Now that is a brilliant idea - run your finger up the edge of the window and the top part tints, run your finger down and the top part clears. That idea is easy to implement, even on existing cars that are not tinted at the top of the windscreen. Cost per unit is minimal. Potential to expand idea is good - sunglasses/clear glasses, house windows for shade, house windows for privacy.
That is one of the best ideas I've heard since post-it notes
Here is another possible idea: LCD screen on windows. Track driver eye position. Create opaque circles exactly positioned on the lines between eyes and sun.
Until some crap in the buffer changes it to obscuring random cyclists, traffic lights, and/or police cars
This one needs a bit of perfecting before it goes between the driver's eyes and the road. It does hold great possibilites though for highlighting cyclists, traffic lights, road signs, and police cars. Your idea is excellent but I do get the feeling that we're missing some really fantastic possiblities - especially when combined with the idea in the article.
I wouldn't underestimate the Etioipians - some of them are better educated and more sophisticated than anyone I've ever met. Others are Africans with European tastes (along the Italian model) much like most of the people I meet - they have their own cycling federation for example.
Most however are only educated in doing what it takes to survive in a moderately tough place.
Onto those however you need to overlay one third of every bit of gasoline that powers your country and mine passing past its coastline and add an overly virulent strain of Islam - important because a Christian Ethiopian king saved the Prophet because of the story of Christmas fifteen hundred years ago.
Add all these things together and you get a fulcrum without a lever. Any fool can make a lever.
Having a fulcrum - that's the trick. With a fulcrum you can change the world just as the Founding Fathers did.
I use Fedora on two of my computers and that's what happens now. Most times a set of patches doesn't require any action at all after they've installed. Sometimes it requires a log out and log back in. It is unusual to need a reboot but it happens occasionally - indeed it happened yesterday with the new kernel, but even then it leaves the reboot up to my discretion and my choice of when.
This really doesn't look like it's going to change anything too radically.
Pluto has nitrogen snow, carbon monoxide snow, and methane snow. Mars only has water snow and carbon dioxide snow. Venus though is the coolest of them all because it has lead sulfide snow and bismuth sulfide snow - but only in the cool uplands above 2600m.
I have three eBay accounts and I sell on two of them. I was very startled when one eBay employee casually mentioned my other eBay account when I rang about my first account. EBay keeps track of people rather than accounts and they are well aware of who has multiple accounts and who doesn't. Not sure if they're aware of proxies though.
If you sell over $20,000 across two accounts neither of which reaches that $20,000, you can be sure that eBay will add the total sales for that seller to judge what they've sold.
Don't forget GST (goods and services tax) of 10% which all businesses have to pay and small sellers on eBay don't. I believe that $20,000 per year in gross sales is in fact a very good figure at which eBay sellers should start having to pay GST and keep the accounting that necessarily acompanies it. My only worry is that selling a caravan or car could seriously distort otherwise moderate amounts.
I'm one of the people affected by this and I'm keeping my sales deliberately just below $20,000 this financial year (which ends in two weeks). I was advised months ago that this was requested specifically for tax purposes. Centrelink and welfare was never mentioned at all until now and the ATO (tax office) was.
After 22 years working for the military I can say without doubt that the closest to a truly natural place is the target area of an artilleruy range.
Agriculture destroys habitat, housing destroys habitat, UXBs disincline both housing and agriculture.
Military firing ranges also protect indigenous heritage in a way that nothing else does - not that the indigenes ever get permission to see their heritage. It is however very well protected - and possibly even for their afterbears.
You do know that solar panels won't work in the basement...
I know it's a cheap joke but I'm a cheap kind of guy. My favourite basement of all time is Dean Kamen's (inventor of sedgway, half the equipment in the hospitals, and lots more - our modern day good guy Tesla and bad guy Edison all rolled into one) from his youth.
When he was a schoolkid he snuck into a museum one night and rewired the lighting of a single section. The next day he applied for the contract to do the whole museum and got laughed out of the door because he was a kid, until he told them to look at the section he had done the previous night. He narrowly avoided arrest and got the contract instead and did an excellent job.
With the money he earned he paid for a vacation for his parents and while they were away he had the family house removed from its blocks, a huge basement dug then filled with heavy lathes and state of the art engineerng goodies, and then had the house reseated.
To cover the extent of the cavernous basement he had to install a new patio over the part that the house didn't cover and when his parents came home they were thrilled to see the wonderful new patio he had built for them.
