Just don't complain if the person(s) of the cars you parked inbetween so nice and snugly aren't as talented or patient as you are, and decide that nudging your car out of the way in order for them to be able to get out of their parking spot is more than acceptable.
I was thinking to myself that I'd rather see them using a friend or relative to help them in the spot than hit my car if I were the one parked in front of or behind the spot they're trying to get into.
Even if they're being anti-competitive, that doesn't become illegal in most places with such laws unless they have a monopoly on something.
Apple is certainly not in a monopoly position, despite their popularity with either their computers or their phones or even that MP3 player they make and as such have very little to worry about in legal repercussions.
Personally I've been shopping Android phones instead.
The car industry went through this (and now after-market parts are readily available, even at dealers), the printer industry is going through it, and the cell phone market is just getting started on it.
You're right, and I know you're right, but the providers of these products (often a collaboration in North America between the phone maker and a service provider) still want to keep control.
One of these days I predict that all phones will be unlocked when you get them because of market forces and the law straightening providers out on this issue.
Even if you're selling a phone at a discount due to a service contract, there's no need to lock the phone to your service as you've got a contract with the user to pay their bills for 2 or 3 years already.
Nope, but let me help you out with perspective. The Inspiron 537 slim is entry-level at $269 including a DVD+/-RW, 2GB RAM, etc. Like the Mini, it doesn't include a monitor, but with the recommended 18.5" flat panel, it becomes just $499, still $100 cheaper than the Mini (and comes in multiple colours).
Apple's cheapest offerings are still a lot more expensive than the cheapest PCs out there.
But, as a software person myself, if you don't control the hardware you sell your software on, you risk having hardware issues blamed on your software. Like it or not, someone's going to license your perfectly good software to use on their crappy hardware and users are going to associate the two. Apple deals with this one way, Google the other.
Unfortunately that means that while I could connect to "accounting3" as a CNAME pointing to "AT101245", it still means that reading my logs shows a connection from "AT101245" which requires personal manual translation to correct, unless I start adding TXT records describing the present use of each machine...
In either case, the CNAMEs or TXT or any other records will go unmaintained just like the original problem of unmaintained A and PTR records, so you may as well pick the one with the least headaches to your situation -- which for me means naming the machines legibly and maintaining those lists properly.
My student ACM chapter once inadvertently leaked router advertisements for our IPv6 connection onto the building's main network and hijacked most of the Web traffic as the machines saw our connection and automatically (and transparently to the users) started routing through it.
That sounds like a huge security hole to be plugged before people condone IPv6 deployments, or don't you see it that way?
If they didn't manifest in reality, we'd all have switched by now.
As it is, even with an IPv6 compatible OS and compatible devices, I use all IPv4 because its simpler and works better in practise and is easier to debug as a result.
IPv6 has been around long enough to call it an abysmal failure as far as I'm concerned. Next, please.
I'm assuming the existence of such fuel is why my plain old GM car came with a warning not to use any fuel below 87 octane, which I can't find for the life of me in Ontario, Canada.
The weight of the engine in the Volt is negligable compared to that of the vehicle itself (due in large part to the batteries) and removing it wouldn't do you much good.
You don't sound like you've actually read the patent at all. The patent is on the encapsulation at all, its on the metadata system to make the information more easily searchable.
My best summary would be they've patented an efficient indexing system for XML documents.
What you're describing is immensely wasteful of both heat and fuel. Your brake pads are a much better tool for slowing down your vehicle than the gasoline you're compressing using the lower-gear method.
Have you ever bothered noting the tachometer jumping up as you gear down? You're running the engine at a higher RPM rate at least initially to slow down the vehicle as you describe, rather than the lower RPM rate it would be at while braking.
If you really want to conserve energy, there are a lot of good forums and websites about extreme fuel economy driving often involving dangerous practices like drafting, but never recommending gearing down.
You don't seem to understand what regenerative braking is. Its the storage of the energy created by braking at all. If you ever use your brakes, or need to slow the car, you're converting your momentum into heat either by brake pad or by engine compression. In either case, the energy is simply lost.
With regenerative braking, the energy is converted partially into electricity which is fed back into the charging circuitry so that it can be re-used later to move the vehicle.
It also doesn't garner much sympathy when you appeal either. Judges in general don't appreciate lawyers who habitually don't follow the instructions of the court.
You surely mean "nerest where the defendant or plaintiff does business" or in some other way has their business affected. If you're a home renovator in NYC, then its unlikely you'd get sued in California court, but both of these companies do business world-wide.
I don't call any company that actually makes, sells and offers to license their patented product a patent troll, as that's exactly what I expect innovative companies to do.
I'm quite certain the Volt is in fact in production at this point, and yes I'm speaking of series hybrid drives but that doesn't invalidate my point at all.
My point was simply about using hybrid drives at all, and the choice to use parallel hybrid drives for gasoline engines stems precisely from inefficiencies.
As another person replied, a series hybrid will never be more efficient than a straight engine, but that's ignoring the charging of the batteries through third party options like regenerative braking, solar collection and wall sockets.
You're missing the fact that in buses you're wasting all that frequent braking power which could be reclaimed, as well as the large flat roof for solar collection.
Also, as someone who drives an awful lot, there are a whole lot of gas stations out there without diesel although the situation has gotten better.
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You mean like the ballot box?
The possibility of repercussions leads directly to the desire for anonymity when speaking one's mind in many situations.
... which you promptly took straight downtown to complain about?
If you didn't complain then, don't complain now.
