I understood that, and in a reply to him I mentioned that the issue is not whether or not we have high-speed rail between metropolitan areas, but that we must have reliable, cheap intra-city public transportation for high-speed interconnects to be of any value.
I wouldn't care that I can get to a city fast if there wasn't a way to get around once I got there. A car covers both long- and short-distance travel - high speed trains only solve half of the public transportation conundrum.
Wouldnt you take a train if it was competitive to car?
It depends on the destination, truthfully. If I were to go to Washington, DC or NYC, for instance, I would certainly take the train preferentially over driving, since parking is virtually unobtainable.
Going anywhere that's not set up for public transportation (my own city, Richmond, VA, for instance) would be foolish - you'd be able to stand around the station or maybe take a cab to a sightseeing spot or two, but without subways or other intra-city transportation, you'd be stranded.
In my particular case, Richmond's main train station is 8.4 miles/13 min from 'downtown', and a cab ride would be $20-$25.
Last year, me and my wife when to Brighton from London, on the Brighton express it took just 45 mins to get there on a 100mph line with 2 intermeadiate stops, a journey that would easily take about 1 hour 30 mins by car. the cost was £4.50 each one way, total £18
You didn't go "From Soho down to Brighton, did you?" 8-)
Compare a similar trip from Washington DC, to Fredericksburg, VA on the US's only train - amtrak.com. Google maps says it's 52.5 miles and 1:06.
Amtrak wants a minimum of $88 (58 GBP) for two adult round trip tickets. The outbound leg takes a minimum of 1:05, and the return trip takes a minimum of 1:15.
I can drive that same route (105 miles) for a tenth of that, and arrive at the same time as the train.
Additionally, this schedule shows a minimum of 4 stops each way.
And non-US citizens still wonder why we don't just take the train???
Be careful sizing a backup generator when a large part of its load will be switching supplies and UPSes. UPSes in particular have _very_ strange load waveforms due to the rectifiers that are used in the charging circuit. The harmonics passed back on the line can cause the generator to 'seek' trying to lock in to 50/60 Hz, which can cause significant damage.
A permanent magnet generator can help, but they're a little more expensive.
If the EMP was particularly stout it _might_ pop the diodes in your alternator, leaving your battery to drain. It may also burn out the movements in your dashboard gauges and any light bulb filaments, since they're fairly fragile coils of tiny wire. Other than those, though, you'd be in good shape.
I want to see the scene from the movie "Heavy Metal" performed in real life. A car (not just any car, a 57-ish 'vette) drops from the shuttle, survives re-entry (with a little help from the windshield wipers to clear the char/ash), lands safely, and drives off!
I find the opening of such institutions is indicative of the decline of any particular neighborhood. They're my personal bellwether as to whether I'll drive through a particular area at night or patronize businesses nearby.
mains wiring is twin and earth with the earth wire not shielded and thinner than the other two cores.
It depends somewhat on where you're doing the wiring. Most houses these days are wired with what we incorrectly and generically call Romex, which is technically Non-Metallic (NM) cable. It has two current-carrying conductors (one black, one white) and a bare ground (earth to you) conductor. This would be hard to mess up based on color.
Once you graduate to non-protected wall wiring (like in garages, commercial bulidings, etc) you start using single strand wiring in conduit (EMT, Electrical Metallic Tubing) or (ENT, Electrical Non-metallic Tubing - the blue 'smurf tube'). For this you use a green-insulated conductor for ground instead of a bare one. The typical white (neutral) and black (hot) wires are there, but can be joined by a second hot (red). This is typically seen with 3-way switches and the like, as well as 220V circuits where there are two hots.
TFA states that they're using back-breeding techniques to breed something that resembles an Aurochs, NOT doing nuclear transfer of existing Aurochs DNA.
Call me when you have the 'real thing', not a cheap Bavarian knockoff. [John Cleese Schweppes commercial reference; no offense to Bavarians, living or dead.]
I think he meant state as in 'Nation State', not in the US sense.
