Undecided - Call this person every day to try to make her decide on our candidate. Enemy - Call this person every day to try to change his mind. Friend - Call this person every day to encourage her to vote.
My central heating is gas powered, and more efficient than heating with electric bulbs, most of which are making heat near or above my head, where it soon floats to the ceiling, where it doesn't benefit me at all. I'm happy to transfer the heating load to the more efficient, better heating equipment during the winter, and let my lights provide more light than heat during the summer.
Nothing. But there aren't too many of those around here. The safe speed is the speed at which other people on the road are travelling. Some roads around here the fastest people hit 90, but most people are going 80-85, and the speed limit is 70. The safest speed is 80-85 in that case.
Yeah, it is a good idea for that. If set at a reasonable speed, it is only going to trigger when Johnny does something really stupid. There is absolutely no reason Johnny should be going over 90, for example. There are highways around here where traffic flows in the 80s, but 90 is pretty rediculous.
I agree. This device would be better if it somehow tracked attentiveness, tailgating, cutting people off, use of turn signals, not running red lights or stop signs, keeping right except to pass, and how fast or slow the child was going in relation to other cars on the road. All of these have much more of an effect on driving safety than a simplistic measure of speed. The problem isn't going faster than the speed limit, the problem is going faster or slower than the cars around you. If you are on the highway, and everyone is going 80, while the speed limit is 70, the safest speed is 80.
Exactly. I would much rather see a movie without the packed theatre of opening weekend. I would rather not have to walk all the way across the parking lot, or wait in line for twenty minutes, and I can't seem to find my round tuit anywhere...
Or, despite the hype, some people don't really care about seeing a movie on opening weekend, and haven't yet bothered to see it because there really isn't any reason to rush?
I simply found the task-based interface of the PalmOS far more useful on a limited-use device such as a PDA. Windows has a lot more "stuff" going on, and the Palm "Throw all six programs up on the screen at once" interface is a lot faster if you just need to grab a phone number, or see what your appointments are next Tuesday. If I need a portable computer, I have a laptop.
Palm is the plain old analog watch of PDAs. You look at it and it tells you the time; no frills, no multiple time zones, stopwatches, lap/split stuff that you never use, and so forth.
Me neither. I love the Palm OS. It is perfect for what it is: a PDA. Windows is fine for a desktop machine, but Palm is designed with PDAs in mind from the beginning, rather than designed to be Windows adapted to a PDA. A PDA isn't a handheld replacement for a desktop computer, it is an electronic replacement for a DayPlanner/Rolodex/etc.
Powerbook? It's a plain aluminum box with an Apple logo on it.
G4 cube? It WAS (not made anymore) a plain white cube with an Apple logo on it, encased in plexi.
Mac mini? It is a plain white box with an Apple logo on it.
iPod? It is a white (or black, now) box with a circle and rectangle on the front, and a silver back.
iPod nano? It is a small white (or black) box with a circle and rectangle on the front, and a silver back.
Alienware? Lime green box with racing stripes and vent slats all over, with light from blacklight-reactive wires radiating through a giant window cut in the side. The LED fan exhausts through a giant coffee-can sized cat-back, while the giant aluminum wing adds downforce on the rear wheels of this decidedly front-wheel-drive computer. The PC speaker adds fake blowoff valve noise whenever you shift the automatic transmission into D, and the whistle go WOO WOO!
Bland? Maybe. However, the boy-racer/ricer/fast-and-the-furious look is certainly not bland. Gaudy? Yes. Busy? Yes. Several clashing colours in use at once? Sure. Random tchotchkies such as LED fans and giant coffee-can exhaust tips? Of course! But bland? Certainly not. Which was, of course, my point. Current (and most past) Apple computers may be bland to some, but you really can't call them boy-racerish.
If anything has "boy racer" looks, it is Alienware et al. Apple designs may not be for everyone, but they are generally clean and simple, while the "boy racer" look is anything but. Case windows, cold cathode tubes that flash in time with the audio, LED fans, and gaudy paint-jobs are more in the realm of PCs than Macs.
It would not be difficult. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and... SLLLLAAAAUTERRRED.
I'm not exactly thin (okay, I'm fat), but even I am amazed at the sizes avaliable at stores. With a 40 inch waist (32 inch inseam), I am at about 220 lbs. How big do you have to be to fill out 58-inch pants?!?! A little chubby is one thing, but at least I can sit in normal chairs and fit through doors.
And countless other makes. Just about any TLR or medium-format SLR had a similar finder, and still do to this day. While most are interchangable with a prism for eye-level viewing, many medium-format SLRs still come with a pop-up "waist-level" finder standard.
Great for shooting events with a large audience; you can hold it upside-down above your head to shoot.
Didn't read the article, because it is slashdotted, but from comments I have seen, it seems to me that the author was bitching about things like "MS adds security! And it makes it harder to do stupid things!!" and "Vista isn't exactly the same as XP!!1!"
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Third person here.
P233MMX router/mailserver running Slack
Dual Athlon 2600+ desktop running Slack
1ghz iBook G4 running Tiger
Likely they have three lists:
Undecided - Call this person every day to try to make her decide on our candidate.
Enemy - Call this person every day to try to change his mind.
Friend - Call this person every day to encourage her to vote.
