I do. Try letting off the loud pedal every once in a while, sparky. For the record, I'm a 26 year old male, who likes to drive fast and corner hard, and I still manage to get the suggested mileage out of my car.
True that. Unfortunately, MPG is something which you have some control over (drive like a dick, you pay for it in gas), whereas broadband speeds are not. Broadband speeds depend on subscription rates and traffic over existing infrastructure, which you have practically no control over (unless you want to run around and start snipping your neighbour's connections).
Perhaps a better practice would be for the provider to provide 'up to' and 'average' posted speeds? The average speeds could be made available by neighborhood and calculated based on subscriber base, infrastructure and recorded actual speeds from residential modems. That way people would be able to make informed choices based on real world expectations, rather than grossly inflated perfect conditions.
Speciation cannot occur in the absence of the geographical barriers that inhibit gene flow.
Hmm...geographical barriers...like the distance to the moon? How about Mars? Little tough to set up a booty call to Mars, wouldn't you think?
in 10,000 years, depending on advances in technology and pressures of expanding populations, there could very well be dozens of human 'species', all as incapable of interbreeding as gibbons and apes.
Are they additive? (WARNING: sarcasm level increased, please clear the room of children, pets and mother-in-laws)
Are they subtractive? ( <sarcasm>"Sure I want to go to your wedding, after all <sarcasm> you broke my heart, you b&^#$</sarcasm> and it'll be soo much fun to watch you get hammered...</sarcasm>)
Or are they self-nullifying? (Two sarcs make a straight line, three a triangle?)
...that Intel was the only manufacturer of motherboards out there.
Sure they're heavy hitters in the field, but if enough people and companies start buying AMD so they can use their 'legacy' PCI equipment in a native PCI slot, this could get interesting...
I know of a company that had to switch laptop suppliers simply because the ones they had been using stopped supplying DSUB serial ports, which the company needed to interface with industrial monitoring and test equipment. The so-called USB / serial port adapter dongles didn't work worth crap for the equipment they were trying to interface with: they needed a native serial port. Yet they could still get the pretty-much-useless firewire support in just about every model...
I can't imagine how a dual touch screen laptop is going to be anything but a pain in the ass as an ebook consumption device.
Actually, this form factor *could* be exactly what I was looking for in an e-reader, when I was looking around a couple of years ago.
It would 'look' and 'feel' much more like a paperback, and having the clamshell design for an e-reader is, to my mind, perfect. When I'm done reading, I close the 'book' and the screens power down, no hunting for some easily-loseable (and bloody expensive to replace) slip cover to protect the screen, no fumbling with power buttons, or wasting the battery until the auto-power-down takes effect if I forget to turn it off (or waiting for the device to turn back on if I had to leave it for a few minutes to stir the spaghetti sauce...grrr.) When I am ready to pick up where I left off, I just open the 'book' and the device powers back up to whatever page I was on before. It could potentially last even longer, due to half as much page turning required (although I suppose it would be supporting two screens instead of one, so maybe not)
As an added bonus, if the e-book screens are in colour, you could have an instant photo wallet to show off the latest pics of the kids and the dog...
Yes, IMHO this form factor is ideal for e-books, but not so much so for netbooks. Typing on a touch screen is a genuine PITA, especially for those with wider fingers, or 'professional' typists who habitually rest their fingers on the home row while they consider what to type next. Maybe, however, the e-reader manufacturers will be inspired by this design for their next generation? (wistful sigh)
Eventually the costs for this will make it a public spectacle and people will question why we're diverting so much money and throwing all these people in jail and ruining their lives and the general public will finally ask the question it should have been asking years ago:
Is it worth it?
Yess...because that has worked so very well in the so-called "War on Drugs", no?
Or, even more on point, the "War on Smoking" which is *actually* legal (really, it is!), but since a minority of people get right stuffed when they see (or hear or smell or visualize) others doing it, smokers have been dehumanized to the point that, in some places, they can't even stand in the middle of an open park to indulge their habit. Exactly how many people have been 'saved' from the 'effects' of second hand smoke as a result? Versus how much has been spent on legislation, lobbying, advertising, warnings, focus groups, junk science studies, enforcement, etc., etc..?
