Does it feel like only the evenly-numbered FreeBSD releases are the better ones? Can't really say until 6 shakes out, but it's been a lot smoother than 5. Hopefully, this isn't the case.
So you're asking people of this great U.S of A to have the skills of: o having eyes that see for oneself o looking at the url o critical and analytical reading skills
Sir, I think you demand way too much of the people of this country!
It's what happens when you domesticate them down and they loose their aggressive adrenal glands.
From what I know, the more unnatural (white, white spotted, black with white spots, eg not a natural color) colored the cat (rabbit, fox, etc, etc) is, the less wild it is.
I have a tabby that will attack anything moving including rubber balls rolling down stairs, objects thrown 4 feet high in the air, people's asses, legs going up stairs, etc.. Sure is an outside cat, although no presents yet, and sorta gets along with the black-spotted rabbit.
You forget there's sections of any site where there's copious amount of text.
Resizing the window to maximum takes advantage of available screen real estate and eliminates scrolling. It's the difference between reading a webpage on a celphone, or reading it on a real display. I like how well packed the old website was because I didn't have to go through more than one link to get to the section I wanted.
Unless it's one of those weenies where the pretty desktop background is more important than properly sizing a window for content, or one of those still stuck in the pre-windowed display days of fixed-sized monotext screens on 14" RGB monitors.
Ya, I call it becoming a Sony bitch. They lock you in with the memory stick and the non-standard batteries, and rake the $$$ from you because it's a bitch to interface with anything else but Sony gear, and you've already paid all that $$$.
This is when I said NO and bought a Valence N-Charge II. That pulled me out of the battery lock-in, and happens to be compatible for almost everything.
Also the 1st and 2nd generation drives in the PSX all reliably died. It took Sony quite a while to admit to it too, and then the 1st gen PS2 again suffered the same problems AGAIN.
My friends and I went through it all with gritted teeth. The same friends are now Xbox only simply because of the versatility of the HD and downloads. I still got my PS2, but it ain't doing much except for GT4.
Contrast isn't so great now, text is tiny and yet too big with the large stylesheet.
It's also following the brain-dead trend to LOCK the size/alignment of the layout making window resizing useless; a PRINT versus WEB layout. Sorry, my windows aren't primarily 800x600.
If you are centering your layout, you have a whitespace flaw/problem.
Whereas SUVs make sense for most people whom don't need it, and they get a "we all pay for it" tax subsidy because they qualify as industrial vehicles, and hence also banned on most minor roads due to weight? Why are they getting tax breaks/free gas/leeway?
You're paying for MUCH MUCH more SUVs subsidies out there than hybrids which phase out after 60K vehicles for each dealer.
You are blind and two-faced if you're being livid about hybrids.
Hybrid vehicles do most of their charging by taking the power slop (usually wasted to turn the alternator to charge a tiny battery) to charge the LARGE hybrid battery. Regenerative braking is just another incidental efficiency improvement, but only < 30% efficient (gas->combustion->expansion motion->generator->batteries' ability to soak up up charge) and NOT the main charging component. So you get plenty of charging going uphill, downhill, going flat, freeway driving.
Not only that but the smaller hybrid gasoline engine is inherently more efficient at freeway cruising because the power demands there is right within its powerband, unlike bigger engines.
Some hybrid designs (such as the Prius) even reroute that charging slop back into the electric motor (with even more help from the battery) to assist the gas engine, as needed like a turbocharger.
You know, a hybrid-car sized of the Fiat Grande Punte and SmartCar would get better than 50+MPG. It's all about size&weight, and the Prii batteries are only 70lbs total. That is LESS weight than pretty much all single, adult, average Americans' body.
As a followup, your battery problem is mostly a design fubar by Honda. They didn't place limits on high, and especially how LOW, the battery charge can get in the early Insights. As anybody who has played with rechargeable batteries knows, running down the charge on batteries totally kills any longevity.
People spend $12k+ to buy a SUV/V6/German/Hummer vehicle than a hybrid. SHOW me a hybrid that costs $12K more than a comparably sized/equipped non-hybrid. If you're going do a tiny econobox comparision of pineapples to bananas, don't even bother.
