1. I can see a cell tower from the roof of my house, but doe to our houses being end-on to it, I get very sporadic signal. 2. Internet service. If everyone's watching Netflix via 3G/4G there just isn't enough bandwidth to go around even with plenty of cell towers. At best, 3G/4G service has very variable latency. Streaming video over mobile is fine if there's just one or two people doing it. But get rid of POTS (and the ADSL it carries over the back of it) and everyone's trying to stream over 3G/4G in your area then this just won't work due to laws-of-physics constraints. Latency problems with 3G/4G internet service make it impractical for gaming. It's bad enough sometimes using ssh over a 3G connection with round trip times measured in tens of seconds.
Wireless isn't the answer. Perhaps fibre to the home would be a suitable replacement for POTS but the telcos won't like that alternative much.
Being someone who has lived in the UK and USA (and currently lives in neither, but still lives in a British territory) I can say quite honestly that's wrong. Only Scotland and perhaps Northern Ireland comes anywhere near the level of autonomy that a state in the United States has (but both Scotland and NI fall far short of the level of autonomy that, say, Texas has from the Federal government). England and Wales have generally far less autonomy from the UK government than a US state has from the US federal government.
British crown territories (such as the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Falklands etc) have more autonomy than a US state even to the extent that they issue their own passports, but the crown dependencies are *NOT* a part of the United Kingdom.
The European version of the Civic (made in the UK) is actually a very fun car to drive, even the low end models have excellent handling and are fun to thrash on a curvy road. I have to imagine the Type R is pretty good fun to drive, and while they might not have the bling factor of a Ferrarri, they have Honda reliability not the cantankerous and impractical nature of an Italian supercar. There are many worse choices he could have made.
Well, the article said it was a Civic. The Honda Civic is made in Swindon (southern UK) and presumably he wanted the version of the Civic that's not manufactured in Japan (the European Civic is vastly different to the US one for instance - might be the same case with the Japanese version).
The European version of the Civic is actually a completely different car to the US version (you wouldn't recognise it as a Civic if you saw one and only know the US version). Even the low end current gen Civics in Europe have very sharp handling and are a lot of fun to drive. A European Civic with a big engine would be pretty awesome.
I don't think that's right about the history of rack and pinion steering, I've owned cars with rack and pinion steering but with no power steering (it was actually pretty common here, cars have used rack and pinion since probably the 1940s or 1950s, but power steering only really started to come as standard in the late 1990s). Even pretty large cars used to have rack and pinion with no power assist.
The brakes will remain assisted in a manual if you leave it in gear. The brake servo is powered by manifold vacuum, and all you need is that the engine be turning to create this vacuum. In a manual, the wheels will turn the engine. The power steering will also continue to operate because the engine will still be turning the power steering pump if the vehicle is in gear. So in a manual, the engine quitting is zero drama.
The problem is in automatics because in drive the wheels can't turn the engine, so the engine comes to a complete standstill, so no vacuum for the brake servo and nothing is turning the power steering pump. Newer vehicles with electrically assisted power steering may continue to give power steering though.
In most cases tearing the ignition switch out (on cars that still have them, many now have just a button) won't help you in a car made in the last 15-20 years, since the key also has an RFID tag. If the RFID tag is not present when the engine is turned over, the engine won't start. Even my 18 year old Audi has this.
Use the handbrake. Countries in where it is usual to drive a manual transmission cars it is taught that you use the handbrake on hill starts. It takes very little practise to do flawless hill starts even on very steep inclines if you do it this way. It's taught this way in those countries for that reason.
He probably ought to blame himself. The interior photos I've found of the Tesla shows that the accelerator pedal is a different shape and is further back than the brake pedal, so if your feet are off all pedals and you randomly mash down, you'll catch the brake pedal before you catch the gas pedal.
If you have something better than liability insurance (and a Tesla owner is pretty likely to have fully comprehensive cover), your insurance will pay out to fix your own car if the crash was your fault.
