That doesn't make sense. There are plenty of thin people who sit around all day and do nothing, and there are plenty of fat people that are pretty active.
Every couch potato isn't 300 pounds, every contractor that spends all day building homes isn't thin as a rail.
There is a 'chicken and egg' problem with those studies.
Let's say somebody has terminal cancer, liver problems, severe depression, or some other medical problem that causes them to sleep a lot.
Their longer sleep patterns don't have a negative affect on their life span, the existing negative effect on their life span is giving them longer sleep patterns.
I haven't read all of the sleep studies out there, but at least a few of them don't take into consideration situations like that.
If you haven't done so already, take your questions to linuxquestions.org.
I find the group there to be incredibly newbie friendly. I should know, I'm a newbie, they answered all my questions. I've got every feature in Slackware that I want up and running.
Honda's Accord V6 is both faster and more fuel efficient than the standard Accord V6. That bodes well for the future of performance hybrids and also means it would annihilate the Prius in a performance comparison.
(Note, however, it's slower than the Accord Coupe V6 with the 6 speed manual.)
Toyota has two additional performance hybrids announced for the coming year. The RX400h uses the same 3.3 liter V6 as the RX330 and a hybrid powertrain. Toyota is hyping it as "V8 performance with 4 cylinder fuel economy". The second models is the GS450h, which will use a 4.5 liter V8 and a hybrid powertrain. Toyota is hyping it as "V12 performance with V6 fuel economy". I doubt either vehicle will perform as well as the hype, but I expect them to do better than the base 3.3 liter V6 or 4.5 liter V8 model, respectively.
Flash memory or complete server booting, RAM, a processor with a large enough heatsink that there's no fan, and remote configuration from a server.
A big enterprise can eliminate over half of its tech support and system administrators, because instead of managing 50 servers and 1000 workstations, they can tackle 75 servers and remotely auto-configure 1000 thin clients.
It's no silver bullet, but in the right circumstances it's a big money saver - unless you're one of the ones that gets laid off.
So my question is, why aren't they using series hybrids with electric cars?
When you're using the car for short trips, just plug it in at your destination.
When you're using the car for long trips, fill up your fuel tank and run your on-board generator to keep the battery charged. The fuel->internal combustion engine->battery->wheels chain is inefficient, but it will be rarely used since you would only use it on occasional long trips that exceed the range of your battery charge.
More importantly, a fossil fuel plant would have a similar effect.
The conversion of steam energy to electricity in a turbine is the same, no matter if the steam came from nuclear power or fossil fuels.
So if you wanted to close those nuclear power plants and get a similar output from coal power plants or natural gas power plants, a very comparable amount of heat energy would be released.
I don't know what they're for, and I agree it's unfair. If you can only - boo hoo hoo - get an 11.5 second quarter mile without the extra wheels, that should be your official rating.
He refused to learn manual transmission? No wonder you dropped him. (No offense, just making a joke.)
A friend of mine has a Jetta TDI. He chipped the car and replaced the injectors for a total price of ~$350. He claims the mods gave him about 150 horsepower and 230 ft.lbs. (or is it lb.ft.? I can never remember) of torque, and the way it accelerated, I'm inclined to believe him. His mileage hasn't changed, either.
Are you talking US gallons or British Imperial gallons, which are 20% larger?
Either way the numbers are impressive, but in the latter case you'd be getting 50 mpg, which is more inline with the Volkswagen Turbo Diesel Jetta and Golf available in the US.
It is possible to get performance and handling from a front wheel drive car that's almost indistinguishable from a good rear wheel drive layout.
Just pop in a limited slip differential and tune and stiffen your suspension to keep weight over the front tires.
If you're starting from scratch, it's better to get a rear wheel drive car. But if you want to modify something you already own to perform better, it works nearly as well.
It's a federal income tax, not a property tax. She's worth 3+ billion, but her income was much less than $100 million.
Your charitable donations were almost certainly higher than hers as a percentage of your net worth - unless you're moderately wealthy or stingy. But it's not likely they were higher as a percentage of your income.
The parent poster was probably thinking of Kerry's wife, who has the Heinz fortune but pays a relatively small percentage of tax given her income level. See A Washington Post Article.
I really don't care, since she also donated more than $4 million to charity last year. If you hunt around online, John and Theresa Kerry track financial assets separately per the terms of their prenuptual agreement. In fact, John Kerry mortgaged the only house they jointly own to help finance his election bid.
Hemp and Marijuana belong to the same species of plant, but just like there are several different types of Oak and Maple, there's a distinction between Hemp and Pot.
As far as I know, all modern cars have power brakes. That means you get some mechanical assistance from the car when you push the gas pedal.
However, even if power braking fails you can still stop the car - it's just harder.
On the other hand, if your brakes are used constantly for a few minutes they can overheat, and they don't work as well. That could be the problem, I don't know.
There is one serious reason to prefer newer cars to older ones - crash ratings. Older cars were often heavier, but they weren't designed with good crumple zones. You're shred yourself to bits on the interior in an impact.