You could check out an Atkinson Cycle gasoline engine which holds the intake valve open longer, or the Miller Cycle one also. Coincidentally, hybrid gas-engines use this design.
Imagine all those black-ice slicks and probable accidents created by H2 cars in a cold-weather area. I keep getting the feeling nobody really thought about this.
Because the Metro weighs like half with about that much less in room. That's sure a fair comparison. How about does the Geo Metro get better mileage than a 2-banger motocycle or go-cart?
Ford developed its own hybrid technology. When they discovered what they came up with was already patented by Toyota, they swapped some patents with Toyota and went on their merry way. Ford pays no money to Toyota.
Toyota btw, got some of Ford's patents on diesel engines.
And a Civic is seriously overpriced compared to a Geo Metro or a go-cart. Why not compare apples-to-apples, such as a Prius to an Accord or Camry since you want to compare to a car (midsize) of similar interior space & comforts, right?
Lessee, the equivalent Accord would be the 4-door sedan w/ nav with your voice activated NAV, ABS, 5 person seating, power everything, alarm, immobilizer, EBD, cruise, button covered steering wheel, air filtration, alloy wheels, 6 CD stereo system, similar engine specs (yes, the hybrid 1.5L is about equivalent to the 160HP gas).. blah blah blah with specs of nyah compared to the Prius with specs of nyah and... OMFG the Prius is slightly roomier... Continuing on, the prices come out to the same $26K MSRP +/- a few hundred. OMFG! Is this what overpriced really means?
Now, let's compare to the similiar Camry and you find the Camry only very slightly roomier and a few K cheaper until you count the missing Nav and maybe some other options.
You previously named a 15K Civic, a watermelon to pineapple comparison. Well, no way it's the 4 door EX with Nav because that's $20+K. How about the bottom of the lineDX sedan. The seating room is pretty close to the Prius, although it's missing 4" of rear legroom and 4 cu-ft of cargo space. Subtract NAV, premium audio, HID head lights, etc and I can see the $10K difference might be a bit much. But then I see you didn't like the cheap alacantara-like microfiber cloth upholstry used on many premium Bimmers, Subarus which are considered by many to be cheap vehicles. That's fine too, because you can get things in leather come 2006.
So now that we have this imaginary premium that somehow exists for Hybrids, but doesn't for SUVs, cars with bigger engines, and etc etc because V6+ German goodness and all that shininess of a Hummer somehow comes for free and you've already broken even without breaking the bank unlike the evil Hybrid?
For you real geeks, the Prius electronics hard-maintains charge levels between 40% to 80%. Pretty hard to kill a battery doing that.
Don't forget to add the reduced maintenance costs of hybrids because: o some are Japanese cars o they use their engines & brake pads a lot less o the Prius does not have a timing belt so no replacement necessary o lifetime no emissions tests in California o 8 year/150K warranty on the hybrid battery (try to beat that with your regular car battery) for the Prius o the Prius itself has been around since ~1997 with a few cabs already over 150K miles with no battery problems compared to how many million recalls for other cars? o just oil change/tire rotation for the first 60->100K miles
Then there's the imaginary savings of having clean air so kids don't have asthma and growing up leaning on the health system a bit which is paid by OMFG my taxes. Of course it's arguable that the money would've went to Iraq anyways, b
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Does it feel like only the evenly-numbered FreeBSD releases are the better ones? Can't really say until 6 shakes out, but it's been a lot smoother than 5. Hopefully, this isn't the case.
At least cvsup rebuild to RELENG_6 from 5.4 is much easier and painfree than moving from 4.11 to 5.x.
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what about "representations" on Futurama, SNL, etc? Better go after all of them.
So you're asking people of this great U.S of A to have the skills of:
o having eyes that see for oneself
o looking at the url
o critical and analytical reading skills
Sir, I think you demand way too much of the people of this country!
sad, but true.
It's what happens when you domesticate them down and they loose their aggressive adrenal glands.
From what I know, the more unnatural (white, white spotted, black with white spots, eg not a natural color) colored the cat (rabbit, fox, etc, etc) is, the less wild it is.
