Well, the Exchange server where I work reboots on a nearly weekly basis for the seemingly continual Microsoft patches. That has got to be bad for uptime stats.
They have this same system working where I voted in Kansas City. It seems like a reasonably secure system as such systems go. Well, they also had a touch screen system... so users get their choice of how they want to vote.
I would say XP can also be unusable for a minute or two after login depending on what background applications and drivers start up. Certainly a clean XP install will be usable instantly.
A perpetrator can trash the infrastructure while things keep moving ahead with deferred maintenance. However, by the time anyone discovers the missing maintenance, the perpetrators will have been through several promotions for their "good performance." They'll be in a fine position to fix the problems they made.
Funny, this sounds a lot like how our government works.
Why did you cut that chart off at 4500 rpm? I would imagine that the 1.5 liter engine in that car would have to go well above 4500 rpm for top speed.
And are you denying that a continuous max speed run ignores the entire hybrid functionality of the car? I would think that anyone who even knows what SPF even is would understand that the hybrid technology is to make up for the less efficient portions of the internal combustion engine's running during different portions of a typical trip. If you just wanted to drive exactly 100 mph, of course you would throw out the hybrid system and batteries and just go with an appropriately sized engine.
All you are pointing out, is that it is easily possible to design a test that shows any object in an infavorable light. I have an idea. Lets idle that bmw and idle the prius, and see which one runs out of gas first. In fact, i'd be interested to see the ratio of gas consumed between the two vehicles. I'd predict the prius to use less than 1/100th the gas the bmw does.
Now the actual test: The Prius drove ten laps as fast as possible on a race-track, and the BMW trailed behind. It is so meaningless as to be funny. Much worse than Prius vs. Jeep Patriot Diesel.
Driving the Prius with the pedal to the metal (probably around 100 mph, a speed at which 99.99% of Priuses will never go - the exception is Al Gore Jr. who got caught doing over 100 mph) is taking away almost everything that makes the car fuel efficient. At that speed, electric motors don't help, regenerative braking doesn't help, and the stop-start anti-idling feature is useless. Only the low drag coefficient and low rolling-resistance tires are of use, but that is more than offset by the small 1.5 liter gasoline engine that has to hit RPMs way above its efficiency sweet spot.
On the BMW side, the M3 was designed to be driven fast on the German autobahns and its engine certainly wasn't breaking a sweat trying to keep up with the Prius.
So What Does 'Prius vs. BMW M3' Tell Us?
Well, if most of your driving is going to be done on a closed circuit racing track with the pedal to the metal, a Prius probably won't save you that much gas. If that's not the case, you can forget about this useless, misleading Top Gear segment. It would be good entertainment if they had explained why it's a flawed comparison, but they played it straight, so thumbs down.
Agreed. That internet activation requirement is what has prevented my friend (who's on disability) from ever playing HL2. Heck, I can't even give him my old copy.
Obviously the parent comment was made in jest, yet as i read it, it has a +5 insightful!
I owned a 2000 volkswagon golf 1.8 turbo and it was far from bulletproof.
They made the window motor transmissions out of plastic, and them failing within a year was quite common. The sunroof broke and stuck in the open position. Several of the famously nice looking/feeling interior plastic surfaces became quite worn, and all of this occurred in the first 3 years I owned the car (purchased new).
Good link! I had that cartridge for my C64. Too bad it was pretty much useless -- as no game that I had took advantage of it. I suppose it did at least help teach me to not buy every newfangled gizmo that comes along...
They slow and sometimes stop on the on-ramps
Funny you should mention this and that you live in Kansas City.
I blame some of the stopping on entrance ramps on poor highway design.
Just yesterday, I was entering onto Southbound I35 from the 18th street entrance ramp in downtown KC. This is a very short uphill ramp that has very little visibility of the highway, has maybe 40 feet of straightaway before the lanes merge, and has a concrete wall with no shoulder space off of the lane. The highway lane it merges onto has traffic that has been descending a fairly steep hill for the last quarter mile and is most likely driving pretty fast. Anyway, I had to stop on this ramp so as not to get smeared by a loaded 18-wheeler hurtling down the highway, and I dare you to do any different in the same situation.