His point about the EU is likely valid, though. There are rules that imply "all for one" when it comes to certain things like border crossings, prices, etc. I could see where licensing agreements should/would/could span the whole EU instead of being issued to individual member countries.
Another prediction of the superluminal model for pulsars is that there should be a component of the pulsar's flux that decays as 1/distance, rather than as the conventional inverse-square law.
Does this mean that the pulsars are quite a bit closer than first supposed, given that the norm is 1/x^2, or are they less luminous that first thought?
Re:Great, still doesn't fix the Houston problem.
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For those of you that wonder what 'FM 1960' means, Texas has the concept of Farm to Market roads, not strange radio station names.
Punishment must be temporally linked with the behavior being punished to actually be an effective conditioning technique.
If you're a dog or rat. Humans, including human children, can be reminded quite effectively of which exact act provoked the punishment. Sometimes the reminder continues for years. "Do you remember when you broke your father's favorite $OBJECT? Boy was he mad!"
If you can trust extrapolating the orbit backwards in time (you can't), JPL's orbital tool shows that this object had a 'close encounter' with Venus on Apr 15th, 2006. It also looks suspiciously like an Earth-Mars trajectory launched around Jan 12th, 2007. I was unable to find any corresponding launches, however.
Real Astronomers (TM) have now discounted the object being man-made, but it is interesting to speculate.
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It would make it 'illegal' to not install every plugin the site requires. I can see it now: Flash, silverlight, PDF reader, ... etc
I think it's a drunken version of "Romans eat donuts", but I'm not sure.
FF 3.6.2 + adblock under OS X Leopard fails to load the page.
I meant that for ubiquitous train travel within the US, Amtrak is the only choice.
I'm well aware of MARTA (MD) and PATH (NJ)., as well as the upstart VRE (VA).
I understood that, and in a reply to him I mentioned that the issue is not whether or not we have high-speed rail between metropolitan areas, but that we must have reliable, cheap intra-city public transportation for high-speed interconnects to be of any value.
I wouldn't care that I can get to a city fast if there wasn't a way to get around once I got there. A car covers both long- and short-distance
travel - high speed trains only solve half of the public transportation conundrum.
Wouldnt you take a train if it was competitive to car?
It depends on the destination, truthfully. If I were to go to Washington, DC or NYC, for instance, I would certainly take the train preferentially over driving, since parking is virtually unobtainable.
Going anywhere that's not set up for public transportation (my own city, Richmond, VA, for instance) would be foolish - you'd be able to stand around the station or maybe take a cab to a sightseeing spot or two, but without subways or other intra-city transportation, you'd be stranded.
In my particular case, Richmond's main train station is 8.4 miles/13 min from 'downtown', and a cab ride would be $20-$25.
Last year, me and my wife when to Brighton from London, on the Brighton express it took just 45 mins to get there on a 100mph line with 2 intermeadiate stops, a journey that would easily take about 1 hour 30 mins by car. the cost was £4.50 each one way, total £18
You didn't go "From Soho down to Brighton, did you?" 8-)
Compare a similar trip from Washington DC, to Fredericksburg, VA on the US's only train - amtrak.com. Google maps says it's 52.5 miles and 1:06.
Amtrak wants a minimum of $88 (58 GBP) for two adult round trip tickets. The outbound leg takes a minimum of 1:05, and the return trip takes a minimum of 1:15.
I can drive that same route (105 miles) for a tenth of that, and arrive at the same time as the train.
Additionally, this schedule shows a minimum of 4 stops each way.
And non-US citizens still wonder why we don't just take the train???
Comcast in Hanover County, VA 23059:
down: 20347 kbps
up: 3144 kbps
latency: 20 ms
jitter: 1 ms
Tested with Ookla - running firefox.
Be careful sizing a backup generator when a large part of its load will be switching supplies and UPSes. UPSes in particular have _very_ strange load waveforms due to the rectifiers that are used in the charging circuit. The harmonics passed back on the line can cause the generator to 'seek' trying to lock in to 50/60 Hz, which can cause significant damage.
