Was it really necessary to show the Vicks Digital Baby Rectal Thermometer IN USE??!! I think we could have gotten a nice appreciation for its design without an action shot.
As an Arizona resident, I appreciate not having to adjust my clock twice a year for this nonsense. But, since most of my relatives live in DST participating states, it's STILL a PITA because I have to remember whether they're 2 or 3 hours (east coast) ahead of me. Plus, all the cable TV stations change what time shows air. For example, what was on at 8pm two weeks ago is now on at 7pm. And for the ENTIRE year, those shows are advertised as being at 7pm, so I have to remember that whether or not it really means 8pm. Yeesh.
I wish the rest of the goddam union would jump on board and get rid of DST, because even those of us who live in states that don't participate in DST still bear the brunt of everyone else's idiocy. In some ways, living in AZ makes DST worse. Rather than it being a twice-a-year annoyance, it's something I have to keep in mind almost daily.
On a similar vein is Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the "vampire squid form hell." Named such because of its red body and black, capelike tentacles. Add to that large, creepy eyes and the fact that it lives in very deep water and is thus rarely seen, and it's a creature ripe for superstition.
I'll second this. The Diane Rehm show is wonderful. She rarely has "talking points" guests who just spout off rhetoric and her questions are excellent. Her guests also show a very good balance of viewpoint.
BMW kinda got it half right. the iDrive has a knob, but rather than spinning it to scroll down menus you press it in certain directions--something much more suited to a joystick or just plain ol' buttons. that and the menu system is apparently horribly non-intuitive.
looking at this, though, it just seems like a hack of the radio, with the iPod's connection being in the glove compartment. ??? so now you have to lean over the passenger's seat (and maybe the passenger) to plug in the iPod if you took it out of the car. and god forbid you have anything actually IN the glove compartment that might get it the way. i think it would have been much better with some type of dock in the center armrest console.
um, if you're anything like me and don't wash your towel after every shower you take, then getting away from the shower curtain and reaching for the towel takes you away from one nasty thing only to be rubbing your face on another. that towel is covered in bacteria and mold. the more you use it the more get rubbed on there, and the more skin cells are on there for them to feed on. it's especially bad if the towel isn't able to completely dry between showers.
this article just seems like a sensationalized version of what every person who has taken intro microbiology has done in lab. swab some nasty stuff, incubate, identify.
lenses are of course top priority, but at the same time your mars rover example also supports the article's contention. quating from link:
A Sony DSC-F717, with a street price of around $600, has 5.2 million sensors (or 5 megapixels) on a chip that is 8.8 by 6.6 millimeters (or.35 by.26 inches). The Pancam has just a million sensors spread across a chip that's 12 by 12 millimeters -- nearly a half-inch square.
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it's been mentioned, but i'll elaborate.
yes, caffeine is a diuretic. meaning that it directly affects your kidneys in a manner that increases their urine production. in addition, though, caffeine is a vasoconstrictor. so it causes the overall volume of your cardiovascular system to decrease, which increases blood pressure, which increases urine production. in addition, that vasoconstriction also affects the smooth muscle lining your bladder, causing its tone to increase. thus, its volume capacity to hold urine decreases, meaning that you feel the urge to urinate sooner (at a smaller volume of urine).
so caffeine's effects are more systemic than its mild duiretic effect. the electrolytes in the coffee only amplify the urine production even more.
now if you'll excuse me, i'm on my 3rd cup this morning and i really gotta tako a piss.
i called FedEx to track a package last week. i had to speak in the tracking number, which is about 30 digits long. needless to say, after the second time i spoke the number and the computer didn't understand it, i yelled "why are you SO FUCKING STUPID!!" 5 seconds later i was talking to a real person.
no kidding, in fact "type 2" diabedes used to be called "adult onset" diabedes. because it is primarily lifestyle related, it used to be seen only in adults who had a lifestyle of poor eating and exersize. they had to scrap "adult onset" in favor of "type 2" because so many children are now demonstrating this form of diabedes. children are becoming diabedics at an alarming rate--and not because of the autoimmune disorder (type 1). when you have grossly overwieght children whose main form of exersize is moving hand to mouth, they tend to develope diabedes. it's a tremendous problem here in the US.
any theory that summarizes the entirety of the human race into two distinct categories (other than sex, which actually breaks down in some cases, too) is complete bullshit. case in point, i play and love both "abstract" games and shoot-em-ups. now, this guy's thoery may work in general, but i don't think that it's saying anything terribly enlightening or profound.
