OKay, so there are several situations, lets enumerate them. (let me know if I left any out)
User owns one comtpuer with one monitor and one set of speakers.
User owns two comptuers, the one he is physically at has speakers, but the user has choosen to run some program on the other computer.
The system administrators have decided that thin clients on the desktop, and users share the machines in the backroom is a better value. Users would like to do video confrencing.
User has one computer, but connected two monitors, keyboards, mice, and sound cards to it, so that he can share the CPU with family members.
User has one computer with two sound cards, one connected to a stereo elsewhere, but the outputs are physically routed to different rooms.
Note that the first is the only one well supported by the current implimentations. Adding sound to X will make all but the last work. X has a standard DISPLAY variable that tells any X aware program where to display information. I've already been frusterated when my network was fast enough to display a game, but the sound was coming out of the speakers in the next room.
No, someone must go through every bug report, and eliminate the ones that are for already known problems (with a public beta you potentially could end up with thousands of people thinking they are the first to find some problem that seems obscure). Then you have to eliminate the ones that aren't really problems (the copy and paste shortcuts are confusing by design since those who use them will use them often enough for the pain of memorizing strange key combinations is less than the pain of having to easy to remember short cuts that are harder to use on the keyboard). Next deal with the miscolanious problems (user didn't plug computer in, got a corupted download, has no net connection, and other problems that are either stupid user, or other stupid problem not related to the program).
Really what it needed is a few QA testers who can test everything, but that isn't possiable. Not even Apple with control of all supported platforms can do it. A public beta might seem like a hope that the gain is less than the costs. In reality a public beta is generally a way for marketing to get a almost working version out before it is ready for release, and the bug reports that might come in are worth much less than the hype.
What difference does it make? When I look for a construction job the boss doesn't ask if I use Senco or Pasload Nailers. If I have expirence with sheetrock I'm worth more to a framing crew than someone with no expirence, just because I know how houses go togather, even though I've worked on different parts. (I'm not worth as much as an expirenced framer of course, but in a few months I will be)
Why is programing different. Sure today I've never worked with.net. I've programed though, and that should be worth nearly as much as a specific. Technologies change. The skills that are different between two different programing areas are easially learned, the skill that are the same are much more important. (General algorythms, and people skills. etc)
Most goods already are labled in both. In some cases only the metric is used. (I'm reasonably sure that for most good metric equivelents must be listed. standard measurements are not required though)
Most people can work in metric, we just don't see the need to change. Imerial measurements often work better too. In carpentry 16 inch on center studs is a good spacing for engineering reasons, and 8 foot walls are standard because they are tall enough for almost everyone to pass under the lights, but no taller. The rich (on a relative sense) might buy taller walls, but it costs more. Machinsts have found that tolerances of one thousandths of an inche are about right for most things, and no metric equivelent is as nice for a general rule. (Though some will use metric) These numbers and more just happen to work out. Perhaps because the imperial measurement system was partially designed with real work use in mind. Yes unit coversion is harder, but in parctice you don't convert units anyway. Several metric projects have been off because someone incorrectly converted units too.
In the end though, the resistance to metric is that despite the claims, it isn't better, it is just different and more common. The latter is a powerful reason. Ironicly most of the world picks on american's for not being able to deal with two languages, yet they themselves refuse to learn to deal with two measuremetn systems.
Huh? You are saying that the guy with the gun has accused the other guy of being evil for a long time, asked others to keep an eye on him, provided evidence of it, and then after the evil guy is shot you expect the others to go after him when he is sleeping?
Oh wait, I guess there is ample evidence that the gun is more evil than anything else.
Unfortunatly I can't really think of a good way give an example of how the other guy could be evil when it is 20 men on an island with one gun. However the real world provides that. Still it seems most people ignore the evidence.
Inspiring to WHO though? I found the American speach much more inspiring if I was thinking like the troops, preparing to go in. I found the British speach more inspiring if I was thinking like an accidemic making a speach to the people back home to support our troops and the war.
