Perhaps the battery was replaced due to a manufacturing flaw or just a newer upgraded design. The fact that they performed the replacement at NO charge is a positive for the Prius. I know quite a few that have bought these hybrids, they all seem very happy with them.
Necessity is the mother of invention
Battery technology is advancing each year and will eventually get to the point where filling stations convert to recharge stations.
I personally see a plug-in EV in my near future for short around town trips, charged with solar and wind generation. Would be nice to see charging stations develop eventually to permit longer trips. The day will come...
We got out of the first great depression in 1946 by cutting government spending by two thirds.
You pulled this out of your ass, didn't you?
"America's Great Depression is regarded as having begun in 1929 with the Stock Market crash, and ended in 1941 with America's entry into World War II." http://www.amatecon.com/gd/gdtimeline.html
America came out of the GD by having people go back to work. Unfortunately it took WWII to put people back to work. It also lasted for 12 years until our industry recovered by manufacturing tools of war.
We need jobs for the unemployeed, and most others NOW. "Cutting spending", while a great line used by republican asswipes when it isn't them doing the spending, won't end the current depression we now face.
Come on now, make nice and pull you head out of your ass and join in on the discussion to find solutions instead of being part of the problem.
Sorry to break it to any Obama fans here, but you clowns elected an empty suit.
While I agree with you to an extent We also had an "empty suit" with the previous jerk as well Additionally, all candidates were losers, so we made our best choice with the pool we had to choose from.
Have you got a better idea? I genuinely pity the man, Mr. Obama, with the fucked up pile of shit that was handed to him hoping he could polish it into a silk purse.
Bottom line here is that the republicans over the last 10 years have totally fucked up everything they touched. They were the ones in power and had the power to make the world better. If you want to point fingers and assign blame, point your finger at them. They had the tiller the whole time and were at their strongest when the financial corporations initiated the Ponzi scheme that brought down the global economy.
As for solutions to a sucking economy, either lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Got a better idea? Bring it out into a public forum within your community and make something good happen. We all have a choice, make something happen, or sit around and bitch.
This also reflects the skill set of our technicians. Are our IT professionals too incompetent to keep crackers out? "So easy even a caveman can do it"... FTFA: What about the "additional packages" left behind? Let me wrap my head around this... Not only can we NOT keep intruders out of our networks Our IT personnel can't even clean the droppings the intruders left behind???
Maybe we should just hire and pay some Chinese techs to secure our networks then...
Yep, exactly what I was thinking... A good fire suppression system would make quick work of intruders without the mess. Halon or CO2 would be my choice.
You are most definitely off in some alternative reality. I watch Fox News occasionally and every time am repulsed with the intensity their anchors deliver their slanted script instead of the facts at hand. If I lived my life to the same intensity those broadcasters deliver their dreck I would have a stroke the first week.
Fox News has no credibility as long as they maintain their double standard reporting. Where was the "Fair and Balanced" reporting when no WMDs were found? Where were they when: 1) Identity of a covert CIA operative was outed to the world press 2) Which political group were responsible for the global financial meltdown 3) 10,000 other lies and deceptions were told to the world and Fox neglected to report them.
His kangaroo trial was conducted by Vichy Iraqis at our urging.
Besides -- if his trial didn't meet our standards, we should have condemned the result anyway. Principles don't have geographic boundaries.
Agreed! This also reflects the mentality of the U.S. leadership at the time. Proudly portraying images of naked prisoners piled in orgy type poses as well as prisoners with electrodes connected to their genitals were all very disgusting and reprehensible
My only hope is that people of this mentality never get elected to public office again. You would hope that by now our culture should have evolved beyond the Medieval style dungeons and torture chambers when dealing with POWs.
Same here Linux just keeps getting better every year Put Kubuntu 8.10 on my laptop over the weekend & upgraded to KDE4.2.2 Very nice... very nice indeed!
M$ should be worried when FOSS can produce this grade of product
Thanks for expressing some civility. I thought I was being humbly ignorant using an inline disclaimer stating that fact. Some sarcasm and statement of the obvious also was expressed.
Seems most/.'ers with mod points anymore don't bother with moderation educate of modding up the "Gems" and instead go for modding negatively over something they personally may not agree with. Too many assholes trolling the forum anymore would be my guess.