That was his last year in high school, and I'm sure that a few solar panels and clever power management wouldn't have been enough to run that particular glorious basement.
We make our own fun and we make our own hell - at least a lot of the time. I've long been interested in those quiet old white-haired who have a twinkle in their eye and yet generally had really hard lives. My mother ran old-folks homes so I actually lived in three retirement homes as I was growing up - it taught me that old people are often very interesting if you slow down and listen. Some of them have the wickedest sense of humour!
One thing I did notice was that the cheerful outnumbered the curmudgeons by a large margin and the morose were simply not reprsented at all - at least that I can remember.
Another thing I noticed was that those who talked about nowadays did seem to live longer than those who talked about when they were young. It's hard to be sure on that though because even though the turnover was high we never stayed more than a few years at any one place
The greatest thing that the experience taught me though was to make sure that I never end up in a retirement home. They are incredibly restrictive and stultifying places which are run to suit the board first (inevitably populated entirely by the curmudgeonly), the staff second, and the old a very, very distant third.
So do we really want Linux to become the major operating system for the desktop given what is happening in a different place where it has become dominant.
In evolutionary terms, all extraordinarily successful types of creature come from the fringe of a core group, move somewhere else, and then return (or not). We tend to look at Linux as a creature alone but it stands at the branch of a tree that started with Mulics in 1964. We are the inheritors and the guardians of this gift.
LOL! - while I understand and agree with you entirely, I rather like KDE4. The thing is that I came to it after the worst excesses had been ironed out so it was just a learning curve (as opposed to a cursing lurve). When I've since tried KDE3 I haven't liked it all. I'm not sure if it's because for me KDE3 is "newer" than KDE4 or if perhaps I just don't like it.
I really liked Gnome 2 with Compiz, but it seems to me that Unity has been a good thing because it has opened up so many closed people (such as myself) to so many new paradigms as they flee from Unity to find something else. I even know someone who likes Unity - but not enough to use it.
For me, well I find KDE4 really is an improvement over KDE3.
Perhaps, but empires usually take a while to die. However these measures could in years to come easily lead to the Chinese government using extraordinary rendition on non-Chinese citizens for offences against Chinese law committed outside of its juridisction.
Ugly precedents are being set and as you point out, the US may not always be in this position of relative strength.
No, seriously. I do know that the Swiss have life savers, I do know that the Swiss can swim; but every Swiss circumnavigator will forever be acoming around the mountain...
I'm still laughing...
As as adult I taught myself to write with my left hand, it takes a few years until you don't notice the difference. Now I write comfortably with either hand and my trade, air mech, meant that I could already use tools with either hand. I still cannot clean my teeth with my left hand, nor beat an egg though.
The real difference, and one that is almost impossible to override, is that when I design a document or website I draw all headlines and graphics with my left hand and write all body text with my right hand.
I did this by hand last year using a Times atlas and calculating for 5m rise for Greenland, 10m rise for West Antarctica, and 50m rise for the meliting of East Antarctica. I discovered that my city, Sydney, would vanish under the waves and that my suburb would be at the water's edge at the end of a peninsula. I also discovered that the ocean would flood large areas of inland Australia and that Queensland would have a western coastline as well as a Pacific coastline.
When I did the same test on this map, and allowing for the errors induced by its not allowing for landlocked depression, I cranked it up to the maximum 60m (5m less than my test last year) and I discovered that the ocean would not break into Australia's interior and that millions of square kilometres, say Texas and California combined, would not flood at all.
The difference between 60m and 65m is not so great but the difference in effect is astonishing.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsin wrote about starving prisoners in a Soviet Gulag finding a frozen mammoth in Siberia and eaiting if before the guards could take it away from them. He also mentions them eating fish and salamanders that had been frozen for thousands of years.
Thank you for the information, I've often wondered about them.
I only have about a 60% success rate on those swirly semi-inverted ones. My wife's friend's decaptcha software does a much better job than I do with its 79% success rate. I had wondered that as they get harder to read that the day was almost here when only machines would have the ability to decode captchas and prove that they were human.
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Now that is a brilliant idea - run your finger up the edge of the window and the top part tints, run your finger down and the top part clears. That idea is easy to implement, even on existing cars that are not tinted at the top of the windscreen. Cost per unit is minimal. Potential to expand idea is good - sunglasses/clear glasses, house windows for shade, house windows for privacy.
