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that may be true but can you explain to me how this windows store would not infringe

pricture of a windows store

regards

John Jones

From the textual description of the mark:

The store features a clear glass storefront surrounded by a paneled facade consisting of large, rectangular horizontal panels over the top of the glass front, and two narrower panels stacked on either side of the storefront

The picture you link to shows a store whose storefront has the horizontal panel but AFAICT is lacking the narrower side panels described. Also, without being able to see inside the store, it is impossible to tell if the arrangement of lighting, tables, seating, shelves and video panels all conform to the description provided. It is quite likely that they do not, as Apple's description is very specific in certain details. Note that all of the details would need to match for the store to be considered infringing.

that may be true but can you explain to me how this windows store would not infringe

pricture of a windows store

regards

John Jones

look exactly the same...

so thats going to be fun for them !

picture of a windows store next to apple store

regards

John Jones

...darn near anything in Python. :)

For those of you unwilling to click through, that's a custom auroral-photography / astro-photography condition reporting system. Even the graphics are generated by Python. It not only lets me look at current conditions, it texts me in case I'm not paying attention when conditions are right for auroral photography. Which leads to photos like these.

I agree. Get an Arduino Uno at first and then you'll start to get a sense of what direction you want to move in from there.

Agreed also. I started off with an Arduino nearly two years ago, and learned a lot of electronics and C/C++ building a camera timelapse gadget. (Videos here!)

The community is definitely incredibly helpful, and if you're trying to do something there's a good chance someone's done aspects of it already. Plus the limited platform means it's difficult to get too sidetracked, and you pretty much have to build things in an efficient manner. It's built over that pretty standard AVR stuff too, so implementing your own Arduino-alike hardware is frighteningly simple.

The ecosystem of Arduino shields is pretty amazing, but often a bit on the expensive and unwieldy side - for example, paying a fair amount for WiFi when an Arduino can barely handle a single connection, or full-colour backlit LCDs when the thing has almost no RAM - at some point you're going to have to make the leap to a Raspberry Pi or similar if projects are heading that way. I built a ridiculous time-travelling radio around a Pi, using some pretty standard UNIXy stuff which would have been impossible on an Arduino.

On the other hand, I've seen many learning projects built with Raspberry Pis which would be far better suited to Arduinos - the Arduino has no real operating system, just the (tiny) bootloader and the standard libraries that get linked in, so it's extremely difficult to break a working, embedded setup. My timelapse gadget? Ideal. Starts almost instantly, has no easy-to-corrupt storage - think of the Arduino as programmable electronics glue. Whereas the Pi is more like software glue - if you need a tiny UNIX box doing software-type stuff, potentially interfacing with the real world, then the Pi and friends win hands-down.

I agree. Get an Arduino Uno at first and then you'll start to get a sense of what direction you want to move in from there.

Agreed also. I started off with an Arduino nearly two years ago, and learned a lot of electronics and C/C++ building a camera timelapse gadget. (Videos here!)

The community is definitely incredibly helpful, and if you're trying to do something there's a good chance someone's done aspects of it already. Plus the limited platform means it's difficult to get too sidetracked, and you pretty much have to build things in an efficient manner. It's built over that pretty standard AVR stuff too, so implementing your own Arduino-alike hardware is frighteningly simple.

The ecosystem of Arduino shields is pretty amazing, but often a bit on the expensive and unwieldy side - for example, paying a fair amount for WiFi when an Arduino can barely handle a single connection, or full-colour backlit LCDs when the thing has almost no RAM - at some point you're going to have to make the leap to a Raspberry Pi or similar if projects are heading that way. I built a ridiculous time-travelling radio around a Pi, using some pretty standard UNIXy stuff which would have been impossible on an Arduino.

On the other hand, I've seen many learning projects built with Raspberry Pis which would be far better suited to Arduinos - the Arduino has no real operating system, just the (tiny) bootloader and the standard libraries that get linked in, so it's extremely difficult to break a working, embedded setup. My timelapse gadget? Ideal. Starts almost instantly, has no easy-to-corrupt storage - think of the Arduino as programmable electronics glue. Whereas the Pi is more like software glue - if you need a tiny UNIX box doing software-type stuff, potentially interfacing with the real world, then the Pi and friends win hands-down.

