The Insignia is €22K for the base-model, which is still a bit more than 26K USD - seems the cars are cheaper in the US, although I've never seen a US car as well-built as my Insignia;)
Electricity is ca 21 euro-cent (26 us-cent) per KWh daytime, 11 euro-cent night-time, over here, but can vary a lot.
Fuel (diesel) was 1.2 euro average per litre in 2010, but tomorrow is given as 1.48 euro per litre, with mine (98KW) rated at 42.2 MPG combined
By my calculations, at 15K miles/year, that comes to ca 2000 euro in diesel pro anno. Someone elsewhere mentioned 4 miles per KWh, which should be charged during night-time: €412.5 (€767,5 daytime) So saving, on fuel, is ca €1587,5 pro anno best case.
If price-difference from my current €27K to 50K USD holds as 15K USD, then break-even (everything else ignored...) is at 10 years, by which time I may need a new batterypack, at 10K USD.
So, I agree, it is right on the cusp of reasonable, but still in the territory of buying-because-you-want-tesla/electrical-car... which is also reasonable;)
Greek-appeal, certainly, but I suspect only geeky parents would buy it for their kids - try bringing your child to a Lego store (e.g. in Köln), and see what bits they head for first...
Do what I saw at one school: Place it in an old meat-processing hall, with ceramic tiles on the walls, and a minimum of light. The humm from the computers and printers will reverb nicely off the tiles, and with help of the artificial light will induce the right kind of headache to steer any student away from using computers - ever!
Kinda agree - my current Insignia (GM) comes to €27.000, or at current exchange rate: 35.000 USD. I could probably be talked into adding the difference up to 40K, although, as a techie on lowest salery rung, I'd be hard pressed to locate the additional 10K for this. Mid-tier personnel (lower management) should be able to pony up the full 50K, if they really wanted to.
So, not rich guys territory, but not average-joe either.
Finally, at this stage, we still need technology to improve, production methods to improve, and together bring prices a bit further down - this is what early adopters are for: Investing in the latest and greatest, so it can be commoditized for the rest of us:D
Chibi City, Hubei, China
Red Cliff (film), a 2009 movie about the battle at Chibi
Chibi (term), a Japanese word for diminutive person
Super deformed, a style of anime caricature
The lead singer of the band The Birthday Massacre
might explain something... Have FF9 installed, went to their add-ons page and FF9 just froze up completely. 45 seconds later, a dialog shows up, saying that a script is unresponsive.
Make the UI based on JavaScript, and have a setup where a single script can stall all scripts is a recipe for trouble.
Dirty Jobs did a segment on a smelting/iron-work plant, where it was cheaper to pay people to work night-shift only, than to pay for daytime electricity. So price-difference must already be quite high is some areas, between day-time and night-time electricity.
As for solar-panels on houses - it would take a load of the current infrastructure, so companies do not have to build out/fix the distribution-net as immediately. This would be a boon for them, albeit only temporary.
Children are not born liking spicy food. I don't know about the Thais, but I doubt most parents would wean their babies on spicy food.
In Mexico, I was presented with candy containing capsaicin, and told this was given to even small kids. Now, not sure when kids stop putting random stuff in their mouth (ours never really had that habit), but possible there is an overlap between the time they do that, and is given candy.
As to what is correct parenting, no idea - only got 2 kids, still pretty sure I'm more-or-less clueless on the matter.
If person A posts something belonging to person B on Facebook, person B still maintains the rights and is not subject to Facebook's TOS. What I'm curious about, is whether Person A, Facebook or both are guilty of infringement (I'd venture, both), and what ProtectIP and SOPA would require be done...
McGrew, how did you get Win7 to update? That has so far eluded me; Windows XP machines, Kubuntus (latest), Ubuntu Server (10.4), OSX 10.6 machines, all update nicely, but Win7 (Home Premium) simply fails with an error-code that Microsoft's help-pages do not know.
Similar with MS' Security Essentials - it keeps bugging me about Windows is unsafe (redundant?), but refuses to update virus/fw definitions, or whatever it is it downloads (download works, only actually installing update fails)
But your right about Control Panel - it is really gone from being a bit of a mess to being completely useless.