That is one of the best ideas I've heard since post-it notes
Here is another possible idea: LCD screen on windows. Track driver eye position. Create opaque circles exactly positioned on the lines between eyes and sun.
Until some crap in the buffer changes it to obscuring random cyclists, traffic lights, and/or police cars
This one needs a bit of perfecting before it goes between the driver's eyes and the road. It does hold great possibilites though for highlighting cyclists, traffic lights, road signs, and police cars. Your idea is excellent but I do get the feeling that we're missing some really fantastic possiblities - especially when combined with the idea in the article.
Collecting tax in Ethiopia has to be easier than collecting tax in Greece.
I wouldn't underestimate the Etioipians - some of them are better educated and more sophisticated than anyone I've ever met. Others are Africans with European tastes (along the Italian model) much like most of the people I meet - they have their own cycling federation for example.
Most however are only educated in doing what it takes to survive in a moderately tough place.
Onto those however you need to overlay one third of every bit of gasoline that powers your country and mine passing past its coastline and add an overly virulent strain of Islam - important because a Christian Ethiopian king saved the Prophet because of the story of Christmas fifteen hundred years ago.
Add all these things together and you get a fulcrum without a lever. Any fool can make a lever.
Having a fulcrum - that's the trick. With a fulcrum you can change the world just as the Founding Fathers did.
I use Fedora on two of my computers and that's what happens now. Most times a set of patches doesn't require any action at all after they've installed. Sometimes it requires a log out and log back in. It is unusual to need a reboot but it happens occasionally - indeed it happened yesterday with the new kernel, but even then it leaves the reboot up to my discretion and my choice of when.
This really doesn't look like it's going to change anything too radically.
Pluto has nitrogen snow, carbon monoxide snow, and methane snow.
Mars only has water snow and carbon dioxide snow.
Venus though is the coolest of them all because it has lead sulfide snow and bismuth sulfide snow - but only in the cool uplands above 2600m.
I have three eBay accounts and I sell on two of them. I was very startled when one eBay employee casually mentioned my other eBay account when I rang about my first account. EBay keeps track of people rather than accounts and they are well aware of who has multiple accounts and who doesn't. Not sure if they're aware of proxies though.
If you sell over $20,000 across two accounts neither of which reaches that $20,000, you can be sure that eBay will add the total sales for that seller to judge what they've sold.
Don't forget GST (goods and services tax) of 10% which all businesses have to pay and small sellers on eBay don't. I believe that $20,000 per year in gross sales is in fact a very good figure at which eBay sellers should start having to pay GST and keep the accounting that necessarily acompanies it. My only worry is that selling a caravan or car could seriously distort otherwise moderate amounts.
I'm one of the people affected by this and I'm keeping my sales deliberately just below $20,000 this financial year (which ends in two weeks). I was advised months ago that this was requested specifically for tax purposes. Centrelink and welfare was never mentioned at all until now and the ATO (tax office) was.
After 22 years working for the military I can say without doubt that the closest to a truly natural place is the target area of an artilleruy range.
Agriculture destroys habitat, housing destroys habitat, UXBs disincline both housing and agriculture.
Military firing ranges also protect indigenous heritage in a way that nothing else does - not that the indigenes ever get permission to see their heritage. It is however very well protected - and possibly even for their afterbears.
It's from a book by Steve Kemper that Dean Kamen tried very hard to bury:
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Name-Ginger-Behind-Segway/dp/1578516730
You do know that solar panels won't work in the basement...
I know it's a cheap joke but I'm a cheap kind of guy. My favourite basement of all time is Dean Kamen's (inventor of sedgway, half the equipment in the hospitals, and lots more - our modern day good guy Tesla and bad guy Edison all rolled into one) from his youth.
When he was a schoolkid he snuck into a museum one night and rewired the lighting of a single section. The next day he applied for the contract to do the whole museum and got laughed out of the door because he was a kid, until he told them to look at the section he had done the previous night. He narrowly avoided arrest and got the contract instead and did an excellent job.
With the money he earned he paid for a vacation for his parents and while they were away he had the family house removed from its blocks, a huge basement dug then filled with heavy lathes and state of the art engineerng goodies, and then had the house reseated.
To cover the extent of the cavernous basement he had to install a new patio over the part that the house didn't cover and when his parents came home they were thrilled to see the wonderful new patio he had built for them.
