The energy needed to move my car with electricity is roughly the same as the energy needed to move my car with infernal combustion. The right question is "How much energy does it really take to haul my ass to the office/groceryStore/brothel and why do I continue to bump it when I try to fly?"
There is a reason that we call moving freight around shipping even when it gets done in a truck.
I can't imainge that this would be grounds for a release, their star QB looses a year of eligiblity to make this move... yeah I can see that happening a lot because the poor guy just won't be able to hookup at all if he doesn't post pictures on facebook. Nobody will talk about him and everybody will forget he goes to that school and he won't be able to get a date for the big dance.
hey steve, you're a kent state alum and into me for 12 large - how 'bout finding out if any of the starters went to a party friday night and I wont have to break your thumbs today.
given that only the un-patriotic oppose the patriot act and that only terrorists lament the suspension of the bill of rights as an anti-terrorism measure...
only people that are on drugs are opposed to drug tests, particularly for student athletes. Make 'em take lots of tests to compensate for the ones they're not taking in their classes.
As the parent of a student athlete I would welcome more drug testing - make my kid pee in a bottle every night and email me the results - don't stop at illegal drugs either, let me know if he's been drinking or skipping his vitamins.
one must give up a certain amount of one's personal identity to be a part of a larger organization. If price of belonging to the team (whose reward is a free ride amoung all else) is too great then it will become a recruiting problem.
If somebody was offerring to pick up my tab in exchange for my playing lacrosse I can't imagine that I would miss the virtual relationships from facebook - i mean think of all the realtime stripper parties I would be enjoying in exchange.
I'm all for free as in speech, but there are circumstances where certain people need to be resticted from saying things in certain venues - think Martha Stewart and Pete "charlie hustle" Rose for a couple of examples. Since college boys in general and jocks in particular have demonstrated a propensity towards saying wrong things this action is not only warranted but prudent.
Kudos to the man for keeping the overprivildged down!
generally, it is the stuff that gets turned into a vapor and then condenses that we collect from de still, at least that was the way that grand-pappy done it. If we wasn't collecting the vapor we wouldn't need a still - we would use a pot and just boil it for a while, I think we might end up with mulled wine or hot cider or something like that.
once upon a time we called gasoline petroleum distillate - it has to be distilled several times, more times than diesel does. We usually get alcohol from a single distilling.
Posting anything anywhere, Xanga in particular, under yer own name is not a bright thing.
I regret my selection of my slashdot pseudonym as it reveals far too much personal information. You don't think my (school|employer|favorite jackbooted government agency) is monitoring this discussion, do ya?
I've watched programmers stand fuddled at the fax and end up having to ask administrative assistants for help.
I know that facsimile transmission is a pot hole on the information hiway, and hardly worthy of being called a computer, but it looks like an AtoD converter to somebody.
I have both a foretrex and a forerunner. I didn't buy the mapsource from garmin. I use GPSutility and some other stuff to read it the raw coordinates and then display them with Delorme's TopoUsa. I had purchased TopoUSA years before I got the ForeRunner. You can map your tracks without any commerical software by taking screen shots from google maps - but I don't think you're gonna be real happy with the results. If I was trying to set it all up today I think I would just get the MapSource from Garmin. The whole deal would be about $250(150 for the GPS and 100 for the software).
I think most of the people that want to track their speed and distance already have a GPS. This doesn't look like it's gonna get them to switch.
Did you notice in TFA that the gal is running around with the iPod strapped to her upper arm, as is typical. In this position the iPod display is not visible, so you would only get the voice feedback. TFA has no detail about what cues are delivered to the ear buds or what control you have over them (I want to be notified when my pace drops below 8 min or above 8.25). I'm pretty happy with the visual display that I get from the Garmin foretrex/forerunner which is straped to my wrist and easily visible.
It would be cool if you could configure your playlist to be controled by milestones. Of course, if you were that interested in doing that you have probably already just trimmed the songs to fit or adjusted the milestones to fit the playlist, e.g. I know that I should be at the Arapaho stop light by the time "Making Thunderbirds" finishes to be on pace.