Nope. The Chinese and Indians would be dying from the resulting nuclear winter. If Russia turned the USA into "radioactive ash" it would be suicide for Russia, since that level of attack would cause a nuclear winter that would end Russia.
(Nuclear winter is a bit of a misnomer - the quantity of soot injected into the stratosphere from our highly flammable cities laced with hydrocarbons would mean in the months that followed, daytime conditions would be no lighter than a moonlit night. Modelling in the late 2000s showed that the predictions of nuclear winter made in the 1980s were actually optimistic. Before anyone points out that there were thousands of nuclear tests and this didn't cause a nuclear winter, well, the nuclear tests were not all conducted in the space of a few days and the nuclear tests were not conducted on live cities. It's not the bomb itself that causes this effect, but the soot from so many cities being on fire at the same time).
Plant a certain percentage of GMO crop toxic to rootworm along with unmodified, so the rootworm have an environment where they can live and reduce the selective pressure to become resistant. It will lower the yield but you can still avoid pesticides.
The agreement only was to aid Ukraine if they were threatened with nuclear weapons. No one is threatening Ukraine with nuclear weapons at this moment in time.
You don't have to mix oil with a 2 stroke that's remotely modern. I have a Y2K Cagiva Mito (125cc sports motorcycle, 2 stroke) and it injects the oil from a resevoir. A tank full of oil lasts several thousand km.
On the other hand petrol cars haven't stood still, either. I inherited a recent model Honda Civic recently, and on my commute journeys I'm getting 48.2 MPG (imperial), which translates to 38.5 MPG (US). I don't know what it does on long highway type journeys because I live on a fairly small island (only about 30 miles long) and we don't have roads of that type.
Oh really? I lived in Houston for 6 years, and some days the sky took on an awful greenish tint and you could smell the stink of refineries everywhere. All it took was the wind to be in the right direction.
Houston doesn't have the inversion and no wind problems cities like LA has. If Houston were in a valley like LA, it would probably be pretty unbearable to live there. Houston is fortunate that the enormous pollution problem it has tends to blow away on the prevailing wind so you don't normally notice the pollution problem from vehicles and oil refineries because it blows away before it gets to high levels. But sometimes you get a glimpse of what it would be like if that weren't so when you got a temperature inversion, and if you flew above the city you could see that there was this nasty layer of slightly yellowish smog trapped under the inversion.
Compiled code that's functionally identical will differ depending on the language, though. It'll even differ when the same language is used but you merely change the compiler (or merely even change some options to the same compiler - for example, a latent bug may manifest itself by merely changing the compiler's optimization setting) To see this happen just compile to assembler a simple "Hello world" program using GCC, then do the same with the LLVM compiler. The outputs will look different even though the resulting executables do the same thing.
Unless you have some kind of brain problem (learning difficulty, Altzheimer's etc), you're never "too old to learn". "Too old to learn" is I think an excuse much of the time, learning can be difficult and it's human nature to avoid difficult things much of the time and instead take the path of least resistance. So understand it's going to take some real effort and try to take a structured approach to whatever you're going to learn. If you learn best by doing (or enjoy learning most by doing) then structure your learning by using practical tasks.
When learning a new programming language often you spend a lot of time in the reference manual simply because quite often things surrounding a framework or language are fairly complex - this makes progress seem slow and difficult, but if you can focus on a task and complete it and keep doing it, it gets easier.
As others have written, have you learned the fundamentals? You may want to go back to basics for a while and really make sure you understand some of the basic CS types of things if you find you're reading documentation on some class library and it mentions things like linked lists or other data structures and you're not sure how that would be implemented.
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1. I can see a cell tower from the roof of my house, but doe to our houses being end-on to it, I get very sporadic signal.
