until you have to run and all the stuff is bouncing around and battering you or flying out. I just bought a hoodie much like this during lunch (before seeing this article) a Kohl's for $20. Just without all the zillions of pockets. I'd rather have a vest on under the hoodie, as I dress in layers for the radical temperature changes during the day in California.
Cue the environmentalists to come running out of the woodwork, filing every lawsuit they can find, protesting the work site, and in general trying to slow down and interfere with the construction of said nuclear power plant.
The level of public ignorance never ceases to amaze.
Meanwhile California now has 5% of its power needs met by Wind Generation. Considering the power needs of the most populous state, that's no small feat. And even wind has its foes, worrying the vanes will slice hawks to bits. You can't do anything to generate power without someone finding a complaint.
It's about time we did something to address our growing energy needs.
Now if we can get politicians to quit treating building more oil refining capacity as a political football, we might take another meaningful step toward energy independence.
How about if we use less energy? Sound familiar?
I remember when I didn't have seven items in the same room needing an outlet - there was a TV, a lamp and maybe a small floor heater. Now I have a computer, with a monitor, a sound system and a laser printer, each with its own cord. The item in the room consuming the most power is the computer. Further, I have various wall-wart powered devices, which are on less frequently. I don't think my electric needs are unique, either. With 100 million people on computers, whether at home or work, we're chewing through the watts like crazy, even with energy saving lamps.
Most people (we are not all paragons of virtue) do that. The difference was that Jobs was apparently good at it.
With his wealth, at the end, as a yardstick, he wasn't merely good at it, he wrote the book, the preface, table of contents and the index, plus did a bang-up job for the cover art.
I think the idea is a good one. I would have picked something with e-ink instead though (because of glare). HOWEVER, how much data entry are you doing on your charts?
Past practice is no indication of future practice.
Expect some interation with these devices, even if it's as simple as scrolling to some point to initial you have followed some procedure or read some special instruction.
Just because you have it doesn't justify any actions you take based upon it. Erase it. Make sure it's completely gone. Then notify Newegg their Refurbies are morons, putting them at legal risk, as well.
Unfortunately the same guy who claims he invented the internet also claims to have a patent on scrapping the patent system, so we'll never find out how bad it would have to get.
This is silly. We all know that Al Gore invented the Internet!
Yuck. Going back and forth between number and alpha keyboards on screen nearly caused a riot. I had to code custom on-screen touch-keypads to allow speedy, painless data entry. Nice as a readout device and OK with some interation, but be wary of using one for data capture.
Meanwhile, Berners-Lee, one of the guys who actually invented the internet, and probably couldn't care any less about all the legal nonsense, has to get dragged into court to testify. What a waste of time for the poor guy.
It is upon this condition these sorts of Patent Troll suits prosper - when you don't show up the judge or jury is more than likely to rule against you.
IANAPL, but looking at that patent, I can name several technologies which existed before it, peforming parts of the same functions. Problem is, the companies which made those products are mostly out of business by now and what hardware isn't in the Computer Museum is in a landfill in China, where a lot of the old computers went to be scraped for gold and copper.
Nope. Not surprised. Disappointed, certainly. I had high hopes for Google after the craptacular experience I'd been going through with Yahoo. The reason Yahoo failed after such a brilliant start was creating horrible interfaces and saturating pages with ads. People left for Google because it was simple, uncluttered, pleasant to use. Now Google isn't so simple, uncluttered or pleasant to use, particularly when it directly affects your personal interests -- and personal interests are why people gravitate to where they are.
I dont want to live on this planet anymore... But really, unless there was a 'we'll never shut down" clause in the user agreement I dont see the idiots winning this one.
Problem is the expectations of users. Back a few years ago Google was Shiny, Fun, Friendly, doing good things, going neat places.
Now Google is yet-another corporation, swaggering and doing the things Corporations do, which is whitewash this, discard that, trample the disires of their customers on the way to where they think the next buck (of saved buck) is.
I find Google changing things in ways which I'm now finding, not just vexing, but utterly disruptive - it's like they don't want to leave well enough alone.
Somewhere in that big campus off Charleston Road, there's gotta be someone who asks the question, "Is it right for our users?"
beings that the Kinect uses unmodulated IR, sunlight will completely wash out the dim IR coming from the Kinect.
Something to think about.. particularly in areas where mean temperatures tend to be high, so there will be a considerably amount of daytime IR.
I have one of those cute little office helicopters, with an IR controller. Works pretty badly out of doors in direct sunlight, though pretty good on overcast days, morning and dusk.
The only H1B joke I could see, which is a bit tasteless, is about how blind DC was, working to increase the numbers as unemployment was rising.
But the Government is usually at least one step behind what's currently happening. Heck, some of the sponsors of that bill, back in the day, were already filing for bankruptcy before the bill made it to the floor, not for labor costs, but because their markets either dried up or never actually existed.