A permanent magnet generator can help, but they're a little more expensive.
http://ecmweb.com/news/electric_ensuring_generator_ups/
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-186969.html
My first thought was how similar the metal foam is to a metallic meteorite.
My Mini has a BMW badge hidden in the driver's side door panel right next to the tire inflation information.
It's like they're not proud of the Minis or something! 8-(
If the EMP was particularly stout it _might_ pop the diodes in your alternator, leaving your battery to drain. It may also burn out the movements in your dashboard gauges and any light bulb filaments, since they're fairly fragile coils of tiny wire. Other than those, though, you'd be in good shape.
I want to see the scene from the movie "Heavy Metal" performed in real life. A car (not just any car, a 57-ish 'vette) drops from the shuttle, survives re-entry (with a little help from the windshield wipers to clear the char/ash), lands safely, and drives off!
Data Breach Costs Top $200 Per Customer Record
My first reading of the headline left me wondering what company was named 'Top' and when was their data breach.
...companies that offer payday advances...
I find the opening of such institutions is indicative of the decline of any particular neighborhood. They're my personal bellwether as to whether I'll drive through a particular area at night or patronize businesses nearby.
mains wiring is twin and earth with the earth wire not shielded and thinner than the other two cores.
It depends somewhat on where you're doing the wiring. Most houses these days are wired with what we incorrectly and generically call Romex, which is technically Non-Metallic (NM) cable. It has two current-carrying conductors (one black, one white) and a bare ground (earth to you) conductor. This would be hard to mess up based on color.
Once you graduate to non-protected wall wiring (like in garages, commercial bulidings, etc) you start using single strand wiring in conduit (EMT, Electrical Metallic Tubing) or (ENT, Electrical Non-metallic Tubing - the blue 'smurf tube'). For this you use a green-insulated conductor for ground instead of a bare one. The typical white (neutral) and black (hot) wires are there, but can be joined by a second hot (red). This is typically seen with 3-way switches and the like, as well as 220V circuits where there are two hots.
Commercial wiring is yet another ball of wax.
TFA states that they're using back-breeding techniques to breed something that resembles an Aurochs, NOT doing nuclear transfer of existing Aurochs DNA.
Call me when you have the 'real thing', not a cheap Bavarian knockoff.
[John Cleese Schweppes commercial reference; no offense to Bavarians, living or dead.]
I think he meant state as in 'Nation State', not in the US sense.
His point about the EU is likely valid, though. There are rules that imply "all for one" when it comes to certain things like border crossings, prices, etc. I could see where licensing agreements should/would/could span the whole EU instead of being issued to individual member countries.
So now we have DIVX (not the codec, the video rental plan) without the disk, and without the embedded security of the DIVX player.
Cracked in 5, 4, 3, ....
Another prediction of the superluminal model for pulsars is that there should be a component of the pulsar's flux that decays as 1/distance, rather than as the conventional inverse-square law.
Does this mean that the pulsars are quite a bit closer than first supposed, given that the norm is 1/x^2, or are they less luminous that first thought?
For those of you that wonder what 'FM 1960' means, Texas has the concept of Farm to Market roads, not strange radio station names.
I should've attributed those numbers to this article.
Punishment must be temporally linked with the behavior being punished to actually be an effective conditioning technique.
If you're a dog or rat. Humans, including human children, can be reminded quite effectively of which exact act provoked the punishment. Sometimes the reminder continues for years. "Do you remember when you broke your father's favorite $OBJECT? Boy was he mad!"
Link to the club page at qrz.com, and their homepage.
Kinda makes me ashamed to be a ham.
If you can trust extrapolating the orbit backwards in time (you can't), JPL's orbital tool shows that this object had a 'close encounter' with Venus on Apr 15th, 2006. It also looks suspiciously like an Earth-Mars trajectory launched around Jan 12th, 2007. I was unable to find any corresponding launches, however.
Real Astronomers (TM) have now discounted the object being man-made, but it is interesting to speculate.