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Sad to learn they actually had to fake it though, it's pathetic on their part.

I don't feel like they faked it at all. The entire world is ganging up against Top Gear on this topic but here is a list of conditions that need to be met in order to get the maximum range:

The batteries must be new. The car must be fully charged. The car must be driven between normal and gently. The weather must not be excessively cold. To the extent the batteries aren't new, they should not be rapid-charged.

So fast forward half way through your car loan, the car's 2.5 years old, it's had a 70/30 mix of normal/rapid charges, the driver has a heavy-ish foot, and you've got to leave work at noon to pick your sick kid up from school. Oops. Sure, it's a contrived example, but it's really a concern and really truly is a reason that a car like this doesn't make sense today.

All that aside, I agree with you. Their review of the Leaf was glowing. Good for Nissan to play hardball -- they're just multiplying the publicity value of their review. They'll come out looking even better because of it.
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I recognize they are going about it the wrong way, but their point, as far as I can tell, is to show you that the infrastructure to support these isn't in place, and even if it was, the downsides to charge times are anathema to motorists who love to drive.

I do think they could go about it differently, and if they had simply added "This is what happens were you to run it dry on a trip" would have smoothed all this out. I do wish they would have done so, as their point will now be lost in the screaming and shouting over their bias.

I do think it's a point worth making. An electric car is only as useful as the distance you want to drive it. As soon as your round trip exceeds the limit, you have to charge it for hours.

I don't think they are out of line by pointing out these problem. I do think they are out of line by staging it without explanation.
We don't have current mail protocols because nobody was able to come up with anything better — we have them, because we need interoperability and it's nearly impossible to migrate all servers and clients to a new protocol.

I think the best bet is to do to "IMAP5" in the same way HTML5 has been done:

• keep basic functionality backwards compatible with existing implementations (GMail, Apple Mail, Outlook have to work or the protocol will get ignored)

• drop all useless/unpopular/insane features (can we kill UTF-7, please?)

• make de-facto standards and common extensions part of the standard (everyone uses XLIST)

• add very clear and strict implementation guidelines (IMAP is particularly bad at this and all "requirements" read like "Clients should do this, but might do something completely different")

Going RSS→Atom route is going to end like this: http://xkcd.com/927
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Both are true.

Groupon picked the low hanging fruit already without consideration to their existing customers. I haven't heard a single compliment from my business-owning friends about working with groupon, and almost all of them now refuse to work with any daily deals site. So now they are pushing for other businesses which are much more expensive to find and woo.

The model itself is broken: the most successful places have no need to run a daily deal. The failing businesses have real incentive, but there's probably a good reason why they are failing in the first place (and some of my friends have noticed strange service irregularities -- recall the FTD issue earlier this year). Finally, New businesses are inadvertently hurting themselves. When you give out a free sample, people don't expect an item to be free. When you give a daily deal, everyone (not just the participants) mentally shift their price expectations, and it's hard to raise the price again without alienating both the daily deal followers and true customers.

What will win is a group buying program where people can come together and order a service (such as minibuses or family-style restaurants).
For the same use-case, a very quick howto on a disposable EC2 proxy for coffee shop browsing...

http://flatterline.com/index.php/2009/04/23/disposable-proxy...
This is a pretty weak accusation.

It was quite obvious watching the program that they were aware the battery was running low (they commented on the "miles left" meter several times). They more-or-less willfully ran out of juice in a small town. So what.

The point wasn't that the car can only go 60km versus 100km on a charge, or whatever the numbers. The point was that the car has a range limit, that the limit is not terribly far, that the car takes a while to charge when it dies, and there aren't many charging stations.

Perhaps Top Gear was a bit hyperbolic to make that point (Consumer Reports they are not), but these are all fair points.

I'm sorry. I'm all about calling out bias where I see it, but this just smacks of a car maker trying to spin some largely legitimate complaints with their product.

Not many people could get away with owning a plug-in electric as their only car. Even if it were half as much as a comparable gas car (rather than twice as much). As Clarkson said in the episode, the leaf is actually a really nice ca and electric is obviously the future, but today it is just not practical.
cd ~Path/to/django; pip install -e .;

It feels better than symlinking to me.

I would really only do this if I had a custom patched django though. If speed/bandwidth is a concern, just make sure your pip cache is setup properly.
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I found the ending to this article annoying as well and off topic.

I have read into the Tesla piece and the breaks 'going' didn't actually make the car undrivable the pedals were just harder to push. Since they actually had two vehicles there to test it also shouldn't have been an issue.

