My bad - only added up the numbers for 2014 and 2015. The actual overall total since 2011 would be 74,266 which equates to 20k$/vehicle (again, assuming that the initial number of 1.5bn$ total subsidies is correct - that sounds awfully large!). And, that number will continue to fall
According to http://insideevs.com/monthly-p... that number is currently 20,040 (which - assuming the total amount for subsidies is correct - would amount to about 75k$/vehicle sold)
Is the promised CarPlay support for older Volt models coming any time or has this been completely dropped and will only be supported on the upcoming Gen 2 Volt?
My understanding is that Apple now approves most apps in a few days.
Your understanding from personal experience, from Apple's official stance, or from what you hear from a few developers?
It seems as if Apple can decide to block an application without actually rejecting it (in order to keep the FCC of their tails) - I'm currently on day 63 "In Review" with an app which I now consider (unofficially) rejected by Apple
COX has started doing this as well a few weeks ago - the sad thing is that technical support doesn't have a clue about this - when I complained to them they told me how to setup IE in Windows in their boiler-plate message...
Re:Been there, done that, have the scars to prove
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Not sure I understand your issues here (talking only about Eudora Mailbox Cleaner as I have very limited knowledge about Eudora Rescue):
[...] They're good, and allowed moving more of Eudora's quirky statuses and settings to Tbird - but they didn't (and really, couldn't) help to get around the bugs in the importer
using EMC you don't need to use the TB importer at all so none of its bug should matter
Tbird import silently drops any file from consideration for importing if it doesn't have an _exact_ file type of 'TEXT' - even though it also checks, seemingly, to make sure the first four bytes of the file are _exactly_ the string 'From'. Why the need for this belt-and-braces set of tests for what is, after all, and importer function - something that should be as expansive and forgiving as possible?
Agreed, checking for file type is stupid (and I believe deprecated in OSX) - the check for "From" does make sense however (it should allow for empty lines before the "From" though as this happens in Eudora) - otherwise you would try to import random text files (e.g., attachments Eudora removed in the first place).
Line-ending characters. Parts of the importer seem happy with DOS line endings - but other parts choke if they find a DOS line-end (x0D0A) or Unix (x0D only) end. How hard is it to have a "get next line" routine that handles this correctly?
EMC has that and handles all mailboxes regardless of EOLs correctly (even mixed EOLs - Eudora does some interesting things...)
my quick fix: use "find" and "flip" to convert all mailbox files to Mac-style line-endings.
Which of course invalidates the TOC as the message start offsets are now no longer correct (mbox size changes when changing from CRLF to CR EOL)
High-order characters. If the importer _does_ finally find what it thinks is a mailbox, and gets past the line ending problem, but encounters (seemingly) ANY high-order characters in the mail file, it stops importing the message and skips to the next one, silently truncating it. Unfortunately, characters like x93/x94 (beginning and ending curly quote marks) are really, really popular in HTML-ized mail. So you end up with Swiss cheese for an imported mail store if you've got anything other than old vanilla plain-text email to import.
There are actually tons of other issues with high bit characters - Eudora re-encodes the messages (using different encoding tables for different platforms!) which results in the actual message encoding not being what is mentioned in the message headers - I have to assume that TB barfs due to that and just gives up (stupid solution). Again, EMC will properly recover and re-encode your high-bit characters correctly (unless you changed the EOL characters manually so that it can no longer figure out which platform's encoding tables to use).
My point isn't that these solutions, in my case, were that hard. But figuring out what was wrong, and implementing them, took huge amounts of time and patience.
Agreed - but then, you wouldn't have to go trough any of this when using EMC - it will correctly import your un-altered Eudora mailboxes (Windows, Mac, as well as the Japanese Mac version!) to TB while exhibiting none of the problems you describe (and manually tried to solve) above. It will even solve additional issues for you (like proper recovery of missing "Date" headers for outgoing messages based on the information in the TCO - again, this only works as long as you don't manually alter the mailboxes and thus invalidate the TOC).
Re:Well, it kind of shows in the code...
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If you are still in midst of this conversion, you should take a look at Eudora Mailbox Cleaner - it can do the conversion for you and should give much better results than TB's own import.
[...] It cost me tax money to put him on the next airplane out [...] Not true - if you get sent packing at immigration you will have to pay for your own ticket back - and of course pay the premium because you have to buy a last-minute ticket...
[...] the suggestion in the referenced post is under consideration
You really need more than three months to consider that sending out random login names to customers is not a good idea? (I don't object to receiving my own username but I have issues with the fact that my username is being sent to other users as well!)
Sorry, but that answer is simply ridiculous and does not provide confidence in your overall security practices as well as the claims of an isolated incident!
It is very scary to see how much value Intuit seems to put to customer's data and how much they learn from past mistakes...
