Come on, for laser beams to travel at the speed of light, don't you need "Belkin Super-mega-ultra high speed fibre-optic justice cables of doom", available at Best Buy* for only $400* *please alter to suit your locality
You're getting confused between "US Government" (fights wars, implements airport searches etc etc) and "US citizen" (person who posts on here).
Don't worry, its something US posters often do to us British as well;)
While "free" or "liberal" is a translation of the Dutch word "Vrije", the officially used name in English of this university is "VU University", not "Free University".
See the website:
http://www.vu.nl/en/index.asp
Such an original idea. Perhaps next they can get an action photo of a football match, airbrush out the football and then invite readers to "spot the ball".
Now, could you - off the street with no training - trust yourself to apply 60 Newton-meters of force on a socket wrench? No idea how much that is? Exactly my point.
60NM is about 6kg of force on a 1 metre breaker bar, or 12kg on a half metre bar. It's not hard.
As for temperature, what exactly is 'unnatural' about a scale where below zero means ice? That's far more natural to me than ice forming at 37-odd degrees.
I do admit to using and thinking in miles for driving, but that's only really due to familiarity. I know that London is 120 miles from here. I know I can take a certain curve at 50mph. I know that on a motorway below 60mph feels unreasonably slow and above 100mph is unusually fast. The km/h figures (100km/h and 160km/h) don't feel natural to me right now, but no doubt mainland europeans feel different, as would I had I been using kilometres all these years.
In engineering I tend to use Metric for precise measurements and Imperial for imprecise. In electronics you end up with a right mixture of measurements. Connectors, for instance, with pins 1mm thick, 0.2" long and spaced at a 0.1" pitch are common. The average PCB might be 1.6mm thick, have 1.2mm holes, spaced at 0.2", connected to 100 thou (of an inch) tracks with a 0.8mm clearance around them, mounted on a 2mm thick aluminium panel measuring 10" by 8"... So long as everybody involved is conversant in the basics of both systems, and all drawings etc are clearly marked, everything works (indeed on several graduate-level interviews, the first question they asked was "how many millimetres are there in an inch?"). As for a system being "natural", I would say that it's entirely down to your personal experience. I have very little immediate concept of how heavy a pound is (I have to think of roughly half a kilo). I know that 27c is quite warm. I have little idea how warm 78F is. I know that any less than 30mpg is disappointing fuel economy (here, at least). I have no idea how many l/100km that is. I know that a pint of beer is a refreshing drink, but have to think of Coke in litres. For somebody else every one of these answers may be different. A German might not know a pint of beer if you poured it over his head!
I bought a (UK-spec) BMW 330D (3L turbo diesel) on friday, and I have to say that its a damn fine car.
So far I'm getting an average of 40mpg(imp) with a very heavy right foot, the car does 155mph top speed (electronically limited) and 6-ish seconds 0-60 with 231bhp. The 60-80mph acceleration is amazing. It easily cruises at 100mph, returning 45mpg at that speed, and with plenty of acceleration available to even higher speed if required.
Despite being significantly heavier, its faster than the Ford Focus ST (2.5l turbo, 225bhp) that I traded in.
In summary, no, diesels are not gutless.
Yeah, but this is the UK. Telecoms companies don't have psuedo-monopolies here like they do in the States. It is one of the permanent mysteries of this country that our roads seem to be dug up every other week (and have the damaged surface to prove it!) without having any appreciable difference in the services we receive.
Apart from the fact that Hull DOES have a telecoms monopoly... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCOM_Group
Kingston Communications have 100% market share for broadband in Hull, for various historical, legal and technical reasons.
FYI, if you write â30,000, you really mean â30, because the EU swaps comma notation with decimal notation. According to the article, the fine is â30.000 per defendant per day, which is a ridiculously high number.
Caveat: BUT NOT IN THE UK! I've seen posts on here saying that we use the 'european' system of ',' being a decimal point, but we don't and they are very wrong. We use commas and decimal points in exactly the same way as the US.
Yes, yes, yes.
I don't know how it is for your part of the world, but in the English Midlands the number of 'wannabe traffic police' hogging the fast lane seems to be increasing. I don't know why (maybe increased cost of fuel?).
