I don't get this in reference to the Prius. Given its size and price, the Prius is not an overpriced car. It's also one of the few hatchbacks on the US market. If you want to pick on an overpriced hybrid, try one of the hybrid SUVs/crossovers.
On the other hand, you also have to worry about the psychology of bailing these people/businesses out. Part of investing is taking risks. If Uncle Sam demonstrates that if your investment doesn't work out and you're in trouble, that he'll cover your losses just means that these investors will take on more and more risky investments because they can always run back to the government if they get into trouble. It's a game changer. I can practically guarantee that if the government bails these people out, they'll be bailing them out again in a few more years, to the tune of even more money than this time. The fact that giving away all this free money will affect the way people invest is obvious by just watching how the markets have been reacting to the news of the bailout the past few days.
The other thing is, I highly doubt we'd only spend a fraction of that 700 billion. Just look at the situation in Iraq to get an idea of how things will go when the government has a lot of money to throw around with no oversight. I can assure you they will blow through that 700 billion in no time with little to show for it, and there will still be plenty of outstretched hands left.
Vegas casinos thrive on tourists. Tourists aren't going to be there long enough to recognize some guy who's there all the time who wins a lot. And even if they do, there are plenty of other tables they can go to.
At least the 9550 is old enough that you can use the 5.9 drivers (the last ones before the.NET based "what were they thinking?" trainwreck of a driver). I have a box with a 9600Pro in it, and I use what is now a really old version of the driver and I have no problems with it. But as always, YMMV.
Yet, here I am, with a bug report that one of the models is wrong, and have absolutely no way to fix it.
Have you looked in the code to see if you can find where this math is? If so, you might want to try to verify that these is, in fact, a bug in the code if you haven't done so. I often treat new bugs found in old code with a grain of salt, as the code has been around for a while which means that its behavior is more of a known. If this model is not a rarely used feature, and the software has been around for years and users are comfortable with the output, I would be very skeptical when someone claims it is "broken". Many times these reports are the result of a misunderstanding on the user's part, or they fed the software bad data, or something like that.
When my printer manufacturer manages to provide automatic nozzle cleaning, I would think that car manufacturers would be able to do the same.
I would imagine if we were to follow the printer cleaning model, the process would involve running the engine at 6000 RPM for 5 minutes while we run half a tank of fuel through it. And it might work 20% of the time.
I actually find I'm upgrading computers more. The days when a new PC would totally outclass a 3-4 year old machine are over, so if you have an older computer and it's performance is mostly acceptable, why not do a few cheap upgrades to it rather than buy a whole new machine? For example, the PC I'm typing on right now I initially built in early 2002, and over the years I changed out parts here and there as needed and I still have a computer with acceptable performance that may yet get another upgrade before I'm done with it (more hard drive space, the CPU and memory are pretty much maxed at this point, and I don't see the value in buying an upgraded AGP video card for it over the ATI 9600 Pro it has now). How's that for upgradability?
I had a few Socket A systems go bad due to bulging/leaking capacitors, though I was never sure if it was the caps or the crappy VIA chipsets as they never quite worked right even when they were new. I've also seen it on older P2/P3 era systems, for a while almost every P2/P3 I pulled from the dumpsters had bad caps on the motherboard. I managed to repair some computers with my limited soldering skills, but nowadays anything dating from the leaky capacitors era is generally is too old to bother with anymore.
As for exploding caps, I did see that on a computer that had been in storage for a while. Wouldn't turn on when plugged back in. Took apart the power supply, and sure enough a cap had blown up.
How does Volvo get around this then, as I see Volvo commercial vehicles all over the place? Is it that they build them in the US to get around the "chicken tax", or are they still competitive despite the 25% penalty?
Really? My experience with VW is that they start to fall apart after about 5-6 years. You'll have all sorts of problems, not just electical. Problems with the engine, transmission, fuel system, the body hardware falling apart, water leaking into the cabin, the power windows falling into the doors, etc. I'm always amazed when I talk to VW owners and have to listen to the stuff that they put up with that would be unheard of on my Japanese car (c'mon VW, even the Americans can design power windows that don't fail after 3 years!). Usually it's no surprise to me when their next car is not a VW. I find it pretty rare to find a German made car on the road that's older than about 12 years - usually they're sitting in the scrap yard at that point, as the owner is sick of sinking thousands of dollars worth of repairs into it. This doesn't apply to classics, of course. Old air-cooled VWs and diesel Mercedes will just keep on running and running and running.
