25,000 hp sustained is a ton! I wonder how they keep it from melting. 8 engines per locomotive. 2 locomotives were used for the record-breaking train. An individual engine only needs to put out ~1500hp. Still a heap of power, but not enough to grenade the trans, and there's a big crankshaft in there. Also, they only turn at 4000 rpms, instead of the 10k+ rpms you'd get in a typical top-fueler.
However, this train probably doesn't do a 1/4 mile in 4.4 seconds. Indeed - not from a standing start. That's 3.3Gs, and the customers might spill their wine. When it gets up to speed it covers a mile in about 10 seconds.
How to make $52,000 a year and have as much to show for it as a high school kid with a job at McDonalds.
Damn right. Me, I'm planning to take my equity with me when I die.
Speaking from personal experience, it's better than having your dad tell you at age 16, "You will never go any where with this linux thing. You spend too much time on the computer..."
Y'know, it might have been precisely this sentiment that inspired you to prove him wrong. Sometimes being told "don't do this" is exactly what people need - especially a certain creative, determined type of person who also happens to be a bright teenager.
Maybe you should call him up and thank him. I bet you'll both feel a lot better if you do...
Regardless; it *is* the operating system's problem if it can't handle hardware failure and/or braindead driver implementations without becoming unusable. The primary purpose of the OS is to provide a buffer between software and hardware. Anything short of processor/memory failure can and should be handled gracefully. Particularly in an airport, or at an automated bank teller machine, just two places where I've seen the Windows BSOD and worried about the risks entailed. Windows is barely stable on the desktop, for God's sake - why on earth do people use it in places where security counts?
I'll now get modded flamebait, and someone will post a follow-up saying that a decent sysadmin can make a recent Windows box as stable as anything else. I'll accept that as fact, provided someone can offer a reasonable explanation for airports (of all places) apparently not having decent sysadmins...
However, kosher animals I believe are humanely shot, right?
Totally wrong. This is a common misconception.
To qualify as kosher, an animal must only be healthy and moving at point of death. This was a logical criterion back in 50BC, since it discouraged people from eating carrion - dead and (most likely) infected meat - which might cause food poisoning. Similarly, thou shalt not eat pork (may carry bacteria if not well cooked) and thou shalt not eat shellfish (may beget queasiness).
Fast forward two thousand years, and meat production works on factory scales. However, the same rules still apply - meat isn't kosher unless the animal was healthy and moving when it died. So if we want kosher meat, we have to find a rabbi who'll kill the animal when it's still moving. No anaesthetic, no stun gun, no bolt thrower, because in these cases then the animal would no longer no be moving (sentient) at time of death. So the rabbi slits its throat while it stands. Yep, it's still kosher, and hell, it's pretty humane as far as brutally slashing the throats of animals is concerned, because at least it's executed (pun intended) by a rabbi. I won't even start on the laws about blood-draining.
Fast forward a little more to 1990. Abattoirs know that animals who've had their throats slit when standing can be sold as kosher. Great. But some evil bastard figures out that since gentiles don't give a damn whether animals are kosher or not, hey, we may as well just make them *all* kosher. It's cheaper. They can be sold even though their throats were slit as they stood, and whadda you know, it saves costs on anaesthetics and stun guns.
The upshot: all meat is kosher, and *none* of it is humanely killed.
Review your morals, and kick your rabbi in the ass next time you see him.
To answer your question: yes, until the law change people either obtained a universal TLD or made do with an ISP subdomain.
Slight tangent: people here in France seem to have been (kept?) remarkably poorly informed about the procedure for obtaining a domain name, whether it be a.fr or a universal TLD. Hence the relative popularity of ISP-hosted subdomains. Wanadoo (France Telecom's ISP subsidiary) has historically held the monopoly on web hosting for non-commercial interests, and I'd bet my tinfoil beret that it doesn't want subscribers to realise they can actually do this stuff for themselves, and cheaper at that...
Sigh. Flash is not as bad is its reputation - it can do a lot of very cool stuff. Certainly beats cookies for preserving state. It just gets misused, mostly by marketing departments.
That said, it *still* isn't searchable by robots or compliant with browser 'back' buttons. If Macromedia can't get that right over seven versions and ten years, what hope do MS have?
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You're right, my mistake. 4 engines per locomotive.
