I agree with being able to feel a difference. I work in a research lab and my time is split about 50/50 between computer and benchwork. On the days that I sit at my computer for the entire 8 hours I feel more sluggish and tired. But they days where I am at the bench even 5 out of my 8 hours, I leave feeling more awake and less stiff. I would love to get a standing workstation or even a treadmill desk for every day use!
I have feeling that the group of people who do not understand pictures on the safety card greatly overlaps with the people who do not understand how to download and use apps on a smartphone.
I thought the stripes broke up the outlines of individuals and made it harder for predators to single one out of a crowd? Or did no actual research go into that claim?
It's ok, because the screen in my center console can pull up Facebook, so I'll just take my eyes off the road and read it there. Don't get me wrong, having a HUD in front of your eyeballs while driving is a terrible idea, but let's think about the big picture here.
While I'm glad someone is teaching these kids about personal finance, I feel like this is yet another subject that should be taught by parents. I took an elementary economics class in high school that also taught us how to make a budget and even balance a checkbook. However, I had learned these things several years earlier. I know nowadays more than half of Americans are in massive debt so perhaps parents wouldn't set the best example for their kids. Just makes me sad that this sort of thing is even needed.
As a programmer and someone with terrible vision (Google "nystagmus"), ridiculously high resolution monitors are particularly useless for and even detrimental to my productivity. Yes, I can fit 10 programs on the screen at once, but none of that matters as I can not read the resulting size 6 font in each of those windows. I'll stick to my two, 20", 1280 x 800 goodies.
If you're upset/stressed/worried and just want to do something simple to make yourself feel a little better, the worst thing you can have happen is someone nagging you about not doing to one thing that you think would make you feel better. It's a good way to get someone more upset and a good way to end up with a broken phone.
Yes, lets have random candy advertisements flung at diabetics and ads for peanut butter shown to people who would die if they ate it, just because they happened to walk by the shelf (which is not hard to do in a grocery store). The people handing out free samples of crap food that I don't want are annoying enough. I don't need to have the shelves themselves haranguing me about what to buy! The entire store is one giant ad already! Why do you think things come in brightly-colored, shiny packages? They get your attention! You learn color patterns and associate foods with certain labels. And if things are on sale, it generally says on an eye-catching tag under the item. Why do I need a shelf telling me that Oreos are on sale when I can see the bright red "SALE" tag right under the bright blue Oreos package? Geez!
My favorite is always when I am shopping for gifts online. I look at many items (and possibly purchase a few) most of which, I have zero interest in for myself. However, because I happened to look at them, suddenly there are banner ads everywhere for items I want nothing to do with.
I also have this issue with work. I work for a biotech company and we order our products from a few usual lab supply sites. Sometimes I see banner ads for the same things. If I'm at work, ok, but I already have that information because I was just on that company's site earlier. If I'm at home and just happened to look at something (maybe from an e-mail) then biotech banner ads are plastered all over my personal computer for a week. Sorry folks, I'm not shopping for lab supplies at home.
A lot of targeted ads just don't work for the way I browse and it makes me laugh at them.
I would dearly love to be able to get to/from work (~30 minute each way commute) without having to waste an hour every day with the non-productive task of driving. It is a huge waste of my time. It potentially solves other problems as well like helping handicapped people, reducing drunk driving, freeing up huge amounts of non-productive time and more.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're the first person I've seen pick up on the points of self-driving cars that most people gloss over. I am very blind and, on a good day, might be able to qualify for a daytime-restriction licence. That means that, in the dead of winter, I might have about 6 hours where I can actually be out on the road driving. If I have an 8-hour/day job, that means I have to find other ways to get to work and I have to coordinate running errands/visiting friends with daylight hours. At that point, why would I have a car if I can't really use it for half the year. Why don't I just take a bus! (which I do). Now, while I love public transportation, commute times can be frustrating. I live about 6 miles from work, which requires a car commute of about 15 minutes. However, the bus to travel the same distance can take up to 40 minutes due to many stops (it's a very busy route).
Letting someone else drive is great. I do work on the bus or read a book or whatever. Sometimes though, I am limited in my activities due to crowds (seriously, I can't even open my laptop on my lap sometimes) or noise (try reading when there's a load of screaming kids on the bus). I would LOVE to have a vehicle that could get me to work, without me having to drive it, and would not make 27 stops along the way.
