They are not concerned about the TDI specifically. It is reliability and cost of ownership across the brand that kncoks it down. ( in the recent speciall all auto issue they did say that if it wheren't for reliabilty issues, VW probbaly would be eaily the top car brand).
As an owner of a 2002 VW Passat Wagon ( with a 1.8 turbo engine, manual stick) that I have driven 70,000 miles, I concur with their asessment. It is the first car I have owned that is designed to wear out. Every 30K miles one has to replace the rear brake rotors, every 60K miles the front rotors. I just had to have the clutch replaced - worn out after 70,000 miles!
In contrast I have driven 2 other manual cars 150,000+ miles and never had to replace clutches nor brake rotors.
I haven't had the issue others seem to have with the engine, particularly the 1.8t. Since the beginning the dealer has only put in synthetic oil - so no sludging issues for me.
And to get back on the article's topic - the gas mileage for me has been pretty close to the listed mileage ( 22/31). On extended highway trips with the family (2 adults, a tween, and a now 4 year old and luggage). I get just over 29mpg over a 400 mile mostly interestate trip. And that is with a cruising speed of about 80mph all the way. On the way back I usually only get about 28mpg, and often the return trip is also slower.
Mixed driving ( my 7 mile drive to work, 3-4 lights) seems to yield between 25-26mpg, just about what is expected.
I am already starting to eye new cars - and right now Hondas in general are really the only ones that appeal to me in terms of relaibilty and Hybrids. Though it would probably be a bit small for the family the Honda Civic Hybrids seem to fit my bill. The Accord Hybrid may be a bit pricey for me..
What do we expect Microsoft to do? Document standards, in my opinion, are the lynch pin of their entire dominance. Move to open file standards and they are in deep trouble.
Agreed.
The other aspect is the.Net "protocol". IMO,.Net under Vista will do more than anything else so far to drive a wedge between Windows applications development and linux development, wheter for "rich" or thin clients.
The insidiousness of this is that this will trickle down from major corporations to medium sized business as more and more proprietary and/or in house development will demand.Net in either feature set or in the guise of security. If we think that the office document format is vendor lock in ( or even Outlook/exchange combo), just wait until.Net becomes ubiquitous. Then we will really be talking about vendor lock in.
And unfortunately no, Mono does not live up to the challenge, even if there where no potential legal clouds.
So, is this service really providing a service when the teachers spend so much time trying to detrmine plagiarism rather than reading what the student is writing?
I suppose it all relates to class size. If you only have 20 students in a class, and 4 classes to teach it still would be pretty obvious if something might be amiss in the paper vis-a-vis a particular student's ability.
When classes are in the 50s and 100s such discrepancies may not be apparent, but it sounds one would still spend an inordinate amount of time checking through turnitin.coms comments.
In either case, it seems to me that the way the turnitin.com functions now is very inefficient.
I think you misunderstand what marketing is. You Market ( advertise ) to create a demand.
Once a brand or demand is established, you market to maintain market share.
"I was simply saying that the people arguing for ODF to win were not some kind of benevolent entity with only the interests of the people in mind."
Hmm do you have some kind of proof of that? Who and what organization would stand to gain from ODF? The only organization I see that would gain would be "We, the people".
My dad used to watch me play strategic and tactical board war games ( Rise and fall of the 3rd reich, ASL, etc) in the 80s and asked soem interesting questions and was bemused. He worked for Westinghouse's air and space defence at the time and logistics was obviously a big issue.
Apparently some of the guys at Westinghouse either developed or had a game developed that played out war scenarios in terms of logistics. I think it may have been called Logistics Command.
they key point is the formatting of a floppy. Try that and anything else and your system reponse goes awry.
Sure I can do everything else simultaneous in that scenario, but once i start formatting the floppy, things get pretty unresponsive - very noticeably so.
And true, I havent tried to simultaneously play back 12-14 videos on XP2 recently - but back when we played with BeOS on a PIII 450 we accomplished that task without frame drops.
On top of the multi-tasking, i can get my windows machine pretty unresponsive by running a few large applciations, closing one and starting another one. The poor memory management alone guarantees that. watching with task manager, there is plenty of physical memory left - windows just doesnt utilize it well. True, here at work i only have 512Mb RAM, at home i have 1.5 GB, and at home I don't quite have that same issue in the same scenario when it comes to memory management.
But that floppy formatting used to bring it to its knees to. Not that that is much of an issue these days, no more floppy drive on my home machine and I do not use the floppy at work.
The scenario I described, as you may have surmised, is from quite a few years back - a review of OS/2.
