Drivers of cars and motorcycles also have to eat to drive. Comparisons of bicyclists vs. motor powered vehicles need to include only the incremental food fuel costs of a bicyclist as compared to that of the driver of a car or motorcycle. Ever looked at a bicycle commuter? The ones I know are much skinnier, for a given height, than non-cyclists. Which means they have fewer pounds to maintain than that of a non-cyclist, in terms of required energy consumption. Since a physically-fit person's metabolism burns foods more efficiently than that of a less-fit person, a fit bicyclist is likely to waste less food in the form of turning it into body fat, than the non-cyclist.
I'd get a quick wake-up call with a clue stick if I got caught reading/. at work more than once, since "it is not in my particular area of professional competence." The geeks upstairs who can claim/. as within their professional purview, however, get real big monitors, the better to read you with. Me, I get paid by the bullet point.
The independent, skilled knowledge worker is only an equal in this regard as long as he or she has the financial wherewithal to pay attorneys to defend that independence, on the slight chance that it turns into an ugly legal battle. In that case, the one with the deepest attorney-paying pockets will win. And you know which side that will be. So equality stops at the point where your ability to pay for a legal battle is greater than my ability to do so. Look at all the SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) suits in recent years in the US.
Selling one copy, at these prices, would generate $10 in sales for just one book. But the agreements most of us signed did not provide for royalties until seven copies were sold in any one year. Me, I doubt anyone has ever bought a copy of my 1995 dissertation, except maybe my mother, and even she did not buy seven copies.
OceanBarb, Ph.D.
Or you could grow your own. Scientific American for August has this article on growing your own plankton. Processors couldn't be much more complicated than rotifers, eh?
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expecting results time after time, you are going to get a big let down eventually. Hmmm, doesn't this sound familiar? Oh, wait, I have learned to expect that operating system to crash.
Whew, thanks. Wish I'd thought of that myself. Here I was beginning to worry that the bug getting passed around the cube farm was more than just a summer cold.
Congress wanted them to become more like a business; we the people went along with it. So, you can't really blame them for trying to identify new lines of business. Read their annual report, or their read their five year strategic plan, or any other material on their newly-redesigned website. First class letter volume is shrinking like Alice, baby, and they've got to find something else to give the Grow Me elixir to.
Then use the net and find another account. There are plenty of places out there that do not charge for kid's (or adults) savings accounts, and some will even entice you with a bonus 50 or 75 bucks for maintaining a min. bal. for a certain period. You should be teaching your daughter to get the best return on her bucks. In the U.S., most credit unions only require a min of $5 or $50 for a share savings account.
I get it. It's the electromagnetic radiation from the hardware, that stimulates the glial cells, leading to a cascade of neuronal responses, fomenting the neuromuscular chain reaction that culminates in hitting the BID button on E-bay. No wonder the economists couldn't figure it out. They only assume rational utility maximizers.
The article layout was actually pretty effective if you stayed long enough to get to the tracking examples. In fact, it seems a pretty good model for educational presentations. With multiple windows open, however, and none maximized, you lose some of the text, such as the list of News Topics. What it really needed was a better set of clues than the de-emphasized tabs for TOC, About, etc. Odd that a site devoted to a study of internet reading wouldn't have a paragraph about the choices made in designing the study site.
Like most GUIs, the study ignores an obvious group of news-users who cannot easily physically read the online news. Most web sites make life only more difficult for the visually impaired, who rely on audio interpretations, Braille readers, or extreme magnification. (Not to mention anyone who doesn't have the bandwidth or hardware to handle your typical flash-bang site.) Not enough people know about the NIST standards for multiply-accessible web sites, or even about the Linux adaptive technologies efforts. How many installathons have someone ready to answer questions about making Linux work for everybody? Even geeks can have physical differences.
And while I'm ranting, sign your organ donor card. Your parts have a much longer shelf life than your computers' parts.
No, it was actually a free lunch with the purchase of a bucket of beer, especially on payday. Fergit the P's and Q's, we murricans went for the pailsful.
I still haven't found a keyboard that can clean up after my neighbor's puppy the way stale news can, or can be used in the worm bin, or can be shredded to make cool balloon-headed fish to hang from the ceiling.
Hmmmmm....one more to add to the list that Eric Raymond suggested: Python, C, Perl and Lisp. See his http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html.
The agro genmodders promised that their stuff would never get into the wild, either. Ooopsies! And then they came up with the brill idea of a killer gene to prevent self-replication, er, well, that was so the farmers couldn't use the seeds without paying first. Hmmm. What happens when *that* one gets into the wrong gene code? And what happens when the standby security nanopups run wild? Let's just hope they've been paper-trained. We'll make 'em all snap to at the first crinkle of a restraining order.
Woohoo! My favorite ten year old installed Linux on my best home p.c. Somewhere just after Partition Magic started doing its thing, i stopped holding my breath and sat back to enjoy the ride. Do you remember when you were a kid brave enough to swing so high on the swingset that you were upside down, looking down at the sky? That's how it felt about three minutes into the install. I suddenly realized that although i hadn't backed up anything on the hard drive, I really didn't care if i lost all my apps? That all I cared about keeping were some text files? The documentation is good enough for a 10 year old kid to follow, and we had a field day picking which packages to install. Of course, it is going to take some work to clean up some of the config details, but I have my command prompt back. Hoohah! Life is sweet. What a way to mark the Microsoft ruling. I haven't had this much fun since I first got to play on a supercomputer with a gig of data, (which used to be a big deal.) Support your local installathon.
