Yeah, the FCD (Fuel Consumption Display) gives good feedback on how your driving habits affect the milage. Aside from less-aggressive driving, the factors that most affect the mileage are tire inflation and ambient temperature. The best mileage I've ever gotten in my 2000 Insight 5-speed is 81 mpg in mild weather and relatively flat terrain. The worst I've gotten was in bitter cold weather driving in the mountains (about 49 mpg).
Lifetime average is 62.9 mpg after 110,000 miles. It's starfted to drop a bit after getting new tires (not the low-rolling-resistance factory originals).
One thing that distinguishes Pixar from Disney is the originality of Pixar's story-lines. John Lassiter is at least as creative as ol' Walt was in his hay-day.
I find it sadly ironic that Disney was one of the studios pushing congress to extend copyright protection ("The Mickey Mouse Protection Act") while nearly all of their films used material plundered from the public domain. Hans Christian Anderson, Bros. Grimm., Dafoe, etc.... Toy Story and Finding Nemo are among the very few Disney offerings that aren't blatant rip-offs of off-copyright "classics". And Disney didn't produce them.
I see no evidence that this one is written bij the OSS or Linux community
Exactly. It's possible that this is the work of some overzealous FOSS advocate, but there are other possibilities:
Itinerant virus-writer selling his/her services to spammers (the worm installs listening services that could be used to turn the infected PC into a spamming zombie).
Immature weenie just does it for attention and doesn't care who gets hurt
Darl/MS/Satan is behind it. OK I find this highly unlikely. Perens refers to the perpetrator's "mission of discrediting these [FOSS] movements"
What, you find the horse-collar grill unattractive?
Maybe the auto-buying public just wasn't ready for a pushbutton transmission in the middle of the steering wheel...
There's a graph comparing the torque curves of the engine and motor in the Insight brochure. The curves are complementary - the electric motor has highest torque at low revs and drops off at higher revs. The gas engine starts to pick up torque just when the motor is starting to wimp out. The composite curve is nice and smooth.
If you accelerate and shift agressively the Insight has way more zip than you'd expect from such a tiny engine. My 2000 Insight has a lifetime average 62 MPG.
One thing that Ars Technica didn't mention is that MS does still have a browser for OS X. It just isn't available for free download - you have to subscribe to the MSN isp (I think) to get it.
According to this report MSN Explorer/Mac actually has the best support for CSS 3 selectors of any current browser. Too bad it's only available to paying customers.
This morning I heard a report on NPR about the Air Canada reservation system being brought down by the Nachi (MSBlast varient) worm. NPR's web site only has audio links, but there's an article at News.com about it. After all of the fuss over this vulnerability, how could a major corporation still have unpatched machines on its network? Why aren't they blocking port 135? I can see how there would still be PCs on broadband links propagating the worms, but corporate IT deptartments should have dealt with this weeks ago.
BTW, I live 35 miles downwind from Davis-Besse. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling...
iDVD 3 recognizes the Pioneer drives as "Superdrives" according to this.
I purchased my Mac with a DVD-RAM drive before the DVD-R was available. I swapped the DVD-RAM for a Pioneer DVR-103 and purchased iDVD 2. The Pioneer drive is recognized by iDVD, iTunes, andToast.
I just noticed that the tantek.com link I posted above crashes Webcore-based browsers. After posting the comment from OmniWeb 4.5 (which uses KHTML Webcore) I clicked on the link. OmniWeb crashed.
Since I'm using a "Sneaky Peek" version of OmniWeb, I thought that maybe it was just a bug in the beta code. I tried the same link in Safari and it crashed too.
I assumed that since this was a page on Tantek Çelik's site the CSS would be valid. The page flunks the HTML validator at w3c.org because of a misplaced noscript tag. - I wouldn't expect that to crash a browser.
Must be a WebCore bug. Kind of ironic given the topic.
The HTML rendering engine (code-name Tasman) in IE/Mac was the first browser to fully support CSS1 and DOM level 1.
