No, a hybrid means that there's a combustion engine of some sort generating power (whether it's directly to the wheels, or into a battery,) an electric motor of some sort powering the wheels, and under braking, that electric motor becomes a generator and stores power in a battery.
So, a series hybrid exists.
The difference between a diesel-electric drive and a series hybrid is the battery - in a train, the diesel motor directly powers the electric motor, with no battery powering the electric motor and when braking, the electric motor does become a generator... but it dumps the power into a resistor bank, to become heat.
I'll take a car with proper snow tires over an SUV.
The SUV may get going with 4WD, even with crappy tires, where a car with crappy tires wouldn't, but it won't turn or brake nearly as well, due to the added mass and higher center of gravity. Add in snow tires on the car, and it'll beat the SUV in just about every way.
A unibody SUV is also more survivable in a collision (body on frame SUVs, OTOH, usually aren't), but the "crashing is inevitable" school of thought has resulted in terrible driving being the norm, and then big huge tanks that get into crashes that could otherwise be avoidable, and result in soldiers needlessly dying.
Now, this 261 mpg (not 313 - the 313 is using a different size gallon from what we use in the US) on the NEDC cycle (which allows for a fully charged battery), 121 mpg on an empty battery (calculated from the range figures and tank size that VW gave) car is made for Germany first. In Germany, snow tires are serious business.
So, there will be snow tires available for this car.
Sure you want to bet against it doing well in winter?
The thing is, because it's a hybrid, the electric motor can give you a boost. 0-100 km/h (so 0-62 MPH) is 11.9 seconds. That's faster than a 10 year old Golf/Jetta/New Beetle TDI with a slushbox.
And, as for that Focus, it takes a different mindset to drive slow modern cars properly and safely. It's all about the momentum. (Oh, and not buying a slushbox. That helps, too.)
Slow old cars, OTOH, those are dangerous. I had an 85 Jetta and 86 Golf diesel... a slow Buick in front of me on a short ramp meant I had to either pass them where there was no room to pass them, or play chicken with a semi.
ARM2 actually was quite impressive when it launched - it was competitive with 16 MHz 80386s when it launched (and an Archimedes was far cheaper than the equivalent configuration of a 386 desktop at the time,) and it was aimed at the same market as 8 MHz 68000s, which it utterly destroyed performance-wise. (Not to mention, the Archimedes 440 had far more RAM than the (7 MHz 68000-based) Amiga 2000, and was still cheaper. And it had a standard hard drive.) Oh, and it also beat far more expensive 68020s. The 68030 came out at the same time, but it took another year before the 68030 made it into a desktop that was even vaguely home/school oriented.)
Oh, and the very low power consumption of ARM1 and 2 was actually a design goal - they were aiming for 1 watt at 8 MHz, so they could get it in a cheaper plastic package. As the story goes, they couldn't spend the resources getting as close to 1 watt as possible... so they just way overengineered it to make sure they were under 1 watt. Then, when they went to test the power consumption of an ARM1 sample, they hooked up the data lines, and went to hook up the power line with an ammeter inline... and the CPU was already running, purely off of the data lines, leeching power off of the ESD protection diode. It was 0.1 watt power consumption.
It's a shame Acorn was afraid to launch the Archimedes here in the US - it would've been interesting to see the impact on the computing market had that happened. (The reason they were afraid was likely because of the massive failure of the BBC Model B here.)
Marvell actually has two different core families - their own Feroceon (an out-of-order design) core family, and the XScale family.
That said, I believe they've phased out much of the XScale stuff, merging it into the Feroceon family, which is now known as Sheeva, and is out-of-order, dual-issue. (So, similar to Cortex-A9.)
Conspiracy theory: The Republican Party put Palin with McCain because they were trying to lose, but trying to not get caught doing it by their own party - they needed Democrats in power, so they could blame them. (I also believe that the Republicans and Democrats are working together in private to gain more and more power over us, they just publicly blame the one that's in power for what went wrong, when it may have been the blamers that did it in the first place.)
Kennesaw's gun law merely requires every household (except for mentally unstable, criminals, those that cannot afford a gun, and religious or moral objectors to owning a gun - that last class essentially making the law pointless) to own a gun and ammunition. Not requiring concealed carry, or even every citizen to own a gun, just every household.
