I also wonder if you can use some kind of gps-detector now to find the winning cans ?:-)
I'd like to see what Coca Cola would do in case you have i.e. 5 of the 10 winning cans.. 'yes sir, pure luck that I picked those at all the shops around here..'
Nothing truly cool has happened since those days. Except perhaps the Fellowship of the Rings extended DVD, and Miyazaki's Spirited Away
I hope I'm not going too much off topic now (oh yeah-/., can't really go offtopic there:-) but.. the next pinball machine by Stern is going to be the Lords of the rings theme..
I always thought one ton = 1000kg.. unless there's an american ton size too.. and ships are sometimes also measured in tons, don't know if that's also a 1000kg ton or a different size?
Anyway, in other news: clouds are not only heavier than a lot of elephants, they're even more heavy then all living dinosaurs on earth together !
duh.. what he found is like a sponge because by the time it passed through the earths atmosphere, all water inside it had evaporated.. while in space the water is still present and the asteroid is a massive block (of ice ?)
someone should shoot fire some ball bearings at his head..
It's common for arcades to receive games 'on test'. They get them for free (or at a reduced price) and must fill in reports about how good the machine does (number of plays/replays/..)
So if a 'new' company would launch a new arcade game, it wouldn't be too strange to put it for free on location for testing.. or to have employees of this company coming around to check out the machine.
my expectations: - a system which comes on and turns off immediately
- I'd expect that the internet stuff which started 10 years ago would've grown now.. i.e. ok we've got dynamic html and so, but it's still a webpage.. chatting is still done using irc (typing) and so..
With todays 3D graphic cards I'd expect VRML or a similar thing (easier to program in, nicer to view in, and some java-applet stuff included) to have broken through.
Imagine: a chat room in which you see the people (at least a 3d model) and they can not only talk but also move.. and a bot on irc can be an object in that 3D room, i.e. a jukebox or vending machine or whatever.. (guess on #carding it'll be an atm)
converting websites to 3D may be a bit more difficult or not as userfriendly, so I'm not sure about that.
I'd like a 3D desktop/file manager though. (can anyone recommend one ?)
my father also had one of those calculators (we're talking 1975-1980 now) and I remember typing in the game from the manual a few times (there no possibility to store it:-(
tips I've found/read/learned/.. (they're all nice to say but I admit I don't practise them all like it should or do it all the time)
1. clear your mind, don't think about what you still have to do. If you've got things to do later, act on them. Write it down on a list so you won't forget it, do it immediately, pass it to someone else,.. but get your mind rid of the 'I still have to do xxx and may not forget' things !
2. make lists. make a list of all tasks you have to do. It's a great feeling to scratch something off a task list. You have to see what order you make - most important/longest tasks first, but that can be demotivating as you can't often scratch something from the list, so sometimes it's better to put some small easy tasks in between so you see the list becoming smaller.
3. learn to do things you don't like first. It's hard, I know. But in the end that's best. If you don't, you'll be thinking all the time you've still got to do xx and when you have to start it (deadline) you've wrecked the days before thinking about it all the time. Do it asap, and you'll enjoy the time afterwards much more. I know this is very hard to do..
4. When doing one task, set a deadline for yourself, if you have problems staying concentrated. You also have to try to break habbits like email/surfing every 10 minutes. Therefor if possible it's better to study/work in a different environment (or mindset) so you know place X is for fun and place Y is for work. If you can't seperate environments, and find yourself surfing all the time, block your computer or sites.. but the problem is you'll be thinking all the time 'I want to surf I want to surf' and won't be able to concentrate:-( so another environment until you can switch your mindset to studying is the only solution..
6. switch your mind to 'study/work mode'.. not easy to learn, it's best done using tricks, ie if you study well on a certain type of music, in a certain chair/place/.. so you know if you have input X, you have to work/study.. (yes you become Pavlov's dog)
7. There are some other tips, I forgot most of them already..:-(
the owner of the car is responsible - he was there.
This is the same as when you get a speeding ticket. A camera takes a picture of a speeding car, and the ticket gets sent to the owner of the car (owner of license plate). If the owner wasn't driving, he has to say who was, or pay himself.. it would be easy to say you weren't driving but not say who was and let the police prove who was driving the car..
the only result of laws like this will be that there will be more illegal guns around.
there are a lot of guns in existance. not only by criminals, but i.e. a lot by old folks who bought a gun 50 years ago and still have it in their bedroom. There are no records of this ownership at all. Your tax would make all these guns illegal, and valuable (because there is no record of them, and there's no high tax to pay). Guns can't be compared to a car - they're easy to hide so no-one knows you own one, and they last much longer.. ie a 50 year old gun can still be as lethal and precise as a new one.
in Belgium about 2 years ago someone was convicted for littering.. seemed he threw the leftovers of a mcD meal out of his car and a police man saw it. Anyway, it was the passenger of the car who did this, the driver/owner didn't want to tell who the passenger was, so the judge punished the owner of the car.
so don't use a cell phone when you're discussing illegal doings
Even worse: don't have a cell phone on you when doing illegal doings..
