The first "modern" recent CVT was released in the fuel efficient Honda Civic HX back in 1996, which I drive occasionally after my Prius. Honda has continued to refine and release this CVT of which showed up in the Insight, and subsequently the Civic Hybrid.
Before that it was in the 70s? with the Subaru Justy, iirc.
Since 1996, many car manufacturer seems to now have a CVT option for one of their production models.
The Prius uses a power-split device of planetary gears that operates shiftless like a belt-and-cone CVT, but there's no cones and no belts. It's constantly engaged so no belt to weardown/break.
Here's a link to the PDF of info on it, and here's my previous Slashdot post on the Java simulator for it.
So it's fine that you can't send viruses to the Prius, but how about normal stuff like phone numbers?
I can speak from personal experience, that the Prius has ASS bluetooth support. Not only is it difficult to dump an entire phonebook to it (you might have to resort to sending one at a time!), but if you have multiple entries in your phone per name, it would stall on transfer or install extremely slowly, and have no way to preselect the specific number the Prius would pick up.
Don't get me started on audio distortion sounding like the phone was out of range even with the phone inside the car, and no way to "adjust it" except to get inside the non-user facing "diagnostic" menus.
The other conclusion to virus immunity could be the Prius has horrible bluetooth functionality.
Car and Driver on how Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive increases the modern car engine efficiency by turning the tables on just using a CVT, or revving and keeping the ICE in the power-band:
Instead of controlling engine speed with the throttle as normal cars do, the genius gizmo adjusts the final-drive ratio to lug the engine, thereby adjusting the burden as necessary to hold revs at the right place on the power-output curve. If the driver calls for low speed, which is a light (and inefficient) load, it can blend in some battery-charging load that it's been saving up. And if the battery is charged, it can shut off the engine and move the car up to 42 mph without it.
Wow, 40% heavier and still gets the same mileage! Any other person would say this was a major improvement.
AND, the Prius is a 5 passenger car with AT-PZEV emissions. One lawn mower session puts out more emissions than a Prius after driving 500 miles. Think about the summation of health costs saved with cleaner air, besides just oil.
And take a look at this picture of your 31.4 cu.ft space Metro. I don't see a huge cargo space behind the back seats, so it must come from folding down the seats.
If you get to do that, you get to do that with the Prius too, which means > 16.1 cu ft of space. Probably closer to 54, if you added 16.1 + rear legroom plus some hand waving.
Your specs say the Metro is a 151 x 62.7 x 53.5 = roughly ~506521.95 cu.in compared to the Prius's 175 x 67.9 x 58.1 = roughly ~690373 cu.in.
Although I see your point about 15 years of innovation and we not CLOSER to 100MPG!
Anyways, so dunno what you're talking about how the Metro is better. QED.
The Civic HX I've been driving since 1996 has a CVT in it. And what about those Subaru Justys that have been around since the 70s? How about that F1 CVT car that was banned?
What I've read for efficient driving says instead of accelerating smoothly, you accelerate semi-aggressively, but not flooring it, to get it up to speed, and then immediately let up and cruise.
The idea is to accelerate with the ICE at its most efficent range, the powerband, and then avoid accellerating/braking as much as you can. Because it's all about F=MA.
From my friends' experiences, cruise the freeway at lower speeds (60s mpg) will give you higher MPG too.
This is what the hybrid websites like Priuschat.com advise also.
But, you should be able to see some MPG differences, but 5-10mpg is a bit more than I would expect from a non-hybrid car.
dump all these full/partial keyboards on phones and replace them with TWO buttons: (dot) (dash)
Not only could we SMS faster (while it would still translate to normal text on the screen), but we would get a whole bunch of phone surface back, and it would propagate and teach Morse to a new generation. And you wouldn't randomly hit keys when it's in your pocket.
Where's the new Treo app to implement this?:)
I miss being able to just keyboard-graffiti a message on my PalmPDA and then IR it to the phone. The Siemens S40 phone supports it, but not the Sony-Ericsson t637.
See, god is actually playing an advanced future version of Sims version 42 or 616.
One of the fun parts of the game is figuring out what weird things you can make your Sims do (sleep with another of same sex or a pet), and what new way of torture can be inflicted on them that set them running around in flames.
Does this operate the way the rsync developers tried once which was to only push diffs of web page changes across the wire instead of the whole page?
Of course there was complex problems to be solved such as how to properly diff files across hordes of users in different cache-states, but if Google is doing this now.. it would be a huge bandwidth saver.
Better than just normal web proxy cache logic (which uses expiry codes), or gziping content, etc...
Nobody seems to have mentioned that DS9 was competing against B5 in DS9's 2nd half, and basically copied the story-arc formula of B5 with story events being important later, etc etc. at the time when B5 was killing DS9 in the ratings.
Typical. For years I laughed at email viruses as hoaxes, until MS made it real. I wasn't affected because I don't run apps vulnerable to such things to begin with (Pine).
Remember the days when you didn't have to think about how you plugged in and used a computer because it was SAFE?