If it's a cause, then there's no reasoning with people sometimes...especially if there's money to be made by the people seeking the legislation. I'm not talking the artists here, since they'll probably wind up paying more than anyone, unfortunately. I'm talking about the lawyers and snoops who will make a mint poking their noses into people's media on behalf of ACTA. The lawyers *always* get paid.
Ahh, no my friend, the best application for sticky rice is being steamed together with yummy chinese sausages and chicken, all wrapped up in a banana leaf...mmmm...sticky rice...
Speaking of possible industrial uses for Dim Sum foods, I propose shrimp dumplings as a universal lubricant. At least the darn things always are whenever they see me coming at them with a pair of chopsticks...
Could it possibly be that the people whose circadian rhythms are least matched to the corporate 8-5 workday are the ones who are more likely to be drawn to heavy usage of caffeine to boost their mental productivity in the first place?
Could it further be possible that these same people, clinging to their (our!) chemical crutches to try to match their body's rhythms to the arbitrarily defined 'work day', would have been deemed less 'alert' than so-called morning people, even if caffeine had never been discovered?
Although I agree with the comment above, stating that self-declaration of 'alertness' level is a dodgy indicator indeed, even if the two groups were significantly different in alertness levels, there could be many other factors than the one stated (blamed?) by the study.
Sorry boys, it just does not compute.
(Besides I never could understand morning people myself...what the &%^ is there to be so cheerful about before noon, or at least before the first cuppa?)
It's not what you are eating, but how they figure out how to sell their food to you. It takes some serious crunching to digest the enormous platter-fulls of data on consumer buying trends for pizza, based on age, geographical location, typical Google search histories, and reaction to percentage of red in existing pizza ads!
On the other hand, I must admit to being curious about what the 'perfect' pizza, matched exactly to me by one of the world's fastest computers, would actually taste like...mmmm...pizza...
I have to wonder, exactly how are they planning on enforcing this in internet cafes and at wifi access point locations?
Net nannies are quite limited...
Maybe this means no more public internet access in France...so sad.
Back to dial-up, all you executives in airports, so we can associate your traffic with your company's ISP account...
Tourists, check those useless netbooks at the border...
Apparently you think that if there is an argument, there is resentment. That is completely not true. An argument happens if there is a difference in opinion.
I'm sorry, when this happens, my husband and I call it a 'discussion' and leave the yelling out of it.;)
If people are arguing (i.e, discussion with 'volume'), then there is negative feeling. If there is negative feeling, it is most likely resentment, disgust or disdain (or at the very least, retaliation for wounds received earlier). You may feel that there is nothing but a good honest anger behind your words...but anger always stems from somewhere, and often the roots are deeper than one might suspect. This is why cops absolutely hate domestic disturbance callouts...because underneath the actual words the couple are yelling are currents that run deep and dark, and can wind up with a cleaver in the face for an innocent officer trying to break it up...
Heh, but what do I know? One psych course in first-year does not a counselor make...take it for what it's worth, the simple ramblings of a hopeless romantic...
Hmmm...my husband and I very rarely fight or argue either, and we've been together (very happily, I might add) for nearly ten years now. Both geeks, large overlap in hobby activities, similar sense of humour, etc., etc...
When I look at your analogy regarding fighting in a gym vs. in an alley, I concede that is most likely true, you will get less hurt and more healthy exercise fighting in the gym...but why in the name of all that's precious would you not choose to dance together instead?
Celebrate each other and nobody gets hurt, even by accident...;)
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What other transpositions or artifacts of keyboard usage can /. come up with?
...pron?
Also, we can thank spammers for such clever constructs as 'v1agra'
I do. Try letting off the loud pedal every once in a while, sparky. For the record, I'm a 26 year old male, who likes to drive fast and corner hard, and I still manage to get the suggested mileage out of my car.
True that. Unfortunately, MPG is something which you have some control over (drive like a dick, you pay for it in gas), whereas broadband speeds are not. Broadband speeds depend on subscription rates and traffic over existing infrastructure, which you have practically no control over (unless you want to run around and start snipping your neighbour's connections).
