That doesn't sound unreasonable but consider that is a 20 year old four cyl. As a four, it might well have been 2wd and going to 4wd costs quite a bit of weight.
More ominously, they haven't been making these beasts lighter. In one way of looking at things, improved technology has been used to make heavier vehicles more accepted. Almost all American vehicles have been on the increase. There is an interesting parallel to CPU horsepower and software bloat.
Take our (wife would say its hers) 1999 Rodeo V-6, 4x4 LXE (full boat version). It doesn't give curb weight but gross is 4850. This size of vehicle generally doesn't allow too much in the way of cargo weight. I suspect it would be nearly 4k curb.
I have a 93 Nissan Pathfinder, 4x4 full dress. I don't have the manual handy but I think it is about 3800. It's descendant has bloated up to 4304 but gets better mileage than my old beater with an engine rated at about 240 HP. Mine has a V-6 originally rated at an anemic 145 horse. At 155k miles, it is much more tired than that. That generation of Pathfinder is significantly smaller than the Rodeo or Chevy Blazer. I'd love to upgrade but then I would have to treat it nice.
I generally only buy new vehicles when someone destroys one as I can handle anything in the mechanical department. One of these days I will get stuck with one just rusting to the point of uselessness but so far someone has always smashed my car for me before I got there.
My wife's 1993 Chrysler Le Baron convertible weighs in at 3010 according to one reference I found. The current Sebring is around 3450.
I too have gained in the same timeframe but not quite as badly.
Now the Mazda RX-7 at 255 HP (still stock) shows a better appreciation for weight control. Going from the old Pathfinder to it is quite an adjustment.
And where we live, suburban Kansas City (Kansas side) the Rodeo and Pathfinder are fairly small SUVs. I can turn around in my chair and see several lager ones at my neighbors. Very few of them will ever see much of an incline in the road, let alone anything but pavement. Almost all of these yuppies insist on 4wd and it is usually best that they get a variety that they do not have to choose to engage. They are quite something to see when it snows.
The Ford vehicle has been featured on our local news several times in the last few weeks as it is being manufactured here in the metro area.
A quick look gets the 2wd Escape with the smallest engine at a shade over 3k with M/T. Add the electric motor, CVT trans (might well be heavier than normal auto) and the battery stack and you come on up. The curb weight of the hybrid is a good question that I did not find an answer to on the web pages they have put up so far.
PS: If you are talking about using a vehicle scale for before and after dumping, keep in mind that absolute weight does not have to be accurate, only the repeatable difference. Many scales for that purpose are rated for accuracy above a certain 'tare' threshold.
While interesting, its doubtful. It is far easier to be a carrion eater than a parasite, at any level.
As a parasite on a live animal, the worms would have to contend with the immune system of the whale. Also, from the article, the normal appearance would have only a portion of the worm exposed including its gills. Since the whales bones are not normally exposed....
Also, these are large enough to be seen, evidently without magnification. See the photo in the article. Evidently these had not been noticed in centuries of whaling.
Still, discovering one stage of the new worm does not describe its lifecycle. Perhaps it is parasitic at another stage.
But to me 'stoking' means adding more fuel, although both stoking and stirring result in more combustion. Stirring gets its benefit from simply clearing the ash and char of the existing logs and increases burn area.
In the context of the orginal story, the sense that already existing issues were being discussed, not new ones introduced, stirring makes sense to me.
You are not the only one that noticed that. I am not a grammar Nazi but at a certain level it cannot be ignored. It was so prevalent it makes you wonder if they were filtered out somehow....
Indeed they were. See the original here. I quickly saw the last ones that caught my eye in the ending sentences -- changing "we're" to "were". These errors are particularly onerous as they change the whole tone from the positive "we are" to a partial sentence without a subject but placed in the past.
I don't know about fourteen but at least we could shift the blame. Some Yahoo somewhere.
Hell, it was slashdotted when I tried but even that was not without humor:
The operation timed out when attempting to contact contactsheet.org.
That is almost on a par with one that happened looking up something for my kid. I do not universally grant permission for cookies. So hitting keebler.com resulted in:
Sleepycat also has a free source XML database, could there be some synergy there?