Yes, you can surf without a firewall, adware removal/blocker fine without catching anything. I've done it for years from 98 to XP. It starts by not running a well-known vulnerable OS/apps (Lookout, Exploder), or doing stupid things like running/opening random files. Sometimes, I wonder if nobody loves me that much because I haven't caught anything for so long.;)
The virus companies only "patch" enough to maintain their business. Yes it's a conspiracy.
Of course, I now run a firewall only to protect the vulnerable MS/OS network while my naked BSD lets me control what's exposed and fends off these daily rootkit attacks on ssh.
Only Spamcop seems to allow a user to actually file a spam report, although good luck with abuse@* because at least SBC ignores email there.
I've been trying to get 40K+ trojan emails from 64.163.43.* shut down as MAPS isn't blocking it, FTC @ spam@uce.gov doesn't care, abuse@sbcglobal.net doesn't care, etc etc..
Going by this logic, I rather have a warehouse full of hand etched stone tablets than tapes. If you loose a stone tablet, it's much less data lost than a tape.
Capacity is going to increase - resistance is futile. The solution has always been off-site duplicates, or some other sensible storage solution when the media is mature.
I just like hearing holographic is insensitive to scratching data loss compared to current optical media.
We run those so often that we can actually go a fair amount of time without talking, simply because we know what to do without having to speak about it - we understand each other's play styles so well that it's no longer an issue.
Wow, kinda sounds like CS!:) It's nice to run with a polished well-greased group, which used to be difficult to find such as in Tribes. With it, you can take on quite a lot without everybody dying.
Maybe WoW can add some of those elements in like Capture and Hold, or something such.
Wow, jump jump jump gate jump jump pretty much describes Eve Online also - which picked up EoaB's pieces.
EVE Online does have more content, and semi-regular content updates with a lot to do and a MUCH better market system and interface than WoW, but the 100% persistent singular shard world has created "gang zones" where you are forced to join a faction, or get regularly group-ganked in the "more exciting zones" if you try to solo.
The long gating/jumping traversal was also much less exciting than running around in WoW, or even gating/jumping in Freelancer, because it really made the world feel empty and time-wasting. 30 minutes to jump 7 star-systems! And you have to almost micromanage it all the way! I'm not paying for a game to waste my time.
I really liked the play of NeverWinter Nights when it came out, and so I rather play WoW now which caters to my schedule than EVE Online which was about taking it up the arse either by players, or by "patch days", or the "regular downtime" EVERY day.
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Obviously, any old apps that relied on hardware hacks are not upwardly compatible.
The first "modern" recent CVT was released in the fuel efficient Honda Civic HX back in 1996, which I drive occasionally after my Prius. Honda has continued to refine and release this CVT of which showed up in the Insight, and subsequently the Civic Hybrid.
Before that it was in the 70s? with the Subaru Justy, iirc.
Since 1996, many car manufacturer seems to now have a CVT option for one of their production models.
MOD parent down for inaccurate info.
The Prius uses a power-split device of planetary gears that operates shiftless like a belt-and-cone CVT, but there's no cones and no belts. It's constantly engaged so no belt to weardown/break.
Here's a link to the PDF of info on it, and here's my previous Slashdot post on the Java simulator for it.
What kind of mom was it?
Most moms I know, especially my own, goes through my pockets before stuff goes into the washer, the many years ago when she used to do the wash.
Now I go through my pockets before anything goes in. Duh!
Did they fix the multiple GRE, and else, entries in the registry also? I'm kinda tired of manually going in there with regedit and cleaning it out.
So it's fine that you can't send viruses to the Prius, but how about normal stuff like phone numbers?
I can speak from personal experience, that the Prius has ASS bluetooth support. Not only is it difficult to dump an entire phonebook to it (you might have to resort to sending one at a time!), but if you have multiple entries in your phone per name, it would stall on transfer or install extremely slowly, and have no way to preselect the specific number the Prius would pick up.
Don't get me started on audio distortion sounding like the phone was out of range even with the phone inside the car, and no way to "adjust it" except to get inside the non-user facing "diagnostic" menus.
The other conclusion to virus immunity could be the Prius has horrible bluetooth functionality.
What's the air-drag when you drive at 80mph while drafting behind a tractor-trailer or one of them convenient SUVs that are all over the place? :)
Wow, 40% heavier and still gets the same mileage! Any other person would say this was a major improvement.
AND, the Prius is a 5 passenger car with AT-PZEV emissions. One lawn mower session puts out more emissions than a Prius after driving 500 miles. Think about the summation of health costs saved with cleaner air, besides just oil.
And take a look at this picture of your 31.4 cu.ft space Metro. I don't see a huge cargo space behind the back seats, so it must come from folding down the seats.
If you get to do that, you get to do that with the Prius too, which means > 16.1 cu ft of space. Probably closer to 54, if you added 16.1 + rear legroom plus some hand waving.
Your specs say the Metro is a 151 x 62.7 x 53.5 = roughly ~506521.95 cu.in compared to the Prius's 175 x 67.9 x 58.1 = roughly ~690373 cu.in.
Although I see your point about 15 years of innovation and we not CLOSER to 100MPG!
Anyways, so dunno what you're talking about how the Metro is better. QED.
