Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Why so many trucks? Why not
railroads (Score 1) 242  by N Monkey (#46397567) Attached to:
Walmart Unveils Turbine-Powered WAVE Concept Truck  No the
reason is that trucks don't pay fairly for the road wear while
train's have to pay for rail wear. Do you think any politicians
would dare try to enforce a tax based on vehicle weight. Nor do
they pay for the new roads which are built for passenger cars...
Given that road damage is apparently proportional to the 4th
power of axle weight (too lazy to put in link to wikipedia), it
seems unlikely anyone would be brave enough to push that
legislation... but it'd make railways more attractive.  Comment:
Re:Why does Wikimedia hate batteries? (Score 1) 235  by N Monkey
(#46260037) Attached to: FLOSS Codecs Emerge Victorious In
Wikimedia Vote  The hit isn't a very big one:  "with the
hardware offload the battery lasted up to 36% longer"   And with
each faster processor generation, the difference gets smaller
and smaller still.  Followed