The strength of UBI is that it allows people to take risks. People who have mortgages, children, etc and feel they cant afford to start a new business, go freelance, or develop something new. UBI, it's hoped, could drive innovation and creativity by reducing the strain of earning. Of course this will be a far less effective strategy amongst the long term unemployed who dont have the commitment of earning.
My inclination would have been to have used a counter weight to power the roller pushing the painting through the blades. Then you only need a battery to operate the trigger to release the counter weight. I mean if you're building it from scratch and expect not to use it for years mechanical sounds preferable to electrical to me. This might also explain why only half the paper was shredded.
TBBT was a solid sitcom. That was its appeal. It was not a clever reflection on post-docs, scientists vs engineers, Aspergers, or any of the geek culture aspects it had bolted on.
I did 'only' a masters in physics. I shared a flat with 4 other physics students. One of us had diagnosed aspergers. One of us had to drink heavily to quell his social anxiety before his parents put him on a train and we picked him up at the other end. We all poured scorn on engineers. So i wanted to love TBBT. I really did.
The fact is I never saw myself or my friends in TBBT. 2 examples:
I never understood their finances. Students / post-docs / junior lectureres never have any money. I remember eating pickle out of a jar with a spoon a couple of times because we had no money. We never did take away. We rarely ate out apart from at the university. Much of the comedy in our house came from the terrifying experiments in cooking. Raj had rich parents, but where was the financial turmoil for everyone else?
I never understood how "broadly" geeky they were. We all had our own "geeky interests" and would pour hours of our free time into them. (The warhammer geek, the coding geek, the role-play geek, the video editing geek, etc). And we had interests in common (physics, computers, girls). But TBBT group all seem to have a vague interest in all things geeky. They have a general liking of geek culture, the conventions, the sci-fi, the memorabilia. Sheldon was perhaps the exception to this with his love of trains, but even that seemed to be something that was presented only opportunistically rather being a constant visible presence in his life.
So I enjoyed TBBT for its characterization and the characters responses to the awkward situations that the writers came up with. But it will always feel like any opportunity missed to me.
Check out Guifie . It's a free, open and neutral network where the nodes are contributed by individuals, and companies. It's been running since 2004 and has over 33,000 nodes with another 16,000 planned. It's still mostly a local regional project. But still a damn cool socio-economic experiment.
M&S are one of the UKs largest retailers, but only about 60% of their revenue is from food. See here. Which means that they are outside of the top 10 in terms of grocery sales.They are a small player in terms of food sales who specialize in luxury foods. This is just a curiosity news piece about a small specialist retailer who have found another way to push their luxury brand and its values.
Space: above and beyond - claustrophobic sci-fi action
My so called life - teen age drama without the melo-drama
Faulty towers - classic british humour
Patlabor: The Movie - slower paced anime with mechs in the background and not too much of the the exagerated anime iconography that I struggle with
ReactOS is intended to be a binary compatible OS to windows systems circa 2003. I suspect its main use will be to run legacy software from that era. Development started on it in '96 and was crawlingly slow. However fund raising efforts from 2012 onwards have meant it has been able to significantly step up the rate of progress. It will never replace the current version of windows, but then again it was never intended to.
I wear a succession of cheap hand wound pin-lever analogue watches. I'm not the sort of nerd that wants the newest shieniest. I'm the sort of nerd that likes to take my gadget apart and see what makes it tick. Pin-levers are cheaper, less accurate movements and half the joy is in trying to make them slightly more accurate.
This in no way answers the original question. However if you have a particular grievance against windows and a love of Unix like systems, it is worth noting that the Xbox One OS is based on Windows, whilst the PS4 OS is based on FreeBSD.
I'm no expert on American comics, but I know that the term "Golden Age" tends to be a little loosely defined. I'm going to make an assumption and suggest that you are interested in more than just the early super hero comics. If this is the case, then I would make the following points:
(1) The golden Age is best remembered for the birth of the super heroe genre, but at the time Disney character comics out sold those by a wide margin.
