Right, but that's not uncommon in the UK either. As a previous poster commented, trains are expensive and it's just less hassle to drive. I'm going down to the south of England next weekend, which will take about £120 in diesel for the return trip (I drive a big thirsty van). To get the train would have been closer to £800 for two people - more than I've ever spent on even buying a car, never mind fuel for a trip.
For a good few years, my daily commute was around 240 miles.
Regarding the car mileages, those are mostly all fairly new cars. I've seen ex-fleet cars that have over 250k on the clock at three years old.
The problem is, if you're in a "gas-guzzling behemoth" then you have practically no protection in an accident. Even in a low-speed shunt, the car might be undamaged but your insides will be pulp.
A couple of years ago not far from me there was a crash at about 30mph between an imported Ford pickup truck and a Suzuki jeep - the Suzuki was very bent but the people in it were okay, the Ford was a bit scratched but the people in it were stone dead.
In general, people drive a lot more in the UK than they do in the US. In the US, people drive very short distances - you'd think nothing of hopping in the car to go half a mile to the shops - but take public transport for longer trips. In the UK it's the opposite; we take public transport for short journeys but drive for long journeys.
Wouldn't know, haven't been to London for over a decade. It's a shithole.
Out here in the remote Scottish countryside, my 3G connection is usefully fast. I haven't measured the actual speed, but I get a solid HSDPA connection - so anything up to 14Mbps.
Free wifi has kind of gone by the wayside in the UK. It was a nice idea five years ago, when many people used wifi to get online. Most people now have 3G, which is more convenient since you don't need to actually be near somewhere that "does wifi".
No, if you look at his diagram the inverter is hooked to the car's 12V battery which is charged from the traction batteries via another DC-DC converter.
"Time Difference Of Arrival". It relies on the fact that radio waves move at the speed of light, which is actually pretty slow. You can easily detect the difference in phase between the signal received by two aerials, and turn this into useful direction information.
You can roll your own TDOA with simple parts available in your local electronics shop - take a look here for a "Whistling Dipole" design that switches between two aerials to determine phase.
On BT I got just around 2Mbps down and 448kbps up - which frequently dropped to less than 512kbps down and 64kbps up, and dropped out altogether when I used my HF transmitter.
Now I get around 3.7Mbps down and 1Mbps up on Orange, with far greater reliability although I do notice that sometimes the latency is a bit higher. I'm not playing online games that often so that doesn't bother me particularly, and it only seems to be DNS that's particularly affected.
But then if you do reverse the hash then what's to stop an attacker reversing the "hash" to recover your password? But a reversible hash isn't a hash, it's an encryption scheme - with the key right there on the device. Think of it as being like storing your password in ROT13.
There is no real way of storing a password securely in an encrypted form, without requiring a password to decrypt it.
And of course that means that we in Europe and the UK will have to protect the US. Every single war you've got yourselves into, we've had to come and pick you up and give you a cuddle when you've burned your little fingers on something too hot.
Thanks for helping in World War 2, though. You stopped helping the Germans at just the right time.
Well, the problem there is not that the Palestinians are Muslim - many Palestinians are Jewish. The problem that the Israelis have is that they are *Palestinians* and occupying land that they want. So, the poor old Palestinians get herded up and slaughtered wholesale so that the Israeli government can expand its lebensraum.
I don't think that Hal'al don't have any of the phobias on mixed preparation of Milk and Meat.
Neither does kosher; or rather, not all Jews or Muslims are *that* fussed about kosher or halal, and frequently "only when it suits them". I have a Muslim friend who is a good Muslim boy and prays four times a day when he's at his parents house, and observes Ramadan because otherwise his mum would throttle him - even if it means giving up the bacon rolls for salad, and staying off the single malt;-) I'm told Koran says that it's haraam to eat pork, unless there's nothing else to eat in which case it's clearly far more haraam to starve yourself to death when there's perfectly good pork on the go, and that the Jewish scriptures contain something pretty similar. There are some Christian faiths that have similar dietary restrictions to Islam and Judaism, but I can't remember the names offhand.
It all sounds like personal affectation to me, anyway. If they'd been stuck on a bus for 18 hours they'd still eat a bacon roll if you fed them it.
To be fair, the July 7th bombings weren't much of a terrorist attack. They were pretty feeble compared to some of the stunts the IRA pulled, but then Republican terrorism had massive amounts of funding and equipment from the US.
What, did you think all that NORAID money was for taking the old people and orphans on nice day trips to the seaside?
Cool though they are, CVT is a bit over-rated. It's more lossy than a normal gearbox because of friction between the belt and pulleys and the belt's own internal resistance, and engines have such a broad performance band it doesn't really make a lot of difference.
That's a common myth in electric cars though; the diesel-electric trains only really work well because the power demands remain constant for long periods of time. A diesel-electric car would work just great on motorways, but driving around town it would be horribly inefficient.
