Fuselage design is just what you get when you stick a semi in a windtunnel and take things one step beyond conventional models. Every 'advanced concept' truck looks like this. And the two designs don't look all that similar beyond the outer mold line.
Wraparound windshield: meh. The idea is old (look at current Scanias for instance), it's just that they usually have the doors further forward.
Which leaves us with the only innovation: the mid-entry door. I don't see truckers enjoying this one, esp. if you're working short haul you don't want to get up, then shuffle a winding path toward the exit. You want the door to be next to the seat.
Everything involves paying somebody. But I guess there's one special type of paying somebody, where you're not supposed to shop around -- where being a cheapskate changes from a virtue to a vice.
Shopping around is fine when the playing field is level. When the playing field is tilted dramatically in one direction (e.g. in Amazon's favor), shopping around has undesirable consequences. We're inching toward a situation where Amazon and Walmart are the only retailers left. Nobody else has the scale to be able to compete with them. Setting up a new competitor would require billions in investment to get to the scale to be able to compete with them.
You might be okay with that, but I intensely dislike having only one place to shop.
Kazakhstan used its own variation of the Cyrillic alphabet, with ~6 extra letters compared to Russian. Finding fonts that support Kazakh was a pain in the ass because of this.
The accents on capitals seen in the new alphabet are a lot more common, so will be easier to support.
Any change to an MS Office 2016/365 installation is done by removing, then reinstalling the entire suite. Add one language pack, lose your machine for 2 hours as it removes and reinstalls, thowing away all your preferences in the process. MS seems to be hellbent on wasting resources wherever they can.
That Live Science link has a stabilized version of the video, this visually separates the snow from the background stars and gives a much better view of what's happening.
Right, they're leaving because of progressive policies. Absurdly gigantic housing cost and traffic nightmares (=lots of time wasted) can't possibly have anything to do with it.
Over the past few years, Apple has replaced several OSX apps that worked well with new ones that are less functional, to get feature parity between OSX and iOS. Replacing iPhoto with Photos, for example. Now that the penny has dropped, it's time to stop limiting OSX apps to the level of their iOS counterparts.
Agreed with the yellow lens recommendation. I've got a pair that's polarized, which is brilliant for driving on wet streets (just abouts eliminates the glare from sun reflecting on the street/in puddles).
The only issue with polarization I've found is that I have to use my phone (for navigation) in landscape mode rather than portrait (but I was already doing that anyway). Haven't found any polarized traffic lights. Over here (.nl) they went from incancescent light to LED, neither use polarization. Matrix signs are LED too, so no issue there either.
Those male refugees left their families behind in a refugee camp (the safest place they could find not too far away from the hellhole they fled from). Then they undertook the dangerous journey to their final destination alone, planning to immigrate, get legally and financially set up and then pay for their families to travel safely and legally to rejoin them.
You've fallen for right-wing rhetoric with no basis in truth.
And yet there are regular car ferries from e.g. Japan to Europe for the models that aren't assembled over here. Japanese companies opened factories in Europe to get around import limits, not because it was cheaper.
Shouldn't be illegal? Because stinking up the neighborhood for 15-30 minutes (times the number of cars in the neighborhood) is such a civilized thing to do...
especially the newer ones (Dyson Airblade and its copies) that blast air at high speed (instead of using hot air at low speed). They're bloody loud, and air dryers never manage to get your hands dry within their set time limit. I always seem to have to use them twice (and yes, I shake out my hands beforehand).
The thing with all gravity-based storage is, you need a lot of mass to achieve anything. As in, thousands of tons. Water is the easiest way to manipulate these large masses. There is one company that uses trains with ballasted rail cars - but the last news article on their site is a year old so they may be bankrupt by now.
The limit to pumped hydro is geology: you need two lakes near each other with the biggest elevation difference you can find (ideally, a hundred meters or more). There's a limited number of those, and a limited tolerance for creating new lakes by wiping out existing land. Pumped hydro has been proposed with small elevation differences (Plan Lievense was one proposal, putting a storage area in the middle of an existing lake, with the storage area only a few meters higher than the surrounding lake), but these are inefficient.
It started when a Dutch concrete company tried to find something useful to do with the excess concrete that came back in their mixer trucks. So they made a bunch of smallish moulds shaped like a 2x4 Lego brick and poured the excess in them. These became wildly popular as temporary barriers and construction material, and nowadays any number of concrete suppliers will sell you stackable, interlocking concrete bricks.
Indeed, I remember it well, it was one of the first stories Slashdot ran after its inception in 1948. The text-only displays of the era didn't do the video justice though.
My point was, you can't point to Spectrums in 1992 as evidence of rapid progress. The Spectrums on sale in 1992 were the last gasp of a dying company selling 10 year-old hardware. There's 13 years between the introduction of Spectrum and Playstation.
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Fuselage design is just what you get when you stick a semi in a windtunnel and take things one step beyond conventional models. Every 'advanced concept' truck looks like this. And the two designs don't look all that similar beyond the outer mold line.
Wraparound windshield: meh. The idea is old (look at current Scanias for instance), it's just that they usually have the doors further forward.
