Because RDF is best suited to fixed location use. It is generally low density, labor intensive and as sibling post mentions requires a good bit of monitoring.
Don't forget that you gain more by cleaning up electric generation than by cleaning up transit though, and RDF helps out with the landfill issue too.
Energy is not one-solution-for-all by any means.
With clean power, hydrogen could be an answer too. There are a lot of dollars backing H2 but ignoring the power for conversion issue.... It's a lot like ethonol in that way: cleaner tailpipe emissions but it's really just shifting them back to the fuel creation side of things. But of course we have plenty of spare electric generationg capacity now so H2 cracking is really no issue, right? sigh....
And now that ULSD is here in the USA and the unreasonably low emissions requirements of the CARB cartel can be met thanks to particulate traps plus either three stage catalytic converters or urea injection systems, 2008 is going to be the beginning of the revolution. V6 diesels in small SUVs and light trucks and the return of the TDI Volkswagens and introductions of a few new Mercades diesels are all on the near-term horizon.
The question remains whether the bad name that GM gave the passenger diesel here with their 350-derived 6.2 POS in the 80's will still stick. I hope not.
I'll never buy another fullsize truck that burns gas, and I don't want another gas car either. I love my TDI Jetta (relatively nimble with some suspension upgrades and nice and quick with a few mods) and it loves me back (43+ US MPG while beating the snot out of it, 50+ on a highway cruise). I only wish it was simpler - legaly speaking - to convert my V8 Dodge Dakota to a diesel to at least double it's economy, but New York makes things difficult inspection-wise.
>I'd also like the ability to turn off the phone portion and leave the WiFi on.
me too, or an option to "limit data to WiFi only" That would be ideal for roaming situations since the default (and really only) behavior is that if an 802.11 connection is dropped it falls back to EDGE. That's great in an unlimited data area, it sucks when you are roaming
I had this sort of performance from TimeWarner. After a real TW tech came out with a signal meter (instead of the subcontracted installer that they use in my area who has no test gear beyond seeing if the modem synchs and if you get TV reception), they found that my line was way too hot.
I have no idea what the measurement units are, but I was told that acceptable is from -4.0 to +4.0, and my signal was at around +9.2. A higher resistance splitter was thrown in, and I've had perfect reliability since instead of intermittent 80+% packet loss.
The federally bribed speed limits were actually put in place to reduce pollution. Seatbelt laws are designed to save states money by reducing injuries for people who do not have insurance. DWI is a different story, there is a great potential to injure someone other than you self. They are not trying to protect you in this case. They are trying to protect people from you.
The 0.1 BAC may have been to protect others from an individual, but the 0.08 BAC laws are just a money grab. There's little evidence that a driver at 0.08 is more impared than one who is sober. If you take a look at some of the stats, drivers doing things that make them look drunk are more often than not stone sober. http://www.ridl.us/pdf_stats/index.html
It's specifically tied to the federal highway funds, same as the speed limit thing (although it's nationally 65 now, for the most part, from what I've seen).
You're right on the funding - but the speed limit isn't nationally anything anymore. MN, MI, CO etc don't loose funding for 70 MPH; MO, NE, WY don't loose funding for 75 MPH (these are IIRC). I'm sure you remember Montana's "reasonable and prudent" - I think they're at 75 day/65 night now.
Ostensibly, the reason for this would seem to be that they don't want to deal with our retarded emissions standards.
Fixed it for you. No distinction in standards between fuel types is plain stupid, and it's killing the most economical & efficient car option in this country.
The solution of filtering the emails is a loosing battle. The Botnets need to be stopped. Last mile ISPs need to start shutting down the connections of spam-generating hosts. With the ever-increasing volume of spam it's going to be in their best interests sto do so soon anyway since they're putting up with such a heavy load of the spam.
Unfortunately this would have to be a warldwide effort to be effective and I still can't imagine TimeWarner or Cox starting to flip those switches within the very near-term.
Sitting there watching growbars... grow is never fun. With luck, the question will soon be "how do I throw data at this processor fast enough to keep the pipeline full?" Depending on the application, I wouldn't be surprised if storage speeds are going to be outpaced by this generation of chips when proforming operations on static data, and precaching data in RAM or other fast storage sooner is going to have a big effect on render speeds for stored data in applications like re compression of video.
nope. I've been training S-A for years now and it has worked nearly flawlessly until these embedded image spams. I haven't been reading my spambox closely so I don't know how many of them are caught, but 10-15 of them make it to my inbox each day. Few other spams make it through, but a significant number of these come through.
It's extremely frustrating. I have been looking at the source of them to try to find something common to filter on with procmail but they are encoded MIME attachments which I'm not willing to block wholesale.
well when the summary writer can't be troubled to bother and comprehend the first paragraph of TFA why should I?...has filed a 3.6-million yuan ($450,000) defamation suit...
Sounds pretty familiar - a kin to a process that a certain fruit company started in 2001 and is pretty well finished with now. OS X with Cocoa (X only), Carbon (9 and X) and Classic (9 emulation) worked pretty smoothly for them and their users, it seems.
