That's why I recommend crank forward type of recumbent, it turns well enough and doesn't look weird compared to a full on recumbents: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Obviously doesn't have the full aerodymic efficiency of a full bent but it has the comfort.
I would put up pics of full on recumbents but there are so many varieties of type, short wheelbase to long wheelbase, to canopied ones like a velomobile, that it would be pointless, as what holds for one might not hold for another.
I'm guessing a short wheelbase recumbent with the crank over the front wheel should handle turns well also but that is just a guess.
If you wants decent aerodynamics, you don't get a a "traditional" racing bike, you get a recumbent. Recumbents hold the world records for speed by a far margin and it's because they cut the aerodynamic profile in half.
They are known widely for being way more comfortable than traditional bikes (which is why most exercise bikes these days use 'bent form). You don't get saddle sores from them, but they are much better for your lungs and midsection as well, as bending down in the proper form in racing bikes practically crushes your middle. So I don't get your comfort assertion at all.
Of course, recumbents often are bigger and that's a down side, as well as visibility being a factor (the aerodynamic win trades off with being lower to the ground). And the ability to "hop" over objects. Uphill is reportedly tougher but I find that is more with newcomers because recumbents exercise different muscles, particularly midsection, and endurance comes from riding a long time.
I think a lot of the bad characteristics of recumbents is mitigated in the "crank forward" design of recumbents, which is a hybrid of the traditional frame of the bicycle and recumbent - pushing the crank forward like the name suggests, elongating the frame slightly but still being high enough and able to jump objects.
Google images has a ton of crank forward bikes to view.
As to the topic, I've been looking into a 1500 watt scooter. Can stand or sit. Can go up serious hills. Looks possibly small enough that I can take mass transit without them bitching about my luggage. Has a 20+ mile range, a little more if I don't go all out. Since it can go 35+ miles, 15 more than I'm willing to go on a scooter of that type, I think I can exceed that easily.
I would consider it seriously if my area rained a lot less than it does, like if I lived in Arizona. $1500 is still a lot, but compared to 5 or 10 years back, leaps ahead of what I could have gotten.
Previously, I was considering a gas powered Sym Symba (a Honda Super Cub remake) but I think that costs $3K, and only goes 45mph. With the electric scooter, I can go on bike paths, but on this, I would have to take roads, and that is too slow plus I would have to get a motorcycle license.
But I will not tech history in the last 20 years is littered with companies that were bought because of instant messaging in one form or another, stuff like Skype, that later on did not really bring it's parent company anything (eBay sold skype to Microsoft at a loss iirc).
The problem seems to be how to integrate and monetize these services without people jumping ship. Until then, they are hosting a free service that's quite a bit to fund with no obvious revenue stream in sight other than ads.
Of course, Facebook is an expert on that, so it may turn out well for them. Still, amazing returns on a 4 year old company.
Google, which is sensitive to accusations that it works hand-in-hand with governments or law-enforcement agencies to monitor civilians
I DO NOT MIND if google helps police agencies investigate crimes better by making google glass some type of Minority Report style computer (sans the whole crime prediction thing aspect of the movie).
I DO MIND if they build government backdoors to my data.
Not really hard, completely seperate things. But google is trying to bamboozle the public with nonsequiturs.
How about cellphones that notice your driving and become bricked?
I do like older cars more and more, but because I feel less spied upon than the microphones and gps they have built in now (at least the spooks will have to go to the trouble of wiring my car) and because the Germans also want the power to shut cars off in the future with a press of the button.
We have Patriot Act v3.0 coming into congress soon and we need more level headed humans rights activists acting as Representatives like you on board to ensure it's passage for the safety of the people and future of the children.
Please sign up at your nearest Democrat or Republican office to run in November asap so we can fund your run.
Sincerely, Corporate Freedom Fighters International "Fighting for better future FUD tommorrow today."
Herrhausen fell victim to a sophisticated roadside bomb shortly after leaving his home in Bad Homburg on 30 November 1989. He was being chauffeured to work in his armoured Mercedes-Benz, with bodyguards in both a lead vehicle and another following behind. The bomb had been hidden in a saddle bag on a bicycle next to the road that the assassins knew Herrhausen would be traveling in his three-car convoy. In the bag was a 7 kg bomb that was detonated when Herrhausen's car interrupted a beam of infrared light as it passed the bicycle. The bomb targeted the most vulnerable area of Herrhausen's car â" the door where he was sitting â" and required split-second timing to overcome the car's special armour plating. The bomb utilized a Misznay-Schardin mechanism. A copper plate, placed between the explosive and the target, was deformed and projected by the force of the explosion. It is unlikely that this improvised explosive device had the precise engineering required to form the liner into a more effective slug or "carrot" shape (as in a shaped charge or an EFP)[citation needed] but in any case, the detonation resulted in a mass of copper being projected toward the car at a speed of nearly two kilometers per second, effectively penetrating the armoured Mercedes. Herrhausen's legs were severed and he bled to death.
