You've obviously never even been moderately fit. If you're only moderately fit, even an hour on a bicycle won't leave your limbs shaking. That only happens when you're unfit.
Also women can ride bicycles very long distances at pretty impressive speeds. It happens all the time outside of the USA. Since this thing is supposed to reduce the effort of cycling, it should make it more accessable to anyone not super-fit.
The big shame is that the consoles aren't complete and are now just dark and inanimate. It's a bit like going around an aircraft museum full of dead aircraft, while it's interesting - I'd much rather see this stuff powered up and running like it used to, just like I would far rather see a B-17 in the air than in a museum never to fly again.
English is called English because it's from England. By definition, what English people speak is correct English (the hint is in the name), and what the US speak is incorrect. Otherwise it would be called American, not English.
A Boeing 747 is not fly by wire, the crew directly control hydraulic actuators to the control surface. There is no flight control software in a 747 outside of the autopilot, and once that is switched off, it's entirely manual.
Now I like Apple stuff, I like the aesthetics of Apple stuff but...
my god is this boat ugly. It looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright designed house that floats, and Frank Lloyd Wright designed some of the most hideous buildings in the world.
They also have pre-clearance in Dublin, Ireland. So I have a US immigration stamp in my passport for Dublin!
But it's good to get the anxiety of getting through customs and immigration done BEFORE you cross the Atlantic, since you can be deported for making a flippant twitter comment using a British English idiom that the US can't understand, at least if you get denied boarding in Ireland rather than detained then deported in the United States, it's a lot cheaper and you don't have to fly another 10 hours to get home.
I tether my iPhone, at lunch at work I tend to use it so I can watch a half hour long TV programme most days of the week. I also stream internet radio in the car. Since I last reset the counters (on 12th Feb 2011), I've only used 18GB of data - in 18 months.
In fairness my average usage is higher over the last few months, but I suspect 15GB of data will still last me 4 or 5 months, despite streaming video while the phone is tethered to the laptop.
But until Intel sells just the IP for the Atom, it won't gain much traction. Apart from low power, the attraction of ARM is you can buy IP cores and make your own SoC to your own design. Intel won't let you make your own SoC, you have to use theirs.
I was watching a TV programme called "The Mighty Micro" (it's available on YouTube), a 6-part documentary on the coming microprocessor made in the late 1970s by the BBC. It was interesting to see what predictions came true and which ones were wide of the mark. In the final programme, the pundits were predicting what would happen. Everything from the cashless society by the mid-1990s (didn't happen), to the prediction of massive easily accessible data (did happen), to huge reforms in education (partially happened).
One prediction that was made that by the mid 1990s we would probably only be working 20 hours weeks, and society would have to shift to a model where we don't work much. However, the opposite has happened. Not only is the workforce larger than ever (Britain's workforce is probably double what it was in the late 1970s), unemployment is lower (in Britain, despite the workforce being twice the size of the late 70s workforce, the absolute number of unemployed is 1 million people fewer despite the worst recession in nearly a century), and many sections of the work force work longer hours than they used to. (Ironically, it's in the computer industry where the longer hours are more extreme, for example in the United States you're seen as a slacker unless you routinely work 60-80 hour weeks).
This isn't really a quake prone area (that's to say, prone to quakes of any significant strength). You can tell by the age of the buildings - don't forget that this city is hundreds of years older than the United States, and many of its buildings (that are NOT built in earthquake-proof manners) have stood for centuries. The castle, built over 1200 years ago, suffered structural damage to its ancient walls. So it's entirely possible that the quake was triggered hundreds of years early. It's also possible that the epicentre and strength of the earthquake may have been different due to the water extraction, and it was described to have been "unusually shallow" so the severity (in terms of damage) may have been elevated compared to if it had happened at its natural date.
There are a lot of bad capacitors around, it's just not unusual to open a piece of 18 month old equipment and find all of the electrolytic capacitors are bulging and many have leaked.
If this is the case, then sooner or later you're buggered. Conventional oil production peaked back in 2006 or so, meaning any increase in demand (as economies expand) can only be met by unconventional oil. "Unconventional" is a euphemism for expensive.
Unfortunately, private cars are hilariously unsustainable; enjoy them while you can still afford them.
However, if everyone everywhere had done it this way - building up a business solely as individuals, without a group effort (aka shares) - the industrial revolution could never have happened. You're only able to make a successful business that way because you live in a business ecosystem that does do bigger things than what the individual can achieve on their own with solely their own capital, providing demand for your services.