On the productivity point, imagine what this could mean for living situations. So live a 2-hour drive from where you work? So what (other than fuel costs of getting the car there and back)? Instead of spending 4 hours a day driving, think of it as spending 4 hours in a mobile living space. Watch TV! Work on a puzzle! Video chat with people! Surf the web! This technology could really go somewhere (no pun intended).
I'm not well versed in EM science at all (I know if I plug electronics into the magic holes in the wall, they work, and that's about it). But I do know that some EM fields can interfere with pacemakers. And I'm assuming they don't have to be that strong as some household power tools are enough to blip the things. Are the fields discussed in the article strong enough to be a problem for people with heart-regulating implants?
I agree with this. The reason I've never wanted to buy an XBox or a PS3 is because I could build my own computer for the price of buying one of those. When I heard the Wii U was joining that price tier, I lost all interest. While HD graphics are impressive and the new gamepad with the screen has some potential, I would rather forgo those things for a cheaper system (ie, a regular Wii). As others have mentioned, I've also remained disinterested as there are no big title games yet (Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc).
This is like, the fourth article in as many months on slashdot about why we should use insects as a food source. Are they pushing this as a new diet fad or something?
I don't understand why so many low-income people don't have bank accounts.
A lot of checking accounts require you to make a significant deposit to open them (like $500-$1000) even if you do not intend your balance to be anywhere near that. If you're living dollar to dollar, you can't save up that much money to even open a checking account to begin with.
The result wasn't that bad, but the real question is "Why the fuck was this ever even an issue in the first place"?
Patents should be for creations, not discoveries.
Seriously! I've been saying this since we first started sequencing the human genome!
Now excuse me, I'm going to go patent all the air in this room so my coworkers have to pay me a fee if they want to breathe.
Only terrorists, criminals and spies should fear secret activities of the British and US intelligence agencies.
That statement might have more credibility if it were not for the well documented use of RIPA powers for things unconnected to terrorism and serious crime.
The minister left out the word "suspected" from that thought.
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I agree with being able to feel a difference. I work in a research lab and my time is split about 50/50 between computer and benchwork. On the days that I sit at my computer for the entire 8 hours I feel more sluggish and tired. But they days where I am at the bench even 5 out of my 8 hours, I leave feeling more awake and less stiff. I would love to get a standing workstation or even a treadmill desk for every day use!
I have feeling that the group of people who do not understand pictures on the safety card greatly overlaps with the people who do not understand how to download and use apps on a smartphone.
I thought the stripes broke up the outlines of individuals and made it harder for predators to single one out of a crowd? Or did no actual research go into that claim?
I know this is a real thing but it sounds like something they made up on the spot. Sounds more like Aperture Science than NASA.
It's ok, because the screen in my center console can pull up Facebook, so I'll just take my eyes off the road and read it there. Don't get me wrong, having a HUD in front of your eyeballs while driving is a terrible idea, but let's think about the big picture here.
While I'm glad someone is teaching these kids about personal finance, I feel like this is yet another subject that should be taught by parents. I took an elementary economics class in high school that also taught us how to make a budget and even balance a checkbook. However, I had learned these things several years earlier. I know nowadays more than half of Americans are in massive debt so perhaps parents wouldn't set the best example for their kids. Just makes me sad that this sort of thing is even needed.
Wouldn't be surprised if they rebrand it "Windows Classic".
As a programmer and someone with terrible vision (Google "nystagmus"), ridiculously high resolution monitors are particularly useless for and even detrimental to my productivity. Yes, I can fit 10 programs on the screen at once, but none of that matters as I can not read the resulting size 6 font in each of those windows. I'll stick to my two, 20", 1280 x 800 goodies.
If you're upset/stressed/worried and just want to do something simple to make yourself feel a little better, the worst thing you can have happen is someone nagging you about not doing to one thing that you think would make you feel better. It's a good way to get someone more upset and a good way to end up with a broken phone.
One of the many features from my old Nokia that I miss. *sigh*
Wish I had mod points. My first thought was exactly this.
Yes, lets have random candy advertisements flung at diabetics and ads for peanut butter shown to people who would die if they ate it, just because they happened to walk by the shelf (which is not hard to do in a grocery store). The people handing out free samples of crap food that I don't want are annoying enough. I don't need to have the shelves themselves haranguing me about what to buy! The entire store is one giant ad already! Why do you think things come in brightly-colored, shiny packages? They get your attention! You learn color patterns and associate foods with certain labels. And if things are on sale, it generally says on an eye-catching tag under the item. Why do I need a shelf telling me that Oreos are on sale when I can see the bright red "SALE" tag right under the bright blue Oreos package? Geez!