Considering the fact that most ATMs that I use these days all have touchscreen functionality (usually in addition to buttons next to the screen), then I don't think this is too much of an issue. ATMs run 24 hours a day for months/years on end.
Precisely. He's sitting there with this prior art evidence on his shelf waiting for Amazon to sue someone. In the meantime, though, Amazon is making money of this patent by licensing its use! Gack!
great idea, but that definitely was NOT going to happen last night at my local store. once the store was packed to fire code capacity, the line wasn't ended yet so people had to stand outside and wait for others to leave the store before they would be let in. i could barely walk around inside, let alone talk to one of the workers one-on-one long enough to negotiate a transaction like that.
i don't know what the big deal is. whenever i mistype a web addresss, the internet takes me to a wonderful search engine created by microsoft. the address i was looking for is usually on the 2nd or 3rd page. it's so convenient. everyone, join me in thanking microsoft. thanks microsoft!
i'm sorry, but do 6th graders really have need for a laptop? they need to be introduced to computers in school because computers are so ubiquitous in society (but not necessarily at home), but i wonder if there is a better way than handing them a laptop and giving them wireless access during class.
i learned computers pretty well, and in school i only had them in one classroom--the computer lab. we had time set aside a few times a week for a computer class. this way students get introduced to computers and you don't have to buy so damn many of them.
it's just that with school budgets so piss poor, i wonder if the money would be better spent on something like teacher salaries. i didn't RTFA so i don't know how much of the bill the government is footing.
i confess a lack of historical knowledge here, but wasn't Newton wealthy? wasn't he able to sit around and ponder great mathematical/physical questions because he didn't have to worry about a paycheck?
if that was the case, i think the real question is, how many independently wealthy people out there these days sit around and ponder the world? i can only think of Stephen Wolfram (of Mathematica fame) and Dean Kamen (dialysis, segway), but even they got wealthy and continue to make money by putting their eccentric thinking towards earning themselves money.
i wouldn't say they've "finally" figured it out. check out the 6 month graph and you'll see that they're still riding fairly high on their lawsuits. today is a nice start, though.
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Was it really necessary to show the Vicks Digital Baby Rectal Thermometer IN USE??!! I think we could have gotten a nice appreciation for its design without an action shot.
No, I'm pretty sure that it's somewhere in the Ford Galaxy.
I believe it deletes your home directory.
As an Arizona resident, I appreciate not having to adjust my clock twice a year for this nonsense. But, since most of my relatives live in DST participating states, it's STILL a PITA because I have to remember whether they're 2 or 3 hours (east coast) ahead of me. Plus, all the cable TV stations change what time shows air. For example, what was on at 8pm two weeks ago is now on at 7pm. And for the ENTIRE year, those shows are advertised as being at 7pm, so I have to remember that whether or not it really means 8pm. Yeesh.
I wish the rest of the goddam union would jump on board and get rid of DST, because even those of us who live in states that don't participate in DST still bear the brunt of everyone else's idiocy. In some ways, living in AZ makes DST worse. Rather than it being a twice-a-year annoyance, it's something I have to keep in mind almost daily.
On a similar vein is Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the "vampire squid form hell." Named such because of its red body and black, capelike tentacles. Add to that large, creepy eyes and the fact that it lives in very deep water and is thus rarely seen, and it's a creature ripe for superstition.
I'll second this. The Diane Rehm show is wonderful. She rarely has "talking points" guests who just spout off rhetoric and her questions are excellent. Her guests also show a very good balance of viewpoint.
And I don't mind her voice at all.
BMW kinda got it half right. the iDrive has a knob, but rather than spinning it to scroll down menus you press it in certain directions--something much more suited to a joystick or just plain ol' buttons. that and the menu system is apparently horribly non-intuitive.
looking at this, though, it just seems like a hack of the radio, with the iPod's connection being in the glove compartment. ??? so now you have to lean over the passenger's seat (and maybe the passenger) to plug in the iPod if you took it out of the car. and god forbid you have anything actually IN the glove compartment that might get it the way. i think it would have been much better with some type of dock in the center armrest console.
um, if you're anything like me and don't wash your towel after every shower you take, then getting away from the shower curtain and reaching for the towel takes you away from one nasty thing only to be rubbing your face on another. that towel is covered in bacteria and mold. the more you use it the more get rubbed on there, and the more skin cells are on there for them to feed on. it's especially bad if the towel isn't able to completely dry between showers.
this article just seems like a sensationalized version of what every person who has taken intro microbiology has done in lab. swab some nasty stuff, incubate, identify.
lenses are of course top priority, but at the same time your mars rover example also supports the article's contention. quating from link:
.35 by .26 inches). The Pancam has just a million sensors spread across a chip that's 12 by 12 millimeters -- nearly a half-inch square.
