If intelligent life evolved out of a moon ecosystem where the main source of heat was tectonic stress, and the main liquid was methane or ammonia, you can bet they'd kick our ass.
My god. Thats how that one gigabyte (of code) java application was created. I am not kidding, we really do have a one gig app. There is a lot of (I think) generated UML generating java in there. Nobody is really sure how it hangs together, only that it does.
Ah thats interesting. We took the car back two weeks after it was delivered to have a sun shade installed. Without telling us the dealer installed a firmware upgrade. I tried to get the mechanic to tell me the version number so that I could get an idea of how many changes were being pushed out, but he wouldn't tell me.
I will keep raising this with the dealer (I am in Australia) so maybe we can get our hands on newer, better software.
While they were flashing the Jetta they gave us a 2009 Golf to drive around. In a shopping centre car park it actually hunted between second and third gear with a period of about a second. Couldn't make up its mind. Needs more hysteresis.
My dad retired from rockwell at 65 and I was worried for while because spent a couple of years cruising around the country with his girlfriend in their winnebago. Not very stimulating and a recipe for a second heart attack IMHO.
But now he is getting into U3A and spending seemingly half the week there. He is teaching courses, taking courses. Reorganising their local area network, installing servers, griping and moaning about this guy who built the sites databases in access, and generally having a fantastic time.
I just wish I could get him to walk or cycle to U3A rather than driving. Its only five km or so and he can't afford to have his heart seize up again.
I think there used to be this expectation that retirement was a time when you could catch up on all that TV you were missing and create the lawn. Baby boomers have different expectations and this may be helping their prospects.
The honda civic hybrid I test drove seemed to stop the engine only after it reached working temperature. So your 40 below conditions would presumably just make it stop the engine less. A pure electric would be more reliable in those conditions but it won't give you free heating.
That is only important if you're trying to cut CO2. Otherwise, in the more practical day-to-day use of "How often will I have to fill up if my daily driving distance is X miles and the tank holds Y gallons", MPG is much more important than any measure of crap coming out the exhaust.
But the other question is how much will it cost. Diesel is often much more expensive than petrol where I live.
Not sure I agree. We had a 2000 Corolla for ten years and just bought a VW Jetta with a TSI engine. It does a good job for a 1.4 but it still costs more to run than the corolla. The DSI transmission is horrible to use and bordering on dangerous. The reason is that its response is too slow. You press the throttle for a little bit of power and you get nothing. Press a little bit more. Nothing. Press more and you get a big surge of power, delayed from the first little press on the throttle. There is no precision. It is horrible at slow speeds.
But then if you made this engine a hybrid you would get even better consumption. Even the honda system which stops the petrol engine at red lights, then gets you going initially with an electric motor would save a lot of fuel in the city cycle.
I doubt it. Wombats live in holes. Sometimes at dusk you can catch them in the open and at those times they are pretty slow moving. Not the kind of animal which could drain the blood out of anything which moves at more than a metre a minute. A dingo on the other hand...
But this Chupacabra seems to be a US only myth. Let me tell you about this hoopsnake I saw just the other day. A real nasty bugger. One metre in diameter and 3.14 metres in length he was. I reckon he broke the new speed limit on Lygon street...
Won't it take money to implement and convert customers to multi-level NAT?
It earns you money because you can charge some customers to not put them behind NAT, and the others you can charge for every service which now requires a proxy.
I suspect his concept in 1964 was an analog radio telephone type thing. His novel Imperial Earth in 1975 had devices like modern PDAs, though phone conversations were through workstations. At one point a character searches for a phone number and is impressed that the answer comes back in under four seconds. These days we would not be impressed if google spent more than one second on a simple keyword search.
Its almost impossible to steal a comparable quantity of non-electronic information. You would be at the photocopier for days. Somebody would notice. If films existed you would not have enough access to make usable copies.
Seriously, if the Mac ever went to a store only system like the iPhone I'll just stop buying macs and just start buying more PCs again.
How about that windows 7 phone. Can you get full access to the system on that OS? I don't know myself but I bet microsoft will follow apple down the same route.
Many app store applications rely on DRM to protect IP. For example newspaper applications. To enforce DRM the user must not have access to root. To enforce that the hardware must not be able to boot a different OS and local storage must be protected by physical and logical means.
I have root access on my wife's macbook. I need that to be able to run backups. If users have root the app store is not secure from users copying applications around and messing with their data. If I don't have root the macbook is no use to us.
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The iPhone is not called a "Mac Phone". And for good reason.
If intelligent life evolved out of a moon ecosystem where the main source of heat was tectonic stress, and the main liquid was methane or ammonia, you can bet they'd kick our ass.
...slowly.
My god. Thats how that one gigabyte (of code) java application was created. I am not kidding, we really do have a one gig app. There is a lot of (I think) generated UML generating java in there. Nobody is really sure how it hangs together, only that it does.
