Thats just bad design or outdated equipment (newsflash - trolleybuses last 50 years as unlike a diesel bus they dont shake themselves to pieces). It would be technically trivial to have the trolleypoles auto align themselves and even switch wires while moving.
" Any time the driver needs to make a 90 degree turn he has to get out of the bus and manually switch lines. Any time the driver needs to make a 90 degree turn he has to get out of the bus and manually switch lines."
it should be trivial to equip the trolley poles with servo motors and optical sensors so they drop as the bus pulls away from the wires and raise again when they are under another set of wires. With accurate enough sensors and actuators this could be done at cruise speed
You say that, but the service life of a battery is probably a lot less than the service life of a power line for a sliding contact... as well as the replacement cost being higher and the technology level being higher, which causes other issues...
For what its worth the theory about it being a jet contrail seen end-on appearing to be a vertical launch column (easy viewpoint for the helicopter, never seen from the ground) is now starting to convince me
So actually testing it in daylight, within eyesight of a massive population centre, is quite a good way of denying responsibility or creating doubt....
Tactically, anything thats so improbable to be unthinkable should be high on the list of things to try first.
Much more likely, it was some sort of prototype/enhanced/modified missile tested by the USN, and they won't admit it just because doing so would mean admitting theres a development programme going on (and anyone getting a radar track of its mision profile might be able to deduce things about it)
I understand that stealth aircraft were tested for years before the technology was publicly acknowledged
Speaking as an accountant I would point out that costs incurred are not swallowed, but absorbed into sales prices on whatever basis seems most appropriate to the creator
Your answer kinda defines the difference between us and them. I won't debate your points, as I know why you believe them and to a large degree i concur - but faced with people who have gone out and bought hardware that all works together (with bundled proprietary licences) and that have got proprietary software that does what they want to, linux is a hard sell.
Poeple look at a computer and think "I can do all this! I am a God!" in a very XKCD-ish sense. People like us wnder how we could do it better. I'm unconvinced that we are a majority
if google was named after an obscure sexual fetish it would never have got off the ground. In the UK, everyone knows what a Gimp is and most would be baffled at least by my bringing the matter up.
Modern iPods and iPhones have an encrypted internal library file which means that they actually cannot be managed with anything other than iTunes. Even if I could talk people out of using software that they are comfortable with and have already paid for (in the case of P.CS and MSO) - how do you get around the app that has no possible replacement?
even if Rhythmbox did work with all modern iPods/iPhones, software updates etc would be impossible.
I run Linux myself - and tel all my friends why its great. Most of them are interested up 'til the point where they ask if they can run out the lates MS Office on it, and Photoshop CS for their camera, and iTunes for their iPod/iPhone, and the official Yahoo and MSN Messenger releases.
When I tell them that some of the above work but buggily under API emulation, and the rest don't, they arent interesting in hearing about other, similar apps that can do the same thing. You can talk 'til you;re blue in the face about OpenOffice and aMSN / Pidgin (not mentioning GIMP, far too silly name) - but at that point you've already lost.
Homosexuality isn't a lifestyle choice. Its a hard-wired preference set before birth. It is NOT A CHOICE. Understand that. No Homosexual CHOOSES their existence.
And I think jesus would have taken a far more tolerant viewpoint on this than his followers do.
"While it is true that homosexuality is wrong" - quote from parent poster
No, it is only true that an ancient work of fiction alleges this. Homosexuality is a normal part of human existence. In terms of incidence its slightly more common than, say, red hair - is being ginger also wrong?
Well I would guess they would be Windows only. The opposite happened when Apple bought Logic Pro and offered migration to the Mac version, as there would be no future windows builds. Apple sowed the wind on this particular trick..
.. that the mileage I do is heavily urban and this holds down my net economy - on long runs I've occasionally recorded more than 55mpg, and have to carefully note when I've done them or it also skews my figures.
Points in my defence
1) Alternator drag reduces as the load decreases even in a system with no shut-off.
2) Solar panels and bulbs internal, no change in wind-drag.
3) Solar panel weight 2kgs. negligible. The fuel tank weighs 80kg full. LED replacement bulbs fractionally lighter than incandescents, no glass containment bulb. Negligible the other way.
4) My fuel record goes back 3 years. I record all parts changes in time order so can isolate the effect of tyre degradation. I would give it a net effect of 1%. All 4 tyres changed at time of electrical refitting.
