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Comment Re:They already have rail for San Jose - SF (Score 1) 392

San Diego-LA is currently served by Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner (not really commuter service). San Diego-Oceanside commuter rail is the Coaster, and Oceanside-LA commuter rail is the Metrolink Orange County line...if you want to go between San Diego and anywhere in the LA area outside of Orange County you pretty much have to change trains either two or three times, on a minimum of two different tickets. HSR between the major metro hubs (SAN and LAX, and probably stopping in Anaheim at least) makes a lot of sense, not that anybody will ever do it...they're too busy building in the middle of nowhere.

Comment Re:jewelry website? (Score 1) 637

It's actually a reference to the (relatively?) well-known statistics website fivethirtyeight.com, which takes its name from the current number of electors (538...but it would be 436 without the extra two per state+DC). The existing website at that URL is probably a coincidence.

Comment Re:Current gen vs last gen (Score 1) 144

The rightmost digit was dropped from the 200 series when they reset the generation (leftmost) number, but the market position identifier has been in middle of the model number since the Geforce FX (5000 series), and it's always had roughly the same meaning. So the Geforce 7600, 8600, and 9600 were the same market position in their respective generations as the 260, 460, 560, etc, were (and it's THAT SAME market position that the 1060 occupies for Pascal). As far as release schedule, nVidia release order within generations for many years have been top-down except for the 9 market identifier, which launches late in order to double-dip from wealthy enthusiasts who might buy both the 8 and 9 cards from the same generation.

Comment Re:"US reactor" What exactly does that mean? (Score 1) 117

There are a tiny number of manufacturing facilities capable of forging single-piece reactor pressure vessels, and none of them are located in North America. I strongly suspect (but can find no clear references) that the pressure vessel in Watts Bar Unit 2 is from Japan Steel Works.

Comment Re:Cue the climate change deniers ... (Score 2) 684

"Ordinary" (orange-bulb) fire sprinklers are designed to trigger at 57C, and are rated for a maximum sustained ceiling temperature of just 38C. In buildings that are expected to get hotter than that, you're supposed to use red-bulb sprinklers, which trigger at 74C and are better able to deal with high sustained ceiling temperatures. It doesn't seem too unreasonable that someone in Rio was not thinking conservatively enough and installed the wrong kind of sprinkler heads.

Comment Re:Other: SeaMonkey (Score 1) 381

Many of us who use Seamonkey as our standard browser never switched to Firefox in the first place, because we thought (and still think) that even the original "stripping down" was going the wrong direction. It didn't BECOME a deficiency, it has always BEEN a deficiency.

Comment Re:Want people to know what they're doing online? (Score 1) 64

I think the browser you're looking for is Seamonkey. The status bar is always visible. The status bar shows exact link URLs. The URL bar shows the entire, exact URL, with the main domain in black and the rest in dark grey (same visual effect as bolding, but without changing character width, so it's easier to read).

Comment Re:No Amphibians Listed in Article (Score 3, Informative) 85

The animals on the spacecraft were geckos, which certainly are lizards. There were no newts launched on Bion-M1, nor any other kind of amphibian.

Sources:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/19bionm1/#.UZlBX39dAbE
http://www.space.com/20732-russia-launches-animals-space-bion-m1.html

Comment Re:CNC (Score 1) 514

Based on that analogy, the fastest result would not necessarily be from the most distant-efficient (offset) path, but possibly from an approach that was more aware of the limitations of the mower (turning radius, acceleration, and so on), like most modern HSM toolpaths. If the ratio works out the same as for, say, Volumill, then we'd want to increase the feedrate of our ordinary 10kph mower to, say, 40kph.

Now THAT would make mowing more fun.

Comment Re:Calculators (Score 2, Insightful) 1268

Or it could be a holdover from being taught to do longhand addition and subtraction chained vertically, like so:
123
+456
-------
579
- 54
-------
525
which reads (out loud) very similarly to "123+456=579-54=525", which is, as the article points out, incorrect. Don't be too quick to blame calculators when longhand methods introduce similar errors.
Portables

Traveling With Tom Bihn's Checkpoint Flyer 133

Some people care about bags; obsession is a better word. (See the Bags subforum of the Every Day Carry Forums for evidence.) How are the straps attached? Is that 1050 denier, or 1600? Makers like Crumpler, Ortlieb and Maxpedition inspire impressive brand-loyalty, but probably no bag maker has customers more enthusiastic than Tom Bihn's. (There really is a Tom Bihn, too -- he's been designing travel bags since he was a kid; now he has a factory with "all the cool toys" to experiment with designs and materials.) When I started looking for a protective case for my MacBook Pro, I discovered that a few of my coworkers were part of the Bihn Army, and after some Tupperware-style evangelism I was convinced to buy a few items from the Bihn line-up: a backpack (used); then a messenger bag (new); then a mid-sized briefcase, used, which is now my portable filing cabinet. (Take this bias for what you will; I stuck with my previous messenger bag for more than a decade.) For a just-completed trip to Israel, which I couldn't quite make in true one-bag travel fashion, I brought along one of the newest Bihn Bags — the Checkpoint Flyer — and found it to be worth its (considerable) price. Read on for my review.

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