So do you throw the paper cup away or do you recycle that too? =) I've recycled aluminum cans (or anything else for that matter) not because I have some desire to protect the environment. I am a cheap-skate. [I drive a 10yr old econobox because it gets good mileage and doesn't cost me much to operate it. Some enviromentalists see SUVs as Global Warming Vehicles, but I see them as vehicles that rape and pillage ones bank account. Being a cheap bastard is another reason why I run Linux.] To me throwing away something that could be used again is a waste of time, energy, and money. That and I could get paid for turning in bottles and cans. =) Seriously, I do think it's a shame to thow something away when it could be used for something else. That's also why I turn things into Goodwill too.
Gots to disagree with you on this one. Many landfills do not have adequate seepage protection at the ground level. As a result, many chemicals find their way down to the water table and end up contaminating the local water supply. Largely, this doesn't happen, but when it does the damage is fairly significant
If the plastics were breaking down, that would be true. There is a prof in Arizona that's been doing landfill studies for years. He takes core samples from old landfills to see how the percentage of materials being thrown away changes over the years as well as how the materials behave in the landfill. According to him, paper takes up the most volume (50% or better in some cases) of any single material found in landfills. The percentage of plastic over the years has been decreasing since they have been getting stronger and thinner. What is really interesting is that in a good landfill, there is very little decay. He's pulled out newspapers and hot dogs from the 60s that haven't changed much since they were thrown away. In the cases where water and oxygen were able to get to the materials, it's paper and other organic materials that are decaying and causing inks and other chemicals to move into the water systems, not the plastics.
I'm waiting for the day that materials separation technology becomes good enough that people will want to dig up old landfills to extract the paper and other metals for recycling. Will there be protesters opposing the strip mining of landfills?
It looks like U of Pennsylvania archaeologists are busy in central Asia digging up stuff that may change history. Yesterday, I found an article about U of Penn's Dr. Victor Mair's research into 3000 year old Caucasian mummies found in western China. It too suggested that history would need to be re-written w/ reguards to when the Chinese first had contact with the West and how technologies that were previously thought to have been developed by the Chinese in isolation could have been imported. It is interesting to see what the Chinese have done to stiffle this research (DNA samples had to be smuggled out) and how some people are trying to downplay it because of past colonial expansions and Nazism.
I submitted it to Slashdot, but I guess this one was better because it was 1000 years older.
I haven't had any problems. It must be do to all the practice I got in my youth shoveling snow in the winter and manure all year round. =) Besides, you don't have to worry about frostbite if you are properly dressed and stay active. I've walked 10 miles in -50 windchill temps before and it wasn't that bad (I had to walk to an ATM and then to a impound lot where some bastard had my car towed...walking a mile home w/o hat & gloves the night before sucked).
If you have all those conditions, you'd better consult a doctor before you do anything. If you are healthy, but just a out of shape, a little good old fashioned hard work won't kill you.
The original poster in this thread was complaining about not being able to go out and exercise in the Minnesota winter. The cross country skiing and the above alternatives are certainly good ways to do just that.
True - I get out and play sports in the summer (heck, even softball is good exercise)... but winter in Minnesota doesn't leave a lot of good days for rollerblading/running/etc...
Shoveling snow can be good exercise. So is running in deep snow.
He can't do that now? He must like to listen to low powered stations or he's on the edge of their broadcast areas. Thirty miles isn't that far. Most stations that I normally pick up have at least a 75-100 mile listening radius..unlike this 5000 watt station. If you were within 150 miles of it and couldn't pick it up, your radio was broken.
The next generation? What happened to the original? Did they decide to not release it and to try again? I would like to purchase a PDA, perferrably one w/ linux. Unfortunately, they are either vaporware, very high priced developer/prototype modes, and/or not very good at what PDAs are supposed to do. A company can only make promises for so long. Sooner or later they are going to have to start delivering on those promises.
You are correct. According to aerospaceweb it first flew in 1964. At 42000, it could do 2110 mph and 650mph at sea level. The F-15 first flew in 1972 and can only do 1665 at 36000ft.
The MiG-25 FoxBat (similar to F15) does mach 2.5+ (probably more like mach 3).
While that may be true, the Russian pilot that flew his FoxBat to Japan in the 70s said that they could not stay at M2.5 for very long because their engines would get too hot and sieze up. As a result, anyone who tried to go that fast would be subject to disciplinary action. It was more for chest thumping and to be able to claim that their main interceptor was faster than the US F-15.
