Actually, instant heat!:-) No more waiting for an engine to warm up, just flick the switch.
You mention waste heat from an electric motor, horrible, horrible if your motor is so inefficient it has waste heat...
The electric car I rode in also had a 120v home stereo system in it.
The kits were wonderful back in the 80's/90's, it's amazing to me that nobody has accomplished this in a production vehicle since Honda's EV Plus (which was only leased).
Actually 50's and 100's are accepted more now than ever since for a while it took a 50 or 100 to fill up the gas tank in the car.
Back in the 80's I used to check beforehand, but now? Nobody blinks twice anymore and self checkouts swallow those and 100's fine.
The new bills help too (just hold up to the light), as well as the pens.
I'd MUCH rather lose the cash in my pocket than cards. What's the big deal to lose some cash that is a half hour of my work time versus cards, which have higher loss limits than the cash I carry, and would require MUCH more time to defend against? Meanwhile the cost of the spending spree the crook goes on has to be absorbed by the bank, IE, their customers, IE, you.
However, I know of only one person who has been "robbed" by a purse snatcher (who was caught by her chasing, screaming and creating a scene).
I know of several people who have had identity theft issues.
The reality? I'll limit my exposure and stick with the convenience of cash thank you very much.
(Never mind many people will discount for cash, so it's like everything you buy is on sale...)
Except it's not cheaper, what you interpret as cash back is actually compensation for providing your personal information and you having paid extra for the "convenience".
It's sharing a percentage of the charge the vendor has to pay for processing a credit card, ever wonder why some places (commonly gas stations) have different prices for cash/credit? Prices overall could be a few percent cheaper if nobody used credit cards and that "cash back" could be accruing interest in YOUR bank account instead of theirs!
I'll take the 2% in my savings account rather than the 1% you get back after a month (interest free) any day (and Discover doesn't give it back anymore until you've accrued a big chunk).
Also, I use credit cards for business expenses, and the transactions take longer than cash (which I use for all personal expenses). Ironically, it used to be you'd look for the line where people were paying cash as it was faster, and now the credit card payment systems have gotten more convoluted and time consuming than when we signed paper slips, never mind waiting for a slow network day or waiting for the clerk to explain which buttons to press to each person in line. (Although I love self checkouts, then there's nobody there to explain to people how to process their plastic.)
Credit cards have their place (paper trail, online ordering), but they do enable others to profit from you and your information (while you pay them for the privilege).
(And yes, of course pay them off completely every month, anything else and you should use cash simply to not spend beyond what you have!)
PS: Ever wonder why credit companies can afford such lavish advertising, promotions, sponsorships, cash back programs, technical infrastructure all while being subject to so much fraud and theft? It's because they profit so much from each of "your" transactions. Sure you can minimize the extra costs to you, but they have perfected their revenue stream and made it appear inexpensive/painless.
I guess they considered software as part of the functionality? I was astonished recently switching from a Kensington mouse (buttons wore out in just a year or two, how can they not have long lasting buttons in this day and age?) to Logitech, the latter's software was nearly 50 MB and doesn't even offer an ability to constrain movement to one axis.
But I am SO glad to use wireless, even though my mouse never moves more than a few inches from the receiver. Having used wired mice for over twenty years now, the way the wire can get hung up, cause drag, need pulling/management, or otherwise interfere with simple movements, seemingly always (of course) at the most inopportune times (trying to precisely trace an outline of a drawing).
(I remember there was even a product sold to try to help with that problem, a mousepad with vertical "fork" to raise the wire up into the clear...)
It's no big deal to swap out a pair of rechargeable batteries every few months and drop the former in the charger.
Actually, for such usage a stock house or the publisher is contacted, and after whatever license fee, a master in most common editing formats is sent.
When I was working in the video industry, 3/4" was on the way out in favor of Beta SP, which was being replaced by D-Beta (digital beta) for mastering.
You would think that it would be expensive? We used clips of a Seinfeld episode in a cheap corporate video.
All these places adapt to current standards, some slower than others (depending on revenue of course). Which is why most editing facilities have multiple players for different format sources.
(We could take in consumer beta, VHS, aka 1/2", Hi8, 3/4", DV and Beta SP tape formats. Another nearby facility could play 1" and Digital Beta and convert them to Beta SP for us. Oh, and Pal or Secam could be converted of course too.)
Given the way things are now I don't see how anyone could have the expectation that anything you do on the web could possible be anonymous.... At least with the Googles, and the Yahoos you have a reasonable idea of what they are keeping and how they are using it.
Nada.
One of the best links I learned from earlier Slashdot discussions was Scroogle, Google results with no tracking, ads or loss of anonymity.