Here in Belgium it's been used in court for evidence (or at least suspicion/during interrogations).
I remember reading in the media about a kidnapping case and the police knew because of the cellphone signal what highways the kidnappers had followed. (ok not realtime when it happened - but that should be possible too ?) Another case was when someone was shot and one of the bad guys had phoned a lot before and after it to the guy who paid him for it, and police therefor knew the guy was in the area of the shooting and because of all the calls in that time period they could link the other guy to it. OK it's not enough proof in trial, but it's very good info to know when checking an alibi or during interrogations.
The US has gone a long way in improving how it operates to minimize civilian deaths. They don't go on huge killing sprees killing lots of innocent people.
Or: they've gone a long way in handling the media and they only show you want they want to..
I'm not sure if it's really a requirement, but I guess so, sometimes you see in a newspaper a column 'right to answer' (literal translation). Usually it's posted between the letters sent in by readers.
In this usually is a letter written by someone about whom an article had been written, he gives his opinion on what he believes has been mis presented, or corrects facts.. (to which an editor of course can also answer....)
I don't know if it's bad for the internet to have this - guess not. Publishing on the internet is the same as elsewhere, you are responsible for what you write and the internet does not make it anonymous or allow everything to be said.
You shouldn't be able to post lies about someone/something. There's still free speech: you can say what you want, but mention it's your opinion. But if the owner of the product or the person you attack doesn't approve, you have to allow him to defend himself too, so readers can make up their mind and judge for themselves who/what they will believe. I guess I prefer this more than the USA in which you receive cease and decist letters and have to take everything offline or get sued..
How BROKEN is the design in the first place, if _students_ (which aren't even paid for that work) are able to make it at least 25% better?
Most people use the principle: if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Of course something that continues what has been designed like 100 years ago won't be optimal measured by todays technology..
I guess automotive engineers do have a problem when they want to ask their manager a budget to fix something which still works fine.. or why change something when all other brands use it ? Or even why re-invent the wheel ?
Btw if I remember correct about 10-15 years ago a swiss car tuner/designer (forgot his name) had produced a new type of wheel.. the axl wasn't stuck to the center of the wheel, but the wheel was a round rim to which the axl stuck on the side
in my best ascii art:
new
---/* \
\/
---
* = axl and the rest is a metal rim, open in the middle
the inventor said it was better because for some reason putting the axl in the center of the wheel was the most stupid thing one could do.. but the wheel was invented like that thousands of years ago and everyone had accepted it like it was..
Here in Belgium a non-compete is only possible from a certain level of income. If you earn less, and even sign it, it is never valid. If you get fired and the employer wants to enforce it, he has to pay you. This amount must be set in the contract in advance, usually it's half of what you would earn.. i.e. if you may not work somewhere else for 6 months, they have to pay you 3 months.. I even think it's limited for one year but am not sure about this.
It would be nice if here on/. people would say what legal conditions work, because I have no idea how it is in the USA or other countries..
Btw also things in contracts here which look like 'punishments' for the employee are not valid. I.e. 'when you resign yourself you must pay us XXX amount for training/.. ' I had signed something like that once at a stupid big 5 company I once worked for.. After 6 months I leave because the company was too lame, and they expected me to pay $500 because I had a lease car which the had to return (which they didn't, just gave it to some junior). One letter was enough not have to pay it:-)
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I also wonder if you can use some kind of gps-detector now to find the winning cans ? :-)
I'd like to see what Coca Cola would do in case you have i.e. 5 of the 10 winning cans..
'yes sir, pure luck that I picked those at all the shops around here..'
Nothing truly cool has happened since those days. Except perhaps the Fellowship of the Rings extended DVD, and Miyazaki's Spirited Away
/., can't really go offtopic there :-)
I hope I'm not going too much off topic now (oh yeah-
but.. the next pinball machine by Stern is going to be the Lords of the rings theme..
So what's the answer ?? Is Eating Blueberry Pie Bad for You?
A much smarter method, in my opinion, would be to check vehicle mileage of registered vehicles, and tax based on that.
That's already done in Europe: there's a high tax on petrol. The more kilometers you drive, the more petrol/diesel you buy, the more tax you pay.
