. Go figure...
However, my wife is very computer illiterate (I confess, I wrote the document for her on her specifications) and so are her coworkers. I didn't dare to send a.doc to that coworker, just in case it wouldn't work, I was sure everything would be blamed on me (and OpenOffice)
I should have tried, but the risk was indeed a doc saving ping-pong nightmare....
That, and they like to doctor your resume. Well, I don't know for recruiters, but being a consultant for a consulting company, I know that happens. I tried to submit my "company internal CV" as PDF but they wouldn't take it. Reason, they change stuff in it. For example, I speak German, read it but can barely write it. So, I'd say "German Spoken: Fair", "German Read: Fair" and "German Written: Poor". I later found out that they changed it "German Spoken: Good", "German Read: Good" and "German Written: Fair". That pissed me off to no end....
I bet recruiting companies do that too... After all they only care about their commission.
. That said, it seems that ODF is gaining popularity, not losing it.
Perhaps, but how do I know if the other person uses OpenOffice or Microsoft Office? Unless you ask them, you have to assume "Microsoft Office". Now I have an anecdote on that one: my sister had to work with a friend of her on a paper and I have mandated OpenOffice on our machines. I said she can have Microsoft Office if she shells out the dough, evidently she didn't. Now, she started cursing on OpenOffice because in the email ping-pong with her friend the file got messed up in formatting every time. In the end, it turned out that her friend was an Open Source user too and used OpenOffice as well. They shifted to odt and all was well (Okay, might be sxw since this was a while ago).
Now that was of course a lucky thing. However, at home my wife and I also use OpenOffice.org 2.2. She created some documents she wanted to send to a coworker. I stopped her right there and said she'd better not do that: she doesn't see much difference between OpenOffice or Microsoft Office and I'm pretty sure she'd send an odt to said coworker. Since the coworker is in the same line of work, she's also likely to know squat about file formats. I showed her how to export PDFs and send that. Of course, for collaborating, she'd have to save to doc and hope that the formatting doesn't fuck up on her coworkers machine.
And, assuming you are writing from the US, many American auto engines used to be vastly overspecified so that in reality they were running on very light load almost all the time
Well, actually, no.... I was thinking of my dads Audi 100 with 1.8l engine that has 230000km (~143000 miles) on the counter when it was crushed by a tree. The engine was still in prime condition before that mishap. (I'm happy my dad survived that accident) I was also thinking of my own Audi 80 with 1.8l engine that died with 188000km (~117500miles)on the counter because I lost control on a plaque of ice. The engine still ran, after the crash, but it would have been too expensive to repair. Both were 4 cylinder engines. Before the crash, the engine was running perfectly fine. Never had problems.
That said, both were carburetor engines and mine only produced 80HP. I have to say though that for day to day operation 80HP was more than enough for a 1.3tonne car.
You're also going to have to explain the ~5l/100km that my wifes 1.4l Diesel does. That's 47 mpg.... That's measurements I made myself, not from some catalog. How does that compare to the Prius? (According to wikipedia, it's about the same. So the Prius with huge technological innovations can barely compare to a small engine Diesel.)
I do realise that the fuel is different, but she pays less since diesel is less expensive and she gets better mileage.
It's disgusting, and this isn't limited to printers. Keyboards, cases, anything that touches smoke is going to get brown. Well, "dark-beige", if you want. I'm guilty myself for smoking.
Doctors realised a long time ago that smoke was bad for you. I've seen quotes of over 100 years old saying that "smoke was vile". Anyway, you also have to realise that smoking became way more common with the introduction of the cigarette that was made to be smoked anytime anyplace. A hundred years ago, the man came home and smoke a pipe and only one because tobacco was hugely expensive and a big luxury. Cigars were the same: you took time to enjoy them. Cigarettes changed that all. So the amount consumed was way less than it was not, making the health impact much less.
I don't like cigarettes at all, as you might have understood by now. Yet, I love my cigars.