If somebody is behind you, intending to drive faster than you are, you should let them past. Not only is it common courtesy; if they truely are a dangerous jerk (and everyone driving faster than you are at a given moment is a jerk, right?;-) ) then they will have their crash some distance in front of you, rather than INTO you. That certainly sounds better to me.
You are correct. That is why we're setting new efficiency standards on everything from light bulbs to cars to home appliances and even entire buildings. We're also working on setting a cap on the amount of carbon dioxide industry can emit. We also need to look at many different alternative energy sources, including nuclear, solar power, and biofuels.
Good. Unfortunately however these standards and caps are often useless or backfire. An example: In the UK there are standards for a minimum number of 'energy saving light fixtures' per dwelling, on a sliding scale based on the number of rooms. These fittings must only allow the use of 'energy saving' lamps. In practice this means a specific CFL fitting (2 or 4 pin) with the ballast in the fitting, instead of the standard 240v bayonet normally used for lamps. A 240v bayonet cap CFL bulb costs around £1, and many people have a collection of them delivered free by their electricity company. A 2 or 4 pin ballastless CFL costs £7 (the last time I looked). Also the balast in the fitting can fail, requiring replacenent (at a cost of £10 each).
I know this because I live in a fairly new apartment, built since the regs came in. I replaced all the 'energy saving fittings' with standard 240v bayonets and 240v CFLs as soon as the fitting-integrated ballasts started failing (after about 1 year). Why do they mandate an odd fitting when CFLs are readily and very cheaply available in the standard fitting, and incandescent bulbs are being phased out anyway?
Also, to meet the regulations, the builders of my apartment put the full quota of 'energy saving fittings' in the (small) hallway; 3 lights at 13W each, arranged such that no one lamp can give adequate lighting.
The rest of the apartment is lit with halogen downlights at 50W each. There are 10 of them in the living room and kitchen combined, that's 500W! But it's OK, they put 3 CFLs in the hallway...
The point I'm trying to make is that 'simple' measures that should be 'free' often end up as a costly mistake, and can even end up having a detrimental effect on the environment if badly thought out. I fully agree that a pleasantly habitable planet in the future is an important thing, but increasingly I feel that 'environmentalism' is a beast that we'd be better off restraining a little.
Mod parent up.
I'm personally sick of being told how $POINTLESS_MEASURE will solve GW at either a cost of billions or by making everyone's lives worse, with unproven potential benefit, but the real solutions are being left to wither (at least in the UK).
Banning plastic carrier bags, putting up a few wind turbines or raising the tax on X won't do anything. If AGW was really concerning them they would just build a load of nuclear power capacity (or at least a big tidal barrage) and be done with it. At the moment all they can do is hope that people will start to 'save power' (they won't) and desperately try to come up with ways to tax electric/alternative cars to hell, removing any cost advantage they might ever have over petrol/gas power (top tip: fuel currently costs $6.31/USGal in the UK, the gov't is trying to apply similar levels of taxation to electric/hydrogen/whatever cars in the future using GPS-based 'Road Pricing')
People were working like this before offices were invented. "Lloyds of London" (the insurance concern) is so named because their underwriters used to work out of a coffee shop in London, named "Edward Lloyds". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd's_of_London This was in 1688....
Nothing to see here, move along...
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I see, it's "I do X so everybody should do X like me"
I see your "I walk so everyone should walk", and raise you "I drive so everybody should drive"
Well, your friends don't bike, and if they dont bike, then they're no friends of mine.
Come on, for laser beams to travel at the speed of light, don't you need "Belkin Super-mega-ultra high speed fibre-optic justice cables of doom", available at Best Buy* for only $400*
*please alter to suit your locality
A very simple use of Google's calculator function will tell you that this equals 1,255 Wh per hour.
Why, that's almost 1,255W! Or to put it another way, the square root of 1.255 Kilowatt-centuries-per-century squared!
You're getting confused between "US Government" (fights wars, implements airport searches etc etc) and "US citizen" (person who posts on here). ;)
Don't worry, its something US posters often do to us British as well
those mystery laptops that turned up at State Governor's offices came from.