I have a tabby that will attack anything moving including rubber balls rolling down stairs, objects thrown 4 feet high in the air, people's asses, legs going up stairs, etc.. Sure is an outside cat, although no presents yet, and sorta gets along with the black-spotted rabbit.
Just snip/cut/remove all relevant hidden contraband hormone generators. Eunuchs works better in space anyways. ;)
Or even better, do it like Spock's brain, and only have robotic bodies when you need to EVA/explore the ground.
Either that or send a couple guys, a lot of women, and use King Solomon social rules up there.
You forget there's sections of any site where there's copious amount of text.
Resizing the window to maximum takes advantage of available screen real estate and eliminates scrolling. It's the difference between reading a webpage on a celphone, or reading it on a real display. I like how well packed the old website was because I didn't have to go through more than one link to get to the section I wanted.
Unless it's one of those weenies where the pretty desktop background is more important than properly sizing a window for content, or one of those still stuck in the pre-windowed display days of fixed-sized monotext screens on 14" RGB monitors.
Ya, I call it becoming a Sony bitch. They lock you in with the memory stick and the non-standard batteries, and rake the $$$ from you because it's a bitch to interface with anything else but Sony gear, and you've already paid all that $$$.
This is when I said NO and bought a Valence N-Charge II. That pulled me out of the battery lock-in, and happens to be compatible for almost everything.
Now to just get out of the stick...
Also the 1st and 2nd generation drives in the PSX all reliably died. It took Sony quite a while to admit to it too, and then the 1st gen PS2 again suffered the same problems AGAIN.
My friends and I went through it all with gritted teeth. The same friends are now Xbox only simply because of the versatility of the HD and downloads. I still got my PS2, but it ain't doing much except for GT4.
It as also SanDisk that made Memory Stick Pro (eg > 128MB) possible.
Sony sure didn't innovate their way out of that dead-end they were in for so many years while CF, and SD, etc surpassed and got cheaper too.
Contrast isn't so great now, text is tiny and yet too big with the large stylesheet.
It's also following the brain-dead trend to LOCK the size/alignment of the layout making window resizing useless; a PRINT versus WEB layout. Sorry, my windows aren't primarily 800x600.
If you are centering your layout, you have a whitespace flaw/problem.
Whereas SUVs make sense for most people whom don't need it, and they get a "we all pay for it" tax subsidy because they qualify as industrial vehicles, and hence also banned on most minor roads due to weight? Why are they getting tax breaks/free gas/leeway?
You're paying for MUCH MUCH more SUVs subsidies out there than hybrids which phase out after 60K vehicles for each dealer.
You are blind and two-faced if you're being livid about hybrids.
Piddly. The S2000 gets 240HP @ 20/25 in a I4 2.2L. That's 109HP/9MPG per liter NA in a two-seater with safety features.
o Ford 4.6L: 65HP/5.4MPG per liter
o Corvette V8 6L: 66HP/2.2MPG per liter
o C6 7L: 72HP/2.2MPG per liter
o BMW M5 V8 4.8L: 75HP/3.3MPG per liter
Looks like the Honda and the BMW ARE the most efficient and advanced engines listed.
BTW, it's BRAKES.
Hybrid vehicles do most of their charging by taking the power slop (usually wasted to turn the alternator to charge a tiny battery) to charge the LARGE hybrid battery. Regenerative braking is just another incidental efficiency improvement, but only < 30% efficient (gas->combustion->expansion motion->generator->batteries' ability to soak up up charge) and NOT the main charging component. So you get plenty of charging going uphill, downhill, going flat, freeway driving.
Not only that but the smaller hybrid gasoline engine is inherently more efficient at freeway cruising because the power demands there is right within its powerband, unlike bigger engines.
Some hybrid designs (such as the Prius) even reroute that charging slop back into the electric motor (with even more help from the battery) to assist the gas engine, as needed like a turbocharger.
You know, a hybrid-car sized of the Fiat Grande Punte and SmartCar would get better than 50+MPG. It's all about size&weight, and the Prii batteries are only 70lbs total. That is LESS weight than pretty much all single, adult, average Americans' body.
