I've thought of messing around with something like that, but I have a fondness for gravity drives.
I'm cuckoo for cuckoo clocks, cuckoo for cuckoo clocks, cuckoo. . .
Oh, sorry. Anyway, it's true you have to do some work to reset them, but I'm not actually averse to work. You can lift barbells to generate waste heat, or you can lift cement blocks and sand to generate electricity.
Pond Computing, Lake Computing or Ocean Computing?
They lack gravitational potential energy. Yeah, you can try to play around with extracting energy from the temperature gradiants of a lake or ocean (ponds don't have any worth worrying about), but it's just easier to stick a turbine in a stream to make the computer go; and unlike my heavy piston on a rope floating in a leaky sand filled cylinder engines the Sun carries the water back up to the upper reseviour for you.
Well it would help if either of you would go on to describe what you do use and what you do with it.
I did that -- when I got the mark. I'll give it another shot, but promise not to hit me.
I favor vim myself, but your milage may vary. The point being that when I am writing I concentrate on . ..writing. The words. Formating for printing is a completely seperate thought and physical process and should be treated seperately with tools specialized for the job.
Back in the day I was an advocate of the development of WYSIWYG editors. I thrilled when I actually first got to use one. It turns out I was wrong. It happens. I was especially wrong about wanting black on white. That really sucks when you're spending long hours at the monitor. I neglected the fact that paper reflects light and a monitor emits light. Live and learn.
WYSIWYGs add nothing to the writing process, often serve as a distraction and are poor at actual desktop publishing functions.
They have their place; and I use them (in fact I use Open Office), but that place is really for simple letters and such, not for either serious writing or serious printing. A middle of the road "toy" tool for middle of the road "toy" jobs.
Which makes it a reasonable tool for the actual, average job.
Everyone cares what there friends think, it's just that there is a recent trend to cultivate the image that you don't care what people think - but it is still an image, and you are still trying.
I fooled him, Grandma. I alienated all of my friends.
Most people do not die of old age today. I can only think of one that I have known who did. Most die of disease and accident, just as they always have. They simply do it at a later age than was common in some other times and places.
. . . or that humans will even exist in these numbers 100 years from now.
God I hope not, not that I stand very good odds of living to enjoy it.
Anti-Aging research improves quality of life . ..
Exactly the point I orginally addressed. Longevity research might well decrease the quality of life.
The only person who'd know is me and the record store guy, and he cares less than some server somewhere since he probably doesn't keep records of every customer and every tape they bought.
I have this thing called a brain which it was in my interest to keep full of records which records/tapes you bought, since I wanted to be sure you bought the next N'Sync album, from me.
Just so you know though, everyone who worked for me laughed at you as soon as you left the store.
I suppose that would be why noone admits to being a Nobel Prize winning scientist. ..
I've known some who found it extremely annoying, although I'm related to one who spent his life feeling cheated out of his (simply because he was).
I bet that is also why noone is interested in funding any further research and development after those folks won that get into space prize. No credability at all.
Prizes have nothing to do with, and no correlation with, credibility.
I don't imagine that you would indicate the third place to truly have come before the first place.
And yet it's what I indicate. We are tribal animals and the group home came before the private home. In fact, the private home was invented as a way to get away from the bloody group home for awhile.
There were also the various "secret" societies. The hunter's society, the warrior's society, the mother's society , etc. All of these forms of group home away from predate the private family home.
The model for the "synthetic cave" is the Great Hall/Longhouse, not the "house."
I cannot quite see how the loss of the Pub to the ubiquitous coffee house could bring about the fall of one's first place.
Actually, I'm a coffeehouse dweller myself and have little use for pubs (or beer) other than what they pay me to be there.
But Starbuck's is no more a coffeehouse than Applebee's is a pub.
"Good friends, gather 'round and I'll tell you a tale; It's a story well-known to all lovers of ale; For the old English pub, once a man's second home, Has been decked out, by brewers, in plastic and chrome.
