You can often keep up or even beat most people using this technique in the city. If you brake in advance to try and still have some kinetic energy by the time you hit the light, you already have the jump on the guy in the next lane who has slammed on his brakes at the last instant.
Also, the faster you go (providing this is not requiring undue braking), the more efficient it is up to a point (about 80-90kph or so?), before the air resistance really kicks in.
Most people are amazed at the mileage you can get by "driving fast", not knowing it is all the unnecessary heat you are generating by wearing away your brake pads that is destroying your fuel economy. They tend to be surprised that accelerating at a moderate pace or driving at a speed at or above the flow of the traffic is not bad for fuel economy in and of itself.
"There's a lot of processes in place (at least here in Australia) to give you fair change to adapt your behaviour - speeding tickets, loss of license, car confiscation, and finally - if they weren't enough of a deterrent - they throw you in the slammer."
Or they completely bypass all that and extradite you to the US.
The worst would have to be the laws of the English language. They could start by pronouncing herbs the right way. Perhaps there could be extraditions treaties with the UK and Canada until the Americans start getting it right.
Back in the 1980s, computer ownership was limited to a small percentage of people. They tended to be moderately wealthy and intelligent. Now we are approaching market saturation, where there are computers on every desktop and MS windows preinstalled on them, because the average user is too dumb to install an OS himself. The target readership has dropped at least a standard deviation in IQ, and the articles are written to match.
The demographic that bought those magazines 15 years ago now do their research on a search engine for free, and if they want to try a game or application demo they'll download it directly.
"Producing alcohol produces *VAST* amounts of CO2."
Which comes from sugar, the carbon dioxide from which is sucked out of the atmosphere. It's essentially carbon neutral (like any other biofuel or crop). If the waste plant material is not burnt, it might even act as a net sink.
Yeah, I know, Slashdot uses Google's default logo. I'm no fan of MS, but surely Google must be getting omnipotent enough to deserve a special icon all of their own, to complement the Gates as Borg MS icon?
'We aren't talking about living into your 80s," Caspari says. Human life span in those days was pretty brief, under the best of circumstances, so even living into your 30s was quite an achievement.'
The necessity of age 50/60+ people to a tribe has been in part counteracted by the institutional memory functions of both papyrus and religion. The other thing is that with something like cancer that is in most cases a probability rather than a certainty, not everyone is going to die. The article compares the memory of the elderly to a hard drive or tape backup. Redundancy is good... but you only need so many backups before it's overkill. As long as there are one or two lucid old people around, the tribe will do fine.
It's also a very difficult task to keep cells dividing that many times without errors. Extend it far enough and there will inevitably be some compromises made, unintended consequences, etc.
For every extra old person eating food, that's food that could otherwise be eaten by someone able to reproduce, is about to reproduce, can remember the stories his parents told him, can defend the tribe, and can harvest more food. Obviously it's not an age set in stone, it's a gradation that will correspond with general age related deaths (heart disease, cancer, etc).
To be talking about the "end of (tens of thousands of years of) history" just because of a couple of decades of plenty (and mostly just in the US, because of the dollar denominated oil empire) reflects more than just a little hubris. Kind of like the '2. ??? 3. Profit!' dot com business models.
"So it's hard to diet because as far as your body knows, that triple fudge brownie might be the the calories you burn not freezing to death tonight. And since you're body's so preoccupied with this now baseless fear of starvation, it forgets to make you want to eat things like broccoli or spinach, which our ancestors were probably eating to pass the time until some meat wandered close enough to kill. Call it evolutionary sabotage- what we needed before is not what we need now, and if we can't stay on top of those changes, we tend to die."
A little refresher on evolution: As far as natural selection is concerned, health after age 50-60 is essentially unimportant. I suspect many slashdotters will recognize this as being similar to a "don't care" state on a Karnaugh map. If having DNA for cancer or heart disease also makes you more likely to live, create and provide for your progeny, your genes aren't going to die out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map
As such, some 50 year old dropping dead from twinkie overload hardly registers with natural selection. By that stage, any offspring resulting from that person will likely be ready to leave the nest and quite unlikely to starve - at least one parent must have died from gluttony after all.
