...cyclists the real problem is the way America designs its city streets and they way Americans think about movement. Living in L.A. made me give up driving; the craziness of the freeways, the sprawl of the city and the love of the car all got to me so I decide to chuck the car and switch to commuting by bicycle. I was fortunate in that I lived in Glendale and worked in Burbank which made my commute less then five miles. It wasn't easy to do and some of the biggest problems I found were lack of dedicated space for bicycles on streets, drivers who would pass at high speeds without proper spacing (I think 99% of the drivers weren't even aware I was on the road) and parked cars that would open doors without looking or pull in and out of spaces without checking to see if it was clear. I later moved up to Mountain View, CA and worked in Palo Alto, CA where my commute went up to just a little more then seven miles. The big difference from southern California to northern was the addition of bike lanes some of which even took cyclists completely away from car traffic but there still were problems with drivers and them being aware of cyclists on the road. I have also lived in Chicago, IL and Austin, TX and saw the same problems there. I now live in NYC and have been impressed by how some of the bike lanes are separated or at least shield from most of the moving traffic but I have found there is now a problem with pedestrians that blindly step off the curb into the bike lane without looking because they seem to think they are not stepping into traffic which is sort of true as they are not stepping into car traffic but they are stepping into bicycle traffic. Now I have also been to Germany (Munich & Berlin), Belgium, Amsterdam and Paris and have seen how there just isn't space for cyclists on the road but there is also awareness by both drivers and pedestrians of cyclists and the spaces dedicated for them. In the ten plus years I have ridden there have been at least two occasions that my helmet saved my life; one of which I was not moving at all, I was doing a track stand when a SUV hit me, sent me flying in the air and eventually I landed head first on the street. I always tell people I can break a leg or arm and it wont change who I am but if I break my brain well that is a different story completely and that is why I wear a helmet. I would love to be able to ride without a helmet but until the 99.9% of Americans, drivers and pedestrians, start thinking and seeing cyclists the streets of America will not be safe for riding.
So I haven't read the article from Pakistan's Daily Times but the idea of telling people of other faiths or no faith at all that they aren't allowed to say something about another persons faith is just a ridiculous idea. Why doesn't the Pakistan Prime Minster instead try to pass laws in Pakistan that would punish extremists who are causing the trouble in his country.
Suggest you take a look at Synology (http://www.synology.com/us/index.php) we use them in the small company that I work at and find them to be a good solution.
after the first 30 seconds I wanted to turn it off but tortured myself with the full 6:14 because I just couldn't believe how idiotic it was! Whatever marketing firm is behind this fiasco better start closing shop.
So here is some of the software they listed: integrated software and an embedded Linux (based on Debian) that has been stripped down to support Open Office, Firefox, iTunes, instant messaging, and multimedia When did Apple make a version of iTunes for Linux? Not that I want to use it but I know lots of other people who would like to switch to Linux but the only piece of s/w I can't replace for them is iTunes.
Haven't read the full article/interview but in my opinion space travel is restricted to those with the money and power to make it happen, thus governments or big business. My opinion has always been that we will travel in space once me have used up or over populated this planet and need another place to settle, think of the first Matrix and the idea that humans are parasites and that we just consume and consume until there is nothing left and will move on to the next thing without a thought. The little guy who has dreams of greater things and of adventure will never ever be able to drive space exploration. Hell even the early explorers had to ask the king or queen for the backing.
I use to live in Philly and still have family there. One of my sisters worked as a teacher for the School District in a very poor section of the city. I use to say to her how great it would be if every class and every kid would have a computer. She would respond that the money would be better spent repairing leaky pipes, broken windows, getting rid of the rats, or even going towards the local community to make the kids feel like they are in a safe and clean enviroment. We sometimes lose perspective on things and think that technology can solve all of our problems but it can't. Wasn't technology and the PC suppose to create a paperless office but I'm sure that most offices use more paper today printing up hundreds of spreadsheets, presentations, documents, etc. which just end up being thrown away. Wasn't the computer suppose to be able to do everything faster or more efficiently that we Americans were going to have more free time but we are working longer hours today then we did 30 to 50 years ago. aren't old computers/hardware and even not so old computers/hardware ending up in our landfills causing problems, do a google search and find out the damage that hardware is doing to our enviroment. Basically it comes down to this technology is a tool to help us find a solution but eventually it falls on us the human race to really solve the problems. Sorry hope I didn't get to preachy there.