However, I think I'm correct in saying it was a Duplex, which has powered bogies under the carriages.
However, this train probably doesn't do a 1/4 mile in 4.4 seconds. Indeed - not from a standing start. That's 3.3Gs, and the customers might spill their wine. When it gets up to speed it covers a mile in about 10 seconds.
Wow, tough crowd.
I should have mentioned I'm also hoping to take a sense of irony with me.
British humour just can't compete against mild Aspergers
How to make $52,000 a year and have as much to show for it as a high school kid with a job at McDonalds. Damn right. Me, I'm planning to take my equity with me when I die.
Speaking from personal experience, it's better than having your dad tell you at age 16, "You will never go any where with this linux thing. You spend too much time on the computer..."
Y'know, it might have been precisely this sentiment that inspired you to prove him wrong. Sometimes being told "don't do this" is exactly what people need - especially a certain creative, determined type of person who also happens to be a bright teenager.
Maybe you should call him up and thank him. I bet you'll both feel a lot better if you do...
I'd think it would be a driver or hardware issue
And no doubt you'd be right.
Regardless; it *is* the operating system's problem if it can't handle hardware failure and/or braindead driver implementations without becoming unusable. The primary purpose of the OS is to provide a buffer between software and hardware. Anything short of processor/memory failure can and should be handled gracefully. Particularly in an airport, or at an automated bank teller machine, just two places where I've seen the Windows BSOD and worried about the risks entailed. Windows is barely stable on the desktop, for God's sake - why on earth do people use it in places where security counts?
I'll now get modded flamebait, and someone will post a follow-up saying that a decent sysadmin can make a recent Windows box as stable as anything else. I'll accept that as fact, provided someone can offer a reasonable explanation for airports (of all places) apparently not having decent sysadmins...
However, kosher animals I believe are humanely shot, right?
Totally wrong. This is a common misconception.
To qualify as kosher, an animal must only be healthy and moving at point of death. This was a logical criterion back in 50BC, since it discouraged people from eating carrion - dead and (most likely) infected meat - which might cause food poisoning. Similarly, thou shalt not eat pork (may carry bacteria if not well cooked) and thou shalt not eat shellfish (may beget queasiness).
Fast forward two thousand years, and meat production works on factory scales. However, the same rules still apply - meat isn't kosher unless the animal was healthy and moving when it died. So if we want kosher meat, we have to find a rabbi who'll kill the animal when it's still moving. No anaesthetic, no stun gun, no bolt thrower, because in these cases then the animal would no longer no be moving (sentient) at time of death. So the rabbi slits its throat while it stands. Yep, it's still kosher, and hell, it's pretty humane as far as brutally slashing the throats of animals is concerned, because at least it's executed (pun intended) by a rabbi. I won't even start on the laws about blood-draining.
Fast forward a little more to 1990. Abattoirs know that animals who've had their throats slit when standing can be sold as kosher. Great. But some evil bastard figures out that since gentiles don't give a damn whether animals are kosher or not, hey, we may as well just make them *all* kosher. It's cheaper. They can be sold even though their throats were slit as they stood, and whadda you know, it saves costs on anaesthetics and stun guns.
The upshot: all meat is kosher, and *none* of it is humanely killed.
Review your morals, and kick your rabbi in the ass next time you see him.
Please go and read books, before it's too late.
what TLD do non-business entities in France use then, the universal TLD's?
The criteria were relaxed last May; you no longer need to supply proof of a registered trademark when obtaining a
To answer your question: yes, until the law change people either obtained a universal TLD or made do with an ISP subdomain.
Slight tangent: people here in France seem to have been (kept?) remarkably poorly informed about the procedure for obtaining a domain name, whether it be a
My bad. I wrote the Mini-ITX news item from which Darth Fredd borrowed the phrase.
If the management speak really bothers you, then I'll make it an Action Item for us to get together and workshop it this week. Deal? ;-)
"Flash ain't (unfortunatly) goin' anywhere."
Sigh. Flash is not as bad is its reputation - it can do a lot of very cool stuff. Certainly beats cookies for preserving state. It just gets misused, mostly by marketing departments.
That said, it *still* isn't searchable by robots or compliant with browser 'back' buttons. If Macromedia can't get that right over seven versions and ten years, what hope do MS have?
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Well, that's what happens if u-bend the rules.
You can't beat the cistern.