Liberties must always be balanced when my enjoyment decreases your enjoyment.
Example, you want to do target practice on your neighbors wall (it's a free country!) and your neighbor doesn't want to die or have walls riddled with holes. The government helps sort out who has the right to exclude whom.
In this case, your neighbor needn't even tell you and you can't use their wall for target practice. Similarly, copyright material cannot be shared in certain ways without permission from the owner. The copyright owner can restrict your for any reason they want: i.e. they may be fine with you sharing 256k/sec mp3s but don't wan their expression to sound like shit in a 96k/sec encoding.
BTW, the only Acura that is RWD is the 2011+ RL, which is actually SH-AWD, but when the system is not engaged at all (when traction is fine) it is RWD, It has been SH-AWD since 2005, but only in 2011 did the switch to RWD as the default. But I'll bet they mess up the RWD feeling with the traction control so that it would not do what you expect when you push it. Editors of magazines love it, it sounds like it is basically glued to the road and gives you ample warning before breaking lose.
Well, I do like the RL. You point it and it goes there, the engine makes a pleasant sound that reminds me of the American V8s I've driven, gets almost its final power at 2k RPMs, the accelerator pedal is an absolute wonder in terms of feedback and doing what I expect, and the turn radius is very small--impressive considering the wide tires. I've never driven it in snow, so i can't comment on that, but it drives in rain like it dives on dry surfaces. I've never had reason to apply the brakes full but 1/2 of the way down stops me far faster than I would expect, so I've always eased off from that point. The latter part turns emergency breaking into trying to make sure the car behind you doesn't rear end you.
Again, I have no plans to buy the AWD RL, so I need another car to look to next.
As for milage, well, if you don't drive a car they often rack up repair needs as fast as if you did.
Oh, and the off road was to a remote site on unimproved (rutted) roads, the $300/month was for 3 days a week of driving. Apparently you went less than 5 MPH for several miles (I never did it since I didn't work there). Personally, I wondered why they didn't just buy used tractors. Anyways, the car had regular oil changes (at home) but not regular maintenance, i.e. only two timing chains and thus two water pumps (replaced at 80 k miles nonetheless).
Finally, the Volvo was absolutely pilot error or a broken car that was unfit for highway speeds. Both of us wanted to kill the guy, in any case.
As for mechanics, I'm in a big city, no issue. I think there are more European cars parked on my block than anything but Japanese cars. There is even a fool who parks his tripple-black Porsche convertible on the street.
But we drive very different numbers of miles. I've but 4k on my RL in two years... I get 10 to 15, rarely 18 MPG and I don't really care, I never drive it anyways.
The accord went to 140k, but a family members went to 250k with his before it started having real problems, but I suspect that came form the fact that many of those miles were (real) offroading--as in his employer payed him $300/month to do the offroading in his car instead of theirs.
Anyways, based on your description, your 3 has been far more reliable than the reviewers 5s were, but nowhere near as reliable as a Japanese car.
That said, you would probably hate the RL. Today I was stuck behind a volvo having a hard time comprehending the concept of freeway, so he was going 20 MPH by the time we hit the merge. There was a Mercedes with a V12 in it about two car lengths behind me. When we hit the merge, I floored it and moved left a lane, the German floored it and moved left two lanes, I'd bet he was going 20MPH faster than I was when his back passed my front (thus, I didn't catch the model, just the V12). I've never wished there were more power, but the car would never, ever, win a race against an actually fast car. I don't much care.
We need a constitutional amendment that says this. I'd be happy with something like, police can watch the last 7 days and prosecute anything they want, but need a warrant for anything before that, and if they don't find that they want, they can't use what they do see to get another warrant or otherwise in court. We would also need something like releasing these videos is a felony and they should all have a watermark on them for the viewer (presumably laced into the image, not just in the lower right).
All of that is true, but it does not apply to monopolies and need not apply to the labor market where really high wage workers could be considered to have a monopoly--you will notice that firms rarely fire their CEO and hire a new one because of a wage dispute, it is always about poor performance.