In an atmospheric environment, heavier items do indeed fall faster. try dropping a sheet of paper and an equivalently sized piece of sheetmetal if you don't believe me. Hell, some items are so light that they don't fall at all, like balloons.
I was about to complain about a public school sponsoring a class on religion, but yours sounds sufficiently subversive that i think it would be beneficial. Good luck finding good teachers for it however.
That's a pretty neat formula. I prefer to set the fc to 100% and consider it a formula for just intelligent life existing out there. The numbers I used indicate that there are 437 planets in the Milky Way populated with intelligent life at any given time.
And I thought I was the one who always managed to come up with the most retarded faux-pas ever uttered. Maybe completely inappropriate humor is a geek trait?
Well, if they make the mags cheaper, then they have to make it up in ads. Those mags are already 90% ads, and that is one of the factors that made me give up on them.
You actually trust magazine reviews to tell the honest truth in a review? I remember buying Outpost based on reviews, and it was quite disappointing when it came to actual gameplay.
Quote from wikipedia:
Initial reviews of Outpost were enthusiastic about the game. Most notoriously, the American version of PC Gamer rated the game at 93%, one of its highest ratings ever for the time. It was later made known that the reviewers had in fact played beta versions of the game, and had been promised certain features would be implemented, but never were.
Indeed, many of the features described in the game's own documentation simply did not exist in the game at all. These included the ability to enter diplomatic relations with the rebel colony and the ability to build roads, among other things. Many of these gameplay aspects were later patched in, though in appearance only, as many of them failed to have any meaningful effect on gameplay.
Following the release of the game, the game's general bugginess and perceived mediocre gameplay, along with the lack of features described in most of the game's reviews and the game's own documentation led to a minor backlash against the computer game magazines of the time by consumers who bought the game based on their reviews.
I would at least hope they are documenting how they came up with these conclusions, and that they are based on reasonable rationale.
In fact, the thought that relatively near space is not empty, but filled with electrons, photons and perhaps who knows what else would appear to give credence to the oscillating universe theory instead of the god created everything theory espoused by nearly all my coworkers. Not that this would ever sway any of them...
Yeah same thing here, and that's on a relatively old laptop -- that I installed XP SP2 from scratch on. Maybe it depends on how many spyware, trojan, virus and filesharing apps are installed?
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This must be why bluray players are so much slower for nearly any interface function than even the oldest dvd players.
Thanks so much for the crappy functionality, Sony.
Well, the Exchange server where I work reboots on a nearly weekly basis for the seemingly continual Microsoft patches. That has got to be bad for uptime stats.
They have this same system working where I voted in Kansas City. It seems like a reasonably secure system as such systems go.
Well, they also had a touch screen system... so users get their choice of how they want to vote.
I would say XP can also be unusable for a minute or two after login depending on what background applications and drivers start up. Certainly a clean XP install will be usable instantly.
A perpetrator can trash the infrastructure while things keep moving ahead with deferred maintenance. However, by the time anyone discovers the missing maintenance, the perpetrators will have been through several promotions for their "good performance." They'll be in a fine position to fix the problems they made.
Funny, this sounds a lot like how our government works.
Why did you cut that chart off at 4500 rpm? I would imagine that the 1.5 liter engine in that car would have to go well above 4500 rpm for top speed. And are you denying that a continuous max speed run ignores the entire hybrid functionality of the car? I would think that anyone who even knows what SPF even is would understand that the hybrid technology is to make up for the less efficient portions of the internal combustion engine's running during different portions of a typical trip. If you just wanted to drive exactly 100 mph, of course you would throw out the hybrid system and batteries and just go with an appropriately sized engine. All you are pointing out, is that it is easily possible to design a test that shows any object in an infavorable light. I have an idea. Lets idle that bmw and idle the prius, and see which one runs out of gas first. In fact, i'd be interested to see the ratio of gas consumed between the two vehicles. I'd predict the prius to use less than 1/100th the gas the bmw does.
From http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/top-gear-prius-hybrid-bmw-m3-video-wrong.php
That statement is itself in effect a theory, invalidating its own conclusion.
