I get actually get 50mpg in my 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid; 47 if I run the A/C. But then my daily commute includes 60 miles each way down I5... what pisses me off is that Oregon charges an extra $30 to register the vehicle, to make up for lower amounts I pay in gas tax. Way to go, Oregon! Penalize good gas mileage and reward bad -- that's really in the public interest!
Subarus (Outback or Forester) get better traction, are safer, hold just as much, and get 25mpg... next excuse? Unless you're towing something or regularly have more than 5 passengers, you don't really need an SUV.
Oh, and Ford is coming out with a hybrid SUV (Explorer?) in 2004.
I live in the United States, and I NEVER, NEVER lie. The woman that did this was extremely clueless. She called my wife and asked to speak to "Lance or or whatever his name is ". She then called the next day and left a message, which also said to call her LONG DISTANCE. I didn't call her, I called the companies 1-800 number and told somebody else to please not bother me anymore. They haven't. What kind of a fairyland do you live in wherein everbody knows and follows every law and regulation?
Just because their calling him, doesn't mean that he's the person that owes them money. I had a credit card company leave a message on my (unlisted) home phone saying "We don't understand why you don't pay us the $19,000 you owe us!" This was very upsetting, as I thought I was a victim of identity theft. Turns out, they were looking for somebody else in the same state with the same (very common) last name. What the hell did they do, call everybody in the state with that last name? But yes, if you call them and give them your number and tell them "I am not the droid you're looking for!" then they go away and leave you alone.
Not suprising, attacks are roughly proportional to number of hosts running an OS. Also, this only cites known, detected, verifyable hacks. This means if comprises of your OS are harder to detect [Cough]Windows[Cough], then you get lower numbers. Also, the survey would appear to rely on volunteered information; if the sample set is self-selecting, then it is meaningless from the standpoint of statistics. Still, if thousands of Linux sites are getting hacked, it means we either need more secure software, or more cluefull Linux admins...
They can't automate speeding tickets even with this technology, because although they can prove it was your car, they can't prove it was you driving it! That's why photo radar and photo red light traps take pictures. That's why it's illegal to tint you windows so you can't see the driver clearly. If the picture of the driver doesn't look like you, it's pretty easy to go to court and beat the ticket. Don't want to get an automated ticket? Wear a disguise every time you drive!
I've had a simular problem dealing with kids that play too much Tetris. Every time they see a falling block, they can't resist the urge to spin it around and then drop it onto the lowest spot in a stack...
Television contains hundreds of murders every night (and that's just the news!). Movies contain every more graphic depictions of violence. These reach a much larger audience, but I don't see anybody trying to hold the television of movie industry liable for violence. Better lobbyists? And by the way, the Talmud, Bible, and Koran contain graphic descriptions of adultery, rape and murder... shouldn't they be censored before they give those avid bible-readers any more ideas?
Ommision of information isn't a crime. It is if your selling a house. If you don't disclose all "material facts" to the buyer, you've committed a crime. This is probably true in other areas of contract law as well. Likewise omitting facts on many federal forms can get you into deep kimchee... but probably in this specific case, no, it isn't a crime. It is however, a unilateral contract, and therefore most likely non-binding.
It was obvious from the beginning that Wind River bought BSD, just like it bought pSOS, not to obtain new technology, but rather to eliminate another competitor to VxWorks. (What other technologies has Wind River done this to?) Unfortunately, embedded Linux seems to be ruining Wind River's plans to become the Microsoft of the embedded world.
GIFs, JPEGs, MPEGs, and MP3s are already compressed, so compression doesn't make them any smaller. That really leaves only HTTP, HTML and CSS to benefit from compression. And caching only helps if you're in the habit of looking at the same pages multiple times... so where's the benefit for the average porn-downloading, RIAA-infringing geek? Does it speculatively preread links before I click on them?
