Doesn't this mean the state is violating the constitution of The United States of America by preventing out-of-state manufacturers from selling legal goods to their residents? Isn't regulation of interstate commerce STRICTLY the domain of Congress, much like inter-state sales tax? (which incidentally means state sales taxes on internet sales from vendors out of state is a violation of the Constitution as well)
On one of my cars, the ignition module is installed INSIDE the intake plenum valley - very harsh conditions. The car is a '91 and it still works. I hope it never dies, because last time I checked the module was over $2K to replace, with only three available from GM.
> Am I the only one that doesn't want a car that needs software updates?
You probably already own one. Many cars since the 1980s have required software updates on occasion - your dealer probably just never told you that a service bulletin or recall service included a software upgrade.
Some cars even take it a step further, and use the head unit as a hub for the CAN bus. Yes, an optical network hub. In the car radio. If you want to upgrade your stereo in one of those cars, you either end up with TWO head units installed (and have to move components around and fabricate your own dash panels), or you lose a lot of functionality of the car (warnings, chimes, gauges, diagnostic readouts, trip computers, etc.)
In trucks I have owned, I get 3-5 mpg less than EPA estimate for both highway and city.
For cars, I get significantly more. In my SAAB 9-3, I average 32mpg combined. On long highway drives I achieve anywhere from 38mpg to 43mpg (depending on whether I open the windows, or the weather; rain decreases it quite a bit)- which is way over EPA estimate. In my ZR-1 Corvette, I achieve 27mpg combined with the stock program, or with the tuner's program (a very aggressive tune) I achieve 22-23mpg. In the city with the stock program, I get 19 - 23 mpg unless traffic is particularly bad, in which case I get 19mpg, and on the highway I get 32mpg (with either program), or over 33mpg at 92mph (I do not drive that fast any more - I like having a clean driving record, but I have been at speeds which see 8mpg in the distant past). I get better highway economy than some friends who drive hybrids, but their city economy slaughters mine.
Years ago I had an MR2 - no matter how I drove it (I was young and arrogant so I drove like a bat out of Hell), I would achieve 37 to 38 mpg combined, regardless of how hard or conservatively I drove that car. Again, well over EPA estimate. I attribute that to shift points and the ultra low mass of the car, and flawed EPA tests of the time, with their fixed RPM shift speeds which do not reflect real-world driving scenarios.
I have a scangauge installed in my SAAB (it won't work in my ZR-1 since it is OBD1, not OBD2 but in that car I use instant MPG to monitor my driving), and I find that accelerating quickly rather than like a snail and choosing shift points carefully makes a huge improvement in economy; I have tried hypermiling techniques in both but I find that trying to shift early and accelerate more slowly significantly increases fuel consumption, so I accelerate somewhat (but not brutally) briskly and shifting a little later results in fantastic economy. In the SAAB it comes down to keeping boost down, and in the ZR-1 it comes down to not opening up the secondary intake manifold and not activating the second bank of fuel injectors (it has 16 fuel injectors, two per cylinder). The hypermiling techniques I use is not braking around turns if I have a clear view, and coasting down hills when the slope is sufficient to overcome drag and friction.
With a manual it comes down to learning the right shift points, and on the highway the best cruise speeds. In my SAAB the best cruise speeds are around 48mph, and around 68 mph, either of which will not get me pulled over in a 45mph or 65mph zone. In my ZR-1, the best cruise speed is 92mph, so I settle for a best of 32mpg on the highway. In both cases I am happy because it significantly decreases the number of fuel stops on road trips, saving a significant amount of time. My favorite vacation spot is in western PA, and in both cars I can drive nonstop there without stopping to fuel up; the only stops are for Starbucks or lunch and nature calls.:-)
I think the reason my trucks were so bad was that both had the entry-level engine which were underpowered six cylinders, so on steep grades the engine would be consuming a lot of fuel to overcome gravity and drag, and coasting down hills wasn't practical unless the grade was significant, so I would never be able to overcome the average incurred going uphill in the first place. Friends with the same model pickups (one of mine was an F-150, the other one was a C1500) with the V8s would actually get better economy than I did, because they did not have to get into the throttle as much, plus I had caps on the trucks all the time because I would often be hauling servers and other electronic equipment, and the caps were a PITA to remove.
. . . and he should be thankful that most modern lasers are LED-based. How long do the gas tubes for lasers last, what is their failure rate, what is the response times (on/off/on cycles), and what are the power requirements?
Smaller and cheaper does not always mean inferior. The "you get what you pay for" rule is a broad generalization which often proves to be untrue when it comes to modern technology.
six to twelve hours is how long they last, depending on whether you have one or two battery packs installed. By default they install only one battery pack, leaving one empty battery slot.
Ripping/Transcoding (thank you CUDA and OpenCL) Running games at resolutions and detail levels that look better than doom Image processing (thank you CUDA and OpenCL) Video decoding/decompression (thank you CUDA and OpenCL)
Intel is doing remarkably with with HD4000, and OpenCL performs pretty well, but that won't come close to matching the 48 to 3072 GPU cores present in modern discrete video cards.
