$20,000 link. Go do a wikipedia search for coax and the corresponding article "hardline". It's a 1-2" diamater coax line that has to be laid, trenched, and then covered back up. Add in legal costs of being granted usage of public easements...
Blocking myspace from say, 9:20 on (assuming the office "opens" at nine) and unblocking it in the last hour of the day, so people can check their messages, maybe arrange a date after work, or get a group of coworkers together for drinks? Maybe just leave it open all day on Fridays, because nothing really ever gets done then anyways:) Comprimise, compromise.
At my location (not a Publix) the schedule gets emailed out to those who volunteer their email address. I mean, they already type up the schedule in excel on the computer, it's only about 5 more mouse clicks to email it to the "employee schedule" mailing list. The neophytes can still pick up a paper copy, but the instances of "oh I didn't realize I had a shift today" dropped off considerably when people can check their email the night before and double check when their shift is.
Do a wiki search for "Lincon Highway". Wasn't even until 1920 that we had a single road across the US. Even longer until it was paved. Rails, sure, but driving across the US was a 30 day adventure, involving fording streams and rivers. San Fransisco was already completely built out by the time of the 1908 fire. We didn't have a national highway act until the end of the Eisenhower term. And people wonder why California has a totally different culture than the east coast - it was pretty much a seperate independent country until the advent of the highway and cheap travel in the 40s and 50s.... also why none of SF's banks failed in the great depression.
Keep in mind Dell, which has been noted recently for the N-Series computers, is also located near Austin. The concept that the incredibly liberal capital Austin introducing progressive bills isn't terribly suprising. If this had been a city council proposition in a small town an hour outside of San Antonio or Tyler, this would be news.
I agree with most of what you said, but you need to understand that teenagers/tweens have 100% disposable income. They represent some billions of dollars of frivolous spending. I forget the exact figure, but 100 billion dollars doesn't sound particularly high for that figure. In fact teens/tweens are the most highly sought after retail market due to this fact. A $300 phone isn't out of the question, particularly in urban areas or affluent ones.
Also, like any other drug, caffeine takes a while to fully peak. Usually about half an hour on an empty stomach, a little longer if you've been eating food before hand. Pair it with sugar and you've got a real pick me up.
Awesome! I suppose I should amend that by saying that the TI-83 will do your homework for you as long as you're not a engineer/hard science major:) You need an 89 if you still want it to do your engineering hw/tests for you:)
Adding to the holy war; the TI-83 is a tank. My high school physics teacher would litterally toss them across the classroom for kids to catch. About 1 in 5 were dropped or missed completely, bouncing off the tile. All teachers are familiar with the 83 (meaning: they can help you troubleshoot it when you can't figure out how to do something) and it's allowed on virtually all tests. It may do less, but it should get you through any non-engineering/hard science degree at a 4 year school. If you go with anything besides the 83, you're going to have to figure out how to do certian functions on your own, as the menu system changes from model to model.
I have a Ti-86, which I got in 8th grade 12 years ago. It still works flawlessly. Luckily there were a couple of kids in each of my classes that could walk me through the menu system to make my 86 do what everyone else's 83 did like the teacher's example (done on an 83).
They tried this already. Except people overestimated how many CO2 credits many plants needed, re-evaluated, and created a glut of CO2 credits on the open market.
Ah, see, I live in Texas. I've been told there's enough space in our state alone for 6+billion people to stand with their arms outstreched, spin in a circle, and not touch anyone else.:) I just wish I could see water from my house. Living on a giant island must rock.
I think you're thinking of adobe huts. Robot house printing isn't really ecomonical outside of markets with high labor costs. When you have a bunch of jobless starving people, it doesn't cost much to get them to build you a hut out of mud.
With automated building, a 5meter cavity would cost within 1% of what a 50mm cavity would. The only cost increase is the time you're renting the machine for, and the cost of materials. There's no reason why a 2 foot cavity couldn't be built around the entire house, unless you live on less than 1/4 acre and the lot isn't wide enough, but that's rarely the case. Additionally, you could build a 1 foot cavity between rooms, increasing noise deadning significantly.
