There has been some research (reg.req.) on the benefits of barefoot running. BUt, the article also mentions having to pull glass from your foot...
I've tried running barefoot once, on the beach, but wouldn't dare doing it on my standard run through the city. Does anyone here have any experience with the ultra thin Five Fingers running shoes (basically protective gloves around your feet)? Sure, you look like a dick -- almost as bad as Crocs -- but they appear a great alternative.
I would never run on sand or grass. You can't see what is lurking underneath. I run on gravel track in the Bronx's Van Cortlandt park three times a week. One benefit of staying on the gravel is that the glass that is there shimmers in the light (even at night when wearing a 3 watt LED headlamp). The other benefit is that the shod runners have usually ground the glass up into less threatening glass pebbles that end up pounded deeper into the gravel.
I used the five fingers for one run. Great for walking around the city. Running? Still too heavy and restrictive for my tastes.
I still wonder how the occasional barefoot track runner deals with the gravel. I guess they grow leathery hobbit-feet or something.
Pretty much. If you walk around barefoot on a regular basis the skin on the soles of your feet will thicken and become leathery and you no longer need shoes, even when walking or running over gravel. The reason the skin on your feet is so soft compared to every other animal is because you've worn shoes your whole life.
Quite the contrary. I run, barefoot, exclusively on the gravel cross country track in Van Cortlandt park. That's in the Bronx. After 18 months of 18 mile per week runs the soles of my feet only have the slightest hint of roughness. The same kind of mild roughness one would normally have on their palms. My feet look healthier than ever, i.e., have gotten wider, more muscular, and with more noticeable venous circulation.
Of course, it took 6 weeks of walking around the track barefoot before I could attempt any kind or running. I also followed the careful advice of Ken Box Saxton of http://runningbarefoot.org/
In essence: knees slightly bent; leads with your hips; relax, relax, relax
Would have been smarter to have the MP3 player know to only download the lossy part of the file and metadata. I'm sure someone can figure out how to do this with the FLAC container, i.e., the FLAC file would have a.flac and a lossy.ogg, and a program like gtkpod would know to only import the lossy.ogg.
Exactly how many laws are on the books in the state where you live?
20,000?
50,000?
What about federal laws?
Does anyone honestly know?
The point is, that there are so many laws on the book, it is impossible to not be guilty of one of them. And also given the fact that a vast majority of them are punctuated with discretionary conditions in them, such as "what an average person would believe" or "Probable Cause" or "Credible Suspicion", etc., who is to say definitively? Afterall, the officer has sole discretion in interpretation of these conditions.
I know this might only seem like a small consolation, but the fifth amendment was designed to protect against this very type of situation. One of the most invaluable things I have *ever* seen since being on the internet is this video by law professor James Duane: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865
He also gives half of his lecture time to a police officer in hope that he might discredit anything he has said. Pay close attention to him quoting a Supreme Court justice and what that man has to say about the fifth.
P.S. I make it a point of watching this video at least once a year. Every US citizen should do the same.
I beg to differ. Do you have any evidence, anecdotes aside, to support your claim? The majority of people buying vinyl today are in the 14-25 year old range; they hardly qualify as old people. And vinyl sales continue to climb past CD sales every year. And this "warmness" that you speak of is nothing more that the recording sounding the way it was supposed to sound compared to the same 16 bit CD.
Vinyl sales...greater than CD sales? Pass me whatever you're smoking, please. Vinyl is still around because DJs use it. It's a niche format, although it's not ever going to go away. And as for the recording "sounding the way it's supposed to sound," that's not true if the record was sourced from digital masters, which is true for all new music. You're just taking digitally recorded music with its limited sampling qualities and adding the fragility of the vinyl format. It's really the worst of both worlds.
My bad, I meant to say that vinyl sales climb every year, not that they have surpassed CD sale.
As far as "all music" being sourced from digital masters, that is just flat out wrong. More artists are increasingly aware that an analog master sounds much better than one done in digital. The White Stripes Elephant album done at Toe Rag studios in just one example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_Rag_Studios Look-see here as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_(album)
And a vinyl record is a much more durable medium than a polycarbonate CD will ever be.