Much of electronics manufacture (well, certainly the PCB) is automated - making the PCB, pick and place machines etc. for placing components. But most of the supply chain is in Asia too. Labour is probably a pretty small part of the cost of making a phone wherever you make it.
It's called a BLEVE - boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion. You won't get that by shooting a propane tank, since the propane can escape through the bullet hole and burn relatively slowly. But if you roast a propane tank in a fire, the fire weakens the tank from the heat and at the same time makes the liquid propane boil and thus hugely increases the pressure in the tank. Eventually the pressure causes the tank to explode, spraying boiling propane all over the burning environment leading to a very impressive explosion.
There's a youtube video out there showing a BLEVE where exploding propane tanks are being fired for hundreds of metres.
You can be thin, unfit and unhealthy. Just as you can be a bit fat, but fit and healthy. Weight isn't the be-all and end-all as an indicator on whether you're fit and/or healthy for the long term. In all probability you're thin and unhealthy and storing up (easily correctable at this stage) problems for your future self. You don't have to be fat to have heart or lung problems.
High fuel prices are not a temporary problem, though. Conventional oil production peaked in 2005-2006. All new demand for oil has to be satiated by increasing production of unconventional oil, which is a code word for "expensive oil".
I lived in Houston for 6 years. Even at the height of summer, at normal commuting times, the temperature is well below 100 degrees and if you take it easy you don't sweat a lot if you wear the appropriate clothes.
In dryer southwestern climates, and with proper clothing, the sweat will be wicked away from you rather than remain on you so you still won't smell.
I don't agree. You don't just choose one day to be sexually attracted to either the same, opposite sex (or perhaps both), you just are attracted to whatever your innate attraction is. Being gay is no more a learned behaviour than being straight.
There's now very good evidence that a great deal of your sexual preference is genetic in nature, and most of the remainder is environmental biological (important: not social) occurences during development.
Indeed there was a recent episode of "Redes" (a science programme on Spanish TV) that covered the role that genes have in personality development including sexual orientation. The version of the programme with the interviews in English is here: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/redes/redes-genes-regulan-personalidad/1539751/ (unfortunately if you don't speak Spanish, the explanatory segments aren't translated) if you want to learn more.
A friend of mine (now sadly deceased - in a recent plane crash unfortunately) was working as an air taxi operator in the 1960s. IIRC he was ferrying airline pilots in an Aztec - and in these days wake turbulence was not well understood. On final approach the wake of an airliner rolled him inverted, he had no option but to continue the roll because to reverse direction would have taken too long - fortunately he had aerobatic experience. He landed shortly afterwards with three very ashen airline pilots.
Aircraft as large as a Boeing 737 have been lost due to wake turbulence.
As I already commented, consultations generally are to tick a box "we had a consultation" (not to pay any actual attention to the responses), furthermore the document from "JOINT COMMITTEE ON DRAFT COMMUNICATIONS DATA BILL" is already titled "WRITTEN EVIDENCE: SUMMARY OF CHAIN EMAILS" (sorry about caps, copy and pasting from the PDF). They note more than once that most of the emails are pro-forma and go onto mention it's from a political pressure group website. This means furthermore that the responses will be ignored.
If you're ever responding to a European Union consultaiton, they say right up front that pro-forma responses will be ignored (at least they are honest) - so if you ever want the slightest chance that your response to an EU consultation then you have to write your concerns in your own words. I suspect Westminster is the same, they just don't come right out and say it.
Therefore I'm even more pessimistic that anyone is going to pay the slightest bit of attention to this consultation - it will be full steam ahead for this awful bill.
Being the proud posessor of a Welsh name - come on, it's not that hard!
You must have heard of Bob Dylan (who took his name from Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet). The y in Glyn is exactly as the y in Dylan. (Although many people from the US seem to think that Dylan is actually pronounced Dialin', which is what you do on a telephone - despite Bob Dylan's fame).
I know a motorcycle sidecar racer called Glyn Jones who crashes often (and puts his passengers in hospital so frequently) his nickname is the Glyn Reaper. Think how you pronounce 'grim', it rhymes with Glyn, hence the joke.
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You've obviously never even been moderately fit. If you're only moderately fit, even an hour on a bicycle won't leave your limbs shaking. That only happens when you're unfit.
Also women can ride bicycles very long distances at pretty impressive speeds. It happens all the time outside of the USA. Since this thing is supposed to reduce the effort of cycling, it should make it more accessable to anyone not super-fit.
