The only thing the parent forgot was to bring the mirrors in just a hair from this position. Its best done when parked in a lot with 5 cars covering the rear, rear corners and sides. This way one can judge if this mirror setup is done right.
And in general you should be aware of everything on the road around you. Even though you havent checked your mirror. There really should never be a surprise when you look in your mirror to find a car there.
Wasnt there an article posted here a few days ago about cell phones? All I want is a watch that tells me the time (and possibly the date). And a cell phone that lets me call people and store their phone numbers. I dont need a slow color screen. I dont need a camera. I dont need to play games. I dont need to have a bazillion different rings.
From the response in this thread - doesnt it seem that the author has things a little mixed up? Its the digital watch thats somehow a miricle for having survived:)
I have a side-business designing vacuum tube high end audio equipment. There are enough tube-nuts out there to make this viable. Despite what the measurements say, tubes *SOUND* better than amps made with transistors.
If it measures good, but sounds bad, it is BAD. If it measures bad but sounds good, you measured the wrong thing. (I forget who said that...an audiophile I know)
I have a basic Seiko analog watch that I replaced my Digital with a few years ago. I got fed up with digital things in general. My 'athletic' watch is a cheap analog timex thats waterproof, I also take this one with me on vacations so I wont be upset to lose it. And I am looking for a decent 'high end' watch to wear when I need to get dressed up.
Its functional jewlery really. And in my opinion, the most beautiful things in the world are those that are function, yet look nice at the same time (think Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc or in some ways and to a much lesser extent, Apple products)
Also if you own your own business, if you are running an HR department for a company, as well as a bunch of other rather mundane reasons. Reasons are usually for your own protection. The above examples are so that they have a record of you in case you are either attacked by disgruntled employees, or are caught embezelling, etc.
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The fact that it never occured to me for even a second that Dobby was CG I think made him a total success. When I was walking out of the theater after the movie it dawned on me that Dobby was a computer generated character and all those movements (snapping of fingers at the highpoint) was all carefully orchestrated, plotted and rendered just floored me.
If CG is able to integrate well enough into a movie that you dont even think about it, then its well used. Dobby was just another character to me - he never drew attention to his fakeness...Very Effective
Nothing is stopping you from growing your own tobacco, but its not economically feasible when you can simply go to the corner store, pay the man and get a pack of smokes.
Silly editors edited the confusing yet funny subject line! And here I was thinking how many posts would get shot off about the funny subjhect and I come back 10 mins later to find it 'fixed':(
Especially considering the fact that a spoiler like that over the non-drive wheels is a recipie for terminal understeer.
Spopilers like that on the back are for rear-wheel drive cars to put more force on the drive wheels, not the typical front wheel drive riceburner. I guess if they are drag racing those stupid things they dont care about understeer and just wanna look cool. The big aluminum wing to me just screams 'poser'.
I dont see you proposing an alternative. At least the scientific community looked up and said "Gee, why is it that everything seems to be moving away from everything else. Why is there this weird microwave background radiation that comes across our TVs as static. Why...?"
Nobody is purporting that the big bang theory or anything based off of it is fact. Anyone who believes it as fact is deluding themselves. But its a damn good explaination based on observations. This is the definition of science, is it not? At least the scientific community has come up with some kind of explaination to the questions that arise from their big bang theory. Nobody ever said there was nothing to *make* a big bang. It just didnt exist in a form it seems you are capable of comprehending. So in summary - its not the scientific communbity that is closed minded - they at least are providing a bunch of answers to questions posed by what they can see. Its you who is closed minded since you dont want to accept basic explainations of things we see in our universe.
So does this one. I get the feeling many Mac users tend not to care about games. As a card carrying rabid Mac fan, I do admit I would buy a PC if all I cared about was games. But I dont, so I wont:)
I do remember a ST:TNG episode where they found a probe sent by earth at around our current time. I think it would be foolish if we dont try at least. Because although we may be able to build a probe thats significantly faster every 100 years or so, there is also no garantee we will ever be able to surpass the fastest (at some point in time).
