Wal-Mart basically forced Vlasic to make the big size containers with more pickles in them than most humans should eat within a reasonable amount of time
Yes, maybe they could preserve them somehow, like.. maybe they could.. pickle them...
It also frees a company to focus on producing widgets as efficently as possible rather than trying to find and keep other buyers.
I'm working on a product that is involved in running retail sales, I'm always amazed at how many stupid rules and exceptions and incentives there are to fool people into think they are getting a deal, or to appease other people in the organization (i.e., sales reps getting commision on retail outlet sales so they won't complain that a retail outlet is cutting in on their direct sales).
The most unusual technology in the wheel chair is its self-balancing capability. Since people are unfamiliar with this capacity of a machine, anyone marketing such a niche-market thing as a wheelchair might want to first introduce everyone to the concept, then segue into the wheelchair market with the know well known and accepted technology.
Letterbox bands have sharp edges, and sharp edges take a lot of bits to encode. Removing black bars helps to reduce file sizes (how much it helps depends on a number of other factors).
The point is not so much that we need to be in contact, any more than we need to have digital cable and numerous other gadgets and services. The point is that disabling cell service is a poor technological solution to a probably that is mostly sociological.
First answer the question 'Why do people let their phones ring where it will annoy others?' I think the primary reason will be that people have forgotten that the phone was on, didn't realize they had it with them, or were unable to correctly put it in silent mode. Most people really aren't inconsiderate jerks who will insist on keeping the ringer on.
Is cutting off cell service really the best solution to helping people to remember to be aware of the effect their phone has on people around them? I don't think so. I think that a better solution is to remind them, and draw the attention of those around them.
Since a picocell is used to block normal calls while allowing emergency service, it can also be used to ring all the phones in the vicinity at a specific time (ringing one theater and not another might be a problem, I don't know how well localized then can make them), such as during the ads and trailers before the film or performance.
It simply is not necessary to deny wireless service to solve this problem.
What has so fundamentally changed in society that you expect to be completely undisturbed when you are in a croud of 100 other people?
you can not identify every cell phone in the room.
If a picocell does not provide service to every phone in the vicinity, what good is it?
Now, they're all buzzing and blurping. How do you know which one is which?
I don't need to. The point is to alert those few people who have forgotten to turn off their phones, or forgotten that they had their phone with them.
After ringing them a few times before and after the various ads and trailers all the phones will be off (and with the lights on, anyone who insists on leaving theirs on can easily be removed).
All they need to add to that is a picocell that doesn't block calls, but does ring all the phones in the theater about 30 seconds after the ad, while the lights are still up.
That way everybody can see the inconsiderate fool who can't follow directions.
fortunately my phone lists what cell towers it has access to, and allows me to choose which one I want to use. So unless they also install EM shielding, a picocell won't be a problem.
I'd much rather have the usher come in and whisper to you
right, because he has a magic parent locator that can tell him in what seat you are sitting, and can magicly float over the 20 people between you and the isle.
How about we just give people in group 2 their own, more expensive theater. None of the people in group 2 will turn on their phones, out of respect to their peers. Problem solved.
Hospital calls the theather who then sends someone to get the person involved.
Yes, by turning up the lights and hollering for the guy in question right.
How is this better than asking people to put their phones in silent mode, then using the picocell to ring all the phones in the room?
The point is not that cell phone calls are not important, it is that some people need to be in contact all the time. I'm a parent, if I want to go to a movie, I have to get a babysitter. I need to be reachable by phone in case something happens. That doesn't mean I need to play 'Ride of the Valkyries' at 110dbSPL in the middle of a movie. Phones have a silent mode for a reason.
Why should i have to carry a cell phone AND a pager? Cell phones have a silent mode, just put up an ad between the trailers and the feature to remind everyone to put their phones in silent mode (be sure to turn up the house lights so everyone can see their phones).
If you must use a pico-cell, don't use it to block calls, use it to identify each phone and then ring it after the above ad, so anyone who has neglected to turn their phone off can be identifed and lynche^H^H^H^H^H^Hcorrected before the lights go back down.
I've been to many movies in the past 5 years, and not once have I heard a phone ring. I don't think this is a big problem.