How about modifying a Kinect to detect the presence of Lobbyists?
Nah. I guess that wouldn't work, it would explode within 250 miles of DC.
So Gods need protection from Google. This is priceless!
This isn't a protection of God, it's a protection of those men who claim to speak for God. Beware of anyone who claims to speak for God who believes you need to be killed for heresy, blasphemy or simply being in their way of obtaining power. All these crappy extremists, of all strips, are driven by leaders who want power - only when it is too late do the people who served them find they are the first to be oppressed.
21st cenury marked by people rising up, overthrowing unjust tyranical regimes, meanwhile democracies pare away the rights of the people. Anyone see irony here?
Sexual harassment in the workplace usually involves either communicating or touching someone inappropriately with whom you work and those laws are there to protect you from someone in authority.
Sexual harassment outside the workplace is called assault and cannot be done verbally (you can insult someone even using sexual pejoratives under the first amendment).
IANAL but that's what real life has learned me so far.
California had a the first landmark ruling upon workplace safety regarding Second Hand Smoke - employers are required to provide an environment which is free of substances which may be harmful to those working there. It has since become federal law, with OSHA as one of the bodies responsible for providing information and enforcement. It's not much of a stretch to extend that to cover reading or viewing materials in a library. Further, the possibility that minors may be exposed to the content undoubtably has been covered by state or federal law.
Use of the library for research is one thing, where often a special reading room may be made available (a luxury for smaller libraries, however.) Use of the library, in this context for personal enjoyment is sure to raise some hackles in the public. There's Censorship and there's abuse of the Facilties and Constitutional protection under the 1st amendment, in the eyes of those who pay for the library - which, however you feel about things, may produce a fait accompli -- removing the defending librarian or changing library rules.
Tough break for the library here -- placed in a difficult light by an inconsiderate patron.
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until you have to run and all the stuff is bouncing around and battering you or flying out. I just bought a hoodie much like this during lunch (before seeing this article) a Kohl's for $20. Just without all the zillions of pockets. I'd rather have a vest on under the hoodie, as I dress in layers for the radical temperature changes during the day in California.
Cue the environmentalists to come running out of the woodwork, filing every lawsuit they can find, protesting the work site, and in general trying to slow down and interfere with the construction of said nuclear power plant.
The level of public ignorance never ceases to amaze.
Meanwhile California now has 5% of its power needs met by Wind Generation. Considering the power needs of the most populous state, that's no small feat. And even wind has its foes, worrying the vanes will slice hawks to bits. You can't do anything to generate power without someone finding a complaint.
It's about time we did something to address our growing energy needs.
Now if we can get politicians to quit treating building more oil refining capacity as a political football, we might take another meaningful step toward energy independence.
How about if we use less energy? Sound familiar?
I remember when I didn't have seven items in the same room needing an outlet - there was a TV, a lamp and maybe a small floor heater. Now I have a computer, with a monitor, a sound system and a laser printer, each with its own cord. The item in the room consuming the most power is the computer. Further, I have various wall-wart powered devices, which are on less frequently. I don't think my electric needs are unique, either. With 100 million people on computers, whether at home or work, we're chewing through the watts like crazy, even with energy saving lamps.
Most people (we are not all paragons of virtue) do that. The difference was that Jobs was apparently good at it.
With his wealth, at the end, as a yardstick, he wasn't merely good at it, he wrote the book, the preface, table of contents and the index, plus did a bang-up job for the cover art.
How do you feel about that?
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Psychiatric profession uses medications as well as psychotherapy.
Psychology does not use medications to supplement psychotherapy.
If this really is Psychiatric, you can expect Co$ and the Armies of Tom Cruise to assail it.
I think the idea is a good one. I would have picked something with e-ink instead though (because of glare). HOWEVER, how much data entry are you doing on your charts?
Past practice is no indication of future practice.
Expect some interation with these devices, even if it's as simple as scrolling to some point to initial you have followed some procedure or read some special instruction.
First, have a look at the data. Then decide.
Just because you have it doesn't justify any actions you take based upon it. Erase it. Make sure it's completely gone. Then notify Newegg their Refurbies are morons, putting them at legal risk, as well.
Unfortunately the same guy who claims he invented the internet also claims to have a patent on scrapping the patent system, so we'll never find out how bad it would have to get.
This is silly. We all know that Al Gore invented the Internet!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_technology
This joke reminds me I need to go out in the field and beat a dead horse.
I will write a glowing tweet about him on twitter.
Data entry device.
Yuck. Going back and forth between number and alpha keyboards on screen nearly caused a riot. I had to code custom on-screen touch-keypads to allow speedy, painless data entry. Nice as a readout device and OK with some interation, but be wary of using one for data capture.
Meanwhile, Berners-Lee, one of the guys who actually invented the internet, and probably couldn't care any less about all the legal nonsense, has to get dragged into court to testify. What a waste of time for the poor guy.