Though With Americans mostly behind the troops (though not nessicarly in favor of war), while the british appearently are not behind their troops as much, this is understandable. The American Generals don't really need to boost moral back home, they need a boost to the troops. The British generals need to boost moral back home because that is what is draging the local moral down.
I'd give them both Cs. Their job is to have the best speach writers and plenty of time to practice! I would expect nothing less than what they did. Frankly, I don't give A's easially (I'm not sure I'd give Jesus an A most days).
Yes, in fact they did. Well not directly, I don't know which is the most evil goverment (My guess: China, but there are other canidates), and it depends somewhat on your interpitation.
However my sources have made clear that Iraq is the only country with an evil goverment that has invaded a country that is a US allie, and after the war to oust them refused to abide by the peace agreement.
As for the US supporting Iraq, that was in the past, and we never supported the gassing operations. We just decided that the less of the evils was supporting them vs ignoring a threat to other US interests that were seen as more important at the time.
There is plenty of opertunity to debate how our leaders should have done things, and if doing something else would have resulted in a better world overall. However no matter what you do there are concequences that you cannot foresee. (I'm not aware of any prophet that has any reasonable track record perdicting the future, so we have to muddle though without knowing what the full results of our decisions are) In other words I fully expect that as a result of our action in Iraq something else will blow up latter. We just hope it is less than the current evils, as we have decided that Iraq cannot be safely ignored.
Don't forget that after those two holes were made in New York's skyline not long ago the US changed the way were think. Before we were much more content to let evil people deal with themselves which they mostly did (with some exceptions like Isreal, but lets not get into that), afterwards we decided that it wasn't good enough. Belive me, most americans don't want to be at war, but we support the war anyway because it has been proven that ignoring evil people (Bin Ladin, Saddam, and others) won't give us peace.
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Old days? I got news for you kid, those old days are today. I still use X's network transparency to run apps on different computers. Sure it is faster to run local programs, but when you need something on a different computer X is a good solution.
I know many companies that still use that X terminal model because it is cheaper in the long run. A X terminal will last for 5 years, and requires no maintance. A PC will last 3 before it is obsolete, and one person can only manage so many PCs. Sure you need people to manage those back room servers, but 1 person can manage as many servers as PCs. When an expensive server breaks (which is slightly less often than a PC) you tell everyone to move to a different server, and you fix it. When a PC breaks you need to get to that person's desk and fix it or provide them with a replacement, a process that generally takes longer.
In theory X terminals can break just like PCs, but in practice they don't break as often.
Just because the side they are biased for also screams bias doesn't mean they are unbiased. It means they are making a token effort to unbiasedness that isn't perfectly in line with what one side says.
In truth though, there is No such thing as unbiased reporting. Read it, know it, and get over it. Unbiased reporting cannot exist because even a middle report of both sides is biased (to a middle ground) There are many sides to most stories, and many many different viewpoints are possible. Instead read as many sources as you can, and find where you stand.
Oh, and honest persons will change their opinion. I was against this war (plenty of evil dictators in this world) until I found out how evil Saddam really is. If it turns out my soruces were lieing to me, then I may change my mind again, and also learn something about which sources to trust. In the end though, only God knows what would happen if any particular course of action is followed. (that many people debate the existance of God is part of my point!) There are many courses of action we could take, we can't take them all in parrell universes so we can't know which is best.
Ahh, your second reason is one I'm wresteling with now. Unfortunatly I can't make an ecconomic justification for a second car now, no matter how little gas it uses (unless it is cheap and runs good). With the added insurance on two cars (even though when I drive one the other is in the driveway) I can't save enough on gas to afford a second car.
I doin't use my truck (S-10) to haul often, but I do use it to haul. For some things I could rent a truck, but that is expensive in its own way. (I'd do it for a few times a year though) It doesn't get my gear hunting though because rental places don't allow driving on the roads I take. So I'm stuck with a trust that is a compromise (when I need a truck a 3/4 ton would be best) because it is cheapest.