On January 6th this year I received an email from TurboTax Online with the subject "TurboTax User ID Enclosed: Online Products Now Available!"
Problem being that - in addition to my UserID - it also contained two other (seemingly random) UserID including a live link to their login pages. I tried to be nice and alert them of their security problem but it was not easy. After hunting through the website for a feedback/support link I could only find an online chat with one of their support people. It took me close to an hour to tell her about the problem (it somehow didn't seem to fit into her questionnaire flow chart...) and she promised that she would pass the information on to the tech department and that they would get back to me (yeah, right!). I also asked her repeatedly to delete my account including all data and she said it couldn't be done and that I wouldn't have anything to worry about as the data would be safe on their servers - apparently not.
Guess I should have been a little more aggressive and tell some news outlet about the problem than thinking that their internal procedures and security audits would be sufficient without additional pressure. I decided after that email to never again use the online TurboTax version (I never actually filed from it before as it was a little too limited) and looks like I made a smart choice.
Dashboard widgets run using html and javascript, no native code
You can use native code within Dashboard widgets by compiling them as a bundle and including them in the widget - search for "Custom Code Plug-Ins" towards the bottom of the Dashboard Developer Note
It also doesn't work with the old version - since Eudora detaches attachments, storing them on your filesystem and having only a text link in the original message pointing to the attachment. If the attachment's file name is longer than 32 chars, this text link will use an abbreviated file name which contains the node id of the file on the file system (at least it does so on the Mac) - try moving that to a new HD/system...
Didn't know that there is a varying number of "S" - I've only seen (on my boarding passes) the "SSSS" (which seems to stand for Super Special Strip Search) - if it would denote the number of flags I set off, shouldn't I have it on each leg of my flight (or at least the first leg each way) and not always the same number of "S"?
The nice ticketing agent here actually told me the first time I got a "SSSS" ticket that "you've got the lucky ticket" so the surprise was rather small at the security checkpoint (the TSA guy didn't think that it was too funny though). Being nice to the guy and talking to him during the inspection also seemed to have the effect that he wanted it to be over with more quickly - the check wasn't all that thorough... Even worse when I got the special treatment at LAX (as I missed my connecting flight after arriving from the UK since the immigration people didn't know how to read their own paperwork...) - the TSA people were bored out of there minds and forgot to actually look at my bags (which is only slightly better than the security guy sleeping in front of the Xray machine at the security checkpoint)
The H-1B visa is valid for only three years and can be extended only once (at least working for the same company - you might be able to start the whole process over from scratch for a different company). And yes, I know some people who had to leave the country as their H-1B expired.
Not counting the DNA part, all legal aliens here in the US already have the "pleasure" to have their fingerprints in such a database:
- if you are entering on a non-work or temporary working visa you will have to leave two of your fingerprints at the point of entry (the program is called US VISIT and was incorporated about 1/1/2004) - every time you enter - if you are a permanent resident, you will give them all ten of your fingerprints - one of them is even displayed on your Green Card (and yes, I know that probably no employer will ever check for a match here...)
I guess the smarter way of going about this would be to either create tamper-proof SSN cards (the Green Cards a very impressive and I think it would be very hard to fake one) or ID cards (just with your name in pic - shouldn't be that much different from a driver's license)
Not sure about other states but I believe that you will have to give one fingerprint in order to receive a driving license...
I can't imagine it's that hard to recompile a native x86 version of Firefox on MacOS X
That part might not be too hard. The problem is that you cannot mix environments (native/emulated) between an application and its plug-ins. Until all the plug-ins are also updated to be universal, running Firefox in non-Rosetta will most probably not be a pleasant experience.
The same problem apparently plagues Safari as well, due to some plugins not being fully up-to-date, running under Rosetta might be a better choice for a while...
At least your subjects make sense - here is a sample of the last few I got:
see homophobia, Brew but iron The finish a clansman pothead Re: It swim the mangrove on Barth, may coney An fall it fearful zippy on break he steamboat I just found out about her. megalomania mantic Re: in do no bedside effectiveness
But then, maybe I am just too stupid to understand all the great things I am missing due to my spam filter...
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My bad - only added up the numbers for 2014 and 2015. The actual overall total since 2011 would be 74,266 which equates to 20k$/vehicle (again, assuming that the initial number of 1.5bn$ total subsidies is correct - that sounds awfully large!). And, that number will continue to fall
According to http://insideevs.com/monthly-p... that number is currently 20,040 (which - assuming the total amount for subsidies is correct - would amount to about 75k$/vehicle sold)
Is the promised CarPlay support for older Volt models coming any time or has this been completely dropped and will only be supported on the upcoming Gen 2 Volt?
Contacted developer support multiple times - only get back "we are still reviewing it"
My understanding is that Apple now approves most apps in a few days.
