We do have another car, so range is not so important for my wife's car. She regularly puts around 3500 miles on this car each year - that's an average of 16 per working day. With such low mileage, payback for gas cost is "never" on a Leaf, even with generous government subsidy. She commutes to a really shitty area and has odd hours - otherwise she would take public transit.
My commute isn't exactly horrid - 10 miles each way... but we'd like to keep the minivan for trips and flexibility.
It's probably difficult to tune as stiffly as people are accustomed for a car that size. It's heavy. Ride around in a Versa with 3 slightly obese men in it and see how springy it feels. (3,291 vs 2,460 lbs curb weight)
The dealer doesn't want to sell a Leaf because they'd make a few hundred bucks and then never see you again. If you buy a Sentra or Maxima, they'll see you (or at least have a chance of seeing you) every 4-6 months for routine maintenance.
Weird, I wonder why that is? I'm completely unschooled on the matter, but I am a mechanical engineer. With just naive thermodynamics, it seems that the cold should be better due to the better heat sink and the denser air at the intake.
I just need the price to come down. I don't need 70+ miles of range. My wife has a 5 mile commute, but the Leaf is way too expensive to ever recoup the cost. If it had a 40 mile range to account for errands and battery decline, but cost the same as a Versa or even a Sentry, we'd be in business.
I think you are the one who needs to re-read the Forbes link. It is also about a water tower. It's also a poorly-written op/ed with a misleading headline, much to StrangeBrew's point.
I'm not trying to be an OOXML apologist - I agree with your criticism of it. But I doubt that every implementation of ODF is identical, and I was just trying to point out that the DOCX option in Google Docs is in fact the OOXML option, implementation aside.
Right, that covers MS Office, but when exporting from Google Docs to DOCX, you are getting some kind of OOXML. I don't know how "standard" it is, but it is OOXML of some flavor and it does open in Word.
Well, technically I guess all of the MS Office formats are ostensibly OOXML - not just DOCX. Whether they fully comply or not I can't say - the fact is you can unzip them and get an XML structure that is very OOXML-ish. You get the same thing from Google Docs when you export to DOCX - though once again I cannot vouch for it's compliance. It does open in MS Office, though.
I'm not trying to be an apologist or anything. I was just adding some scale to the horrid-sounding headline. The list of "things I worry about" still does not include stuff like this. Perhaps it would if I at stuff that lives near the plant.
I'm no nuclear engineer, but it seems to me that IF (big if) It were as simple as letting the fuel melt through the floor like a big ol' glowin' gopher, you'd have a hell of a time containing the vapor emitted.
I think you are trolling? Alcohol and food are just about the only things you can make on that list of yours without corporate help. So you'd "make" your own car (minus the metals, tires, engine, etc.) and it would be unsafe, expensive, and impractical. You'd "make" your own clothes with a Singer sewing machine and you'd still be buying the fabric. You'd "make" your own shoes with Dow plastics or rubber and glue.
The fact is that we are all part of a society, and corporations are part of that. We all have a duty to have corporations be only what we want them to be - you included.
You have the history almost completely backwards. Boehner and friends represent the established Republican party. The influence of the libertarian crew is a pretty recent development.
Yes, though the US in turn seems to weigh copyright claims very heavily. In any case, my ideal for ICANN is that it not be used as a censorship tool. There should be concrete rules for proper records and settling ownership disputes, and that's about it. If a government wants to censor a site, they should refer to the proper records and act if it is within their jurisdiction.
Of course you are right, but we in the US also have a vested interest in keeping the internet coherent as much as possible. Giving the EU more control might eventually be in our best interest. After all, we, too, can always separate from them if they steer in a direction that we do not like.
What I absolutely do not support is UN control. The UN is primarily there to prevent nuclear powers from going to war, and thus far it has done a fine job of that. Most of the members are shitheads with far more restrictive speech laws than the US. The EU, on the other hand, really only differs from the US in hate speech. If they could be persuaded to not enforce hate speech laws through ICANN, I don't have a problem with giving them influence.
Yes, but there is something different about them. The guy driving in the 15 year old Maxima is driving in a more "got nuthin' to lose" style... using the shoulder as an extra lane, that sort of thing. Reckless and stupid. The BMW driver is more of a "get off my road!" kind of driver. More tailgating and anger than sheer recklessness.
Not really a good option for Windows. I use Unison to go between Windows and one other box, and then sync the other box with the rest of the "cloud". That works all right for me because I only have one Windows box, but it could get ugly with multiple Windows machines.
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We do have another car, so range is not so important for my wife's car. She regularly puts around 3500 miles on this car each year - that's an average of 16 per working day. With such low mileage, payback for gas cost is "never" on a Leaf, even with generous government subsidy. She commutes to a really shitty area and has odd hours - otherwise she would take public transit.