To see just how proud the IE/Mac team was of their accomplishment, try typing "about:Tasman" in the IE location bar. Looks a bit like the notorious Acid Box Test page, doesn't it?
Something like that happened to me. I was at a customer site in a room with no phone (and no cell phone reception). My laptop was hooked up to the network so I could send/receive email. My boss sent me a me a message with the subject Call me ASAP!! (insert many, many exclamation marks here). The spam filter dutifully moved the message to my UCE folder.
One of the advantages of the tarproxy technique is that it doesn't competely block the suspected spam. The message will eventually get delivered, at which point your mail client can filter it if you like. Since my boss' email came from inside my organization I think you could configure tarproxy to skip processing such messages.
As for my boss, I added his address to my known-senders list and told him to lighten up on the puctuation.
You're right about the insight being a "specialty car", but I'll take exception to calling it cramped. Storage is limited, but it's got plenty of room for two adults.
I bought my Insight two years ago this week. I took it in this morning for the Ohio EPA-mandated emissions check. HC measured 2.2 PPM out of an allowable 220. CO measured 0.00 % (1.20% max allowable). Lifetime gas mileage is 63 MPG. I'd say I'm pretty satisfied.
Possibly too fast, depending on the applications you want to run.
Last year I was assigned a seemingly trivial "upgrade" project for a customer that runs an old DOS-based app. First of all, I had to find a new PC with an ISA slot -- not as easy as you might think, considering hat the customer wanted a "name-brand" PC with full warranty.
I finally found an HP model with a riser card for ISA support. PC-DOS loaded fine, but when I tried to start the customer's application, the machine locked up tight. After checking with the application vendor, I was chagrined to hear that the program will not run on anything faster than a Pentium 90.
Many DOS-based programs that ran on the ragged edge of (then-current) technology used hard-coded timing loops that simply can't cope with the clock speeds of today's processors.
So maybe DOS will boot super-fast on your Athlon, but there's no guaranty that it wil run many of your "vintage" programs...
You're right about the Google cache being (somewhat) outdated, and the load from URNs outside of the original HTML page are a legitimate consideration. Maybe my previous idea of mirror "load balancing" is a better solution after all. Slashdot.org will have to take the initiative here...
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OK, sorry to respond to my own post, but DaSonic suggested a simpler solution in this post - linking to the google cache of a site rather than the actual url. As long as Google doesn't object to such links, maybe slashdot could reference the cached links rather than the originals as the primary link (listing the original for historical purposes).
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I'd love to mirror interesting sites like this, but my ISP is a small consumer-owned coop with a single T1 serving ~100 customers. which leads me to the following question:
How hard would it to be for slashdot.org to provide a load-balancing mirror service? I'm thinking of a simple round-robin url-redirection to mirrors of potentially slashdotted sites.
So if I want to volunteer a mirror of a site referenced in an interesting slashdot thread I could submit it to slashdot.org with a maximum HPM ceiling so that my ISP wouldn't get bombed with excessive traffic.
This is nothing fancier than the typical web-farm distributed processing. I would be happy to offer *limited* bandwidth to mirror a site with relevant content. I just don't want to slashdot my own coop .
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I would imagine that the best way (and hopefully the way that Honda does this) would be to have the electric motor roll the engine over (with no gas intake) for a few seconds to get the engine (and car) rolling and then start to pump gas into the engine where it will start to combust almost immediatly with little waste.
The Insight uses the IMA motor rather than a conventional starter to start the engine. It doesn't take "a few seconds" to crank the engine - it's virtually instantaneous. I had the same concerns you did until I tried it.
Honda and Toyota both did studies on prototypes before deciding to cycle the motor whenever you come to a full stop. The Insight only shuts down if you pop the transmission into neutral. I'm not sure how Toyota determines when to shut down the engine since it has an automatic...
BTW, if you don't like the engine shutting off, just switch the AC out of "ECON" mode. The engine will keep running.
