Re:Depends on the kind of graffiti
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There are two kinds of graffiti. I'll call the first one 'artcrime' since I'm not sure what other people call it. The second is tagging.
Artcrime is where someone makes an effort to do something that is interesting or beautiful, or at least puts some love into the work. It may or may not be a tag. If it isn't a tag, then the artist would be fine with using a designated wall like this.
Taggers, on the other hand, just like to put their name on shit for whatever reason - territory marking or some sort of rush that comes from vandalizing things. These folks are not going to bother with a designated wall because using one of those entirely defeats the purpose of the graffiti for them.
So I guess it's not a big problem if the only folks that bother you are the artists. Me, I'm the other way around - I normally don't mind graffiti that's had some love put into it because there was love put into it, whereas tagging is the equivalent of making it known you were somewhere by ejaculating all over the place.
Fun tip: If you're using Mac OS X, you can switch the whole screen to white on black by hitting ctrl-option-splat-8.
Re:Don't go back to incandescent
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If your fluorescent bulbs are a problem, it's because you bought the cheapest ones you could find. Modern fluorescent light bulbs are no longer a problem for flicker, and you can even get ones that put out a warmer light that I think is even better than incandescent (it's closer to sunlight).
If cost is a factor on buying cheap fluorescents, consider that spending 50% more on that fluorescent bulb really isn't that much considering how long they last - in fact, it's probably even cheaper in the long run since higher quality fluorescent bulbs last so much longer than the cheap ones. That aside, it's still a hell of a lot cheaper than incandescent bulbs, too.
much more likely is to have even 1% of people work hard at only buying CDs from truly non-RIAA music labels. This could hopefully create a snowball effect that increases both the popularity and economic power of music publishers outside the cartel.
Once the RIAA has real competition, they won't be able to throw their weight around quite so easily. Heck, they might even be rendered irrelevant, which I'm sure would be a wet dream for everyone but a few dickhead billionaires.
How are these not charging money for 'service packs'? They were about the same (less, in my opinion) level of refinement over the previous version as different versions of OS X, and cost 3 times as much.
Just because Apple releases small point upgrades rather than gunnysacking them for a while to put together huge "Service packs" doesn't mean Apple doesn't give its users some free upgrades.
This is really biting Apple in the ass that they are changing only the minor number on each version of OS X. I like it better, but it really does seem to be easier to keep the drones complacent if you instead change a number (or set of letters) that has no relation to anything in particular the way Microsoft, Intel, and AMD have been doing lately.
Start making car stereos have a damn 3.5mm stereo jack somewhere on the front of the unit. There are so many different mp3 devices nowadays, and the last thing I want is more custom shit that locks me into brands or punishes me for not using the same thing as everyone else. Give me a standard way to plug my mp3 player into my stereo without having to fight with every FM radio station in a 30 mile radius or take my dash halfway apart and buy a $70 adapter so I can attatch a pig-tail to the back of my stereo.
(And no, I'm not hating on cool iPod stuff. I have an iPod. But I still don't want a slot-loading iPod incase my next mp3 player is not an iPod or incase Apple changes the size/shape of the iPod yet again (they will - WWDC is coming soon). )
Man, there needs to be a way to identify independent labels. I can't for the life of me find a site that lists truly independent labels or artists on truly indie labels, and most the ones that claim to be independent are really just peons of Columbia House or Sony or some such.
The biggest roadblock I find when I am encouraging people to stick with independent labels and artists is that when they ask me how to know what is independent, I have to shrug my shoulders and tell them it takes a huge pile of research.
I've heard the suggestion of having an association of independent labels, but that sounds like a good way to end up with two RIAAs to me. (Double your evil, double your fun!) Maybe if there were an organization that trademarked a logo that labels could put on their CD and aggressively enforced that only indie labels could use that logo.
I can see the scenario right now: After hundreds of years of tweaking, we finally succeed in engineering a subspecies of humanity that is capable of surviving on the surface of Mars without asphyxiating horribly. With great fanfare, we send them over, only to have them all die of dehydration as soon as the initial water stores run out. A few survive beyond that time by drinking each others' urine, but even then things fall apart after the initial food stores run out and they start to eat each other.
When asked what the hell they were thinking, Earth officials shrugged their shoulders and responded, "We got so excited about creating our very own little green men that we forgot to take into account the fact that Mars is a completely barren planet." They went on to muse that before they try colonizing Mars again they should try and alter the planet's surface to be capable of supporting complex animal life forms.
