Well you can run task manager and have access to the run command... but anything that relies on explorer.exe will fail if it isn't running.... Some things however don't mind explorer.exe being gone and others do... So your mileage may vary...
Well first it's 6 of 18 patents Motorola is using...
& second Motorola probably wouldn't have including their wireless network patent if Apple weren't being jackasses about everything. But they are, so why not use patents Apple has to use?
I think you'll be waiting longer on your fuel cell... No one has made a functional fuel cell that doesn't have considerable issues when scaled up to something like a car...
Let me put it another way... I make sense of 18 as 6 pm because I do math in my head: 18-12=6. That is very very different than the fact I intuitively know what 6 pm is.
I used to work as the network admin for a school with between 300-500 students. Out yearly budget was around $7 million USD. So I'd say this is nothing, though I was replaced for less than $50k to balance the budget a couple years ago as well...
Well the problem with lost jobs here is directly related to how much we can afford to buy and how healthy our government spending can realistically be... The later being a big issue not so long ago. Eventually the companies will move away anyways as the US will have circled the economic drain. We've been at real unemployment as high as 20-30% for the past couple years, that is in no way sustainable. Nor is the consequence as more and more things move overseas and the number grows. Add to this an aging population and we just get more problems. Sure right now an aging population means more health care jobs (just about all I see in the papers these days), but that raises the costs of health care and eventually a majority of us just won't be able to afford those costs and the system will crash. We will lose jobs again and the unemployment rate will grow. Those costs for elderly health care also means less money going to any family they have when they eventually pass away, less inheritance tax for the state, and so less money available to feed into programs to help those without jobs survive. It's really not looking good for us and Japan is having even worse problems with negative growth rates causing them accelerated difficulties.
So frankly I don't give a rats ass about the companies now, we should know already that they won't be here when the shit hits the fan. We need to increase smaller business now as it's the only thing that will save us when the big guys leave.
The real issue becomes the cost of living in both nations... the 'low cost' nations with growing wages have fairly low costs of living (outside a few specific areas, ie Chinese city land issues), while the costs in 'high cost' nations with stagnant wages keeps increasing... This directly applies to how much cash people have to do things and is why we are said to be destroying the middle class in the developed world and forcing or poor to go onto welfare to live.
That may be, but we still have no electrics in the 16k starting price for a new car in the US. So it would be more reasonable to talk about electrics when they can actually work across the range. That or you should be willing to buy me an electric car to replace my ICE one.
My 1999 Chrysler LHS (a fairly large 4 door luxury sedan) gets 29-31 MPG interstate/highway and 24-26 mpg city going by both my own record keeping and my mileage gauge. So I'm not terribly impressed by your Pasat. Btw my engine is a 3.5L V6... I don't think your getting any advantage in your 1.8L vs my 3.5L... Though mine is probably faster...
The problem is the US is not Europe... I watch European car shows (for two reasons) and what I see are lots of things you will not find in the US.
The first thing is we have safety rules that will bump up weight. Your 200 pounds figure is also half assed, I own a fairly large 4 door sedan, and my car btw weighs slightly more than 2000 lbs (using fun things like an aluminum engine block) and trust me having had my power steering die, it was not easy to manage. I think you may want under 1000 lbs. With motorcycles averaging around 200 lbs.
Also in the US demand for 2-door sedans are fairly limited, most people want to drive have other people with them, or at least the option of it, as well as a place to put things. This isn't always the case, but most people want the ability to do it. Hence 4-door sedans are actually kinda standard. On the other hand I've seen loads of European 2-doors. Personally I felt rather confined in some Eruopean and Japanese 4-door sedans (& my first car was a nissan sentra and I didn't feel that way then) when I last looked at getting a new car.
Basically what the US market wants is a 50 MPG 4-door sedan and it is likely to weight around 2.2k to 2.6k lbs.
First... When did I ever say it was someone in the UK/Britain/whatever else you want to call it?
Here in the US at least, plenty of black people refer to themselves as 'niggers', I've in fact been to a black baptist church in town which had ties to the school I used to work for and the pastor himself called his own people that in the context of black people who choose to be ignorant. It has a definitive meaning in US black culture at least that is not specifically related to racism.
