Yes, but the towers are broadcasting signals that are orders of magnitude more powerful to ground receivers than the gps satellites. If Lightspeed was a satellite phone system (so if it was another satellite system producing the crosstalk), it would not interfere even if the frequencies were directly adjacent.

In 1989 the Loma Prieta quake took out the upper deck of the Bay Bridge, but left BART's Transbay Tube undamaged. No one died on any of BART's elevated tracks either (I don't recall any stories of major damage either). The structures needed for HSR are not much different.

If we actually had $100B to spend on California transportation infrastructure we should

1) Improve the 7(!) airports between the Bay Area and LA.
2) Improve commuter rail as the previous poster suggested. Grade separated BART down the Caltrain tracks, BART to San Jose, Geary Ave Subway (and those are just the Bay Area projects).

The flights are quite fast at roughly an hour in the air, and there are few weather delays. The local rail projects would vastly improve the commutes of many and make it enjoyable to be car-free in may parts of the Bay Area.

Play 4v4 - build order doesn't matter as much. You can do fun stuff like Nydus attacks, or Overlord drops that never appear in 1v1. Your teammates may hate you (or wonder what the heck you are doing), but who cares.

Much simpler would be

select fact_txn.*
from fact_txn txn, (select customer_id,max(txn_datetime) from fact_txn group by customer_id) latestTxn
where txn.customer_id = latestTxn.customer_id and txn.txn_datetime = latestTxn.txn_datetime

not ANSI, I know, but should be portable to most dataservers

I would love to see these trickle down to a Java Embeddable engine like Rhino

Agreed - where are the brownouts in CA? I live here, read the newspaper, and I don't hear about them.

We've had rolling blackouts
1) in 2001 due to Enron
and
2) when it gets > 100 F in the summer across the entire state - so one or two afternoons every 3-5 years or so.

San Jose ("Capital of Silicon Valley"), for example - the Comcast Docsis 3.0 service is pretty darn good.

> The last few were bizzare self-indulgent crap where King appears to have simply transcribed his therapy sessions in the wake of his being hit by a van.

Agreed, writing himself into his own novel was *weak*. I also thought he borrowed far too heavily from Harry Potter in the last one.
The first 3 were great, I really liked the 5th as well (4th was good, could have been its own novel). Way downhill on the 6th and 7th.

Yul Brenner maybe? "The Wolves of the Calla" and "The Magnificent Seven" are roughly the same story.

Really? I have not. I have the latest/greatest Mac Book Pro with i7, etc. I've gotten a *lot* of the "there may be a performance problem" message and finally turned my settings way down. I've been hugely disappointed considering this was supposed to be a badass laptop playing a "not quite hardcore" game. I remember playing the original Starcraft on a Pentium Pro running NT4 (ah DirectX 2, is there any OS you weren't on?)

What planned high speed rail line (or any rail line) is routed through Marin? Do you mean Atherton/Menlo Park (Santa Clara County)?

I think you'll be surprised and that it will.

I upgrated my old steel hardtail mountain bike into an ebike becuase I have a ~400 vertical foot climb from the train station to work.

I bought the Phoenix motor kit by Crystalyte (http://www.electricrider.com/crystalyte/phoenix.htm) and swapped out the acid batteries for a Lithium Ferrous Polymer at a very reasonable price (thank you Lau Chen of Hong Kong).

The result is a bike with almost 2000 watts max power (48V x 40A = 1920W) with 10Ahr of total juice. The practical range is about 10 miles at a speed of 30 MPH (I have a motor wound for slightly more torque).

My time up the hill basically beats driving (surface streets, not freeway). An interesting thing happens when you go as fast as cars - they see you better, you can get out of the way better and you take fewer stupid risks. For example, you are less likely to run a stop sign if you can re-accelerate easily. Also, if you're not pedaling hard you have more energy to focus on what's around you. It becomes more like riding a motorcycle.

I love my e-bike - once people see
1) How versatile they are (go anywhere a car can go and slightly more)
2) How cheap they are (fuel cost approaches zero even charging at home)
3) How normal you look on them (it's just a bike)
and most importantly
4) How lazy you can be on them (you don't sweat at all)

You will see much better adoption in the short range commute, even in the US.