Public transit made the dollar coin relevant again - take it away and the dollar coin becomes a novelty, again.
I think if something like this payment by wave thing becomes common then we can expect hacks where people are charged without even knowing it, at some point.
Yeah, but since you can install a full blown Amiga (let alone C64) emulator on any PC made in the past 10 years, a pre-installed version in hardware isn't really much of a selling point.
The one thing it would require is a drive to emulate the 1541. I have games on disks - not on 3.5 or HD or Flash drive, but original media. I trust I will have a bonafide 5 1/4 drive I can read my old disks with. If not, there's really very little point, unless I want to download the various images from whatever repositories exist. But I do have things you won't find on them, like programs, tools or artwork of my own making. I'd love to see this stuff again.
and it was cobbled together from commercially available parts, including a microprocessor, that moved on wheels
I...uh...er...what?
The 90's really did have everything, only knowledge of most of it was lost in the chaos of the dotcom bubble collapse. You should have seen some of the amazing stuff hauled away to electronic salvage when some of these businesses went bust.
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M.U.L.E. Paradroid Ultima II Below the Root Impossible Mission stay a while, stay FOREVER! Slot Car Construction Set...
Not like those robots which assemble cars, drill circuit boards, excavate in mines or run about in rail yards (have you seen the signs which say - "CAUTION: ROBOTIC ENGINES AT USE IN THIS YARD")
I hear that the cleaning people already use iRobot Roombas... so I guess these are smaller?
Think of a predictable task where a human isn't completely necessary all the time, like running a tractor or harvester on a large farm. Lots of room to employ these kinds of devices.
I'll just instruct my stock-o-bot to buy another 1,500 shares of General Rotors.
In fairness, high speed rail would be a huge boon for shipping and would take a huge burden off the roads. A lot of freight moves by truck in the US and that's really not ideal for road costs and would be much more cheaply done via rail. Commuter use of rail would be nice, but you are right, in the US it will likely always be secondary to air travel unless rail freight brought the cost down substantially for commuter use.
I see no indication that any high speed rail systems in the US would carry freight. It'd also have to compete with regular freight rail which is more cost effective (more cars per engine, lower energy costs, etc).
Yet, it would still be used for freight. Extra airline capacity was sold to shipping companies as far back as the 1970's. (Just so you know, if you aren't filling the belly of that 737 or A320 with your luggage the airline is selling it to shippers for $$$) I worked for a logistics company which routed freight by whatever means were available - so if there's extra space on a high speed passenger train, you can count on that space being occupied by freight, as long as it is cost effective and timely.
Ever wonder why there are apples from Chile or New Zealand, or Netherlands Hot-House tomatoes in the US supermarket produce sections?
Award that money to a university and you might get something for it. To a private company and you might get a mock up, which says "Huggies" on the composite carbon hull, if you peek around the back side of it.
Revelations was a political tract railing against Emperor Nero. It was a capital crime to dis the emperor, so they wrote in code - seven hills, three heads, yadda yadda. The "Beast" was Nero. The "Whore of Babylon" was Rome. It was a political/religious pamphlet.
Any sufficiently nebulous set of metaphors can "predict" anything, if you want it to. What would impress me? St. John of Patmos saying, "In 2011, Interpol sets up an international ID card system." If you can see the future, there is no reason to obfuscate.
The Tea Baggers only make up 20 members of the House, so this resolution was supported even by moderate Republicans too.
How many Moderates do you think are left in the Republican Party in the House or Senate? These flame-brain "conservative" radio commentators and bloggers, who are playing an influential role, are helping the Republican Party move further to the Right all the time. Fascism can't be far off - in some instances it has already reared its ugly head.
When you factor in commute time, gas and car maintenance, the need for 2 cars for family,child care and office politics it's definitely a pay raise.
Absolutely. $4.00/gallon. 80 miles per day, wearing out tires, going through oil, expiring that 70K mile warranty, approaching the inevitable equipment failures which translate to $$$$, plus all the time wasted on the commute. You bet. Plus, much quieter at home.
