I don't know why people get so upset over others talking on their phones. It honestly doesn't bother me. If someone can tell me what negative effect it has on me, then I might be annoyed. But for the most part, I can't see a problem with it.
What's the difference if two people near you are standing there talking to each other versus one person on a cell phone? You maybe get to eavesdrop on the entire conversation with both people, but that's the only difference I see.
Headset laws when driving are probably a good idea to keep people's hands on the wheel, but I don't see any reason to limit/regulate usage. You have to remember that some people actually use their phones for important things also, not just talking to their girlfriend in babytalk.
A cop friend once told me that if someone breaks into your house, it's technically illegal to shoot and kill them. However, he said that you bet your ass he would shoot and kill anyone that broke into his house. He also told me that if it ever happens, to make damn sure you shoot to kill, because if the person lives, you'll end up in court getting sued or going to prison.
As far as I'm concerned, if someone comes into my house and forcefully comes through my locked bedroom door, they do not have good intentions. They will either be shot or chopped up with a razor sharp samurai sword.
Oddly enough, there have been a couple of incidents lately in my city where burglars have been breaking into occupied houses around 5am, tying up the occupants at gunpoint, and then stealing all of their crap.
Get yourself an alarm system, it's a good deterrent, and has the bonus of alerting you and waking you up if someone does decide to break in. With a properly installed alarm system, you can be reasonably sure that the bumps in the night are nothing. I've was robbed once at a house I was renting, they took a bunch of stuff. And, one of my roomies was home at the time, watching TV in the basement. A second time, we had an alarm system. Someone worked the back door open and it set off the alarm, they ran away. They are lucky they ran away too because they would have only been seconds away from being shot.
Plus, if you're looking for educational software, there's tons of it for the Mac.
I was going to suggest just using a cable (they make them over 30 feet long and they work fine with LCD's), and then screwing the base of the monitor to the desk.
However, the iMac makes more sense, especially if a kid is going to be using it for educational stuff.
Seriously. If your job causes you anguish instead of satisfaction, you need to leave. It's making your quality of life suffer. You only live once, it's not worth it. Trust me, I've dealt with the same thing.
How would you get it out? The MRI I had a couple years ago was done in a machine with a permanent magnet in it.
Although, they let me play with a 20lb log chain about 15 feet from the machine. I held it up, and it pointed completely horizontal into the machine. I got about 6 inches closer and had to wedge my foot into the table to pull it away. Big magnets are fun, but damn, after that, it really makes one see how dangerous they can be.
If someone came out with a device similar to the DS, where it was clamshell, had 802.11, bluetooth, 2 screens, and possibly GSM, I would buy one immediately.
I need a PDA that I can toss in my pocket and not have to worry about the screen being hosed. Triple points if I can replace my phone with it also. The Sidekick would be there if it wasn't so crippled and had bluetooth.
And for christsakes, don't put a damn camera on it. It's going to suck and no one will use it. It just raises the cost and increases the size of it.
Which is almost impossible in Minneapolis. I needed to call the police for something (a lock being broken on my house when I was gone). It wasn't an emergency, so I didn't want to call 911. I finally found the number to the police dept, got transferred a bunch of times via an automated phone system, and the person I finally go ahold of after 15 mins told me to just call 911.
I think the best thing to do if 911 went away would be to call the operator. They at least have some access to do funky things to get a call through. And by that time, you've talked to someone, they know your situation, and can find help. You can't very well use the phone book or automated menus when you're dead.
Netscreens are the way to go. They just work. A 5GT starts around $500 or so, which works great for a small office. And, that $500 box supports OSPF, BGP, IPsec using 3des or AES, AV scanning, and deep inspection.
If you go out and buy the crappiest box you can find to stick linux on, you might be able to do it cheaper. But you certainly won't be able to do it as easily, and then you'll also have an OS that you have to maintain.