Citroen used to have fully hydraulically-powered brakes on their cars with hydropneumatic suspension; that is, not just power-assisted but actually entirely driven by the hydraulic system. The brake valve is very similar to the ones used for air brakes in principle, and very rarely goes wrong. If it does, it generally just needs new rubber seals fitted which cost pennies. If the engine cuts out or the belt for the hydraulic pump breaks, the pressure accumulator has enough reserve to give you brakes for about ten miles - easily enough to pull over and stop (and you're going to want to, since driving a two tonne car with the power steering out of action isn't fun). People did object to the pedal feel though, which is quite hard with very little movement - instead of pressing the pedal "further" for more braking you press harder, again rather like air brakes.
They do take a bit of getting used to, but if you drive a Citroen CX for any length of time the brakes on any other vehicle - even very expensive high-performance vehicles with immense discs and calipers - just feel terrifyingly bad.
Modern Citroens have reverted to "normal" vacuum servo brakes, which just feel as crap as the brakes on any Audi, BMW or Mercedes.
Common-rail diesels (which use special high-pressure electronic injectors like petrol ones all fed from a single injector pump) just use excess fuel when they're starting in cold weather. My Mercedes Vito usually takes four compressions to start, but when it was -20C for a couple of weeks over the winter it took about six compressions - not what I'd call "hard starting" at all.
But imagine if one of those ol' C5's was retrofitted with modern components. It might be a very fun go-kart project and heaps better than the original ever was.
Hey, the original was pretty damn good considering the technology of the day. Bear in mind that deep-cycle SLA batteries were *the* hot new battery technology in the early 80s - now you could run your caravan lights *all weekend* without having to start the car to charge them! The traction motor was not derived from a washing-machine motor as popular belief has it, but a high-efficiency motor designed for truck radiator fans and built using quite clever new magnets.
Disclaimer: I use OpenBSD for hosting mission critical financially sensitive servers.
Really? I'd use something more secure.
Oh, I know Theo likes to keep telling everyone how secure OpenBSD is, but every time anyone does discover an exploit in it he's quick to point out some ingenious way in which it doesn't really count. He's like that one kid that everyone knew at school who would just not accept that he was "it" when you were playing tag - always some bullshit made-up-on-the-spot rule why tagging him didn't count.
Then they shouldn't expect someone else to pay for it. Or, if they do want to sell themselves into slavery, they shouldn't bitch about having insane and arbitrary rules set to curb their freedom.
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Right, but that's not uncommon in the UK either. As a previous poster commented, trains are expensive and it's just less hassle to drive. I'm going down to the south of England next weekend, which will take about £120 in diesel for the return trip (I drive a big thirsty van). To get the train would have been closer to £800 for two people - more than I've ever spent on even buying a car, never mind fuel for a trip.
For a good few years, my daily commute was around 240 miles.
Regarding the car mileages, those are mostly all fairly new cars. I've seen ex-fleet cars that have over 250k on the clock at three years old.
The problem is, if you're in a "gas-guzzling behemoth" then you have practically no protection in an accident. Even in a low-speed shunt, the car might be undamaged but your insides will be pulp.
A couple of years ago not far from me there was a crash at about 30mph between an imported Ford pickup truck and a Suzuki jeep - the Suzuki was very bent but the people in it were okay, the Ford was a bit scratched but the people in it were stone dead.
In general, people drive a lot more in the UK than they do in the US. In the US, people drive very short distances - you'd think nothing of hopping in the car to go half a mile to the shops - but take public transport for longer trips. In the UK it's the opposite; we take public transport for short journeys but drive for long journeys.
Wouldn't know, haven't been to London for over a decade. It's a shithole.
Out here in the remote Scottish countryside, my 3G connection is usefully fast. I haven't measured the actual speed, but I get a solid HSDPA connection - so anything up to 14Mbps.
Why would taxpayers be paying for something provided by a private company?
Free wifi has kind of gone by the wayside in the UK. It was a nice idea five years ago, when many people used wifi to get online. Most people now have 3G, which is more convenient since you don't need to actually be near somewhere that "does wifi".
Are we looking at the same page?
No, if you look at his diagram the inverter is hooked to the car's 12V battery which is charged from the traction batteries via another DC-DC converter.
So with the PriUPS, he's basically wired an inverter to a car battery? I'm not sure how that's much of an innovation...
"Time Difference Of Arrival". It relies on the fact that radio waves move at the speed of light, which is actually pretty slow. You can easily detect the difference in phase between the signal received by two aerials, and turn this into useful direction information.
You can roll your own TDOA with simple parts available in your local electronics shop - take a look here for a "Whistling Dipole" design that switches between two aerials to determine phase.
On BT I got just around 2Mbps down and 448kbps up - which frequently dropped to less than 512kbps down and 64kbps up, and dropped out altogether when I used my HF transmitter.
Now I get around 3.7Mbps down and 1Mbps up on Orange, with far greater reliability although I do notice that sometimes the latency is a bit higher. I'm not playing online games that often so that doesn't bother me particularly, and it only seems to be DNS that's particularly affected.
They even manage to be cheaper.
But then if you do reverse the hash then what's to stop an attacker reversing the "hash" to recover your password? But a reversible hash isn't a hash, it's an encryption scheme - with the key right there on the device. Think of it as being like storing your password in ROT13.