While "free" or "liberal" is a translation of the Dutch word "Vrije", the officially used name in English of this university is "VU University", not "Free University". See the website: http://www.vu.nl/en/index.asp
Are they the inventors of the VU-meter?;)
Never mind Anonymous Coward, I want more posts by Anonymous Cowardon! I haven't seem him/her around recently.
Such an original idea. Perhaps next they can get an action photo of a football match, airbrush out the football and then invite readers to "spot the ball".
60NM is about 6kg of force on a 1 metre breaker bar, or 12kg on a half metre bar. It's not hard.
As for temperature, what exactly is 'unnatural' about a scale where below zero means ice? That's far more natural to me than ice forming at 37-odd degrees.
I do admit to using and thinking in miles for driving, but that's only really due to familiarity. I know that London is 120 miles from here. I know I can take a certain curve at 50mph. I know that on a motorway below 60mph feels unreasonably slow and above 100mph is unusually fast. The km/h figures (100km/h and 160km/h) don't feel natural to me right now, but no doubt mainland europeans feel different, as would I had I been using kilometres all these years.
In engineering I tend to use Metric for precise measurements and Imperial for imprecise. In electronics you end up with a right mixture of measurements. Connectors, for instance, with pins 1mm thick, 0.2" long and spaced at a 0.1" pitch are common. The average PCB might be 1.6mm thick, have 1.2mm holes, spaced at 0.2", connected to 100 thou (of an inch) tracks with a 0.8mm clearance around them, mounted on a 2mm thick aluminium panel measuring 10" by 8"... So long as everybody involved is conversant in the basics of both systems, and all drawings etc are clearly marked, everything works (indeed on several graduate-level interviews, the first question they asked was "how many millimetres are there in an inch?").
As for a system being "natural", I would say that it's entirely down to your personal experience. I have very little immediate concept of how heavy a pound is (I have to think of roughly half a kilo). I know that 27c is quite warm. I have little idea how warm 78F is. I know that any less than 30mpg is disappointing fuel economy (here, at least). I have no idea how many l/100km that is. I know that a pint of beer is a refreshing drink, but have to think of Coke in litres. For somebody else every one of these answers may be different. A German might not know a pint of beer if you poured it over his head!
I bought a (UK-spec) BMW 330D (3L turbo diesel) on friday, and I have to say that its a damn fine car.
So far I'm getting an average of 40mpg(imp) with a very heavy right foot, the car does 155mph top speed (electronically limited) and 6-ish seconds 0-60 with 231bhp. The 60-80mph acceleration is amazing. It easily cruises at 100mph, returning 45mpg at that speed, and with plenty of acceleration available to even higher speed if required.
Despite being significantly heavier, its faster than the Ford Focus ST (2.5l turbo, 225bhp) that I traded in.
In summary, no, diesels are not gutless.
You Brits have a minister devoted to digital entertainment? Is finger-fucking covered by his portfolio?
He's the man to call if you get hiccups... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10207-ig-nobel-prizes-hail-digital-rectal-massage.html
Although as a member of the current administration he'd go for putting the whole fist in, without lube.
Yeah, but this is the UK. Telecoms companies don't have psuedo-monopolies here like they do in the States. It is one of the permanent mysteries of this country that our roads seem to be dug up every other week (and have the damaged surface to prove it!) without having any appreciable difference in the services we receive.
Apart from the fact that Hull DOES have a telecoms monopoly... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCOM_Group Kingston Communications have 100% market share for broadband in Hull, for various historical, legal and technical reasons.
FYI, if you write â30,000, you really mean â30, because the EU swaps comma notation with decimal notation. According to the article, the fine is â30.000 per defendant per day, which is a ridiculously high number.
Caveat: BUT NOT IN THE UK! I've seen posts on here saying that we use the 'european' system of ',' being a decimal point, but we don't and they are very wrong. We use commas and decimal points in exactly the same way as the US.
Yeah, I've heard about the rust problems caused when gold gets wet...
Apple now sells products because they are the greenest.
