The record the are going to beat was set in 1983 by a car drinving an average speed of 20km/h. That's not much of a challenge (they expect to be driving an average of 70km/h). It seems to me that this old record is still standing because nobody bothered to break it.
Another record, from Adelaide to Darwin (3000km) is held by the dutch solar car Nuna 3, which averaged 103km/h. This would have been higher if not for speed limits on the Australian roads. The speed record for solar cars (without any imposed limits) on normal roads has been more or less maxed out.
The challenge now lays in doing the same with cars with imposed limitations like using standard (affordable) solar cells and other parts, a collision "safe" car frame, passenger seats, anything that would make these cars come closer to something that people would one day actually use.
Of course building a car like the "Jaycar Sunswift III" is still a nice archievement, but it isn't very special anymore, and they should challenge other modern cars instead of 20 year old ones.
The symptoms were self reported according to the article summary, the article itself however says:
Each person was quarantined in a separate room and monitored for 5 or 6 days. Although a positive emotional style bore no relation to whether participants became infected, it protected against the emergence of cold symptoms. For instance, among people infected by the influenza virus, 14 of 50 (28 percent) who often reported positive emotions developed coughs, congestion, and other cold symptoms, as compared with 23 of 56 infected individuals (41 percent) who rarely reported positive emotions. I do agree with the GP though. I know some people with chronic diseases and they are significantly less happy than the average person. I doubt that's a coincidence.
Right back at you. You are also being rude, you have also been modded insightful and your arguments are also lacking. Sorry, I should have chosen my words more carefully.
Material is not the main point, but it is related. Better materials are a great way to make the same toys safer, which means that safety doesn't have to mean taking them away. People who want safer toys usually do not want to remove the exercise, fun, imagination, challenge or whatever, they only want it SAFER.
The GP made the point that somehow quality of (a childs) life has declined by making it safer. If this is done by removing whole ranges of toys then I agree. But that's not what is happening. Every kind of toy that existed 50 or 100 years ago still exists, only usually in a safer shape. You say toys have disappeared, but the only example you give is still very popular (at least in Europe, where a lot of schools and playground have them). Seriously, if it's so easy, name ten?
I didn't say danger is not part of my life, but I said I don't think it is essential. I do go hiking, but not on the Mount Everest. I do cycle to work every day, but not on the highway and I appreciate that there are speed limits. And oh, a lot of the bicycle paths are seperated from the main road by concrete barriers, which I think is a great idea. I don't care about hunting, as long as nobody does it in my backyard near children.
And coffee should be hot, but not cause third degree burns, especially not at a drive-thru restaurant.
Wow, you're rude, an idiot and got modded insightful. Congratulations.
First of all, being made of wood doesn't make a toy awesome. You can make a plastic replica of any toy and it will be exactly the same. Except it won't be wood. Big deal. Half my toys were wood, the other were plastic. I din't care, I didn't even notice. I was too busy playing with them.
You don't like the plastic toys from today? I think that has more to do with you "growing up" from an imaginative child into a cinical adult.
By the way, there are lots of reasons for using plastic. For example it's easier to produce (and color), cheaper, cleaner, lighter. Especially early plastics were not safe at all and ALSO splintered. The same applies to rubber mats. Much easier to clean, easier to use.
Oh, and yes modern materials are safer. How unfortunate! If you think that taking risks is essential to having fun (and life in general) then something is wrong with your head. Personally, I like to not having to fear for my life all the time. There are plenty of other challenges left. Also, of course parents should look after their own children. But doesn't that also mean providing a safe environment for them?
Oh and one more thing, guess what material the toy in question was made of?
It's good because it frees bandwith for higher quality signals.
It isn't government mandated. However, the government owns the bandwith, which they licence to companies. Analog signals weren't profitable (enough) anymore and the government decided that they weren't important enough to subsidize.
I doubt anyone is using a spreadsheet because it is "cool". They're easy to use and often exactly what's needed for a job. Do you have any alternatives then, that do what you can do with spreadsheets, only easier, faster and better?