Compitition my friend, it solves a lot price problems in a free market. CRT monitors are cheap now beacuse LCDs are considered better so people will pay more for them. CRT manufactures know they have a more expensive product, so they make it better and cheaper. (Flat screens on a CRT were a dream until LCDs became common. 17 inch monitors for 80 bucks)
Sure they will charge more at the start, because people are willing to pay for it. Once the people with too much money are unwilling to pay for all expensive OLCDs they can make, the price will come down to get a bigger market share. Of course eventially they will reach the point where the market it saterated and they can't sell more than they make. By that time thought LCDs (more expensive to manufacture and not as good) will be non-existant, and CRTs will be limited to the few artists that can tell the difference in colors. (Assuming OLCDs are like CRTs and don't give perfect color, I don't know)
Water inject is a known way to improve performance and power. However it only works after the engine is warm, and only when you get the right amount. (More than about 5% water is worse than none at all).
Combine water's tendency to freeze in winter, with the need to keep another consumable toped off, with a couple other disadvantages that I forget now, and water injection is not worth it.
Some gas stations (used to?) mix a little water in with their gas, because they know that it is a cheap way to increase octane and power.
Why would you drive a Hydrogen F-150 over your Honda Civic? The F-150 was built for work, often on conditions that require a little off-road. Great for light construction or farm work. The Handeling cannot be made as good as a car, (assuming the car wasn't baddly designed, a '30's car is likely worse than today's F-150 for example) and because it is designed to haul a load it has to use more energy to move. (Real output power, input power can be controlled to some extent)
Mind you there are many good reasons to get a F-150. However if your needs are served by a Civic I don't see why you would get a F150.
BTW, Hybrids are the wrong solution for some people. I recomend you looking diesels. like VW's TDI for a different alternative that is better for hiway driving. Which is best depends on how you drive of course, but a hybrid is not the best solution for everyone.
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Off topic I know...
I'd like to agree, but I've seen several posts that obviously are full of made up facts that have been moded up, when they should be troll. (Mostly against the war, but some for too) Moderators, remember that if you agree with a position you don't want to moderate it up unless it is also factual, nothing makes your side look worse than an arguement that is full of obvious holes.
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Most of the media I've heard has been opposed to war. It seems only the local radio morning shows are really for it. Okay, so the US major media is for it now, but it wasn't that way two weeks ago. Then they were only showing protests to possibal war, with no mention of just what a Tyran Iraq's leaders are. The morning shows were enjoying picking on all the news reports for not mentioning the rape and other evil things done in Iraq, by it's leaders.
It seems the Media in Europe was more biased against the war all along (I heard both BBC and US based sources, the BBC anyway was more against war than anything US based, I can't comment on other world media because it isn't easially available). Appearently Europe just listens to the major media and accepts their bias instead of finding the facts they are not told (or more likely are told once so the media can claim they said it, and then ignored forever) and forming an opinion themselves.
I don't like war. However I prefer a war of my choosing to prevent many deaths that I can't choose latter.
I don't belive it. A very important part of war is surprize. Even if everyone knows you are going to attack, doing so before they expect it, or where they don't expect gives you a big advantage. In Gulf war one the latter was used, the US attacked where they were not expected. Now we are pretty sure Iraq knows where we are, so we attack early, and hope for the best.
Mind you targets are always selected, and withing the bounds of attacking early they considered what targets can be hit at any given time, trying to maxamise the number hit early.
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Both orginizations did themselves in. Or rather other members did it in. There is evidence that both Russia and France oppose this war in part because they have been investing in Iraq oil since the first Gulf war, and do not want their investments to loose money. If they weren't dealing with tyrants I could agree with them.
If the UN wasn't weak it would have done something about Iraq when the inspectors were kicked out of Iraq in the first place! Instead they sat on their rear ends, making symbolic gestures like electing human rights experts like Lybia to lead thier human rights group.
