When you add the Federally required airbags (front and side), stability controls, ABS, etc, the same thing will happen that happened to the European version of the SMART when it came to the USA - they weight will nearly double, and all the benefits go away

Yep. There are those of us old enough to remember the TRS-80, The Apple ][, the Commodore PET etc coming out. Grow up with a shared computer? Ahahahaha. I was just into my teens when the articles on the IMSI 8008 hit the electronics magazines

There are 2 services
WWV + WWVH - which the NIST cut from their own budget. This is mostly the classic "At the tone, the time will be XXX", but includes some electromagnetic propagation reports etc. There are some tones with phase shift data

WWVB - The BINARY format version, which is NOT on the chopping block, and IS widely used!!

Approval for rollout 1991, last turnstyle 1997, sounds like 6 years to me, and that doesn't count buses

The CBTC (aka the signal improvements) on the 7 train, which were supposed to take 7 years (chosen because it was the 2nd easiest line to do) has taken 10 years (aka 3 years late) and STILL not working
The 7 train extension, started in 2007, supposed to be finished in 2013 had one station dropped, and STILL took till Sept 2015 (aka about 50% over)
We won't talk about the fact that the Second Ave Subway took 99 YEARS from when it was first proposed till when it opened, and was "fully funded" by bond issues at least 3 times

NOTHING gets done in 10 years by the MTA
 

Agreed - I have my email reader set to "plaintext only" - and would specifically have to tell it to display HTML

Had an experience with this, I'll tell you, I got lucky
I stuck me head in a chamber that was full of N2 - and the next thing I knew, I woke up on the floor. Never knew what happened, but luckily I fell OUT, not in (design of chamber was intentional for that)
You do NOT feel a thing, everything just goes black - you never know it is coming

I was one of the developers on the "Lurker" project when VB1 first came out. We were writing a Windows version of Tapcis. I was responsible for reading TAPCIS compatible data files, and displaying them, and writing back TAPCIS compatible outbound files. I got MY part working. The folks who had to do the stuff that actually talked to the CI$ servers never did their part

Met many a great person over on MSLangs, and the Crafts forums
Was a Section Leader on a few forms, but was never a "wizop"

Dexel, Cornell, RIT - all require Co-ops, and not some dinky 12-24 weeks, but a minimum of 50 weeks. My daughter will be going on her first in January, and it is supposed to last till the beginning of August. (She's an EE Major)
These are not "unpaid internships" either - the school requires them to be real, paid Jr Engineer positions, and audits to make sure they aren't just making you fetch coffee. It is a reason they tend to get jobs

I'll tell you because of the medical policy changes where I work (I telecommute and live outside the new policies 'covered area') I'm no longer covered by my company's medical care, so I had to go out an look both at the ACA exchanges for my state (NY) or look at full up "private" policies
The ACA plans all sucked, because NONE would cover my 16YO son "He has to go on Medicare"
So, I bought what is considered a Platinum level plan - (4 people, Me, My wife, my 20 YO daughter at college and said 16YO son). Cost? About $2400/month (does not include dental or vision - the company still provides that)
Some of the fun?
I can't use a flex spending account! That's right, the law now prevents you from using a FSA to pay for Gold or Platinum level plans, so this money is all AFTER taxes! (The company does reimburse me for what they used to kick in for my plan when they covered me - less than half)
The best plan I found has a fairly large "co-insurance" (you pay your deductible, AND your co-insurance)
I know what it costs - all TOO well, and have told my MDs "This is out of pocket". One interesting thing - You will find most MDs have a different, lower rate for services "Out of Pocket" (there was some time while the new plan was kicking in I had nothing, even though it became retroactive). Comes from them not having to do all the paperwork!! (plus the insurance companies only pay a percentage of your MDs bill. The bill might say $200, but they have a negotiated rate with your insurance co to take only $80)

That Msft wants the same UI on tablets and phones, where some of the rant items (icons) makes sense

He thought he was dead for sure - stage IV melanoma. He's cancer free. Amazing stuff

One of the big thing the grid is used for, but not really talked about is that the 60Hz (50Hz Europe/Parts of Japan) is that it is used as a timekeeping signal. LOTS of stuff relies on the fact it is kept in sync

Don't need more than a few microamps, but the grid tie makes a lot of things "just work"

Believe it or not, there are businesses/people out there that still rely on 16 bit apps! They WILL run under Win32, but not Win64

Windows only thunks back one level