Fuel prices have a lot to do with it. I only drive in the UK once a year or so (due to living in an adjacent island) but in 2008 there was a step change in the way people drove. Before 2008 if I was doing 70 on the motorway, I was the slow poke. After 2008, I seem to be doing all the overtaking when doing 70. (This on a section of the M6 with no enforcement cameras).
No it's not. There is still a speed delta of just 1mph so the impact between the cars is the same and NOT 2.01 times as hard. The bumpers of the colliding cars know nothing of their speed relative to the surface of the Earth, they only know their speed relative to each other.
(Of course the *wheels* of the car are still doing 89 mph, so if the slow impact causes one of the cars to diverge from its path, it's more likely to result in an accident than if the two colliding cars were doing 44/45. But that has nothing to do with the impact relative velocity, which is still only 1mph).
That's just not true. In the UK they've started using variable speed limits on very congested sections of motorway - lowering the speed limit and strictly enforcing it - when there is congestion. Traffic flows much better now on such sections since the speed of the traffic remains constant through these sections. Before, the traffic would slow down and speed up dramatically during periods of congestion until inevitably the "self sustaining stoppage" would form and not clear until the small hours.
Pity this didn't exist during the days of atmospheric nuclear testing.
Why not instead of baffles construct an array of wind turbines to take the energy out the wind? Fix the deadly gales problem and power the building at the same time.
Don't invest in UX. Invest in UI (user interface). The rot really started when this whole "user experience" fad began. If a user interface is giving me an experience, it is a bad user interface. User interface should melt into the background and explicitly be designed to NOT give the user "an experience".
Please don't continue with the "user experience" bullshit.
C# is a fine language but it pioneered nothing at all. Especially not lambda expressions.
I'm in my 40s and I've never been paid by cheque, always been direct deposit (well, with the exception of cash in hand jobs done as a teenager, but they will always be cash in hand).
The safest approach is to not fscking do this kind of insanity in the first place.
Not executing Javascript. Vanishingly few people disable Javascript, but no one probably includes a Javascript interpreter in a bot.
The ex-polytechnic degrees are just as reputable as "red brick" university ones. Most polytechnics aren't like US community colleges, but more like the minor US universities.
As of today, the UK is still getting this much from nuclear (19% right at this very moment). The shutdowns don't seem to have really made much of a decrease in the total nuclear supply.
Well except in 2002 the hardware that can do this and is small enough and low power enough to attach to a cat didn't exist.
HP is wildly incompetent. They ruin every business they buy. Look at their "we're dropping VMS" and a while later "Oh no, we're going to port it to amd64" flagellations as they continue to ruin what's left of DEC and Compaq.
We used to use software produced by Autonomy (actually, a company that Autonomy had earlier bought). As soon as HP took over, the customer service went to shit and we've since dropped the product because they had basically no flexibility when it came to changing demand and licensing. Previously, Autonomy would have been willing to work with us and allow us to change our licensing levels as demand for the service we were using this software for changed.
Apropos of nothing, but my Microsoft mouse at work has never been connected to a machine running Windows. It has only been used with machines running Debian.
God help those who do not help themselves. -- Wilson Mizner