They are really good at playing scientist. I mean, almost everything they said came from existing scientific theory, and they generally kept their concepts straight. They even listed references!
Granted, none of those references were related to actual citations, and they referneced entire newspapers rather than specific articles. And they mostly just supported the parts of concepts they liked without explaining why they didn't like the rest. But still, A for effort!
You're fresh out of college and applying to an entry-level job. If you give them a 3 page resume, you're going to be taken about as seriously as a guy whose shoulder says 'private' but whose chest is covered in badges and medals.
Make a one-page resume. Customize it to the particular job, and make it as easy to read as possible. The very first rule is to look at the template resumes that come with Microsoft Word and make sure that your resume looks nothing like any of them, because most of those are designed to be visually appealing, but aren't the easiest things to read.
Don't mention too much stuff - your resume is going to get scanned quickly, which means that the more you put on there, the more is going to not get read. Cut out the less important stuff to make sure that the stuff you want to be seen does get some eye time.
Most of all, know what you should be selling. If you're right out of college, don't get tricked into thinking you have skills, because from a company's point of view, you don't. All you have is potential.
The whole reason that we can even have something like popular music (or popular movies, or what have you) is that people's tastes tend to be fairly similar. Call it fashion, call it universal appeal, what it boils down to is that for any medium you can find certain elements that occur frequently in well-liked works of that medium. This observation doesn't seem particularly novel to me - it's an assumption that has to at least be implicitly accepted before you can lend any credibility to reviews, art/music schools and workshops, or mass media (such as the radio).
I'm more inclined to think of this site as a funny and insightful commentary on how you can take an entirely pedestrian meme and make it sound original and thought-provoking if you surround it with a proper arrangement of clever posturing and large words.
One thing that truly annoys me is the way that they encourage a cluttered desktop. Heck, Mac Land goes so far as to have the web browser put everything on the desktop by default.
In my dream world, files and directories don't go on the desktop. Files and directories go into file drawers that are accessible from the desktop. These let you organize tasks by putting things you use frequently in one space. Think of these as something like the drawers in your desk. They can be icons on the desktop just like how it's treated today, or they can be menus that pop out of the Dock, or whatever.
The desktop, on the other hand, is NOT a drawer. It is where you do your work, not where you store your huge piles of crap. Using drag and drop, dragging something to the desktop implies that you want to work with it.
The upshot is that one aspect of this perfect world is that when you're navigating the filesystem, clicking on directories opens them in the same window. When I'm navigating the filesystem, I just want to get to my destination, I don't want to have to deal with everything I passed through to get there. However, once I'm there, I drag the final folder to the desktop. Since this desktop is really a desktop and not a misnamed filing cabinet, the implication is that I want to work with this folder/directory. Voila - it opens the folder in a new window. I have now put the folder on my desk, and I can work with it. However, pulling a folder out of a filing cabinet IRL does not force the filing cabinet to close, which is why this final folder gets opened in a new window when I drag it to the desktop. The filing cabinet is still open for me to go find other folders, so to speak.
I want everyone who thinks this to go out and play the Mac version of Halo. Notice how amazingly slow it is. This isn't because PPC is a slow architecture - this is because the people who ported the program didn't pay attention to the underlying architecture they were porting to.
I'm not saying everyone has to be a hardcore assembly programmer, but I am saying understanding assembly and the underlying architecture on which you are developing software can make a huge difference. The fact of the matter is, an optimising compiler is not a magic bullet any more than anything else is a magic bullet. The optimiser is great for doing the real low-level instruction shifting type optimizations that a lot of people think are the real optimizations.
But the optimiser can't help you with poor data structure design, poor memory access patterns, or any other of a host of high-level decisions that still have a lot to do with architecture.
It's not about hand-optimised assembly anymore, anyway - at least, not if you're working on a beefy architecture with out-of-order execution and all that. But you still need to have a general idea of what kinds of things your particular computer does well and what kinds of things it drags ass on, otherwise you can still end up writing your own little version of Halo PPC.
You're mixing examples. In the first, we're talking about an interpreted language being written in a compiled language, and whether or not the interpreted language can still be faster.
You're talking about a program in an interpreted language that spits out machine code. It's kind of like pretending a horse riding a human is the same as a human riding a horse - although the same two animals are involved in both cases, the overall situation is completely different.
