The proper response is "Why more calories? You would have wasted them anyway."
A lot of people eat, store, and proceed to waste 1500 calories a day while severely raising their risk for health problems. The bike transportation solves all of these issues, and requires no "extra" calories unless you were already on a reduced calorie diet. The only downsides are dangerous roads (probably thanks to someone gorging a 1500 calorie "value meal" while steaming down the road in their SUV paying no attention to anything,) and showing up to work sweaty, rained on, and/or late.
Sweet mother of god the things I would do if I had 10+ hours a day to waste for a WHOLE MONTH STRAIGHT (as is the time frequently related by the people I know who do such things).
I will go ahead and tell you now, spending time in a MMORPG wouldn't be what I would do. Trolling on slashdot might be slightly higher on the list, even.
To test this I found a really old article (to avoid the chance of someone coming upon it) and posted a comment in it with my password. Turns out you were wrong!!! Damn you.
I an a little naive to the criminal enterprise that is stolen gaming credentials, but I have to wonder: why does it matter, if you are selling a stolen credential, if it's good or not? Is the buyer really going to come back and demand a refund when it doesn't work? And what real benefit are these, anyway? Don't tell me that people buy stolen creds and log into them just to take all their e-loot (worth thousands of e-dollars)? Oh for the love of humanity the things people will do in the name of wasting time.
It's the bottom of the ocean, in an oily pipe with huge pressure behind and in front of it... Even if the foam did expand what would keep the bag from being shot out of the pipe like a cannonball?
What I want to know is, once they realized that the ship-with-a-straw idea was somewhat effective at drawing 20% (or some fraction, open for debate) of the oil, why didnt they immediately deploy a dozen said ships with straws to catch the rest?
Are you trying to point out that the internet wasn't a military innovation by stating its purpose was to track nuclear weapons (*military* nuclear weapons)?
And for what it's worth, the original purpose was to allow communication between points with no single path of failure (insert beneficial military application here like giving combat orders in the event of a nuclear strike); it started in universities, national labs, and large military bases who had the budget to pull the wires, and before we knew it there were all kinds of fun uses for it like MUD games and e-mail and slashdot and finally facebook; the ultimate military weapon.
What I want to know is, will they be getting Robert Silverberg to write the promotional novel, too? I think the movie poster will look something like this:
"Vincenzo Natali's adaptaton of William Gibson's novel will be as good or perhaps better than the original novel itself. I am looking forward to watching it soon in a theater and may even bring my kids. Most likely I will purchase popcorn and a large diet soda." --Robert Silverberg
If the glass bead were moving in such a way that was too subtle for them to measure, would they even know they couldn't measure it? What if Einstein was right and was simply implying that the movements eventually broke down so far that they were unobservable (similar to Planck's work)?
Are you sure it's using the actual VHF channel 5? DTV stations use "virtual channels" so if your TV says you are watching channel 5.1 it could very well be on frequency channel 42. Most stations jumped to higher frequency channels during the transition, only retaining their old numbers virtually.
How much more than $48 is it for a HD-grade DVR? And of those "basic" channels what is included that's not either 1) also OTA, 2) crap infomercials, or 3) crap government programming? In central Ohio, the answer to the first question is "at least $10 more" and the second question is "none". $80 a month, $50 a month, hell even $20 a month just isn't enough to interest me in anything on the basic channel lineup, even if it's delivered in HD.
Get a decent antenna (any UHF one will work) and hide it in your attic. Point it in the general direction of most of the stations and run a coax line down to your TV. Get a signal booster (or antenna with built in booster) if you still have trouble. I can pick up stations 20-40 miles away very easily with this setup (for my basement TV) and the TV in the upstairs bedroom has the antenna just sitting right next to it and all channels come in great. Neither antenna I bought (one even with booster included) cost more than $20.
In short, either you are a hundred miles from the station, you live in a mountainous area, or you are doing something wrong.
Triple play customers seem to be the only one getting a deal, so you may very well be in the sweet spot of value for the service. Especially when the DVR fills a high value need (just please don't let it do your parenting for you) if you are using it daily it can make a lot of sense.