Does anyone think that police codes will remain secret on these?
Soon, cars will be going through the wrong side of towns, they will look expensive and the people well dress, and suddenly the cars will turn off, and the people get car jacked middrive.
They sunk costs into IE as a way to maintain their monopoly in the 1990s. They were really scared shitless that a browser could become the OS for all intents and purposes and then people would move away from a microsofty world.
The problem is that for small businesses that already occurred. I know people that use quickbooks online and other such services and their OSes don't matter for shit.
And almost nobody in the west will dare to make IE only websites anymore, just nothing to gain. And pushing possible IE only standards (like Silverlight might have become) is also out the window.
So what is in it for Microsoft anymore? They could dump their browser team into other projects and save the money imo.
But who says Neanderthals were dumber though? They managed to survive the cold climate for much longer than we have (which takes considerable more resources and planning than surviving tropic temperatures), and my knowledge is rudimentary, but from what I seen in documentaries, them dying off/merging may simply have been a matter of a warming earth. They were more barrel chested and not able to withstand the warmer climates as well.
Secondly, while Bieber is famous for being famous.. Carlsen is famous for using his brain and becoming the world champion of chess.
Maybe you are thinking of Paris Hilton or something (and maybe someone will refute me on her, idk), but JB is famous because he has talent, he appeared in youtube vids that had apparently enough draw for multiple people wanting to sign him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
You and I may think his music sucks, I don't think he has the talent near, say, some of the Jacksons at his age, but he's not famous simply for being famous.
A lot of basic farming came from (or was first invented) in China too. There was a good documentary on all this on the History channel but be damned if I can find the title.
So what's with the focus on the 19th century and it's communication/travelling tech?
So what we need to is a teacher population that is extremely highly compute literate, to the point where many can code, maybe to the point of a dynamically generated web page. This should be test prior to any teacher certification, just like pedagogy is.
Why would I want to force out competent math or english teachers on the basis they cannot code?
Wouldn't the be like forcing out physical education teachers because they don't know the basics of Shakespeare?
If we want kids to learn computers (and many do just through osmosis), maybe we should have a computer class k-12 that focuses on different things and leave that to a dedicated teacher.
However, I am skeptical kids need to learn how to code or any of that or that often. Every kid learning CS doesn't make much sense to me. Sure, they need to know directories and all that, but knowing how to code? Idk.
No, read what I wrote again. More worried != worried, in the same way a isdn is faster than dialup, but neither are fast.
Just a few short decades ago, black holes weren't thought to exist and if they did, be rare things, now they are at the center of every galaxy playing a huge part in galactic formation. There is a lot of hand waving going on with dark matter and dark energy, which is code for "we don't know wtf is going on", so excuse my skepticism on the "simple physics" of it all.
We can't even replace someone's arm or liver (yet), or predict weather out farther than a week or two (and not even that super reliably), and have a probe barely out of our single solar system and yet people take these megapredictions so srsly.
I find the work on how the universe was in the past or will be in the future fascinating, but would laugh at anybody trying to stake a serious claim on it being ultimately true. Sure, it may be possibly true, as well as all the predictions predicated on the big bang or explaining what went on the first thousands of years on it, but the grain of salt I'm taking it with ought to be the size of the moon.
Whatever happens, let's hope the species evolved into some higher form (regression is possible) and some get off this rock before bad shit happens. I'm far more worried about a huge asteroid hit or a mega volcano under yellow stone ushering a global iceage than the eventual death of the planet by being boiled by an expanding sun.
I always had a lot more fun as a kid playing pretend games (when kids still played those instead of video games) than RPGs with a lot of rules. I think the amount of books and their expense just killed it. Tried several RPGing systems since, BESM and the like.
I learned that I like it a lot better when a computer takes care of all the details.
I think the obvious downside isn't just the rentseeking, but incentivizing the cottage industry to seek rooting of a vehicle.
Considering that self-driving cars are coming up, I would want to completely discourage that, because there's no telling how much damage something like that can cause.
I already forsee people seeing their self-driving cars as too timid (OH COME ON, HERBY, YOU COULD HAVE TOTALLY MADE THAT LIGHT IF YOU JUST CUT HIM OFF) and redesigning them to be more aggressive.
