I've got one and also visit the yahoo boards all the time, and have never heard of anyone replacing the battery pack. It's stock-warranteed for 8 yrs, anyway. One problem that is noted for the 5 spds is a periodic "recalibration" where the charging unit and the estimated charge disagree, and the car disables the "assist" for a few miles while it recharges the batteries. This is fairly common among the 5spds because the drivers tend to really deplete the batteries more heavily, and the battery graph on the dash only estimates the state of charge based on flow, not the true voltage. When the two values get too far out of sync. Voila - recalibration. I've never had one happen in my CVT model.
The battery pack consists of 120 D-cell NiMH batteries, and the charge/discharge cycle never fully depletes or fully charges them, in order to preserve their lives. The user battery graph only shows a narrow middle section of this charge, so a reading of "full" is actually ~90% charged, and it won't charge any more than that.
What has been noted occasionally is an O2 sensor alert on the dash, and quite a few have been replaced, but it's not clear yet whether the units are going bad or being damaged by something further up the engine. No recall, yet.
Weight limit: The car has a limit of ~350 pounds for the passenger, driver and cargo. That's two people at 175. Actually, I've topped at closer to 400 occasionally and nothing happens. I think they just don't want people hauling bricks in it or something - people tend to abuse hatchbacks;)
Yup, it dings easy. Honda dropped the ball by not at least putting on a little rubber strip on the doors in order to stop the dings in parking lots. No argument there. I guess it's the price for an all-aluminum car designed to be light.
After voting with the browser, don't forget to then email the webmaster of the site to let them know what happened. Without that email, they may never notice that you walked.
Worse yet, since you simply showed up on their screens as a compliant browser that didn't follow through, they have no reason to fix/update their site. By sending that email, you register as a squeaky wheel that has to be either ignored or responded to, but at least it's a louder, clearer voice than otherwise.
I use it all the time to do software testing at work, and it allows you to run multiple OSes at the same time on a single machine.
CPU power is shared among the main OS, and all of the "VM" OSes. Works great for checking something out. CPU speed is fine, although networking and screen aren't the best.
If you're looking to "check out" an OS or something, try VMWare. It's beat Ghost and partitioning completely at work.
Yes, we've tried the "put me on your 'do not call' list", but with little success. Here's the script on the 'do not call' dialog:
Me: Put me on your 'do not call' list.
Phone guy: No. (Click)
Even though they say it's free, caller ID probably costs me about $2/month. It's more than paid for itself in saved time and aggravation. Some local wired companies in the area offer complete blocking of "out of area" calls unless they release their phone number. I'd pay extra for that feature on a cell phone.
This is what they should have done in the first place- go after the people who are actually doing it instead of making P2P seemingly illegal.
Wrong! They did it exactly right according to their plans. The point was to first make P2P seemingly illegal in order to "poison the well." Once P2P was presented as illegal in the popular press, anyone engaged in it is guilty by assumption. This makes Phase Two so much easier.
Last year, my PVR 500 box would occasionally just cross-link clusters of one recording on top of another. Both shows would be hosed. Since the box is always recording/buffering, you were guaranteed to lose a show or two every few days.
I called the tech support, and the guy said he'd never heard of the situation (even though the boards were full of complaints). He then recommended I not use the surge suppressor, since those had been causing some "static problems" for these boxes. I chalked it up to the fact that he was an idiot, and they eventually pushed down a software update that stopped the problem. Of course, this wasn't announced as such - the software version numbers just changed one day and the problem stopped.
Fast forward to last week. The box showed signs of a crashing hard drive, and tech support put me through to "Replacements", and even gave me authorization for replacement. "Replacements" figured out that the box was one month out of warrantee, and said that a replacement would run $70, or I could sign up for a "house warrantee" for both of my boxes and the dish for $2/month (one year committment), and that would chop $20 off of the $70 replacement. I took a pass on it for a while, since the box still plays, but won't record or essentially PVR.
While I had the guy on the phone, and asked him if they had lowered the data rate / increased the compression on the local channels, since the locals were getting lots of motion artifacts recently. I said since the box uses MPEG-2 compression, that's a trade-off they could be making.
He informed me that they don't use compression in the same way a computer signal does, and that such artifacts may have been introduced along the way by another link in the distribution chain, and that MPEG-2 didn't mean what I thought it meant.
I nodded and smiled over the phone to get off the phone with the guy, but something bothered me before we even got to talking about compression...
