That covers the average commute quite nicely some of the time. In winter or inclement weather, not so much.
Still, the smugness of travelling gratis - abstracting investments - is seducing.
(*) Conversion to other units, including but not limited to BTU, miles (your pick), square feet and 1/32nds of a fortnight left as an exercise for the reader.
Expressing proper units and dimensions seem to be difficult for the layman, the press and even for the/. audience. mWh, MW or kW/h, it's all the same. And every time a car is moving at a high rate of speed, Newton rolls a few radians in his grave.
My trackman marble fx wireless just broke down. It was already a meager replacement for the seminal wired original fx, and now I'm stuck as new good finger controlled trackballs are nowhere to be found. It's a sad state of affairs.
Ah, Minnesota in wintertime. Once I was driving from Minneapolis towards a turkey farm town where the then mainframe resided in a room with wall-to-wall (walls included) deep puke green carpet and the car windows were freezing on the inside. Truely a memorable business trip.
....what with hurricanes getting stronger and more frequent
Where did you pick up that misinformation ? I could post links to historical and actual data, but it is far more educating for you to go out and find them yourself.
It's not the bitter taste, it's the sulphurous, garbage dump like stink that some just don't seem to perceive.
The failure to detect the stink is probably a genetic defect promoted by Darwinian selection where a part of the population survived by not being overly critical about eating out of a dumpster.
That said, broccoli is the least offending of the cauliflower family in this regard. Brussels sprouts are worst.
For instance, if you were to start spinning in empty space and no other matter or light in the universe existed (yet you were still somehow alive), you would still feel your arms being pulled outward due to your spinning motion -- even though you had no point of reference to even know that you were spinning at all. You'd still be spinning in relation to the invisible framework of space-time.
Anyone care to elaborate on this ? I've spent countless sleepless nights pondering how a framework could manifest itself without interaction from matter or energy.
As far as I know no Vance book has ever been turned into a movie or a series. For some reason, Jack Vance seems to be not as widely known or appreciated for what he brought to the genre.
While I know it might/will be a disappointment once it eventually and inevitably happens, I'd love to see a capable director rise up to the occasion anyway. There's certainly more than enough detailed quality material.
Trains are a lot cheaper to run than planes, and in the long run transport trains are a lot cheaper than trucks too.
Depends on how you calculate. In my country, the national train company receives 15 eurocent per passenger.km in direct subsidies alone. Last I checked, my 10000km plus return plane ticket didn't cost 1500 euros.
It's late and I'm not going to find out, but I have a hunch that train cargo isn't overly attractive, just by comparing the volumes shipped.
Maybe not "more competitive pricing", but fair pricing aka charging the real cost. That cost, plus the cost of the former supposedly better service, used to be hidden by huge subsidies before privatization.
Trains are surprisingly expensive to run. So privatized companies are suffering while offering the service at an acceptable price. Socialist governments are happy to offer the service way below cost but hide the tab and charge it to others.
Cool - I now remember my grandparents' radio with a screw plug that had to go into an adapter, and finding it odd. As a 6 years old with a keen interest in all things electric, light sockets were out of my reach so I didn't realize the screw plug was designed to fit them.
Nice to finally see someone posting here who actually grasps the value of a high CRI.
I'm sick of dimwits blindly recommending a lower or higher color temperature when someone complains about the low light quality of current energy saving bulbs. Color temperature isn't the big problem: our brain easily adapts to a different white balance. Whole swats of spectrum missing is, as that makes a lot of pigments look dull.
So let's hope for lamps that can produce a continuous weighted spectrum from 650 to 400 nm with 90% of the theoretical peak efficiency.
Having a beautiful, natural view obscured by ugly windmills couldn't possibly cause stress and induce real physical sickness in folks, now could it?! If you travel much, you'll notice that folks tend to be happier in areas with beautiful scenery, much less so elsewhere.
Another thing, most people tend to be very mild mannered. Quite a large number of people will accept a burnt pizza with a smile, only a small minoroty will complain. Perhaps these people were bothered all along and just didn't say anything to avoid rocking the boat...until it was pointed out to them that they had the right to speak up and demand a pizza that wasn't burnt to a crisp.
This. Of course there may be some hypochondria involved, but people living close enough to hear whoosh-whoosh all day long, have their house invaded by shadow effects or their formerly rustic countryside tarnished have all reasons to complain.
NK serves a very useful purpose as a place where rabid greenist, socialist and communist bureaucrats can be figuratively banned to, to go and live their adored ideology to the fullest. Zimbabwe is another.
If you take just a second to look here, here, and here you will see that hurricanes, for example, have not become significantly more frequent nor intense.
The same applies to other freak weather events. They're just more mediatized now, and affect more people in an increasingly overcrowded world.
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Five of the nine Ranger missions successfully impacted the moon
Does that mean that four of them missed?
No, the other four impacted unsuccessfully.
10 m2 * 150 W/m2 * 8 h/day / (150 Wh/km) = 80 km/day. (*)
That covers the average commute quite nicely some of the time. In winter or inclement weather, not so much.
Still, the smugness of travelling gratis - abstracting investments - is seducing.
(*) Conversion to other units, including but not limited to BTU, miles (your pick), square feet and 1/32nds of a fortnight left as an exercise for the reader.
