Like all cars, hybrids need more power when you're overcoming inertia (and that's when they go to the gasoline teat). If you're in a hilly suburban area where you're accelerating to speed, only to immediately stop again, yeah, you're going to get crapulent mileage. Notice that the ratings are for "highway" (fairly constant cruising, once you're at speed), and "city" (low-speed stop and go traffic, where you can stay on battery half the time).
If your hypothetical bloated SUV had one of those nice little LCD consumption displays like my '04 Prius, I bet you'd find that it needed several decimal places to display anything other than 0 when dragging its lard ass up a hill. I suspect that all such mileage ratings are for "ideal conditions," and even those nice little plain-gasoline economy cars get 5-10 mpg less than the 30-40 on the sticker.
As a data point, my Prius averages 45 mpg (well, 45.4 on the current tank, around mile 400). I tend to float between 50-70 on I-495 around DC, depending on traffic conditions, and have five minutes or so of 25 mpg deadweight in the suburban areas at the endpoints of my commute.
Heh, I'm pretty sure I was the "lab attendant" (sysadmin, dammit) in that stalker example, unless it was some other stalker.
Anyways, I find the assertion that a lack of technical competence is acceptable for a job like this irksome. My office has had contact with Project NEThics every so often, usually in fielding a report of suspicious activity. I'm happy to say they've gotten better in recent years, but back in the day it was impossible to even explain what was going on to them half the time, and the people we had contact with back then had an absurd sense of self-importance in combination with their technical ineptitude. "NET Hicks" indeed. Haven't seen any of that lately, though, so I probably shouldn't tease.
Someone whose job it is to be informal judge and jury of dumb kids doing dumb stuff should at least know what they're talking about. I personally wouldn't recommend forming such a group without at least one person who actually comprehends the technical issues at hand, as well as net culture and an informed idea of what's acceptable behavior and what isn't.
Y'know, my attitude towards Blizzard has always been of the gushy, complimentary variety. Not much of a gamer as a general rule, I've always been deeply addicted to Starcraft, simply because it's a work of art in its melding of an enjoyable sensory experience, humor, and interesting gameplay. I've always gone out of my way to throw money at you guys (such as by buying multiple copies of games, for the hell of it), simply because I appreciate your "it's released when it's done" development model, and the resulting quality of your products.
Most of the sating of my Starcraft urge is played out on a private server, amongst myself and a number of other legitimate owners of the game, for a number of benefits too obvious to be worth enumerating. Now that Blizzard has decided to invoke the ill-conceived DMCA on the Bnetd project, our server software of choice, we're pretty much stuck. I'm feeling pretty betrayed to see a company whose approach to the gaming business I respected go the route of content delivery control, a business practice I believe to be counterproductive, sleazy, and in the long run a danger for consumers, all for the sake of, I'd imagine leveraging some potential new revenue stream.
Good job screwing up a good thing, there, guys. Guess I don't have to spend any more money on you.
I'd have to agree on this one... the lack of scsi is irritating mostly because the internal disks are, as near as I can tell, terribly flaky. We've got a few dozen of them here, amongst a few hundred other Suns and other architectures, and between them the U5s account for half of our bloody service calls, usually over the IDE disk failing.
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I demand that my liquor be substantially more protected than this.
Sounds funny to me.
I think it's $diety punishing you for making a Paladin.
If you just have to play, donate as much as you spend . That's what we're doing at my house...
I rebooted a work machine that was named crick, after I heard. I figure that's like pouring a forty out on the pavement, right?
(also it needed a kernel update)
Like all cars, hybrids need more power when you're overcoming inertia (and that's when they go to the gasoline teat). If you're in a hilly suburban area where you're accelerating to speed, only to immediately stop again, yeah, you're going to get crapulent mileage. Notice that the ratings are for "highway" (fairly constant cruising, once you're at speed), and "city" (low-speed stop and go traffic, where you can stay on battery half the time).
If your hypothetical bloated SUV had one of those nice little LCD consumption displays like my '04 Prius, I bet you'd find that it needed several decimal places to display anything other than 0 when dragging its lard ass up a hill. I suspect that all such mileage ratings are for "ideal conditions," and even those nice little plain-gasoline economy cars get 5-10 mpg less than the 30-40 on the sticker.
As a data point, my Prius averages 45 mpg (well, 45.4 on the current tank, around mile 400). I tend to float between 50-70 on I-495 around DC, depending on traffic conditions, and have five minutes or so of 25 mpg deadweight in the suburban areas at the endpoints of my commute.
Heh, I'm pretty sure I was the "lab attendant" (sysadmin, dammit) in that stalker example, unless it was some other stalker.
Anyways, I find the assertion that a lack of technical competence is acceptable for a job like this irksome. My office has had contact with Project NEThics every so often, usually in fielding a report of suspicious activity. I'm happy to say they've gotten better in recent years, but back in the day it was impossible to even explain what was going on to them half the time, and the people we had contact with back then had an absurd sense of self-importance in combination with their technical ineptitude. "NET Hicks" indeed. Haven't seen any of that lately, though, so I probably shouldn't tease.
Someone whose job it is to be informal judge and jury of dumb kids doing dumb stuff should at least know what they're talking about. I personally wouldn't recommend forming such a group without at least one person who actually comprehends the technical issues at hand, as well as net culture and an informed idea of what's acceptable behavior and what isn't.
Y'know, my attitude towards Blizzard has always been of the gushy, complimentary variety. Not much of a gamer as a general rule, I've always been deeply addicted to Starcraft, simply because it's a work of art in its melding of an enjoyable sensory experience, humor, and interesting gameplay. I've always gone out of my way to throw money at you guys (such as by buying multiple copies of games, for the hell of it), simply because I appreciate your "it's released when it's done" development model, and the resulting quality of your products.
Most of the sating of my Starcraft urge is played out on a private server, amongst myself and a number of other legitimate owners of the game, for a number of benefits too obvious to be worth enumerating. Now that Blizzard has decided to invoke the ill-conceived DMCA on the Bnetd project, our server software of choice, we're pretty much stuck. I'm feeling pretty betrayed to
see a company whose approach to the gaming business I respected go the route of content delivery control, a business practice I believe to be counterproductive, sleazy, and in the long run a danger for consumers, all for the sake of, I'd imagine leveraging some potential new revenue stream.
Good job screwing up a good thing, there, guys. Guess I don't have to spend any more money on you.
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I'd have to agree on this one... the lack of scsi is irritating mostly because the internal disks are, as near as I can tell, terribly flaky. We've got a few dozen of them here, amongst a few hundred other Suns and other architectures, and between them the U5s account for half of our bloody service calls, usually over the IDE disk failing.
We tend not to bother reading the comments, actually...