I was the proud owner of a 3rd party (Memotech) low profile RAM pack, bought at WH Smith. No Blu-Tack required!:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadkenny/4002315512/
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/physical-object/2005/04/102642093.01.01.lg.jpg
http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/showmag.php?mag=SinclairUser/Issue002/Pages/SinclairUser00200009.jpg

I don't know about 1990, but we definitely had some pretty nasty air pollution about 40-60 years ago. When I was < 10 and growing up in Ohio circa 1980, I remember that air pollution was pretty much everywhere, even in smaller cities, like the Warren-Youngstown-Sharon area roughly halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. My first "omg" memory of Florida was looking up during recess one day about a month after we moved there, and freaking out because I could see the full moon in broad daylight. That was something you never, EVER saw in Ohio. Or at least something *I* had no memory of ever seeing.

Hell, I spent July 5, 1994 in New York, and remember BARELY being able to see the Twin Towers from Midtown. The whole city smelled like a burning log in a fireplace. Likewise, I spent a week in Los Angeles sometime in August 1996, and remember driving into L.A. on LaCienega drive... I made it over the mountain, and saw the famous vista with LA (well, OK, I guess it was actually Beverly Hills) spread out in front of me... except you couldn't actually see anything except faint rooftops a mile or two away, and a sea of opaque smog. In LA's defense, though, its smog didn't really have any particular odor. It was opaque to a degree I'd never seen in my life, but other than obscuring most of the views, it didn't really bother me.

Anyway, onto the pics:

Pittsburgh, 1948... during the DAY: http://bike-pgh.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/smog1.jpg

Cleveland, 1973: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/CLEVELAND_SKYLINE_IN_THE_SMOG_OF_JULY_20%2C_1973%2C_DAY_OF_POLLUTION_ALERT_-_NARA_-_550190.jpg

New York, 1972: http://earth911.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Smog-1970s.jpg

Los Angeles, 1948: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/jamesfallows/los-angeles-smog_53499058.jpg

Manhattan, 1966: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wavz13/4083896787/

Arses. Working Secret Nuclear Bunker photos link. Oops!

Unless that's the point - now we discussed it at least twice and people will think "Oh, I'll go and find that"...

I've no idea as to the authenticity of much of the contents, but the whole place is filled with faintly creepy signs. The near-total absence of staff, the honesty-boxes for any kind of payment and the (non-functional?) security cameras all over the place, it's all very much in keeping with the creepily humorous 'Secret Nuclear Bunker' name. At least, I assume it's meant to be funny.

(I took loads of photos there a bit over a year ago. I didn't pay the £5 photography fee; I was kind of glad to get out of the place. And I'm someone who explores dodgy forgotten locations for fun...)

Unless that's the point - now we discussed it at least twice and people will think "Oh, I'll go and find that"...

I've no idea as to the authenticity of much of the contents, but the whole place is filled with faintly creepy signs. The near-total absence of staff, the honesty-boxes for any kind of payment and the (non-functional?) security cameras all over the place, it's all very much in keeping with the creepily humorous 'Secret Nuclear Bunker' name. At least, I assume it's meant to be funny.

(I took loads of photos there a bit over a year ago. I didn't pay the £5 photography fee; I was kind of glad to get out of the place. And I'm someone who explores dodgy forgotten locations for fun...)

Unless that's the point - now we discussed it at least twice and people will think "Oh, I'll go and find that"...

I've no idea as to the authenticity of much of the contents, but the whole place is filled with faintly creepy signs. The near-total absence of staff, the honesty-boxes for any kind of payment and the (non-functional?) security cameras all over the place, it's all very much in keeping with the creepily humorous 'Secret Nuclear Bunker' name. At least, I assume it's meant to be funny.

(I took loads of photos there a bit over a year ago. I didn't pay the £5 photography fee; I was kind of glad to get out of the place. And I'm someone who explores dodgy forgotten locations for fun...)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellis/

I believe he's one of the arduino founders or principles.

don't know much about this - just saw it on the flickr stream - but it could be interesting. not android at all, but in a way, that could also be a good thing. sometimes you want a simple cell phone and just that.

