That's good, instead of speeding, now they can speed *and* run a red light. I hope it's timed so that the light is far enough away that they have time to stop, and not run through it.
Could be a revenue generating device... Turns red and you suddenly get a ticket for running the light, too.
My main worry is that it's going to punish other drivers and screw up traffic flow. There are a few lights near where I live, which I truly despise (first off: I'm a bit spoiled because we have sensors which may switch the light for you if nobody is coming from ther other directions) because they take ages to change, usually posisitioned strategically near a mall or a shopping center. Further mucking about with these timings could lose sympathy with voters.
With the recent Sun/msft deal, I mainly fear Sun's will be the only licensed Linux that'll be interoperable with Microsoft.
More likely the hug by Ballmer was like the kiss of death. He probably whispered something into McNealy's ear like, "Sell Windows workstations and we'll let you live."
Neither do I. I still cook on a range, but I have 2 Linux boxen, 1 Solaris box, a windows box and an Amiga. At least none of these came from a box store, though a cruddy old laptop did come from a Fry's.
Schwartz's dream is 'to sell deep-discount desktop computers at Wal-Mart, carrying Sun's office applications on top of a Linux operating system'!"
Whoa!
There was a time when saying you had a Sun meant you weren't just 1337, but respectable, a power user. It may seem a cool thing to
be mass marketing Linux boxen from Wally World, but that's a real comedown. Saying you have a Sun would be like saying you have a microwave oven. Is this what it takes to save Sun? Honestly, Linux boxen could
easily become commodity hardware. You're not much of a player anymore when you're trying to keep your head above water by selling
commodity PCs.
"Hi, my name is Bob and I still felt 1337 with my Walmart-bought Sun."
"Welcome Bob, to Sun-aholics."
This just totally makes me sick. As soon as I feel that the two sides have made some headway in the deal, the music execs are trying to get their grubby paws on the rest of the deal.
<Homer> Time to fight back! Time to recruit someone who can kick some ass and play accordian music!
</Homer>
I truly doubt that Apple would just raise prices to $1.25 without a fight, there is nobody who is more pro-music in the technology sector than Steve Jobs himself.
But where is Apple making their coin? On selling hardware or the music download service?
All five of the major music companies are discussing ways to boost the price of single-song downloads on hot releases - to anywhere from $1.25 to as much as $2.49
Bob:
"Hmm. The first republican got no votes, the Cthuluist candidate got 34% overall and we got all these crashes on people who voted for Clover."
Jeff: "Jeff, it's base zero, not base one."
Bob: "Oops."
Clifs. If there's a Trader Joes near you, you can usually pick these up at $0.99/ea. Which I like, as I go through these pretty quick with all my riding. They don't cover all the bases, but close enough that a decent sports drink mix can fill in the rest.
Problem with poptarts is lack of fibre, it's like eating cement then trying to pass it. Ugh. My intestines couldn't hack that compacted bleached flour past the age of 20.
May I ask you a question? I am going to Yosemite tommorrow actually and a few friends of mine and I were going to hike half-dome. I am curious what kind of physical shape you need to be in to hike it? We arent fat or anything just lazy:)
My friends and I warmed up for Yosemite with a few 10 mile hikes in the hills of central California. I wouldn't say I was in great shape, but I had been active for weeks preparing for it. The hike is ~26 miles and gains ~5,000 feet vertical. Hard parts are the stairs at Vernal Falls, switchbacks around the back of the dome, then the final ascent up the dome itself (a pile of gloves lies at the base, suggest taking your own pair) which is a pair of steel cables and steps which are actually 2x4's about 10 feet apart. You might rest before doing this, as the air is a bit thin (~8600') and you'll probably be a bit tired. People get frightened here and often need help getting back down. It's early so expect snow. Take at least two litres/quarts of water and wear good hiking shoes (preferably broken in) and thick hiking socks (carry a spare pair, too) remember to pack some energy snacks, like Clif bars. No shame in turning back early if you feel it's too far. A helicopter ride home is very pricey.
It is called the IT band (short for iliotobial), and you were unusually unfortunate to have that severe of a problem from a 10K. Is your form attrotious?
It was actually a little over 10K and I ran it in 53 minutes. Not a bad time according to my friends. The run which did the damage was on a park fire road (always preferred dirt over asphalt or concrete) with a gental grade (most of which was 3% or less on the way in), also the road was a bit canted which forced my to keep pushing off with the downhill leg, which may have contributed to the injury. Later runs, 2-3 miles 3 times a week were pretty fair, but i'd back off whenever i'd feel the pain again.
