All that's happening is some of the waste energy is being captured.
Its not waste energy if the original driving surface was smooth. This sounds like they have replaced a speed hump (which wastes energy) with a generator which recovers some of the energy wasted by the speed hump.
This is just an gas powered electric generator, the likes of which rube goldberg would be proud of. You'd be better off siphoning a thimble of fuel from each car, selling it, and using the proceeds to buy electricity from the utility.
True but if you are going to build speed humps and waste energy that way, this may make sense.
The SSD on my eeepc has similar read speeds to a laptop hard disk but read times are more consistent because there is no waiting for head and platter seek. This makes it seem faster to me.
Civilian space development is just an excuse to do military development on the sly. Consider the Chinese manned space programme. Their Government wants the capability but not so they can plant a flag on the moon eventually.
But they could count President on election night, phone in the estimated total and call it a day. The Senate could be done the next day and Dog Walker when they get a round tuit.
Copyright is covered by international treaties. I have been to the Czech Republic. They have a lot of home grown art which they have an interest in protecting. Supporting US copyright is a good way to ensure that the US supports your copyright.
Its between the gate and passport checks so you might be able to go to a different gate without being checked. If you stay in the same gate you won't go through the check.
If you have three or four hours to spare when you transit it is well worth getting out of the airport for a look around. Incheon airport is on an artificial island off the west coast of South Korea. For a few bucks you can take the train two stops to Unseo, which is in the local residential area. There are some nice parks and shops there. From memory the one way fare on the train is 900 won. Probably about one US dollar. Follow the signs to the AREX. It is out under the car park.
What? The US wants to make it easier for the protesters to organize. How is that interfering with Iranian politics?
By making it easier for protesters to organize. Consider the impact on public opinion towards protesters in Iran if they find out the protesters are being in any way aided by the US.
the US State Department has asked Twitter to delay system maintenance to prevent cutting off Iranians who have been relying on the service during the post-election crisis
What does the US State Department have to do with an election in Iran? By all means they should use their normal channels to express their views. But for me, asking twitter to keep operating for this reason is a minor example of the way other countries have long been interfering in Iranian politics.
Asian countries (like South Korea and China) are primed to respond quickly and strongly to pandemic threats, due to their recent experience with the avian flu.
I have been to South Korea three times for work. Walking from the arrival gate to the immigration desk you have to go through a one person wide gap between two desks. A video camera is set up so that it can see the faces of every person coming off the plane. I am pretty sure that camera is measuring body temperature. It seems to be a standard fixture.
the season may reduce casualties due to reduced incidence of secondary infections, etc
Its winter here in Victoria, Australia. We have about 1000 recognised cases. At one point five patients were in intensive care with the disease. So far the actual impact doesn't seem too bad.
Somebody suggested to me that European and Asian people have a degree of immunity to H1N1 because their ancestors cultivated birds in farms. Native American people were more hunters than farmers so they didn't get exposed to flu viruses as much, which is why Mexicans and Inuit are being hit so bad by H1N1.
Fortunately Firefox displays the certificate's site name next to the padlock icon.
Out of the box yes. I don't know about the one which the IT department ships. Posting from an ubuntu system I installed myself using an ISO I downloaded at home.
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All that's happening is some of the waste energy is being captured.
Its not waste energy if the original driving surface was smooth. This sounds like they have replaced a speed hump (which wastes energy) with a generator which recovers some of the energy wasted by the speed hump.
You are not stealing any energy from the car at all. This argument is ludicrous. It is using the force of gravity to push down the plates.
The car has to climb on to the plate. It uses energy to do that.
This is just an gas powered electric generator, the likes of which rube goldberg would be proud of. You'd be better off siphoning a thimble of fuel from each car, selling it, and using the proceeds to buy electricity from the utility.
True but if you are going to build speed humps and waste energy that way, this may make sense.
...I could put these in my driveway, use it to charge the car and never have to buy energy again!
I've heard that the failure rate on SSD's can be as high as 20%.
As Heinlein put it wonderfully in 'Tunnel in the Sky':
The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later. - Cpt. Helen Walker
Except Lazarus Long of course.
The SSD on my eeepc has similar read speeds to a laptop hard disk but read times are more consistent because there is no waiting for head and platter seek. This makes it seem faster to me.
Civilian space development is just an excuse to do military development on the sly. Consider the Chinese manned space programme. Their Government wants the capability but not so they can plant a flag on the moon eventually.
But they could count President on election night, phone in the estimated total and call it a day. The Senate could be done the next day and Dog Walker when they get a round tuit.
If you are like me you should probably give more attention to your job and less to /.
Virtual Light type geohacking would need a device that was aware of it's physical orientation, not just it's location.
Accelerometers would give you that, and a magnetic compass would help. Assuming a known gravitational field of course.
Copyright is covered by international treaties. I have been to the Czech Republic. They have a lot of home grown art which they have an interest in protecting. Supporting US copyright is a good way to ensure that the US supports your copyright.
Its between the gate and passport checks so you might be able to go to a different gate without being checked. If you stay in the same gate you won't go through the check.
If you have three or four hours to spare when you transit it is well worth getting out of the airport for a look around. Incheon airport is on an artificial island off the west coast of South Korea. For a few bucks you can take the train two stops to Unseo, which is in the local residential area. There are some nice parks and shops there. From memory the one way fare on the train is 900 won. Probably about one US dollar. Follow the signs to the AREX. It is out under the car park.
What? The US wants to make it easier for the protesters to organize. How is that interfering with Iranian politics?
By making it easier for protesters to organize. Consider the impact on public opinion towards protesters in Iran if they find out the protesters are being in any way aided by the US.
the US State Department has asked Twitter to delay system maintenance to prevent cutting off Iranians who have been relying on the service during the post-election crisis
What does the US State Department have to do with an election in Iran? By all means they should use their normal channels to express their views. But for me, asking twitter to keep operating for this reason is a minor example of the way other countries have long been interfering in Iranian politics.
Asian countries (like South Korea and China) are primed to respond quickly and strongly to pandemic threats, due to their recent experience with the avian flu.
I have been to South Korea three times for work. Walking from the arrival gate to the immigration desk you have to go through a one person wide gap between two desks. A video camera is set up so that it can see the faces of every person coming off the plane. I am pretty sure that camera is measuring body temperature. It seems to be a standard fixture.
the season may reduce casualties due to reduced incidence of secondary infections, etc
Its winter here in Victoria, Australia. We have about 1000 recognised cases. At one point five patients were in intensive care with the disease. So far the actual impact doesn't seem too bad.
Somebody suggested to me that European and Asian people have a degree of immunity to H1N1 because their ancestors cultivated birds in farms. Native American people were more hunters than farmers so they didn't get exposed to flu viruses as much, which is why Mexicans and Inuit are being hit so bad by H1N1.
Fortunately Firefox displays the certificate's site name next to the padlock icon.
Out of the box yes. I don't know about the one which the IT department ships. Posting from an ubuntu system I installed myself using an ISO I downloaded at home.
I don't understand why the phone operators don't just charge for the traffic.
Similar stuff is dealt with in William Gibson's book, Pattern Recognition
Remind me. I can't think of anything like that in Pattern Recognition.
Don't blab about it here. Build it and make millions. Before I do.
I have long thought that this cafe logo is a rip off of the debian logo. If you reverse the colors and rotate by 180 degrees they are almost the same.
Czech Republic, don't think they care too much about copyright over there.
Do you want a bet?
I see you are getting an early start on your plan to insult the entire universe. Let me know when you get down to the S's.
Seriously... it's completely useless for someone in Western Australia.
Why WA specifically?
I think you might have the answer there.