(And, reading up on it, the law was mainly symbolic, as 95% of the population of Kennesaw already owned guns, and it was meant as a publicity stunt to knock a city in Illinois that had passed a law banning guns altogether out of the news. The only objections when it was being written were on Constitutional grounds, for making people purchase something, hence the exceptions.)
Did you read the post you were replying to... which MENTIONED that map?
Gun sights on a map, not on her face. Still a dick move (but there's a difference between a dick move and being responsible for a crime,) but not gun sights on her face.
And, the cheap hardware meant that Nintendo could ask for less than half as much money as Sony, at launch... and still make money, whereas Sony was losing money.
Alternately, what they could have done is something like this:
Patent some critical component of HTTP Write a small bit of code that implements that patent License that bit of code under a license that is like the GPL3, but with an additional clause stating that by using this code, you agree that anyone can link to any content made publicly available
This government, in theory, is of, by, and for the people. (Yes, I know, it's not a democracy, it's a republic.) Because the people pay taxes to the government, and vote politicians into office, and the government exists solely to serve the people, the people have a right to know how their taxes are being spent, what their politicians are doing, and what the government is doing for or against them.
On the other hand, the people do not exist for the government. It's not the government's business what the people do, except when the people are employed by the government (and then only what they do on the clock,) when the people are using government services (in which case, the government has an obligation to make sure that the minimum of their services are required, to save the taxpayer money,) or when other people are being wronged, and the people have decided that that particular wrong should be addressed by the government.
In summary: People have a right to know what their government is doing, government has no right to know what its people are doing other than what affects other people under the government. So, no, it's not hypocritical to say that the government shouldn't hide anything, yet the people can hide.
ISTR benchmark after benchmark saying that they performed about as well as a Pentium Pro/II of the same clock speed, when running native code. Except they were doing 533 MHz when Pentium Pros were doing 200. Oh, and the benchmarks I remember showed that the Alpha could emulate x86 code as fast as the Pentium Pro 200 could run it natively, after DEC's emulation software had profiled the code.
The problem is this... they were also, IIRC, more EXPENSIVE than said Pentium Pro machines, and they could (for the Windows market) only run NT, when everyone targeted 95. And the performance advantage was completely wasted if your code wasn't written for Alpha. (So, you could run Office 95 and such on them, but because Microsoft only compiled the OS and maybe some server software, for general desktop AND workstation duty if your business needed Windows, a PPro box was cheaper and may have been able to do the same job.)
(Keep in mind that back then, Microsoft was ambivalent about x86, at least in the workstation and server market. Windows NT was written to run on quite a few popular processor families - MIPS, PPC, and Alpha, in addition to x86. And, Microsoft made what was essentially an AT Architecture MIPS system specification for running NT on MIPS.)
But you do go to Microsoft and ask for Windows patches for your Dell or HP (or even for your iWhatever, if your iWhatever is an iMac, and you're running Windows on it.)
This is a nightmare because you have to go to the company that sells you the gadget... and it can take months for the phone manufacturer to validate a new ROM for your phone based on Google's code, and then a few more months for your carrier to validate that ROM.
OS/2 2.0 beat NT 3.1 out of the gate (and got it out in 1992, causing Steve Ballmer to lose a bet that would've required him to eat a floppy disk, had he actually honored the terms of the bet,) by releasing a beta version and calling it a "limited availability" edition.
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No, a hybrid means that there's a combustion engine of some sort generating power (whether it's directly to the wheels, or into a battery,) an electric motor of some sort powering the wheels, and under braking, that electric motor becomes a generator and stores power in a battery.
So, a series hybrid exists.
The difference between a diesel-electric drive and a series hybrid is the battery - in a train, the diesel motor directly powers the electric motor, with no battery powering the electric motor and when braking, the electric motor does become a generator... but it dumps the power into a resistor bank, to become heat.
I'll take a car with proper snow tires over an SUV.
The SUV may get going with 4WD, even with crappy tires, where a car with crappy tires wouldn't, but it won't turn or brake nearly as well, due to the added mass and higher center of gravity. Add in snow tires on the car, and it'll beat the SUV in just about every way.
A unibody SUV is also more survivable in a collision (body on frame SUVs, OTOH, usually aren't), but the "crashing is inevitable" school of thought has resulted in terrible driving being the norm, and then big huge tanks that get into crashes that could otherwise be avoidable, and result in soldiers needlessly dying.