Third many of the things I said about past culture and what they thought of places like China and Africa are true. I could fill a book with references, starting with the practices of the Popes from as early as the 16th century and the ways they instructed their missionaries to act. What we know as racism was alive and well by the 15th century and was typified by a European world view (though the Chinese in particular have their sinocentrism as well).
Fourth the breakout of humans into distinct 'races' is a fade from the 18th century when a group of scientists created the idea to encompass their world view. Taken straight from wikipedia from an easy example: "In the 18th century, the differences among human groups became a focus of scientific investigation. But the scientific classification of phenotypic variation was frequently coupled with racist ideas about innate predispositions of different groups, always attributing the most desirable features to the White, European race and arranging the other races along a continuum of progressively undesirable attributes. The 1755 classification of Carolus Linnaeus, inventor of zoological taxonomy, divided the human race Homo Sapiens continental varieties of Europaeus, Asiaticus, Americanus and Afer, each associated with a different humour: sanguine, melancholic, choleric and bilious respectively. Homo Sapiens Europeaus was described as active, acute, and adventurous whereas Homo Sapiens Afer was crafty, lazy and careless."
Btw the 1775 treatise "The Natural Varieties of Mankind," by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach established five major divisions of humans still reflected in racial classifications today.
Fifth is that their are several known 'waves' of exodus from Africa of what would eventually be modern man (starting around 400,000 years ago). This is what you may be looking for as to where the modern 'races' come from. Btw the Chinese view is that they developed independently in one location along the modern coast of eastern China, which since the genetic divergence is considerably less than 1% is rather silly.
Lastly the reason some scientists avoid the term race (as do I) is the lack of veracity to the seperation of modern humans into 'race'. It also delves into something you should look up called 'scientific racism'. It would be closer to say that we exist as several modern 'breeds' of the same race, than as several races within one broader race. The concept of racism however has tainted the whole tree and altered modern perceptions by many ordinary people into believing we actually are inherently different. Even wikipedia would tell you this: "A significant number of modern anthropologists and biologists in the West came to view race as an invalid genetic or biological designation. The first to challenge the concept of race on empirical grounds were anthropologists Franz Boas, who demonstrated phenotypic plasticity due to environmental factors, and Ashley Montagu who relied on evidence from genetics. E. O. Wilson then challenged the concept from the perspective of general animal systematics, and further rejected the claim that "races" were equivalent to "subspecies."
The current scientific view suggests that 'population' may be a more correct term... if anyone could decide what it means... But suffice it to say we have so little difference between the conceptual view of one 'race' and another that 'race is simply the wrong term. Even 'subspecies' is inaccurate. We just are so closely related that while someone may have different levels of pigment in their skin than another or one may have slightly slanted cheekbones, these things are insignificant. We are genetically closer than Siberian Husky and a Norwegian Elkhound, two pick two breeds from another family of a single race.
At least for the moment the Xbox team holds a much better record than the Sony one... That may not be something that one can say for MS and Sony in all their massiveness, but in consoles the Xbox team does not have a huge security blunder not even a few months ago that shutdown their online network for weeks on end. They have not removed features from the device after making a big deal of them in their earlier hardware/software revisions...
So sure on a larger scale neither are angels. I think we all know that and maybe it is just me and the grandparent poster, but I'm left wondering why anyone would want a PS3 as a gaming console over an Xbox 360...
That is only the case if you aren't black, many black people say that word of themselves. I've seen this in action several times.
Personally I think it's all silly, as it's based on some scientists who decided their was a need to categorize and sort the people of the world into differing groups. However their is no actual scientific cause for any of the names they created. Of course at the time most of the world was 'racist'. People from Africa, or China were considered backwards and not 'worthy' of being called human... So these people came up with a way to make them less 'human' by subverting the concept of race in ways we never would for animals.
the 'N word' is you say is just a word, a word we made up to put certain people down as less than human (though the modern 'N Word' and the historical one are not quite the same). What we need is less concern over a word and more concern about why we think a word can be so bad.