My favorite is always when I am shopping for gifts online. I look at many items (and possibly purchase a few) most of which, I have zero interest in for myself. However, because I happened to look at them, suddenly there are banner ads everywhere for items I want nothing to do with.
I also have this issue with work. I work for a biotech company and we order our products from a few usual lab supply sites. Sometimes I see banner ads for the same things. If I'm at work, ok, but I already have that information because I was just on that company's site earlier. If I'm at home and just happened to look at something (maybe from an e-mail) then biotech banner ads are plastered all over my personal computer for a week. Sorry folks, I'm not shopping for lab supplies at home.
A lot of targeted ads just don't work for the way I browse and it makes me laugh at them.
for the movie Contagion?
I would dearly love to be able to get to/from work (~30 minute each way commute) without having to waste an hour every day with the non-productive task of driving. It is a huge waste of my time. It potentially solves other problems as well like helping handicapped people, reducing drunk driving, freeing up huge amounts of non-productive time and more.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're the first person I've seen pick up on the points of self-driving cars that most people gloss over. I am very blind and, on a good day, might be able to qualify for a daytime-restriction licence. That means that, in the dead of winter, I might have about 6 hours where I can actually be out on the road driving. If I have an 8-hour/day job, that means I have to find other ways to get to work and I have to coordinate running errands/visiting friends with daylight hours. At that point, why would I have a car if I can't really use it for half the year. Why don't I just take a bus! (which I do). Now, while I love public transportation, commute times can be frustrating. I live about 6 miles from work, which requires a car commute of about 15 minutes. However, the bus to travel the same distance can take up to 40 minutes due to many stops (it's a very busy route).
Letting someone else drive is great. I do work on the bus or read a book or whatever. Sometimes though, I am limited in my activities due to crowds (seriously, I can't even open my laptop on my lap sometimes) or noise (try reading when there's a load of screaming kids on the bus). I would LOVE to have a vehicle that could get me to work, without me having to drive it, and would not make 27 stops along the way.
On the productivity point, imagine what this could mean for living situations. So live a 2-hour drive from where you work? So what (other than fuel costs of getting the car there and back)? Instead of spending 4 hours a day driving, think of it as spending 4 hours in a mobile living space. Watch TV! Work on a puzzle! Video chat with people! Surf the web! This technology could really go somewhere (no pun intended).
Does anyone else think the 2DS kind of looks like the Tiger Electronics handheld games from back in the day?
I'm not well versed in EM science at all (I know if I plug electronics into the magic holes in the wall, they work, and that's about it). But I do know that some EM fields can interfere with pacemakers. And I'm assuming they don't have to be that strong as some household power tools are enough to blip the things. Are the fields discussed in the article strong enough to be a problem for people with heart-regulating implants?
This was the first game taught me how to rage quit.
I agree with this. The reason I've never wanted to buy an XBox or a PS3 is because I could build my own computer for the price of buying one of those. When I heard the Wii U was joining that price tier, I lost all interest. While HD graphics are impressive and the new gamepad with the screen has some potential, I would rather forgo those things for a cheaper system (ie, a regular Wii). As others have mentioned, I've also remained disinterested as there are no big title games yet (Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc).
Play video games AND get the wrinkles out of your clothes at the same time! This is revolutionary!
This is like, the fourth article in as many months on slashdot about why we should use insects as a food source. Are they pushing this as a new diet fad or something?
I don't understand why so many low-income people don't have bank accounts.
A lot of checking accounts require you to make a significant deposit to open them (like $500-$1000) even if you do not intend your balance to be anywhere near that. If you're living dollar to dollar, you can't save up that much money to even open a checking account to begin with.
...that people who talk in the theater are going to a SPECIAL hell.
The result wasn't that bad, but the real question is "Why the fuck was this ever even an issue in the first place"?
Patents should be for creations, not discoveries.
Seriously! I've been saying this since we first started sequencing the human genome! Now excuse me, I'm going to go patent all the air in this room so my coworkers have to pay me a fee if they want to breathe.
That statement might have more credibility if it were not for the well documented use of RIPA powers for things unconnected to terrorism and serious crime.
The minister left out the word "suspected" from that thought.