As you also are "the internet" and didn't post the link, you should answer your own question. I never heard about her, your post made me curious, but there's no link. Not helping!
Slashdot apple summary: If not for their hardware Apple would have failed in the past, is failing now and will be failing in the future. Their products were almost killed, are being killed and certainly will be killed unless they stop making hardware now and WHAT IF NONE CARED???
A few thousand people gathering in the desert to make a space elevator. Sounds good in theory but in reality the guy at the bottom will never be able to support the weight of all the others on his shoulders.
In a lot of places those kind of clothes are actually frowned upon. It's generally not a good idea to dress "sharper" than your superiors or business partners.
Also, a suit can create an unwanted barrier if it makes people look up to you so they won't speak as freely as they would otherwise.
You can use that computer over there in the corner. We have a lot of boring work to do. No deadlines, as long as it gets done. Don't worry about your clothes or smell, nobody is going to remember you anyway. You don't have to come to meetings either.
When work isn't finished after normal hours you can go home, we'll finish it. You worked hard all day, while we wasted time with vapid conversations on several occasions. We enjoyed work today, now you can go home and enjoy your life.
It's a bit unfortunate that when we were chatting about our hollidays you weren't there. Somehow the topic changed to the new job opening. You would probably have liked that position, but we were not sure. We don't really know you. Besides, you're good at your current job, so it's probably best if you keep doing that.
If you are trying to get people to switch to OSS because it is OSS, then that pretty much sounds like a political action to me. But if you advertise a certain piece of software (which just happens to be open source) because it is a better choice, then I'd say that's indeed part of your job. But then you aren't really encouraging the use of OSS, just that particular program.
1) Europe is not one country. 2) It's not the Belgian government who is hiding old news, it's the newspapers. It's just their business plan. 3) If you subscribe (pay) you can read the archives. If you pay a little more you even get daily paper copies which you can keep forever in your own house. 4) At libraries, you can read news archives, often for free.
5) Google didn't even try to defend itself. The newspapers pretty much won by default.
Actualy, nearly 50% of the Netherlands is under sea level or slightly above it. That amount is not going to change all that much the next century, but because the geographic plate on which Holland is built is slowly tipping over (about 40 centimeters every century), the shoreline which is protecting the lower lands behind them is sinking into the sea. So for Holland, stopping global warming (if that's what causing the raising sea levels) won't be enough. Eventually, Holland will disappear under the sea. Luckily, even with the rising sea levels (also approximately 40 centimeters a century) that won't be anytime soon, because the Netherlands has plenty of skill and money to fight the sea for a long time to come.
First of all, a (sea-) dike is not a dam, and you can't just "bust a dike". Sea-dikes are more like hills than like walls. The riverdikes are smaller, but even if you do manage to breach one, you will flood only a small piece of land. The land is protected by a network of dikes instead of just one big one.
Actually, controlled flooding of the land is part of Holland's defense against land invasions. Not that it worked all that great the last two times...
It's not about linking or quoting, but about showing (cached) copies of articles which the newspaper no longer offers for free. Besides, freedom of speech is not absolute, it is restrited by other rights, such as copyright.
The newspapers do not mind their free articles being shown on Google, in fact they see it as advertisment. However, when Google shows copies of articles which you have to pay for, the newspapers want part of the advertisement income.
I work in a fairly standard office. Even though we have nice diplays (a lot of desktops even have two screens) documents are quit often printed. Paper is just too convenient. You can carry it everywhere, pass it around, make notes on it, read it while sitting in a comfortable chair, pin it to a wall. And you don't even need a nearby computer to do all of that. If I email someone (manager, coworker) a document I want it to be displayed and printed properly. For this purpose PDF is great. If it's just going to be glanced at or archived directly, it doesn't matter that much, but if the document is actually going to be used and decissions will be based on it then I want it to look correct and professional. Good HTML might be easy to navigate (to computer illiterates (read: managers) it really is not) but it absolutely doesn't translate to paper. Looking at my surroundings PDF isn't going away anytime soon. Maybe in twenty years, when we have perfect digital paper everywhere.