So I think it would at least be important to try to send probes, even though we hope that we could soon build faster ones.
Are you sure email follows the 'Current Resident' labelling? I see it more like a cell phone number. Your email is protected by a password (at some level), so it would be safe to assume nobody else would read it. sure, root@localhost can see it, but in a large networked environment you need to assume root doesnt peek, or you dont send anything sensitive that root may see.
To me, your analogy seems more like some apartment landlord sold the property to someone else. And that new owner is going around to all the mail slots and opening them to see whats inside, in case something interesting arrives even after the original tenant was evicted.
Usually kidnappers know alot about the victim (if its a real high-profile victim). They would in all likelyhood figure out that the victim has the device, possibly by observing the parents use the tracking device, spying etc.
Nothing is special about the human race at all. At least in terms of physicality. Language skills, dexterious hands, etc evolved due to the fact that we have less bolidy hair, no natural weapons (claws), we are relaitvly small (compared to lions, elephants) and weak. So we needed to evolve a good brain, ability to provide for ourselves what we dont have (protective clothing instead of fur, knives instead of claws/sharp teeth, etc), and communicate so we can survive as a species.
If you want to make a good god argument, argue about conciousness. Why are we concious, what or who gave us conciousness, and how is it that 'you think therefore you are' is possible in a 'random' universe. If you want to find god, you should look inside your own mind, not to the physical world around you which can be easily explained by basic physics and chemistry.
I think they need to be careful that the vat doesnt get contaminated. And with the pevalance of life on this planet, and the warm gooeyness of the vat container, I am sure a bacterial colony would just love to get in there.
I wonder if its possible to do the experiment without contamination. Correlary to the Heisenburg principle - If we observe this experiment, presumably by dipping a probe in there to see if we can find life, we would alter the experiment. In all likelyhood even if we irradiate the probe, UV pulverize anything that was on it, there will still be traces of some bacteria that would introduce contamination into the system. I am not sure we would relaly ever be able to determine if the life we found was an evolution of amino acids to protienes to cells, or a contamination of natural earth organisms.
On a similar note - if we find bacteria on mars, there is a good chance its some hearty earth species that hitched a ride on the probe:\
Of course, then you would have people holding up a flimsy piece of paper at you and saying "Say cheese":)
How is that any different than the current crop of useless camera technology: camera phones. Seriously talk about a solution looking for a problem. Ive never once thought to myself 'gee I wish I had a digital camera built into my phone right now'. I even recently bought one of those phones with the color screens (only because all the greyscale screen phones all seemed to suck). I still cant for the life of me figure out why I need a color screen on my phone.
But I have to point out that many people pay for cable TV, and yet they accept the fact that there are ads on TV shows that are coming over the cable line they pay to use. The TV stations on cable dont see any of the money you give to the cable company. They need to provide their own source of revenue.
This is the same situation. You pay for your internet connection, but that doesnt pay the web admins who need to pay for their website.
Granted, the web is a pull technology. Which is entierly opposite of television which is a push technology. On TV they push whatever it is they wanna push and you have to accept it or change the channel. On the web we are supposed to be able to pull whatever we want, and not have shit crammed down our throats that we didnt request - or at least have some kind of countermeasure.
If these 'permanant popups' really do start being used, someone (if not someone else, me) will write a program that prevents them from popping up. And if the ad calls home to make sure you view it, the program can call home for the ad and fake it out. What companies need to realize is that the web is for information, it is not their personal revenue stream. If you can somehow make money using an information repository, then more power to you - but you cant expect to alter the information repository and whine when someone doesnt wanna deal with the crap.
I guess it isnt that slim if it happens 13 times per century. This means it happens every 7.6 years. And since Mercury orbits the sun 4 times in one of our years, that means that 1 out of every 31 Mercury orbits will trasit the sun fropm our point of view.
1 out of 31 isnt all that low of a probability considering some other celestial events.
Yea the actual event is always cool to see. Pictures of eclipses do nothing for me. I still have never seen a total solar eclipse - just some partials through pinhole cameras.
