Many newer cars have what is known as (in my pontiac GTO w/6-speed MT) DAFC - Deceleration Automatic Fuel Cutoff. When coasting to a stop, the engine shuts the fuel off completely which is actually much more efficient (instantaneous mpg meter goes off the scale) than leaving it in neutral where the engine is idling using ~1 gallon/hr.
I get more than 25mpg @ 80 mph and only ~24 @ 65 mph, so my car is more efficient at the higher speeds. If I drive carefully I can achieve about 30 mpg which isn't bad for a 400HP car. IMO, screw the ugly Prius, it is much more fun/satisfying to drive something with a little power.
I have no degree or formal education, but I am getting tons of job offers for Sr. System Analyst due to my experience and self study (just got hired at a big Pharm. Co. in Indianapolis). Get experience any way you can, that is what they want. I have supported R&D engineers all my career and they are very demanding and it looks good on a resume.
The oint is that you cannot buy a standalone consumer DVR that does not require a subscription of any kind, not tied to any terms of service that can changed or revoked at anytime or the vendor goes out of business.
Right now the only two ways to record OTH-HD is with locked-down Windows media center or MythTV. I wanted to avoid figuring out a Myth setup and buying a bunch of hardware to assemble.
Hell you can't even buy a SD OTH DVR anymore like the Panasonics that could record OTH to DVD.
No, they are a subscription based service:
From the Tivo website:
Early termination fee applies, along with terms and conditions of the TiVo service payment plans at www.tivo.com/policies.
A subscription to the TiVo service is required and the TiVo DVR will not work without a paid subscription to the TiVo service. If you cancel the TiVo service you are purchasing today, the DVR will no longer function.
Norfokkin way, are you nuts? Cable/Dish is already a bad deal for the consumer, I am paying out the ass to watch mostly advertising in the form of infomercials, commercials (which are an all time high percentage of programming now). I also lost the ability to record HD without an "approved" and pay-forever rental fee DVR as there are currently NO HD-DVRs on the consumer market anymore. This is all a giant power/money grab by the government and Hollywood.
And to top it all off, just wait until the broadcast flag takes effect, because you know it will eventually be implemented even if Martin says they won't (for now).
Umm, are they saying that they complain when their analog TV's can't receive or are they complaining that their digital receivers can't get a good signal that far away. I for one have much trouble getting more than 3 or 4 channels from my location in a major metro area and of those only two or three are received reliably (depending on the weather/day of week, holiday, etc.).
Does it have the Compac Disk logo on it? I will no longer buy any music CD that does not say it is a Compact Disk. If it has the logo it must work in any CD device.
Just wait until analog TV is gone and all you can receive is DTV. I already can't record whatever I want to a DVR (is there even a standalone HD/DVR left on the market now?) I don't what to keep paying a rental fee for my cable/dish DVR anymore because it disables recording for many programs. So much for the VCR.
I worked at AT&T Bell Labs in Indianapolis from 1987 through 2003 and I still miss working there. I learned more from those years working with a bunch of amazingly intelligent people than I would have ever learned in college (I'm not a graduate), they were all great mentors. We got to "play" with some of the coolest tech ever and got paid to do it.
It truly is a sad day:-(
Except when we did it, the technologies to scrub emissions and the clean methods of raw material mining & production did not yet exist. We spend billions of $$ over decades to develop them. The technologies now exist to allow clean(er) production but the Chinese refuse to spend the extra $$ to install the devices and put the methodologies in place to keep us hooked on their cheap dirty manufacturing capabilities.
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I know if I was a farmer and had a chance to make more money growing a weed I would be all over it. I might be wrong in that.... Isn't this why they grow pot?
Where'd that number come from? A recent show on the Science Channel had a solar researcher stating that over the last 300 years, the sun's output has risen 3%.
by treuf (99331) Alter Relationship on Tuesday June 03, @08:44AM (#23636723) Homepage
Seen from the country I live in, all this is just unbelieveable.
We have ADSL lines with speed up to 28Mb DL (remove ATM overhead) for prices starting at 18Ã per month.
No cap, no bullshit, nothing.
Usually for a higher price (starting at 29Ã), you get unlimited phone calls to many countries (japan, us, europe, etc...) and video over IP (TV, video on demand, other funky services)
All this without even talking about fiber which is being deployed, and cable.
I cannot understand how the country where the internet was born is going this way...
Looks like there is either no competition, or no incentive to upgrade the network.
The very reason that companies like Google have been told that they are "freeloaders" by the telecoms and ISPs is because...