Thanks for that clarification. I wasn't sure as I don't use iTunes, iPods or iAnything else's. My wife once had a Nano, but never used it. I tried to load something on it with iTunes on Linux but was too goofy to be useful. Finally gave the thing to a daughter in college and she knew just what to do with it. I figure it's just an iDude/iDudette thing.
I outgrew fad products years ago. Just love my Linux and open source stuff so the Cowon player is easy, clean and sounds lightyears better than the high dollar trendy products.
BTW, who let the trolls out tonight? Bad troll! No Vaseline for you. Rosie and her 5 sisters dry is all you get.
First off I'm an Alaskan. Many in the state love "Uncle Ted" for the huge quantity of pork barrel projects he was able to bring to Alaska. Fun things like "The bridge to nowhere". We even got a cool missile base right dead center of the state. He brought some serious bacon home. He was also very nearly reelected too. Seven felony counts for Uncle Ted? His supporters didn't seem to care.
Was he guilty of taking money under the table? You bet your life he did! They all do. The longer anyone stays in the marble palace the more corrupt they get. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Politics attracts the most crooked cocksuckers on the planet, like flies on shit.
I'm a firm believer in term limits. Seems the longer some arrogant prick is in office the more time they have to pal up to corporate lobbyists. Before you know it, some asshole senator gets caught on his knees in an airport bathroom.
As for Uncle Ted, the guy is 85 years old. Hell, we got him out of his ivory tower. Let him go so he can die in his mountain chalet, a miserable old man. This way everybody can save face too. He probably had some good dirt on most of his associates as well. I bet if he got sent to prison, he probably could have brought down the whole house of cards out of spite.
Support you favorite artist by buying his/hers CD. Rip it to your favorite format. I prefer ogg. Copy it to your favorite personal player, I prefer the Cowon iAudio 7 Simple
Last I checked, (I could be wrong) iTunes and iTunes products are locked in DRM hell, preventing you the freedom to copy your bought merchandise from laptop to portable player and vise versa.
$1.29 per track? WTF, are they made of gold? What prevents anyone from just copying a favorite tune from the airwaves and slapping it to silicon, for free. Sounds like a scam.
There is always the Serenity Scenario Build large passenger and freighter ships and then fly off to colonize a neighboring star system. Just think of the cool Jetson type outfits you can wear while hanging out in an artificial gravity environment.
Personally, I'd just settle for my jetpack right now.
Before I realized it was a joke, my first thought was: MS Windows at the controls of our nuclear arsenal and/or missile defense systems? WTF???
"Sir, Early warning has confirmed missile launches and now I'm tracking multiple inbound bogies." "Stand ready for launch of missile interceptors corporal." "Right Sir, ready" "Steady.. steady.. Launch!" "Sir, Clippy just tied himself onto a knot and has froze... I have a blue screen now, sir! What should I do?" "Hope the first inbound nuke is aimed at the Redmond Campus. Why, why, why, did we buy this crap..." BOOM!
The way our world is going, we may all find ourselves living in caves sooner than later. Then we can just write our stories on the cave walls and presto, long term data preservation!
neither posts above are troll. seems the trolls have mod points today. Bad troll! No donut for you today
I use KDE full time. KDE 4.1 - 4.2.1 are still unusable 4.1 was a development snapshot, but when 4.2 was released it was promoted as equal to 3.5.10 - this is not the case. I compiled 4.2.1 on FreeBSD over last weekend and found an irritating delay to user input: mouse click anything and start finger tapping for 30 seconds waiting for something to happen. Seems all user input and system response suffers long delays. The machine hard drive was active but on a 3Ghz - P4 system there should be no delay with simple desktop interaction. Perhaps it needs tweaking for low latency, but that is over my head at this point in time.
I dumped Gnome years ago for KDE so switching back is like the idea of chewing tin foil, so KDE 3.5.10 is still the cat's pajamas in my book.
I'm sure there are a variety of *nix users out there anxiously waiting on the sidelines with popcorn and a soda ready for the show to begin. We can only hope for some explosions to make it interesting.
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Perhaps the battery was replaced due to a manufacturing flaw or just a newer upgraded design.
The fact that they performed the replacement at NO charge is a positive for the Prius. I know quite a few that have bought these hybrids, they all seem very happy with them.
