Hydrodynamics comes into also. So it's not just power but also how well they move through the water. Efficiency.
I have much more power than any of the girls, well most of them, on the US Team, but in the water, they'll blow my doors off because of better technique - the ability to apply their power in the water. That's the best I can do. It's been a while since I read my swim coaching stuff.
Swim coach Sean Hutchison, who put two athletes on the Olympic swim team, says that he used Wei's insights as the basis for every technical change he made with swimmers leading up to the Olympic trials and games this year.
After doing something for years and years, changing the way you do something, whether it's a swimming stroke or tennis or golf swing, isn't done instantly. It takes quite a bit of concerted effort and attention to change it. I'd be really interested in how and what the coach does to get the swimmers to change.
I've witnessed swimmers in college that have bad habits that they gained as youth and they can't seam to shake them.
Terrorists can use special cards such as "suicide bomber", "plane hijack" and "WMDs" to advance themselves.
They need the "Police in free country crack down on their own people for idiotic reasons and abusing their authority thereby turning free country into a less-free country thereby aiding the terrorists" card.
I have mod points, but I don't know whether to rate you -1 Off Topic or +1 Funny
Hopefully someone else can make the proper call as I do a quick search for Amazon moon women.
That's decent of you. I wish more folks would do that. When I first started, someone gave me a -1 Troll for what I thought was something quite funny. Well the deal is, even if I have a +5 Funny, modding me -1 whatever gives the comment an overall score of -1. And if you're just starting out, well, you post from then on at 0 or -1 if another didn't get or didn't like the joke.
And I find the 'water' reason to be pretty transparent. We all know that there's oil up there and this is yet another neo-con plan that's going to suck us into another war to boost Bush's ratings. But when images of those poor Amazon women up there start coming back, it's jut going to blowup in their faces like Iraq did, and further depress our economy.
I have my worries about this, and I have no doubt that we all do here on/.. What I definitely do not want to see is/. becoming another digg/reddit/delicious.
Not that I'm saying this regulation is the answer, but there needs to be some sort of tax in there somewhere to pay for the roads. Unless we want to just go all toll roads....
I wouldn't worry. Folks in the legislature always find ways to get our money.
Not necessarily the regulators. There are folks out in California (where else!) trying to get biofuel off the ground. They collect old frying oil and refine it and burn it in diesel engines. Unfortunately, the local businesses that collect said oil (for a fee) from those restaurants are petitioning the CA legislature to make it crime unless your licensed because it's a ''public health hazard'' if anyone but them collect this horrible and dangerous cooking oil!
Please, you Californians, if you see any of that horseshit on the ballot, please oh please vote it down!
I watch and listen to all side of the argument and humor. I want to get as much of facts as I possibly can and then make a judgment.
BTW, I'm an independent who's a social liberal (I don't care who you sleep with or marry) and government conservative(government should be the last resort for any problem outside of what's explicitly stated in the Constitution and even then it still spends too much money).
Although he makes fun of both sides, it is much easier to make fun of the republicans - since their politics (under introspection) aren't very good. All he does is bring it to the front.
Wait till the Dems get into power in November (unless there's some awesome economic news in the next two months; they got it.). Then these shows will start making fun of them.
Also, many democrats are younger and don't have time for 'politics', but do have time for comedy.
(I moved the quotes). Politics these days is about distraction. It's about focusing on non issues, or at least, focusing on issues that a very small minority finds irrationally important. And even then, whatever comes out of any candidates mouth during a campaign is just pie in the sky.
Moreover, even a cursory analysis demonstrates that despite being a comedy program The Colbert Report appears to exercise ''disproportionate real world influence'' - likely due to the ''elite demographic'' of its audience.
Elite? Ohhhhhh, I get it. Nice jab at the McCain campaign there!
It looks like taking a video would be easier. That way, you wouldn't have to spend time stringing all the stills to together - if I understood correctly.
Shut The Fuckup Sonny - it's what the old guys on Photo.net say when you tell them that photography as we know it is dead - especially if you mention film in the same sentence. It'd be like saying that BSD is dead here on/..
I can't wait for the ability to do a search and replace of all the images of women replacing them with naked Playboy playmate pictures. Then again, it would be embarrassing to walk into a church and be staring a Nun up and down with a woody.