I realize that subversion is layered over the Berkeley to the point of hiding it from the subversion clients but still I wonder if a possibility exists to capitalize on whatever XML functionality that Berkeley DB XML has to offer. I don't know, I only am noting the coincidence.
I have been chasing a subversion/Berkeley issue and hit the sleepcat.com page. I remembered your askslashdot and decided to post this.
Perhaps the subversion people might have particular insight as to whether this would bear investigation.
I was drawn to your comment because I was presented with it for meta-moderation for one of the interesting mods. I certainly agree that it is interesting -- so much so that I wanted to reply.
I have two TiVo's, first series, non-satellite tuner. I must say that I have to slightly disagree with you than it is a zero-impact feature, although I will allow that it is a relatively low-impact one.
What would make the recording of suggestions feature better would be if they would simply put the tuner back on the channel they found it. During most times, I like to leave the tuner on the weather channel. Currently I would like to leave it on CNN because of the Iraq situation. After some three years, when I have had automatic recording of suggestions turned on, the number of times that I have sat down and tried to watch live TV during the recording of a suggestion is very low. However the number of times that I find the damn box has changed its own channel is quite high. These days I have been keeping the suggestions turned off, but as you probably know we are still subjected to automatic recording of promotional material. Is it too much too ask that they simply modify the code to restore the tuner back to its previous state? Evidently so, I submitted the suggestion a long time ago.
Since having TiVo, I have married. The reason for the second unit is that it was once at my wife's house prior to us getting married. I didn't like living without one at her house. Call me sexist but the other reason why we do not use the feature comes as no surprise to my guy friends that I have mentioned this to. If I turn it on, my wife complains. I can not effectively relate her rationale beyond the fact that she doesn't like anything or anyone messing with stuff in her control. No matter that empty space is useless and that the auto-recorded programs would be the first to be sacrificed, she just doesn't like it. The same attitude makes her manually maintain the last three Sesame Street episodes for our daughter as opposed to simply letting them age and die.
I knew a couple of young men who were truckers in Western Kansas/Oklahoma who undertook a sub-contract to deliver some sort of ammunition to a federal depot. They encountered the same type of accompanied treatment although in their case it was not handguns but M-16's. The guns were not actually pointed at them, just held at the ready.
Remember that when a motor is not turn{ing} that maximum current is applied until the counter EMF offsets it.
My father had a project at Boeing Wichita that contemplated using an electrical motor that was already available. It was a large open frame 3-phase motor, IIRC 440V. It sticks in my mind that it was rated with a locked rotor current (surge at startup) of 1450 Amps. Although this motor was on site, its original use was long past and they abandoned the possibility of re-use because of the input power demands. It would have required rework all they way back to the substation. They went with an engine instead.
Not everything will run on a Coleman generator. If more people understood back EMF there would be a lot fewer smoked motors.
If they bust him then he will truely become "Wired reported Noah Shachtman" -- past tense as is stated in the summary here on/. instead of "Wired reporter Noah Shachtman"
When you say "arguably better" I would have to agree. Look how good this one is. Without Solaris, there could be no argument.:-)
More seriously, I just downloaded Solaris 9 for x86 and am looking forward to using it. I am interested in opinions of where Solaris shines (sorry, once thought, had to say it). I have previously been told that its latency/multithreading support is superior. I will be looking at that.
I fear that simply experimenting with it on PC hardware will not really expose some of its strong points for the larger servers.
Don't know who mod'ed you redundant on this. You expressed your opinion, other posters countered. People who post counterpoints advance discussion -- people who just down mod what they dislike are not as helpful.
Anyway, I am meta-modding one "redundant" as "unfair".
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Firstly, thank you for finding that metric for all to see. I was coming up empty.
Secondly, 1/40th real time? My first reaction is ouch. My second is 'Well...so?' I have two Tivo's and I can tell you from experience that we do not recieve a worthwhile signal 1/40th of the time. I should say worthwhile in content quality -- signal quality is fine but most content is crap.
Still this is unoptimized performance. I wonder to what extent distributed processing, ala reusing a Cinerella render farm, might help. With the input being primarly a chronological stream, I don't see much issue. Just break up the signal with a little bit of overlap...
Notice that the signature now has a comma. (Now as in while I am posting -- it could go away.) My thoughts on this are in my current signature that I have been using for about a week....