Heh. Slashdot strikes again.
The Civic HX I've been driving since 1996 has a CVT in it. And what about those Subaru Justys that have been around since the 70s? How about that F1 CVT car that was banned?
:)
None of these are hybrids btw.
What I've read for efficient driving says instead of accelerating smoothly, you accelerate semi-aggressively, but not flooring it, to get it up to speed, and then immediately let up and cruise.
The idea is to accelerate with the ICE at its most efficent range, the powerband, and then avoid accellerating/braking as much as you can. Because it's all about F=MA.
From my friends' experiences, cruise the freeway at lower speeds (60s mpg) will give you higher MPG too.
This is what the hybrid websites like Priuschat.com advise also.
But, you should be able to see some MPG differences, but 5-10mpg is a bit more than I would expect from a non-hybrid car.
dump all these full/partial keyboards on phones and replace them with TWO buttons:
:)
(dot) (dash)
Not only could we SMS faster (while it would still translate to normal text on the screen), but we would get a whole bunch of phone surface back, and it would propagate and teach Morse to a new generation. And you wouldn't randomly hit keys when it's in your pocket.
Where's the new Treo app to implement this?
I miss being able to just keyboard-graffiti a message on my PalmPDA and then IR it to the phone. The Siemens S40 phone supports it, but not the Sony-Ericsson t637.
See, god is actually playing an advanced future version of Sims version 42 or 616.
One of the fun parts of the game is figuring out what weird things you can make your Sims do (sleep with another of same sex or a pet), and what new way of torture can be inflicted on them that set them running around in flames.
Does this operate the way the rsync developers tried once which was to only push diffs of web page changes across the wire instead of the whole page?
Of course there was complex problems to be solved such as how to properly diff files across hordes of users in different cache-states, but if Google is doing this now.. it would be a huge bandwidth saver.
Better than just normal web proxy cache logic (which uses expiry codes), or gziping content, etc...
Nobody seems to have mentioned that DS9 was competing against B5 in DS9's 2nd half, and basically copied the story-arc formula of B5 with story events being important later, etc etc. at the time when B5 was killing DS9 in the ratings.
a.k.a. The Suc-cu-Bus?
Typical. For years I laughed at email viruses as hoaxes, until MS made it real. I wasn't affected because I don't run apps vulnerable to such things to begin with (Pine).
;)
Remember the days when you didn't have to think about how you plugged in and used a computer because it was SAFE?
Yes, you can surf without a firewall, adware removal/blocker fine without catching anything. I've done it for years from 98 to XP. It starts by not running a well-known vulnerable OS/apps (Lookout, Exploder), or doing stupid things like running/opening random files. Sometimes, I wonder if nobody loves me that much because I haven't caught anything for so long.
The virus companies only "patch" enough to maintain their business. Yes it's a conspiracy.
Of course, I now run a firewall only to protect the vulnerable MS/OS network while my naked BSD lets me control what's exposed and fends off these daily rootkit attacks on ssh.
Only Spamcop seems to allow a user to actually file a spam report, although good luck with abuse@* because at least SBC ignores email there.
I've been trying to get 40K+ trojan emails from 64.163.43.* shut down as MAPS isn't blocking it, FTC @ spam@uce.gov doesn't care, abuse@sbcglobal.net doesn't care, etc etc..
No it's NOT:
205.188.157.37 not listed in bl.spamcop.net
So this proof of Fermat's last work involves some coffee and a time machine?
Or, is this another Ford and Arthur mangling?
I guess have to wait for the other whale to drop.
Going by this logic, I rather have a warehouse full of hand etched stone tablets than tapes. If you loose a stone tablet, it's much less data lost than a tape.
Capacity is going to increase - resistance is futile. The solution has always been off-site duplicates, or some other sensible storage solution when the media is mature.
I just like hearing holographic is insensitive to scratching data loss compared to current optical media.
Wow, kinda sounds like CS!
Maybe WoW can add some of those elements in like Capture and Hold, or something such.
Wow, jump jump jump gate jump jump pretty much describes Eve Online also - which picked up EoaB's pieces.
EVE Online does have more content, and semi-regular content updates with a lot to do and a MUCH better market system and interface than WoW, but the 100% persistent singular shard world has created "gang zones" where you are forced to join a faction, or get regularly group-ganked in the "more exciting zones" if you try to solo.
The long gating/jumping traversal was also much less exciting than running around in WoW, or even gating/jumping in Freelancer, because it really made the world feel empty and time-wasting. 30 minutes to jump 7 star-systems! And you have to almost micromanage it all the way! I'm not paying for a game to waste my time.
I really liked the play of NeverWinter Nights when it came out, and so I rather play WoW now which caters to my schedule than EVE Online which was about taking it up the arse either by players, or by "patch days", or the "regular downtime" EVERY day.
Did you charge cycle the Valence battery a few times?
You can't expect full-performance on the first charge, and 3 LEDs lit means something like 80% charged, not 100% so I let it sit longer charging.
I'm using a Sony VAIO S260 and I've gotten ~4 hours out of just the N-Charge II primary before.