(no connection; just saw the photo link from DAM)

DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY. This is what happens when you exhibit independent thought..

Info I gather from this link: http://www.cas.cn/zt/hyzt/16thysdh/zb/

and from this slide: http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetaryblog/8343205291/in/photostream

Rough translation:

"From 2017 onward, after the completion of China's unmanned lunar missions, China will embark on manned missions to the moon and also to build a permanent lunar base"

I can't wait to visit the spot in North America where George Washington manipulated our nation's Great Stick and made a speech concerning public health.
Visiting history, one edit at a time!

You miss my point though. I understand that your foot is making the same motion, and that you have the same mechanical leverage given the distance between your foot and the gear center.

However, the angle at which the crank connects to the gear is now shifted from the angle between your foot and the center of the gear (relative to horizontal). In a simple free-body diagram, this also makes zero difference, as the angle of connection does not affect torque. But since the crank actually connects at various points along the bolt, the angle of connection could determine the direction of force at these various connection points. This of course has absolutely nothing to with the z shape, and the same putative effect could probably be achieved simply by changing the shape of the connector. Thus I'd agree that that extra metal going into the elbow of the angled crank is really doing nothing.

So all I'm investigating, in thought, is how the time-varying direction of forces applied during pedaling may be shifted depending on how the crank connects to the gear. If you are inclined to believe any of the data produced by this dude, which I realize is suspect, then this graph (available in their gallery) presents data qualitatively in line with my reasoning, and, interestingly, NOT in line with their reasoning (which I think we both agree is grossly incorrect). I'd further note that if I were making up data to fit their explanations, I'd have put in some at least small magnitude changes, not just a phase shift as we see here. So is it possible that there is some (probably very small) effect of angle of connection?

Lastly, what does a phase shift do for total work? Nothing for a given amount of force, I think. But that's where biomechanics (OP) comes in; since the leg isn't equally efficient at all pedal positions, this phase shift could result in a change (positive or negative) in total efficiency.

Again, not a mechanical engineer. I'm just speculating on what could cause differences that might not show up in a simple physics model. All models are imperfect, so I'm trying to challenge the model assumptions. Does this make sense, and do you agree that this is a different issue than you present in your rebutta to my post?

It's just over half the price of my Mountain Mods case. "Expensive" is relative, I suppose. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/14865808@N00/sets/72157623761503153/

I'd count myself among those geeks. Not long ago, I bought an interesting etched silicon wafer off ebay (not too expensive, really), and then framed it and hung it on the wall. I think it's beautiful in its own right, and the geekiness just makes it that much better.

Framed Silicon

(On a side note, finding sufficiently large square pictures frames turned out to be much more difficult than I had imagined.)

Not Bahamas, Barbados.

Pics here:

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/smendes/sets/72157607055607511/with/2745128681/

I don't see anything wrong with making sexist generalizations; the fact is men and women are different, so while not all members of one sex will follow a particular generalization, some generalizations really apply far more to one sex than the other. For instance, how many football-obsessed fans like these will be women versus men? While there might be a small number of stupid female football fans, they're a rarity, but there's no shortage of stupid male football fans (or other sports fans for that matter).

Women in the workplace are different from men; my wife complains a lot about other women, because many of them have the tendency to be "Jezebels" and catty backstabbers. Obviously not all women are like this, but this is behavior you don't see much on the male side. It's a dynamic mostly confined to women. Men have their own crappy behaviors in the workplace too, so they're no saints either, but their bad behavior is usually different from the womens'.

that "Descent is the highest form of Patriotic"?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unpossibles/3462246191/

The data behind Apple Maps is actually pretty decent at this point for most areas. There may be some that it's behind, but I'm not sure where that would be - almost all the early data gaffes appear to have been fixed.

Google still has data errors also, of the same magnitude. Searching for "Airport" in Denver does not list at all the main airport, Denver International Airport.

The other issue Google has is it is way too eager to give you SOME result when it can't figure out what you want. So it makes up something, like claiming a baptist church in wyoming is the place to find a "demon statue" .

It also means that when you zoom all the way in to Denver International Airport on the map and search for "airport" again, you get some absurd results (but still not the airport you have filling the screen on your map).

