The Prius would do pretty well for a cross country trip. The hybrid portion of it doesn't do much obviously, but you're still left with a very aerodynamic car with a small, efficient gasoline engine coupled to a CVT. Obviously you'd get better mileage without the weight of the battery and associated hardware, but it still does very well.
What state do you live in? Almost every suburban area I have been in has these things installed at every traffic light, and the sensors are used to help trigger the lights (you usually don't see them as much in the city where the lights are on timers, nor in the rural areas where there just isn't the need). They are commonly installed in the side street, so the side street is only given the green when it senses the presence of a car. Though I see them installed on the main streets too, sometimes one set close to the traffic light and one set installed further back (presumably to crudely gauge how many cars are stopped at the light). They also typically install a loop for each lane, so a single major intersection can easily have a dozen of them. I live about 3 miles from work, and on the days I drive to work I probably go over 25 of them just from commuting and going somewhere for lunch.
Just imagine if the system thinks car X goes by sensor A at 9:00 and then sensor B at 9:01 and those sensors are 10 miles apart. Suddenly car X owner gets a speeding ticket in the mail.
That wouldn't happen. Remember the system is working on the assumption that cars will behave in a predictable manner. In this situation I would assume that the system would think the car at sensor B is another car which is similar to the car that just passed over sensor A. Remember, the system also has to account for the fact that cars can enter and leave the roadway too from side streets, alleys, and driveways, so the fact that it may only see a car at one intersection won't be odd - it will just think that car turn on the road then immediately off. You'd really only be adding noise to the system.
It's not always a bad thing. It's kind of nice that stuff like that gets flagged along with things like TightVNC, as finding their presence on a machine when I'm not expecting it there means that the machine is probably compromised. On the other hand, if you put the tools on your computer, it would be nice to tell the AV program to stop warning you about them.
They'll probably still be interested in this part. If your server is CPU-bound, then you might be able to use 2 six core servers in place of 3 quad core servers, for a net power savings overall. Of course, most servers I see are I/O bound and don't even get close to stressing the CPU(s).
Only 4GB of ram max and PCI slots instead of PCI-Express? Why those limitations? Or are you thinking like Apple by intentionally crippling this thing so that they can sell more Mac Pros?
If that's the case, I wonder if some of the new quad core chips might be this six core chip with two of the cores disabled? It seems like it would be a way for them to recover some of their costs when 1 or 2 of the cores don't work, since I imagine this is an expensive piece of silicon.
Using premium fuel is often a cheap way to stop your engine from pinging/knocking (usually because the engine has carbon build up and you don't want to tear the engine apart to fix it). If his car was pinging using regular fuel but not premium I could see the increase in mileage, and it's not hard to believe that 15 year old car from the 70's might be pinging.
Actually, the reason why is that people don't maintain a good following distance. With the 2 second rule, you should have 1 car going by any fixed spot every 2 seconds, no matter what the speed of travel is (yes, I know this doesn't allow for the length of the car, but at freeway speeds you can pretty much ignore it). So if everyone maintained their 2 seconds, in areas where traffic naturally slows down, the cars would just get closer together and not impede the cars behind them. However, since people do not do this, when a group of cars have to slow down, all the cars behind them also must slow down too as there is no room for them to do anything else, and that's how you get a traffic jam.
Sorry, I meant Final Fantasy II for the Super Nintendo (It was Final Fantasy V or something in Japan). I don't know where you'd find a copy nowadays other than eBay - they seem to get a fair bit for them too.
So, that means you found the Pink Tail item in FF2 (US)? I seem to remember it had a 1/64 chance of being dropped by a monster you'll only find in one room 1/64 battles or something absurd like that. I tried for a while and never got it myself.
What sort of Apple hardware parts aren't standardized these days? All of the system internals are relatively "normal," and don't seem to contain a sufficiently higher percentage of proprietary bits than a Dell would.
Almost all the Apple hardware isn't standardized. In most Macs, you really only are able to replace the ram and the harddrive with standard parts, and maybe the processor if it's in a socket and not soldered in place. Otherwise, Apple computers use propriety cases, propriety power supplies, propriety logic boards (aka motherboards to the PC crowd). Often other parts like the CD drive and screen (in the iMac) are special too and not just an off-the-shelf part. It's true that they use standard x86 processors and chipsets and SATA connectors and whatnot, but that's utterly irrelevant when it comes to repairing the things because when they go bad you can't just swap the part with a standard, off-the-shelf part like you can in most PCs (unless you're really good with a soldering iron, I suppose).
showing me products that i'm probably not interested in is the essence of marketing. because really, what's the point of spending money advertising something that i'll probably buy anyway?
Well, there is always the marketing for new products or unknown products that you may buy but you have to know they exist first. I've always considered that some of the more useful marketing, as opposed to the "branding"/"image" stuff that composes the bulk of it.