I still hold onto WinXP on my work PC - Boss can just/try/ to suggest replacing it with Win7
Didn't they claim it can play PS3 games? Don't do the update, in order to keep a feature (as recommended by the court), and you loose ability to play new PS3 games, particularly games that the hacker community have shown can run on the older PS3s when firmware-version check is bypassed.
I read excerpts from the judgement, and judge is basically saying that people can still use OtherOS, as long as they don't upgrade, so nothing is lost... yeah, except playing new games. (Online gaming is a service, not a feature, which Sony can retract at will, btw).
I once went there with a sprained ankle and he told me to go to the hospital immediately. The time I would have won if I would have gone directly to the hospital is about 30 minutes.
I broke my leg once. Wasn't sure it was a complete fracture, so waited a day to check. Concluded that, yes, it'll likely need a cast, I biked down to see a doctor. He agreed, it was broken, and thanked me for waiting instead of rushing to the hospital/ER for something this minor.
Went to the hospital, they checked it, xray'd it, and agreed: Its broken. Then gave me a crutch and sent me home (no cast).
Lesson learnt: A lot of stuff don't require you to go to hospitals, and don't require you to go immediately.
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:)
Some notes:
The Insignia is €22K for the base-model, which is still a bit more than 26K USD - seems the cars are cheaper in the US, although I've never seen a US car as well-built as my Insignia ;)
Electricity is ca 21 euro-cent (26 us-cent) per KWh daytime, 11 euro-cent night-time, over here, but can vary a lot.
Fuel (diesel) was 1.2 euro average per litre in 2010, but tomorrow is given as 1.48 euro per litre, with mine (98KW) rated at 42.2 MPG combined
By my calculations, at 15K miles/year, that comes to ca 2000 euro in diesel pro anno.
Someone elsewhere mentioned 4 miles per KWh, which should be charged during night-time: €412.5 (€767,5 daytime)
So saving, on fuel, is ca €1587,5 pro anno best case.
If price-difference from my current €27K to 50K USD holds as 15K USD, then break-even (everything else ignored...) is at 10 years, by which time I may need a new batterypack, at 10K USD.
So, I agree, it is right on the cusp of reasonable, but still in the territory of buying-because-you-want-tesla/electrical-car ... which is also reasonable ;)
Greek-appeal, certainly, but I suspect only geeky parents would buy it for their kids - try bringing your child to a Lego store (e.g. in Köln), and see what bits they head for first...
Do what I saw at one school: Place it in an old meat-processing hall, with ceramic tiles on the walls, and a minimum of light.
The humm from the computers and printers will reverb nicely off the tiles, and with help of the artificial light will induce the right kind of headache to steer any student away from using computers - ever!
Kinda agree - my current Insignia (GM) comes to €27.000, or at current exchange rate: 35.000 USD. I could probably be talked into adding the difference up to 40K, although, as a techie on lowest salery rung, I'd be hard pressed to locate the additional 10K for this. Mid-tier personnel (lower management) should be able to pony up the full 50K, if they really wanted to.
So, not rich guys territory, but not average-joe either.
Finally, at this stage, we still need technology to improve, production methods to improve, and together bring prices a bit further down - this is what early adopters are for: Investing in the latest and greatest, so it can be commoditized for the rest of us :D
Chibi may refer to:
Chibi City, Hubei, China
Red Cliff (film), a 2009 movie about the battle at Chibi
Chibi (term), a Japanese word for diminutive person
Super deformed, a style of anime caricature
The lead singer of the band The Birthday Massacre
Sorry, joke not understood...
How do I overclock my SSDs? :D
Good thing Sony US is not based in California!
[...] Google [..] tries to make theirs into an emotion-less Star Trek computer, even naming it after the actress who voiced it.
Might be me, but give it the personality of Lwaxana Troi, and it will be anything BUT emotion-less.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lwaxana_Troi
Depends on your taste: http://vietbao.vn/Van-hoa/Trinh-Kim-Chi-dat-niem-tin-cho-su-tro-lai/11014619/104/
might explain something ... Have FF9 installed, went to their add-ons page and FF9 just froze up completely. 45 seconds later, a dialog shows up, saying that a script is unresponsive.
