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The tachometers of most cars show the speed about 10% above actual, so these people probably are only slightly above the speed limit and still within the tolerance.

My car's speedometer is accurate to within 1 km/h at 50 km/h and 90 km/h. I measured it against roadside RADARs that display your speed. And people do drive above the limit consistently here.
 
The tachometers of most cars show the speed about 10% above actual, so these people probably are only slightly above the speed limit and still within the tolerance.

My speedometer reads 3 mph above actual at any speed. However, I pretty much always use a GPS speedometer app on my phone nowadays.
 
Alright wait a second. 429 pages? I thought we were in the low 1000s by now?

Meanwhile in the Norwegian Army:
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZx-LJH5J_I"]Windows 95 on Android Wear - YouTube[/ame]
 
Does anybody else remember a webpage/plugin/something in your browser that displayed the current daily schedule of astronauts on the ISS like "sleeping", "eating", "working at experiment in X module", "working out" etc.? I remember it from a few years back and thought it was really cool but lost interest in it at some point. Does this still exist? Must have been from back in 2011 because I can remember one of the things was Satoshi Furukawa (surgeon) taking blood samples from Mike Fossum.:lol:
 
Not sure if i posted this before, so here goes.

What does it look like when Earth moves around the sun?
Here is a time lapse from 2010 to 2012 at a rate of one month per second.
Frames were made at 8am every day, allowing you to see the sun drifting from season to season over the year.
Essentially, what it would look like out of my window if you were to go to 5 000 000X time compression. :)

Unfortunately, within 2 years a house was built in the foreground. :)
If you want to look at it instead, here is the video at the same rate with the house as the subject:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ox3D8-m9U"]Building construction time lapse, 2010-2012 - YouTube[/ame]
 
Not sure if i posted this before, so here goes.

What does it look like when Earth moves around the sun?
Here is a time lapse from 2010 to 2012 at a rate of one month per second.
Frames were made at 8am every day, allowing you to see the sun drifting from season to season over the year.
Essentially, what it would look like out of my window if you were to go to 5 000 000X time compression. :)
Seasonal sun drift time lapse - YouTube

Unfortunately, within 2 years a house was built in the foreground. :)
If you want to look at it instead, here is the video at the same rate with the house as the subject:
Building construction time lapse, 2010-2012 - YouTube

Looks like someone was pressing the T key...
 
Unfortunately, within 2 years a house was built in the foreground. :)

Actually, in English that would generally be called an "apartment complex", assuming that's a residential building.

The unmodified word "House" in modern usage tends to refer to a private residence, and is thus more along the lines of дача than дом.
 
After driving my new car for 2 weeks, switching to the old car for getting some more test data on the engine issues is really strange.

Good news so far: The guy who was declared car expert yesterday had been really just trying to talk the engine bad. Give the car a few km to get rid of the moisture that accumulated in the past weeks parked, and it operates fine.

After work, I'll try getting the error memory read-out. My hopes are, that the issues are really just limited to a 30€ inlet pressure detector that does not get reported in the ECU error memory.
 
Actually, in English that would generally be called an "apartment complex", assuming that's a residential building.

The unmodified word "House" in modern usage tends to refer to a private residence, and is thus more along the lines of дача than дом.
Yeah, i tend to mix and confuse these terms.
In Russian дом, literally house, is often a generic term for a building-people-live-in.

Is the video shot in some kind of Moscow suburb, though?
North-west region of Moscow, looking east out of my window.

Curious thing is - it's Moscow de jure, but it's outside the ring road (which was the border of the city from after WW2 up till late 90's).
But all sort of delivery service that differentiate price (or free) and service based on whether you are in the city or outside of it tend to actually differentiate based on whether you are within the rind or outside of it.

The result is - a package arrives to the Moscow's office, they see the address's part "1 2 x street" where x is outside the ring, send it to the regional office, they see the part "x street Moscow", not our problem, and send it back to the city's office. :facepalm:
Fortunately, it rarely goes on more than one loop, and regular post gets it right the first time.

More annoying are various "free delivery" services, which only realise they are not free outside the ring when at your doorstep.
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My new desktop:

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Nice.

Although, it looks strange sitting right by the tower like that. It's like it got in trouble and has to sit by the teacher.

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Elon Musk "unveils the D" (and something else) in a few hours.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/517486950589014016[/url]

Looks pretty darn awesome if you ask me.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/10/6955919/my-lap-of-terror-in-the-tesla-d

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgTDQGGigjc#"]Riding in the Tesla P85D. - YouTube[/ame]!
 
Looks pretty darn awesome if you ask me.
Meh.
A. Get the price below $30000 (without loosing quality or range)
B. Make the chargers as ubiquitous as the gas stations.

Then it would be something capable of changing the world, instead of just an expensive nerd toy tethered to your house by an extension cord.
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Seriously, it does look cool. And popularity often comes from top down.
The (only one in the country?) Tesla store is just 5 km away from me, and i wondered a few times whether it is a good idea to test-drive something you can not afford...
 
I've finally got to the point in my career where a $65K vehicle isn't completely out of the question. I'd just have to convince the Mrs. Cruiser.

I may be able to convince her to take a serious look at the III when they finally reveal what it's going to look like. But yeah, at the moment a turbo-diesel is probably my next vechicular purchase.
 
I may be able to convince her to take a serious look at the III when they finally reveal what it's going to look like. But yeah, at the moment a turbo-diesel is probably my next vechicular purchase.

As I can tell, the only bad thing about having a modern turbo-charged down-sized gasoline engine is, that below 2000 rpm you still feel a slight turbo hole. Consumption is now almost equal for the same engine parameters between the two fuels, the gasoline variant needs less stuff around it for meeting future emission limits.

The plug-in hybrid Volkswagen Golf GTE achieves 2 litre/100 km at 205 PS combined, my Volkswagen Polo is really at 4 litres/100 km at 90 PS without any large electrical cheats in the consumption statistic... but costs only 1/3rd of the Golf GTE.

What about the new Volkswagen Passat GTE, BTW? :lol: (I need a new computer for DCS, buy more northern German cars, please...)
 
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