Truck stops are famous for bathroom graffiti. I've seen truck stops in the midwest that gave up on trying to keep it erased and provided a dry-erase board and marker. Seriously.
I find my fountain pens more reliable than ballpoint pens, but less reliable than pencils. For large amounts of writing, nothing beats a decent fountain pen and some decent premium laser paper. I figured this out in college when I was getting cramps from taking pages of notes and doing pages of math with ballpoints and pencils. Then I discovered that there was this new pen technology out there that doesn't require any down pressure at all and makes writing much easier and more efficient, called a "fountain pen". Now I realize that ballpoints are for signing checks at the bank line other sporadic tasks; real amounts of writing call for real writing tools.
The heavy-duty equipment I am talking of does not have any mechanical linkage or cable. There is a TPS attached to the "hammer" and a wire runs down to the engine. The pedal is literally this thing hinged to the floor with a little spring loaded roller that rolls across the floor behind it (on Volvo trucks the pedal looks more like a car pedal but it's still drive-by-wire). A Detroit series 60 engine has electronic injectors and the throttle, injection timing, and mixture is all electronically controlled.
I've been around the long-haul trucking business for decades, and I hate to break it to you, but for well over 10 years now, big rigs have had electronic throttle position sensors, with a little bitty, not even particularly well-protected wire running from the pedal to the engine ECM. This is ever since Detroit Diesel came out with their electronically controlled engine in the '90s which was an amazing breakthrough in mileage and reliability. So basically every truck that we've bought or ran for over ten years has had an electronic throttle pedal, and there have been zero problems, except occasionally the TPS itself needs replaced (like every million miles or so). In this case it looks like Toyota fucked up, but that doesn't mean using electronic controls is a bad way to go, because clearly lots of things seem to be able to implement them properly, including airplanes.
I wonder what the Japanese, and people that speak other languages that don't have the frontal vowel in "iPad" are going to think when they hear that it's called the same thing.
Columbus was trying to find a faster route to the Indies, which was known to be full of riches and spices and other good shit. He ended up finding instead another continent which was also full of relatively good shit.
There is nothing useful on the moon, or on mars. If there was, there would be no feasible way to get it down here, or people up there. I don't understand why people are so fired up to visit what amounts to the middle of the sahara desert/antarctica, only light-minutes away and without a breathable atmosphere. Really?
You get different typos on Dvorak I've noticed. Most of the world chronically misspells "the" as "teh". I don't have any trouble with that one, but I often misspell "com" as "cmo".
Really the two layouts aren't as different as people make them out to be; they actually have a lot in common. "M" and "A" are in the same place.~
It's possible, and it's very easy on any modern operating system.
Any Unix I've ever been on takes "setxkbmap dvorak" and I'm rockin.
Windows XP (last windows I used) is about 4 mouse clicks "control panel-regional-add layout..dvorak is the first one on the list. Default behavior allows you to easily toggle between them with a keycombo, but always defaults to the default layout on boot or when opening new programs.
I've been going to make a microcontroller-controlled hardware translator box, but haven't got around to it.
I type Dvorak exclusively; I never learned qwerty. I was advised to take up dvorak becaues of a wrist injury I had at the time. I love it, it types very easily and I can't even imagine typing on that abomination of a qwerty keyboard. It's offensive. Then again, I learned on Dvorak to start with and I understand that the learning curve would keep people from switching to it. But the increase in efficiency is obvious. I can tell just by looking at people's hands. My friend types at least as fast as I can, probably faster, on qwerty, but his hands fly everywhere; I'm like "what the hell are you typing" but it's just that qwerty forces you to do that where as when I type dvorak my hards are more or less just sitting here chewing out words.
I don't think anyone could hand-write as fast as I (and many other fast typers) can type. I can type 100+wpm, and many can type faster. With 5-letter words, that's 8 letters per second. There's just no way you could handwrite that fast, unless it was some kind of shorthand.
He's not the only one that failed chemistry. BP is now selling gasoline that is "fortified with the power of Nitrogen". Seriously. I hear it has what plants crave.
I've been told that the reason people (often) fear snakes and clowns is that they cannot read any emotion from their expressions. I think a robot would have to be amazingly nuanced and advanced for people to accept its body language as human.
I never argue with audiophiles that they can't hear a difference. I even agree that their magic rocks, etc. can make their system sound different. I insist, however, that there is no change whatsoever in the output of the system. Just as you said, some products can make a stereo sound different without changing the output of the stereo system whatsoever. The listening happens in the brain. If a magic rock makes their system sound better to them, well, is it really a waste of money?
