The "never have been" is incorrect. Telcos providing DSL used to be common carriers until relatively recently. Cable providers never have been common carriers.
Because all that high safety stuff is bloody expensive and people wouldn't appreciate having to wear flame-proof suits, 8-point harnesses, helmets, neck reinforcements, and having to get in to the vehicle through the window.
but it's been pointed out several times that increases in vehicle weight are directly caused by extra safety features The extra weight is mostly just sheer size. Just compare the bloody dimensions:
According to the latest numbers (from the 2000 census, so possibly a little out of date, but it's the latest info I can find at the moment.), only about 9% of people in the US use oil for heating (with natural gas being 51% and electric being 30%), which is presumably why there is a lack of uproar about it.
OTOH, fuel oil made up 80% of heating in Maine, so I dunno. Maybe it just hasn't hit the critical point for the majority yet.
As far as I've seen, minivans don't have better or worse skidding characteristics than SUVs, barring the "winter tires? i don't need no winter tires, these are all-season!" crowd.
IMO, minivans kick an SUV's ass in pretty much all categories (fuel efficiency, people hauling, stuff hauling, just plain hauling) with the possible exception of offroading (but 90%+ of SUV owners aren't going offroad) and genital enhancement.
No idea about the webcam (friends have the webcamless ones) but the Ubuntu site[1] says it works out of the box, though not with flash (though the Ubuntu site also has a workaround for that).
The wifi requires you to download and build the madwifi driver, but it then works fine. Last I've heard, 8.10 should see it work out of the box.
Not quite period. While the likelihood of it surviving is very low, they have planned for that eventuality by building in a "lazarus mode" to make it try to call back if it manages to survive the winter.
b. running that last mile was prohibitively expensive. Where exactly are you living that the cost of copper, fibre, labour, and right-of-way have fallen so dramatically that it is not prohibitively expensive?
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I very much wonder how many people here get this joke.
You might like this extension.
Unfortunately, not updated for 3.0, but it might work anyway if you force it, but I haven't tried it.
I don't think most demons like them either.
Why would senator Obama participate in a vote in the house of representatives?
this guy sums it up nicely.
Or "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one." - H.L. Mencken
Don't I know. I only got off dial up less than a year ago (July 18th, 2007).
The "never have been" is incorrect. Telcos providing DSL used to be common carriers until relatively recently. Cable providers never have been common carriers.
Phone is common carrier, DSL is not, same as cable. They're both "information services" or a similar term. No idea what dial up is considered.
Because all that high safety stuff is bloody expensive and people wouldn't appreciate having to wear flame-proof suits, 8-point harnesses, helmets, neck reinforcements, and having to get in to the vehicle through the window.
1980 Honda civic 3-door hatchback : 146.9" length
2007 Honda civic 3-door hatchback : 167.3" length
According to the latest numbers (from the 2000 census, so possibly a little out of date, but it's the latest info I can find at the moment.), only about 9% of people in the US use oil for heating (with natural gas being 51% and electric being 30%), which is presumably why there is a lack of uproar about it.
OTOH, fuel oil made up 80% of heating in Maine, so I dunno. Maybe it just hasn't hit the critical point for the majority yet.
As far as I've seen, minivans don't have better or worse skidding characteristics than SUVs, barring the "winter tires? i don't need no winter tires, these are all-season!" crowd.
Why is GM shutting down 4 truck and SUV factories then?
The weight of the batteries (and battery support systems) required for current electric hybrids is a problem in that regard.
What are you driving that the driver losing weight would have a 10% drop in the total weight of the vehicle?
taking me out of my car completely would not drop the total vehicle weight by 10%.
me dropping 60lbs would give less than 2% weight savings.
IMO, minivans kick an SUV's ass in pretty much all categories (fuel efficiency, people hauling, stuff hauling, just plain hauling) with the possible exception of offroading (but 90%+ of SUV owners aren't going offroad) and genital enhancement.
No idea about the webcam (friends have the webcamless ones) but the Ubuntu site[1] says it works out of the box, though not with flash (though the Ubuntu site also has a workaround for that).
The wifi requires you to download and build the madwifi driver, but it then works fine. Last I've heard, 8.10 should see it work out of the box.
[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Fixes
The OS isn't too bad if you ditch the simple interface, though there are numerous better distros to put on it, K/X/Ubuntu at or very near the top.
You seem to be forgetting it is the government that defines what is "criminal".
Not quite period. While the likelihood of it surviving is very low, they have planned for that eventuality by building in a "lazarus mode" to make it try to call back if it manages to survive the winter.
Except for countries that don't sign it.
your rig comes to about $1500.
my $2k system (as of last september. core2 duo e6850, 8800GTS, 2GB ram. likely about $1500 now) runs crysis nicely on high