PETA will have a field day with this one, what with causing artificial stress in the mice to the point where they start losing hair? Think of their self esteem, think of premature heart attacks and strokes...
The trauma to female mice.. when they see these bald mice returning to the general population with great big pompadours and new-found confidence, "Hey, Baby, come over to my corner of the cage tonight and we'll split some cheese."
Hard to come by, but not impossible or expensive - radio comedian Fred Allen's Treadmill To Oblivion covers the workings behind a radio show in the 1950's. Plan to do a show in 30 minutes, have some ideas, write them down, rehearse, remove what doesn't work, add in what would work better. Comedy or business, it's about getting the attention and holding it, you've got about 20 minutes before people start to fidget and look for a clock. It's better to test on an audience before going live, particularly an honest one who will tell you what your are missing - never overlook the obvious, what IS your point here?
I'm sure the book is great, but tightening up a show for a fixed amount of time is a pretty old science by now.
I'm seriously interested in this idea. It's not that I don't agree with it but I'd wonder what application we could teach your average 16-17 year old in the usage of the quadratic equation?
Real world is filled with examples where you could apply Algebra to learn or estimate things. Most people react, rather than plan, but assume you make $20/hr, work 20 miles from home, gas is $4/gallon, house payment is $500/mo., etc. You could run kids through learning how much disposable income they'll have depending upon changes in any of the variables.
I had a government teacher, who was a lawyer, consider events in the days news in light of constitutional law, whether it was a States Rights or Federal item, etc. The news is full of things you can use to construct mathematical models from and have the student see what effects there are on the outcome when values change. I found Algebra and Trigonometry were a lot more interesting when I was trying to work out problems I could see a purpose behind, rather than the stock story problems in text books.
Come on, people! We should all know this already. Just because "Algebra II" is a predictor of success, doesn't mean that it causes the success. It is much more likely that the smarter students who are (or at least were, before the depression) more likely to succeed are also more likely to take Algebra II. Making everyone take it is going to have about as much success as cargo cults did.
Require Algebra II - teachers will teach to the exam. Alas, this is what is happening. We don't want you to be able to think for yourself, just memorize a lot of stuff and hope it will get you through. Never mind once you understand concepts of Algebra it's really easy stuff.
Beware the candidate who says "I'm an Education Candidate, I want to revolutionize educations!" What they really mean is I'm going to pretend and just throw another mandated test at the schools.
I have received these from Best Buy and TiVo so far.
Seriously, why do all these companies outsource to such a crappy company that in one breach ALL their email lists get compromised? Does it really save them money to not operate the mailing lists themselves?
Cut costs, take lowest bidder, require no proof of secure measures in place or review of procedures - it's not always incompetence by the peons who build the systems, usually it's incompetence and avarice by those who remove or never hire the sort of positions which oversee data security and integrity.
I'm certain to receive at least one, which really does little to console me after the years of being spammed by the "legit" holders of my email addresses. This is why we have Gmail junk bucket accounts...
"Why, yes! I do have an email address for your bulletins and offers, it's [...]@gmail.com! (which I check once every blue moon or so)"
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They would stop pestering me about how I need to get back on Facebook and blather on about everything I've been doing lately.
i mean, that's what /. is for. ffs.
I get news about changes in the city where I live from a British news source? Something is wrong with this...
MI5, m'lord.
Public transit made the dollar coin relevant again - take it away and the dollar coin becomes a novelty, again.
I think if something like this payment by wave thing becomes common then we can expect hacks where people are charged without even knowing it, at some point.
Yeah, but since you can install a full blown Amiga (let alone C64) emulator on any PC made in the past 10 years, a pre-installed version in hardware isn't really much of a selling point.