Contrast that with someone who is able to breeze through life with a washboard stomach and no desire in the world for food. The moment there is a war, drought, epidemic, harsh winter, crop blight or even rats getting into your root cellar, that individual is out of the gene pool.
The last great depression was only 70 years ago. War/government induced lean times, less long ago (outside the US). It's a pretty bold bet to assume that the next few hundred years will involve as a matter of course people munching burgers their whole lives without any hard times, what with limited world resources, exponential population growth and the natural tendency of people to fight and sometimes constrict the supply of said limited resources.
How do you manage quality of service issues in sharing an internet connection with 2 or more users if one wants to be doing general stuff (surfing the web, checking email, using skype etc) and the other wants to use up all the slack time with file sharing?
I use MS DOS 6 with doublespace doubling my hard drive space. I store stuff on both C and H drives, zipping, arjing and rarring all my jpgs and divx files. I figure with the amount of compression I'm using, I'll have roughly 20 times as much room as regular plebs. Suckers!
You should also see my 133t power strip setup. I don't need extra sockets, with daisy chaining I can fit as many devices as I want! LOL LOL Unfortunately my faulty circuit breaker keeps switching off at the most inconvenient times, I'll have to get that seen to.
Some vim specific advice: 1) Understand that there is a learning curve. However, within a short time you are thinking what you want to do and your fingers are implementing it, with a minimum of RSI. Contrast with notepad.exe. 2) Don't type vim, first off. Type vimtutor, and keep going with it.
Also, better to type "updatedb" and then whenever you want to find something, do "locate file". You will need to type updatedb if you think the file is new since you last typed it. Much faster.
"Move to Iraq. Everyone has a gun in Iraq. Safest place in the world."
Not the best idea unless you are an Iraqi... they use those guns to defend themselves from corrupt leaders, invasions, installed puppet governments, etc.
Which was the point of the 2nd Amendment. It's insurance - you trade off the occasional massacre and more regular murder to have a fighting chance to prevent a slaughter where millions get killed, you get kicked off your land, invaded, etc.
Prior to Iraq it was common to hear how useless guns are against modern 1st world armies. You don't hear that argument so much any more.
"Should I likewise assume that every White man is a potential KKK, or BNP member?"
There, fixed that for you.
And what exactly is wrong with the BNP? Whether or not the British people support the BNP or not should be looked at in no different a light to whether or not Indians supported Ghandi and the Quit India Movement.
Yeah, it's as niche as using cooking oil from restaurants, but it might work. And there is always the nice living to be made from saving those interesting things people forget they ever stored on those CDs from seeing the light of day.
"They used to come up with new and innovative ideas such as, the Xerox copier, a graphical user interface using windows, and a host of other innovate technologies. "
And what did they get for their troubles? They did the research, other companies (hello Apple) stole, I mean, were "heavily inspired by" their ideas.
This is almost like a list of best extensions to get! I'm getting pdf download right now.
The only one I'm skeptical about is trackmenot. If I was writing some sort of terrist filter for google/NSA, I'd be looking at the search terms of people already convicted/suspected of such activities. I'd see which terms are most prevalent wrt the average search. Divide and I'd get a 'terrist coefficient'.
Knowing those terms, I'd multiply the 'terrist coefficient' of each term against the terms a particular IP/tracking cookie give me, and if the sum crossed a certain threshold I'd mark them for surveillance. I don't see why I'd need to divide by the total number of search terms. It's not as if Grandma Nelly is out there googling for obscure chemicals, etc.
I guess it also depends on who you are worried about being tracked by, and why. I suspect for most things trackmenot is not a solution and you'd be better off using TOR.
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You can often keep up or even beat most people using this technique in the city. If you brake in advance to try and still have some kinetic energy by the time you hit the light, you already have the jump on the guy in the next lane who has slammed on his brakes at the last instant.
Also, the faster you go (providing this is not requiring undue braking), the more efficient it is up to a point (about 80-90kph or so?), before the air resistance really kicks in.
Most people are amazed at the mileage you can get by "driving fast", not knowing it is all the unnecessary heat you are generating by wearing away your brake pads that is destroying your fuel economy. They tend to be surprised that accelerating at a moderate pace or driving at a speed at or above the flow of the traffic is not bad for fuel economy in and of itself.