[Citation needed]
Yes, yes, yes. ;-) ) then they will have their crash some distance in front of you, rather than INTO you. That certainly sounds better to me.
I don't know how it is for your part of the world, but in the English Midlands the number of 'wannabe traffic police' hogging the fast lane seems to be increasing. I don't know why (maybe increased cost of fuel?).
If somebody is behind you, intending to drive faster than you are, you should let them past. Not only is it common courtesy; if they truely are a dangerous jerk (and everyone driving faster than you are at a given moment is a jerk, right?
You are correct. That is why we're setting new efficiency standards on everything from light bulbs to cars to home appliances and even entire buildings. We're also working on setting a cap on the amount of carbon dioxide industry can emit. We also need to look at many different alternative energy sources, including nuclear, solar power, and biofuels.
Good. Unfortunately however these standards and caps are often useless or backfire. An example: In the UK there are standards for a minimum number of 'energy saving light fixtures' per dwelling, on a sliding scale based on the number of rooms. These fittings must only allow the use of 'energy saving' lamps. In practice this means a specific CFL fitting (2 or 4 pin) with the ballast in the fitting, instead of the standard 240v bayonet normally used for lamps. A 240v bayonet cap CFL bulb costs around £1, and many people have a collection of them delivered free by their electricity company. A 2 or 4 pin ballastless CFL costs £7 (the last time I looked). Also the balast in the fitting can fail, requiring replacenent (at a cost of £10 each).
I know this because I live in a fairly new apartment, built since the regs came in. I replaced all the 'energy saving fittings' with standard 240v bayonets and 240v CFLs as soon as the fitting-integrated ballasts started failing (after about 1 year). Why do they mandate an odd fitting when CFLs are readily and very cheaply available in the standard fitting, and incandescent bulbs are being phased out anyway?
Also, to meet the regulations, the builders of my apartment put the full quota of 'energy saving fittings' in the (small) hallway; 3 lights at 13W each, arranged such that no one lamp can give adequate lighting.
The rest of the apartment is lit with halogen downlights at 50W each. There are 10 of them in the living room and kitchen combined, that's 500W! But it's OK, they put 3 CFLs in the hallway...
The point I'm trying to make is that 'simple' measures that should be 'free' often end up as a costly mistake, and can even end up having a detrimental effect on the environment if badly thought out. I fully agree that a pleasantly habitable planet in the future is an important thing, but increasingly I feel that 'environmentalism' is a beast that we'd be better off restraining a little.
If only polar bears could swim.
Mod parent up.
I'm personally sick of being told how $POINTLESS_MEASURE will solve GW at either a cost of billions or by making everyone's lives worse, with unproven potential benefit, but the real solutions are being left to wither (at least in the UK).
Banning plastic carrier bags, putting up a few wind turbines or raising the tax on X won't do anything. If AGW was really concerning them they would just build a load of nuclear power capacity (or at least a big tidal barrage) and be done with it. At the moment all they can do is hope that people will start to 'save power' (they won't) and desperately try to come up with ways to tax electric/alternative cars to hell, removing any cost advantage they might ever have over petrol/gas power (top tip: fuel currently costs $6.31/USGal in the UK, the gov't is trying to apply similar levels of taxation to electric/hydrogen/whatever cars in the future using GPS-based 'Road Pricing')
People were working like this before offices were invented. "Lloyds of London" (the insurance concern) is so named because their underwriters used to work out of a coffee shop in London, named "Edward Lloyds". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd's_of_London This was in 1688....
Nothing to see here, move along...
Blue > Green > Red
At this rate, the next generation games consoles will need a UV power light.
I'm way ahead of the curve.. the front of my computer has a frickin' gamma ray emitter as ITS power light.
I'm allergic to BS.. And I got a nasty rash just reading the summary.
For the love of god; DON'T CLICK ON THE DAILY MAIL LINK!
There's levels of BS on there that scientists haven't yet been able to measure.
HEY BEZOS: PEOPLE OWN WHAT THEY PAY FOR.
I just paid a friend a penny for the entire western hemisphere.
Now GET OFF MY LAND!
C'mon, everybody knows that if you want to start a war, start a nuclear war; the gay bar is the place to do it.