Perhaps a better practice would be for the provider to provide 'up to' and 'average' posted speeds? The average speeds could be made available by neighborhood and calculated based on subscriber base, infrastructure and recorded actual speeds from residential modems. That way people would be able to make informed choices based on real world expectations, rather than grossly inflated perfect conditions.
Speciation cannot occur in the absence of the geographical barriers that inhibit gene flow.
Hmm...geographical barriers...like the distance to the moon? How about Mars? Little tough to set up a booty call to Mars, wouldn't you think?
in 10,000 years, depending on advances in technology and pressures of expanding populations, there could very well be dozens of human 'species', all as incapable of interbreeding as gibbons and apes.
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Sooo...how does one parse nested sarcasm tags?
Are they additive? (WARNING: sarcasm level increased, please clear the room of children, pets and mother-in-laws)
Are they subtractive? ( <sarcasm>"Sure I want to go to your wedding, after all <sarcasm> you broke my heart, you b&^#$</sarcasm> and it'll be soo much fun to watch you get hammered...</sarcasm>)
Or are they self-nullifying? (Two sarcs make a straight line, three a triangle?)
Inquiring minds want to know...
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...that Intel was the only manufacturer of motherboards out there.
Sure they're heavy hitters in the field, but if enough people and companies start buying AMD so they can use their 'legacy' PCI equipment in a native PCI slot, this could get interesting...
I know of a company that had to switch laptop suppliers simply because the ones they had been using stopped supplying DSUB serial ports, which the company needed to interface with industrial monitoring and test equipment. The so-called USB / serial port adapter dongles didn't work worth crap for the equipment they were trying to interface with: they needed a native serial port. Yet they could still get the pretty-much-useless firewire support in just about every model...
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Careful is as careful does...so I think I'll just keep my gi on, thanks!
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Oh, I just assumed the classes were co-ed...fun for everyone!
(class tonight will be no-gi).
No-gi, hmmm? You have some mighty interesting classes there...;o)
(btw, what exactly do you get a grip on, then?)
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I can't imagine how a
dual touch screen laptop is going to be anything but a pain in the
ass as an ebook consumption device.
Actually, this form factor *could* be exactly what I was looking for in an e-reader, when I was looking around a couple of years ago.
It would 'look' and 'feel' much more like a paperback, and having the clamshell design for an e-reader is, to my mind, perfect. When I'm done reading, I close the 'book' and the screens power down, no hunting for some easily-loseable (and bloody expensive to replace) slip cover to protect the screen, no fumbling with power buttons, or wasting the battery until the auto-power-down takes effect if I forget to turn it off (or waiting for the device to turn back on if I had to leave it for a few minutes to stir the spaghetti sauce...grrr.) When I am ready to pick up where I left off, I just open the 'book' and the device powers back up to whatever page I was on before. It could potentially last even longer, due to half as much page turning required (although I suppose it would be supporting two screens instead of one, so maybe not)
As an added bonus, if the e-book screens are in colour, you could have an instant photo wallet to show off the latest pics of the kids and the dog...
Yes, IMHO this form factor is ideal for e-books, but not so much so for netbooks. Typing on a touch screen is a genuine PITA, especially for those with wider fingers, or 'professional' typists who habitually rest their fingers on the home row while they consider what to type next. Maybe, however, the e-reader manufacturers will be inspired by this design for their next generation? (wistful sigh)
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Eventually the costs for this will make it a public spectacle and people will question why we're diverting so much money and throwing all these people in jail and ruining their lives and the general public will finally ask the question it should have been asking years ago: Is it worth it?
Yess...because that has worked so very well in the so-called "War on Drugs", no?
Or, even more on point, the "War on Smoking" which is *actually* legal (really, it is!), but since a minority of people get right stuffed when they see (or hear or smell or visualize) others doing it, smokers have been dehumanized to the point that, in some places, they can't even stand in the middle of an open park to indulge their habit. Exactly how many people have been 'saved' from the 'effects' of second hand smoke as a result? Versus how much has been spent on legislation, lobbying, advertising, warnings, focus groups, junk science studies, enforcement, etc., etc..?