Using a pedometer in the shoe is limiting, it only collects data about traveling by foot, nothing for the bike and swim legs. The garmin on my wrist works better than most bike computers and there are no flimsy wires to break - it was priced about the same as a lot of wireless bike odometers too (but it lacks cadence monitoring). It's true I do miss signals while swimming, but I only notice this when I upload the bread crumbs to the PC and examine them closely as the foretrex extrapolates the distance between the points that it does get signals for. I don't look at it as often while I'm swimming as I do on foot or bike anyway, so the missing points don't worry me much.
Uploading data from my GPS to my PC is somewhat of a hassle, but I didn't buy the manufacter's software either, so the kludged together process I go through is partly my own fault. The syncing of the iPod is pretty cool, way better than the syncing of my GPS. I usually just type it in. But on the rare occasions where I go to the trouble to superimpose the breadcrumbs on top of a map I like to be able to do this, and there isn't a chance with a pedometer.
There are other things that I would rather see integrated with my iPod than my shoes, but you gotta develop what the crap weasles pay ya to as open source hardware is well, not ready for prime time. Maybe this inteface will generate heaps of cash for Apple and they will expand the interface to things like a heads up display on my sunglasses or stuff that would be really cool.
Yes PCs are somewhat ubiquitous. They will become increasingly so, like the telephone. Continuing that analogy, people are facinated with the features of their wireless phones but more than a little blase about the wired handset.
If you could produce a pocket rocket with the storage of an iPod, the conectivity of a Treo and an interface for a high quality lens and a garmin fortrex (a small USB hub would fit the bill), powered by a fuel cell, with heads up display... Chances are the device will be recognised more as a phone with lots of features more than a portable PC.
I guess I just muddle along with this stupid PC, which is becoming more and more like a thin client appliance every day as I have less and less capability to jack around with the data that I store on it. But then that's only because I wouldn't want to break any laws by chopping up the audio/video I purchased and thereby label myself as a terrorist.
Twenty years ago people were all the time telling me that the biggest problem with unix was all the different versions, nobody was ever gonna use it if they couldn't be certain tht the version they picked will still be around in ten years. They were for the most part MVS bigots (or CDC cybernaughts).
I've heard a lot of the same stuff 'bout linux, mostly from windows washers.
This talk about forks doing harm to java is pretty much the same type of FUD.
I just see Emily Latella saying "Forks are good! I think there should be more forks. Just imagine how much more the Chinese could have contributed if they hadn't spent so much time fumbling around with those chopsticks..." Finaly, Chevy leans over and whispers "fork me"
the days of the franchise station are over. Very few owner operated gas stations still exist, at least in major urban areas. All through the 80s & 90s the company stores were retailing at about the same price that they were wholesaleing, forcing owners to either give up the pump and focus solely on service, survive on the soda pop margin, or to become computer programmers.
Mcdonalds does franchise, but you can't get into one with less than a $1M, and owners often own more than one. I worked at a fast food franchise when I was a kid, it wasn't a great job but it wasn't a bad relationship, the owener and I both got what we wanted out of it. I've talked with more than a few mickydees emps that view thier jobs there as a stepping stone on the path that is the American dream (it's only a matter of time before we start seeing H1B visa holders there).
It's a gross generalization, but it's true: Smaller business survive because the employees and customers alike share a higher level of satisfaction with conditions of the execution of the agreement. Big business is ALL about the economy of scale and squeezing every last drop, customer are driven by price/performance ratios that they mistake for quality, employees are driven by FUD and the hope of climbing the ladder towards the land of the golden parachute.
The irony is that the the bigger a company gets the more it tends to waste.
The big three are not in trouble, they just like to whine about how tough it is and how they need protection from foreign compitetion and exemptions from taxation. Management will always blame the fruits of their bad descisions on the workers, or the fickle customers or anything but themselves. Buying into their propaganda won't get you a better deal on the SUV that you feel you need have to be safe on the road.
Jobs are offshored because they can be done cheaper elsewhere. Until the standard of living in the US is lower than everywhere else there will always be cheaper labor elsewhere. Personally I'm not that exicited about bringing third world wages to my fellow Americans even I'm pulling down the big bucks myself. The exploitees would quickly realise that it was easier to quit that slaving job and just steal my stuff while I was at work. As we continue to decrease the benefits paid to our armed forces the third world may come to that conclusion on a national rather than individual level. Right now the Chinese can get what ever they want much cheaper by trade than by force, as there standard of living increases there will come a time when this is no longer true. Of course by that time we won't have any wealth to speak of and the only reason the would have to invade would be to exapand - kick out ass and take our grass as it were.
