For several years now, VAG has been building cars where some of the options can be added by tweaking settings in the car's computer system, or by adding a few inexpensive components. I can add an alarm to mine just by plugging a horn and a couple of sensors into the car's network. Similarly, the wiring for heated mirrors is installed by default even if the option is not checked by the initial customer, I replaced the standard mirror glasses with heated ones and was good to go. $50 and 10 minutes to enable a $200 option. Lists of available options circulate on the internet.
The audience of this site is not airplane pilots. Feet don't make sense for half the visitors on this site. Also, screw the airline industry and their nonstandard units of measurement.
EADS/Arianespace is in a spot of trouble as their launch cost is much higher than that of SpaceX. The Ariane 6 is designed to close the gap a bit, but Arianespace has always struggled to be profitable even though they're bankrolled by ESA. Basically they're used to the old world where cost was no object and will have to adapt to the way SpaceX et al do things.
The real problem is that different languages are often created to solve different problems.
I wonder if this could be mitigated by not treating a problem as an excuse to build an entirely new language. Build an awesome library for (choose a decent basic language) instead, and you get new functionality without fragmenting the playing field even more.
Either the law is the law, equal for all, or its just so much politically correct farce and sadly more and more in the west the law has become the latter,with certain groups being ignored when they are racists while others are punished.
In case you missed it, TFA is about Germany. You know, the country that plunged the world into 6 years of hell thanks to the Nazis, and the country that is now committed to preventing that from ever happening again. So yes, they have special laws that target neo-Nazis. And I don't blame them.
The Dutch proposal called for a tax based on congestion. Busy road->more expensive, i.e. it was both time and place sensitive. The idea was to offer drivers a monetary incentive to not use the roads when they are busiest, alleviating traffic jams for those who do need to be on that road at that time. Odometers don't cut it for this use case. This would have replaced the current ownership tax in favor of a system where the heaviest users pay the most.
For 2,000 years the human nose (standard equipment on most humans) was not the correct way to detect foul and spoiled milk?
Most humans, yes. My nose is bad enough at detecting spoiled milk that the first thing I notice is the milk turning solid when I warm it, so I welcome this development.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Opel and Volkswagen were not known for the generous amount of equipment included as standard on their cars. Things like the passenger side wing mirror and IIRC even rear-window heating were optional extras on the base models. Both companies sold models with the trim level indicated as 'C' (Golf C, Kadett C). Now, officially this was an abbreviation for 'Comfort', but as this was one of the lower-spec models, we always called them 'Crisis' instead.
They're doing both. The Gates Foundation also funds Nathan Myhrvold's company which is developing a laser-based system that shoots down mosquitoes (a must-see video, by the way, FF to the end for actual video of the system at work). They've spent $ 2 Billion so far.
I've replaced my alarm with a Philips Wake-up light, ie an alarm that includes a lamp. 20-40 minutes before the alarm time, the lamp starts a simulation of sunrise, switching on at low intensity and becoming increasingly brighter. My old alarm would yank me from deep sleep in one second flat with its blaring noise, making me feel like my night's rest was incomplete. Worse, if I woke up in the middle of the night, I'd be unable to get back to sleep because I'd lie waiting for the bloody noise. The new alarm has made my waking up feel much more natural and gradual. I don't dread the morning so much anymore.
Living at about 54N, the natural day/night rhythm is bloody annoying in the summer. Dusk isn't a problem, but dawn starts at 0500 which is way too early.
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For several years now, VAG has been building cars where some of the options can be added by tweaking settings in the car's computer system, or by adding a few inexpensive components. I can add an alarm to mine just by plugging a horn and a couple of sensors into the car's network. Similarly, the wiring for heated mirrors is installed by default even if the option is not checked by the initial customer, I replaced the standard mirror glasses with heated ones and was good to go. $50 and 10 minutes to enable a $200 option. Lists of available options circulate on the internet.
Antigravity, nuclear fusion, holodeck.
I was following the webcast, a few minutes ago they received the signal from Rosetta, so the wakeup has succeeded, if a bit behind schedule.