Expressing proper units and dimensions seem to be difficult for the layman, the press and even for the /. audience. mWh, MW or kW/h, it's all the same. And every time a car is moving at a high rate of speed, Newton rolls a few radians in his grave.
My trackman marble fx wireless just broke down. It was already a meager replacement for the seminal wired original fx, and now I'm stuck as new good finger controlled trackballs are nowhere to be found. It's a sad state of affairs.
Any suggestions ?
Of course ... the chances of ... being killed by one ....
Some people probably thought the same thing when the first Asian carp and the first Asian ladybug were spotted on this continent.
And even now, the chances of getting killed by an Asian carp or ladybug are a million to one, but still, they come.
Ah, Minnesota in wintertime. Once I was driving from Minneapolis towards a turkey farm town where the then mainframe resided in a room with wall-to-wall (walls included) deep puke green carpet and the car windows were freezing on the inside. Truely a memorable business trip.
Ana aidan.
....what with hurricanes getting stronger and more frequent
Where did you pick up that misinformation ? I could post links to historical and actual data, but it is far more educating for you to go out and find them yourself.
Hear, hear !
That's an imperative. Other laptop vendors should listen too.
Missed opportunity. "Mon dernier soufflé" would have been more interesting and dramatic.
Some time in the future I'll try to remember my last soufflé, weep and die.
It's not the bitter taste, it's the sulphurous, garbage dump like stink that some just don't seem to perceive.
The failure to detect the stink is probably a genetic defect promoted by Darwinian selection where a part of the population survived by not being overly critical about eating out of a dumpster.
That said, broccoli is the least offending of the cauliflower family in this regard. Brussels sprouts are worst.
...to screamline the aircraft a bit.
FTFY.
Anyone care to elaborate on this ? I've spent countless sleepless nights pondering how a framework could manifest itself without interaction from matter or energy.
As far as I know no Vance book has ever been turned into a movie or a series. For some reason, Jack Vance seems to be not as widely known or appreciated for what he brought to the genre.
While I know it might/will be a disappointment once it eventually and inevitably happens, I'd love to see a capable director rise up to the occasion anyway. There's certainly more than enough detailed quality material.
So long, Mr. Vance, and thanks for all the text.
Trains are a lot cheaper to run than planes, and in the long run transport trains are a lot cheaper than trucks too.
Depends on how you calculate. In my country, the national train company receives 15 eurocent per passenger.km in direct subsidies alone. Last I checked, my 10000km plus return plane ticket didn't cost 1500 euros.
It's late and I'm not going to find out, but I have a hunch that train cargo isn't overly attractive, just by comparing the volumes shipped.
Again, rail is surprisingly expensive.
Maybe not "more competitive pricing", but fair pricing aka charging the real cost. That cost, plus the cost of the former supposedly better service, used to be hidden by huge subsidies before privatization.
Trains are surprisingly expensive to run. So privatized companies are suffering while offering the service at an acceptable price. Socialist governments are happy to offer the service way below cost but hide the tab and charge it to others.
Deustchland probably looks as unpronounceable as Deutschland to you, but the former is while the latter isn't.
Cool - I now remember my grandparents' radio with a screw plug that had to go into an adapter, and finding it odd. As a 6 years old with a keen interest in all things electric, light sockets were out of my reach so I didn't realize the screw plug was designed to fit them.
Nice to finally see someone posting here who actually grasps the value of a high CRI.
I'm sick of dimwits blindly recommending a lower or higher color temperature when someone complains about the low light quality of current energy saving bulbs. Color temperature isn't the big problem: our brain easily adapts to a different white balance. Whole swats of spectrum missing is, as that makes a lot of pigments look dull.
So let's hope for lamps that can produce a continuous weighted spectrum from 650 to 400 nm with 90% of the theoretical peak efficiency.
Having a beautiful, natural view obscured by ugly windmills couldn't possibly cause stress and induce real physical sickness in folks, now could it?!
If you travel much, you'll notice that folks tend to be happier in areas with beautiful scenery, much less so elsewhere.
Another thing, most people tend to be very mild mannered. Quite a large number of people will accept a burnt pizza with a smile, only a small minoroty will complain. Perhaps these people were bothered all along and just didn't say anything to avoid rocking the boat...until it was pointed out to them that they had the right to speak up and demand a pizza that wasn't burnt to a crisp.
This. Of course there may be some hypochondria involved, but people living close enough to hear whoosh-whoosh all day long, have their house invaded by shadow effects or their formerly rustic countryside tarnished have all reasons to complain.
NK serves a very useful purpose as a place where rabid greenist, socialist and communist bureaucrats can be figuratively banned to, to go and live their adored ideology to the fullest. Zimbabwe is another.
speeding camera's are everywhere.
"Catch me if you can !", said the speeding camera.
Suspiscious???
Also known as fishy. :-)
Sorry, I'm out of +1, Witty points.
Pazjalusta ! A great opportunity to study the broken window fallacy in a post-communist economic context.
If you take just a second to look here, here, and here you will see that hurricanes, for example, have not become significantly more frequent nor intense.
The same applies to other freak weather events. They're just more mediatized now, and affect more people in an increasingly overcrowded world.