Others really should learn from that lesson of how to handle retiring archaic architecture that they don't want to drag along.
And I'm sure the ability to share information on VOIP usage and other "tiered internet" buzz-uses appealed to the telcos when aproached about installing this equipment. There has to be a profit angle for the telcos to have agreed to this deployment...
for those who may not scroll all the way down the customer profiles:
Saudi Telecom, the preeminent telecommunications provider in the region, is employing the NarusInsight Discover Suite's VoIP detection application module to recover revenue that would otherwise be lost through unregulated VoIP traffic. Deployed by Narus Partner Giza Systems, NarusInsight captures and analyzes all VoIP traffic in the Saudi Telecom network. The VoIP detection module provides the real time information necessary for Saudi Telecom to block traffic destined for unregistered international VoIP gateways, thereby enforcing tariffed gateway regulations. NarusInsight is the leading choice for managing IP services in the Middle East largely because of its ability to successfully address critical business issues like VoIP detection in real-time.
[i]Then some bright spark decided to use my domain to spoof email addresses from for their spam.[/i]
sucks, don't it?
Thankfully they're using mostly form addresses that are easilly filtered, I'm only getting a couple dozen bounces a day that aren't filtered. I want to see when legit messages I really send bounce so it's a bit tricky....
backing anti-gay-marriage amendments, anti-choice, trying damn hard to get the church into the state - and only one church in particular...
that's socially liberal?
killing sex-ed programs because they will encourage premarital sex?
defintely socially libaral...... yeah.
today's republicans are southern white christians doing everything they can and spending every dollar they can to bring our country to their view of perfection, which mimics their conservitive christian backgrounds.
you're clearly underqualified for the position, then.
the target audience for stories here clearly doesn't care about homonym usage.... I'm one of the "wincers" when I see gramatical errors, and also capable of distinguishing proper homonym use, and place very high importance on proper grammer.
Naturally when I point out gramatical errors I usually unintentionally include typos just to get some egg on my face which annoys the hell out of me, but I'm in reality a strong advocate of understanding the rules of the language you communicate in, and if you don't, to make some effort to learn them....
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If you live in a no-fault state, yes. Which is why that's the most assinine system out there for MVA crashes.
The at-fault driver should pay for damages, whether it's a VW or a BMW.
And don't bag on my TDI....
no, it's more like complaning that a software update to the OS it shipped with does not work with the linux that you are running on it.
Because RDF is best suited to fixed location use. It is generally low density, labor intensive and as sibling post mentions requires a good bit of monitoring.
Don't forget that you gain more by cleaning up electric generation than by cleaning up transit though, and RDF helps out with the landfill issue too.
Energy is not one-solution-for-all by any means.
With clean power, hydrogen could be an answer too. There are a lot of dollars backing H2 but ignoring the power for conversion issue.... It's a lot like ethonol in that way: cleaner tailpipe emissions but it's really just shifting them back to the fuel creation side of things. But of course we have plenty of spare electric generationg capacity now so H2 cracking is really no issue, right? sigh....
And now that ULSD is here in the USA and the unreasonably low emissions requirements of the CARB cartel can be met thanks to particulate traps plus either three stage catalytic converters or urea injection systems, 2008 is going to be the beginning of the revolution. V6 diesels in small SUVs and light trucks and the return of the TDI Volkswagens and introductions of a few new Mercades diesels are all on the near-term horizon.
The question remains whether the bad name that GM gave the passenger diesel here with their 350-derived 6.2 POS in the 80's will still stick. I hope not.
I'll never buy another fullsize truck that burns gas, and I don't want another gas car either. I love my TDI Jetta (relatively nimble with some suspension upgrades and nice and quick with a few mods) and it loves me back (43+ US MPG while beating the snot out of it, 50+ on a highway cruise). I only wish it was simpler - legaly speaking - to convert my V8 Dodge Dakota to a diesel to at least double it's economy, but New York makes things difficult inspection-wise.
>I'd also like the ability to turn off the phone portion and leave the WiFi on.
me too, or an option to "limit data to WiFi only" That would be ideal for roaming situations since the default (and really only) behavior is that if an 802.11 connection is dropped it falls back to EDGE. That's great in an unlimited data area, it sucks when you are roaming
>
I had this sort of performance from TimeWarner. After a real TW tech came out with a signal meter (instead of the subcontracted installer that they use in my area who has no test gear beyond seeing if the modem synchs and if you get TV reception), they found that my line was way too hot.
I have no idea what the measurement units are, but I was told that acceptable is from -4.0 to +4.0, and my signal was at around +9.2. A higher resistance splitter was thrown in, and I've had perfect reliability since instead of intermittent 80+% packet loss.
The federally bribed speed limits were actually put in place to reduce pollution. Seatbelt laws are designed to save states money by reducing injuries for people who do not have insurance. DWI is a different story, there is a great potential to injure someone other than you self. They are not trying to protect you in this case. They are trying to protect people from you.