Well, yes, I did think of the first type. I already said it doesn't scale well. I'm not an engineer, and as such I found it fascinating that such a thing existed. I simply didn't know before reading about it on slashdot. That said, if they do it for locomotives, there must be a good economic reason to do so.
As for the typical gas/electric hybrids. I knew those were feel-good solutions. After all, a good turbo.diesel gets a mileage better or comparable to Prius and the likes. As for the diesel/electric hybrids, I read somewhere (but I don't recall where) that they really don't add all that much advantage over plain diesel. Adding complexity and not getting that much more efficiency isn't a good idea. That's probably why there aren't any yet. One fun thing about Diesels, is that in idle they pretty much use a negligible amount of fuel. That's why the stop/start cycle you get advantage on with traditional gas engines doesn't help much in a Diesel setup.
Why is a Prius limited to 120000 miles? I know gas cars that went way beyond 120000 miles without any problems....
I don't think that link goes where you want it to go. I didn't find anything about mufflers, but it's okay, I'll take your word for it.
don't see British cars on the Autobahn (much).
Neither do, I.... But Britain is most certainly not the only country where they drive on the left. As you might notice Japan is one of those and has quite a few automobile manufacturers. So, it's not only Jaguars and Rolls-Royces...
Thing is: the conversion from LHS to RHS is expensive, so they try to limit it to where it makes sense: meaning anything that impacts the driver during driving *duh*. Also changing the design of the exhaust system and or tank outlet is extra money that is purely wasted from the manufacturers point of view.
I've also never had problems at the gas station. I have my gas cap at the passenger side, but that has never stopped me to park with my drivers side against the gas pump. Those gas tubes are quite long you know, and it's perfectly possible to fill up your car when your cap is at the "other" side.
Well, the thing is: it's just because fossil-based oil was so cheap that the engines evolved that way. But that's history: we cannot change it. I'm sure they can be tuned to work on other fuels.
I don't know why, but governments seem to remove the fiscal advantages of bio-fuels. In Germany they plan to remove the tax-advantages on biofuels. Great way to encourage adoption! NOT!
Well, I don't know... If the original diesel could run on coal dust, why not flour? Does seem to be quite similar to me. Dust in suspension often behaves extremely different from its equivalent solid form. Coal dust and coal itself aren't comparable at all either.
But then, what do I know: I'm no engineer. Besides, I'm sure someone will bring up ethical considerations when someone would suggest it. I remember reading about people wanting to burn excess grain to heat their houses and getting a public backlash.
If that fee includes insurance for your car, it might be interesting.... Just an idea. Also, we in Europe pay closer to 5€ per gallon (much more in some places), just that you know. Many people I know have a similar commute as you have, so don't start about "everything is closer in Europe".
They can be powered by pretty much anything that generates enough heat, including but not limited to fossil fuels.
Nothing against sterling engines, but you seem to imply that internal combustion engines are bound to fossil fuel. That's not even remotely true: the original Diesel engine was designed to run on peanut oil. Since it can also run on coal dust, I'm pretty sure it could run on flour for example, or haven't you ever heard of flour silo explosions? Diesels can pretty much run on anything that can explode when diffused.
What I'd like to see is a Diesel-Electric engine for a car. That'd be cool... I heard it doesn't scale well... (It's common in locomotives)
Well, if it's payable.... Meaning much less than for example a Smart car, I'm all for it. When I was young and crazy, I bought an small roadster, which really is a gas guzzler at 10l/100km (~23.5mpg according to Google) and I still have it to this day. Selling it won't bring me enough money to buy an eco-friendly car and I don't want to invest in a new car. I mean if I have to add another 15k€ on the selling price, it'll take years before the savings start to kick in. It's stupid to replace a perfectly fine, but old car.
That said, I only work 10km from home and during peak traffic I need about 30 minutes to get there. Taking public transportation, I'm in for 45min at least. Taking the bike is 35min, but I'm all sweaty and we don't have showers at work. Sure, a towel some soap, a fresh t-shirt can do wonders, but it is sub-optimal.