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Drivers of cars and motorcycles also have to eat to drive. Comparisons of bicyclists vs. motor powered vehicles need to include only the incremental food fuel costs of a bicyclist as compared to that of the driver of a car or motorcycle. Ever looked at a bicycle commuter? The ones I know are much skinnier, for a given height, than non-cyclists. Which means they have fewer pounds to maintain than that of a non-cyclist, in terms of required energy consumption. Since a physically-fit person's metabolism burns foods more efficiently than that of a less-fit person, a fit bicyclist is likely to waste less food in the form of turning it into body fat, than the non-cyclist.
I'd get a quick wake-up call with a clue stick if I got caught reading /. at work more than once, since "it is not in my particular area of professional competence." The geeks upstairs who can claim /. as within their professional purview, however, get real big monitors, the better to read you with. Me, I get paid by the bullet point.
The independent, skilled knowledge worker is only an equal in this regard as long as he or she has the financial wherewithal to pay attorneys to defend that independence, on the slight chance that it turns into an ugly legal battle. In that case, the one with the deepest attorney-paying pockets will win. And you know which side that will be. So equality stops at the point where your ability to pay for a legal battle is greater than my ability to do so. Look at all the SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) suits in recent years in the US.
Selling one copy, at these prices, would generate $10 in sales for just one book. But the agreements most of us signed did not provide for royalties until seven copies were sold in any one year. Me, I doubt anyone has ever bought a copy of my 1995 dissertation, except maybe my mother, and even she did not buy seven copies. OceanBarb, Ph.D.
Or you could grow your own. Scientific American for August has this article on growing your own plankton. Processors couldn't be much more complicated than rotifers, eh?
expecting results time after time, you are going to get a big let down eventually. Hmmm, doesn't this sound familiar? Oh, wait, I have learned to expect that operating system to crash.
Whew, thanks. Wish I'd thought of that myself. Here I was beginning to worry that the bug getting passed around the cube farm was more than just a summer cold.
Congress wanted them to become more like a business; we the people went along with it. So, you can't really blame them for trying to identify new lines of business. Read their annual report, or their read their five year strategic plan, or any other material on their newly-redesigned website. First class letter volume is shrinking like Alice, baby, and they've got to find something else to give the Grow Me elixir to.
Then use the net and find another account. There are plenty of places out there that do not charge for kid's (or adults) savings accounts, and some will even entice you with a bonus 50 or 75 bucks for maintaining a min. bal. for a certain period. You should be teaching your daughter to get the best return on her bucks. In the U.S., most credit unions only require a min of $5 or $50 for a share savings account.
Yeah, and when the aliens get here and find out what we've been doing to brother whale and sister porpoise, we are in a world of hurt.
I get it. It's the electromagnetic radiation from the hardware, that stimulates the glial cells, leading to a cascade of neuronal responses, fomenting the neuromuscular chain reaction that culminates in hitting the BID button on E-bay. No wonder the economists couldn't figure it out. They only assume rational utility maximizers.
...imagine that the astronauts need stock quotes... No, but they might eventually need to sign some legal documents in space.
How much of my online life DON'T I want preserved for 10,000 years?
The article layout was actually pretty effective if you stayed long enough to get to the tracking examples. In fact, it seems a pretty good model for educational presentations. With multiple windows open, however, and none maximized, you lose some of the text, such as the list of News Topics. What it really needed was a better set of clues than the de-emphasized tabs for TOC, About, etc. Odd that a site devoted to a study of internet reading wouldn't have a paragraph about the choices made in designing the study site.
Like most GUIs, the study ignores an obvious group of news-users who cannot easily physically read the online news. Most web sites make life only more difficult for the visually impaired, who rely on audio interpretations, Braille readers, or extreme magnification. (Not to mention anyone who doesn't have the bandwidth or hardware to handle your typical flash-bang site.) Not enough people know about the NIST standards for multiply-accessible web sites, or even about the Linux adaptive technologies efforts. How many installathons have someone ready to answer questions about making Linux work for everybody? Even geeks can have physical differences.
And while I'm ranting, sign your organ donor card. Your parts have a much longer shelf life than your computers' parts.
No, it was actually a free lunch with the purchase of a bucket of beer, especially on payday. Fergit the P's and Q's, we murricans went for the pailsful.
I still haven't found a keyboard that can clean up after my neighbor's puppy the way stale news can, or can be used in the worm bin, or can be shredded to make cool balloon-headed fish to hang from the ceiling.
I hope he's not planning on using JATO boosters as his power source. Land speed record...owie!
Hmmmmm....one more to add to the list that Eric Raymond suggested: Python, C, Perl and Lisp. See his http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html.
The agro genmodders promised that their stuff would never get into the wild, either. Ooopsies! And then they came up with the brill idea of a killer gene to prevent self-replication, er, well, that was so the farmers couldn't use the seeds without paying first. Hmmm. What happens when *that* one gets into the wrong gene code? And what happens when the standby security nanopups run wild? Let's just hope they've been paper-trained. We'll make 'em all snap to at the first crinkle of a restraining order.
Woohoo! My favorite ten year old installed Linux on my best home p.c. Somewhere just after Partition Magic started doing its thing, i stopped holding my breath and sat back to enjoy the ride. Do you remember when you were a kid brave enough to swing so high on the swingset that you were upside down, looking down at the sky? That's how it felt about three minutes into the install. I suddenly realized that although i hadn't backed up anything on the hard drive, I really didn't care if i lost all my apps? That all I cared about keeping were some text files? The documentation is good enough for a 10 year old kid to follow, and we had a field day picking which packages to install. Of course, it is going to take some work to clean up some of the config details, but I have my command prompt back. Hoohah! Life is sweet. What a way to mark the Microsoft ruling. I haven't had this much fun since I first got to play on a supercomputer with a gig of data, (which used to be a big deal.) Support your local installathon.
Ocean Barb