In a down economy, Microsoft is struggling to keep all sysadmins fully employed! Or at least, all MSCEs... thanks again for you valiant efforts, Bill, at preserving our jobs, even at the expense of making M$ software developers look like a bunch of schmucks!
Well... no. Your idea of making a hack to doom toimplement nethack random level generation is a good one... I hope you can get it to work. I don't recall actually flaming you, but you were in my foes list because I perceived that you were flaming me. I may have responded to something you posted. If I have offended, I apologize. I share your perception that/. ACs have become particularly nasty, vicious, and personal lately. I assumed it was because M$ and SCO flunkies had infiltrated it that people have been dogging me, as I have been a vociferous critic of both companies (blatant karma whore that I am.) Anyway... let's all try to get along on here, ok?
No, he represents spammers... they're right below child molesters on the popularity list. So the problem must be that he doesn't have sufficient moral character to be a lawyer. That's kinda like not having sufficient education to work at McDonald's!
"We are not satisfied that petitioner presently possesses the character and general fitness requisite for an attorney and counselor-at-law," wrote the state's Supreme Court panel [regarding Attorney Mark Felstein]
When a group of lawyers thinks you are too sleazy to join them, then that's really saying something!
My only complaint with Doom was that the levels were the same every time... it would be much more challenging and realistic when you didn't know where everything is when you entered a room. Of course, then you would also have to make the "secrets" much easier to find.
I'm amazed... between this and the worms apparently forcing people to actually close open relays, my spam has gone from ~20/day to near zero... any chance of russia also shutting down spammers?
Again, why is the inability to focus on one thing to the exclusion of all others a disability? In nature, animals that focus exclusively on what's in front of them and ignore the predators creeping up behind them are known as "dinner". If you ask me, the ability to pay attention to a bad teacher and parrot back everything they say should be considered a disability... we live in an age where even Einstein would have be forcibly medicated because he didn't fit in with the "norm"!!! Doesn't this scare anybody?
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Coefficient of drag is ratio of friction to frontal area; therefore it's easier for larger cars to have a lower CD -- they've got more frontal area!
Honda hybrid technology is already mature; I drive one every day. I suspect the Toyota Prius is pretty close, too.
I get actually get 50mpg in my 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid; 47 if I run the A/C. But then my daily commute includes 60 miles each way down I5... what pisses me off is that Oregon charges an extra $30 to register the vehicle, to make up for lower amounts I pay in gas tax. Way to go, Oregon! Penalize good gas mileage and reward bad -- that's really in the public interest!
Oh, and Ford is coming out with a hybrid SUV (Explorer?) in 2004.
I live in the United States, and I NEVER, NEVER lie. The woman that did this was extremely clueless. She called my wife and asked to speak to "Lance or or whatever his name is ". She then called the next day and left a message, which also said to call her LONG DISTANCE. I didn't call her, I called the companies 1-800 number and told somebody else to please not bother me anymore. They haven't. What kind of a fairyland do you live in wherein everbody knows and follows every law and regulation?
Just because their calling him, doesn't mean that he's the person that owes them money. I had a credit card company leave a message on my (unlisted) home phone saying "We don't understand why you don't pay us the $19,000 you owe us!" This was very upsetting, as I thought I was a victim of identity theft. Turns out, they were looking for somebody else in the same state with the same (very common) last name. What the hell did they do, call everybody in the state with that last name? But yes, if you call them and give them your number and tell them "I am not the droid you're looking for!" then they go away and leave you alone.
Not bad for a Modula-2 compiler company!
Uh, 'cause a cellphone is easier to hold up to your ear?
Not suprising, attacks are roughly proportional to number of hosts running an OS. Also, this only cites known, detected, verifyable hacks. This means if comprises of your OS are harder to detect [Cough]Windows[Cough], then you get lower numbers. Also, the survey would appear to rely on volunteered information; if the sample set is self-selecting, then it is meaningless from the standpoint of statistics. Still, if thousands of Linux sites are getting hacked, it means we either need more secure software, or more cluefull Linux admins...