(2) During the Golden age there was a plethora of other genres avaible, including Detectivce, romance and western.
(3) Towards the end of the "Golden Age" super heroes began to fall out of favour and crime and horror became more popularity. It was the rise of these which led to the comics code.
With this in mind, it's immediately clear that there are a huge number of possibilities for exploring the "Golden Age". My recommendation would be to look at some of the most notable writers / artists whose work has been widely collected and is easy to get hold of. So specifically I would consider:
(1) "The Carl Barks Library" - A series of books collecting all the Donald Duck stories by Carl barks, arguably the greatest golden age "Funny animals" artist.
(2) "The Spirit Archives" - DC's reprinting of Will Esiners ground breaking Detective series. The Spirit covered a wide variety of genres from comedy to horror from action adventure to crime drama.
(3) "The Ditko Archives" - Ditko came in at the end of the Golden era, and much of his early work was in the horror and mystery comics.
There are of course many many other options, but these are soem of my favourites, and I think they give you a good flavour of the variety of the Golden Age!
There was much I enjoyed, and much i loathed. GAME did a good job of importing the american customer service model in an effort to become more profesional as it grew. It was a very sales driven environemnet, where the goal was to engage the customer, and help steer their choices. Some people like that some don't. The GAME stores were constantly in competition against each other for sales, and also against their own sales figures from previous years.
Sadly, whilst the company moved towards focusing more on the customers, it failed to focus on its staff. There was no benefit to the Sales assistants in selling more, other than their manager shouted at them less. The company had a big chip on its shuoulder about staff theft as it tried to transition and exapnd from a small chain to a more profesional outfit. This led to routine searches of staff before leaving the store, and treating all staff as potentional thiefs.
I agree with the above posts that what really killed GAME though,was the reduction in footfall. "Young" game buyers moved across to internet shopping a long time ago, but GAME survived on the key period of Christmas presents. December+january takings were equall to takings for the rest of the year in some concessions. With the appearance of not jsut games, but also hardware in supermarkets, this too began to ebb away.
I loved checking out games at GAME when I was young. I loved working there in my early 20's. I want to say I wish it was still there, but when I think about it, I haven't been to GAME to buy anything for over 5 years. I go to browse, and catch up with friends. But never to buy. In the end, I guess I killed GAME.
My understanding of the comments so far:
(1) This issue is a sharp rise in the cost, rather than the absolute cost.
So the fact that others are already paying more is irelevant. If an item of your domestic budget suddenly increases drastically in cost this hurts. This is
especially true, when you are limited in trems of how much you can reduce your use of that item.
(2) Other countries are also expriencing these price rises, but it is more painful for americans.
It is more painful for several reasons including the lesser density of population requiring more travel, but also the long history of cheap energy, which means
fewer alternatives to petrol transport have been developed.
(3) There are two seperate sources of pressure of petrol costs. The long term issue of finite resources, and the short/mid term pressures of middle east instability.
There is a strong political lobby using these price rises as a platform to remind people of the need to consider alternative energy soureces. There is also a
realisation in "The West" of our energy dependence on "The East", and this causes tension.
When I was at Uni over a decade ago now, the firewall rankled with me (I'm a grown up...let me choose!;) so being somewhat childish I attached a hardware keylogger and reported a computer fault (I think i cleared the isntalled printers and said the "PC won't print"). Anyhoo, next time I cam back to the lab I had me an admin login. This didn't allow me to access the net through my user, but interstingly the admin account seemed to have pretty much unfettered access to the web. I was too scared to use it, but had I needed soemthing in an emergency...it was there;)
Given that Nokia is pushing for Qt development on the Raspberry pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/369), would this be the perfect project for it?
Surely the key section to this article is the last line which reads:
"British scientists last month challenged the link between sirtuins and longevity in worms and fruit flies in the journal Nature, concluding they had ''nothing to do with extending life''.
