Is that even legal? The BMI is an utterly discredited measure of health. Comparing someone's height and weight is in no way meaningful, since it assumes that any extra weight you're carrying is fat. My BMI puts me squarely into "obese" territory, despite not even being particularly fat (1.86m, 100kg, or to translate into American units 6' and 220lbs) - but I'd like to see how many "normal" BMI, low-fat, no-carbs, no-caffeine, no-gluten skinny freaks can carry a 10m scaffolding pole up 24 floor's worth of stairs;-)
I find the growing percentage of television prime-time hours being consumed by "reality" programing quite distressing, as it means that the rare show I find worthwhile (which usually do very poorly in the ratings game) are all the more likely to be cancel to make room for yet another "American Idol" or "Survivor" clone.
It's cheap, and it's easy to create a buzz around it. I bet you could get a semi-decent video camera and a Youtube account, and make your own "reality TV" programme by following the totally not scripted at all lives of some scrawny orange-skinned harpies and their self-obsessed dullard boyfriends. Slap ten minutes up each day, and you'll build up a following of people determined to see what happens next. Of course, it helps if you've got the budget to stick posters up everywhere and have it trailed in every ad break. Tell you what, add a reverse-billed SMS shortcode so that the mindless hordes can vote someone out, or vote that they all go and do something - "SEND A TEXT TO 81199 WITH 'PARK' IF YOU WANT THE HOUSEMATES TO HAVE A PICNIC IN THE PARK, OR 'CLUB' IF YOU WANT THEM TO GO TO A STRIP CLUB - AND DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE YOUR NAME FOR A CHANCE TO WIN 'SPRINGBURN NIGHTS' T-SHIRTS! text messages cost £1.50 each. If you are under 16 ask your parents before texting"
You'd make a fortune. Cut me in for some when you do, it was my idea after all.
I'm expecting a gradual emergence of indie television programs starting out through the existing film festival mechanism, and gradually building a new support mechanism tailed for the purpose.
I bet you could get a cheap semi-decent video cam... oh, been there. Well, Vimeo is probably better than Youtube. Turns out the public-access TV guys were right all along.
And you should demand that your local petrol station price matches US gas prices.
Comparatively speaking, the prices are about the same. Yes, the number is bigger. Dollars and pounds aren't the same thing. In real terms, what would it cost you to fill your car to the brim? How far would that take you? What else could you buy with the same amount of money?
ps - soccer, lol.
I've never understood the attraction to it, myself. It's just as bad as "American Football", where some fat guys in padded suits waddle up and down a field slowly for a few minutes, then stop for a rest when they realise no-one can remember who had the ball last. After doing this for what seems like hours, they eventually give up and leave the pitch. How on earth can people watch that shit?
You get what you pay for. I'd rather not fly on a plane serviced and staffed by overworked underpaid people who only work there because they're not good enough to be hired by the "real" airlines, and face all the usual unpleasant and inconvenient problems that people on low-cost airlines face. Not when it's a case of saving a couple of quid by wasting half a day in an airport, or even sitting in a plane waiting on the tarmac.
Those are some really poor deals. Looking at them, though, they're only available in the US, where it appears you're lucky to be able to use a mobile phone at all. Maybe the next time you're shopping for a mobile phone, you should take a printout of UK and EU phone tariffs, and demand they price-match;-)
My point is that almost no-one pays for text messages. You actually have to go out of your way to use an incredible amount of text messages, or track down the shittiest contract imaginable to find one where you have to pay for text messages. In a brief search of contracts to try to find out how much people *could* pay for text messaging, I couldn't even find one that didn't have free SMS. On pay-as-you-go, you often have to pay for SMSes, but more often than not you get *some* free ones.
So again, I'll ask you, where the hell are you finding a contract that you have to pay for SMS?
I don't think I've paid for text messaging for about ten years. My current package gives something like ten thousand SMSes free, with subsequent ones charged at 1p each.
When you think of it on a kilobyte level it costs us $1.09 per text message Kilobyte
How the hell do you get that figure? Are you actually paying to send SMSes, or something? If you are, stop. It's 2011 now. Send your phone back to twenty years ago and get a new one.
Dear studios: The old tale of sun and wind betting who could get someone out of his coat applies fully here. You can NOT force people to buy something. You can convince him, but for that you have to give him what he wants! How much does it take to get that through your skull?
The answer, of course, is for everyone interested to buy shares in Ubisoft. Then, as a shareholder, you can demand that the company work to improve the value of "your" investment. Now, since DRM clearly drives away customers, you can force them to remove it...