5) I started green driving at the time I started the fuel log, 3 years ago, so that factor can be ruled out. (The switch to green driving techniques brought an immediate increase in efficiency from 41mpg to 46mpg (British gallons - this isnt as good as american mpg figures of 41/46)
6) No computer. No ABS. 190,000 miles on the clock of good, honest, unassisted driving.
7) No power-heavy ignition system. It's a diesel. As if the economy figures hadnt already told you that
I've been tempted to do something like that many times but I'd want 2 batteries (one switchable reserve) at least, as I'd be a little nervous about my occasional thousand-mile round trips seeing friends in the North. Whatever I do I can't get way from the fact that the electric fuel pump needs a constant current or it stops dead.
Nearly 9 years ago I was at a peace rally in a park in my hometown, Hemel Hempstead,UK one dark, cold November evening.
We were addressed by local politicians, a rabbi, a few priests/preachers/vicars and a moslem cleric, born in Afghanistan, who had fought in the 1980s with the Northern Alliance against the USSR.
What he told us was to send our bombers to Afghanistan, as soon as possible - loaded with food, medicines, baby clothing and agricultural supplies. 'You will show the people of Afghanistan that you love and respect them as brothers', he told us. 'You will gain their respect and they will know that the West is not an enemy they must fight against. For I can tell you that you will, never, ever, find peace in Afghanistan by dropping bombs"
he inspired me to read the Qu'Ran myself, and I concluded he was probably right from what I learned. I've constantly campaigned against war since before that time - but I'm afraid we've crossed the Rubicon without taking Rome. Afghan society is more fractured, injured and outraged now than at any time since the Soviet invasion. Nobody wins wars of aggression there. Nobody ever has.
We're faced with a choice of how we want to lose this war. I honestly don't think the pointless gesture I posited earlier of using nuclear pwer in the field and blowing it up if in danger of capture could play out any worse than the process of handing over pacified lands to the Afghans and seeing them fall again that we currently face. FFS, 9 years and we're not even in control of the areas we garrison heavily. Thats nearly unprecedented since the war of American independence.
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Thats just bad design or outdated equipment (newsflash - trolleybuses last 50 years as unlike a diesel bus they dont shake themselves to pieces). It would be technically trivial to have the trolleypoles auto align themselves and even switch wires while moving.
" Any time the driver needs to make a 90 degree turn he has to get out of the bus and manually switch lines. Any time the driver needs to make a 90 degree turn he has to get out of the bus and manually switch lines."
it should be trivial to equip the trolley poles with servo motors and optical sensors so they drop as the bus pulls away from the wires and raise again when they are under another set of wires. With accurate enough sensors and actuators this could be done at cruise speed
You say that, but the service life of a battery is probably a lot less than the service life of a power line for a sliding contact... as well as the replacement cost being higher and the technology level being higher, which causes other issues...
For what its worth the theory about it being a jet contrail seen end-on appearing to be a vertical launch column (easy viewpoint for the helicopter, never seen from the ground) is now starting to convince me
So actually testing it in daylight, within eyesight of a massive population centre, is quite a good way of denying responsibility or creating doubt....
Tactically, anything thats so improbable to be unthinkable should be high on the list of things to try first.
Much more likely, it was some sort of prototype/enhanced/modified missile tested by the USN, and they won't admit it just because doing so would mean admitting theres a development programme going on (and anyone getting a radar track of its mision profile might be able to deduce things about it)
I understand that stealth aircraft were tested for years before the technology was publicly acknowledged
Speaking as an accountant I would point out that costs incurred are not swallowed, but absorbed into sales prices on whatever basis seems most appropriate to the creator
No, I don't think they rock. I prefer linux but I think the apps have a long way to go. That was the point really.
Your answer kinda defines the difference between us and them. I won't debate your points, as I know why you believe them and to a large degree i concur - but faced with people who have gone out and bought hardware that all works together (with bundled proprietary licences) and that have got proprietary software that does what they want to, linux is a hard sell.
Poeple look at a computer and think "I can do all this! I am a God!" in a very XKCD-ish sense. People like us wnder how we could do it better. I'm unconvinced that we are a majority
if google was named after an obscure sexual fetish it would never have got off the ground. In the UK, everyone knows what a Gimp is and most would be baffled at least by my bringing the matter up.
Modern iPods and iPhones have an encrypted internal library file which means that they actually cannot be managed with anything other than iTunes. Even if I could talk people out of using software that they are comfortable with and have already paid for (in the case of P.CS and MSO) - how do you get around the app that has no possible replacement?
even if Rhythmbox did work with all modern iPods/iPhones, software updates etc would be impossible.
