But there's already a passenger line to right outside O'Hare from Northwestern station.
It actually comes from Union Station, and I take that line from Lake County into downtown every day, occasionally getting off at O'Hare. I wouldn't see the need to run a new rail spur from O'Hare to that line though, since they are already extending the Airport Transit System (a fully automated elevated train that runs on rubber wheels, not rails, which goes to the remote parking lot and the 4 terminals) to the location of a new parking garage/rental car center. This is right near the existing Metra station.
The Metra line doesn't run express, though, and it has a very limited schedule. So you may need to add some parallel tracks to allow a busier, non-stop schedule without interference from other freight and passenger trains.
I've biked quite a few places around Chicago, well at least around downtown... they even have a nice bike sharing system. I have to admit if I lived there weather would limit my use though.
Based on my observations, at least after they put in dedicated bike lanes separated from the traffic a few years go, the weather doesn't seem to stop many downtown Chicago bike riders, unless the snow hasn't yet been plowed.
Subways around here move at 60 MPH and spend about 20% of the time stopping, stopped, and starting back up. They probably average 30 MPH even accounting for all the slowdowns and stops.
They could try to take the cooperative approach and say, "ok, no harm done yet, let's redo the schedule and not have to pay people 150% normal rates for time they would've worked anyway during these mistake days", but no, they're saying that the contract doesn't cover working if not scheduled -- and it's "management's" mess to clean this up.
So the pilots should cooperate with the bastards who cancelled their contracts & pensions through bankruptcy (and are consequently raking in record profits) by letting them cancel vacations without recompense, too? Anyway, the 150% is written into the current contract as a maximum allowable, so the unions have to be involved if 150% doesn't buy enough workers.
In any event, it actually is the management's mess, not the pilots', and it is the managements responsibility to clean up, regardless of any other considerations. Preventing (or cleaning up) messes like this is one of the main purposes of management.
A Republican might consider the real crime to be that their beliefs aren't appreciated, and that everyone gets "fair and balanced" equal time.
Figures that the party of the most vocal critics of equal time* have become the party decrying the lack of "equal time" when it suits them, just because they disagree with someone's opinion.
* That was a huge debate back in the Reagan years, and the Republicans won by eliminating the "Fairness Doctrine" for broadcast news.
I agree with Thelasko: We don't need to see the source code, we just need to see the results. Evaluate it as a black box -- feed it known samples and see if it produces the correct results.
Apparently part of the output is the probabilities that a particular sample is from the suspect or from someone else. How can you feed the program "known samples" that can evaluate that it produced correct results of the probabilities for the particular samples used in the case? (One sample was reported as having "a one in 211 quintillion chance that it originated from someone else".)
I think it is very reasonable to ask access, covered by NDA, to a source code when such code is used to produce results for criminal prosecution.
No. That is entirely unreasonable.
If it's being used as evidence in a public court, it is only reasonable to provide public access to the source code, and specifically to provide access to the methods & computations that produced a particular result in a particular case.
We are not supposed to have secret courts in the US (FISA notwithstanding).
I think it would be great to be able to have the battery never charge above 90%, even when left on the charger.
That should already be happening, internally. But it needs to display as 100% because no consumer wants a phone that can only charge to 90% - what a rip-off that would be perceived to be.
Smartphone charges could probably last two weeks or more, IF they were not being used as personal video streaming devices.
That's simply not true. I only use my phone for calls & text, plus about a half hour a day playing the occasional game of sudoku (not exactly a computer-intensive game). I'm lucky if it lasts half a day without recharging, let alone a day. This is true of my current phone and my previous one, and was true even when the batteries were new OK, when the batteries were new, they would typically last 12 hours, but would need recharging within 18 hours). The one before that was a flip phone, and it lasted a week before I needed to charge it unless I made a lot of calls, in which case the battery charge still lasted a few days.
So I'm REALLY old because I remember the well water that I currently have in my house? Or is it only hand-pumped wells that you're talking about, which my friend had at his rural house in the 90s, along with an outhouse, both of which, I might add, can still be found all over the place in parks and forest preserves, and the like.