My bank restructured and had a loss of physical media that was being moved... There was notification, but not sure how "instant", and at first one year of "paid for" credit monitoring service that was increased to two years.
That was a bank (stricter regs). An online service that had their servers broken in to a few years ago didn't notify customers for in uncertain amount of time (month or two?) before requiring changes and longer passwords and restructured their in house network. In that case I would have liked to have known and notified my credit card company sooner, like two hours shy of a month or two sooner! (That company was in California... Makes you think about doing business with companies not under the same expectations as you might have locally...)
I haven't heard anyone shouting in a cell phone in a long time, poke them with their thumbs, watch youtube videos on them, take videos at concerts, check their calendars, take pictures of everyone, check weather, read their email and text messages, send same...
Talk? Um, around here talking into them is illegal when driving.
...e-books have a very small market, compared to print books. They're an interesting complement to the printed book, particularly useful for travellers, but they don't tend to be worth a lot economically.
An author I know (several books published by HarperCollins) and her husband much prefer e-book sales, as they tend to be worth a lot "economically".
...maybe not to the industry as a whole, or publishing companies, but to the creator's themselves and obviously certain consumers.
That's when your synaptic pathways are reinforced and new ideas are integrated into memory.
Our brains are as active when we are asleep as awake, just accomplishing a different process.
If you want to know something for a test, don't cram all night before, simply sleep on it.
If you can't figure out the solution to a dilemma, you might after a good night's sleep.
Finally, if you are well rested, you will be content enough to not mind that you can't remember what you did at work yesterday......what? Yesterday was Saturday? Did I sleep through it again?
I'm on the edge of a good wind zone, so investing in a classic wind generator for my yard would not have a good roi, but something like this would be wonderful, especially since the shapes sound like they might be aesthetically pleasing and perhaps the entire device would be quieter...
My state just switched to optical scan, at 1:30 there was no line to check in, plenty of privacy booths available, and no wait for the scanner.
However I chose the booth closest to the scanner and one woman's ballot was rejected, whereupon the volunteer worker promptly announced there was something wrong, "let's take a look" and flipped it over, exposing it to me as well as others behind her.
She had filled in all the bubbles for one of the offices, instead of just selecting one candidate, and went off to get a replacement ballot.
I failed to observe what they did with her invalid ballot, but she had voted for the same Presidential candidate I had.
I then went to deposit a check, which took longer than voting did, parking, filling out the deposit envelope and waiting for the printer was about the same, but 14 button pushes on the atm and waiting for it to respond was extra...
For tech, their Innovation/Invention category... However whether you judge it entertaining depends on how much you enjoy detailed lectures and an appeal to intellectual audiences.
Purple.com which is one of the rare ones that is what you'd expect, I believe I've even achieved the high score in the purple game, but it's hard to tell and that squirrel is quick.
Pandora has to be mentioned, I'm surprised nobody else has yet, but a service that plays music based upon what you enjoy, rather than popularity, artificial genres, names, etc.? If Pandora were a woman, I'd be a happily married man.
Second Life is truly unique. An online virtual world that is so unique, it's nearly impossible to define. It's not a game although games can be played there. It's not a social site, although you may socialize there. It's not a place to go make money although some earn livings there. You can waste tons of time there and feel you haven't spent enough.
Ironically, in the US we have state lotteries, which are private corporations endorsed by the states to "pick the pockets" of our poorest citizens with the "can't do math tax".
According to that link, Kentucky participates in two interstate lotteries.
So obviously they don't find anything actually wrong with gambling and are simply hypocrites.
I've been teaching chess for a few years, but it is a consistent one night a week for a few weeks rather than flexible.
It's fun, and rewarding, especially when you find a former student playing at the local chess club afterward.
I know locally any class associated with computers is overloaded. Ironically I ran across someone who taught an eBay class a few years ago, who was astonished that it was taken over by someone else and is still going strong with tons of demand.
Slashdot Mirror
First time I'll have been paid to watch porn.
At $1200/hour, count me in!
I wonder how many will "claim" to be bothered to get the credit? And will they refuse to credit anyone who also subscribes to adult programming???
Actually, instant heat! :-) No more waiting for an engine to warm up, just flick the switch.
You mention waste heat from an electric motor, horrible, horrible if your motor is so inefficient it has waste heat...
The electric car I rode in also had a 120v home stereo system in it.
The kits were wonderful back in the 80's/90's, it's amazing to me that nobody has accomplished this in a production vehicle since Honda's EV Plus (which was only leased).
Actually 50's and 100's are accepted more now than ever since for a while it took a 50 or 100 to fill up the gas tank in the car.
