Motor pacing is more than just a little bit of aerodynamic resistance reduction. Even riding behind another cyclist already results in 40% power reduction. And Fred Rompelberg's configuration was pretty extreme: see http://www.fredrompelberg.com/...
Even professional road bicycle racers reach such speeds only on downhills or in sprints; see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...: "Individual riders can approach speeds of 110 km/h (68 mph) while descending winding mountain roads and may reach 60â"80 km/h (37â"50 mph) level speeds during the final sprint to the finish line."
40 mph is *fast* on a non-recumbent bicycle. The fastest I personally can do on level road without other traffic is about 50 kph, for maybe ten seconds. That's only 31 mph. With a not-too-bad racing bicycle and a reasonable fitness level. 40 mph (about 64 kph!) is for most people totally out of the question.
But the system should make an exception when it senses that there is someone in the passenger seat.
My previous car dissallowed control of the navigation system while driving, even when there was someone in the passenger seat who was perfectly able to safely control the navigation system. Very frustrating at times.
There is no unit 'degree Celsius'. Just like with Kelvin the official unit is without 'degree'!
Do you have a citation for that? Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius#Name_and_symbol_typesetting] seems to disagree.
I agree that much of this is academic and not relevant in everyday speech. But I think even there you are wrong: according to your previous post the "degree" part is optional, but in everyday speech it's the "Celsius" part that's left out (to which I have no objection whatsoever).
The unit is "Kelvin" or "degrees Celsius". Sometimes people add "degrees" to Kelvin, but that's incorrect and I've only ever heard non-sciency people do that. People often do omit Celsius or Fahrenheit, and I think there's nothing wrong with that when talking about the weather or other everyday temperatures.
You're saying the unit is "Celsius" and you can optionally prefix it with "degrees"? I've never heard it explain that way. Seems very weird.
Perhaps instead you should have contacted their marketing department, and asked them to sponsor your kites for a small sum of money. In return for their money you could promise them to put their logo on your kites.
This is not about Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot; it is about having to press Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows if you want to log in. This was implemented IIRC in Windows NT and Windows 2000, and in Windows XP if it was joined in a domain.
If people google for "java download" they get this page: . On that page there is a big red button called "Free Java Download". That's the most straightforward way to download Java, and it gives you an installer with the toolbar (at least on Windows; I don't know on other platformst).
Not only that: even if you install Java from a non-toolbar installer, the automatic updates (if they even work) use the toolbar-version of the installer AFAIK.
That's why people say there's a toolbar in the Java installer.
Asimov was on a TV show where the host asked him about his earlier prediction that the world would only have five computers. Asimov asked that the question be cut, where the confused newscaster pointed out it was a live show. So Asimov walked out of the interview.
Citation needed.
AFAIK Asimov never said that; it was an IBM executive, IIRC.
What I don't get is that there aren't more people complaining about the syntax for functions like range(), where the lower limit is inclusive, but the upper limit is exclusive. Can anyone explain to me how that makes sense?
As far as I understand Sarah's mail, her reaction was not to that sentence, but to Linus' conclusions:
> So Greg, if you want it all to change, create some _real_ threat: be frank > with contributors and sometimes swear a bit. That will cut your mailqueue > in half, promise!
...
> You may need to learn to shout at people.
Overall I think I agree with Sarah: it is perfectly possible to be frank and clear without swearing and shouting.
..., but I really don't think the average person enters enough numbers to even bother using the numeric keypad on a computer - it would be interesting to see a study showing if the typical person even uses it at all).
People do in countries that use AZERTY, because on AZERTY keyboards you have to use shift or caps lock to access the digits in the top row. Much easier to use the numeric keypad.
(note: the "Title track" leads off side 2 rather than 1, which is interesting, but it works).
This happens on many albums. Some time ago I read the reason for that, but I forgot what it was. It's not only on vinyl; even on CD the title track is often around track 6-7.
Same here. In hearing tests everything is ok, I can still hear relatively high frequencies. But in a loud environment, it is *very* difficult for me to understand what people are saying, and it's also difficult for me to speak myself -- because I can't hear what I'm saying, I guess.
Even in a moderately noisy environment (think busy cafeteria with the background noise of everybody talking and maybe some music playing) it is difficult and tiring, but still doable, to participate in conversations.
The actual provider of the content is not the link. It's what's at the other end of the link, which in these cases is the person claiming to be wronged.
That's incorrect actually. I read the verdict (I speak Dutch), and what happened is that the photos leaked and were uploaded by some unknown person to FileFactory.com and later to other filesharing sites. GeenStijl.nl posted an article saying "hey, Britt Dekker's nude photos are leaked, you can see them OVER THERE".
I don't know how GeenStijl.nl came to know the URL. Got a tip from the person who leaked the photos, I guess.
As someone here said: the case is more nuanced than would appear from the summary, but I don't really know what to think of it.
If that's true, they shouldn't just ban electronic devices but also books, sudoku puzzles, newspapers, magazines, rubikubes,.... And they should have done that even before the proliferance of electronic devices.