Part of the problem with the NHS is that too much of it is privately run. Now, while that all sounds like a big happy capitalist love-in, the difficulties start when money begins to get tight. Oh, we're not showing enough growth this year? Well, lay off a few doctors and a few dozen nurses. The rest can pick up the slack. Wait, we're spending *how* much on cleaning? Oh, I'm sure the wards are just fine as they are, let's not pay for such an expensive cleaning company.
Even at that the NHS manages to do far better than private healthcare, because at least not all of the money is being eyed up by profit-hungry shareholders. I would never even consider going private, because you pay more to get the cheapest possible "care".
there are many medications that people take that make them just as dangerous behind a wheel and yet that is legal.
In the UK and EU, it's "driving while unfit through drink or drugs". It's considerably harder to test reliably for drug intoxication, but if you crash because you're off your tits on cough medicine then you're still getting banned.
It's worth comparing it with the venerable AO-7 satellite, which was launched in 1974 and eventually "died" when its battery failed dead short in 1981. A little over ten years later, the failed battery failed again, this time going *open* circuit and allowing the satellite to run entirely off its solar panels. So, while the satellite is illuminated by the Sun it works fairly reliably. You need to keep the power down, because it has a linear transponder so the more power you put in the more comes out - until you exceed the tiny amount produced by the solar cells. It works, though, and people communicate across the world on it every day.
Yes, long waiting lists like in the UK. When I went to my doctor with some persistent sinus problems, I had to wait nearly 24 hours to get an appointment for a CT scan. As it turns out, I ended up waiting two weeks. Why? Because he wanted to use one of the nice new CT scanners but they had only just been installed and not calibrated yet, and I'm a sucker for new toys too. Apparently they take time to settle, during which time they need to be recalibrated constantly.
In 1900 the margin of error was considerably greater. Don't trust any gas concentration values older than about the 1950s. We haven't been good enough at it for long;-)
When the engine is stopped, gravity pulls oil back down to the sump ... if you leave it for several minutes. Stop a car engine and immediately turn the key back on. How long does it take for the oil pressure light to go off? If it's less than about 30 seconds, your engine is badly worn. At that point there's still a good, deep film of oil on the bearing surfaces - there's just no pressure to force more in immediately.
It doesn't matter anyway; catalytic converters don't clean up car exhaust until you've been running at a fairly high power setting for several minutes. On the motorway when you're piling on the coal they work just great but around town they make emissions far worse.
Good god, at last! Someone who *can* explain the mechanism by which increasing the amount of CO2 can cause the atmosphere to warm up!
It still doesn't mean that human activity is putting much of a dent in atmospheric CO2 levels, though. Frankly I'd be more worried about increasing concentrations of carbonic acid than the tiny amount of additional atmospheric heating caused by the tiny increase in CO2. You've got hot water vapour and you've got hot carbon dioxide; the conditions are perfect for it.
Do you know why the sky is blue or why a black object in the sun heats up faster than a white one?
Yes, I do. None of that has is particularly relevant too, because it doesn't answer my question. Can you explain how carbon dioxide is heated more strongly than nitrogen or oxygen, without invoking your magic carbon sky pixie?
That's the problem, the CW test isn't really as relevant but there *should* be a section on using digital modes like PSK. Then we wouldn't have twats like this
The planet is steadily getting warmer, we have enormous evidence that it's caused by greenhouse gases
Can you show me even *one* piece of genuine evidence that it's caused by "greenhouse gases"?
So far, all the wooly-minded AGW believers have been able to produce is "it's caused by carbon dioxide". Why is it caused by carbon diodide? "Because carbon dioxide causes the greenhouse effect." Okay, but how? "Because it traps heat" Right, and how does it do that? "Because it's a greenhouse gas".
No-one can actually come up with a testable explanation for how it's all supposed to work. It's amazing how no-one has called the AGW believers out on their bad science. I guess it's all down to their carbon dioxide magic sky pixie.
Power LEDs should be dimmable. Auto-dimmable would be ideal.
Here you go. That paper describes how to use an LED as both a light sensor and an LED. You could hack that together with a microcontroller and your existing case LEDs in an afternoon.