American made cars actually aren't that bad, I just find that people's perception of them is that they are only designed to last about 10 years, and treat them accordingly by neglecting them once they get to about 7-8 years old and the car degrades from there. An interesting case to look at is the Chevy Prism vs. the Toyota Corolla (same car, different badges, different reliability ratings). That, and the American manufacturers will intentionally cheapen lower end models in hopes that you'll buy a higher end vehicle, and it shows (just compare the European Ford Focus to the American version, for example). The exception would be Chrysler, which seems to design everything out of the cheapest possible materials, and are made to last exactly 70,000 miles for some reason.
I actually find that the Japanese cars are the most "disposable" judging by the way they put them together. They just don't seem like they were built to be taken apart and serviced easily, especially Hondas. Luckily they are so incredibly reliable that you can pretty much weld the hood shut and still get 100,000 miles out of it. Chances are you'll never have to replace that power steering pump or master cylinder, but if you do, be prepared to take the entire front half the car apart because that's about what'll take to get to the damn thing.
OSX is a lot like Windows in the web browser aspect. Safari depends on Webkit, and Webkit is closely tied into the operating system. You can certainly delete Safari, just as you can delete iexplore.exe and its associated icons, but in both cases the underlying rendering engine remains on the comuter.
No one really considers C to be average anymore, especially in high school. Rather the helicopter parents will be pleased that their brats are getting all A's now that an A is 80% or better.
We're talking about High School here (years 9-12 in the US). Good grades are needed to get into a good college (grades 13-16), but once you graduate college no one is going to give a hoot what your grades were in High School, and only look at your grades in colleges. To go further and get a Masters/PhD, then your ungraduate grades don't matter, etc.
Most people running Windows still run XP, and XP 64bit is pretty rare. And even in Vista-land, a lot of 64bit hardware inexplicably ships with 32bit Vista for some reason.
I'm no criminal either, but I've heard statistics that up to 1/2 of households have at least one gun owner. So you could start by burglarizing people's homes until you find one. Make sure they aren't around first though...
Launch Pad 39B was deactivated as a shuttle launch pad when the number of shuttle missions was slashed, and it currently being remodeled for the Ares rocket. They knew they were going to need 39B again for this shuttle mission, so they presumably left all the hardware in place so it could launch a shuttle if need be, but once 39A opens up again they are going to want to get the shuttle out of the way so they can continue with the remodeling.
Well, if you make one of your main talking points about how inexperienced your opponent is, don't act all surprised when you get called on it when you pick an inexperienced VP.
For people running 32bit operating systems, you're choice becomes 2-3GB of slow, high latency ram or 2-3GB of fast, low latency ram. Kind of makes things easier, eh?
Microsoft rarely puts out anything the just works. In many cases a PC works great for about 6 months to a year then it gets slower, and slower and sloooooowwwwweeer.
Most people I know have very little trouble with their PCs. It's not the days of Windows 98 anymore, a Windows computer is stable and relatively problem-free as long as you take some basic precautions, which most people know by now if they didn't already. I know lots of not very technically inclined people, and their Windows PCs keep on chugging along relatively problem-free for them. That's why when most people go out to buy a computer they buy a computer with Windows - it works for them, they know how to use it, and is cheaper so why not?
"PC" is short for IBM-compatible PC, which is what we called them back in the day (unless it was an IBM, then it was just an IBM PC). Since Macs don't have a Bios and can't boot DOS, you can't really call them IBM-compatible, thus they aren't really a PC in that sense of the term.
I imagine part of the reason is that you want to have some buffer for when the power goes out. Most places don't put the A/C on UPS's, so you got to wait until the generators come online before the A/C kicks back in (or for the power to be restored if they forgo the generator). If your server room is cool, it's going to be a while before it gets too hot so you have some time to work with. If it's on the brink to start with, having the A/C go out would not be good. Though you still make a good point - I imagine just going from 65 to 70 would save a lot of money.
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I don't get this in reference to the Prius. Given its size and price, the Prius is not an overpriced car. It's also one of the few hatchbacks on the US market. If you want to pick on an overpriced hybrid, try one of the hybrid SUVs/crossovers.
