It depends on the bike lanes in question. Often, they're pretty good, and help greatly with traffic.
Though in some areas, the "bike lanes" are far more dangerous to ride in than the side of the road, since they're generally retrofitted to roadways and intersections that weren't designed with them in mind. Some cities will construct a system of death-trap "bike lanes" and claim they're now cycle-friendly, even though no sane cyclist would ever try riding in them.
I've had about the opposite experience just south of you in Dakota county. On Saturday morning, I had my converter box do a channel re-scan. Most every channel was about 20% higher on the box's signal meter, with TPT coming in at near 100%. However, KMSP (channel 9) completely vanished. I entered tried entering the channel manually, but still nothing. Oh well.
A PuTTy ssh session just doesn't need all that much speed.
True, but it does benefit from low latency.
The typical dial-up connection would have enough latency to make an interactive shell a bit annoying (I've done plenty of SSH-over-dialup). You can work around it by writing little scripts and then uploading them (or pasting them into the console window) instead of typing everything into the console manually, but it's still annoying.
Similarly, but on the other hand, if we do move the date to June, people who don't have converter boxes will find out that their TV reception has been cut out in the midst tornado season.
From what I have heard from various sources, this was to discourage people from all waiting until the last second before redeeming their coupons, resulting in the sudden demand for converter boxes to exceed the supply available in stores. How effective that was is another issue, of course.
Digital television is terrestrially broadcasted in the US, currently alongside analog television. Soon, though, the analog broadcasts will cease. The topic here is about the external tuners ("converter boxes") that will allow televisions without digital tuners (most televisions sold in US that were not made in the last decade or so) to display digital broadcast television after the analog broadcasts stop.
So yes, digital TV is available over-the-air in the US today. And pretty soon, it will be the only TV available over-the-air.
But will analogue cable still be around for a long time? (for a TV tuner card)
It will be around, for at least local channels over cable, until at least 2012 per FCC mandate. That might be a "long" time for certain definitions of "long."
Why just use the fancy new technology called an odometer? Check it every time you renew your registration and collect the fees at that time.
Odometers don't track in-state mileage versus out-of-state mileage. The article isn't clear on if that matters to the plan here (it might only tax in-state driving, for example), but there's this little snippet about the test run:
A GPS-based system kept track of the in-state mileage driven by the volunteers. When they bought fuel, a device in their vehicles was read, and they paid 1.2 cents a mile and got a refund of the state gas tax of 24 cents a gallon.
This sounds to me like the Native Client is a virtual machine that will execute x86 code inside a browser, regardless of the underlying OS. It doesn't specifically mention hardware, but why not go the whole hog and make this work on any hardware?
From the article linked from the story, emphasis mine:
The release contains the experimental compilation tools and runtime so that you can write and run portable code modules that will work in Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Google Chrome on any modern Windows, Mac, or Linux system that has an x86 processor. We're working on supporting other CPU architectures (such as ARM and PPC) to make this technology work on the many types of devices that connect to the web today.
So it is OS dependant and CPU dependant (won't work on my SPARC box running Solaris).
The local news outlets are reporting that the margin of victory for the Republican candidate (Norm Coleman) is so narrow (a few hundred votes, I believe) that a recount is required by law. It might be some time before we figure out who our senator will be.
Personally, I'd like some sort of racing game that uses your output on the stationary trainer's resistance wheel to propel your character (car, hovercraft, whatever) forwards, and some sort of device that sits under the fork's dropouts to control steering in the game.
I once read about a similar system, but it was very, very, expensive, and it wasn't really a game. You just saw pretty pictures roll past on the screen.
The difference is that we do have a working scientific model on how compressing the plutonium results in the blast, so causation is resonable. However, there is (as far as I know, feel free to educate me) no working scientific model on how fluctuating magnetic fields can treat brain injuries, so causation isn't quite reasonable.
are they required to provide the source code to terrorists so they can attempt to crack it?
From my understanding of the GPL, this would only be true if the government is distributing the modified binaries to the terrorists. If the changes are internal-use only, there isn't a GPL conflict by not distributing the modified source.
You're correct that PostScript is Turing-complete programming language, but PDF is not. PDF is more or less just a description of the graphics to draw. Here's a Wikipedia link regarding the difference.
Yes, that it true. UCI races have very particular specifications as to how your bicycle must be set up. Lots of little details, such as exactly how far forward or back your seat must be, how the handlebars are shaped, specific characteristics of the wheels, etc. The idea is to make the race about the athletes, not about their bikes.
Think of it in terms of auto racing. Do you think that F1 cars should be allowed in a NASCAR race?
From what I know of stereoscopic imaging on computers, the "trick" is to send different images to the left and right eye of the viewer. That's why glasses are used; one image on the screen is picked up the right lens (and perceived by the right eye) and another by the left lens (and perceived by the left eye). It would be rather difficult, if not impossible, to achieve the same effect if the lenses were over the screen, since there would be no way to enforce the left-eye/right-eye separation.
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It's good stuff, but it's not as uncommon or regional as you might think. Several local places offer it here...just outside of St. Paul, Minnesota.