Apparently if you press "up up down down left right left right B A Select Start", you can actually vote in one of Hell's minions.
"There's a lot of processes in place (at least here in Australia) to give you fair change to adapt your behaviour - speeding tickets, loss of license, car confiscation, and finally - if they weren't enough of a deterrent - they throw you in the slammer."
Or they completely bypass all that and extradite you to the US.
What ever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
The worst would have to be the laws of the English language. They could start by pronouncing herbs the right way. Perhaps there could be extraditions treaties with the UK and Canada until the Americans start getting it right.
God yes.
It's worse if they have memory problems or are just overloaded and you go through a Groundhog Day of such "arguments".
I think I punctured a lung over that one.
Hopefully they are forwarding a good 20% of that royalty to the heirs of Archibald Carey.
Back in the 1980s, computer ownership was limited to a small percentage of people. They tended to be moderately wealthy and intelligent. Now we are approaching market saturation, where there are computers on every desktop and MS windows preinstalled on them, because the average user is too dumb to install an OS himself. The target readership has dropped at least a standard deviation in IQ, and the articles are written to match.
The demographic that bought those magazines 15 years ago now do their research on a search engine for free, and if they want to try a game or application demo they'll download it directly.
"Producing alcohol produces *VAST* amounts of CO2."
Which comes from sugar, the carbon dioxide from which is sucked out of the atmosphere. It's essentially carbon neutral (like any other biofuel or crop). If the waste plant material is not burnt, it might even act as a net sink.
They have no users? They are currently on #52 in the page hit rank on distrowatch. Right below linspire.
Or you could download everything in the ftp directory on another computer, host it locally, and install from there. Quicker and you don't waste a CDR.
Yeah, I know, Slashdot uses Google's default logo. I'm no fan of MS, but surely Google must be getting omnipotent enough to deserve a special icon all of their own, to complement the Gates as Borg MS icon?
Interesting article.
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'We aren't talking about living into your 80s," Caspari says. Human life span in those days was pretty brief, under the best of circumstances, so even living into your 30s was quite an achievement.'
The necessity of age 50/60+ people to a tribe has been in part counteracted by the institutional memory functions of both papyrus and religion. The other thing is that with something like cancer that is in most cases a probability rather than a certainty, not everyone is going to die. The article compares the memory of the elderly to a hard drive or tape backup. Redundancy is good... but you only need so many backups before it's overkill. As long as there are one or two lucid old people around, the tribe will do fine.
At least your own elderly don't have much of an incentive to lie about the important things, only how tough they had it. Unlike much of the media.
http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/monty-python-f
It's also a very difficult task to keep cells dividing that many times without errors. Extend it far enough and there will inevitably be some compromises made, unintended consequences, etc.
For every extra old person eating food, that's food that could otherwise be eaten by someone able to reproduce, is about to reproduce, can remember the stories his parents told him, can defend the tribe, and can harvest more food. Obviously it's not an age set in stone, it's a gradation that will correspond with general age related deaths (heart disease, cancer, etc).
To be talking about the "end of (tens of thousands of years of) history" just because of a couple of decades of plenty (and mostly just in the US, because of the dollar denominated oil empire) reflects more than just a little hubris. Kind of like the '2. ??? 3. Profit!' dot com business models.
"So it's hard to diet because as far as your body knows, that triple fudge brownie might be the the calories you burn not freezing to death tonight. And since you're body's so preoccupied with this now baseless fear of starvation, it forgets to make you want to eat things like broccoli or spinach, which our ancestors were probably eating to pass the time until some meat wandered close enough to kill. Call it evolutionary sabotage- what we needed before is not what we need now, and if we can't stay on top of those changes, we tend to die."
A little refresher on evolution: As far as natural selection is concerned, health after age 50-60 is essentially unimportant. I suspect many slashdotters will recognize this as being similar to a "don't care" state on a Karnaugh map. If having DNA for cancer or heart disease also makes you more likely to live, create and provide for your progeny, your genes aren't going to die out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map
As such, some 50 year old dropping dead from twinkie overload hardly registers with natural selection. By that stage, any offspring resulting from that person will likely be ready to leave the nest and quite unlikely to starve - at least one parent must have died from gluttony after all.