There is no real way of storing a password securely in an encrypted form, without requiring a password to decrypt it.
And of course that means that we in Europe and the UK will have to protect the US. Every single war you've got yourselves into, we've had to come and pick you up and give you a cuddle when you've burned your little fingers on something too hot.
Thanks for helping in World War 2, though. You stopped helping the Germans at just the right time.
Mine's been like that for ages. There is actually enough space to fit "than" in but it looked funnier with just "tha".
Tell that to the people in Gaza and Israel ;-)
Well, the problem there is not that the Palestinians are Muslim - many Palestinians are Jewish. The problem that the Israelis have is that they are *Palestinians* and occupying land that they want. So, the poor old Palestinians get herded up and slaughtered wholesale so that the Israeli government can expand its lebensraum.
I don't think that Hal'al don't have any of the phobias on mixed preparation of Milk and Meat.
Neither does kosher; or rather, not all Jews or Muslims are *that* fussed about kosher or halal, and frequently "only when it suits them". I have a Muslim friend who is a good Muslim boy and prays four times a day when he's at his parents house, and observes Ramadan because otherwise his mum would throttle him - even if it means giving up the bacon rolls for salad, and staying off the single malt ;-) I'm told Koran says that it's haraam to eat pork, unless there's nothing else to eat in which case it's clearly far more haraam to starve yourself to death when there's perfectly good pork on the go, and that the Jewish scriptures contain something pretty similar. There are some Christian faiths that have similar dietary restrictions to Islam and Judaism, but I can't remember the names offhand.
It all sounds like personal affectation to me, anyway. If they'd been stuck on a bus for 18 hours they'd still eat a bacon roll if you fed them it.
To be fair, the July 7th bombings weren't much of a terrorist attack. They were pretty feeble compared to some of the stunts the IRA pulled, but then Republican terrorism had massive amounts of funding and equipment from the US.
What, did you think all that NORAID money was for taking the old people and orphans on nice day trips to the seaside?
Well, Muslims actually don't care that much for kosher. They do however like their food to be hal'al (if I remember the phrase correctly)
The two are effectively identical, which is why so many of the kosher butchers in this part of the world are run by Muslims.
There's basically no real difference between Islam and Judaism, except for the bit about lending money.
Cool though they are, CVT is a bit over-rated. It's more lossy than a normal gearbox because of friction between the belt and pulleys and the belt's own internal resistance, and engines have such a broad performance band it doesn't really make a lot of difference.
That's a common myth in electric cars though; the diesel-electric trains only really work well because the power demands remain constant for long periods of time. A diesel-electric car would work just great on motorways, but driving around town it would be horribly inefficient.
They do...
Although admittedly they've only started doing them recently.
Citroen used to have fully hydraulically-powered brakes on their cars with hydropneumatic suspension; that is, not just power-assisted but actually entirely driven by the hydraulic system. The brake valve is very similar to the ones used for air brakes in principle, and very rarely goes wrong. If it does, it generally just needs new rubber seals fitted which cost pennies. If the engine cuts out or the belt for the hydraulic pump breaks, the pressure accumulator has enough reserve to give you brakes for about ten miles - easily enough to pull over and stop (and you're going to want to, since driving a two tonne car with the power steering out of action isn't fun). People did object to the pedal feel though, which is quite hard with very little movement - instead of pressing the pedal "further" for more braking you press harder, again rather like air brakes.
They do take a bit of getting used to, but if you drive a Citroen CX for any length of time the brakes on any other vehicle - even very expensive high-performance vehicles with immense discs and calipers - just feel terrifyingly bad.
Modern Citroens have reverted to "normal" vacuum servo brakes, which just feel as crap as the brakes on any Audi, BMW or Mercedes.
Common-rail diesels (which use special high-pressure electronic injectors like petrol ones all fed from a single injector pump) just use excess fuel when they're starting in cold weather. My Mercedes Vito usually takes four compressions to start, but when it was -20C for a couple of weeks over the winter it took about six compressions - not what I'd call "hard starting" at all.
But imagine if one of those ol' C5's was retrofitted with modern components. It might be a very fun go-kart project and heaps better than the original ever was.
Hey, the original was pretty damn good considering the technology of the day. Bear in mind that deep-cycle SLA batteries were *the* hot new battery technology in the early 80s - now you could run your caravan lights *all weekend* without having to start the car to charge them! The traction motor was not derived from a washing-machine motor as popular belief has it, but a high-efficiency motor designed for truck radiator fans and built using quite clever new magnets.
Disclaimer: I use OpenBSD for hosting mission critical financially sensitive servers.
Really? I'd use something more secure.
Oh, I know Theo likes to keep telling everyone how secure OpenBSD is, but every time anyone does discover an exploit in it he's quick to point out some ingenious way in which it doesn't really count. He's like that one kid that everyone knew at school who would just not accept that he was "it" when you were playing tag - always some bullshit made-up-on-the-spot rule why tagging him didn't count.
Don't be that kid. That kid is a dick.
Then they shouldn't expect someone else to pay for it. Or, if they do want to sell themselves into slavery, they shouldn't bitch about having insane and arbitrary rules set to curb their freedom.