Outsourcing is completely different matter than offshoring. Work is oursourced for a variety of reasons, economy of scale, leveraging resources, focusing on core compentecies. I suspect that you've ordered plenty of pizzas but even on the rare occasion when you think you might like to make one from scratch you're buying canned sauce. There is the matter of the equipment - those big honking pizza ovens ain't cheap and the little one in your kitchen just doesn't do it as well. There is the matter of the time involved, you wanna spend all day cooking tomatos for one pizza?
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No, MYSQL would be pronounced as you describe. But the lower case 'y' clearly denotes that that is not part of the acronym
you're almost there, you've seen the light about how little the company cares for the worker and vice versa.
Now tell me why the association of my health care insurance to this lot is such a good idea.
Even IF I don't change employers, they contract the insurance company for a year at a time and when they switch carriers I've got to find a new doctor who is on the new plan. The only part that I'm not clear on is why I haven't moved to Canada yet, eh.
yeah, we see that from time to time this tech helps us find a little pussy or brings rover home. But do we have any idea about how the critters feel about it, does it interfer with the voices that they hear. The voices are telling me that it's bad, very bad - and I'm not $pringing for it on any of my critters let alone my childrens.
Yeah, I know that it could help keep them from getting snatched and turned into sex slaves but I don't think any of my critters would make that good of sex slaves anyway. I pity the fool that tries to snatch my nearly grown young bucks. I fear the government that tries to tag them like cattle. Neither one of them has the good sense to fear anything, so I have to fret enough for the lot of us. I hope that they can preserve our radio free freedom at least until I croak.
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you would sell your house and move? or would you spend at least 4 hours a day in an auto? either way it doesn't sound like a match for Pooh Bear.
I thought that Sobane Oxley legislation solved all this. OR at least the part about knowing who had access to what.
The energy needed to move my car with electricity is roughly the same as the energy needed to move my car with infernal combustion. The right question is "How much energy does it really take to haul my ass to the office/groceryStore/brothel and why do I continue to bump it when I try to fly?"
There is a reason that we call moving freight around shipping even when it gets done in a truck.
How did MicroSoft transition from "embrace and extend" to a "first mover"?
the third one would be those that think they can but really can't
I mean as long as there are UIL sports and rec leagues who would miss watching overpaid, overprivildged twits on parade.
go ahead and shave your chest and paint it in the local high school's colors, you'll feel right at home under the friday night lights
I can't imainge that this would be grounds for a release, their star QB looses a year of eligiblity to make this move... yeah I can see that happening a lot because the poor guy just won't be able to hookup at all if he doesn't post pictures on facebook. Nobody will talk about him and everybody will forget he goes to that school and he won't be able to get a date for the big dance.
hey steve, you're a kent state alum and into me for 12 large - how 'bout finding out if any of the starters went to a party friday night and I wont have to break your thumbs today.
given that only the un-patriotic oppose the patriot act
and that only terrorists lament the suspension of the bill of rights as an anti-terrorism measure...
only people that are on drugs are opposed to drug tests, particularly for student athletes. Make 'em take lots of tests to compensate for the ones they're not taking in their classes.
As the parent of a student athlete I would welcome more drug testing - make my kid pee in a bottle every night and email me the results - don't stop at illegal drugs either, let me know if he's been drinking or skipping his vitamins.
(college kids == adults) {mustBeOnCrack(you)}
one must give up a certain amount of one's personal identity to be a part of a larger organization. If price of belonging to the team (whose reward is a free ride amoung all else) is too great then it will become a recruiting problem.
If somebody was offerring to pick up my tab in exchange for my playing lacrosse I can't imagine that I would miss the virtual relationships from facebook - i mean think of all the realtime stripper parties I would be enjoying in exchange.
I'm all for free as in speech, but there are circumstances where certain people need to be resticted from saying things in certain venues - think Martha Stewart and Pete "charlie hustle" Rose for a couple of examples. Since college boys in general and jocks in particular have demonstrated a propensity towards saying wrong things this action is not only warranted but prudent.
Kudos to the man for keeping the overprivildged down!