This is probably no different than older people who prefer the sound of a phonograph over modern high quality digital recorded mediums like the CD. Warmness of sound on phonographs may be the equivilent to the mp3 sizzle that he talks about. People are used to hearing music over lower quality mediums like FM radio, streaming internet connections and real player. Its good that he is doing this research though because its time dependent and you won't be able to do it later.
I beg to differ. Do you have any evidence, anecdotes aside, to support your claim? The majority of people buying vinyl today are in the 14-25 year old range; they hardly qualify as old people. And vinyl sales continue to climb past CD sales every year. And this "warmness" that you speak of is nothing more that the recording sounding the way it was supposed to sound compared to the same 16 bit CD.
Also, I wonder if these subjects were given hearing test before partaking in the study. Could mild hearing loss be the reason they prefer "sizzle" with their music?
I have been using a Geode based PC Engines board as my personal firewall (with m0n0wall) for years with nary a hiccup. Recently I have been using a PC Engines ALIX board (also Geode based) as a dead silent USB music server for my audiophile setup. Considering what some "high-end" manufactures (think Linn and Sonos) are charging for their music server solutions, mine was a steal at $135 for the board and one hour's time installing Voyage Linux. The whole server consumes a total of 3 watts when playing FLAC files.
These little boards are excellent little boards for the Linux hobbyist. The Geode will be missed.
Really, the more I think about it, the more I'm really just carrying my disk drive around. Maybe in a year or two I can just switch to carrying a poket-sized SSD around, and have desktops at home and work that boot off that.
Oh! Oh! Even better: Think about a Nokia N810 like device with an SSD in it. You can use it as UMPC on the go, accessing the SSD as well, and plug it in to you laptop or desktop machine and use it as a mobile drive!!!
You obviously don't know anything about nurses or how hospitals work. The aforementioned task are handled by a Nursing Assistant. Or NA, for short. Nurses are responsible for much more complex care. You don't spend four years getting a B.S.N learning how to take someone to the toilet.
Do you also call EMT's and Paramedic ambulance drivers?
Because this is slashdot, he should build a robot which can receive and parse incoming messages and wake him up if the message is important. The robot should be designed to make coffee and pancakes as well, why not? Building a robot shouldn't take long, and it'll be a lot cooler to have your own robot than some silly pager. Build a robot to do it!
In reading this post very quicly,my brain accidentally parsed ... and hump him if the message is important.
Now *that* would be a really impressive Slashdot robot, much less one you could not ignore in the middle of the night.
Maybe replace the hard disk with an SSD or low power compact flash?
If you go the CF route then check out Voyage Linux. 'Tis like Debian but made for embedded and low power machines. http://linux.voyage.hk/
(I use it with a PC Engines single board computer running MPD as a source for an audiophile grade USB music server. Just install th OS to CF and apt-get what you need.)
Find a ham radio operator and/or club and donate it!
Those old big dishes are a great way to get into Moonbounce, aka EME (Earth-Moon-Earth). Bouncing signals off the moon to communicate is way neat. You can also bounce you signal off the moon and listen to your echo. The challenge e these days is to get a signal to the other station with as little power as possible, with some operators having contacts with as little as 100 watts.
Don't know where to find a local club? Here: www.arrl.org
The concealed carry permit in DC was pointless IMHO. The DC Metro literally has service to areas with gun stores (Virginia and Maryland). Thug life types don't get concealed carry permits anyway. All it did was keep the honest people honest and make the NRA types really really angry when they visited the city. This has nothing to do with concealed carry laws. DC never had one. DC has an outright ban on handguns in the home. Long guns, i.e., rifles and shotguns, were allowed as long as they were locked and/or dissembled as to be unusable.
Mr. Heller, who is an armed federal officer of judiciary offices in Washington DC, was denied a permit to keep his work gun gun at home. I recently became a legal gun owner (I am liberal) in the city of New York. My license is for premise/target. I can keep the gun loaded at home, and I can go to the range as long as the gun is locked, unloaded, and ammunition is kept separate. Mr. Heller didn't even have that option, so he sued. The majority SCOTUS opinion does state that concealed carry laws are not necessarily unconstitutional, thus giving the states some leeway in regulating how arms are owned.