I've seen this too. I'm pretty sure it it has little to do with booting from USB devices, and has to do with the BIOS going out looking for things that might be USB keyboards and getting confused or hung up when it finds something weird (I've seen non-iPods do cause it too). Most BIOSes do this fairly early so you can press F1 or whatever to get into the set up screen, which is why it'll hang before the memory test. If your BIOS has options for supporting USB keyboards or "USB Legacy Devices" you can try to turn it off and see if it improves things. Though if you use a USB keyboard you may lock yourself out of the BIOS so be careful or have a PS/2 keyboard handy.
I wouldn't expect a power issue with a printer, as most printers draw no power from the USB port (they have their own power supply). More likely it's a driver issue between whatever crappy USB drivers Apple installs versus whatever crappy USB drivers HP and Logitech install.
I've not had any problems with the T-Mobile pay as you go phones myself. I think the cheapest phones are $30, and if you buy $100 worth of minutes when you buy the phone, they change the plan so the minutes roll over when you add more and they last a year, so you can get by with only $10 a year until you burn through your initial 1000 minutes if your a light user. I have it and it's great having a cell phone that averages out to a few bucks a month.
Are you saying that my $9.99 trading fee is keeping me from becoming rich? If it was $0, I would suddenly be able to make money in stocks?
No, but he's saying that fees like that hurt the small time investors more than the large investors. Or in other words, you have to make $20 on every time you buy some stock to make back the amount lost to the fee (I'm assuming here that you pay $9.99 to buy the stock and $9.99 when it's time to sell). It's a lot harder to make your $20 back with $1000 worth of stock than it is with $1,000,000 worth of stock.
One has to wonder why this is, as other than the battery pack and the electric drive motor, a Prius doesn't contain much that you won't find in gasoline powered cars. Is it that this is the norm for Toyota, a manufacturer that sells the Prius world-wide, versus GM's Tahoe which is pretty much only sold in North America? I would like to see some more comparisons before concluding that the Prius (and other hybrids) really consume that much more energy to make than other cars on the road.
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The Prius would do pretty well for a cross country trip. The hybrid portion of it doesn't do much obviously, but you're still left with a very aerodynamic car with a small, efficient gasoline engine coupled to a CVT. Obviously you'd get better mileage without the weight of the battery and associated hardware, but it still does very well.
You do realize that the numbers at fueleconomy.gov for older vehicles have all been recomputed for the new ratings system, right?
I was so distraught that I missed my turn and had to go around the block because of it. Horrifying, I tell you.
Well, at least you didn't rear end him.
Looks like it's in the ballpark. The FBI says 1.1 million vehicles were stolen in 2007.
Source: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/offenses/property_crime/motor_vehicle_theft.html
What state do you live in? Almost every suburban area I have been in has these things installed at every traffic light, and the sensors are used to help trigger the lights (you usually don't see them as much in the city where the lights are on timers, nor in the rural areas where there just isn't the need). They are commonly installed in the side street, so the side street is only given the green when it senses the presence of a car. Though I see them installed on the main streets too, sometimes one set close to the traffic light and one set installed further back (presumably to crudely gauge how many cars are stopped at the light). They also typically install a loop for each lane, so a single major intersection can easily have a dozen of them. I live about 3 miles from work, and on the days I drive to work I probably go over 25 of them just from commuting and going somewhere for lunch.
Just imagine if the system thinks car X goes by sensor A at 9:00 and then sensor B at 9:01 and those sensors are 10 miles apart. Suddenly car X owner gets a speeding ticket in the mail.
That wouldn't happen. Remember the system is working on the assumption that cars will behave in a predictable manner. In this situation I would assume that the system would think the car at sensor B is another car which is similar to the car that just passed over sensor A. Remember, the system also has to account for the fact that cars can enter and leave the roadway too from side streets, alleys, and driveways, so the fact that it may only see a car at one intersection won't be odd - it will just think that car turn on the road then immediately off. You'd really only be adding noise to the system.
It's not always a bad thing. It's kind of nice that stuff like that gets flagged along with things like TightVNC, as finding their presence on a machine when I'm not expecting it there means that the machine is probably compromised. On the other hand, if you put the tools on your computer, it would be nice to tell the AV program to stop warning you about them.
They'll probably still be interested in this part. If your server is CPU-bound, then you might be able to use 2 six core servers in place of 3 quad core servers, for a net power savings overall. Of course, most servers I see are I/O bound and don't even get close to stressing the CPU(s).
Only 4GB of ram max and PCI slots instead of PCI-Express? Why those limitations? Or are you thinking like Apple by intentionally crippling this thing so that they can sell more Mac Pros?
If that's the case, I wonder if some of the new quad core chips might be this six core chip with two of the cores disabled? It seems like it would be a way for them to recover some of their costs when 1 or 2 of the cores don't work, since I imagine this is an expensive piece of silicon.
