I have had a Prius for a number of year now. I get mileage of between 45-48 mpg and have used it extensively not only for local travel, but medium and long distance (cross the US travel). The trick is to learn how and when to accelerate so that you can maximize the thrust produced by the electric motor. I've heard of experienced drivers getting up to 80 mpg, but I think that requires special tires.
The best part on a long trip is pulling up to a gas station and rarely having to pay more than $20 to get me another few hundred miles. Handling, acceleration and service are also great. I plan on getting another, but wish Toyota would make a hybrid van as my dog (an English Mastiff) loves to ride, but there just insn't enough room for her to endure a long trip in such the small backseat even using the hatch.
The reality is that if more people drove hybrids, gasoline prices would be much cheaper for everyone and that would accelerate the economy. Every 50,000 or so driven would actually reduce the carbon dioxide production produced by a single large volcanic eruption on an average basis. If the technology were applied to trucks and fleet vehicles, the savings in reduced carbon dioxide pollution would be very large. This will be important as in 5-10 years time road temperatures during the summer in many southwestern locations will begin to climb to the point that tires will melt.
I prefer those Groucho Marx Nose and Glasses costumes, since you can get them on discount come Halloween. This should be especially with those libertarians who can't quite break away from the GOP, when they sing "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It". That's important since they don't cover your mouth, so you can get the pitch right.
"Do you really believe there's something about Britain that makes private businesses substantially more likely to employ CCTV than in other countries?"
Don't shatter my reality. All this time I just thought the Brits were just so jealous about not having their own Hollywood that they simply just wanted to be on big screen too.
Just think of all those folks who simply were born to mistakenly look like someone else, such a cruel fate.
The trick is to make if fashionable enough so that everyone is wearing one. Although the wealthy now have nearly all the money, everyone knows they are too cheap and don't want pay more taxes to hire enough cops. Sounds like a great decoy for burglars, robbers, and drug dealers. Just hire enough of the unemployed at minimum wage to keep the cops busy during the heist/deal. With the wealthy too cheap to pay taxes, there won't be enough cops to replay all the videos and question and monitor the thousands of additional suspects. To make matters worse, your ordinary criminal will begin to be seen like a Robin Hood, providing employment when the government and corporations fail to do so.
Clearly, the court system will have to be abolished to eliminate the cost of arresting and convicting all the false positives. Of course it takes the brilliant mind of a historian like Newt Gingrich to point this out. That's why he was paid $33,000/hr for his advice.
After airports have all the body scanners they need, places like Subway, Walmart, Drugstores, etc. will soon be the only viable markets. Expect these to be required in every store near you in the near future. After all, no one will object unless they have something to hide right?
"since only people who are up to no good care about the surveillance in the first place."
Perfect PC speech/mentality in our new police state, if you even remotely "look like" you are doing something wrong, its proof that you are. With anti-Talibanism on the rise, expect them to start detaining anyone with a beard or mustache, women who wear scarves, men who wear hats, etc. Coupled, with GOP efforts to eliminate the court system, just think of the money we can save by dispensing with trials all together. Instead we can have un-elected, privately contracted clothing censors, who only have to press and up or down button on their PC's, which will dispatch the drones.
Any recommendations on the Linux VM for this softwarre?
I've usually run Linux off a CD on my windows notebook given some past mixed experiences with dual booting. Running on a separate Linux machine may simply prove the easiest option, just not the most convenient presently.
OpenCast Matterhorn looks great and I've checkout the site.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find good documentation of how to run under Windows 7, without "3rd party software tools" (which sort of defeat the purpose of Open Source). However, I find myself doing a lot of development and work in Windows so that I can interface a number programs that don't easily run under Linux and despite my love of Linux, find this quicker than developing under Linux, which I don't have running at the moment.
Has anyone run Matterhorn under Windows 7 and would you be willing to share pointers to how you got it installed? Google search not all that informative for someone with insufficient time to wade through the various trials and tribulations.
Thanks in advance and to the original poster for drawing my attention to the entire issue of online lecture development/capture software.
These things could happen, but there is no reason a priori to assume that they will.