The 55 mile range the claimed to get was also completely made up based on what 'they determined' to be accurate. The Tesla actually has a 250 mile range so a 100 mile commute would be fine. Few people drive as much as that anyway (http://news.discovery.com/autos/range-anxiety-nissan-leaf-11...) and for most people the range of a Leaf is good enough. Electric vehicle ranges will also only continue to improve.

The Chevy Volt which uses gas to power a generator for the electric motor has an all electric range of 40 miles and then will just use gas to power the generator until the next recharge.

Top Gear's rebuttals from the Tesla issue were weak, whiny and largely ignored Tesla's complaints, this situation with the leaf only serves to show they really are trying to make electric vehicles look bad.
Contrary to the article's assertion, OpenVPN is not natively supported by iOS.
But over time, emulation becomes unwieldy: because the host systems for which emulators are designed will themselves become obsolete, emulators must eventually be moved to new computer platforms — emulators to run emulators, ad infinitum.

Has there ever been a shortage of developers willing to write new emulators? A better argument would be that the usability degrades since the emulated environment is from a different era and might not map to current tech (e.g. iPad version of a keyboard-driven app).
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Are the leaf's batteries lithium based? Or some kind of nicd variation?

Because lithium won't matter if they are new or 4 years old, you'll get practically the same capacity from them.

After 5 years they will drop to 80% capacity and then get worse from there. Lithium is good until suddenly it's not good anymore. I have LiFePo4 on my bicycle and I have to be careful because lithium will happily destroy itself to give you the range you push out of it.

I suspect the leaf is not lithium based though, would be too expensive of a pack. We really need to solve that pricepoint, would change everything if cars could use LiFePo4

Ah, wikipedia to the rescue - it is indeed Lithium based http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf#Battery Well then you will definitely get 5 years out of that unless you drive like a maniac to the end of it's capacity. I'd still feel safer if it was LiFePo4 vs Lithium ion though - LiFePo4 won't explode or burn (but it does take up more space).
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darcshub.com mercurialhub.com? Nah, github sounds cooler... extra points for shortness.
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That's a valid point, obviously. I haven't seen the Leaf review, and have long forgotten the Tesla episode, but from what I recall it wasn't a "lie" as much as a serious "implication". I could be wrong, but the lawsuit will straighten that out.
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Top Gear is an entertainment show with cars as the backdrop. Just like Daily show is a comedy show with political clips.

If you want a car review show, take a look at Motor Week.

I think these claims of "faking" are ridiculous when you have episodes where cast members "die" (top gear apocalypse), and characteristics are emphasized for comedic effect (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8).

This article claims because of Top Gear's antics, the public is being misinformed about the benefits of electric cars. It completely misses the point that 1. it is not a car review show, and 2. there is a major poetical component of the show that celebrates automotive history. They like exciting cars and bash boring uninspired ones (except if its remarkably boring). Their reviews emphasize a car's essence, not necessarily a list of facts.

I think this view is coming from a place that has a vested interest in electric cars, and not anyone who really watches the show. Otherwise they'd be attacking all the claims ("Some Say") made about The Stig.
Douglas Adams had something to say about this.

"Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

"...Mr Prosser's mouth opened and closed a couple of times while his mind was for a moment filled with inexplicable but terribly attractive visions of Arthur Dent's house being consumed with fire and Arthur himself running screaming from the blazing ruin with at least three hefty spears protruding from his back. Mr Prosser was often bothered with visions like these and they made him feel very nervous. He stuttered for a moment and then pulled himself together.

"...He saw the bulldozer driver's union representative approaching and let his head sink back and closed his eyes. He was trying to marshal his arguments for proving that he did not now constitute a mental health hazard himself. He was far from certain about this - his mind seemed to be full of noise, horses, smoke, and the stench of blood. This always happened when he felt miserable and put upon, and he had never been able to explain it to himself. In a high dimension of which we know nothing the mighty Khan bellowed with rage, but Mr Prosser only trembled slightly and whimpered. He began to fell little pricks of water behind the eyelids. Bureaucratic cock-ups, angry men lying in the mud, indecipherable strangers handing out inexplicable humiliations and an unidentified army of horsemen laughing at him in his head - what a day."