I know the market has shrank away from the mainstream, but Kodak is still making basically the best still-camera and motion picture film in the world, in their TMY, Ektar 100 and Vision color negative film stocks. To those of us still buying the stuff by the brick, that's a very big deal.
I am "faced with the knowledge of my own terminal illness" in that I am alive. I know that I will die, sooner or later. I understand that people who are terminally ill have a better idea as to the possible maximum, but we all have a possible maximum, and as you get older it will be looming for you, too. It annoys me when people are like "He KNOWS he's going to die, that must be so depressing". We all "know we are going to die". Nobody lives. Everyone dies. You should live accordingly.
We can never satisfactorily "cure" cancer or any other disease. "Curing" a disease is defined as letting you live long enough to die from a different one. Numbers show that millions of lives have been saved by antibiotics, but have they? Just give them a bit more time. They will die sure enough. The only reason the "terminal illness" part is relevant to this TV show is they need the person to die on their TV schedule.
I'm playing Odin sphere right now, and in that game you play through as multiple different characters, and get a different story perspective each time. You even fight different sides of the boss battles in the different storylines--kind of "fighting yourself". So every 10 hours or so, you complete a complete mini-rpg with its own character's storyline, but with an overarching storyline that involves everyone. I thought it was a fresh take on "ending" considering you get to complete a relatively short, though satisfying game, and then when you start the next character it's like starting a whole new game. Also the 2d graphics are absolutely stunning at times, easily more stunning than the photorealistic 3D wondergames whose visual impact is starting to wear off.
Even more so than the issue of statistical independence or veracity of the DNA testing process itself (which SHOULD be investigated) is the simple possibility of corruption, incompetence, or simple mistake. If a DNA testing lab simply accepts a bribe to give their expert testimony, has a mistake and switches sample vials, etc, their expert court-testimonyer will still show up in court claiming "The chances are approximately eighty-three bazillion to one".
This giant number has the emotional effect of certainty, but that number is just the chances that the sample the DNA lab recieved corresponds to the DNA of the accused--IF NO MISTAKES WERE MADE and nobody is planting evidence or accepting bribes. It's not the chance that the accused is innocent. I'm sure this distinction is made in the verbal "fine print" but the jury will still be swayed. The giant odds numbers are nothing powerful emotional hooks. The real possibility that the DNA evidence does not finger the accused breaks down like this:
1:1billion the DNA matches someone else due to a flaw in the statistics of DNA testing TIMES 1:$smallernumber the DNA lab has accepted a bribe, has a mole, made a mistake, etc TIMES 1:$smallernumber the DNA lab has honestly received a sample from the accused but the sample was planted at the scene by police, the real criminal, or really bad luck.
The jury won't be considering these factors when they hear the "1:1billion" number. It's nothing but sensationalism.
You can't just decide that the issue of wave-particle duality is solved and declare electrons to be waves, and unparticles in any useful sense. Electrons are particles in many useful senses. You can count them, they have a certain amount of charge, and they have a measurable mass. Heck, they even have a 'spin'. There are massless entities like photons that are are much 'wavier'. Photons have a momentum, but at least they don't have mass, charge, or spin.
Oh, and electrons are yellow, I don't care what anyone else says. Yellow!
Assuming the digital cash was backed by the predominating fiat currency (which it would probably have to be, to be accepted by all the normal stores out there), I suppose only two people need to make contact with the state economy....the entity who went to the bank and asked for $XXX in digital cash, and the many different entities that theoretically go to the bank to redeem their $YY for fiat currency. There could be thousands of intermediate annonymous transactions in between, and any one of them could theoretically go to the bank and redeem the digital cash for greenbacks, but they wouldn't have to. I get paid via paypal, and then turn around and spend the paypal balance all the time...I never actually redeem it for cash because then my wife would know.
It would seem that you could start up a virtual fiat currency of your own by just inventing a money base and issuing starter money to people randomly, and hoping it catches on. That might work, but of course it would be illegal since issuing currency is generally a state monopoly. You could have the digital 'cash' be just certificates for some commodity instead, then technically everyone is just trading, buying and selling the commodity. You could use some hard, durable, and scare metal, for example, and issues digital certificates redeemable for a certain amount. Since it wouldn't technically be a currency, it would be perfectly legal. I wonder why nobody has thought of that before!~
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Truck stops are famous for bathroom graffiti. I've seen truck stops in the midwest that gave up on trying to keep it erased and provided a dry-erase board and marker. Seriously.