As far as taking several states to make a banked turn, that depends on where the turn is being made. I can see that being the case for the Northeastern states. I would think they could make a U-turn within the state of Nevada.
Forced? Really? That's bulshit. You could have paid someone to go buy the various parts and construct a PC from scratch, no? But that would have likely been more expensive and inconvenient.
If you can show me a site where I can buy generic laptop parts and build one all from scratch like I can a desktop, I'd appreciate it. The major complaint about not being able to buy a machine w/o Windows has usually be by laptop buyers. Fortunately, there are some manufacturers who now sell linux pre-installed on their laptops. However, if push comes to shove, and Billy tells Dell to drop linux preinstalls or have their next set of license agreements given the same treatment that IBM got in 1995, what do you think they will do?
A chase plane at Edwards accidentally flew into one of the B-70 prototype's exhaust nozzles and blew up. The B-70 flew on for a few seconds and then augered into the desert. This was a setback, but probably wasn't what killed it. The advent of Russian SAMs that could easily reach the B-70s max operating altitude and the bomber's huge radar signature is what killed it. It couldn't adapt to the ground hugging attack strategy very well, either, so the project was killed and the use of the BUFFs continued.
You've never heard of the B-1B then. They are built to do just that. Ranchers near the training grounds don't like them much when they break the sound barrier a few hundred feet off the ground. It scares the crap out of the cattle. I got to sit in the ECM officer's seat during a tour of the local SAC base. They invited juniors and seniors from the nearby engineering college in order to try to get them to join the USAF. The B-1Bs and getting to play around in the Minuteman practice silo were lots of fun.
I don't know about the MiG-31s, but the SR-71s never had anything to fear from the MiG-25s. According to the pilot that flew his MiG-25 to Japan in the late 70s/early 80s, they would try to catch SR-71s from time to time. Their MiGs while rated at a top speed of approximately Mach 2.5, but they would rarely go that fast because their engines would get too hot and seize up. They tried shooting one down with air-to-air missles, too, but the missles weren't fast enough either.
I didn't really see how this would aid in automatic grading of tests or homework. If the kids have to use a computer & printer to generate the results, then why not transfer it electronically? If they are to use the good ole No. 2 pencil, why not just use 'fill in the dot' type forms?
Depending on the paper and ink used, this could be good way to archive long time storage. With a magnifying glass and sufficient patience, it would be human readable too.
However, I think your amount per page is off. If a 3x3 pixel block is used, shouldn't there be 4200 lines of data on the page? With 400 bytes/per line, that works out to about 1.6M. Using a 2x2 pixel block, there would be 6300 lines, and about 3.6M. Even if a blank line is put between each data line, that could still be a significant amount of data.
Check with your department to see if your school has any cooperative education or intern partnerships with any companies or research organizations. In most cases, this is either for a summer or a summer plus a semester. At the end of the co-op program, the student writes a report about what they did while employed and receive credit for it. This can often turn into permanent employement once you graduate. I know several people (myself included) that worked a few summers and a semester or two for a company and went right to work after graduation.
We have separate accounts now...it practically took an Act of Congress to get her to agree to that. "that means you don't trust me"...Uh, yeah..given your track record, who would?
I also tried just letting her have cash for everything that she's supposed to be in charge of, but she was insulted by that too.
Of course, I don't have my email address listed. Why would I want slashdotters emailing me?
I actually love my wife and vice versa. I just wish she would engage her brain before opening her purse. Keeping receipts is nice, but that just allows me to do a post mortem without having to hit the bank website. She either doesn't get the logic behind keeping a checkbook register with you so you can see how much money you have before you spend it and then updating it immediately after you do write a check/use a debit card or she's too lazy to do it. Probably a bit of both. She's not an idiot, so I can't understand why she doesn't do it.
Besides, from informal polls at the workplace, it's not all that uncommon for one spouse to be like this. Also, it would be more than half. I'd have to pay 20-25% of my income for child support under state law (probably against gross income too).
Find a woman who loves you and not your money...
Yeah right! I had a hard enough time finding a woman that would have anything to do with me when I was younger. I doubt that I'd have any better luck now that I'm older and fatter.
Well, we all know that PHBs' perceptions often do not match with reality. A dot com may start up in the Bay Area because they _think_ they will be able to attract talent (and pretend to be hip & trendy at the same time) worth paying the high rent. In reality, they may be getting the same as what they could get in another city, but still have the higher rent. A dot com moved her last year because they needed to turn down their 'burn rate'. They recently annouced that they are going out of business, but they delayed it a year.