I have had the lucky experience to see Mercury a while back. I was on a school trip, and the astronomy teacher had everyone look at where the sun was setting over cape cod bay. As soon as the sun had dipped entierly over the horizon, one could see a tiny dot quickly following it. For that brief 2 minutes or so we were able to see Mercury follow the sun down over the horizon. Was quite cool.
But you have a reasonable expectation that a car if not used wont work is left alone for 4 years. Its a fact of life that gasoline will evaporate, rubber breaks down, batteries discharge etc.
This is a case where a company is purposly BREAKING a device you paid for. There is no reason for the device not to work die to lack of use, except the company has decreed it to be so.
It would be one thing if the rubber belt that moved the print head back and forth broke down after 4 years. However, this is a case of the company forcing you to spend more money because they conciously made a decision that a part of the device will die on a certain date.
I feel the same way. I dont feel *comfortable* knowing someone has a gun in the workplace. And accidents arent likely to becaused by the person carrying the gun either. How do I know some nutjob who just got canned wont walk to that person's desk and grab the gun to start shooting. Because he KNEW that person had a gun. And even if the person with the weapon didnt remove it from the holster, and leave it in the desk, the disgruntled person could just whack them over the head with a heavy binder and take the gun. Leave it unloaded you say? Well thats all well and good but someone who grabs it can still use it to threaten. And if its unloaded and in your holster it may not do you much good in whatever situation it is that you felt it was necessary to bring the gun in the first place.
But besides all that - the company has the right to tell you to go home and shower, to wear a tie, etc. They may certainly dictate that under no circumstances may firearms be brought into the workplace.
I have received No Such Address post cards here in the US. I was told I had a package waiting at the PO. Miffed that they didnt leave it with the office attendants (apartment building) as they 99% of the time do, I go to the PO and they tell me it wasnt delivered because my address doesnt exist. No amount of logic would convince them otherwise.
Uhm hello, they gave me a post card IN MY MAILBOX.
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The only thing the parent forgot was to bring the mirrors in just a hair from this position. Its best done when parked in a lot with 5 cars covering the rear, rear corners and sides. This way one can judge if this mirror setup is done right.
And in general you should be aware of everything on the road around you. Even though you havent checked your mirror. There really should never be a surprise when you look in your mirror to find a car there.
Wasnt there an article posted here a few days ago about cell phones? All I want is a watch that tells me the time (and possibly the date). And a cell phone that lets me call people and store their phone numbers. I dont need a slow color screen. I dont need a camera. I dont need to play games. I dont need to have a bazillion different rings.
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From the response in this thread - doesnt it seem that the author has things a little mixed up? Its the digital watch thats somehow a miricle for having survived
I have a side-business designing vacuum tube high end audio equipment. There are enough tube-nuts out there to make this viable. Despite what the measurements say, tubes *SOUND* better than amps made with transistors.
If it measures good, but sounds bad, it is BAD. If it measures bad but sounds good, you measured the wrong thing. (I forget who said that...an audiophile I know)
I have a basic Seiko analog watch that I replaced my Digital with a few years ago. I got fed up with digital things in general. My 'athletic' watch is a cheap analog timex thats waterproof, I also take this one with me on vacations so I wont be upset to lose it. And I am looking for a decent 'high end' watch to wear when I need to get dressed up.
Its functional jewlery really. And in my opinion, the most beautiful things in the world are those that are function, yet look nice at the same time (think Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc or in some ways and to a much lesser extent, Apple products)
Also if you own your own business, if you are running an HR department for a company, as well as a bunch of other rather mundane reasons. Reasons are usually for your own protection. The above examples are so that they have a record of you in case you are either attacked by disgruntled employees, or are caught embezelling, etc.
The fact that it never occured to me for even a second that Dobby was CG I think made him a total success. When I was walking out of the theater after the movie it dawned on me that Dobby was a computer generated character and all those movements (snapping of fingers at the highpoint) was all carefully orchestrated, plotted and rendered just floored me.
If CG is able to integrate well enough into a movie that you dont even think about it, then its well used. Dobby was just another character to me - he never drew attention to his fakeness...Very Effective
I dunno about that - my GF makes fun of me cause I cant fart nearly as loud as she can. She calls me incapable...