If Apple were to completely revamp their OS or even get rid of it, it wouldn't have that much affect on their sales. If they went all Wintell and just slapped an Apple logo on a Dell, but still have their iPod and other products completely integrated, I still don't think there would be much of an affect on their sales. I think the only folks who would care are the die hard Apple Computer fans - the iPod and fashion crowd wouldn't care.
How about this....
What business is Harley Davidson in? Not Motorcycles. They're in the image and fantasy business. Middle aged professionals buy them and pretend to be careless free spirit rebels on the weekends and then on Monday, they're back to being the Sam the accountant or lawyer or engineer. I saw quite a few "bikers" with their Harley Davidson logo'd leather attire (huge business for Harley!) and Rolex watches. Real motorcycle enthusiasts, from what I'm told, prefer BMW or something Japanese: Harleys are junk.
What business is McDonald's in? Business process. When someone buys a franchise from McDs, they're buying a way to do business and a name for the burger joint that they open.
Estee Lauder was famous for saying that she was in the business of hope not cosmetics. She sold women the hope that they can look young and beautiful like her models.
My point is that if Apple were a computer company, they'd be making the crappy margins that Dell and the other PC makers are making.
Well, when you factor in a rapidly growing computer market (for Apple) with lots of growth potential left, a rapidly growing music market with lots of growth potential, a rapidly growing smartphone market, a rapidly growing mobile applications market...
And so on.
The thing of it is, Apple can still miss in a few categories and still have tremendous room for growth. They have many legs of stability holding up their table of success (I daresay that's the most awful metaphor you'll encounter this week).
The market rewards innovation, mindshare, and success. Apple has all three...
If after that you are still mystified - buy mutual funds.
Everything the parent said is true. The amount of growth, on the other hand, is anyone one's guess and if they miss a "target" their stock price may get tanked. And I'd like to add, innovation isn't necessarily rewarded. SONY was one of the most innovative companies that has existed. But whenever they came out with a product, a competitor(s) came out with a cheaper one eroding Sony's margins to the point where they couldn't recoup much of their R&D for their products. Now they've pretty much become an also ran themselves. Apple seams to be doing well with their hit hard and fast strategy (create a new product, charge up the ass for it, and then when competitors come out with their own, lower the price but still keep the Apple premium for the brand loyalists.)
Basically, Apple is no longer a personal computer company: they're an electronic entertainment and fashion accessory company - much more profitable this way and shows the marketing genius of Jobs & Co.
Even though the stock market isn't technically a futures market, the fact that folks are buying a company's share based on anticipated future earnings makes the equities markets a futures market in practice.
wonder why, since they're helping in Iraq, doesn't the US help them?!? Now, the Georgians will have to pull their troops out of Iraq leaving US with more of the burden - rightfully so.
Slashdot Mirror
I have much more power than any of the girls, well most of them, on the US Team, but in the water, they'll blow my doors off because of better technique - the ability to apply their power in the water. That's the best I can do. It's been a while since I read my swim coaching stuff.
After doing something for years and years, changing the way you do something, whether it's a swimming stroke or tennis or golf swing, isn't done instantly. It takes quite a bit of concerted effort and attention to change it. I'd be really interested in how and what the coach does to get the swimmers to change.
I've witnessed swimmers in college that have bad habits that they gained as youth and they can't seam to shake them.
They need the "Police in free country crack down on their own people for idiotic reasons and abusing their authority thereby turning free country into a less-free country thereby aiding the terrorists" card.
What the hell is going on here? Did all of you people click the link for stupid pills offered in a spam e-mail?
Yes. It's the only thing keeping me from fire bombing in this political and economic climate.
I have mod points, but I don't know whether to rate you -1 Off Topic or +1 Funny
Hopefully someone else can make the proper call as I do a quick search for Amazon moon women.
That's decent of you. I wish more folks would do that. When I first started, someone gave me a -1 Troll for what I thought was something quite funny. Well the deal is, even if I have a +5 Funny, modding me -1 whatever gives the comment an overall score of -1. And if you're just starting out, well, you post from then on at 0 or -1 if another didn't get or didn't like the joke.
And I find the 'water' reason to be pretty transparent. We all know that there's oil up there and this is yet another neo-con plan that's going to suck us into another war to boost Bush's ratings. But when images of those poor Amazon women up there start coming back, it's jut going to blowup in their faces like Iraq did, and further depress our economy.