I had to read this about 4 times before I caught the error. This is why I hate proof-reading. Do people who quickly catch grammer errors read slower, or fixate on every word or something? I fixate on about 2 or three places on each line, so I rarely see errors like the one above, or letter transpositions or even most mispellings.
If you were running your independent media company off of Freenet, your readers would probaby just now have finished downloading your coverate of the 2000 election.
It is nice to note that someone finally finished a web archive plugin for Mozilla that is compatible with IE, so Freenet users could now publish a single web archive file complete with images and multiple pages, without worrying that any bits and pieces will be lost.
Is there any place in the world where they could host their servers that would be free from the long arms of the US DOJ?
Yes, absolutely. Store them right under a motion-activated thermite charge with an RF disable switch. If you need to do maintainance, use the RF control to disable the charge. If the feds show up to copy the data, any significant movement of the machine (or whatever other trigger you care to use) results in complete destruction of the drive platters.
Course, they'll probably get you on destruction of evidence, but at least the data won't be used against you.
Your managed hosting provider might be a little wary of having pyrotechnic devices in their datacenter, but if you cared about data security you wouldn't be giving someone else physical access to your server, would you?
Its not the contact information that was the problem, it was the suggestion that it be used in a certain antisocial way. The Feds take the hardware (and generally keep it) so they can check to see if there are any other useful bits of info there too. Stuff that they might not be able to see on the website.
I'm not the GP, but I've had that happen too. I was driving a '66 Impala at the time. I had just taken off a valve cover to show a friend a problem I was having with the rockers oiling, and when I put the cover back on I neglected to readjust the routing of the plug wires (which had to be moved to allow the cover to come off. I drove the car a couple of blocks, then gunned it around a corner. At that point the throttle stuck wide open. Fortunately the car has no electronics to speak of, nor any steering or safety interlocks (the car will start in gear, a 'feature' that very nearly caused a great deal of damage to a very expensive minivan I parked behind once), so it was a simple matter to switch the ignition off and coast into a parking lot (manual breaks and power steering, but with an very large diameter wheel, so loss of power-assist is only a minor inconvinance).
Turns out the throttle cable had gotten hooked behind the spark plug wires I had forgotten to reroute, leaving the pedal slack and the carb fully open. Took 30 seconds to fix and I was on my way.
Fortunately the engine was a worn-out 283cid instead of a high performance racing engine. Such an engine would likely have fish-tailed the rear end and made the incident much more difficult to control.
36 kilometers per minute is a little over 1342 miles per hour. Methinks something's wrong here
But on the off chance that the GP is correct, you may want to invest in a polycarbonate fairing, bugstrikes at that speed would be a little rough on the complexion.
one of the main reasons is that it is outright dangerous
Don't forget that biking on a heavily traveled road exposes you to very high levels of pollutants, and you will be breathing very deeply.
There was a study a few years ago concerning this, I don't recall the details, but I think the conclusion was that the blood levels of carbon monoxide and other pollutants was something like 10 times higher in cyclists than the motorists, and the levels persisted for several hours after the ride.
Why not just invest in a good, light weight bike. It will cost you a lot, but the light weight construction will be a LOT easier for you to bike with.
I bike to work for exersize, so maximum effiency is a bad thing. If my bike were more efficent, I'd have to find a longer route to work to get the same amount of exersize.
I've always wanted to see an oil-tanker sized ekranoplan type vehicle. The largest of the russian prototypes carried 100 tons, I wonder if it would scale up to 10,000:)
Superconductors conduct heat as well as electricity. The Newtonian description of the heat of a superconductor is the net average of all the temperature deltas it's exposed to integrated over the area of exposure. A superconducting wire is (in a non-relative universe) always the exact same temperature throughout.
If this is true (as noted in a child, sources seem to conflict), then there must be a critical figured for heat conduction too, else you could move enormous amounts of heat energy as easily as electrical power. If there was no limit it would be more effective to generate heat at one end of a very long, fine SC wire and use it to drive a boiler or other heat engine at the other end.
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Wal-Mart basically forced Vlasic to make the big size containers with more pickles in them than most humans should eat within a reasonable amount of time
Yes, maybe they could preserve them somehow, like.. maybe they could.. pickle them...
It also frees a company to focus on producing widgets as efficently as possible rather than trying to find and keep other buyers.