I use a IBM 600e supplied by my work and wiped the NT that was preinstalled on it and currently have RedHat 8.0 installed. Little Gnome app says battery is fully charged I disconnect the power cord and get maybe ten minutes of use before bang the system is beeping and the battery monitor app tells me 5% of the charge is left. I've switched batteries, I've drained the battery and then did a full charge but to no avail still same result ten minutes of use and bang battery is going down to 5% or 2%. Since I didn't pay for the laptop I really don't care but if there is a solution or fix to the problem it would be great be be able to use the laptop on my hour train ride in the morning and again in the evening. Look forward to any follow up posting and I'll continue to read the replies to see if anyone does know of a fix.
Akira is probablly one of the best I've ever seen. Has a great story and the animation is just amazing (look for the protest seen when the glass building shatters and rains sharreds of glass). Vampire Hunter D is another great story one and the style of animation is also great. Ghost in the Shell is a good movie but the series of comic books (put out by Dark Horse if I remember correctly) are much better because you get more of the story.
I was searching for a new job for over a year. Every day I would goto one of those job search engines and put in my info. Every day I would get e-mails with job listings. Every day I would send my resume (in plain text) to agencies. I stopped expecting response and began to feel I was putting a message in a bottle and tossing it in the ocean. I then started looking at companies that slashdot had postings on and sure enough I found one that doesn't deal with recruiters. I spoke with someone in the company directly and sure enough I had a new job. I spend my day installing all different OSes and am constantly challenged. I feel I owe all of this to slashdot and recommend that you forget the agencies and the job search engines and try to find your new job via slashdot.
I just finished watching and the only thing I can say is I'm glad I use Linux and the Be OS. Both Jobs and Gates both looked like a$$holes! I also feel sorry for the poor shmucks at Xerox who's bosses didn't have enough vision to see what they were doing. I'm left wondering what happend to those brillant people and would appreciate anybody who can give me insight as to what happend to them.
PLEASE! If you want a free OS go with Linux and one of the many distributions. The people at Be are working very hard and the price they are charging is very reasonable especialy if you compare the price/performance to a Microsofts OSes.
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...cyclists the real problem is the way America designs its city streets and they way Americans think about movement. Living in L.A. made me give up driving; the craziness of the freeways, the sprawl of the city and the love of the car all got to me so I decide to chuck the car and switch to commuting by bicycle. I was fortunate in that I lived in Glendale and worked in Burbank which made my commute less then five miles. It wasn't easy to do and some of the biggest problems I found were lack of dedicated space for bicycles on streets, drivers who would pass at high speeds without proper spacing (I think 99% of the drivers weren't even aware I was on the road) and parked cars that would open doors without looking or pull in and out of spaces without checking to see if it was clear. I later moved up to Mountain View, CA and worked in Palo Alto, CA where my commute went up to just a little more then seven miles. The big difference from southern California to northern was the addition of bike lanes some of which even took cyclists completely away from car traffic but there still were problems with drivers and them being aware of cyclists on the road. I have also lived in Chicago, IL and Austin, TX and saw the same problems there. I now live in NYC and have been impressed by how some of the bike lanes are separated or at least shield from most of the moving traffic but I have found there is now a problem with pedestrians that blindly step off the curb into the bike lane without looking because they seem to think they are not stepping into traffic which is sort of true as they are not stepping into car traffic but they are stepping into bicycle traffic. Now I have also been to Germany (Munich & Berlin), Belgium, Amsterdam and Paris and have seen how there just isn't space for cyclists on the road but there is also awareness by both drivers and pedestrians of cyclists and the spaces dedicated for them. In the ten plus years I have ridden there have been at least two occasions that my helmet saved my life; one of which I was not moving at all, I was doing a track stand when a SUV hit me, sent me flying in the air and eventually I landed head first on the street. I always tell people I can break a leg or arm and it wont change who I am but if I break my brain well that is a different story completely and that is why I wear a helmet. I would love to be able to ride without a helmet but until the 99.9% of Americans, drivers and pedestrians, start thinking and seeing cyclists the streets of America will not be safe for riding.
So I haven't read the article from Pakistan's Daily Times but the idea of telling people of other faiths or no faith at all that they aren't allowed to say something about another persons faith is just a ridiculous idea. Why doesn't the Pakistan Prime Minster instead try to pass laws in Pakistan that would punish extremists who are causing the trouble in his country.