Have you tried marrying an American? It worked for my wife...
They can't automate speeding tickets even with this technology, because although they can prove it was your car, they can't prove it was you driving it! That's why photo radar and photo red light traps take pictures. That's why it's illegal to tint you windows so you can't see the driver clearly. If the picture of the driver doesn't look like you, it's pretty easy to go to court and beat the ticket. Don't want to get an automated ticket? Wear a disguise every time you drive!
I've had a simular problem dealing with kids that play too much Tetris. Every time they see a falling block, they can't resist the urge to spin it around and then drop it onto the lowest spot in a stack...
Television contains hundreds of murders every night (and that's just the news!). Movies contain every more graphic depictions of violence. These reach a much larger audience, but I don't see anybody trying to hold the television of movie industry liable for violence. Better lobbyists? And by the way, the Talmud, Bible, and Koran contain graphic descriptions of adultery, rape and murder... shouldn't they be censored before they give those avid bible-readers any more ideas?
Ommision of information isn't a crime.
It is if your selling a house. If you don't disclose all "material facts" to the buyer, you've committed a crime. This is probably true in other areas of contract law as well. Likewise omitting facts on many federal forms can get you into deep kimchee... but probably in this specific case, no, it isn't a crime. It is however, a unilateral contract, and therefore most likely non-binding.
It was obvious from the beginning that Wind River bought BSD, just like it bought pSOS, not to obtain new technology, but rather to eliminate another competitor to VxWorks. (What other technologies has Wind River done this to?) Unfortunately, embedded Linux seems to be ruining Wind River's plans to become the Microsoft of the embedded world.
GIFs, JPEGs, MPEGs, and MP3s are already compressed, so compression doesn't make them any smaller. That really leaves only HTTP, HTML and CSS to benefit from compression. And caching only helps if you're in the habit of looking at the same pages multiple times... so where's the benefit for the average porn-downloading, RIAA-infringing geek? Does it speculatively preread links before I click on them?
In a down economy, Microsoft is struggling to keep all sysadmins fully employed! Or at least, all MSCEs... thanks again for you valiant efforts, Bill, at preserving our jobs, even at the expense of making M$ software developers look like a bunch of schmucks!
Well... no. /. ACs have become particularly nasty, vicious, and personal lately. I assumed it was because M$ and SCO flunkies had infiltrated it that people have been dogging me, as I have been a vociferous critic of both companies (blatant karma whore that I am.) Anyway... let's all try to get along on here, ok?
Your idea of making a hack to doom toimplement nethack random level generation is a good one... I hope you can get it to work.
I don't recall actually flaming you, but you were in my foes list because I perceived that you were flaming me. I may have responded to something you posted. If I have offended, I apologize. I share your perception that
farrago Ok, now I'll admit ESR has a bigger vocabulary than I do!
No, he represents spammers... they're right below child molesters on the popularity list. So the problem must be that he doesn't have sufficient moral character to be a lawyer. That's kinda like not having sufficient education to work at McDonald's!
When a group of lawyers thinks you are too sleazy to join them, then that's really saying something!
Then why was rogue/ultrarogue/hack/Castle of the Winds such an intriging game, when the graphics blatently sucked?
My only complaint with Doom was that the levels were the same every time... it would be much more challenging and realistic when you didn't know where everything is when you entered a room. Of course, then you would also have to make the "secrets" much easier to find.
I'm amazed... between this and the worms apparently forcing people to actually close open relays, my spam has gone from ~20/day to near zero... any chance of russia also shutting down spammers?
Again, why is the inability to focus on one thing to the exclusion of all others a disability? In nature, animals that focus exclusively on what's in front of them and ignore the predators creeping up behind them are known as "dinner". If you ask me, the ability to pay attention to a bad teacher and parrot back everything they say should be considered a disability... we live in an age where even Einstein would have be forcibly medicated because he didn't fit in with the "norm"!!! Doesn't this scare anybody?