Re: Audio Precision System One Dual Domani Measuirement Systems

[Don Pearce]

Will somebody not think of the bus drivers?

Is it easier for bus drivers to take fares and issue tickets
to people boarding the bus from the left hand side or the
right hand side when usually most bus drivers are right handed?

Fares? Nobody takes fares on buses any more.

d

 

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Will somebody not think of the bus drivers?

Is it easier for bus drivers to take fares and issue tickets
to people boarding the bus from the left hand side or the
right hand side when usually most bus drivers are right handed?

Take fares? When last were you on a bus? ;-)

 

[J G Miller]

Fares? Nobody takes fares on buses any more.

Nonsense. All depends on the bus company.

And what if you want a transfer [slip]?

On some bus line extensions, you even pay an extra fare
when you get off the bus.

 

[Don Pearce]

Fares? Nobody takes fares on buses any more.

Nonsense. All depends on the bus company.

And what if you want a transfer [slip]?

On some bus line extensions, you even pay an extra fare
when you get off the bus.

No idea what you are talking about, I'm afraid. I get on the bus,
swipe my card then get off when I'm there.

d

 

[Trevor Wilson]

After all, the Right side is the right side...

**Why? I've driven cars on both sides, in several countries. As long as
everyone else has it figured out, there seems to be no real problem.
HOWEVER, I would posit that, when driving an automobile with a manual
gearbox, using one's right hand to control the wheel (assuming one is
right handed), with the other hand using the gear change, is a better idea.

As it happens, I am suddenly in the market for a new (second hand)
automobile. The advantage for me is that I can easily purchase a direct
Japense import, with low milage and in very good condition for quite
good prices and without any need to convert to local conditions.

FWIW: A Nissan Stagea beckons.

 

[Trevor Wilson]

Fares? Nobody takes fares on buses any more.

d

**Yes, they do.

 

[J G Miller]

No idea what you are talking about, I'm afraid. I get on the bus, swipe
my card then get off when I'm there.

Well that is probably what all bus companies would like everybody to do
and do away with cash fares entirely.

They have you money before you use any of their services and they
can keep track of where you have been traveling, which they can
cross-reference with the on board video surveillance camera tapes.

 

[S Viemeister]

I'm prepared to be proved wrong, but a little rummage suggest the US
gallon is based on the English Gallon as used for Wine, and there was no
unified English Gallon.

There were a number of different gallons, used for different things, in
different places. And yes, I believe it was the wine gallon.

I'm also quite prepared for someone to say British not English...

 

[Trevor Wilson]

Trevor Wilson wrote...

I'm right handed and learnt to drive in Germany and found that using
the right hand to manipulate the gear lever and handbrake felt natural
and controlled. It seemed awkward when I first drove in the UK and it
took a while to adjust.

**I'm sure that would be the case. I learned to drive in Australia,
using a 'three on the tree' and later a four speed, floor mounted manual
gearbox. I now drive a five speed manual gearbox car. I've driven auto
gearbox cars in the US and elsewhere. I reckon that trying to drive a
manual gearbox in the US would be a difficult adjustment to make, though
using an auto box was easy enough.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Where will you find an appliance sold fitted with 1A flex and a 13 amp
plug?

That was exactly my point: 1A leads (flex) are virtually non-existent
now, even if captive and the appliance draws 1A or less. Whatever the
consumption, if sold for use in UK, it will now have a "13A" plug, as
that is the only type of socket in the majority of homes and workplaces.
(Strictly a "BS1363" plug - many variants aren't actually capable of
carrying 13A continuously, especially the ones where the pins are made
of folded metal.)

All appliances now sold in the UK (and elsewhere in Europe) are capable of
blowing a 13 amp fuse in event of a fault on the line chord.

Confirming what I said above. (The flex rather than the appliance, but
I'm sure that's what you meant.) [Major or minor chord (-:?]
[]

Final ring circuits are for domestic premises only. For workshops or
offices where you have known fixed loads you'd stick to radials. As you'd
do for fixed heating in a domestic scenario.

I was decidedly surprised to find a fan heater - fixed - in the lighting
circuit in this home (assembled 1999), in the shower room. (Not sure if
this home has ring circuits or not: it's a prefabricated building. I
haven't had any reason to investigate. It has a fairly
conventional-looking distribution unit.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in
many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the
"Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. -Heard in a neuropsychology
classroom

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, Don Pearce

Fares? Nobody takes fares on buses any more.

d

(And Dave Plowman.)

I had occasion to use buses several times in Newcastle (upon Tyne, north
England), earlier this month; I would say that the majority of
passengers were paying cash, or using free (disabled, age, or
schoolchildren) passes. I don't think they even _had_ any form of swipe
reader or similar. I would venture that the same applies in a lot of
England, probably Britain.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Radio 4 is one of the reasons being British is good. It's not a subset of
Britain - it's almost as if Britain is a subset of Radio 4. - Stephen Fry, in
Radio Times, 7-13 June, 2003.