A Sony DSC-F717, with a street price of around $600, has 5.2 million sensors (or 5 megapixels) on a chip that is 8.8 by 6.6 millimeters (or
no, but here's a google cache
it's been mentioned, but i'll elaborate.
yes, caffeine is a diuretic. meaning that it directly affects your kidneys in a manner that increases their urine production. in addition, though, caffeine is a vasoconstrictor. so it causes the overall volume of your cardiovascular system to decrease, which increases blood pressure, which increases urine production. in addition, that vasoconstriction also affects the smooth muscle lining your bladder, causing its tone to increase. thus, its volume capacity to hold urine decreases, meaning that you feel the urge to urinate sooner (at a smaller volume of urine).
so caffeine's effects are more systemic than its mild duiretic effect. the electrolytes in the coffee only amplify the urine production even more.
now if you'll excuse me, i'm on my 3rd cup this morning and i really gotta tako a piss.
i called FedEx to track a package last week. i had to speak in the tracking number, which is about 30 digits long. needless to say, after the second time i spoke the number and the computer didn't understand it, i yelled "why are you SO FUCKING STUPID!!" 5 seconds later i was talking to a real person.
i guess sometimes it pays to have a short fuse.
no kidding, in fact "type 2" diabedes used to be called "adult onset" diabedes. because it is primarily lifestyle related, it used to be seen only in adults who had a lifestyle of poor eating and exersize. they had to scrap "adult onset" in favor of "type 2" because so many children are now demonstrating this form of diabedes. children are becoming diabedics at an alarming rate--and not because of the autoimmune disorder (type 1). when you have grossly overwieght children whose main form of exersize is moving hand to mouth, they tend to develope diabedes. it's a tremendous problem here in the US.
any theory that summarizes the entirety of the human race into two distinct categories (other than sex, which actually breaks down in some cases, too) is complete bullshit. case in point, i play and love both "abstract" games and shoot-em-ups. now, this guy's thoery may work in general, but i don't think that it's saying anything terribly enlightening or profound.
Considering the fact that most ATMs that I use these days all have touchscreen functionality (usually in addition to buttons next to the screen), then I don't think this is too much of an issue. ATMs run 24 hours a day for months/years on end.
Precisely. He's sitting there with this prior art evidence on his shelf waiting for Amazon to sue someone. In the meantime, though, Amazon is making money of this patent by licensing its use! Gack!
i wonder if an LCD monitor would be better to look at all day? i don't believe the lamps flicker.
of course, that does nothing to fix the 60Hz AC cycle of all the lights around you.
gain some courtesy and you wouldn't have to post as AC....DUH!
I think you meant to say "extended viewing fees".
great idea, but that definitely was NOT going to happen last night at my local store. once the store was packed to fire code capacity, the line wasn't ended yet so people had to stand outside and wait for others to leave the store before they would be let in. i could barely walk around inside, let alone talk to one of the workers one-on-one long enough to negotiate a transaction like that.
i don't know what the big deal is. whenever i mistype a web addresss, the internet takes me to a wonderful search engine created by microsoft. the address i was looking for is usually on the 2nd or 3rd page. it's so convenient. everyone, join me in thanking microsoft. thanks microsoft!
anyone who gets to work at home doing the stuff they love is my GOD.
i'm sorry, but do 6th graders really have need for a laptop? they need to be introduced to computers in school because computers are so ubiquitous in society (but not necessarily at home), but i wonder if there is a better way than handing them a laptop and giving them wireless access during class.
i learned computers pretty well, and in school i only had them in one classroom--the computer lab. we had time set aside a few times a week for a computer class. this way students get introduced to computers and you don't have to buy so damn many of them.
it's just that with school budgets so piss poor, i wonder if the money would be better spent on something like teacher salaries. i didn't RTFA so i don't know how much of the bill the government is footing.
my vote's for ibooks, though.
i confess a lack of historical knowledge here, but wasn't Newton wealthy? wasn't he able to sit around and ponder great mathematical/physical questions because he didn't have to worry about a paycheck?
if that was the case, i think the real question is, how many independently wealthy people out there these days sit around and ponder the world? i can only think of Stephen Wolfram (of Mathematica fame) and Dean Kamen (dialysis, segway), but even they got wealthy and continue to make money by putting their eccentric thinking towards earning themselves money.
i wouldn't say they've "finally" figured it out. check out the 6 month graph and you'll see that they're still riding fairly high on their lawsuits. today is a nice start, though.