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  1. Re:OK Republicans, on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of different ways the lines can be moved within those results.

  2. Re:HUGE mandate! on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    The Senate can propose a bill IFF it doesn't deal with money. The house controls the purse strings.

  3. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    Four letters : FDIC. Either you used TARP to keep the banks up or you paid (almost certainly more) through FDIC when the banks go under and deal with the resulting financial chaos from that. There isn't really a good solution for the situation, through I think TARP was the least bad one.

  4. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    Nah, you're not going to get the 50s. That would require raising taxes.

  5. Re:VW is already doing this on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Certainly. The Bluemotion tagline means, among other things, that it uses their urea injection trick, which drives down NOx emissions, and that's what US regs focus on for the most part.

  6. Re:Diesel on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    1. Not quite, but you can control that ratio substantially by changing the cracking method. Fluid catalytic cracking yields more gasoline (and is used extensively in the US for that reason, as gasoline has higher demand), whereas hydrocracking yields more diesel (and is used in Europe and Asia for that reason).

    2. Yes, and diesel is otherwise known as #2 fuel oil, which is used for heating in a lot of the US, further broadening and stabilizing the supply/demand curve.

  7. Re:So on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    No, this is not a flat. It's a little similar.

    To get this design, basically remove the heads from each pair of opposing cylinders in a flat, link the cylinders together into one, and synchronize the pistons. When the cylinder fires, both pistons move outwards simultaneously, rather than the alternating motion in a flat. You're basically using the pressure that would otherwise push against the head to drive another piston.

    It's a bit like a Deltic engine, only in a flat configuration rather than triangular.

  8. Re:why not both? on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not quite. This engine uses 2 pistons per cylinder. Basically, take a boxer, remove the heads, and link the cylinders into one, with a single spark. Both cylinders get moved simultaneously rather than alternately as a boxer does.

  9. Re:Titanium horseshoes on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I didn't RTFA either. I read about the engine concept in a recent issue of Popular Mechanics.

  10. Re:Nothing revolutinary? on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    No, it's a bit like a boxer, but rather than opposing alternate firing cylinders, you have a single cylinder with two opposing pistons with just the one spark and fire driving both simultaneously.

  11. Re:Titanium horseshoes on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    No, not quite the same thing. Radials have one piston per cylinder. This basically merges each opposing pair of cylinders into one, each with 2 opposing pistons. When the cylinder fires, both pistons move outwards.

  12. Re:opposing cylinders? on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    No, that's a flat/boxer engine.

    Basically, remove the heads from a flat, join the opposing pair of cylinders into one and synchronize the pistons and you get this. When the cylinder fires, both pistons go outwards simultaneously.

  13. Re:Is this story for real? on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 1

    I take it you missed the "rotating shift work" bit. Being required to constantly change your sleep cycle is not conductive to good sleep.

  14. Re:Hmmm on Time To Rethink the School Desk? · · Score: 1

    This is the case at my college also. The students in the culinary program make most of the food served.

  15. Re:Unfair advantage on Prosecutors Request Closed Courtroom For Goldman HFT Programmer's Trial · · Score: 1

    The special part of the data is that you have it a some milliseconds before anyone else does, by dint of having your servers physically right next to the exchange.

  16. Re:Next up... on Aussie Kids Foil Finger Scanner With Gummi Bears · · Score: 1

    But that requires having sane student:teacher ratios, which costs money that you would either have to raise taxes for or cut money from the sports teams.

  17. Re:Raiding on Greg 'Ghostcrawler' Street, Lead Systems Designer For World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Number is from wtfismygearscore.com. Actual average is 5296.

    Look up any character and it will show if they are above or below the average ("win" or "fail") for their level and mousing over it will show by how much. Average is for all realms worldwide, except China.

    FWIW, the data may be skewed by the Korean realms, but it seems reasonable going by what I see in game.

  18. Re:Raiding on Greg 'Ghostcrawler' Street, Lead Systems Designer For World of Warcraft · · Score: 2, Informative

    5K isn't out of line IMO and it's fairly attainable, especially now that you can get full t10 just by running heroic dungeons, though granted, that is a fair timesink. Average gearscore is about 5.3k.

    And of course you ought to know the fights. Not necessarily having done them, but at least read up on the fight for 10 minutes or watch a bloody video of it.

    The only issue I've had with PUGs on my realm (Sargeras) is getting deep into ICC. Most PUGs come apart at rotface. The new raid lock system seems to be helping with this though.

  19. Re:Great Forum for Input Devices on Ergonomic Mechanical-Switch Keyboard? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree. I love that mouse. Shame they stopped making them and the replacement for them just doesn't really match up.

  20. Re:Proof on OpenGL SuperBible 5th ed. · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you have to apply the proper 3rd party patches (or write them yourself) to religion prior to compilation or you get all kinds of errors.

  21. Re:NT 7.0 or NT 8.0? on Windows 8 To Be Released In October 2012 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    in a VM that only has access to the company Intranet

    You wish.

  22. Re:Natty Narwhal? on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 1

    You've got the versioning wrong. The version number refers to the release date. You're using 8.4 (from April, 2008) and 10.4 (April, 2010), not the usual major.minor scheme.

    The names are code names (which are alphabetic) only officially used prior to the release, as the release date may slip, though that has only happened once so far, back in 2006 (which was 6.06 instead of 6.04).

  23. Re:But the basepath is only 6 feet wide on Rounding the Bases Faster, With Math · · Score: 2, Informative

    Runners can be called out for running outside the basepath, which is 3 feet to either side of the baseline. It usually only comes up on plays where the runner is trying to avoid a tag, but that's also usually the only time anyone ever goes very far from the baseline. It's quite likely a runner would get called out well before they got 18.5 feet away from the baseline.

    No, that rule explicitly only applies when they're trying to avoid a tag. it's rule 7.08 (a) (1).

    http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/runner_7.jsp

  24. Re:Hitting the brakes slows you down. on Rounding the Bases Faster, With Math · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can be called out if you stray too far from the base line.

    I cannot find anything in the rules saying that. Only thing I can find at all related is rule 7.08 (a) (1), which only applies if they move away from the base line to avoid being tagged.

    AFAICT, they can run where ever they like as long as they don't interfere with the fielders.

  25. Re:soooo..... on Facebook Ads Could 'Out' Gay Users · · Score: 1

    AFAICT, the "gay lisp" appears to either be a myth or is a regional thing. None of the gay men I know exhibit it in the slightest.