For me it is awesome since I can pick my stuff up and it is only 40 minutes round trip. Maybe if a few thousand of you send me money I can ship them out much cheaper. I'd want cash of course.
I was toying with the idea of using some of the techniques others have done on the Model B to reduce power but make it switchable. Like on freneticrapport except leaving the components on the PCB. It would be a challenge.
The Model B is available at MCM Electronics and they have the cases, pi/case combos, Gerboard, Pi-Face, Humble-Pi, Slice of Pi, Arduino goodies, screens, user interface stuff etc.... . 99.9% of their business is mail order but their massive warehouse is a short drive for me. Anytime I need electronics components I just call them up and go pick up my stuff at the little window behind the warehouse.
I released games and applications for the Amiga in the early 90's and it helped me pay for college. One game even got on a cover disk. I think it is as true now as it was then. The games I released that had no limitiations made some money. The only thing I had to bug users was in the readme and it stated that if they liked the game they could send me whatever they thought it was worth. Sometimes I'd get 5 bucks, sometimes it would be 20. The only game I didn't make squat on had the last third of it locked down and would only work if paid for and registered. I only sold two copies of it and it was my best game.
The other thing that was cool was the letters I would get for the games and apps from countries outside the US. People would go to the trouble of converting local currency to US bills, write a letter that was obviously composed by using a 'some language' to English dictionary and tell me about how their kid or wife or husband had been playing the game all days and nights so money for you should have to make better life.
I'm sure tens of thousands of people played the games or used the apps. Hundreds paid for the 'pay whatever you want' software. If I were to go back I would have had more to offer on all of it and approached it as additional features instead of punitive.
I run into this with clients occasionally. I don't do onsite development work unless I am able to bring my own dev laptop and screens and other equipment including a hardware firewall between their network and my machine. And I don't use their email servers. I've been fortunate that it hasn't been rejected so far. Some clients only allow http/https access going out. I set up my dedicated server with multiple IP addresses for ports 80 and 443 that reroutes for pop/smtp, terminal services, etc... I ask the client first and show them my routing setup. Usually their policies are in place for non IT people and they just don't have different network policies for various departments.
I removed the lens from my old one and made a mount so I could insert the board into a cut down sink drain pipe. I use it in my telescope so while I'm controlling it from the laptop I can also see what the telescope is pointed to on the screen. No more having to look through the eyepiece. With some experimentation on focal lengths you can get the raw CCD bathed in outer space goodness, and running Stellarium at the same time is a plus. The Lunary Planetary Imager for this scope is about $100 USD and doesn't work as well.
I have some great videos of the moon and really good captures of Saturn and Jupiter. Now if I could just get my neighbors to agree that they don't need 6 lights on during the night. I treasure trips to the NorthWest. I have eagle vision and can see the rings of Saturn with the naked eye if they aren't straight on. By see, I mean I can detect they are there, but only in the deep desert or in the NorthWest.
I know this accounts for only 1, but it is a start.
You must never have served. There have always been gays in the service, usually left alone if they do their jobs.
Agreed. At least that was my experience. I've served with gays/lesbians in peace time and in war in a combat zone. But I've served with people that had other alternate thoughts of the world not relating to gender that also got them ousted. Like this guy that looked at his military career as a soapbox to preach on the flightline, or this other dude that thought it would be a great way to introduce people to the kkk, or this other lady that was so into Amway that she was always trying to sell on the job and couldn't get any work done. We had a guy that refused to take showers that was tossed. We had servicemen and women discharged for extra-marital affairs. If you are profoundly for heterosexuality, homosexuality, forcing your religion, or the kkk, or the black panthers or whatever I don't give a crap and I think most service members don't either. I don't want to know, I just want you to do your job. But if you want to take an unprofessional stance of letting it affect your profession and others it crosses the line.
We were weapons people on the flight line and attached for close combat support. Granted we didn't catch the hell that ground troops do. We only got missile and rocket attacks, a few suitcase bombs etc..., and we didn't lose a lot of people. I actually liked the concept of DADT in the spirit of the name but implementation was silly, and it wasn't really necessary. I think it should be an unwritten rule. Don't ask and don't tell about anything. For all I know someone could be seriously into monkey porn. Enjoy your monkeys but don't bring monkey pictures to share with the rest of your unit. Mind your own business and don't let your business affect others. There are already rules in the UCMJ covering political expression, performance, and behavior while in uniform. There are rules about public displays of affection. I never held my wife's hand or kissed her in public while in uniform because we were ordered not to. When you raise your hand and take the oath you are military property. At least that is how I understood it. You don't go to political causes in uniform, there are strict fraternization rules, and you do your job.