The EU is purely Europe. If Europe was totally behind the EU it would not be weakened. If Europe could disagree, then the EU can stand strong where there is agreement despite serious disagreement elsewhere. In any case though, the EU is Europe not America. As an American I don't care one way or the other if it succedes or fails. (I perdicted years ago it would fail though, I don't think you Europens can agree with each for long, but that is opinion, and I would be happy if you could prove me wrong)
FreeBSD 5.0 will not have perl as a part of the OS. I think the installation will install it, but it is not a part of the base system and you are free to remove it without worries.
Would we care? When you need to know the structure of benzine, the person who discovered it is normally unrelated trivia. Of course we should be able to look it up quickly, but do we really need to know it. (and of course we should be able to look up the structure of benzine easially too)
I'm not against memorizing random facts, but if I must memorize them, I prefer that they be of use. 2+2=4 is useful often enough that it is worth it to memorize it, even though you could count on your fingers. I've memorized fire escape plans for buildings I no longer have acess to, even though I've never used one. Most facts are better left as something you look up though.
So to half a million other people who have given me one or anouther. I'm still looking for something that works. (Part of the problem is simple memorization is slow, and nothing else has a chance. Even then though, not only do your have to have the right spelling memorized, but you need to remember it.)
In other words I know it is a weakness. I am working on it, but frankly I know of nothing that helps, so I'm stuck working in it forever, with no clue how the rest of you can manage to spell correctly.
I'll agree that a simple reading of a science text book is boring. However you shouldn't be reading it like some novel. Your read it to learn about science. So you skim a couple pages, then get the components and mix up an expiriment.
Sure you con't do every experiment to learn about it, but you need a grounding first. (Anyone care to tell me how to prove H has 1 electron, 1 proton, and no neutrons, without equipement byond what a science classrom could afford) Sure the story of Tesla and Ben Franklin might be more interesting, but their bio will not help you understand electrisity. Doing expiriemtns will. Reading about Ohm's law, and the other basics of the Science will.
Science is about how and why things work, and the process of finding out. Science is not about enertainment, other than the enertainment of a hands on expiriemnt, or hands on solving some difficult math. (it is exciting to solve a complex math problem after spending several full days thinking about it, most people have never experienced it though)
I'm not completely against these books. If they really help teach science great. However the joke about modern teaching where it doesn't matter if the kid says 2+2=2, so long as the kid tried hard the kid gets all the points is a concern. Science is fun, but a new textbook is not the answer. The answer is in teachers who understand science (not teaching, there is a BIG difference, though understanding teaching is important too) and can show the kids how to do it. Somehow, I'm not a teacher because I can't do it.
I had a better way: I got one new/young kid to produce all the food and energy I needed, and spent all my resources of the mineing. You don't need much energy or food, and so long as the kid is honest (and gets the guy with the food bonus and builds in the valleys which are not minable but get a food bonus) you have plenty of food and energy, and can concentrate on the game.
It mught suck to be the kid, but I never was. The kid generally was too young to realize that he was being cheated, just happy to play with the big kids who had room for an extra joystick.:)
I've considered this. However I can't figgure out how to make sound work. X11 assumes you have a DISPLAY variable set, and sends data to that, so you can have as many different screens as you wish. (Up to some limit). There is no standard way to do sound in that manor. Many different things are trying, but none are universial, so even if you get something to work, it won't work with much.
I understand that X11 now has a sound extnetion, which could solve this problem and is standard enough that it is likely to be used. But only if it is used, right now it isn't implimented.
Let me know when linux 2.6 kernels are out. Until then I will leave the development kernels off my main desktop. Just like I leave the development freebsd kernels off my desktop.
Nothing wrong with keeping up to date with the latest and greatest, but it ins't tested, and if it breaks report it and someone will fix it. Run something considered stable and there is a much better chance that nothing will break. Nothing breaking is critically important when you update from the net, and your net connection is through the machine you are updateing.
I don't trust that. Many linux users have faked their browser id string, normally to claim they are running ie on windows so various websites won't send them to microsoft for the latest browser. Unfortunatly so long as we keep faking our id, websites won't see the demand for other browsers so they won't bother checking for them meaning we have to fake them even longer...