As a person who wants nothing to do with a local phone line, that leaves me just needing video and internet. Maybe they are pricing it wrong, but I can get 6mbit internet for $35; if I want a "standard lineup" with *one* HD-capable DVR box, it adds about $80 a month to the bill! When I spend most of my time either using the internet via PC or using the internet to watch Netflix, Hulu, etc. it's hard as hell to justify tripling the bill just to get cable service that I would spend less than an hour a day (on average) using.
When "basic" cable costs $20 or more a month and is basically the same channel lineup you can get OTA, why the heck would you bother subscribing when you can take that first $20 bill payment, get a cheap antenna to hide in your attic, and get crisp, clean HDTV for free.
Since cable availability has been ubiquitous for so long, I always thought that broadcast TV was a dying art; and subsequently that the HDTV rollout was a death-throw or at best an exercise in futility. Now, having canceled my IPTV based cable over a year ago and relying solely on broadcast TV and the internet, I can say that I will have a very hard time ever justifying $50 to $70 a month for cable channels of actual interest.
Except they quickly beat out Myspace and Friendster; two services that were also free, somewhat popular and relatively equal in basic features. Facebook had an angle (college kids) and they exploited that extremely well, and followed it up by tacking on more mass market features (open apps that led to mafia wars and all the rest).
Lucky? Yes, but then do you think Henry Ford got along on his luck alone?
Facebook pandered to privacy-ignorant college students by offering very unique features. Remember how it used to tell you and all your friends your very physical location when you signed on, and by default no less! People ate that stuff up, and when they realized how bad of an idea that was it was too late; everyone was on facebook, it was the defacto social network for college students.
Look around, just about everyone who is actually in corporate America disagrees with what you are saying. Laptops are cheaper and easier to roll out; they are the new desktop. Only those people with a need for especially powerful machines will get desktops, even at an engineering office like the one I work in.
As a modern adult, I can attest to this. I even enjoy a good video game now and then, and still have a hard time spending money on a desktop PC considering I have a functional laptop and smartphone that both "do web". The desktop PC is very close (if not already arrived at) a niche for enthusiasts; laptops are simply easier and cheaper for the mainstream than the equivalent desktop. Just look at the trend of laptops vs desktops being sold. And soon, we will be saying the laptop has gone to the productivity niche and the tablet/smartphone/whatever is the new 'mainstream computing device'. It's what happens to every technology; eventually the fundamental design becomes obsolete as change takes place.
And then there's the difference between bpm (minutes?) and BPD (barrels per day). But I guess that's not too important. For your napkin math, just remember that there are 1440 minutes in a day.
You don't seem to get it! This is a Yellowstone-caldera-like event! Except instead of lava, it's oil, and instead of spanning most of North America it spans part of the Gulf of Mexico, and instead of a volcano per se, it's more like an oil spill (which has happened, in large quantities, without even the slightest hint of human extinctions).
Imagine that individual businesses had the power to set meter pricing and time limits... You would be on another planet, somewhere in a different solar system. The meters are there at the whim of the city. Properly used, they can be great tools. Misused or overused, and they can be a headache and a deterrent to regular customers.
Why hate the meters? They are there to make parking easier and more reliable for everyone. It's the enforcement that pisses me off to no end. Writing a ticket for a meter one minute expired, or for not having a front license on your car (like it somehow creates a hazard?). And the pricing... Why should meters be $2/hr? Ever? Who carries that much loose change?
Just out of curiosity, what part of "No peasants are starving, our economy is great, everyone else in the world envies/fears us, and by the way we just perfected nuclear fusion!" is a *mild* hallucination?
It's a good thing you are being sarcastic, if you were serious you would sound pretty stupid. The iPhone has been sold in three completely different hardware generations in its three and a half year history (all of which are still in use) and has had a dozen or so flavors with varying sizes of onboard memory. Meanwhile (in more recent history), Android has been available for about a year and a half, almost all sales of which were on four hardware revisions from two makers on two carriers, and yet its footprint has eclipsed Apple who had a two year head start.
It sure is an apples to apples comparison!/sarcasm
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The proper response is "Why more calories? You would have wasted them anyway."