My commute isn't exactly horrid - 10 miles each way... but we'd like to keep the minivan for trips and flexibility.
It's probably difficult to tune as stiffly as people are accustomed for a car that size. It's heavy. Ride around in a Versa with 3 slightly obese men in it and see how springy it feels. (3,291 vs 2,460 lbs curb weight)
The dealer doesn't want to sell a Leaf because they'd make a few hundred bucks and then never see you again. If you buy a Sentra or Maxima, they'll see you (or at least have a chance of seeing you) every 4-6 months for routine maintenance.
I think I like the term "fully stashed" better.
Weird, I wonder why that is? I'm completely unschooled on the matter, but I am a mechanical engineer. With just naive thermodynamics, it seems that the cold should be better due to the better heat sink and the denser air at the intake.
I just need the price to come down. I don't need 70+ miles of range. My wife has a 5 mile commute, but the Leaf is way too expensive to ever recoup the cost. If it had a 40 mile range to account for errands and battery decline, but cost the same as a Versa or even a Sentry, we'd be in business.
I think you are the one who needs to re-read the Forbes link. It is also about a water tower. It's also a poorly-written op/ed with a misleading headline, much to StrangeBrew's point.
Again, I agree that OOXML is pure and utter shit. I was just trying to clarify that it is not absent from Google Docs.
I'm not trying to be an OOXML apologist - I agree with your criticism of it. But I doubt that every implementation of ODF is identical, and I was just trying to point out that the DOCX option in Google Docs is in fact the OOXML option, implementation aside.
Right, that covers MS Office, but when exporting from Google Docs to DOCX, you are getting some kind of OOXML. I don't know how "standard" it is, but it is OOXML of some flavor and it does open in Word.
Well, technically I guess all of the MS Office formats are ostensibly OOXML - not just DOCX. Whether they fully comply or not I can't say - the fact is you can unzip them and get an XML structure that is very OOXML-ish. You get the same thing from Google Docs when you export to DOCX - though once again I cannot vouch for it's compliance. It does open in MS Office, though.
"DOCX" = "OOXML"
You've heard or this has been done?
Agreed... I almost did the same! Pop it on a public webserver somewhere.
I'm not trying to be an apologist or anything. I was just adding some scale to the horrid-sounding headline. The list of "things I worry about" still does not include stuff like this. Perhaps it would if I at stuff that lives near the plant.
I'm no nuclear engineer, but it seems to me that IF (big if) It were as simple as letting the fuel melt through the floor like a big ol' glowin' gopher, you'd have a hell of a time containing the vapor emitted.
Indeed, the total spill is about the same size as a large-ish residential pool. The ocean will never know.
I think you are trolling? Alcohol and food are just about the only things you can make on that list of yours without corporate help. So you'd "make" your own car (minus the metals, tires, engine, etc.) and it would be unsafe, expensive, and impractical. You'd "make" your own clothes with a Singer sewing machine and you'd still be buying the fabric. You'd "make" your own shoes with Dow plastics or rubber and glue.
The fact is that we are all part of a society, and corporations are part of that. We all have a duty to have corporations be only what we want them to be - you included.
You have the history almost completely backwards. Boehner and friends represent the established Republican party. The influence of the libertarian crew is a pretty recent development.
Quite the opposite - I was saying that they drive differently.
Yes, though the US in turn seems to weigh copyright claims very heavily. In any case, my ideal for ICANN is that it not be used as a censorship tool. There should be concrete rules for proper records and settling ownership disputes, and that's about it. If a government wants to censor a site, they should refer to the proper records and act if it is within their jurisdiction.
Of course you are right, but we in the US also have a vested interest in keeping the internet coherent as much as possible. Giving the EU more control might eventually be in our best interest. After all, we, too, can always separate from them if they steer in a direction that we do not like.
What I absolutely do not support is UN control. The UN is primarily there to prevent nuclear powers from going to war, and thus far it has done a fine job of that. Most of the members are shitheads with far more restrictive speech laws than the US. The EU, on the other hand, really only differs from the US in hate speech. If they could be persuaded to not enforce hate speech laws through ICANN, I don't have a problem with giving them influence.
Yes, but there is something different about them. The guy driving in the 15 year old Maxima is driving in a more "got nuthin' to lose" style... using the shoulder as an extra lane, that sort of thing. Reckless and stupid. The BMW driver is more of a "get off my road!" kind of driver. More tailgating and anger than sheer recklessness.
There are two kinds of people: those who like it when new words and phrases enter the language, and then you have the alportnates.
Not really a good option for Windows. I use Unison to go between Windows and one other box, and then sync the other box with the rest of the "cloud". That works all right for me because I only have one Windows box, but it could get ugly with multiple Windows machines.