I read the story as 'iconic' cooling system, and was looking forward to details of one of the all-time great cooling systems, one that history would long remember. Ah well.
I visited this site daily during the 2004 election, and was always impressed by the rigor it applied to the subject. But we shouldn't forget that while it was thorough, it was still wrong as wrong as the aggregate of all the polls it relied on. Doesn't mean it will be wrong this time, but don't assume it's right either.
The interface is surprisingly good, particularly the use of draggable selection of cells. Other areas work fine, but aren't so intuitive if you've been using Excel (e.g. having to click a link to get to the formulas page).
A big limitation for some will be the small page size - I tried importing a spreadsheet that tracks my finances for the rest of the year, and it took me a while to work out that the 180ish rows is too many. Aside from that the are obviously many aspects of Excel it doesn't support (in another import I found that durations I had entered as 4:32.1, for example, appear as their formatting text string - mm:ss.0) But for the sort of straightforward list management where Excel is surprisingly handy, this seems perfectly adequate and has the big advantages of being accessible and sharable.
The fact that the US is a very large country is (mostly) irrelevant. It doesn't matter to me how much a flight/train/taxi is from New York to LA, because I don't need to travel there any more than I need to go from London to Ankara. It's the choice that Americans make to ship stuff all around the country rather than doing more things locally that causes pollution issues. And the problem there is the choice (based in part on fuel costs), not the distance.
Rather than being 'forced' to live 20 miles from work, I'm guessing you have chosen to live that far away to get a house that suits your needs and wants. I chose to live 6 miles from work, so I don't have the McMansion I could have, nor do I have a second car (I bike to work), but I get to see my kids more.
It might also be wise not to criticize someone for the European habit of buying a new car every two years when you're making a point about understanding different cultures from the outside. As it happens I'm not aware of that habit - the cars I see in the US range in age just like those in Europe, and given that the trend in Europe is not to have a new model year every year (depending on the country of course, but in the UK they tend to have the initial release, a face-lift in 2-4 years, and then a new version 2-4 years after that) there's actually less incentive to keep buying new.
I do have empathy for your situation, but that empathy is tempered by the fact that as a nation you chose this situation - LA didn't magically sprawl, it became sprawled by the actions of its citizens. The fact that such sprawl turns out not to be a great idea is a consequence of your shortsightedness, not my lack of empathy.
Qualifying remark: I grew up in England and moved to Minnesota 7 years ago, so have lived as well as seen both sides of this.
Not voluntarily though - as a child I was diagnosed with Perthes disease and hospitalized for a year in an inclined bed - I think the incline was to help the effects of the traction that was also applied. This was done for a year, the last few weeks of which were learning to walk again. The amount of muscle wastage was quite amazing; I was unable to stand at first, partly because I wasn't used to balancing, but mainly because I just couldn't exert that much force. I was lucky though - I went in again for a month a few years later, and one lad had been in for almost 2 years with no end in sight. A shame that recent thinking suggests it doesn't actually help.
I guess this doesn't quite qualify me as an astronaut though?
You can unblock my ads when you pry it from my cold...no, wait...I'll uninstall Adblock when I pry it from your...no, that's not it...I'll pry Adblock from...
Perhaps they're modding it to be a home media server in a box (with Google providing the box if you don't want to be bothered) that can also act as a standard desktop at the flick of a switch. That would tie in with Cringely's ideas for all the dark fiber they're buying up and their current moves into more traditional media, as well as past speculation about them buying into TiVo. Imagine a nice Google appliance in your living room that does everything that TiVo, bittorrent, {insert media craze here}, etc. promise but don't quite achieve, supported by the initial purchase price plus actually useful advertising. And if you don't want to buy the box, which isn't a revenue stream anyway, just slap LiveGoobuntu on your generic box.
One of the advantages of technology such as this is in decoupling energy generation and use. At the moment energy storage systems (batteries, flywheels, CAES etc) are not up to the demands that we make of a car (though some are getting close). What this lets you do is have a small engine that can run at its peak efficiency all the time, connected to one of some energy storage system to act as a buffer, which in turn connects to the motors. The engine doesn't have to rev up and down, and doesn't need to be big to produce all the power in one go, while the batteries don't need to store hundreds of miles of current.
I've found that Blockbuster doesn't have a *better* deal than Netflix, though it is cheaper. In return for being cheaper, however, it takes longer to get the next item on the list, I'm a lot less likely to get the top choice in my queue, the UI is generally less usable, the recommendations system is not as good, and it generally seems trickier to happen upon the lesser-known films that can turn out to be so enjoyable.
And yes, I am cancelling, at the end of the month.
