Cars are wierd... not usre why people use them so much...they make you fat...
Although not speaking from personal experience(can't be bothered to get a driver's license), here's a couple of reasons to prefer a car over a bike, be it recumbent or not. - Dress: suits and bicycles don't mix, no matter the weather. Rain and snow are self-evident, too much heat causes one to arrive at work all sweaty. - Flexibility: even though work might be close, one might have to pack up and leave for another location somewhere halfway the working day. - Status: people seem to think it's funny to take a bike, well, outside Holland and China anyway.
Well, here's a business model for you. For a small fee, you can alleviate all of the worries in one fell swoop. Drive up the driveway, pick up computer, place computer in van, drive away. Problem solved...and you get a Beowulf cluster as a bonus.
It's one thing to say "I don't know" and another to make up crap to make a $10 sale. Had the guy even been savvy enough to have been reading slashdot he'd have offered the customer use of a computer connected to the internet to search, and possibly opened the box to read off the model number from the part.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. As a salesperson, assuming for the moment that one does know the difference between NT and Linux, the right answer would have been "I don't know, but let's sit down and find out, and if it isn't compatible find another card that is". This time the customer only came in for a NIC, the next time he might want a full upgrade kit.
of all the X-Com titles I'd have to say Apocalypse was the better game, but nothing beats the sensation of playing X-Com for the first time, hunting down sectoids, only to encounter one of 'm floating thingamabob. The funny thing is, I haven't played X-com since a 486 was state of the art, and yet I can still remember the sound of armored men clanking out of an avenger. Oh, and let's not forget the Blaster Bomb...around 2 corners, up, down, left, and in the window.
They are using a photo of a traffic cop dancing in the street to illustrate their point. I could have sworn I've seen that cop on TV. He does these crazy moves and motions as he directs traffic. Pretty entertaining to see and a lot better then a cop with a chip on his shoulder. I have doubts that he is really all that immature. Just a guy having fun at his job.
Not to mention a bit of exercise. This world would be a happier place if more people danced in the streets.
You are right though, in reality I do not mind secret courts, phone tapping, bank tapping, warrantless searches, americans being held indefinatly without access to a lawyer or charges being filed, torture, secret prisons, war, CIA leaks, and our spending more money on defense than all other countries on the planet combined and doubled while our education and healthcare go down the toilet and we run up a defecit that cannot reasonably be paid in the next 5 generations.
Yup, red handed. Was just trying to annoy you, my bad.:-(
Can we go back to blaming communism?
You know what I'm curious about? Whether the chap that set up 9/11 imagined this kind of outcome, even in his wildest dreams. I guess one man can in fact change the world, all he needs is some guns, a few planes and a couple of well-indoctrinated morons.
I think your attribution to Guus Hiddink (with double u) makes most sense. He did the same trick 4 years ago with soccer no-no South Korea (now quite succesfully coached by another renowned dutchman, Leo "the general" Beenhakker).
Sorry, but Beenhakker is coaching Trinidad & Tobago. Dick Advocaat is who you're looking for;-)
This morning while on the way to work I noticed an ad for underwear. It involved 3 ladies, 1 wearing regular undies, 2 of them wearing a string, all 3 seen from the back jumping for a volleyball. Best part was that this ad was located on the back of a bus filled with schoolchildren.
I just don't see that working beyond very small, fairly insular, niches. I believe that ultimately such a model will result in a "neo-tragedy-of-the-commons" where lots of people take copies of the artist's work, but all, or almost all, will rely on "the other guy" to give money in support of the artists further work. Ultimately there won't be enough "other guys" to make the effort worthwhile - that's simply human nature - people don't like to pay for something they've already received for free.
Ahhh, human nature. And yet, there do seem to be quite a lot of people, and I consider myself to be one of them, who are already or could become quite fond of this concept. You see, what sets this apart from the mainstream channels is *choice*, and there's an entire generation of smart, net-savvy people out there, quite a few of them right on here slashdot in fact, who believe vehemently that being able to make one's own choices, to shape one's own life, to not blindly follow the flock, is hugely important. These are the people who might make use of this, and one of the huge advantages of having the web as we know it is that word-of-mouth advertising, which historically is the best kind, takes mere hours to encompass the globe.
Naturally, there will be a large group of people that take and don't give back. Almost certainly this group will be larger than those who consider such a thing improper/immoral/whatever. Nevertheless, the concept can work, and there's nothing wrong with having a bit of faith in humanity.
It has been said a million times, and it will be said a quadrillion more: Wisdom and intelligence are not the same thing. An intelligent person has tha ability to understand many things, but the wise person actually does.