Only if it's not useful.
It also affected the Pentium 90s and 100s (which came out before the 75s)
Agreed. That internet activation requirement is what has prevented my friend (who's on disability) from ever playing HL2. Heck, I can't even give him my old copy.
We aren't worried about the obviously guilty prisoners. It's the innocent prisoners who definitely need the possibility of a fair trial.
Obviously the parent comment was made in jest, yet as i read it, it has a +5 insightful!
I owned a 2000 volkswagon golf 1.8 turbo and it was far from bulletproof.
They made the window motor transmissions out of plastic, and them failing within a year was quite common. The sunroof broke and stuck in the open position. Several of the famously nice looking/feeling interior plastic surfaces became quite worn, and all of this occurred in the first 3 years I owned the car (purchased new).
Isn't that just so they'll go along with permitting or carrying out illegal wiretaps without fear of repercussions?
Good link! I had that cartridge for my C64. Too bad it was pretty much useless -- as no game that I had took advantage of it. I suppose it did at least help teach me to not buy every newfangled gizmo that comes along...
It's not just the software you have to worry about, you also need to fab your own hardware!
Funny you should mention this and that you live in Kansas City.
I blame some of the stopping on entrance ramps on poor highway design.
Just yesterday, I was entering onto Southbound I35 from the 18th street entrance ramp in downtown KC. This is a very short uphill ramp that has very little visibility of the highway, has maybe 40 feet of straightaway before the lanes merge, and has a concrete wall with no shoulder space off of the lane. The highway lane it merges onto has traffic that has been descending a fairly steep hill for the last quarter mile and is most likely driving pretty fast. Anyway, I had to stop on this ramp so as not to get smeared by a loaded 18-wheeler hurtling down the highway, and I dare you to do any different in the same situation.
In an atmospheric environment, heavier items do indeed fall faster. try dropping a sheet of paper and an equivalently sized piece of sheetmetal if you don't believe me. Hell, some items are so light that they don't fall at all, like balloons.
I was about to complain about a public school sponsoring a class on religion, but yours sounds sufficiently subversive that i think it would be beneficial. Good luck finding good teachers for it however.
Why you dissing Wired??
Why, just the other day, they had a funny and well-written piece on alternative santas: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2007/12/alttext_1219
That's a pretty neat formula. I prefer to set the fc to 100% and consider it a formula for just intelligent life existing out there. The numbers I used indicate that there are 437 planets in the Milky Way populated with intelligent life at any given time.
And I thought I was the one who always managed to come up with the most retarded faux-pas ever uttered. Maybe completely inappropriate humor is a geek trait?
Well, if they make the mags cheaper, then they have to make it up in ads. Those mags are already 90% ads, and that is one of the factors that made me give up on them.
Quote from wikipedia: Initial reviews of Outpost were enthusiastic about the game. Most notoriously, the American version of PC Gamer rated the game at 93%, one of its highest ratings ever for the time. It was later made known that the reviewers had in fact played beta versions of the game, and had been promised certain features would be implemented, but never were.
Indeed, many of the features described in the game's own documentation simply did not exist in the game at all. These included the ability to enter diplomatic relations with the rebel colony and the ability to build roads, among other things. Many of these gameplay aspects were later patched in, though in appearance only, as many of them failed to have any meaningful effect on gameplay.
Following the release of the game, the game's general bugginess and perceived mediocre gameplay, along with the lack of features described in most of the game's reviews and the game's own documentation led to a minor backlash against the computer game magazines of the time by consumers who bought the game based on their reviews.
I would at least hope they are documenting how they came up with these conclusions, and that they are based on reasonable rationale.
In fact, the thought that relatively near space is not empty, but filled with electrons, photons and perhaps who knows what else would appear to give credence to the oscillating universe theory instead of the god created everything theory espoused by nearly all my coworkers. Not that this would ever sway any of them...
Yeah same thing here, and that's on a relatively old laptop -- that I installed XP SP2 from scratch on. Maybe it depends on how many spyware, trojan, virus and filesharing apps are installed?