I run Linux myself - and tel all my friends why its great. Most of them are interested up 'til the point where they ask if they can run out the lates MS Office on it, and Photoshop CS for their camera, and iTunes for their iPod/iPhone, and the official Yahoo and MSN Messenger releases.
When I tell them that some of the above work but buggily under API emulation, and the rest don't, they arent interesting in hearing about other, similar apps that can do the same thing. You can talk 'til you;re blue in the face about OpenOffice and aMSN / Pidgin (not mentioning GIMP, far too silly name) - but at that point you've already lost.
Homosexuality isn't a lifestyle choice. Its a hard-wired preference set before birth. It is NOT A CHOICE. Understand that. No Homosexual CHOOSES their existence.
And I think jesus would have taken a far more tolerant viewpoint on this than his followers do.
This is Europe. We do things differently.
If you seriously believe Jesus would tolerate gay-bashing, you clearly haven't studied him.
"While it is true that homosexuality is wrong" - quote from parent poster
No, it is only true that an ancient work of fiction alleges this. Homosexuality is a normal part of human existence. In terms of incidence its slightly more common than, say, red hair - is being ginger also wrong?
Well its another reason Flash will never make it to the iPhone !
Well I would guess they would be Windows only. The opposite happened when Apple bought Logic Pro and offered migration to the Mac version, as there would be no future windows builds. Apple sowed the wind on this particular trick..
"Treason can (very unlikely) face the death penalty."
Surely only in the third world and autocratic places like China?
Oh wait, sorry.. forgot....
.. that the mileage I do is heavily urban and this holds down my net economy - on long runs I've occasionally recorded more than 55mpg, and have to carefully note when I've done them or it also skews my figures.
Points in my defence
1) Alternator drag reduces as the load decreases even in a system with no shut-off.
2) Solar panels and bulbs internal, no change in wind-drag.
3) Solar panel weight 2kgs. negligible. The fuel tank weighs 80kg full. LED replacement bulbs fractionally lighter than incandescents, no glass containment bulb. Negligible the other way. 4) My fuel record goes back 3 years. I record all parts changes in time order so can isolate the effect of tyre degradation. I would give it a net effect of 1%. All 4 tyres changed at time of electrical refitting. 5) I started green driving at the time I started the fuel log, 3 years ago, so that factor can be ruled out. (The switch to green driving techniques brought an immediate increase in efficiency from 41mpg to 46mpg (British gallons - this isnt as good as american mpg figures of 41/46) 6) No computer. No ABS. 190,000 miles on the clock of good, honest, unassisted driving. 7) No power-heavy ignition system. It's a diesel. As if the economy figures hadnt already told you that
I've been tempted to do something like that many times but I'd want 2 batteries (one switchable reserve) at least, as I'd be a little nervous about my occasional thousand-mile round trips seeing friends in the North. Whatever I do I can't get way from the fact that the electric fuel pump needs a constant current or it stops dead.
Nearly 9 years ago I was at a peace rally in a park in my hometown, Hemel Hempstead,UK one dark, cold November evening.
We were addressed by local politicians, a rabbi, a few priests/preachers/vicars and a moslem cleric, born in Afghanistan, who had fought in the 1980s with the Northern Alliance against the USSR.
What he told us was to send our bombers to Afghanistan, as soon as possible - loaded with food, medicines, baby clothing and agricultural supplies. 'You will show the people of Afghanistan that you love and respect them as brothers', he told us. 'You will gain their respect and they will know that the West is not an enemy they must fight against. For I can tell you that you will, never, ever, find peace in Afghanistan by dropping bombs"
he inspired me to read the Qu'Ran myself, and I concluded he was probably right from what I learned. I've constantly campaigned against war since before that time - but I'm afraid we've crossed the Rubicon without taking Rome. Afghan society is more fractured, injured and outraged now than at any time since the Soviet invasion. Nobody wins wars of aggression there. Nobody ever has.
We're faced with a choice of how we want to lose this war. I honestly don't think the pointless gesture I posited earlier of using nuclear pwer in the field and blowing it up if in danger of capture could play out any worse than the process of handing over pacified lands to the Afghans and seeing them fall again that we currently face. FFS, 9 years and we're not even in control of the areas we garrison heavily. Thats nearly unprecedented since the war of American independence.
"winning the hearts and minds of the populace is essential to winning the war"
So you admit we've already been defeated