I have one GMail account for each website that requires registration and which I use regularly (E-Bay, Amazon, stuff like that). Makes it easy to figure out which sites sell my data to spammers.
I have another GMail account for websites that I do not use regularly or where I don't care if they sell my data.
I recently had a use case where the data did not change after an initial import. The normalized schema prevented us from building the dedicated indexes we wanted containing constraints on columns in two or more tables.
Denormalizing the five source tables into one huge materialized join table improved the performance of our system by factor 10-1000 (depending on query) after we had built our indexes. (I should mention that for some of our queries -- those containing unanchored regular expressions -- the performance decreased by factor 2-4. In our case this was sensible, but YMMV.)
Yes, I'm from Germany which is generally bike-friendly.
Still, for the distances the article is talking about your arguments are not very strong, IHMO.
Sweat -- if you only wear a shirt that can flow freely (i.e. no backpack or shoulder bag) the sweat will dissipate during the ride as it's supposed to. You'll break into a heavier sweat when you arrive and step down the bike, but a minute of cooling down should do it and for any remaining smells there's deodorant. BTW, it was 95 F last week here and during the weekend it's supposed to break the 100. No reason not to ride your bike.
Safety -- for a distance that short, shouldn't you be able to find back roads with little traffic? Despite that, your argument boils down to: people don't ride their bikes because the infrastructure is so crappy. Well, the infrastructure won't improve until more people ride bikes and demand their rights vocally. For example (and that's a subjective impression), car drivers in Berlin cut right corners much less than they did 15 years ago. In the same time the number of bikes on the road has increased.
BTW, I spent a high school year in Pennsylvania and rode my bike quite a lot during that time.
They can travel fast over long distances with the TGV (high-speed train) or airplanes, but not over short distances (under 1 km).
It's called a bike. Learn how to use it, FFS!
And to preemptively counter the usual complaints...
Sweat -- The best way to drastically reduce sweat-drenched clothes is not to wear a backpack or shoulder bag but use dedicated bike bags that are attached to the bike rack. Also, if you're breaking into a heavy sweat after 1 km (a casual 4 minute ride), you should ride your bike more often to get rid of that excessive weight.
Safety -- again, the article talks about an urban environment and distances under 1km. Unless you live in Gaza you should be able to find a safe and quick route.
Red lights simply make no sense for cyclists -- which is why we ignore them.
This is the situation in Germany: In residential areas there is a uniform 30 km/h speed limit. Generally, there are also no traffic lights and no stop signs. Traffic at intersections is governed by the right-before-left rule. This means that a car does not have to come to a full stop at an intersection -- it merely has to slow down to see if there's crossing traffic from the right and if not it can enter the intersection. I.e. if the road is clear you can just drive.
A cyclist in the city generally rides an easy 15-25 km/h. Well below the speed of cars where traffic lights become necessary. Traffic lights manage the flow of cars which go 30 km/h and faster -- they cannot slow down in time to see crossing traffic and have enough time to come to a stop if necessary, so we time-slice their way of right.
Why do cyclists have to follow these rules which are made for traffic that is much faster then a bike?
It's odd reading this statement on Slashdot, considering that the bicycle is THE most efficient mode of transport (energy expended vs. distance travelled). Nothing in nature comes close and the other man-made transportation system are not even in the same league.
BTW, study after study has shown that cyclists are safer when they share the road with motorists and not when they are segregated. It's all about being seen by the car drivers and them paying attention to us.
99% of the people on bikes are always breaking traffic laws running red lights...
By the same standard 99% of motorists are also always breaking the law -- at least in Germany. Hint: You must leave a distance of 5 feet when passing a cyclist in a car, because it's the fucking law. Guess how many car drivers follow that rule all the time?
Another example: A community may not designate a bike path as mandatory if it is less than 5 feet wide. It's the fucking law. Guess how many bike paths are mandatory in Berlin which do not meet that criteria? Kilometers!
A final cluestick: Study after study has shown that cyclists are most safe when they enter the intersection before the cars. Which is why we run red lights. The number of accidents caused by a cyclist running a red light is negligible -- they are not even listed in the traffic accident statistics for Berlin. OTOH, 80% of accidents involving cyclists are caused by a car that missed the cyclists when making a right turn. But it's the cyclists who get a bad rap -- unbelievable.
Traffic laws are not written with cyclists in mind. The first priority is the easy flow of cars, then comes the security of pedestrians. Cylclists are an afterthought. As long as that's the case, we will continue to choose to ignore them if we feel they are unsafe and/or counter-productive.