(Hitchhikers chapter 1)
Groupon is not a Ponzi scheme. In the process of raising money from late stage investors, Groupon has to say what the funds will be used for, which includes paying off earlier investors.
Because python handles them in a way that people would expect python to handle them
my linode down 2 times in the last year.
If investors are allowed to talk about it, then why are not we? And are not many of us investors ourselves?
I recall an episode where they ridiculed a Prius's fuel efficiency because it didn't out-perform a sports car on their test.

Their test was to loop non-stop around a race track at the Prius' top speed, which is pretty much what the sports car was designed to do.

They neglected to do a round in stop-and-go traffic, which is what the Prius was designed for.
That were Novell patents, which were very entangled in the whole SCO/IBM/Novell/Red Hat/Microsoft legal soap opera regarding Linux/Unix licensing. Basically Microsoft was caught hand in the cookie jar, hence DOJ's interest.
I would suggest to stop doing that since thats the point of virtualenv; it is a bit of pain since it doesn't put django-admin.py in path but you can always refer to it.
Have you read about Lightbank's history? Groupon is one of the least shadowy things it has been involved with.

Also, if you think Eric and Brad aren't behind every single aspect of how Groupon is going public, you've got another thing coming.

Keep in mind, that Lightbank is not like ycombinator. It isn't settling for a few percent of the company.
"In the end you would've ended up with a peace treaty with the same war-mongering people in charge as before."

The Allies conditions for surrender by the Axis powers were for an unconditional surrender. All the Axis powers surrendered unconditionally regardless of whether they took an A-bomb or not.
>Not many people could get away with owning a plug-in electric as their only car.

This is actually the myth that Top Gear seems interested in forever perpetuating.

Most people don't drive that far (http://news.discovery.com/autos/range-anxiety-nissan-leaf-11...) I think Chevy determined the average daily driver drives around 40 miles. The range of these new electric vehicles are actually fine for the majority of people's daily drivers and are only going to get better.

For long drives they're not a good choice yet (since the infrastructure doesn't yet exist and without something like battery swap charging takes too long).

>The point wasn't that the car can only go 60km versus 100km on a charge, or whatever the numbers. The point was that the range has a limit, that the limit is not that far...

Was that really the point? You don't see them driving a gasoline powered car near empty and then acting confused when it can't reach it's destination while suggesting that gasoline powered cars are not the future. I think they went past hyperbolic into misleading.
But isn't that part of learning any language? There are plenty of weird edge cases in other languages but we get used to them. Basically this boils down to:

"When you have a single statement, that stretches out over more than one line, but those lines are legal statements on their own, then it won't work like you want it to"

I would guess that the number of statements that stretch out over many lines are a very small part of the overall number of statements for most code.

But it just seems like most developers think that javascript might insert semicolons all over the place. Which it won't, the rules are clear once you learn them.
Because if you are stuck on the side of the highway, you can call AAA and have them bring a few gallons for you to make it to the next gas station. And there are gas stations on every corner, and it takes 5 minutes to refuel.

As far as the timing belt, that's long term maintenance, and doesn't need to be changed for 80K miles. And even then, it's a $800 service(unless you do it yourself), which is a crapload less than the cost it'll take to replace the batteries of an electric car around that same time.

And Top Gear does this crap with everyone. It's just EV fanboys are light weights who can't take it. How about the 458 Italia, and their gauge clusters? Or how about something 100% exactly the same...the Ford GT clip where it kept running of gas? Or how about the F40 and the 959 that "broke down"?

The point is that Top Gear does this sort of thing all the time, and if people complaining were actual fans who viewed the show regularly, they wouldn't raise so much stink just because someone dared to give a review that didn't proclaim all glory to the hypnotoad.
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thats such a hassle. though, why dont you just install global requirements in the base machine, you wont always have to keep turning on virtualenvs.
Have you seen James Burke's Connections? Sounds like it'd be right up your alley. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/james-burke-connections/
I have never seen that. it just loads a script into path. interesting.
"There is a difference between talking about how to solve a problem, and actually implementing the solution."

Is there?

You are giving your expertise with the intention of improving their situation and potentially saving them time. It's not uncommon to get paid to consult about problems that a team is facing without actively implementing it yourself. How is this any different?
I've been using this technique, but simply piggy backing on one of the several EC2 instances I already have.
Off the top of my head, 80% of drivers drive less than 40 miles/day in the US, and that number is probably much lower in Europe and Asia. Since cars spend most of the day parked somehwere, you have lots of opportunities to plug an EV in, and so most times when you drive off you have a full battery.
Interestingly, if Leno were to talk about cars I think I would take him seriously...
I use a Das Keyboard Ultimate with RTS games just fine. Most top players use keyboards with the Cherry MX black switches though.
The entire article is based on PPTP for this exact reason..
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I've watched, and enjoyed, Top Gear for a long time now, since before they introduced the new magazine format.