My central heating is gas powered, and more efficient than heating with electric bulbs, most of which are making heat near or above my head, where it soon floats to the ceiling, where it doesn't benefit me at all. I'm happy to transfer the heating load to the more efficient, better heating equipment during the winter, and let my lights provide more light than heat during the summer.
So spend a bit more for "full spectrum" lights.
They are MUCH more expensive than standard CFLs, but then again, only one in ten of the lights in our house are on dimmers.
That is my take on it. My battery is getting kinda weak. Not horribly weak, but I am getting noticably shorter run times.
Nothing. But there aren't too many of those around here. The safe speed is the speed at which other people on the road are travelling. Some roads around here the fastest people hit 90, but most people are going 80-85, and the speed limit is 70. The safest speed is 80-85 in that case.
Yeah, it is a good idea for that. If set at a reasonable speed, it is only going to trigger when Johnny does something really stupid. There is absolutely no reason Johnny should be going over 90, for example. There are highways around here where traffic flows in the 80s, but 90 is pretty rediculous.
I agree. This device would be better if it somehow tracked attentiveness, tailgating, cutting people off, use of turn signals, not running red lights or stop signs, keeping right except to pass, and how fast or slow the child was going in relation to other cars on the road. All of these have much more of an effect on driving safety than a simplistic measure of speed. The problem isn't going faster than the speed limit, the problem is going faster or slower than the cars around you. If you are on the highway, and everyone is going 80, while the speed limit is 70, the safest speed is 80.
Exactly. I would much rather see a movie without the packed theatre of opening weekend. I would rather not have to walk all the way across the parking lot, or wait in line for twenty minutes, and I can't seem to find my round tuit anywhere...
Or, despite the hype, some people don't really care about seeing a movie on opening weekend, and haven't yet bothered to see it because there really isn't any reason to rush?
I simply found the task-based interface of the PalmOS far more useful on a limited-use device such as a PDA. Windows has a lot more "stuff" going on, and the Palm "Throw all six programs up on the screen at once" interface is a lot faster if you just need to grab a phone number, or see what your appointments are next Tuesday. If I need a portable computer, I have a laptop.
Palm is the plain old analog watch of PDAs. You look at it and it tells you the time; no frills, no multiple time zones, stopwatches, lap/split stuff that you never use, and so forth.
Me neither. I love the Palm OS. It is perfect for what it is: a PDA. Windows is fine for a desktop machine, but Palm is designed with PDAs in mind from the beginning, rather than designed to be Windows adapted to a PDA. A PDA isn't a handheld replacement for a desktop computer, it is an electronic replacement for a DayPlanner/Rolodex/etc.
Gah. Gotta start looking at that "X posts below threshold" thingie...
Powerbook? It's a plain aluminum box with an Apple logo on it.
G4 cube? It WAS (not made anymore) a plain white cube with an Apple logo on it, encased in plexi.
Mac mini? It is a plain white box with an Apple logo on it.
iPod? It is a white (or black, now) box with a circle and rectangle on the front, and a silver back.
iPod nano? It is a small white (or black) box with a circle and rectangle on the front, and a silver back.
Alienware? Lime green box with racing stripes and vent slats all over, with light from blacklight-reactive wires radiating through a giant window cut in the side. The LED fan exhausts through a giant coffee-can sized cat-back, while the giant aluminum wing adds downforce on the rear wheels of this decidedly front-wheel-drive computer. The PC speaker adds fake blowoff valve noise whenever you shift the automatic transmission into D, and the whistle go WOO WOO!
Bland? Maybe. However, the boy-racer/ricer/fast-and-the-furious look is certainly not bland. Gaudy? Yes. Busy? Yes. Several clashing colours in use at once? Sure. Random tchotchkies such as LED fans and giant coffee-can exhaust tips? Of course! But bland? Certainly not. Which was, of course, my point. Current (and most past) Apple computers may be bland to some, but you really can't call them boy-racerish.
If anything has "boy racer" looks, it is Alienware et al. Apple designs may not be for everyone, but they are generally clean and simple, while the "boy racer" look is anything but. Case windows, cold cathode tubes that flash in time with the audio, LED fans, and gaudy paint-jobs are more in the realm of PCs than Macs.
This man speaks the truth.
It would not be difficult. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and... SLLLLAAAAUTERRRED.
Sensible? How? How would you write "route" phonetically? Rahwt? Root? What about tomato? Tohmaytoh? Tohmahtoh?
Let's call the whole thing off.
You think it will happen eventually? I don't think it will ever happen. People are too set in their ways.
Because some would say 'droot', and the krauts would pout.
I'm not exactly thin (okay, I'm fat), but even I am amazed at the sizes avaliable at stores. With a 40 inch waist (32 inch inseam), I am at about 220 lbs. How big do you have to be to fill out 58-inch pants?!?! A little chubby is one thing, but at least I can sit in normal chairs and fit through doors.
And countless other makes. Just about any TLR or medium-format SLR had a similar finder, and still do to this day. While most are interchangable with a prism for eye-level viewing, many medium-format SLRs still come with a pop-up "waist-level" finder standard.
Great for shooting events with a large audience; you can hold it upside-down above your head to shoot.
Tux and OSX fan here.
Didn't read the article, because it is slashdotted, but from comments I have seen, it seems to me that the author was bitching about things like "MS adds security! And it makes it harder to do stupid things!!" and "Vista isn't exactly the same as XP!!1!"