90% of the spam I get is coming from zombies attached to cable or DSL. The only this will do is make network access slower for the owner of said compromised computer, and it's probably already slow as hell because of all the spyware and trojans on it. It's just going to raise costs for the rest of us on cable that aren't unwillingly sending spam.
Additionally, what about the mom and pop ISP with 2 T-1's and a bunch of DSL customers? All you are going to do is saturate their lines, doing almost nothing to harm the spammer. I suppose it will force smaller ISP's to implement a deny outgoing port 25 rule, which they should all do anyway. My ISP does this, however, I can call them and tell them I run my own mailserver, and they open it for me. It's the people that are clueless that they worry about.
If I buy content, I'll watch it on whatever I damn well please, even if it includes reverse engineering. How would you like it if you bought bread, but could only use it in the KitchenAid BFT9000 toaster which cost $200?
Also realize that they probably have a ton of friends that use IM. If they only talk to each friend for a few mins, it could take up a large part of the day.
Plus, IM is usually something I do when browsing the net and screwing around. If I find a neat link, I'll send it to a few friends, which usually results in a conversation about whatever it is. In any case, they are still being social. If they locked themselves in a dark room all day and didn't talk to anyone, it would be more cause for concern. Not everything people do on the net is bad. It's arguable that IM could help develop good communication skills too, as long as they aren't abbreviating every damn word.
Honestly, I doubt they are doing anything questionable. IM seems to have replaced the phone that teens used to love so much.
Dimming on LEDS is usually accomplished by high frequency "blinking". Sure to give one headaches. If you ever see a device with a dimmable LED, pick it up if you can and move it quickly across your field of vision. It will appear to form a dotted line.
I picked one up. I'm not impressed with the games that much at all. Mario is kind of boring. Metroid Prime will probably be good, but, the demo doesn't allow you to invert your aiming. Since I always invert my mouse when playing FPSs, this is really annoying and very hard to get used to. I picked up Asphalt Urban GT also, but I haven't opened it yet. Still trying to decide whether or not to return it. The reviews didn't look so hot.
The unit as far as technology goes is pretty sweet. The touchscreen thing is cool, and the wireless is neat. If there was an open SDK for developing apps for it, people could come up with some pretty neat stuff to run on this. I'm sure game shops will have some neat stuff also, it will just take time.
Physically, the unit feels kind of cheap. Button layout is not ergonomic at all, and it feels like it was just slapped together. It just feels like there is empty space inside of it, which means it probably could have been smaller. In any case, it doesn't look like they put nearly as much effort into the actual construction and physical design of the unit as they did into the actual guts of it. For $149 though, you can't expect that much.
I would assume when the game library grows, they will do away with the 2nd cartridge slot and make the unit a bit more compact.
Honestly though, I bought the unit for the potential of what will come, not for what's currently available. And I like gadgets.
I just installed a ton of recessed lights in my house, and I bought 21 Ushio PAR-20 floods for the 4" cans.
Specs on the Ushio's are: 50 watts at 120 volts 600 lumens 2900K 45 degree flood
These are pretty damn good specs for a 50par20. The Enlux Neutral White is as follows: 22 watts (says 120 volts, but could be 130. Why are they listing figures for 15 watts? Odd.) 300 lumens 3300K 80 degrees
Half the light output. So I'm getting double the light output from just over double the wattage. The color is a bit whiter, which is nice, but I prefer a warmer color. I had a 2800K bulb that I compared to the 2900, and the 2900 was about right. Enlux makes a warmer bulb around this range though, so it's no big deal.
The wide 80 degree flood may be nice in some applications, but spreading 300 lumens over that much area is going to give you very dim light. You want to overlap your lights anyway, but you would need to do much more overlap to get a decent amount of brightness down by the floor. So just popping the bulbs in might not be sufficient if you're picky, you may have to change your lighting layout for optimum coverage and intensity.
I'd like to get ahold of one to compare to some of the bulbs I purchased for testing and comparison, but it's not worth $80 to me.