I picked up a Lenmar quick charger with 4 2700mAh batteries three years ago for $20. I can typically get 1000 shots (20% of them flash) or 45 minutes of video out of my old Canon Powershot A80. Plus it came with a 12v car adapter. I think they're relabeled sanyo batteries, which are pretty much the best on the market as far as I can tell. Charges in about 30 min (As advertised). I picked up a second set of 2500mAh batteries for about $12.
oonly down side is that they lose 2-3% of their charge per day, so it's always a good idea to have a set of alkalines on hand as backup.
My American friend in Beijing was without internet for almost a week, the week after that he would be randomly disconnected for a few minutes every 10-15 min. All the while he was getting slower than dial-up speeds(0.9KB/s).... in the last week his AIM connection died completely. We keep up via gmail and google talk. This from a connection that pre-break was getting 30kb/s for bit torrents from the US. I'm currently setting up a private TOR server in the US for him to see if he can get some normal speeds somehow.
The iPaq has a full size keyboard and handwriting recognition?
The outdoor usable display is the big selling point for someone who lives in perpetually sunny Texas. I tried using the B&W feature on my powerbook, but you really need a backlight to see anything. That OLPC display is incredible.
Erhm, the "Great White Fathers" already conqured Africa, decided it wasn't economical to continue occupying (most of the) continent, and pulled out. We drew lines and created new regional conflicts of epic proportion that has decimated the population.
Hi, I live below the poverty line according to my income. I'm typing this from a Powerbook in a (really fucking nice) 1200 sq ft apartment which I commute to work in a VW Jetta. I also pay for my own school (no student loans, paying out of pocket), I have $3000 in savings. I just got a promotion at where I work (movie theater!) but the pay raise hasn't come in yet. I've got Cable broadband, and it's fabulous. No handouts from my parents, doing this on my own. I had about $3000 in credit card debt at one point, but I've paid all but $300 of it off. Granted, I don't go out drinking every night or go eat out a lot, but my quality of life is far from what I thought I'd have to live like when I moved out.
They say America is the land of dreams. I used to think that was crap, but compared to third world countries where people aren't even aware that they have other options, I know that in my country (the US) I have a lot of upward mobility, and by expressing a desire to move up in life, people are giving me opportunities to do so. I doubt that's happening currently in the Sudan.
In two years I will go from making $12,000 a year to $22,000 this year to $45,000 a year, by being productive and focusing on what I need to do to move upward in life.
The "poverty line" is a crock of bullshit in my opinion. The number of truly homeless people who refuse to get help and move on from the past tragedies in their lives is quite small. If you're unable to make $10,000 a year (what I would consider the true poverty line to be) you are most likely severely mentally handicapped.
Actually, they use both. I'm a projectionist at an art house theater, BTW. We use two standard types, flat (standard 1.85:1 widescreen) and scope, short for cinema scope, which is a brand of anamorphic lens, which, I believe, is 2.35:1. Of the films I get at my theater, I'd say roughly 1/5th of the films are scope, while the rest are flat. Scope films do in fact use the entire 4 perforations. If you're at a really good theater, they'll focus the bulb differently for scope, and you'll get a fantastically bright picture, compared to flat, since you're losing roughly 1/3rd of the light due to the aperture plate on standard widescreen.
...Because it's 4 HDTVs smooshed together? The film industry has no problem with using a higher resolution format and then cropping it down. All 35mm flat (16.9 widescreen) films actually are filmed on 3:4 film stock, and then cropped down on the projector to widescreen. I don't see why digital could be any different.
How many GPH do you think that pump is? 20? 100? 500? Continiously? Over a period of maybe a week, yeah, you'll be fine. We're talking about things not only being immersed in chorinated water, but having that chlorinated water being actively circulated around it, continiously. It's not like chlorine is a benign chemical.
For the record, you're supposed to have 2-4ppm in your pool. Tap water is usually around 0.3ppm.
(keeping typing to avoid hitting the spam...jobby, what's it called? Filter? Trap? Good lord I'm tired. Can't wait to take out my contacts and go to sleep. Those McNuggets sure were tasty. Apparently they stopped making hot mustard for a while, but I didn't notice... but the important thing is that they have it now, and that's all that matters. Ok, that should be enough time.
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$20,000 link. Go do a wikipedia search for coax and the corresponding article "hardline". It's a 1-2" diamater coax line that has to be laid, trenched, and then covered back up. Add in legal costs of being granted usage of public easements...