A car like this would probably save me time and be environmentally friendly. I could keep the small roadster if I need to go somewhere further and faster...
Also, it's small, and while parking space is not an issue where I work, it's pretty much a big issue in the rest of the country. So, if it's in the 5k€ range (about the price of a small motorcycle), why not?
If all the caps were on the driver side, this sort of confusion would be eliminated.
You are forgetting something: what is "driver side"? Do not forget that in Japan, the driver side is on the right and many many cars are designed in... Japan!
It's not a rule, but the gas cap position seems to be related to the origin of the car. I drive a German car, and the gas cap is at the passenger side of the car. Logically, because it enables the driver to get out easily when he parks next to a gas pump.
My wife drives a car based on a Toyota platform. The Toyota is evidently Japanese and the gas cap is at the driver side! Or better said, at the passenger side if we were in Japan and once again making it easier (for a Japanese driver) to get out of the car when parking next to a gas pump.
As said, it's not 100% a rule and sometimes you find a car where the theory doesn't seem to hold. Usually it's enough to find out what platform the car is based on to see it holds anyway. That said, my observations are mostly on the cars you see on European roads. I have no idea if American cars follow the same "rule".
I also found that exhaust pipes have a similar behaviour. Usually they are as far as possible from the sidewalk away. Meaning a Japanese car on European roads will have the exhaust pipe at the sidewalk side, a European car on European roads will not.
I expect even Windows XP to run fine on it. (Been running XP on P-III class machines with 256Meg to 512Meg RAM, just disable the Fisher Price Theme) The disk space might be the biggest problem, both on XP and W2k.
I was laughing too. I did my dad to day work until this January on a second hand (~100€) Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook with a P-III 600MHz/512Meg machine and that was perfectly fine for running Windows XP and all the stuff I needed! Never had a real speed problem.
The only reasons I replaced that machine was because it started to physically break apart. I bought a 15" widescreen laptop on sale for 799€, but I think it's too big to be truly portable. Anything smaller was insanely more expensive.
A machine like this? I'd take it! Especially at that price point.
I grew up with a state of the art i286 with 1Meg RAM and (standard) VGA. That was extremely high end! Kids these days, all spoiled;-)
I also really like the fact that it has a single-button trackpad (although that might put a few *NIX users off) and a meta key that doesn't have the Windows logo on it.
The pictures I've seen clearly have a Windows logo on the keyboard. Just saying...
I'm not denying that the Chinese government is setting the exchange rate and that this exchange rate favours exports. You just can't say that it's pegged to the dollar anymore. It's nitpicking, but we're on slashdot, so I'm supposed to nitpick;-) The big currencies are US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the South Korean, but the percentages are indeed unknown. I doubt however that they'd take the US Dollar for 50% or more, because then there would only be one "major currency". Of course, from here on it's just guessing...
They probably know that you aren't going to work for lower wages than a Chinese citizen.
Yes, but entering in the US you are pretty much treated as a criminal. Fingerprinting, photographing, etc.... Not so in China.
They don't expect you to answer these questions honestly in case you would have to answer "yes".
Oh, I know what it is for, that's not the point. If I did commit genocide, that would be more than enough to put me in prison, so it doesn't make a difference. Life long sentence for genocide, plus 2 years for making a false statement on a form. Laughable!
You're pretty much the laughing stock of the world with those ridiculous forms.
Most banks give not a shit (and will actively avoid caring) if you serially deposit $9899.47 every night at 8:53 p.m. Nor do they have to report it to anyone.
Can't say for the US, but in the country where I live, I can assure you that such a behaviour would raise a flag. It's the total that counts over a certain period of time.
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I understand, I recently recovered a Word document that I made with Word and that wouldn't open with Word anymore on the same computer. Opened it with OpenOffice.org 2.2 and saved it as doc, and Word could open it again. Go figure...
However, my wife is very computer illiterate (I confess, I wrote the document for her on her specifications) and so are her coworkers. I didn't dare to send a .doc to that coworker, just in case it wouldn't work, I was sure everything would be blamed on me (and OpenOffice)
I should have tried, but the risk was indeed a doc saving ping-pong nightmare....