I've looked into the idea of a Internal Combustion Engine run on liquefied coal (actually finely ground 'sand'-like coal). It actually worked pretty well except for one thing. The fuel pump would clog or fail to work correctly so often everyone working on such things gave up. Never specifically looked at Diesel's engines, but I've seen a scattering of designs from the turn of last century on the topic.
Oddly we could probably build a working model today, but their is no real demand and it isn't likely to be terribly efficient compared to modern ICE engines we already have...
I own a 'heavy' Chrysler LHS that is 12 years old and get 32 MPG in relatively similiar conditions. By what your saying I'm not terribly impressed by your 2011 Cruze...
Just to start I know how to drive a manual, but I've never owned one. That said I've never had acceleration problems with automatics. A common trick if the transmission doesn't give the power you want is to double tap the gas. It's worked on four of the 6 cars I've owned (And I never tried on the other two, so I can't say if it would have or not).
I haven't bought a manual transmission car, because I don't buy used here in the US... I'm more likely to get what I want at a good price in automatic transmission over manual. The reason is simple, most cars sold are automatics here and so the availability is high. My parents have always done the same, so I guess I learned it from them.
I've also never thought driving a manual would tire your leg btw...
The easiest solution is to add a check on the area your using (whether this is on disk or in memory) and see if what you want is actually there. Not being a programmer I can't tell where specifically they currently overlap, but adding checks to verify the state of something is 101 level comp sci stuff I learned back with basic in high school.
In the worst case were they directly are overwriting the same data and messing everything up a small utility which can even separate the settings by app within the same files are even possible... That however means they would need to work on such a system. Though since both seem to want to have a schoolyard dispute that would probably keep it from happening.
Then why not instead make it so having both installed with the same name doesn't matter...? I can think of a few easy fixes and my day job is not programming... Instead they want to act like three year olds, which frankly is silly.
Because I happen to have the material that is from on hand...
"Diesel engines usually have longer stroke lengths in order to achieve the necessary compression ratios. As a result piston and connecting rods are heavier and more force must be transmitted through the connecting rods and crankshaft to change the momentum of the piston. This is another reason that a diesel engine must be stronger for the same power output as a petrol engine.
Yet it is this characteristic that has allowed some enthusiasts to acquire significant power increases with turbocharged engines by making fairly simple and inexpensive modifications. A petrol engine of similar size cannot put out a comparable power increase without extensive alterations because the stock components cannot withstand the higher stresses placed upon them. Since a diesel engine is already built to withstand higher levels of stress, it makes an ideal candidate for performance tuning at little expense. However, it should be said that any modification that raises the amount of fuel and air put through a diesel engine will increase its operating temperature, which will reduce its life and increase service requirements. These are issues with newer, lighter, high performance diesel engines which are not "overbuilt" to the degree of older engines and they are being pushed to provide greater power in smaller engines. The addition of a turbocharger or supercharger to the engine greatly assists in increasing fuel economy and power output, mitigating the fuel-air intake speed limit mentioned above for a given engine displacement. Boost pressures can be higher on diesels than on petrol engines, due to the latter's susceptibility to knock, and the higher compression ratio allows a diesel engine to be more efficient than a comparable spark ignition engine. Because the burned gases are expanded further in a diesel engine cylinder, the exhaust gas is cooler, meaning turbochargers require less cooling, and can be more reliable, than with spark-ignition engines.
With a diesel, boost pressure is essentially unlimited. It is literally possible to run as much boost as the engine will physically stand before breaking apart."
IE the design of a diesel engine is easier to use with turbocharging than gasoline with no real increase in cost.
A non-turbo diesel engine and a diesel engine are nearly identical, the process that is used to make a engine a 'diesel' engine needs very little work to be turbocharged. This is why often diesel engines only come 'turbocharged' and one reason I've heard it said that turbocharging a diesel is 'free'. So I don't think you quite understand how a diesel works or why turbocharged diesels are so common. While I'm not an expert by any means, I have in fact read up on the subject I suggest you do to.
On the other hand turbocharging a gasoline engine takes considerably more work and is done far more rarely. It is also expensive in gasoline engines to turbocharge them.
