A lot of companies use them for their VPN access. Several of the last big companies I've contracted for have required them. Some just use the value from the fob and others require a concatenation of the fob value and a prechosen password.
Unfortunately, I've found that the fobs tend not to enjoy the abuse that being on my keychain tends to bring. The LCD panels end up pretty scratched by the time I'm done with them.
"I mean, let's say we do end with a Libertarian President in 2004, somehow... he'll still have to get his proposals through Congress. "
That's one of the biggest problems that Jesse Ventura ran into while governor of Minnesota. What he hoped was to bring the 2 sides together to the center and get things done. What happened was that there was unrivaled cooperation between the Republicans and Democrats in the state congress . . . against him.
Ah. The naivte of left-brained geeks. See, geeks and other people who thrive on logic tend to make their decisions logically, comparing specifications and making essentially numeric comparisons.
However, the vast majority of people out there do NOT make their decisions in this manner (or spec sheets would be the primary sales tool). The simple reality is that most people nod in amazement when Ford says that the F150 is the only pickup with a Triton(TM) V8. Well, since Ford is the only manufacturer allowed to use the term Triton in that context, there's no way anyone else could have it, even if they had the exact same parts in the engine.
Most people make their decisions emotionally. And, marketing aims at that spending majority, perfectly OK with ignoring the logical minority as they make more money off of the majority anyway.
All you have to do is look at the studies in marketing, branding and sales to see that even when people say they are making their decisions "logically", they tend to actually make the decisions emotionally and justify them later with logical reasons.
The furnace was replaced in 2000, at a cost of about $5000, but the duct work dates from the mid 70's as does the only insulation that was done. It's a 1 1/2 story and the roof/ceiling are one and the same for most of the roof, which leaves not much insulation there and causes ice dams in the winter.
I do cover my windows in the winter (with the 3M plastic sheeting) and the siding is slate. I also don't keep it much warmer than about 68F-70F.
Also, window air conditioners are much more efficient than people give them credit for and my electric bill barely goes up with 2 window AC units running to keep it below 68F in my main living area and closer to 58F in my sleeping area at night pretty much all summer.
I was responding mostly to the content where the poster mentioned that the trend of high priced watches was going on for a decade. That indicated a lack of perspective that I had to respond to.
However, overall, I agree with *you* 100%. All of my "luxury" items fall into the categories you listed. I have many of my garments hand tailored to ensure that they actually fit me (at 6'4" and 270lbs) and generally seek out high quality merchandise when I can afford it, but NEVER as a status symbol. It needs to work better, be built better, last longer or look MUCH better for me to be willing to pay the extra premium.
Umm. You do know that Rolexes have been around for a LONG time as status symbols, right? A high quality, hand made, mechanical watch, made of gold and diamonds has been a status symbol for longer than there have *been* cars.
Similarly, hand-tailored clothing, custom architecture and anything else time consuming and one of a kind have been exceedingly expensive and sought out by the wealthy and emulated by those who aren't. Cheap wallpaper and faux finishes are a decorating trend to emulate the fabric finishes and hand-plastered looks in wealthy homes. It's all around you and has been going on for a very long time.
While not part of the $200 digital camera crowd, my EOS 300D takes all of my Canon EOS lenses which not only let you adjust the f-stop to whatever the lens supports (my 50mm opens to f1.8), but lets you do exposure compensation to a 1/3 stop, per-shot ISO range from 100-3200, custom white balance to emulate tungsten film or other adjusted films for special purpose, and in most ways lets you act like it's a regular film camera. The body's down to under $800 most places.
But that's kind of the problem he's talking about. While I'd love to have a more green approach to energy, my current energy costs (for both electricity and natural gas) runs just under $1800 a year and I live where it stays below freezing for 4+ months of the year. I run window air conditioners keeping the house at 68F during the summer. My house is over 100 years old and has snow on the roof for those 4+ months, which would mean that I'd still have to have "normal" energy solutions for nearly half of the year. The roof isn't particularly well insulated (I have ice dams every winter) and my costs are still that low.
The price you quote would take me over 10 years to recoup and, when I bought my house 4 years ago, would have constituted 25% of my home's value. That does make it an expensive solution.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't be looking at it anyway, but to call it anything other than expensive and logistically difficult is to have one's head in the sand.
Yeah. ReadyMade is a decent magazine, but is much more oriented to lamps and other "home" projects. Much too oriented to the ultra hip urban art student who would want a table lamp made out of a garage sale sign or a Tide laundry bottle. My home decorating is already taken care of and runs a little more sophisticated than most of their projects. I want to build functional items and I think this new thing is more my pace.