I'm working on a product that is involved in running retail sales, I'm always amazed at how many stupid rules and exceptions and incentives there are to fool people into think they are getting a deal, or to appease other people in the organization (i.e., sales reps getting commision on retail outlet sales so they won't complain that a retail outlet is cutting in on their direct sales).
The most unusual technology in the wheel chair is its self-balancing capability. Since people are unfamiliar with this capacity of a machine, anyone marketing such a niche-market thing as a wheelchair might want to first introduce everyone to the concept, then segue into the wheelchair market with the know well known and accepted technology.
Letterbox bands have sharp edges, and sharp edges take a lot of bits to encode. Removing black bars helps to reduce file sizes (how much it helps depends on a number of other factors).
The point is not so much that we need to be in contact, any more than we need to have digital cable and numerous other gadgets and services. The point is that disabling cell service is a poor technological solution to a probably that is mostly sociological.
First answer the question 'Why do people let their phones ring where it will annoy others?' I think the primary reason will be that people have forgotten that the phone was on, didn't realize they had it with them, or were unable to correctly put it in silent mode. Most people really aren't inconsiderate jerks who will insist on keeping the ringer on.
Is cutting off cell service really the best solution to helping people to remember to be aware of the effect their phone has on people around them? I don't think so. I think that a better solution is to remind them, and draw the attention of those around them.
Since a picocell is used to block normal calls while allowing emergency service, it can also be used to ring all the phones in the vicinity at a specific time (ringing one theater and not another might be a problem, I don't know how well localized then can make them), such as during the ads and trailers before the film or performance.
It simply is not necessary to deny wireless service to solve this problem.
What has so fundamentally changed in society that you expect to be completely undisturbed when you are in a croud of 100 other people?
you can not identify every cell phone in the room.
If a picocell does not provide service to every phone in the vicinity, what good is it?
Now, they're all buzzing and blurping. How do you know which one is which?
I don't need to. The point is to alert those few people who have forgotten to turn off their phones, or forgotten that they had their phone with them.
After ringing them a few times before and after the various ads and trailers all the phones will be off (and with the lights on, anyone who insists on leaving theirs on can easily be removed).
All they need to add to that is a picocell that doesn't block calls, but does ring all the phones in the theater about 30 seconds after the ad, while the lights are still up.
That way everybody can see the inconsiderate fool who can't follow directions.
The truly paranoid ones simply stayed home until their kid got a little older.
What's wrong with suggesting parents of today do the same thing?
Because I have a cell phone and I'm smart enough to put it in silent mode.
The vast majority of people with phones turn them off/silent in theaters and other locations where it is appropriate.
Don't try to punish everyone for the transgressions of the few idiots out there.
fortunately my phone lists what cell towers it has access to, and allows me to choose which one I want to use. So unless they also install EM shielding, a picocell won't be a problem.
I'd much rather have the usher come in and whisper to you
right, because he has a magic parent locator that can tell him in what seat you are sitting, and can magicly float over the 20 people between you and the isle.
The '80s called, your 386 wants to be your desktop system again.
How about we just give people in group 2 their own, more expensive theater. None of the people in group 2 will turn on their phones, out of respect to their peers. Problem solved.
Hospital calls the theather who then sends someone to get the person involved.
Yes, by turning up the lights and hollering for the guy in question right.
How is this better than asking people to put their phones in silent mode, then using the picocell to ring all the phones in the room?
The point is not that cell phone calls are not important, it is that some people need to be in contact all the time. I'm a parent, if I want to go to a movie, I have to get a babysitter. I need to be reachable by phone in case something happens. That doesn't mean I need to play 'Ride of the Valkyries' at 110dbSPL in the middle of a movie. Phones have a silent mode for a reason.
Why should i have to carry a cell phone AND a pager? Cell phones have a silent mode, just put up an ad between the trailers and the feature to remind everyone to put their phones in silent mode (be sure to turn up the house lights so everyone can see their phones).
If you must use a pico-cell, don't use it to block calls, use it to identify each phone and then ring it after the above ad, so anyone who has neglected to turn their phone off can be identifed and lynche^H^H^H^H^H^Hcorrected before the lights go back down.
