If you want to work out while computing, get yourself a dumbbell. There's a lot of evidence that shows a good lifting session is more effective at burning calories and of course building muscle than a low impact cardio workout.
Actually, it's funny you mention it, because I've been doing that a little over a year now. I just want something for my feet to do so they don't feel left out and get some exercise too. =)
The bicycle doesn't have to necessarily light lightbulbs or even work up a sweat. Just something to burn idle calories and keep the heart rate slightly elevated (which also wakes me up).
I like running but I'm a 100 lb 5'3" female an in this city I don't usually feel safe out running alone so I have to schedule it with a friend.
But what if it found a way to use kinetic energy like, say, walking, to constantly recharge itself? For something very low-powered like a cellphone on standby mode, perhaps something like that may eventually be possible...
Well I dunno, if you angled it just right it could probably work. Even if they had to engineer a special chair for it, I think it could work. I just wish I could get more exercise without having to sacrifice being able to read online or edit my webpages or draw comics or whatever. I work pretty much constantly and get bored exercising, it's not the physical part of it, it's that I can't well multitask.
I should think the gears would be adjustible somehow so you could decide the level of workout you wanted. It wouldn't be a hard workout, but it would burn calories and keep the heart rate slightly elevated, I imagine.
Yeah, but didn't people pretty much debunk the idea behind the Matrix during all that speculation about the sequels, during which I coincidentally lost all desire to watch them?
I'm thinking more of a way to utilize kinetic energy and translate it into stored power. =)
You know what I want someone to invent for me? A stationary bicycle that's nothing but the pedals and some sort of mechanism for adjusting the resistance, that can be placed under a standard sized desk. I'm the Queen of multi-tasking, and it would be great if I could somehow give my feet something to do, especially something physically constructive, while my hands and brain were working on other things.
I'd make it myself but I'm too busy drawing and don't really know anything about making stuff like that.
The more I hear about power and energy issues and American obesity issues, the more I think we'd be served well by installing some kind of human power generator factory similar to a gym, where maybe people going on lots of exercise bikes could charge up portable batteries or something.
I mean Hell, $50 for a new cellphone battery when yours craps out, or two hours on the bike with a better rechargable...
People with too much energy and electronic devices that need energy. There has to be a way to make it work together.
Ok... I just reread that, and I've officially been awake way too long.
I'm with you on the incompetent men thing, and I'm a female. I can't stand most modern sitcoms and even commercials because I hate watching them portray men as such idiots, unless it's like Simpsons or Family Guy... and every single person on the show is dysfunctional...
I keep my TV on for background noise, mostly parked on either History, History International, one of the Discovery channels, or at night Comedy Central or Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. I can guility confess I'm a (original) Law & Order addict. But I have to be eating, drawing, answering email, or doing something else at the same time. I've never quite understood people that can just/sit there/ watching TV for hours on end.
I haven't noticed too many of the commercials louder, except for the very low-budget local business commercials, but I always chalked that up to... well, the low buget. Is this more of a network TV issue? I never watch my local channels.
I agree... I'd think the only way it could qualify as plagarism is if they lifted word-for-word someone else's commentary. Same as high school. Paraphrase, put it in your own words, and it's not plagarism.
The write-up here does obviously make it sound much worse than it is... the article seems to just be about how ideas and memes spread, more than anything else. It's a sociological study.
At least for me, it's been almost a way of life since about 1997, and how I've been eeking out something of a living for the last half year or so (and less of a living before losing my job and car and having to work on the net fulltime).
Yeah, that's all we need is auctioning off rusty, dangerous bits of metal to John Q. Public, so they can cut their thumb on it and have it get horribly infected, then try to sue the pants off NASA. =P~
It costs money to clean up the environmental mess that it's already made, and it will cost more to keep it than dismantle it if you consider that it's only going to continue breaking down, rusting, and polluting the land around it and water table below. I'm sure the costs of restoration and upkeep far, far exceed the costs of simply destroying and dismantling it, or they wouldn't go to the trouble to begin with.
The article says the thing is causing some serious environmental hazards. I know they keep the Saturn moon rockets, and the other rockets sitting around in the visitor's centres at Kennedy, and here at Johnson in Houston, but it looks less an issue of space and more of keeping the thing from poisoning the land around it. If a third party wanted to house and restore the thing, that's one issue, but I don't think it warrants just signing a petition and telling NASA "Hey, find a way to save this." NASA has already been under so many budget cuts, I don't blame them one bit for dismantling it. The structure will always live on in photographs and film, and it's not as if it will ever launch again.
I think a better testament to the history of space exploration would be to quit using the 20 year old shuttle fleet and start doing some real innovation again, rather than hanging on to a big chunk of rusting steel and paint to make a monument that honestly, not too many people will even bother to go see.
