We humans eat cows, even though it takes more energy to feed them than we get. The reason is that we consider more issues than pure energy-efficiency to when we acquire nutrition
As if it mattered, it should be noted that cows eat stuff that we cannot (grasses, the stalks of wheat called "hay" etc) and turn it into food we can eat; including Burgers and pizza toppings.
Yes, I know that some marketers feed these beasts human food (cereal grains) as a finishing touch to add more consumer-preferred fat just before slaughter. That does shift the equation a bit, but more often than not the "grain" is post-fermentation mash from the production of beer, or other forms of cereals that are not wanted by humans.
Since us Geeks love checklists; are you ever going to publish a checklist of things geeks can do and say to avoid and/or survive the wrath of the mundanes?
Now, try to zap yourself with this electrical source. It isn't going to happen. Why? Because the frequency rate is so high that the current passes directly through your body before the neurons in your system can even react.
The reason you don't feel electrical shock at the local Science Museum "Tessla Coil" demonstration has nothing to do with the "speed" of the electrons "passing directly through your body before the neurons in your system can even react."
Yes the frequency is an issue, but the effect that prevents you from that "I'm being electrocuted" feeling, is the behavior of the electrons which travel on the surface of the conductor (you) instead of through the conductor (you and your easily excited nerve endings).
The science museum selected the demo and took the risk of presenting it in our highly litigous society to:
Teach you a little bit about electricity, history and technology
Excite your imagination and encourage you to study and learn more.
I agree. The D-TV to NTSC converter will be less than $99.95 in 2005 dollars (about $75 in today's dollars) including remote control.
Granny will still need you to come over and hook it up for her, but she'll feed you a great dinner as always. If you have a lot of older lady relatives you can eat free for weeks.
Here's a fat but not limitless budget to define and design the personal computer of the future. The design can build off PC/Mac/SGI or be all new - your call.
Do you:
Accept the project
Vet the design step by step via the open source community at slash-dot
Several messages hinted at this question, but I didn't see this exact query.
Here's a fat but not limitless budget to define and design the personal computer of the future.... and a few cases of anchor steam beer to assist you in contemplating the proposition.
Do you
Accept the project
Vet the design step by step via the open source community at slash-dot Several messages hinted at this question. I didn't read all 500 so it might be there.
I say I spent a decade in Pittsburgh one winter. Frankly it felt like longer.
It was a very high paying contract job that included a car but when the contract was not renewed, I was very pleased to shut down my apartment and get the heck out of town. My stuff was at the shipper and I was on a 757 for home in 48 hours. Of course I was returning to my home town, one of the most livable places in america (Portland OR) according to every year's survey
So money aint it. Ya gotta be comfortable with the geography, the climate and the culture. Not much you can do about A and B but as for C: Pitt has a lotta culture, with museums, sports teams CMU and all the other U's etc.
One observable artifact from the industrial revolution is that this is still a solidly union town. Geeks don't love unions (perhaps I should add "yet"). We tend to avoid that mentality believing that we bring meritocracy with us. Being full of.edu's the town is also pretty mired down in folks with tenure, including the public school system, where you have people who've earned Masters and Doctorates in Education at the local.edu's earning $90k teaching 3rd grade. Great union town, not so great for non-union mentalities.
There's a big dip in the population of Pittsburgh in the ages ranging from 18-45. People just don't hang there during prime earning/breeding years, though they do seem to return there to retire. The common tale is that they either inherit their parents place or buy a house on the same block where they grew up. In reality this is sometimes as far a s 4 blocks from the house where they grew up
What to do? One hot idea is to promote that there are FABULOUS deals on amazing high-quality old homes. If the city or your employer could find a way to subsidize remodling gentrification in those homes and neighborhoods; a lot of cool things could happen.
Other than that, I dunno. I think however you'll know it's happened when
Downtown is not abandoned at 5:15PM/nightfall.
That lovely mall across the river from downtown is filled with Gap, Macy's, and other upscale retailers instead of looking like a post-apacalypse movie set.
Yuppies return, and even-out that population/age curve so that there's no longer that a big dip in the population of 18-45 year olds.
I look in disbelief that anyone could think that tha American Constution is a *good* thing.
You sir, are opening your mouth and revealing yourself to be an under-educated fool.
Let me amend that, since most/. readers are indeed very well educated.
Your education, Mr. Anonymous Coward Sir, seems to be tragicly restricted to that which has been fed you within the Ivory Tower of a formal education. I do sincerely hope you suvive, when at last you venture into the real world.
But do you guys realise just how many people get killed in Americia with GUNS.
Indeed we do, including the fact that slightly over half of that number are suicides.
Clearly however, you are unaware of the fact that the presence of a gun prevents not less than 2 Million crimes (including murder, robery, rape and assault) each year in the USA.
Well over half of the States in the USA now have "shall carry" laws which mean that the local governments within that state must recognize the legitimacy of a concealed weapon permit issued by a county government anywhere within that state. The upshot of this rather welcome trend is a statistically significant downward trend in violent crimes, in those states where "shall carry" laws are enacted. This was such a significant trend that the national averages have been trending down for some time now.
You see, one need not discharge a weapon to have its presence deter a criminal from his intended victimization.
I could dare you to look in on a great many web sites and usenet news groups to get reinforcement of both sides of this debate...
Hmmm.... let me instead humbly suggest that a good starting place is Amazon.com where you should look up the reviews and user comments on a book entitled: Point Blank by Professor Gary Kleck, from the University of Chicago. It is a thick and expensive book, but you can get 80% of the value of this schollarly and peer reviewed book just by reading the commentary about the book by official reviewers and those added by Amazon customers. Amazon will also point you to other similar works, where again, you can get a good feel about the content from the reviews.
