But how long do the batteries last? How much does it cost to replace them, and what's the disposal fee for the old ones?
Supposedly Toyota has never had to replace them, and ones have lasted 100,000 miles and more. Toyota will pay $200 for old ones to encourage recycling.
Toyota isn't telling anyone that part.
Uh, yes they are.
I don't know the numbers either, but I'd suspect that said battery costs will wipe out any gas savings you might have made, unless gas goes to $7 or $8.
100,000 miles is close to the lifetime of a typical car (they'll last longer, but people like shiny new ones by then), and the original battery pack is part of the purchase price. So, no.
Actually I'd like to wipe out a few old memories. Oh, and plant a few particularly salacious ones.
On the other hand, my dad is having serious problems with short-term memory, so the more they can figure out how this works and help heal people with this problem, the better.
One idiot spammer keeps making up addresses from my domain for his reply-to address. So of course I get all his mailer-daemon bounces. So two questions: first, if I could track him down, could I sue for damages? B, how hard is it typically to track the b-tards down?
I'll believe Nanosolar's claims when I can buy one of their panels, or even a panel using their techniques under license. For a company with a supposed world-changing idea, they're really playing their cards close to their chest.
So what's the current perception of Android? The system of the future, or another Linux -- useful and powerful in its niche, but not the dominant platform?
The kosher flash player often also takes up a heck of a lot of CPU on Firefox, while IE doesn't take so much CPU with the same page. Has there been any consideration of writing a third party flash player for Windows/Mac? Or is it assumed Adobe would just break it as soon as it could?
The problem I run into, even with a "mere" 58" plasma, is that the kids want to do different things in the media room at the same time (and the parents might want to do a third thing). Have you run into this conflict with this super-system and have you come up with any novel solutions?
I have personally written to Adobe complaining about the massive price differences, and Adobe wrote back claiming it was because of localisation costs (translating software plus documentation into 20 languages can be pricey).
BUT, the bastards are lying. The localisation of any piece of major software is now a matter of course. It's planned in right from the very beginning.
It's not entirely BS. The localization is planned, sure, but it goes to a smaller market. It's a niche product, and the cost is higher at least in part because the fixed costs of a particular translation are distributed across fewer customers.
From my understanding of the robo-car system stuff....it sounded to me like it would have to be pretty much a total replacement of the individually driven vehicle system.
That would be mind-bogglingly expensive and difficult to do all at once. You would have to have a long transition period, where you start with only a few robocars and lots of human drivers, and slowly the ratio would change.
I love driving my car too, but a day at a track every now and then would fill that desire quite sufficiently. I don't get much out of the mile drive to the grocery store.
So why do we still have huge algae blooms? Are farmers still using it widely, does it come from animal poop, or are industrial or residential sources more prominent? Presumably this and similar discoveries mean that the dead zone of Louisiana comes from phosphorus brought down the Mississippi.
The curly bracket belongs on the line with the if statement not below.
But then it gets lost if the if condition (or for loop specifier or whatever) is long. You can tell from a distance if code is properly formatted if it has curly brackets on their own line, the same is not true of curlies at the end of a line.
I'd also like to see color (and/or font) used to help identify matching parentheses. Also, a warning if indentation does not match the bracketing would be useful.
For your average person, probably 95% of driving is done short-range. Perhaps renting a long-range vehicle for those longer trips (and/or improving the train network) would be a better alternative to making more cars capable of long range.
Here is my response addressing MAD -- which I think is what you were referring to. I'd rather live under MAD between nation-states then the constant threat of being blown up every time I go to work, the movies or out for pizza.
All indications are you're far more likely to die in a car crash this month than a terrorist incident in your lifetime. 58,000 Americans died trying to turn back communism in Vietnam. MAD was more deadly. And now while we may squabble with the Rooskies, we at least have some level of cooperation; Europe hasn't been this peaceful since, well, pretty much ever. And China has probably boosted our standard of living to the tune of $4K a person or more with their cheap prices.
I lived the first half of my life during the Cold War. I like now better.
I'm not much over 40, and I can already tell my memory isn't as good as I was younger. My father, another 30 years older than me, has significant problems with short term memory, despite otherwise decent health. Do you agree that focusing primarily on minimizing the debilitating effects of aging is the best approach, rather than focusing simply on extending life itself regardless of the quality of life it would give?
Also, think about this. If you look at pr0n, doesn't it make you horny?
Uh, no, I look at pr0n because I'm already horny, and the wife is asleep or left early for work.
And when I look at pr0n, I will often see or read and by stimulated by things that I would not actually like in real life. Consider how many women admit to rape fantasies, but would be greatly harmed by the real thing. Just as 2girls1cup (which I haven't seen, but I've read descriptions of) hasn't led to an outbreak of cropophilia, and the growth of the internet hasn't led to mass increases in the amount of sex people are having, images aren't forcing behavior. If anything, they may sate urges that otherwise might be directed in harmful ways.