As someone who has gone to many conventions and been to stores of another seemingly dying art form -- comic books -- I have to say, there may be fewer of them but I doubt record stores will completely die out. There will always be enough collectors and people into obscure or older media to sustain at least one or two decent stores for cities. I've noticed the best ones are usually the stores that doen't just specialize in one thing, also. The store I used to go to for imports impossible to find almost anywhere else also carried rare and vintage t-shirts, concert posters, tapes, CDs, vinyl -- you name it. Comics in their traditional form are dying out, they've been replaced by tradepaperbacks, mostly... but there is enough of an audience to still sustain them for now.
Plus to the purist and somewhere where many customers are regulars, it's hard to beat a real person to walk you around and recommend new music based on everything else you've bought in the past. I know Amazon tries, but just like I believe ebooks will never replace real books, the atmosphere just isn't there. The only CDs I've bought in the last five or six years have all been used, from used CD/record stores. I've only started ordering everything online since I lost my car. That's my $.02.
is that even though I barely know enough to get by a lot of the time, and really all I do is make webpages which of course anyone HERE would know doesn't have anything to do with actually operating a computer, anyone who doesn't understand the technology or can't find the power button assumes I'm some kind of 7337 hacker than can solve all their problems or tell what brand of computer they have when they say "it's one of the beige ones with a CD-ROM."
And I can't help them, I couldn't if I wanted to, and so I end up looking like a jerk to my family because I "won't" help them fix their computer and they think I'm lying about it just because I spend half my time on the internet writing plain old HTML. Now that's annoying.
I can't get to the article, but wasn't there a reward for turning in the guy that wrote it? Maybe he was trying to turn himself in for the reward money. =)
Don't forget Canadia, otherwise who would Bush have to blame for mad cow disease? Of course they couldn't possibly have servers there, it's nothing but snow and crazy cows, right... ? =D
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If you want to work out while computing, get yourself a dumbbell. There's a lot of evidence that shows a good lifting session is more effective at burning calories and of course building muscle than a low impact cardio workout.
Actually, it's funny you mention it, because I've been doing that a little over a year now. I just want something for my feet to do so they don't feel left out and get some exercise too. =)
The bicycle doesn't have to necessarily light lightbulbs or even work up a sweat. Just something to burn idle calories and keep the heart rate slightly elevated (which also wakes me up).
I like running but I'm a 100 lb 5'3" female an in this city I don't usually feel safe out running alone so I have to schedule it with a friend.
What's a hamser?
=)That's what the under-desk bicycles are for! I'm a genius. Thank you, and don't forget to tip your waitstaff. I'll be here all week.
Good thing I work at home and I'm self-employed. =)
Is it just me, or did all that make no sense what -so-ever?
But what if it found a way to use kinetic energy like, say, walking, to constantly recharge itself? For something very low-powered like a cellphone on standby mode, perhaps something like that may eventually be possible...
Well I dunno, if you angled it just right it could probably work. Even if they had to engineer a special chair for it, I think it could work. I just wish I could get more exercise without having to sacrifice being able to read online or edit my webpages or draw comics or whatever. I work pretty much constantly and get bored exercising, it's not the physical part of it, it's that I can't well multitask.
I should think the gears would be adjustible somehow so you could decide the level of workout you wanted. It wouldn't be a hard workout, but it would burn calories and keep the heart rate slightly elevated, I imagine.
Yeah, but didn't people pretty much debunk the idea behind the Matrix during all that speculation about the sequels, during which I coincidentally lost all desire to watch them?
I'm thinking more of a way to utilize kinetic energy and translate it into stored power. =)
You know what I want someone to invent for me? A stationary bicycle that's nothing but the pedals and some sort of mechanism for adjusting the resistance, that can be placed under a standard sized desk. I'm the Queen of multi-tasking, and it would be great if I could somehow give my feet something to do, especially something physically constructive, while my hands and brain were working on other things.
I'd make it myself but I'm too busy drawing and don't really know anything about making stuff like that.
No wonder his battery is dead, he never found the cord you put in the wall to recharge it.
If we could just find a way to utilize all that hot air in D.C. into some kind of homo sapiens-thermal power, we'd be all set.
The more I hear about power and energy issues and American obesity issues, the more I think we'd be served well by installing some kind of human power generator factory similar to a gym, where maybe people going on lots of exercise bikes could charge up portable batteries or something.
I mean Hell, $50 for a new cellphone battery when yours craps out, or two hours on the bike with a better rechargable...
People with too much energy and electronic devices that need energy. There has to be a way to make it work together.
Ok... I just reread that, and I've officially been awake way too long.
