The problem is trains have a very high capital cost, electric buses with overhead wires is much cheaper and adaptable, add batteries for gap coverage and you can achieve 90+% of the benefits with dedicated or HOV lanes at a fraction of the cost. Now for a city with fixed or slow moving demographics rail probably makes sense, but for most US cities with population centers that move every generation rail doesn't make much economic sense.
Cleveland has CNG buses which probably pollute less than an electric bus would given how much of our power comes from coal. They are used on almost all routes except those that go into the farthest suburbs due to the lack of filling stations.
Considering the attacks against the PS3 skyrocketed after OtherOS was removed in April, yeah I think for the kind of people technically proficient enough to perform these type of hacks it was, or at least it was about the perceived challenge from a huge faceless corporation. Most of the people capable of pulling this type of stuff of are smart enough to have a job which makes the couple bucks saved in pirating games worthless compared to the hours spent.
Why? They are now making money on the console so they don't really care if it has a lower attach rate and it won the war vs HD-DVD which for Sony was half the point of releasing it.
Bullshit. Civil Servants are as much if not more important to keep an eye on *because* they aren't directly responsible to the citizenry! In fact on of the biggest problem with the military industrial complex is that the companies and career staff don't feel like they are beholden to the chain of command because if they can just wait them out they will go away. This is why even when you have a strong leader like Gates who wants to reform things they are extremely slow to respond. One of the worst offenders against the liberties that Americans should hold dear was J. Edgar Hoover who was a civil servant.
Yeah I want the 2.0 in the Escape though what I *really* want is the Euro 2.0 diesel so it would have enough torque for 4x4 with decent fuel economy. Though to be honest they are targeting the best vehicles for the first wave of ecoboost engines, replacing V8's with V6's in larger vehicles will do a lot more for CAFE than replacing small V6's with I4's.
Now the RS definitely has better handling,.9g vs.8g but it's not a little tuner car either so the better comparison would be with something like the Jaguar XF with a.82 or the Mercedes E550 with.81. A full size car is never going to be thrown around as much as a little tuner mobile but they can still be great fun to drive.
You'd be surprised how many calories a good session with the kinect can burn. My wife's cousins are 16 and 14 and are both cheerleaders (highschool and competitive squads) and even they were sore the next day from playing. Of course the wow controller seemed to only focus on hand gestures so it's a lot less cardio than the xbox titles that exercise the entire body.
They don't use the starter to restart the engine, they use a slightly larger flywheel. Since the engine is already at temperature I don't think more frequent oil changes will be an issue either.
Guess you missed the 365HP/350lb ft, 25MPG Taurus SHO with the 3.5 V6 then, eh? Adding this would just improve that fuel economy while costing nothing in performance. Compare it to the 3.7L 305HP/275lb ft Acura TL with the same fuel consumption in a 400lb lighter car. Ford became pretty serious about US fuel economy a couple years ago and they mortgaged the company a couple years ago to achieve it and it's rightfully paying off for them.
Fuel oil for a lamp adds up over a fairly short time to more than a small LED/solar combo torch of equivalent brightness. And since they have extremely long life it's likely that governments and NGO's can subsidize them as it's closer to teaching a man to fish than it is to giving him a fish (say a months supply of lamp oil).
There's 10's of thousands of units conveniently located near downtown Cleveland and yet they remain vacant while the suburbs have 95+% occupancy ratios. It's because people who have a choice live out where there is some separation from your neighbors and crime and bad schools are largely unknown. I'm certainly not alone in this, 3/4 of my department lives of plots an acre or larger because we have the economic option to do so. People only live in cramped city housing because they have to or are the rare percentage of people the genuinely enjoy that lifestyle.
Loss of AC or heating kills people, mostly the old, young, and sick but it definitely kills people. Knock out power to 50-90M during a heatwave or cold snap and you will surely kill more than.0003% of the population which is all it would take to exceed 9/11. Not to mention the large economic disruption an extended outage could have.
noticed her children had dramatically improved grades because they had the opportunity to study at home.