That said, I still say Perl is going to have a darned hard time being faster than C since it has to precompile the program every time it executes whereas a C executable is already in machine code. Not saying it can't happen, just saying a situations where it happens probably aren't all that common.
Considering that I frequently see people tailgating fuel tanker trucks, I don't think even a 6-inch spike would really have much of an affect on how people drive. I don't know about you, but I think that dying in a huge fireball sounds a lot worse than getting stabbed in the chest, and the inferno certainly isn't a deterrent.
Are you mods even reading the article? The entire cartoon guide works on a comparison between achoustic transmissions (rock concerts, conversations, etc.) and radio transmissions.
In that light, the poster's response is a perfectly valid critique of one of the assertions of this cartoon guide.
Don't go modding people "Offtopic" if you don't even know what the topic is!
So why not leave transmissions under a given wattage unregulated? This is okay on the FM band, and many people who want to use their MP3 players in their cars have found that to be very useful.
There is also clinical psychology. After a few years of my parents forcing me to go to various shrinks, my experience with clinical psychologists is that, in general, they are more interested in fashion than they are in the discoveries of their more research-oriented colleagues. This is why there are still Freudian analysts despite the fact that anyone with a vague understanding of logic and reason should be able to see all sorts of holes in Freudian thought, and why many therapists still use hypnosis to find "memories" even though research has shown that with hypnosis you are far more likely to implant a memory than to find a repressed one.
Psychiatrists are physicians who get to decide between pumping you full of mind-altering drugs (again, often according to fashion rather than reason) or tinkering blindly with your brain using techniques they learned from any one of myriad permutations on the "Dr. Phil" theme.
This isn't to say that all shrinks are quacks - after going through about 6 shrinks who didn't know what the hell they were doing, I finally did find one that helped me. You've gotta be careful, though - most psychologists and psychiatrists out there are using therapeutic techniques that were discredited long ago, or will only use their pet technique despite the fact that anyone who claims to study the mind should understand that different people think differently.
I'd like to think that at some point in the future this will go away as shrinks are held professionally accountable for their actions - that would make them care more about actually doing a good job. As it stands now, though, that isn't going to happen because the attitude most folks have (both within and outside of the profession) seems to be that if the patient gets better it is ALWAYS the psych's fault, and if the patient doesn't get better or gets worse it is NEVER the psych's fault.
An attitude which holds them to about the same level of accountability as faith healers, don't ya think?
I think what you meant to say was "They could as long as wind doesn't carry pollen from patented crops into their fields at any time of the day."
This is a serious problem. There are places where if a certain GM gene is found in a crop, all crops of that type in a given radius are burned in an effort to stop the spread of the gene. (The Terminator gene, for example.)
That site only talks about hydrogen fuel cells and gas-burning vehicles (including HEV's)
These are not the same as CEV's (commuter electric vehicles), which are sort of like golf carts on steroids.
Anyway, here's a source: http://www-cenerg.ensmp.fr/francais/themes/impact/ pdf/ElecVehicle(Funk&Rabl1999).pdf
The gist is that if you're talking about damage to a local area and not considering pollution where the CEV's electricity is generated, they barely justify themselves. (And yes, they do consume more energy per person per mile than a car (diesel or gasoline) with only one passenger.) It's harder to make conclusions after you count in pollution at the site of power generation and have them apply to the USA since France's power grid is much more nuclear-heavy.
The biggest problem with commuter electric vehicles is that most of them consume more energy per mile than an economy car with one occupant. Judging from the flames I've gotten in previous posts, I'll be conservative and say that this means that a Geo Metro or Toyota Echo or something will probably pollute less than your average CEV, depending on how your electricity is generated.
What would really work best is to carpool - never underestimate the gas/people ratio of a minivan full of 6-8 groggy people in business suits. It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper, too.
(This generally happens when I get a difficult call sometime around 4:55 in the afternoon.)
User: The thingie won't do that thing. Me: What version of are you running? User: Umm... I don't know. .. Me: There's a conflict between and older versions of that often causes problems like this. Try upgrading to the new version, which you can get from , and call me when you're done. If I'm not here, just send an e-mail to and I'll call you back in the morning.
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There are two kinds of graffiti. I'll call the first one 'artcrime' since I'm not sure what other people call it. The second is tagging.
Artcrime is where someone makes an effort to do something that is interesting or beautiful, or at least puts some love into the work. It may or may not be a tag. If it isn't a tag, then the artist would be fine with using a designated wall like this.