Back in the 80's I used to check beforehand, but now? Nobody blinks twice anymore and self checkouts swallow those and 100's fine.
The new bills help too (just hold up to the light), as well as the pens.
I'd MUCH rather lose the cash in my pocket than cards. What's the big deal to lose some cash that is a half hour of my work time versus cards, which have higher loss limits than the cash I carry, and would require MUCH more time to defend against? Meanwhile the cost of the spending spree the crook goes on has to be absorbed by the bank, IE, their customers, IE, you.
However, I know of only one person who has been "robbed" by a purse snatcher (who was caught by her chasing, screaming and creating a scene).
I know of several people who have had identity theft issues.
The reality? I'll limit my exposure and stick with the convenience of cash thank you very much.
(Never mind many people will discount for cash, so it's like everything you buy is on sale...)
Except it's not cheaper, what you interpret as cash back is actually compensation for providing your personal information and you having paid extra for the "convenience".
It's sharing a percentage of the charge the vendor has to pay for processing a credit card, ever wonder why some places (commonly gas stations) have different prices for cash/credit? Prices overall could be a few percent cheaper if nobody used credit cards and that "cash back" could be accruing interest in YOUR bank account instead of theirs!
I'll take the 2% in my savings account rather than the 1% you get back after a month (interest free) any day (and Discover doesn't give it back anymore until you've accrued a big chunk).
Also, I use credit cards for business expenses, and the transactions take longer than cash (which I use for all personal expenses). Ironically, it used to be you'd look for the line where people were paying cash as it was faster, and now the credit card payment systems have gotten more convoluted and time consuming than when we signed paper slips, never mind waiting for a slow network day or waiting for the clerk to explain which buttons to press to each person in line. (Although I love self checkouts, then there's nobody there to explain to people how to process their plastic.)
Credit cards have their place (paper trail, online ordering), but they do enable others to profit from you and your information (while you pay them for the privilege).
(And yes, of course pay them off completely every month, anything else and you should use cash simply to not spend beyond what you have!)
PS: Ever wonder why credit companies can afford such lavish advertising, promotions, sponsorships, cash back programs, technical infrastructure all while being subject to so much fraud and theft? It's because they profit so much from each of "your" transactions. Sure you can minimize the extra costs to you, but they have perfected their revenue stream and made it appear inexpensive/painless.
See subject.
Anyway, that is enough drunken 3am rambling!
I have no idea what you are advertising but I'm off to the fridge...
I guess they considered software as part of the functionality? I was astonished recently switching from a Kensington mouse (buttons wore out in just a year or two, how can they not have long lasting buttons in this day and age?) to Logitech, the latter's software was nearly 50 MB and doesn't even offer an ability to constrain movement to one axis.
But I am SO glad to use wireless, even though my mouse never moves more than a few inches from the receiver. Having used wired mice for over twenty years now, the way the wire can get hung up, cause drag, need pulling/management, or otherwise interfere with simple movements, seemingly always (of course) at the most inopportune times (trying to precisely trace an outline of a drawing).
(I remember there was even a product sold to try to help with that problem, a mousepad with vertical "fork" to raise the wire up into the clear...)
It's no big deal to swap out a pair of rechargeable batteries every few months and drop the former in the charger.
So for some, the benefit is huge.
Actually, for such usage a stock house or the publisher is contacted, and after whatever license fee, a master in most common editing formats is sent.
When I was working in the video industry, 3/4" was on the way out in favor of Beta SP, which was being replaced by D-Beta (digital beta) for mastering.
You would think that it would be expensive? We used clips of a Seinfeld episode in a cheap corporate video.
All these places adapt to current standards, some slower than others (depending on revenue of course). Which is why most editing facilities have multiple players for different format sources.
(We could take in consumer beta, VHS, aka 1/2", Hi8, 3/4", DV and Beta SP tape formats. Another nearby facility could play 1" and Digital Beta and convert them to Beta SP for us. Oh, and Pal or Secam could be converted of course too.)
Where there is a need, there is an industry!
Power strip up on the desk! One switch to rule them all.
This sounds dumb, but the calls I get that the internet doesn't work because they switched their modem on last gets annoying.
Given the way things are now I don't see how anyone could have the expectation that anything you do on the web could possible be anonymous. ... At least with the Googles, and the Yahoos you have a reasonable idea of what they are keeping and how they are using it.
Nada.
One of the best links I learned from earlier Slashdot discussions was Scroogle, Google results with no tracking, ads or loss of anonymity.
My bank restructured and had a loss of physical media that was being moved... There was notification, but not sure how "instant", and at first one year of "paid for" credit monitoring service that was increased to two years.
