Only if you don't have shock breakers. Driving up the bump will depress the shock breakers (converting kinetic energy to heat), and driving down will depress the shock breakers when the momentum of the vehicle pushes them down after the bump (converting kinetic energy to heat). Speedbumps are designed to slow you down (making you lose energy) so why not reuse that energy for something else?
Also, I think you ought to know the shock breakers are feeling very depressed right now.
Only your (big) downloads would speed up, but normal browsing would only speed up a small bit. Remember, you're still increasing speed, so you will get a speed up, but it won't have any linear relation to the amount of bandwidth you add.
At those speeds, delivering internet pages is more latency bound than transfer speed bound. You always have to wait [your ping to the page] + [time it takes to transfer data to you]. With broadband, the first is usually larger than the last, so you won't get any speedup. Certainly not if you add an extra step to the mix, opera's server. Then you have [your ping to the opera server] + [opera's ping to the page] + [time it takes to transfer data to you through opera].
In short, Opera Turbo will only work when the time it takes to transfer data is way larger than the ping.
And that's stupid. Fact of the Intertubes: Shit is going to get probed/hacked. Designing your backup policy in a way that doesn't cover malicious attackers when you're securing an internet facing website is just asking for trouble.
Space radiates. If we were to put a black body in space at absolute zero, after a while it would be about 2.7 Kelvin. This is because of the cosmic microwave background (which is what they're trying to measure here).
If you have a distractor (radiation from the craft itself) as big as the thing you're trying to measure, you won't get good results.
Making cannabis semi-legal is a huge mistake. It attracts a lot of drugs tourism, from the US and UK, Germany, Belgium and France.
The result is that 4 billion euros are pumped into a half-legal economy yearly. The stores that sell it (the coffeeshops) are mostly legal, but everything else, from distributors to growers is illegal.
Some city districts have been tranformed into cannabis growing plantations. People grow large scale cannabis in their lofts and in their cellars and they can make quite a lot of money with it (usually to supplement their unemployment benefit). Of course, it's still illegal...
So if you get into trouble. You distributor won't pay you, or you get ripped off by someone who specializes in this, you have nowhere to go but to hire other criminals to protect you and your business. More and more deaths are turning up in and around cannabis plantations.
It's legal to grow up to five plants in Holland, so perfectly ordinary people start out that way. Make some money and then want to make more. To avoid detection they normally tap illegal electricity for the necessary lamps.
So what have we got here? A nice system for turning ordinary citizens into criminals. What a great idea!
It's madness in my opinion. I have nothing against legalizing cannabis, but do it the right way. Legalize everything so that professional growers (or amateurs turning professional) can make legal money with it or don't legalize it at all.
Also do it *at least* Europe-wide. We really don't need all European losers to come here to get high.
The Dutch solution is not sensible at all. It's cowardly and stupid.
BTW: One of your favourite bunch of people just killed five innocent people celebrating the queen's birthday. Perhaps you need a reality check.
X. (yeah Dutch)
And a lot of people died in a shooting in India. So what?
I didn't mind. I grew up in a rowhouse built in 1986. Lived in it for 17 years. Never ever heard the neighbors through the wall. My room was in the attic, but there was plenty of light, because a big window had been built in.
Also, the paint scheme was contractually fixed to be uniform per unit. You don't have any choice in changing it, but then again, you know that up front. Go live in another unit if you don't like the color, or in another street if you don't like the theme. Ours was brick with wooden lacquer-only window insets.
Funny thing is, the house we moved to is twice as big and freestanding, but our heating bill dropped by about 40%. Both houses had top-of-the-line insulation at the time they were built.
That limit is in place. But she has the permissions set on her account because she sometimes genuinely needs to send faculty wide email. However, I'd change the system so that all-students could only appear in the BCC line. No one should be able to TO or CC more than about 30 people (teachers come to mind, but again, even they should use BCC).
I don't know how many times my university's email system has been slayed because some dumb secretary put everyone in the TO field. Last time it happened, she just had a baby and a national radio station had a cutest-baby contest. She registered and emailed everyone at the university to vote for her. A lot of people pressed reply-all, bickering about the bullshit. People got pissed that they got a lot of very huge (about 2 megs of addresses alone) emails, and in turn pressed reply-all to tell people to stop pushing reply-all. Other people then went on to suggest that those people are hypocrites and thought it'd be best to use reply-all. The university ended up pulling the plug on the email system for a few hours...
Nitpicking: Why do people keep calling it Volkswagon? Is that how it's marketed over there? Here they're very definitely called Volkswagen (which means People's Car, if my German is up to snuff).
Drip coffee is for at home (but it's starting to change with the advent of the evil Senseo Device and kitchen-size espresso machines). In a restaurant, you get coffee through a machine that kind of looks like its an espresso machine (it actually probably is, multifunction appliances these days...), but it is set up in such a way that it pushes water in stead of steam through.
It's not an espresso with 3/4ths of water thrown in though. Also, espresso is not written with an x.:)
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Only if you don't have shock breakers. Driving up the bump will depress the shock breakers (converting kinetic energy to heat), and driving down will depress the shock breakers when the momentum of the vehicle pushes them down after the bump (converting kinetic energy to heat). Speedbumps are designed to slow you down (making you lose energy) so why not reuse that energy for something else?
Also, I think you ought to know the shock breakers are feeling very depressed right now.
Only your (big) downloads would speed up, but normal browsing would only speed up a small bit. Remember, you're still increasing speed, so you will get a speed up, but it won't have any linear relation to the amount of bandwidth you add.
That's where Steam comes in. That can keep unlimited stock on old releases.
No it can't.