A lot of people eat, store, and proceed to waste 1500 calories a day while severely raising their risk for health problems. The bike transportation solves all of these issues, and requires no "extra" calories unless you were already on a reduced calorie diet. The only downsides are dangerous roads (probably thanks to someone gorging a 1500 calorie "value meal" while steaming down the road in their SUV paying no attention to anything,) and showing up to work sweaty, rained on, and/or late.
Sweet mother of god the things I would do if I had 10+ hours a day to waste for a WHOLE MONTH STRAIGHT (as is the time frequently related by the people I know who do such things).
I will go ahead and tell you now, spending time in a MMORPG wouldn't be what I would do. Trolling on slashdot might be slightly higher on the list, even.
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To test this I found a really old article (to avoid the chance of someone coming upon it) and posted a comment in it with my password. Turns out you were wrong!!! Damn you.
I an a little naive to the criminal enterprise that is stolen gaming credentials, but I have to wonder: why does it matter, if you are selling a stolen credential, if it's good or not? Is the buyer really going to come back and demand a refund when it doesn't work? And what real benefit are these, anyway? Don't tell me that people buy stolen creds and log into them just to take all their e-loot (worth thousands of e-dollars)? Oh for the love of humanity the things people will do in the name of wasting time.
It's the bottom of the ocean, in an oily pipe with huge pressure behind and in front of it... Even if the foam did expand what would keep the bag from being shot out of the pipe like a cannonball?
What I want to know is, once they realized that the ship-with-a-straw idea was somewhat effective at drawing 20% (or some fraction, open for debate) of the oil, why didnt they immediately deploy a dozen said ships with straws to catch the rest?
Are you trying to point out that the internet wasn't a military innovation by stating its purpose was to track nuclear weapons (*military* nuclear weapons)?
And for what it's worth, the original purpose was to allow communication between points with no single path of failure (insert beneficial military application here like giving combat orders in the event of a nuclear strike); it started in universities, national labs, and large military bases who had the budget to pull the wires, and before we knew it there were all kinds of fun uses for it like MUD games and e-mail and slashdot and finally facebook; the ultimate military weapon.
What I want to know is, will they be getting Robert Silverberg to write the promotional novel, too? I think the movie poster will look something like this:
"Vincenzo Natali's adaptaton of William Gibson's novel will be as good or perhaps better than the original novel itself. I am looking forward to watching it soon in a theater and may even bring my kids. Most likely I will purchase popcorn and a large diet soda."
--Robert Silverberg
If the glass bead were moving in such a way that was too subtle for them to measure, would they even know they couldn't measure it? What if Einstein was right and was simply implying that the movements eventually broke down so far that they were unobservable (similar to Planck's work)?
Are you sure it's using the actual VHF channel 5? DTV stations use "virtual channels" so if your TV says you are watching channel 5.1 it could very well be on frequency channel 42. Most stations jumped to higher frequency channels during the transition, only retaining their old numbers virtually.
How much more than $48 is it for a HD-grade DVR? And of those "basic" channels what is included that's not either 1) also OTA, 2) crap infomercials, or 3) crap government programming? In central Ohio, the answer to the first question is "at least $10 more" and the second question is "none". $80 a month, $50 a month, hell even $20 a month just isn't enough to interest me in anything on the basic channel lineup, even if it's delivered in HD.
Get a decent antenna (any UHF one will work) and hide it in your attic. Point it in the general direction of most of the stations and run a coax line down to your TV. Get a signal booster (or antenna with built in booster) if you still have trouble. I can pick up stations 20-40 miles away very easily with this setup (for my basement TV) and the TV in the upstairs bedroom has the antenna just sitting right next to it and all channels come in great. Neither antenna I bought (one even with booster included) cost more than $20.
In short, either you are a hundred miles from the station, you live in a mountainous area, or you are doing something wrong.
Triple play customers seem to be the only one getting a deal, so you may very well be in the sweet spot of value for the service. Especially when the DVR fills a high value need (just please don't let it do your parenting for you) if you are using it daily it can make a lot of sense.