The one thing it would require is a drive to emulate the 1541. I have games on disks - not on 3.5 or HD or Flash drive, but original media. I trust I will have a bonafide 5 1/4 drive I can read my old disks with. If not, there's really very little point, unless I want to download the various images from whatever repositories exist. But I do have things you won't find on them, like programs, tools or artwork of my own making. I'd love to see this stuff again.
and it was cobbled together from commercially available parts, including a microprocessor, that moved on wheels
I...uh...er...what?
The 90's really did have everything, only knowledge of most of it was lost in the chaos of the dotcom bubble collapse. You should have seen some of the amazing stuff hauled away to electronic salvage when some of these businesses went bust.
M.U.L.E.
Paradroid
Ultima II
Below the Root
Impossible Mission stay a while, stay FOREVER!
Slot Car Construction Set...
They look like they would be fun to work with.
Not like those robots which assemble cars, drill circuit boards, excavate in mines or run about in rail yards (have you seen the signs which say - "CAUTION: ROBOTIC ENGINES AT USE IN THIS YARD")
MUCH smaller. This thing is one cubic INCH. A roomba is a couple inches tall, and bigger than a frisbee in terms of diameter.
Ah, yes, that little thing. I only have one to to say, after seeing the pictures...
WANT!
I hear that the cleaning people already use iRobot Roombas ... so I guess these are smaller?
Think of a predictable task where a human isn't completely necessary all the time, like running a tractor or harvester on a large farm. Lots of room to employ these kinds of devices.
I'll just instruct my stock-o-bot to buy another 1,500 shares of General Rotors.
In fairness, high speed rail would be a huge boon for shipping and would take a huge burden off the roads. A lot of freight moves by truck in the US and that's really not ideal for road costs and would be much more cheaply done via rail. Commuter use of rail would be nice, but you are right, in the US it will likely always be secondary to air travel unless rail freight brought the cost down substantially for commuter use.
I see no indication that any high speed rail systems in the US would carry freight. It'd also have to compete with regular freight rail which is more cost effective (more cars per engine, lower energy costs, etc).
Yet, it would still be used for freight. Extra airline capacity was sold to shipping companies as far back as the 1970's. (Just so you know, if you aren't filling the belly of that 737 or A320 with your luggage the airline is selling it to shippers for $$$) I worked for a logistics company which routed freight by whatever means were available - so if there's extra space on a high speed passenger train, you can count on that space being occupied by freight, as long as it is cost effective and timely.
Ever wonder why there are apples from Chile or New Zealand, or Netherlands Hot-House tomatoes in the US supermarket produce sections?
I think the study cost more than that.
Award that money to a university and you might get something for it. To a private company and you might get a mock up, which says "Huggies" on the composite carbon hull, if you peek around the back side of it.
Revelations was a political tract railing against Emperor Nero. It was a capital crime to dis the emperor, so they wrote in code - seven hills, three heads, yadda yadda. The "Beast" was Nero. The "Whore of Babylon" was Rome. It was a political/religious pamphlet.
Any sufficiently nebulous set of metaphors can "predict" anything, if you want it to. What would impress me? St. John of Patmos saying, "In 2011, Interpol sets up an international ID card system." If you can see the future, there is no reason to obfuscate.
Nostradamus predicted your post...
The Tea Baggers only make up 20 members of the House, so this resolution was supported even by moderate Republicans too.
How many Moderates do you think are left in the Republican Party in the House or Senate? These flame-brain "conservative" radio commentators and bloggers, who are playing an influential role, are helping the Republican Party move further to the Right all the time. Fascism can't be far off - in some instances it has already reared its ugly head.
It's a good thing, then, that a House Resolution, by itself, also has "no force or effect".
It doesn't need to have any force or effect because it's simply stating a matter of law: that the FCC is not a lawmaking body.
It's quite useful, though, for companies that are questioning whether or not they have to abide by the FCC rulings.
So Congress has now taken over the role of Courts, too. My, my. What an ambitious lot. Next they'll start redistricting the Moon.
