You do not buy a hybrid to save cash.
You buy a hybrid to save fuel.
TCO = total cost of ownership
Several folks in my family own Corollas, Accords, and such.
Because over their weekly lifecycle of the vehicle they spend less on the extra gasoline than they would spend paying off the hybrid.
Plus, in this area, you end up on the highway at somepoint going most places. Urban sprawl, baby.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Volt concept (and would secretly love to buy a Prius)
But when the $ hits the counter, the inexpensive economy cars end up being cheaper for most of us.
I used to drive an F-150. Mine got like 16-17mpg.
I did the math. The total outlay of purchasing a new, higher mileage vehicle, ended up being greater than about 10 years worth of the gas I'd save.
Even if gasoline runs up to like $4-5 a gallon, I'm better off financially staying in my current vehicle than I would be trading it in.
Agreed. Expressing your opinion by referring to a seated elected official as being "dumb" is in no way a racial slur. In fact, I believe it is covered under #1 on that bill of rights thingy. But then more and more of our "free speech" is being trimmed away as being racist or obscene or (heaven help us) "offensive" merely because someone else doesn't like hearing it. I missed the part of the Consitution banning or even limiting "offensive" speech. Where was that exactly?
I'm guessing they mean that if YOUR car has a detection circuit, it could receive the digital LED communication from the other car and then either play an alert sound or perhaps trigger the brakes for you. The tail lights would not talk directly to you.
I think this is probably a corollary to my "Fly Naked" proposal to the NTSC. If your security really needs to be that tight, then everyone leaves everything they were not born with, but possibly excepting medically necessary devices like contacts and pacemakers, at the door. Bar code tattoos, shaved heads, firehose showers, and latex glove searches optional.
I'd guess that 99.999% of problems like this are not malicious. It just happens through neglect, short budgets, tight deadlines, and attrition. Until you wake up one day and they tell you that Bob got hit by a bus last night and we absolutely have to get the forecast report fixed by 08:00 AM for Mr Johnston's breakfast meeting with the CEO or HEADS WILL ROLL. But now, some guy finally did what many of us have joked about. And so there will be PHB's around the world in a panic for fear that their quiet, abused little drones might turn on them. Wo while they are taking a moment to burn off a donut or two, here's an idea for them to contemplate. Don't give your workers a reason to hate you.
There is nothing wrong with glorifying a large breasted bimbo. Appreciate everyone for their talents. Even if that talent consists of attractively stuffing a sweater!
I would never hand anyone under 20 a copy of the original Conan. But in general the idea of letting them pick their own books out is a great idea. My parents bascially dropped me off in the young adult section of the library and told me where to meet them later. They didn't ham-handedly steer me towards any particular titles or authors. Though they would occaisionally toss something my way to see if I picked it up. That was how I found out about I Robot by Asimov, and The Martian Chronicles. Reading "above my level" about "mature topics" (ie: sex) motivated me a bit as well. As a kid I devoured books I felt I wasn't supposed to read. When my dad caught me with "Pissing in the Snow and other Ozark Folktales" (delightfully raunchy) his response was basically "let me know if you have any questions." I remember being disappointed that all my time sneaking peeks at it hadn't been necessary. Kids develop at vastly different rates, too, so when one kid may be ready for Tom Swift another the same age might prefer a good Jack McDevitt novel.
So under this interpretation it sounds like it might be a felony for the pedophile trappers to use aliases and misrepresent their identity. In fact, if it does, it might call into question the means and evidence by which some people were arrested, and convicted. Mistrial time?
I'm sorry, but is anyone seriously comparing a member of the Geek Squad to a doctor or even an accountant? And even if they can substantiate some comparison in spite of the vastly different requirements in level and quantity of education, they still would not have managed, to my mind, to establish relevance. Exactly how does having a PI license inform the customer that they should expect properly installed RAM? It would be just as (ir)relevant to require that a physician have a PI license before practicing medicine so that she could properly identify and collect evidence of child abuse. In fact, by such logic ALL professionals should be required to obtain PI licenses, since all forms of business are vulnerable to the possibility of crime. Get those janitors and burger-flippers back into school! Deputize the nation! This is nothing more than a rather pathetic and ill considered attempt by some politician to look good to voters.
Seems like many of the objections can be roughly translated as: "If Bob can toss 60 shovels of dirt a minute and Ray can only toss 50, and both walk out in the same field and each dig a ditch for an hour... " Tom's site asked "which one consumed more calories?" Instead of "which one moved more dirt?" Either is a valid measurement to take. What I take away from the article is not "OMG they LIED" or even "OMG Tom LIED". Instead, it is that different SSD's have widely varying performance and power profiles that may or may not be better than more traditional solutions for any given task.
