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by cardinalfang 7y ago
London had the largest trolley bus network in the world until about 1960 when about 2000 electric buses were replaced with diesels.
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by cardinalfang 8y ago
A TGV can take over 12MW. It uses a single contact feeding the two power cars at each end of the train to avoid problems with oscillations in the overhead line at high speeds.
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by cardinalfang 8y ago
The British foreign minister did say the EU was the same as the USSR, so maybe they inherited the domain.
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by cardinalfang 8y ago
According to the Alternative Vote referendum "No to AV" campaign, God cannot simultaneously handle runoff voting and care for newborn babies.
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by cardinalfang 8y ago
Trade in radiotherapy supplies is currently regulated under the Euratom treaty. When the UK leaves it is required to submit a System of Accountancy and Control for Nuclear Material to the IAEA to continue trading. The current status is &quo
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by cardinalfang 8y ago
The details are specified in the specific Act of Parliament allowing the vote. The 1979 Scottish devolution referendum required a minimum 40% of the electorate vote Yes, so it failed, despite a 52% Yes vote, due to insufficient turnout.
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by cardinalfang 8y ago
A Ducati is a sound system.
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by cardinalfang 8y ago
It mentions "good agreement". They are working on increasing the accuracy of the measurements to the point where they can confirm this.
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by cardinalfang 8y ago
The funding estimates seem a bit low. Lego projects can easily run into the billions of microdollars.
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by cardinalfang 8y ago
Many have some irritating multi-step process: select the zone, then select the power or use up/down buttons instead of direct power level selection.
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by cardinalfang 9y ago
Or the car could regularly ask a question about e.g. the colour of the car behind you.
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by cardinalfang 10y ago
The 1979 Scottish Devolution referendum (also 52:48 in favour) was not passed because Yes failed to meet a threshold of 40% of the electorate.
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by cardinalfang 10y ago
IP cores are certainly more marketable than a software library. The standard Xilinx environment has a license key system that makes it easier to enforce terms of use.
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by cardinalfang 10y ago
That stove interface is particularly annoying because it takes a single operation with a knob into ten finger presses - on, select element, power up 8 times. I managed to find a stove with direct access to all power levels for all elements
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
Vengeance is fine for its deterrent use. I would be more worried about Victorious.
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
The UK kind of has to buy them because a carrier without aircraft looks a bit silly.
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
In the UK there are/were so many "brutalist carpark" constructions with poor quality finishes that weathered terribly that the reputation is rather tarnished.
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
Metric horses, though obsolete, are 98.6% as powerful as imperial horses.
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
There are some regulations - some ships switch from burning heavy bunker oil to diesel when close to port.
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
Two vehicles capable of 300kph: TGV: 500 seats 8800kW BMW M5 5 seats 440kW For long distance/high speed aerodynamics is more important than weight.
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
The electric car as a virtuous statement matters to the company as well. VW has made an e-Golf that is indistinguishable from an oil burning Golf. The NOx Incident has people saying VW is a dinosaur with no plans for the electrically powere
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
It's mildly amusing if you have experienced the intensity with which Apple and their fans have defended the single-click only design over the years.
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
Plenty of traffic will be traveling at 35mph which is fast enough for the majority of impacts to be fatal.
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
Half of that is national insurance which is concentrated on £8k - £35k band, counteracting the progressive income tax bands.
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by cardinalfang 11y ago
Eclipse can colour or fold code within inactive preprocessor directives, but that may not be enough for this particular specimen.
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by cardinalfang 12y ago
Start with Hydrogen. Knock off an electron to get a proton which can be manipulated by electric and magnetic fields. Send them into the linear accelerator which has a series of electric plates to speed the protons up and focussing magnets t
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by cardinalfang 12y ago
It is a reasonable option. It also happens to be shared by those complaining about the effect of tech companies on the housing market, who don't seem terribly popular around here.
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by cardinalfang 13y ago
Other manufacturers have their own colors. Orange would be an Agilent knock-off, red Amprobe, blue Metrix, green Gossen. Should you check to see if they have all copyrighted their color scheme - or only a market leader ?
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by cardinalfang 13y ago
I remember seeing PageMaker around that vintage. It came with a runtime-only version of Windows since everyone was still using DOS.