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- We humans eat cows, even though it takes more energy to feed them than we get. The reason is that we consider more issues than pure energy-efficiency to when we acquire nutrition
As if it mattered, it should be noted that cows eat stuff that we cannot (grasses, the stalks of wheat called "hay" etc) and turn it into food we can eat; including Burgers and pizza toppings.Yes, I know that some marketers feed these beasts human food (cereal grains) as a finishing touch to add more consumer-preferred fat just before slaughter. That does shift the equation a bit, but more often than not the "grain" is post-fermentation mash from the production of beer, or other forms of cereals that are not wanted by humans.
About 4 years ago there was a proposal for a .XXX top level domain, which would of course put Net Nany etc. out of biz.....
Since us Geeks love checklists; are you ever going to publish a checklist of things geeks can do and say to avoid and/or survive the wrath of the mundanes?
The reason you don't feel electrical shock at the local Science Museum "Tessla Coil" demonstration has nothing to do with the "speed" of the electrons "passing directly through your body before the neurons in your system can even react."
Yes the frequency is an issue, but the effect that prevents you from that "I'm being electrocuted" feeling, is the behavior of the electrons which travel on the surface of the conductor (you) instead of through the conductor (you and your easily excited nerve endings).
The science museum selected the demo and took the risk of presenting it in our highly litigous society to:
- Teach you a little bit about electricity, history and technology
- Excite your imagination and encourage you to study and learn more.
Well one out of two aint bad.Granny will still need you to come over and hook it up for her, but she'll feed you a great dinner as always. If you have a lot of older lady relatives you can eat free for weeks.
- A Venture Capitalist you respect says to you:
- Accept the project
- Vet the design step by step via the open source community at slash-dot
Several messages hinted at this question, but I didn't see this exact query.- Here's a fat but not limitless budget to define and design the personal computer of the future. The design can build off PC/Mac/SGI or be all new - your call.
Do you:- A venture Capitalist you respect says to you:
- Here's a fat but not limitless budget to define and design the personal computer of the future.... and a few cases of anchor steam beer to assist you in contemplating the proposition.
Do youI say I spent a decade in Pittsburgh one winter. Frankly it felt like longer.
It was a very high paying contract job that included a car but when the contract was not renewed, I was very pleased to shut down my apartment and get the heck out of town. My stuff was at the shipper and I was on a 757 for home in 48 hours. Of course I was returning to my home town, one of the most livable places in america (Portland OR) according to every year's survey
So money aint it. Ya gotta be comfortable with the geography, the climate and the culture. Not much you can do about A and B but as for C: Pitt has a lotta culture, with museums, sports teams CMU and all the other U's etc.
One observable artifact from the industrial revolution is that this is still a solidly union town. Geeks don't love unions (perhaps I should add "yet"). We tend to avoid that mentality believing that we bring meritocracy with us. Being full of .edu's the town is also pretty mired down in folks with tenure, including the public school system, where you have people who've earned Masters and Doctorates in Education at the local .edu's earning $90k teaching 3rd grade. Great union town, not so great for non-union mentalities.
There's a big dip in the population of Pittsburgh in the ages ranging from 18-45. People just don't hang there during prime earning/breeding years, though they do seem to return there to retire. The common tale is that they either inherit their parents place or buy a house on the same block where they grew up. In reality this is sometimes as far a s 4 blocks from the house where they grew up
What to do? One hot idea is to promote that there are FABULOUS deals on amazing high-quality old homes. If the city or your employer could find a way to subsidize remodling gentrification in those homes and neighborhoods; a lot of cool things could happen.
Other than that, I dunno. I think however you'll know it's happened when
- until [there are] 10 million DVD players in consumer's homes
Me thinks thou doest confuse George Lucas with Robber Baron Bill Gates.Lucas is "one of us" on a grand scale, doing fun stuff that makes lots of money. Not for the sake of "money," so much as for the sake of "fun stuff."
My best Guess: Star Wars will be the Killer App that launches D-DVD as in HIGH DEFINITION TV Disk Players.
Lucas is just waiting for the hardware (good market penetration of Screens and a home D-DVD players available in quantity) to appear.
He may even get paid big bux for it by Sony Phillips etc.
- I look in disbelief that anyone could think that tha American Constution is a *good* thing.
You sir, are opening your mouth and revealing yourself to be an under-educated fool.Let me amend that, since most /. readers are indeed very well educated.
Your education, Mr. Anonymous Coward Sir, seems to be tragicly restricted to that which has been fed you within the Ivory Tower of a formal education. I do sincerely hope you suvive, when at last you venture into the real world.
- But do you guys realise just how many people get killed in Americia with GUNS.
Indeed we do, including the fact that slightly over half of that number are suicides.Clearly however, you are unaware of the fact that the presence of a gun prevents not less than 2 Million crimes (including murder, robery, rape and assault) each year in the USA.
Well over half of the States in the USA now have "shall carry" laws which mean that the local governments within that state must recognize the legitimacy of a concealed weapon permit issued by a county government anywhere within that state. The upshot of this rather welcome trend is a statistically significant downward trend in violent crimes, in those states where "shall carry" laws are enacted. This was such a significant trend that the national averages have been trending down for some time now.
You see, one need not discharge a weapon to have its presence deter a criminal from his intended victimization.
I could dare you to look in on a great many web sites and usenet news groups to get reinforcement of both sides of this debate...
Hmmm.... let me instead humbly suggest that a good starting place is Amazon.com where you should look up the reviews and user comments on a book entitled: Point Blank by Professor Gary Kleck, from the University of Chicago. It is a thick and expensive book, but you can get 80% of the value of this schollarly and peer reviewed book just by reading the commentary about the book by official reviewers and those added by Amazon customers. Amazon will also point you to other similar works, where again, you can get a good feel about the content from the reviews.
Amen again