That may have been true at one point. Unfortunately your reasoning is at least two years out of date. Beyond halo phones, new unsubsidized smart phones can be had for $200 and under now. Smart phones cost less than a new TV, and "bring your own phone" plans are much more popular here in the US now than they were four years ago. Expect the cost of new gingerbread class phones to drop below $100 in the next year. If you don't game on your phone, video, music and text were all perfected on Android back in 2009. That era hardware is so cheap even the cheap Chinese knockoffs are more powerful these days.
If teenagers can afford a smart phone (+ monthly data plan), I suspect a usable hearing aid could be manufactured for the same price, even if it doesn't have 3G internet and multitouch display.
If you're going to run an OS on a device with a completely different input method that won't run your desktop applications, why does it need to be called "Windows"?
People who bought Pet Rocks in the 1970s said similar things. How could you not love pet rocks? Infinite battery life, long upgrade cycle, incredible durability.
I think that's coming from the microwave emitter which is outside of the "cage" but points in to it. If you look at youtube videos of crackpots with microwave measuring devices the amount of energy emitted beyond the device itself is completely unmeasurable beyond 6 ft or so.
I'm not sure why people claim microwaves screw with their wifi reception; my file server lived on top of my microwave for about three months and my wifi router was about 3ft away from it on top of the fridge while I sorted things out and I haven't had any issues yet. There are no youtube videos documenting this phenomenon you speak of.
Then wouldn't my Linksys WRT54 GS (the one you can swap out the firmware on) start working better when I put DD-WRT or OpenWRT on it? My WRT54 just up and died two months ago (this was already the warranty replacement) and the wifi would just die if two people started using it one day. Both WRT54s were using the same firmware version (it hasn't been updated in a while) and both of them dropped to about 20% of their original range... then just died completely, only allowing you to connect after reboot.
I wonder how this will affect (or stem) hyperinflation? Generally the solution* to hyperinflation is to print mountains of money to the point that people burn it to heat their homes in the winter. However if you don't print more money (as is in Iran's case) you end up with the value of the existing currency rising at (hopefully) the same rate as the price of goods due to the limited money supply and increased demand for it.
Oh, sure, you can get them. Dallas gives out something like ten tickets a year for not following their bicycle helmet laws. A police officer threatened to give me a ticket for running a stop sign (for a bike path) in a park in June, but backed down when I asked him to give me the ticket so I could fight it in court in front of someone who wasn't his boss. $1500 in tickets in NYC is still less than five speeding tickets here in Dallas, not to mention the increases to your insurance premiums.
I've actually had police wave me through intersections before (different officer, obviously). It's a bit pedantic to quote an article from the alien world of NYC, but otherwise, getting ticketed as a bicyclist is so rare as to almost be non-existent.
I think you're going to see a lot of flight to the cities as a result of higher gas prices. Through the 90's the poor were able to afford mostly used up cars and drive them until they died, with gas being one of the cheaper costs. I was out in the exurbs (that fuzzy line between the real suburbs and the rural countryside) oh Houston, and my friend and I were shocked to see nine (NINE!) bicycles parked out back behind the restaurant when leaving.
You're right, public transportation isn't realistic in the farmland, but I don't think life in farm country is a realistic for the majority of the population anymore. I have lots of family out in a rural county seat called Kerrville, and there are literally hundreds of job openings in the service industry, but they're going unfilled because it costs too much to own a car there and commute from what few apartments are on the fringes of town.
This whole topic is very much up for debate. My dad designed and built recumbent for over a decade, and rode commercial models in later years (he eventually settled on a SWB Rans Rocket) but he never felt incredibly safe on them. His reasoning was that as a bicyclist on a recumbent you're not at eye level with drivers. You're below it by a wide margin. On a standard bicycle your eye level is at the same level as both a pedestrian and a driver, and you register on a psychological level as a regular road object that follows normal rules. True, you do stand out as a recumbent rider! They're not used to adults who sit so low on the road. They're interested in your bicycle in the same way they would be to meet a Little Person at a cocktail party, not in a "this is safe" way. Super-aero riding positions on recumbents put you too low to the road for drivers to recognize you for what you are. One of the reasons my dad went from a LWB to a SWB recumbent with an upright seating position was that it put him at roughly the same eye level as a pedestrian.