No kidding. When I went through customs last year after a trip to Europe, they didn't even look at me or my luggage. The guy just took the customs claim form and shoved it in a box. No one from customs asked me a damn thing. And I was worried that I might have been over the limit of alcohol one could bring into the country.
According to my bank (and a couple other businesses), it is possible to determine whether a card is a real credit card or a debit card. Now that I think of it, I've had a few transactions held up because of it.
Actual theft and transaction policies vary from bank to bank. With my bank, a transaction doesn't happen immediately. There is usually a lag of 2-3 days between the time the purchase is made and when it's posted. So if one looses the card or it's stolen, there is enough time to contact the bank and they will cancel any charges. They also usually have a limit on how much can be taken out each day and how much can be taken out over a given number of days. Also, if there is an error, they will reverse the charges. I've had that happen a few times and it's not that big of a problem.
I really like prepaid credit cards like those that used to be offered by pocketcard. They would offer the standard credit card protections, but instead of paying off a statement every month, you would load the card via an ACH bank transfer or check. They would also email account activity statements daily. Unfortunately, they've gone out of business and VisaBuxx cards are expensive.
I don't have a problem with restraining purchases. The wife does and the only way to cure that is a 2x4 to the head. But since that would put me in jail, I"ve head to weather bankruptcy and all the crap that goes along with it because an adult woman acts like a spoiled brat when it comes to money. Needless to say, the only real credit cards that I could possibly get are from the companies that require cash up front and screw you over with tons of charges. A VisaBuxx card would be cheaper! The work around? Get the bank to set the limits low and move the money back and forth between savings accounts when needed.
In a race between who to drain the account faster, my wife could beat any crook. The idea of having a credit card for 'safe' purchases is nice, but many people use them as a short term way to increase their buying power. That's why show's like Dave Ramsey's exists. My attitude now is that if I don't have the money to pay for it, I either save up for it or do with out.
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So do you throw the paper cup away or do you recycle that too? =) I've recycled aluminum cans (or anything else for that matter) not because I have some desire to protect the environment. I am a cheap-skate. [I drive a 10yr old econobox because it gets good mileage and doesn't cost me much to operate it. Some enviromentalists see SUVs as Global Warming Vehicles, but I see them as vehicles that rape and pillage ones bank account. Being a cheap bastard is another reason why I run Linux.] To me throwing away something that could be used again is a waste of time, energy, and money. That and I could get paid for turning in bottles and cans. =) Seriously, I do think it's a shame to thow something away when it could be used for something else. That's also why I turn things into Goodwill too.
Gots to disagree with you on this one. Many landfills do not have adequate seepage protection at the ground level. As a result, many chemicals find their way down to the water table and end up contaminating the local water supply. Largely, this doesn't happen, but when it does the damage is fairly significant
If the plastics were breaking down, that would be true. There is a prof in Arizona that's been doing landfill studies for years. He takes core samples from old landfills to see how the percentage of materials being thrown away changes over the years as well as how the materials behave in the landfill. According to him, paper takes up the most volume (50% or better in some cases) of any single material found in landfills. The percentage of plastic over the years has been decreasing since they have been getting stronger and thinner. What is really interesting is that in a good landfill, there is very little decay. He's pulled out newspapers and hot dogs from the 60s that haven't changed much since they were thrown away. In the cases where water and oxygen were able to get to the materials, it's paper and other organic materials that are decaying and causing inks and other chemicals to move into the water systems, not the plastics.
I'm waiting for the day that materials separation technology becomes good enough that people will want to dig up old landfills to extract the paper and other metals for recycling. Will there be protesters opposing the strip mining of landfills?
It looks like U of Pennsylvania archaeologists are busy in central Asia digging up stuff that may change history. Yesterday, I found an article about U of Penn's Dr. Victor Mair's research into 3000 year old Caucasian mummies found in western China. It too suggested that history would need to be re-written w/ reguards to when the Chinese first had contact with the West and how technologies that were previously thought to have been developed by the Chinese in isolation could have been imported. It is interesting to see what the Chinese have done to stiffle this research (DNA samples had to be smuggled out) and how some people are trying to downplay it because of past colonial expansions and Nazism.
I submitted it to Slashdot, but I guess this one was better because it was 1000 years older.