Cycling has all the cool technology...exotic metals and materials, miniaturized electronics, biomedical monitoring stuff, aerodynamics, the list goes on and on. And the clothes are pretty geeky...it's the only way you can dress up in lycra without making your GF (in the unlikely event you have one) nervous.
A friend just got a custom bicycle from Italy, under the Big Sur name. Totally new steel alloy, it's about 17 pounds. Incredible.
What do you get with running? It's like another poster said...shoes, shorts, and that's about it.
Knowing several runners over the past decades, they can be just as bad. Heart rate monitoring, high tech shoes. Diet, sports drinks, etc. The only difference appears to be one uses a machine and the other doesn't.
Indeed. However I've been fairly active for years, but not as a runner. Tennis, mountain biking, road biking, swimming and many long hikes (including Yosemite's Half Dome), but running is high impact. My physician , a runner, indicated many beginning runners will encounter the same problems I had, because they try to go too far, too soon. As I mentioned, I had the runners high and felt no pain while slowly tearing up my legs. Hours later I could hardly walk and had to stop everything for 3 months. I started running again, but only short distances, but my knee was too much of a problem to keep doing it and mountain biking during the same period.
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used to bike, but then an accident broke the brake handle and I haven't gotten around to fixing it. (let's just say then when biking on a city street, watch for people opening their driver side door)
A healthy dose of paranoia while cycling or running is called for. I try to pass parked cars at a distance greater than a door should take. Not much help where bike lates are 3 feet wide and people park in them (then drivers honk and bitch about you being in the road, even though cyclists have the same rights and responsibilites as automobile drivers.)
Run, during run observe surroundings, smile at people, collect your thoughts for the day, enjoy self
Learn to Run before you do so. To my painful chagrin I learned muscles will develop (from a non-runner) to the needed capacity to run 10K within a couple months, but tendons take years. If you've never run before, start short, keep it to less than 2 miles for the first year.
I tore something called T-bands in both my legs the first time I ran 10K. I had the runners high (endophins) and didn't feel a thing until hours later.
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I had to give up on running a couple years back due to a chronic knee problem. No problem finding other things to geek out
in, though, such as bicycling, which is my current passion. I've got a cycling computer which has temp, cadence, heartrate, etc. and tracks it for
later download to my computer (it's a Cyclosport HAC4) With advances in bicycle construction technology and cycling computers it's a natural
to explore and push limits beyond the sweat.
Antitrust laws are not only used against monopolies (which means it is already too late in some way), but also for anti-competitive behaviour.
It is best for the consumer if all those backroom deals and exclusive contracts disappear and the consumer has the free choice. That would be a concept, wouldn't it?
I think you'll find the land of the Zaibatsu wrote the book on backroom dealing.
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Could be a revenue generating device... Turns red and you suddenly get a ticket for running the light, too.
My main worry is that it's going to punish other drivers and screw up traffic flow. There are a few lights near where I live, which I truly despise (first off: I'm a bit spoiled because we have sensors which may switch the light for you if nobody is coming from ther other directions) because they take ages to change, usually posisitioned strategically near a mall or a shopping center. Further mucking about with these timings could lose sympathy with voters.
Indeed. I'm also counting the days until this shares a similar fate.
More likely the hug by Ballmer was like the kiss of death. He probably whispered something into McNealy's ear like, "Sell Windows workstations and we'll let you live."
Neither do I. I still cook on a range, but I have 2 Linux boxen, 1 Solaris box, a windows box and an Amiga. At least none of these came from a box store, though a cruddy old laptop did come from a Fry's.
Whoa!
There was a time when saying you had a Sun meant you weren't just 1337, but respectable, a power user. It may seem a cool thing to be mass marketing Linux boxen from Wally World, but that's a real comedown. Saying you have a Sun would be like saying you have a microwave oven. Is this what it takes to save Sun? Honestly, Linux boxen could easily become commodity hardware. You're not much of a player anymore when you're trying to keep your head above water by selling commodity PCs.
"Hi, my name is Bob and I still felt 1337 with my Walmart-bought Sun."
"Welcome Bob, to Sun-aholics."
<Homer>
Time to fight back! Time to recruit someone who can kick some ass and play accordian music!
</Homer>
But where is Apple making their coin? On selling hardware or the music download service?
Why should any one of them have to raise?
IIRC...
Jeb Bush
Katherine Harris
US Supreme Court
"Our guy is in the lead, quick, close the polls!"