At those speeds, delivering internet pages is more latency bound than transfer speed bound. You always have to wait [your ping to the page] + [time it takes to transfer data to you]. With broadband, the first is usually larger than the last, so you won't get any speedup. Certainly not if you add an extra step to the mix, opera's server. Then you have [your ping to the opera server] + [opera's ping to the page] + [time it takes to transfer data to you through opera].
In short, Opera Turbo will only work when the time it takes to transfer data is way larger than the ping.
Shock image, like Goatse. Don't look it up.
Actually, its not just today. I bought the exact same set back in February for the same price.
Actually, the Phalanx kinda sucks, from what I've heard. The Goalkeeper is better, and RAM missile launchers are supposedly even better.
Actually, TexnicCenter is what Eclipse is to notepad+javac. LyX is more like dreamweaver.
Nice story, but you don't have Lyme in the UK? It's in the Netherlands, you can get it from ticks.
And that's stupid. Fact of the Intertubes: Shit is going to get probed/hacked. Designing your backup policy in a way that doesn't cover malicious attackers when you're securing an internet facing website is just asking for trouble.
Space radiates. If we were to put a black body in space at absolute zero, after a while it would be about 2.7 Kelvin. This is because of the cosmic microwave background (which is what they're trying to measure here).
If you have a distractor (radiation from the craft itself) as big as the thing you're trying to measure, you won't get good results.
I'll bet the difference will be bigger if we take a quad-core desktop. :)
Seriously? It's a chore to push the timer button on the dishwasher so that it starts in off-peak hours? That shouldn't stress you out.
Qwghlm?
Wrong. Neonazi's picketing in NL get police protection. Most people don't like them, but they have a right to their views...
You can make the same argument for expensive cars. People like to show off.
No, we're not sensible. We aren't a race either.
Making cannabis semi-legal is a huge mistake. It attracts a lot of drugs tourism, from the US and UK, Germany, Belgium and France.
The result is that 4 billion euros are pumped into a half-legal economy yearly. The stores that sell it (the coffeeshops) are mostly legal, but everything else, from distributors to growers is illegal.
Some city districts have been tranformed into cannabis growing plantations. People grow large scale cannabis in their lofts and in their cellars and they can make quite a lot of money with it (usually to supplement their unemployment benefit). Of course, it's still illegal...
So if you get into trouble. You distributor won't pay you, or you get ripped off by someone who specializes in this, you have nowhere to go but to hire other criminals to protect you and your business. More and more deaths are turning up in and around cannabis plantations.
It's legal to grow up to five plants in Holland, so perfectly ordinary people start out that way. Make some money and then want to make more. To avoid detection they normally tap illegal electricity for the necessary lamps.
So what have we got here? A nice system for turning ordinary citizens into criminals. What a great idea!
It's madness in my opinion. I have nothing against legalizing cannabis, but do it the right way. Legalize everything so that professional growers (or amateurs turning professional) can make legal money with it or don't legalize it at all.
Also do it *at least* Europe-wide. We really don't need all European losers to come here to get high.
The Dutch solution is not sensible at all. It's cowardly and stupid.
BTW: One of your favourite bunch of people just killed five innocent people celebrating the queen's birthday. Perhaps you need a reality check.
X. (yeah Dutch)
And a lot of people died in a shooting in India. So what?
I'm sorry to say this because it might sound very harsh, but that's the system the USA has chosen (if you're not in the USA, I apologize).
Another good one is (I work for the Dutch Mail service) is not properly closing envelopes, so the actual letter falls out during sorting.
I didn't mind. I grew up in a rowhouse built in 1986. Lived in it for 17 years. Never ever heard the neighbors through the wall. My room was in the attic, but there was plenty of light, because a big window had been built in.
Also, the paint scheme was contractually fixed to be uniform per unit. You don't have any choice in changing it, but then again, you know that up front. Go live in another unit if you don't like the color, or in another street if you don't like the theme. Ours was brick with wooden lacquer-only window insets.
Funny thing is, the house we moved to is twice as big and freestanding, but our heating bill dropped by about 40%. Both houses had top-of-the-line insulation at the time they were built.
That limit is in place. But she has the permissions set on her account because she sometimes genuinely needs to send faculty wide email. However, I'd change the system so that all-students could only appear in the BCC line. No one should be able to TO or CC more than about 30 people (teachers come to mind, but again, even they should use BCC).
Please stop calling it a religion. It might be bullshit, but it doesn't have deities, holy books or churches, so lets not drag it to that level.
I don't know how many times my university's email system has been slayed because some dumb secretary put everyone in the TO field. Last time it happened, she just had a baby and a national radio station had a cutest-baby contest. She registered and emailed everyone at the university to vote for her. A lot of people pressed reply-all, bickering about the bullshit. People got pissed that they got a lot of very huge (about 2 megs of addresses alone) emails, and in turn pressed reply-all to tell people to stop pushing reply-all. Other people then went on to suggest that those people are hypocrites and thought it'd be best to use reply-all. The university ended up pulling the plug on the email system for a few hours...
Nitpicking: Why do people keep calling it Volkswagon? Is that how it's marketed over there? Here they're very definitely called Volkswagen (which means People's Car, if my German is up to snuff).
;)
Also, Beetle or New Beetle?
Drip coffee is for at home (but it's starting to change with the advent of the evil Senseo Device and kitchen-size espresso machines). In a restaurant, you get coffee through a machine that kind of looks like its an espresso machine (it actually probably is, multifunction appliances these days...), but it is set up in such a way that it pushes water in stead of steam through.
:)
It's not an espresso with 3/4ths of water thrown in though. Also, espresso is not written with an x.