I've been to many movies in the past 5 years, and not once have I heard a phone ring. I don't think this is a big problem.
In a someone choppy style?
I had to read this about 4 times before I caught the error. This is why I hate proof-reading. Do people who quickly catch grammer errors read slower, or fixate on every word or something? I fixate on about 2 or three places on each line, so I rarely see errors like the one above, or letter transpositions or even most mispellings.
If you were running your independent media company off of Freenet, your readers would probaby just now have finished downloading your coverate of the 2000 election.
It is nice to note that someone finally finished a web archive plugin for Mozilla that is compatible with IE, so Freenet users could now publish a single web archive file complete with images and multiple pages, without worrying that any bits and pieces will be lost.
About time.
Is there any place in the world where they could host their servers that would be free from the long arms of the US DOJ?
Yes, absolutely. Store them right under a motion-activated thermite charge with an RF disable switch. If you need to do maintainance, use the RF control to disable the charge. If the feds show up to copy the data, any significant movement of the machine (or whatever other trigger you care to use) results in complete destruction of the drive platters.
Course, they'll probably get you on destruction of evidence, but at least the data won't be used against you.
Your managed hosting provider might be a little wary of having pyrotechnic devices in their datacenter, but if you cared about data security you wouldn't be giving someone else physical access to your server, would you?
Its not the contact information that was the problem, it was the suggestion that it be used in a certain antisocial way. The Feds take the hardware (and generally keep it) so they can check to see if there are any other useful bits of info there too. Stuff that they might not be able to see on the website.
I'm not the GP, but I've had that happen too. I was driving a '66 Impala at the time. I had just taken off a valve cover to show a friend a problem I was having with the rockers oiling, and when I put the cover back on I neglected to readjust the routing of the plug wires (which had to be moved to allow the cover to come off. I drove the car a couple of blocks, then gunned it around a corner. At that point the throttle stuck wide open. Fortunately the car has no electronics to speak of, nor any steering or safety interlocks (the car will start in gear, a 'feature' that very nearly caused a great deal of damage to a very expensive minivan I parked behind once), so it was a simple matter to switch the ignition off and coast into a parking lot (manual breaks and power steering, but with an very large diameter wheel, so loss of power-assist is only a minor inconvinance).
Turns out the throttle cable had gotten hooked behind the spark plug wires I had forgotten to reroute, leaving the pedal slack and the carb fully open. Took 30 seconds to fix and I was on my way.
Fortunately the engine was a worn-out 283cid instead of a high performance racing engine. Such an engine would likely have fish-tailed the rear end and made the incident much more difficult to control.
36 kilometers per minute is a little over 1342 miles per hour. Methinks something's wrong here
But on the off chance that the GP is correct, you may want to invest in a polycarbonate fairing, bugstrikes at that speed would be a little rough on the complexion.
one of the main reasons is that it is outright dangerous
Don't forget that biking on a heavily traveled road exposes you to very high levels of pollutants, and you will be breathing very deeply.
There was a study a few years ago concerning this, I don't recall the details, but I think the conclusion was that the blood levels of carbon monoxide and other pollutants was something like 10 times higher in cyclists than the motorists, and the levels persisted for several hours after the ride.
Why not just invest in a good, light weight bike. It will cost you a lot, but the light weight construction will be a LOT easier for you to bike with.
I bike to work for exersize, so maximum effiency is a bad thing. If my bike were more efficent, I'd have to find a longer route to work to get the same amount of exersize.
I've always wanted to see an oil-tanker sized ekranoplan type vehicle. The largest of the russian prototypes carried 100 tons, I wonder if it would scale up to 10,000 :)
Superconductors conduct heat as well as electricity. The Newtonian description of the heat of a superconductor is the net average of all the temperature deltas it's exposed to integrated over the area of exposure. A superconducting wire is (in a non-relative universe) always the exact same temperature throughout.
If this is true (as noted in a child, sources seem to conflict), then there must be a critical figured for heat conduction too, else you could move enormous amounts of heat energy as easily as electrical power. If there was no limit it would be more effective to generate heat at one end of a very long, fine SC wire and use it to drive a boiler or other heat engine at the other end.
Don't forget a sealed particulate and odor reduction system to prevent outside olfactory detection.