And THIS is why it may be one of the most important inventions of all time. Nothing will help raise the standard of living and reduce overall pollution in the world as much as increased education.
Yeah except the network that lands aircraft isn't run on IP or anything a person studying cyber-warfare would understand, and the rest are massively decentralized. The thing that makes the power grid such a juicy target is its interconnected nature. If you were to mess with one of the northern grids during the winter or the southern grids during the summer you could kill a heck of a lot more people than 9/11 and affect the lives of a significant percentage of the country, none of the other targets offers that kind of impact.
No, AV software would not have protected those systems from infection because the virus didn't attack the OS or any 'normal' program that an AV vendor would be used to protecting, it attacked a very specific installation of an industrial control package. Better computer hygine like not taking media from lower security systems to higher security ones would have prevented the infection of the vulnerable machines but even the NSA has admitted that they do not have 100% control over such procedures.
One of those big targets they need to protect is the US power grid. The entire thing is a big ball of outdated SCADA systems held together with bubble gum and bailing wire. It can barely handle a couple fault on a hot day let alone a concerted attack (see the great NE blackout of 2003).
Really, because most of us in the midwest have been running on E10 for about 5-6 months a year for my entire adult life and there's been no epidemic of failed lawnmowers, chainsaws, or snowblowers.
I partially agree except biodiesel isn't the same as dino diesel. It behaves differently in the cold and also at the high pressures present in modern CRI/DFI diesel fuel delivery systems. VW for one has engineering studies which show their fuel injection system gets jammed by even B10. It's not an insurmountable hurdle but it presents the same kind of engineering challenges as increased the Ethenol content in gasoline beyond the common 10% found in cold weather climates here in the US.
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The problem is trains have a very high capital cost, electric buses with overhead wires is much cheaper and adaptable, add batteries for gap coverage and you can achieve 90+% of the benefits with dedicated or HOV lanes at a fraction of the cost. Now for a city with fixed or slow moving demographics rail probably makes sense, but for most US cities with population centers that move every generation rail doesn't make much economic sense.
Cleveland has CNG buses which probably pollute less than an electric bus would given how much of our power comes from coal. They are used on almost all routes except those that go into the farthest suburbs due to the lack of filling stations.
Nope, they have been making money on the PS3 console for quite some time.
Considering the attacks against the PS3 skyrocketed after OtherOS was removed in April, yeah I think for the kind of people technically proficient enough to perform these type of hacks it was, or at least it was about the perceived challenge from a huge faceless corporation. Most of the people capable of pulling this type of stuff of are smart enough to have a job which makes the couple bucks saved in pirating games worthless compared to the hours spent.
So the console is going to read a BD-ROM and compute the SHA-1 on each startup? And you thought it was slow to start playing now!
Why? They are now making money on the console so they don't really care if it has a lower attach rate and it won the war vs HD-DVD which for Sony was half the point of releasing it.
Bullshit. Civil Servants are as much if not more important to keep an eye on *because* they aren't directly responsible to the citizenry! In fact on of the biggest problem with the military industrial complex is that the companies and career staff don't feel like they are beholden to the chain of command because if they can just wait them out they will go away. This is why even when you have a strong leader like Gates who wants to reform things they are extremely slow to respond. One of the worst offenders against the liberties that Americans should hold dear was J. Edgar Hoover who was a civil servant.
Yeah I want the 2.0 in the Escape though what I *really* want is the Euro 2.0 diesel so it would have enough torque for 4x4 with decent fuel economy. Though to be honest they are targeting the best vehicles for the first wave of ecoboost engines, replacing V8's with V6's in larger vehicles will do a lot more for CAFE than replacing small V6's with I4's.
You do realize that way back in the dark ages the FCC would have pulled a stations license for swearing on tv or radio, not fine them, right?
RS 0-60 5.9s, Taurus SHO 5.2s
.9g vs .8g but it's not a little tuner car either so the better comparison would be with something like the Jaguar XF with a .82 or the Mercedes E550 with .81. A full size car is never going to be thrown around as much as a little tuner mobile but they can still be great fun to drive.