Maybe Because they simply aren't sold in the US outside trucks? Even Chrysler which makes Diesel cars for Canada does not sell any in the US. I'd have to import one if I wanted to own a Diesel car here. Well outside the Jetta mentioned in the article. Diesel has been consider the unwanted stepchild in the US for ages while nearly half of all cars in Europe are diesel.
I've looked into diesel cars here, because they can be much more efficient, but buying one is a pain because they need to be imported and even then the requirements to be road rated in the US have meant reductions in fuel efficiency in the US anyways... Hence the mention that it barely gets better millage then the gas engine.
I have a friend, who most certainly does not beat her children in any way, who a social services worker took away for 'environmental factors'. Aka she thought their home was dirty and so made a bad environment. Well she lives on a farm, with a a corral of horses not 10 feet away from the door closest to the kitchen. This is not little home on the prairie, things keep you from mopping up dirt and mud as soon as it happens. That doesn't mean the environment is dirty. Yet one opinionated women in social services still took her children.
My Ex is another example, her five year old (from before I meet her) was playing outside by himself and someone from his fathers side of the family decided to report her for 'negligence'. Yet she lives on the edge of the city in a low traffic area and he was in a backyard. Certainly at his age no one ever gave a rats ass about me playing outside. Instead now though she was warned by social services that if it was reported again she would lose custody of him.
That is only one example of abuses by social services I've seen. I worked in a school for several years and often they ruined parents at little more than a word from a child who was actually the abusive one. That sort of thing usually happened when the child couldn't live with their parent of choice in custody issues (not all of which are divorce). Typically those kids wanted the worse parent because the worse parent didn't give a shit about them and let them do whatever they wanted. Instead poor parents who actually cared about their kids would lose them and often causing even more legal trouble on top of it.
Social services tends to be bogged down with both bigoted service workers and incompetent policy and effectively useless for anything important.
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Well you can run task manager and have access to the run command... but anything that relies on explorer.exe will fail if it isn't running.... Some things however don't mind explorer.exe being gone and others do... So your mileage may vary...
Well first it's 6 of 18 patents Motorola is using...
& second Motorola probably wouldn't have including their wireless network patent if Apple weren't being jackasses about everything. But they are, so why not use patents Apple has to use?
I think you'll be waiting longer on your fuel cell... No one has made a functional fuel cell that doesn't have considerable issues when scaled up to something like a car...
Don't forget the spellchecker... and some of the horrid organization making sentences into nonsense....
Let me put it another way... I make sense of 18 as 6 pm because I do math in my head: 18-12=6. That is very very different than the fact I intuitively know what 6 pm is.
I like AM & PM.
It makes it fairly simple to tell 'morning' from 'afternoon'. To me 18 means diddly squat. 6 pm means something.
I used to work as the network admin for a school with between 300-500 students. Out yearly budget was around $7 million USD. So I'd say this is nothing, though I was replaced for less than $50k to balance the budget a couple years ago as well...
Well the problem with lost jobs here is directly related to how much we can afford to buy and how healthy our government spending can realistically be... The later being a big issue not so long ago. Eventually the companies will move away anyways as the US will have circled the economic drain. We've been at real unemployment as high as 20-30% for the past couple years, that is in no way sustainable. Nor is the consequence as more and more things move overseas and the number grows. Add to this an aging population and we just get more problems. Sure right now an aging population means more health care jobs (just about all I see in the papers these days), but that raises the costs of health care and eventually a majority of us just won't be able to afford those costs and the system will crash. We will lose jobs again and the unemployment rate will grow. Those costs for elderly health care also means less money going to any family they have when they eventually pass away, less inheritance tax for the state, and so less money available to feed into programs to help those without jobs survive. It's really not looking good for us and Japan is having even worse problems with negative growth rates causing them accelerated difficulties.
So frankly I don't give a rats ass about the companies now, we should know already that they won't be here when the shit hits the fan. We need to increase smaller business now as it's the only thing that will save us when the big guys leave.