6 tons = 5000kilos ?
I always thought one ton = 1000kg..
unless there's an american ton size too..
and ships are sometimes also measured in tons, don't know if that's also a 1000kg ton or a different size?
Anyway, in other news: clouds are not only heavier than a lot of elephants, they're even more heavy then all living dinosaurs on earth together !
duh.. what he found is like a sponge because by the time it passed through the earths atmosphere, all water inside it had evaporated.. while in space the water is still present and the asteroid is a massive block (of ice ?)
someone should shoot fire some ball bearings at his head..
put a real game in there: a pinball machine
It's common for arcades to receive games 'on test'.
They get them for free (or at a reduced price) and must fill in reports about how good the machine does (number of plays/replays/..)
So if a 'new' company would launch a new arcade game, it wouldn't be too strange to put it for free on location for testing.. or to have employees of this company coming around to check out the machine.
my expectations:
- a system which comes on and turns off immediately
- I'd expect that the internet stuff which started 10 years ago would've grown now..
i.e. ok we've got dynamic html and so, but it's still a webpage.. chatting is still done using irc (typing) and so..
With todays 3D graphic cards I'd expect VRML or a similar thing (easier to program in, nicer to view in, and some java-applet stuff included) to have broken through.
Imagine: a chat room in which you see the people (at least a 3d model) and they can not only talk but also move.. and a bot on irc can be an object in that 3D room, i.e. a jukebox or vending machine or whatever.. (guess on #carding it'll be an atm)
converting websites to 3D may be a bit more difficult or not as userfriendly, so I'm not sure about that.
I'd like a 3D desktop/file manager though.
(can anyone recommend one ?)
I remember the lunar lander game !
:-(
my father also had one of those calculators
(we're talking 1975-1980 now) and I remember
typing in the game from the manual a few times
(there no possibility to store it
omg I was a nerd at age 7 ?!
Whatever happened to being responsible for your own actions?
That got sued by the people who didn't want to be responsible for and prefer to blame someone else..
or the lost productivity by introducing the internet in a company in general.
tips I've found/read/learned/.. (they're all nice to say but I admit I don't practise them all like it should or do it all the time)
.. but get your mind rid of the 'I still have to do xxx and may not forget' things !
:-(
:-(
1. clear your mind, don't think about what you still have to do. If you've got things to do later, act on them.
Write it down on a list so you won't forget it, do it immediately, pass it to someone else,
2. make lists. make a list of all tasks you have to do. It's a great feeling to scratch something off a task list. You have to see what order you make - most important/longest tasks first, but that can be demotivating as you can't often scratch something from the list, so sometimes it's better to put some small easy tasks in between so you see the list becoming smaller.
3. learn to do things you don't like first. It's hard, I know. But in the end that's best. If you don't, you'll be thinking all the time you've still got to do xx and when you have to start it (deadline) you've wrecked the days before thinking about it all the time. Do it asap, and you'll enjoy the time afterwards much more.
I know this is very hard to do..
4. When doing one task, set a deadline for yourself, if you have problems staying concentrated. You also have to try to break habbits like email/surfing every 10 minutes. Therefor if possible it's better to study/work in a different environment (or mindset) so you know place X is for fun and place Y is for work.
If you can't seperate environments, and find yourself surfing all the time, block your computer or sites.. but the problem is you'll be thinking all the time 'I want to surf I want to surf' and won't be able to concentrate
so another environment until you can switch your mindset to studying is the only solution..
6. switch your mind to 'study/work mode'..
not easy to learn, it's best done using tricks, ie if you study well on a certain type of music, in a certain chair/place/.. so you know if you have input X, you have to work/study..
(yes you become Pavlov's dog)
7. There are some other tips, I forgot most of them already..
no jury, only a police-judge..
the owner of the car is responsible - he was there.
This is the same as when you get a speeding ticket.
A camera takes a picture of a speeding car, and the ticket gets sent to the owner of the car (owner of license plate).
If the owner wasn't driving, he has to say who was, or pay himself.. it would be easy to say you weren't driving but not say who was and let the police prove who was driving the car..
that's a stupid idea
the only result of laws like this will be that there will be more illegal guns around.
there are a lot of guns in existance.
not only by criminals, but i.e. a lot by old folks who bought a gun 50 years ago and still have it in their bedroom.
There are no records of this ownership at all.
Your tax would make all these guns illegal, and valuable (because there is no record of them, and there's no high tax to pay).
Guns can't be compared to a car - they're easy to hide so no-one knows you own one, and they last much longer.. ie a 50 year old gun can still be as lethal and precise as a new one.