I looked at a few reviews of 5s (admittedly, I wasn't aware the mixed up concepts of naming convention) and the review sites were far harsher on those cars than on even the 2nd gen RL. In fact, most reviews said they had no intention of keeping the car once the warranty expired (I checked twice to be sure, and I wan't looking at Audi reviews either). Is there big differences between 3s and 5s in terms of reliability? I'd never buy a 7 because of iDrive, but is the 3 just sturdier car than the 5? Or maybe I've been spoiled with Japanese cars. My last car (Accord) I looked up the problems it would have and those were the problems: relay in the steering wheel, two CV joints, muffler rattle, total = $1200 + gas + oil for 15 years of ownership. With 35 MPG actual (freeway commute) and a 15 gallon tank, even fill ups only had to happen only six times per oil change. Crappy car in most other ways, but absolutely a piece of cake on maintenance.
There are ways in which it is less customizable, like there is only so much real estate in a ribbon, and it really isn't much when they use those huge, chunky icons.
The problem is much deeper than this. Metro will not allow more than one window at a time. An example from the article is that this means you can not have a dialog (that is a second window!). So basic design will have to change for Metro applications. If I try to quit Excel without saving my work... it will have to either just guess I really did want to trash that work OR do something other than open a dialog to warn me that I'm about to trash my work.
That is a pretty big shift and it will change very application that is written for Metro.
Thanks for sharing all that with me. The 2nd gen RL is rumored to be a breakdown-a-thon, so I do need to find a new car when this one runs out. Now, I'll definitely consider BMWs.
I say this because the programing language class at my school involved writing the psychiatrist program in several different languages. The professor claimed that in one type, it was a 4 line program while in procedural it is often a several thousand line program. I didn't take the class, so I can't tell you more than that (sorry).
There is no reason tax breaks need to translate into more jobs. From econ 101: companies maximize profit.
profit = (1-tax rate) * (tax free profit as a function of size)
maximize that function by taking the first derivate with respect to size and the tax rate term drops out--it is irrelevant to the maximization. So corporate taxes are irrelevant (in the econ 101 world).
Ah, I see, thanks. I always thought I'd hate a BMW, but maybe I was wrong.
My 1st gen. RL is less fussy but far less hackable (I don't have the Navi). i.e. I have a defrost button instead of instructions, and the temp controls default to (and returns to with one button push) auto and then you can futz with it form there. The RL basically gets out of your way and gives you no distractions (again, if you don't get the navigation). I forget sometimes how amazingly difficult it is to make a car that you can sit and and just get everything in it--this fact was confirmed by a friend who hates to drive and hadn't for 5 years saying that the car was a dream to drive. Well, this is after she asked if she wanted D4 or D3.
Oh wait, you're not talking about iDrive are you? I remember reading a review of the 7 wherein they took 1/3 of a page with instructions for how to change the volume on the radio. It made me think that (were to own a 7) I would have to purchase a radio for the car separate form the installed radio.
Movies are shot at 24 fps with a 1/180 second exposure time. When they make the exposure time longer, you notice and it gets hard to watch. Listen to the commentary by Joss Whedon on Serenity for more, but the scene on the reaver planet are shot at 1/120 and are a little unsettling. Things like panning include blur. the scene in Saving Private Ryan on the beach are shot at 1/60 and are noticeably difficult to watch--when the camera moves, everything blurs. When something flys by you get 1/2 of its motion recorded.
I sat in the driver seat of a 325 once and got the feeling that their cars are completely different than everybody else's. This LCD is in the instrument cluster or is part of a nav around mid-dash? I don't see how you get ETA without a nav, but maybe I misunderstand. Does all this ever get in the way of, you know, driving?
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Liberties must always be balanced when my enjoyment decreases your enjoyment.
Example, you want to do target practice on your neighbors wall (it's a free country!) and your neighbor doesn't want to die or have walls riddled with holes. The government helps sort out who has the right to exclude whom.
In this case, your neighbor needn't even tell you and you can't use their wall for target practice. Similarly, copyright material cannot be shared in certain ways without permission from the owner. The copyright owner can restrict your for any reason they want: i.e. they may be fine with you sharing 256k/sec mp3s but don't wan their expression to sound like shit in a 96k/sec encoding.
