Well in that case the old (Austin/Rover) mini has been doing 25-33 US mpg for over 40 years. However you look at it, having the American average mpg being lower than a nearly 50-year-old design that was so popular it was being made (with few changes) for over 40 years is ridiculous.
Also, does anyone else find it amusing that the new BMW "mini" is wider than the average car in Britain?
In fact according to this page the classic British Mini has been doing 30-40mpg (depending on model) for over 40 years. The fact that the average American car now does only 20mpg is just horrific.
Oh, and apparently they reduced the size of the engine in the first Mini because they thought a top speed of 90mph was too fast!
On a more modern note, my mum's Citroen C3 does 60mpg (it's a diesel) and it's pretty quick as well.
I really don't think 100 mpg is a difficult target.
Re:Stupid comparison after stupid comparison....
on
Firefox 3.0 Preview
·
· Score: 1
Just out of interest I decided to open ie7 and load up the same couple of tabs as I currently have open in Firefox 2. Firefox was using 44MB of ram and ie7 used 47. Given that Firefox had been open for over half an hour of me browsing around, I don't think it has any memory problems.
For people who just have weak perception of a colour (a reduced number of cells of that type instead of having their cells for that colour missing or with a shifted frequency response) then using coloured contacts sounds like an effective way to force the eye/brain into increasing it's sensitivity towards that colour and correcting the problem.
Interestingly when I glanced at the picture at the bottom of the first link I saw an 8. After reading the blurb I looked back at it properly and saw that I'd actually seen both the 2 and the 5 overlapped. I don't know how, as the numbers are both drawn in a different way (the 5 is a different colour to the background and the 2 is lighter than the background).
The pictures of the flowers are great though, much better than the pictures on Wikipedia. They really make me understand how the world looks to a colour-blind person. Too be honest, it doesn't look that bad.
Re:Colorblindness aid?
on
Smart Sunglasses
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
Out of interest, are the pictures on the Wikipedia colour-blindness page accurate? They are supposed to show what the "colours of the rainbow" look like to a colour-blind person, but in theory if a colour-blind person looks at them then they shouldn't be able to tell the difference between the "normal" picture and one of the artificial colour-blindness ones.
This was likely because the uninstaller was removing each file one by one, or even verifying the contents of each file so it would only remove files that hadn't been changed. Just deleting the whole folder would have taken a lot less time.
(Caveat: make sure you get a good power supply. Mine conked out after < 4 years. Of course, that applies with any computer retailer. Cheaping out on that is a common way to lower prices.) Generally the rule is don't buy a power supply that advertises that it's gold coloured and/or has LEDs in it's 37 fans. In fact any psu that's less that £40 is likely crap or too weak for a modern pc. Another good indicator is the efficiency, any good psu will advertise >80%, or will advertise that it's quoted wattage is "maximum continuous" instead of "maximum peak* (*for <1ms)". Lastly a good power supply is really heavy.
Case in point: I had a qtec gold 550W psu (~£30 at the time) that died within a week. The replacement died a year later when I managed to short the pc's audio front panel plugging my headphones in. It wasn't even the psu that stopped it, the fuse in the power cord went. I bought a Tagan 480W for £70 (they're much cheaper now) and it's been running ever since. Even an unfortunate accident involving metal in my pc (oops) just made it trip it's built-in short protector instead of burning like the qtec did.
No, the reason for the lag is that it takes time to notice that the car in front is moving, and it takes time to get your car to start moving. More-so in a manual car, because you might have to put it in gear or whatever. It may only be a couple of seconds, but it adds up fairly quickly.
It's probably because it's not the same font as Windows uses, and cpu-z was designed at a fixed size and isn't resizing itself to fit the text. You could probably replicate the same on Windows by changing the font, font size, or the display's dpi setting.
Re:Are they better, or just different?
on
eSATA Connectors
·
· Score: 2, Informative
You should be able to hot-swap with "real" SATA 2.0 as well. My guess is you've plugged you're adapter into a SATA 1.0/1.1 socket and that's why you have no hot-swap.
