A large pocket of resistance in Sonoma county is in Sebastopol (headquarters of O Reilly publishing). Those people are not engineers who graduated from prestigious universities. They are eco-crazy aged hippies who also elected a local government majority from the Green Party.
I second wxPython. There is a lot of info available and python makes it easy to use. You can set up a window where you draw something with opengl and use virtual lists or trees for your huge datasets.
One thing that we used and have seen a lot is a save-the-date card before the invitation. This can be a lot more informal. You just need to have the date set, no other details. The best format is a magnet with a picture of the couple and the date. Years later I have seen ours still on the fridge of many of our guests.
If your wedding is going to be a traditional family and family-friends affair then sorry, I don't think it's a good place to go crazy with tech. But if that's not the case then go crazy. We were mostly traditional but threw in some subtle geeky details to the reception by hanging 1000 paper cranes and doing our first dance to "1000 Words" from Final Fantasy X-2.
As someone who's designed a few UIs I have to say that putting the tabs at the top is brilliant.
The very top of the screen or window is a spot that is easy to find with your eyes and easy to get to with a mouse. With the tabs there I can scan all the tabs I have and switch between them more quickly. It's also a more efficient use of screen space.
I can think of two reasons to prefer the tabs below. Either you don't use tabs much or you are used to other browsers that have the tabs below. Both problems will be resolved as you use Chrome more.
I applaud the developers for doing the right thing and ignoring the stupidity of the crowd here.
Whenever you design any sort of UI you should look for some sort of example. Say what you like but it's usually best to find some part of Windows and make your interface work similarly. Young developers haven't yet learned that in most cases you actually can't do better than Microsoft.
Seasonal Affective Disorder is a very real problem for a lot of people. However, it skews heavily towards women so it's not surprising to see that it's unknown on/. Check the Wikipedia page for a good rundown.
After seeing this I was really excited and ready to order. But that's because I have the worst possible form of SAD. Even in the SF bay area I am miserable for a couple months or so of the rainy season. I'd pay way more than $300 to avoid the energy drain.
As a sufferer I can tell you that it's not just the self-funded and published nature that is suspicious. It's also the timing. I get really antsy as winter starts to get close. There's plenty of summer weather left here but there's less time in say, Finland. I also noticed that Valkee launched its product in August last year.
Sadly, there's no cure for SAD. It's something you have to learn to manage and live with. Essentially all research into it was stopped once it was discovered that light therapy works for most people and drugs don't. So it's unlikely that anyone will prove or disprove the study here. It's also unlikely that we will see anything less biased either. Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't.
I know shining light in your ear sounds really stupid but if you are sick and miserable you will try anything to get better. I don't know about the ear but I do find normal light therapy to be insufficient. That reminds me to get out and take a nice walk in the sunshine!
Why aren't we using this for child care? You could get some feedback on your kid's response to different things. Or use it to make a robot nanny that can tell how a kid is feeling.
You really need experience. Get an internship somewhere and hope they'll pay. You don't say what level degree you got, but my wife went for one year with no interviews after getting an MS in engineering. It's really tough and you will have to settle for what you can get. Good luck.
I enjoy the claims that universal health care will make doctor's visits like going to the DMV.
When I moved states in 2008 I had to go to the DMV to switch my license and registration. There was a convenient online appointment system. When I arrived the staff helped me take care of my business and I was out in about an hour.
When we switched healthcare plans this year we had a problem getting a prescription filled. The pharmacy preferred to use a mail-order system but they got our address wrong. In trying to resolve this my wife had difficulty reaching a real person. There was additional difficulty reaching a _competent_ real person. It took about a dozen phone calls and a lot of headaches over several days.
So I am actually looking forward to health care becoming more like the DMV.
I still play DDR somewhat regularly. I have pads at home and most of the time they are connected to the computer for Stepmania. I'll buy every main DDR title because Konami has an awesome team that knows exactly what they are doing. However, with the exception of ITG no one else has ever released a decent clone. I'm sure I'm not the only one who keeps up at this level so there's always going to be some market for DDR.
It's possible that the guitar games will go this way. The big money and interest is in the fad phase. But unless some new genre completely replaces the fix you get from rocking out on the guitar or drums then there will always be some audience for these. As far as peripherals go, the guitar is relatively cheap and sturdy.