The real issue becomes the cost of living in both nations... the 'low cost' nations with growing wages have fairly low costs of living (outside a few specific areas, ie Chinese city land issues), while the costs in 'high cost' nations with stagnant wages keeps increasing... This directly applies to how much cash people have to do things and is why we are said to be destroying the middle class in the developed world and forcing or poor to go onto welfare to live.
I would if I wouldn't need a lawyer to translate normal speech into legalese...
That may be, but we still have no electrics in the 16k starting price for a new car in the US. So it would be more reasonable to talk about electrics when they can actually work across the range. That or you should be willing to buy me an electric car to replace my ICE one.
My 1999 Chrysler LHS (a fairly large 4 door luxury sedan) gets 29-31 MPG interstate/highway and 24-26 mpg city going by both my own record keeping and my mileage gauge. So I'm not terribly impressed by your Pasat. Btw my engine is a 3.5L V6... I don't think your getting any advantage in your 1.8L vs my 3.5L... Though mine is probably faster...
The problem is the US is not Europe... I watch European car shows (for two reasons) and what I see are lots of things you will not find in the US.
The first thing is we have safety rules that will bump up weight. Your 200 pounds figure is also half assed, I own a fairly large 4 door sedan, and my car btw weighs slightly more than 2000 lbs (using fun things like an aluminum engine block) and trust me having had my power steering die, it was not easy to manage. I think you may want under 1000 lbs. With motorcycles averaging around 200 lbs.
Also in the US demand for 2-door sedans are fairly limited, most people want to drive have other people with them, or at least the option of it, as well as a place to put things. This isn't always the case, but most people want the ability to do it. Hence 4-door sedans are actually kinda standard. On the other hand I've seen loads of European 2-doors. Personally I felt rather confined in some Eruopean and Japanese 4-door sedans (& my first car was a nissan sentra and I didn't feel that way then) when I last looked at getting a new car.
Basically what the US market wants is a 50 MPG 4-door sedan and it is likely to weight around 2.2k to 2.6k lbs.
First... When did I ever say it was someone in the UK/Britain/whatever else you want to call it?
Here in the US at least, plenty of black people refer to themselves as 'niggers', I've in fact been to a black baptist church in town which had ties to the school I used to work for and the pastor himself called his own people that in the context of black people who choose to be ignorant. It has a definitive meaning in US black culture at least that is not specifically related to racism.
Third many of the things I said about past culture and what they thought of places like China and Africa are true. I could fill a book with references, starting with the practices of the Popes from as early as the 16th century and the ways they instructed their missionaries to act. What we know as racism was alive and well by the 15th century and was typified by a European world view (though the Chinese in particular have their sinocentrism as well).
Fourth the breakout of humans into distinct 'races' is a fade from the 18th century when a group of scientists created the idea to encompass their world view. Taken straight from wikipedia from an easy example:
"In the 18th century, the differences among human groups became a focus of scientific investigation. But the scientific classification of phenotypic variation was frequently coupled with racist ideas about innate predispositions of different groups, always attributing the most desirable features to the White, European race and arranging the other races along a continuum of progressively undesirable attributes. The 1755 classification of Carolus Linnaeus, inventor of zoological taxonomy, divided the human race Homo Sapiens continental varieties of Europaeus, Asiaticus, Americanus and Afer, each associated with a different humour: sanguine, melancholic, choleric and bilious respectively. Homo Sapiens Europeaus was described as active, acute, and adventurous whereas Homo Sapiens Afer was crafty, lazy and careless."
Btw the 1775 treatise "The Natural Varieties of Mankind," by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach established five major divisions of humans still reflected in racial classifications today.
Fifth is that their are several known 'waves' of exodus from Africa of what would eventually be modern man (starting around 400,000 years ago). This is what you may be looking for as to where the modern 'races' come from. Btw the Chinese view is that they developed independently in one location along the modern coast of eastern China, which since the genetic divergence is considerably less than 1% is rather silly.