The best thing in that article was his statement that the move to TV will be left to someone else. Get rid of Lucas as the director and the TV incarnation has a chance.
I think part of the reason people pick the cheap products while still insisting on high pay is rooted in the same desire that day trading is: to buy low and sell high. There's a deep seated belief that somehow, if I just work the system right, *I* can get cheap goods AND a high salary. And, just like day trading, it's all those other suckers that won't manage to make it work, but somehow I will.
Because of how flour settles, you should actually NOT measure by volume as it will result in inconsistent amounts of flour in your recipe. By weight will result in consistent amounts.
I've always wanted to have a movie have someone stop the bomb something like an hour before it's supposed to go off. It would be a good opportunity for that cocky main character to spout off on "amateurs" waiting till the last minute to save the day.
I commented above, but things like the Olympics are frequently televised in the United States as "live" during prime time as much as 12-16 hours after it happened. During the Australia Olympics this was often cited as part of the reason for a decline in viewership of the events in the US as they had already heard who won by the time they were able to see the event.
Yes, but consider the problem with televised coverage of the Olympics when it was held in Australia or even this year, in Greece. The outcome is known several hours (many in the case of the Australia Olympics) before the events are shown as "live". In those cases, most television news will show text of the results with the audio making no indication of winners, allowing those who don't want the outcome spoiled to retain the surprise.
It's just that in this case, the event is taped weeks in advance of it's "live" showing.
The only difference is that most states/banks require insurance on your most important items, so it's a little different than, say the corner grocery deciding you're not allowed to buy your milk there. In an industry that is, for all intents and purposes, mandatory, the choice for a company to do business with a customer shouldn't be as free as in industries with more flexibility.
You entirely missed my point (though after 7 years on this site, I don't know why that still surprises me). I wasn't saying anything about the conflict at all.
I was stating that 2 groups, both of whom are American by citizenship and African by heritage and ancestry weren't both put under the banner "African American". This is because the term isn't being used the way, for instance, "Asian American" is. In that case (as in the case of most other constructions of the phrase), the first adjective is indicative of one's continent of origin, ie Asia, while the second is their citizenship, ie American. However, since "African American" is used pretty much wholesale where the word "black" used to be used and other, more offensive terms before that, it isn't used to describe a group of people, who are much more recently "African" as "African American".
The definition of "Semitic" has been shifting as has "African American" and the cognitive dissonance doesn't seem to even register with most people. There was recently a news story on the TV news about conflict between black students (who were born and raised in this country) and other black students (who were Somali immigrants). They actually spent the whole story talking about what the African American students were doing to the Somali students and vice versa. Apparently Somalia is in Asia or something on these people's maps.
There's no reason that this couldn't be powered by rechargeable batteries (it only would need 12V 500ma and even that for only 5-10 minutes, making it a good candidate for a battery solution). As such, the charging of the batteries could be handled any number of environmentally friendly ways, like solar panels, exercise bike, etc. You most likely wasted much more electricity just posting your response.
Of course if we could just bottle vitriol and power it with that, you might just solve all of our energy problems in one fell swoop.
I never aim to be the first. I'll actually look more closely at his design. However, he's just cooling the bottom of the container and I think that an entire aluminum sleeve will provide much greater cooling, particularly on aluminum cans (my beverage container of choice as I drink more diet soda than alcoholic beverages). Given the design of a typical soda can, there's actually just that little, narrow ring of aluminum that would come in contact with the cooling surface. However, if the entirety of the cylinder wall is cooling and the sleeve fits well (condensation may be an issue in fitting well), you've got a LOT more surface contact through which to make your heat transfer.
I've been toying with building my own single can cooler that would be usable for any 12 oz beverage can. Most of those car "refrigerators" use peltier modules to cool, but spread the thermal action across 6-12 cans. I was going to order just the module kit (from a place like http://electronickits.com/kit/complete/peltier/ck5 00.htm) and have one of the metal fabricators posted here a couple of weeks ago fabricate an aluminum sleeve with a plate and connect that assembly to the peltier module instead of the larger plate that the normal coolers would. You'd end up with a monstrocity that would slide over a single can and cool it down pretty quickly.
A revised design would turn it upside down, with the heatsink underneath and exhaust fans to dump out the heat, giving you more of a can holder instead of a can "hat", which would be more easily integrated into things like home theater seating or just an attractive housing for setting on your desk.
Don't be so sure. I live in Minnesota and have been asked by other Americans whether I needed a green card to work in the US, what with being from Canada and all.
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A lot of companies use them for their VPN access. Several of the last big companies I've contracted for have required them. Some just use the value from the fob and others require a concatenation of the fob value and a prechosen password.
