Waze optimizes for time not for distance so if those other routes are faster despite being longer then it's going to take you that way. Waze also has a preference for major routes it`s likely to have information from other wazers as to traffic conditions on. It's also possible it's a route bug, they do happen and waze allows you to report them, but IME it's hard to get a change approved unlike Google maps maker where you generally get an approval or rejection in a matter of days.
Yeah, with the impending closing of igoogle I've switched my homepage netvibes and Waze was the only source of realtime traffic maps that would allow themselves to be embedded in a third party site. With this purchase I'm going to be back to popping out to a different site which is less than ideal.
A Christmas tree light timer ??? How does the OP have a job?
We use exactly this solution for the public WiFi outside our cafeteria, it was an almost free solution and it keeps anyone from doing something like downloading porn or hacking someone from that connection outside of the few hours a day it should be enabled when there are people around. Newer routers can enable and disable SSID access on a schedule but we were working with a unit without such a feature, plus the timer is more green =)
That's a trivial cost for a mission critical system, downtime for my company is ~$30k per hour and we don't do anything time critical, the Ford engine plant near me downtime was north of $1M per hour when my dad was a vendor 20 years ago.
Yes, it's such a crime ridden shithole... I'm not really a fan of NYC (I like to visit every once in a while but I could never imagine living there) but really, it hasn't been crime ridden since the 1980's.
Diesel: ~46MJ/kg *.45 (typical diesel engine efficiency) = 20.7 MJ/kg usable LiPo ~.9MJ/kg This battery tech ~3.6MJ/kg, so about one fifth the usable density of diesel which is pretty damn good for a recharge source!
He's at Cornell University, that doesn't discount the possibility of jail time but it does pretty much eliminate the rendition aspect (he didn't piss of the US government afterall).
Hydro: probably going down over the coming decades as we decide that the damage to fish populations outweighs the other positive impacts (at least for smaller dams)
Wind: hardly free of environmental impacts (steel and rare earth mining and refining) and until we get an economically viable storage mechanism it won't supply base load and so is almost worthless. Interestingly with a smart grid and a large fleet of electric vehicles you can get a fairly significant amount of distributed storage but at this point electric cars are too expensive.
Solar: Why 90% of the power in the desert SW doesn't come from stored solar I have no clue, they're already paying some of the highest rates in the country, to the point where unsubsidized pv solar makes sense if you're in the top two tiers of consumption so stored thermal solar has to make sense since it's so much more efficient.
Yeah but it's only 128bit and it's mutually exclusive with DDR3 so you cap out at 4GB with yet-unreleased high density GDDR chips, not exactly useful for a general purpose computer.
I assume this is the outer containment vessel? I had been lead to believe that the containment vessel was made from a single piece by articles like this one. In fact this pdf from the UK seems to indicate that Japan Steel Works is in fact a supplier for AP1000.
The at-large positions are basically so that even if your interests are different from those in your immediate area that there is some chance of you being able to vote for a candidate that will represent your interests (ie I'm fairly liberal but my city is fairly conservative so my local representative at the county level is unlikely to share my political views but if I can help elect an at-large candidate there might be someone who I can voice my concerns to).
As far as the executive/legislative split, that's by design.
The state supreme court is trying to de-politicize judicial nominations but they're facing an uphill battle (recent graft cases where political bosses leaned on elected judges should have helped that but people are too damn partisan).
As far as the state level positions you say are non-political, the only way that would work is if it was also non-appointed (ie technocrats) because those positions shouldn't report to the governor.
President Congressman Representative Governor State Auditor State Attorney General State Secretary of State State Treasurer State Senator State Representative County Executive County representative 3x County at large representatives Mayor Local councilman 3x at large city councilman 14 state and county judges (this was how many were on the last ballot, there are more than this but I can't find a complete list right now)
Not all of those will be up for election each election, but those are all the positions that I vote for at least once each 6 years.
On top of that my state has a citizen led initiative process which means we generally have from three to five state ballot issues.
And then there are the local tax issues, each and every tax at the local level requires voter approval and there's a limit to both the percentage and the absolute dollar amount that a tax can collect so whenever inflation or demand for services increases enough they have to go back to the voters.
Meh, we just used off the shelf scantron ballots here, fast to tally and easily verified by both the voter and auditors plus everyone who's been through the US education system in the last 40+ years is very familiar with them.