Slashdot Mirror
The strength of UBI is that it allows people to take risks. People who have mortgages, children, etc and feel they cant afford to start a new business, go freelance, or develop something new. UBI, it's hoped, could drive innovation and creativity by reducing the strain of earning. Of course this will be a far less effective strategy amongst the long term unemployed who dont have the commitment of earning.
My inclination would have been to have used a counter weight to power the roller pushing the painting through the blades. Then you only need a battery to operate the trigger to release the counter weight. I mean if you're building it from scratch and expect not to use it for years mechanical sounds preferable to electrical to me. This might also explain why only half the paper was shredded.
TBBT was a solid sitcom. That was its appeal. It was not a clever reflection on post-docs, scientists vs engineers, Aspergers, or any of the geek culture aspects it had bolted on.
I did 'only' a masters in physics. I shared a flat with 4 other physics students. One of us had diagnosed aspergers. One of us had to drink heavily to quell his social anxiety before his parents put him on a train and we picked him up at the other end. We all poured scorn on engineers. So i wanted to love TBBT. I really did.
The fact is I never saw myself or my friends in TBBT. 2 examples:
I never understood their finances. Students / post-docs / junior lectureres never have any money. I remember eating pickle out of a jar with a spoon a couple of times because we had no money. We never did take away. We rarely ate out apart from at the university. Much of the comedy in our house came from the terrifying experiments in cooking. Raj had rich parents, but where was the financial turmoil for everyone else?
I never understood how "broadly" geeky they were. We all had our own "geeky interests" and would pour hours of our free time into them. (The warhammer geek, the coding geek, the role-play geek, the video editing geek, etc). And we had interests in common (physics, computers, girls). But TBBT group all seem to have a vague interest in all things geeky. They have a general liking of geek culture, the conventions, the sci-fi, the memorabilia. Sheldon was perhaps the exception to this with his love of trains, but even that seemed to be something that was presented only opportunistically rather being a constant visible presence in his life.
So I enjoyed TBBT for its characterization and the characters responses to the awkward situations that the writers came up with. But it will always feel like any opportunity missed to me.
A good sit com, but hardly irreplacable.
Check out Guifie . It's a free, open and neutral network where the nodes are contributed by individuals, and companies. It's been running since 2004 and has over 33,000 nodes with another 16,000 planned. It's still mostly a local regional project. But still a damn cool socio-economic experiment.
M&S are one of the UKs largest retailers, but only about 60% of their revenue is from food. See here. Which means that they are outside of the top 10 in terms of grocery sales.They are a small player in terms of food sales who specialize in luxury foods. This is just a curiosity news piece about a small specialist retailer who have found another way to push their luxury brand and its values.
Space: above and beyond - claustrophobic sci-fi action
My so called life - teen age drama without the melo-drama
Faulty towers - classic british humour
Patlabor: The Movie - slower paced anime with mechs in the background and not too much of the the exagerated anime iconography that I struggle with
ReactOS is intended to be a binary compatible OS to windows systems circa 2003. I suspect its main use will be to run legacy software from that era. Development started on it in '96 and was crawlingly slow. However fund raising efforts from 2012 onwards have meant it has been able to significantly step up the rate of progress. It will never replace the current version of windows, but then again it was never intended to.
I wear a succession of cheap hand wound pin-lever analogue watches. I'm not the sort of nerd that wants the newest shieniest. I'm the sort of nerd that likes to take my gadget apart and see what makes it tick. Pin-levers are cheaper, less accurate movements and half the joy is in trying to make them slightly more accurate.
This in no way answers the original question. However if you have a particular grievance against windows and a love of Unix like systems, it is worth noting that the Xbox One OS is based on Windows, whilst the PS4 OS is based on FreeBSD.
Then all I'll need is a smart car.