There's a reasonable expectation that the bits you cover with clothes are of limits, so you get to decide which bits of your person are on public display. Similarly, you don't have the right to remove the burkha of a devout Muslim. Hell, that's the main purpose of clothing.
It is? Damn, and here I was thinking they were to prevent from getting cold...
Nature is not an idiot. She did not spend 4 billion years or so evolving homo sapiens just to overlook stem cells as the source of repair for all our medical problems. She has intimate knowledge of stem cells. If she doesn't use them, they don't work. It's not like she doesn't care. She's built, laboriously, a magnificent immune and repair system.
How about next time you're communing with nature, you let her know about those redundant tailbones, appendices and wisdom teeth we have?
So does anybody have a figure for how much energy is used, how much CO2 is produced and how much other waste is produced in order to generate a kW/h of nuclear power?
Just to nitpick, it's a kWh, not kW/h. That would make it a Joule/second/hour.
That, in my view, is exactly the problem with science class. To think that it is somehow more useful to memorize atomic weights, equations for physics, and notations to describe molecular structures than it is to teach students how to critically examine things is becoming more and more prevalent.
Memorizing the most basic of formulae as well as elementary math lays the foundation for further development. As a silly example, out of about 30 people at the place I work I'm the only one who can calculate how many amps a 900 Watt microwave pulls. Seems kinda pointless? Perhaps, unless you happen to work at the helldesk of a power company trying to figure out why someone keeps blowing his fuses. Certain basics one doesn't want to have to look up all the time but instead have at one's disposal at all times.
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Cars are wierd... not usre why people use them so much...they make you fat...
Although not speaking from personal experience(can't be bothered to get a driver's license), here's a couple of reasons to prefer a car over a bike, be it recumbent or not.
- Dress: suits and bicycles don't mix, no matter the weather. Rain and snow are self-evident, too much heat causes one to arrive at work all sweaty.
- Flexibility: even though work might be close, one might have to pack up and leave for another location somewhere halfway the working day.
- Status: people seem to think it's funny to take a bike, well, outside Holland and China anyway.
What's tough about it? Makes perfect sense to me.
Well, here's a business model for you. For a small fee, you can alleviate all of the worries in one fell swoop. Drive up the driveway, pick up computer, place computer in van, drive away. Problem solved...and you get a Beowulf cluster as a bonus.
Please replace every instance of "Wicked" with "Hella" to improve readability.
And this in a thread about cool Perl scripts?
$article =~ s/Wicked/Hella/g
Thank you, i'll be here all week...
It's one thing to say "I don't know" and another to make up crap to make a $10 sale. Had the guy even been savvy enough to have been reading slashdot he'd have offered the customer use of a computer connected to the internet to search, and possibly opened the box to read off the model number from the part.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. As a salesperson, assuming for the moment that one does know the difference between NT and Linux, the right answer would have been "I don't know, but let's sit down and find out, and if it isn't compatible find another card that is". This time the customer only came in for a NIC, the next time he might want a full upgrade kit.
of all the X-Com titles I'd have to say Apocalypse was the better game, but nothing beats the sensation of playing X-Com for the first time, hunting down sectoids, only to encounter one of 'm floating thingamabob. The funny thing is, I haven't played X-com since a 486 was state of the art, and yet I can still remember the sound of armored men clanking out of an avenger. Oh, and let's not forget the Blaster Bomb...around 2 corners, up, down, left, and in the window.
BOOOM!
Some folks just stay attached to that eight-year-old,
You know, in the context of this story that was a very akward place for that sentence to be cut in two by my browser.
Apparently not. This time he had a black leather trenchcoat, small sunglasses and was holding out 2 strangely colored pills.
They are using a photo of a traffic cop dancing in the street to illustrate their point. I could have sworn I've seen that cop on TV. He does these crazy moves and motions as he directs traffic. Pretty entertaining to see and a lot better then a cop with a chip on his shoulder. I have doubts that he is really all that immature. Just a guy having fun at his job.
Not to mention a bit of exercise. This world would be a happier place if more people danced in the streets.
When is it reasonable to conclude that the signal from Ceti Alpha 6 that repeats "1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 56" is not a natural signal?
The moment a cease and desist gets sent back claiming prior art.
Uh oh you caught me!
:-(
You are right though, in reality I do not mind secret courts, phone tapping, bank tapping, warrantless searches, americans being held indefinatly without access to a lawyer or charges being filed, torture, secret prisons, war, CIA leaks, and our spending more money on defense than all other countries on the planet combined and doubled while our education and healthcare go down the toilet and we run up a defecit that cannot reasonably be paid in the next 5 generations.
Yup, red handed. Was just trying to annoy you, my bad.
Can we go back to blaming communism?