We had gays and lesbians going to ball games and social events and nobody really cared. They were good troops and most held up well in wartime just like most others held up well. When it became an issue it was because it affected work or affected living arrangements for other soldiers. Just like the preacher/kkk/amway/blahblahblah issues did. We did have some issues where communal facilities (like showers) were involved and some issues with dorm roommates. In the shower incident it was a guy looking at another dude's package and he got excited and made a physical advance with touching involved. In the dorm room incident it was a guy stroking his puppet while standing naked near his sleeping roommate. In my mind that is a sex crime and they would be ousted anyway. To me the shower thing is the rough one and is difficult to manage simply because of resource allocation. If some other guy is getting wood while winking and staring at your goodies that is a wee bit uncomfortable. Avert your eyes guys!
I had a client a few years ago that needed incredibly configurable dials as part of the project's display and print capabilities. Due to the nature of the client, no 3rd party software was allowed because they required that the software had to be evaluated line by line for security reasons. I never took trig in H.S. or college. In H.S. my highest was general math. In college my highest was algebra II. The nature of how the dials and needles needed to be displayed was so complicated from a visual perspective that using any existing arc/gradient/line functions in the api were out so I had to build a customized library that worked at the pixel level both for screen and printer devices. I spent a week of doing nothing but learning the parts of trig that applied to my issue.
If I were to go back 25 years, I'd take every advanced math course H.S. had to offer, and in college I would have continued to be more math focused. After that experience I've always wondered if I could have solved other problems more elegantly because I'd be equipped with a better toolbox.
I have a Vaio AR870. One of the reasons I bought it (besides the 1920x1200 screen) was because it had the core 2 duo and the processor supported HAV. Behold the day I intalled windows 7 and tried to get XP Mode working to support all my clients that refuse to move beyond 1999 technology. No HAV enabled. No setting in the bios to change it. Sony's custom bios interface doesn't expose the HAV setting and their stance is that they will only be creating bios updates for selected machines. I created a DOS boot CD and I had to dump the bios, hex edit it, and reflash by hand. A sphincter tightening moment to say the least. It all worked and I didn't brick my laptop. But I was irritated during the original attempt when I found out that if HAV wasn't enabled you couldn't install.
I love those things. I saved my money from mowing lawns and bought the 200 in 1 project kit from Radio Shack back around 1981 or 1982. I still have some very large breadboards, my 1950's heathkit oscope, and a bazillion ICs, and components. One of the breadboards still has an audio digitizer I built for my Amiga back in the early 90's. I bought one of the more recent radio shack kits with the built in breadboard for my kids about 5 years ago. But when they were 8 and 9 they had trouble with pushing the wires into the breadboard. I hunted ebay and found a few of the same vintage model that I had with the good old spring terminals. I bought two of them so I would have a backup. The kids drag it out about once a month and build something. They still don't touch the new one. The old one has the typical complement of resistors, capacitors, transistors, relay, transformers, great manual etc... and a 7400 nand and 7476 Dual JK flip flop. Searching on the web, some are trying to sell them as hard-to-find with an $80+ USD price tag. But ebay still has them with $10 bids.
That is my method too, but I give the platters to my kids. They usually end up outside in the mud as building components in their imagination related activities. I did keep a couple of patters around for use as flywheels for low pressure sterling engines though.
Good links fished. A couple years ago I switched over to a protein/fat diet with almost zero carbs. So pretty much meat, cheese, greens and lots of water, and nothing processed.
I was 250lbs, having funny feelings in my chest, and was getting spooked so I thought I'd give it a shot. I was on pasta and lowfat and way too much orange juice at 230 thinking I would loose weight combining it with exercise and it backfired. I've always run on the treadmill and biked alot, but it wasn't working. I only do a 8-9 minute mile but at 250lbs it was killing my knees. Usually six miles/day split up as 3 in the morning and 3 at night and I was still gaining weight on the lowfat diet. After every meal I would get so tired I would have to take a nap and I was always nauseous.
Those 20 extra pounds hit hard and quick. But dropping low fat and going low carb in 7 weeks I dropped 40 pounds and muscled back up again. After the induction period I started trying different carbs again. If I didn't get sleepy after eating something I would continue to include it in the diet. Now I know pretty much what my body can eat and what it can't. No more nausea, no more gas/bloat.
