ride my bicycle 6.85 miles to work every day (or telecommute for snow and ice). I keep the thermostat at 65 in the winter. I make my kids walk to school, even in the rain. We eat vegetarian with occasional chicken/turkey. I use fluorescent lights when they are on much of the day (and incandescent when on for a few minutes at a time).
He really means:
I used to ride my bike 6.85 miles to work every day before I got hit by a car and became disabled. I keep the thermostat 65 in (sniffle... achoo!) winter. I make my two remaining kids walk to school, even in the rain (RIP Jimmy). We eat vegetarian (honk! p-u) with the occasional chicken/turkey. I use even less fluourescent lighting now that my wife has divorced me.
The first rule of fuel efficiency is: BREAKING IS FOR LOSERS
Of course, the road I'm referring to was too short for my efficiency to be impacted, but when I lived in Northern Virginia I frequently had real fun trying not to brake on one particular road: Wakefield Chapel road between 236 and Braddock, heading south.
As you enter this stretch, you have a hill. Accelerate to 35 mph, no more, no less. This gives you enough energy to continue almost all the way to Braddock. You will accelerate past the speed limit in a number of places, and you must hit the accelerator one more time to keep up speed. You don't need to brake until you get to Braddock, where another steep hill takes you to a T intersection. That hill is so steep that even if the light is green and the intersection clear, you probably can't avoid the brake unless your tires have phenominal grip. Were it not for that, I think I could have driven all the way from 236 to our old house, braking only for the driveway.
I have fond memories of that road for another reason: It was the first public road I drove on with a learner's permit, and my father in the seat next to me.
The Flight 93 dramatization was shown on cable here just a while ago. They depicted an "airphone" which was built into the back of the plane's seats. They also had a flight attendant with a phone, but didn't specifiy if that was linked into the airphone system, or if it was a cell. The movie is based on the calls, and cockpit voice recorder. Even if you didn't know anybody killed on 911 (I didn't) it's gut wrenching to watch, knowing what will happen.
The Wikipedia article on Flight 93 indicates that all except two calls were made with the airphones. The two cell calls were made at low altitude, and lasted only a short time. As usual, there are a plethora of conspiracy theorists making all kinds of insane arguments, including that there was a shadow plane flying under 93! Thank-you Google, but really, thank-you Wiki for weeding out almost all of the insanity.
...you need to take into account all the planets they passed. Some of them had ruins of once great civilizations. Some of them were primitive, some of them had gone totally off the deep-end. Some of them just had small colonies. Some of them got destroyed when their stars went nova or something. Sometimes an entire planet would get destroyed by a war or a spacial anomoly.
The story was, by necessity, told from the PoV of a society that was functioning well enough to provide some continuity from episode to episode.
It was rhetorical ignorance. If you can't see how orgs like the WTO put us on the path to world government, then you just aren't looking. As for your last point, well... we really don't have a free trade agreement from the WTO anymore than we have a "don't fight wars" agreement from the UN. Both organizations are pretty much in the same category--a bunch of elitists who think they can fix problems, creating other problems in the process.
So we wouldn't have to listen to a bunch of punk-ass Europeans telling us what to do. I don't know why the WTO was founded. I don't care. No real American would care; and I might argue that no real patriot anywhere should care. Don't get me wrong, I've got no problem with the US signing and honoring treaties with individual nations; but this business of having sweeping international agreements and organizations to govern the way we behave is contrary to the whole concept of the US, and to nation-states in general. One world government is bad, not because I'm ascared of the black helly-copters, no, it's bad for the same reason that any monopoly is bad. "Consumers" should demand a wide variety of choices in nations and their governance, even moreso than they demand a wide variety of automobiles and TV sets.
It's silly anyway. Tiny nation states like Antigua have always been the kinds of places where people from other nation-states go to get away from laws they don't like. Only difference now is that Emily Post, in the form of the WTO, is telling us that it's not polite. Well, suck my dick Ms. Post.