Unlimited broadband is ridiculous at this stage of the game. There simply is not enough infrastructure to allow everyone to consume whatever they want, whenever they want, without making them pay for it.
If the above quote is true, it apparently isn't ridiculous for the rest of the world, only here in the US is the infrastructure so ridiculously incapable to give everyone what they want (no competition or upgrade incentives - US ISP's are probably in collusion).
For time-sensitive communication, there are these cool devices called telephones that let you instantly have a converation with someone at another location. Why won't anyone use them anymore?
My credit union (Telco) has a login system like this. I had to type my login/password 10 times for it to learn and let me proceed with registration.
I was not able to login on mt first 3-4 tries, but it eventually let me in. I am a veeeerrry inconsistent typer (I am a hunter/pecker), so the fact I got access at all surprised me.
I personally use a Linux/Windows combination...Linux for when I feel like messing around, Windows because it has far reaching hardware support and doesn't require nearly as much tweaking to get it how I want. Forgive me for blaspheming by not using Linux exclusively; just don't look down on people like me because we CHOOSE to use what works for us. Here, let me fix that for you:
I personally use a Linux/Windows combination...Windows for when I feel like messing around, Linux because it has far reaching hardware support and doesn't require nearly as much tweaking to get it how I want. Forgive me for blaspheming by not using Linux exclusively; just don't look down on people like me because we CHOOSE to use what works for us. I don't look down on people like you because you choose to use what works for you, I look down on you because you choose to continually contribute to a immoral, unethical, monopoly abusing, vote/law buying corporation.
I refuse to support such an corp. buy buying any of their overpriced, underpowered, crippled, bug-ridden crap software.
There is nothing you can do with Windows that I can not get done with Linux, so what's the point of paying so much?
I wonder how much power an average lightning bolt contains. I know it is millions of volts, but how many amps?? Many folks have walked away from a direct hit, so the current may not be enough to utilize. It would be interesting to know if there is enough power to store to make it worth trying.
My idea is to use lighting to electrolyze water to make H and O2 and store those in big tanks.
Rare indeed, I saw ball lightning when I was about 13. I have never seen it again since (I am now 45+) and it was a memorable sight and have hoped to see it again. It lasted 3-5 seconds as it rolled down my neighbor's roof, danced along the rain gutter, then exploded in to a bright turquoise flash and was gone. It did make a sizzling/crackling and zzzzt sounds.
...is moving in a good direction from the perspective of ballot security, the system chosen tabulates all votes at a central location.
I don't think "central location" is a good way to tabulate the votes though. It would be easier to manipulate votes at a single location by a few people than it would if the tally is distributed across many people and locations, plus it distributes the work load in parallel so that sub-totals are quick. At least it would be much harder to hide with so many different personnel involved.
The required level of creativity is extremely low; the work must "possess some creative spark, 'no matter how crude, humble or obvious' it might be." Id. (internal citations omitted). Copyright protection does not extend to facts or ideas. Wright v. Warner Books, Inc., 953 F.2d 731, 735 (2d Cir. 1991).
Isn't a legal document basically a statement of fact(s)?
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Will I be able to watch it without stupid Silverlight? It'd be nice to be able to watch from my Linux box :-(
Many newer cars have what is known as (in my pontiac GTO w/6-speed MT) DAFC - Deceleration Automatic Fuel Cutoff. When coasting to a stop, the engine shuts the fuel off completely which is actually much more efficient (instantaneous mpg meter goes off the scale) than leaving it in neutral where the engine is idling using ~1 gallon/hr.
I get more than 25mpg @ 80 mph and only ~24 @ 65 mph, so my car is more efficient at the higher speeds. If I drive carefully I can achieve about 30 mpg which isn't bad for a 400HP car. IMO, screw the ugly Prius, it is much more fun/satisfying to drive something with a little power.
I remember something like that in O/S 2 way before that.
I have no degree or formal education, but I am getting tons of job offers for Sr. System Analyst due to my experience and self study (just got hired at a big Pharm. Co. in Indianapolis). Get experience any way you can, that is what they want. I have supported R&D engineers all my career and they are very demanding and it looks good on a resume.
The oint is that you cannot buy a standalone consumer DVR that does not require a subscription of any kind, not tied to any terms of service that can changed or revoked at anytime or the vendor goes out of business. Right now the only two ways to record OTH-HD is with locked-down Windows media center or MythTV. I wanted to avoid figuring out a Myth setup and buying a bunch of hardware to assemble. Hell you can't even buy a SD OTH DVR anymore like the Panasonics that could record OTH to DVD.