I used to replicate the scenario on every new release of windows, sicne XP first came out I only try the floppy formatting part and see what happens when I try to open any number of editors or wordprocessors and actualy try typing a sentence or 2.
scenario.
Just a decent OS like OS/2 or BeOS.
The best write up of OS/2 I ever saw talked about being able to compile an application, format a floppy and perform local database queries all at the same time and still be able to edit a column with no response issues.
No multi core required.
BeOS coudl do the same with many, many video playing back muliptle video streams simutlaneously. Again no multi core.
I still can't do that in Windows without running into issues.
Precident? Not sure if you understand copyright if you dont know that the word is precedent. Since you emphasized the word, one cannot accept the excuse of a typo.
Of course as you point out, they have the ability to link the information. We are talking about advertisers and publishers here. How much time do you think will pass before one will want to have accountability from the other and viewers of ads will be identified?
When i heard about this story on NPR a few weeks ago, i was shaking my head...
OF course one of the aspects brought up was the appropriateness of current company advertising in futrue evnet games - or even fantasy games. Talk about taking you out of suspension of disbelief!
Of course a business magazine article 10 years ago already had a good point regarding customers and runnint a business. If the customer is always right, your compnay will not be in business long. As others have mentioned - it really depends on the customer and the size of that customer.
The credit card information for purchases is not supposed to be stored according to what I have been told.
That is why I never ever let companies have access to my bank account or credit cards for recurring charges. I pay recurring charges electroncically from the bank. I think that letting companies take money automatically from one's own account is rather risky since the companies would need to store that info. These breaches certainly don't allay that fear.
It is true, the bank's security could be breached as well, but at least there is only one place from where information can be taken rather than 10's of places.
for me eihter. I get:
"Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service you must use Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, which supports certain technologies we utilize for downloading movies. Click here to get the latest version of Internet Explorer.
We do not support Mozilla or Netscape. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."
Of course I use Opera ( 9.0) but have turned off activeX support. Not platform issue at all. Safari could support ActiveX as well, but whould they?
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Yeah, that price escalation is the problem with the Accord (and the Camry).
Your comment regarding headroom on the Civic will be coming into play for me as well.
The rest of my family as had no problems with Hondas at all, nor have has anyone that I know that drives/has driven a Honda.
They are not concerned about the TDI specifically. It is reliability and cost of ownership across the brand that kncoks it down. ( in the recent speciall all auto issue they did say that if it wheren't for reliabilty issues, VW probbaly would be eaily the top car brand).
As an owner of a 2002 VW Passat Wagon ( with a 1.8 turbo engine, manual stick) that I have driven 70,000 miles, I concur with their asessment. It is the first car I have owned that is designed to wear out. Every 30K miles one has to replace the rear brake rotors, every 60K miles the front rotors. I just had to have the clutch replaced - worn out after 70,000 miles!
In contrast I have driven 2 other manual cars 150,000+ miles and never had to replace clutches nor brake rotors.
I haven't had the issue others seem to have with the engine, particularly the 1.8t. Since the beginning the dealer has only put in synthetic oil - so no sludging issues for me.
And to get back on the article's topic - the gas mileage for me has been pretty close to the listed mileage ( 22/31). On extended highway trips with the family (2 adults, a tween, and a now 4 year old and luggage). I get just over 29mpg over a 400 mile mostly interestate trip. And that is with a cruising speed of about 80mph all the way. On the way back I usually only get about 28mpg, and often the return trip is also slower. Mixed driving ( my 7 mile drive to work, 3-4 lights) seems to yield between 25-26mpg, just about what is expected.
I am already starting to eye new cars - and right now Hondas in general are really the only ones that appeal to me in terms of relaibilty and Hybrids. Though it would probably be a bit small for the family the Honda Civic Hybrids seem to fit my bill. The Accord Hybrid may be a bit pricey for me..
in the last presidential election did not vote for Bush in 2004, nor did we really in 2000.
is secured beyond the basic yoyo windows software and lives on either a separate network or on secure servers on the network.
Took so long to file becuase they had to check on prior art on filing software patent suits...
No, it took so long because they had to check for prior art.
Agreed.
The other aspect is the
The insidiousness of this is that this will trickle down from major corporations to medium sized business as more and more proprietary and/or in house development will demand
And unfortunately no, Mono does not live up to the challenge, even if there where no potential legal clouds.
Probably depends on ones language origin... Growing up in Germany I have always saw it with the "j".
Read enough on groklaw and you quickly find out it is SCO that is drawing this out.
that the blocks where poured in place - like concrete. Did that already get disproven?