Blocking myspace from say, 9:20 on (assuming the office "opens" at nine) and unblocking it in the last hour of the day, so people can check their messages, maybe arrange a date after work, or get a group of coworkers together for drinks? Maybe just leave it open all day on Fridays, because nothing really ever gets done then anyways :) Comprimise, compromise.
At my location (not a Publix) the schedule gets emailed out to those who volunteer their email address. I mean, they already type up the schedule in excel on the computer, it's only about 5 more mouse clicks to email it to the "employee schedule" mailing list. The neophytes can still pick up a paper copy, but the instances of "oh I didn't realize I had a shift today" dropped off considerably when people can check their email the night before and double check when their shift is.
Do a wiki search for "Lincon Highway". Wasn't even until 1920 that we had a single road across the US. Even longer until it was paved. Rails, sure, but driving across the US was a 30 day adventure, involving fording streams and rivers. San Fransisco was already completely built out by the time of the 1908 fire. We didn't have a national highway act until the end of the Eisenhower term. And people wonder why California has a totally different culture than the east coast - it was pretty much a seperate independent country until the advent of the highway and cheap travel in the 40s and 50s.... also why none of SF's banks failed in the great depression.
TI is based out of Dallas. Samsung is... Korean? I believe.
Keep in mind Dell, which has been noted recently for the N-Series computers, is also located near Austin. The concept that the incredibly liberal capital Austin introducing progressive bills isn't terribly suprising. If this had been a city council proposition in a small town an hour outside of San Antonio or Tyler, this would be news.
I agree with most of what you said, but you need to understand that teenagers/tweens have 100% disposable income. They represent some billions of dollars of frivolous spending. I forget the exact figure, but 100 billion dollars doesn't sound particularly high for that figure. In fact teens/tweens are the most highly sought after retail market due to this fact. A $300 phone isn't out of the question, particularly in urban areas or affluent ones.
Also, like any other drug, caffeine takes a while to fully peak. Usually about half an hour on an empty stomach, a little longer if you've been eating food before hand. Pair it with sugar and you've got a real pick me up.
Soluble in what? Air? I get a caffeine buzz going before I finish my red bull, and I've never seen them print on the can "shake before drinking".
Awesome! I suppose I should amend that by saying that the TI-83 will do your homework for you as long as you're not a engineer/hard science major :) You need an 89 if you still want it to do your engineering hw/tests for you :)
Adding to the holy war; the TI-83 is a tank. My high school physics teacher would litterally toss them across the classroom for kids to catch. About 1 in 5 were dropped or missed completely, bouncing off the tile. All teachers are familiar with the 83 (meaning: they can help you troubleshoot it when you can't figure out how to do something) and it's allowed on virtually all tests. It may do less, but it should get you through any non-engineering/hard science degree at a 4 year school. If you go with anything besides the 83, you're going to have to figure out how to do certian functions on your own, as the menu system changes from model to model.
I have a Ti-86, which I got in 8th grade 12 years ago. It still works flawlessly. Luckily there were a couple of kids in each of my classes that could walk me through the menu system to make my 86 do what everyone else's 83 did like the teacher's example (done on an 83).
They tried this already. Except people overestimated how many CO2 credits many plants needed, re-evaluated, and created a glut of CO2 credits on the open market.
Ah, see, I live in Texas. I've been told there's enough space in our state alone for 6+billion people to stand with their arms outstreched, spin in a circle, and not touch anyone else. :) I just wish I could see water from my house. Living on a giant island must rock.
A 4 bedroom, 3 bath @ 2500 sq ft in Dallas runs about $230,000 USD Maybe 250K for one in a good neighborhood with a pool.
I think you're thinking of adobe huts. Robot house printing isn't really ecomonical outside of markets with high labor costs. When you have a bunch of jobless starving people, it doesn't cost much to get them to build you a hut out of mud.
With automated building, a 5meter cavity would cost within 1% of what a 50mm cavity would. The only cost increase is the time you're renting the machine for, and the cost of materials. There's no reason why a 2 foot cavity couldn't be built around the entire house, unless you live on less than 1/4 acre and the lot isn't wide enough, but that's rarely the case. Additionally, you could build a 1 foot cavity between rooms, increasing noise deadning significantly.