I find my fountain pens more reliable than ballpoint pens, but less reliable than pencils. For large amounts of writing, nothing beats a decent fountain pen and some decent premium laser paper. I figured this out in college when I was getting cramps from taking pages of notes and doing pages of math with ballpoints and pencils. Then I discovered that there was this new pen technology out there that doesn't require any down pressure at all and makes writing much easier and more efficient, called a "fountain pen". Now I realize that ballpoints are for signing checks at the bank line other sporadic tasks; real amounts of writing call for real writing tools.
The heavy-duty equipment I am talking of does not have any mechanical linkage or cable. There is a TPS attached to the "hammer" and a wire runs down to the engine. The pedal is literally this thing hinged to the floor with a little spring loaded roller that rolls across the floor behind it (on Volvo trucks the pedal looks more like a car pedal but it's still drive-by-wire). A Detroit series 60 engine has electronic injectors and the throttle, injection timing, and mixture is all electronically controlled.
I've been around the long-haul trucking business for decades, and I hate to break it to you, but for well over 10 years now, big rigs have had electronic throttle position sensors, with a little bitty, not even particularly well-protected wire running from the pedal to the engine ECM. This is ever since Detroit Diesel came out with their electronically controlled engine in the '90s which was an amazing breakthrough in mileage and reliability. So basically every truck that we've bought or ran for over ten years has had an electronic throttle pedal, and there have been zero problems, except occasionally the TPS itself needs replaced (like every million miles or so). In this case it looks like Toyota fucked up, but that doesn't mean using electronic controls is a bad way to go, because clearly lots of things seem to be able to implement them properly, including airplanes.
I wonder what the Japanese, and people that speak other languages that don't have the frontal vowel in "iPad" are going to think when they hear that it's called the same thing.
"We are calling it the iPod!"
But your other thing was called "iPod"?
"No, not "iPod", it's "iPod"!"
???
Columbus was trying to find a faster route to the Indies, which was known to be full of riches and spices and other good shit. He ended up finding instead another continent which was also full of relatively good shit.
There is nothing useful on the moon, or on mars. If there was, there would be no feasible way to get it down here, or people up there. I don't understand why people are so fired up to visit what amounts to the middle of the sahara desert/antarctica, only light-minutes away and without a breathable atmosphere. Really?
You get different typos on Dvorak I've noticed. Most of the world chronically misspells "the" as "teh". I don't have any trouble with that one, but I often misspell "com" as "cmo".
Really the two layouts aren't as different as people make them out to be; they actually have a lot in common. "M" and "A" are in the same place.~
It's possible, and it's very easy on any modern operating system.
Any Unix I've ever been on takes "setxkbmap dvorak" and I'm rockin.
Windows XP (last windows I used) is about 4 mouse clicks "control panel-regional-add layout..dvorak is the first one on the list. Default behavior allows you to easily toggle between them with a keycombo, but always defaults to the default layout on boot or when opening new programs.
I've been going to make a microcontroller-controlled hardware translator box, but haven't got around to it.
I type Dvorak exclusively; I never learned qwerty. I was advised to take up dvorak becaues of a wrist injury I had at the time. I love it, it types very easily and I can't even imagine typing on that abomination of a qwerty keyboard. It's offensive. Then again, I learned on Dvorak to start with and I understand that the learning curve would keep people from switching to it. But the increase in efficiency is obvious. I can tell just by looking at people's hands. My friend types at least as fast as I can, probably faster, on qwerty, but his hands fly everywhere; I'm like "what the hell are you typing" but it's just that qwerty forces you to do that where as when I type dvorak my hards are more or less just sitting here chewing out words.
I don't think anyone could hand-write as fast as I (and many other fast typers) can type. I can type 100+wpm, and many can type faster. With 5-letter words, that's 8 letters per second. There's just no way you could handwrite that fast, unless it was some kind of shorthand.
He's not the only one that failed chemistry. BP is now selling gasoline that is "fortified with the power of Nitrogen". Seriously. I hear it has what plants crave.
I've been told that the reason people (often) fear snakes and clowns is that they cannot read any emotion from their expressions. I think a robot would have to be amazingly nuanced and advanced for people to accept its body language as human.
I never argue with audiophiles that they can't hear a difference. I even agree that their magic rocks, etc. can make their system sound different. I insist, however, that there is no change whatsoever in the output of the system. Just as you said, some products can make a stereo sound different without changing the output of the stereo system whatsoever. The listening happens in the brain. If a magic rock makes their system sound better to them, well, is it really a waste of money?
Rikki don't lose that number
You don't want to call nobody else
Send it off in an email, to yourself
I know the market has shrank away from the mainstream, but Kodak is still making basically the best still-camera and motion picture film in the world, in their TMY, Ektar 100 and Vision color negative film stocks. To those of us still buying the stuff by the brick, that's a very big deal.