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Is that even legal? The BMI is an utterly discredited measure of health. Comparing someone's height and weight is in no way meaningful, since it assumes that any extra weight you're carrying is fat. My BMI puts me squarely into "obese" territory, despite not even being particularly fat (1.86m, 100kg, or to translate into American units 6' and 220lbs) - but I'd like to see how many "normal" BMI, low-fat, no-carbs, no-caffeine, no-gluten skinny freaks can carry a 10m scaffolding pole up 24 floor's worth of stairs ;-)
I find the growing percentage of television prime-time hours being consumed by "reality" programing quite distressing, as it means that the rare show I find worthwhile (which usually do very poorly in the ratings game) are all the more likely to be cancel to make room for yet another "American Idol" or "Survivor" clone.
It's cheap, and it's easy to create a buzz around it. I bet you could get a semi-decent video camera and a Youtube account, and make your own "reality TV" programme by following the totally not scripted at all lives of some scrawny orange-skinned harpies and their self-obsessed dullard boyfriends. Slap ten minutes up each day, and you'll build up a following of people determined to see what happens next. Of course, it helps if you've got the budget to stick posters up everywhere and have it trailed in every ad break. Tell you what, add a reverse-billed SMS shortcode so that the mindless hordes can vote someone out, or vote that they all go and do something - "SEND A TEXT TO 81199 WITH 'PARK' IF YOU WANT THE HOUSEMATES TO HAVE A PICNIC IN THE PARK, OR 'CLUB' IF YOU WANT THEM TO GO TO A STRIP CLUB - AND DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE YOUR NAME FOR A CHANCE TO WIN 'SPRINGBURN NIGHTS' T-SHIRTS! text messages cost £1.50 each. If you are under 16 ask your parents before texting"
You'd make a fortune. Cut me in for some when you do, it was my idea after all.
I'm expecting a gradual emergence of indie television programs starting out through the existing film festival mechanism, and gradually building a new support mechanism tailed for the purpose.
I bet you could get a cheap semi-decent video cam... oh, been there. Well, Vimeo is probably better than Youtube. Turns out the public-access TV guys were right all along.
And you should demand that your local petrol station price matches US gas prices.
Comparatively speaking, the prices are about the same. Yes, the number is bigger. Dollars and pounds aren't the same thing. In real terms, what would it cost you to fill your car to the brim? How far would that take you? What else could you buy with the same amount of money?
ps - soccer, lol.
I've never understood the attraction to it, myself. It's just as bad as "American Football", where some fat guys in padded suits waddle up and down a field slowly for a few minutes, then stop for a rest when they realise no-one can remember who had the ball last. After doing this for what seems like hours, they eventually give up and leave the pitch. How on earth can people watch that shit?
You get what you pay for. I'd rather not fly on a plane serviced and staffed by overworked underpaid people who only work there because they're not good enough to be hired by the "real" airlines, and face all the usual unpleasant and inconvenient problems that people on low-cost airlines face. Not when it's a case of saving a couple of quid by wasting half a day in an airport, or even sitting in a plane waiting on the tarmac.
Those are some really poor deals. Looking at them, though, they're only available in the US, where it appears you're lucky to be able to use a mobile phone at all. Maybe the next time you're shopping for a mobile phone, you should take a printout of UK and EU phone tariffs, and demand they price-match ;-)
My point is that almost no-one pays for text messages. You actually have to go out of your way to use an incredible amount of text messages, or track down the shittiest contract imaginable to find one where you have to pay for text messages. In a brief search of contracts to try to find out how much people *could* pay for text messaging, I couldn't even find one that didn't have free SMS. On pay-as-you-go, you often have to pay for SMSes, but more often than not you get *some* free ones.
So again, I'll ask you, where the hell are you finding a contract that you have to pay for SMS?
I don't think I've paid for text messaging for about ten years. My current package gives something like ten thousand SMSes free, with subsequent ones charged at 1p each.
When you think of it on a kilobyte level it costs us $1.09 per text message Kilobyte
How the hell do you get that figure? Are you actually paying to send SMSes, or something? If you are, stop. It's 2011 now. Send your phone back to twenty years ago and get a new one.
Dear studios: The old tale of sun and wind betting who could get someone out of his coat applies fully here. You can NOT force people to buy something. You can convince him, but for that you have to give him what he wants! How much does it take to get that through your skull?
The answer, of course, is for everyone interested to buy shares in Ubisoft. Then, as a shareholder, you can demand that the company work to improve the value of "your" investment. Now, since DRM clearly drives away customers, you can force them to remove it...