I'm with you on the incompetent men thing, and I'm a female. I can't stand most modern sitcoms and even commercials because I hate watching them portray men as such idiots, unless it's like Simpsons or Family Guy... and every single person on the show is dysfunctional...
I keep my TV on for background noise, mostly parked on either History, History International, one of the Discovery channels, or at night Comedy Central or Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. I can guility confess I'm a (original) Law & Order addict. But I have to be eating, drawing, answering email, or doing something else at the same time. I've never quite understood people that can just /sit there/ watching TV for hours on end.
I haven't noticed too many of the commercials louder, except for the very low-budget local business commercials, but I always chalked that up to... well, the low buget. Is this more of a network TV issue? I never watch my local channels.
I agree... I'd think the only way it could qualify as plagarism is if they lifted word-for-word someone else's commentary. Same as high school. Paraphrase, put it in your own words, and it's not plagarism.
The write-up here does obviously make it sound much worse than it is... the article seems to just be about how ideas and memes spread, more than anything else. It's a sociological study.
Silly write up /. post!
At least for me, it's been almost a way of life since about 1997, and how I've been eeking out something of a living for the last half year or so (and less of a living before losing my job and car and having to work on the net fulltime).
Yeah, that's all we need is auctioning off rusty, dangerous bits of metal to John Q. Public, so they can cut their thumb on it and have it get horribly infected, then try to sue the pants off NASA. =P~
It costs money to clean up the environmental mess that it's already made, and it will cost more to keep it than dismantle it if you consider that it's only going to continue breaking down, rusting, and polluting the land around it and water table below. I'm sure the costs of restoration and upkeep far, far exceed the costs of simply destroying and dismantling it, or they wouldn't go to the trouble to begin with.
The article says the thing is causing some serious environmental hazards. I know they keep the Saturn moon rockets, and the other rockets sitting around in the visitor's centres at Kennedy, and here at Johnson in Houston, but it looks less an issue of space and more of keeping the thing from poisoning the land around it. If a third party wanted to house and restore the thing, that's one issue, but I don't think it warrants just signing a petition and telling NASA "Hey, find a way to save this." NASA has already been under so many budget cuts, I don't blame them one bit for dismantling it. The structure will always live on in photographs and film, and it's not as if it will ever launch again.
I think a better testament to the history of space exploration would be to quit using the 20 year old shuttle fleet and start doing some real innovation again, rather than hanging on to a big chunk of rusting steel and paint to make a monument that honestly, not too many people will even bother to go see.
As someone who has gone to many conventions and been to stores of another seemingly dying art form -- comic books -- I have to say, there may be fewer of them but I doubt record stores will completely die out. There will always be enough collectors and people into obscure or older media to sustain at least one or two decent stores for cities. I've noticed the best ones are usually the stores that doen't just specialize in one thing, also. The store I used to go to for imports impossible to find almost anywhere else also carried rare and vintage t-shirts, concert posters, tapes, CDs, vinyl -- you name it. Comics in their traditional form are dying out, they've been replaced by tradepaperbacks, mostly... but there is enough of an audience to still sustain them for now.
Plus to the purist and somewhere where many customers are regulars, it's hard to beat a real person to walk you around and recommend new music based on everything else you've bought in the past. I know Amazon tries, but just like I believe ebooks will never replace real books, the atmosphere just isn't there. The only CDs I've bought in the last five or six years have all been used, from used CD/record stores. I've only started ordering everything online since I lost my car. That's my $.02.
I guess they were hoping you would copy side one to side two and then give side two to one of your frie... oh, wait. =)
is that even though I barely know enough to get by a lot of the time, and really all I do is make webpages which of course anyone HERE would know doesn't have anything to do with actually operating a computer, anyone who doesn't understand the technology or can't find the power button assumes I'm some kind of 7337 hacker than can solve all their problems or tell what brand of computer they have when they say "it's one of the beige ones with a CD-ROM."
And I can't help them, I couldn't if I wanted to, and so I end up looking like a jerk to my family because I "won't" help them fix their computer and they think I'm lying about it just because I spend half my time on the internet writing plain old HTML. Now that's annoying.
I can't get to the article, but wasn't there a reward for turning in the guy that wrote it? Maybe he was trying to turn himself in for the reward money. =)
I've never seen an Xbox. That thing looks hideously uncomfortable.
Maybe I am just a luddite, I am still playing games on the SNES and I just got a Playstation 1 for Giftmas last year.
Knee-jerk for Slashdot? More like standard joke for Leno, Letterman, Conan, Jon Stewart... heh.
Or me. =)
Don't forget Canadia, otherwise who would Bush have to blame for mad cow disease? Of course they couldn't possibly have servers there, it's nothing but snow and crazy cows, right... ? =D