Now, this 261 mpg (not 313 - the 313 is using a different size gallon from what we use in the US) on the NEDC cycle (which allows for a fully charged battery), 121 mpg on an empty battery (calculated from the range figures and tank size that VW gave) car is made for Germany first. In Germany, snow tires are serious business.
So, there will be snow tires available for this car.
Sure you want to bet against it doing well in winter?
The thing is, because it's a hybrid, the electric motor can give you a boost. 0-100 km/h (so 0-62 MPH) is 11.9 seconds. That's faster than a 10 year old Golf/Jetta/New Beetle TDI with a slushbox.
And, as for that Focus, it takes a different mindset to drive slow modern cars properly and safely. It's all about the momentum. (Oh, and not buying a slushbox. That helps, too.)
Slow old cars, OTOH, those are dangerous. I had an 85 Jetta and 86 Golf diesel... a slow Buick in front of me on a short ramp meant I had to either pass them where there was no room to pass them, or play chicken with a semi.
While I'll believe it when I see it on dealer lots, there's reports that 100 will be made, and some may make it to the US and China.
Or, just wait another 13 years, and there'll be Lupo 3Ls that are old enough to import legally as classic cars.
Or, move to Canada and wait 3 years, and those same Lupos will be old enough.
The Qualcomm part likely regards the baseband radio, not the SoC.
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4208685/Analyst--iPhone-to-sole-source-Qualcomm-chip-semiconductor
So, the comments about Qualcomm being inolved in the SoC may be wrong, but they are dropping Infineon for Qualcomm, for the baseband.
ARM2 actually was quite impressive when it launched - it was competitive with 16 MHz 80386s when it launched (and an Archimedes was far cheaper than the equivalent configuration of a 386 desktop at the time,) and it was aimed at the same market as 8 MHz 68000s, which it utterly destroyed performance-wise. (Not to mention, the Archimedes 440 had far more RAM than the (7 MHz 68000-based) Amiga 2000, and was still cheaper. And it had a standard hard drive.) Oh, and it also beat far more expensive 68020s. The 68030 came out at the same time, but it took another year before the 68030 made it into a desktop that was even vaguely home/school oriented.)
Oh, and the very low power consumption of ARM1 and 2 was actually a design goal - they were aiming for 1 watt at 8 MHz, so they could get it in a cheaper plastic package. As the story goes, they couldn't spend the resources getting as close to 1 watt as possible... so they just way overengineered it to make sure they were under 1 watt. Then, when they went to test the power consumption of an ARM1 sample, they hooked up the data lines, and went to hook up the power line with an ammeter inline... and the CPU was already running, purely off of the data lines, leeching power off of the ESD protection diode. It was 0.1 watt power consumption.
It's a shame Acorn was afraid to launch the Archimedes here in the US - it would've been interesting to see the impact on the computing market had that happened. (The reason they were afraid was likely because of the massive failure of the BBC Model B here.)
Marvell actually has two different core families - their own Feroceon (an out-of-order design) core family, and the XScale family.
That said, I believe they've phased out much of the XScale stuff, merging it into the Feroceon family, which is now known as Sheeva, and is out-of-order, dual-issue. (So, similar to Cortex-A9.)
First off, serpentine belt failures are usually such that you can still get the car pulled over, albeit requiring more steering force.
Second, how long before that failure did you have the brake fluid flushed. Should be done every 2 years. ;)
The person you're replying to is talking about a wheel cylinder - part of the hydraulic braking system.
And, you're still going to have a hydraulic braking system even on an electric car.
Conspiracy theory: The Republican Party put Palin with McCain because they were trying to lose, but trying to not get caught doing it by their own party - they needed Democrats in power, so they could blame them. (I also believe that the Republicans and Democrats are working together in private to gain more and more power over us, they just publicly blame the one that's in power for what went wrong, when it may have been the blamers that did it in the first place.)
Kennesaw's gun law merely requires every household (except for mentally unstable, criminals, those that cannot afford a gun, and religious or moral objectors to owning a gun - that last class essentially making the law pointless) to own a gun and ammunition. Not requiring concealed carry, or even every citizen to own a gun, just every household.