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OKay, so there are several situations, lets enumerate them. (let me know if I left any out)
User owns one comtpuer with one monitor and one set of speakers.
User owns two comptuers, the one he is physically at has speakers, but the user has choosen to run some program on the other computer.
The system administrators have decided that thin clients on the desktop, and users share the machines in the backroom is a better value. Users would like to do video confrencing.
User has one computer, but connected two monitors, keyboards, mice, and sound cards to it, so that he can share the CPU with family members.
User has one computer with two sound cards, one connected to a stereo elsewhere, but the outputs are physically routed to different rooms.
Note that the first is the only one well supported by the current implimentations. Adding sound to X will make all but the last work. X has a standard DISPLAY variable that tells any X aware program where to display information. I've already been frusterated when my network was fast enough to display a game, but the sound was coming out of the speakers in the next room.
No, someone must go through every bug report, and eliminate the ones that are for already known problems (with a public beta you potentially could end up with thousands of people thinking they are the first to find some problem that seems obscure). Then you have to eliminate the ones that aren't really problems (the copy and paste shortcuts are confusing by design since those who use them will use them often enough for the pain of memorizing strange key combinations is less than the pain of having to easy to remember short cuts that are harder to use on the keyboard). Next deal with the miscolanious problems (user didn't plug computer in, got a corupted download, has no net connection, and other problems that are either stupid user, or other stupid problem not related to the program).
Really what it needed is a few QA testers who can test everything, but that isn't possiable. Not even Apple with control of all supported platforms can do it. A public beta might seem like a hope that the gain is less than the costs. In reality a public beta is generally a way for marketing to get a almost working version out before it is ready for release, and the bug reports that might come in are worth much less than the hype.
What difference does it make? When I look for a construction job the boss doesn't ask if I use Senco or Pasload Nailers. If I have expirence with sheetrock I'm worth more to a framing crew than someone with no expirence, just because I know how houses go togather, even though I've worked on different parts. (I'm not worth as much as an expirenced framer of course, but in a few months I will be)
Why is programing different. Sure today I've never worked with .net. I've programed though, and that should be worth nearly as much as a specific. Technologies change. The skills that are different between two different programing areas are easially learned, the skill that are the same are much more important. (General algorythms, and people skills. etc)
Most goods already are labled in both. In some cases only the metric is used. (I'm reasonably sure that for most good metric equivelents must be listed. standard measurements are not required though)
Most people can work in metric, we just don't see the need to change. Imerial measurements often work better too. In carpentry 16 inch on center studs is a good spacing for engineering reasons, and 8 foot walls are standard because they are tall enough for almost everyone to pass under the lights, but no taller. The rich (on a relative sense) might buy taller walls, but it costs more. Machinsts have found that tolerances of one thousandths of an inche are about right for most things, and no metric equivelent is as nice for a general rule. (Though some will use metric) These numbers and more just happen to work out. Perhaps because the imperial measurement system was partially designed with real work use in mind. Yes unit coversion is harder, but in parctice you don't convert units anyway. Several metric projects have been off because someone incorrectly converted units too.
In the end though, the resistance to metric is that despite the claims, it isn't better, it is just different and more common. The latter is a powerful reason. Ironicly most of the world picks on american's for not being able to deal with two languages, yet they themselves refuse to learn to deal with two measuremetn systems.
Huh? You are saying that the guy with the gun has accused the other guy of being evil for a long time, asked others to keep an eye on him, provided evidence of it, and then after the evil guy is shot you expect the others to go after him when he is sleeping?
Oh wait, I guess there is ample evidence that the gun is more evil than anything else.
Unfortunatly I can't really think of a good way give an example of how the other guy could be evil when it is 20 men on an island with one gun. However the real world provides that. Still it seems most people ignore the evidence.
Inspiring to WHO though? I found the American speach much more inspiring if I was thinking like the troops, preparing to go in. I found the British speach more inspiring if I was thinking like an accidemic making a speach to the people back home to support our troops and the war.