It depends on the bike lanes in question. Often, they're pretty good, and help greatly with traffic. Though in some areas, the "bike lanes" are far more dangerous to ride in than the side of the road, since they're generally retrofitted to roadways and intersections that weren't designed with them in mind. Some cities will construct a system of death-trap "bike lanes" and claim they're now cycle-friendly, even though no sane cyclist would ever try riding in them.
The four moons of Jupiter are pretty easy to see
And by "four moons of Jupiter," read "four most visible (Galilean) moons of Jupiter."
I've had about the opposite experience just south of you in Dakota county. On Saturday morning, I had my converter box do a channel re-scan. Most every channel was about 20% higher on the box's signal meter, with TPT coming in at near 100%. However, KMSP (channel 9) completely vanished. I entered tried entering the channel manually, but still nothing. Oh well.
Up here in Minneapolis, Minnesota, things are pretty frozen until mid-to-late March. And there are plenty of cyclists on the streets all winter.
True, but it does benefit from low latency.
The typical dial-up connection would have enough latency to make an interactive shell a bit annoying (I've done plenty of SSH-over-dialup). You can work around it by writing little scripts and then uploading them (or pasting them into the console window) instead of typing everything into the console manually, but it's still annoying.
Similarly, but on the other hand, if we do move the date to June, people who don't have converter boxes will find out that their TV reception has been cut out in the midst tornado season.
From what I have heard from various sources, this was to discourage people from all waiting until the last second before redeeming their coupons, resulting in the sudden demand for converter boxes to exceed the supply available in stores. How effective that was is another issue, of course.
Digital television is terrestrially broadcasted in the US, currently alongside analog television. Soon, though, the analog broadcasts will cease. The topic here is about the external tuners ("converter boxes") that will allow televisions without digital tuners (most televisions sold in US that were not made in the last decade or so) to display digital broadcast television after the analog broadcasts stop.
So yes, digital TV is available over-the-air in the US today. And pretty soon, it will be the only TV available over-the-air.
It will be around, for at least local channels over cable, until at least 2012 per FCC mandate. That might be a "long" time for certain definitions of "long."
Odometers don't track in-state mileage versus out-of-state mileage. The article isn't clear on if that matters to the plan here (it might only tax in-state driving, for example), but there's this little snippet about the test run:
A GPS-based system kept track of the in-state mileage driven by the volunteers. When they bought fuel, a device in their vehicles was read, and they paid 1.2 cents a mile and got a refund of the state gas tax of 24 cents a gallon.
From the article linked from the story, emphasis mine:
So it is OS dependant and CPU dependant (won't work on my SPARC box running Solaris).
I've used Maxima with good results. Not quite Mathematica, though.
The local news outlets are reporting that the margin of victory for the Republican candidate (Norm Coleman) is so narrow (a few hundred votes, I believe) that a recount is required by law. It might be some time before we figure out who our senator will be.
Wow, thanks! That's pretty much what I was thinking of, minus the hovercrafts.
Personally, I'd like some sort of racing game that uses your output on the stationary trainer's resistance wheel to propel your character (car, hovercraft, whatever) forwards, and some sort of device that sits under the fork's dropouts to control steering in the game. I once read about a similar system, but it was very, very, expensive, and it wasn't really a game. You just saw pretty pictures roll past on the screen.
Think of a dollar as "100" cents. 0x100 cents = 256 (decimal) cents.
The difference is that we do have a working scientific model on how compressing the plutonium results in the blast, so causation is resonable. However, there is (as far as I know, feel free to educate me) no working scientific model on how fluctuating magnetic fields can treat brain injuries, so causation isn't quite reasonable.
From my understanding of the GPL, this would only be true if the government is distributing the modified binaries to the terrorists. If the changes are internal-use only, there isn't a GPL conflict by not distributing the modified source.
You're correct that PostScript is Turing-complete programming language, but PDF is not. PDF is more or less just a description of the graphics to draw. Here's a Wikipedia link regarding the difference.
Hahaha. I chose this handle before I knew that Obree had that for a nickname. It describes him better than it describes me, though.
Not sure if you were kidding with that line, but a movie was made about him.
The Flying Scotsman
Yes, that it true. UCI races have very particular specifications as to how your bicycle must be set up. Lots of little details, such as exactly how far forward or back your seat must be, how the handlebars are shaped, specific characteristics of the wheels, etc. The idea is to make the race about the athletes, not about their bikes. Think of it in terms of auto racing. Do you think that F1 cars should be allowed in a NASCAR race?
Advantages: Thinner air, less air resistance. Disadvantages: Thinner air, less oxygen for the engines (the person pedaling),
From what I know of stereoscopic imaging on computers, the "trick" is to send different images to the left and right eye of the viewer. That's why glasses are used; one image on the screen is picked up the right lens (and perceived by the right eye) and another by the left lens (and perceived by the left eye). It would be rather difficult, if not impossible, to achieve the same effect if the lenses were over the screen, since there would be no way to enforce the left-eye/right-eye separation.