But they didn't, and they don't. So that "real" reason can not be a valid reason.
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A sufficiently smart grammar checker.
Motor pacing is more than just a little bit of aerodynamic resistance reduction. Even riding behind another cyclist already results in 40% power reduction. And Fred Rompelberg's configuration was pretty extreme: see http://www.fredrompelberg.com/...
40 mph is not exactly easy.
Even professional road bicycle racers reach such speeds only on downhills or in sprints; see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...: "Individual riders can approach speeds of 110 km/h (68 mph) while descending winding mountain roads and may reach 60â"80 km/h (37â"50 mph) level speeds during the final sprint to the finish line."
40 mph is *fast* on a non-recumbent bicycle. The fastest I personally can do on level road without other traffic is about 50 kph, for maybe ten seconds. That's only 31 mph. With a not-too-bad racing bicycle and a reasonable fitness level. 40 mph (about 64 kph!) is for most people totally out of the question.
But the system should make an exception when it senses that there is someone in the passenger seat.
My previous car dissallowed control of the navigation system while driving, even when there was someone in the passenger seat who was perfectly able to safely control the navigation system. Very frustrating at times.
Do you have a citation for that? Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius#Name_and_symbol_typesetting] seems to disagree.
I agree that much of this is academic and not relevant in everyday speech. But I think even there you are wrong: according to your previous post the "degree" part is optional, but in everyday speech it's the "Celsius" part that's left out (to which I have no objection whatsoever).
The unit is "Kelvin" or "degrees Celsius". Sometimes people add "degrees" to Kelvin, but that's incorrect and I've only ever heard non-sciency people do that. People often do omit Celsius or Fahrenheit, and I think there's nothing wrong with that when talking about the weather or other everyday temperatures.
You're saying the unit is "Celsius" and you can optionally prefix it with "degrees"? I've never heard it explain that way. Seems very weird.
Perhaps instead you should have contacted their marketing department, and asked them to sponsor your kites for a small sum of money. In return for their money you could promise them to put their logo on your kites.
Just a thought on a lazy sunday evening.
This is not about Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot; it is about having to press Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows if you want to log in. This was implemented IIRC in Windows NT and Windows 2000, and in Windows XP if it was joined in a domain.
If people google for "java download" they get this page: . On that page there is a big red button called "Free Java Download". That's the most straightforward way to download Java, and it gives you an installer with the toolbar (at least on Windows; I don't know on other platformst).
Not only that: even if you install Java from a non-toolbar installer, the automatic updates (if they even work) use the toolbar-version of the installer AFAIK.
That's why people say there's a toolbar in the Java installer.
Citation needed.
AFAIK Asimov never said that; it was an IBM executive, IIRC.
See "Why numbering should start at zero" by Edsger W. Dijkstra: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html
As far as I understand Sarah's mail, her reaction was not to that sentence, but to Linus' conclusions:
Overall I think I agree with Sarah: it is perfectly possible to be frank and clear without swearing and shouting.
I for one had never heard of it before, I'm afraid.
This happens on many albums. Some time ago I read the reason for that, but I forgot what it was. It's not only on vinyl; even on CD the title track is often around track 6-7.
That's exactly what they did. Sadly unsurprisingly the summary got it wrong. See this picture:
http://creativetime.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Disc_001.jpg
Citation please. Can you show exactly where the judge asks that?
As I said, millimeters is exactly the same as liters per square meter.
I'm wondering, what exactly is the problem with that unit? Which alternative would you prefer?
Because if it's mm that you prefer, you're maybe interested to know that liter per square meter is exactly the same as mm:
liter / m^2 = dm^3 / m^2 = (10^-1 m)^3 / m^2 = 10^-3 m^3 / m^2 = 10^-3 m = mm
But imagine what happens if this explosion happens while driving at highway speeds.
Same here. In hearing tests everything is ok, I can still hear relatively high frequencies. But in a loud environment, it is *very* difficult for me to understand what people are saying, and it's also difficult for me to speak myself -- because I can't hear what I'm saying, I guess.
Even in a moderately noisy environment (think busy cafeteria with the background noise of everybody talking and maybe some music playing) it is difficult and tiring, but still doable, to participate in conversations.
That's incorrect actually. I read the verdict (I speak Dutch), and what happened is that the photos leaked and were uploaded by some unknown person to FileFactory.com and later to other filesharing sites. GeenStijl.nl posted an article saying "hey, Britt Dekker's nude photos are leaked, you can see them OVER THERE".
I don't know how GeenStijl.nl came to know the URL. Got a tip from the person who leaked the photos, I guess.
As someone here said: the case is more nuanced than would appear from the summary, but I don't really know what to think of it.
If that's true, they shouldn't just ban electronic devices but also books, sudoku puzzles, newspapers, magazines, rubikubes, .... And they should have done that even before the proliferance of electronic devices.
But they didn't, and they don't. So that "real" reason can not be a valid reason.
64-bit version of Win7 here, with Firefox 14.01. Scrolls smoothly.
Unfortunately, the answer is yes.