Yes, but the towers are broadcasting signals that are orders of magnitude more powerful to ground receivers than the gps satellites. If Lightspeed was a satellite phone system (so if it was another satellite system producing the crosstalk), it would not interfere even if the frequencies were directly adjacent.
In 1989 the Loma Prieta quake took out the upper deck of the Bay Bridge, but left BART's Transbay Tube undamaged. No one died on any of BART's elevated tracks either (I don't recall any stories of major damage either). The structures needed for HSR are not much different.
If we actually had $100B to spend on California transportation infrastructure we should
1) Improve the 7(!) airports between the Bay Area and LA. 2) Improve commuter rail as the previous poster suggested. Grade separated BART down the Caltrain tracks, BART to San Jose, Geary Ave Subway (and those are just the Bay Area projects).
The flights are quite fast at roughly an hour in the air, and there are few weather delays. The local rail projects would vastly improve the commutes of many and make it enjoyable to be car-free in may parts of the Bay Area.
Play 4v4 - build order doesn't matter as much. You can do fun stuff like Nydus attacks, or Overlord drops that never appear in 1v1. Your teammates may hate you (or wonder what the heck you are doing), but who cares.
select fact_txn.* from fact_txn txn, (select customer_id,max(txn_datetime) from fact_txn group by customer_id) latestTxn where txn.customer_id = latestTxn.customer_id and txn.txn_datetime = latestTxn.txn_datetime
not ANSI, I know, but should be portable to most dataservers
Agreed - where are the brownouts in CA? I live here, read the newspaper, and I don't hear about them.
We've had rolling blackouts 1) in 2001 due to Enron and 2) when it gets > 100 F in the summer across the entire state - so one or two afternoons every 3-5 years or so.
> The last few were bizzare self-indulgent crap where King appears to have simply transcribed his therapy sessions in the wake of his being hit by a van.
Agreed, writing himself into his own novel was *weak*. I also thought he borrowed far too heavily from Harry Potter in the last one. The first 3 were great, I really liked the 5th as well (4th was good, could have been its own novel). Way downhill on the 6th and 7th.
Really? I have not. I have the latest/greatest Mac Book Pro with i7, etc. I've gotten a *lot* of the "there may be a performance problem" message and finally turned my settings way down. I've been hugely disappointed considering this was supposed to be a badass laptop playing a "not quite hardcore" game. I remember playing the original Starcraft on a Pentium Pro running NT4 (ah DirectX 2, is there any OS you weren't on?)
I upgrated my old steel hardtail mountain bike into an ebike becuase I have a ~400 vertical foot climb from the train station to work.
I bought the Phoenix motor kit by Crystalyte (http://www.electricrider.com/crystalyte/phoenix.htm) and swapped out the acid batteries for a Lithium Ferrous Polymer at a very reasonable price (thank you Lau Chen of Hong Kong).
The result is a bike with almost 2000 watts max power (48V x 40A = 1920W) with 10Ahr of total juice. The practical range is about 10 miles at a speed of 30 MPH (I have a motor wound for slightly more torque).
My time up the hill basically beats driving (surface streets, not freeway). An interesting thing happens when you go as fast as cars - they see you better, you can get out of the way better and you take fewer stupid risks. For example, you are less likely to run a stop sign if you can re-accelerate easily. Also, if you're not pedaling hard you have more energy to focus on what's around you. It becomes more like riding a motorcycle.
I love my e-bike - once people see 1) How versatile they are (go anywhere a car can go and slightly more) 2) How cheap they are (fuel cost approaches zero even charging at home) 3) How normal you look on them (it's just a bike) and most importantly 4) How lazy you can be on them (you don't sweat at all)
You will see much better adoption in the short range commute, even in the US.
Dr. Strangelove: "Yes, but the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world?"
Russian Ambassador: "It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises."
This seems like a good use for blimps. These parts are heavy, say 30 tons, but there are companies designing such blimps (http://www.myairship.com/news/economist_may99.html). That would totally eliminate the awkward shape problem.
I tried Mozy and the client kept hanging (Mac). I kept shrinking the size of my backup set, but it just didn't work. It may have been Comcast's fault given that it would get a few percent through and then stop. I worked through this for about two weeks before giving up.
I will give Mozy credit for making good on their refund policy - they did not make it difficult.
The liquid ant bait is really good. You also have to clean up the food/water source that they are looking for very consistently. Also you have to bait outside. Finally, when you find their hills, ants drown pretty easily (just keep flooding with water). I've heard gasoline suggested as a "kill all" as well.
The counter-strategy is if you are being intimidated by priest/employer, you go to the cops. They interview a bunch of people at the church/company in private and if they corroborate your story, priest/employer goes to jail. Nothing you can do about spouses though.