I saw this episode when it was broadcast and enjoyed the electric car segment. The programme is an entertainment show and part of that entertainment is that the presenters repeatedly experience various 'disasters' during their filming. I didn't take the various incidents involving range particularly seriously at the time.

When they were discussing the cars slightly more seriously back in the studio, they actually acknowledged the inevitability of electric cars and went over the ways in which the technology was improving. They also correctly pointed out that current technology limits the utility of the models available now, and discussed mitigation ideas such as battery exchange. To be honest I was surprised at the maturity of their analysis! Overall, based on what I know about this area from other sources, I would not consider the piece to have been misleading.

Someone has already pointed out that The Guardian is a fairly left leaning paper and this particular article is a comment piece. Personally I think it's a bit silly for people to get so indignant about something so insignificant. They're just having fun. They're not out to get anyone. I don't believe they have a vindictive agenda. The presenters play caricatures of themselves.

Chill the hell out!
This is being reversioned for the US as a Scion IQ

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FWIW, I totally disagree. There is still low-hanging fruit, and there always will be, because the new technology brings fruit that was high down so it's low. The problem is actually the law, because it is so difficult to start a company without doing something illegal. This is the #1 factor stopping innovation.
Veyron, I wish you a fine recovery from the last few days. :-)

First off, I'd pay. Second, I'll donate as soon as the kickstarter page is up. Last, can you clarify what the granularity of the data would be? Are we just talking about closing prices, periodic price updates during the day (e.g. every 5 minutes), real-time, etc.?
> Linux is much bigger than him now.

Linux was much bigger than him then as well. I'd agree with you that in my world github is more important than git, but in the Linux kernel development world, I believe git is what has allowed Linus to remain very involved, and manage a lot of the commits very actively without becoming a bottleneck.

In other words, I think it's git's invention that makes Linus a bad choice on this list, because that invention has allowed him to continue to maintain a lot of control/oversight over the Linux project.
@burgerbrain what's funny though is Leno is NOT anti-electric.

I think he also owns a 100 year old electric car, where the motor and battery technology today is really not that far evolved from it, sadly.

(oh here it is http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/jay-leno/vintage/421594... )
That would suggest you have a different rate for different startups. Right? If so, I agree with you.
> not even mentioning any of Top Gear's rebuttals.

George Monbiot is often like that. Thankfully the article linked to in that paragraph does give Top Gear a fair opportunity for rebuttal.

> He does actually blame Top Gear?

Well, that's generally what is implied by "I'm not blaming only Top Gear". And even if most of those boy racers had sports cars (they don't - think cheap Volkswagen Golfs with ridiculous spoilers, or even worse[0]), sports cars aren't inherently designed for you to break road laws any more than a gun is designed for indiscriminate murder. In any case it's just more wood for Monbiot's Top Gear bonfire rather than anything of real substance.

[0] http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=1
Average daily distance driven != the most you need to be able to drive. What happens when you need to drive further than that? Are you expecting people will rent a gas car once or twice a month? Like I said, it's not practical as your only car.

> You don't see them driving a gasoline powered car near empty

It's easy and quick to refill a gasoline car. At least around me, only the very smallest towns don't have a gas station. I can't remember the last time I was more than 20 miles from a gas station. That's the point.

Some day, I suspect (and hope) they will all have recharging stations all over. But right now they don't.
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Ahem, maybe not as clear as I thought, since I found a few other edge cases I didn't know of in this excellent article:

Best article I've read on the subject: http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/javascript_semicolons
Tesco (which is actually a British chain that operates in Korea rather than a Korean chain) has been leading online grocery shopping for a long time. It first offered Videotex Teleshopping in 1984 and was the first to offer internet shopping in 1996.

It's online store Tesco.com is the largest online grocery store in the world (largely driven by the fact that online grocery shopping is much more mainstream in the UK compared to most other markets)

They're trialling a lot of interesting tech at the moment (API, in-store GPS for finding products, etc.). One of their major competitors Ocado makes 10% of their income through iPhone "scan-and-shop" orders so it's definitely a huge market.
A more advanced version would look like this: Tesco would install digital walls/displays all over the city (country) and control all the displays remotely. The city would earn nice money from renting the display space to Tesco.