BTW, the only Acura that is RWD is the 2011+ RL, which is actually SH-AWD, but when the system is not engaged at all (when traction is fine) it is RWD, It has been SH-AWD since 2005, but only in 2011 did the switch to RWD as the default. But I'll bet they mess up the RWD feeling with the traction control so that it would not do what you expect when you push it. Editors of magazines love it, it sounds like it is basically glued to the road and gives you ample warning before breaking lose.
Well, I do like the RL. You point it and it goes there, the engine makes a pleasant sound that reminds me of the American V8s I've driven, gets almost its final power at 2k RPMs, the accelerator pedal is an absolute wonder in terms of feedback and doing what I expect, and the turn radius is very small--impressive considering the wide tires. I've never driven it in snow, so i can't comment on that, but it drives in rain like it dives on dry surfaces. I've never had reason to apply the brakes full but 1/2 of the way down stops me far faster than I would expect, so I've always eased off from that point. The latter part turns emergency breaking into trying to make sure the car behind you doesn't rear end you.
Again, I have no plans to buy the AWD RL, so I need another car to look to next.
As for milage, well, if you don't drive a car they often rack up repair needs as fast as if you did.
Oh, and the off road was to a remote site on unimproved (rutted) roads, the $300/month was for 3 days a week of driving. Apparently you went less than 5 MPH for several miles (I never did it since I didn't work there). Personally, I wondered why they didn't just buy used tractors. Anyways, the car had regular oil changes (at home) but not regular maintenance, i.e. only two timing chains and thus two water pumps (replaced at 80 k miles nonetheless).
Finally, the Volvo was absolutely pilot error or a broken car that was unfit for highway speeds. Both of us wanted to kill the guy, in any case.
As for mechanics, I'm in a big city, no issue. I think there are more European cars parked on my block than anything but Japanese cars. There is even a fool who parks his tripple-black Porsche convertible on the street.
But we drive very different numbers of miles. I've but 4k on my RL in two years... I get 10 to 15, rarely 18 MPG and I don't really care, I never drive it anyways.
The accord went to 140k, but a family members went to 250k with his before it started having real problems, but I suspect that came form the fact that many of those miles were (real) offroading--as in his employer payed him $300/month to do the offroading in his car instead of theirs.
Anyways, based on your description, your 3 has been far more reliable than the reviewers 5s were, but nowhere near as reliable as a Japanese car.
That said, you would probably hate the RL. Today I was stuck behind a volvo having a hard time comprehending the concept of freeway, so he was going 20 MPH by the time we hit the merge. There was a Mercedes with a V12 in it about two car lengths behind me. When we hit the merge, I floored it and moved left a lane, the German floored it and moved left two lanes, I'd bet he was going 20MPH faster than I was when his back passed my front (thus, I didn't catch the model, just the V12). I've never wished there were more power, but the car would never, ever, win a race against an actually fast car. I don't much care.
We need a constitutional amendment that says this. I'd be happy with something like, police can watch the last 7 days and prosecute anything they want, but need a warrant for anything before that, and if they don't find that they want, they can't use what they do see to get another warrant or otherwise in court. We would also need something like releasing these videos is a felony and they should all have a watermark on them for the viewer (presumably laced into the image, not just in the lower right).
I was thinking it was a way to pry one free from the CEO's hands.
If they separate into two sets of books, they can share the books with the content owners so they can see how bad the economics are for streaming.
There is no reason to think taxes change anything about job creation.
One story: higher taxes -> less incentive to work, so hire someone else to do it! -> more jobs because the small business owner doesn't want to work
another story: higher taxes -> more pissed off small business owner, but he still works -> no change
Why would this happen? We don't really understand it, but most men and women work 40 hours a week for most of their life and taxes don't change this.
All of that is true, but it does not apply to monopolies and need not apply to the labor market where really high wage workers could be considered to have a monopoly--you will notice that firms rarely fire their CEO and hire a new one because of a wage dispute, it is always about poor performance.