Yep. My commute is ~15 miles, 11 of those are by highway, but they're also at peak rush hour, so my commute is 40-45 minutes, longer if there is an accident. Depending on the direction (my office is uphill from my house) my commute by bike is the same speed (about 16mph), and runs about 10-15 minutes longer by bike to the office. As an added, unintended bonus, as "the bike guy" I get a lot more positive exposure to my bosses, and I've also continued to lose some more weight, putting me more in the middle of my "ideal weight range", rather than on the extreme high end of that range.
Yup. I ride my bike to work downtown 3-4 days a week, but I drive a fancy shiny BMW on the weekends/road trips out of town. My 15 mile commute home takes the same 45 minutes by bike or car due to the lack of direct highways, school zones and traffic (also it's downhill all the way to my house) and only takes about 5-10 minutes longer to get to work than taking the car.
Besides what I save on gas, bike repairs are hundreds of dollars cheaper and you can't get speeding/school zone speeding/stop sign/red light tickets on a bike, and I've effectively doubled the lifespan of my car. I'm down from 10,000-12,000 miles to 4,400 miles so far this year, and that includes monthly roadtrips to houston for sailing. Rather than replacing my "gently used" car every 4-5 years, at this rate I'll be able to hang on to this one for ten.
Also I've lost 30 lbs and people have started asking me "what are you doing to stay in shape?" when I'm able to keep up with them at the lunch buffet yet keep losing weight.My company dropped my health insurance policy by $60 a month due to their "healthy habits" incentive program, I don't have to pay to park downtown ($5 a day). The $300 a year I put in to my bicycle more than pays for itself.
Agreed, the only data I have in FB that I don't have a local copy of is the email and phone numbers of the distant contacts I'd never bother contacting anyways. My old, 3 page livejournal posts from my high school years I would be more interested in keeping, but if FB lost everything in a giant db failure tomorrow, I wouldn't be crushed. Hell, I'd probably get more done.
You can still afford them. Dirt cheap goods are a fairly recent phenomenon. The world will not implode if the cost of non-durable goods goes up by 10%.
If you ditch the need for helmets, more people would start cycling,
No, if Walmart, Target and Toys'R'Us would stop selling 900 variety of mountain bikes and more road/commuter bikes, more people would start cycling. The problem is that you get a crappy mountain bike with terrible fat high rolling resistance tires that roll to a stop in about 20 ft. You put up with it as a kid because hey - at least you can go more than three blocks from the house in an hour. It's not like you can drive. Americans grow up thinking that bicycles are these awful, miserable mechanical contraptions designed to wear out childen. Most Americans have never ridden a proper bicycle with smooth tires and geometry designed to go more than five miles. Walmart and Target both only sell one road bike, it's that awful yellow GMC Yukon with the grip shifters (go look at it some time, it's in every big box store in america) and occasionally, very recently they have started carrying some "fixie" bikes.
Put real, rideable bikes back in big box stores and you'll see a resurgence in bicycle commters... in about 15 years. I see tons of illegal immigrants huffing and puffing around Dallas on walmart brand (Nexus, Magma) mountain bikes, simply because they can't find adult road bikes that fit their smaller stature. If you head over to your LBS you can find good road bikes, but joe average doesn't typically drop $600 on a road bike for little jimmy who is going to outgrow it anyways.
If they have Garmin using their data, that's a pretty solid revenue stream for at least several years. Not enough to prop up the company now that microsoft has evicerated their mobile division and is using it as a ventriloquist dummy to hawk their windows phone OS, but it will give their employees another year or two to gracefully exit the company before it implodes in a spectacular fireball.
A teacher friend of mine planned ahead and took the kids outside to see it fly by. Sounds like your kid's teacher needs a stern talking to about a more rounded education if she's got them cooped up while the shuttle flies by.
5300 comments by adults with real jobs in a very narrow focus of IT. You may not be able to hawk your etsy made pichachu beanies here, but this is a great place to advertise your new low to medium end server lines, particularly if you are IBM, Dell or HP, who have pretty much propped up the site for the last decade. Aaron Sorkin makes the same argument for his shows like The West Wing and Studio 60 (and I guess, The Newsroom) that even if your audience is smaller, they're in a much higher purchasing bracket (or influence the purchases being made) than someone who watches Ren and Stimpy (on average).
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That may have been true at one point. Unfortunately your reasoning is at least two years out of date. Beyond halo phones, new unsubsidized smart phones can be had for $200 and under now. Smart phones cost less than a new TV, and "bring your own phone" plans are much more popular here in the US now than they were four years ago. Expect the cost of new gingerbread class phones to drop below $100 in the next year. If you don't game on your phone, video, music and text were all perfected on Android back in 2009. That era hardware is so cheap even the cheap Chinese knockoffs are more powerful these days.