Spacecraft hulls (aside from reentry vehicles and the space shuttle) has been compared to foil. It's not that thin, but I'd guess based on descriptions (and without googling) that it would be approximately the same as a soda pop can.
> Intercepting "these small projectiles" is not a good idea since they are travelling at orbital velocities (25000km per hour).
Their speed relative to Earth has no bearing on it; what matters is the relative speed between the random object and the object you wish to protect, just as the fact that we revolve around the sun at 30 km/s has zero impact;) on how long it takes you to drive to work (or hop on your bike for cheetos and mountain dew for those who cannot relate because they still live in mommy's basement;)). If they could launch an interceptor from the protected vehicle to divert or simply absorb kinetic energy and slow it to a harmless relative velocity, then it would be a success - whether or not more junk is created. I think protecting lives against an immediate threat in that situation is more important than the concern of additional junk.
The bill of rights is a group of amendments which further clarify that we are endowed inalienable natural rights by our creator (be that creator YHWH, FSM, zeus, or random chance)
Out of the millions who visit Israel, Rome, Sicily, Cairo, what percentage of those tourists write books about it? The percentage is lower than that of space tourists, so obviously those places cannot be that great.;)
If I had the financial means I'd go - I'd shoot a lot and post photos of both the cosmos and the Earth online, but I would be very unlikely to write a book about it. Personally, I'd rather see what the heavens really look like from space in properly-exposed photographs (by properly-exposed, I mean exposing to approximate what the unaided eye sees) than read about someone feeling motion sick, or even excited, or about how to use the space crapper. After all, the incredible view is the sole reason I'd want to go up there; not bragging rights or anything else, just the awesome unobstructed view of the sky without light pollution.
I have had my Roku 2 XS for over a year and a half. I've had to reboot it perhaps three times, but otherwise have had zero issues with it. Prior to installing private channels on it, I haven't had to reboot it, so I blame the private channel apps.
As a release engineer I loved going into work between 6:30 and 7:00 (after having logged in at 5:30 remotely to check on things), then leaving between 3:00 and 3:30 and having late afternoon and evening free to go out.
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Funny, I have read most of the Bible and I never came across any commandment saying "thou shall not toke it up at 4:20"
Doesn't this mean the state is violating the constitution of The United States of America by preventing out-of-state manufacturers from selling legal goods to their residents? Isn't regulation of interstate commerce STRICTLY the domain of Congress, much like inter-state sales tax? (which incidentally means state sales taxes on internet sales from vendors out of state is a violation of the Constitution as well)
> Tough luck for whoever gets stuck with their half-assed shit.
What else would you expect from Sony?
Couldn't you just get a faster CPU? ;)
Reading his replies left this going through my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh7l8dx-h8M
> J.J. Abrams directing?
Expect plenty of superfluous lens flare (thank you pointless CGI!) even in dark scenes.
On one of my cars, the ignition module is installed INSIDE the intake plenum valley - very harsh conditions. The car is a '91 and it still works. I hope it never dies, because last time I checked the module was over $2K to replace, with only three available from GM.
> Am I the only one that doesn't want a car that needs software updates?
You probably already own one. Many cars since the 1980s have required software updates on occasion - your dealer probably just never told you that a service bulletin or recall service included a software upgrade.
> For example a board made to withstand a wide temperature range uses tantalum caps instead of low grade aluminum electrolytic caps.
NOW they do (as do many motherboards) but even as recent as a few years ago they didn't.
Some cars even take it a step further, and use the head unit as a hub for the CAN bus. Yes, an optical network hub. In the car radio. If you want to upgrade your stereo in one of those cars, you either end up with TWO head units installed (and have to move components around and fabricate your own dash panels), or you lose a lot of functionality of the car (warnings, chimes, gauges, diagnostic readouts, trip computers, etc.)
My experience:
I live just outside of Boston.
In trucks I have owned, I get 3-5 mpg less than EPA estimate for both highway and city.
For cars, I get significantly more. In my SAAB 9-3, I average 32mpg combined. On long highway drives I achieve anywhere from 38mpg to 43mpg (depending on whether I open the windows, or the weather; rain decreases it quite a bit)- which is way over EPA estimate. In my ZR-1 Corvette, I achieve 27mpg combined with the stock program, or with the tuner's program (a very aggressive tune) I achieve 22-23mpg. In the city with the stock program, I get 19 - 23 mpg unless traffic is particularly bad, in which case I get 19mpg, and on the highway I get 32mpg (with either program), or over 33mpg at 92mph (I do not drive that fast any more - I like having a clean driving record, but I have been at speeds which see 8mpg in the distant past). I get better highway economy than some friends who drive hybrids, but their city economy slaughters mine.
Years ago I had an MR2 - no matter how I drove it (I was young and arrogant so I drove like a bat out of Hell), I would achieve 37 to 38 mpg combined, regardless of how hard or conservatively I drove that car. Again, well over EPA estimate. I attribute that to shift points and the ultra low mass of the car, and flawed EPA tests of the time, with their fixed RPM shift speeds which do not reflect real-world driving scenarios.