I eat lots of vegetables like lettuce, cauliflower, asparagus, broccoli, onions, tomatoes, etc.. but if I hit some corn or carrots or fruit I'm out like a light. Your genetics may vary.
Yes. But sometimes they are bred with the little poodles. Ours is standard black lab and large poodle. First generation so it isn't labradoodle mixed with another labradoodle. So far they haven't had good luck with successive generations from everything I've read/heard. If I don't keep her trimmed she looks like a shaggy 90 pound mutt though. But I keep her hair about 1/4 inch and most people think she is just a black lab with some weird features. Oh... another weird thing. We take her to the park/playground and she slides with all the kids that are there. She usually slides 15 to 20 times before she gets bored. She does conventional slides and the tube ones. Runs up the stairs, gets to the top of the slide and lays down and slides. Rinse.. Repeat.. She can't do the ladder slides though. She always chickens out after 3 or 4 rungs and jumps off.
That sounds really interesting. I'm surprised it took so few generations.
I did look back on the original experiment the program I watched was about. The meat was in cages but attached to a rope. Both wolves and dogs could pull the rope to get the meat, but when the meat was also tethered down, the wolves would pull on the rope forever where the dogs would come back to the human and say WTF?
I think it would be a fascinating experiment to see the mink study expanded.
I agree. But with this one she seems to have a higher level of learning speed and a touch of reasoning. Usually 5 minutes is enough to teach her something. You do 5 minutes one day, let her sleep on it, then the next day she has it when you try it again. And it is more like she is training us. I think she is just adept in figuring out what we want so she can get what she wants. With the exception of the mimicry and weird play stuff. She seems to do that all on her own without caring about reward.
Shouldn't have gotten the mutant spayed. Would have been interesting to see how puppies turned out. She is using her front paws a lot more too when she tries to do more advanced things. She's pissed off she doesn't have thumbs. Only thing we haven't been able to get her to do is make pseudo-talking sounds with any consistency until she gets really frustrated. But she has a pretty long muzzle. They claim that the short muzzle dogs are better equipped for that.
I watched a program on Animal Planet a few years ago where they ran tests on wolves. They determined that wolves had no desire to 'please' (utilize) humans regardless of whether they were raised from pups or not. One of the experiments involved food locked in a large cage. The wolves would scratch at the cage and try to beat it to death forever. The domesticated dogs would sniff around, check the cage for a while, then go to a human with those big puppy eyes asking for help. Before our Labradoodle I thought a half german half dobie mix was about as smart as they could get. But this one's vocabulary is astounding. She is about 90 pounds of brain.
Besides sit, lay down, poop, pee, high five, shake, roll over, play dead, wait with cracker on nose then flip and catch it, and all the other stuff....
She can bring you any toy you ask for or take it to any named person over 90% of the time. She will also take her toys to her toy bin when told to do so.
She knows the names of the animals outside the house and will attack whichever you tell her to (squirrel, bird, chipmunk, bunny)
She understands words like closer, farther, gentle. Her favorite toy is a battery operated fur-real poodle that she gently brings around the house and will bring to us when she wants it turned on. It is still working after 2 years.
She will take a treat into her mouth and not eat it until you tell her to. Or drop it if you tell her instead.
She will go to parts of the house you tell her to go (kitchen, living room, upstairs, downstairs etc...)
She mimics human behavior constantly. One example, if you are moving branches to a pile from the yard she participates and gets it right. One time we were tearing up the carpet transition to the linoleum on one side of the kitchen. She immediately went to the other side and started tearing up the other one (didn't need to come up though).
We have a toy elephant made for babies that you pull the fabric string and it shakes as the string goes back in. She plays with it every day like a baby would. Pulling the string and making it shake.
She has favorite rocks outside that she places in different areas. When we go to the lake to swim she hunts for a rock, takes it out to where it is about 5 feet deep and drops it then goes diving for it. She will do this for hours.
Tons of other stuff to. She kinda freaks me out.
Good info. And unfortunate. Hopefully they get enough feedback on your situation and change the policy. I'm of the opinion that a license is a license down to each individual piece of the whole and should be transferable regardless.
That seems strange to me. I wonder if the difference between your experience and mine is that I purchased the earlier products as off the shelf retail boxed versions rather than downloads through steam.
It did let me gift my extra license of HL2 to my son. So you can gift individual games without giving your entire steam account. But I agree it would be nice if you could gift the things that you only have one license of as well. At least once. For instance, I'd never play blue shift again, but I'm sure my son would like to. But I suppose that would quickly turn into a situation where buyers would organize by cycling games back and forth. And I imagine there would be sites quickly popping up to help that happen.