I haven't had any problems. It must be do to all the practice I got in my youth shoveling snow in the winter and manure all year round. =) Besides, you don't have to worry about frostbite if you are properly dressed and stay active. I've walked 10 miles in -50 windchill temps before and it wasn't that bad (I had to walk to an ATM and then to a impound lot where some bastard had my car towed...walking a mile home w/o hat & gloves the night before sucked).
If you have all those conditions, you'd better consult a doctor before you do anything. If you are healthy, but just a out of shape, a little good old fashioned hard work won't kill you.
The original poster in this thread was complaining about not being able to go out and exercise in the Minnesota winter. The cross country skiing and the above alternatives are certainly good ways to do just that.
True - I get out and play sports in the summer (heck, even softball is good exercise)... but winter in Minnesota doesn't leave a lot of good days for rollerblading/running/etc...
Shoveling snow can be good exercise. So is running in deep snow.
He can't do that now? He must like to listen to low powered stations or he's on the edge of their broadcast areas. Thirty miles isn't that far. Most stations that I normally pick up have at least a 75-100 mile listening radius..unlike this 5000 watt station. If you were within 150 miles of it and couldn't pick it up, your radio was broken.
The next generation? What happened to the original? Did they decide to not release it and to try again? I would like to purchase a PDA, perferrably one w/ linux. Unfortunately, they are either vaporware, very high priced developer/prototype modes, and/or not very good at what PDAs are supposed to do. A company can only make promises for so long. Sooner or later they are going to have to start delivering on those promises.
You are correct. According to aerospaceweb it first flew in 1964. At 42000, it could do 2110 mph and 650mph at sea level. The F-15 first flew in 1972 and can only do 1665 at 36000ft.
The MiG-25 FoxBat (similar to F15) does mach 2.5+ (probably more like mach 3).
While that may be true, the Russian pilot that flew his FoxBat to Japan in the 70s said that they could not stay at M2.5 for very long because their engines would get too hot and sieze up. As a result, anyone who tried to go that fast would be subject to disciplinary action. It was more for chest thumping and to be able to claim that their main interceptor was faster than the US F-15.
As far as taking several states to make a banked turn, that depends on where the turn is being made. I can see that being the case for the Northeastern states. I would think they could make a U-turn within the state of Nevada.
So does this mean that every Gateway customer can take part in these lawsuits? Their computers are (or at least used to be) made in SD.
Forced? Really? That's bulshit. You could have paid someone to go buy the various parts and construct a PC from scratch, no? But that would have likely been more expensive and inconvenient.
If you can show me a site where I can buy generic laptop parts and build one all from scratch like I can a desktop, I'd appreciate it. The major complaint about not being able to buy a machine w/o Windows has usually be by laptop buyers. Fortunately, there are some manufacturers who now sell linux pre-installed on their laptops. However, if push comes to shove, and Billy tells Dell to drop linux preinstalls or have their next set of license agreements given the same treatment that IBM got in 1995, what do you think they will do?
70's? You're off by a decade. Try early 60s. One of the planes that NASA uses was built in 1965. SR-71 History
A chase plane at Edwards accidentally flew into one of the B-70 prototype's exhaust nozzles and blew up. The B-70 flew on for a few seconds and then augered into the desert. This was a setback, but probably wasn't what killed it. The advent of Russian SAMs that could easily reach the B-70s max operating altitude and the bomber's huge radar signature is what killed it. It couldn't adapt to the ground hugging attack strategy very well, either, so the project was killed and the use of the BUFFs continued.
You've never heard of the B-1B then. They are built to do just that. Ranchers near the training grounds don't like them much when they break the sound barrier a few hundred feet off the ground. It scares the crap out of the cattle. I got to sit in the ECM officer's seat during a tour of the local SAC base. They invited juniors and seniors from the nearby engineering college in order to try to get them to join the USAF. The B-1Bs and getting to play around in the Minuteman practice silo were lots of fun.
I don't know about the MiG-31s, but the SR-71s never had anything to fear from the MiG-25s. According to the pilot that flew his MiG-25 to Japan in the late 70s/early 80s, they would try to catch SR-71s from time to time. Their MiGs while rated at a top speed of approximately Mach 2.5, but they would rarely go that fast because their engines would get too hot and seize up. They tried shooting one down with air-to-air missles, too, but the missles weren't fast enough either.