Though With Americans mostly behind the troops (though not nessicarly in favor of war), while the british appearently are not behind their troops as much, this is understandable. The American Generals don't really need to boost moral back home, they need a boost to the troops. The British generals need to boost moral back home because that is what is draging the local moral down.
I'd give them both Cs. Their job is to have the best speach writers and plenty of time to practice! I would expect nothing less than what they did. Frankly, I don't give A's easially (I'm not sure I'd give Jesus an A most days).
Yes, in fact they did. Well not directly, I don't know which is the most evil goverment (My guess: China, but there are other canidates), and it depends somewhat on your interpitation.
However my sources have made clear that Iraq is the only country with an evil goverment that has invaded a country that is a US allie, and after the war to oust them refused to abide by the peace agreement.
As for the US supporting Iraq, that was in the past, and we never supported the gassing operations. We just decided that the less of the evils was supporting them vs ignoring a threat to other US interests that were seen as more important at the time.
There is plenty of opertunity to debate how our leaders should have done things, and if doing something else would have resulted in a better world overall. However no matter what you do there are concequences that you cannot foresee. (I'm not aware of any prophet that has any reasonable track record perdicting the future, so we have to muddle though without knowing what the full results of our decisions are) In other words I fully expect that as a result of our action in Iraq something else will blow up latter. We just hope it is less than the current evils, as we have decided that Iraq cannot be safely ignored.
Don't forget that after those two holes were made in New York's skyline not long ago the US changed the way were think. Before we were much more content to let evil people deal with themselves which they mostly did (with some exceptions like Isreal, but lets not get into that), afterwards we decided that it wasn't good enough. Belive me, most americans don't want to be at war, but we support the war anyway because it has been proven that ignoring evil people (Bin Ladin, Saddam, and others) won't give us peace.
Old days? I got news for you kid, those old days are today. I still use X's network transparency to run apps on different computers. Sure it is faster to run local programs, but when you need something on a different computer X is a good solution.
I know many companies that still use that X terminal model because it is cheaper in the long run. A X terminal will last for 5 years, and requires no maintance. A PC will last 3 before it is obsolete, and one person can only manage so many PCs. Sure you need people to manage those back room servers, but 1 person can manage as many servers as PCs. When an expensive server breaks (which is slightly less often than a PC) you tell everyone to move to a different server, and you fix it. When a PC breaks you need to get to that person's desk and fix it or provide them with a replacement, a process that generally takes longer.
In theory X terminals can break just like PCs, but in practice they don't break as often.
Just because the side they are biased for also screams bias doesn't mean they are unbiased. It means they are making a token effort to unbiasedness that isn't perfectly in line with what one side says.
In truth though, there is No such thing as unbiased reporting. Read it, know it, and get over it. Unbiased reporting cannot exist because even a middle report of both sides is biased (to a middle ground) There are many sides to most stories, and many many different viewpoints are possible. Instead read as many sources as you can, and find where you stand.
Oh, and honest persons will change their opinion. I was against this war (plenty of evil dictators in this world) until I found out how evil Saddam really is. If it turns out my soruces were lieing to me, then I may change my mind again, and also learn something about which sources to trust. In the end though, only God knows what would happen if any particular course of action is followed. (that many people debate the existance of God is part of my point!) There are many courses of action we could take, we can't take them all in parrell universes so we can't know which is best.
Ahh, your second reason is one I'm wresteling with now. Unfortunatly I can't make an ecconomic justification for a second car now, no matter how little gas it uses (unless it is cheap and runs good). With the added insurance on two cars (even though when I drive one the other is in the driveway) I can't save enough on gas to afford a second car.
I doin't use my truck (S-10) to haul often, but I do use it to haul. For some things I could rent a truck, but that is expensive in its own way. (I'd do it for a few times a year though) It doesn't get my gear hunting though because rental places don't allow driving on the roads I take. So I'm stuck with a trust that is a compromise (when I need a truck a 3/4 ton would be best) because it is cheapest.