Your understanding from personal experience, from Apple's official stance, or from what you hear from a few developers?
It seems as if Apple can decide to block an application without actually rejecting it (in order to keep the FCC of their tails) - I'm currently on day 63 "In Review" with an app which I now consider (unofficially) rejected by Apple
COX has started doing this as well a few weeks ago - the sad thing is that technical support doesn't have a clue about this - when I complained to them they told me how to setup IE in Windows in their boiler-plate message...
If you are still in midst of this conversion, you should take a look at Eudora Mailbox Cleaner - it can do the conversion for you and should give much better results than TB's own import.
Sorry, but that answer is simply ridiculous and does not provide confidence in your overall security practices as well as the claims of an isolated incident!
It is very scary to see how much value Intuit seems to put to customer's data and how much they learn from past mistakes...
On January 6th this year I received an email from TurboTax Online with the subject
"TurboTax User ID Enclosed: Online Products Now Available!"
Problem being that - in addition to my UserID - it also contained two other (seemingly random) UserID including a live link to their login pages. I tried to be nice and alert them of their security problem but it was not easy. After hunting through the website for a feedback/support link I could only find an online chat with one of their support people. It took me close to an hour to tell her about the problem (it somehow didn't seem to fit into her questionnaire flow chart...) and she promised that she would pass the information on to the tech department and that they would get back to me (yeah, right!). I also asked her repeatedly to delete my account including all data and she said it couldn't be done and that I wouldn't have anything to worry about as the data would be safe on their servers - apparently not.
Guess I should have been a little more aggressive and tell some news outlet about the problem than thinking that their internal procedures and security audits would be sufficient without additional pressure. I decided after that email to never again use the online TurboTax version (I never actually filed from it before as it was a little too limited) and looks like I made a smart choice.
It also doesn't work with the old version - since Eudora detaches attachments, storing them on your filesystem and having only a text link in the original message pointing to the attachment. If the attachment's file name is longer than 32 chars, this text link will use an abbreviated file name which contains the node id of the file on the file system (at least it does so on the Mac) - try moving that to a new HD/system...
Didn't know that there is a varying number of "S" - I've only seen (on my boarding passes) the "SSSS" (which seems to stand for Super Special Strip Search) - if it would denote the number of flags I set off, shouldn't I have it on each leg of my flight (or at least the first leg each way) and not always the same number of "S"?
The nice ticketing agent here actually told me the first time I got a "SSSS" ticket that "you've got the lucky ticket" so the surprise was rather small at the security checkpoint (the TSA guy didn't think that it was too funny though). Being nice to the guy and talking to him during the inspection also seemed to have the effect that he wanted it to be over with more quickly - the check wasn't all that thorough... Even worse when I got the special treatment at LAX (as I missed my connecting flight after arriving from the UK since the immigration people didn't know how to read their own paperwork...) - the TSA people were bored out of there minds and forgot to actually look at my bags (which is only slightly better than the security guy sleeping in front of the Xray machine at the security checkpoint)
The H-1B visa is valid for only three years and can be extended only once (at least working for the same company - you might be able to start the whole process over from scratch for a different company). And yes, I know some people who had to leave the country as their H-1B expired.
Not counting the DNA part, all legal aliens here in the US already have the "pleasure" to have their fingerprints in such a database:
- if you are entering on a non-work or temporary working visa you will have to leave two of your fingerprints at the point of entry (the program is called US VISIT and was incorporated about 1/1/2004) - every time you enter
- if you are a permanent resident, you will give them all ten of your fingerprints - one of them is even displayed on your Green Card (and yes, I know that probably no employer will ever check for a match here...)
I guess the smarter way of going about this would be to either create tamper-proof SSN cards (the Green Cards a very impressive and I think it would be very hard to fake one) or ID cards (just with your name in pic - shouldn't be that much different from a driver's license)
Not sure about other states but I believe that you will have to give one fingerprint in order to receive a driving license...
Prepend with zeroes - works like a charm (and your local post office won't mind from my experience)
That part might not be too hard. The problem is that you cannot mix environments (native/emulated) between an application and its plug-ins. Until all the plug-ins are also updated to be universal, running Firefox in non-Rosetta will most probably not be a pleasant experience.
The same problem apparently plagues Safari as well, due to some plugins not being fully up-to-date, running under Rosetta might be a better choice for a while...
see homophobia, Brew but iron
The finish a clansman pothead
Re: It swim the mangrove
on Barth, may coney
An fall it fearful zippy
on break he steamboat
I just found out about her. megalomania mantic
Re: in do no bedside effectiveness
But then, maybe I am just too stupid to understand all the great things I am missing due to my spam filter...
SwitchProxy still works fine for me (RC2, WinXP)
Haven't we heard this already half a year ago? http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/02/174 9200