I was thinking to myself that I'd rather see them using a friend or relative to help them in the spot than hit my car if I were the one parked in front of or behind the spot they're trying to get into.
Leaving cash in your car in a big city strikes me as stupid, but you go right ahead.
Even if they're being anti-competitive, that doesn't become illegal in most places with such laws unless they have a monopoly on something.
Apple is certainly not in a monopoly position, despite their popularity with either their computers or their phones or even that MP3 player they make and as such have very little to worry about in legal repercussions.
Personally I've been shopping Android phones instead.
The car industry went through this (and now after-market parts are readily available, even at dealers), the printer industry is going through it, and the cell phone market is just getting started on it.
You're right, and I know you're right, but the providers of these products (often a collaboration in North America between the phone maker and a service provider) still want to keep control.
One of these days I predict that all phones will be unlocked when you get them because of market forces and the law straightening providers out on this issue.
Even if you're selling a phone at a discount due to a service contract, there's no need to lock the phone to your service as you've got a contract with the user to pay their bills for 2 or 3 years already.
Nope, but let me help you out with perspective. The Inspiron 537 slim is entry-level at $269 including a DVD+/-RW, 2GB RAM, etc. Like the Mini, it doesn't include a monitor, but with the recommended 18.5" flat panel, it becomes just $499, still $100 cheaper than the Mini (and comes in multiple colours).
Apple's cheapest offerings are still a lot more expensive than the cheapest PCs out there.
But, as a software person myself, if you don't control the hardware you sell your software on, you risk having hardware issues blamed on your software. Like it or not, someone's going to license your perfectly good software to use on their crappy hardware and users are going to associate the two. Apple deals with this one way, Google the other.
Unfortunately that means that while I could connect to "accounting3" as a CNAME pointing to "AT101245", it still means that reading my logs shows a connection from "AT101245" which requires personal manual translation to correct, unless I start adding TXT records describing the present use of each machine ...
In either case, the CNAMEs or TXT or any other records will go unmaintained just like the original problem of unmaintained A and PTR records, so you may as well pick the one with the least headaches to your situation -- which for me means naming the machines legibly and maintaining those lists properly.
That sounds like a huge security hole to be plugged before people condone IPv6 deployments, or don't you see it that way?
If they didn't manifest in reality, we'd all have switched by now.
As it is, even with an IPv6 compatible OS and compatible devices, I use all IPv4 because its simpler and works better in practise and is easier to debug as a result.
IPv6 has been around long enough to call it an abysmal failure as far as I'm concerned. Next, please.
I'm assuming the existence of such fuel is why my plain old GM car came with a warning not to use any fuel below 87 octane, which I can't find for the life of me in Ontario, Canada.
The weight of the engine in the Volt is negligable compared to that of the vehicle itself (due in large part to the batteries) and removing it wouldn't do you much good.
And yes, I want one.
For a small office, I'll name workstations by function or location or some combination of both but higher level 'boss' PCs by their names or function.
For example: "acctnorth" for the Accounting machine at the north of the room instead of just "acct1", and "controller" instead of "bob".
Then to be pedantic back, nobody should be suing anyone in Nevada?
You don't sound like you've actually read the patent at all. The patent is on the encapsulation at all, its on the metadata system to make the information more easily searchable.
My best summary would be they've patented an efficient indexing system for XML documents.
You didn't read the link did you?
Yes yes, with a five digit Slashdot ID I should know by now that nobody does.
What you're describing is immensely wasteful of both heat and fuel. Your brake pads are a much better tool for slowing down your vehicle than the gasoline you're compressing using the lower-gear method.
Have you ever bothered noting the tachometer jumping up as you gear down? You're running the engine at a higher RPM rate at least initially to slow down the vehicle as you describe, rather than the lower RPM rate it would be at while braking.
If you really want to conserve energy, there are a lot of good forums and websites about extreme fuel economy driving often involving dangerous practices like drafting, but never recommending gearing down.
All you're doing is preserving your brakes.
You don't seem to understand what regenerative braking is. Its the storage of the energy created by braking at all. If you ever use your brakes, or need to slow the car, you're converting your momentum into heat either by brake pad or by engine compression. In either case, the energy is simply lost.
With regenerative braking, the energy is converted partially into electricity which is fed back into the charging circuitry so that it can be re-used later to move the vehicle.
It also doesn't garner much sympathy when you appeal either. Judges in general don't appreciate lawyers who habitually don't follow the instructions of the court.
You surely mean "nerest where the defendant or plaintiff does business" or in some other way has their business affected. If you're a home renovator in NYC, then its unlikely you'd get sued in California court, but both of these companies do business world-wide.
I don't call any company that actually makes, sells and offers to license their patented product a patent troll, as that's exactly what I expect innovative companies to do.
Charred corpses don't sign paycheques either.
Right sorry, but same outcome :-)
I'm quite certain the Volt is in fact in production at this point, and yes I'm speaking of series hybrid drives but that doesn't invalidate my point at all.
My point was simply about using hybrid drives at all, and the choice to use parallel hybrid drives for gasoline engines stems precisely from inefficiencies.
As another person replied, a series hybrid will never be more efficient than a straight engine, but that's ignoring the charging of the batteries through third party options like regenerative braking, solar collection and wall sockets.
You're missing the fact that in buses you're wasting all that frequent braking power which could be reclaimed, as well as the large flat roof for solar collection.
Also, as someone who drives an awful lot, there are a whole lot of gas stations out there without diesel although the situation has gotten better.