The name that speaks for its holder.
When you factor in commute time, gas and car maintenance, the need for 2 cars for family ,child care and office politics it's definitely a pay raise.
Absolutely. $4.00/gallon. 80 miles per day, wearing out tires, going through oil, expiring that 70K mile warranty, approaching the inevitable equipment failures which translate to $$$$, plus all the time wasted on the commute. You bet. Plus, much quieter at home.
PETA will have a field day with this one, what with causing artificial stress in the mice to the point where they start losing hair? Think of their self esteem, think of premature heart attacks and strokes...
The trauma to female mice .. when they see these bald mice returning to the general population with great big pompadours and new-found confidence, "Hey, Baby, come over to my corner of the cage tonight and we'll split some cheese."
Hard to come by, but not impossible or expensive - radio comedian Fred Allen's Treadmill To Oblivion covers the workings behind a radio show in the 1950's. Plan to do a show in 30 minutes, have some ideas, write them down, rehearse, remove what doesn't work, add in what would work better. Comedy or business, it's about getting the attention and holding it, you've got about 20 minutes before people start to fidget and look for a clock. It's better to test on an audience before going live, particularly an honest one who will tell you what your are missing - never overlook the obvious, what IS your point here?
I'm sure the book is great, but tightening up a show for a fixed amount of time is a pretty old science by now.
So? Isn't the point of open source that other people can take it and modify it to try out ideas?
It's also so the code is completely transparent - you know what it's doing. Many eyes make for better code.
What AT&T is trying to do is lock customers into AT&T as their sole source of support and products. More money for them, right?
I'm seriously interested in this idea. It's not that I don't agree with it but I'd wonder what application we could teach your average 16-17 year old in the usage of the quadratic equation?
Real world is filled with examples where you could apply Algebra to learn or estimate things. Most people react, rather than plan, but assume you make $20/hr, work 20 miles from home, gas is $4/gallon, house payment is $500/mo., etc. You could run kids through learning how much disposable income they'll have depending upon changes in any of the variables.
I had a government teacher, who was a lawyer, consider events in the days news in light of constitutional law, whether it was a States Rights or Federal item, etc. The news is full of things you can use to construct mathematical models from and have the student see what effects there are on the outcome when values change. I found Algebra and Trigonometry were a lot more interesting when I was trying to work out problems I could see a purpose behind, rather than the stock story problems in text books.
Come on, people! We should all know this already. Just because "Algebra II" is a predictor of success, doesn't mean that it causes the success. It is much more likely that the smarter students who are (or at least were, before the depression) more likely to succeed are also more likely to take Algebra II. Making everyone take it is going to have about as much success as cargo cults did.
Require Algebra II - teachers will teach to the exam. Alas, this is what is happening. We don't want you to be able to think for yourself, just memorize a lot of stuff and hope it will get you through. Never mind once you understand concepts of Algebra it's really easy stuff.
Beware the candidate who says "I'm an Education Candidate, I want to revolutionize educations!" What they really mean is I'm going to pretend and just throw another mandated test at the schools.
Re:How does this happen?
I have received these from Best Buy and TiVo so far.
Seriously, why do all these companies outsource to such a crappy company that in one breach ALL their email lists get compromised? Does it really save them money to not operate the mailing lists themselves?
Cut costs, take lowest bidder, require no proof of secure measures in place or review of procedures - it's not always incompetence by the peons who build the systems, usually it's incompetence and avarice by those who remove or never hire the sort of positions which oversee data security and integrity.
I'm certain to receive at least one, which really does little to console me after the years of being spammed by the "legit" holders of my email addresses. This is why we have Gmail junk bucket accounts...
"Why, yes! I do have an email address for your bulletins and offers, it's [...]@gmail.com! (which I check once every blue moon or so)"
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Great! I hate looking at all those snarky bumper stickers on cars and advertisements on container trucks while commuting to and from work.
The downside is they occasionally block out everything else, too.