I keep hearing this over and over again. "Well if it won't work in the whole US, then we can't do it". There are large portions of the US that look pretty similar to Europe. Wyoming and Kansas are not it. But the east and west coasts. Milwaukee to Detroit to Indy/Louisville doesn't seem too different from the German countryside.
The smaller TDIs (Golf and Jetta most definitely fit the bill) can quite easily do 700 miles on a fully-vented tank. Even driving them hard they will do better than 500 miles on a standard fill.
My Jetta TDI only had a 15-ish gallon fuel tank, so you had to be pretty adventurous to try to get 600 miles between fill-ups. I did 540 once before the wife's stress level got too high.
My Jetta has a 14.5 and my current record is at 815. Driven carefully 700 isn't a problem. I regularly hit 600 and 550 only when I'm on the highway and doing 90-100 MPH most of the time.
I also think that our sheer population size and diversity are problems for these types of models.
Which is why you apply them on a more local level. I'm more and more wishing that the confederates won. The feds have way too much power and applying moral opinions to areas as different as rural Arkansas and Colorado leads to people in both places not being happy.
unintended issues with the final design that didn't appear in the prototypes
A prototype designed one off in a machine shop vs something cranked out in China. The guys in China didn't understand tolerances or the need for them to be very very close. "Pin fits in hole. Good enough." Which means that the firepiston didn't work.
So lets assume they're as fast as Deal Extreme. 3 weeks a part comes. It's bad. He talks to the one guy in the shop that speaks English. They get it resolved. 1 week to make it. 3 weeks back to the states. Or the anodizing wasn't right in one batch IIRC.
You see it time and time again with numerous projects. The one project that I funded I got the part less than a week after it closed. The guy was making stuff in a machine shop in Minnesota. He already had the processes down for cranking out a lot of them. I'm sure as soon as the kickstarter was 'fully funded' he started to crank out batches.
Since when is NVidias driver under the BSD license?
When did I say it was? You notice that it is in a standalone paragraph. I pointed out that I am not an OSS zealot like some people. For example people like Stallman go nuts about everything having to be GPL. I was pointing out that in my case GPS and FreeBSD are both open source.
In this case NVIDIA provides me with a driver that works. I'm happy. I don't care what Linus has to say. NVidia, in my book, is supporting Linux on the desktop and for that I am happy.
Vs AMD which says "Here's 1000 pages of Spec" you guys can write code to do what ever you want.
I'm not on the whole "BSD License is the Devil, GPL for life!" bandwagon. They're both open source. Nvidia actually provides timely updates and it works. My AMD machine on the other hand
1) just had support dropped. The motherboard is around 2 years old and I just got the warning from debian that it is 'no longer supported'. 2) It doesn't work. Hardware acceleration of x264 would just crash XBMC. I've heard it's gotten better but between "Crashes but is completely open source" and "closed source but works" I'm going to choose the latter.
I believe it can also be inserted either way. Micro USB is a horrible design. (And USB as a whole). Someone completely failed Poka Yoke design when designing it. Micro-USB is just slightly different when flipped upside down. Sometimes with MicroUSB I can't tell if the connection is just snug or if it's being inserted backwards. I often have to double check visually. Something my parents wouldn't be able to do because of their eye sight.
Don't forget about CamCrate. There are a few others out there that the project creator went MIA.
Now I'm part of a few projects that have had delays. Most of the problems come from the fact that they are outsourcing to China and it's hit or miss what you get. Some of them have overly optimistic timelines also. Most have never done a project like this before and get in way over their head.
Couple this with KickStarter getting linked to non-tech websites and it's just a recipe for disaster. For example I backed the FirePiston. And it got linked to a bunch of outdorsy websites where I'm sure most people thought that they were actually pre-ordering something. So they're all up in arms about not getting something they were 'promised' in April.
The TSA is actually a wonderful institution that has brought cheap healthcare to thousands in America.
Now if I take a fall and am afraid I broke something rather than go to the ER and get an X-Ray ($500). Pay the hospital for their time ($500) and then pay the Doctor. ($1000) I just buy the cheapest plane ticket ($200) I can find and go through security with change in my pockets. Enough times that I can get a few good views of the problem.
Then I'm stuck on packages that are a year old if not older.
I've run Debian Unstable, Stable, Testing and all of them manage to upgrade to the latest packages without completely @#(*ing over my entire desktop. The visual changes between Ubuntu releases are as different as XP to Win 7 in some cases.
There is also MATE which is a fork of GNOME2 that looks great.