No, they are a subscription based service: From the Tivo website: Early termination fee applies, along with terms and conditions of the TiVo service payment plans at www.tivo.com/policies. A subscription to the TiVo service is required and the TiVo DVR will not work without a paid subscription to the TiVo service. If you cancel the TiVo service you are purchasing today, the DVR will no longer function.
Norfokkin way, are you nuts? Cable/Dish is already a bad deal for the consumer, I am paying out the ass to watch mostly advertising in the form of infomercials, commercials (which are an all time high percentage of programming now). I also lost the ability to record HD without an "approved" and pay-forever rental fee DVR as there are currently NO HD-DVRs on the consumer market anymore. This is all a giant power/money grab by the government and Hollywood. And to top it all off, just wait until the broadcast flag takes effect, because you know it will eventually be implemented even if Martin says they won't (for now).
Umm, are they saying that they complain when their analog TV's can't receive or are they complaining that their digital receivers can't get a good signal that far away. I for one have much trouble getting more than 3 or 4 channels from my location in a major metro area and of those only two or three are received reliably (depending on the weather/day of week, holiday, etc.).
Does it have the Compac Disk logo on it? I will no longer buy any music CD that does not say it is a Compact Disk. If it has the logo it must work in any CD device.
Just wait until analog TV is gone and all you can receive is DTV. I already can't record whatever I want to a DVR (is there even a standalone HD/DVR left on the market now?) I don't what to keep paying a rental fee for my cable/dish DVR anymore because it disables recording for many programs. So much for the VCR.
I'll take my desktop separate from the web thank you. As if active desktop wasn't bad enough, when will they learn.
You mean like CEO's?
I worked at AT&T Bell Labs in Indianapolis from 1987 through 2003 and I still miss working there. I learned more from those years working with a bunch of amazingly intelligent people than I would have ever learned in college (I'm not a graduate), they were all great mentors. We got to "play" with some of the coolest tech ever and got paid to do it. It truly is a sad day :-(
Except when we did it, the technologies to scrub emissions and the clean methods of raw material mining & production did not yet exist. We spend billions of $$ over decades to develop them. The technologies now exist to allow clean(er) production but the Chinese refuse to spend the extra $$ to install the devices and put the methodologies in place to keep us hooked on their cheap dirty manufacturing capabilities.
Where'd that number come from? A recent show on the Science Channel had a solar researcher stating that over the last 300 years, the sun's output has risen 3%.
Not according to this study that someone posted in the earlier SUV story. http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.html
The very reason that companies like Google have been told that they are "freeloaders" by the telecoms and ISPs is because... Unlimited broadband is ridiculous at this stage of the game. There simply is not enough infrastructure to allow everyone to consume whatever they want, whenever they want, without making them pay for it.
If the above quote is true, it apparently isn't ridiculous for the rest of the world, only here in the US is the infrastructure so ridiculously incapable to give everyone what they want (no competition or upgrade incentives - US ISP's are probably in collusion).
For time-sensitive communication, there are these cool devices called telephones that let you instantly have a converation with someone at another location. Why won't anyone use them anymore?
My credit union (Telco) has a login system like this. I had to type my login/password 10 times for it to learn and let me proceed with registration. I was not able to login on mt first 3-4 tries, but it eventually let me in. I am a veeeerrry inconsistent typer (I am a hunter/pecker), so the fact I got access at all surprised me.
I wonder how much power an average lightning bolt contains. I know it is millions of volts, but how many amps?? Many folks have walked away from a direct hit, so the current may not be enough to utilize. It would be interesting to know if there is enough power to store to make it worth trying. My idea is to use lighting to electrolyze water to make H and O2 and store those in big tanks.
Rare indeed, I saw ball lightning when I was about 13. I have never seen it again since (I am now 45+) and it was a memorable sight and have hoped to see it again. It lasted 3-5 seconds as it rolled down my neighbor's roof, danced along the rain gutter, then exploded in to a bright turquoise flash and was gone. It did make a sizzling/crackling and zzzzt sounds.
The required level of creativity is extremely low; the work must "possess some creative spark, 'no matter how crude, humble or obvious' it might be." Id. (internal citations omitted). Copyright protection does not extend to facts or ideas. Wright v. Warner Books, Inc., 953 F.2d 731, 735 (2d Cir. 1991).
Isn't a legal document basically a statement of fact(s)?