I didn't really see how this would aid in automatic grading of tests or homework. If the kids have to use a computer & printer to generate the results, then why not transfer it electronically? If they are to use the good ole No. 2 pencil, why not just use 'fill in the dot' type forms?
Depending on the paper and ink used, this could be good way to archive long time storage. With a magnifying glass and sufficient patience, it would be human readable too.
However, I think your amount per page is off. If a 3x3 pixel block is used, shouldn't there be 4200 lines of data on the page? With 400 bytes/per line, that works out to about 1.6M. Using a 2x2 pixel block, there would be 6300 lines, and about 3.6M. Even if a blank line is put between each data line, that could still be a significant amount of data.
Check with your department to see if your school has any cooperative education or intern partnerships with any companies or research organizations. In most cases, this is either for a summer or a summer plus a semester. At the end of the co-op program, the student writes a report about what they did while employed and receive credit for it. This can often turn into permanent employement once you graduate. I know several people (myself included) that worked a few summers and a semester or two for a company and went right to work after graduation.
We have separate accounts now...it practically took an Act of Congress to get her to agree to that. "that means you don't trust me"...Uh, yeah..given your track record, who would?
I also tried just letting her have cash for everything that she's supposed to be in charge of, but she was insulted by that too.
Wrong Austin. Bionic man not wrestler.
Of course, I don't have my email address listed. Why would I want slashdotters emailing me?
I actually love my wife and vice versa. I just wish she would engage her brain before opening her purse. Keeping receipts is nice, but that just allows me to do a post mortem without having to hit the bank website. She either doesn't get the logic behind keeping a checkbook register with you so you can see how much money you have before you spend it and then updating it immediately after you do write a check/use a debit card or she's too lazy to do it. Probably a bit of both. She's not an idiot, so I can't understand why she doesn't do it.
Besides, from informal polls at the workplace, it's not all that uncommon for one spouse to be like this. Also, it would be more than half. I'd have to pay 20-25% of my income for child support under state law (probably against gross income too).
Find a woman who loves you and not your money...
Yeah right! I had a hard enough time finding a woman that would have anything to do with me when I was younger. I doubt that I'd have any better luck now that I'm older and fatter.
Well, we all know that PHBs' perceptions often do not match with reality. A dot com may start up in the Bay Area because they _think_ they will be able to attract talent (and pretend to be hip & trendy at the same time) worth paying the high rent. In reality, they may be getting the same as what they could get in another city, but still have the higher rent. A dot com moved her last year because they needed to turn down their 'burn rate'. They recently annouced that they are going out of business, but they delayed it a year.
No kidding. When I went through customs last year after a trip to Europe, they didn't even look at me or my luggage. The guy just took the customs claim form and shoved it in a box. No one from customs asked me a damn thing. And I was worried that I might have been over the limit of alcohol one could bring into the country.
According to my bank (and a couple other businesses), it is possible to determine whether a card is a real credit card or a debit card. Now that I think of it, I've had a few transactions held up because of it.
Actual theft and transaction policies vary from bank to bank. With my bank, a transaction doesn't happen immediately. There is usually a lag of 2-3 days between the time the purchase is made and when it's posted. So if one looses the card or it's stolen, there is enough time to contact the bank and they will cancel any charges. They also usually have a limit on how much can be taken out each day and how much can be taken out over a given number of days. Also, if there is an error, they will reverse the charges. I've had that happen a few times and it's not that big of a problem.
I really like prepaid credit cards like those that used to be offered by pocketcard. They would offer the standard credit card protections, but instead of paying off a statement every month, you would load the card via an ACH bank transfer or check. They would also email account activity statements daily. Unfortunately, they've gone out of business and VisaBuxx cards are expensive.
I don't have a problem with restraining purchases. The wife does and the only way to cure that is a 2x4 to the head. But since that would put me in jail, I"ve head to weather bankruptcy and all the crap that goes along with it because an adult woman acts like a spoiled brat when it comes to money. Needless to say, the only real credit cards that I could possibly get are from the companies that require cash up front and screw you over with tons of charges. A VisaBuxx card would be cheaper! The work around? Get the bank to set the limits low and move the money back and forth between savings accounts when needed.
In a race between who to drain the account faster, my wife could beat any crook. The idea of having a credit card for 'safe' purchases is nice, but many people use them as a short term way to increase their buying power. That's why show's like Dave Ramsey's exists. My attitude now is that if I don't have the money to pay for it, I either save up for it or do with out.