Complexity creates bugs
Bugs create employment
I am an Australian and I have no problems with the term SUV. Yes, you would normally hear "4WD" here but its not worth the argument really.
Ah thats interesting. We took the car back two weeks after it was delivered to have a sun shade installed. Without telling us the dealer installed a firmware upgrade. I tried to get the mechanic to tell me the version number so that I could get an idea of how many changes were being pushed out, but he wouldn't tell me.
I will keep raising this with the dealer (I am in Australia) so maybe we can get our hands on newer, better software.
While they were flashing the Jetta they gave us a 2009 Golf to drive around. In a shopping centre car park it actually hunted between second and third gear with a period of about a second. Couldn't make up its mind. Needs more hysteresis.
My dad retired from rockwell at 65 and I was worried for while because spent a couple of years cruising around the country with his girlfriend in their winnebago. Not very stimulating and a recipe for a second heart attack IMHO.
But now he is getting into U3A and spending seemingly half the week there. He is teaching courses, taking courses. Reorganising their local area network, installing servers, griping and moaning about this guy who built the sites databases in access, and generally having a fantastic time.
I just wish I could get him to walk or cycle to U3A rather than driving. Its only five km or so and he can't afford to have his heart seize up again.
I think there used to be this expectation that retirement was a time when you could catch up on all that TV you were missing and create the lawn. Baby boomers have different expectations and this may be helping their prospects.
I believe that diesel fuel is cheaper in Europe because it attracts less tax. Its one of their famous farming subsidies which keep farmers happy.
"68MPH and a range of 125 miles"
On pressurized air ..
I will believe it when I see it.
All you need to do is to watch that linked youtube video.
It doesn't explain anything at all but will give you epilepsy after two viewings.
--jeffk++
Didn't do anything to me. I already have epilepsy.
The honda civic hybrid I test drove seemed to stop the engine only after it reached working temperature. So your 40 below conditions would presumably just make it stop the engine less. A pure electric would be more reliable in those conditions but it won't give you free heating.
That is only important if you're trying to cut CO2. Otherwise, in the more practical day-to-day use of "How often will I have to fill up if my daily driving distance is X miles and the tank holds Y gallons", MPG is much more important than any measure of crap coming out the exhaust.
But the other question is how much will it cost. Diesel is often much more expensive than petrol where I live.
Not sure I agree. We had a 2000 Corolla for ten years and just bought a VW Jetta with a TSI engine. It does a good job for a 1.4 but it still costs more to run than the corolla. The DSI transmission is horrible to use and bordering on dangerous. The reason is that its response is too slow. You press the throttle for a little bit of power and you get nothing. Press a little bit more. Nothing. Press more and you get a big surge of power, delayed from the first little press on the throttle. There is no precision. It is horrible at slow speeds.
But then if you made this engine a hybrid you would get even better consumption. Even the honda system which stops the petrol engine at red lights, then gets you going initially with an electric motor would save a lot of fuel in the city cycle.
I doubt it. Wombats live in holes. Sometimes at dusk you can catch them in the open and at those times they are pretty slow moving. Not the kind of animal which could drain the blood out of anything which moves at more than a metre a minute. A dingo on the other hand...
But this Chupacabra seems to be a US only myth. Let me tell you about this hoopsnake I saw just the other day. A real nasty bugger. One metre in diameter and 3.14 metres in length he was. I reckon he broke the new speed limit on Lygon street...
Won't it take money to implement and convert customers to multi-level NAT?
It earns you money because you can charge some customers to not put them behind NAT, and the others you can charge for every service which now requires a proxy.
I suspect his concept in 1964 was an analog radio telephone type thing. His novel Imperial Earth in 1975 had devices like modern PDAs, though phone conversations were through workstations. At one point a character searches for a phone number and is impressed that the answer comes back in under four seconds. These days we would not be impressed if google spent more than one second on a simple keyword search.
Yeah at least the Libyans are trustworthy.
Its almost impossible to steal a comparable quantity of non-electronic information. You would be at the photocopier for days. Somebody would notice. If films existed you would not have enough access to make usable copies.
You broke it, you bought it
- Colin Powell
He's the guy over the road from me and I blame him for everything.
So if we grabbed one bit from the protocol version and used it to expand the address space we would be okay for another ten years or so.
Seriously, if the Mac ever went to a store only system like the iPhone I'll just stop buying macs and just start buying more PCs again.
How about that windows 7 phone. Can you get full access to the system on that OS? I don't know myself but I bet microsoft will follow apple down the same route.
Many app store applications rely on DRM to protect IP. For example newspaper applications. To enforce DRM the user must not have access to root. To enforce that the hardware must not be able to boot a different OS and local storage must be protected by physical and logical means.
I have root access on my wife's macbook. I need that to be able to run backups. If users have root the app store is not secure from users copying applications around and messing with their data. If I don't have root the macbook is no use to us.