It was the same guy (by name) who told me not to use the surge supressors the year before.
I'll continue to use the service, but won't trust the tech support for anything other than putting in the occasional record that I complained about something.
While Hams may have a maximum power output at those frequencies, broadcasting at full-blast is not necessarily legal. I can't remember exacty wording, but I think the phrase "mimimum necessary power for effective communcation."
While a Ham might make a case for using a given power level, it might not always be legal.
Sorry - I watch and PVR Sesame Street and a few other childrens' shows for my daughter, and I can assure you that the "commercials" are quite conventional.
There's a McDonald's one that comes on just before the show that shows Ronald climbing through the tube with the kids, while cheery, child-like (eerie) voices sing "put a smile on". The Spaghetti-Os one isn't as bad, as "Sesame Street was brought to you by the letter 'O'".
I think the line for me started blurring when the sponsors started supplying the scripts for the announcements, and the line was crossed when the sponsor started supplying video tape.
Does anyone remember that TV news journal show where a parent went to a park with their kid, told the kid not to talk to strangers, then the parent went out of site for a few moments? A reporter then went up to the kid holding a leash and was able to get the kid to help "look for a lost puppy" every time. The parent was hiding behind a tree during the setup and cameras were rolling.
Although they were going for shock value, it worked for me. As a parent and former high school teacher, I'm much more wary about these things now.
(Related note: in teacher school, they made a point of telling the male teachers to always deal with students in plain sight of others, such as after-school tutoring at a library or teachers' lounge. The risk of a false accusation to a teaching career can be huge.)
You are given a credit card with a $1000 limit. 100 other people are given the same card. The bills are all added up, averaged, and distributed out every month - you are responsible for 1/100 of the bill, no matter how much you spend. If fail to use the card, you still pay for all of the others who do, without any benefits. If you use the card, you add to the madness - what do you do?
Life is full of these - from the environment, to the economy, to broadband. Anytime anything is owned in common, this happens.
Some point to this as the reason that pork is a no-no in the Middle East. It's not necessarily a disease issue, but that pigs are a waste. Unlike a goat, you don't get much milk, or any work, out of a pig. And, they use a lot of water - a scarce resource. If everyone owned pigs, there'd be an issue. Solution - make it "unpopular" to own pigs.
The VMWare people weasle out of saying that they'll promise to run BeOS, etc., but their emulation is just of the hardware, MB, BIOS, etc. Any CPU calls you know and love are still there - it's pretty bulletproof. The CPU is the only thing they don't emulate - so the documentation points out, for example, that they don't guarantee you can run a Win95 session on a P4 - because Intel and MS can't guarantee it either.
We've benchmarked VMWare at work and it uses the real CPU speed of the host machine. There's a slight RAM hit, and video benchmarks are completely out, but the raw CPU is running at regular speed. Hence, no speed hit to speak of for many CPU intensive tasks.
Don't get me started on the network performance though - I think it emulates a 10Mbit connection, and even that's being generous.
I use VMWare everyday and while I agree it doesn't use multiple CPUs, you can launch multiple instances of VMs at the same time and they will use sep. CPUs from each other. In essence, you're then running two Celeron533s at the same time. The video driver it supplies is good enough for testing anything except games.
Love this package - instead of keeping a dual-boot machine floating around, you can keep multiple VMs on the same machine, and even run them at the same time. Bonus trick - get four VMWare sessions running at once and have them network amongst each other. Very cool.
BTW, your trick of blowing away the delta file (VM calls it an "undo" disk) is exactly what we use it for - beats Ghost.
I use VMWare at work every day for development (beats reGhosting) and VMware emulates the hardware of an X86 PC. You still supply a copy of whatever OS you want to use (the real thing), and VMWare pretends to be a motherboard, video card, memory, CPU, etc.
We use it to guarantee a clean install of various OS and application combinations. Test the in-house pre-alpha software on a VM window, "shut down" and power off the VM and allow VM to delete the optional delta file it's been keeping of the changes. Presto - clean hard-drive again.
In the city limits of Chicago, you learn a trick while driving, which is to count to three after _your_ light turns green, just to avoid getting hit.
In the suburbs, the rules are a little different. There, you go a little sooner than three, but still have to watch it. In some of the larger intersections, where traffic is eight lanes across, the interesection itself is so large that lights are set for there to a brief period of "four-way red".