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generally, it is the stuff that gets turned into a vapor and then condenses that we collect from de still, at least that was the way that grand-pappy done it. If we wasn't collecting the vapor we wouldn't need a still - we would use a pot and just boil it for a while, I think we might end up with mulled wine or hot cider or something like that.
once upon a time we called gasoline petroleum distillate - it has to be distilled several times, more times than diesel does. We usually get alcohol from a single distilling.
Posting anything anywhere, Xanga in particular, under yer own name is not a bright thing.
I regret my selection of my slashdot pseudonym as it reveals far too much personal information. You don't think my (school|employer|favorite jackbooted government agency) is monitoring this discussion, do ya?
I've watched programmers stand fuddled at the fax and end up having to ask administrative assistants for help.
I know that facsimile transmission is a pot hole on the information hiway, and hardly worthy of being called a computer, but it looks like an AtoD converter to somebody.
I have both a foretrex and a forerunner. I didn't buy the mapsource from garmin. I use GPSutility and some other stuff to read it the raw coordinates and then display them with Delorme's TopoUsa. I had purchased TopoUSA years before I got the ForeRunner. You can map your tracks without any commerical software by taking screen shots from google maps - but I don't think you're gonna be real happy with the results. If I was trying to set it all up today I think I would just get the MapSource from Garmin. The whole deal would be about $250(150 for the GPS and 100 for the software).
I think most of the people that want to track their speed and distance already have a GPS. This doesn't look like it's gonna get them to switch.
Did you notice in TFA that the gal is running around with the iPod strapped to her upper arm, as is typical. In this position the iPod display is not visible, so you would only get the voice feedback. TFA has no detail about what cues are delivered to the ear buds or what control you have over them (I want to be notified when my pace drops below 8 min or above 8.25). I'm pretty happy with the visual display that I get from the Garmin foretrex/forerunner which is straped to my wrist and easily visible.
It would be cool if you could configure your playlist to be controled by milestones. Of course, if you were that interested in doing that you have probably already just trimmed the songs to fit or adjusted the milestones to fit the playlist, e.g. I know that I should be at the Arapaho stop light by the time "Making Thunderbirds" finishes to be on pace.
Using a pedometer in the shoe is limiting, it only collects data about traveling by foot, nothing for the bike and swim legs. The garmin on my wrist works better than most bike computers and there are no flimsy wires to break - it was priced about the same as a lot of wireless bike odometers too (but it lacks cadence monitoring). It's true I do miss signals while swimming, but I only notice this when I upload the bread crumbs to the PC and examine them closely as the foretrex extrapolates the distance between the points that it does get signals for. I don't look at it as often while I'm swimming as I do on foot or bike anyway, so the missing points don't worry me much.
Uploading data from my GPS to my PC is somewhat of a hassle, but I didn't buy the manufacter's software either, so the kludged together process I go through is partly my own fault. The syncing of the iPod is pretty cool, way better than the syncing of my GPS. I usually just type it in. But on the rare occasions where I go to the trouble to superimpose the breadcrumbs on top of a map I like to be able to do this, and there isn't a chance with a pedometer.
There are other things that I would rather see integrated with my iPod than my shoes, but you gotta develop what the crap weasles pay ya to as open source hardware is well, not ready for prime time. Maybe this inteface will generate heaps of cash for Apple and they will expand the interface to things like a heads up display on my sunglasses or stuff that would be really cool.
why would people with nothing to hide want to encrypt their conversations.
Yes PCs are somewhat ubiquitous. They will become increasingly so, like the telephone. Continuing that analogy, people are facinated with the features of their wireless phones but more than a little blase about the wired handset.
If you could produce a pocket rocket with the storage of an iPod, the conectivity of a Treo and an interface for a high quality lens and a garmin fortrex (a small USB hub would fit the bill), powered by a fuel cell, with heads up display... Chances are the device will be recognised more as a phone with lots of features more than a portable PC.
I guess I just muddle along with this stupid PC, which is becoming more and more like a thin client appliance every day as I have less and less capability to jack around with the data that I store on it. But then that's only because I wouldn't want to break any laws by chopping up the audio/video I purchased and thereby label myself as a terrorist.
if people didn't like 'em, they wouldn't happen.