I picked up a Lenmar quick charger with 4 2700mAh batteries three years ago for $20. I can typically get 1000 shots (20% of them flash) or 45 minutes of video out of my old Canon Powershot A80. Plus it came with a 12v car adapter. I think they're relabeled sanyo batteries, which are pretty much the best on the market as far as I can tell. Charges in about 30 min (As advertised). I picked up a second set of 2500mAh batteries for about $12.
oonly down side is that they lose 2-3% of their charge per day, so it's always a good idea to have a set of alkalines on hand as backup.
My American friend in Beijing was without internet for almost a week, the week after that he would be randomly disconnected for a few minutes every 10-15 min. All the while he was getting slower than dial-up speeds(0.9KB/s).... in the last week his AIM connection died completely. We keep up via gmail and google talk. This from a connection that pre-break was getting 30kb/s for bit torrents from the US. I'm currently setting up a private TOR server in the US for him to see if he can get some normal speeds somehow.
The iPaq has a full size keyboard and handwriting recognition?
The outdoor usable display is the big selling point for someone who lives in perpetually sunny Texas. I tried using the B&W feature on my powerbook, but you really need a backlight to see anything. That OLPC display is incredible.
Erhm, the "Great White Fathers" already conqured Africa, decided it wasn't economical to continue occupying (most of the) continent, and pulled out. We drew lines and created new regional conflicts of epic proportion that has decimated the population.
Think of the OLPC as a consolation gift.
*raises hand*
Hi, I live below the poverty line according to my income. I'm typing this from a Powerbook in a (really fucking nice) 1200 sq ft apartment which I commute to work in a VW Jetta. I also pay for my own school (no student loans, paying out of pocket), I have $3000 in savings. I just got a promotion at where I work (movie theater!) but the pay raise hasn't come in yet. I've got Cable broadband, and it's fabulous. No handouts from my parents, doing this on my own. I had about $3000 in credit card debt at one point, but I've paid all but $300 of it off. Granted, I don't go out drinking every night or go eat out a lot, but my quality of life is far from what I thought I'd have to live like when I moved out.
They say America is the land of dreams. I used to think that was crap, but compared to third world countries where people aren't even aware that they have other options, I know that in my country (the US) I have a lot of upward mobility, and by expressing a desire to move up in life, people are giving me opportunities to do so. I doubt that's happening currently in the Sudan.
In two years I will go from making $12,000 a year to $22,000 this year to $45,000 a year, by being productive and focusing on what I need to do to move upward in life.
The "poverty line" is a crock of bullshit in my opinion. The number of truly homeless people who refuse to get help and move on from the past tragedies in their lives is quite small. If you're unable to make $10,000 a year (what I would consider the true poverty line to be) you are most likely severely mentally handicapped.
Actually, they use both. I'm a projectionist at an art house theater, BTW. We use two standard types, flat (standard 1.85:1 widescreen) and scope, short for cinema scope, which is a brand of anamorphic lens, which, I believe, is 2.35:1. Of the films I get at my theater, I'd say roughly 1/5th of the films are scope, while the rest are flat. Scope films do in fact use the entire 4 perforations. If you're at a really good theater, they'll focus the bulb differently for scope, and you'll get a fantastically bright picture, compared to flat, since you're losing roughly 1/3rd of the light due to the aperture plate on standard widescreen.
...Because it's 4 HDTVs smooshed together? The film industry has no problem with using a higher resolution format and then cropping it down. All 35mm flat (16.9 widescreen) films actually are filmed on 3:4 film stock, and then cropped down on the projector to widescreen. I don't see why digital could be any different.
How many GPH do you think that pump is? 20? 100? 500? Continiously? Over a period of maybe a week, yeah, you'll be fine. We're talking about things not only being immersed in chorinated water, but having that chlorinated water being actively circulated around it, continiously. It's not like chlorine is a benign chemical.
For the record, you're supposed to have 2-4ppm in your pool. Tap water is usually around 0.3ppm.
Ah-ha, I lied. Huzzah for being up 26 hours and just getting off work. The actual, correct link, ladies and gentlemen
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...jobby, what's it called? Filter? Trap? Good lord I'm tired. Can't wait to take out my contacts and go to sleep. Those McNuggets sure were tasty. Apparently they stopped making hot mustard for a while, but I didn't notice... but the important thing is that they have it now, and that's all that matters. Ok, that should be enough time.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/
(keeping typing to avoid hitting the spam