I also failed Calc I three times in a row, but the first and last time it wasn't from failure to attempt to do the work. I took it at two different engineering schools and the course was taught by hardcore math guys in a large lecture hall. I then took it at a local community college with an adjunct professor in a class of 15 students and her approach finally made it click. I eventually made it through diff eq, but without someone who could actually teach I probably never would have been able to grasp it. I still remember one of the problems from my Calc II final, given a perfectly efficient pump of HP x and a cylindrical container of dimensions x and y filled to height z how long would it take to drain to level z-b. It sticks out in my mind because it was probably the most real world problem I ever encountered in an advanced math class =)
So are the churches, radio stations, buses, privately-owned businesses going to rebuild all the homes that weren't insured or where the insurance company finds some way to weasel out of their responsibility? Are they going to rebuild all the shattered infrastructure? Any Libertarian that doesn't see a place for government in a disaster is an Anarchist by another name.
Ditto, though it was 5th grade talented and gifted program in 1990 running on Rainbow Computer IIc clones. I then went on to programming QBASIC on an 8088 based workstation with CGA graphics that my uncle handed down to me from his work (the color board had cost as much as a new car when purchased). I remember copying the example programs line by line from BYTE and other computer magazines.
It's coming, the July 2012 EU Court of Justice of the European Union ruling around the right to sell used digital assets will ensure it does (at least for people with EU country accounts).
No we shouldn't be pissed off, the government is NOT a company, there are often goals well beyond making money (something the government can't really do anyways since they control the monetary supply so them making money is really just a contraction of credit elsewhere in the system) these include promoting domestic manufacturing, advancing the state of the art, pushing a technology over the early adopter price curve, etc.
Heats not really a concern as far as flamability, even a 25A 208V circuit pulling 120% of rated load doesn't get over 110F (don't ask how I know this). The only way you're going to introduce enough heat energy to cause something to burn (especially furniture which is doused in flame-retardant chemicals thanks to smokers) is to short something out, so your comments about making sure that chords are protected is spot on.
I was kinda thinking the same thing, why not ship this second one off to the naval museum in D.C. so people on the east coast can access one without flying 3,000+ miles?
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Waze optimizes for time not for distance so if those other routes are faster despite being longer then it's going to take you that way. Waze also has a preference for major routes it`s likely to have information from other wazers as to traffic conditions on. It's also possible it's a route bug, they do happen and waze allows you to report them, but IME it's hard to get a change approved unlike Google maps maker where you generally get an approval or rejection in a matter of days.
Yeah, with the impending closing of igoogle I've switched my homepage netvibes and Waze was the only source of realtime traffic maps that would allow themselves to be embedded in a third party site. With this purchase I'm going to be back to popping out to a different site which is less than ideal.
A Christmas tree light timer ??? How does the OP have a job?
We use exactly this solution for the public WiFi outside our cafeteria, it was an almost free solution and it keeps anyone from doing something like downloading porn or hacking someone from that connection outside of the few hours a day it should be enabled when there are people around. Newer routers can enable and disable SSID access on a schedule but we were working with a unit without such a feature, plus the timer is more green =)
That's a trivial cost for a mission critical system, downtime for my company is ~$30k per hour and we don't do anything time critical, the Ford engine plant near me downtime was north of $1M per hour when my dad was a vendor 20 years ago.
Yes, it's such a crime ridden shithole... I'm not really a fan of NYC (I like to visit every once in a while but I could never imagine living there) but really, it hasn't been crime ridden since the 1980's.
Uh, the summary mentions that they took their density measurements after 300 charge/discharge cycles, so yes =)
Diesel: ~46MJ/kg *.45 (typical diesel engine efficiency) = 20.7 MJ/kg usable
LiPo ~.9MJ/kg
This battery tech ~3.6MJ/kg, so about one fifth the usable density of diesel which is pretty damn good for a recharge source!
He's at Cornell University, that doesn't discount the possibility of jail time but it does pretty much eliminate the rendition aspect (he didn't piss of the US government afterall).
Hydro: probably going down over the coming decades as we decide that the damage to fish populations outweighs the other positive impacts (at least for smaller dams)
Wind: hardly free of environmental impacts (steel and rare earth mining and refining) and until we get an economically viable storage mechanism it won't supply base load and so is almost worthless. Interestingly with a smart grid and a large fleet of electric vehicles you can get a fairly significant amount of distributed storage but at this point electric cars are too expensive.
Solar: Why 90% of the power in the desert SW doesn't come from stored solar I have no clue, they're already paying some of the highest rates in the country, to the point where unsubsidized pv solar makes sense if you're in the top two tiers of consumption so stored thermal solar has to make sense since it's so much more efficient.