I have a scangauge installed in my SAAB (it won't work in my ZR-1 since it is OBD1, not OBD2 but in that car I use instant MPG to monitor my driving), and I find that accelerating quickly rather than like a snail and choosing shift points carefully makes a huge improvement in economy; I have tried hypermiling techniques in both but I find that trying to shift early and accelerate more slowly significantly increases fuel consumption, so I accelerate somewhat (but not brutally) briskly and shifting a little later results in fantastic economy. In the SAAB it comes down to keeping boost down, and in the ZR-1 it comes down to not opening up the secondary intake manifold and not activating the second bank of fuel injectors (it has 16 fuel injectors, two per cylinder). The hypermiling techniques I use is not braking around turns if I have a clear view, and coasting down hills when the slope is sufficient to overcome drag and friction.
With a manual it comes down to learning the right shift points, and on the highway the best cruise speeds. In my SAAB the best cruise speeds are around 48mph, and around 68 mph, either of which will not get me pulled over in a 45mph or 65mph zone. In my ZR-1, the best cruise speed is 92mph, so I settle for a best of 32mpg on the highway. In both cases I am happy because it significantly decreases the number of fuel stops on road trips, saving a significant amount of time. My favorite vacation spot is in western PA, and in both cars I can drive nonstop there without stopping to fuel up; the only stops are for Starbucks or lunch and nature calls. :-)
I think the reason my trucks were so bad was that both had the entry-level engine which were underpowered six cylinders, so on steep grades the engine would be consuming a lot of fuel to overcome gravity and drag, and coasting down hills wasn't practical unless the grade was significant, so I would never be able to overcome the average incurred going uphill in the first place. Friends with the same model pickups (one of mine was an F-150, the other one was a C1500) with the V8s would actually get better economy than I did, because they did not have to get into the throttle as much, plus I had caps on the trucks all the time because I would often be hauling servers and other electronic equipment, and the caps were a PITA to remove.
. . . and he should be thankful that most modern lasers are LED-based. How long do the gas tubes for lasers last, what is their failure rate, what is the response times (on/off/on cycles), and what are the power requirements?
Smaller and cheaper does not always mean inferior. The "you get what you pay for" rule is a broad generalization which often proves to be untrue when it comes to modern technology.
six to twelve hours is how long they last, depending on whether you have one or two battery packs installed. By default they install only one battery pack, leaving one empty battery slot.
No benefits to a discrete GPU?
Ripping/Transcoding (thank you CUDA and OpenCL)
Running games at resolutions and detail levels that look better than doom
Image processing (thank you CUDA and OpenCL)
Video decoding/decompression (thank you CUDA and OpenCL)
Intel is doing remarkably with with HD4000, and OpenCL performs pretty well, but that won't come close to matching the 48 to 3072 GPU cores present in modern discrete video cards.
Really? Maybe you don't drink wine, but this also affects the Mountain Dew of basement dwellers. ;)
I kid, I kid.
You don't really own a blackberry, you just rent it. Eventually you will poop it out.
I don't think anyone would argue that the EV will never be a practical solution.
They are just not a practical solution today.
> The hull is most likely not that thick.
Spacecraft hulls (aside from reentry vehicles and the space shuttle) has been compared to foil. It's not that thin, but I'd guess based on descriptions (and without googling) that it would be approximately the same as a soda pop can.
> Intercepting "these small projectiles" is not a good idea since they are travelling at orbital velocities (25000km per hour).
Their speed relative to Earth has no bearing on it; what matters is the relative speed between the random object and the object you wish to protect, just as the fact that we revolve around the sun at 30 km/s has zero impact ;) on how long it takes you to drive to work (or hop on your bike for cheetos and mountain dew for those who cannot relate because they still live in mommy's basement ;)). If they could launch an interceptor from the protected vehicle to divert or simply absorb kinetic energy and slow it to a harmless relative velocity, then it would be a success - whether or not more junk is created. I think protecting lives against an immediate threat in that situation is more important than the concern of additional junk.
The bill of rights is a group of amendments which further clarify that we are endowed inalienable natural rights by our creator (be that creator YHWH, FSM, zeus, or random chance)
Out of the millions who visit Israel, Rome, Sicily, Cairo, what percentage of those tourists write books about it? The percentage is lower than that of space tourists, so obviously those places cannot be that great. ;)
If I had the financial means I'd go - I'd shoot a lot and post photos of both the cosmos and the Earth online, but I would be very unlikely to write a book about it. Personally, I'd rather see what the heavens really look like from space in properly-exposed photographs (by properly-exposed, I mean exposing to approximate what the unaided eye sees) than read about someone feeling motion sick, or even excited, or about how to use the space crapper. After all, the incredible view is the sole reason I'd want to go up there; not bragging rights or anything else, just the awesome unobstructed view of the sky without light pollution.
My AmEx experience has been the opposite.
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I have had my Roku 2 XS for over a year and a half. I've had to reboot it perhaps three times, but otherwise have had zero issues with it. Prior to installing private channels on it, I haven't had to reboot it, so I blame the private channel apps.
As a release engineer I loved going into work between 6:30 and 7:00 (after having logged in at 5:30 remotely to check on things), then leaving between 3:00 and 3:30 and having late afternoon and evening free to go out.