Make the UI based on JavaScript, and have a setup where a single script can stall all scripts is a recipe for trouble.
This "Freedom Advocacy & Law" company?
http://www.socialservicehell.org/index.php/news/203-an-admission-from-freedom-advocacy-and-law-of-fraud
(note: Was simply first link on Google - have no opinion on the matter)
Dirty Jobs did a segment on a smelting/iron-work plant, where it was cheaper to pay people to work night-shift only, than to pay for daytime electricity. So price-difference must already be quite high is some areas, between day-time and night-time electricity.
As for solar-panels on houses - it would take a load of the current infrastructure, so companies do not have to build out/fix the distribution-net as immediately. This would be a boon for them, albeit only temporary.
Children are not born liking spicy food. I don't know about the Thais, but I doubt most parents would wean their babies on spicy food.
In Mexico, I was presented with candy containing capsaicin, and told this was given to even small kids.
Now, not sure when kids stop putting random stuff in their mouth (ours never really had that habit), but possible there is an overlap between the time they do that, and is given candy.
As to what is correct parenting, no idea - only got 2 kids, still pretty sure I'm more-or-less clueless on the matter.
Not sure I understand...
If person A posts something belonging to person B on Facebook, person B still maintains the rights and is not subject to Facebook's TOS.
What I'm curious about, is whether Person A, Facebook or both are guilty of infringement (I'd venture, both), and what ProtectIP and SOPA would require be done...
Can you help me understand this ProtecTip thing?
If you post something of mine (picture?) on facebook, does that make you or Facebok guilty?
True, that would cause some hiccups in this plan.
More likely, (short-term), is that Belgacom et al will block access to 3rd party DNS services.
Use 8.8.8.8 as your DNS server - works nicely with thepiratebay.org (I just tested)
McGrew, how did you get Win7 to update? That has so far eluded me; Windows XP machines, Kubuntus (latest), Ubuntu Server (10.4), OSX 10.6 machines, all update nicely, but Win7 (Home Premium) simply fails with an error-code that Microsoft's help-pages do not know.
Similar with MS' Security Essentials - it keeps bugging me about Windows is unsafe (redundant?), but refuses to update virus/fw definitions, or whatever it is it downloads (download works, only actually installing update fails)
But your right about Control Panel - it is really gone from being a bit of a mess to being completely useless.
I still hold onto WinXP on my work PC - Boss can just /try/ to suggest replacing it with Win7
Good one - that wikipedia page makes me glad that our Staflík a Spagetka DVDs are without speech :)
(http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0tafl%C3%ADk_a_%C5%A0pagetka)
Lucky Goldstar
General Motors
though, I think these are strange names indeed.
Try to pronounce "Angstskrig" (scream of angst) :)
Meanwhile, I'll keep calling Qt for "Q T" since the only word I can read from those two letters is "Cut", and thats a silly name for a toolkit.
Try windows 7 - is the least user-friendly POS I've tried in a long time, and I got a headless Ubuntu server...
Didn't they claim it can play PS3 games?
Don't do the update, in order to keep a feature (as recommended by the court), and you loose ability to play new PS3 games, particularly games that the hacker community have shown can run on the older PS3s when firmware-version check is bypassed.
I read excerpts from the judgement, and judge is basically saying that people can still use OtherOS, as long as they don't upgrade, so nothing is lost ... yeah, except playing new games. (Online gaming is a service, not a feature, which Sony can retract at will, btw).
Always wondered what happens to the ship, while the deflector dish is being used for something else than deflecting stuff...
I once went there with a sprained ankle and he told me to go to the hospital immediately. The time I would have won if I would have gone directly to the hospital is about 30 minutes.
I broke my leg once. Wasn't sure it was a complete fracture, so waited a day to check. Concluded that, yes, it'll likely need a cast, I biked down to see a doctor. He agreed, it was broken, and thanked me for waiting instead of rushing to the hospital/ER for something this minor.
Went to the hospital, they checked it, xray'd it, and agreed: Its broken. Then gave me a crutch and sent me home (no cast).
Lesson learnt: A lot of stuff don't require you to go to hospitals, and don't require you to go immediately.