So much of this article seems to be based in a lack of understanding of a foreign system, rather than flaws with the system itself (not that there aren't any of course).
When I first moved to the US we had similar problems with all manner of things. We had to arrange for a phone company, and once we had one we had to get another one to speak to people a long way away.
We had to take our driving tests again (fair enough), but the test was conducted on a large empty car park with stripes for roads (and then I lost a point because I wasn't paying sufficient attention to other traffic - what traffic, there's only us here!)
We had to buy insurance to make sure that the house we owned wasn't actually someone else's house.
We had to pick an amount of insurance we wanted for our car. How do I know how much insurance I need? Should I be carefully to only crash with Yugos?
The list goes on, but the point is that while the system may be odd, it's primarily my lack of familiarity that causes problems.
"Alas, despite the wait, Tiger is a minor revision, like all previous OS X updates."
That's according to the MS hardware scale, where a major revision requires new hardware to make it run at a reasonable speed. So Thurrot is right - we're still waiting for the first major revision of OSX.
The fact that it is ad-free is almost worth the money on its own - with that as competition it's hard for the commercial companies to follow the american model of showing 25% advertising.
You could try cheap DSL - I pay $25 per month including ISP for 256kb up/down because of the good people at usfamily, and the other people at qwest. Not super-cheap, but reasonable. Whatever your area you may well find something similar.
"You would just need to memorize the order."...and then translate the order you've memorized into a carefully timed sequence of [next] and [last] button presses. Or you could let the iPod memorize it for you, and just listen to the pre-set order.:)
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System Preferences...Date & Time...Open International...Formats...Customize
Then change it to anything you want. A little hidden, to be fair, but that's what macosxhints is for.
Truthiness dates from 1824 or earlier:
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OED: "1824 J. J. GURNEY in Braithwaite Mem. (1854) I. 242 Everyone who knows her is aware of her truthiness."
(http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archi
Not that Colbert and his writers don't deserve credit for this excellent word - I was one of the 5 to 1 who voted for it.
While what Adams says may be true for who you live with, his assumption doesn't hold when electing a President:
i on/viewItem/itemID/11666 If a presidential candidate belongs to a political party you like and has many views which you like, would you be willing to vote for such a person if the person is...
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseact
An Evangelical - 64%
A Muslim - 63%
An atheist and does not believe in God* - 52%
*(not sure what an atheist who does believe in god would be)
I read the story as 'iconic' cooling system, and was looking forward to details of one of the all-time great cooling systems, one that history would long remember. Ah well.
I visited this site daily during the 2004 election, and was always impressed by the rigor it applied to the subject. But we shouldn't forget that while it was thorough, it was still wrong as wrong as the aggregate of all the polls it relied on. Doesn't mean it will be wrong this time, but don't assume it's right either.
The interface is surprisingly good, particularly the use of draggable selection of cells. Other areas work fine, but aren't so intuitive if you've been using Excel (e.g. having to click a link to get to the formulas page).
A big limitation for some will be the small page size - I tried importing a spreadsheet that tracks my finances for the rest of the year, and it took me a while to work out that the 180ish rows is too many. Aside from that the are obviously many aspects of Excel it doesn't support (in another import I found that durations I had entered as 4:32.1, for example, appear as their formatting text string - mm:ss.0) But for the sort of straightforward list management where Excel is surprisingly handy, this seems perfectly adequate and has the big advantages of being accessible and sharable.
The fact that the US is a very large country is (mostly) irrelevant. It doesn't matter to me how much a flight/train/taxi is from New York to LA, because I don't need to travel there any more than I need to go from London to Ankara. It's the choice that Americans make to ship stuff all around the country rather than doing more things locally that causes pollution issues. And the problem there is the choice (based in part on fuel costs), not the distance.
Rather than being 'forced' to live 20 miles from work, I'm guessing you have chosen to live that far away to get a house that suits your needs and wants. I chose to live 6 miles from work, so I don't have the McMansion I could have, nor do I have a second car (I bike to work), but I get to see my kids more.
It might also be wise not to criticize someone for the European habit of buying a new car every two years when you're making a point about understanding different cultures from the outside. As it happens I'm not aware of that habit - the cars I see in the US range in age just like those in Europe, and given that the trend in Europe is not to have a new model year every year (depending on the country of course, but in the UK they tend to have the initial release, a face-lift in 2-4 years, and then a new version 2-4 years after that) there's actually less incentive to keep buying new.
I do have empathy for your situation, but that empathy is tempered by the fact that as a nation you chose this situation - LA didn't magically sprawl, it became sprawled by the actions of its citizens. The fact that such sprawl turns out not to be a great idea is a consequence of your shortsightedness, not my lack of empathy.