I'm getting fed up with people telling me Linux is the new Windows and I can use it for EVERYTHING. :)
get even better MPG. But of the 3, which is the better ride?
If you're already going to pay for a nicely-sized/equipped Accord/Camry/3 series, the Hybrid is the same price for the same size/equipment.
As a followup, your battery problem is mostly a design fubar by Honda. They didn't place limits on high, and especially how LOW, the battery charge can get in the early Insights. As anybody who has played with rechargeable batteries knows, running down the charge on batteries totally kills any longevity.
OTOH, getting 5+ years out of it is still good.
People spend $12k+ to buy a SUV/V6/German/Hummer vehicle than a hybrid. SHOW me a hybrid that costs $12K more than a comparably sized/equipped non-hybrid. If you're going do a tiny econobox comparision of pineapples to bananas, don't even bother.
You could check out an Atkinson Cycle gasoline engine which holds the intake valve open longer, or the Miller Cycle one also. Coincidentally, hybrid gas-engines use this design.
Imagine all those black-ice slicks and probable accidents created by H2 cars in a cold-weather area. I keep getting the feeling nobody really thought about this.
If you can afford the German/SUV/V6+ premium, a hybrid is nothing.
Because the Metro weighs like half with about that much less in room. That's sure a fair comparison. How about does the Geo Metro get better mileage than a 2-banger motocycle or go-cart?
Ford developed its own hybrid technology. When they discovered what they came up with was already patented by Toyota, they swapped some patents with Toyota and went on their merry way. Ford pays no money to Toyota.
Toyota btw, got some of Ford's patents on diesel engines.
And a Civic is seriously overpriced compared to a Geo Metro or a go-cart. Why not compare apples-to-apples, such as a Prius to an Accord or Camry since you want to compare to a car (midsize) of similar interior space & comforts, right?
... OMFG the Prius is slightly roomier ... Continuing on, the prices come out to the same $26K MSRP +/- a few hundred. OMFG! Is this what overpriced really means?
Lessee, the equivalent Accord would be the 4-door sedan w/ nav with your voice activated NAV, ABS, 5 person seating, power everything, alarm, immobilizer, EBD, cruise, button covered steering wheel, air filtration, alloy wheels, 6 CD stereo system, similar engine specs (yes, the hybrid 1.5L is about equivalent to the 160HP gas).. blah blah blah with specs of nyah compared to the Prius with specs of nyah and
Now, let's compare to the similiar Camry and you find the Camry only very slightly roomier and a few K cheaper until you count the missing Nav and maybe some other options.
You previously named a 15K Civic, a watermelon to pineapple comparison. Well, no way it's the 4 door EX with Nav because that's $20+K. How about the bottom of the line DX sedan. The seating room is pretty close to the Prius, although it's missing 4" of rear legroom and 4 cu-ft of cargo space. Subtract NAV, premium audio, HID head lights, etc and I can see the $10K difference might be a bit much. But then I see you didn't like the cheap alacantara-like microfiber cloth upholstry used on many premium Bimmers, Subarus which are considered by many to be cheap vehicles. That's fine too, because you can get things in leather come 2006.
So now that we have this imaginary premium that somehow exists for Hybrids, but doesn't for SUVs, cars with bigger engines, and etc etc because V6+ German goodness and all that shininess of a Hummer somehow comes for free and you've already broken even without breaking the bank unlike the evil Hybrid?
For you real geeks, the Prius electronics hard-maintains charge levels between 40% to 80%. Pretty hard to kill a battery doing that.
Don't forget to add the reduced maintenance costs of hybrids because:
o some are Japanese cars
o they use their engines & brake pads a lot less
o the Prius does not have a timing belt so no replacement necessary
o lifetime no emissions tests in California
o 8 year/150K warranty on the hybrid battery (try to beat that with your regular car battery) for the Prius
o the Prius itself has been around since ~1997 with a few cabs already over 150K miles with no battery problems compared to how many million recalls for other cars?
o just oil change/tire rotation for the first 60->100K miles
Then there's the imaginary savings of having clean air so kids don't have asthma and growing up leaning on the health system a bit which is paid by OMFG my taxes. Of course it's arguable that the money would've went to Iraq anyways, b