The newspapers know this, which is why their only hope is to collude so that all sites become paywall at the same time. So that no site can grab all the marketshare by offering the same content for free (read: ad supported). But will this really work? How will they prevent small-time papers from offering free content? How will they prevent bloggers with subscriptions from blogging about articles to audiences who don't bother paying for the subscriptions? Ubiquitous paywalls will just mean that a dedicated group of people will pay for access (basically the people who already pay for a few subscriptions), whereas the mass of people who don't worry about journalism day-to-day (but who on occasion do read this article or that) will just be content with second-hand accounts. This doesn't sound like a sustainable ecosystem.
They could enforce their copyright. For example, where will a small local paper get an article about North Korea's recent moves in terms of missle tests and closing the cross border enterprise zone? What if the Associated Press won't license it? They'd have to either pay or agree to a paywall. Much of the interesting news (beyond the 1 page breaking news summaries) is actually done by one paper and syndicated to a bunch of others. Again, the same restrictions could apply.
Your point about deep-links, sharing, and blogs is a good one. This is an opportunity for newspapers to make their product better. Emailing WSJ articles is currently free even though the paper is not. They give you a link which is good for X days and Y viewings (presumably). They can be fairly lax and know they aren't being taken advantage of since they know how much email you send out.
Making bloggers pay for deep-linking and significant reproductions is another reasonable (though small) revenue stream. Though perhaps targetted advertising (you are coming from DailyKos so you get ads X, Y an Z) is a better fit.
Journalism is valuable. The web has made it cheaper, hopefully it can make it better too, but it can not be free.
The purpose of a newspaper is not to sell advertising. Traditionally both subscribers and advertisers were their customers. Much of the ad dollars (something like 40%) came from classifieds for which there was no possible conflict between subscriber/advertiser interests. Moving to paywalls means the subscriber is the customer they need to keep happy, which I think means better journalism.
Paywalls were a long time coming. The idea that all media should be free on the internet is cancerous and frankly disrespectful to those who put a lot of effort into creating it. I see offhand comments that newspapers are "crap" and "biased". I read that one of two ways: first the commenter only likes to read their favorite blog which agrees with them all the time or second that they don't know what they are talking about. Newspapers and magazines provide fact rich coverage and in-depth investigations. Read the Economist (a magazine, I know), Washington Post, NY Times or the Wall Street Journal, you'll find they've done a lot of research.
The business model has still changed, Paywalls will not prevent the consolidation of the industry. There's too much overlap in what the papers produce. You'll end up with a few national papers, and greatly gutted local papers with little original content except for local news. The reader gets cheaper, deeper news, but the price can not be free.
Agreed - Munroe wins 2 to 1 with 1 tie. The cow gnawing on itself was pretty funny (that was Katz) and the skateboard was lame. 1999 was pretty dull for both. With the other 2 it wasn't even close.
Why would your house need 5000W during a dark period? My house averages 1000W all day, and most of the electricity use is during the day (cooling (heat is by gas), dryer, etc). You probably only need 1/10th that amount since you are sleeping most of that dark period. Thus you need a 1.1 m^3 balloon - got 3ftx3ftx3ft of space anywhere?
Zeroth, clearly a typo in the article. He must use 1,740 KWh / month, not 17,400. I've never used more than 800 KW/h / month in my house and those bills were in the low $200s.
First, power use in California is heavily weighted towards summer. Summer bills are 2-3x the other months (when we can just leave the heat/ac off). We've had an incredible heat wave here over the last few weeks too.
Second, California has a "progressive" rate system. The first X kw/h cost $.10, the next.5X cost $.15, the next.5X cost $.20, anything over is $.33 (last I remember). The point is you are heavily rewarded for reducing your marginal consumption (or generating said consumption).
Third, and this is missed by a lot of people, a $330/month power bill today could easily become a $660 bill in 2 years if electricity prices follow oil prices. No matter what you can be pretty sure that electricity prices will outpace inflation and interest rates, so think of solar panels as being long an electricity futures contract.
Solar is still for people who are either early adopters OR have a very easy installation (single story house, shake roof facing S or SSW). But those people will almost certainly be happy with their investment.
*Independent minded, and willing to work across the aisle (gang of 14, McCain/Feingold)
*A man who has spent his life in service to the country and will work tirelessly for a free and secure America
I'm sure these will be countered with sarcasm and mockery, but you asked what his appeal was to a McCain supporter. Looking at the *whole* of his biography, that is what I see.
superdave is right - banks don't call in mortgage or home equity loans. What Citi has done is reduced the credit limits on these home equity loans which prevents *future* borrowing. If you have already borrowed they can only prevent you from borrowing more - not force you to pay back what you have already borrowed. Re-read that article more carefully.
Also, why did you take out a home equity loan? 20% down 10 or longer year term and you're fine.