I thought he was kidding about how short the pages were until I looked. The intro page is short, and the summary is even shorter, yet they get a page each with no pictures. In fact only pages 2,3 and 5 have a reasonable amount on them, with the other 4 pages being only around two short paragraphs long each.
Add to that the fact that the summary doesn't really rule one way or the other...
Yeah, Isaac Asimov wrote a lot of really good science fiction stories, along with a lot of more cerebral (thought-provoking) stories that just happen to be set in a science-fiction setting, eg "The Last Question".
And don't even get me started on that movie, all it pinched from the book(s) were the laws of robotics, which they didn't follow, the names of some of the characters and the name of the book. The story of the film is an insult to the books, it really is.
The first time I clicked on this I got the following. Makes a change from the normal "Nothing to see here" that new stories get.
404 File Not Found The requested URL (games/07/03/13/1616214.shtml) was not found. If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.
And even better, if you're using a web proxy then your ISP can still see what you're doing, after all your packets have to pass through their network first. They probably closely monitor anyone that they see connecting to an anonymous proxy, to see if you're doing anything they should cancel your connection for.
An anonymous proxy may make you anonymous to the final site, but both your ISP and the proxy know where you've been and when.
The whole "touch screen", "built-in camera", "8GB of flash memory" stuff is likely pure rumour. However I wouldn't be surprised if Sony revised the PSP design into one slightly smaller and a lot cheaper, much like how Nintendo released the DS lite.
Except that the companies typically give you an all-in-one bill to get around this. That way you haven't not paid the bill for one service, you have not paid the bill for them all. I seem to remember some cable companies here in the UK have a "3 for £30" offer (obviously it's only a really cheap 1Mb or lower connection and most basic TV and phone services), so it's not like you even have separate charges on the single bill for each service.
"Britain originally used day, month, year, then for a short while used month, day, year, and finally reverted to the original form (day, month, year) which was revived around 1900; the USA chose to remain with month, day, year, but did originally use day, month, year as the British did."
Slashdot Mirror
Well in that case the old (Austin/Rover) mini has been doing 25-33 US mpg for over 40 years. However you look at it, having the American average mpg being lower than a nearly 50-year-old design that was so popular it was being made (with few changes) for over 40 years is ridiculous.
Also, does anyone else find it amusing that the new BMW "mini" is wider than the average car in Britain?
In fact according to this page the classic British Mini has been doing 30-40mpg (depending on model) for over 40 years. The fact that the average American car now does only 20mpg is just horrific.
Oh, and apparently they reduced the size of the engine in the first Mini because they thought a top speed of 90mph was too fast!
On a more modern note, my mum's Citroen C3 does 60mpg (it's a diesel) and it's pretty quick as well.
I really don't think 100 mpg is a difficult target.
Just out of interest I decided to open ie7 and load up the same couple of tabs as I currently have open in Firefox 2. Firefox was using 44MB of ram and ie7 used 47. Given that Firefox had been open for over half an hour of me browsing around, I don't think it has any memory problems.
For people who just have weak perception of a colour (a reduced number of cells of that type instead of having their cells for that colour missing or with a shifted frequency response) then using coloured contacts sounds like an effective way to force the eye/brain into increasing it's sensitivity towards that colour and correcting the problem.
Interestingly when I glanced at the picture at the bottom of the first link I saw an 8. After reading the blurb I looked back at it properly and saw that I'd actually seen both the 2 and the 5 overlapped. I don't know how, as the numbers are both drawn in a different way (the 5 is a different colour to the background and the 2 is lighter than the background).
The pictures of the flowers are great though, much better than the pictures on Wikipedia. They really make me understand how the world looks to a colour-blind person. Too be honest, it doesn't look that bad.
Out of interest, are the pictures on the Wikipedia colour-blindness page accurate? They are supposed to show what the "colours of the rainbow" look like to a colour-blind person, but in theory if a colour-blind person looks at them then they shouldn't be able to tell the difference between the "normal" picture and one of the artificial colour-blindness ones.
i cation_of_color_deficiencies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_blind#Classif
This was likely because the uninstaller was removing each file one by one, or even verifying the contents of each file so it would only remove files that hadn't been changed. Just deleting the whole folder would have taken a lot less time.