It is upon this condition these sorts of Patent Troll suits prosper - when you don't show up the judge or jury is more than likely to rule against you.
IANAPL, but looking at that patent, I can name several technologies which existed before it, peforming parts of the same functions. Problem is, the companies which made those products are mostly out of business by now and what hardware isn't in the Computer Museum is in a landfill in China, where a lot of the old computers went to be scraped for gold and copper.
Really? This surprised you?
Nope. Not surprised. Disappointed, certainly. I had high hopes for Google after the craptacular experience I'd been going through with Yahoo. The reason Yahoo failed after such a brilliant start was creating horrible interfaces and saturating pages with ads. People left for Google because it was simple, uncluttered, pleasant to use. Now Google isn't so simple, uncluttered or pleasant to use, particularly when it directly affects your personal interests -- and personal interests are why people gravitate to where they are.
I dont want to live on this planet anymore... But really, unless there was a 'we'll never shut down" clause in the user agreement I dont see the idiots winning this one.
Problem is the expectations of users. Back a few years ago Google was Shiny, Fun, Friendly, doing good things, going neat places.
Now Google is yet-another corporation, swaggering and doing the things Corporations do, which is whitewash this, discard that, trample the disires of their customers on the way to where they think the next buck (of saved buck) is.
I find Google changing things in ways which I'm now finding, not just vexing, but utterly disruptive - it's like they don't want to leave well enough alone.
Somewhere in that big campus off Charleston Road, there's gotta be someone who asks the question, "Is it right for our users?"
and is listened to.
How would that judge feel about exclusive contracts for mobile phone hardware.
beings that the Kinect uses unmodulated IR, sunlight will completely wash out the dim IR coming from the Kinect.
Something to think about .. particularly in areas where mean temperatures tend to be high, so there will be a considerably amount of daytime IR.
I have one of those cute little office helicopters, with an IR controller. Works pretty badly out of doors in direct sunlight, though pretty good on overcast days, morning and dusk.
Got to ba an H1B joke here someplace!
The only H1B joke I could see, which is a bit tasteless, is about how blind DC was, working to increase the numbers as unemployment was rising.
But the Government is usually at least one step behind what's currently happening. Heck, some of the sponsors of that bill, back in the day, were already filing for bankruptcy before the bill made it to the floor, not for labor costs, but because their markets either dried up or never actually existed.
How about modifying a Kinect to detect the presence of Lobbyists?
Nah. I guess that wouldn't work, it would explode within 250 miles of DC.
of Microsoft execs and get them to forget about Windows Phones.
So Gods need protection from Google. This is priceless!
This isn't a protection of God, it's a protection of those men who claim to speak for God. Beware of anyone who claims to speak for God who believes you need to be killed for heresy, blasphemy or simply being in their way of obtaining power. All these crappy extremists, of all strips, are driven by leaders who want power - only when it is too late do the people who served them find they are the first to be oppressed.
What problem does Australia have that this is solving?
Unauthroized export of Vegemite.
"Crikey! This one's actually a kangaroo!"
It all depends on the extend of the mockery here.
Let's call it "The Rise Of The State"
21st cenury marked by people rising up, overthrowing unjust tyranical regimes, meanwhile democracies pare away the rights of the people. Anyone see irony here?
Sexual harassment in the workplace usually involves either communicating or touching someone inappropriately with whom you work and those laws are there to protect you from someone in authority.
Sexual harassment outside the workplace is called assault and cannot be done verbally (you can insult someone even using sexual pejoratives under the first amendment).
IANAL but that's what real life has learned me so far.
California had a the first landmark ruling upon workplace safety regarding Second Hand Smoke - employers are required to provide an environment which is free of substances which may be harmful to those working there. It has since become federal law, with OSHA as one of the bodies responsible for providing information and enforcement. It's not much of a stretch to extend that to cover reading or viewing materials in a library. Further, the possibility that minors may be exposed to the content undoubtably has been covered by state or federal law.
Use of the library for research is one thing, where often a special reading room may be made available (a luxury for smaller libraries, however.) Use of the library, in this context for personal enjoyment is sure to raise some hackles in the public. There's Censorship and there's abuse of the Facilties and Constitutional protection under the 1st amendment, in the eyes of those who pay for the library - which, however you feel about things, may produce a fait accompli -- removing the defending librarian or changing library rules.
Tough break for the library here -- placed in a difficult light by an inconsiderate patron.
I'm going to be reading how someone using a 3D printer is creating their own family.
oooooh and is the Pope going to have kittens!
Unfortunately, some politician is going to smell opportunity and make them regret it.
How do you know the man in question isn't one?
Seems better than even odds to me...
Librarian best think about this very carefully. Public libraries usually have boards, too. There's censorship and there's abuse of the 1st Amendment.