Have you ever noticed that the vendo machine and the "give the lab rat a treat" machine differ primarily in the fact that the lab rats don't need quarters? Mmm... pretty colors... mmm... fizzy drinks... mmm... crunchy bits.
And lazy people like me. I've got probably 5 XP licenses around the house still on 6. Somehow I lack the passion to care whether my IE install is latest and greatest. I do know that I almost never see a reason to be in the vanguard of a MS upgrade cycle. Let the fodder soak up the damage.
I've written serious apps in both.Net and Java at the Enterprise level. And with.Net I get it done in 1/2 the time or less of what I've written in Java. There are, and always will be, various issues that one does better. Buy to my way of thinking the only thing that needs catching up is the perception. Now, I will grant you that the reduced learning curve of.Net does allow some shops to lower the bar on development standards... and THAT can be a serious problem. There is a lot of junky MS code out there, and a lot of pretty incompetent MS "developers". But having worked on serious development teams in both worlds the Java teams got less work done in the same amount of time. Work being a measure of business needs met rather than hours clocked.
And why bother to develop.Net without Visual Studio? That's like saying you want to pound nails with a screwdriver. Use the right tool for the job.
Java's existence as an effective (if not always efficient) competitor to Microsoft is, in my opinion, the reason why both languages have matured as rapidly and as well as they have. I'm glad we have both.
Now I have to go and revise my opinion of Scalia as a fascist, presidential stooge. It was so easy when his public commentary on the Habeus Corpus decision was so obviously both emotional AND unconstitutional. Sigh, and just when I was beginning to enjoy a nice, two dimensional world view again he had to go and mess it up.
Shortsighted. India, and other countries, gained their independence by having larger countries with MORE guns recognize and threaten to enforce their rights. Guns, aka: force, or threat of force always enters into it somewhere. A bunch of folks hugging and singing doesn't inherently overturn a corrupt government. On the other hand, threat of force alone does not create good government either. It requires a synthesis in the population at large of both a desire for rights, and a willingness to earn them, before an effort at democratization can succeed.
I doubt a US Marine with an M-16 and body armor will worry much over me with my 22 caliber rifle; but the nutcase who wants to abscond with my TV in the middle of the night might. And I can get to my closet a lot faster than the cops can get to my house and sort things out. Ya know?
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You do not buy a hybrid to save cash. You buy a hybrid to save fuel. TCO = total cost of ownership Several folks in my family own Corollas, Accords, and such. Because over their weekly lifecycle of the vehicle they spend less on the extra gasoline than they would spend paying off the hybrid. Plus, in this area, you end up on the highway at somepoint going most places. Urban sprawl, baby. Don't get me wrong, I love the Volt concept (and would secretly love to buy a Prius) But when the $ hits the counter, the inexpensive economy cars end up being cheaper for most of us. I used to drive an F-150. Mine got like 16-17mpg. I did the math. The total outlay of purchasing a new, higher mileage vehicle, ended up being greater than about 10 years worth of the gas I'd save. Even if gasoline runs up to like $4-5 a gallon, I'm better off financially staying in my current vehicle than I would be trading it in.
Agreed. Expressing your opinion by referring to a seated elected official as being "dumb" is in no way a racial slur. In fact, I believe it is covered under #1 on that bill of rights thingy. But then more and more of our "free speech" is being trimmed away as being racist or obscene or (heaven help us) "offensive" merely because someone else doesn't like hearing it. I missed the part of the Consitution banning or even limiting "offensive" speech. Where was that exactly?
I'm guessing they mean that if YOUR car has a detection circuit, it could receive the digital LED communication from the other car and then either play an alert sound or perhaps trigger the brakes for you. The tail lights would not talk directly to you.
Which port do you stuff your wife in? Your daddy should have had this conversation with you a loooong time ago.
I think this is probably a corollary to my "Fly Naked" proposal to the NTSC. If your security really needs to be that tight, then everyone leaves everything they were not born with, but possibly excepting medically necessary devices like contacts and pacemakers, at the door. Bar code tattoos, shaved heads, firehose showers, and latex glove searches optional.
Why build the ships?
Step 1: turn the cars off.
Step 2: wait for CO2 emissions to fall.
Where's the "Profit!"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition
17 and 57 apply.
To all you worker drones out there:
To all you bosses out there:
I'd guess that 99.999% of problems like this are not malicious. It just happens through neglect, short budgets, tight deadlines, and attrition. Until you wake up one day and they tell you that Bob got hit by a bus last night and we absolutely have to get the forecast report fixed by 08:00 AM for Mr Johnston's breakfast meeting with the CEO or HEADS WILL ROLL. But now, some guy finally did what many of us have joked about. And so there will be PHB's around the world in a panic for fear that their quiet, abused little drones might turn on them. Wo while they are taking a moment to burn off a donut or two, here's an idea for them to contemplate. Don't give your workers a reason to hate you.
