Leave your graduated cylinder at home -- It is illegal to pump gas into a non-approved container. A better idea would be to fit a flow meter on the end of the nozzle while you're filling your car. Then you can not only track discrepancies, but you can find out if the pump "makes up for it" at the 5- or 10-gallon mark.
This might work for diesel fuel which has a very low thermal expansion rate, but not for gasoline. Gasoline expands when it gets warm. Don't believe me? Fill your tank to the VERY top - to where you can see fuel in the filler neck. Then go park in the sun on a hot day. You will see fuel spilled all down the side of the car as the gasoline expands and overflows. You can see some of the math Here.
Not to mention that diesel has a number of emmissions problems, particularly sulfur diesel (as is most diesel in the US). A vehicle like the Prius not only delivers higher MPG, it also works hard to keep emissions as low as possible.
And tell me, what happens to the 600 lbs of lead-acid batteries in the Prius when the car is worn out? Also, no one knows how long these batteries last. 600lbs of toxic batteries every couple years is a WHOLE DAMN LOT of pollution.
electric is NOT the cay to go. clean diesel is. When ULSD (ultra low sulpher diesel) arrives in the US in 2006, the emissions from a small clean diesel (like VW TDI) will be lower than a gasoline car.
Not to mention that right now today, you can buy (in europe) a VW Lupo TDI that gets 81 miles per gallon. Yes, eighty-one. That's well above any of the gas-electric hybrids.
Oh yeah, and VW has already demo'd it's two passenger diesel concept car that got 247 miles per gallon. Yes, two-hundred-forty-seven.
I have a 1996 VW Passat TDI. It's a turbo direct-inject diesel. It's clean, quiet, quick, and gets a consistent 50 miles per gallon on the highway. I get about 44 in the city. Winter diesel has slightly less energy than summer diesel so in the winter I get more like 47/42.
It still is MUCH better than gas cars, and loads more torque. I may trade it in soon for a new Jetta TDI. I'll never drive another gasoline car.
anyone here remember the old celeron 300A? You could overclock it to 550 and that was with normal air cooling? And Abit came out with the BP6 that allowed a dual CPU celeron system?
if this nano stuff will improve the quality of American cars, I'm all for it. The garbage that the "Big 3" have been selling for the past 20 years or so can't possibly get any worse.
And the junk that the Japanese have been dumping on our shores for years.... Quality cant possibly go down on those recycled rusts-out-in-5-years crap boxes.
Mirroring generally improves performance, which most users and most inexperienced engineers don't realize. Because you have the exact same data on at least two different spindles, you can transfer data with twice the concurrency, and at times approaching twice as fast. When reading a large file, for instance, if each disk can transfer, say, 10 MB/second and the file is 20 MB in size, the file can be loaded in one second with mirroring and two seconds without.
Unfortunately, this is only true for high-end RAID solutions - not the flimsy ATA-RAID that's built into PC chipsets.
All the low-end ATA RAID (everything in the article) reads exclusively from one mirror member. Some ATA-RAID chips allow you you pick which mirror member it reads from, but it's still reading from a single spindle.
And here is a complete screenshot of the new theme. I think this is a huge step backwards.
Remember that to gain market share, you have to design the product for the average idiot. Yes, you know the one; the guy that thought his CDROM was a cup holder.
To win the average idiot, you need simple layout, bright colors, and hand-holding wizards.
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First off: That's not the new skin: This is. Second:Exactly. You have been using this skin. You know how to change a skin. Hell, you know what a skin is. You are also a reader of slashdot. That already means that you most likely are an advanced computer user, prolly use linux at times, and etc. Most people aren't. The people who we want to convert from MSIE don't like change. They don't want to go into the skinning thing and get a new skin. It's too complicated. First impressions are also crucial, and most "new users" would see this new skin as alien to them, and they won't want to go through the trouble of changing it, and will just slump back to IE. Just my take on things.
Aye, you need people of intelligence on this mission. quest. thing.
But seriously, if you want market share, it's true, you have to design the product for the lowest common denominator: the standard run-of-the-mill idiot.
When you're trying to CAPTURE market share, you have to convince people to switch. The Average Idiot(tm) wants something that works immediately and is easy to use - they don't want to have to fiddle with it. AFTER we have 80% market share, then bring out the "complicated" options and the flexibility.
Just my two cents.
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They still haven't even bothered to get rid of the Scroll Lock button yet... What makes you think Caps Lock is going away any time soon?
My KVM switch uses Scroll Lock. It's a two-headed switch. Pressing the Scroll Lock key twice switches between them.
I have a 1996 VW Passat TDI. It's a turbo direct-inject diesel. It's clean, quiet, gets 50 miles per gallon, and runs on B100 biodiesel.
Browse on over to www.tdiclub.com and have a look at the biodiesel forum. People have been homebrewing biodiesel for years.