I've found the online lectures dealing with multivariable calculus at both Berkeley and MIT extremely useful. It has allowed me to skip to specific sections, compare and contrast the salient points, and tie these into use of au xiliary texts with useful (to me at least) results, as well as search on line for Mathematica based code that implements the specific techniques.
Are there any open source alternatives to the Tegrity software? Looks nice, but cost is always a consideration.
Why bear false witness? The poor have not benefited at the expense of the middle class. The top 1% has largely sucked up the entire pie from everyone else.
Wealth is now so concentrated it is becoming increasingly impossible to even have an economy, which implies that money circulates from one party to the next.
In a multidimensional context a "center" is called a "centroid". That it is somewhere "in the middle" is a simple consequence of the law of large numbers. Natural selection will push it in one direction or the other or "stabilize" it toward a particular value and more rarely lead to a period of destabilization by selecting for either end at the expense of the middle as "destabilizing" selection. This, of course, depends entirely upon the nature of the properties in question and the environment in which it is in.
The problem you are so eager to overlook in your "analysis" is that both Obama and America are still paying for Bush's mistakes. Its going to take about 20-40 years to dig out of many and for many more, (thousands of lost lives, lost industries, and lost square miles of habitat) it will never be possible to repair the damage.
As for Obama's political skills, it seems to me that he pretty well handed the Republicans their heads on the recent payroll tax fiasco, which of course is now set up to play itself out again every two months until election time.
This is a gross oversimplification, when one realizes that much to the chagrin of his natural constituency Obama pushed through health care legislation crafted after that proposed by Mitt Romney. However, don't let this inconsistency in your thinking prevent you for holding firm to your beliefs.
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I have had a Prius for a number of year now. I get mileage of between 45-48 mpg and have used it extensively not only for local travel, but medium and long distance (cross the US travel). The trick is to learn how and when to accelerate so that you can maximize the thrust produced by the electric motor. I've heard of experienced drivers getting up to 80 mpg, but I think that requires special tires.
The best part on a long trip is pulling up to a gas station and rarely having to pay more than $20 to get me another few hundred miles. Handling, acceleration and service are also great. I plan on getting another, but wish Toyota would make a hybrid van as my dog (an English Mastiff) loves to ride, but there just insn't enough room for her to endure a long trip in such the small backseat even using the hatch.
The reality is that if more people drove hybrids, gasoline prices would be much cheaper for everyone and that would accelerate the economy. Every 50,000 or so driven would actually reduce the carbon dioxide production produced by a single large volcanic eruption on an average basis. If the technology were applied to trucks and fleet vehicles, the savings in reduced carbon dioxide pollution would be very large. This will be important as in 5-10 years time road temperatures during the summer in many southwestern locations will begin to climb to the point that tires will melt.
The GOP will certainly be able to support this, since then they will be able to add all the virtual people to the unemployment statistics.
I think Michelle Bachmann has this down pat, which is maybe why she was appointed to the Intelligence Committee.
I prefer those Groucho Marx Nose and Glasses costumes, since you can get them on discount come Halloween. This should be especially with those libertarians who can't quite break away from the GOP, when they sing "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It". That's important since they don't cover your mouth, so you can get the pitch right.
Recently the media in South Africa got into a lot of trouble putting up cameras to monitor Nelson Mandella's house.
"Do you really believe there's something about Britain that makes private businesses substantially more likely to employ CCTV than in other countries?"
Don't shatter my reality. All this time I just thought the Brits were just so jealous about not having their own Hollywood that they simply just wanted to be on big screen too.
Just think of all those folks who simply were born to mistakenly look like someone else, such a cruel fate.
Until the politicians begin taking bribes from companies peddling equipment with very high levels of false positives.
Except like anti-radar technologies the cameras will then instantaneously fire a high energy particle beam directly back at the offending light.
The trick is to make if fashionable enough so that everyone is wearing one. Although the wealthy now have nearly all the money, everyone knows they are too cheap and don't want pay more taxes to hire enough cops. Sounds like a great decoy for burglars, robbers, and drug dealers. Just hire enough of the unemployed at minimum wage to keep the cops busy during the heist/deal. With the wealthy too cheap to pay taxes, there won't be enough cops to replay all the videos and question and monitor the thousands of additional suspects. To make matters worse, your ordinary criminal will begin to be seen like a Robin Hood, providing employment when the government and corporations fail to do so.