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Yes, but the towers are broadcasting signals that are orders of magnitude more powerful to ground receivers than the gps satellites. If Lightspeed was a satellite phone system (so if it was another satellite system producing the crosstalk), it would not interfere even if the frequencies were directly adjacent.
In 1989 the Loma Prieta quake took out the upper deck of the Bay Bridge, but left BART's Transbay Tube undamaged. No one died on any of BART's elevated tracks either (I don't recall any stories of major damage either). The structures needed for HSR are not much different.
If we actually had $100B to spend on California transportation infrastructure we should
1) Improve the 7(!) airports between the Bay Area and LA.
2) Improve commuter rail as the previous poster suggested. Grade separated BART down the Caltrain tracks, BART to San Jose, Geary Ave Subway (and those are just the Bay Area projects).
The flights are quite fast at roughly an hour in the air, and there are few weather delays. The local rail projects would vastly improve the commutes of many and make it enjoyable to be car-free in may parts of the Bay Area.
Play 4v4 - build order doesn't matter as much. You can do fun stuff like Nydus attacks, or Overlord drops that never appear in 1v1. Your teammates may hate you (or wonder what the heck you are doing), but who cares.
Much simpler would be
select fact_txn.*
from fact_txn txn, (select customer_id,max(txn_datetime) from fact_txn group by customer_id) latestTxn
where txn.customer_id = latestTxn.customer_id and txn.txn_datetime = latestTxn.txn_datetime
not ANSI, I know, but should be portable to most dataservers
I would love to see these trickle down to a Java Embeddable engine like Rhino
Agreed - where are the brownouts in CA? I live here, read the newspaper, and I don't hear about them.
We've had rolling blackouts
1) in 2001 due to Enron
and
2) when it gets > 100 F in the summer across the entire state - so one or two afternoons every 3-5 years or so.
San Jose ("Capital of Silicon Valley"), for example - the Comcast Docsis 3.0 service is pretty darn good.
> The last few were bizzare self-indulgent crap where King appears to have simply transcribed his therapy sessions in the wake of his being hit by a van.
Agreed, writing himself into his own novel was *weak*. I also thought he borrowed far too heavily from Harry Potter in the last one.
The first 3 were great, I really liked the 5th as well (4th was good, could have been its own novel). Way downhill on the 6th and 7th.
Yul Brenner maybe? "The Wolves of the Calla" and "The Magnificent Seven" are roughly the same story.
Really? I have not. I have the latest/greatest Mac Book Pro with i7, etc. I've gotten a *lot* of the "there may be a performance problem" message and finally turned my settings way down. I've been hugely disappointed considering this was supposed to be a badass laptop playing a "not quite hardcore" game. I remember playing the original Starcraft on a Pentium Pro running NT4 (ah DirectX 2, is there any OS you weren't on?)
What planned high speed rail line (or any rail line) is routed through Marin? Do you mean Atherton/Menlo Park (Santa Clara County)?
I think you'll be surprised and that it will.
I upgrated my old steel hardtail mountain bike into an ebike becuase I have a ~400 vertical foot climb from the train station to work.
I bought the Phoenix motor kit by Crystalyte (http://www.electricrider.com/crystalyte/phoenix.htm) and swapped out the acid batteries for a Lithium Ferrous Polymer at a very reasonable price (thank you Lau Chen of Hong Kong).
The result is a bike with almost 2000 watts max power (48V x 40A = 1920W) with 10Ahr of total juice. The practical range is about 10 miles at a speed of 30 MPH (I have a motor wound for slightly more torque).
My time up the hill basically beats driving (surface streets, not freeway). An interesting thing happens when you go as fast as cars - they see you better, you can get out of the way better and you take fewer stupid risks. For example, you are less likely to run a stop sign if you can re-accelerate easily. Also, if you're not pedaling hard you have more energy to focus on what's around you. It becomes more like riding a motorcycle.
I love my e-bike - once people see
1) How versatile they are (go anywhere a car can go and slightly more)
2) How cheap they are (fuel cost approaches zero even charging at home)
3) How normal you look on them (it's just a bike)
and most importantly
4) How lazy you can be on them (you don't sweat at all)
You will see much better adoption in the short range commute, even in the US.
Dr. Strangelove: "Yes, but the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world?" Russian Ambassador: "It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises."
This seems like a good use for blimps. These parts are heavy, say 30 tons, but there are companies designing such blimps (http://www.myairship.com/news/economist_may99.html). That would totally eliminate the awkward shape problem.
I tried Mozy and the client kept hanging (Mac). I kept shrinking the size of my backup set, but it just didn't work. It may have been Comcast's fault given that it would get a few percent through and then stop. I worked through this for about two weeks before giving up. I will give Mozy credit for making good on their refund policy - they did not make it difficult.