There is nothing wrong with glorifying a large breasted bimbo. Appreciate everyone for their talents. Even if that talent consists of attractively stuffing a sweater!
I would never hand anyone under 20 a copy of the original Conan. But in general the idea of letting them pick their own books out is a great idea. My parents bascially dropped me off in the young adult section of the library and told me where to meet them later. They didn't ham-handedly steer me towards any particular titles or authors. Though they would occaisionally toss something my way to see if I picked it up. That was how I found out about I Robot by Asimov, and The Martian Chronicles. Reading "above my level" about "mature topics" (ie: sex) motivated me a bit as well. As a kid I devoured books I felt I wasn't supposed to read. When my dad caught me with "Pissing in the Snow and other Ozark Folktales" (delightfully raunchy) his response was basically "let me know if you have any questions." I remember being disappointed that all my time sneaking peeks at it hadn't been necessary. Kids develop at vastly different rates, too, so when one kid may be ready for Tom Swift another the same age might prefer a good Jack McDevitt novel.
Insulated elbow length gloves with a nice electrically conductive outer surface.
This isn't The Force. This is Doctor Otto Octavius.
Online gym class.
So under this interpretation it sounds like it might be a felony for the pedophile trappers to use aliases and misrepresent their identity. In fact, if it does, it might call into question the means and evidence by which some people were arrested, and convicted. Mistrial time?
I'm sorry, but is anyone seriously comparing a member of the Geek Squad to a doctor or even an accountant? And even if they can substantiate some comparison in spite of the vastly different requirements in level and quantity of education, they still would not have managed, to my mind, to establish relevance. Exactly how does having a PI license inform the customer that they should expect properly installed RAM? It would be just as (ir)relevant to require that a physician have a PI license before practicing medicine so that she could properly identify and collect evidence of child abuse. In fact, by such logic ALL professionals should be required to obtain PI licenses, since all forms of business are vulnerable to the possibility of crime. Get those janitors and burger-flippers back into school! Deputize the nation! This is nothing more than a rather pathetic and ill considered attempt by some politician to look good to voters.
Seems like many of the objections can be roughly translated as: "If Bob can toss 60 shovels of dirt a minute and Ray can only toss 50, and both walk out in the same field and each dig a ditch for an hour ... " Tom's site asked "which one consumed more calories?" Instead of "which one moved more dirt?" Either is a valid measurement to take. What I take away from the article is not "OMG they LIED" or even "OMG Tom LIED". Instead, it is that different SSD's have widely varying performance and power profiles that may or may not be better than more traditional solutions for any given task.
Me: "Yes sir."
Have you ever noticed that the vendo machine and the "give the lab rat a treat" machine differ primarily in the fact that the lab rats don't need quarters? Mmm ... pretty colors ... mmm ... fizzy drinks ... mmm ... crunchy bits.
And lazy people like me. I've got probably 5 XP licenses around the house still on 6. Somehow I lack the passion to care whether my IE install is latest and greatest. I do know that I almost never see a reason to be in the vanguard of a MS upgrade cycle. Let the fodder soak up the damage.
And why bother to develop .Net without Visual Studio? That's like saying you want to pound nails with a screwdriver. Use the right tool for the job.
Java's existence as an effective (if not always efficient) competitor to Microsoft is, in my opinion, the reason why both languages have matured as rapidly and as well as they have. I'm glad we have both.
Now I have to go and revise my opinion of Scalia as a fascist, presidential stooge. It was so easy when his public commentary on the Habeus Corpus decision was so obviously both emotional AND unconstitutional. Sigh, and just when I was beginning to enjoy a nice, two dimensional world view again he had to go and mess it up.
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Shortsighted. India, and other countries, gained their independence by having larger countries with MORE guns recognize and threaten to enforce their rights. Guns, aka: force, or threat of force always enters into it somewhere. A bunch of folks hugging and singing doesn't inherently overturn a corrupt government. On the other hand, threat of force alone does not create good government either. It requires a synthesis in the population at large of both a desire for rights, and a willingness to earn them, before an effort at democratization can succeed. I doubt a US Marine with an M-16 and body armor will worry much over me with my 22 caliber rifle; but the nutcase who wants to abscond with my TV in the middle of the night might. And I can get to my closet a lot faster than the cops can get to my house and sort things out. Ya know?
All this time telling scary stories about vampires, and little did we know that we were breeding colonies of them in cube farms across the globe.