Do I hope that the concealed carry laws for law abiding citizens laws in New York eventually change? I sure do, as I do not spend the majority of my time at home.
... I also have a severe problem with the definition of road rage too. A while back, I had my 4 year old nephew in the car and some jack ass thought that the speed limit (45, on a 2 lane residential area) was too slow and passed me on the double yellow line going around a curve. At the time I noticed him over taking me another car was coming around the corner and he shot back into my lane forcing me to slam on the brakes and run onto the shoulder in order to avoid an accident. Well, that cause me to fish tail a little but the car remained under control and no accident occurred.
Up the road, was an intersection with a 4 way stop. I jumped out of the car and proceeded to ask him what the hell was going on and we started arguing when I told him how to drive and where to pull he head from. A cop was sitting at the cross intersection and turn on his lights and all. He was saying I was having a problem with road rage when he was radioing in for backup. About that time, a car came up behind us and the driver walked up to talk to the cop. I was handcuffed and told to stand by my car. The car going to other direction thought I actually had an accident and turned around for fear of being hit with a leaving the scene of an accident. When he saw us talking to the cop, he gave them his side of events and the cop had me write a statement then let me go. I assume they cited the other guy. But I was going to be hit with some road rage charge for telling a person who almost killed me (and my nephew) to watch what the hell they were doing. Had that third car not turned around, I would have been screwed and another meaningless state for this meaningless result in this study.... Not only is the majority of your post off-topic to the study in TFA, you got out of the vehicle --with your 4 year old nephew in the car-- to argue with a total stranger who could have been: a criminal, fugitive, armed and dangerous, or just plain deranged? And arguing with this knucklehead produced what long term solution to his bad driving? Nada...
What difference does the power drain of the chipset make if it still gives you 7 hours battery time?
Sure, a lower wattage chipset would give you more, but what exactly is there to worry about?
What difference does the power drain of the chipset make if it still gives you 7 hours battery time?
Sure, a lower wattage chipset would give you more, but what exactly is there to worry about? The difference is if Intel had mated the Atom CPU with a more apropos low power chipset you would be paying same amount of your hard earned money for an ultra portable that had maybe 14 hours or more of battery life.
Imagine that. A sub note with close to 20 hours battery life, much like the Tandy 100.
As of now, the Intel Atom is mated to a 3-4(?) year old 945 chipset. Sounds like something was missed here.
It worries me that the chipset consumes more power than the CPU itself. Since my Thnkpad X40 sub note book is working just fine, I guess I'll hold off until the next revision of the Atom platform is released and then reevaluate.
...Vista's too big, Mobile's too small, but XP may be about right. Personally, I still think XP's on the pudgy side... Hey Goldilocks, why don't you slide on over next to me and I'll show you that XP is not the only thing around these parts that is pudgy...;)
Since when was "open source" just an excuse for releasing a half-finished product? Google is a multi-million-dollar company. Surely they can afford to pay some programmers and testers to produce a finished product before they release it?
Google's development methods are quite different than other companies. Many of these beta services and products they release are not something the company is using to make money, but are the individual projects of the engineers. Each engineer gets 20% of their time where they must work on their own thing. A lot of those "things" eventually get tossed out for the public to play with, usually as betas and often as OSS projects. Sure, Google could pay engineers to work on this full time, but it isn't clear that is really going to make them money. Linux on the desktop improvements aren't exactly a goldmine. Rather, I think it is nice they let the engineer donate this code to Linux and let people help him integrate it into Linux.
Correct me if I'm wrong but..
Gmail, which is still in beta, is someone's personal pet project that Google does NOT make money on?
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There has been some research (reg.req.) on the benefits of barefoot running. BUt, the article also mentions having to pull glass from your foot...
I've tried running barefoot once, on the beach, but wouldn't dare doing it on my standard run through the city. Does anyone here have any experience with the ultra thin Five Fingers running shoes (basically protective gloves around your feet)? Sure, you look like a dick -- almost as bad as Crocs -- but they appear a great alternative.