Part of the problem with the NHS is that too much of it is privately run. Now, while that all sounds like a big happy capitalist love-in, the difficulties start when money begins to get tight. Oh, we're not showing enough growth this year? Well, lay off a few doctors and a few dozen nurses. The rest can pick up the slack. Wait, we're spending *how* much on cleaning? Oh, I'm sure the wards are just fine as they are, let's not pay for such an expensive cleaning company.
Even at that the NHS manages to do far better than private healthcare, because at least not all of the money is being eyed up by profit-hungry shareholders. I would never even consider going private, because you pay more to get the cheapest possible "care".
there are many medications that people take that make them just as dangerous behind a wheel and yet that is legal.
In the UK and EU, it's "driving while unfit through drink or drugs". It's considerably harder to test reliably for drug intoxication, but if you crash because you're off your tits on cough medicine then you're still getting banned.
At my QTH up north (not very north, only 57) I've already got room for a half-wave dipole on 136kHz. Not that I've even listened to that band, ever.
73s de MM0YEQ
It's worth comparing it with the venerable AO-7 satellite, which was launched in 1974 and eventually "died" when its battery failed dead short in 1981. A little over ten years later, the failed battery failed again, this time going *open* circuit and allowing the satellite to run entirely off its solar panels. So, while the satellite is illuminated by the Sun it works fairly reliably. You need to keep the power down, because it has a linear transponder so the more power you put in the more comes out - until you exceed the tiny amount produced by the solar cells. It works, though, and people communicate across the world on it every day.
The sound is produced by monophonic signals to the membrane.
But you can send polyphonic signals to the beeper. You just need to know how to write the code to do it. Not exactly hard.
Yes, long waiting lists like in the UK. When I went to my doctor with some persistent sinus problems, I had to wait nearly 24 hours to get an appointment for a CT scan. As it turns out, I ended up waiting two weeks. Why? Because he wanted to use one of the nice new CT scanners but they had only just been installed and not calibrated yet, and I'm a sucker for new toys too. Apparently they take time to settle, during which time they need to be recalibrated constantly.
In 1900 the margin of error was considerably greater. Don't trust any gas concentration values older than about the 1950s. We haven't been good enough at it for long ;-)
When the engine is stopped, gravity pulls oil back down to the sump
... if you leave it for several minutes. Stop a car engine and immediately turn the key back on. How long does it take for the oil pressure light to go off? If it's less than about 30 seconds, your engine is badly worn. At that point there's still a good, deep film of oil on the bearing surfaces - there's just no pressure to force more in immediately.
It doesn't matter anyway; catalytic converters don't clean up car exhaust until you've been running at a fairly high power setting for several minutes. On the motorway when you're piling on the coal they work just great but around town they make emissions far worse.
Good god, at last! Someone who *can* explain the mechanism by which increasing the amount of CO2 can cause the atmosphere to warm up!
It still doesn't mean that human activity is putting much of a dent in atmospheric CO2 levels, though. Frankly I'd be more worried about increasing concentrations of carbonic acid than the tiny amount of additional atmospheric heating caused by the tiny increase in CO2. You've got hot water vapour and you've got hot carbon dioxide; the conditions are perfect for it.
Do you know why the sky is blue or why a black object in the sun heats up faster than a white one?
Yes, I do. None of that has is particularly relevant too, because it doesn't answer my question. Can you explain how carbon dioxide is heated more strongly than nitrogen or oxygen, without invoking your magic carbon sky pixie?
CO2 absorbs infrared and heats up.
More so than any of the other gases in the atmosphere? How?
That's the problem, the CW test isn't really as relevant but there *should* be a section on using digital modes like PSK. Then we wouldn't have twats like this
73s de MM0YEQ
The planet is steadily getting warmer, we have enormous evidence that it's caused by greenhouse gases
Can you show me even *one* piece of genuine evidence that it's caused by "greenhouse gases"?
So far, all the wooly-minded AGW believers have been able to produce is "it's caused by carbon dioxide". Why is it caused by carbon diodide? "Because carbon dioxide causes the greenhouse effect." Okay, but how? "Because it traps heat" Right, and how does it do that? "Because it's a greenhouse gas".
No-one can actually come up with a testable explanation for how it's all supposed to work. It's amazing how no-one has called the AGW believers out on their bad science. I guess it's all down to their carbon dioxide magic sky pixie.
I still don't know if the 15m and 10m bands on my Trio TS-520 work :-/
73s de MM0YEQ
Power LEDs should be dimmable. Auto-dimmable would be ideal.
Here you go. That paper describes how to use an LED as both a light sensor and an LED. You could hack that together with a microcontroller and your existing case LEDs in an afternoon.