That was a bank (stricter regs). An online service that had their servers broken in to a few years ago didn't notify customers for in uncertain amount of time (month or two?) before requiring changes and longer passwords and restructured their in house network. In that case I would have liked to have known and notified my credit card company sooner, like two hours shy of a month or two sooner! (That company was in California... Makes you think about doing business with companies not under the same expectations as you might have locally...)
As the tag implies, Gmail is your friend. 7 gigs per account...
Unless you lose your gmail account, I know someone who did, now he backs up his google calendar weekly among other things.
That's why people are always shouting at them?
I haven't heard anyone shouting in a cell phone in a long time, poke them with their thumbs, watch youtube videos on them, take videos at concerts, check their calendars, take pictures of everyone, check weather, read their email and text messages, send same...
Talk? Um, around here talking into them is illegal when driving.
So I guess all those phones will always be dead?
Certainly their chargers long lost...
...e-books have a very small market, compared to print books. They're an interesting complement to the printed book, particularly useful for travellers, but they don't tend to be worth a lot economically.
An author I know (several books published by HarperCollins) and her husband much prefer e-book sales, as they tend to be worth a lot "economically".
...maybe not to the industry as a whole, or publishing companies, but to the creator's themselves and obviously certain consumers.
2. DNA testing
Could happen, but I don't think it will be a common practice in 5 years time.
As seen on Oprah of all places, already down to $400... 23 and me
Her doctor was relieved to find out he can be less concerned about prostrate exams.
I haven't seen anyone mention sleep.
That's when your synaptic pathways are reinforced and new ideas are integrated into memory.
Our brains are as active when we are asleep as awake, just accomplishing a different process.
If you want to know something for a test, don't cram all night before, simply sleep on it.
If you can't figure out the solution to a dilemma, you might after a good night's sleep.
Finally, if you are well rested, you will be content enough to not mind that you can't remember what you did at work yesterday... ...what? Yesterday was Saturday? Did I sleep through it again?
Huh, yeah. Let's have some boobs instead. Oh, God, I foresee a wave of Spread-em-sheet porn...
Okay, not exactly porn, but you inspired me to produce a nude...
I'm on the edge of a good wind zone, so investing in a classic wind generator for my yard would not have a good roi, but something like this would be wonderful, especially since the shapes sound like they might be aesthetically pleasing and perhaps the entire device would be quieter...
I want one in my yard!
And show porn websites when another phone sitting on the same table vibrates?
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. "
My state just switched to optical scan, at 1:30 there was no line to check in, plenty of privacy booths available, and no wait for the scanner.
However I chose the booth closest to the scanner and one woman's ballot was rejected, whereupon the volunteer worker promptly announced there was something wrong, "let's take a look" and flipped it over, exposing it to me as well as others behind her.
She had filled in all the bubbles for one of the offices, instead of just selecting one candidate, and went off to get a replacement ballot.
I failed to observe what they did with her invalid ballot, but she had voted for the same Presidential candidate I had.
I then went to deposit a check, which took longer than voting did, parking, filling out the deposit envelope and waiting for the printer was about the same, but 14 button pushes on the atm and waiting for it to respond was extra...
Not "dumbed down" in the least: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video_index.php
For tech, their Innovation/Invention category... However whether you judge it entertaining depends on how much you enjoy detailed lectures and an appeal to intellectual audiences.
Purple.com which is one of the rare ones that is what you'd expect, I believe I've even achieved the high score in the purple game, but it's hard to tell and that squirrel is quick.
Pandora has to be mentioned, I'm surprised nobody else has yet, but a service that plays music based upon what you enjoy, rather than popularity, artificial genres, names, etc.? If Pandora were a woman, I'd be a happily married man.
Second Life is truly unique. An online virtual world that is so unique, it's nearly impossible to define. It's not a game although games can be played there. It's not a social site, although you may socialize there. It's not a place to go make money although some earn livings there. You can waste tons of time there and feel you haven't spent enough.
Ironically, in the US we have state lotteries, which are private corporations endorsed by the states to "pick the pockets" of our poorest citizens with the "can't do math tax".
According to that link, Kentucky participates in two interstate lotteries.
So obviously they don't find anything actually wrong with gambling and are simply hypocrites.
I've been teaching chess for a few years, but it is a consistent one night a week for a few weeks rather than flexible.
It's fun, and rewarding, especially when you find a former student playing at the local chess club afterward.
I know locally any class associated with computers is overloaded. Ironically I ran across someone who taught an eBay class a few years ago, who was astonished that it was taken over by someone else and is still going strong with tons of demand.