Also personally I have found that Apple Maps has better routing for driving than Google. For metro use, there are a number of transit apps that have better presentation of data than Google does in their mobile app, and also some have real-time position data that Google Maps does not show.

The data behind Apple Maps is actually pretty decent at this point for most areas. There may be some that it's behind, but I'm not sure where that would be - almost all the early data gaffes appear to have been fixed.

Google still has data errors also, of the same magnitude. Searching for "Airport" in Denver does not list at all the main airport, Denver International Airport.

The other issue Google has is it is way too eager to give you SOME result when it can't figure out what you want. So it makes up something, like claiming a baptist church in wyoming is the place to find a "demon statue" .

It also means that when you zoom all the way in to Denver International Airport on the map and search for "airport" again, you get some absurd results (but still not the airport you have filling the screen on your map).

Also personally I have found that Apple Maps has better routing for driving than Google. For metro use, there are a number of transit apps that have better presentation of data than Google does in their mobile app, and also some have real-time position data that Google Maps does not show.

Marvell CEO Sehat Sutadja's car

talk about classy. (!)

Maybe they can use this,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45676693@N03/6959137824/

Even the themes are a relatively new thing in my mind. When I saw 'Lego Space', I immediately thought of the kit I had as a child

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3484/3763177988_97c0d70d6a.jpg

I think there's some merit in the article, to me, Lego Space was too specialised, particularly compared to the model I had that had very few if any specialised bricks.

“When I was a kid, you got a big box of bricks and that was it,” said Tracy Bagatelle-Black, 45, a public relations consultant in Santa Clarita, Calif., north of Los Angeles. “What stinks about Lego sets now is that they’re not imaginative at all.”

I tend to agree with the above quote, I'm 45 as well. If you're younger it's likely that you would never know of the less sophisticated Lego. What's normal for one age is not normal for another. Who'd of thought?

You feel like running your mouth off, go right ahead:

http://www.dell.com/ca/p/inspiron-660s/pd

#1 desktop on Dell's website. No, most people don't have home-built custom PCs, they order them mail-order like this.

Sure, my motherboard has one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebabcock/3600893754/in/set-72157619247481171 but that's because I'm an enthusiast and shopped around for one that did. Quite a few did not at the time.

This isn't news either, Intel's been trying to kill off serial ports since 2001: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/10/04/intel_to_kill_floppy_drives/

This falls apart when you consider that Apple doesn't let you run your own OS on their hardware.

Yes they do. Explicitly so on Macs (bootcamp is Apple not just allowing Windows to run on Macs but providing drivers too) but they don't do anything to stop people from running Android or Linux on iOS devices (which has been done off and on).

They make it as hard as possible to run Windows on a Mac

That's where your whole argument falls apart as Bootcamp makes a mac the easiest Windows install outside pre-loads by an OEM.

How is Apple making is "as hard as possible" when Apple even writes the drivers for you?

they've been caught trying to prevent Linux from overtaking the bootloader.

Sir, the reason I stopped you tonight is that I can see your arguments have been weaving dangerously close to the edges of fabrication. Can you please show a form of citation?

You cant run anything except IOS on an Ipod, Ipad or Iphone

Google says otherwise.

Because they make more money from you that way.

An answer just as easily applied to Google and personal data collection.

How odd that a company would like money. Is that really a shock to you?

When Apple cant even put train stations on train lines

At least Apple can find an airport in a major metropolitan city, a feat seemingly beyond Google after a decade of data collection.

you cant call it quality.

If you can call Google Maps quality then obviously Apple Maps is quality, after just a few months of corrections it's doing a better job than Google at finding important things (and when was the last time you looked at your train issue on Apple Maps? I'll bet that error exists. Cough up the exact train station you are referring to).

Warning: there are a lot of easily printable shapes that are impossible on a milling machine.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO MAKE? What shapes, what materials? This should be the one and only question you answer before deciding printing vs milling.