Which leaves us with the only innovation: the mid-entry door. I don't see truckers enjoying this one, esp. if you're working short haul you don't want to get up, then shuffle a winding path toward the exit. You want the door to be next to the seat.
Everything involves paying somebody. But I guess there's one special type of paying somebody, where you're not supposed to shop around -- where being a cheapskate changes from a virtue to a vice.
Shopping around is fine when the playing field is level. When the playing field is tilted dramatically in one direction (e.g. in Amazon's favor), shopping around has undesirable consequences. We're inching toward a situation where Amazon and Walmart are the only retailers left. Nobody else has the scale to be able to compete with them. Setting up a new competitor would require billions in investment to get to the scale to be able to compete with them.
You might be okay with that, but I intensely dislike having only one place to shop.
Kazakhstan used its own variation of the Cyrillic alphabet, with ~6 extra letters compared to Russian. Finding fonts that support Kazakh was a pain in the ass because of this.
The accents on capitals seen in the new alphabet are a lot more common, so will be easier to support.
Any change to an MS Office 2016/365 installation is done by removing, then reinstalling the entire suite. Add one language pack, lose your machine for 2 hours as it removes and reinstalls, thowing away all your preferences in the process.
MS seems to be hellbent on wasting resources wherever they can.
That Live Science link has a stabilized version of the video, this visually separates the snow from the background stars and gives a much better view of what's happening.
Right, they're leaving because of progressive policies. Absurdly gigantic housing cost and traffic nightmares (=lots of time wasted) can't possibly have anything to do with it.
KJU: "we don't need to do more tests now that we have a working weapon"
source: "Kim has committed himself to the path of denuclearization".
These are very different paths.
Over the past few years, Apple has replaced several OSX apps that worked well with new ones that are less functional, to get feature parity between OSX and iOS. Replacing iPhoto with Photos, for example.
Now that the penny has dropped, it's time to stop limiting OSX apps to the level of their iOS counterparts.
Agreed with the yellow lens recommendation. I've got a pair that's polarized, which is brilliant for driving on wet streets (just abouts eliminates the glare from sun reflecting on the street/in puddles).
The only issue with polarization I've found is that I have to use my phone (for navigation) in landscape mode rather than portrait (but I was already doing that anyway). Haven't found any polarized traffic lights. Over here (.nl) they went from incancescent light to LED, neither use polarization. Matrix signs are LED too, so no issue there either.
Those male refugees left their families behind in a refugee camp (the safest place they could find not too far away from the hellhole they fled from). Then they undertook the dangerous journey to their final destination alone, planning to immigrate, get legally and financially set up and then pay for their families to travel safely and legally to rejoin them.
You've fallen for right-wing rhetoric with no basis in truth.
And yet there are regular car ferries from e.g. Japan to Europe for the models that aren't assembled over here. Japanese companies opened factories in Europe to get around import limits, not because it was cheaper.
Shouldn't be illegal? Because stinking up the neighborhood for 15-30 minutes (times the number of cars in the neighborhood) is such a civilized thing to do...
especially the newer ones (Dyson Airblade and its copies) that blast air at high speed (instead of using hot air at low speed). They're bloody loud, and air dryers never manage to get your hands dry within their set time limit. I always seem to have to use them twice (and yes, I shake out my hands beforehand).
If you want more than 1920x1080 (and who doesn't?), things get more expensive quickly. I've got a Dell 27" 2560x1440 that cost $600 last year.
How would blocking the Scorecard domain interfere with Google's virus scanner?
We already talked about this last month
The thing with all gravity-based storage is, you need a lot of mass to achieve anything. As in, thousands of tons.
Water is the easiest way to manipulate these large masses. There is one company that uses trains with ballasted rail cars - but the last news article on their site is a year old so they may be bankrupt by now.
The limit to pumped hydro is geology: you need two lakes near each other with the biggest elevation difference you can find (ideally, a hundred meters or more). There's a limited number of those, and a limited tolerance for creating new lakes by wiping out existing land.
Pumped hydro has been proposed with small elevation differences (Plan Lievense was one proposal, putting a storage area in the middle of an existing lake, with the storage area only a few meters higher than the surrounding lake), but these are inefficient.
It started when a Dutch concrete company tried to find something useful to do with the excess concrete that came back in their mixer trucks. So they made a bunch of smallish moulds shaped like a 2x4 Lego brick and poured the excess in them.
These became wildly popular as temporary barriers and construction material, and nowadays any number of concrete suppliers will sell you stackable, interlocking concrete bricks.
I lost my ID in the move from ENIAC to System/360.
He's just pining for the fjords...
Indeed, I remember it well, it was one of the first stories Slashdot ran after its inception in 1948. The text-only displays of the era didn't do the video justice though.
My point was, you can't point to Spectrums in 1992 as evidence of rapid progress. The Spectrums on sale in 1992 were the last gasp of a dying company selling 10 year-old hardware. There's 13 years between the introduction of Spectrum and Playstation.
The Spectrum was launched in 1982.
with Calvin & Hobbes.