The liquid ant bait is really good. You also have to clean up the food/water source that they are looking for very consistently. Also you have to bait outside. Finally, when you find their hills, ants drown pretty easily (just keep flooding with water). I've heard gasoline suggested as a "kill all" as well.
The counter-strategy is if you are being intimidated by priest/employer, you go to the cops. They interview a bunch of people at the church/company in private and if they corroborate your story, priest/employer goes to jail. Nothing you can do about spouses though.
They could enforce their copyright. For example, where will a small local paper get an article about North Korea's recent moves in terms of missle tests and closing the cross border enterprise zone? What if the Associated Press won't license it? They'd have to either pay or agree to a paywall. Much of the interesting news (beyond the 1 page breaking news summaries) is actually done by one paper and syndicated to a bunch of others. Again, the same restrictions could apply.
Your point about deep-links, sharing, and blogs is a good one. This is an opportunity for newspapers to make their product better. Emailing WSJ articles is currently free even though the paper is not. They give you a link which is good for X days and Y viewings (presumably). They can be fairly lax and know they aren't being taken advantage of since they know how much email you send out.
Making bloggers pay for deep-linking and significant reproductions is another reasonable (though small) revenue stream. Though perhaps targetted advertising (you are coming from DailyKos so you get ads X, Y an Z) is a better fit.
Journalism is valuable. The web has made it cheaper, hopefully it can make it better too, but it can not be free.
The purpose of a newspaper is not to sell advertising. Traditionally both subscribers and advertisers were their customers. Much of the ad dollars (something like 40%) came from classifieds for which there was no possible conflict between subscriber/advertiser interests. Moving to paywalls means the subscriber is the customer they need to keep happy, which I think means better journalism.
Paywalls were a long time coming. The idea that all media should be free on the internet is cancerous and frankly disrespectful to those who put a lot of effort into creating it. I see offhand comments that newspapers are "crap" and "biased". I read that one of two ways: first the commenter only likes to read their favorite blog which agrees with them all the time or second that they don't know what they are talking about. Newspapers and magazines provide fact rich coverage and in-depth investigations. Read the Economist (a magazine, I know), Washington Post, NY Times or the Wall Street Journal, you'll find they've done a lot of research.
The business model has still changed, Paywalls will not prevent the consolidation of the industry. There's too much overlap in what the papers produce. You'll end up with a few national papers, and greatly gutted local papers with little original content except for local news. The reader gets cheaper, deeper news, but the price can not be free.
Agreed - Munroe wins 2 to 1 with 1 tie. The cow gnawing on itself was pretty funny (that was Katz) and the skateboard was lame. 1999 was pretty dull for both. With the other 2 it wasn't even close.
Why would your house need 5000W during a dark period? My house averages 1000W all day, and most of the electricity use is during the day (cooling (heat is by gas), dryer, etc). You probably only need 1/10th that amount since you are sleeping most of that dark period. Thus you need a 1.1 m^3 balloon - got 3ftx3ftx3ft of space anywhere?
Zeroth, clearly a typo in the article. He must use 1,740 KWh / month, not 17,400. I've never used more than 800 KW/h / month in my house and those bills were in the low $200s.
First, power use in California is heavily weighted towards summer. Summer bills are 2-3x the other months (when we can just leave the heat/ac off). We've had an incredible heat wave here over the last few weeks too.
Second, California has a "progressive" rate system. The first X kw/h cost $.10, the next .5X cost $.15, the next .5X cost $.20, anything over is $.33 (last I remember). The point is you are heavily rewarded for reducing your marginal consumption (or generating said consumption).
Third, and this is missed by a lot of people, a $330/month power bill today could easily become a $660 bill in 2 years if electricity prices follow oil prices. No matter what you can be pretty sure that electricity prices will outpace inflation and interest rates, so think of solar panels as being long an electricity futures contract.
Solar is still for people who are either early adopters OR have a very easy installation (single story house, shake roof facing S or SSW). But those people will almost certainly be happy with their investment.
*Consistent advocate of small/limited government.
*Realistic and nuanced foreign policy.
*Independent minded, and willing to work across the aisle (gang of 14, McCain/Feingold)
*A man who has spent his life in service to the country and will work tirelessly for a free and secure America
I'm sure these will be countered with sarcasm and mockery, but you asked what his appeal was to a McCain supporter. Looking at the *whole* of his biography, that is what I see.
superdave is right - banks don't call in mortgage or home equity loans. What Citi has done is reduced the credit limits on these home equity loans which prevents *future* borrowing. If you have already borrowed they can only prevent you from borrowing more - not force you to pay back what you have already borrowed. Re-read that article more carefully.
Also, why did you take out a home equity loan? 20% down 10 or longer year term and you're fine.