So if the Prius gains all of it's efficiency through weight loss and aerodynamic efficiency, please explain how the Ford Escape, or Toyota Highlander, or Lexus Rx400h get their increased fuel efficiency. All three are exactly the same aerodynamically as the non-hybrid vehicle, all three weigh considerably more (I think it's around 300 lbs for the Escape) than the non-hybrids, yet all 3 get better fuel mileage and produce significantly less tailpipe emissions (something like 10 - 20% of the emissions of the non-hybrids). As many folks have mentioned, hybrids get much of the economy gains by using engines tuned for fuel economy rather than low end torque (which the electric motor can supply), by running the engine as close to optimal rpms as possible (by using the CVT transmission) and by recovering some of the energy through regenerative braking. Granted, you could make the engine and CVT changes to a non-hyrbid and probably get as good or possibly even better fuel economy, but your aggregate tail pipe emissions would likely be higher and your driving experience would probably be worse.
Actually, the Wright Amendment protects Dallas Fort Worth Airport (paid for by large government subsidies) from competition from Dallas Love Field. It's purpose was make DFW a virtual monopoly so that it can recoup it's costs (both to the government and the state/cities that invested in it). Southwest uses Love for it's flights due to the lower costs associated with that airport rather than any specific provision in the Wright Amendment. AA has at times considered competing with SW at Love, but has never (that I know of) actually done so since DFW opened.
I've got a couple of Replays and for the most part, 24 works beautifully with the commercial advance - from ticking clock screen on entrance to commercial right to ticking clock screen on exit. It does occasionally screw up, probably about 20% of the time on average over the programs I view, but 24 is one of the few programs (most of TLC/TDC being the rest) where it works nearly flawlessly. Probably depends as much on the local affiliate/cable company as anything else.
I'd have to say that the thing that irks me most is that with each new release of kde/gnome, the window manger gets more complicated in it's structure (just what the f*ck are all those kde/gnome processes doing anyway?) and less configurable in what you can do to change the behavior of the window decorations or keyboard/mouse controls. Not to mention that every xterm "clone" does a worse job of being a friggin terminal than the last. Cut and paste just works in Xterm, but gnome term won't talk to windows through vnc (but xterm does), and kde's terminal often requires you to select paste multiple times. Sometimes I think UI evolution on Linux ended when someone decided that making fvwm look like windows was a good idea and everyone started chasing the MS or Apple UI's....
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So if the Prius gains all of it's efficiency through weight loss and aerodynamic efficiency, please explain how the Ford Escape, or Toyota Highlander, or Lexus Rx400h get their increased fuel efficiency. All three are exactly the same aerodynamically as the non-hybrid vehicle, all three weigh considerably more (I think it's around 300 lbs for the Escape) than the non-hybrids, yet all 3 get better fuel mileage and produce significantly less tailpipe emissions (something like 10 - 20% of the emissions of the non-hybrids). As many folks have mentioned, hybrids get much of the economy gains by using engines tuned for fuel economy rather than low end torque (which the electric motor can supply), by running the engine as close to optimal rpms as possible (by using the CVT transmission) and by recovering some of the energy through regenerative braking. Granted, you could make the engine and CVT changes to a non-hyrbid and probably get as good or possibly even better fuel economy, but your aggregate tail pipe emissions would likely be higher and your driving experience would probably be worse.
Actually, the Wright Amendment protects Dallas Fort Worth Airport (paid for by large government subsidies) from competition from Dallas Love Field. It's purpose was make DFW a virtual monopoly so that it can recoup it's costs (both to the government and the state/cities that invested in it). Southwest uses Love for it's flights due to the lower costs associated with that airport rather than any specific provision in the Wright Amendment. AA has at times considered competing with SW at Love, but has never (that I know of) actually done so since DFW opened.
I've got a couple of Replays and for the most part, 24 works beautifully with the commercial advance - from ticking clock screen on entrance to commercial right to ticking clock screen on exit. It does occasionally screw up, probably about 20% of the time on average over the programs I view, but 24 is one of the few programs (most of TLC/TDC being the rest) where it works nearly flawlessly. Probably depends as much on the local affiliate/cable company as anything else.
I'd have to say that the thing that irks me most is that with each new release of kde/gnome, the window manger gets more complicated in it's structure (just what the f*ck are all those kde/gnome processes doing anyway?) and less configurable in what you can do to change the behavior of the window decorations or keyboard/mouse controls. Not to mention that every xterm "clone" does a worse job of being a friggin terminal than the last. Cut and paste just works in Xterm, but gnome term won't talk to windows through vnc (but xterm does), and kde's terminal often requires you to select paste multiple times. Sometimes I think UI evolution on Linux ended when someone decided that making fvwm look like windows was a good idea and everyone started chasing the MS or Apple UI's....