I was guessing, but your calculations show I guessed about right. 11.8 miles each way. Takes about 40 minutes to work with the usual 5-10mph tailwind, 50-65 minutes to get home (10-15mph headwind). The wind is very consistent (being mostly driven by the nearby ocean cooling/heating cycles). This is on a modern aluminum/carbon road bike, and I do it 2-4 times each week.
I alternate between burritos made by real Mexicans (benefit to living in California!), or 2-3 of the closest approximation taco bell can come up with. Either of those equates to what I'd call 1 "standard" burrito.
So ignoring all other costs/benefits, that's slightly more than $5 of burrito to get to work -- more expensive than regular unleaded in my vehicle (20mpg SUV) in addition to being slower. Oh well...
True, every little bit matters......but my bicycle gets 20 miles to the burrito. My round-trip commute to work takes 1.2 burritos. And believe me, if I wasn't commuting via bicycle to work, I'd be consuming the fuel anyways.
What everyone here seems to be missing is the fact that the officer was responding to a report (eg, some other citizen called the police) of domestic violence after seeing this guy argue with his daughter in the truck, and in fact, there had already been a physical exchange between the guy and his daughter.
Then, once additional officers arrive and the arrest is in progress the daugher tries to *phsyically force her way* past one of the cops. I just can't feel for the supposed "victims" in this case even after having read only their side of the story...
Likely most GPS receiver manufacturers are waiting for the new civilian signals to become active on L2 (~1.2Ghz) and L5 (~1.1Ghz) to introduce dual-frequency systems. Here's a good paper about the new GPS signals: Modernization of GPS
Starting this year, all new GPS satellites launched are broadcasting the civilian code on L2, so it'll only be a few years until dual-frequency accuracy is available to everyone (assuming the manufacturers get the new receivers out the door). Like you said, GLONASS receivers are a bit hard to come by...
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I was guessing, but your calculations show I guessed about right. 11.8 miles each way. Takes about 40 minutes to work with the usual 5-10mph tailwind, 50-65 minutes to get home (10-15mph headwind). The wind is very consistent (being mostly driven by the nearby ocean cooling/heating cycles). This is on a modern aluminum/carbon road bike, and I do it 2-4 times each week.
I alternate between burritos made by real Mexicans (benefit to living in California!), or 2-3 of the closest approximation taco bell can come up with. Either of those equates to what I'd call 1 "standard" burrito.
So ignoring all other costs/benefits, that's slightly more than $5 of burrito to get to work -- more expensive than regular unleaded in my vehicle (20mpg SUV) in addition to being slower. Oh well...
True, every little bit matters... ...but my bicycle gets 20 miles to the burrito. My round-trip commute to work takes 1.2 burritos. And believe me, if I wasn't commuting via bicycle to work, I'd be consuming the fuel anyways.
Did y'all read the article?
What everyone here seems to be missing is the fact that the officer was responding to a report (eg, some other citizen called the police) of domestic violence after seeing this guy argue with his daughter in the truck, and in fact, there had already been a physical exchange between the guy and his daughter.
Then, once additional officers arrive and the arrest is in progress the daugher tries to *phsyically force her way* past one of the cops. I just can't feel for the supposed "victims" in this case even after having read only their side of the story...
Likely most GPS receiver manufacturers are waiting for the new civilian signals to become active on L2 (~1.2Ghz) and L5 (~1.1Ghz) to introduce dual-frequency systems. Here's a good paper about the new GPS signals: Modernization of GPS
Starting this year, all new GPS satellites launched are broadcasting the civilian code on L2, so it'll only be a few years until dual-frequency accuracy is available to everyone (assuming the manufacturers get the new receivers out the door).
Like you said, GLONASS receivers are a bit hard to come by...