Taggers, on the other hand, just like to put their name on shit for whatever reason - territory marking or some sort of rush that comes from vandalizing things. These folks are not going to bother with a designated wall because using one of those entirely defeats the purpose of the graffiti for them.
So I guess it's not a big problem if the only folks that bother you are the artists. Me, I'm the other way around - I normally don't mind graffiti that's had some love put into it because there was love put into it, whereas tagging is the equivalent of making it known you were somewhere by ejaculating all over the place.
Fun tip: If you're using Mac OS X, you can switch the whole screen to white on black by hitting ctrl-option-splat-8.
If your fluorescent bulbs are a problem, it's because you bought the cheapest ones you could find. Modern fluorescent light bulbs are no longer a problem for flicker, and you can even get ones that put out a warmer light that I think is even better than incandescent (it's closer to sunlight).
If cost is a factor on buying cheap fluorescents, consider that spending 50% more on that fluorescent bulb really isn't that much considering how long they last - in fact, it's probably even cheaper in the long run since higher quality fluorescent bulbs last so much longer than the cheap ones. That aside, it's still a hell of a lot cheaper than incandescent bulbs, too.
much more likely is to have even 1% of people work hard at only buying CDs from truly non-RIAA music labels. This could hopefully create a snowball effect that increases both the popularity and economic power of music publishers outside the cartel.
Once the RIAA has real competition, they won't be able to throw their weight around quite so easily. Heck, they might even be rendered irrelevant, which I'm sure would be a wet dream for everyone but a few dickhead billionaires.
Windows '98. Windows '98SE. Windows ME.
How are these not charging money for 'service packs'? They were about the same (less, in my opinion) level of refinement over the previous version as different versions of OS X, and cost 3 times as much.
Just because Apple releases small point upgrades rather than gunnysacking them for a while to put together huge "Service packs" doesn't mean Apple doesn't give its users some free upgrades.
This is really biting Apple in the ass that they are changing only the minor number on each version of OS X. I like it better, but it really does seem to be easier to keep the drones complacent if you instead change a number (or set of letters) that has no relation to anything in particular the way Microsoft, Intel, and AMD have been doing lately.
Start making car stereos have a damn 3.5mm stereo jack somewhere on the front of the unit. There are so many different mp3 devices nowadays, and the last thing I want is more custom shit that locks me into brands or punishes me for not using the same thing as everyone else. Give me a standard way to plug my mp3 player into my stereo without having to fight with every FM radio station in a 30 mile radius or take my dash halfway apart and buy a $70 adapter so I can attatch a pig-tail to the back of my stereo.
(And no, I'm not hating on cool iPod stuff. I have an iPod. But I still don't want a slot-loading iPod incase my next mp3 player is not an iPod or incase Apple changes the size/shape of the iPod yet again (they will - WWDC is coming soon). )
Man, there needs to be a way to identify independent labels. I can't for the life of me find a site that lists truly independent labels or artists on truly indie labels, and most the ones that claim to be independent are really just peons of Columbia House or Sony or some such.
The biggest roadblock I find when I am encouraging people to stick with independent labels and artists is that when they ask me how to know what is independent, I have to shrug my shoulders and tell them it takes a huge pile of research.
I've heard the suggestion of having an association of independent labels, but that sounds like a good way to end up with two RIAAs to me. (Double your evil, double your fun!) Maybe if there were an organization that trademarked a logo that labels could put on their CD and aggressively enforced that only indie labels could use that logo.
Also very handy if you replace that desktop with a laptop or some such.
I can see the scenario right now: After hundreds of years of tweaking, we finally succeed in engineering a subspecies of humanity that is capable of surviving on the surface of Mars without asphyxiating horribly. With great fanfare, we send them over, only to have them all die of dehydration as soon as the initial water stores run out. A few survive beyond that time by drinking each others' urine, but even then things fall apart after the initial food stores run out and they start to eat each other.
When asked what the hell they were thinking, Earth officials shrugged their shoulders and responded, "We got so excited about creating our very own little green men that we forgot to take into account the fact that Mars is a completely barren planet." They went on to muse that before they try colonizing Mars again they should try and alter the planet's surface to be capable of supporting complex animal life forms.
They are really good at playing scientist. I mean, almost everything they said came from existing scientific theory, and they generally kept their concepts straight. They even listed references!