Mistaken or not, speech synthesis certainly would reduce eystrain. That's what the query wanted. Your solution stands alone in that it is the only one that solves the problem in such an absolute way.
The thin edge of the wedge is that they only collect state taxes, not smaller localities such as county and city taxes. This does limit the number of extra jurisdictions to about 50 (who knows about Puerto Rico, etc.). This is the case today. I separately posted how Sun recenctly collected 4.9% tax on my download of Solaris 9. Sun's position is that they have to collect tax in my state because they have operations in every state. They are also in my city and my city has sales taxes as well but these do not enter into it. I have recent experience that the same is being done by Sears.
This is the situation today but I don't fear that it won't be long before other jurisdictions start crying. So while I will say that I don't think you are not correct today, once the taxers get some momentum worked up after breaking loose from many years of the status quo, who knows how far they will be allowed to go.
PS: St. Louis? I am on the KS side of KC and also a developer.
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More ominously, they haven't been making these beasts lighter. In one way of looking at things, improved technology has been used to make heavier vehicles more accepted. Almost all American vehicles have been on the increase. There is an interesting parallel to CPU horsepower and software bloat.
Take our (wife would say its hers) 1999 Rodeo V-6, 4x4 LXE (full boat version). It doesn't give curb weight but gross is 4850. This size of vehicle generally doesn't allow too much in the way of cargo weight. I suspect it would be nearly 4k curb.
I have a 93 Nissan Pathfinder, 4x4 full dress. I don't have the manual handy but I think it is about 3800. It's descendant has bloated up to 4304 but gets better mileage than my old beater with an engine rated at about 240 HP. Mine has a V-6 originally rated at an anemic 145 horse. At 155k miles, it is much more tired than that. That generation of Pathfinder is significantly smaller than the Rodeo or Chevy Blazer. I'd love to upgrade but then I would have to treat it nice.
I generally only buy new vehicles when someone destroys one as I can handle anything in the mechanical department. One of these days I will get stuck with one just rusting to the point of uselessness but so far someone has always smashed my car for me before I got there.
My wife's 1993 Chrysler Le Baron convertible weighs in at 3010 according to one reference I found. The current Sebring is around 3450.
I too have gained in the same timeframe but not quite as badly.
Now the Mazda RX-7 at 255 HP (still stock) shows a better appreciation for weight control. Going from the old Pathfinder to it is quite an adjustment.
And where we live, suburban Kansas City (Kansas side) the Rodeo and Pathfinder are fairly small SUVs. I can turn around in my chair and see several lager ones at my neighbors. Very few of them will ever see much of an incline in the road, let alone anything but pavement. Almost all of these yuppies insist on 4wd and it is usually best that they get a variety that they do not have to choose to engage. They are quite something to see when it snows.
The Ford vehicle has been featured on our local news several times in the last few weeks as it is being manufactured here in the metro area.
A quick look gets the 2wd Escape with the smallest engine at a shade over 3k with M/T. Add the electric motor, CVT trans (might well be heavier than normal auto) and the battery stack and you come on up. The curb weight of the hybrid is a good question that I did not find an answer to on the web pages they have put up so far.
PS: If you are talking about using a vehicle scale for before and after dumping, keep in mind that absolute weight does not have to be accurate, only the repeatable difference. Many scales for that purpose are rated for accuracy above a certain 'tare' threshold.
Even relatively small SUV are closer to 4000.
As a parasite on a live animal, the worms would have to contend with the immune system of the whale. Also, from the article, the normal appearance would have only a portion of the worm exposed including its gills. Since the whales bones are not normally exposed....
Also, these are large enough to be seen, evidently without magnification. See the photo in the article. Evidently these had not been noticed in centuries of whaling.
Still, discovering one stage of the new worm does not describe its lifecycle. Perhaps it is parasitic at another stage.
In the context of the orginal story, the sense that already existing issues were being discussed, not new ones introduced, stirring makes sense to me.
But that's just my opinion.
Indeed they were. See the original here. I quickly saw the last ones that caught my eye in the ending sentences -- changing "we're" to "were". These errors are particularly onerous as they change the whole tone from the positive "we are" to a partial sentence without a subject but placed in the past.
I don't know about fourteen but at least we could shift the blame. Some Yahoo somewhere.