Note that even if you could put them in recessed cans, the 80 degree width would likely be detrimental because much of your beam would hit the diffuser around the edge and you would lose a ton of your light.
equired 70-80 hours of work in a week regularly (because there was that much work to be done)
There is never that amount of work to be done on a regular basis. If you find this to be the case, your employer is screwing you by not hiring the required number of people to do the work. It's not that there's "too much work", there are "too few people".
I'll work the 60-80 hour week when required. But when it becomes a regular thing, that's when my employer needs to start looking for more help.
Life is too short for one to spend that much time at work, I've worked 90 hour weeks for months on end. Once you end up in the hospital with an ulcer and heart palpitations from the stress, you'll realize this.
If you are really that busy at work, hire yourself a maid and a personal assistant to take care of your chores/errands for you. So when you do get freetime, you can actually spend it relaxing.
Walmart has been doing this for a long long time. One of the things they discovered is that people who buy diapers usually also buy beer (in states where walmart can sell beer), and vice versa. So, they moved the beer and diapers to the same aisle, and ended up increasing their sales by like 7 times on both of these items.
Virtually everyone who keeps track of this sort of thing is looking for their own beer and diapers revelation. I used to run a data warehouse which tracked the paths users took through websites in order to lay them out better to increase revenue on ads or purchases. Mine only had 6TB of data though.
Target has been getting quite good at this, since it seems everytime I walk into their store to buy one little thing, I walk out of there with a cart full of crap I didn't really need but thought would be nice to have.
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Also referred to as jumping on the grenade.
Get the student version of Mathematica, last I remember, it was like $89.
I don't know why people get so upset over others talking on their phones. It honestly doesn't bother me. If someone can tell me what negative effect it has on me, then I might be annoyed. But for the most part, I can't see a problem with it.
What's the difference if two people near you are standing there talking to each other versus one person on a cell phone? You maybe get to eavesdrop on the entire conversation with both people, but that's the only difference I see.
Headset laws when driving are probably a good idea to keep people's hands on the wheel, but I don't see any reason to limit/regulate usage. You have to remember that some people actually use their phones for important things also, not just talking to their girlfriend in babytalk.
A cop friend once told me that if someone breaks into your house, it's technically illegal to shoot and kill them. However, he said that you bet your ass he would shoot and kill anyone that broke into his house. He also told me that if it ever happens, to make damn sure you shoot to kill, because if the person lives, you'll end up in court getting sued or going to prison.
As far as I'm concerned, if someone comes into my house and forcefully comes through my locked bedroom door, they do not have good intentions. They will either be shot or chopped up with a razor sharp samurai sword.
Oddly enough, there have been a couple of incidents lately in my city where burglars have been breaking into occupied houses around 5am, tying up the occupants at gunpoint, and then stealing all of their crap.
Get yourself an alarm system, it's a good deterrent, and has the bonus of alerting you and waking you up if someone does decide to break in. With a properly installed alarm system, you can be reasonably sure that the bumps in the night are nothing. I've was robbed once at a house I was renting, they took a bunch of stuff. And, one of my roomies was home at the time, watching TV in the basement. A second time, we had an alarm system. Someone worked the back door open and it set off the alarm, they ran away. They are lucky they ran away too because they would have only been seconds away from being shot.
Plus, if you're looking for educational software, there's tons of it for the Mac.
I was going to suggest just using a cable (they make them over 30 feet long and they work fine with LCD's), and then screwing the base of the monitor to the desk.
However, the iMac makes more sense, especially if a kid is going to be using it for educational stuff.
Seriously. If your job causes you anguish instead of satisfaction, you need to leave. It's making your quality of life suffer. You only live once, it's not worth it. Trust me, I've dealt with the same thing.
How would you get it out? The MRI I had a couple years ago was done in a machine with a permanent magnet in it.
Although, they let me play with a 20lb log chain about 15 feet from the machine. I held it up, and it pointed completely horizontal into the machine. I got about 6 inches closer and had to wedge my foot into the table to pull it away. Big magnets are fun, but damn, after that, it really makes one see how dangerous they can be.