A study by the University of Cambridge comes to a different conclusion. From the abstract:
"With the average yield ratios, we modeled the global food supply that could be grown organically on the current agricultural land base. Model estimates indicate that organic methods could produce enough food on a global per capita basis to sustain the current human population, and potentially an even larger population, without increasing the agricultural land base."
It's called horizontal gene transfer and happens all the time even between species of different realms. The Wikipedia article mentions a species of lice that has incorporated genes of a fungus.
First you're talking about European immigrants stealing UK jobs, now you're talking about who's a net contributor? Make up your mind.
For starters, the countries are part of the common economic zone which supposedly is good for trade. The UK being particularly trade-happy, you should know this. And the source of those crappy EU laws that nobody likes are always the politicians from some member country who didn't get their way in their local parliament. It's the national governments you have to reform if you want to change how the EU works.
As to Greece, my point was that it's not the fault of the Greek people but of their politicians. (Who were of course elected by the people, but that never stops them from putting their personal interest first.)
I'm sure the Poles, Czech, Hungarians and other Eastern European peoples of today are not much different from the Spaniards, Portuguese and Italians from the 70s and 80s. Economically speaking. And look at the benefits the EU enjoys now with them in it. Romania is a free market dream state as I hear.
Yeah, Greece is going broke right now, but who's fault is that, really?
I though the point of the episode was to rehash all the other jokes they have done in the 199 episodes prior.
Incidentally, I found the beeped version of the speech at the end okay, especially since it was interrupted was all the "That's right children." I thought that was hilarious.
But the beeping out of someone mentioning Mohammed was weird especially after watching last week's episode back-to-back.
Meanwhile in Sweden and Finland, people enjoy their 10Mbit or 100Mbit connections straight to their homes. And their monthly bill is cheaper than what you're paying, too.
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From what I've seen, many North-American drivers do not consume less food than the average biker. Much more, it would seem, actually.
The failure in the argument is to assume that Linus' kernel is in any way "official". Distribution maintainers don't think that way at all.
My hobby is photography and matte displays have reduced contrast. That's no good.
(I heard that professional photographers prefer a CRT over a LCD, but as I said, it's only a hobby for me.)
I have one GMail account for each website that requires registration and which I use regularly (E-Bay, Amazon, stuff like that). Makes it easy to figure out which sites sell my data to spammers.
I have another GMail account for websites that I do not use regularly or where I don't care if they sell my data.
That depends on the workload.
I recently had a use case where the data did not change after an initial import. The normalized schema prevented us from building the dedicated indexes we wanted containing constraints on columns in two or more tables.
Denormalizing the five source tables into one huge materialized join table improved the performance of our system by factor 10-1000 (depending on query) after we had built our indexes. (I should mention that for some of our queries -- those containing unanchored regular expressions -- the performance decreased by factor 2-4. In our case this was sensible, but YMMV.)
Yes, I'm from Germany which is generally bike-friendly.
Still, for the distances the article is talking about your arguments are not very strong, IHMO.
Sweat -- if you only wear a shirt that can flow freely (i.e. no backpack or shoulder bag) the sweat will dissipate during the ride as it's supposed to. You'll break into a heavier sweat when you arrive and step down the bike, but a minute of cooling down should do it and for any remaining smells there's deodorant. BTW, it was 95 F last week here and during the weekend it's supposed to break the 100. No reason not to ride your bike.
Safety -- for a distance that short, shouldn't you be able to find back roads with little traffic? Despite that, your argument boils down to: people don't ride their bikes because the infrastructure is so crappy. Well, the infrastructure won't improve until more people ride bikes and demand their rights vocally. For example (and that's a subjective impression), car drivers in Berlin cut right corners much less than they did 15 years ago. In the same time the number of bikes on the road has increased.
BTW, I spent a high school year in Pennsylvania and rode my bike quite a lot during that time.
They can travel fast over long distances with the TGV (high-speed train) or airplanes, but not over short distances (under 1 km).
It's called a bike. Learn how to use it, FFS!
And to preemptively counter the usual complaints...
Sweat -- The best way to drastically reduce sweat-drenched clothes is not to wear a backpack or shoulder bag but use dedicated bike bags that are attached to the bike rack. Also, if you're breaking into a heavy sweat after 1 km (a casual 4 minute ride), you should ride your bike more often to get rid of that excessive weight.
Safety -- again, the article talks about an urban environment and distances under 1km. Unless you live in Gaza you should be able to find a safe and quick route.
Oh and considering your online terrorist training: despite what you might think killall will not do what you think it will.
It does on Solaris.
Red lights simply make no sense for cyclists -- which is why we ignore them.