So, is this service really providing a service when the teachers spend so much time trying to detrmine plagiarism rather than reading what the student is writing?
I suppose it all relates to class size. If you only have 20 students in a class, and 4 classes to teach it still would be pretty obvious if something might be amiss in the paper vis-a-vis a particular student's ability.
When classes are in the 50s and 100s such discrepancies may not be apparent, but it sounds one would still spend an inordinate amount of time checking through turnitin.coms comments.
In either case, it seems to me that the way the turnitin.com functions now is very inefficient.
I think you misunderstand what marketing is. You Market ( advertise ) to create a demand. Once a brand or demand is established, you market to maintain market share.
"I was simply saying that the people arguing for ODF to win were not some kind of benevolent entity with only the interests of the people in mind." Hmm do you have some kind of proof of that? Who and what organization would stand to gain from ODF? The only organization I see that would gain would be "We, the people".
My dad used to watch me play strategic and tactical board war games ( Rise and fall of the 3rd reich, ASL, etc) in the 80s and asked soem interesting questions and was bemused. He worked for Westinghouse's air and space defence at the time and logistics was obviously a big issue. Apparently some of the guys at Westinghouse either developed or had a game developed that played out war scenarios in terms of logistics. I think it may have been called Logistics Command.
they key point is the formatting of a floppy. Try that and anything else and your system reponse goes awry. Sure I can do everything else simultaneous in that scenario, but once i start formatting the floppy, things get pretty unresponsive - very noticeably so. And true, I havent tried to simultaneously play back 12-14 videos on XP2 recently - but back when we played with BeOS on a PIII 450 we accomplished that task without frame drops. On top of the multi-tasking, i can get my windows machine pretty unresponsive by running a few large applciations, closing one and starting another one. The poor memory management alone guarantees that. watching with task manager, there is plenty of physical memory left - windows just doesnt utilize it well. True, here at work i only have 512Mb RAM, at home i have 1.5 GB, and at home I don't quite have that same issue in the same scenario when it comes to memory management. But that floppy formatting used to bring it to its knees to. Not that that is much of an issue these days, no more floppy drive on my home machine and I do not use the floppy at work. The scenario I described, as you may have surmised, is from quite a few years back - a review of OS/2. I used to replicate the scenario on every new release of windows, sicne XP first came out I only try the floppy formatting part and see what happens when I try to open any number of editors or wordprocessors and actualy try typing a sentence or 2.
scenario. Just a decent OS like OS/2 or BeOS. The best write up of OS/2 I ever saw talked about being able to compile an application, format a floppy and perform local database queries all at the same time and still be able to edit a column with no response issues. No multi core required. BeOS coudl do the same with many, many video playing back muliptle video streams simutlaneously. Again no multi core. I still can't do that in Windows without running into issues.
Precident? Not sure if you understand copyright if you dont know that the word is precedent. Since you emphasized the word, one cannot accept the excuse of a typo.
Unlike this exploit for IE that has been around foever. Learn to read.
Of course as you point out, they have the ability to link the information. We are talking about advertisers and publishers here. How much time do you think will pass before one will want to have accountability from the other and viewers of ads will be identified? When i heard about this story on NPR a few weeks ago, i was shaking my head... OF course one of the aspects brought up was the appropriateness of current company advertising in futrue evnet games - or even fantasy games. Talk about taking you out of suspension of disbelief!
Of course a business magazine article 10 years ago already had a good point regarding customers and runnint a business. If the customer is always right, your compnay will not be in business long.
As others have mentioned - it really depends on the customer and the size of that customer.
The credit card information for purchases is not supposed to be stored according to what I have been told. That is why I never ever let companies have access to my bank account or credit cards for recurring charges. I pay recurring charges electroncically from the bank. I think that letting companies take money automatically from one's own account is rather risky since the companies would need to store that info. These breaches certainly don't allay that fear. It is true, the bank's security could be breached as well, but at least there is only one place from where information can be taken rather than 10's of places.
As long as MS brings up and touts security, particulalry in the context of proprietary software, the comment is valid, even if humorous.
and MS in general. Too bad i don't have any mod points.
Becuase it will need to be polished for the new OS.
for me eihter. I get:
"Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service you must use Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, which supports certain technologies we utilize for downloading movies. Click here to get the latest version of Internet Explorer.
We do not support Mozilla or Netscape. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."
Of course I use Opera ( 9.0) but have turned off activeX support. Not platform issue at all. Safari could support ActiveX as well, but whould they?