You know how many breaths people take every year? Hundreds. Literally hundreds.
I am "faced with the knowledge of my own terminal illness" in that I am alive. I know that I will die, sooner or later. I understand that people who are terminally ill have a better idea as to the possible maximum, but we all have a possible maximum, and as you get older it will be looming for you, too. It annoys me when people are like "He KNOWS he's going to die, that must be so depressing". We all "know we are going to die". Nobody lives. Everyone dies. You should live accordingly.
We can never satisfactorily "cure" cancer or any other disease. "Curing" a disease is defined as letting you live long enough to die from a different one. Numbers show that millions of lives have been saved by antibiotics, but have they? Just give them a bit more time. They will die sure enough. The only reason the "terminal illness" part is relevant to this TV show is they need the person to die on their TV schedule.
I'm playing Odin sphere right now, and in that game you play through as multiple different characters, and get a different story perspective each time. You even fight different sides of the boss battles in the different storylines--kind of "fighting yourself". So every 10 hours or so, you complete a complete mini-rpg with its own character's storyline, but with an overarching storyline that involves everyone. I thought it was a fresh take on "ending" considering you get to complete a relatively short, though satisfying game, and then when you start the next character it's like starting a whole new game. Also the 2d graphics are absolutely stunning at times, easily more stunning than the photorealistic 3D wondergames whose visual impact is starting to wear off.
Which is why I'm always careful to say "mailman or femailman"
Burning all those DVDS, and reading them back, would be the bottleneck. Might as well stuff TB hdd's in there.
Even more so than the issue of statistical independence or veracity of the DNA testing process itself (which SHOULD be investigated) is the simple possibility of corruption, incompetence, or simple mistake. If a DNA testing lab simply accepts a bribe to give their expert testimony, has a mistake and switches sample vials, etc, their expert court-testimonyer will still show up in court claiming "The chances are approximately eighty-three bazillion to one".
This giant number has the emotional effect of certainty, but that number is just the chances that the sample the DNA lab recieved corresponds to the DNA of the accused--IF NO MISTAKES WERE MADE and nobody is planting evidence or accepting bribes. It's not the chance that the accused is innocent. I'm sure this distinction is made in the verbal "fine print" but the jury will still be swayed. The giant odds numbers are nothing powerful emotional hooks. The real possibility that the DNA evidence does not finger the accused breaks down like this:
1:1billion the DNA matches someone else due to a flaw in the statistics of DNA testing
TIMES
1:$smallernumber the DNA lab has accepted a bribe, has a mole, made a mistake, etc
TIMES
1:$smallernumber the DNA lab has honestly received a sample from the accused but the sample was planted at the scene by police, the real criminal, or really bad luck.
The jury won't be considering these factors when they hear the "1:1billion" number. It's nothing but sensationalism.
You can't just decide that the issue of wave-particle duality is solved and declare electrons to be waves, and unparticles in any useful sense. Electrons are particles in many useful senses. You can count them, they have a certain amount of charge, and they have a measurable mass. Heck, they even have a 'spin'. There are massless entities like photons that are are much 'wavier'. Photons have a momentum, but at least they don't have mass, charge, or spin.
Oh, and electrons are yellow, I don't care what anyone else says. Yellow!
http://www.eyeclops.com/
I use one of these in my darkroom so I can see without effecting photographic film. Night-vision, at least, is certainly approaching "common use".
And still waiting for the Always Innovating Touchbook to actually be available and in stock.
Assuming the digital cash was backed by the predominating fiat currency (which it would probably have to be, to be accepted by all the normal stores out there), I suppose only two people need to make contact with the state economy....the entity who went to the bank and asked for $XXX in digital cash, and the many different entities that theoretically go to the bank to redeem their $YY for fiat currency. There could be thousands of intermediate annonymous transactions in between, and any one of them could theoretically go to the bank and redeem the digital cash for greenbacks, but they wouldn't have to. I get paid via paypal, and then turn around and spend the paypal balance all the time...I never actually redeem it for cash because then my wife would know.
It would seem that you could start up a virtual fiat currency of your own by just inventing a money base and issuing starter money to people randomly, and hoping it catches on. That might work, but of course it would be illegal since issuing currency is generally a state monopoly. You could have the digital 'cash' be just certificates for some commodity instead, then technically everyone is just trading, buying and selling the commodity. You could use some hard, durable, and scare metal, for example, and issues digital certificates redeemable for a certain amount. Since it wouldn't technically be a currency, it would be perfectly legal. I wonder why nobody has thought of that before!~
...is still really good. Still one of my favorite movies in fact.