Archaic words from England are the worst. Boatswain is actually pronounced bosun, gunwhale is pronounced gunnel and Featherstonehaughworcestershire is pronounced fub.
English is a tricky language, hard to get right, easy to get wrong.
There are the word pairs that people mix up all the time like imply/infer, affect/effect, accept/except, altar/alter, principle/principal, roll/role. A special Canadian favourite is meridian, which many use instead of median to refer to the grass strip between opposite lanes of a divided highway.
Then there are words that sound like they "ought to mean" one thing but actually mean something else. Most of these have all but lost their original meanings. momentarily was "for a brief instant in time" and not "in a moment", enormity meant a crime of great evil and not "big-ness". If I used enormity in its original meaning (I hesitate to say its correct meaning) not many people would understand.
Oh, and one more thing, rain on your wedding day is unfortunate, not ironic.
In Canada references to the Bank of Canada in news stories have lately been abbreviated to BOC. When I read "BOC to raise interest rates" I always wonder why the Blue Oyster Cult is doing that.
Really? At the University I attended it was crystal clear that Professors were hired primarily to do research and that teaching was a secondary consideration.
Oddly enough their teaching skills were distributed about the same as my high school teachers who were hired to teach and only to teach. That is to say a few were excellent teachers, some were good, the bulk were acceptable and a few were flat out terrible. What we learned from bad teachers was that a bad teacher or professor can't stop you from learning something you need or want to know.
This same bullshit happened twice already. Negroes in the Army..Oh Noes..its the end!! Women in the Army..our forces are doomed. Openly gay Gays in the Army. There will be a bit of friction and then the Army will adjust OK. Anyhow it's nice to see the bigots are now out and the gays are in.
Seriously, if somebody wants to pick up a rifle and go defend my cowardly ass, why on earth would I care who they sleep with when they're on leave.
This is why I read Slashdot. Every now and again a post like this comes along. A thrust so skillful and a blade so keen that your opponent doesn't even realize he's been cut. He feels an odd tugging sensation, looks down, and sees his liver lying on the floor. Bravo!
"Saturation nuclear bombardment followed by mop-up squads with nerve gas and flame throwers. No population means no popular unrest" - "Why, that's utterly appalling! Although, I must admit, there is a certain admirable directness to your methods"
Young man, it will happen to you too. Sometime between your thirtieth and fortieth birthday you will start to notice it. Your hairline will be receding. Your corneas will be less flexible so maybe you'll start to need glasses. Small injuries will start taking longer to heal. Your joints will start to hurt more often and longer. You might be able to fool yourself for a while, but even with the best of exercise, care and nutrition your will not be the same at 50 as you were at 30. Age is coming for you, as it does for us all, and it will humble you too.
I just parsed your sentence as "a person _singing_ along with the movie. It wasn't that bad." and thinking you are far more tolerant than I would be. Sudafed, Scotch and Self-Pity, good for colds, not so good for reading comprehension.
I did the math, and it might surprise you. Very rough math here: Leaf goes 100mi on a charge. 14A*220V*8hrs=24.6 kWh, 24.6kWh *.15 cents/kwH = $3.70. OK, gasoline car lets say 40 mpg. 100mi = 2.5 gal. 2.5 * $3.00 / gal = $7.50. or about twice the cost of the electric.
I had to look up the costs for gas and power in California, adjust as required. Here in Canuckistan we pay a lot less for power, ie 6 - 8 cents per kWh and we pay a lot more for gas ie $4.50 per gallon so it works out even better. Of course we have winter so we would need to heat the car. Probably comes out even with you having to run the Air Conditioning.
There are different kinds of chargers. The one at your house, a level 2 charger, will charge your Leaf in about 8 hours (220v, 15A input). The one at the gas station (fair enough, they haven't installed it at your gas station yet), a level 3 charger (3 phase 240V, 50A) will charge you up in half an hour. And that's right now, and you know the tech is going to get better. There are pulse chargers in development that will charge an EV in under 10 minutes. At that point it's not too far from what we have with gasoline cars.