2. Internet service. If everyone's watching Netflix via 3G/4G there just isn't enough bandwidth to go around even with plenty of cell towers. At best, 3G/4G service has very variable latency. Streaming video over mobile is fine if there's just one or two people doing it. But get rid of POTS (and the ADSL it carries over the back of it) and everyone's trying to stream over 3G/4G in your area then this just won't work due to laws-of-physics constraints. Latency problems with 3G/4G internet service make it impractical for gaming. It's bad enough sometimes using ssh over a 3G connection with round trip times measured in tens of seconds.
Wireless isn't the answer. Perhaps fibre to the home would be a suitable replacement for POTS but the telcos won't like that alternative much.
Being someone who has lived in the UK and USA (and currently lives in neither, but still lives in a British territory) I can say quite honestly that's wrong. Only Scotland and perhaps Northern Ireland comes anywhere near the level of autonomy that a state in the United States has (but both Scotland and NI fall far short of the level of autonomy that, say, Texas has from the Federal government). England and Wales have generally far less autonomy from the UK government than a US state has from the US federal government.
British crown territories (such as the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Falklands etc) have more autonomy than a US state even to the extent that they issue their own passports, but the crown dependencies are *NOT* a part of the United Kingdom.
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I fail to understand what a stringed instrument, slightly larger than a violin, has to do with it...
The European version of the Civic (made in the UK) is actually a very fun car to drive, even the low end models have excellent handling and are fun to thrash on a curvy road. I have to imagine the Type R is pretty good fun to drive, and while they might not have the bling factor of a Ferrarri, they have Honda reliability not the cantankerous and impractical nature of an Italian supercar. There are many worse choices he could have made.
Well, the article said it was a Civic. The Honda Civic is made in Swindon (southern UK) and presumably he wanted the version of the Civic that's not manufactured in Japan (the European Civic is vastly different to the US one for instance - might be the same case with the Japanese version).
The European version of the Civic is actually a completely different car to the US version (you wouldn't recognise it as a Civic if you saw one and only know the US version). Even the low end current gen Civics in Europe have very sharp handling and are a lot of fun to drive. A European Civic with a big engine would be pretty awesome.
I don't think that's right about the history of rack and pinion steering, I've owned cars with rack and pinion steering but with no power steering (it was actually pretty common here, cars have used rack and pinion since probably the 1940s or 1950s, but power steering only really started to come as standard in the late 1990s). Even pretty large cars used to have rack and pinion with no power assist.
The brakes will remain assisted in a manual if you leave it in gear. The brake servo is powered by manifold vacuum, and all you need is that the engine be turning to create this vacuum. In a manual, the wheels will turn the engine. The power steering will also continue to operate because the engine will still be turning the power steering pump if the vehicle is in gear. So in a manual, the engine quitting is zero drama.
The problem is in automatics because in drive the wheels can't turn the engine, so the engine comes to a complete standstill, so no vacuum for the brake servo and nothing is turning the power steering pump. Newer vehicles with electrically assisted power steering may continue to give power steering though.
In most cases tearing the ignition switch out (on cars that still have them, many now have just a button) won't help you in a car made in the last 15-20 years, since the key also has an RFID tag. If the RFID tag is not present when the engine is turned over, the engine won't start. Even my 18 year old Audi has this.
Use the handbrake. Countries in where it is usual to drive a manual transmission cars it is taught that you use the handbrake on hill starts. It takes very little practise to do flawless hill starts even on very steep inclines if you do it this way. It's taught this way in those countries for that reason.
He probably ought to blame himself. The interior photos I've found of the Tesla shows that the accelerator pedal is a different shape and is further back than the brake pedal, so if your feet are off all pedals and you randomly mash down, you'll catch the brake pedal before you catch the gas pedal.
If you have something better than liability insurance (and a Tesla owner is pretty likely to have fully comprehensive cover), your insurance will pay out to fix your own car if the crash was your fault.
Please be a user interface designer, not a user experience designer. If an interface is giving me an experience, it's getting in the way.
