I wonder if the increased fuel efficiency is simply the result of creating a smaller contact patch for the tires and reducing the rolling resistance. Maybe the same result could be acheived by using skinnier tires...but they wouldn't look as cool.

In java/C/php not equal is expressed as !=
In Visual basic you might say "not equal to"
In SQL you would use <>
  =/= seems to be popular these days. Programming hasn't been a major function of my career for about 5 years so I am a little out of the loop. What language uses =/= to mean not equal?

In an age where many suppliers use web applications that our employees need to place orders, research part specifications and more blocking the web isn't very feasible, and white lists are way too much work compared to occasionally re-imaging a drive. However ever since we put in IPCop to track web usage the number of viruses and other malware decreased significantly. But it could be just a coincidence.

I'm not trying to troll here but how do you write anything without variables? Or are you suggesting that some people will use too many variables like: $FirstName $MiddleName $LastName $BirthDate $Gender when they could have simplified their code with a single class called Person?

Speaking of rational discussions I haven't seen a good comparison of databases recently. I am building a database application. Which server should I use? MySQL, Oracle, Firebird. or Postgres?

Around 1999, 2000 we used to do an online radio show called MacShowLive. Every wednesday night we put together a show discussing new hardware, software and all things Mac related....it would stream live as the show was going on, and we archived each show so that people could download it later.... We long since stopped the show but I still have the hard drive from our BSD server, with all the shows archived.....That should probably count as prior art.

Did we forget about their suit against TomTom for the questionable FAT patent already?

Damn - I shouldn't be replying to my own post but if one used Miles per kilo Watt Hour to compare both electric and gas vehicles he would be ignoring the fact that the power generator that created the electricity for the EV was not 100% efficient. Some say that a coal electricity plant is only about 40% efficient So the comparison isn't as easy as I first thought. You would have to take into account what sort of generators are used to create electricty in your neighbourhood, and how efficient the charging system is.

Interesting.... Where does this 33.6 kWh of energy figure come from? (Sorry but high school chemistry was about 18 years ago for me and I haven't used it since) If it's true it provides a real easy way of comparing the efficiency of gasoline cars to electric vehicles. Just use miles per kilo Watt Hour for both.