The 0.1 BAC may have been to protect others from an individual, but the 0.08 BAC laws are just a money grab. There's little evidence that a driver at 0.08 is more impared than one who is sober. If you take a look at some of the stats, drivers doing things that make them look drunk are more often than not stone sober. http://www.ridl.us/pdf_stats/index.html
It's specifically tied to the federal highway funds, same as the speed limit thing (although it's nationally 65 now, for the most part, from what I've seen).
You're right on the funding - but the speed limit isn't nationally anything anymore. MN, MI, CO etc don't loose funding for 70 MPH; MO, NE, WY don't loose funding for 75 MPH (these are IIRC). I'm sure you remember Montana's "reasonable and prudent" - I think they're at 75 day/65 night now.
You're a bit off there - that authorizes them to collect the taxes to pay for those services, but NOT to have the departments that provide them.
and half of Indiana.
Ostensibly, the reason for this would seem to be that they don't want to deal with our retarded emissions standards.
Fixed it for you. No distinction in standards between fuel types is plain stupid, and it's killing the most economical & efficient car option in this country.
The solution of filtering the emails is a loosing battle. The Botnets need to be stopped. Last mile ISPs need to start shutting down the connections of spam-generating hosts. With the ever-increasing volume of spam it's going to be in their best interests sto do so soon anyway since they're putting up with such a heavy load of the spam.
Unfortunately this would have to be a warldwide effort to be effective and I still can't imagine TimeWarner or Cox starting to flip those switches within the very near-term.
where's "+1 amen"?
Sitting there watching growbars... grow is never fun. With luck, the question will soon be "how do I throw data at this processor fast enough to keep the pipeline full?" Depending on the application, I wouldn't be surprised if storage speeds are going to be outpaced by this generation of chips when proforming operations on static data, and precaching data in RAM or other fast storage sooner is going to have a big effect on render speeds for stored data in applications like re compression of video.
nope. I've been training S-A for years now and it has worked nearly flawlessly until these embedded image spams. I haven't been reading my spambox closely so I don't know how many of them are caught, but 10-15 of them make it to my inbox each day. Few other spams make it through, but a significant number of these come through.
It's extremely frustrating. I have been looking at the source of them to try to find something common to filter on with procmail but they are encoded MIME attachments which I'm not willing to block wholesale.
using it on Automatic Teller Machine machines?
good god it's brilliant!
they could be connected via Network Interface Card cards!
well when the summary writer can't be troubled to bother and comprehend the first paragraph of TFA why should I? ...has filed a 3.6-million yuan ($450,000) defamation suit...
Sounds pretty familiar - a kin to a process that a certain fruit company started in 2001 and is pretty well finished with now. OS X with Cocoa (X only), Carbon (9 and X) and Classic (9 emulation) worked pretty smoothly for them and their users, it seems.
Others really should learn from that lesson of how to handle retiring archaic architecture that they don't want to drag along.
And I'm sure the ability to share information on VOIP usage and other "tiered internet" buzz-uses appealed to the telcos when aproached about installing this equipment. There has to be a profit angle for the telcos to have agreed to this deployment...
for those who may not scroll all the way down the customer profiles:
Saudi Telecom, the preeminent telecommunications provider in the region, is employing the NarusInsight Discover Suite's VoIP detection application module to recover revenue that would otherwise be lost through unregulated VoIP traffic. Deployed by Narus Partner Giza Systems, NarusInsight captures and analyzes all VoIP traffic in the Saudi Telecom network. The VoIP detection module provides the real time information necessary for Saudi Telecom to block traffic destined for unregistered international VoIP gateways, thereby enforcing tariffed gateway regulations. NarusInsight is the leading choice for managing IP services in the Middle East largely because of its ability to successfully address critical business issues like VoIP detection in real-time.
wow...
[i]Then some bright spark decided to use my domain to spoof email addresses from for their spam.[/i]
sucks, don't it?
Thankfully they're using mostly form addresses that are easilly filtered, I'm only getting a couple dozen bounces a day that aren't filtered. I want to see when legit messages I really send bounce so it's a bit tricky....
I used to carry a red chalk pen and write "LURN 2 PARK" on their driver's window. whether I parked next to them or not.
saved for the most egregious violators of course.
repulicans socially liberal? are you insane?
backing anti-gay-marriage amendments, anti-choice, trying damn hard to get the church into the state - and only one church in particular...
that's socially liberal?
killing sex-ed programs because they will encourage premarital sex?
defintely socially libaral...... yeah.
today's republicans are southern white christians doing everything they can and spending every dollar they can to bring our country to their view of perfection, which mimics their conservitive christian backgrounds.
you're clearly underqualified for the position, then.
the target audience for stories here clearly doesn't care about homonym usage.... I'm one of the "wincers" when I see gramatical errors, and also capable of distinguishing proper homonym use, and place very high importance on proper grammer.
Naturally when I point out gramatical errors I usually unintentionally include typos just to get some egg on my face which annoys the hell out of me, but I'm in reality a strong advocate of understanding the rules of the language you communicate in, and if you don't, to make some effort to learn them....