Your thoughts on a loaning system are interesting. Maybe a system where the recipient account could be restricted to only so many loans, but if they never purchase any games from valve themselves they could be tagged as a sponge and no more loans could be made.
My opinions on drm change drastically based on who the company is and the quality of their stuff. Both of my kids have valve accounts. I also purchased 3 copies of Neverwinter Nights Diamond so I could play with them multiplayer, and they can play solo through the campaigns when they wish. I thought it was fair considering my perception of the game quality.
It would be nice if they could treat software like used book sales, but it would be hard to find a way to let someone down the road find a big green booger smashed between one of the pages. I often decide not to buy a used book because it is moldy or has someone's mucus all over it. But digital is digital.
I agree completely on the seductive nature of Steam. I'm all for it now too, but I can see where my acceptance is balanced on a knife edge. The first time I am unable to reach my content I will be furious. But in Steam's/Valve's defense they have been very generous and supportive of their early purchasers. I originally purchased half life way back when, and once steam became a requirement all the other games like tfc, ricochet, blue shift, opposing force, and others immediately showed up in my games list. And then I purchased the retail boxed version of HL2 when it came out a few years ago. I recently purchased the orange box download through steam to get portal, episode 1, and episode 2. Since HL2 comes with the Orange box and I already had it, the interface presented the extra license as something I could gift, so I clicked the link to gift it to my son who also has a steam account. They could have just as easily made it a pain in the rear.
If it can be guided away from the keyhole, could it not also be guided towards? I think this presents a wonderful opportunity for extortion. If I only had the resources I would shave my head, get a cool chair, and become adept at holding my pinky to the corner of my mouth in an evil fashion.
Note that the poster indicated a Harley. Many of them on the road are older bikes and need to be montitored manually. Even newer bikes regardless of make don't have the elaborate electronics, monitoring, and adjustment systems that a car engine does so you will experience broad variations in engine performance and reliability based on temperature, altitude, and other factors. Think DPFE, MAF, oxygen sensors, engine control modules, and a ton of other features that just won't fit on such a small form factor for the price.
For instance, I doubt you've ever had a conversation with a 4 wheeled motorist about how they were going to change their carb jets out based on their expected riding altitude or outside temperature because of rich or lean running during a road-trip. You probably don't know many 4 wheeled motorists that let their vehicles warm up for a minute or two after cold starting before taking off either.
But even besides that, many cruisers regardless of make/model do not have gas gauges. Your 'gas gauge' is the noticible loss of power and sputtering either while riding, or audibly when stopped at a light indicating that you need to switch your tank valve from 'Full' to 'Reserve' as your carb float bowls are being emptied. I tend to rev my engine at lights when I get a gut feeling that I'm getting to the end of my pre-reserve fuel. Even though my bike is a 6 cylinder/6 carb monster it is very quiet so people probably don't notice it.
Oh, and if you ever see a bike doing the rev thing at a red light and they are all alone in their lane, it is because they haven't been able to trip the green light sensor. If rolling the throttle doesn't work, you should shut off the bike and restart it so the field created by the starter can trip the sensor.
All that being said, some people on bikes are idiot racers too.
Not to detract from the humor of the post. Almost all bikers test the throttle on a bike, particularly if stopped at a light before a turn. It is not an invitation to race or anything. It is to make sure the bike is not having issues before you take off (#1 being you forgot to turn on the gas valve, idiot). If a bike looses power on a turn you can dump it and the person behind you can smack you. It is just more noticable/irritating on a Harley. Bike engines aren't car engines. You have to actively evaluate them. Particularly if the bike in question has an older style engine. Yeah Yeah... I know. Loud pipes save lives.
Ok, I know I'm in the minority here, but I can't stand the Aeron. I'd love to bring my own cheap office-max in to work instead, but we work in an aesthetically cohesive environment.
I have found that the people in my office that have good posture love the aeron. But those that sit like guys don't. And by 'sit like guys' I mean leaned back with legs spread as far as possible to give your boys some room. Those hard upturned edges on the sides of the chair keep you from doing that. For the first two weeks I was coming home with bruises on the back of my legs from fighting the chair. The chair eventually won, and now I alternate every 5 minutes between being slumped way down in it with just the top of my rear on the front of the chair and my lower back as a bridge between the seat and the back, to being bolt upright. I believe it is the most cunning torture device ever conceived.