I bought a 3d printer. it's a lot cleaner than milling. I'd like a cnc mill too but that's a lot less feasible to keep in an apartment, has higher keep up and so on. a lot noisier too.

whenever someone asks why I got the thing, I tell 'em it's for fun and show some useless stuff. http://www.flickr.com/photos/glasslife/8212289302/ and custom keychains, xmas tree decorations.. for custom stuff it's a really cool thing to have.

but actually making things with it is definitely not as easy as pressing a button - and people who bitch about overhangs lack imagination and don't seem to understand that you can't injection mold or mill all parts in one piece either. they're free to buy an expensive objet printer though. the real thing that limits usability is speed. it takes an awful long time to create big parts.

for making a lot of real things of "commercial quality", like real tools, you'd probably be better off having both, a mill and a 3d printer.

The 'commercial' part is going to come back to haunt them. The rules for commercial use are so different than for non-commercial use. They will shut down the commercial aspect the first time one of the following happens:

1) A user takes a picture of a person who did not consent to commercial use of their likeness. (something that is not needed for the original individual to post for non-commercial use)

2) A photographer gives an individual a photograph without license for commercial use and that someone posts the photograph with consent for non-commercial purposes and it's used a third-party for commercial purposes.

In each of the above cases the up-loader was within their rights and the commercial publisher can't get an appropriate license because the up-loader didn't have the appropriate permissions.

The commercial publisher is going to be the target of the law suits and they won't be able to use the defense of any license because the up-loader didn't have the appropriate license to transfer. They can try and sue Instagram to recover damages and Instagram may try to sue the original up-loader, but I can't see that getting very far. (not for lack of trying as much as for lack of money and original usage not violating the usage.

Examples of case one.. I was in Story Land a few years back, and this young woman had a frown on her face, I can only image she wanted to be somewhere else.. anyway, I took a picture of her on one of the rides with this huge frown and arms folded across her chest. (not that anyone would want to use her photo as a advertisement for the story land, but I think it falls under editorial if not artistic use... but I have no right to use her image for commercial purposes, so can't give that right to anyone else)

Example for case two, both of my kids school pictures included a small sized digital image which was explicitly licensed for non-commercial usage. So I was within my rights to use it non-commercial. posting it so relatives could see them. ( as I didn't get a commercial right I can't transfer one)

Even if I used Instagram (which I don't), even if I am agreeing that by uploading an image I transfer all rights, I can't transfer what I don't own. Commercial publisher sues, Instagram, Instagram sues me .... I doubt it, and the Commercial Publisher has no relationship with me, so they can't sue me. Even if I was sued, I can't believe any judge would find against me as I didn't attempt any commercial usage and even if they did.... They would likely spend more on the legals fees than they would ever see from me.

I would normally say, no 'legit' commercial publisher is going to purchase and use a photograph for commercial use without a firm release signed, etc.... but there this case not that long ago.. and many similar ones since then....

http://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/72157600541608353/

At the utterly fascinating Georgetown Steam Plant Museum in Seattle, I learned of the difficulties in getting a (somewhat elderly) generator in sync with the grid. Apparently, get it right and all the other power stations will pull it into the exact frequency - get it wrong, and you'd snap the turbine shaft.

As for the mains hum, in an undergraduate experiment at Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory, I detected intelligent life - on Earth, unfortunately. While running an FFT on a recording of a pulsar, we not only uncovered the spinning neutron star's rotation - we also discovered some not-exactly-mysterious peaks at multiples of 50Hz.

or accidentally flying over a major airport Google does not show.

Google Maps does show the airport.

Click on that link anyway. It includes a search for "airport." When I did it originally, it came up with Los Angeles International as the only result. Clicking on it again to make sure the zoom level is the same shows me Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia as the top hit, followed by San Fransisco International Airport. At least Google's got both coasts covered?

It's weird because there's a "Denver Airport" place marker on Google Maps, but I guess it doesn't count for some reason.

What with the Google Maps iOS app claiming Baptists are some kind of cult demon worshippers, I wouldn't want Google tracking me either were I St Nick.

...is they didn't want Santa to die going the wrong way
or accidentally flying over a major airport Google does not show.

Why would Apple want to degrade search results

Apart from the search difference, that side by side short makes it clear how much more ugly Google Maps are than Apple Maps. Both the UI and the map display.

That would probably solve the map issue and put Nokia out of its misery.

