I won a slide rule in a math contest in high school (just after the earth cooled enough to crust over), along with a $100 savings bond. I still have the slide rule. Nice K&E.
I kept a little plastic 6" rule in my car to calculate my mpg up until about 6 years ago. On a particularly hot day that I didn't roll my windows down just a bit, it melted, and I haven't been able to find one to replace it. As near as I can tell, nobody makes them anymore.
I still have my circular rule that I got for use in private pilot ground school. I guess if I ever fly again, I would still use it. (Flying is time consuming and expensive. When I have the money, I don't have the time, and when I have the time, I don't have the money.)
What about those of us who spend most of the day sitting at a desk? How about some way of harnessing the energy expended in depressing the keys on my laptop? That might be easier to do -- and it doesn't involve having to wear something.
Another problem: Wear & tear. I've noticed that in only a few months, I typically wear my heels down on one side. Wonder if these researchers might be interested in development of tougher heel materials?
The article mentions that only a small amount of power can be extracted from the shoe without impacting comfort. However, there might be a case made for extracting large amounts of energy: after all, when I go to the gym, I am deliberately trying to expend energy and get my heart rate up. Tapping into that for recharging a battery could be helpful for that.
I wonder how much energy could be extracted from the pulse... And then there is body heat...
The difference between junk snail mail and junk email is that the snail mail costs the sender money, and UCE costs the recipient.
That means that the junk snail mailers constantly tend their lists, and make some attempt to send stuff only to people that might actually be interested. If you don't want to get junk snail mail, there is a place that you can write to to opt out, and your junk mail *really* will drop off in volume, although it may take a few months. See this site for more information.
Spammers, on the other hand, have no incentive to tend their lists, because it doesn't cost any more to mail to a million addresses than it does to mail to a few thousand. And you can't opt out, because that just verifies to the spammer that your address is 'live'.
If you don't like email postage, how about a 'voluntary' postage? It would work like this: If you want to send me an email, you have to enclose a 1-cent payment in e-cash -- unless you are on my 'free' list, in which case you don't have to pay anything. That way, I could sign up for newsletters, and put them on my 'free' list.
If you aren't on my free list, you have to pay a penny to make the initial contact, but then if I decide you are somebody I want on my 'free' list, you wouldn't have to pay again.
>I'm sorry, but spam is no different. Speach is speach
Wrong.
Unsolicited dead tree mail does not come postage due. Email spam costs the sender nothing; the entire cost is borne by the recipient. Email spam is theft, dead tree mail may or may not be annoying, but is not theft.
BTW, it's SPEECH. And freedom of speech does NOT include forcing me to pay for it.
I won a slide rule in a math contest in high school (shortly after the earth cooled enought to crust over). I spent 40 classroom hours in Navy Nuclear Power school studying the use of slide rule (since I was already familiar with it, that was one class I basically slept through).
Up until I got my under-$20 wristwatch/calculator, I carried a 6-inch plastic slide rule in the glove box of my car, for computing the mileage of my VW, so I would know about when to tune it up.
And no, I'm not under 40. None of you youngsters even know what it was like to wait for a radio to warm up. (Which reminds me, why weren't vacuum tubes on that list?)
>This means, if this little number of a >genetically modified rice kernel is extremely >harmful (similar things have happened before >with frankenfoods) we may be unable to stop it >from growing with disasterous consequences.
The brouhaha over genetically engineered rice/corn/wheat/whatever is quite curious in the light of the fact that ALL modern rice/corn/wheat/oats/etc is "genetically engineered". None of these grains occur in nature in the form that we now grow them.
There are several spambot poisoning programs out there, but spam continues. The reason is simple; spamming doesn't cost anything. The only ways to make any dent in the spamming will have to involve ways of making it cost something.
There is at least one fellow who may have found a way to do something effective.
Check out the email address on this post. It is a real, non-munged email address. After you have admired it a few seconds, then go to http://www.suespammers.org, and get your very own free Washington-state based email account from a guy who is hoping to make a living suing the bastards.
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Unless you can get politician's email addresses that don't end in.gov, there is no point. Even a spammer isn't dumb enough to spam.gov addresses. After all, that's what got junk fax in deep shit. And if the politicos have other addresses, they are a closely guarded secret.
However, it might be worthwhile to set up a bunch of forwarding addresses that don't end in.gov that you could supply to the spammers that would forward all the spam to everyone in congress.
Another thought -- is it possible to get an email address that ends in.gov if you aren't in gov't? If ordinary people used.gov addresses, the spammers would have a harder time figuring out who they can shit on with impunity.
I was a sleep apnea victim with initial symptoms around the year 1969, about 10 years before the disorder was 'discovered' and named by an Australian doctor named Sullivan. The disorder became severe enough by the time it was diagnosed (in 1989)that I was not getting any meaningful sleep at all for months at a time (I was diagnosed and successfully treated by a sleep specialist with a PhD in psychology. It wasn't until 1996 that I actually met an MD who knew was a CPAP was.).