Haha. I was thinking the same thing when I read the parent comment. I just thought it was cool she could spray orange juice from her fingers.
But then I thought about it, and was like, "gross, orange juice that comes out of grandma." I was like 7 years old.
Now it bring to mind the episode of the simpsons where Ralph goes "Tastes like grandma!"
If someone came out with a device similar to the DS, where it was clamshell, had 802.11, bluetooth, 2 screens, and possibly GSM, I would buy one immediately.
I need a PDA that I can toss in my pocket and not have to worry about the screen being hosed. Triple points if I can replace my phone with it also. The Sidekick would be there if it wasn't so crippled and had bluetooth.
And for christsakes, don't put a damn camera on it. It's going to suck and no one will use it. It just raises the cost and increases the size of it.
Which is almost impossible in Minneapolis. I needed to call the police for something (a lock being broken on my house when I was gone). It wasn't an emergency, so I didn't want to call 911. I finally found the number to the police dept, got transferred a bunch of times via an automated phone system, and the person I finally go ahold of after 15 mins told me to just call 911.
I think the best thing to do if 911 went away would be to call the operator. They at least have some access to do funky things to get a call through. And by that time, you've talked to someone, they know your situation, and can find help. You can't very well use the phone book or automated menus when you're dead.
Netscreens are the way to go. They just work. A 5GT starts around $500 or so, which works great for a small office. And, that $500 box supports OSPF, BGP, IPsec using 3des or AES, AV scanning, and deep inspection.
If you go out and buy the crappiest box you can find to stick linux on, you might be able to do it cheaper. But you certainly won't be able to do it as easily, and then you'll also have an OS that you have to maintain.
90% of the spam I get is coming from zombies attached to cable or DSL. The only this will do is make network access slower for the owner of said compromised computer, and it's probably already slow as hell because of all the spyware and trojans on it. It's just going to raise costs for the rest of us on cable that aren't unwillingly sending spam.
Additionally, what about the mom and pop ISP with 2 T-1's and a bunch of DSL customers? All you are going to do is saturate their lines, doing almost nothing to harm the spammer. I suppose it will force smaller ISP's to implement a deny outgoing port 25 rule, which they should all do anyway. My ISP does this, however, I can call them and tell them I run my own mailserver, and they open it for me. It's the people that are clueless that they worry about.
If I buy content, I'll watch it on whatever I damn well please, even if it includes reverse engineering. How would you like it if you bought bread, but could only use it in the KitchenAid BFT9000 toaster which cost $200?
Also realize that they probably have a ton of friends that use IM. If they only talk to each friend for a few mins, it could take up a large part of the day.
Plus, IM is usually something I do when browsing the net and screwing around. If I find a neat link, I'll send it to a few friends, which usually results in a conversation about whatever it is. In any case, they are still being social. If they locked themselves in a dark room all day and didn't talk to anyone, it would be more cause for concern. Not everything people do on the net is bad. It's arguable that IM could help develop good communication skills too, as long as they aren't abbreviating every damn word.
Honestly, I doubt they are doing anything questionable. IM seems to have replaced the phone that teens used to love so much.
Introduce them to pr0n. That will keep them off IM.
Dimming on LEDS is usually accomplished by high frequency "blinking". Sure to give one headaches. If you ever see a device with a dimmable LED, pick it up if you can and move it quickly across your field of vision. It will appear to form a dotted line.
I picked one up. I'm not impressed with the games that much at all. Mario is kind of boring. Metroid Prime will probably be good, but, the demo doesn't allow you to invert your aiming. Since I always invert my mouse when playing FPSs, this is really annoying and very hard to get used to. I picked up Asphalt Urban GT also, but I haven't opened it yet. Still trying to decide whether or not to return it. The reviews didn't look so hot.