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For me it is awesome since I can pick my stuff up and it is only 40 minutes round trip. Maybe if a few thousand of you send me money I can ship them out much cheaper. I'd want cash of course.
I was toying with the idea of using some of the techniques others have done on the Model B to reduce power but make it switchable. Like on freneticrapport except leaving the components on the PCB. It would be a challenge.
The Model B is available at MCM Electronics and they have the cases, pi/case combos, Gerboard, Pi-Face, Humble-Pi, Slice of Pi, Arduino goodies, screens, user interface stuff etc.... . 99.9% of their business is mail order but their massive warehouse is a short drive for me. Anytime I need electronics components I just call them up and go pick up my stuff at the little window behind the warehouse.
I released games and applications for the Amiga in the early 90's and it helped me pay for college. One game even got on a cover disk. I think it is as true now as it was then. The games I released that had no limitiations made some money. The only thing I had to bug users was in the readme and it stated that if they liked the game they could send me whatever they thought it was worth. Sometimes I'd get 5 bucks, sometimes it would be 20. The only game I didn't make squat on had the last third of it locked down and would only work if paid for and registered. I only sold two copies of it and it was my best game.
The other thing that was cool was the letters I would get for the games and apps from countries outside the US. People would go to the trouble of converting local currency to US bills, write a letter that was obviously composed by using a 'some language' to English dictionary and tell me about how their kid or wife or husband had been playing the game all days and nights so money for you should have to make better life.
I'm sure tens of thousands of people played the games or used the apps. Hundreds paid for the 'pay whatever you want' software. If I were to go back I would have had more to offer on all of it and approached it as additional features instead of punitive.
I run into this with clients occasionally. I don't do onsite development work unless I am able to bring my own dev laptop and screens and other equipment including a hardware firewall between their network and my machine. And I don't use their email servers. I've been fortunate that it hasn't been rejected so far. Some clients only allow http/https access going out. I set up my dedicated server with multiple IP addresses for ports 80 and 443 that reroutes for pop/smtp, terminal services, etc... I ask the client first and show them my routing setup. Usually their policies are in place for non IT people and they just don't have different network policies for various departments.
I removed the lens from my old one and made a mount so I could insert the board into a cut down sink drain pipe. I use it in my telescope so while I'm controlling it from the laptop I can also see what the telescope is pointed to on the screen. No more having to look through the eyepiece. With some experimentation on focal lengths you can get the raw CCD bathed in outer space goodness, and running Stellarium at the same time is a plus. The Lunary Planetary Imager for this scope is about $100 USD and doesn't work as well.
I have some great videos of the moon and really good captures of Saturn and Jupiter. Now if I could just get my neighbors to agree that they don't need 6 lights on during the night. I treasure trips to the NorthWest. I have eagle vision and can see the rings of Saturn with the naked eye if they aren't straight on. By see, I mean I can detect they are there, but only in the deep desert or in the NorthWest.
I know this accounts for only 1, but it is a start.
You must never have served. There have always been gays in the service, usually left alone if they do their jobs.
Agreed. At least that was my experience. I've served with gays/lesbians in peace time and in war in a combat zone. But I've served with people that had other alternate thoughts of the world not relating to gender that also got them ousted. Like this guy that looked at his military career as a soapbox to preach on the flightline, or this other dude that thought it would be a great way to introduce people to the kkk, or this other lady that was so into Amway that she was always trying to sell on the job and couldn't get any work done. We had a guy that refused to take showers that was tossed. We had servicemen and women discharged for extra-marital affairs. If you are profoundly for heterosexuality, homosexuality, forcing your religion, or the kkk, or the black panthers or whatever I don't give a crap and I think most service members don't either. I don't want to know, I just want you to do your job. But if you want to take an unprofessional stance of letting it affect your profession and others it crosses the line.
We were weapons people on the flight line and attached for close combat support. Granted we didn't catch the hell that ground troops do. We only got missile and rocket attacks, a few suitcase bombs etc..., and we didn't lose a lot of people. I actually liked the concept of DADT in the spirit of the name but implementation was silly, and it wasn't really necessary. I think it should be an unwritten rule. Don't ask and don't tell about anything. For all I know someone could be seriously into monkey porn. Enjoy your monkeys but don't bring monkey pictures to share with the rest of your unit. Mind your own business and don't let your business affect others. There are already rules in the UCMJ covering political expression, performance, and behavior while in uniform. There are rules about public displays of affection. I never held my wife's hand or kissed her in public while in uniform because we were ordered not to. When you raise your hand and take the oath you are military property. At least that is how I understood it. You don't go to political causes in uniform, there are strict fraternization rules, and you do your job.