Suggest you take a look at Synology (http://www.synology.com/us/index.php) we use them in the small company that I work at and find them to be a good solution.
after the first 30 seconds I wanted to turn it off but tortured myself with the full 6:14 because I just couldn't believe how idiotic it was! Whatever marketing firm is behind this fiasco better start closing shop.
So here is some of the software they listed: integrated software and an embedded Linux (based on Debian) that has been stripped down to support Open Office, Firefox, iTunes, instant messaging, and multimedia
When did Apple make a version of iTunes for Linux? Not that I want to use it but I know lots of other people who would like to switch to Linux but the only piece of s/w I can't replace for them is iTunes.
Haven't read the full article/interview but in my opinion space travel is restricted to those with the money and power to make it happen, thus governments or big business. My opinion has always been that we will travel in space once me have used up or over populated this planet and need another place to settle, think of the first Matrix and the idea that humans are parasites and that we just consume and consume until there is nothing left and will move on to the next thing without a thought. The little guy who has dreams of greater things and of adventure will never ever be able to drive space exploration. Hell even the early explorers had to ask the king or queen for the backing.
I use to live in Philly and still have family there. One of my sisters worked as a teacher for the School District in a very poor section of the city. I use to say to her how great it would be if every class and every kid would have a computer. She would respond that the money would be better spent repairing leaky pipes, broken windows, getting rid of the rats, or even going towards the local community to make the kids feel like they are in a safe and clean enviroment. We sometimes lose perspective on things and think that technology can solve all of our problems but it can't. Wasn't technology and the PC suppose to create a paperless office but I'm sure that most offices use more paper today printing up hundreds of spreadsheets, presentations, documents, etc. which just end up being thrown away. Wasn't the computer suppose to be able to do everything faster or more efficiently that we Americans were going to have more free time but we are working longer hours today then we did 30 to 50 years ago. aren't old computers/hardware and even not so old computers/hardware ending up in our landfills causing problems, do a google search and find out the damage that hardware is doing to our enviroment. Basically it comes down to this technology is a tool to help us find a solution but eventually it falls on us the human race to really solve the problems. Sorry hope I didn't get to preachy there.
I use a IBM 600e supplied by my work and wiped the NT that was preinstalled on it and currently have RedHat 8.0 installed. Little Gnome app says battery is fully charged I disconnect the power cord and get maybe ten minutes of use before bang the system is beeping and the battery monitor app tells me 5% of the charge is left. I've switched batteries, I've drained the battery and then did a full charge but to no avail still same result ten minutes of use and bang battery is going down to 5% or 2%. Since I didn't pay for the laptop I really don't care but if there is a solution or fix to the problem it would be great be be able to use the laptop on my hour train ride in the morning and again in the evening. Look forward to any follow up posting and I'll continue to read the replies to see if anyone does know of a fix.
Akira is probablly one of the best I've ever seen. Has a great story and the animation is just amazing (look for the protest seen when the glass building shatters and rains sharreds of glass). Vampire Hunter D is another great story one and the style of animation is also great. Ghost in the Shell is a good movie but the series of comic books (put out by Dark Horse if I remember correctly) are much better because you get more of the story.
I was searching for a new job for over a year. Every day I would goto one of those job search engines and put in my info. Every day I would get e-mails with job listings. Every day I would send my resume (in plain text) to agencies. I stopped expecting response and began to feel I was putting a message in a bottle and tossing it in the ocean. I then started looking at companies that slashdot had postings on and sure enough I found one that doesn't deal with recruiters. I spoke with someone in the company directly and sure enough I had a new job. I spend my day installing all different OSes and am constantly challenged. I feel I owe all of this to slashdot and recommend that you forget the agencies and the job search engines and try to find your new job via slashdot.
I just finished watching and the only thing I can say is I'm glad I use Linux and the Be OS. Both Jobs and Gates both looked like a$$holes! I also feel sorry for the poor shmucks at Xerox who's bosses didn't have enough vision to see what they were doing. I'm left wondering what happend to those brillant people and would appreciate anybody who can give me insight as to what happend to them.
PLEASE! If you want a free OS go with Linux and one of the many distributions. The people at Be are working very hard and the price they are charging is very reasonable especialy if you compare the price/performance to a Microsofts OSes.