Have you used the Nokia app on iOS? Search results are worse, at least in the U.S. Satellite data is also older, sometimes a LOT older (Hoover Dam on Nokia shows the bridge only partially constructed and with the same warping errors that Apple and Google have).

Apple started out with better search results than Nokia, and in some cases already beats Google. In another year they may well surpass Google overall if they keep fixing reported errors.

If I were Apple, I would push out a patch today that scraps Apple Maps and replaces it with Google.

Why would Apple want to degrade search results or lead people the wrong way down dangerous roads?

At this point iOS *AND* Android users are worse served by Apple going back to Google maps. If you think about it the whole world is better off with Google finally having real competition in mapping, that can best Google at times and cause Google to have to start correcting map errors in a timely fashion. For years Google was unable to find a simple Arby's in Elko, NV - just months after Apple Maps was released, Google fixed that error and it now returns the correct results.

If you run Android, you should thank Apple because they are driving Google to improve maps also. As people find humorous and dangerous errors in either mapping app, they will report it and both maps will improve rapidly.

As for an Office 365 replacement - well actually Pages and Numbers work quite well even on an iPhone. Although it would not be my first choice I've edited spreadsheets on a train before using my iPhone thanks to Numbers...

If I were Apple, I would push out a patch today that scraps Apple Maps and replaces it with Google.

Why would Apple want to degrade search results or lead people the wrong way down dangerous roads?

At this point iOS *AND* Android users are worse served by Apple going back to Google maps. If you think about it the whole world is better off with Google finally having real competition in mapping, that can best Google at times and cause Google to have to start correcting map errors in a timely fashion. For years Google was unable to find a simple Arby's in Elko, NV - just months after Apple Maps was released, Google fixed that error and it now returns the correct results.

If you run Android, you should thank Apple because they are driving Google to improve maps also. As people find humorous and dangerous errors in either mapping app, they will report it and both maps will improve rapidly.

As for an Office 365 replacement - well actually Pages and Numbers work quite well even on an iPhone. Although it would not be my first choice I've edited spreadsheets on a train before using my iPhone thanks to Numbers...

IT's because 112 was the number of the Carabinieri. And Carabinieri's quick response team cars kicks ass. http://www.flickr.com/photos/52287882@N05/6891872513/

Open the new Google Maps app. Search for Denver. Now search for "Airport".

See all those dots? Not one of them is Denver International Airport, the largest airport in Denver and the one you will be using flying domestic or international flights.

With Apple Maps, a similar search at a similar zoom level not only shows DIA, but selects it as a featured choice.

So how has Apple been hurt by improving search over Google? It's kind of funny that after so long at being tops in mapping, Google has been bested in some search results by Apple... the Apple built maps app is certainly nicer to use as well. None of those things are true for any of the other mapping competitors like Nokia, I've tried that app also and frankly the searching there leaves a lot to be desired.

The good thing about this though is that now there is REAL competition in mapping, and I think Google maps will improve also. It seems like for years they have been kind of letting map errors slide but they can do so no longer - Ill bet that Denver Airport slip is fixed pretty soon.

Photstream of one of these in action at UBC...

Found a picture of the one I saw..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67292116@N00/6139404916/

It just looks like a crane int he picture, but when people walked by, it was the sort of crane that made people stop and say "By golly, that's a big crane!"

here...

Very interesting. In 1995 I took a small boat just like this from Livingston, Guatemala to Punta Gorda, Belize (public transportation). It's an insanely easy way to get there, if a bit choppy. About half the ride was in the air between waves - try it someday (and pick up some "pan de coco" - coconut bread is great). He should have went to Guatemala first, there's a lot more people there and the "chicken buses" make moving around the country easy and dirt cheap. (Click the pic to see how they keep fares down.) In that same period, it cost less than $1 to ride 30 miles. If you want international travel, Guatemala is about 3 to 5 times cheaper than Belize and Honduras is even cheaper than that if you stay off Roatan Island.