There's one that almost every class does where the textbook describes a monkey in a tree who drops just as the hunter shoots. Does the monkey get hit?
Yes, as the prof. demonstrates with a stuffed monkey (a la toy), a magnet, and an arrow launcher. Arrow falls at the same rate as the monkey, who occasionally gets it in the crotch.
Standing ovation every time.
Of course, I also had to give props to my prof who once simulated a ONE FARAD capacitor, using a bunch of D-cell NiCads with a common metal bus. He was able to charge it up and vaporize a straightened coat hanger with one touch (he wore gloves).
There was a good write-up in Forbes a few months ago about a company that sells the equipment. Apparently, this company (can't find the link) also had the user key in their zip code before placing their thumb. That way, the database only has to scan your print against other people in your zip code rather than the whole database.
Faster, and cuts down on the false positives, too. I think there was discussion of using PIN codes, too.
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The battery pack consists of 120 D-cell NiMH batteries, and the charge/discharge cycle never fully depletes or fully charges them, in order to preserve their lives. The user battery graph only shows a narrow middle section of this charge, so a reading of "full" is actually ~90% charged, and it won't charge any more than that.
What has been noted occasionally is an O2 sensor alert on the dash, and quite a few have been replaced, but it's not clear yet whether the units are going bad or being damaged by something further up the engine. No recall, yet.
Weight limit: The car has a limit of ~350 pounds for the passenger, driver and cargo. That's two people at 175. Actually, I've topped at closer to 400 occasionally and nothing happens. I think they just don't want people hauling bricks in it or something - people tend to abuse hatchbacks ;)
Yup, it dings easy. Honda dropped the ball by not at least putting on a little rubber strip on the doors in order to stop the dings in parking lots. No argument there. I guess it's the price for an all-aluminum car designed to be light.
Worse yet, since you simply showed up on their screens as a compliant browser that didn't follow through, they have no reason to fix/update their site. By sending that email, you register as a squeaky wheel that has to be either ignored or responded to, but at least it's a louder, clearer voice than otherwise.
I use it all the time to do software testing at work, and it allows you to run multiple OSes at the same time on a single machine.
CPU power is shared among the main OS, and all of the "VM" OSes. Works great for checking something out. CPU speed is fine, although networking and screen aren't the best.
If you're looking to "check out" an OS or something, try VMWare. It's beat Ghost and partitioning completely at work.
www.vmware.com
Me: Put me on your 'do not call' list.
Phone guy: No. (Click)
Even though they say it's free, caller ID probably costs me about $2/month. It's more than paid for itself in saved time and aggravation. Some local wired companies in the area offer complete blocking of "out of area" calls unless they release their phone number. I'd pay extra for that feature on a cell phone.
Last year, my PVR 500 box would occasionally just cross-link clusters of one recording on top of another. Both shows would be hosed. Since the box is always recording/buffering, you were guaranteed to lose a show or two every few days.
I called the tech support, and the guy said he'd never heard of the situation (even though the boards were full of complaints). He then recommended I not use the surge suppressor, since those had been causing some "static problems" for these boxes. I chalked it up to the fact that he was an idiot, and they eventually pushed down a software update that stopped the problem. Of course, this wasn't announced as such - the software version numbers just changed one day and the problem stopped.
Fast forward to last week. The box showed signs of a crashing hard drive, and tech support put me through to "Replacements", and even gave me authorization for replacement. "Replacements" figured out that the box was one month out of warrantee, and said that a replacement would run $70, or I could sign up for a "house warrantee" for both of my boxes and the dish for $2/month (one year committment), and that would chop $20 off of the $70 replacement. I took a pass on it for a while, since the box still plays, but won't record or essentially PVR.
While I had the guy on the phone, and asked him if they had lowered the data rate / increased the compression on the local channels, since the locals were getting lots of motion artifacts recently. I said since the box uses MPEG-2 compression, that's a trade-off they could be making.
He informed me that they don't use compression in the same way a computer signal does, and that such artifacts may have been introduced along the way by another link in the distribution chain, and that MPEG-2 didn't mean what I thought it meant.
I nodded and smiled over the phone to get off the phone with the guy, but something bothered me before we even got to talking about compression...
It was the same guy (by name) who told me not to use the surge supressors the year before.
I'll continue to use the service, but won't trust the tech support for anything other than putting in the occasional record that I complained about something.
