This reply bothered me (see my other replies to your other posts). From the same website

Test averages include 21 mpg with a manual-transmission 4-cyl sedan, 19.2-21.6 with automatic-transmission GLX versions, 17.8 with V6 4Motion wagon. W8 averaged 16.2 overall, and 22.4 in mostly highway driving. All Passats require premium fuel

There is no way whatever my car gets anything that low. According to their figures, you are getting 30% over the norm.

Am I missing something?

Oh: diesel. Yours petrol?

Still a surprising difference.

Curiously, I have a 1.8l 2003 Passat Estate (which I assume is Wagon in US-speak). I get nearly 50mpg(uk) at cruising 80mph. Allowing for our gallons being ~20% bigger than yours, I make that ~40mpg(us).

I wonder if one of our cars is built somehow differently for the specific market.

And sadly even Nildram, whose customer service and tech support were superb, got bought out and demolished by Opal last year.

I promptly moved to BT, because I've moved to the sticks too, so I might as well have cheap access if I can't have good.

This should be modified insightful...

If this research applies to any 'population', then it could be considered a function of parliament/congress.

Which means that unless the corner case of two groups of >10% with opposing ideas occurs (e.g. labour/democrat vs conservative/republican), ideas will spread as soon as 10% are convinced (e.g. perhaps global warming, multi-culturalism is good, the trickle-down theory)

I'd say this demonstrates the need for greater evidence-based and scientific decision making. Who's with me? And can we persuade 10% of parliamentarians/congressmen?!

As Stanislaw Lem either didn't understand statistics or was simplifying for those who don't ;-)

For an equal chance of failure = (n-1)/n, you need x=ln(1/2)/ln((n-1)/n) parts to have a greater chance of failure.

For n=10e6, that's about 693 thousand components. Quite a lot less than a million!

Correct me if I'm wrong, I won't mind.

I think: The sun is behind the camera, and the apparent angles you see are caused by the shadow being forward (from the camera perspective) of the object. In the parts with vertical edges (the thruster) the shadows look aligned, but in the parts with curved edges underneath (front and back), the resultant offset produces an optical illusion.

Take another look.

It might well be the FAT32 patent (actually VFAT). It was upheld in 2004 or so for usage on memory cards, and a lot of Android phones have card slots, unlike iPhones, which would explain why this is not an Apple shakedown too.

Fuck off. Since 1547:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_all_intents_and_purposes

I think nature has a distinct advantage still... it needs to be legal for engineers to incorporate either euthanasia or eunuch-making tech.

You could allow searches for indexed terms that match regexp fairly easily. That's what I think the GP is after.

I upload photos from my current phone. I used to upload from my old phone. Sometimes from my real camera, via my macbook.

I'd quite like to have all my statuses and discussions easily convertable to a journal.

I think an export/import facility should be standard, normal, required functionality.

FTA:

The idea isn’t that they want you to transfer your data away from Google — they just think it’s important that you can

Hear, hear!

I used it with reasonable success. It depended strongly on the people you were collaborating with being good at putting their input into the right place in a document. We had one user who just brain-dumped into the last document he had had open, which reduced functionality almost to zero. I won't be at all surprised to see some elements of Wave turn up in Google+.

Bloody marvelous. Hadn't come across those (and I work in open data for the uk govt, albeit in an unrelated field!). Thanks.

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