(And, reading up on it, the law was mainly symbolic, as 95% of the population of Kennesaw already owned guns, and it was meant as a publicity stunt to knock a city in Illinois that had passed a law banning guns altogether out of the news. The only objections when it was being written were on Constitutional grounds, for making people purchase something, hence the exceptions.)
Did you read the post you were replying to... which MENTIONED that map?
Gun sights on a map, not on her face. Still a dick move (but there's a difference between a dick move and being responsible for a crime,) but not gun sights on her face.
The SPARC port barely ran (there were endianness issues that Microsoft never worked out,) and XPe is x86-only.
And, the cheap hardware meant that Nintendo could ask for less than half as much money as Sony, at launch... and still make money, whereas Sony was losing money.
At least one source (marketing, though) claiming that PZEV can emit less than ambient: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/automobiles/low-cost-path-to-low-emissions.html
And, there are other sources detailing how to accurately test a PZEV to avoid getting a negative emissions reading.
Alternately, what they could have done is something like this:
Patent some critical component of HTTP
Write a small bit of code that implements that patent
License that bit of code under a license that is like the GPL3, but with an additional clause stating that by using this code, you agree that anyone can link to any content made publicly available
Problem is, then nobody would've adopted HTTP.
There is actually a difference, though.
This government, in theory, is of, by, and for the people. (Yes, I know, it's not a democracy, it's a republic.) Because the people pay taxes to the government, and vote politicians into office, and the government exists solely to serve the people, the people have a right to know how their taxes are being spent, what their politicians are doing, and what the government is doing for or against them.
On the other hand, the people do not exist for the government. It's not the government's business what the people do, except when the people are employed by the government (and then only what they do on the clock,) when the people are using government services (in which case, the government has an obligation to make sure that the minimum of their services are required, to save the taxpayer money,) or when other people are being wronged, and the people have decided that that particular wrong should be addressed by the government.
In summary: People have a right to know what their government is doing, government has no right to know what its people are doing other than what affects other people under the government. So, no, it's not hypocritical to say that the government shouldn't hide anything, yet the people can hide.
ISTR benchmark after benchmark saying that they performed about as well as a Pentium Pro/II of the same clock speed, when running native code. Except they were doing 533 MHz when Pentium Pros were doing 200. Oh, and the benchmarks I remember showed that the Alpha could emulate x86 code as fast as the Pentium Pro 200 could run it natively, after DEC's emulation software had profiled the code.
The problem is this... they were also, IIRC, more EXPENSIVE than said Pentium Pro machines, and they could (for the Windows market) only run NT, when everyone targeted 95. And the performance advantage was completely wasted if your code wasn't written for Alpha. (So, you could run Office 95 and such on them, but because Microsoft only compiled the OS and maybe some server software, for general desktop AND workstation duty if your business needed Windows, a PPro box was cheaper and may have been able to do the same job.)
(Keep in mind that back then, Microsoft was ambivalent about x86, at least in the workstation and server market. Windows NT was written to run on quite a few popular processor families - MIPS, PPC, and Alpha, in addition to x86. And, Microsoft made what was essentially an AT Architecture MIPS system specification for running NT on MIPS.)
But you do go to Microsoft and ask for Windows patches for your Dell or HP (or even for your iWhatever, if your iWhatever is an iMac, and you're running Windows on it.)
This is a nightmare because you have to go to the company that sells you the gadget... and it can take months for the phone manufacturer to validate a new ROM for your phone based on Google's code, and then a few more months for your carrier to validate that ROM.
OS/2 2.0 beat NT 3.1 out of the gate (and got it out in 1992, causing Steve Ballmer to lose a bet that would've required him to eat a floppy disk, had he actually honored the terms of the bet,) by releasing a beta version and calling it a "limited availability" edition.
You may have bought it in 1982, and you may have used it with Contiki, but those were separate events.
Contiki came out around 2003 or so.
Amiga came in 1985, GEOS came in 1986, Archimedes came in 1987.
(The BBC Micro came in 1981, but did it ever have a GUI environment of any kind? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, but...)
AARD? That was only in the BETA.
3.1 was the first, and it was named that to maintain version parity with regular Windows 3.1.
The list actually points out that you can still buy Breadbox Ensemble (the latest version of PC/GEOS,) and here's where you can buy it at: http://www.breadbox.com/ensemble/geosdetails.asp?id=45&category=Purchase%20Ensemble