Granted, none of those references were related to actual citations, and they referneced entire newspapers rather than specific articles. And they mostly just supported the parts of concepts they liked without explaining why they didn't like the rest. But still, A for effort!
You're fresh out of college and applying to an entry-level job. If you give them a 3 page resume, you're going to be taken about as seriously as a guy whose shoulder says 'private' but whose chest is covered in badges and medals.
Make a one-page resume. Customize it to the particular job, and make it as easy to read as possible. The very first rule is to look at the template resumes that come with Microsoft Word and make sure that your resume looks nothing like any of them, because most of those are designed to be visually appealing, but aren't the easiest things to read.
Don't mention too much stuff - your resume is going to get scanned quickly, which means that the more you put on there, the more is going to not get read. Cut out the less important stuff to make sure that the stuff you want to be seen does get some eye time.
Most of all, know what you should be selling. If you're right out of college, don't get tricked into thinking you have skills, because from a company's point of view, you don't. All you have is potential.
The whole reason that we can even have something like popular music (or popular movies, or what have you) is that people's tastes tend to be fairly similar. Call it fashion, call it universal appeal, what it boils down to is that for any medium you can find certain elements that occur frequently in well-liked works of that medium. This observation doesn't seem particularly novel to me - it's an assumption that has to at least be implicitly accepted before you can lend any credibility to reviews, art/music schools and workshops, or mass media (such as the radio).
I'm more inclined to think of this site as a funny and insightful commentary on how you can take an entirely pedestrian meme and make it sound original and thought-provoking if you surround it with a proper arrangement of clever posturing and large words.
Organize the friggin' desktop.
One thing that truly annoys me is the way that they encourage a cluttered desktop. Heck, Mac Land goes so far as to have the web browser put everything on the desktop by default.
In my dream world, files and directories don't go on the desktop. Files and directories go into file drawers that are accessible from the desktop. These let you organize tasks by putting things you use frequently in one space. Think of these as something like the drawers in your desk. They can be icons on the desktop just like how it's treated today, or they can be menus that pop out of the Dock, or whatever.
The desktop, on the other hand, is NOT a drawer. It is where you do your work, not where you store your huge piles of crap. Using drag and drop, dragging something to the desktop implies that you want to work with it.
The upshot is that one aspect of this perfect world is that when you're navigating the filesystem, clicking on directories opens them in the same window. When I'm navigating the filesystem, I just want to get to my destination, I don't want to have to deal with everything I passed through to get there. However, once I'm there, I drag the final folder to the desktop. Since this desktop is really a desktop and not a misnamed filing cabinet, the implication is that I want to work with this folder/directory. Voila - it opens the folder in a new window. I have now put the folder on my desk, and I can work with it. However, pulling a folder out of a filing cabinet IRL does not force the filing cabinet to close, which is why this final folder gets opened in a new window when I drag it to the desktop. The filing cabinet is still open for me to go find other folders, so to speak.
I want everyone who thinks this to go out and play the Mac version of Halo. Notice how amazingly slow it is. This isn't because PPC is a slow architecture - this is because the people who ported the program didn't pay attention to the underlying architecture they were porting to.
I'm not saying everyone has to be a hardcore assembly programmer, but I am saying understanding assembly and the underlying architecture on which you are developing software can make a huge difference. The fact of the matter is, an optimising compiler is not a magic bullet any more than anything else is a magic bullet. The optimiser is great for doing the real low-level instruction shifting type optimizations that a lot of people think are the real optimizations.
But the optimiser can't help you with poor data structure design, poor memory access patterns, or any other of a host of high-level decisions that still have a lot to do with architecture.
It's not about hand-optimised assembly anymore, anyway - at least, not if you're working on a beefy architecture with out-of-order execution and all that. But you still need to have a general idea of what kinds of things your particular computer does well and what kinds of things it drags ass on, otherwise you can still end up writing your own little version of Halo PPC.
You're mixing examples. In the first, we're talking about an interpreted language being written in a compiled language, and whether or not the interpreted language can still be faster.
You're talking about a program in an interpreted language that spits out machine code. It's kind of like pretending a horse riding a human is the same as a human riding a horse - although the same two animals are involved in both cases, the overall situation is completely different.
That said, I still say Perl is going to have a darned hard time being faster than C since it has to precompile the program every time it executes whereas a C executable is already in machine code. Not saying it can't happen, just saying a situations where it happens probably aren't all that common.