Also, folks have been using WVO (waste vegetable oil) for years. WVO requires some modifications to your car, but normal B100 biodiesel does not.
Cleaner, more powerful, and more efficient than gas-electric hybrids. And no 600 lbs of nasty lead-acid batteries. clean diesel technology is the future...
trailing a lot of flame bait today, aren't we? must be trying to catch some bigger fish that can trace your IP.
Yeah, please try. I'm sure script kiddies like yourself have nothing better to do than portscan me. Do I really give a shit if you or anyone else knows my IP address?? There are no bigger fish. Do tell; just what is an angry fag going to do with my IP address? Hmmmm???
I am very much "anti-gay-rights". I don't think marriage should be debased into something so liberal. I don't think gays should have any special laws, society has shown that it is tolerant.
Ok, so we are in agreement then.
Now, by the same token, you are an ignorant bigot. What two men or women do in their own home is their business.
An ignorant bigot? because I voiced my opinion? YOU sir are the ignorant bigot for believing your opinion is somehow more valid than mine or anyone elses. I agree that what they do in their own home is their business, however I fully have the right to believe it's wrong and to voice my opinion as such. I didn't say they should be beaten or killed for their immoral acts - just that they shouldn't be given any special rights.
Gays and other sexual deviants should not have special rights. A man having sex with another man is no different than sex with animals or with children. It's disgusting and it's wrong. One cannot uphold the rights of fags while at the same time, condemning child molestation and bestiality.
Gays and other sexual deviants should not have special rights. A man having sex with another man is no different than sex with animals or with children. It's disgusting and it's wrong. One cannot uphold the rights of fags while at the same time, condemning child molestation and bestiality.
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1. Paying $299 for a retail boxed copy of NT workstation back in 1996.
2. Buying any no-name computer components.
3. 'rm -rf *'
Leave your graduated cylinder at home -- It is illegal to pump gas into a non-approved container. A better idea would be to fit a flow meter on the end of the nozzle while you're filling your car. Then you can not only track discrepancies, but you can find out if the pump "makes up for it" at the 5- or 10-gallon mark.
This might work for diesel fuel which has a very low thermal expansion rate, but not for gasoline. Gasoline expands when it gets warm. Don't believe me? Fill your tank to the VERY top - to where you can see fuel in the filler neck. Then go park in the sun on a hot day. You will see fuel spilled all down the side of the car as the gasoline expands and overflows. You can see some of the math Here.
Not to mention that diesel has a number of emmissions problems, particularly sulfur diesel (as is most diesel in the US). A vehicle like the Prius not only delivers higher MPG, it also works hard to keep emissions as low as possible.
And tell me, what happens to the 600 lbs of lead-acid batteries in the Prius when the car is worn out? Also, no one knows how long these batteries last. 600lbs of toxic batteries every couple years is a WHOLE DAMN LOT of pollution.
electric is NOT the cay to go. clean diesel is. When ULSD (ultra low sulpher diesel) arrives in the US in 2006, the emissions from a small clean diesel (like VW TDI) will be lower than a gasoline car.
Not to mention that right now today, you can buy (in europe) a VW Lupo TDI that gets 81 miles per gallon. Yes, eighty-one. That's well above any of the gas-electric hybrids.
Oh yeah, and VW has already demo'd it's two passenger diesel concept car that got 247 miles per gallon. Yes, two-hundred-forty-seven.
RIP gas electric hybrids.
I have a 1996 VW Passat TDI. It's a turbo direct-inject diesel. It's clean, quiet, quick, and gets a consistent 50 miles per gallon on the highway. I get about 44 in the city. Winter diesel has slightly less energy than summer diesel so in the winter I get more like 47/42.
It still is MUCH better than gas cars, and loads more torque. I may trade it in soon for a new Jetta TDI. I'll never drive another gasoline car.
anyone here remember the old celeron 300A? You could overclock it to 550 and that was with normal air cooling? And Abit came out with the BP6 that allowed a dual CPU celeron system?
I feel old.
they moved his job to India.
I object to the punjabification of our super heroes.
I, for one, welcome our new punjabified overlords.
It's already happened -- he crossed the border last Thursday.
With headlines like These, I'm inclined to agree. And that's coming from an American.
if this nano stuff will improve the quality of American cars, I'm all for it. The garbage that the "Big 3" have been selling for the past 20 years or so can't possibly get any worse.
And the junk that the Japanese have been dumping on our shores for years.... Quality cant possibly go down on those recycled rusts-out-in-5-years crap boxes.
ATA should be enough for everybody right?
Forget ATA. What about MFM? Or RLL? Oh wait, this is slashdot. Everyone here was in diapers when these were used.
As for me, I have an 8-channel IDE raid card with 8 x 120GB drives, hardware RAID 5
Dude, you need to lay off the pr0n for a while. You've gone overboard here.