Now I actually am fairly old, since I do remember going to the store to get replacement vacuum tubes. But I'm not old enough to remember party lines - although they still existing when I was younger, they were only found in remote rural areas.
. . . regenerative drag rather than just using flaps, etc.
You need to use flaps in order to maintain a high angle of attack that provides sufficient lift at low speeds without stalling. The increased drag is just a side effect that hurts on takeoff and maybe helps a little on descent.
Overlapping windows don't work in any of the popular window managers anyway. Not in Windows, not in Mac OS, not in Gnome.
Really, not in Gnome? Have they taken that ability away in Gnome 3? Because when I used to use Gnome 2, that was one of my favorite improvements over Windows.
Those aren't failed predictions. They are about the timeline for action required to prevent the warming from being inevitable. They are not about the timeline for the warming to develop fully.
Steam runs at a considerably higher temperature than CPUs, though, making it more practical to use waste heat from Coors than from a data center.
Also, in my experience, the melting snow on the sidewalks is just a side-effect of the minimal insulation of the steam pipes in the steam tunnels.
60C to 70C is arguably the internal CPU temperature under load. By the time the heat is transferred to the water, it would be around 50C to 60C. This is cooler than the typical hydronic heating system supply water temperature, which means the heat exchangers on the other side have to be bigger than normal to get the same amount of heat out. Under lighter loads, you would be operating at even lower temperatures. In addition, there would be an inordinate amount of piping and a massive number of connections to tap into all the CPUs (with each fitting a potential source of damaging leaks). So, although green, this is probably not very economical. If you were going to go water-cooled CPUs, anyway, maybe it could be worth it certain circumstances, but compared to air cooled, you're spending a lot of up front capital investment that most companies not flush with cash couldn't afford even if they wanted to.
Fuel-derived power stations such as nuclear and fossil carbon (oil, gas, coal) don't need batteries or other storage such as pumped hydro. They can meet instantaneous demand . ..
. . . if certain counties in Texas reports millions of extra voters because they allow illegal immigrants to vote or simply pay Mexicans to come across the border to vote, you donâ(TM)t want that to be influencing the vote across the nation.
Yet, New Mexican voters have about twice the influence on the electoral college that North Carolinian voters do.
You're forgetting, though, that the number of electoral votes per voting block is not proportional to the size of the block. Each state gets a minimum of 3 electoral votes, no matter how small the state. So the states with greater population have more potential voters per electoral vote, and the states with less population have fewer per electoral vote. The ratio of how much votes count can be almost 4 to 1, depending on population and voter turnout of the states being compared.
That bias may be based in the history of the country being composed of separate states that had to compromise with each other in order to agree to come together, but it still isn't fair to the voters in my state.
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It actually comes from Union Station, and I take that line from Lake County into downtown every day, occasionally getting off at O'Hare.
I wouldn't see the need to run a new rail spur from O'Hare to that line though, since they are already extending the Airport Transit System (a fully automated elevated train that runs on rubber wheels, not rails, which goes to the remote parking lot and the 4 terminals) to the location of a new parking garage/rental car center. This is right near the existing Metra station.
The Metra line doesn't run express, though, and it has a very limited schedule. So you may need to add some parallel tracks to allow a busier, non-stop schedule without interference from other freight and passenger trains.
The areas most visitors see are beautiful, some of the poorer neighborhoods, not so much, but not worse than most world class cities.
And yes, I've been to Detroit.
Based on my observations, at least after they put in dedicated bike lanes separated from the traffic a few years go, the weather doesn't seem to stop many downtown Chicago bike riders, unless the snow hasn't yet been plowed.
Subways around here move at 60 MPH and spend about 20% of the time stopping, stopped, and starting back up. They probably average 30 MPH even accounting for all the slowdowns and stops.
So the pilots should cooperate with the bastards who cancelled their contracts & pensions through bankruptcy (and are consequently raking in record profits) by letting them cancel vacations without recompense, too? Anyway, the 150% is written into the current contract as a maximum allowable, so the unions have to be involved if 150% doesn't buy enough workers.
In any event, it actually is the management's mess, not the pilots', and it is the managements responsibility to clean up, regardless of any other considerations. Preventing (or cleaning up) messes like this is one of the main purposes of management.