Oh, what has become of the old Rose and Crown, The Ship, the King's Arms, and the World Upside-Down? For oak, brass and leather and a pint of the best Fade away like the sun as it sinks in the west.
The old oaken bar where the pumps filled your glass Gives way to formica and tanks full of gas; And the landlord behind, once a man of good cheer. . .
Has been replaced by some child who will just mumble the price as he hands you your . ..latte."
With apologies to Ian Robb.
Howard Shultz brought us nothing but another corporate chain. The "third" place predates the "first."
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What they do expand is the possibilities for hard to detect fraud -- something which *does* undermine our democracy.
Wherever you know you have a weakness, accuse the other side of it and make them defend against it, you unpatriotic clod.
KFG
4. A voter who doubts the accurate registering of her vote can go to the appropriate government office to check her vote against the paper log.
You have never lived where black Ford Falcons roam the streets at night, have you?
KFG
I predict that they will eventually go the way of the FPU.
All my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown. . .
And the wheel of reincarnation turns again.
KFG
I've thought of messing around with something like that, but I have a fondness for gravity drives.
I'm cuckoo for cuckoo clocks, cuckoo for cuckoo clocks, cuckoo. . .
Oh, sorry. Anyway, it's true you have to do some work to reset them, but I'm not actually averse to work. You can lift barbells to generate waste heat, or you can lift cement blocks and sand to generate electricity.
KFG
Pond Computing, Lake Computing or Ocean Computing?
They lack gravitational potential energy. Yeah, you can try to play around with extracting energy from the temperature gradiants of a lake or ocean (ponds don't have any worth worrying about), but it's just easier to stick a turbine in a stream to make the computer go; and unlike my heavy piston on a rope floating in a leaky sand filled cylinder engines the Sun carries the water back up to the upper reseviour for you.
KFG
Well it would help if either of you would go on to describe what you do use and what you do with it.
.writing. The words. Formating for printing is a completely seperate thought and physical process and should be treated seperately with tools specialized for the job.
I did that -- when I got the mark. I'll give it another shot, but promise not to hit me.
I favor vim myself, but your milage may vary. The point being that when I am writing I concentrate on . .
Back in the day I was an advocate of the development of WYSIWYG editors. I thrilled when I actually first got to use one. It turns out I was wrong. It happens. I was especially wrong about wanting black on white. That really sucks when you're spending long hours at the monitor. I neglected the fact that paper reflects light and a monitor emits light. Live and learn.
WYSIWYGs add nothing to the writing process, often serve as a distraction and are poor at actual desktop publishing functions.
They have their place; and I use them (in fact I use Open Office), but that place is really for simple letters and such, not for either serious writing or serious printing. A middle of the road "toy" tool for middle of the road "toy" jobs.
Which makes it a reasonable tool for the actual, average job.
KFG
. . .they are toys for people who have grown out of finger painting, not tools for people who deal with large quantities of text.
I still have a mark from the last time I said something like that. Thanks for volunteering to take the hit this around. 'preciate it.
KFG
What Open Office really needs is not Firebox plug-in, but a complete code rewrite so that it is not a bloated whale of an application.
Ooooooooh, I don't know. My instinctive reaction to the story was, "Cool! Now all they have to do is embed an OS and it'll be done."
Could use a decent text editor though.
KFG
Everyone cares what there friends think, it's just that there is a recent trend to cultivate the image that you don't care what people think - but it is still an image, and you are still trying.
I fooled him, Grandma. I alienated all of my friends.
KFG
Just because most people die of old age today. . .
.
Most people do not die of old age today. I can only think of one that I have known who did. Most die of disease and accident, just as they always have. They simply do it at a later age than was common in some other times and places.
. . . or that humans will even exist in these numbers 100 years from now.
God I hope not, not that I stand very good odds of living to enjoy it.
Anti-Aging research improves quality of life . .