Very interesting. In 1995 I took a small boat just like this from Livingston, Guatemala to Punta Gorda, Belize (public transportation). It's an insanely easy way to get there, if a bit choppy. About half the ride was in the air between waves - try it someday (and pick up some "pan de coco" - coconut bread is great). He should have went to Guatemala first, there's a lot more people there and the "chicken buses" make moving around the country easy and dirt cheap. (Click the pic to see how they keep fares down.) In that same period, it cost less than $1 to ride 30 miles. If you want international travel, Guatemala is about 3 to 5 times cheaper than Belize and Honduras is even cheaper than that if you stay off Roatan Island.

Now, we lucked out in finding a single-family home that was only $141K in 1998. It's old and has problems, but we've been there 13 yrs and are happy. It was literally about the cheapest non-townhouse in Fairfax County on sale at th etime. It goes for almost double that now, though finding a buyer would be hard with what we've done to it. We also built an addition ($85K) around 2005, which is a factor in why the house is worth about double now.

Now, the $50K was only for the 4.5 yrs I didn't work (or the 2.5 yrs i didn't work 1999-2001ish). On years we both worked we'd pull in $90-100K. So there was always a savings to fall back on. But in 4.5 yrs of $50K-only, our savings only dropped 50% ($20K->$10K). Plus we refinanced last year, which got our mortgage down from $1300 to $1030.

It's not as cut and dried as I laid it out in my first post.... But... Someone making $120K whining about not making ends meet with a $1500/mo apartment definitely makes my bullshit meter fire off! :) I think it's pretty easy to make ends meet unless you have some odd sickness or legal problems (kids kind of fall into both of thos categories, haha).

Also it's probably easier for us because we're highschool sweethearts so we never had to set up alone... out of our parents' houses into our own. The economy of scale goes back to our dorm days..

Now, we lucked out in finding a single-family home that was only $141K in 1998. It's old and has problems, but we've been there 13 yrs and are happy. It was literally about the cheapest non-townhouse in Fairfax County on sale at th etime. It goes for almost double that now, though finding a buyer would be hard with what we've done to it. We also built an addition ($85K) around 2005, which is a factor in why the house is worth about double now.

Now, the $50K was only for the 4.5 yrs I didn't work (or the 2.5 yrs i didn't work 1999-2001ish). On years we both worked we'd pull in $90-100K. So there was always a savings to fall back on. But in 4.5 yrs of $50K-only, our savings only dropped 50% ($20K->$10K). Plus we refinanced last year, which got our mortgage down from $1300 to $1030.

It's not as cut and dried as I laid it out in my first post.... But... Someone making $120K whining about not making ends meet with a $1500/mo apartment definitely makes my bullshit meter fire off! :) I think it's pretty easy to make ends meet unless you have some odd sickness or legal problems (kids kind of fall into both of thos categories, haha).

Also it's probably easier for us because we're highschool sweethearts so we never had to set up alone... out of our parents' houses into our own. The economy of scale goes back to our dorm days..

1. Dennis Kucinich's Politifact record: He's about 17% wrong, as he is in this case. That's a considerably better record than many.
2. He's lost his seat. You don't have to deal with him past January.
3. For what it's worth, I've met the man, and I've seen no signs that he was 100% insane. And I've met people that were pretty insane.
4. He's been frequently right when most of Congress was wrong. For instance, he firmly believed that Iraq had no WMDs.
5. Ron Paul doesn't think he's nuts, and worked with him regularly on bipartisan initiatives.
6. He's turned his political career into a small fortune and marriage to a really hot redhead, so his goals are reasonable enough.

I just got mine 2 days ago, a new Model B Revision 2 board...

they claimed it was made in the UK but when I opened the static bag and pulled out the board a huge "MADE IN CHINA" stamped all over it

here is photo I took of my new model B Revision 2 board - http://www.flickr.com/photos/qoaa/8233431330/

you can clearly see made in china

here is another angle with made in china at top - http://www.flickr.com/photos/qoaa/8233433632/

My original order was placed in July 5th, 2012 and I just got it on December 1, 2012 in the mail. I live in Georgia, US so I knew it would take a while to get "across the pond" but was a let down seeing it was made in china when they promised revision 2 boards were made in UK and they clearly are not.

and yes i confirmed it's revision 2

cpuinfo/free/uname info - http://image.dude-suit.net/albums/userpics/10002/raspi1.PNG