Would actually be nice to have the original commercials and stuff. Would actually be nice to see Star Wars without a Jurrasic Park dino snuck into tatoine and those stupid rings around the explosions. Would actually be nice not to have to wonder if there really are subtle differences, or if it's just my memory.
Like we're really going to believe that "slashdot it" is going to be a new feature, and that/. is taking leads from Digg now. Stories, yeah, but leads? No. Never.
It just so happens that the majority like to shop at places like Circuit City and... gack... Wal Mart. In that sense, democracy triumphed over the minority using capitalism as a means. Arguably, it triumphed over the majority as well as the minority. How is that possible? Well... it's just self-destructive tendancy en masse. Yep. The whole country has gone self-mutilating emo. Excuse me. The sun is out. I need to either hide from it, or burn myself with a magnifying glass.
In fact, all commodities have spiked. It takes a lot of oil to run a mining operation (trucks, heavy machinery, etc) so that's one cause for commodities to follow oil. Also, there was a heavy investment trend into commodities driven by the introduction of exchange-traded funds and geopolitical concerns. That investment trend looks like it might have just passed peak, although you never really know.
If Iraq stabilizes and Iran doesn't go nuts, we could be looking at a repeat of the 90s where oil fell dramaticly in real terms. All commodities would follow it down eventually.
In terms of inflation, gas at $3/gal is roughly the same price achieved during the peak of the 1970s crunch, except that back then there were shortages and rationing. This time there are no widespread shortages and I haven't heard of any rationing. This is plainly not a supply driven price spike.
No. Making cool is usually pretty cheap. It's just that those who make cool aren't trying to make cool. If they are, they're not cool. They're just doing their own thing, which may or may not be perceived at some point as "cool". Predicting whether or not that will happen cannot be bought, for any ammount of money, by anyone. If you're not cool, sifting through all the un-cool and finding cool is expensive because the marketing drones you hire to do that are not cool. They'll lead you to all kinds of crap (hence the infamous Deco Disco LP that my parents got at a condo sales pitch one time. I wish I still had that thing. It's so uncool it's cool).
Well, everybody knows that: honeycomb big, yeah, yeah, yeah. If only these scientists had just taken the time to watch Saturday morning cartoons, or Futurama.
It's available in several forms. As a solid: instant water, just add heat. As a gas: instant water, just distill. As a gaseous mixture: instant water, just add a spark. OK, the last one's not water; but it's the most entertaining.
Why not just provide standard keyboard and screen interfaces for the thing. Then, the PC can be very small, and users can purchase a case that meets their needs. OK, I guess you do have to answer the question in some sense: The PC is too small when it doesn't have room for the following standard connectors: Video, Network, USB some kind of power.
OK, we might be missing a standard for the laptop-style LCD screens. I know there's LVDS, but AFAIK all the manufactureres have proprietary connectors (but correct me if I'm wrong).
The other day, as I was fiddling with my MP3 player, I realized that many such specialized devices could easily fit in a laptop case. If everything inside there ran over 10gigE, would it perform OK? Do we really need DMA and all that just to push pixels to the screen? If we don't, then the display server can just service clients. The clients can be on this little private network inside the box. All the interconects would just be client-server interactions. Moore's law will make this practical at some point... Imagine a Beowulf cluster--inside your laptop or PDA case.
Well, you see it's like... oh hold on, I have to step away from the computer, I'm laughing so hard... OK, it's like don't worry about your karma because you see... hold on... I need to get some more of these cookies. These cookies are awesome and all of the sudden I just can't seem to get enough of... hold on, I think I'm going to have another laughing fit... umm... you see, oh, something about some "news for nerds" question. Dude, just chill out. Haven't you ever looked up at the stars and thought, that light is touching my face and it was touching a start? So thats why it's news for nerds.
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I was just having fun.
He really means:
I used to ride my bike 6.85 miles to work every day before I got hit by a car and became disabled. I keep the thermostat 65 in (sniffle... achoo!) winter. I make my two remaining kids walk to school, even in the rain (RIP Jimmy). We eat vegetarian (honk! p-u) with the occasional chicken/turkey. I use even less fluourescent lighting now that my wife has divorced me.