Slashdot Mirror
Amanda Hesser did a NYT piece on Sous Vide cooking a while back. Pretty good overview of the technique along with some history.
Yeah, the FCD (Fuel Consumption Display) gives good feedback on how your driving habits affect the milage. Aside from less-aggressive driving, the factors that most affect the mileage are tire inflation and ambient temperature. The best mileage I've ever gotten in my 2000 Insight 5-speed is 81 mpg in mild weather and relatively flat terrain. The worst I've gotten was in bitter cold weather driving in the mountains (about 49 mpg).
Lifetime average is 62.9 mpg after 110,000 miles. It's starfted to drop a bit after getting new tires (not the low-rolling-resistance factory originals).
Not to worry. The Courrier Lobby will be raising funds on that new Internet thingy soon. Yeaaaaagh!
One thing that distinguishes Pixar from Disney is the originality of Pixar's story-lines. John Lassiter is at least as creative as ol' Walt was in his hay-day.
I find it sadly ironic that Disney was one of the studios pushing congress to extend copyright protection ("The Mickey Mouse Protection Act") while nearly all of their films used material plundered from the public domain. Hans Christian Anderson, Bros. Grimm., Dafoe, etc....
Toy Story and Finding Nemo are among the very few Disney offerings that aren't blatant rip-offs of off-copyright "classics". And Disney didn't produce them.
Exactly. It's possible that this is the work of some overzealous FOSS advocate, but there are other possibilities:
The interview is dated February 2. The worm was just announced this weekend.
There's a graph comparing the torque curves of the engine and motor in the Insight brochure. The curves are complementary - the electric motor has highest torque at low revs and drops off at higher revs. The gas engine starts to pick up torque just when the motor is starting to wimp out. The composite curve is nice and smooth.
If you accelerate and shift agressively the Insight has way more zip than you'd expect from such a tiny engine. My 2000 Insight has a lifetime average 62 MPG.
One thing that Ars Technica didn't mention is that MS does still have a browser for OS X. It just isn't available for free download - you have to subscribe to the MSN isp (I think) to get it.
According to this report MSN Explorer/Mac actually has the best support for CSS 3 selectors of any current browser. Too bad it's only available to paying customers.
This morning I heard a report on NPR about the Air Canada reservation system being brought down by the Nachi (MSBlast varient) worm. NPR's web site only has audio links, but there's an article at News.com about it. After all of the fuss over this vulnerability, how could a major corporation still have unpatched machines on its network? Why aren't they blocking port 135? I can see how there would still be PCs on broadband links propagating the worms, but corporate IT deptartments should have dealt with this weeks ago.
BTW, I live 35 miles downwind from Davis-Besse. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling...
iDVD 3 recognizes the Pioneer drives as "Superdrives" according to this.
I purchased my Mac with a DVD-RAM drive before the DVD-R was available. I swapped the DVD-RAM for a Pioneer DVR-103 and purchased iDVD 2. The Pioneer drive is recognized by iDVD, iTunes, andToast.
I just noticed that the tantek.com link I posted above crashes Webcore-based browsers. After posting the comment from OmniWeb 4.5 (which uses KHTML Webcore) I clicked on the link. OmniWeb crashed.
Since I'm using a "Sneaky Peek" version of OmniWeb, I thought that maybe it was just a bug in the beta code. I tried the same link in Safari and it crashed too.
I assumed that since this was a page on Tantek Çelik's site the CSS would be valid. The page flunks the HTML validator at w3c.org because of a misplaced noscript tag. - I wouldn't expect that to crash a browser.
Must be a WebCore bug. Kind of ironic given the topic.
The HTML rendering engine (code-name Tasman) in IE/Mac was the first browser to fully support CSS1 and DOM level 1.
To see just how proud the IE/Mac team was of their accomplishment, try typing "about:Tasman" in the IE location bar. Looks a bit like the notorious Acid Box Test page, doesn't it?
