Who Killed the Electric Car?

Yep. Overcharging (or running a battery close to 100% charge) or running the battery into total discharge, kills NiMH batteries). Toyota says at least 180,000 miles in tests, with some going to

Well, it reads all other files just fine.

Yep, that's pretty much what it is out here. Want to be environmentally conscious and install a heat pump? Forget about it. We knew a lady who recently passed away, she paid a whopping $1k in one (!) month. So we heat with wood.

If you don't use A/C much and don't have a heat pump.

Baseline is very little. A couple days of A/C use can push even the most frugal households above it. That baseline rule together with hyper-inflationary propane is like a stranglehold. It stifles business development. When I had to find and equip a new site for our company that was one reason why I told the commercial real estate broker "... but not in El Dorado County" although I live there.

Healthcare is already in that state, no change needed.

Yes, and that's come from the government providing just 40% of healthcare dollars.

"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!" -P.J. O'Rourke

Cheers, James Arthur

There are plenty of those. I think they learnt the style from IBM.

Even worse when it just dies or stops responding spontaneously. At least these days it doesn't usually take the OS with it although I suspect XL2007 took down Vista on my portable last week.

First time I have seen Vista completely dead in the water. Stopped responding to the keyboard and then shortly after I tried to close XL2007 the mouse pointer stopped with the pointer still on the close X.

Being a portable I had to wait for the battery to die. No reset button :(

Chances are something is wrong with the file. You could try the XL viewer (free download from MS) it is somewhat more error tolerant than the main application (or a clone that will open XL workbooks). If it opens copy and paste the stuff it can decode into a new worksheet.

Regards, Martin Brown

On many laptops holding down the power button for several seconds resets the box. I tend to stay with older software where I can. Saves a little in cost but the main reason is that older generally means more reliable when it comes to software or OS. And Vista will not enter these here premises ;-)

Well, I know what's in there anyhow since I am a PG&E customer :-(

As solar power producer, we get about a dollar a kWh for solar energy. As electricity customer we can choose the amount of solar energy you wish to purchase. This is an adjustable surcharge that allows to pay such high prices for solar energy. And guess what, The demand for solar energy by far surpasses the supply.

So, I'm planning to have a solar roof in addition to the heatpump running on a well.

Rene

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I have run into "unknown" Excel errors before that were almost always related to VB gibberish or other macros in the "Personal.xls" workbook. Usually, deleting this workbook solves the problem - (Excel will re-instantiate it.) Unless of course, you've used Personal.xls for all your macro storage - in which case you are screwed.

You can also get "unknown" errors if your workbooks contains HTML links, and the worksheet (possibly workbook?) is shared. You do have to laugh as some of Microsoft's error descriptions sometimes.... "Keyboard missing, Press F1 to continue", for example.

And now that Microsoft Sync is in Ford vehicles - god help us! "Steering wheel missing, turn left to continue..."

Good luck.

-mpm (Excel Expert!) Ha!!

Professionally Gouged & Extracted?

-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell Central Florida

'Fatal error in brakes.exe' Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. Report this error to Microsoft?

It doesn't exactly work like that. Even ratepayers who do not wish to buy expensive solar power and those who are renters and thus cannot even install solar panels get socked with what basically amounts to an extra tax. They cannot simply print those Dollars they pay you.

Multiply by 0.8 to get US mpg.

Graham

How can that even remotely be justified ?

Graham

In this particular instance it was dead with a capital D. Absolutely nothing worked (not the off switch, numlock or suspend on close) and the display was frozen in time. I wondered if there had been a hardware failure, but it recovered after the battery went flat.

Unfortunately, I have some customers already on Vista. It isn't all that bad, but it isn't a noticeable improvement over XP. And it is slower.

XL2007 is a complete crock of s*it and best avoided though. There is a bun fight between the Vista & XL development teams over searching directories with wildcards (it doesn't work properly in XL2007 VBA and a commonly used method has been withdrawn unilaterally breaking lots of code). The suggested work around is a joke and only works on Vista.

PG&E ? Sorry don't recognise the acronym. Pacific something or other?

Regards, Martin Brown

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Greedy and Expensive.

Personally, I wouldn't touch Vista or Office 2007 with a 10ft pole. There is an unspoken rule in industry to store files '97 compatible. Not everybody knows that rule but then it's not a problem to ask and if necessary walk them through the simple steps via phone.

Pacific Gas & Electric. The usual. Large utility, given a monopoly, meaning you pay through the nose.

US fluid ounces are a bit bigger than Imperial, so the ratio isn't

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

Bush

And then the taxman cometh. Audits the company, wonders where all that stuff went, pokes around a bit in the books, raises his eyebrows, hops into the car and shows up at the lodge with a humongous tax bill in hand.

I remember when all the trucks moved up 50 towards Nevada in the usual year-end inventory shuffle. We live 2mi away and it almost caused local smog. A while ago I took a look at Nevada, see what the biz-friendliness there would be. Turns out you really have to watch it. If I am not mistaken Clark County socks people with more than 3% in property taxes. Yikes!