Compitition my friend, it solves a lot price problems in a free market. CRT monitors are cheap now beacuse LCDs are considered better so people will pay more for them. CRT manufactures know they have a more expensive product, so they make it better and cheaper. (Flat screens on a CRT were a dream until LCDs became common. 17 inch monitors for 80 bucks)
Sure they will charge more at the start, because people are willing to pay for it. Once the people with too much money are unwilling to pay for all expensive OLCDs they can make, the price will come down to get a bigger market share. Of course eventially they will reach the point where the market it saterated and they can't sell more than they make. By that time thought LCDs (more expensive to manufacture and not as good) will be non-existant, and CRTs will be limited to the few artists that can tell the difference in colors. (Assuming OLCDs are like CRTs and don't give perfect color, I don't know)
Water inject is a known way to improve performance and power. However it only works after the engine is warm, and only when you get the right amount. (More than about 5% water is worse than none at all).
Combine water's tendency to freeze in winter, with the need to keep another consumable toped off, with a couple other disadvantages that I forget now, and water injection is not worth it.
Some gas stations (used to?) mix a little water in with their gas, because they know that it is a cheap way to increase octane and power.
Why would you drive a Hydrogen F-150 over your Honda Civic? The F-150 was built for work, often on conditions that require a little off-road. Great for light construction or farm work. The Handeling cannot be made as good as a car, (assuming the car wasn't baddly designed, a '30's car is likely worse than today's F-150 for example) and because it is designed to haul a load it has to use more energy to move. (Real output power, input power can be controlled to some extent)
Mind you there are many good reasons to get a F-150. However if your needs are served by a Civic I don't see why you would get a F150.
BTW, Hybrids are the wrong solution for some people. I recomend you looking diesels. like VW's TDI for a different alternative that is better for hiway driving. Which is best depends on how you drive of course, but a hybrid is not the best solution for everyone.
Off topic I know...
I'd like to agree, but I've seen several posts that obviously are full of made up facts that have been moded up, when they should be troll. (Mostly against the war, but some for too) Moderators, remember that if you agree with a position you don't want to moderate it up unless it is also factual, nothing makes your side look worse than an arguement that is full of obvious holes.
Most of the media I've heard has been opposed to war. It seems only the local radio morning shows are really for it. Okay, so the US major media is for it now, but it wasn't that way two weeks ago. Then they were only showing protests to possibal war, with no mention of just what a Tyran Iraq's leaders are. The morning shows were enjoying picking on all the news reports for not mentioning the rape and other evil things done in Iraq, by it's leaders.
It seems the Media in Europe was more biased against the war all along (I heard both BBC and US based sources, the BBC anyway was more against war than anything US based, I can't comment on other world media because it isn't easially available). Appearently Europe just listens to the major media and accepts their bias instead of finding the facts they are not told (or more likely are told once so the media can claim they said it, and then ignored forever) and forming an opinion themselves.
I don't like war. However I prefer a war of my choosing to prevent many deaths that I can't choose latter.
I don't belive it. A very important part of war is surprize. Even if everyone knows you are going to attack, doing so before they expect it, or where they don't expect gives you a big advantage. In Gulf war one the latter was used, the US attacked where they were not expected. Now we are pretty sure Iraq knows where we are, so we attack early, and hope for the best.
Mind you targets are always selected, and withing the bounds of attacking early they considered what targets can be hit at any given time, trying to maxamise the number hit early.
Both orginizations did themselves in. Or rather other members did it in. There is evidence that both Russia and France oppose this war in part because they have been investing in Iraq oil since the first Gulf war, and do not want their investments to loose money. If they weren't dealing with tyrants I could agree with them.
If the UN wasn't weak it would have done something about Iraq when the inspectors were kicked out of Iraq in the first place! Instead they sat on their rear ends, making symbolic gestures like electing human rights experts like Lybia to lead thier human rights group.