Lastly the reason some scientists avoid the term race (as do I) is the lack of veracity to the seperation of modern humans into 'race'. It also delves into something you should look up called 'scientific racism'. It would be closer to say that we exist as several modern 'breeds' of the same race, than as several races within one broader race. The concept of racism however has tainted the whole tree and altered modern perceptions by many ordinary people into believing we actually are inherently different. Even wikipedia would tell you this:
"A significant number of modern anthropologists and biologists in the West came to view race as an invalid genetic or biological designation. The first to challenge the concept of race on empirical grounds were anthropologists Franz Boas, who demonstrated phenotypic plasticity due to environmental factors, and Ashley Montagu who relied on evidence from genetics. E. O. Wilson then challenged the concept from the perspective of general animal systematics, and further rejected the claim that "races" were equivalent to "subspecies."
The current scientific view suggests that 'population' may be a more correct term... if anyone could decide what it means... But suffice it to say we have so little difference between the conceptual view of one 'race' and another that 'race is simply the wrong term. Even 'subspecies' is inaccurate. We just are so closely related that while someone may have different levels of pigment in their skin than another or one may have slightly slanted cheekbones, these things are insignificant. We are genetically closer than Siberian Husky and a Norwegian Elkhound, two pick two breeds from another family of a single race.
At least for the moment the Xbox team holds a much better record than the Sony one... That may not be something that one can say for MS and Sony in all their massiveness, but in consoles the Xbox team does not have a huge security blunder not even a few months ago that shutdown their online network for weeks on end. They have not removed features from the device after making a big deal of them in their earlier hardware/software revisions...
So sure on a larger scale neither are angels. I think we all know that and maybe it is just me and the grandparent poster, but I'm left wondering why anyone would want a PS3 as a gaming console over an Xbox 360...
That is only the case if you aren't black, many black people say that word of themselves. I've seen this in action several times.
Personally I think it's all silly, as it's based on some scientists who decided their was a need to categorize and sort the people of the world into differing groups. However their is no actual scientific cause for any of the names they created. Of course at the time most of the world was 'racist'. People from Africa, or China were considered backwards and not 'worthy' of being called human... So these people came up with a way to make them less 'human' by subverting the concept of race in ways we never would for animals.
the 'N word' is you say is just a word, a word we made up to put certain people down as less than human (though the modern 'N Word' and the historical one are not quite the same). What we need is less concern over a word and more concern about why we think a word can be so bad.
I've looked into the idea of a Internal Combustion Engine run on liquefied coal (actually finely ground 'sand'-like coal). It actually worked pretty well except for one thing. The fuel pump would clog or fail to work correctly so often everyone working on such things gave up. Never specifically looked at Diesel's engines, but I've seen a scattering of designs from the turn of last century on the topic.
Oddly we could probably build a working model today, but their is no real demand and it isn't likely to be terribly efficient compared to modern ICE engines we already have...
I own a 'heavy' Chrysler LHS that is 12 years old and get 32 MPG in relatively similiar conditions. By what your saying I'm not terribly impressed by your 2011 Cruze...
Just to start I know how to drive a manual, but I've never owned one. That said I've never had acceleration problems with automatics. A common trick if the transmission doesn't give the power you want is to double tap the gas. It's worked on four of the 6 cars I've owned (And I never tried on the other two, so I can't say if it would have or not).
I haven't bought a manual transmission car, because I don't buy used here in the US... I'm more likely to get what I want at a good price in automatic transmission over manual. The reason is simple, most cars sold are automatics here and so the availability is high. My parents have always done the same, so I guess I learned it from them.
I've also never thought driving a manual would tire your leg btw...
The easiest solution is to add a check on the area your using (whether this is on disk or in memory) and see if what you want is actually there. Not being a programmer I can't tell where specifically they currently overlap, but adding checks to verify the state of something is 101 level comp sci stuff I learned back with basic in high school.
In the worst case were they directly are overwriting the same data and messing everything up a small utility which can even separate the settings by app within the same files are even possible... That however means they would need to work on such a system. Though since both seem to want to have a schoolyard dispute that would probably keep it from happening.
Then why not instead make it so having both installed with the same name doesn't matter...? I can think of a few easy fixes and my day job is not programming... Instead they want to act like three year olds, which frankly is silly.
Because I happen to have the material that is from on hand...