Should Russia not have sat in the corner on Iraq by the same token? Should Russia have sent its military to repel the US from Iraq?
Meteorological Spring starts March 1st.
He's also quoting the Daily Mail which is just as bad.
Nope. The Chinese and Indians would be dying from the resulting nuclear winter. If Russia turned the USA into "radioactive ash" it would be suicide for Russia, since that level of attack would cause a nuclear winter that would end Russia.
(Nuclear winter is a bit of a misnomer - the quantity of soot injected into the stratosphere from our highly flammable cities laced with hydrocarbons would mean in the months that followed, daytime conditions would be no lighter than a moonlit night. Modelling in the late 2000s showed that the predictions of nuclear winter made in the 1980s were actually optimistic. Before anyone points out that there were thousands of nuclear tests and this didn't cause a nuclear winter, well, the nuclear tests were not all conducted in the space of a few days and the nuclear tests were not conducted on live cities. It's not the bomb itself that causes this effect, but the soot from so many cities being on fire at the same time).
Plant a certain percentage of GMO crop toxic to rootworm along with unmodified, so the rootworm have an environment where they can live and reduce the selective pressure to become resistant. It will lower the yield but you can still avoid pesticides.
On the flip side, should Russia have just stood and watched as we forcibly took Iraq?
The agreement only was to aid Ukraine if they were threatened with nuclear weapons. No one is threatening Ukraine with nuclear weapons at this moment in time.
You don't have to mix oil with a 2 stroke that's remotely modern. I have a Y2K Cagiva Mito (125cc sports motorcycle, 2 stroke) and it injects the oil from a resevoir. A tank full of oil lasts several thousand km.
On the other hand petrol cars haven't stood still, either. I inherited a recent model Honda Civic recently, and on my commute journeys I'm getting 48.2 MPG (imperial), which translates to 38.5 MPG (US). I don't know what it does on long highway type journeys because I live on a fairly small island (only about 30 miles long) and we don't have roads of that type.
Oh really? I lived in Houston for 6 years, and some days the sky took on an awful greenish tint and you could smell the stink of refineries everywhere. All it took was the wind to be in the right direction.
Houston doesn't have the inversion and no wind problems cities like LA has. If Houston were in a valley like LA, it would probably be pretty unbearable to live there. Houston is fortunate that the enormous pollution problem it has tends to blow away on the prevailing wind so you don't normally notice the pollution problem from vehicles and oil refineries because it blows away before it gets to high levels. But sometimes you get a glimpse of what it would be like if that weren't so when you got a temperature inversion, and if you flew above the city you could see that there was this nasty layer of slightly yellowish smog trapped under the inversion.
Compiled code that's functionally identical will differ depending on the language, though. It'll even differ when the same language is used but you merely change the compiler (or merely even change some options to the same compiler - for example, a latent bug may manifest itself by merely changing the compiler's optimization setting) To see this happen just compile to assembler a simple "Hello world" program using GCC, then do the same with the LLVM compiler. The outputs will look different even though the resulting executables do the same thing.
Unless you have some kind of brain problem (learning difficulty, Altzheimer's etc), you're never "too old to learn". "Too old to learn" is I think an excuse much of the time, learning can be difficult and it's human nature to avoid difficult things much of the time and instead take the path of least resistance. So understand it's going to take some real effort and try to take a structured approach to whatever you're going to learn. If you learn best by doing (or enjoy learning most by doing) then structure your learning by using practical tasks.
When learning a new programming language often you spend a lot of time in the reference manual simply because quite often things surrounding a framework or language are fairly complex - this makes progress seem slow and difficult, but if you can focus on a task and complete it and keep doing it, it gets easier.
As others have written, have you learned the fundamentals? You may want to go back to basics for a while and really make sure you understand some of the basic CS types of things if you find you're reading documentation on some class library and it mentions things like linked lists or other data structures and you're not sure how that would be implemented.