The big shame is that the consoles aren't complete and are now just dark and inanimate. It's a bit like going around an aircraft museum full of dead aircraft, while it's interesting - I'd much rather see this stuff powered up and running like it used to, just like I would far rather see a B-17 in the air than in a museum never to fly again.
English is called English because it's from England. By definition, what English people speak is correct English (the hint is in the name), and what the US speak is incorrect. Otherwise it would be called American, not English.
A Boeing 747 is not fly by wire, the crew directly control hydraulic actuators to the control surface. There is no flight control software in a 747 outside of the autopilot, and once that is switched off, it's entirely manual.
Now I like Apple stuff, I like the aesthetics of Apple stuff but...
my god is this boat ugly. It looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright designed house that floats, and Frank Lloyd Wright designed some of the most hideous buildings in the world.
They also have pre-clearance in Dublin, Ireland. So I have a US immigration stamp in my passport for Dublin!
But it's good to get the anxiety of getting through customs and immigration done BEFORE you cross the Atlantic, since you can be deported for making a flippant twitter comment using a British English idiom that the US can't understand, at least if you get denied boarding in Ireland rather than detained then deported in the United States, it's a lot cheaper and you don't have to fly another 10 hours to get home.
15GB is pretty decent for an iDevice.
I tether my iPhone, at lunch at work I tend to use it so I can watch a half hour long TV programme most days of the week. I also stream internet radio in the car. Since I last reset the counters (on 12th Feb 2011), I've only used 18GB of data - in 18 months.
In fairness my average usage is higher over the last few months, but I suspect 15GB of data will still last me 4 or 5 months, despite streaming video while the phone is tethered to the laptop.
But until Intel sells just the IP for the Atom, it won't gain much traction. Apart from low power, the attraction of ARM is you can buy IP cores and make your own SoC to your own design. Intel won't let you make your own SoC, you have to use theirs.
But that never seems to happen though.
I was watching a TV programme called "The Mighty Micro" (it's available on YouTube), a 6-part documentary on the coming microprocessor made in the late 1970s by the BBC. It was interesting to see what predictions came true and which ones were wide of the mark. In the final programme, the pundits were predicting what would happen. Everything from the cashless society by the mid-1990s (didn't happen), to the prediction of massive easily accessible data (did happen), to huge reforms in education (partially happened).
One prediction that was made that by the mid 1990s we would probably only be working 20 hours weeks, and society would have to shift to a model where we don't work much. However, the opposite has happened. Not only is the workforce larger than ever (Britain's workforce is probably double what it was in the late 1970s), unemployment is lower (in Britain, despite the workforce being twice the size of the late 70s workforce, the absolute number of unemployed is 1 million people fewer despite the worst recession in nearly a century), and many sections of the work force work longer hours than they used to. (Ironically, it's in the computer industry where the longer hours are more extreme, for example in the United States you're seen as a slacker unless you routinely work 60-80 hour weeks).
This isn't really a quake prone area (that's to say, prone to quakes of any significant strength). You can tell by the age of the buildings - don't forget that this city is hundreds of years older than the United States, and many of its buildings (that are NOT built in earthquake-proof manners) have stood for centuries. The castle, built over 1200 years ago, suffered structural damage to its ancient walls. So it's entirely possible that the quake was triggered hundreds of years early. It's also possible that the epicentre and strength of the earthquake may have been different due to the water extraction, and it was described to have been "unusually shallow" so the severity (in terms of damage) may have been elevated compared to if it had happened at its natural date.
Yes, significantly in two years!
There are a lot of bad capacitors around, it's just not unusual to open a piece of 18 month old equipment and find all of the electrolytic capacitors are bulging and many have leaked.
If this is the case, then sooner or later you're buggered. Conventional oil production peaked back in 2006 or so, meaning any increase in demand (as economies expand) can only be met by unconventional oil. "Unconventional" is a euphemism for expensive.
Unfortunately, private cars are hilariously unsustainable; enjoy them while you can still afford them.
However, if everyone everywhere had done it this way - building up a business solely as individuals, without a group effort (aka shares) - the industrial revolution could never have happened. You're only able to make a successful business that way because you live in a business ecosystem that does do bigger things than what the individual can achieve on their own with solely their own capital, providing demand for your services.
He who lives by the silly lawsuit, shall die by the silly lawsuit.