So I have some first-hand experience of long-term sleep deprivation. There are about 5 years of my life for which I have no clear memory, and I lost at least two jobs and one wife as side-effects of my almost total inability to function. I regard the fact that I actually survived this disorder to be a low-probably occurrence.
I can vouch for the observation that sleep deprivation screws your memory. That was the thing I noticed first after my first night of CPAP-assisted sleep. I can still recall damn near everything that happened on the following day, but I have only dim recollection of the events that led up to my diagnosis and treatment, and essentially no memory of the two years prior to that. I kept a journal during that time, in part because I realized that my cognitive abilities were diminished; when I read the entries that I made during that period, it feels like I'm reading about somebody else.
The purpose of the hazing ritual known as internship has nothing to do with teaching anything to the doctor-wannabe. It is a rite of passage that serves as a barrier to entry to the profession, and a source of slave labor to the medical institution. There are already jurisdictions in the US that limit the number of hours that an intern may be required to work, a trend I hope to see spread to the rest of the country.
Without any great fanfare (and the only public announcement that I know of was on the Borland newsgroups hosted on their own servers), the Inprise Corporation very quietly acknowledged the underwhelming acceptance of the name "Inprise", and officially changed the name of the corporation to "Borland". This happened around the end of October.
There is a company called E-Ink, that is working on a product that could potentially increase resolution well past 200 dpi, unfortunately, it is currently monochrome-only. (http://www.eink.com/)
I had a cyst in my wrist, which I was told indicated that I was suceptible to CTS. Sure enough, a few years later, I started to get the symptoms, and I went through a number of things to try to keep it from becoming debilitating. That included things like wearing wrist braces for as long as I could stand them every day. I even considered having surgery at one point.
I no longer have CTS, and I didn't have to get the CT-release surgery. What changed? Well, I went on a low-carb diet, I started taking glucosamine HCL, and I started lifting weights. I quit taking NSAIDs. My doctor specifically told me that the LC diet and the weight training would make the problem worse, and that glucosamine HCL was no better than a placebo. He told me that the only real help I could get would be from NSAIDs.
So, what made the problem go away?
I don't know for sure, but I think it was the low-carb diet. But maybe it was the wrist curls. And maybe the glucosamine HCL helped. Or maybe not. Or maybe all of the above.
I'm just glad that my wrists and arms don't ache anymore. Oh, and I fired the doctor. Too bad his treatments didn't have a money-back guarantee...
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I won a slide rule in a math contest in high school (just after the earth cooled enough to crust over), along with a $100 savings bond. I still have the slide rule. Nice K&E.
I kept a little plastic 6" rule in my car to calculate my mpg up until about 6 years ago. On a particularly hot day that I didn't roll my windows down just a bit, it melted, and I haven't been able to find one to replace it. As near as I can tell, nobody makes them anymore.
I still have my circular rule that I got for use in private pilot ground school. I guess if I ever fly again, I would still use it. (Flying is time consuming and expensive. When I have the money, I don't have the time, and when I have the time, I don't have the money.)
What about those of us who spend most of the day sitting at a desk? How about some way of harnessing the energy expended in depressing the keys on my laptop? That might be easier to do -- and it doesn't involve having to wear something.
Another problem: Wear & tear. I've noticed that in only a few months, I typically wear my heels down on one side. Wonder if these researchers might be interested in development of tougher heel materials?
The article mentions that only a small amount of power can be extracted from the shoe without impacting comfort. However, there might be a case made for extracting large amounts of energy: after all, when I go to the gym, I am deliberately trying to expend energy and get my heart rate up. Tapping into that for recharging a battery could be helpful for that.
I wonder how much energy could be extracted from the pulse... And then there is body heat...
The difference between junk snail mail and junk email is that the snail mail costs the sender money, and UCE costs the recipient.
That means that the junk snail mailers constantly tend their lists, and make some attempt to send stuff only to people that might actually be interested. If you don't want to get junk snail mail, there is a place that you can write to to opt out, and your junk mail *really* will drop off in volume, although it may take a few months. See this site for more information.
Spammers, on the other hand, have no incentive to tend their lists, because it doesn't cost any more to mail to a million addresses than it does to mail to a few thousand. And you can't opt out, because that just verifies to the spammer that your address is 'live'.
If you don't like email postage, how about a 'voluntary' postage? It would work like this: If you want to send me an email, you have to enclose a 1-cent payment in e-cash -- unless you are on my 'free' list, in which case you don't have to pay anything. That way, I could sign up for newsletters, and put them on my 'free' list.
If you aren't on my free list, you have to pay a penny to make the initial contact, but then if I decide you are somebody I want on my 'free' list, you wouldn't have to pay again.
>I'm sorry, but spam is no different. Speach is speach
Wrong.
Unsolicited dead tree mail does not come postage due. Email spam costs the sender nothing; the entire cost is borne by the recipient. Email spam is theft, dead tree mail may or may not be annoying, but is not theft.
BTW, it's SPEECH. And freedom of speech does NOT include forcing me to pay for it.
The DEC PDP-8 was an asynchronous design. No clock anywhere, just a bunch of delay lines to resolve race conditions.