As another example, the typical use of hotel pr0n is for it to watched, on average, for 12 minutes. The guy on the business trip who satisfies himself that way is the guy who isn't then going down to the bar in the lobby and picking up a woman there for the night. So if anything the existence of those movies (or laptops with internet access) probably reduce immoral behavior among married businessmen.
So making CG images available may actually reduce the number of pedos who seek out real victims.
asstr dot org has plenty of pedo stories. Do you think it should be banned for stimulating child predators?
Looking at a hard drive, it's got lots of moving parts, the need for sealing, etc. One would think that in the long run a solid state drive that is just a few chips and connecting logic would be cheaper to produce once you have the facilities.
This has never been a valid argument for why a contract or license is crap. Consider this: you read a contract before signing it. You decide you don't like it. Do you now get to say all contracts are unconscionable because they waste your time since you have to read them?
Contracts have: 1. A Meeting of the Minds; 2. An Offer and an Acceptance; 3. Consideration; 4. Performance or Delivery.
Those four steps were completed when I paid the store and walked out. I can't then add additional conditions to an already completed exchange, (say requiring them not to charge the credit card for six months), and a business should not be allowed to either.
There's a perfectly legitimate way for them to make software purchases more subject to contract; sell online with the requirement I accept the contract conditions as part of "purchase." They're not entitled to shortcut hundreds of years of contract principles just for their own convenience.
But making decent handouts available would be even easier than making textbooks, and just as applicable to the OPLC ebook. You could even have short animations to make relationships more obvious. My son had a math test yesterday, for which I tried to prepare him by writing up a quick test. I corrected him on his mistakes, and thought he was getting to understand the material. But gradewise he did not do well on the test. I would love to have a large library of practice problems available on a variety of topics, as making the practice test was quite time-consuming -- time that would have been better spent helping him solve additional problems.
You're right about US aviation collapsing. Anybody who can afford it, meaning corporate VPs and up, are abandoning commercial flights in droves.
But that just means even more planes, and those planes burn much more jet fuel per passenger-mile. So commercial aviation may be losing the VP+ level passengers, they're still flying.
The only things that may impact aviation are skyrocketing fuel costs or the development of an alternative like high-speed rail.
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I never heard of Amica until a friend got rear ended by one of their customers.
Well that's a novel marketing approach...
Seriously, though, perhaps they save money by not blanketing the airwaves with commercials.
But how long do the batteries last? How much does it cost to replace them, and what's the disposal fee for the old ones?
Supposedly Toyota has never had to replace them, and ones have lasted 100,000 miles and more. Toyota will pay $200 for old ones to encourage recycling.
Toyota isn't telling anyone that part.
Uh, yes they are.
I don't know the numbers either, but I'd suspect that said battery costs will wipe out any gas savings you might have made, unless gas goes to $7 or $8.
100,000 miles is close to the lifetime of a typical car (they'll last longer, but people like shiny new ones by then), and the original battery pack is part of the purchase price. So, no.
Actually I'd like to wipe out a few old memories. Oh, and plant a few particularly salacious ones.
On the other hand, my dad is having serious problems with short-term memory, so the more they can figure out how this works and help heal people with this problem, the better.
One idiot spammer keeps making up addresses from my domain for his reply-to address. So of course I get all his mailer-daemon bounces. So two questions: first, if I could track him down, could I sue for damages? B, how hard is it typically to track the b-tards down?
I'll believe Nanosolar's claims when I can buy one of their panels, or even a panel using their techniques under license. For a company with a supposed world-changing idea, they're really playing their cards close to their chest.
So what's the current perception of Android? The system of the future, or another Linux -- useful and powerful in its niche, but not the dominant platform?
The kosher flash player often also takes up a heck of a lot of CPU on Firefox, while IE doesn't take so much CPU with the same page. Has there been any consideration of writing a third party flash player for Windows/Mac? Or is it assumed Adobe would just break it as soon as it could?
The problem I run into, even with a "mere" 58" plasma, is that the kids want to do different things in the media room at the same time (and the parents might want to do a third thing). Have you run into this conflict with this super-system and have you come up with any novel solutions?
Unnecessary. Open your eyes, look up to the skies, and seeeee...
I have personally written to Adobe complaining about the massive price differences, and Adobe wrote back claiming it was because of localisation costs (translating software plus documentation into 20 languages can be pricey).
BUT, the bastards are lying. The localisation of any piece of major software is now a matter of course. It's planned in right from the very beginning.
It's not entirely BS. The localization is planned, sure, but it goes to a smaller market. It's a niche product, and the cost is higher at least in part because the fixed costs of a particular translation are distributed across fewer customers.
From my understanding of the robo-car system stuff....it sounded to me like it would have to be pretty much a total replacement of the individually driven vehicle system.
That would be mind-bogglingly expensive and difficult to do all at once. You would have to have a long transition period, where you start with only a few robocars and lots of human drivers, and slowly the ratio would change.
I love driving my car too, but a day at a track every now and then would fill that desire quite sufficiently. I don't get much out of the mile drive to the grocery store.