It's not just a defeat but a humiliating defeat. Good. (I like and use Apple products but they deserved to lose this one).
Much of electronics manufacture (well, certainly the PCB) is automated - making the PCB, pick and place machines etc. for placing components. But most of the supply chain is in Asia too. Labour is probably a pretty small part of the cost of making a phone wherever you make it.
It's called a BLEVE - boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion. You won't get that by shooting a propane tank, since the propane can escape through the bullet hole and burn relatively slowly. But if you roast a propane tank in a fire, the fire weakens the tank from the heat and at the same time makes the liquid propane boil and thus hugely increases the pressure in the tank. Eventually the pressure causes the tank to explode, spraying boiling propane all over the burning environment leading to a very impressive explosion.
There's a youtube video out there showing a BLEVE where exploding propane tanks are being fired for hundreds of metres.
They ought to have gone to scientific notation. 1E27 is a lot shorter than its full representation :-)
Why would they manufacture it in 3.5in format?
The standard form factor for *server* discs is now 2.5in. - essentially .3.5in format is on its way out. 2.5in does not imply "for laptop use".
You can be thin, unfit and unhealthy. Just as you can be a bit fat, but fit and healthy. Weight isn't the be-all and end-all as an indicator on whether you're fit and/or healthy for the long term. In all probability you're thin and unhealthy and storing up (easily correctable at this stage) problems for your future self. You don't have to be fat to have heart or lung problems.
High fuel prices are not a temporary problem, though. Conventional oil production peaked in 2005-2006. All new demand for oil has to be satiated by increasing production of unconventional oil, which is a code word for "expensive oil".
I lived in Houston for 6 years. Even at the height of summer, at normal commuting times, the temperature is well below 100 degrees and if you take it easy you don't sweat a lot if you wear the appropriate clothes.
In dryer southwestern climates, and with proper clothing, the sweat will be wicked away from you rather than remain on you so you still won't smell.
I don't agree. You don't just choose one day to be sexually attracted to either the same, opposite sex (or perhaps both), you just are attracted to whatever your innate attraction is. Being gay is no more a learned behaviour than being straight.
There's now very good evidence that a great deal of your sexual preference is genetic in nature, and most of the remainder is environmental biological (important: not social) occurences during development.
Indeed there was a recent episode of "Redes" (a science programme on Spanish TV) that covered the role that genes have in personality development including sexual orientation. The version of the programme with the interviews in English is here: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/redes/redes-genes-regulan-personalidad/1539751/ (unfortunately if you don't speak Spanish, the explanatory segments aren't translated) if you want to learn more.
A friend of mine (now sadly deceased - in a recent plane crash unfortunately) was working as an air taxi operator in the 1960s. IIRC he was ferrying airline pilots in an Aztec - and in these days wake turbulence was not well understood. On final approach the wake of an airliner rolled him inverted, he had no option but to continue the roll because to reverse direction would have taken too long - fortunately he had aerobatic experience. He landed shortly afterwards with three very ashen airline pilots.
Aircraft as large as a Boeing 737 have been lost due to wake turbulence.
As I already commented, consultations generally are to tick a box "we had a consultation" (not to pay any actual attention to the responses), furthermore the document from "JOINT COMMITTEE ON DRAFT COMMUNICATIONS DATA BILL" is already titled "WRITTEN EVIDENCE: SUMMARY OF CHAIN EMAILS" (sorry about caps, copy and pasting from the PDF). They note more than once that most of the emails are pro-forma and go onto mention it's from a political pressure group website. This means furthermore that the responses will be ignored.
If you're ever responding to a European Union consultaiton, they say right up front that pro-forma responses will be ignored (at least they are honest) - so if you ever want the slightest chance that your response to an EU consultation then you have to write your concerns in your own words. I suspect Westminster is the same, they just don't come right out and say it.
Therefore I'm even more pessimistic that anyone is going to pay the slightest bit of attention to this consultation - it will be full steam ahead for this awful bill.
Being the proud posessor of a Welsh name - come on, it's not that hard!
You must have heard of Bob Dylan (who took his name from Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet). The y in Glyn is exactly as the y in Dylan. (Although many people from the US seem to think that Dylan is actually pronounced Dialin', which is what you do on a telephone - despite Bob Dylan's fame).
I know a motorcycle sidecar racer called Glyn Jones who crashes often (and puts his passengers in hospital so frequently) his nickname is the Glyn Reaper. Think how you pronounce 'grim', it rhymes with Glyn, hence the joke.