Necessity is the mother of invention
Battery technology is advancing each year and will eventually get to the point where filling stations convert to recharge stations.
I personally see a plug-in EV in my near future for short around town trips, charged with solar and wind generation. Would be nice to see charging stations develop eventually to permit longer trips.
The day will come...
Agreed
Who would want to play a game where around every corner is murder and mayhem, for real?
Maybe N. Korea should hire him
Considering their most recent attempt was a grand botch-o-lito
You pulled this out of your ass, didn't you?
"America's Great Depression is regarded as having begun in 1929 with the Stock Market crash, and ended in 1941 with America's entry into World War II."
http://www.amatecon.com/gd/gdtimeline.html
America came out of the GD by having people go back to work. Unfortunately it took WWII to put people back to work. It also lasted for 12 years until our industry recovered by manufacturing tools of war.
We need jobs for the unemployeed, and most others NOW.
"Cutting spending", while a great line used by republican asswipes when it isn't them doing the spending, won't end the current depression we now face.
Come on now, make nice and pull you head out of your ass and join in on the discussion to find solutions instead of being part of the problem.
While I agree with you to an extent
We also had an "empty suit" with the previous jerk as well
Additionally, all candidates were losers, so we made our best choice with the pool we had to choose from.
Have you got a better idea?
I genuinely pity the man, Mr. Obama, with the fucked up pile of shit that was handed to him hoping he could polish it into a silk purse.
Bottom line here is that the republicans over the last 10 years have totally fucked up everything they touched. They were the ones in power and had the power to make the world better. If you want to point fingers and assign blame, point your finger at them. They had the tiller the whole time and were at their strongest when the financial corporations initiated the Ponzi scheme that brought down the global economy.
As for solutions to a sucking economy, either lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Got a better idea? Bring it out into a public forum within your community and make something good happen. We all have a choice, make something happen, or sit around and bitch.
This also reflects the skill set of our technicians. Are our IT professionals too incompetent to keep crackers out? "So easy even a caveman can do it" ... ...
FTFA: What about the "additional packages" left behind?
Let me wrap my head around this
Not only can we NOT keep intruders out of our networks
Our IT personnel can't even clean the droppings the intruders left behind???
Maybe we should just hire and pay some Chinese techs to secure our networks then ...
Yep, exactly what I was thinking ...
A good fire suppression system would make quick work of intruders without the mess.
Halon or CO2 would be my choice.
You are most definitely off in some alternative reality.
I watch Fox News occasionally and every time am repulsed with the intensity their anchors deliver their slanted script instead of the facts at hand. If I lived my life to the same intensity those broadcasters deliver their dreck I would have a stroke the first week.
Fox News has no credibility as long as they maintain their double standard reporting.
Where was the "Fair and Balanced" reporting when no WMDs were found? Where were they when:
1) Identity of a covert CIA operative was outed to the world press
2) Which political group were responsible for the global financial meltdown
3) 10,000 other lies and deceptions were told to the world and Fox neglected to report them.
Agreed!
This also reflects the mentality of the U.S. leadership at the time.
Proudly portraying images of naked prisoners piled in orgy type poses as well as prisoners with electrodes connected to their genitals were all very disgusting and reprehensible
My only hope is that people of this mentality never get elected to public office again.
You would hope that by now our culture should have evolved beyond the Medieval style dungeons and torture chambers when dealing with POWs.
Same here ... very nice indeed!
Linux just keeps getting better every year
Put Kubuntu 8.10 on my laptop over the weekend & upgraded to KDE4.2.2
Very nice
M$ should be worried when FOSS can produce this grade of product
Comparing XP to Win98 is like ... well ...
comparing a TI89 to an abacus in pieces
Who cares how old it is, if it works without crashing every 5 minutes
Sometime tune into Fox News just for the hell of it
< 5 minutes will verify this statement
Thanks for expressing some civility. I thought I was being humbly ignorant using an inline disclaimer stating that fact. Some sarcasm and statement of the obvious also was expressed.
Seems most /.'ers with mod points anymore don't bother with moderation educate of modding up the "Gems" and instead go for modding negatively over something they personally may not agree with. Too many assholes trolling the forum anymore would be my guess.