Nothing is stopping you from growing your own tobacco, but its not economically feasible when you can simply go to the corner store, pay the man and get a pack of smokes.
Silly editors edited the confusing yet funny subject line! And here I was thinking how many posts would get shot off about the funny subjhect and I come back 10 mins later to find it 'fixed' :(
Especially considering the fact that a spoiler like that over the non-drive wheels is a recipie for terminal understeer.
Spopilers like that on the back are for rear-wheel drive cars to put more force on the drive wheels, not the typical front wheel drive riceburner. I guess if they are drag racing those stupid things they dont care about understeer and just wanna look cool. The big aluminum wing to me just screams 'poser'.
I dont see you proposing an alternative. At least the scientific community looked up and said "Gee, why is it that everything seems to be moving away from everything else. Why is there this weird microwave background radiation that comes across our TVs as static. Why ...?"
Nobody is purporting that the big bang theory or anything based off of it is fact. Anyone who believes it as fact is deluding themselves. But its a damn good explaination based on observations. This is the definition of science, is it not?
At least the scientific community has come up with some kind of explaination to the questions that arise from their big bang theory. Nobody ever said there was nothing to *make* a big bang. It just didnt exist in a form it seems you are capable of comprehending.
So in summary - its not the scientific communbity that is closed minded - they at least are providing a bunch of answers to questions posed by what they can see. Its you who is closed minded since you dont want to accept basic explainations of things we see in our universe.
So does this one. I get the feeling many Mac users tend not to care about games. As a card carrying rabid Mac fan, I do admit I would buy a PC if all I cared about was games. But I dont, so I wont :)
I do remember a ST:TNG episode where they found a probe sent by earth at around our current time. I think it would be foolish if we dont try at least. Because although we may be able to build a probe thats significantly faster every 100 years or so, there is also no garantee we will ever be able to surpass the fastest (at some point in time).
So I think it would at least be important to try to send probes, even though we hope that we could soon build faster ones.
Are you sure email follows the 'Current Resident' labelling? I see it more like a cell phone number. Your email is protected by a password (at some level), so it would be safe to assume nobody else would read it. sure, root@localhost can see it, but in a large networked environment you need to assume root doesnt peek, or you dont send anything sensitive that root may see.
To me, your analogy seems more like some apartment landlord sold the property to someone else. And that new owner is going around to all the mail slots and opening them to see whats inside, in case something interesting arrives even after the original tenant was evicted.
I dont get it, wheres the picture?
Usually kidnappers know alot about the victim (if its a real high-profile victim). They would in all likelyhood figure out that the victim has the device, possibly by observing the parents use the tracking device, spying etc.
Nothing is special about the human race at all. At least in terms of physicality. Language skills, dexterious hands, etc evolved due to the fact that we have less bolidy hair, no natural weapons (claws), we are relaitvly small (compared to lions, elephants) and weak. So we needed to evolve a good brain, ability to provide for ourselves what we dont have (protective clothing instead of fur, knives instead of claws/sharp teeth, etc), and communicate so we can survive as a species.
If you want to make a good god argument, argue about conciousness. Why are we concious, what or who gave us conciousness, and how is it that 'you think therefore you are' is possible in a 'random' universe. If you want to find god, you should look inside your own mind, not to the physical world around you which can be easily explained by basic physics and chemistry.
I think they need to be careful that the vat doesnt get contaminated. And with the pevalance of life on this planet, and the warm gooeyness of the vat container, I am sure a bacterial colony would just love to get in there.
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I wonder if its possible to do the experiment without contamination. Correlary to the Heisenburg principle - If we observe this experiment, presumably by dipping a probe in there to see if we can find life, we would alter the experiment. In all likelyhood even if we irradiate the probe, UV pulverize anything that was on it, there will still be traces of some bacteria that would introduce contamination into the system. I am not sure we would relaly ever be able to determine if the life we found was an evolution of amino acids to protienes to cells, or a contamination of natural earth organisms.