Twenty years ago people were all the time telling me that the biggest problem with unix was all the different versions, nobody was ever gonna use it if they couldn't be certain tht the version they picked will still be around in ten years. They were for the most part MVS bigots (or CDC cybernaughts).
I've heard a lot of the same stuff 'bout linux, mostly from windows washers.
This talk about forks doing harm to java is pretty much the same type of FUD.
I just see Emily Latella saying "Forks are good! I think there should be more forks. Just imagine how much more the Chinese could have contributed if they hadn't spent so much time fumbling around with those chopsticks..." Finaly, Chevy leans over and whispers "fork me"
but I didn't RTFA
the days of the franchise station are over. Very few owner operated gas stations still exist, at least in major urban areas. All through the 80s & 90s the company stores were retailing at about the same price that they were wholesaleing, forcing owners to either give up the pump and focus solely on service, survive on the soda pop margin, or to become computer programmers.
Mcdonalds does franchise, but you can't get into one with less than a $1M, and owners often own more than one. I worked at a fast food franchise when I was a kid, it wasn't a great job but it wasn't a bad relationship, the owener and I both got what we wanted out of it. I've talked with more than a few mickydees emps that view thier jobs there as a stepping stone on the path that is the American dream (it's only a matter of time before we start seeing H1B visa holders there).
It's a gross generalization, but it's true: Smaller business survive because the employees and customers alike share a higher level of satisfaction with conditions of the execution of the agreement. Big business is ALL about the economy of scale and squeezing every last drop, customer are driven by price/performance ratios that they mistake for quality, employees are driven by FUD and the hope of climbing the ladder towards the land of the golden parachute.
The irony is that the the bigger a company gets the more it tends to waste.
wrong on both counts.
The big three are not in trouble, they just like to whine about how tough it is and how they need protection from foreign compitetion and exemptions from taxation. Management will always blame the fruits of their bad descisions on the workers, or the fickle customers or anything but themselves. Buying into their propaganda won't get you a better deal on the SUV that you feel you need have to be safe on the road.
Jobs are offshored because they can be done cheaper elsewhere. Until the standard of living in the US is lower than everywhere else there will always be cheaper labor elsewhere. Personally I'm not that exicited about bringing third world wages to my fellow Americans even I'm pulling down the big bucks myself. The exploitees would quickly realise that it was easier to quit that slaving job and just steal my stuff while I was at work. As we continue to decrease the benefits paid to our armed forces the third world may come to that conclusion on a national rather than individual level. Right now the Chinese can get what ever they want much cheaper by trade than by force, as there standard of living increases there will come a time when this is no longer true. Of course by that time we won't have any wealth to speak of and the only reason the would have to invade would be to exapand - kick out ass and take our grass as it were.
Outsourcing is completely different matter than offshoring. Work is oursourced for a variety of reasons, economy of scale, leveraging resources, focusing on core compentecies. I suspect that you've ordered plenty of pizzas but even on the rare occasion when you think you might like to make one from scratch you're buying canned sauce. There is the matter of the equipment - those big honking pizza ovens ain't cheap and the little one in your kitchen just doesn't do it as well. There is the matter of the time involved, you wanna spend all day cooking tomatos for one pizza?
No, MYSQL would be pronounced as you describe. But the lower case 'y' clearly denotes that that is not part of the acronym
you're almost there, you've seen the light about how little the company cares for the worker and vice versa.
Now tell me why the association of my health care insurance to this lot is such a good idea.
Even IF I don't change employers, they contract the insurance company for a year at a time and when they switch carriers I've got to find a new doctor who is on the new plan. The only part that I'm not clear on is why I haven't moved to Canada yet, eh.
yeah, we see that from time to time this tech helps us find a little pussy or brings rover home. But do we have any idea about how the critters feel about it, does it interfer with the voices that they hear. The voices are telling me that it's bad, very bad - and I'm not $pringing for it on any of my critters let alone my childrens.
Yeah, I know that it could help keep them from getting snatched and turned into sex slaves but I don't think any of my critters would make that good of sex slaves anyway. I pity the fool that tries to snatch my nearly grown young bucks. I fear the government that tries to tag them like cattle. Neither one of them has the good sense to fear anything, so I have to fret enough for the lot of us. I hope that they can preserve our radio free freedom at least until I croak.