There's a Popular Mechanics article a few months back describing Jay Leno's toy car, which is a giant roadster with an engine from some defunct tank.
He specifically noted that it was the only thing he's ever driven that accelerates even when you stomp on the brakes. If Jay says his Ferraris and Corvettes and Ford GT slow down when braking even if you mash the accelerator, then I've got to believe this guy was lying.
I know this type of story is presented as justification for keeping the English language the way it is...
But wouldn't it be nice if we could teach children to read and spell properly in a matter of weeks instead of years? The truth is, dyslexia is more common in American children than in foreign children, even in the best private schools in the US. It's not that our kids are all stupid, it's that our language is unnecessarily complicated.
Give the kids a version of English with a one phoneme (or is it phoname? I always confuse the two) - one spelling paradigm. They'll learn it at an amazing pace. Have them adjust to that for a few years, maybe even read some good sized books written in it. Only later have them adjust to 'true English', with its host of complicated and contradictory spellings for each phoneme (phoname?) combination.
Consider fuel economy. Any automaker in the world could produce a car with a frame made out of titanium, carbon fiber composites, aluminum, and other very light materials. Give it a 4 cylinder engine with variable valve timing, very light and skinny tires, a reasonably aerodynamic profile, and a continuously variable transmission.
But who's going to buy an 80 mpg Civic when they could get a new Ferrari cheaper?
You're missing improvements is safety, fuel economy, fuel emissions, and reliability.
That new Accord brakes better, shields the occupants more safely in a crash, has less emissions, faster performance, and better fuel economy than the Volvo. (Volvo made the world's safest cars in the decades past. If you check crash ratings at the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration here or at the National Insurance Institute here, in modern times many other automakers have models that are just as safe.)
You want a modern car with modern amenities that lasts a million miles with almost no work? It's cheaper to make a Ferrari.
PS GM's reliability has improved tremendously recently. Currently, according to Consumer Reports research your average 2004 Chevy will last longer than your average 2004 Volvo - although neither will last as long as an '04 Toyota.
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That doesn't make sense. There are plenty of thin people who sit around all day and do nothing, and there are plenty of fat people that are pretty active.
Every couch potato isn't 300 pounds, every contractor that spends all day building homes isn't thin as a rail.
There is a 'chicken and egg' problem with those studies.
Let's say somebody has terminal cancer, liver problems, severe depression, or some other medical problem that causes them to sleep a lot.
Their longer sleep patterns don't have a negative affect on their life span, the existing negative effect on their life span is giving them longer sleep patterns.
I haven't read all of the sleep studies out there, but at least a few of them don't take into consideration situations like that.
If you haven't done so already, take your questions to linuxquestions.org.
I find the group there to be incredibly newbie friendly. I should know, I'm a newbie, they answered all my questions. I've got every feature in Slackware that I want up and running.
Honda's Accord V6 is both faster and more fuel efficient than the standard Accord V6. That bodes well for the future of performance hybrids and also means it would annihilate the Prius in a performance comparison.
(Note, however, it's slower than the Accord Coupe V6 with the 6 speed manual.)
Toyota has two additional performance hybrids announced for the coming year. The RX400h uses the same 3.3 liter V6 as the RX330 and a hybrid powertrain. Toyota is hyping it as "V8 performance with 4 cylinder fuel economy". The second models is the GS450h, which will use a 4.5 liter V8 and a hybrid powertrain. Toyota is hyping it as "V12 performance with V6 fuel economy". I doubt either vehicle will perform as well as the hype, but I expect them to do better than the base 3.3 liter V6 or 4.5 liter V8 model, respectively.
Thin clients, dude.
Flash memory or complete server booting, RAM, a processor with a large enough heatsink that there's no fan, and remote configuration from a server.
A big enterprise can eliminate over half of its tech support and system administrators, because instead of managing 50 servers and 1000 workstations, they can tackle 75 servers and remotely auto-configure 1000 thin clients.
It's no silver bullet, but in the right circumstances it's a big money saver - unless you're one of the ones that gets laid off.
So my question is, why aren't they using series hybrids with electric cars?
When you're using the car for short trips, just plug it in at your destination.
When you're using the car for long trips, fill up your fuel tank and run your on-board generator to keep the battery charged. The fuel->internal combustion engine->battery->wheels chain is inefficient, but it will be rarely used since you would only use it on occasional long trips that exceed the range of your battery charge.
More importantly, a fossil fuel plant would have a similar effect. The conversion of steam energy to electricity in a turbine is the same, no matter if the steam came from nuclear power or fossil fuels. So if you wanted to close those nuclear power plants and get a similar output from coal power plants or natural gas power plants, a very comparable amount of heat energy would be released.
I don't know what they're for, and I agree it's unfair. If you can only - boo hoo hoo - get an 11.5 second quarter mile without the extra wheels, that should be your official rating.
He refused to learn manual transmission? No wonder you dropped him. (No offense, just making a joke.)