Exactly the point I orginally addressed. Longevity research might well decrease the quality of life.
KFG
The only person who'd know is me and the record store guy, and he cares less than some server somewhere since he probably doesn't keep records of every customer and every tape they bought.
I have this thing called a brain which it was in my interest to keep full of records which records/tapes you bought, since I wanted to be sure you bought the next N'Sync album, from me.
Just so you know though, everyone who worked for me laughed at you as soon as you left the store.
KFG
. . .any god fearing man. . .
If God wants take issue with me he come on around and I'll mmmmmmmm bop 'im.
KFG
I suppose that would be why noone admits to being a Nobel Prize winning scientist. . .
I've known some who found it extremely annoying, although I'm related to one who spent his life feeling cheated out of his (simply because he was).
I bet that is also why noone is interested in funding any further research and development after those folks won that get into space prize. No credability at all.
Prizes have nothing to do with, and no correlation with, credibility.
KFG
Yes, officianados still produce "content" for these:
http://www.edisonshop.com/reproducers/ducer.html
KFG
Is the global economy slowing overall, or no?
Depends on whether you're an arms dealer or not.
KFG
2) The financial services industry basically revolves around convincing people to invest with them to "beat the market".
:)
Don't forget 14% auto loans.
KFG
I'd rather spend my life living rather than waiting to die as most risk-averse people seem to do.
You've been reading my posts. Could you do me a favor and try 'splainin' it to my mother?
KFG
. . . predate predates predate. . .
Thank you. I love that sort of shit.
KFG
I don't imagine that you would indicate the third place to truly have come before the first place.
And yet it's what I indicate. We are tribal animals and the group home came before the private home. In fact, the private home was invented as a way to get away from the bloody group home for awhile.
There were also the various "secret" societies. The hunter's society, the warrior's society, the mother's society , etc. All of these forms of group home away from predate the private family home.
The model for the "synthetic cave" is the Great Hall/Longhouse, not the "house."
I cannot quite see how the loss of the Pub to the ubiquitous coffee house could bring about the fall of one's first place.
Actually, I'm a coffeehouse dweller myself and have little use for pubs (or beer) other than what they pay me to be there.
But Starbuck's is no more a coffeehouse than Applebee's is a pub.
KFG
It's like reading a 60's icon critiquing the year 2006, complaining it's not "hippie" enough. . .
:)
And yet empirical evidence suggests that you like my posts well enough.
KFG
Are you high?
No, he's just a young example of how far the American community has fallen.
KFG
2. Exercise
I've got bicycle rollers in my cave (which is actually made of stone). It's also just large enough for Tai Chi.
I've been known to hook up a take off drive to my rollers for a certain amount of power independence as well. God bless LEDs.
KFG
These things lend a great deal of credibility to your work and research. . .
No, they do not.
KFG
"Good friends, gather 'round and I'll tell you a tale;
.latte."
It's a story well-known to all lovers of ale;
For the old English pub, once a man's second home,
Has been decked out, by brewers, in plastic and chrome.
Oh, what has become of the old Rose and Crown,
The Ship, the King's Arms, and the World Upside-Down?
For oak, brass and leather and a pint of the best
Fade away like the sun as it sinks in the west.
The old oaken bar where the pumps filled your glass
Gives way to formica and tanks full of gas;
And the landlord behind, once a man of good cheer. . .
Has been replaced by some child who will just mumble the price as he hands you your . .
With apologies to Ian Robb.
Howard Shultz brought us nothing but another corporate chain. The "third" place predates the "first."
KFG
Probably all that anyone involved with the prize cares is that someone should help them (and the rest of us currently alive) continue living.
Ya think?
Still, if your point were entirely true there would be little incentive to breed. The incentive to fuck doesn't really quite cover it.
The phrase "That's ma boy!" has real meaning to many people.
It's our ancestors who do not really exist and any man who seeks to gain status from the actions of his ancestors is a fake and a plaigerist.
Go out and do something.
KFG