Sign on the door to California:
Sounds more like Excel or Word... hell, I can't tell anymore since all these things interoperate.
Probably an Access database embedded in an Excel spreadsheet opened in a Word document.
Clifs. If there's a Trader Joes near you, you can usually pick these up at $0.99/ea. Which I like, as I go through these pretty quick with all my riding. They don't cover all the bases, but close enough that a decent sports drink mix can fill in the rest.
Problem with poptarts is lack of fibre, it's like eating cement then trying to pass it. Ugh. My intestines couldn't hack that compacted bleached flour past the age of 20.
Earlier this year a 19 year old girl was driving in the bikelane on Highway 1, near Davenport, CA, and hit a cyclist. He's still in a coma.
My friends and I warmed up for Yosemite with a few 10 mile hikes in the hills of central California. I wouldn't say I was in great shape, but I had been active for weeks preparing for it. The hike is ~26 miles and gains ~5,000 feet vertical. Hard parts are the stairs at Vernal Falls, switchbacks around the back of the dome, then the final ascent up the dome itself (a pile of gloves lies at the base, suggest taking your own pair) which is a pair of steel cables and steps which are actually 2x4's about 10 feet apart. You might rest before doing this, as the air is a bit thin (~8600') and you'll probably be a bit tired. People get frightened here and often need help getting back down. It's early so expect snow. Take at least two litres/quarts of water and wear good hiking shoes (preferably broken in) and thick hiking socks (carry a spare pair, too) remember to pack some energy snacks, like Clif bars. No shame in turning back early if you feel it's too far. A helicopter ride home is very pricey.
It was actually a little over 10K and I ran it in 53 minutes. Not a bad time according to my friends. The run which did the damage was on a park fire road (always preferred dirt over asphalt or concrete) with a gental grade (most of which was 3% or less on the way in), also the road was a bit canted which forced my to keep pushing off with the downhill leg, which may have contributed to the injury. Later runs, 2-3 miles 3 times a week were pretty fair, but i'd back off whenever i'd feel the pain again.
A friend just got a custom bicycle from Italy, under the Big Sur name. Totally new steel alloy, it's about 17 pounds. Incredible.
What do you get with running? It's like another poster said...shoes, shorts, and that's about it.
Knowing several runners over the past decades, they can be just as bad. Heart rate monitoring, high tech shoes. Diet, sports drinks, etc. The only difference appears to be one uses a machine and the other doesn't.
Indeed. However I've been fairly active for years, but not as a runner. Tennis, mountain biking, road biking, swimming and many long hikes (including Yosemite's Half Dome), but running is high impact. My physician , a runner, indicated many beginning runners will encounter the same problems I had, because they try to go too far, too soon. As I mentioned, I had the runners high and felt no pain while slowly tearing up my legs. Hours later I could hardly walk and had to stop everything for 3 months. I started running again, but only short distances, but my knee was too much of a problem to keep doing it and mountain biking during the same period.
A healthy dose of paranoia while cycling or running is called for. I try to pass parked cars at a distance greater than a door should take. Not much help where bike lates are 3 feet wide and people park in them (then drivers honk and bitch about you being in the road, even though cyclists have the same rights and responsibilites as automobile drivers.)
I'd recommend wireless, even more so if you're mountainbiking (twigs and stuff can grab and rip wire from sender to head unit)
Shouldn't cost you more than $20 for a decent unit. Good place to check out stuff is rec.bicycles.tech
Cycling and swimming are good, low impact on knee activities. Maybe you could train for a Tri also, as that's fairly popular now.
I only do about 100 miles a week, but will be upping that mileage starting next week, now that there's more daylight after work.
Learn to Run before you do so. To my painful chagrin I learned muscles will develop (from a non-runner) to the needed capacity to run 10K within a couple months, but tendons take years. If you've never run before, start short, keep it to less than 2 miles for the first year.
I tore something called T-bands in both my legs the first time I ran 10K. I had the runners high (endophins) and didn't feel a thing until hours later.
I had to give up on running a couple years back due to a chronic knee problem. No problem finding other things to geek out in, though, such as bicycling, which is my current passion. I've got a cycling computer which has temp, cadence, heartrate, etc. and tracks it for later download to my computer (it's a Cyclosport HAC4) With advances in bicycle construction technology and cycling computers it's a natural to explore and push limits beyond the sweat.
It is best for the consumer if all those backroom deals and exclusive contracts disappear and the consumer has the free choice. That would be a concept, wouldn't it?
I think you'll find the land of the Zaibatsu wrote the book on backroom dealing.