LMDE is actually the first linux desktop that I've used for an extended period of time because I can stand it. (And it brought me over from OS X when I upgraded that laptop). I never liked how Ubuntu locked to releases and much preferred the Debian rolling release. I've run testing on my servers for years but there had never been a desktop that I really liked until MATE or Cinnamon came along.
My girlfriend is on Ubuntu because "I hate windows and I heard about Ubuntu" but is getting fed up with "New release. Guess what we MOVED EVERYTHING AGAIN!". I don't understand how people use Unity. I have 22 windows open right now all doing something and like switching between them without pretending I'm on a tablet.
Props to the Linux Mint guys. The ones that may actually push Linux onto the desktop.
My company has already seen the writing on the wall. All non-engineers have been moved to IBM's Lotus office suite. All the engineers are still on Office 2000 because of the number of VBA scripts that have been written in it.
I disagree. I was given the rundown of how to do this by an old hat engineer that has been incorporated for a while.
You charge a decent rate as a corporation. You then pay yourself a decent wage (about what other engineers would make). Everything else you pay as a corporation. But with one of them (I can't remember S or C) you get to roll over losses. So say 3 years in a row you don't make a profit (read, you don't do any jobs). You take everything you lost that year and roll it into a year you did make money.
And then everything is a tax write off. 10Mb internet to the house: Business expense. New 27" monitors to do your work, business expense.
Second the IRS pretty much leaves S/C-corps alone. He once got a letter from the IRS and all he sent back was "I'll let you talk to my lawyers/accountants" (a personal friend of his) and he never heard about the matter again.
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That's because of the upper half of the LP and the entire UP. Notice I also didn't say Michigan. I said Detroit to Indy to Chicago.
http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/03/2/2/1/82844353121028239.gif
Look at this population density of Germany: http://www.bibb.de/images/inhalte/a21_ausbildungsmarkt-aufschwung_en_02.jpg
And then look at the population density of states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population_density There are plenty of states that have higher density than the employment districts in Germany with nowhere near the services.
I keep hearing this over and over again. "Well if it won't work in the whole US, then we can't do it". There are large portions of the US that look pretty similar to Europe. Wyoming and Kansas are not it. But the east and west coasts. Milwaukee to Detroit to Indy/Louisville doesn't seem too different from the German countryside.
You mean it needs something like... Git?
debootstrap won't even install a kernel until it ask it to. That's pretty bare bones.
Usenet.
Except the feds still say what the states can and can't do. Look at marijuana legalization. Or trying to make the drinking age less than 21.
The smaller TDIs (Golf and Jetta most definitely fit the bill) can quite easily do 700 miles on a fully-vented tank. Even driving them hard they will do better than 500 miles on a standard fill.
My Jetta TDI only had a 15-ish gallon fuel tank, so you had to be pretty adventurous to try to get 600 miles between fill-ups. I did 540 once before the wife's stress level got too high.
My Jetta has a 14.5 and my current record is at 815. Driven carefully 700 isn't a problem. I regularly hit 600 and 550 only when I'm on the highway and doing 90-100 MPH most of the time.
I also think that our sheer population size and diversity are problems for these types of models.
Which is why you apply them on a more local level. I'm more and more wishing that the confederates won. The feds have way too much power and applying moral opinions to areas as different as rural Arkansas and Colorado leads to people in both places not being happy.
In my opinion because it's that close to water. I find a nice ice cold water has the same effect as a nice cold American beer.
Yep guys. Made everything up. This guy and his anecdotes about not bing able to do it caught me.
unintended issues with the final design that didn't appear in the prototypes
A prototype designed one off in a machine shop vs something cranked out in China. The guys in China didn't understand tolerances or the need for them to be very very close. "Pin fits in hole. Good enough." Which means that the firepiston didn't work.
So lets assume they're as fast as Deal Extreme. 3 weeks a part comes. It's bad. He talks to the one guy in the shop that speaks English. They get it resolved. 1 week to make it. 3 weeks back to the states. Or the anodizing wasn't right in one batch IIRC.
You see it time and time again with numerous projects. The one project that I funded I got the part less than a week after it closed. The guy was making stuff in a machine shop in Minnesota. He already had the processes down for cranking out a lot of them. I'm sure as soon as the kickstarter was 'fully funded' he started to crank out batches.
Kickstarter is not buying a finished product, it is donating to get something hopefully created.
People see prototypes and mockups and don't understand that.
Did I say Nvidia's driver was open source? Jesus you people need to learn reading comprehension.
How about you pick off the statement immediately before that:
"BSD License is the Devil, GPL for life!" bandwagon. They're both open source.
They in this case refers to the BSD License and the GPL. I was stating that I am not a OSS zealot and that I don't care.