That, and they like to doctor your resume. Well, I don't know for recruiters, but being a consultant for a consulting company, I know that happens. I tried to submit my "company internal CV" as PDF but they wouldn't take it. Reason, they change stuff in it. For example, I speak German, read it but can barely write it. So, I'd say "German Spoken: Fair", "German Read: Fair" and "German Written: Poor". I later found out that they changed it "German Spoken: Good", "German Read: Good" and "German Written: Fair". That pissed me off to no end....
I bet recruiting companies do that too... After all they only care about their commission.
. That said, it seems that ODF is gaining popularity, not losing it.
Perhaps, but how do I know if the other person uses OpenOffice or Microsoft Office? Unless you ask them, you have to assume "Microsoft Office". Now I have an anecdote on that one: my sister had to work with a friend of her on a paper and I have mandated OpenOffice on our machines. I said she can have Microsoft Office if she shells out the dough, evidently she didn't. Now, she started cursing on OpenOffice because in the email ping-pong with her friend the file got messed up in formatting every time. In the end, it turned out that her friend was an Open Source user too and used OpenOffice as well. They shifted to odt and all was well (Okay, might be sxw since this was a while ago).
Now that was of course a lucky thing. However, at home my wife and I also use OpenOffice.org 2.2. She created some documents she wanted to send to a coworker. I stopped her right there and said she'd better not do that: she doesn't see much difference between OpenOffice or Microsoft Office and I'm pretty sure she'd send an odt to said coworker. Since the coworker is in the same line of work, she's also likely to know squat about file formats. I showed her how to export PDFs and send that. Of course, for collaborating, she'd have to save to doc and hope that the formatting doesn't fuck up on her coworkers machine.
That's cool... I don't get the "dust to dust" thing anyway. Wikipedia doesn't seem to have anything about it (related to cars)
And, assuming you are writing from the US, many American auto engines used to be vastly overspecified so that in reality they were running on very light load almost all the time
Well, actually, no.... I was thinking of my dads Audi 100 with 1.8l engine that has 230000km (~143000 miles) on the counter when it was crushed by a tree. The engine was still in prime condition before that mishap. (I'm happy my dad survived that accident) I was also thinking of my own Audi 80 with 1.8l engine that died with 188000km (~117500miles)on the counter because I lost control on a plaque of ice. The engine still ran, after the crash, but it would have been too expensive to repair. Both were 4 cylinder engines. Before the crash, the engine was running perfectly fine. Never had problems.
That said, both were carburetor engines and mine only produced 80HP. I have to say though that for day to day operation 80HP was more than enough for a 1.3tonne car.
You're also going to have to explain the ~5l/100km that my wifes 1.4l Diesel does. That's 47 mpg.... That's measurements I made myself, not from some catalog. How does that compare to the Prius? (According to wikipedia, it's about the same. So the Prius with huge technological innovations can barely compare to a small engine Diesel.) I do realise that the fuel is different, but she pays less since diesel is less expensive and she gets better mileage.
But, you're right: it is an interesting subject.
Ask, and Ye Shall Receive...
They are absolutly discusting...
It's disgusting, and this isn't limited to printers. Keyboards, cases, anything that touches smoke is going to get brown. Well, "dark-beige", if you want. I'm guilty myself for smoking.
Doctors realised a long time ago that smoke was bad for you. I've seen quotes of over 100 years old saying that "smoke was vile". Anyway, you also have to realise that smoking became way more common with the introduction of the cigarette that was made to be smoked anytime anyplace. A hundred years ago, the man came home and smoke a pipe and only one because tobacco was hugely expensive and a big luxury. Cigars were the same: you took time to enjoy them. Cigarettes changed that all. So the amount consumed was way less than it was not, making the health impact much less.
I don't like cigarettes at all, as you might have understood by now. Yet, I love my cigars.