I would never run on sand or grass. You can't see what is lurking underneath. I run on gravel track in the Bronx's Van Cortlandt park three times a week. One benefit of staying on the gravel is that the glass that is there shimmers in the light (even at night when wearing a 3 watt LED headlamp). The other benefit is that the shod runners have usually ground the glass up into less threatening glass pebbles that end up pounded deeper into the gravel.
I used the five fingers for one run. Great for walking around the city. Running? Still too heavy and restrictive for my tastes.
I still wonder how the occasional barefoot track runner deals with the gravel. I guess they grow leathery hobbit-feet or something.
Pretty much. If you walk around barefoot on a regular basis the skin on the soles of your feet will thicken and become leathery and you no longer need shoes, even when walking or running over gravel. The reason the skin on your feet is so soft compared to every other animal is because you've worn shoes your whole life.
Quite the contrary. I run, barefoot, exclusively on the gravel cross country track in Van Cortlandt park. That's in the Bronx. After 18 months of 18 mile per week runs the soles of my feet only have the slightest hint of roughness. The same kind of mild roughness one would normally have on their palms. My feet look healthier than ever, i.e., have gotten wider, more muscular, and with more noticeable venous circulation.
Of course, it took 6 weeks of walking around the track barefoot before I could attempt any kind or running. I also followed the careful advice of Ken Box Saxton of http://runningbarefoot.org/
In essence: knees slightly bent; leads with your hips; relax, relax, relax
Would have been smarter to have the MP3 player know to only download the lossy part of the file and metadata. I'm sure someone .flac and a lossy .ogg, and a program like gtkpod would know .ogg.
can figure out how to do this with the FLAC container, i.e., the FLAC file would have a
to only import the lossy
Exactly how many laws are on the books in the state where you live?
20,000?
50,000?
What about federal laws?
Does anyone honestly know?
The point is, that there are so many laws on the book, it is impossible to not be guilty of one of them. And also given the fact that a vast majority of them are punctuated with discretionary conditions in them, such as "what an average person would believe" or "Probable Cause" or "Credible Suspicion", etc., who is to say definitively? Afterall, the officer has sole discretion in interpretation of these conditions.
I know this might only seem like a small consolation, but the fifth amendment was designed to protect against this very type of situation. One of the most invaluable things I have *ever* seen since being on the internet is this video by law professor James Duane: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865
He also gives half of his lecture time to a police officer in hope that he might discredit anything he has said. Pay close attention to him quoting a Supreme Court justice and what that man has to say about the fifth.
P.S. I make it a point of watching this video at least once a year. Every US citizen should do the same.
I beg to differ. Do you have any evidence, anecdotes aside, to support your claim? The majority of people buying vinyl today are in the 14-25 year old range; they hardly qualify as old people. And vinyl sales continue to climb past CD sales every year. And this "warmness" that you speak of is nothing more that the recording sounding the way it was supposed to sound compared to the same 16 bit CD.
Vinyl sales...greater than CD sales? Pass me whatever you're smoking, please. Vinyl is still around because DJs use it. It's a niche format, although it's not ever going to go away. And as for the recording "sounding the way it's supposed to sound," that's not true if the record was sourced from digital masters, which is true for all new music. You're just taking digitally recorded music with its limited sampling qualities and adding the fragility of the vinyl format. It's really the worst of both worlds.
My bad, I meant to say that vinyl sales climb every year, not that they have surpassed CD sale.
As far as "all music" being sourced from digital masters, that is just flat out wrong. More artists are increasingly aware that an analog master sounds much better than one done in digital. The White Stripes Elephant album done at Toe Rag studios in just one example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_Rag_Studios Look-see here as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_(album)
And a vinyl record is a much more durable medium than a polycarbonate CD will ever be.
This is probably no different than older people who prefer the sound of a phonograph over modern high quality digital recorded mediums like the CD. Warmness of sound on phonographs may be the equivilent to the mp3 sizzle that he talks about. People are used to hearing music over lower quality mediums like FM radio, streaming internet connections and real player. Its good that he is doing this research though because its time dependent and you won't be able to do it later.
I beg to differ. Do you have any evidence, anecdotes aside, to support your claim? The majority of people buying vinyl today are in the 14-25 year old range; they hardly qualify as old people. And vinyl sales continue to climb past CD sales every year. And this "warmness" that you speak of is nothing more that the recording sounding the way it was supposed to sound compared to the same 16 bit CD.