On a similar note - if we find bacteria on mars, there is a good chance its some hearty earth species that hitched a ride on the probe
Of course, then you would have people holding up a flimsy piece of paper at you and saying "Say cheese" :)
How is that any different than the current crop of useless camera technology: camera phones. Seriously talk about a solution looking for a problem. Ive never once thought to myself 'gee I wish I had a digital camera built into my phone right now'. I even recently bought one of those phones with the color screens (only because all the greyscale screen phones all seemed to suck). I still cant for the life of me figure out why I need a color screen on my phone.
I dont agree with anything that asshole does...
But I have to point out that many people pay for cable TV, and yet they accept the fact that there are ads on TV shows that are coming over the cable line they pay to use. The TV stations on cable dont see any of the money you give to the cable company. They need to provide their own source of revenue.
This is the same situation. You pay for your internet connection, but that doesnt pay the web admins who need to pay for their website.
Granted, the web is a pull technology. Which is entierly opposite of television which is a push technology. On TV they push whatever it is they wanna push and you have to accept it or change the channel. On the web we are supposed to be able to pull whatever we want, and not have shit crammed down our throats that we didnt request - or at least have some kind of countermeasure.
If these 'permanant popups' really do start being used, someone (if not someone else, me) will write a program that prevents them from popping up. And if the ad calls home to make sure you view it, the program can call home for the ad and fake it out. What companies need to realize is that the web is for information, it is not their personal revenue stream. If you can somehow make money using an information repository, then more power to you - but you cant expect to alter the information repository and whine when someone doesnt wanna deal with the crap.
OK I guess I digressed a bit...sorry
I guess it isnt that slim if it happens 13 times per century. This means it happens every 7.6 years. And since Mercury orbits the sun 4 times in one of our years, that means that 1 out of every 31 Mercury orbits will trasit the sun fropm our point of view.
1 out of 31 isnt all that low of a probability considering some other celestial events.
Yea the actual event is always cool to see. Pictures of eclipses do nothing for me. I still have never seen a total solar eclipse - just some partials through pinhole cameras.
I have had the lucky experience to see Mercury a while back. I was on a school trip, and the astronomy teacher had everyone look at where the sun was setting over cape cod bay. As soon as the sun had dipped entierly over the horizon, one could see a tiny dot quickly following it. For that brief 2 minutes or so we were able to see Mercury follow the sun down over the horizon. Was quite cool.
But you have a reasonable expectation that a car if not used wont work is left alone for 4 years. Its a fact of life that gasoline will evaporate, rubber breaks down, batteries discharge etc.
This is a case where a company is purposly BREAKING a device you paid for. There is no reason for the device not to work die to lack of use, except the company has decreed it to be so.
It would be one thing if the rubber belt that moved the print head back and forth broke down after 4 years. However, this is a case of the company forcing you to spend more money because they conciously made a decision that a part of the device will die on a certain date.
This has no relation to your car analogy.
I feel the same way. I dont feel *comfortable* knowing someone has a gun in the workplace. And accidents arent likely to becaused by the person carrying the gun either. How do I know some nutjob who just got canned wont walk to that person's desk and grab the gun to start shooting. Because he KNEW that person had a gun. And even if the person with the weapon didnt remove it from the holster, and leave it in the desk, the disgruntled person could just whack them over the head with a heavy binder and take the gun. Leave it unloaded you say? Well thats all well and good but someone who grabs it can still use it to threaten. And if its unloaded and in your holster it may not do you much good in whatever situation it is that you felt it was necessary to bring the gun in the first place.
But besides all that - the company has the right to tell you to go home and shower, to wear a tie, etc. They may certainly dictate that under no circumstances may firearms be brought into the workplace.
I have received No Such Address post cards here in the US. I was told I had a package waiting at the PO. Miffed that they didnt leave it with the office attendants (apartment building) as they 99% of the time do, I go to the PO and they tell me it wasnt delivered because my address doesnt exist. No amount of logic would convince them otherwise.
Uhm hello, they gave me a post card IN MY MAILBOX.