I looked at a few reviews of 5s (admittedly, I wasn't aware the mixed up concepts of naming convention) and the review sites were far harsher on those cars than on even the 2nd gen RL. In fact, most reviews said they had no intention of keeping the car once the warranty expired (I checked twice to be sure, and I wan't looking at Audi reviews either). Is there big differences between 3s and 5s in terms of reliability? I'd never buy a 7 because of iDrive, but is the 3 just sturdier car than the 5? Or maybe I've been spoiled with Japanese cars. My last car (Accord) I looked up the problems it would have and those were the problems: relay in the steering wheel, two CV joints, muffler rattle, total = $1200 + gas + oil for 15 years of ownership. With 35 MPG actual (freeway commute) and a 15 gallon tank, even fill ups only had to happen only six times per oil change. Crappy car in most other ways, but absolutely a piece of cake on maintenance.
I was talking about something mentioned in the article. I think that might be considered, "talking out of your ass" on /. tho.
There are ways in which it is less customizable, like there is only so much real estate in a ribbon, and it really isn't much when they use those huge, chunky icons.
The problem is much deeper than this. Metro will not allow more than one window at a time. An example from the article is that this means you can not have a dialog (that is a second window!). So basic design will have to change for Metro applications. If I try to quit Excel without saving my work... it will have to either just guess I really did want to trash that work OR do something other than open a dialog to warn me that I'm about to trash my work.
That is a pretty big shift and it will change very application that is written for Metro.
Thanks for sharing all that with me. The 2nd gen RL is rumored to be a breakdown-a-thon, so I do need to find a new car when this one runs out. Now, I'll definitely consider BMWs.
A chunk of Pu isn't so dangerous? It ignites when exposed to air. The stuff is aptly named after the god of hell.
I say this because the programing language class at my school involved writing the psychiatrist program in several different languages. The professor claimed that in one type, it was a 4 line program while in procedural it is often a several thousand line program. I didn't take the class, so I can't tell you more than that (sorry).
There is no reason tax breaks need to translate into more jobs. From econ 101: companies maximize profit.
profit = (1-tax rate) * (tax free profit as a function of size)
maximize that function by taking the first derivate with respect to size and the tax rate term drops out--it is irrelevant to the maximization. So corporate taxes are irrelevant (in the econ 101 world).
You can do it in four. Take a programing languages class.
Ah, I see, thanks. I always thought I'd hate a BMW, but maybe I was wrong.
My 1st gen. RL is less fussy but far less hackable (I don't have the Navi). i.e. I have a defrost button instead of instructions, and the temp controls default to (and returns to with one button push) auto and then you can futz with it form there. The RL basically gets out of your way and gives you no distractions (again, if you don't get the navigation). I forget sometimes how amazingly difficult it is to make a car that you can sit and and just get everything in it--this fact was confirmed by a friend who hates to drive and hadn't for 5 years saying that the car was a dream to drive. Well, this is after she asked if she wanted D4 or D3.
Nope, unintentional.
Oh wait, you're not talking about iDrive are you? I remember reading a review of the 7 wherein they took 1/3 of a page with instructions for how to change the volume on the radio. It made me think that (were to own a 7) I would have to purchase a radio for the car separate form the installed radio.
Again, an over simplification.
Movies are shot at 24 fps with a 1/180 second exposure time. When they make the exposure time longer, you notice and it gets hard to watch. Listen to the commentary by Joss Whedon on Serenity for more, but the scene on the reaver planet are shot at 1/120 and are a little unsettling. Things like panning include blur. the scene in Saving Private Ryan on the beach are shot at 1/60 and are noticeably difficult to watch--when the camera moves, everything blurs. When something flys by you get 1/2 of its motion recorded.
I sat in the driver seat of a 325 once and got the feeling that their cars are completely different than everybody else's. This LCD is in the instrument cluster or is part of a nav around mid-dash? I don't see how you get ETA without a nav, but maybe I misunderstand. Does all this ever get in the way of, you know, driving?
I think you just notice the "special" drivers. Personally, I'd rather see fog lamps on than no headlights on in the rain (very common here).
How many dash lights are in that thing?