(unfortunately I can't see a way to rewind, so you'll have to wait for the video to become available on the archive section of the webcast page)
I remember staying up late to watch Giotto's close approach to Halley. That we're now planning to *land* on a comet, is very impressive.
Sounds like a fun place to visit. Where is this?
How did they incorporate 3D modelling, which mostly uses 3D vector-based drawing, into a 2.5D pixel-based application?
The audience of this site is not airplane pilots. Feet don't make sense for half the visitors on this site.
Also, screw the airline industry and their nonstandard units of measurement.
EADS/Arianespace is in a spot of trouble as their launch cost is much higher than that of SpaceX. The Ariane 6 is designed to close the gap a bit, but Arianespace has always struggled to be profitable even though they're bankrolled by ESA. Basically they're used to the old world where cost was no object and will have to adapt to the way SpaceX et al do things.
The real problem is that different languages are often created to solve different problems.
I wonder if this could be mitigated by not treating a problem as an excuse to build an entirely new language. Build an awesome library for (choose a decent basic language) instead, and you get new functionality without fragmenting the playing field even more.
So THIS is what that slogan is all about...
Either the law is the law, equal for all, or its just so much politically correct farce and sadly more and more in the west the law has become the latter,with certain groups being ignored when they are racists while others are punished.
In case you missed it, TFA is about Germany. You know, the country that plunged the world into 6 years of hell thanks to the Nazis, and the country that is now committed to preventing that from ever happening again. So yes, they have special laws that target neo-Nazis. And I don't blame them.
In some places it is legal and regulated and those problems don't exist.
Incorrect. Prostitution was legalized in the Netherlands years ago, but it's still rife with abuse and human trafficing.
The pricing was calculated to even out for users who drive an average amount of km per year.
Electronic booths are simpler, but not cheaper when you have to blanket the entire country with them.
The Dutch proposal called for a tax based on congestion. Busy road->more expensive, i.e. it was both time and place sensitive. The idea was to offer drivers a monetary incentive to not use the roads when they are busiest, alleviating traffic jams for those who do need to be on that road at that time. Odometers don't cut it for this use case.
This would have replaced the current ownership tax in favor of a system where the heaviest users pay the most.
Even if that leads to the pressure inside the container being lower than outside? If the seal is airtight, there's nothing to replace the lost helium.
Except that West Ford was designed to aid communication, not inhibit it.
For 2,000 years the human nose (standard equipment on most humans) was not the correct way to detect foul and spoiled milk?
Most humans, yes. My nose is bad enough at detecting spoiled milk that the first thing I notice is the milk turning solid when I warm it, so I welcome this development.
Adobe hasn't abandoned FrameMaker, there have been several new versions over the past few years.
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In the 1970s and early 1980s, Opel and Volkswagen were not known for the generous amount of equipment included as standard on their cars. Things like the passenger side wing mirror and IIRC even rear-window heating were optional extras on the base models.
Both companies sold models with the trim level indicated as 'C' (Golf C, Kadett C). Now, officially this was an abbreviation for 'Comfort', but as this was one of the lower-spec models, we always called them 'Crisis' instead.
(32.8GB/day = 380KB/sec, so the devices speed wasnt actually an issue for you)
That's an odd way to look at it. You assume that GP spreads out his writes evenly over 24h, and has no desire to speed things up.
They're doing both. The Gates Foundation also funds Nathan Myhrvold's company which is developing a laser-based system that shoots down mosquitoes (a must-see video, by the way, FF to the end for actual video of the system at work). They've spent $ 2 Billion so far.
I've replaced my alarm with a Philips Wake-up light, ie an alarm that includes a lamp. 20-40 minutes before the alarm time, the lamp starts a simulation of sunrise, switching on at low intensity and becoming increasingly brighter.
My old alarm would yank me from deep sleep in one second flat with its blaring noise, making me feel like my night's rest was incomplete. Worse, if I woke up in the middle of the night, I'd be unable to get back to sleep because I'd lie waiting for the bloody noise.
The new alarm has made my waking up feel much more natural and gradual. I don't dread the morning so much anymore.
Living at about 54N, the natural day/night rhythm is bloody annoying in the summer. Dusk isn't a problem, but dawn starts at 0500 which is way too early.