Thanks for that clarification. I wasn't sure as I don't use iTunes, iPods or iAnything else's. My wife once had a Nano, but never used it. I tried to load something on it with iTunes on Linux but was too goofy to be useful. Finally gave the thing to a daughter in college and she knew just what to do with it. I figure it's just an iDude/iDudette thing.
I outgrew fad products years ago.
Just love my Linux and open source stuff so the Cowon player is easy, clean and sounds lightyears better than the high dollar trendy products.
BTW, who let the trolls out tonight? Bad troll! No Vaseline for you. Rosie and her 5 sisters dry is all you get.
First off I'm an Alaskan.
Many in the state love "Uncle Ted" for the huge quantity of pork barrel projects he was able to bring to Alaska.
Fun things like "The bridge to nowhere". We even got a cool missile base right dead center of the state. He brought some serious bacon home. He was also very nearly reelected too. Seven felony counts for Uncle Ted? His supporters didn't seem to care.
Was he guilty of taking money under the table? You bet your life he did! They all do. The longer anyone stays in the marble palace the more corrupt they get. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Politics attracts the most crooked cocksuckers on the planet, like flies on shit.
I'm a firm believer in term limits. Seems the longer some arrogant prick is in office the more time they have to pal up to corporate lobbyists. Before you know it, some asshole senator gets caught on his knees in an airport bathroom.
As for Uncle Ted, the guy is 85 years old. Hell, we got him out of his ivory tower. Let him go so he can die in his mountain chalet, a miserable old man. This way everybody can save face too. He probably had some good dirt on most of his associates as well. I bet if he got sent to prison, he probably could have brought down the whole house of cards out of spite.
Support you favorite artist by buying his/hers CD.
Rip it to your favorite format. I prefer ogg.
Copy it to your favorite personal player, I prefer the Cowon iAudio 7
Simple
Last I checked, (I could be wrong) iTunes and iTunes products are locked in DRM hell, preventing you the freedom to copy your bought merchandise from laptop to portable player and vise versa.
$1.29 per track? WTF, are they made of gold?
What prevents anyone from just copying a favorite tune from the airwaves and slapping it to silicon, for free.
Sounds like a scam.
There is always the Serenity Scenario
Build large passenger and freighter ships and then fly off to colonize a neighboring star system.
Just think of the cool Jetson type outfits you can wear while hanging out in an artificial gravity environment.
Personally, I'd just settle for my jetpack right now.
Q: "is this where the improbability drive comes in?"
A: 42
Before I realized it was a joke, my first thought was: MS Windows at the controls of our nuclear arsenal and/or missile defense systems? WTF???
"Sir, Early warning has confirmed missile launches and now I'm tracking multiple inbound bogies." .. steady .. Launch!" ... I have a blue screen now, sir! What should I do?" ..."
"Stand ready for launch of missile interceptors corporal."
"Right Sir, ready"
"Steady
"Sir, Clippy just tied himself onto a knot and has froze
"Hope the first inbound nuke is aimed at the Redmond Campus. Why, why, why, did we buy this crap
BOOM!
2 words: Prior Art
The way our world is going, we may all find ourselves living in caves sooner than later. Then we can just write our stories on the cave walls and presto, long term data preservation!
That wasn't so hard now, was it?
neither posts above are troll. seems the trolls have mod points today. Bad troll! No donut for you today
I use KDE full time. KDE 4.1 - 4.2.1 are still unusable
4.1 was a development snapshot, but when 4.2 was released it was promoted as equal to 3.5.10 - this is not the case.
I compiled 4.2.1 on FreeBSD over last weekend and found an irritating delay to user input: mouse click anything and start finger tapping for 30 seconds waiting for something to happen. Seems all user input and system response suffers long delays. The machine hard drive was active but on a 3Ghz - P4 system there should be no delay with simple desktop interaction. Perhaps it needs tweaking for low latency, but that is over my head at this point in time.
I dumped Gnome years ago for KDE so switching back is like the idea of chewing tin foil, so KDE 3.5.10 is still the cat's pajamas in my book.
I'm sure there are a variety of *nix users out there anxiously waiting on the sidelines with popcorn and a soda ready for the show to begin.
We can only hope for some explosions to make it interesting.
Off topic but, I was ready with the tin foil hat remark too.
This AC jackoff had this same retarded post up yesterday as well.
When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout
"They're just simple country folk ... you know ... morons!" Gene Wilder