Also, I wonder if these subjects were given hearing test before partaking in the study. Could mild hearing loss be the reason they prefer "sizzle" with their music?
Please watch this video and hear the opinions of people in the industry have to say about the importance of sound quality; http://www.philoctetes.org/Past_Programs/Deep_Listening_Why_Audio_Quality_Matters
It's alot harder to plant fingerprints at a crime scene than it is to drop some random hair that you find (Long haired people shed worse than dogs).
I have a buzz cut but I'm a hairy Greek you insensitive clod!
Agreed!
I have been using a Geode based PC Engines board as my personal firewall (with m0n0wall) for years with nary a hiccup.
Recently I have been using a PC Engines ALIX board (also Geode based) as a dead silent USB music server for my audiophile setup. Considering
what some "high-end" manufactures (think Linn and Sonos) are charging for their music server solutions, mine was a steal at $135 for the board and one hour's time installing Voyage Linux. The whole server consumes a total of 3 watts when playing FLAC files.
These little boards are excellent little boards for the Linux hobbyist. The Geode will be missed.
bv
Really, the more I think about it, the more I'm really just carrying my disk drive around. Maybe in a year or two I can just switch to carrying a poket-sized SSD around, and have desktops at home and work that boot off that.
Oh! Oh! Even better: Think about a Nokia N810 like device with an SSD in it. You can use it as UMPC on the go, accessing the SSD as well, and plug it in to you laptop or desktop machine and use it as a mobile drive!!!
An ARM CPU and Linux would make that happen...
You obviously don't know anything about nurses or how hospitals work. The aforementioned task are handled by a Nursing Assistant.
Or NA, for short. Nurses are responsible for much more complex care. You don't spend four years getting a B.S.N learning how to take someone to the toilet.
Do you also call EMT's and Paramedic ambulance drivers?
Because this is slashdot, he should build a robot which can receive and parse incoming messages and wake him up if the message is important. The robot should be designed to make coffee and pancakes as well, why not? Building a robot shouldn't take long, and it'll be a lot cooler to have your own robot than some silly pager.
Build a robot to do it!
In reading this post very quicly,my brain accidentally parsed ... and hump him if the message is important.
Now *that* would be a really impressive Slashdot robot, much less one you could not ignore in the middle of the night.
Maybe replace the hard disk with an SSD or low power compact flash?
If you go the CF route then check out Voyage Linux. 'Tis like Debian but made for embedded and low power machines. http://linux.voyage.hk/
(I use it with a PC Engines single board computer running MPD as a source for an audiophile grade USB music server. Just install th OS to CF and apt-get what you need.)
Might be a different story when said logo is part of a criminal enterprise.
Alex Trebek: "The sound a doggie makes?"
Sean Conney: "Moo"
Alex Trebek: "That is incorrect"
Sean Connery: "Well that's the sound your mother made last night..."
Except it wasn't a prank. The lady actually believed she could call the cops to get a dead mouse off her porch.
African or European mouse?
And I hope she didn't take any of the bones out or else it wouldn't be crunchy...
$138 dollars gets you a PC Engines 1C in a Mini ITX form factor:http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1c.htm
Specs:
CPU: 433 or 500 MHz AMD Geode LX
DRAM: 128 or 256 MB SDRAM on board
Storage: CompactFlash socket, 44 pin IDE
Power: 12V DC, DC-DC converter on board. No bulky ATX PSU needed.
Expansion: miniPCI + 3.3V PCI + LPC + optional I2C
Connectivity: 1 Ethernet channel (Via VT6105M 10/100)
I/O: 2 COM, 4 USB, 1 LPT, audio, VGA
Board size: 6.7 x 6.7" (miniITX), low profile.
Firmware: Award BIOS
Board: $138
Case: $10
PS: $12
4GB CF $14 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211191
Cheaper and more open.
Find a ham radio operator and/or club and donate it!
Those old big dishes are a great way to get into Moonbounce, aka EME (Earth-Moon-Earth). Bouncing signals off the moon to communicate is way neat. You can also bounce you signal off the moon and listen to your echo. The challenge e these days is to get a signal to the other station with as little power as possible, with some operators having contacts with as little as 100 watts.