Actually, the collosseum was in use for hundreds of years after the games.
Couldn't agree more. Did teacher also not use articles and pronouns when context was sufficient?
...a rat with wings. And yes, dear pedant, I know that pidgin!=pigeon.
The first rule of fuel efficiency is: BREAKING IS FOR LOSERS
Of course, the road I'm referring to was too short for my efficiency to be impacted, but when I lived in Northern Virginia I frequently had real fun trying not to brake on one particular road: Wakefield Chapel road between 236 and Braddock, heading south.
As you enter this stretch, you have a hill. Accelerate to 35 mph, no more, no less. This gives you enough energy to continue almost all the way to Braddock. You will accelerate past the speed limit in a number of places, and you must hit the accelerator one more time to keep up speed. You don't need to brake until you get to Braddock, where another steep hill takes you to a T intersection. That hill is so steep that even if the light is green and the intersection clear, you probably can't avoid the brake unless your tires have phenominal grip. Were it not for that, I think I could have driven all the way from 236 to our old house, braking only for the driveway.
I have fond memories of that road for another reason: It was the first public road I drove on with a learner's permit, and my father in the seat next to me.
The Flight 93 dramatization was shown on cable here just a while ago. They depicted an "airphone" which was built into the back of the plane's seats. They also had a flight attendant with a phone, but didn't specifiy if that was linked into the airphone system, or if it was a cell. The movie is based on the calls, and cockpit voice recorder. Even if you didn't know anybody killed on 911 (I didn't) it's gut wrenching to watch, knowing what will happen.
The Wikipedia article on Flight 93 indicates that all except two calls were made with the airphones. The two cell calls were made at low altitude, and lasted only a short time. As usual, there are a plethora of conspiracy theorists making all kinds of insane arguments, including that there was a shadow plane flying under 93! Thank-you Google, but really, thank-you Wiki for weeding out almost all of the insanity.
Usually E and the spacebar wear out first. I wonder what this guy was doing with his keyboard. Then again, maybe he just missed his t-time.
...you need to take into account all the planets they passed. Some of them had ruins of once great civilizations. Some of them were primitive, some of them had gone totally off the deep-end. Some of them just had small colonies. Some of them got destroyed when their stars went nova or something. Sometimes an entire planet would get destroyed by a war or a spacial anomoly.
The story was, by necessity, told from the PoV of a society that was functioning well enough to provide some continuity from episode to episode.
It was rhetorical ignorance. If you can't see how orgs like the WTO put us on the path to world government, then you just aren't looking. As for your last point, well... we really don't have a free trade agreement from the WTO anymore than we have a "don't fight wars" agreement from the UN. Both organizations are pretty much in the same category--a bunch of elitists who think they can fix problems, creating other problems in the process.
So we wouldn't have to listen to a bunch of punk-ass Europeans telling us what to do. I don't know why the WTO was founded. I don't care. No real American would care; and I might argue that no real patriot anywhere should care. Don't get me wrong, I've got no problem with the US signing and honoring treaties with individual nations; but this business of having sweeping international agreements and organizations to govern the way we behave is contrary to the whole concept of the US, and to nation-states in general. One world government is bad, not because I'm ascared of the black helly-copters, no, it's bad for the same reason that any monopoly is bad. "Consumers" should demand a wide variety of choices in nations and their governance, even moreso than they demand a wide variety of automobiles and TV sets.
It's silly anyway. Tiny nation states like Antigua have always been the kinds of places where people from other nation-states go to get away from laws they don't like. Only difference now is that Emily Post, in the form of the WTO, is telling us that it's not polite. Well, suck my dick Ms. Post.
Then maybe the patents aren't such a bad thing.
...as long as I don't have to look at the logs.