Since when is NVidias driver under the BSD license?
When did I say it was? You notice that it is in a standalone paragraph. I pointed out that I am not an OSS zealot like some people. For example people like Stallman go nuts about everything having to be GPL. I was pointing out that in my case GPS and FreeBSD are both open source.
In this case NVIDIA provides me with a driver that works. I'm happy. I don't care what Linus has to say. NVidia, in my book, is supporting Linux on the desktop and for that I am happy.
Vs AMD which says "Here's 1000 pages of Spec" you guys can write code to do what ever you want.
I'm not on the whole "BSD License is the Devil, GPL for life!" bandwagon. They're both open source. Nvidia actually provides timely updates and it works. My AMD machine on the other hand
1) just had support dropped. The motherboard is around 2 years old and I just got the warning from debian that it is 'no longer supported'.
2) It doesn't work. Hardware acceleration of x264 would just crash XBMC. I've heard it's gotten better but between "Crashes but is completely open source" and "closed source but works" I'm going to choose the latter.
I believe it can also be inserted either way. Micro USB is a horrible design. (And USB as a whole). Someone completely failed Poka Yoke design when designing it. Micro-USB is just slightly different when flipped upside down. Sometimes with MicroUSB I can't tell if the connection is just snug or if it's being inserted backwards. I often have to double check visually. Something my parents wouldn't be able to do because of their eye sight.
Don't forget about CamCrate. There are a few others out there that the project creator went MIA.
Now I'm part of a few projects that have had delays. Most of the problems come from the fact that they are outsourcing to China and it's hit or miss what you get. Some of them have overly optimistic timelines also. Most have never done a project like this before and get in way over their head.
Couple this with KickStarter getting linked to non-tech websites and it's just a recipe for disaster. For example I backed the FirePiston. And it got linked to a bunch of outdorsy websites where I'm sure most people thought that they were actually pre-ordering something. So they're all up in arms about not getting something they were 'promised' in April.
The TSA is actually a wonderful institution that has brought cheap healthcare to thousands in America.
Now if I take a fall and am afraid I broke something rather than go to the ER and get an X-Ray ($500). Pay the hospital for their time ($500) and then pay the Doctor. ($1000) I just buy the cheapest plane ticket ($200) I can find and go through security with change in my pockets. Enough times that I can get a few good views of the problem.
Then I'm stuck on packages that are a year old if not older.
I've run Debian Unstable, Stable, Testing and all of them manage to upgrade to the latest packages without completely @#(*ing over my entire desktop. The visual changes between Ubuntu releases are as different as XP to Win 7 in some cases.
There is also MATE which is a fork of GNOME2 that looks great.
LMDE is actually the first linux desktop that I've used for an extended period of time because I can stand it. (And it brought me over from OS X when I upgraded that laptop). I never liked how Ubuntu locked to releases and much preferred the Debian rolling release. I've run testing on my servers for years but there had never been a desktop that I really liked until MATE or Cinnamon came along.
My girlfriend is on Ubuntu because "I hate windows and I heard about Ubuntu" but is getting fed up with "New release. Guess what we MOVED EVERYTHING AGAIN!". I don't understand how people use Unity. I have 22 windows open right now all doing something and like switching between them without pretending I'm on a tablet.
Props to the Linux Mint guys. The ones that may actually push Linux onto the desktop.
My company has already seen the writing on the wall. All non-engineers have been moved to IBM's Lotus office suite. All the engineers are still on Office 2000 because of the number of VBA scripts that have been written in it.
chroot /Removeable/Debian-x86/
apt-get update
apt-get install.
It's how I get ARMhf binaries on my tablet and phone. Why shouldn't it work on the x86 phone?
Link to a company that sells them? I've been having a hard time finding them
I disagree. I was given the rundown of how to do this by an old hat engineer that has been incorporated for a while.
You charge a decent rate as a corporation. You then pay yourself a decent wage (about what other engineers would make). Everything else you pay as a corporation. But with one of them (I can't remember S or C) you get to roll over losses. So say 3 years in a row you don't make a profit (read, you don't do any jobs). You take everything you lost that year and roll it into a year you did make money.
And then everything is a tax write off. 10Mb internet to the house: Business expense. New 27" monitors to do your work, business expense.
Second the IRS pretty much leaves S/C-corps alone. He once got a letter from the IRS and all he sent back was "I'll let you talk to my lawyers/accountants" (a personal friend of his) and he never heard about the matter again.
I was asked ONCE while on holiday in the UK because the signatures don't match. I usually draw a circle, square, triangle.