Now the RS definitely has better handling,
You'd be surprised how many calories a good session with the kinect can burn. My wife's cousins are 16 and 14 and are both cheerleaders (highschool and competitive squads) and even they were sore the next day from playing. Of course the wow controller seemed to only focus on hand gestures so it's a lot less cardio than the xbox titles that exercise the entire body.
They don't use a starter motor they use a slightly bigger flywheel which can help with performance (or hinder it depending on the design).
It's a 365HP performance car that does 0-60 in 5.4 seconds which is faster than a BMW 550i by a lot and it gets significantly better fuel economy.
They don't use the starter to restart the engine, they use a slightly larger flywheel. Since the engine is already at temperature I don't think more frequent oil changes will be an issue either.
Yeah, because -40F and -40C are so different.....
Guess you missed the 365HP/350lb ft, 25MPG Taurus SHO with the 3.5 V6 then, eh? Adding this would just improve that fuel economy while costing nothing in performance. Compare it to the 3.7L 305HP/275lb ft Acura TL with the same fuel consumption in a 400lb lighter car. Ford became pretty serious about US fuel economy a couple years ago and they mortgaged the company a couple years ago to achieve it and it's rightfully paying off for them.
Fuel oil for a lamp adds up over a fairly short time to more than a small LED/solar combo torch of equivalent brightness. And since they have extremely long life it's likely that governments and NGO's can subsidize them as it's closer to teaching a man to fish than it is to giving him a fish (say a months supply of lamp oil).
There's 10's of thousands of units conveniently located near downtown Cleveland and yet they remain vacant while the suburbs have 95+% occupancy ratios. It's because people who have a choice live out where there is some separation from your neighbors and crime and bad schools are largely unknown. I'm certainly not alone in this, 3/4 of my department lives of plots an acre or larger because we have the economic option to do so. People only live in cramped city housing because they have to or are the rare percentage of people the genuinely enjoy that lifestyle.
Loss of AC or heating kills people, mostly the old, young, and sick but it definitely kills people. Knock out power to 50-90M during a heatwave or cold snap and you will surely kill more than .0003% of the population which is all it would take to exceed 9/11. Not to mention the large economic disruption an extended outage could have.
noticed her children had dramatically improved grades because they had the opportunity to study at home.
And THIS is why it may be one of the most important inventions of all time. Nothing will help raise the standard of living and reduce overall pollution in the world as much as increased education.
Yeah except the network that lands aircraft isn't run on IP or anything a person studying cyber-warfare would understand, and the rest are massively decentralized. The thing that makes the power grid such a juicy target is its interconnected nature. If you were to mess with one of the northern grids during the winter or the southern grids during the summer you could kill a heck of a lot more people than 9/11 and affect the lives of a significant percentage of the country, none of the other targets offers that kind of impact.
No, AV software would not have protected those systems from infection because the virus didn't attack the OS or any 'normal' program that an AV vendor would be used to protecting, it attacked a very specific installation of an industrial control package. Better computer hygine like not taking media from lower security systems to higher security ones would have prevented the infection of the vulnerable machines but even the NSA has admitted that they do not have 100% control over such procedures.
One of those big targets they need to protect is the US power grid. The entire thing is a big ball of outdated SCADA systems held together with bubble gum and bailing wire. It can barely handle a couple fault on a hot day let alone a concerted attack (see the great NE blackout of 2003).
Really, because most of us in the midwest have been running on E10 for about 5-6 months a year for my entire adult life and there's been no epidemic of failed lawnmowers, chainsaws, or snowblowers.
I partially agree except biodiesel isn't the same as dino diesel. It behaves differently in the cold and also at the high pressures present in modern CRI/DFI diesel fuel delivery systems. VW for one has engineering studies which show their fuel injection system gets jammed by even B10. It's not an insurmountable hurdle but it presents the same kind of engineering challenges as increased the Ethenol content in gasoline beyond the common 10% found in cold weather climates here in the US.