That is almost on a par with one that happened looking up something for my kid. I do not universally grant permission for cookies. So hitting keebler.com resulted in:
My type of messages.
Is it because they tend to be too socialist to be capitalized?
That's Oskar Schindler, of course. I was looking for this line.
Sleepycat also has a free source XML database, could there be some synergy there?
I realize that subversion is layered over the Berkeley to the point of hiding it from the subversion clients but still I wonder if a possibility exists to capitalize on whatever XML functionality that Berkeley DB XML has to offer. I don't know, I only am noting the coincidence.
I have been chasing a subversion/Berkeley issue and hit the sleepcat.com page. I remembered your askslashdot and decided to post this.
Perhaps the subversion people might have particular insight as to whether this would bear investigation.
s/hurdle/hurtle/
I have two TiVo's, first series, non-satellite tuner. I must say that I have to slightly disagree with you than it is a zero-impact feature, although I will allow that it is a relatively low-impact one.
What would make the recording of suggestions feature better would be if they would simply put the tuner back on the channel they found it. During most times, I like to leave the tuner on the weather channel. Currently I would like to leave it on CNN because of the Iraq situation. After some three years, when I have had automatic recording of suggestions turned on, the number of times that I have sat down and tried to watch live TV during the recording of a suggestion is very low. However the number of times that I find the damn box has changed its own channel is quite high. These days I have been keeping the suggestions turned off, but as you probably know we are still subjected to automatic recording of promotional material. Is it too much too ask that they simply modify the code to restore the tuner back to its previous state? Evidently so, I submitted the suggestion a long time ago.
Since having TiVo, I have married. The reason for the second unit is that it was once at my wife's house prior to us getting married. I didn't like living without one at her house. Call me sexist but the other reason why we do not use the feature comes as no surprise to my guy friends that I have mentioned this to. If I turn it on, my wife complains. I can not effectively relate her rationale beyond the fact that she doesn't like anything or anyone messing with stuff in her control. No matter that empty space is useless and that the auto-recorded programs would be the first to be sacrificed, she just doesn't like it. The same attitude makes her manually maintain the last three Sesame Street episodes for our daughter as opposed to simply letting them age and die.
The last I heard, they never did another trip.
Not everything will run on a Coleman generator. If more people understood back EMF there would be a lot fewer smoked motors.
It would almost certainly have been used at full potential as it is unlikely that they had invented voltage regulaters.
If they bust him then he will truely become "Wired reported Noah Shachtman" -- past tense as is stated in the summary here on /. instead of "Wired reporter Noah Shachtman"
More seriously, I just downloaded Solaris 9 for x86 and am looking forward to using it. I am interested in opinions of where Solaris shines (sorry, once thought, had to say it). I have previously been told that its latency/multithreading support is superior. I will be looking at that.
I fear that simply experimenting with it on PC hardware will not really expose some of its strong points for the larger servers.
Anyway, I am meta-modding one "redundant" as "unfair".
Secondly, 1/40th real time? My first reaction is ouch. My second is 'Well...so?' I have two Tivo's and I can tell you from experience that we do not recieve a worthwhile signal 1/40th of the time. I should say worthwhile in content quality -- signal quality is fine but most content is crap.
Still this is unoptimized performance. I wonder to what extent distributed processing, ala reusing a Cinerella render farm, might help. With the input being primarly a chronological stream, I don't see much issue. Just break up the signal with a little bit of overlap...
But I waited until they did the movie. :-)
I posted mfgr link in comment below. $1300
I have not yet got a feel for the computational power required to approach real time processing or typical performance. Does anyone else know?
Notice that the signature now has a comma. (Now as in while I am posting -- it could go away.) My thoughts on this are in my current signature that I have been using for about a week....
Mistaken or not, speech synthesis certainly would reduce eystrain. That's what the query wanted. Your solution stands alone in that it is the only one that solves the problem in such an absolute way.
This is the situation today but I don't fear that it won't be long before other jurisdictions start crying. So while I will say that I don't think you are not correct today, once the taxers get some momentum worked up after breaking loose from many years of the status quo, who knows how far they will be allowed to go.
PS: St. Louis? I am on the KS side of KC and also a developer.
Better check out the Bochs project as mentioned here