That's not the last post, there's another page.
Case in point: I had a qtec gold 550W psu (~£30 at the time) that died within a week. The replacement died a year later when I managed to short the pc's audio front panel plugging my headphones in. It wasn't even the psu that stopped it, the fuse in the power cord went. I bought a Tagan 480W for £70 (they're much cheaper now) and it's been running ever since. Even an unfortunate accident involving metal in my pc (oops) just made it trip it's built-in short protector instead of burning like the qtec did.
No, the reason for the lag is that it takes time to notice that the car in front is moving, and it takes time to get your car to start moving. More-so in a manual car, because you might have to put it in gear or whatever. It may only be a couple of seconds, but it adds up fairly quickly.
It's probably because it's not the same font as Windows uses, and cpu-z was designed at a fixed size and isn't resizing itself to fit the text. You could probably replicate the same on Windows by changing the font, font size, or the display's dpi setting.
You should be able to hot-swap with "real" SATA 2.0 as well. My guess is you've plugged you're adapter into a SATA 1.0/1.1 socket and that's why you have no hot-swap.
In fact I'm fairly sure there was a story on Slashdot a while back about a hybrid disk with all three formats in one disk.
I thought he was kidding about how short the pages were until I looked. The intro page is short, and the summary is even shorter, yet they get a page each with no pictures. In fact only pages 2,3 and 5 have a reasonable amount on them, with the other 4 pages being only around two short paragraphs long each.
Add to that the fact that the summary doesn't really rule one way or the other...
Also your link doesn't work.
Yeah, Isaac Asimov wrote a lot of really good science fiction stories, along with a lot of more cerebral (thought-provoking) stories that just happen to be set in a science-fiction setting, eg "The Last Question".
And don't even get me started on that movie, all it pinched from the book(s) were the laws of robotics, which they didn't follow, the names of some of the characters and the name of the book. The story of the film is an insult to the books, it really is.
I meant cheaper to produce, not necessarily cheaper in the shops.
Except if you're using an anonymous proxy the search queries and DNS queries are likely to be anonymised by it too.
Though again the ISP and proxy can both log this info easily.
The first time I clicked on this I got the following. Makes a change from the normal "Nothing to see here" that new stories get.
404 File Not Found
The requested URL (games/07/03/13/1616214.shtml) was not found.
If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.
And even better, if you're using a web proxy then your ISP can still see what you're doing, after all your packets have to pass through their network first. They probably closely monitor anyone that they see connecting to an anonymous proxy, to see if you're doing anything they should cancel your connection for.
An anonymous proxy may make you anonymous to the final site, but both your ISP and the proxy know where you've been and when.
The whole "touch screen", "built-in camera", "8GB of flash memory" stuff is likely pure rumour. However I wouldn't be surprised if Sony revised the PSP design into one slightly smaller and a lot cheaper, much like how Nintendo released the DS lite.
And this is mostly for countries that don't use the same characters as English (Latin alphabet?), like Japan and China.
Except that the companies typically give you an all-in-one bill to get around this. That way you haven't not paid the bill for one service, you have not paid the bill for them all. I seem to remember some cable companies here in the UK have a "3 for £30" offer (obviously it's only a really cheap 1Mb or lower connection and most basic TV and phone services), so it's not like you even have separate charges on the single bill for each service.
Ok, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Middle_ endian_forms.2C_starting_with_the_month
"Britain originally used day, month, year, then for a short while used month, day, year, and finally reverted to the original form (day, month, year) which was revived around 1900; the USA chose to remain with month, day, year, but did originally use day, month, year as the British did."
Interesting.
Although at the same time us Brits do say "14th of March". I wonder why us and the Americans say it differently, and which way was the original?
It's ok, the original link works now. Oddly it seems Microsoft hadn't updated that page for the public yet (it now says "Updated: March 8, 2007").