Contrast that with someone who is able to breeze through life with a washboard stomach and no desire in the world for food. The moment there is a war, drought, epidemic, harsh winter, crop blight or even rats getting into your root cellar, that individual is out of the gene pool.
The last great depression was only 70 years ago. War/government induced lean times, less long ago (outside the US). It's a pretty bold bet to assume that the next few hundred years will involve as a matter of course people munching burgers their whole lives without any hard times, what with limited world resources, exponential population growth and the natural tendency of people to fight and sometimes constrict the supply of said limited resources.
How do you manage quality of service issues in sharing an internet connection with 2 or more users if one wants to be doing general stuff (surfing the web, checking email, using skype etc) and the other wants to use up all the slack time with file sharing?
I use MS DOS 6 with doublespace doubling my hard drive space. I store stuff on both C and H drives, zipping, arjing and rarring all my jpgs and divx files. I figure with the amount of compression I'm using, I'll have roughly 20 times as much room as regular plebs. Suckers!
You should also see my 133t power strip setup. I don't need extra sockets, with daisy chaining I can fit as many devices as I want! LOL LOL Unfortunately my faulty circuit breaker keeps switching off at the most inconvenient times, I'll have to get that seen to.
Good advice by both parents.
Some vim specific advice:
1) Understand that there is a learning curve. However, within a short time you are thinking what you want to do and your fingers are implementing it, with a minimum of RSI. Contrast with notepad.exe.
2) Don't type vim, first off. Type vimtutor, and keep going with it.
Also, better to type "updatedb" and then whenever you want to find something, do "locate file". You will need to type updatedb if you think the file is new since you last typed it. Much faster.
"Move to Iraq. Everyone has a gun in Iraq. Safest place in the world."
Not the best idea unless you are an Iraqi... they use those guns to defend themselves from corrupt leaders, invasions, installed puppet governments, etc.
Which was the point of the 2nd Amendment. It's insurance - you trade off the occasional massacre and more regular murder to have a fighting chance to prevent a slaughter where millions get killed, you get kicked off your land, invaded, etc.
Prior to Iraq it was common to hear how useless guns are against modern 1st world armies. You don't hear that argument so much any more.
"Should I likewise assume that every White man is a potential KKK, or BNP member?"
There, fixed that for you.
And what exactly is wrong with the BNP? Whether or not the British people support the BNP or not should be looked at in no different a light to whether or not Indians supported Ghandi and the Quit India Movement.
You forgot Chuck Norris.
If XP is Windows Classic, is Vista supposed to taste like OS X? And if you are on a major budget, do you buy Redhat Cola?
You could burn them, and let plants photosynthesize the carbon into wood. The hydrogen combines with oxygen to make water.
o n/1980-05-01/Ajax-The-Woodburning-Steam-Powered-Tr uck.aspx
You could even use the energy to propel you forward.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Transportati
Yeah, it's as niche as using cooking oil from restaurants, but it might work. And there is always the nice living to be made from saving those interesting things people forget they ever stored on those CDs from seeing the light of day.
"They used to come up with new and innovative ideas such as, the Xerox copier, a graphical user interface using windows, and a host of other innovate technologies. "
And what did they get for their troubles? They did the research, other companies (hello Apple) stole, I mean, were "heavily inspired by" their ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC
This is almost like a list of best extensions to get! I'm getting pdf download right now.
The only one I'm skeptical about is trackmenot. If I was writing some sort of terrist filter for google/NSA, I'd be looking at the search terms of people already convicted/suspected of such activities. I'd see which terms are most prevalent wrt the average search. Divide and I'd get a 'terrist coefficient'.
Knowing those terms, I'd multiply the 'terrist coefficient' of each term against the terms a particular IP/tracking cookie give me, and if the sum crossed a certain threshold I'd mark them for surveillance. I don't see why I'd need to divide by the total number of search terms. It's not as if Grandma Nelly is out there googling for obscure chemicals, etc.
I guess it also depends on who you are worried about being tracked by, and why. I suspect for most things trackmenot is not a solution and you'd be better off using TOR.