Don't know where to find a local club? Here: www.arrl.org
Mr. Heller, who is an armed federal officer of judiciary offices in Washington DC, was denied a permit to keep his work gun gun at home. I recently became a legal gun owner (I am liberal) in the city of New York. My license is for premise/target. I can keep the gun loaded at home, and I can go to the range as long as the gun is locked, unloaded, and ammunition is kept separate. Mr. Heller didn't even have that option, so he sued. The majority SCOTUS opinion does state that concealed carry laws are not necessarily unconstitutional, thus giving the states some leeway in regulating how arms are owned.
Do I hope that the concealed carry laws for law abiding citizens laws in New York eventually change? I sure do, as I do not spend the majority of my time at home.
...I also have a severe problem with the definition of road rage too. A while back, I had my 4 year old nephew in the car and some jack ass thought that the speed limit (45, on a 2 lane residential area) was too slow and passed me on the double yellow line going around a curve. At the time I noticed him over taking me another car was coming around the corner and he shot back into my lane forcing me to slam on the brakes and run onto the shoulder in order to avoid an accident. Well, that cause me to fish tail a little but the car remained under control and no accident occurred.
Up the road, was an intersection with a 4 way stop. I jumped out of the car and proceeded to ask him what the hell was going on and we started arguing when I told him how to drive and where to pull he head from. A cop was sitting at the cross intersection and turn on his lights and all. He was saying I was having a problem with road rage when he was radioing in for backup. About that time, a car came up behind us and the driver walked up to talk to the cop. I was handcuffed and told to stand by my car. The car going to other direction thought I actually had an accident and turned around for fear of being hit with a leaving the scene of an accident. When he saw us talking to the cop, he gave them his side of events and the cop had me write a statement then let me go. I assume they cited the other guy. But I was going to be hit with some road rage charge for telling a person who almost killed me (and my nephew) to watch what the hell they were doing. Had that third car not turned around, I would have been screwed and another meaningless state for this meaningless result in this study.
Who modded this guy +5 Interesting?
Your link to the phone is dead.
Perhaps you meant this one: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
Pirate not included.
Sure, a lower wattage chipset would give you more, but what exactly is there to worry about? What difference does the power drain of the chipset make if it still gives you 7 hours battery time?
Sure, a lower wattage chipset would give you more, but what exactly is there to worry about? The difference is if Intel had mated the Atom CPU with a more apropos low power chipset you would be paying
same amount of your hard earned money for an ultra portable that had maybe 14 hours or more of battery life.
Imagine that. A sub note with close to 20 hours battery life, much like the Tandy 100.
As of now, the Intel Atom is mated to a 3-4(?) year old 945 chipset. Sounds like something was missed here.
It worries me that the chipset consumes more power than the CPU itself. Since my
Thnkpad X40 sub note book is working just fine, I guess I'll hold off until the next revision of the Atom
platform is released and then reevaluate.
Don't laugh.
Check this out: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/03/300_audiophile_grade_power_cable_is_really_worth_15-2.html
And the actual thread at Head-Fi: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f21/my-cat-tore-up-my-virtual-dynamics-power-3-a-293165/
What's surprising about this is some of the comments made by the company rep.
...Vista's too big, Mobile's too small, but XP may be about right. Personally, I still think XP's on the pudgy side... Hey Goldilocks, why don't you slide on over next to me and I'll show you that XP is not the only thing around these parts that is pudgy...Google's development methods are quite different than other companies. Many of these beta services and products they release are not something the company is using to make money, but are the individual projects of the engineers. Each engineer gets 20% of their time where they must work on their own thing. A lot of those "things" eventually get tossed out for the public to play with, usually as betas and often as OSS projects. Sure, Google could pay engineers to work on this full time, but it isn't clear that is really going to make them money. Linux on the desktop improvements aren't exactly a goldmine. Rather, I think it is nice they let the engineer donate this code to Linux and let people help him integrate it into Linux.
Correct me if I'm wrong but..Gmail, which is still in beta, is someone's personal pet project that Google does NOT make money on?