A friend of mine has a Jetta TDI. He chipped the car and replaced the injectors for a total price of ~$350. He claims the mods gave him about 150 horsepower and 230 ft.lbs. (or is it lb.ft.? I can never remember) of torque, and the way it accelerated, I'm inclined to believe him. His mileage hasn't changed, either.
Are you talking US gallons or British Imperial gallons, which are 20% larger?
Either way the numbers are impressive, but in the latter case you'd be getting 50 mpg, which is more inline with the Volkswagen Turbo Diesel Jetta and Golf available in the US.
If you go to Pontiac.com and check out their lineup, they're dumping the body cladding.
It's about time, too. Now if only GM could roll out it's five and six speed automatics and hybrid powertrains before Toyota runs them into the ground.
GM finally makes great progress catching up in crash protection and reliability, and they blow it by letting the cutting edge tech pass them buy.
It is possible to get performance and handling from a front wheel drive car that's almost indistinguishable from a good rear wheel drive layout.
Just pop in a limited slip differential and tune and stiffen your suspension to keep weight over the front tires.
If you're starting from scratch, it's better to get a rear wheel drive car. But if you want to modify something you already own to perform better, it works nearly as well.
It's a federal income tax, not a property tax. She's worth 3+ billion, but her income was much less than $100 million.
Your charitable donations were almost certainly higher than hers as a percentage of your net worth - unless you're moderately wealthy or stingy. But it's not likely they were higher as a percentage of your income.
You let me know when Theresa Kerry starts ordering the death of innocents.
The parent poster was probably thinking of Kerry's wife, who has the Heinz fortune but pays a relatively small percentage of tax given her income level. See A Washington Post Article.
I really don't care, since she also donated more than $4 million to charity last year. If you hunt around online, John and Theresa Kerry track financial assets separately per the terms of their prenuptual agreement. In fact, John Kerry mortgaged the only house they jointly own to help finance his election bid.
You're incorrect. Try this link.
Hemp and Marijuana belong to the same species of plant, but just like there are several different types of Oak and Maple, there's a distinction between Hemp and Pot.
I meant when you push the brake pedal, not the gas pedal. Sorry!
As far as I know, all modern cars have power brakes. That means you get some mechanical assistance from the car when you push the gas pedal.
However, even if power braking fails you can still stop the car - it's just harder.
On the other hand, if your brakes are used constantly for a few minutes they can overheat, and they don't work as well. That could be the problem, I don't know.
There is one serious reason to prefer newer cars to older ones - crash ratings. Older cars were often heavier, but they weren't designed with good crumple zones. You're shred yourself to bits on the interior in an impact.
But check the National Traffic and Highway Safety Administration and The National Insurance Institute and you'll see many newer cars and SUVs are substantially safer in an impact than any older model, even a Volvo.
Many people don't pay any attention to crash ratings, and maybe you're one of them - but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway.
There's a Popular Mechanics article a few months back describing Jay Leno's toy car, which is a giant roadster with an engine from some defunct tank.
He specifically noted that it was the only thing he's ever driven that accelerates even when you stomp on the brakes. If Jay says his Ferraris and Corvettes and Ford GT slow down when braking even if you mash the accelerator, then I've got to believe this guy was lying.
I didn't mean to imply there was a 10 times cost factor with improved reliability - but I imagine there would be a 50% or perhaps 100% cost factor.
If long lasting parts were cheap, automakers would be using them already.
I know this type of story is presented as justification for keeping the English language the way it is...
But wouldn't it be nice if we could teach children to read and spell properly in a matter of weeks instead of years? The truth is, dyslexia is more common in American children than in foreign children, even in the best private schools in the US. It's not that our kids are all stupid, it's that our language is unnecessarily complicated.
Give the kids a version of English with a one phoneme (or is it phoname? I always confuse the two) - one spelling paradigm. They'll learn it at an amazing pace. Have them adjust to that for a few years, maybe even read some good sized books written in it. Only later have them adjust to 'true English', with its host of complicated and contradictory spellings for each phoneme (phoname?) combination.
It's not too hard to get that one. Go to
http://wikisource.org/wiki/E_to_10,000_places
And you should be able to figure it out.
I agree.
Consider fuel economy. Any automaker in the world could produce a car with a frame made out of titanium, carbon fiber composites, aluminum, and other very light materials. Give it a 4 cylinder engine with variable valve timing, very light and skinny tires, a reasonably aerodynamic profile, and a continuously variable transmission.
But who's going to buy an 80 mpg Civic when they could get a new Ferrari cheaper?
That new Accord brakes better, shields the occupants more safely in a crash, has less emissions, faster performance, and better fuel economy than the Volvo. (Volvo made the world's safest cars in the decades past. If you check crash ratings at the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration here or at the National Insurance Institute here, in modern times many other automakers have models that are just as safe.)
You want a modern car with modern amenities that lasts a million miles with almost no work? It's cheaper to make a Ferrari.
PS GM's reliability has improved tremendously recently. Currently, according to Consumer Reports research your average 2004 Chevy will last longer than your average 2004 Volvo - although neither will last as long as an '04 Toyota.