Reminds me of the William Safire column called "I led the pigeons to the flag", where he got the "misheards" from little kids.
Many posts here have mentioned the "rote" recitation of the pledge. I would add that the additional misunderstandings that creep in can't help.
I know I spent a year or two wondering why this one nation was invisible, and figured it would be cool to be part of that action.
"I'm sorry Cr4Ck3r DuD3, but there's no check. However, we've been looking for you regarding a DDOS we got last week..."
Well, I had first impressions of the cafeteria at the local Venture, where you get an Icee, an old hot dog, and a pretzel.
While a Ham might make a case for using a given power level, it might not always be legal.
-Signed, former Ham
Sorry - I watch and PVR Sesame Street and a few other childrens' shows for my daughter, and I can assure you that the "commercials" are quite conventional.
There's a McDonald's one that comes on just before the show that shows Ronald climbing through the tube with the kids, while cheery, child-like (eerie) voices sing "put a smile on". The Spaghetti-Os one isn't as bad, as "Sesame Street was brought to you by the letter 'O'".
I think the line for me started blurring when the sponsors started supplying the scripts for the announcements, and the line was crossed when the sponsor started supplying video tape.
Although they were going for shock value, it worked for me. As a parent and former high school teacher, I'm much more wary about these things now.
(Related note: in teacher school, they made a point of telling the male teachers to always deal with students in plain sight of others, such as after-school tutoring at a library or teachers' lounge. The risk of a false accusation to a teaching career can be huge.)
Think of it - cleaner environment - no more wasted trips, the possibilities...
and so: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/09/051722 8&mode=thread
and so: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/21/092121 2&mode=thread
Ok, not exactly, but it all feels the same, you know?
You are given a credit card with a $1000 limit. 100 other people are given the same card. The bills are all added up, averaged, and distributed out every month - you are responsible for 1/100 of the bill, no matter how much you spend. If fail to use the card, you still pay for all of the others who do, without any benefits. If you use the card, you add to the madness - what do you do?
Life is full of these - from the environment, to the economy, to broadband. Anytime anything is owned in common, this happens.
Some point to this as the reason that pork is a no-no in the Middle East. It's not necessarily a disease issue, but that pigs are a waste. Unlike a goat, you don't get much milk, or any work, out of a pig. And, they use a lot of water - a scarce resource. If everyone owned pigs, there'd be an issue. Solution - make it "unpopular" to own pigs.
Excellent program!
Don't get me started on the network performance though - I think it emulates a 10Mbit connection, and even that's being generous.
Love this package - instead of keeping a dual-boot machine floating around, you can keep multiple VMs on the same machine, and even run them at the same time. Bonus trick - get four VMWare sessions running at once and have them network amongst each other. Very cool.
BTW, your trick of blowing away the delta file (VM calls it an "undo" disk) is exactly what we use it for - beats Ghost.
I use VMWare at work every day for development (beats reGhosting) and VMware emulates the hardware of an X86 PC. You still supply a copy of whatever OS you want to use (the real thing), and VMWare pretends to be a motherboard, video card, memory, CPU, etc.
We use it to guarantee a clean install of various OS and application combinations. Test the in-house pre-alpha software on a VM window, "shut down" and power off the VM and allow VM to delete the optional delta file it's been keeping of the changes. Presto - clean hard-drive again.
http://www.intel.com/software/products/perflib/
In the city limits of Chicago, you learn a trick while driving, which is to count to three after _your_ light turns green, just to avoid getting hit.
In the suburbs, the rules are a little different. There, you go a little sooner than three, but still have to watch it. In some of the larger intersections, where traffic is eight lanes across, the interesection itself is so large that lights are set for there to a brief period of "four-way red".
Or, you just sit around contemplating your navel and debate if the cat is beaten or irradiated!
There's one that almost every class does where the textbook describes a monkey in a tree who drops just as the hunter shoots. Does the monkey get hit?
Yes, as the prof. demonstrates with a stuffed monkey (a la toy), a magnet, and an arrow launcher. Arrow falls at the same rate as the monkey, who occasionally gets it in the crotch.
Standing ovation every time.
Of course, I also had to give props to my prof who once simulated a ONE FARAD capacitor, using a bunch of D-cell NiCads with a common metal bus. He was able to charge it up and vaporize a straightened coat hanger with one touch (he wore gloves).
Nice Headline!
Faster, and cuts down on the false positives, too. I think there was discussion of using PIN codes, too.