Calorie burn varies from person to person, sometimes by quite a bit. Come on, haven't you met someone who eats a ton and is still skinny? There's also a genetic factor, which is why Chinese and Indian people are less likely to be overweight.
I have lost about 30 pounds in the last 4 years. My main key was calorieking.com. But this is basically on online version of the hacker's diet with lots of education and community items. I am a smaller guy with low metabolism as well.
Here are my tips for adding some extra exercise or cutting calories:
Take walks
Drink lots of water
Use the restroom on a different floor
Play Dance Dance Revolution at home
Eat a ton of vegetables. The waiter looks at me funny when I remind him that the steak is for my wife and the salad is mine. But
Has anyone else discovered this site?
It's great, brings back memories of trading games with my friends growing up. Of course I hold on to the best games. But this is a good way to try out second-tier games that look interesting enough. I don't go through games the way I used to, so for me this is a much better deal than gamefly or other rental.
Exactly the same line HP gives for printer cartridges. But they can't tell if you refilled the cartridge and they rely on digital obfuscation to prevent people from making knockoff cartridges.
Hopefully the knockoff makers will figure out how to make their batteries report that they are actually "genuine".
I had the same problems after finishing school and moving out. From what it sounds like, you have the same problem of not being the kind of person who just picks up friends off the street or meets them in a coffee shop or something.
So you have to join some sort of club. meetup.com and meetin.com are both great. meetin.com in Portland, OR area is particularly awesome! LUG or really anything is fine too. Once you join a club and meet some people it's natural for things to spiral out. For example, you go to a few LUG meetings and find out that a bunch of guys hit a bar or play cards take ballroom lessons afterwards.
Now if you want to meet women, you need to join a club that has a good portion of women. Most women will not be geeks and not worthy of your time. Don't worry about it. Keep in mind that you only need to find one. If you have the mindset that you are not looking for a woman, just hanging out and having fun then it will happen eventually. But you do have to be doing something where women are present!
A big thing to keep in mind is that once you start hanging out with other people like this, you will figure things out and get more confidence in your social skills. Things will start looking a lot better and you'll find that you aren't as much of a loner as you thought.
By the way, I posted this several years ago looking for online dating advice:
Best advice was to not do online dating at all! I joined a meatspace singles social club. Within a year I hit it off with a female possessing very strong geek credentials. Married her last year! Ballroom dancing skills are key, I highly recommend taking lessons.
Just got back from Taiwan where they finished a bullet train system in the last few years. The train is extremely impressive with an unbelievably smooth ride even though you are going 150 mph. It's also very convenient in Taiwan because the population corridor is along one side of the island with the two largest cities on either side. However, tickets are expensive-$30 or more each way (expensive for Taiwan). The terminals remind me of small airport terminals and are actually pretty pleasant. It's nice to go from one end of the island to the other in 2-3 hours.
But there's no equivalent in the US. I'm from the midwest and I can tell you that it never really came up how long it takes to get from city to city. For one thing, there's little tourism and so there's no reason. Maybe for a few months in the summer it would be profitable. You can drive city-to-city in a few hours and even if you're by yourself it's going to be way cheaper than the train. If you've got a whole family you'd be crazy to take the train.
Midwestern people would much rather have a route down to Florida. Get in the train on Friday night and sleep. Wake up and spend the day on the beach or at Disney. Then get back on the train and sleep on the way back. You could easily fill a train like this every weekend year-round.
I grew up in southern Ohio and moved to the west coast. When I first got here I was really surprised how friendly everyone is. Appalachian people are generally pretty tough to get along with.
You probably have SAD. I have it real bad and I am greatly enjoying my sunnier new home. There are some things you can do to fight it but moving is by far the best solution.
I have SAD and am much happier now that I have moved somewhere sunnier. That's why it's surprising to see that the upper midwest does so well. I'd be miserable most of the year there.
DDR is great and I've lost a lot of weight doing it. However, unless you played endless mode for 3 hours there's no way you burned 1000 calories in one session. The in-game workout calorie estimate is notoriously poor and is generally off by a factor of 5-10. I figure in about 8 cal/min, the same calorie burn as a brisk walk.
The cheap mats are good to start out with. You can move up as you wear out your old mats. After playing over two years I now have two Cobalt Flux pads that will basically last forever.