If teenagers can afford a smart phone (+ monthly data plan), I suspect a usable hearing aid could be manufactured for the same price, even if it doesn't have 3G internet and multitouch display.
If you're going to run an OS on a device with a completely different input method that won't run your desktop applications, why does it need to be called "Windows"?
People who bought Pet Rocks in the 1970s said similar things. How could you not love pet rocks? Infinite battery life, long upgrade cycle, incredible durability.
No, because the doctor you'd be referencing in this case would be an epidemiologist. National security != personal security
I think that's coming from the microwave emitter which is outside of the "cage" but points in to it. If you look at youtube videos of crackpots with microwave measuring devices the amount of energy emitted beyond the device itself is completely unmeasurable beyond 6 ft or so.
I'm not sure why people claim microwaves screw with their wifi reception; my file server lived on top of my microwave for about three months and my wifi router was about 3ft away from it on top of the fridge while I sorted things out and I haven't had any issues yet. There are no youtube videos documenting this phenomenon you speak of.
Now that CEEFAX is dead, modern services like Twitter and Tumblr can help enrich our lives with more up to date, if slightly editorialized, news.
Then wouldn't my Linksys WRT54 GS (the one you can swap out the firmware on) start working better when I put DD-WRT or OpenWRT on it? My WRT54 just up and died two months ago (this was already the warranty replacement) and the wifi would just die if two people started using it one day. Both WRT54s were using the same firmware version (it hasn't been updated in a while) and both of them dropped to about 20% of their original range... then just died completely, only allowing you to connect after reboot.
I wonder how this will affect (or stem) hyperinflation? Generally the solution* to hyperinflation is to print mountains of money to the point that people burn it to heat their homes in the winter. However if you don't print more money (as is in Iran's case) you end up with the value of the existing currency rising at (hopefully) the same rate as the price of goods due to the limited money supply and increased demand for it.
It signals a broader expansion in to consumer electronics. You can only eek out so much performance and battery life from generic hardware.
Oh, sure, you can get them. Dallas gives out something like ten tickets a year for not following their bicycle helmet laws. A police officer threatened to give me a ticket for running a stop sign (for a bike path) in a park in June, but backed down when I asked him to give me the ticket so I could fight it in court in front of someone who wasn't his boss. $1500 in tickets in NYC is still less than five speeding tickets here in Dallas, not to mention the increases to your insurance premiums.
I've actually had police wave me through intersections before (different officer, obviously). It's a bit pedantic to quote an article from the alien world of NYC, but otherwise, getting ticketed as a bicyclist is so rare as to almost be non-existent.
I think it's less about money and peak oil than it is about health and peak obesity.
I think you're going to see a lot of flight to the cities as a result of higher gas prices. Through the 90's the poor were able to afford mostly used up cars and drive them until they died, with gas being one of the cheaper costs. I was out in the exurbs (that fuzzy line between the real suburbs and the rural countryside) oh Houston, and my friend and I were shocked to see nine (NINE!) bicycles parked out back behind the restaurant when leaving.
You're right, public transportation isn't realistic in the farmland, but I don't think life in farm country is a realistic for the majority of the population anymore. I have lots of family out in a rural county seat called Kerrville, and there are literally hundreds of job openings in the service industry, but they're going unfilled because it costs too much to own a car there and commute from what few apartments are on the fringes of town.
This whole topic is very much up for debate. My dad designed and built recumbent for over a decade, and rode commercial models in later years (he eventually settled on a SWB Rans Rocket) but he never felt incredibly safe on them. His reasoning was that as a bicyclist on a recumbent you're not at eye level with drivers. You're below it by a wide margin. On a standard bicycle your eye level is at the same level as both a pedestrian and a driver, and you register on a psychological level as a regular road object that follows normal rules. True, you do stand out as a recumbent rider! They're not used to adults who sit so low on the road. They're interested in your bicycle in the same way they would be to meet a Little Person at a cocktail party, not in a "this is safe" way. Super-aero riding positions on recumbents put you too low to the road for drivers to recognize you for what you are. One of the reasons my dad went from a LWB to a SWB recumbent with an upright seating position was that it put him at roughly the same eye level as a pedestrian.