You know what I'm curious about? Whether the chap that set up 9/11 imagined this kind of outcome, even in his wildest dreams. I guess one man can in fact change the world, all he needs is some guns, a few planes and a couple of well-indoctrinated morons.
I think your attribution to Guus Hiddink (with double u) makes most sense. He did the same trick 4 years ago with soccer no-no South Korea (now quite succesfully coached by another renowned dutchman, Leo "the general" Beenhakker).
;-)
Sorry, but Beenhakker is coaching Trinidad & Tobago. Dick Advocaat is who you're looking for
Personally, I draw the line at Axlotl tanks. Unfortunately, we seem to be getting closer to the Bene Tleilax all the time.
Unfortunately? I for one welcome our new mailorder russian facedancer brides!
And with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. So just edit your DNA to give yourself a thousand eyeballs, and it should be bug free!
:-)
Ehmmm, yes. One word: shampoo. In all 1000 eyeballs at once. Enjoy
now it is aginst the law.. humm i wonder how long before it either gets taken off the books or someone at M$ goes to jail
/.
you must be new here...people go to jail. Big companies get told they've been bad after which we get to complain about it on
This morning while on the way to work I noticed an ad for underwear. It involved 3 ladies, 1 wearing regular undies, 2 of them wearing a string, all 3 seen from the back jumping for a volleyball. Best part was that this ad was located on the back of a bus filled with schoolchildren.
I just don't see that working beyond very small, fairly insular, niches. I believe that ultimately such a model will result in a "neo-tragedy-of-the-commons" where lots of people take copies of the artist's work, but all, or almost all, will rely on "the other guy" to give money in support of the artists further work. Ultimately there won't be enough "other guys" to make the effort worthwhile - that's simply human nature - people don't like to pay for something they've already received for free.
Ahhh, human nature. And yet, there do seem to be quite a lot of people, and I consider myself to be one of them, who are already or could become quite fond of this concept. You see, what sets this apart from the mainstream channels is *choice*, and there's an entire generation of smart, net-savvy people out there, quite a few of them right on here slashdot in fact, who believe vehemently that being able to make one's own choices, to shape one's own life, to not blindly follow the flock, is hugely important. These are the people who might make use of this, and one of the huge advantages of having the web as we know it is that word-of-mouth advertising, which historically is the best kind, takes mere hours to encompass the globe.
Naturally, there will be a large group of people that take and don't give back. Almost certainly this group will be larger than those who consider such a thing improper/immoral/whatever. Nevertheless, the concept can work, and there's nothing wrong with having a bit of faith in humanity.
All of them soon to be unusable as soon as the new no-net-neutrality laws are in place next year...
At which point Google announces its independence as a nation and the revolution comes.
It has been said a million times, and it will be said a quadrillion more: Wisdom and intelligence are not the same thing. An intelligent person has tha ability to understand many things, but the wise person actually does.
d) I'm a sorcerer you insensitive clod!
Stockholders should *DEMAND* that businesses stop using Microsoft products because they are a very strong potential liability.
Yes, because spending *HUGE* chunks of money to avoid a potential problem is what big business is all about...
There's a reasonable expectation that the bits you cover with clothes are of limits, so you get to decide which bits of your person are on public display. Similarly, you don't have the right to remove the burkha of a devout Muslim. Hell, that's the main purpose of clothing.
It is? Damn, and here I was thinking they were to prevent from getting cold...
Nature is not an idiot. She did not spend 4 billion years or so evolving homo sapiens just to overlook stem cells as the source of repair for all our medical problems. She has intimate knowledge of stem cells. If she doesn't use them, they don't work. It's not like she doesn't care. She's built, laboriously, a magnificent immune and repair system.
How about next time you're communing with nature, you let her know about those redundant tailbones, appendices and wisdom teeth we have?
So does anybody have a figure for how much energy is used, how much CO2 is produced and how much other waste is produced in order to generate a kW/h of nuclear power?
Just to nitpick, it's a kWh, not kW/h. That would make it a Joule/second/hour.
That, in my view, is exactly the problem with science class. To think that it is somehow more useful to memorize atomic weights, equations for physics, and notations to describe molecular structures than it is to teach students how to critically examine things is becoming more and more prevalent.
Memorizing the most basic of formulae as well as elementary math lays the foundation for further development. As a silly example, out of about 30 people at the place I work I'm the only one who can calculate how many amps a 900 Watt microwave pulls. Seems kinda pointless? Perhaps, unless you happen to work at the helldesk of a power company trying to figure out why someone keeps blowing his fuses. Certain basics one doesn't want to have to look up all the time but instead have at one's disposal at all times.
Darn those publicly traded companies! How dare they!
You do know companies that *aren't* publicly traded tend to want to make money as well, don't you?