Clearly, the court system will have to be abolished to eliminate the cost of arresting and convicting all the false positives. Of course it takes the brilliant mind of a historian like Newt Gingrich to point this out. That's why he was paid $33,000/hr for his advice.
So do most banks now.
After airports have all the body scanners they need, places like Subway, Walmart, Drugstores, etc. will soon be the only viable markets. Expect these to be required in every store near you in the near future. After all, no one will object unless they have something to hide right?
I agree. It will be far simpler to require a chip be implanted in your brain before you are permitted to vote.
No worry, if anyone is seen wearing meat on their heads, a drone will be automatically dispatched to make sure that is is well done.
"since only people who are up to no good care about the surveillance in the first place."
Perfect PC speech/mentality in our new police state, if you even remotely "look like" you are doing something wrong, its proof that you are. With anti-Talibanism on the rise, expect them to start detaining anyone with a beard or mustache, women who wear scarves, men who wear hats, etc. Coupled, with GOP efforts to eliminate the court system, just think of the money we can save by dispensing with trials all together. Instead we can have un-elected, privately contracted clothing censors, who only have to press and up or down button on their PC's, which will dispatch the drones.
Maybe veils will become popular again.
If this starts to catch on, expect the Tea Party and GOP to ban Braveheart fan clubs.
Thanks for the response.
Any recommendations on the Linux VM for this softwarre?
I've usually run Linux off a CD on my windows notebook given some past mixed experiences with dual booting. Running on a separate Linux machine may simply prove the easiest option, just not the most convenient presently.
OpenCast Matterhorn looks great and I've checkout the site.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find good documentation of how to run under Windows 7, without "3rd party software tools" (which sort of defeat the purpose of Open Source). However, I find myself doing a lot of development and work in Windows so that I can interface a number programs that don't easily run under Linux and despite my love of Linux, find this quicker than developing under Linux, which I don't have running at the moment.
Has anyone run Matterhorn under Windows 7 and would you be willing to share pointers to how you got it installed? Google search not all that informative for someone with insufficient time to wade through the various trials and tribulations.
Thanks in advance and to the original poster for drawing my attention to the entire issue of online lecture development/capture software.
These things could happen, but there is no reason a priori to assume that they will.
I've found the online lectures dealing with multivariable calculus at both Berkeley and MIT extremely useful. It has allowed me to skip to specific sections, compare and contrast the salient points, and tie these into use of au xiliary texts with useful (to me at least) results, as well as search on line for Mathematica based code that implements the specific techniques.
Are there any open source alternatives to the Tegrity software? Looks nice, but cost is always a consideration.
Good News. Quick. Send David Cameron the tutorial!
You seriously don't think your average Tea Party/GOP'er can count do you?
Of course, all decisions made on the device are subject to the approval of Apple Inc, which will receive a processing fee.
Why bear false witness? The poor have not benefited at the expense of the middle class. The top 1% has largely sucked up the entire pie from everyone else.
Wealth is now so concentrated it is becoming increasingly impossible to even have an economy, which implies that money circulates from one party to the next.
In a multidimensional context a "center" is called a "centroid". That it is somewhere "in the middle" is a simple consequence of the law of large numbers. Natural selection will push it in one direction or the other or "stabilize" it toward a particular value and more rarely lead to a period of destabilization by selecting for either end at the expense of the middle as "destabilizing" selection. This, of course, depends entirely upon the nature of the properties in question and the environment in which it is in.
The problem you are so eager to overlook in your "analysis" is that both Obama and America are still paying for Bush's mistakes. Its going to take about 20-40 years to dig out of many and for many more, (thousands of lost lives, lost industries, and lost square miles of habitat) it will never be possible to repair the damage.
As for Obama's political skills, it seems to me that he pretty well handed the Republicans their heads on the recent payroll tax fiasco, which of course is now set up to play itself out again every two months until election time.
This is a gross oversimplification, when one realizes that much to the chagrin of his natural constituency Obama pushed through health care legislation crafted after that proposed by Mitt Romney. However, don't let this inconsistency in your thinking prevent you for holding firm to your beliefs.