Well, yes, I did think of the first type. I already said it doesn't scale well. I'm not an engineer, and as such I found it fascinating that such a thing existed. I simply didn't know before reading about it on slashdot. That said, if they do it for locomotives, there must be a good economic reason to do so.
As for the typical gas/electric hybrids. I knew those were feel-good solutions. After all, a good turbo.diesel gets a mileage better or comparable to Prius and the likes. As for the diesel/electric hybrids, I read somewhere (but I don't recall where) that they really don't add all that much advantage over plain diesel. Adding complexity and not getting that much more efficiency isn't a good idea. That's probably why there aren't any yet. One fun thing about Diesels, is that in idle they pretty much use a negligible amount of fuel. That's why the stop/start cycle you get advantage on with traditional gas engines doesn't help much in a Diesel setup.
Why is a Prius limited to 120000 miles? I know gas cars that went way beyond 120000 miles without any problems....
I don't think that link goes where you want it to go. I didn't find anything about mufflers, but it's okay, I'll take your word for it.
don't see British cars on the Autobahn (much).
Neither do, I.... But Britain is most certainly not the only country where they drive on the left. As you might notice Japan is one of those and has quite a few automobile manufacturers. So, it's not only Jaguars and Rolls-Royces...
Thing is: the conversion from LHS to RHS is expensive, so they try to limit it to where it makes sense: meaning anything that impacts the driver during driving *duh*. Also changing the design of the exhaust system and or tank outlet is extra money that is purely wasted from the manufacturers point of view.
I've also never had problems at the gas station. I have my gas cap at the passenger side, but that has never stopped me to park with my drivers side against the gas pump. Those gas tubes are quite long you know, and it's perfectly possible to fill up your car when your cap is at the "other" side.
Well, the thing is: it's just because fossil-based oil was so cheap that the engines evolved that way. But that's history: we cannot change it. I'm sure they can be tuned to work on other fuels.
I don't know why, but governments seem to remove the fiscal advantages of bio-fuels. In Germany they plan to remove the tax-advantages on biofuels. Great way to encourage adoption! NOT!
Well, I don't know... If the original diesel could run on coal dust, why not flour? Does seem to be quite similar to me. Dust in suspension often behaves extremely different from its equivalent solid form. Coal dust and coal itself aren't comparable at all either.
But then, what do I know: I'm no engineer. Besides, I'm sure someone will bring up ethical considerations when someone would suggest it. I remember reading about people wanting to burn excess grain to heat their houses and getting a public backlash.
If that fee includes insurance for your car, it might be interesting.... Just an idea. Also, we in Europe pay closer to 5€ per gallon (much more in some places), just that you know. Many people I know have a similar commute as you have, so don't start about "everything is closer in Europe".
They can be powered by pretty much anything that generates enough heat, including but not limited to fossil fuels.
Nothing against sterling engines, but you seem to imply that internal combustion engines are bound to fossil fuel. That's not even remotely true: the original Diesel engine was designed to run on peanut oil. Since it can also run on coal dust, I'm pretty sure it could run on flour for example, or haven't you ever heard of flour silo explosions? Diesels can pretty much run on anything that can explode when diffused.
What I'd like to see is a Diesel-Electric engine for a car. That'd be cool... I heard it doesn't scale well... (It's common in locomotives)
Well, if it's payable.... Meaning much less than for example a Smart car, I'm all for it. When I was young and crazy, I bought an small roadster, which really is a gas guzzler at 10l/100km (~23.5mpg according to Google) and I still have it to this day. Selling it won't bring me enough money to buy an eco-friendly car and I don't want to invest in a new car. I mean if I have to add another 15k€ on the selling price, it'll take years before the savings start to kick in. It's stupid to replace a perfectly fine, but old car.
That said, I only work 10km from home and during peak traffic I need about 30 minutes to get there. Taking public transportation, I'm in for 45min at least. Taking the bike is 35min, but I'm all sweaty and we don't have showers at work. Sure, a towel some soap, a fresh t-shirt can do wonders, but it is sub-optimal.