Unfortunately, I've found that the fobs tend not to enjoy the abuse that being on my keychain tends to bring. The LCD panels end up pretty scratched by the time I'm done with them.
"I mean, let's say we do end with a Libertarian President in 2004, somehow ... he'll still have to get his proposals through Congress. "
That's one of the biggest problems that Jesse Ventura ran into while governor of Minnesota. What he hoped was to bring the 2 sides together to the center and get things done. What happened was that there was unrivaled cooperation between the Republicans and Democrats in the state congress . . . against him.
Ah. The naivte of left-brained geeks. See, geeks and other people who thrive on logic tend to make their decisions logically, comparing specifications and making essentially numeric comparisons.
However, the vast majority of people out there do NOT make their decisions in this manner (or spec sheets would be the primary sales tool). The simple reality is that most people nod in amazement when Ford says that the F150 is the only pickup with a Triton(TM) V8. Well, since Ford is the only manufacturer allowed to use the term Triton in that context, there's no way anyone else could have it, even if they had the exact same parts in the engine.
Most people make their decisions emotionally. And, marketing aims at that spending majority, perfectly OK with ignoring the logical minority as they make more money off of the majority anyway.
All you have to do is look at the studies in marketing, branding and sales to see that even when people say they are making their decisions "logically", they tend to actually make the decisions emotionally and justify them later with logical reasons.
The furnace was replaced in 2000, at a cost of about $5000, but the duct work dates from the mid 70's as does the only insulation that was done. It's a 1 1/2 story and the roof/ceiling are one and the same for most of the roof, which leaves not much insulation there and causes ice dams in the winter.
I do cover my windows in the winter (with the 3M plastic sheeting) and the siding is slate. I also don't keep it much warmer than about 68F-70F.
Also, window air conditioners are much more efficient than people give them credit for and my electric bill barely goes up with 2 window AC units running to keep it below 68F in my main living area and closer to 58F in my sleeping area at night pretty much all summer.
I was responding mostly to the content where the poster mentioned that the trend of high priced watches was going on for a decade. That indicated a lack of perspective that I had to respond to.
However, overall, I agree with *you* 100%. All of my "luxury" items fall into the categories you listed. I have many of my garments hand tailored to ensure that they actually fit me (at 6'4" and 270lbs) and generally seek out high quality merchandise when I can afford it, but NEVER as a status symbol. It needs to work better, be built better, last longer or look MUCH better for me to be willing to pay the extra premium.
Umm. You do know that Rolexes have been around for a LONG time as status symbols, right? A high quality, hand made, mechanical watch, made of gold and diamonds has been a status symbol for longer than there have *been* cars.
Similarly, hand-tailored clothing, custom architecture and anything else time consuming and one of a kind have been exceedingly expensive and sought out by the wealthy and emulated by those who aren't. Cheap wallpaper and faux finishes are a decorating trend to emulate the fabric finishes and hand-plastered looks in wealthy homes. It's all around you and has been going on for a very long time.
While not part of the $200 digital camera crowd, my EOS 300D takes all of my Canon EOS lenses which not only let you adjust the f-stop to whatever the lens supports (my 50mm opens to f1.8), but lets you do exposure compensation to a 1/3 stop, per-shot ISO range from 100-3200, custom white balance to emulate tungsten film or other adjusted films for special purpose, and in most ways lets you act like it's a regular film camera. The body's down to under $800 most places.
But that's kind of the problem he's talking about. While I'd love to have a more green approach to energy, my current energy costs (for both electricity and natural gas) runs just under $1800 a year and I live where it stays below freezing for 4+ months of the year. I run window air conditioners keeping the house at 68F during the summer. My house is over 100 years old and has snow on the roof for those 4+ months, which would mean that I'd still have to have "normal" energy solutions for nearly half of the year. The roof isn't particularly well insulated (I have ice dams every winter) and my costs are still that low.
The price you quote would take me over 10 years to recoup and, when I bought my house 4 years ago, would have constituted 25% of my home's value. That does make it an expensive solution.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't be looking at it anyway, but to call it anything other than expensive and logistically difficult is to have one's head in the sand.
Yeah. ReadyMade is a decent magazine, but is much more oriented to lamps and other "home" projects. Much too oriented to the ultra hip urban art student who would want a table lamp made out of a garage sale sign or a Tide laundry bottle. My home decorating is already taken care of and runs a little more sophisticated than most of their projects. I want to build functional items and I think this new thing is more my pace.
The best thing in that article was his statement that the move to TV will be left to someone else. Get rid of Lucas as the director and the TV incarnation has a chance.