Slashdot is AWESOME! Whhoott!!!
Where's my +500?!?
Not that I'm saying this regulation is the answer, but there needs to be some sort of tax in there somewhere to pay for the roads. Unless we want to just go all toll roads....
I wouldn't worry. Folks in the legislature always find ways to get our money.
Ah, yes! I can't disagree. And round and round we go - leaving out the rest of us.
Please, you Californians, if you see any of that horseshit on the ballot, please oh please vote it down!
This is /.! IP is evil and satanic here! Geeze! With your low 6 figure userid you should know better, man!
BTW, I'm an independent who's a social liberal (I don't care who you sleep with or marry) and government conservative(government should be the last resort for any problem outside of what's explicitly stated in the Constitution and even then it still spends too much money).
Wait till the Dems get into power in November (unless there's some awesome economic news in the next two months; they got it.). Then these shows will start making fun of them.
Also, many democrats are younger and don't have time for 'politics', but do have time for comedy.
(I moved the quotes). Politics these days is about distraction. It's about focusing on non issues, or at least, focusing on issues that a very small minority finds irrationally important. And even then, whatever comes out of any candidates mouth during a campaign is just pie in the sky.
Elite? Ohhhhhh, I get it. Nice jab at the McCain campaign there!
Many Republican and a few Democrat politicians don't realize that they are the joke.
It looks like taking a video would be easier. That way, you wouldn't have to spend time stringing all the stills to together - if I understood correctly.
Shut The Fuckup Sonny - it's what the old guys on Photo.net say when you tell them that photography as we know it is dead - especially if you mention film in the same sentence. It'd be like saying that BSD is dead here on /..
I can't wait for the ability to do a search and replace of all the images of women replacing them with naked Playboy playmate pictures. Then again, it would be embarrassing to walk into a church and be staring a Nun up and down with a woody.
How about this....
What business is Harley Davidson in? Not Motorcycles. They're in the image and fantasy business. Middle aged professionals buy them and pretend to be careless free spirit rebels on the weekends and then on Monday, they're back to being the Sam the accountant or lawyer or engineer. I saw quite a few "bikers" with their Harley Davidson logo'd leather attire (huge business for Harley!) and Rolex watches. Real motorcycle enthusiasts, from what I'm told, prefer BMW or something Japanese: Harleys are junk.
What business is McDonald's in? Business process. When someone buys a franchise from McDs, they're buying a way to do business and a name for the burger joint that they open.
Estee Lauder was famous for saying that she was in the business of hope not cosmetics. She sold women the hope that they can look young and beautiful like her models.
My point is that if Apple were a computer company, they'd be making the crappy margins that Dell and the other PC makers are making.
Well, when you factor in a rapidly growing computer market (for Apple) with lots of growth potential left, a rapidly growing music market with lots of growth potential, a rapidly growing smartphone market, a rapidly growing mobile applications market...
And so on.
The thing of it is, Apple can still miss in a few categories and still have tremendous room for growth. They have many legs of stability holding up their table of success (I daresay that's the most awful metaphor you'll encounter this week).
The market rewards innovation, mindshare, and success. Apple has all three...
If after that you are still mystified - buy mutual funds.
Everything the parent said is true. The amount of growth, on the other hand, is anyone one's guess and if they miss a "target" their stock price may get tanked. And I'd like to add, innovation isn't necessarily rewarded. SONY was one of the most innovative companies that has existed. But whenever they came out with a product, a competitor(s) came out with a cheaper one eroding Sony's margins to the point where they couldn't recoup much of their R&D for their products. Now they've pretty much become an also ran themselves. Apple seams to be doing well with their hit hard and fast strategy (create a new product, charge up the ass for it, and then when competitors come out with their own, lower the price but still keep the Apple premium for the brand loyalists.)
Basically, Apple is no longer a personal computer company: they're an electronic entertainment and fashion accessory company - much more profitable this way and shows the marketing genius of Jobs & Co.
Which what the parent was getting at...
I....'....m.....s...t...i..l..l...o...n..1...2...0...0..bd....di..a...l...u..p a...n....d...I....h..a..v..e...n.o..pr...p.b.l.e.m..ss!..>$$#>>>$$%%
Troll indeed!
Commentary from Marketplace NPR
Russia has the greatest weapon of our time: oil. They have more than the Saudis. Nobody is going to piss them off and disrupt their supply.