IMO that's wrong.. but that's my opinion
in Belgium about 2 years ago someone was convicted for littering.. seemed he threw the leftovers of a mcD meal out of his car and a police man saw it. Anyway, it was the passenger of the car who did this, the driver/owner didn't want to tell who the passenger was, so the judge punished the owner of the car.
where's the time Netscape was a cool company and everyone wanted to work there..
so don't use a cell phone when you're discussing illegal doings
Even worse: don't have a cell phone on you when doing illegal doings..
Here in Belgium it's been used in court for evidence (or at least suspicion/during interrogations).
I remember reading in the media about a kidnapping case and the police knew because of the cellphone signal what highways the kidnappers had followed. (ok not realtime when it happened - but that should be possible too ?)
Another case was when someone was shot and one of the bad guys had phoned a lot before and after it to the guy who paid him for it, and police therefor knew the guy was in the area of the shooting and because of all the calls in that time period they could link the other guy to it.
OK it's not enough proof in trial, but it's very good info to know when checking an alibi or during interrogations.
Just read this post
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10397.
Over 10000 soldiers and 6000 civilians killed..
That's one civilian for each 3 kills.. guess your minimizing routine doesn't work that well.
The US has gone a long way in improving how it operates to minimize civilian deaths. They don't go on huge killing sprees killing lots of innocent people.
Or: they've gone a long way in handling the media and they only show you want they want to..
as far as I've read, tests of cars without a steering wheel but using a joystick were more comfortable to drive..
a steering wheel works fine, but there may be a more optimal solution; if we assume everything we have 'works fine', there'll never be progress..
I'd think the Ford Focus (to stay with Ford for the example) would be an outstanding car to release a diesel model of.
:-)
The Focus TDCI in Europe is sweeeeet..
it has massive torque and it's incredible
how good it accelerates..
maybe not 2fast2furious accelerating but
it'll be pretty close
I'm not sure if it's really a requirement, but I guess so, sometimes you see in a newspaper a column 'right to answer' (literal translation). Usually it's posted between the letters sent in by readers.
In this usually is a letter written by someone about whom an article had been written, he gives his opinion on what he believes has been mis presented, or corrects facts.. (to which an editor of course can also answer....)
I don't know if it's bad for the internet to have this - guess not. Publishing on the internet is the same as elsewhere, you are responsible for what you write and the internet does not make it anonymous or allow everything to be said.
You shouldn't be able to post lies about someone/something. There's still free speech: you can say what you want, but mention it's your opinion. But if the owner of the product or the person you attack doesn't approve, you have to allow him to defend himself too, so readers can make up their mind and judge for themselves who/what they will believe. I guess I prefer this more than the USA in which you receive cease and decist letters and have to take everything offline or get sued..
How BROKEN is the design in the first place, if _students_ (which aren't even paid for that work) are able to make it at least 25% better?
/* \ /
Most people use the principle: if it ain't broken, don't fix it.
Of course something that continues what has been designed like 100 years ago won't be optimal measured by todays technology..
I guess automotive engineers do have a problem when they want to ask their manager a budget to fix something which still works fine.. or why
change something when all other brands use it ?
Or even why re-invent the wheel ?
Btw if I remember correct about 10-15 years ago a swiss car tuner/designer (forgot his name) had produced a new type of wheel.. the axl wasn't stuck to the center of the wheel, but the wheel
was a round rim to which the axl stuck on the side
in my best ascii art:
new
---
\
---
* = axl and the rest is a metal rim, open in the middle
the inventor said it was better because for some reason putting the axl in the center of the
wheel was the most stupid thing one could do..
but the wheel was invented like that thousands of years ago and everyone had accepted it like it was..
As you say at the end: check the laws..
/. people would say
:-)
Here in Belgium a non-compete is only possible from a certain level of income. If you earn less, and even sign it, it is never valid.
If you get fired and the employer wants to enforce it, he has to pay you. This amount must be
set in the contract in advance, usually it's half of what you would earn.. i.e. if you may not work somewhere else for 6 months, they have to pay you 3 months.. I even think it's limited for one year but am not sure about this.
It would be nice if here on
what legal conditions work, because I have no
idea how it is in the USA or other countries..
Btw also things in contracts here which look like 'punishments' for the employee are not valid.
I.e. 'when you resign yourself you must pay us XXX amount for training/.. '
I had signed something like that once at a stupid
big 5 company I once worked for.. After 6 months I leave because the company was too lame, and they expected me to pay $500 because I had a lease car which the had to return (which they didn't, just gave it to some junior). One letter
was enough not have to pay it