As a person who wants nothing to do with a local phone line, that leaves me just needing video and internet. Maybe they are pricing it wrong, but I can get 6mbit internet for $35; if I want a "standard lineup" with *one* HD-capable DVR box, it adds about $80 a month to the bill! When I spend most of my time either using the internet via PC or using the internet to watch Netflix, Hulu, etc. it's hard as hell to justify tripling the bill just to get cable service that I would spend less than an hour a day (on average) using.
When "basic" cable costs $20 or more a month and is basically the same channel lineup you can get OTA, why the heck would you bother subscribing when you can take that first $20 bill payment, get a cheap antenna to hide in your attic, and get crisp, clean HDTV for free.
Since cable availability has been ubiquitous for so long, I always thought that broadcast TV was a dying art; and subsequently that the HDTV rollout was a death-throw or at best an exercise in futility. Now, having canceled my IPTV based cable over a year ago and relying solely on broadcast TV and the internet, I can say that I will have a very hard time ever justifying $50 to $70 a month for cable channels of actual interest.
Suck on that, cable companies.
Except they quickly beat out Myspace and Friendster; two services that were also free, somewhat popular and relatively equal in basic features. Facebook had an angle (college kids) and they exploited that extremely well, and followed it up by tacking on more mass market features (open apps that led to mafia wars and all the rest).
Lucky? Yes, but then do you think Henry Ford got along on his luck alone?
Facebook pandered to privacy-ignorant college students by offering very unique features. Remember how it used to tell you and all your friends your very physical location when you signed on, and by default no less! People ate that stuff up, and when they realized how bad of an idea that was it was too late; everyone was on facebook, it was the defacto social network for college students.
Look around, just about everyone who is actually in corporate America disagrees with what you are saying. Laptops are cheaper and easier to roll out; they are the new desktop. Only those people with a need for especially powerful machines will get desktops, even at an engineering office like the one I work in.
As a modern adult, I can attest to this. I even enjoy a good video game now and then, and still have a hard time spending money on a desktop PC considering I have a functional laptop and smartphone that both "do web". The desktop PC is very close (if not already arrived at) a niche for enthusiasts; laptops are simply easier and cheaper for the mainstream than the equivalent desktop. Just look at the trend of laptops vs desktops being sold. And soon, we will be saying the laptop has gone to the productivity niche and the tablet/smartphone/whatever is the new 'mainstream computing device'. It's what happens to every technology; eventually the fundamental design becomes obsolete as change takes place.
Some expense? Are you saying that's why he died?
And then there's the difference between bpm (minutes?) and BPD (barrels per day). But I guess that's not too important. For your napkin math, just remember that there are 1440 minutes in a day.
You don't seem to get it! This is a Yellowstone-caldera-like event! Except instead of lava, it's oil, and instead of spanning most of North America it spans part of the Gulf of Mexico, and instead of a volcano per se, it's more like an oil spill (which has happened, in large quantities, without even the slightest hint of human extinctions).
What part of that doesn't make sense?
Imagine that individual businesses had the power to set meter pricing and time limits... You would be on another planet, somewhere in a different solar system. The meters are there at the whim of the city. Properly used, they can be great tools. Misused or overused, and they can be a headache and a deterrent to regular customers.
Why hate the meters? They are there to make parking easier and more reliable for everyone. It's the enforcement that pisses me off to no end. Writing a ticket for a meter one minute expired, or for not having a front license on your car (like it somehow creates a hazard?). And the pricing... Why should meters be $2/hr? Ever? Who carries that much loose change?
Just out of curiosity, what part of "No peasants are starving, our economy is great, everyone else in the world envies/fears us, and by the way we just perfected nuclear fusion!" is a *mild* hallucination?
It's a good thing you are being sarcastic, if you were serious you would sound pretty stupid. The iPhone has been sold in three completely different hardware generations in its three and a half year history (all of which are still in use) and has had a dozen or so flavors with varying sizes of onboard memory. Meanwhile (in more recent history), Android has been available for about a year and a half, almost all sales of which were on four hardware revisions from two makers on two carriers, and yet its footprint has eclipsed Apple who had a two year head start.
It sure is an apples to apples comparison! /sarcasm