I think part of the reason people pick the cheap products while still insisting on high pay is rooted in the same desire that day trading is: to buy low and sell high. There's a deep seated belief that somehow, if I just work the system right, *I* can get cheap goods AND a high salary. And, just like day trading, it's all those other suckers that won't manage to make it work, but somehow I will.
Definitely powered on several levels by Google. I was surprised (probably shouldn't have been) to see several of *my* Google ads running as ads on A9.
Because of how flour settles, you should actually NOT measure by volume as it will result in inconsistent amounts of flour in your recipe. By weight will result in consistent amounts.
I've always wanted to have a movie have someone stop the bomb something like an hour before it's supposed to go off. It would be a good opportunity for that cocky main character to spout off on "amateurs" waiting till the last minute to save the day.
I commented above, but things like the Olympics are frequently televised in the United States as "live" during prime time as much as 12-16 hours after it happened. During the Australia Olympics this was often cited as part of the reason for a decline in viewership of the events in the US as they had already heard who won by the time they were able to see the event.
Yes, but consider the problem with televised coverage of the Olympics when it was held in Australia or even this year, in Greece. The outcome is known several hours (many in the case of the Australia Olympics) before the events are shown as "live". In those cases, most television news will show text of the results with the audio making no indication of winners, allowing those who don't want the outcome spoiled to retain the surprise.
It's just that in this case, the event is taped weeks in advance of it's "live" showing.
Surely you mean Tim Conway. Geez, my age is showing isn't it?
The only difference is that most states/banks require insurance on your most important items, so it's a little different than, say the corner grocery deciding you're not allowed to buy your milk there. In an industry that is, for all intents and purposes, mandatory, the choice for a company to do business with a customer shouldn't be as free as in industries with more flexibility.
You entirely missed my point (though after 7 years on this site, I don't know why that still surprises me). I wasn't saying anything about the conflict at all.
I was stating that 2 groups, both of whom are American by citizenship and African by heritage and ancestry weren't both put under the banner "African American". This is because the term isn't being used the way, for instance, "Asian American" is. In that case (as in the case of most other constructions of the phrase), the first adjective is indicative of one's continent of origin, ie Asia, while the second is their citizenship, ie American. However, since "African American" is used pretty much wholesale where the word "black" used to be used and other, more offensive terms before that, it isn't used to describe a group of people, who are much more recently "African" as "African American".
The definition of "Semitic" has been shifting as has "African American" and the cognitive dissonance doesn't seem to even register with most people. There was recently a news story on the TV news about conflict between black students (who were born and raised in this country) and other black students (who were Somali immigrants). They actually spent the whole story talking about what the African American students were doing to the Somali students and vice versa. Apparently Somalia is in Asia or something on these people's maps.
There's no reason that this couldn't be powered by rechargeable batteries (it only would need 12V 500ma and even that for only 5-10 minutes, making it a good candidate for a battery solution). As such, the charging of the batteries could be handled any number of environmentally friendly ways, like solar panels, exercise bike, etc. You most likely wasted much more electricity just posting your response.
Of course if we could just bottle vitriol and power it with that, you might just solve all of our energy problems in one fell swoop.
I never aim to be the first. I'll actually look more closely at his design. However, he's just cooling the bottom of the container and I think that an entire aluminum sleeve will provide much greater cooling, particularly on aluminum cans (my beverage container of choice as I drink more diet soda than alcoholic beverages). Given the design of a typical soda can, there's actually just that little, narrow ring of aluminum that would come in contact with the cooling surface. However, if the entirety of the cylinder wall is cooling and the sleeve fits well (condensation may be an issue in fitting well), you've got a LOT more surface contact through which to make your heat transfer.
I've been toying with building my own single can cooler that would be usable for any 12 oz beverage can. Most of those car "refrigerators" use peltier modules to cool, but spread the thermal action across 6-12 cans. I was going to order just the module kit (from a place like http://electronickits.com/kit/complete/peltier/ck5 00.htm) and have one of the metal fabricators posted here a couple of weeks ago fabricate an aluminum sleeve with a plate and connect that assembly to the peltier module instead of the larger plate that the normal coolers would. You'd end up with a monstrocity that would slide over a single can and cool it down pretty quickly.
A revised design would turn it upside down, with the heatsink underneath and exhaust fans to dump out the heat, giving you more of a can holder instead of a can "hat", which would be more easily integrated into things like home theater seating or just an attractive housing for setting on your desk.
Don't be so sure. I live in Minnesota and have been asked by other Americans whether I needed a green card to work in the US, what with being from Canada and all.
How do you afford the emergency room copays from injuries sustained trying to bathe a cat once a week?