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A large pocket of resistance in Sonoma county is in Sebastopol (headquarters of O Reilly publishing). Those people are not engineers who graduated from prestigious universities. They are eco-crazy aged hippies who also elected a local government majority from the Green Party.
I second wxPython. There is a lot of info available and python makes it easy to use. You can set up a window where you draw something with opengl and use virtual lists or trees for your huge datasets.
One thing that we used and have seen a lot is a save-the-date card before the invitation. This can be a lot more informal. You just need to have the date set, no other details. The best format is a magnet with a picture of the couple and the date. Years later I have seen ours still on the fridge of many of our guests. If your wedding is going to be a traditional family and family-friends affair then sorry, I don't think it's a good place to go crazy with tech. But if that's not the case then go crazy. We were mostly traditional but threw in some subtle geeky details to the reception by hanging 1000 paper cranes and doing our first dance to "1000 Words" from Final Fantasy X-2.
There's one good way to figure out if Obama takes this seriously. Everyone sign this one to convert to the metric system: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/complete-us-transition-modern-metric-system-allowing-us-manufacture-items-we-could-sell-world/7v0MQpNp The wording is bad; there's no advantage to exports because science and industry has already converted. But there are a lot of cost savings. And there's that whole Challenger thing.
As someone who's designed a few UIs I have to say that putting the tabs at the top is brilliant. The very top of the screen or window is a spot that is easy to find with your eyes and easy to get to with a mouse. With the tabs there I can scan all the tabs I have and switch between them more quickly. It's also a more efficient use of screen space. I can think of two reasons to prefer the tabs below. Either you don't use tabs much or you are used to other browsers that have the tabs below. Both problems will be resolved as you use Chrome more. I applaud the developers for doing the right thing and ignoring the stupidity of the crowd here.
Whenever you design any sort of UI you should look for some sort of example. Say what you like but it's usually best to find some part of Windows and make your interface work similarly. Young developers haven't yet learned that in most cases you actually can't do better than Microsoft.
Seconded. But you should probably go for the newer edition.
After seeing this I was really excited and ready to order. But that's because I have the worst possible form of SAD. Even in the SF bay area I am miserable for a couple months or so of the rainy season. I'd pay way more than $300 to avoid the energy drain.
As a sufferer I can tell you that it's not just the self-funded and published nature that is suspicious. It's also the timing. I get really antsy as winter starts to get close. There's plenty of summer weather left here but there's less time in say, Finland. I also noticed that Valkee launched its product in August last year.
Sadly, there's no cure for SAD. It's something you have to learn to manage and live with. Essentially all research into it was stopped once it was discovered that light therapy works for most people and drugs don't. So it's unlikely that anyone will prove or disprove the study here. It's also unlikely that we will see anything less biased either. Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't.
I know shining light in your ear sounds really stupid but if you are sick and miserable you will try anything to get better. I don't know about the ear but I do find normal light therapy to be insufficient. That reminds me to get out and take a nice walk in the sunshine!
Why aren't we using this for child care? You could get some feedback on your kid's response to different things. Or use it to make a robot nanny that can tell how a kid is feeling.
Chicago seems like bad place for solar panels. It will only produce a decent amount of energy for a few months out of the year.
You really need experience. Get an internship somewhere and hope they'll pay. You don't say what level degree you got, but my wife went for one year with no interviews after getting an MS in engineering. It's really tough and you will have to settle for what you can get. Good luck.
I enjoy the claims that universal health care will make doctor's visits like going to the DMV. When I moved states in 2008 I had to go to the DMV to switch my license and registration. There was a convenient online appointment system. When I arrived the staff helped me take care of my business and I was out in about an hour. When we switched healthcare plans this year we had a problem getting a prescription filled. The pharmacy preferred to use a mail-order system but they got our address wrong. In trying to resolve this my wife had difficulty reaching a real person. There was additional difficulty reaching a _competent_ real person. It took about a dozen phone calls and a lot of headaches over several days. So I am actually looking forward to health care becoming more like the DMV.
I still play DDR somewhat regularly. I have pads at home and most of the time they are connected to the computer for Stepmania. I'll buy every main DDR title because Konami has an awesome team that knows exactly what they are doing. However, with the exception of ITG no one else has ever released a decent clone. I'm sure I'm not the only one who keeps up at this level so there's always going to be some market for DDR. It's possible that the guitar games will go this way. The big money and interest is in the fad phase. But unless some new genre completely replaces the fix you get from rocking out on the guitar or drums then there will always be some audience for these. As far as peripherals go, the guitar is relatively cheap and sturdy.