Mirroring generally improves performance, which most users and most inexperienced engineers don't realize. Because you have the exact same data on at least two different spindles, you can transfer data with twice the concurrency, and at times approaching twice as fast. When reading a large file, for instance, if each disk can transfer, say, 10 MB/second and the file is 20 MB in size, the file can be loaded in one second with mirroring and two seconds without.
Unfortunately, this is only true for high-end RAID solutions - not the flimsy ATA-RAID that's built into PC chipsets.
All the low-end ATA RAID (everything in the article) reads exclusively from one mirror member. Some ATA-RAID chips allow you you pick which mirror member it reads from, but it's still reading from a single spindle.
Mudflaps. With the nekkid ladies on 'em. What, am I the only redneck who owns a mac?
Yes. yes you are.
Modding is (usually, I'm sad to say) not about getting "better", but about getting "flashier" (at least in some 1337 g4m3r teenagers' eyes).
These same "modders" probably believe they're "tuning" their honda civics by adding gaudy wheels and silly oversized wings on the back.
And here is a complete screenshot of the new theme. I think this is a huge step backwards.
Remember that to gain market share, you have to design the product for the average idiot. Yes, you know the one; the guy that thought his CDROM was a cup holder.
To win the average idiot, you need simple layout, bright colors, and hand-holding wizards.
First off: That's not the new skin: This is. Second:Exactly. You have been using this skin. You know how to change a skin. Hell, you know what a skin is. You are also a reader of slashdot. That already means that you most likely are an advanced computer user, prolly use linux at times, and etc. Most people aren't. The people who we want to convert from MSIE don't like change. They don't want to go into the skinning thing and get a new skin. It's too complicated. First impressions are also crucial, and most "new users" would see this new skin as alien to them, and they won't want to go through the trouble of changing it, and will just slump back to IE. Just my take on things.
Aye, you need people of intelligence on this mission. quest. thing.
But seriously, if you want market share, it's true, you have to design the product for the lowest common denominator: the standard run-of-the-mill idiot.
When you're trying to CAPTURE market share, you have to convince people to switch. The Average Idiot(tm) wants something that works immediately and is easy to use - they don't want to have to fiddle with it. AFTER we have 80% market share, then bring out the "complicated" options and the flexibility.
Just my two cents.
They still haven't even bothered to get rid of the Scroll Lock button yet... What makes you think Caps Lock is going away any time soon?
My KVM switch uses Scroll Lock. It's a two-headed switch. Pressing the Scroll Lock key twice switches between them.
Is it possible to patent the action of "filling out a patent application form"? I could be a millionaire.
If that doesn't pan out, maybe I'll just patent "pissing".
I have a 1996 VW Passat TDI. It's a turbo direct-inject diesel. It's clean, quiet, gets 50 miles per gallon, and runs on B100 biodiesel.
Browse on over to www.tdiclub.com and have a look at the biodiesel forum. People have been homebrewing biodiesel for years.
Also, folks have been using WVO (waste vegetable oil) for years. WVO requires some modifications to your car, but normal B100 biodiesel does not.
Cleaner, more powerful, and more efficient than gas-electric hybrids. And no 600 lbs of nasty lead-acid batteries. clean diesel technology is the future...
When I was told that "electromagnetic interference" was responsible for my cdrom not working.
Perhaps it's AYBABTU in latin?
trailing a lot of flame bait today, aren't we? must be trying to catch some bigger fish that can trace your IP.
Yeah, please try. I'm sure script kiddies like yourself have nothing better to do than portscan me. Do I really give a shit if you or anyone else knows my IP address?? There are no bigger fish. Do tell; just what is an angry fag going to do with my IP address? Hmmmm???
I am very much "anti-gay-rights". I don't think marriage should be debased into something so liberal. I don't think gays should have any special laws, society has shown that it is tolerant.
Ok, so we are in agreement then.
Now, by the same token, you are an ignorant bigot. What two men or women do in their own home is their business.
An ignorant bigot? because I voiced my opinion? YOU sir are the ignorant bigot for believing your opinion is somehow more valid than mine or anyone elses. I agree that what they do in their own home is their business, however I fully have the right to believe it's wrong and to voice my opinion as such. I didn't say they should be beaten or killed for their immoral acts - just that they shouldn't be given any special rights.
Gays and other sexual deviants should not have special rights. A man having sex with another man is no different than sex with animals or with children. It's disgusting and it's wrong. One cannot uphold the rights of fags while at the same time, condemning child molestation and bestiality.
several gay rights websites
Gays and other sexual deviants should not have special rights. A man having sex with another man is no different than sex with animals or with children. It's disgusting and it's wrong. One cannot uphold the rights of fags while at the same time, condemning child molestation and bestiality.