That was his last year in high school, and I'm sure that a few solar panels and clever power management wouldn't have been enough to run that particular glorious basement.
I met my girlfriend through D&D. Lost my virginity through D&D too. Different girls and in a different time.
We make our own fun and we make our own hell - at least a lot of the time. I've long been interested in those quiet old white-haired who have a twinkle in their eye and yet generally had really hard lives. My mother ran old-folks homes so I actually lived in three retirement homes as I was growing up - it taught me that old people are often very interesting if you slow down and listen. Some of them have the wickedest sense of humour!
One thing I did notice was that the cheerful outnumbered the curmudgeons by a large margin and the morose were simply not reprsented at all - at least that I can remember.
Another thing I noticed was that those who talked about nowadays did seem to live longer than those who talked about when they were young. It's hard to be sure on that though because even though the turnover was high we never stayed more than a few years at any one place
The greatest thing that the experience taught me though was to make sure that I never end up in a retirement home. They are incredibly restrictive and stultifying places which are run to suit the board first (inevitably populated entirely by the curmudgeonly), the staff second, and the old a very, very distant third.
So do we really want Linux to become the major operating system for the desktop given what is happening in a different place where it has become dominant. In evolutionary terms, all extraordinarily successful types of creature come from the fringe of a core group, move somewhere else, and then return (or not). We tend to look at Linux as a creature alone but it stands at the branch of a tree that started with Mulics in 1964. We are the inheritors and the guardians of this gift.
Telling lies, well what a surprise.
Given that 1 is divisible only by itself and 1 I hearby nominate it to be an honorary prime.
LOL! - while I understand and agree with you entirely, I rather like KDE4. The thing is that I came to it after the worst excesses had been ironed out so it was just a learning curve (as opposed to a cursing lurve). When I've since tried KDE3 I haven't liked it all. I'm not sure if it's because for me KDE3 is "newer" than KDE4 or if perhaps I just don't like it.
I really liked Gnome 2 with Compiz, but it seems to me that Unity has been a good thing because it has opened up so many closed people (such as myself) to so many new paradigms as they flee from Unity to find something else. I even know someone who likes Unity - but not enough to use it.
For me, well I find KDE4 really is an improvement over KDE3.
Perhaps, but empires usually take a while to die. However these measures could in years to come easily lead to the Chinese government using extraordinary rendition on non-Chinese citizens for offences against Chinese law committed outside of its juridisction.
Ugly precedents are being set and as you point out, the US may not always be in this position of relative strength.
No, seriously. I do know that the Swiss have life savers, I do know that the Swiss can swim; but every Swiss circumnavigator will forever be acoming around the mountain...
I'm still laughing...
As as adult I taught myself to write with my left hand, it takes a few years until you don't notice the difference. Now I write comfortably with either hand and my trade, air mech, meant that I could already use tools with either hand. I still cannot clean my teeth with my left hand, nor beat an egg though.
The real difference, and one that is almost impossible to override, is that when I design a document or website I draw all headlines and graphics with my left hand and write all body text with my right hand.
I did this by hand last year using a Times atlas and calculating for 5m rise for Greenland, 10m rise for West Antarctica, and 50m rise for the meliting of East Antarctica. I discovered that my city, Sydney, would vanish under the waves and that my suburb would be at the water's edge at the end of a peninsula. I also discovered that the ocean would flood large areas of inland Australia and that Queensland would have a western coastline as well as a Pacific coastline.
When I did the same test on this map, and allowing for the errors induced by its not allowing for landlocked depression, I cranked it up to the maximum 60m (5m less than my test last year) and I discovered that the ocean would not break into Australia's interior and that millions of square kilometres, say Texas and California combined, would not flood at all.
The difference between 60m and 65m is not so great but the difference in effect is astonishing.
Buffalo Wings won't you come out tonight?
Come out tonight?...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsin wrote about starving prisoners in a Soviet Gulag finding a frozen mammoth in Siberia and eaiting if before the guards could take it away from them. He also mentions them eating fish and salamanders that had been frozen for thousands of years.
Thank you for the information, I've often wondered about them.
I only have about a 60% success rate on those swirly semi-inverted ones. My wife's friend's decaptcha software does a much better job than I do with its 79% success rate. I had wondered that as they get harder to read that the day was almost here when only machines would have the ability to decode captchas and prove that they were human.