Qualifying remark: I grew up in England and moved to Minnesota 7 years ago, so have lived as well as seen both sides of this.
Not voluntarily though - as a child I was diagnosed with Perthes disease and hospitalized for a year in an inclined bed - I think the incline was to help the effects of the traction that was also applied. This was done for a year, the last few weeks of which were learning to walk again. The amount of muscle wastage was quite amazing; I was unable to stand at first, partly because I wasn't used to balancing, but mainly because I just couldn't exert that much force. I was lucky though - I went in again for a month a few years later, and one lad had been in for almost 2 years with no end in sight. A shame that recent thinking suggests it doesn't actually help. I guess this doesn't quite qualify me as an astronaut though?
GMailTalk - now with no cold dead finger prying required!
You can unblock my ads when you pry it from my cold...no, wait...I'll uninstall Adblock when I pry it from your...no, that's not it...I'll pry Adblock from...
Ain't gonna happen.
Perhaps they're modding it to be a home media server in a box (with Google providing the box if you don't want to be bothered) that can also act as a standard desktop at the flick of a switch. That would tie in with Cringely's ideas for all the dark fiber they're buying up and their current moves into more traditional media, as well as past speculation about them buying into TiVo. Imagine a nice Google appliance in your living room that does everything that TiVo, bittorrent, {insert media craze here}, etc. promise but don't quite achieve, supported by the initial purchase price plus actually useful advertising. And if you don't want to buy the box, which isn't a revenue stream anyway, just slap LiveGoobuntu on your generic box.
Presumably that's pronounced with a hard G?
"their internet over broadband ventures"
Internet over broadband? Hmm, I could see that catching on...
One of the advantages of technology such as this is in decoupling energy generation and use. At the moment energy storage systems (batteries, flywheels, CAES etc) are not up to the demands that we make of a car (though some are getting close). What this lets you do is have a small engine that can run at its peak efficiency all the time, connected to one of some energy storage system to act as a buffer, which in turn connects to the motors. The engine doesn't have to rev up and down, and doesn't need to be big to produce all the power in one go, while the batteries don't need to store hundreds of miles of current.
I've found that Blockbuster doesn't have a *better* deal than Netflix, though it is cheaper. In return for being cheaper, however, it takes longer to get the next item on the list, I'm a lot less likely to get the top choice in my queue, the UI is generally less usable, the recommendations system is not as good, and it generally seems trickier to happen upon the lesser-known films that can turn out to be so enjoyable.
And yes, I am cancelling, at the end of the month.
control the indiscriminate redistribution of digital television broadcast content
So if I promise to be discriminating in the way I redistribute things, that would be OK? Would releasing a Mac-only client count?
So much of this article seems to be based in a lack of understanding of a foreign system, rather than flaws with the system itself (not that there aren't any of course).
When I first moved to the US we had similar problems with all manner of things. We had to arrange for a phone company, and once we had one we had to get another one to speak to people a long way away.
We had to take our driving tests again (fair enough), but the test was conducted on a large empty car park with stripes for roads (and then I lost a point because I wasn't paying sufficient attention to other traffic - what traffic, there's only us here!)
We had to buy insurance to make sure that the house we owned wasn't actually someone else's house.
We had to pick an amount of insurance we wanted for our car. How do I know how much insurance I need? Should I be carefully to only crash with Yugos?
The list goes on, but the point is that while the system may be odd, it's primarily my lack of familiarity that causes problems.
I understand the area covered in Texases, but what's this "pounds" of payload? How many VW's is that?
"Alas, despite the wait, Tiger is a minor revision, like all previous OS X updates."
That's according to the MS hardware scale, where a major revision requires new hardware to make it run at a reasonable speed. So Thurrot is right - we're still waiting for the first major revision of OSX.
The fact that it is ad-free is almost worth the money on its own - with that as competition it's hard for the commercial companies to follow the american model of showing 25% advertising.
You could try cheap DSL - I pay $25 per month including ISP for 256kb up/down because of the good people at usfamily, and the other people at qwest. Not super-cheap, but reasonable. Whatever your area you may well find something similar.
No, I believe the correct phrase is "Done wrote"
http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.asp
;)
I'm not sure they've translated the Russian word-for-word, and the layout is way different, but I think it's the same thing
"You would just need to memorize the order." ...and then translate the order you've memorized into a carefully timed sequence of [next] and [last] button presses. Or you could let the iPod memorize it for you, and just listen to the pre-set order. :)
It's just that he hacked you, not his light setup