We had gays and lesbians going to ball games and social events and nobody really cared. They were good troops and most held up well in wartime just like most others held up well. When it became an issue it was because it affected work or affected living arrangements for other soldiers. Just like the preacher/kkk/amway/blahblahblah issues did. We did have some issues where communal facilities (like showers) were involved and some issues with dorm roommates. In the shower incident it was a guy looking at another dude's package and he got excited and made a physical advance with touching involved. In the dorm room incident it was a guy stroking his puppet while standing naked near his sleeping roommate. In my mind that is a sex crime and they would be ousted anyway. To me the shower thing is the rough one and is difficult to manage simply because of resource allocation. If some other guy is getting wood while winking and staring at your goodies that is a wee bit uncomfortable. Avert your eyes guys!
I had a client a few years ago that needed incredibly configurable dials as part of the project's display and print capabilities. Due to the nature of the client, no 3rd party software was allowed because they required that the software had to be evaluated line by line for security reasons. I never took trig in H.S. or college. In H.S. my highest was general math. In college my highest was algebra II. The nature of how the dials and needles needed to be displayed was so complicated from a visual perspective that using any existing arc/gradient/line functions in the api were out so I had to build a customized library that worked at the pixel level both for screen and printer devices. I spent a week of doing nothing but learning the parts of trig that applied to my issue. If I were to go back 25 years, I'd take every advanced math course H.S. had to offer, and in college I would have continued to be more math focused. After that experience I've always wondered if I could have solved other problems more elegantly because I'd be equipped with a better toolbox.
I have a Vaio AR870. One of the reasons I bought it (besides the 1920x1200 screen) was because it had the core 2 duo and the processor supported HAV. Behold the day I intalled windows 7 and tried to get XP Mode working to support all my clients that refuse to move beyond 1999 technology. No HAV enabled. No setting in the bios to change it. Sony's custom bios interface doesn't expose the HAV setting and their stance is that they will only be creating bios updates for selected machines. I created a DOS boot CD and I had to dump the bios, hex edit it, and reflash by hand. A sphincter tightening moment to say the least. It all worked and I didn't brick my laptop. But I was irritated during the original attempt when I found out that if HAV wasn't enabled you couldn't install.
I love those things. I saved my money from mowing lawns and bought the 200 in 1 project kit from Radio Shack back around 1981 or 1982. I still have some very large breadboards, my 1950's heathkit oscope, and a bazillion ICs, and components. One of the breadboards still has an audio digitizer I built for my Amiga back in the early 90's. I bought one of the more recent radio shack kits with the built in breadboard for my kids about 5 years ago. But when they were 8 and 9 they had trouble with pushing the wires into the breadboard. I hunted ebay and found a few of the same vintage model that I had with the good old spring terminals. I bought two of them so I would have a backup. The kids drag it out about once a month and build something. They still don't touch the new one. The old one has the typical complement of resistors, capacitors, transistors, relay, transformers, great manual etc... and a 7400 nand and 7476 Dual JK flip flop. Searching on the web, some are trying to sell them as hard-to-find with an $80+ USD price tag. But ebay still has them with $10 bids.
That is my method too, but I give the platters to my kids. They usually end up outside in the mud as building components in their imagination related activities. I did keep a couple of patters around for use as flywheels for low pressure sterling engines though.
Good links fished. A couple years ago I switched over to a protein/fat diet with almost zero carbs. So pretty much meat, cheese, greens and lots of water, and nothing processed.
I was 250lbs, having funny feelings in my chest, and was getting spooked so I thought I'd give it a shot. I was on pasta and lowfat and way too much orange juice at 230 thinking I would loose weight combining it with exercise and it backfired. I've always run on the treadmill and biked alot, but it wasn't working. I only do a 8-9 minute mile but at 250lbs it was killing my knees. Usually six miles/day split up as 3 in the morning and 3 at night and I was still gaining weight on the lowfat diet. After every meal I would get so tired I would have to take a nap and I was always nauseous.
Those 20 extra pounds hit hard and quick. But dropping low fat and going low carb in 7 weeks I dropped 40 pounds and muscled back up again. After the induction period I started trying different carbs again. If I didn't get sleepy after eating something I would continue to include it in the diet. Now I know pretty much what my body can eat and what it can't. No more nausea, no more gas/bloat.