Would actually be nice to have the original commercials and stuff. Would actually be nice to see Star Wars without a Jurrasic Park dino snuck into tatoine and those stupid rings around the explosions. Would actually be nice not to have to wonder if there really are subtle differences, or if it's just my memory.
Haha! Made you look. April fools. Buh-bye. See you Tuesday. By then, all this stupid crap should have worked its way off the front page.
Like we're really going to believe that "slashdot it" is going to be a new feature, and that /. is taking leads from Digg now. Stories, yeah, but leads? No. Never.
Hey, didn't anyone ever tell you to keep your optics clean?
It just so happens that the majority like to shop at places like Circuit City and... gack... Wal Mart. In that sense, democracy triumphed over the minority using capitalism as a means. Arguably, it triumphed over the majority as well as the minority. How is that possible? Well... it's just self-destructive tendancy en masse. Yep. The whole country has gone self-mutilating emo. Excuse me. The sun is out. I need to either hide from it, or burn myself with a magnifying glass.
In fact, all commodities have spiked. It takes a lot of oil to run a mining operation (trucks, heavy machinery, etc) so that's one cause for commodities to follow oil. Also, there was a heavy investment trend into commodities driven by the introduction of exchange-traded funds and geopolitical concerns. That investment trend looks like it might have just passed peak, although you never really know.
If Iraq stabilizes and Iran doesn't go nuts, we could be looking at a repeat of the 90s where oil fell dramaticly in real terms. All commodities would follow it down eventually.
In terms of inflation, gas at $3/gal is roughly the same price achieved during the peak of the 1970s crunch, except that back then there were shortages and rationing. This time there are no widespread shortages and I haven't heard of any rationing. This is plainly not a supply driven price spike.
No. Making cool is usually pretty cheap. It's just that those who make cool aren't trying to make cool. If they are, they're not cool. They're just doing their own thing, which may or may not be perceived at some point as "cool". Predicting whether or not that will happen cannot be bought, for any ammount of money, by anyone. If you're not cool, sifting through all the un-cool and finding cool is expensive because the marketing drones you hire to do that are not cool. They'll lead you to all kinds of crap (hence the infamous Deco Disco LP that my parents got at a condo sales pitch one time. I wish I still had that thing. It's so uncool it's cool).
Well, everybody knows that: honeycomb big, yeah, yeah, yeah. If only these scientists had just taken the time to watch Saturday morning cartoons, or Futurama.
It's available in several forms. As a solid: instant water, just add heat. As a gas: instant water, just distill. As a gaseous mixture: instant water, just add a spark. OK, the last one's not water; but it's the most entertaining.
Why not just provide standard keyboard and screen interfaces for the thing. Then, the PC can be very small, and users can purchase a case that meets their needs. OK, I guess you do have to answer the question in some sense: The PC is too small when it doesn't have room for the following standard connectors: Video, Network, USB some kind of power.
OK, we might be missing a standard for the laptop-style LCD screens. I know there's LVDS, but AFAIK all the manufactureres have proprietary connectors (but correct me if I'm wrong).
The other day, as I was fiddling with my MP3 player, I realized that many such specialized devices could easily fit in a laptop case. If everything inside there ran over 10gigE, would it perform OK? Do we really need DMA and all that just to push pixels to the screen? If we don't, then the display server can just service clients. The clients can be on this little private network inside the box. All the interconects would just be client-server interactions. Moore's law will make this practical at some point... Imagine a Beowulf cluster--inside your laptop or PDA case.
When Frosty Piss submits an article and it gets accepted, what else can you call it?
Well, you see it's like... oh hold on, I have to step away from the computer, I'm laughing so hard... OK, it's like don't worry about your karma because you see... hold on... I need to get some more of these cookies. These cookies are awesome and all of the sudden I just can't seem to get enough of... hold on, I think I'm going to have another laughing fit... umm... you see, oh, something about some "news for nerds" question. Dude, just chill out. Haven't you ever looked up at the stars and thought, that light is touching my face and it was touching a start? So thats why it's news for nerds.