Calorie burn varies from person to person, sometimes by quite a bit. Come on, haven't you met someone who eats a ton and is still skinny? There's also a genetic factor, which is why Chinese and Indian people are less likely to be overweight.
Here are my tips for adding some extra exercise or cutting calories:
Has anyone else discovered this site? It's great, brings back memories of trading games with my friends growing up. Of course I hold on to the best games. But this is a good way to try out second-tier games that look interesting enough. I don't go through games the way I used to, so for me this is a much better deal than gamefly or other rental.
Exactly the same line HP gives for printer cartridges. But they can't tell if you refilled the cartridge and they rely on digital obfuscation to prevent people from making knockoff cartridges.
Hopefully the knockoff makers will figure out how to make their batteries report that they are actually "genuine".
I also live in Sunnyvale and my power bill is even less than his post-solar level. The reason is that I live in a small apartment instead of a house!
Living green is nice, but living small is far better.
Power rates vary quite a bit state to state and California one of the most expensive. It's about 50% more than in Georgia:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html
I had the same problems after finishing school and moving out. From what it sounds like, you have the same problem of not being the kind of person who just picks up friends off the street or meets them in a coffee shop or something.
So you have to join some sort of club. meetup.com and meetin.com are both great. meetin.com in Portland, OR area is particularly awesome! LUG or really anything is fine too. Once you join a club and meet some people it's natural for things to spiral out. For example, you go to a few LUG meetings and find out that a bunch of guys hit a bar or play cards take ballroom lessons afterwards.
Now if you want to meet women, you need to join a club that has a good portion of women. Most women will not be geeks and not worthy of your time. Don't worry about it. Keep in mind that you only need to find one. If you have the mindset that you are not looking for a woman, just hanging out and having fun then it will happen eventually. But you do have to be doing something where women are present!
A big thing to keep in mind is that once you start hanging out with other people like this, you will figure things out and get more confidence in your social skills. Things will start looking a lot better and you'll find that you aren't as much of a loner as you thought.
By the way, I posted this several years ago looking for online dating advice:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/30/0023213
Best advice was to not do online dating at all! I joined a meatspace singles social club. Within a year I hit it off with a female possessing very strong geek credentials. Married her last year! Ballroom dancing skills are key, I highly recommend taking lessons.
Just got back from Taiwan where they finished a bullet train system in the last few years. The train is extremely impressive with an unbelievably smooth ride even though you are going 150 mph. It's also very convenient in Taiwan because the population corridor is along one side of the island with the two largest cities on either side. However, tickets are expensive-$30 or more each way (expensive for Taiwan). The terminals remind me of small airport terminals and are actually pretty pleasant. It's nice to go from one end of the island to the other in 2-3 hours.
But there's no equivalent in the US. I'm from the midwest and I can tell you that it never really came up how long it takes to get from city to city. For one thing, there's little tourism and so there's no reason. Maybe for a few months in the summer it would be profitable. You can drive city-to-city in a few hours and even if you're by yourself it's going to be way cheaper than the train. If you've got a whole family you'd be crazy to take the train.
Midwestern people would much rather have a route down to Florida. Get in the train on Friday night and sleep. Wake up and spend the day on the beach or at Disney. Then get back on the train and sleep on the way back. You could easily fill a train like this every weekend year-round.
I grew up in southern Ohio and moved to the west coast. When I first got here I was really surprised how friendly everyone is. Appalachian people are generally pretty tough to get along with.
You probably have SAD. I have it real bad and I am greatly enjoying my sunnier new home. There are some things you can do to fight it but moving is by far the best solution.
I have SAD and am much happier now that I have moved somewhere sunnier. That's why it's surprising to see that the upper midwest does so well. I'd be miserable most of the year there.
DDR is great and I've lost a lot of weight doing it. However, unless you played endless mode for 3 hours there's no way you burned 1000 calories in one session. The in-game workout calorie estimate is notoriously poor and is generally off by a factor of 5-10. I figure in about 8 cal/min, the same calorie burn as a brisk walk.
The cheap mats are good to start out with. You can move up as you wear out your old mats. After playing over two years I now have two Cobalt Flux pads that will basically last forever.