Makes one wonder what management was smoking to make them resistant to improved productivity.
Or what they weren't smoking, perhaps. People often have their own agendas that don't necessarily involve what's best for the company. If manager X could get a few more heads by not automating stuff, more power to him and his career.
I believe the Peugeot/Citroen HDi (common rail + direct injection) engines are more economical than Volkswagen's. This is reflected in the 2002 in Australia a Peugeot 406 diesel covered the 2,348 km from Melbourne to Rockhampton on a tank under strict Guinness conditions (and still had a litre left over).
Peugeot have been using this technology in its cars since 1998, and are now developing it with Ford who use it in their TDCi cars.
The Peugeot 406 HDi did 2348 km on a single tank of fuel in 2002, achieving an average of 126 miles per gallon. It puts other diesel engines and even hybrids to shame.
My 1996 306 turbo diesel gives ~45 mpg under normal driving and is tuned to ~115 bhp. I'm quite heavy footed too. Figures like this don't make the hybrids look so good.
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I love cookbooks because they show you creative ways to use the library to solve real problems. The code snippets given get you up and running with a library almost immediately, as you have a working piece of code to use as a starting point for solving your own problem. Contrast that with writing code against a new library from scratch and you'll find a great learning aid and time saver.
If I want to read the API docs, I'll go to the Jakarta Commons website and read them. I don't want to waste money and trees on API docs used to pad out a book!
I haven't read the Jakarta Commons Cookbook yet, but it's on my reading list.
The HL DVD was actually imported from Spain! It just shows how much markup there is on games and such here in the UK. I bought it from a market in Toluca, where they sell mostly copied games, but some legitimate ones too. I bought a copy of another game which was very cheap. I do know what you mean by dnagerous, I have been to markets in Mexico city. I've never had any trouble yet, but I'm always on the lookout for potential problems.
I live in UK and before arriving here I thought I would find cheaper CD's than in my country (I am from Mexico)
I'm british and my wife is Mexican so I go there quite a lot. The only CDs I've ever bought in Mexico are bootlegged ones from 5-20 pesos each depending on the quality. They are sold in most markets. Perhaps I've never found un-bootlegged versions to compare the price too, but a genuine Half Life 3 DVD I bought was about 300 pesos or £15, about half the price of here in the UK.
Take the current fad for "Playskool" interfaces. . ..please.
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I wasn't talking about computers.
In that case would you care to explain what you mean by ""Playskool" interfaces" just in case people have no idea what you're talking about, unlikely though it may be.
Playskool interfaces are great because they're what computer illiterate users want. The guy who specalises in playskool interfaces can design them, leaving the quirky-developer-genius to write his/her own more wacky interface.
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And I suppose using IE with rdesktop because some poeple some web stuff doesn't work in FireFox is also out.
The should have used radio shield paint instead.
Many new European diesel cars have Particle Filter systems built in.
I believe the Peugeot/Citroen HDi (common rail + direct injection) engines are more economical than Volkswagen's. This is reflected in the 2002 in Australia a Peugeot 406 diesel covered the 2,348 km from Melbourne to Rockhampton on a tank under strict Guinness conditions (and still had a litre left over).
Peugeot have been using this technology in its cars since 1998, and are now developing it with Ford who use it in their TDCi cars.
The Peugeot 406 HDi did 2348 km on a single tank of fuel in 2002, achieving an average of 126 miles per gallon. It puts other diesel engines and even hybrids to shame.
My 1996 306 turbo diesel gives ~45 mpg under normal driving and is tuned to ~115 bhp. I'm quite heavy footed too. Figures like this don't make the hybrids look so good.
I love cookbooks because they show you creative ways to use the library to solve real problems. The code snippets given get you up and running with a library almost immediately, as you have a working piece of code to use as a starting point for solving your own problem. Contrast that with writing code against a new library from scratch and you'll find a great learning aid and time saver.
If I want to read the API docs, I'll go to the Jakarta Commons website and read them. I don't want to waste money and trees on API docs used to pad out a book!
I haven't read the Jakarta Commons Cookbook yet, but it's on my reading list.
The HL DVD was actually imported from Spain! It just shows how much markup there is on games and such here in the UK. I bought it from a market in Toluca, where they sell mostly copied games, but some legitimate ones too. I bought a copy of another game which was very cheap. I do know what you mean by dnagerous, I have been to markets in Mexico city. I've never had any trouble yet, but I'm always on the lookout for potential problems.
I'm british and my wife is Mexican so I go there quite a lot. The only CDs I've ever bought in Mexico are bootlegged ones from 5-20 pesos each depending on the quality. They are sold in most markets. Perhaps I've never found un-bootlegged versions to compare the price too, but a genuine Half Life 3 DVD I bought was about 300 pesos or £15, about half the price of here in the UK.
I said *no* geeks, please.
Playskool interfaces are great because they're what computer illiterate users want. The guy who specalises in playskool interfaces can design them, leaving the quirky-developer-genius to write his/her own more wacky interface.
Is there such a thing? Where can I get some open source spyware? I'd hate to miss out on all the fun.
Meet up in my pants, every wednesday. Hot chicks invited! No nerds, please.