The unit as far as technology goes is pretty sweet. The touchscreen thing is cool, and the wireless is neat. If there was an open SDK for developing apps for it, people could come up with some pretty neat stuff to run on this. I'm sure game shops will have some neat stuff also, it will just take time.
Physically, the unit feels kind of cheap. Button layout is not ergonomic at all, and it feels like it was just slapped together. It just feels like there is empty space inside of it, which means it probably could have been smaller. In any case, it doesn't look like they put nearly as much effort into the actual construction and physical design of the unit as they did into the actual guts of it. For $149 though, you can't expect that much.
I would assume when the game library grows, they will do away with the 2nd cartridge slot and make the unit a bit more compact.
Honestly though, I bought the unit for the potential of what will come, not for what's currently available. And I like gadgets.
I just installed a ton of recessed lights in my house, and I bought 21 Ushio PAR-20 floods for the 4" cans.
Specs on the Ushio's are:
50 watts at 120 volts
600 lumens
2900K
45 degree flood
These are pretty damn good specs for a 50par20. The Enlux Neutral White is as follows:
22 watts (says 120 volts, but could be 130. Why are they listing figures for 15 watts? Odd.)
300 lumens
3300K
80 degrees
Half the light output. So I'm getting double the light output from just over double the wattage. The color is a bit whiter, which is nice, but I prefer a warmer color. I had a 2800K bulb that I compared to the 2900, and the 2900 was about right. Enlux makes a warmer bulb around this range though, so it's no big deal.
The wide 80 degree flood may be nice in some applications, but spreading 300 lumens over that much area is going to give you very dim light. You want to overlap your lights anyway, but you would need to do much more overlap to get a decent amount of brightness down by the floor. So just popping the bulbs in might not be sufficient if you're picky, you may have to change your lighting layout for optimum coverage and intensity.
I'd like to get ahold of one to compare to some of the bulbs I purchased for testing and comparison, but it's not worth $80 to me.
Note that even if you could put them in recessed cans, the 80 degree width would likely be detrimental because much of your beam would hit the diffuser around the edge and you would lose a ton of your light.
I could have sworn sulfuric acid was what is in your stomach, not hydrochloric.
Remind me of a shirt that read "I fucked the girl in Hanson."
:)
You used to be able to get it from tshirthell.com, but they discontinued it. They have a lot of other very nicely offensive shirts though.
Sir. I don't pretend to know what you have been drinking. However, it is reasonable to assume that you have drank it all.
equired 70-80 hours of work in a week regularly (because there was that much work to be done)
There is never that amount of work to be done on a regular basis. If you find this to be the case, your employer is screwing you by not hiring the required number of people to do the work. It's not that there's "too much work", there are "too few people".
I'll work the 60-80 hour week when required. But when it becomes a regular thing, that's when my employer needs to start looking for more help.
Life is too short for one to spend that much time at work, I've worked 90 hour weeks for months on end. Once you end up in the hospital with an ulcer and heart palpitations from the stress, you'll realize this.
If you are really that busy at work, hire yourself a maid and a personal assistant to take care of your chores/errands for you. So when you do get freetime, you can actually spend it relaxing.
I saw them out the window of my plane somewhere over nebraska last night. They were still pretty bright.
A couple years ago, I was on a flight into Reykjavik, and they were simply amazing.
Walmart has been doing this for a long long time. One of the things they discovered is that people who buy diapers usually also buy beer (in states where walmart can sell beer), and vice versa. So, they moved the beer and diapers to the same aisle, and ended up increasing their sales by like 7 times on both of these items.
Virtually everyone who keeps track of this sort of thing is looking for their own beer and diapers revelation. I used to run a data warehouse which tracked the paths users took through websites in order to lay them out better to increase revenue on ads or purchases. Mine only had 6TB of data though.
Target has been getting quite good at this, since it seems everytime I walk into their store to buy one little thing, I walk out of there with a cart full of crap I didn't really need but thought would be nice to have.
Hopefully they will send armies of lawyers over. To Iraq. To argue... with angry Iraqis... who have AK-47's....