This is the situation in Germany: In residential areas there is a uniform 30 km/h speed limit. Generally, there are also no traffic lights and no stop signs. Traffic at intersections is governed by the right-before-left rule. This means that a car does not have to come to a full stop at an intersection -- it merely has to slow down to see if there's crossing traffic from the right and if not it can enter the intersection. I.e. if the road is clear you can just drive.
A cyclist in the city generally rides an easy 15-25 km/h. Well below the speed of cars where traffic lights become necessary. Traffic lights manage the flow of cars which go 30 km/h and faster -- they cannot slow down in time to see crossing traffic and have enough time to come to a stop if necessary, so we time-slice their way of right.
Why do cyclists have to follow these rules which are made for traffic that is much faster then a bike?
It's odd reading this statement on Slashdot, considering that the bicycle is THE most efficient mode of transport (energy expended vs. distance travelled). Nothing in nature comes close and the other man-made transportation system are not even in the same league.
BTW, study after study has shown that cyclists are safer when they share the road with motorists and not when they are segregated. It's all about being seen by the car drivers and them paying attention to us.
By the same standard 99% of motorists are also always breaking the law -- at least in Germany. Hint: You must leave a distance of 5 feet when passing a cyclist in a car, because it's the fucking law. Guess how many car drivers follow that rule all the time?
Another example: A community may not designate a bike path as mandatory if it is less than 5 feet wide. It's the fucking law. Guess how many bike paths are mandatory in Berlin which do not meet that criteria? Kilometers!
A final cluestick: Study after study has shown that cyclists are most safe when they enter the intersection before the cars. Which is why we run red lights. The number of accidents caused by a cyclist running a red light is negligible -- they are not even listed in the traffic accident statistics for Berlin. OTOH, 80% of accidents involving cyclists are caused by a car that missed the cyclists when making a right turn. But it's the cyclists who get a bad rap -- unbelievable.
Traffic laws are not written with cyclists in mind. The first priority is the easy flow of cars, then comes the security of pedestrians. Cylclists are an afterthought. As long as that's the case, we will continue to choose to ignore them if we feel they are unsafe and/or counter-productive.
Lawsuit because some idiot followed parent's advice in 3...2...1...
Why not just put the timer on the traffic lights themselves...
And give teenagers and other morons one more incentive to race their cars? What could possibly go wrong?
Either evolution is how life began or it isn't.
Evolution makes no claim whatsoever about how life began. That's usually called abiogenesis.
Stopped reading after that.
Unless you use cash.
So the food and agriculture industries say.
A study by the University of Cambridge comes to a different conclusion. From the abstract:
"With the average yield ratios, we modeled the global food supply that could be grown organically on the current agricultural land base. Model estimates indicate that organic methods could produce enough food on a global per capita basis to sustain the current human population, and potentially an even larger population, without increasing the agricultural land base."
Link: http://www.seedquest.com/News/releases/2007/july/19783.htm
They're only cheaper because they externalize a majority of their costs. Society picks up the tap.
It's called horizontal gene transfer and happens all the time even between species of different realms. The Wikipedia article mentions a species of lice that has incorporated genes of a fungus.
He wanted an external floppy drive for his new computer for christmas. I tried talking him out of it to no avail.
First you're talking about European immigrants stealing UK jobs, now you're talking about who's a net contributor? Make up your mind.
For starters, the countries are part of the common economic zone which supposedly is good for trade. The UK being particularly trade-happy, you should know this. And the source of those crappy EU laws that nobody likes are always the politicians from some member country who didn't get their way in their local parliament. It's the national governments you have to reform if you want to change how the EU works.
As to Greece, my point was that it's not the fault of the Greek people but of their politicians. (Who were of course elected by the people, but that never stops them from putting their personal interest first.)
I'm sure the Poles, Czech, Hungarians and other Eastern European peoples of today are not much different from the Spaniards, Portuguese and Italians from the 70s and 80s. Economically speaking. And look at the benefits the EU enjoys now with them in it. Romania is a free market dream state as I hear.
Yeah, Greece is going broke right now, but who's fault is that, really?
That's news to me.
Wait a minute? You guys actually have THREE competing mobile carrier technologies in the US?
I though the point of the episode was to rehash all the other jokes they have done in the 199 episodes prior.
Incidentally, I found the beeped version of the speech at the end okay, especially since it was interrupted was all the "That's right children." I thought that was hilarious.
But the beeping out of someone mentioning Mohammed was weird especially after watching last week's episode back-to-back.
I ad-block, have the checkbox clicked and still get modpoints about 2-4 times a month for writing about as many posts. In fact, I have some right now.
Meanwhile in Sweden and Finland, people enjoy their 10Mbit or 100Mbit connections straight to their homes. And their monthly bill is cheaper than what you're paying, too.