Yeah but it's only 128bit and it's mutually exclusive with DDR3 so you cap out at 4GB with yet-unreleased high density GDDR chips, not exactly useful for a general purpose computer.
I assume this is the outer containment vessel? I had been lead to believe that the containment vessel was made from a single piece by articles like this one. In fact this pdf from the UK seems to indicate that Japan Steel Works is in fact a supplier for AP1000.
And the fine should be paid out of a pool from the salary of the top N officials in the non-compliant department.
The at-large positions are basically so that even if your interests are different from those in your immediate area that there is some chance of you being able to vote for a candidate that will represent your interests (ie I'm fairly liberal but my city is fairly conservative so my local representative at the county level is unlikely to share my political views but if I can help elect an at-large candidate there might be someone who I can voice my concerns to).
As far as the executive/legislative split, that's by design.
The state supreme court is trying to de-politicize judicial nominations but they're facing an uphill battle (recent graft cases where political bosses leaned on elected judges should have helped that but people are too damn partisan).
As far as the state level positions you say are non-political, the only way that would work is if it was also non-appointed (ie technocrats) because those positions shouldn't report to the governor.
President
Congressman
Representative
Governor
State Auditor
State Attorney General
State Secretary of State
State Treasurer
State Senator
State Representative
County Executive
County representative
3x County at large representatives
Mayor
Local councilman
3x at large city councilman
14 state and county judges (this was how many were on the last ballot, there are more than this but I can't find a complete list right now)
Not all of those will be up for election each election, but those are all the positions that I vote for at least once each 6 years.
On top of that my state has a citizen led initiative process which means we generally have from three to five state ballot issues.
And then there are the local tax issues, each and every tax at the local level requires voter approval and there's a limit to both the percentage and the absolute dollar amount that a tax can collect so whenever inflation or demand for services increases enough they have to go back to the voters.
It's a lot to keep up with.
Why store them on the phone at all? Use the phone as a hotspot (or use a mifi) and have the photos uploaded to the papers servers automatically.
That's fine if you are voting for one position, last general election i was voting for 27 different positions and 5 ballot issues.
Meh, we just used off the shelf scantron ballots here, fast to tally and easily verified by both the voter and auditors plus everyone who's been through the US education system in the last 40+ years is very familiar with them.
I also failed Calc I three times in a row, but the first and last time it wasn't from failure to attempt to do the work. I took it at two different engineering schools and the course was taught by hardcore math guys in a large lecture hall. I then took it at a local community college with an adjunct professor in a class of 15 students and her approach finally made it click. I eventually made it through diff eq, but without someone who could actually teach I probably never would have been able to grasp it. I still remember one of the problems from my Calc II final, given a perfectly efficient pump of HP x and a cylindrical container of dimensions x and y filled to height z how long would it take to drain to level z-b. It sticks out in my mind because it was probably the most real world problem I ever encountered in an advanced math class =)
So are the churches, radio stations, buses, privately-owned businesses going to rebuild all the homes that weren't insured or where the insurance company finds some way to weasel out of their responsibility? Are they going to rebuild all the shattered infrastructure? Any Libertarian that doesn't see a place for government in a disaster is an Anarchist by another name.
Ditto, though it was 5th grade talented and gifted program in 1990 running on Rainbow Computer IIc clones. I then went on to programming QBASIC on an 8088 based workstation with CGA graphics that my uncle handed down to me from his work (the color board had cost as much as a new car when purchased). I remember copying the example programs line by line from BYTE and other computer magazines.
Yes, yes it is. When it costs more to buy the ebook than it does to buy a 500 page printed document you know something is fundamentally wrong.
It's coming, the July 2012 EU Court of Justice of the European Union ruling around the right to sell used digital assets will ensure it does (at least for people with EU country accounts).
No we shouldn't be pissed off, the government is NOT a company, there are often goals well beyond making money (something the government can't really do anyways since they control the monetary supply so them making money is really just a contraction of credit elsewhere in the system) these include promoting domestic manufacturing, advancing the state of the art, pushing a technology over the early adopter price curve, etc.
Heats not really a concern as far as flamability, even a 25A 208V circuit pulling 120% of rated load doesn't get over 110F (don't ask how I know this). The only way you're going to introduce enough heat energy to cause something to burn (especially furniture which is doused in flame-retardant chemicals thanks to smokers) is to short something out, so your comments about making sure that chords are protected is spot on.
I was kinda thinking the same thing, why not ship this second one off to the naval museum in D.C. so people on the east coast can access one without flying 3,000+ miles?