Using premium fuel is often a cheap way to stop your engine from pinging/knocking (usually because the engine has carbon build up and you don't want to tear the engine apart to fix it). If his car was pinging using regular fuel but not premium I could see the increase in mileage, and it's not hard to believe that 15 year old car from the 70's might be pinging.
Actually, the reason why is that people don't maintain a good following distance. With the 2 second rule, you should have 1 car going by any fixed spot every 2 seconds, no matter what the speed of travel is (yes, I know this doesn't allow for the length of the car, but at freeway speeds you can pretty much ignore it). So if everyone maintained their 2 seconds, in areas where traffic naturally slows down, the cars would just get closer together and not impede the cars behind them. However, since people do not do this, when a group of cars have to slow down, all the cars behind them also must slow down too as there is no room for them to do anything else, and that's how you get a traffic jam.
Sorry, I meant Final Fantasy II for the Super Nintendo (It was Final Fantasy V or something in Japan). I don't know where you'd find a copy nowadays other than eBay - they seem to get a fair bit for them too.
So, that means you found the Pink Tail item in FF2 (US)? I seem to remember it had a 1/64 chance of being dropped by a monster you'll only find in one room 1/64 battles or something absurd like that. I tried for a while and never got it myself.
Pricy? Newegg has several models under $10. My main complaint is that they tend to be flakey and timing with them is very problematic.
What sort of Apple hardware parts aren't standardized these days? All of the system internals are relatively "normal," and don't seem to contain a sufficiently higher percentage of proprietary bits than a Dell would.
Almost all the Apple hardware isn't standardized. In most Macs, you really only are able to replace the ram and the harddrive with standard parts, and maybe the processor if it's in a socket and not soldered in place. Otherwise, Apple computers use propriety cases, propriety power supplies, propriety logic boards (aka motherboards to the PC crowd). Often other parts like the CD drive and screen (in the iMac) are special too and not just an off-the-shelf part. It's true that they use standard x86 processors and chipsets and SATA connectors and whatnot, but that's utterly irrelevant when it comes to repairing the things because when they go bad you can't just swap the part with a standard, off-the-shelf part like you can in most PCs (unless you're really good with a soldering iron, I suppose).
showing me products that i'm probably not interested in is the essence of marketing. because really, what's the point of spending money advertising something that i'll probably buy anyway?
Well, there is always the marketing for new products or unknown products that you may buy but you have to know they exist first. I've always considered that some of the more useful marketing, as opposed to the "branding"/"image" stuff that composes the bulk of it.
I've seen this too. I'm pretty sure it it has little to do with booting from USB devices, and has to do with the BIOS going out looking for things that might be USB keyboards and getting confused or hung up when it finds something weird (I've seen non-iPods do cause it too). Most BIOSes do this fairly early so you can press F1 or whatever to get into the set up screen, which is why it'll hang before the memory test. If your BIOS has options for supporting USB keyboards or "USB Legacy Devices" you can try to turn it off and see if it improves things. Though if you use a USB keyboard you may lock yourself out of the BIOS so be careful or have a PS/2 keyboard handy.
I wouldn't expect a power issue with a printer, as most printers draw no power from the USB port (they have their own power supply). More likely it's a driver issue between whatever crappy USB drivers Apple installs versus whatever crappy USB drivers HP and Logitech install.
Somehow the Linux software that works with iPod gets around that... doesn't it?
Generally you have to jailbreak the latest iPods to get them to work in Linux because of the DRM. Older ones work fine, of course.
I've not had any problems with the T-Mobile pay as you go phones myself. I think the cheapest phones are $30, and if you buy $100 worth of minutes when you buy the phone, they change the plan so the minutes roll over when you add more and they last a year, so you can get by with only $10 a year until you burn through your initial 1000 minutes if your a light user. I have it and it's great having a cell phone that averages out to a few bucks a month.
Are you saying that my $9.99 trading fee is keeping me from becoming rich? If it was $0, I would suddenly be able to make money in stocks?
No, but he's saying that fees like that hurt the small time investors more than the large investors. Or in other words, you have to make $20 on every time you buy some stock to make back the amount lost to the fee (I'm assuming here that you pay $9.99 to buy the stock and $9.99 when it's time to sell). It's a lot harder to make your $20 back with $1000 worth of stock than it is with $1,000,000 worth of stock.
He says he works in an office, so that would be one strange bus driving job.
I do not think we have to worry about several dooms in a row.
Hey now, I distinctly remember Doom 2 coming out not too long after the original Doom.
One has to wonder why this is, as other than the battery pack and the electric drive motor, a Prius doesn't contain much that you won't find in gasoline powered cars. Is it that this is the norm for Toyota, a manufacturer that sells the Prius world-wide, versus GM's Tahoe which is pretty much only sold in North America? I would like to see some more comparisons before concluding that the Prius (and other hybrids) really consume that much more energy to make than other cars on the road.