This is nothing new, so please don't pretend it's some unsolvable dilemma. People add large electric loads to homes now and they do it all the time. Hot tubs, pools, new garages and shops, welders, you name it. A level 2 charger for the Nissan Leaf is 14A at 220V and will charge the car in 8 hours. About the same load as a dryer or stove.
Only half as much CO2 if you get the power from fossil fuel generating plant. They are roughly twice as efficient as an internal combustion engine. Also, you are buying large and increasing amounts of power from British Columbia which is all zero emission Hydro-electric.
There's an old saying "Don't steal, the Government hates competition". I suppose we could extend that to "Don't collect personal information , the Government hates competition".
Nope. See any number of posts above. Sailboats can go faster than the wind when the wind is at an angle to the direction of motion. This gizmo goes _downwind_ (ie same direction as the wind) faster than the wind, which no sailboat has ever done ever.
There is a story, possibly true, about lotteries in Italy. The Vatican heard the Italian government was planning a lottery and sent a reminder that gambling was a sin. The Italian government replied that the lottery was not gambling, it was a tax on imbeciles.
It also occurs here in North America among expatriate Germans. It is an expression of hyper-nationalism. "My country is so great, it would never have done such a thing". Some Japanese do the same thing when they attack any attempt to talk about Japan's crimes before and during WWII. They "deny" the Rape of Nanking, the mistreatment of Allied POWs etc. Not to say that either case doesn't also include a large dose of "we are racially superior".
"Goldman-Sachs buys,sells or whatever before anyone else can" - completely wrong. Read some of the posts up the page. Everyone who has the same high speed low latency feed as Goldman-Sachs, (and apparently there are all sorts of other banks, investment companies and HFT Specialists out there) are competing in the same market. Other than a lack of capital what is preventing you from doing the same?
Hamstring him, dip him in gravy and drop him in a pit filled with starving chihuahuas. Of course if he were a SPAMMER we would need to consider something harsh.
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Archaic words from England are the worst. Boatswain is actually pronounced bosun, gunwhale is pronounced gunnel and Featherstonehaughworcestershire is pronounced fub.
English is a tricky language, hard to get right, easy to get wrong.
There are the word pairs that people mix up all the time like imply/infer, affect/effect, accept/except, altar/alter, principle/principal, roll/role. A special Canadian favourite is meridian, which many use instead of median to refer to the grass strip between opposite lanes of a divided highway.
Then there are words that sound like they "ought to mean" one thing but actually mean something else. Most of these have all but lost their original meanings. momentarily was "for a brief instant in time" and not "in a moment", enormity meant a crime of great evil and not "big-ness". If I used enormity in its original meaning (I hesitate to say its correct meaning) not many people would understand.
Oh, and one more thing, rain on your wedding day is unfortunate, not ironic.
In Canada references to the Bank of Canada in news stories have lately been abbreviated to BOC. When I read "BOC to raise interest rates" I always wonder why the Blue Oyster Cult is doing that.
Really? At the University I attended it was crystal clear that Professors were hired primarily to do research and that teaching was a secondary consideration.
Oddly enough their teaching skills were distributed about the same as my high school teachers who were hired to teach and only to teach. That is to say a few were excellent teachers, some were good, the bulk were acceptable and a few were flat out terrible. What we learned from bad teachers was that a bad teacher or professor can't stop you from learning something you need or want to know.
This same bullshit happened twice already. Negroes in the Army..Oh Noes..its the end!! Women in the Army..our forces are doomed. Openly gay Gays in the Army. There will be a bit of friction and then the Army will adjust OK. Anyhow it's nice to see the bigots are now out and the gays are in.
Seriously, if somebody wants to pick up a rifle and go defend my cowardly ass, why on earth would I care who they sleep with when they're on leave.
CAD guy here. We have lots of drawings where the convention is to put all text in caps. I use capslock all the time.
This is why I read Slashdot. Every now and again a post like this comes along. A thrust so skillful and a blade so keen that your opponent doesn't even realize he's been cut. He feels an odd tugging sensation, looks down, and sees his liver lying on the floor. Bravo!