Something like that happened to me. I was at a customer site in a room with no phone (and no cell phone reception). My laptop was hooked up to the network so I could send/receive email. My boss sent me a me a message with the subject Call me ASAP!! (insert many, many exclamation marks here). The spam filter dutifully moved the message to my UCE folder.
One of the advantages of the tarproxy technique is that it doesn't competely block the suspected spam. The message will eventually get delivered, at which point your mail client can filter it if you like. Since my boss' email came from inside my organization I think you could configure tarproxy to skip processing such messages.
As for my boss, I added his address to my known-senders list and told him to lighten up on the puctuation.
Is that a Newton in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
The message reads: "Note Windows Update does not collect any form of personally identifiable information from your computer"
I think that it used to say something like: "No information will be sent to Microsoft"....
Their privacy policy states that they check your system for a valid Windows license.
You're right about the insight being a "specialty car", but I'll take exception to calling it cramped. Storage is limited, but it's got plenty of room for two adults. I bought my Insight two years ago this week. I took it in this morning for the Ohio EPA-mandated emissions check. HC measured 2.2 PPM out of an allowable 220. CO measured 0.00 % (1.20% max allowable). Lifetime gas mileage is 63 MPG. I'd say I'm pretty satisfied.
Possibly too fast, depending on the applications you want to run.
Last year I was assigned a seemingly trivial "upgrade" project for a customer that runs an old DOS-based app. First of all, I had to find a new PC with an ISA slot -- not as easy as you might think, considering hat the customer wanted a "name-brand" PC with full warranty.
I finally found an HP model with a riser card for ISA support. PC-DOS loaded fine, but when I tried to start the customer's application, the machine locked up tight. After checking with the application vendor, I was chagrined to hear that the program will not run on anything faster than a Pentium 90.
Many DOS-based programs that ran on the ragged edge of (then-current) technology used hard-coded timing loops that simply can't cope with the clock speeds of today's processors.
So maybe DOS will boot super-fast on your Athlon, but there's no guaranty that it wil run many of your "vintage" programs...
You're right about the Google cache being (somewhat) outdated, and the load from URNs outside of the original HTML page are a legitimate consideration. Maybe my previous idea of mirror "load balancing" is a better solution after all. Slashdot.org will have to take the initiative here...
=============
(this post was spell-checked by OmniWeb - all grammatical errors are mine)
OK, sorry to respond to my own post, but DaSonic suggested a simpler solution in this post - linking to the google cache of a site rather than the actual url. As long as Google doesn't object to such links, maybe slashdot could reference the cached links rather than the originals as the primary link (listing the original for historical purposes). =========== (this post was spell-checked by OmniWeb - all grammatical errors are mine)
I'd love to mirror interesting sites like this, but my ISP is a small consumer-owned coop with a single T1 serving ~100 customers. which leads me to the following question:
How hard would it to be for slashdot.org to provide a load-balancing mirror service? I'm thinking of a simple round-robin url-redirection to mirrors of potentially slashdotted sites.
So if I want to volunteer a mirror of a site referenced in an interesting slashdot thread I could submit it to slashdot.org with a maximum HPM ceiling so that my ISP wouldn't get bombed with excessive traffic.
This is nothing fancier than the typical web-farm distributed processing. I would be happy to offer *limited* bandwidth to mirror a site with relevant content. I just don't want to slashdot my own coop .
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(this post was spell-checked by OmniWeb - all grammatical errors are mine)
The Insight uses the IMA motor rather than a conventional starter to start the engine. It doesn't take "a few seconds" to crank the engine - it's virtually instantaneous. I had the same concerns you did until I tried it.
Honda and Toyota both did studies on prototypes before deciding to cycle the motor whenever you come to a full stop. The Insight only shuts down if you pop the transmission into neutral. I'm not sure how Toyota determines when to shut down the engine since it has an automatic...
BTW, if you don't like the engine shutting off, just switch the AC out of "ECON" mode. The engine will keep running.