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The record the are going to beat was set in 1983 by a car drinving an average speed of 20km/h. That's not much of a challenge (they expect to be driving an average of 70km/h). It seems to me that this old record is still standing because nobody bothered to break it.
Another record, from Adelaide to Darwin (3000km) is held by the dutch solar car Nuna 3, which averaged 103km/h. This would have been higher if not for speed limits on the Australian roads. The speed record for solar cars (without any imposed limits) on normal roads has been more or less maxed out.
The challenge now lays in doing the same with cars with imposed limitations like using standard (affordable) solar cells and other parts, a collision "safe" car frame, passenger seats, anything that would make these cars come closer to something that people would one day actually use.
Of course building a car like the "Jaycar Sunswift III" is still a nice archievement, but it isn't very special anymore, and they should challenge other modern cars instead of 20 year old ones.
Material is not the main point, but it is related. Better materials are a great way to make the same toys safer, which means that safety doesn't have to mean taking them away.
People who want safer toys usually do not want to remove the exercise, fun, imagination, challenge or whatever, they only want it SAFER.
The GP made the point that somehow quality of (a childs) life has declined by making it safer. If this is done by removing whole ranges of toys then I agree. But that's not what is happening. Every kind of toy that existed 50 or 100 years ago still exists, only usually in a safer shape.
You say toys have disappeared, but the only example you give is still very popular (at least in Europe, where a lot of schools and playground have them). Seriously, if it's so easy, name ten?
I didn't say danger is not part of my life, but I said I don't think it is essential. I do go hiking, but not on the Mount Everest. I do cycle to work every day, but not on the highway and I appreciate that there are speed limits. And oh, a lot of the bicycle paths are seperated from the main road by concrete barriers, which I think is a great idea. I don't care about hunting, as long as nobody does it in my backyard near children.
And coffee should be hot, but not cause third degree burns, especially not at a drive-thru restaurant.
Wow, you're rude, an idiot and got modded insightful. Congratulations.
First of all, being made of wood doesn't make a toy awesome. You can make a plastic replica of any toy and it will be exactly the same. Except it won't be wood. Big deal. Half my toys were wood, the other were plastic. I din't care, I didn't even notice. I was too busy playing with them.
You don't like the plastic toys from today? I think that has more to do with you "growing up" from an imaginative child into a cinical adult.
By the way, there are lots of reasons for using plastic. For example it's easier to produce (and color), cheaper, cleaner, lighter. Especially early plastics were not safe at all and ALSO splintered.
The same applies to rubber mats. Much easier to clean, easier to use.
Oh, and yes modern materials are safer. How unfortunate! If you think that taking risks is essential to having fun (and life in general) then something is wrong with your head. Personally, I like to not having to fear for my life all the time. There are plenty of other challenges left.
Also, of course parents should look after their own children. But doesn't that also mean providing a safe environment for them?
Oh and one more thing, guess what material the toy in question was made of?
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It's good because it frees bandwith for higher quality signals.
It isn't government mandated. However, the government owns the bandwith, which they licence to companies. Analog signals weren't profitable (enough) anymore and the government decided that they weren't important enough to subsidize.
I doubt anyone is using a spreadsheet because it is "cool". They're easy to use and often exactly what's needed for a job.
Do you have any alternatives then, that do what you can do with spreadsheets, only easier, faster and better?
As you also are "the internet" and didn't post the link, you should answer your own question. I never heard about her, your post made me curious, but there's no link. Not helping!
Slashdot apple summary:
If not for their hardware Apple would have failed in the past, is failing now and will be failing in the future. Their products were almost killed, are being killed and certainly will be killed unless they stop making hardware now and WHAT IF NONE CARED???
A few thousand people gathering in the desert to make a space elevator. Sounds good in theory but in reality the guy at the bottom will never be able to support the weight of all the others on his shoulders.