 

[Dave Plowman (News)]

HOWEVER, I would posit that, when driving an automobile with a manual
gearbox, using one's right hand to control the wheel (assuming one is
right handed), with the other hand using the gear change, is a better
idea.

I had a Riley Pathfinder. With a right hand floor change. Allowed a bench
front seat. ;-)

 

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You just need 2 13A plugs on wires leading to a choc block where they
are connected in parallel - gives 32A then.
Just like we had avaialble in our test room at work to power the
satellite uplink.

Obviously no H&S rep in those days then. ;-)

 

[Dave Plowman (News)]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:54:08 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News)

There are buses in places other than Landun you know. They don't have
Oyster.

Neither do I. But don't pay cash on the bus.

 

[David Looser]

Add Japan and most of Africa (Where the drivers don't just stick to the
ruts, which normally match the track of a Land Rover.

Add Thailand as well.

Currently, the split is about 50/50 in terms of the number of countries
which drive on which side.

David.

 

[David Looser]

and German and...

The story goes that it was Napoleon who imposed driving on the right (or
more accurately in those pre-motor vehicle days passing oncoming traffic on
the right) onto a continent that up until then had mostly still followed the
old Roman rule of passing on the left.

The good news is that most of the major car manufacturers have figured out
to make cars of either format on the same production line, etc.

Yes, its not a big deal. Although I have never driven across a land border
between left and right passing countries myself (its hard to drive across
the English Channel!) I have watched traffic crossing the border between
Thailand (drives on the left) and Burma (drives on the right). It all seemed
to work very smoothly.

David.

 

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

It can only be a matter of time though. Merseyrail has some kind of
electronic sensing system at Central Station that will accept my old fogey
pass if it's just waved in the general vicinity of the ticket slot on one
of the exit barriers. Evidently the start of some master plan. I had no
idea my pass had any electronics in it, as it just looks like a piece of
printed plastic.

It's a RIFID (pronounced like the three legged plant) chip. They are in
everything these days. If you search youtube you can find some interesting
videos about them, including one of a person who put a 900mHz reader in his
car with an antenna covering a side window. He was able to read the information
on credit cards, driver's licenses, passports etc of people passing him in
other cars and on the street as he drove by.

The Mythbusters were going to do a show about them, and were told by the
credit card companies not to do it. Discovery Network agreed so they are
never going to do one.

Geoff.

 

[Dave Liquorice]

The story goes that it was Napoleon who imposed driving on the right (or
more accurately in those pre-motor vehicle days passing oncoming traffic
on the right) onto a continent that up until then had mostly still
followed the old Roman rule of passing on the left.

Hum, I wonder of that has anything to do with which hand one would
have ones sword in? Most people are right handed so being on the
right makes it harder to take a swipe at some one passing.

 

[David Looser]

In message <[email protected]>, Don Pearce

We mix our units much more than that. Take temperatures - if it is
near freezing we use Centigrade, when it is hot we use Fahrenheit.

[]
I suspect that for a lot of us, it's only the media - in fact, only the
print media - who do this. I think in Celsius for both:

Likewise. The first time I was ever interested in air temperatures was on
holiday in 1960 in Switzerland where, naturally, they have used Celcius for
centuries. Then, since school physics used SI units, where was the point in
bothering with Farenheit?

thirtysomething is too hot for me, much below twenty (unless there's
absolutely no wind) too cold.

Below zero: freezing (literaly)
0 - 10: cold
10- 20: mild
20 - 30: pleasant
30 - 40: hot
40+ too hot

Seems simple enough to me!

 

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Most passengers seem to insert a card into a machine, no one checked
tickets. I asked several folks how do I pay, they just shrugged, so it
seems travel between stops wasn't worth collecting fares for. The whole
system is remarkably cheap.

If it is anything like the system they just opened in Jerusalem, you can't.

With the Jerusalem system you can buy a ticket on a bus, you can buy a
ticket at the central bus station and you can buy a ticket at most stops
from a vending machine.

Once you are on the train there is no way to buy a ticket. There is a $50
fine if you are caught without one and some of the inspectors have been
fining people who had tickets that were supposed to be, but were not valid
due to an unadvertised change, when the ads all said there wasn't any.

If you go to one of the places they issue cards, you can get one with
your picture on it, which will reduce the price if you are a senior citizen,
student or disabled and you can buy a reduced price multi-trip ticket
or monthly pass which is recorded on the card.

I expect it is the same there too because the company which operates the
rail lines is either the same one or their competition.

Geoff.