I'm no expert on American comics, but I know that the term "Golden Age" tends to be a little loosely defined. I'm going to make an assumption and suggest that you are interested in more than just the early super hero comics. If this is the case, then I would make the following points: (1) The golden Age is best remembered for the birth of the super heroe genre, but at the time Disney character comics out sold those by a wide margin. (2) During the Golden age there was a plethora of other genres avaible, including Detectivce, romance and western. (3) Towards the end of the "Golden Age" super heroes began to fall out of favour and crime and horror became more popularity. It was the rise of these which led to the comics code. With this in mind, it's immediately clear that there are a huge number of possibilities for exploring the "Golden Age". My recommendation would be to look at some of the most notable writers / artists whose work has been widely collected and is easy to get hold of. So specifically I would consider: (1) "The Carl Barks Library" - A series of books collecting all the Donald Duck stories by Carl barks, arguably the greatest golden age "Funny animals" artist. (2) "The Spirit Archives" - DC's reprinting of Will Esiners ground breaking Detective series. The Spirit covered a wide variety of genres from comedy to horror from action adventure to crime drama. (3) "The Ditko Archives" - Ditko came in at the end of the Golden era, and much of his early work was in the horror and mystery comics. There are of course many many other options, but these are soem of my favourites, and I think they give you a good flavour of the variety of the Golden Age!
A nice link explaining the science which intrigued NASA: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Widom-Larsen.php
ThinkGeek has a nice array of watches :
http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/whereisit.cgi?t=watch
Their dipswitch watch is especially fun :)
There was much I enjoyed, and much i loathed. GAME did a good job of importing the american customer service model in an effort to become more profesional as it grew. It was a very sales driven environemnet, where the goal was to engage the customer, and help steer their choices. Some people like that some don't. The GAME stores were constantly in competition against each other for sales, and also against their own sales figures from previous years. Sadly, whilst the company moved towards focusing more on the customers, it failed to focus on its staff. There was no benefit to the Sales assistants in selling more, other than their manager shouted at them less. The company had a big chip on its shuoulder about staff theft as it tried to transition and exapnd from a small chain to a more profesional outfit. This led to routine searches of staff before leaving the store, and treating all staff as potentional thiefs. I agree with the above posts that what really killed GAME though,was the reduction in footfall. "Young" game buyers moved across to internet shopping a long time ago, but GAME survived on the key period of Christmas presents. December+january takings were equall to takings for the rest of the year in some concessions. With the appearance of not jsut games, but also hardware in supermarkets, this too began to ebb away. I loved checking out games at GAME when I was young. I loved working there in my early 20's. I want to say I wish it was still there, but when I think about it, I haven't been to GAME to buy anything for over 5 years. I go to browse, and catch up with friends. But never to buy. In the end, I guess I killed GAME.
My understanding of the comments so far: (1) This issue is a sharp rise in the cost, rather than the absolute cost. So the fact that others are already paying more is irelevant. If an item of your domestic budget suddenly increases drastically in cost this hurts. This is especially true, when you are limited in trems of how much you can reduce your use of that item. (2) Other countries are also expriencing these price rises, but it is more painful for americans. It is more painful for several reasons including the lesser density of population requiring more travel, but also the long history of cheap energy, which means fewer alternatives to petrol transport have been developed. (3) There are two seperate sources of pressure of petrol costs. The long term issue of finite resources, and the short/mid term pressures of middle east instability. There is a strong political lobby using these price rises as a platform to remind people of the need to consider alternative energy soureces. There is also a realisation in "The West" of our energy dependence on "The East", and this causes tension.
When I was at Uni over a decade ago now, the firewall rankled with me (I'm a grown up...let me choose! ;) so being somewhat childish I attached a hardware keylogger and reported a computer fault (I think i cleared the isntalled printers and said the "PC won't print"). Anyhoo, next time I cam back to the lab I had me an admin login. This didn't allow me to access the net through my user, but interstingly the admin account seemed to have pretty much unfettered access to the web. I was too scared to use it, but had I needed soemthing in an emergency...it was there ;)
Given that Nokia is pushing for Qt development on the Raspberry pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/369), would this be the perfect project for it?
Surely the key section to this article is the last line which reads: "British scientists last month challenged the link between sirtuins and longevity in worms and fruit flies in the journal Nature, concluding they had ''nothing to do with extending life''.