You almost certainly bought a first generation iPod Nano which were available in black and white for each size (1, 2 and 4GB)
The second generation is white for 2GB, white, green, blue, pink or red for 4GB, and black for 8GB.
School is where you learn to interact with the real, big (sometimes painful) world, you don't learn that at home.
In a lot of places those kind of clothes are actually frowned upon. It's generally not a good idea to dress "sharper" than your superiors or business partners.
Also, a suit can create an unwanted barrier if it makes people look up to you so they won't speak as freely as they would otherwise.
You can use that computer over there in the corner. We have a lot of boring work to do. No deadlines, as long as it gets done. Don't worry about your clothes or smell, nobody is going to remember you anyway. You don't have to come to meetings either.
When work isn't finished after normal hours you can go home, we'll finish it. You worked hard all day, while we wasted time with vapid conversations on several occasions. We enjoyed work today, now you can go home and enjoy your life.
It's a bit unfortunate that when we were chatting about our hollidays you weren't there. Somehow the topic changed to the new job opening. You would probably have liked that position, but we were not sure. We don't really know you. Besides, you're good at your current job, so it's probably best if you keep doing that.
If you are trying to get people to switch to OSS because it is OSS, then that pretty much sounds like a political action to me.
But if you advertise a certain piece of software (which just happens to be open source) because it is a better choice, then I'd say that's indeed part of your job. But then you aren't really encouraging the use of OSS, just that particular program.
Silly book reference..
1) Europe is not one country.
2) It's not the Belgian government who is hiding old news, it's the newspapers. It's just their business plan.
3) If you subscribe (pay) you can read the archives. If you pay a little more you even get daily paper copies which you can keep forever in your own house.
4) At libraries, you can read news archives, often for free.
5) Google didn't even try to defend itself. The newspapers pretty much won by default.
Actualy, nearly 50% of the Netherlands is under sea level or slightly above it. That amount is not going to change all that much the next century, but because the geographic plate on which Holland is built is slowly tipping over (about 40 centimeters every century), the shoreline which is protecting the lower lands behind them is sinking into the sea.
So for Holland, stopping global warming (if that's what causing the raising sea levels) won't be enough. Eventually, Holland will disappear under the sea.
Luckily, even with the rising sea levels (also approximately 40 centimeters a century) that won't be anytime soon, because the Netherlands has plenty of skill and money to fight the sea for a long time to come.
First of all, a (sea-) dike is not a dam, and you can't just "bust a dike". Sea-dikes are more like hills than like walls. The riverdikes are smaller, but even if you do manage to breach one, you will flood only a small piece of land. The land is protected by a network of dikes instead of just one big one.
Actually, controlled flooding of the land is part of Holland's defense against land invasions. Not that it worked all that great the last two times...
It's not about linking or quoting, but about showing (cached) copies of articles which the newspaper no longer offers for free. Besides, freedom of speech is not absolute, it is restrited by other rights, such as copyright.
The newspapers do not mind their free articles being shown on Google, in fact they see it as advertisment.
However, when Google shows copies of articles which you have to pay for, the newspapers want part of the advertisement income.
I work in a fairly standard office. Even though we have nice diplays (a lot of desktops even have two screens) documents are quit often printed. Paper is just too convenient. You can carry it everywhere, pass it around, make notes on it, read it while sitting in a comfortable chair, pin it to a wall. And you don't even need a nearby computer to do all of that.
If I email someone (manager, coworker) a document I want it to be displayed and printed properly. For this purpose PDF is great. If it's just going to be glanced at or archived directly, it doesn't matter that much, but if the document is actually going to be used and decissions will be based on it then I want it to look correct and professional.
Good HTML might be easy to navigate (to computer illiterates (read: managers) it really is not) but it absolutely doesn't translate to paper. Looking at my surroundings PDF isn't going away anytime soon. Maybe in twenty years, when we have perfect digital paper everywhere.