So why do we still have huge algae blooms? Are farmers still using it widely, does it come from animal poop, or are industrial or residential sources more prominent? Presumably this and similar discoveries mean that the dead zone of Louisiana comes from phosphorus brought down the Mississippi.
The curly bracket belongs on the line with the if statement not below.
But then it gets lost if the if condition (or for loop specifier or whatever) is long. You can tell from a distance if code is properly formatted if it has curly brackets on their own line, the same is not true of curlies at the end of a line.
I'd also like to see color (and/or font) used to help identify matching parentheses. Also, a warning if indentation does not match the bracketing would be useful.
That's nothing, I can get my car to run (sometimes, anyway) on nothing but pure vitriol.
I tried that but then some jerk cut me off and it just blew up. It's just too volatile.
For your average person, probably 95% of driving is done short-range. Perhaps renting a long-range vehicle for those longer trips (and/or improving the train network) would be a better alternative to making more cars capable of long range.
Here is my response addressing MAD -- which I think is what you were referring to. I'd rather live under MAD between nation-states then the constant threat of being blown up every time I go to work, the movies or out for pizza.
All indications are you're far more likely to die in a car crash this month than a terrorist incident in your lifetime. 58,000 Americans died trying to turn back communism in Vietnam. MAD was more deadly. And now while we may squabble with the Rooskies, we at least have some level of cooperation; Europe hasn't been this peaceful since, well, pretty much ever. And China has probably boosted our standard of living to the tune of $4K a person or more with their cheap prices.
I lived the first half of my life during the Cold War. I like now better.
I'm not much over 40, and I can already tell my memory isn't as good as I was younger. My father, another 30 years older than me, has significant problems with short term memory, despite otherwise decent health. Do you agree that focusing primarily on minimizing the debilitating effects of aging is the best approach, rather than focusing simply on extending life itself regardless of the quality of life it would give?
Given the $55 Verizon just charged me for making 18 minutes of calls to the UK, I'm not surprised they might see this as a cash cow.
(I'm unlikely to call overseas again soon, or I'd definitely be looking at cheaper methods.)
Also, think about this. If you look at pr0n, doesn't it make you horny?
Uh, no, I look at pr0n because I'm already horny, and the wife is asleep or left early for work.
And when I look at pr0n, I will often see or read and by stimulated by things that I would not actually like in real life. Consider how many women admit to rape fantasies, but would be greatly harmed by the real thing. Just as 2girls1cup (which I haven't seen, but I've read descriptions of) hasn't led to an outbreak of cropophilia, and the growth of the internet hasn't led to mass increases in the amount of sex people are having, images aren't forcing behavior. If anything, they may sate urges that otherwise might be directed in harmful ways.
As another example, the typical use of hotel pr0n is for it to watched, on average, for 12 minutes. The guy on the business trip who satisfies himself that way is the guy who isn't then going down to the bar in the lobby and picking up a woman there for the night. So if anything the existence of those movies (or laptops with internet access) probably reduce immoral behavior among married businessmen.
So making CG images available may actually reduce the number of pedos who seek out real victims.
asstr dot org has plenty of pedo stories. Do you think it should be banned for stimulating child predators?
That should effectively date me...
Yep, you're definitely dating yourself.
Then again, this is Slashdot. That's the only way we can get dates...
Looking at a hard drive, it's got lots of moving parts, the need for sealing, etc. One would think that in the long run a solid state drive that is just a few chips and connecting logic would be cheaper to produce once you have the facilities.
This has never been a valid argument for why a contract or license is crap. Consider this: you read a contract before signing it. You decide you don't like it. Do you now get to say all contracts are unconscionable because they waste your time since you have to read them?
Contracts have: 1. A Meeting of the Minds; 2. An Offer and an Acceptance; 3. Consideration; 4. Performance or Delivery.
Those four steps were completed when I paid the store and walked out. I can't then add additional conditions to an already completed exchange, (say requiring them not to charge the credit card for six months), and a business should not be allowed to either.
There's a perfectly legitimate way for them to make software purchases more subject to contract; sell online with the requirement I accept the contract conditions as part of "purchase." They're not entitled to shortcut hundreds of years of contract principles just for their own convenience.
But making decent handouts available would be even easier than making textbooks, and just as applicable to the OPLC ebook. You could even have short animations to make relationships more obvious. My son had a math test yesterday, for which I tried to prepare him by writing up a quick test. I corrected him on his mistakes, and thought he was getting to understand the material. But gradewise he did not do well on the test. I would love to have a large library of practice problems available on a variety of topics, as making the practice test was quite time-consuming -- time that would have been better spent helping him solve additional problems.
You're right about US aviation collapsing. Anybody who can afford it, meaning corporate VPs and up, are abandoning commercial flights in droves.
But that just means even more planes, and those planes burn much more jet fuel per passenger-mile. So commercial aviation may be losing the VP+ level passengers, they're still flying.
The only things that may impact aviation are skyrocketing fuel costs or the development of an alternative like high-speed rail.
The trouble with claiming to have the lowest user ID in a thread is that someone with one lower will inevitably show up just to post and annoy you.
I hate people like that.