On the other hand, you also have to worry about the psychology of bailing these people/businesses out. Part of investing is taking risks. If Uncle Sam demonstrates that if your investment doesn't work out and you're in trouble, that he'll cover your losses just means that these investors will take on more and more risky investments because they can always run back to the government if they get into trouble. It's a game changer. I can practically guarantee that if the government bails these people out, they'll be bailing them out again in a few more years, to the tune of even more money than this time. The fact that giving away all this free money will affect the way people invest is obvious by just watching how the markets have been reacting to the news of the bailout the past few days.
The other thing is, I highly doubt we'd only spend a fraction of that 700 billion. Just look at the situation in Iraq to get an idea of how things will go when the government has a lot of money to throw around with no oversight. I can assure you they will blow through that 700 billion in no time with little to show for it, and there will still be plenty of outstretched hands left.
Vegas casinos thrive on tourists. Tourists aren't going to be there long enough to recognize some guy who's there all the time who wins a lot. And even if they do, there are plenty of other tables they can go to.
At least the 9550 is old enough that you can use the 5.9 drivers (the last ones before the .NET based "what were they thinking?" trainwreck of a driver). I have a box with a 9600Pro in it, and I use what is now a really old version of the driver and I have no problems with it. But as always, YMMV.
Yet, here I am, with a bug report that one of the models is wrong, and have absolutely no way to fix it.
Have you looked in the code to see if you can find where this math is? If so, you might want to try to verify that these is, in fact, a bug in the code if you haven't done so. I often treat new bugs found in old code with a grain of salt, as the code has been around for a while which means that its behavior is more of a known. If this model is not a rarely used feature, and the software has been around for years and users are comfortable with the output, I would be very skeptical when someone claims it is "broken". Many times these reports are the result of a misunderstanding on the user's part, or they fed the software bad data, or something like that.
When my printer manufacturer manages to provide automatic nozzle cleaning, I would think that car manufacturers would be able to do the same.
I would imagine if we were to follow the printer cleaning model, the process would involve running the engine at 6000 RPM for 5 minutes while we run half a tank of fuel through it. And it might work 20% of the time.
I actually find I'm upgrading computers more. The days when a new PC would totally outclass a 3-4 year old machine are over, so if you have an older computer and it's performance is mostly acceptable, why not do a few cheap upgrades to it rather than buy a whole new machine? For example, the PC I'm typing on right now I initially built in early 2002, and over the years I changed out parts here and there as needed and I still have a computer with acceptable performance that may yet get another upgrade before I'm done with it (more hard drive space, the CPU and memory are pretty much maxed at this point, and I don't see the value in buying an upgraded AGP video card for it over the ATI 9600 Pro it has now). How's that for upgradability?
I had a few Socket A systems go bad due to bulging/leaking capacitors, though I was never sure if it was the caps or the crappy VIA chipsets as they never quite worked right even when they were new. I've also seen it on older P2/P3 era systems, for a while almost every P2/P3 I pulled from the dumpsters had bad caps on the motherboard. I managed to repair some computers with my limited soldering skills, but nowadays anything dating from the leaky capacitors era is generally is too old to bother with anymore.
As for exploding caps, I did see that on a computer that had been in storage for a while. Wouldn't turn on when plugged back in. Took apart the power supply, and sure enough a cap had blown up.
How does Volvo get around this then, as I see Volvo commercial vehicles all over the place? Is it that they build them in the US to get around the "chicken tax", or are they still competitive despite the 25% penalty?
Really? My experience with VW is that they start to fall apart after about 5-6 years. You'll have all sorts of problems, not just electical. Problems with the engine, transmission, fuel system, the body hardware falling apart, water leaking into the cabin, the power windows falling into the doors, etc. I'm always amazed when I talk to VW owners and have to listen to the stuff that they put up with that would be unheard of on my Japanese car (c'mon VW, even the Americans can design power windows that don't fail after 3 years!). Usually it's no surprise to me when their next car is not a VW. I find it pretty rare to find a German made car on the road that's older than about 12 years - usually they're sitting in the scrap yard at that point, as the owner is sick of sinking thousands of dollars worth of repairs into it. This doesn't apply to classics, of course. Old air-cooled VWs and diesel Mercedes will just keep on running and running and running.
