In the UK some are mated with a long section of overlap - about 9 inches, I think. Ie one line is cut away to half width, the other line mates along the centre of the line, and then the first one tapers off - similar to how the overhead conductors change over.
Continuous welded rail predominates, but there are still plenty of places where the old system persists, even in London.
And with elections just round the corner, he has a pressing need to prove he is a buffoon beyond reasonable doubt, in order to be in the same league as his opposition.
I am not saying that the lot of them are not motivated by extreme short term profit, but I assure you that they are idiots too. (Occam's razor supplies a best guess, not a guaranteed solution).
Bus and taxi drivers in most deverloping countries have been doing this for over 40 years to my personal knowledge, and probably since transport began.
Captain Obvious used to own the patent until it expired.
Go back to your virtual world. "Free Markets" are a conceptual device like "frictionless inclined planes". They cannot exist in the real world, because of things like entropy and quantisation, and "stuff".
As what? You certainly cant use it as a video driver. There are more kinds of wierdness than a ghost train, and it often prevents the machine from booting at all.
Why do we need security to view academic articles, adverts or mindless blather? Most people have no need of locking their rubbish bin (and most of what is on the internet is definitley rubbish - I have looked:-) There really are people who use the internet for other things than shopping!
There is every reason to have security for some things, but none for others.
Why force it on people? The result of this will be huge numbers of badly configured systems, and either over confidence or total loss of confidence in SSL.
Replacing economists with tossing dice would be a significant improvement: academic research shows the more qualified an economist, the less accurate his predictions!
I leave it to the reader to suggest what to do with politicians (I expect nuking from high orbit to be the most popular suggestion)
Leaving aside the fact that economists are a hopeless case, at least here in the UK, we have massive problems with our jobs market - huge numbers of people are working insanely long hours for peanuts, while others are working shorter hours for peanuts, and a minute number of people are decently paid, and a few make millions.
On top of this is the widely reported problem of "shortage of skilled workers" caused by a combination of agism and lack of willingness to pay them to do the job, not an actual shortage of skilled workers.
For example, today's news is that we are importing medical staff from Portugal, because the local people cannot survive on the wages, and the Portuguese cannot imagine how high living costs are here (especially housing and travel).
The jobs market is in need of some serious fixing.
Also the "Little Wonder" fuse blower - a NO switch shorting the mains supply through the fuse "under test". My grandfather claimed he worked for a company that sold them - but he also claimed loads of things too!
I am not too sure about that: I had a colleague who worked for a firm that used to manufacture tunnel monodes - a kind of single terminal tunnel diode. The tunnel diode is noted for having negative resistance. the resistance of a tunnel monode is the square root of -1!
They were extremely useful for one particular application, and indeed the best available solution in 1963, but the 60's intervened, and I don't actually remember what the application was (LSD was legal then) - I vaguely recall I was working on a time machine when I first heard about tunnel monodes. That was shortly before the project to show the Ike and Tina Turner show in your own home.
As a BT Customer, I can assure you that it stands for "Bloody Terrible", and the buyout is only feasible because the telecomms regulator is as toothless as a wet cabbage.
My friends who use it, assure me that EE stands for "Extremely Expensive".
I had two, and both died eventually. They were insanely expensive and weighed a ton, but the picture quality was really good. They are compatible with OS/2 as a bonus!
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When your electricity supply is frequently off for more than half the day, and some places don't even have electricity, they are still useful.
Continuous welded rail predominates, but there are still plenty of places where the old system persists, even in London.
So they have finally phased out single needle telegraphs and train describers with bells? I am impressed!
My chat scripts will include emoticons just as soon as you show me a US Robotics modem that can respond correctly to emoticons.
Unfortunately PHB's assume all projects are trivial until the pool of blood on the carpet starts leaking out the door.
Hell, even wax crayons can be used to draw porno-pictures on used wrapping paper.
Why not go the whole hog and ban education too?
I am not saying that the lot of them are not motivated by extreme short term profit, but I assure you that they are idiots too. (Occam's razor supplies a best guess, not a guaranteed solution).
Captain Obvious used to own the patent until it expired.
Anyone on /. who does not know what ddos means should be condemned to a lifetime of reading DOS boot disks in binary with a plastic monacle.
The best suggestion in the whole thread - but a very poor reflection on the others :-{
Go back to your virtual world. "Free Markets" are a conceptual device like "frictionless inclined planes". They cannot exist in the real world, because of things like entropy and quantisation, and "stuff".
As what? You certainly cant use it as a video driver. There are more kinds of wierdness than a ghost train, and it often prevents the machine from booting at all.
The boy-who-cried-wolf is the problem here. That story is at least 10,000 years old, and Google still have not got the message.
Perhaps Cartoon Network is not encrypted, so they have not watched it?
There is every reason to have security for some things, but none for others.
Why force it on people? The result of this will be huge numbers of badly configured systems, and either over confidence or total loss of confidence in SSL.
I leave it to the reader to suggest what to do with politicians (I expect nuking from high orbit to be the most popular suggestion)
On top of this is the widely reported problem of "shortage of skilled workers" caused by a combination of agism and lack of willingness to pay them to do the job, not an actual shortage of skilled workers.
For example, today's news is that we are importing medical staff from Portugal, because the local people cannot survive on the wages, and the Portuguese cannot imagine how high living costs are here (especially housing and travel).
The jobs market is in need of some serious fixing.
Also the "Little Wonder" fuse blower - a NO switch shorting the mains supply through the fuse "under test". My grandfather claimed he worked for a company that sold them - but he also claimed loads of things too!
They were extremely useful for one particular application, and indeed the best available solution in 1963, but the 60's intervened, and I don't actually remember what the application was (LSD was legal then) - I vaguely recall I was working on a time machine when I first heard about tunnel monodes. That was shortly before the project to show the Ike and Tina Turner show in your own home.
Sounds like a reasonably accurate translation to me (but I dont work there).
They are easily recognised by the colour code "three black bands on a black background".
They are normally used to supply the "magic smoke" required by electronic systems to operate at full power, but I believe there are other uses.
I had a data sheet for a Motorola WOM as well - I believe from about the same date.
I prefer to document mine in "Foreign" thank you.
My friends who use it, assure me that EE stands for "Extremely Expensive".
The message is clear: once people find a UI that works for them, they dont want some other shite forced on them
Disclaimer: I use MediaTomb and a Samsung Note 3 for my music. Its not great! I can believe there is better, but I am not buying Apple or Sony
You need more gaffer tape.
I had two, and both died eventually. They were insanely expensive and weighed a ton, but the picture quality was really good. They are compatible with OS/2 as a bonus!