Yep. My commute is ~15 miles, 11 of those are by highway, but they're also at peak rush hour, so my commute is 40-45 minutes, longer if there is an accident. Depending on the direction (my office is uphill from my house) my commute by bike is the same speed (about 16mph), and runs about 10-15 minutes longer by bike to the office. As an added, unintended bonus, as "the bike guy" I get a lot more positive exposure to my bosses, and I've also continued to lose some more weight, putting me more in the middle of my "ideal weight range", rather than on the extreme high end of that range.
Yup. I ride my bike to work downtown 3-4 days a week, but I drive a fancy shiny BMW on the weekends/road trips out of town. My 15 mile commute home takes the same 45 minutes by bike or car due to the lack of direct highways, school zones and traffic (also it's downhill all the way to my house) and only takes about 5-10 minutes longer to get to work than taking the car.
Besides what I save on gas, bike repairs are hundreds of dollars cheaper and you can't get speeding/school zone speeding/stop sign/red light tickets on a bike, and I've effectively doubled the lifespan of my car. I'm down from 10,000-12,000 miles to 4,400 miles so far this year, and that includes monthly roadtrips to houston for sailing. Rather than replacing my "gently used" car every 4-5 years, at this rate I'll be able to hang on to this one for ten.
Also I've lost 30 lbs and people have started asking me "what are you doing to stay in shape?" when I'm able to keep up with them at the lunch buffet yet keep losing weight.My company dropped my health insurance policy by $60 a month due to their "healthy habits" incentive program, I don't have to pay to park downtown ($5 a day). The $300 a year I put in to my bicycle more than pays for itself.
Agreed, the only data I have in FB that I don't have a local copy of is the email and phone numbers of the distant contacts I'd never bother contacting anyways. My old, 3 page livejournal posts from my high school years I would be more interested in keeping, but if FB lost everything in a giant db failure tomorrow, I wouldn't be crushed. Hell, I'd probably get more done.
At the same time, it also shouldn't make you less capable of googling a term you don't understand.
But we're going to explain to you how half-lives work anyways.
You can still afford them. Dirt cheap goods are a fairly recent phenomenon. The world will not implode if the cost of non-durable goods goes up by 10%.
Purple is called "chromatic abberation" - you find it in shitty cannon point and shoots from 2004. This is just an example of Apple cutting corners.
No, if Walmart, Target and Toys'R'Us would stop selling 900 variety of mountain bikes and more road/commuter bikes, more people would start cycling. The problem is that you get a crappy mountain bike with terrible fat high rolling resistance tires that roll to a stop in about 20 ft. You put up with it as a kid because hey - at least you can go more than three blocks from the house in an hour. It's not like you can drive. Americans grow up thinking that bicycles are these awful, miserable mechanical contraptions designed to wear out childen. Most Americans have never ridden a proper bicycle with smooth tires and geometry designed to go more than five miles. Walmart and Target both only sell one road bike, it's that awful yellow GMC Yukon with the grip shifters (go look at it some time, it's in every big box store in america) and occasionally, very recently they have started carrying some "fixie" bikes.
Put real, rideable bikes back in big box stores and you'll see a resurgence in bicycle commters... in about 15 years. I see tons of illegal immigrants huffing and puffing around Dallas on walmart brand (Nexus, Magma) mountain bikes, simply because they can't find adult road bikes that fit their smaller stature. If you head over to your LBS you can find good road bikes, but joe average doesn't typically drop $600 on a road bike for little jimmy who is going to outgrow it anyways.
If they have Garmin using their data, that's a pretty solid revenue stream for at least several years. Not enough to prop up the company now that microsoft has evicerated their mobile division and is using it as a ventriloquist dummy to hawk their windows phone OS, but it will give their employees another year or two to gracefully exit the company before it implodes in a spectacular fireball.
A teacher friend of mine planned ahead and took the kids outside to see it fly by. Sounds like your kid's teacher needs a stern talking to about a more rounded education if she's got them cooped up while the shuttle flies by.
5300 comments by adults with real jobs in a very narrow focus of IT. You may not be able to hawk your etsy made pichachu beanies here, but this is a great place to advertise your new low to medium end server lines, particularly if you are IBM, Dell or HP, who have pretty much propped up the site for the last decade. Aaron Sorkin makes the same argument for his shows like The West Wing and Studio 60 (and I guess, The Newsroom) that even if your audience is smaller, they're in a much higher purchasing bracket (or influence the purchases being made) than someone who watches Ren and Stimpy (on average).