American made cars actually aren't that bad, I just find that people's perception of them is that they are only designed to last about 10 years, and treat them accordingly by neglecting them once they get to about 7-8 years old and the car degrades from there. An interesting case to look at is the Chevy Prism vs. the Toyota Corolla (same car, different badges, different reliability ratings). That, and the American manufacturers will intentionally cheapen lower end models in hopes that you'll buy a higher end vehicle, and it shows (just compare the European Ford Focus to the American version, for example). The exception would be Chrysler, which seems to design everything out of the cheapest possible materials, and are made to last exactly 70,000 miles for some reason.
I actually find that the Japanese cars are the most "disposable" judging by the way they put them together. They just don't seem like they were built to be taken apart and serviced easily, especially Hondas. Luckily they are so incredibly reliable that you can pretty much weld the hood shut and still get 100,000 miles out of it. Chances are you'll never have to replace that power steering pump or master cylinder, but if you do, be prepared to take the entire front half the car apart because that's about what'll take to get to the damn thing.
OSX is a lot like Windows in the web browser aspect. Safari depends on Webkit, and Webkit is closely tied into the operating system. You can certainly delete Safari, just as you can delete iexplore.exe and its associated icons, but in both cases the underlying rendering engine remains on the comuter.
Even so, that would still be a sizable chunk of the IPv4 address space.
No one really considers C to be average anymore, especially in high school. Rather the helicopter parents will be pleased that their brats are getting all A's now that an A is 80% or better.
We're talking about High School here (years 9-12 in the US). Good grades are needed to get into a good college (grades 13-16), but once you graduate college no one is going to give a hoot what your grades were in High School, and only look at your grades in colleges. To go further and get a Masters/PhD, then your ungraduate grades don't matter, etc.
Most people running Windows still run XP, and XP 64bit is pretty rare. And even in Vista-land, a lot of 64bit hardware inexplicably ships with 32bit Vista for some reason.
I'm no criminal either, but I've heard statistics that up to 1/2 of households have at least one gun owner. So you could start by burglarizing people's homes until you find one. Make sure they aren't around first though...
Launch Pad 39B was deactivated as a shuttle launch pad when the number of shuttle missions was slashed, and it currently being remodeled for the Ares rocket. They knew they were going to need 39B again for this shuttle mission, so they presumably left all the hardware in place so it could launch a shuttle if need be, but once 39A opens up again they are going to want to get the shuttle out of the way so they can continue with the remodeling.
What's so funny about that? Isn't that what he said?
Well, if you make one of your main talking points about how inexperienced your opponent is, don't act all surprised when you get called on it when you pick an inexperienced VP.
For people running 32bit operating systems, you're choice becomes 2-3GB of slow, high latency ram or 2-3GB of fast, low latency ram. Kind of makes things easier, eh?
Microsoft rarely puts out anything the just works. In many cases a PC works great for about 6 months to a year then it gets slower, and slower and sloooooowwwwweeer.
Most people I know have very little trouble with their PCs. It's not the days of Windows 98 anymore, a Windows computer is stable and relatively problem-free as long as you take some basic precautions, which most people know by now if they didn't already. I know lots of not very technically inclined people, and their Windows PCs keep on chugging along relatively problem-free for them. That's why when most people go out to buy a computer they buy a computer with Windows - it works for them, they know how to use it, and is cheaper so why not?
Says who? You?
"PC" is short for IBM-compatible PC, which is what we called them back in the day (unless it was an IBM, then it was just an IBM PC). Since Macs don't have a Bios and can't boot DOS, you can't really call them IBM-compatible, thus they aren't really a PC in that sense of the term.
I imagine part of the reason is that you want to have some buffer for when the power goes out. Most places don't put the A/C on UPS's, so you got to wait until the generators come online before the A/C kicks back in (or for the power to be restored if they forgo the generator). If your server room is cool, it's going to be a while before it gets too hot so you have some time to work with. If it's on the brink to start with, having the A/C go out would not be good. Though you still make a good point - I imagine just going from 65 to 70 would save a lot of money.
Have you ever seen what happens when you put too many servers into an igloo? It melts all over the place and makes a big mess!
Well, considering that it the cost you quote is only $4 less than doing it properly, I can't say from your post that the statistic is bunk.