Considering that I frequently see people tailgating fuel tanker trucks, I don't think even a 6-inch spike would really have much of an affect on how people drive. I don't know about you, but I think that dying in a huge fireball sounds a lot worse than getting stabbed in the chest, and the inferno certainly isn't a deterrent.
Are you mods even reading the article? The entire cartoon guide works on a comparison between achoustic transmissions (rock concerts, conversations, etc.) and radio transmissions.
In that light, the poster's response is a perfectly valid critique of one of the assertions of this cartoon guide.
Don't go modding people "Offtopic" if you don't even know what the topic is!
So why not leave transmissions under a given wattage unregulated? This is okay on the FM band, and many people who want to use their MP3 players in their cars have found that to be very useful.
What you're probably really looking for is an X Server (X clients are the applications that use X to display graphics).
A google search for "X Server PocketPC" gives me this site, which lists a WinCE port of a XFree86.
Alternatively, you could use a VNC, which would be more useful for OS X if you were wanting access to Aqua applications, too.
(No clue how well either of these work; I'm a PalmOS guy.)
Don't forget that you're getting much lower emissions, too.
Psychology can be the study of behavior.
There is also clinical psychology. After a few years of my parents forcing me to go to various shrinks, my experience with clinical psychologists is that, in general, they are more interested in fashion than they are in the discoveries of their more research-oriented colleagues. This is why there are still Freudian analysts despite the fact that anyone with a vague understanding of logic and reason should be able to see all sorts of holes in Freudian thought, and why many therapists still use hypnosis to find "memories" even though research has shown that with hypnosis you are far more likely to implant a memory than to find a repressed one.
Psychiatrists are physicians who get to decide between pumping you full of mind-altering drugs (again, often according to fashion rather than reason) or tinkering blindly with your brain using techniques they learned from any one of myriad permutations on the "Dr. Phil" theme.
This isn't to say that all shrinks are quacks - after going through about 6 shrinks who didn't know what the hell they were doing, I finally did find one that helped me. You've gotta be careful, though - most psychologists and psychiatrists out there are using therapeutic techniques that were discredited long ago, or will only use their pet technique despite the fact that anyone who claims to study the mind should understand that different people think differently.
I'd like to think that at some point in the future this will go away as shrinks are held professionally accountable for their actions - that would make them care more about actually doing a good job. As it stands now, though, that isn't going to happen because the attitude most folks have (both within and outside of the profession) seems to be that if the patient gets better it is ALWAYS the psych's fault, and if the patient doesn't get better or gets worse it is NEVER the psych's fault.
An attitude which holds them to about the same level of accountability as faith healers, don't ya think?
I think what you meant to say was "They could as long as wind doesn't carry pollen from patented crops into their fields at any time of the day."
This is a serious problem. There are places where if a certain GM gene is found in a crop, all crops of that type in a given radius are burned in an effort to stop the spread of the gene. (The Terminator gene, for example.)
That site only talks about hydrogen fuel cells and gas-burning vehicles (including HEV's)
/ pdf/ElecVehicle(Funk&Rabl1999).pdf
These are not the same as CEV's (commuter electric vehicles), which are sort of like golf carts on steroids.
Anyway, here's a source: http://www-cenerg.ensmp.fr/francais/themes/impact
The gist is that if you're talking about damage to a local area and not considering pollution where the CEV's electricity is generated, they barely justify themselves. (And yes, they do consume more energy per person per mile than a car (diesel or gasoline) with only one passenger.) It's harder to make conclusions after you count in pollution at the site of power generation and have them apply to the USA since France's power grid is much more nuclear-heavy.
The biggest problem with commuter electric vehicles is that most of them consume more energy per mile than an economy car with one occupant. Judging from the flames I've gotten in previous posts, I'll be conservative and say that this means that a Geo Metro or Toyota Echo or something will probably pollute less than your average CEV, depending on how your electricity is generated.
What would really work best is to carpool - never underestimate the gas/people ratio of a minivan full of 6-8 groggy people in business suits. It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper, too.
(This generally happens when I get a difficult call sometime around 4:55 in the afternoon.)
.. I don't know. . .
User: The thingie won't do that thing.
Me: What version of are you running?
User: Umm.
Me: There's a conflict between and older versions of that often causes problems like this. Try upgrading to the new version, which you can get from , and call me when you're done. If I'm not here, just send an e-mail to and I'll call you back in the morning.