I eat lots of vegetables like lettuce, cauliflower, asparagus, broccoli, onions, tomatoes, etc.. but if I hit some corn or carrots or fruit I'm out like a light. Your genetics may vary.
Yes. But sometimes they are bred with the little poodles. Ours is standard black lab and large poodle. First generation so it isn't labradoodle mixed with another labradoodle. So far they haven't had good luck with successive generations from everything I've read/heard. If I don't keep her trimmed she looks like a shaggy 90 pound mutt though. But I keep her hair about 1/4 inch and most people think she is just a black lab with some weird features. Oh... another weird thing. We take her to the park/playground and she slides with all the kids that are there. She usually slides 15 to 20 times before she gets bored. She does conventional slides and the tube ones. Runs up the stairs, gets to the top of the slide and lays down and slides. Rinse.. Repeat.. She can't do the ladder slides though. She always chickens out after 3 or 4 rungs and jumps off.
That sounds really interesting. I'm surprised it took so few generations.
I did look back on the original experiment the program I watched was about. The meat was in cages but attached to a rope. Both wolves and dogs could pull the rope to get the meat, but when the meat was also tethered down, the wolves would pull on the rope forever where the dogs would come back to the human and say WTF?
I think it would be a fascinating experiment to see the mink study expanded.
I agree. But with this one she seems to have a higher level of learning speed and a touch of reasoning. Usually 5 minutes is enough to teach her something. You do 5 minutes one day, let her sleep on it, then the next day she has it when you try it again. And it is more like she is training us. I think she is just adept in figuring out what we want so she can get what she wants. With the exception of the mimicry and weird play stuff. She seems to do that all on her own without caring about reward.
Shouldn't have gotten the mutant spayed. Would have been interesting to see how puppies turned out. She is using her front paws a lot more too when she tries to do more advanced things. She's pissed off she doesn't have thumbs. Only thing we haven't been able to get her to do is make pseudo-talking sounds with any consistency until she gets really frustrated. But she has a pretty long muzzle. They claim that the short muzzle dogs are better equipped for that.
I watched a program on Animal Planet a few years ago where they ran tests on wolves. They determined that wolves had no desire to 'please' (utilize) humans regardless of whether they were raised from pups or not. One of the experiments involved food locked in a large cage. The wolves would scratch at the cage and try to beat it to death forever. The domesticated dogs would sniff around, check the cage for a while, then go to a human with those big puppy eyes asking for help. Before our Labradoodle I thought a half german half dobie mix was about as smart as they could get. But this one's vocabulary is astounding. She is about 90 pounds of brain. Besides sit, lay down, poop, pee, high five, shake, roll over, play dead, wait with cracker on nose then flip and catch it, and all the other stuff.... She can bring you any toy you ask for or take it to any named person over 90% of the time. She will also take her toys to her toy bin when told to do so. She knows the names of the animals outside the house and will attack whichever you tell her to (squirrel, bird, chipmunk, bunny) She understands words like closer, farther, gentle. Her favorite toy is a battery operated fur-real poodle that she gently brings around the house and will bring to us when she wants it turned on. It is still working after 2 years. She will take a treat into her mouth and not eat it until you tell her to. Or drop it if you tell her instead. She will go to parts of the house you tell her to go (kitchen, living room, upstairs, downstairs etc...) She mimics human behavior constantly. One example, if you are moving branches to a pile from the yard she participates and gets it right. One time we were tearing up the carpet transition to the linoleum on one side of the kitchen. She immediately went to the other side and started tearing up the other one (didn't need to come up though). We have a toy elephant made for babies that you pull the fabric string and it shakes as the string goes back in. She plays with it every day like a baby would. Pulling the string and making it shake. She has favorite rocks outside that she places in different areas. When we go to the lake to swim she hunts for a rock, takes it out to where it is about 5 feet deep and drops it then goes diving for it. She will do this for hours. Tons of other stuff to. She kinda freaks me out.
Good info. And unfortunate. Hopefully they get enough feedback on your situation and change the policy. I'm of the opinion that a license is a license down to each individual piece of the whole and should be transferable regardless.
That seems strange to me. I wonder if the difference between your experience and mine is that I purchased the earlier products as off the shelf retail boxed versions rather than downloads through steam.
It did let me gift my extra license of HL2 to my son. So you can gift individual games without giving your entire steam account. But I agree it would be nice if you could gift the things that you only have one license of as well. At least once. For instance, I'd never play blue shift again, but I'm sure my son would like to. But I suppose that would quickly turn into a situation where buyers would organize by cycling games back and forth. And I imagine there would be sites quickly popping up to help that happen.