"Diesel engines usually have longer stroke lengths in order to achieve the necessary compression ratios. As a result piston and connecting rods are heavier and more force must be transmitted through the connecting rods and crankshaft to change the momentum of the piston. This is another reason that a diesel engine must be stronger for the same power output as a petrol engine.
Yet it is this characteristic that has allowed some enthusiasts to acquire significant power increases with turbocharged engines by making fairly simple and inexpensive modifications. A petrol engine of similar size cannot put out a comparable power increase without extensive alterations because the stock components cannot withstand the higher stresses placed upon them. Since a diesel engine is already built to withstand higher levels of stress, it makes an ideal candidate for performance tuning at little expense. However, it should be said that any modification that raises the amount of fuel and air put through a diesel engine will increase its operating temperature, which will reduce its life and increase service requirements. These are issues with newer, lighter, high performance diesel engines which are not "overbuilt" to the degree of older engines and they are being pushed to provide greater power in smaller engines. The addition of a turbocharger or supercharger to the engine greatly assists in increasing fuel economy and power output, mitigating the fuel-air intake speed limit mentioned above for a given engine displacement. Boost pressures can be higher on diesels than on petrol engines, due to the latter's susceptibility to knock, and the higher compression ratio allows a diesel engine to be more efficient than a comparable spark ignition engine. Because the burned gases are expanded further in a diesel engine cylinder, the exhaust gas is cooler, meaning turbochargers require less cooling, and can be more reliable, than with spark-ignition engines.
With a diesel, boost pressure is essentially unlimited. It is literally possible to run as much boost as the engine will physically stand before breaking apart."
IE the design of a diesel engine is easier to use with turbocharging than gasoline with no real increase in cost.
A non-turbo diesel engine and a diesel engine are nearly identical, the process that is used to make a engine a 'diesel' engine needs very little work to be turbocharged. This is why often diesel engines only come 'turbocharged' and one reason I've heard it said that turbocharging a diesel is 'free'. So I don't think you quite understand how a diesel works or why turbocharged diesels are so common. While I'm not an expert by any means, I have in fact read up on the subject I suggest you do to.
On the other hand turbocharging a gasoline engine takes considerably more work and is done far more rarely. It is also expensive in gasoline engines to turbocharge them.
Maybe Because they simply aren't sold in the US outside trucks? Even Chrysler which makes Diesel cars for Canada does not sell any in the US. I'd have to import one if I wanted to own a Diesel car here. Well outside the Jetta mentioned in the article. Diesel has been consider the unwanted stepchild in the US for ages while nearly half of all cars in Europe are diesel.
I've looked into diesel cars here, because they can be much more efficient, but buying one is a pain because they need to be imported and even then the requirements to be road rated in the US have meant reductions in fuel efficiency in the US anyways... Hence the mention that it barely gets better millage then the gas engine.
I have a friend, who most certainly does not beat her children in any way, who a social services worker took away for 'environmental factors'. Aka she thought their home was dirty and so made a bad environment. Well she lives on a farm, with a a corral of horses not 10 feet away from the door closest to the kitchen. This is not little home on the prairie, things keep you from mopping up dirt and mud as soon as it happens. That doesn't mean the environment is dirty. Yet one opinionated women in social services still took her children.
My Ex is another example, her five year old (from before I meet her) was playing outside by himself and someone from his fathers side of the family decided to report her for 'negligence'. Yet she lives on the edge of the city in a low traffic area and he was in a backyard. Certainly at his age no one ever gave a rats ass about me playing outside. Instead now though she was warned by social services that if it was reported again she would lose custody of him.
That is only one example of abuses by social services I've seen. I worked in a school for several years and often they ruined parents at little more than a word from a child who was actually the abusive one. That sort of thing usually happened when the child couldn't live with their parent of choice in custody issues (not all of which are divorce). Typically those kids wanted the worse parent because the worse parent didn't give a shit about them and let them do whatever they wanted. Instead poor parents who actually cared about their kids would lose them and often causing even more legal trouble on top of it.
Social services tends to be bogged down with both bigoted service workers and incompetent policy and effectively useless for anything important.