Figures that the party of the most vocal critics of equal time* have become the party decrying the lack of "equal time" when it suits them, just because they disagree with someone's opinion.
* That was a huge debate back in the Reagan years, and the Republicans won by eliminating the "Fairness Doctrine" for broadcast news.
On the contrary, I'm not only innocent, I'm not guilty, you asshole.
Apparently part of the output is the probabilities that a particular sample is from the suspect or from someone else. How can you feed the program "known samples" that can evaluate that it produced correct results of the probabilities for the particular samples used in the case? (One sample was reported as having "a one in 211 quintillion chance that it originated from someone else".)
No. That is entirely unreasonable.
If it's being used as evidence in a public court, it is only reasonable to provide public access to the source code, and specifically to provide access to the methods & computations that produced a particular result in a particular case.
We are not supposed to have secret courts in the US (FISA notwithstanding).
That should already be happening, internally. But it needs to display as 100% because no consumer wants a phone that can only charge to 90% - what a rip-off that would be perceived to be.
That's simply not true. I only use my phone for calls & text, plus about a half hour a day playing the occasional game of sudoku (not exactly a computer-intensive game). I'm lucky if it lasts half a day without recharging, let alone a day. This is true of my current phone and my previous one, and was true even when the batteries were new OK, when the batteries were new, they would typically last 12 hours, but would need recharging within 18 hours). The one before that was a flip phone, and it lasted a week before I needed to charge it unless I made a lot of calls, in which case the battery charge still lasted a few days.
So I'm REALLY old because I remember the well water that I currently have in my house? Or is it only hand-pumped wells that you're talking about, which my friend had at his rural house in the 90s, along with an outhouse, both of which, I might add, can still be found all over the place in parks and forest preserves, and the like.
Now I actually am fairly old, since I do remember going to the store to get replacement vacuum tubes. But I'm not old enough to remember party lines - although they still existing when I was younger, they were only found in remote rural areas.
There was no cable TV in Chicago until the 80s, though there were over-the-air scrambled subscription services before then.
You need to use flaps in order to maintain a high angle of attack that provides sufficient lift at low speeds without stalling. The increased drag is just a side effect that hurts on takeoff and maybe helps a little on descent.
Really, not in Gnome? Have they taken that ability away in Gnome 3? Because when I used to use Gnome 2, that was one of my favorite improvements over Windows.
Bullshit. Trust is required for any human endeavor.
Those aren't failed predictions. They are about the timeline for action required to prevent the warming from being inevitable. They are not about the timeline for the warming to develop fully.
Steam runs at a considerably higher temperature than CPUs, though, making it more practical to use waste heat from Coors than from a data center.
Also, in my experience, the melting snow on the sidewalks is just a side-effect of the minimal insulation of the steam pipes in the steam tunnels.
60C to 70C is arguably the internal CPU temperature under load. By the time the heat is transferred to the water, it would be around 50C to 60C. This is cooler than the typical hydronic heating system supply water temperature, which means the heat exchangers on the other side have to be bigger than normal to get the same amount of heat out. Under lighter loads, you would be operating at even lower temperatures. In addition, there would be an inordinate amount of piping and a massive number of connections to tap into all the CPUs (with each fitting a potential source of damaging leaks). So, although green, this is probably not very economical. If you were going to go water-cooled CPUs, anyway, maybe it could be worth it certain circumstances, but compared to air cooled, you're spending a lot of up front capital investment that most companies not flush with cash couldn't afford even if they wanted to.
Just because you believe something doesn't make it a religion.
Coal cannot respond to instantaneous demand.
You're dreaming.
Yet, New Mexican voters have about twice the influence on the electoral college that North Carolinian voters do.
You're forgetting, though, that the number of electoral votes per voting block is not proportional to the size of the block. Each state gets a minimum of 3 electoral votes, no matter how small the state. So the states with greater population have more potential voters per electoral vote, and the states with less population have fewer per electoral vote. The ratio of how much votes count can be almost 4 to 1, depending on population and voter turnout of the states being compared.
That bias may be based in the history of the country being composed of separate states that had to compromise with each other in order to agree to come together, but it still isn't fair to the voters in my state.