Your thoughts on a loaning system are interesting. Maybe a system where the recipient account could be restricted to only so many loans, but if they never purchase any games from valve themselves they could be tagged as a sponge and no more loans could be made.
My opinions on drm change drastically based on who the company is and the quality of their stuff. Both of my kids have valve accounts. I also purchased 3 copies of Neverwinter Nights Diamond so I could play with them multiplayer, and they can play solo through the campaigns when they wish. I thought it was fair considering my perception of the game quality.
It would be nice if they could treat software like used book sales, but it would be hard to find a way to let someone down the road find a big green booger smashed between one of the pages. I often decide not to buy a used book because it is moldy or has someone's mucus all over it. But digital is digital.
I agree completely on the seductive nature of Steam. I'm all for it now too, but I can see where my acceptance is balanced on a knife edge. The first time I am unable to reach my content I will be furious. But in Steam's/Valve's defense they have been very generous and supportive of their early purchasers. I originally purchased half life way back when, and once steam became a requirement all the other games like tfc, ricochet, blue shift, opposing force, and others immediately showed up in my games list. And then I purchased the retail boxed version of HL2 when it came out a few years ago. I recently purchased the orange box download through steam to get portal, episode 1, and episode 2. Since HL2 comes with the Orange box and I already had it, the interface presented the extra license as something I could gift, so I clicked the link to gift it to my son who also has a steam account. They could have just as easily made it a pain in the rear.
If it can be guided away from the keyhole, could it not also be guided towards? I think this presents a wonderful opportunity for extortion. If I only had the resources I would shave my head, get a cool chair, and become adept at holding my pinky to the corner of my mouth in an evil fashion.
Note that the poster indicated a Harley. Many of them on the road are older bikes and need to be montitored manually. Even newer bikes regardless of make don't have the elaborate electronics, monitoring, and adjustment systems that a car engine does so you will experience broad variations in engine performance and reliability based on temperature, altitude, and other factors. Think DPFE, MAF, oxygen sensors, engine control modules, and a ton of other features that just won't fit on such a small form factor for the price.
For instance, I doubt you've ever had a conversation with a 4 wheeled motorist about how they were going to change their carb jets out based on their expected riding altitude or outside temperature because of rich or lean running during a road-trip. You probably don't know many 4 wheeled motorists that let their vehicles warm up for a minute or two after cold starting before taking off either.
But even besides that, many cruisers regardless of make/model do not have gas gauges. Your 'gas gauge' is the noticible loss of power and sputtering either while riding, or audibly when stopped at a light indicating that you need to switch your tank valve from 'Full' to 'Reserve' as your carb float bowls are being emptied. I tend to rev my engine at lights when I get a gut feeling that I'm getting to the end of my pre-reserve fuel. Even though my bike is a 6 cylinder/6 carb monster it is very quiet so people probably don't notice it.
Oh, and if you ever see a bike doing the rev thing at a red light and they are all alone in their lane, it is because they haven't been able to trip the green light sensor. If rolling the throttle doesn't work, you should shut off the bike and restart it so the field created by the starter can trip the sensor.
All that being said, some people on bikes are idiot racers too.
Not to detract from the humor of the post. Almost all bikers test the throttle on a bike, particularly if stopped at a light before a turn. It is not an invitation to race or anything. It is to make sure the bike is not having issues before you take off (#1 being you forgot to turn on the gas valve, idiot). If a bike looses power on a turn you can dump it and the person behind you can smack you. It is just more noticable/irritating on a Harley. Bike engines aren't car engines. You have to actively evaluate them. Particularly if the bike in question has an older style engine. Yeah Yeah... I know. Loud pipes save lives.
Ok, I know I'm in the minority here, but I can't stand the Aeron. I'd love to bring my own cheap office-max in to work instead, but we work in an aesthetically cohesive environment. I have found that the people in my office that have good posture love the aeron. But those that sit like guys don't. And by 'sit like guys' I mean leaned back with legs spread as far as possible to give your boys some room. Those hard upturned edges on the sides of the chair keep you from doing that. For the first two weeks I was coming home with bruises on the back of my legs from fighting the chair. The chair eventually won, and now I alternate every 5 minutes between being slumped way down in it with just the top of my rear on the front of the chair and my lower back as a bridge between the seat and the back, to being bolt upright. I believe it is the most cunning torture device ever conceived.