/.'ers were probably in diapers back then. Or not born yet.
Of course, most
I won a slide rule in a math contest in high school (shortly after the earth cooled enought to crust over). I spent 40 classroom hours in Navy Nuclear Power school studying the use of slide rule (since I was already familiar with it, that was one class I basically slept through).
Up until I got my under-$20 wristwatch/calculator, I carried a 6-inch plastic slide rule in the glove box of my car, for computing the mileage of my VW, so I would know about when to tune it up.
And no, I'm not under 40. None of you youngsters even know what it was like to wait for a radio to warm up. (Which reminds me, why weren't vacuum tubes on that list?)
Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be...
>This means, if this little number of a
>genetically modified rice kernel is extremely
>harmful (similar things have happened before
>with frankenfoods) we may be unable to stop it
>from growing with disasterous consequences.
The brouhaha over genetically engineered rice/corn/wheat/whatever is quite curious in the light of the fact that ALL modern rice/corn/wheat/oats/etc is "genetically engineered". None of these grains occur in nature in the form that we now grow them.
There are several spambot poisoning programs out there, but spam continues. The reason is simple; spamming doesn't cost anything. The only ways to make any dent in the spamming will have to involve ways of making it cost something.
There is at least one fellow who may have found a way to do something effective.
Check out the email address on this post. It is a real, non-munged email address. After you have admired it a few seconds, then go to http://www.suespammers.org, and get your very own free Washington-state based email account from a guy who is hoping to make a living suing the bastards.
Unless you can get politician's email addresses that don't end in .gov, there is no point. Even a spammer isn't dumb enough to spam .gov addresses. After all, that's what got junk fax in deep shit. And if the politicos have other addresses, they are a closely guarded secret.
.gov that you could supply to the spammers that would forward all the spam to everyone in congress.
.gov if you aren't in gov't? If ordinary people used .gov addresses, the spammers would have a harder time figuring out who they can shit on with impunity.
However, it might be worthwhile to set up a bunch of forwarding addresses that don't end in
Another thought -- is it possible to get an email address that ends in
I was a sleep apnea victim with initial symptoms around the year 1969, about 10 years before the disorder was 'discovered' and named by an Australian doctor named Sullivan. The disorder became severe enough by the time it was diagnosed (in 1989)that I was not getting any meaningful sleep at all for months at a time (I was diagnosed and successfully treated by a sleep specialist with a PhD in psychology. It wasn't until 1996 that I actually met an MD who knew was a CPAP was.).
So I have some first-hand experience of long-term sleep deprivation. There are about 5 years of my life for which I have no clear memory, and I lost at least two jobs and one wife as side-effects of my almost total inability to function. I regard the fact that I actually survived this disorder to be a low-probably occurrence.
I can vouch for the observation that sleep deprivation screws your memory. That was the thing I noticed first after my first night of CPAP-assisted sleep. I can still recall damn near everything that happened on the following day, but I have only dim recollection of the events that led up to my diagnosis and treatment, and essentially no memory of the two years prior to that. I kept a journal during that time, in part because I realized that my cognitive abilities were diminished; when I read the entries that I made during that period, it feels like I'm reading about somebody else.
The purpose of the hazing ritual known as internship has nothing to do with teaching anything to the doctor-wannabe. It is a rite of passage that serves as a barrier to entry to the profession, and a source of slave labor to the medical institution. There are already jurisdictions in the US that limit the number of hours that an intern may be required to work, a trend I hope to see spread to the rest of the country.
It's all done with mirrors and tiny wires.
Without any great fanfare (and the only public announcement that I know of was on the Borland newsgroups hosted on their own servers), the Inprise Corporation very quietly acknowledged the underwhelming acceptance of the name "Inprise", and officially changed the name of the corporation to "Borland". This happened around the end of October.
There is a company called E-Ink, that is working on a product that could potentially increase resolution well past 200 dpi, unfortunately, it is currently monochrome-only. (http://www.eink.com/)
I'm a US citizen seriously considering taking a job in Europe. Seems the "IT Shortage" is just as bad, if not worse, on that side of the puddle.
I had a cyst in my wrist, which I was told indicated that I was suceptible to CTS. Sure enough, a few years later, I started to get the symptoms, and I went through a number of things to try to keep it from becoming debilitating. That included things like wearing wrist braces for as long as I could stand them every day. I even considered having surgery at one point.
I no longer have CTS, and I didn't have to get the CT-release surgery. What changed? Well, I went on a low-carb diet, I started taking glucosamine HCL, and I started lifting weights. I quit taking NSAIDs. My doctor specifically told me that the LC diet and the weight training would make the problem worse, and that glucosamine HCL was no better than a placebo. He told me that the only real help I could get would be from NSAIDs.
So, what made the problem go away?
I don't know for sure, but I think it was the low-carb diet. But maybe it was the wrist curls. And maybe the glucosamine HCL helped. Or maybe not. Or maybe all of the above.
I'm just glad that my wrists and arms don't ache anymore. Oh, and I fired the doctor. Too bad his treatments didn't have a money-back guarantee...