"Saturation nuclear bombardment followed by mop-up squads with nerve gas and flame throwers. No population means no popular unrest" - "Why, that's utterly appalling! Although, I must admit, there is a certain admirable directness to your methods"
Young man, it will happen to you too. Sometime between your thirtieth and fortieth birthday you will start to notice it. Your hairline will be receding. Your corneas will be less flexible so maybe you'll start to need glasses. Small injuries will start taking longer to heal. Your joints will start to hurt more often and longer. You might be able to fool yourself for a while, but even with the best of exercise, care and nutrition your will not be the same at 50 as you were at 30. Age is coming for you, as it does for us all, and it will humble you too.
Because Rocket Scientists weren't on the list.(Should be, though)
Airplane Designer Hero - got to be Willy Messerschmitt!
"Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it"
I just parsed your sentence as "a person _singing_ along with the movie. It wasn't that bad." and thinking you are far more tolerant than I would be. Sudafed, Scotch and Self-Pity, good for colds, not so good for reading comprehension.
I did the math, and it might surprise you. Very rough math here: Leaf goes 100mi on a charge. 14A*220V*8hrs=24.6 kWh, 24.6kWh * .15 cents/kwH = $3.70. OK, gasoline car lets say 40 mpg. 100mi = 2.5 gal. 2.5 * $3.00 / gal = $7.50. or about twice the cost of the electric.
I had to look up the costs for gas and power in California, adjust as required. Here in Canuckistan we pay a lot less for power, ie 6 - 8 cents per kWh and we pay a lot more for gas ie $4.50 per gallon so it works out even better. Of course we have winter so we would need to heat the car. Probably comes out even with you having to run the Air Conditioning.
There are different kinds of chargers. The one at your house, a level 2 charger, will charge your Leaf in about 8 hours (220v, 15A input). The one at the gas station (fair enough, they haven't installed it at your gas station yet), a level 3 charger (3 phase 240V, 50A) will charge you up in half an hour. And that's right now, and you know the tech is going to get better. There are pulse chargers in development that will charge an EV in under 10 minutes. At that point it's not too far from what we have with gasoline cars.
This is nothing new, so please don't pretend it's some unsolvable dilemma. People add large electric loads to homes now and they do it all the time. Hot tubs, pools, new garages and shops, welders, you name it. A level 2 charger for the Nissan Leaf is 14A at 220V and will charge the car in 8 hours. About the same load as a dryer or stove.
Only half as much CO2 if you get the power from fossil fuel generating plant. They are roughly twice as efficient as an internal combustion engine. Also, you are buying large and increasing amounts of power from British Columbia which is all zero emission Hydro-electric.
There's an old saying "Don't steal, the Government hates competition". I suppose we could extend that to "Don't collect personal information , the Government hates competition".
Oracle bought Ninnle, quietly fired all the Devs and shut it down.....Damn you to Hell, Larry! Why?
Nope. See any number of posts above. Sailboats can go faster than the wind when the wind is at an angle to the direction of motion. This gizmo goes _downwind_ (ie same direction as the wind) faster than the wind, which no sailboat has ever done ever.
There is a story, possibly true, about lotteries in Italy. The Vatican heard the Italian government was planning a lottery and sent a reminder that gambling was a sin. The Italian government replied that the lottery was not gambling, it was a tax on imbeciles.
"Do or do not. There is no try."
OMG Yoda was....a SITH!!
It also occurs here in North America among expatriate Germans. It is an expression of hyper-nationalism. "My country is so great, it would never have done such a thing". Some Japanese do the same thing when they attack any attempt to talk about Japan's crimes before and during WWII. They "deny" the Rape of Nanking, the mistreatment of Allied POWs etc. Not to say that either case doesn't also include a large dose of "we are racially superior".
"Goldman-Sachs buys,sells or whatever before anyone else can" - completely wrong. Read some of the posts up the page. Everyone who has the same high speed low latency feed as Goldman-Sachs, (and apparently there are all sorts of other banks, investment companies and HFT Specialists out there) are competing in the same market. Other than a lack of capital what is preventing you from doing the same?
Hamstring him, dip him in gravy and drop him in a pit filled with starving chihuahuas. Of course if he were a SPAMMER we would need to consider something harsh.