The EU is purely Europe. If Europe was totally behind the EU it would not be weakened. If Europe could disagree, then the EU can stand strong where there is agreement despite serious disagreement elsewhere. In any case though, the EU is Europe not America. As an American I don't care one way or the other if it succedes or fails. (I perdicted years ago it would fail though, I don't think you Europens can agree with each for long, but that is opinion, and I would be happy if you could prove me wrong)
FreeBSD 5.0 will not have perl as a part of the OS. I think the installation will install it, but it is not a part of the base system and you are free to remove it without worries.
Would we care? When you need to know the structure of benzine, the person who discovered it is normally unrelated trivia. Of course we should be able to look it up quickly, but do we really need to know it. (and of course we should be able to look up the structure of benzine easially too)
I'm not against memorizing random facts, but if I must memorize them, I prefer that they be of use. 2+2=4 is useful often enough that it is worth it to memorize it, even though you could count on your fingers. I've memorized fire escape plans for buildings I no longer have acess to, even though I've never used one. Most facts are better left as something you look up though.
So to half a million other people who have given me one or anouther. I'm still looking for something that works. (Part of the problem is simple memorization is slow, and nothing else has a chance. Even then though, not only do your have to have the right spelling memorized, but you need to remember it.)
In other words I know it is a weakness. I am working on it, but frankly I know of nothing that helps, so I'm stuck working in it forever, with no clue how the rest of you can manage to spell correctly.
I'll agree that a simple reading of a science text book is boring. However you shouldn't be reading it like some novel. Your read it to learn about science. So you skim a couple pages, then get the components and mix up an expiriment.
Sure you con't do every experiment to learn about it, but you need a grounding first. (Anyone care to tell me how to prove H has 1 electron, 1 proton, and no neutrons, without equipement byond what a science classrom could afford) Sure the story of Tesla and Ben Franklin might be more interesting, but their bio will not help you understand electrisity. Doing expiriemtns will. Reading about Ohm's law, and the other basics of the Science will.
Science is about how and why things work, and the process of finding out. Science is not about enertainment, other than the enertainment of a hands on expiriemnt, or hands on solving some difficult math. (it is exciting to solve a complex math problem after spending several full days thinking about it, most people have never experienced it though)
I'm not completely against these books. If they really help teach science great. However the joke about modern teaching where it doesn't matter if the kid says 2+2=2, so long as the kid tried hard the kid gets all the points is a concern. Science is fun, but a new textbook is not the answer. The answer is in teachers who understand science (not teaching, there is a BIG difference, though understanding teaching is important too) and can show the kids how to do it. Somehow, I'm not a teacher because I can't do it.
I had a better way: I got one new/young kid to produce all the food and energy I needed, and spent all my resources of the mineing. You don't need much energy or food, and so long as the kid is honest (and gets the guy with the food bonus and builds in the valleys which are not minable but get a food bonus) you have plenty of food and energy, and can concentrate on the game.
It mught suck to be the kid, but I never was. The kid generally was too young to realize that he was being cheated, just happy to play with the big kids who had room for an extra joystick. :)
I've considered this. However I can't figgure out how to make sound work. X11 assumes you have a DISPLAY variable set, and sends data to that, so you can have as many different screens as you wish. (Up to some limit). There is no standard way to do sound in that manor. Many different things are trying, but none are universial, so even if you get something to work, it won't work with much.
I understand that X11 now has a sound extnetion, which could solve this problem and is standard enough that it is likely to be used. But only if it is used, right now it isn't implimented.
Let me know when linux 2.6 kernels are out. Until then I will leave the development kernels off my main desktop. Just like I leave the development freebsd kernels off my desktop.
Nothing wrong with keeping up to date with the latest and greatest, but it ins't tested, and if it breaks report it and someone will fix it. Run something considered stable and there is a much better chance that nothing will break. Nothing breaking is critically important when you update from the net, and your net connection is through the machine you are updateing.
I don't trust that. Many linux users have faked their browser id string, normally to claim they are running ie on windows so various websites won't send them to microsoft for the latest browser. Unfortunatly so long as we keep faking our id, websites won't see the demand for other browsers so they won't bother checking for them meaning we have to fake them even longer...