If it's a cause, then there's no reasoning with people sometimes...especially if there's money to be made by the people seeking the legislation. I'm not talking the artists here, since they'll probably wind up paying more than anyone, unfortunately. I'm talking about the lawyers and snoops who will make a mint poking their noses into people's media on behalf of ACTA. The lawyers *always* get paid.
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Beans should dramatically improve explosives.
Sticky rice is for sushi and sushi alone.
Ahh, no my friend, the best application for sticky rice is being steamed together with yummy chinese sausages and chicken, all wrapped up in a banana leaf...mmmm...sticky rice...
Speaking of possible industrial uses for Dim Sum foods, I propose shrimp dumplings as a universal lubricant. At least the darn things always are whenever they see me coming at them with a pair of chopsticks...
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Could it possibly be that the people whose circadian rhythms are least matched to the corporate 8-5 workday are the ones who are more likely to be drawn to heavy usage of caffeine to boost their mental productivity in the first place?
Could it further be possible that these same people, clinging to their (our!) chemical crutches to try to match their body's rhythms to the arbitrarily defined 'work day', would have been deemed less 'alert' than so-called morning people, even if caffeine had never been discovered?
Although I agree with the comment above, stating that self-declaration of 'alertness' level is a dodgy indicator indeed, even if the two groups were significantly different in alertness levels, there could be many other factors than the one stated (blamed?) by the study.
Sorry boys, it just does not compute.
(Besides I never could understand morning people myself...what the &%^ is there to be so cheerful about before noon, or at least before the first cuppa?)
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It's not what you are eating, but how they figure out how to sell their food to you. It takes some serious crunching to digest the enormous platter-fulls of data on consumer buying trends for pizza, based on age, geographical location, typical Google search histories, and reaction to percentage of red in existing pizza ads!
On the other hand, I must admit to being curious about what the 'perfect' pizza, matched exactly to me by one of the world's fastest computers, would actually taste like...mmmm...pizza...
Next bulletin:
"Vista-based benchmark testing complete - converts Jaguar to big pussycat"
...nobody went for the X-Men angle...I mean, c'mon, is this /. or what?
Spontaneous. Unexplained. Accelerated. Mutation. Rate.
So when can I expect my grandkids to start shooting fireballs out their bums?
I have to wonder, exactly how are they planning on enforcing this in internet cafes and at wifi access point locations?
Net nannies are quite limited...
Maybe this means no more public internet access in France...so sad.
Back to dial-up, all you executives in airports, so we can associate your traffic with your company's ISP account...
Tourists, check those useless netbooks at the border...
Apparently you think that if there is an argument, there is resentment. That is completely not true. An argument happens if there is a difference in opinion.
I'm sorry, when this happens, my husband and I call it a 'discussion' and leave the yelling out of it. ;)
If people are arguing (i.e, discussion with 'volume'), then there is negative feeling. If there is negative feeling, it is most likely resentment, disgust or disdain (or at the very least, retaliation for wounds received earlier). You may feel that there is nothing but a good honest anger behind your words...but anger always stems from somewhere, and often the roots are deeper than one might suspect. This is why cops absolutely hate domestic disturbance callouts...because underneath the actual words the couple are yelling are currents that run deep and dark, and can wind up with a cleaver in the face for an innocent officer trying to break it up...
Heh, but what do I know? One psych course in first-year does not a counselor make...take it for what it's worth, the simple ramblings of a hopeless romantic...
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Hmmm...my husband and I very rarely fight or argue either, and we've been together (very happily, I might add) for nearly ten years now. Both geeks, large overlap in hobby activities, similar sense of humour, etc., etc...
When I look at your analogy regarding fighting in a gym vs. in an alley, I concede that is most likely true, you will get less hurt and more healthy exercise fighting in the gym...but why in the name of all that's precious would you not choose to dance together instead?
Celebrate each other and nobody gets hurt, even by accident...;)