A car like this would probably save me time and be environmentally friendly. I could keep the small roadster if I need to go somewhere further and faster...
Also, it's small, and while parking space is not an issue where I work, it's pretty much a big issue in the rest of the country. So, if it's in the 5k€ range (about the price of a small motorcycle), why not?
For example, those of you BMW drivers (me included), your transmissions are most likely GM hydra-matics
I doubt that: most of the rest of the world drives stick. Automatics? Blech! ;-)
If all the caps were on the driver side, this sort of confusion would be eliminated.
You are forgetting something: what is "driver side"? Do not forget that in Japan, the driver side is on the right and many many cars are designed in... Japan!
It's not a rule, but the gas cap position seems to be related to the origin of the car. I drive a German car, and the gas cap is at the passenger side of the car. Logically, because it enables the driver to get out easily when he parks next to a gas pump.
My wife drives a car based on a Toyota platform. The Toyota is evidently Japanese and the gas cap is at the driver side! Or better said, at the passenger side if we were in Japan and once again making it easier (for a Japanese driver) to get out of the car when parking next to a gas pump.
As said, it's not 100% a rule and sometimes you find a car where the theory doesn't seem to hold. Usually it's enough to find out what platform the car is based on to see it holds anyway. That said, my observations are mostly on the cars you see on European roads. I have no idea if American cars follow the same "rule".
I also found that exhaust pipes have a similar behaviour. Usually they are as far as possible from the sidewalk away. Meaning a Japanese car on European roads will have the exhaust pipe at the sidewalk side, a European car on European roads will not.
As said, it's all observation: I have no proof.
I expect even Windows XP to run fine on it. (Been running XP on P-III class machines with 256Meg to 512Meg RAM, just disable the Fisher Price Theme) The disk space might be the biggest problem, both on XP and W2k.
I was laughing too. I did my dad to day work until this January on a second hand (~100€) Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook with a P-III 600MHz/512Meg machine and that was perfectly fine for running Windows XP and all the stuff I needed! Never had a real speed problem.
The only reasons I replaced that machine was because it started to physically break apart. I bought a 15" widescreen laptop on sale for 799€, but I think it's too big to be truly portable. Anything smaller was insanely more expensive.
A machine like this? I'd take it! Especially at that price point.
I grew up with a state of the art i286 with 1Meg RAM and (standard) VGA. That was extremely high end! Kids these days, all spoiled ;-)
I also really like the fact that it has a single-button trackpad (although that might put a few *NIX users off) and a meta key that doesn't have the Windows logo on it.
The pictures I've seen clearly have a Windows logo on the keyboard. Just saying...
I'm not denying that the Chinese government is setting the exchange rate and that this exchange rate favours exports. You just can't say that it's pegged to the dollar anymore. It's nitpicking, but we're on slashdot, so I'm supposed to nitpick ;-) The big currencies are US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the South Korean, but the percentages are indeed unknown. I doubt however that they'd take the US Dollar for 50% or more, because then there would only be one "major currency". Of course, from here on it's just guessing...
They probably know that you aren't going to work for lower wages than a Chinese citizen.
Yes, but entering in the US you are pretty much treated as a criminal. Fingerprinting, photographing, etc.... Not so in China.
They don't expect you to answer these questions honestly in case you would have to answer "yes".
Oh, I know what it is for, that's not the point. If I did commit genocide, that would be more than enough to put me in prison, so it doesn't make a difference. Life long sentence for genocide, plus 2 years for making a false statement on a form. Laughable!
You're pretty much the laughing stock of the world with those ridiculous forms.
Most banks give not a shit (and will actively avoid caring) if you serially deposit $9899.47 every night at 8:53 p.m. Nor do they have to report it to anyone.
Can't say for the US, but in the country where I live, I can assure you that such a behaviour would raise a flag. It's the total that counts over a certain period of time.
That's going to be one hell of a lawnmover! ;-)
That was about the same... As simple as getting on the plane. Why?
Ehm, the Yuan hasn't been pegged to the dollar for 2 years.