Tell me, when this pricing goes into effect for this ISP, and people shut off their computers/don't download anything at night, what is saved in that period?
A massive amount of electricity? Or water? Was a huge amount of bandwidth saved overnight?
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That's why I recommend crank forward type of recumbent, it turns well enough and doesn't look weird compared to a full on recumbents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Obviously doesn't have the full aerodymic efficiency of a full bent but it has the comfort.
I would put up pics of full on recumbents but there are so many varieties of type, short wheelbase to long wheelbase, to canopied ones like a velomobile, that it would be pointless, as what holds for one might not hold for another.
I'm guessing a short wheelbase recumbent with the crank over the front wheel should handle turns well also but that is just a guess.
If you wants decent aerodynamics, you don't get a a "traditional" racing bike, you get a recumbent. Recumbents hold the world records for speed by a far margin and it's because they cut the aerodynamic profile in half.
They are known widely for being way more comfortable than traditional bikes (which is why most exercise bikes these days use 'bent form). You don't get saddle sores from them, but they are much better for your lungs and midsection as well, as bending down in the proper form in racing bikes practically crushes your middle. So I don't get your comfort assertion at all.
Of course, recumbents often are bigger and that's a down side, as well as visibility being a factor (the aerodynamic win trades off with being lower to the ground). And the ability to "hop" over objects. Uphill is reportedly tougher but I find that is more with newcomers because recumbents exercise different muscles, particularly midsection, and endurance comes from riding a long time.
I think a lot of the bad characteristics of recumbents is mitigated in the "crank forward" design of recumbents, which is a hybrid of the traditional frame of the bicycle and recumbent - pushing the crank forward like the name suggests, elongating the frame slightly but still being high enough and able to jump objects.
Google images has a ton of crank forward bikes to view.
As to the topic, I've been looking into a 1500 watt scooter. Can stand or sit. Can go up serious hills. Looks possibly small enough that I can take mass transit without them bitching about my luggage. Has a 20+ mile range, a little more if I don't go all out. Since it can go 35+ miles, 15 more than I'm willing to go on a scooter of that type, I think I can exceed that easily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I would consider it seriously if my area rained a lot less than it does, like if I lived in Arizona. $1500 is still a lot, but compared to 5 or 10 years back, leaps ahead of what I could have gotten.
Previously, I was considering a gas powered Sym Symba (a Honda Super Cub remake) but I think that costs $3K, and only goes 45mph. With the electric scooter, I can go on bike paths, but on this, I would have to take roads, and that is too slow plus I would have to get a motorcycle license.
Grades were private, but everyone knew who got the good grades and who got the bad grades, thus defining the middle as well.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/2...
But I will not tech history in the last 20 years is littered with companies that were bought because of instant messaging in one form or another, stuff like Skype, that later on did not really bring it's parent company anything (eBay sold skype to Microsoft at a loss iirc).
The problem seems to be how to integrate and monetize these services without people jumping ship. Until then, they are hosting a free service that's quite a bit to fund with no obvious revenue stream in sight other than ads.
Of course, Facebook is an expert on that, so it may turn out well for them. Still, amazing returns on a 4 year old company.
And an education.
I DO NOT MIND if google helps police agencies investigate crimes better by making google glass some type of Minority Report style computer (sans the whole crime prediction thing aspect of the movie).
I DO MIND if they build government backdoors to my data.
Not really hard, completely seperate things. But google is trying to bamboozle the public with nonsequiturs.
I thought with the onset of internet porn, people who keep buying playboy are actually doing it for the articles.
And lets get real, the babes in there aren't that hot.
More to come, stay tuned.
How about cellphones that notice your driving and become bricked?
I do like older cars more and more, but because I feel less spied upon than the microphones and gps they have built in now (at least the spooks will have to go to the trouble of wiring my car) and because the Germans also want the power to shut cars off in the future with a press of the button.
Not because of any legitimate safety feature.
For the money we pay them, I don't want to understand. I expect professionals.
Hello Sir,
We have Patriot Act v3.0 coming into congress soon and we need more level headed humans rights activists acting as Representatives like you on board to ensure it's passage for the safety of the people and future of the children.
Please sign up at your nearest Democrat or Republican office to run in November asap so we can fund your run.
Sincerely,
Corporate Freedom Fighters International
"Fighting for better future FUD tommorrow today."
Back in 1989, Alfred Herrhausen, a banker, was assasinated with a fairly complex bomb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
http://www.wired.com/dangerroo...
Does anyone think that police codes will remain secret on these?
Soon, cars will be going through the wrong side of towns, they will look expensive and the people well dress, and suddenly the cars will turn off, and the people get car jacked middrive.
But does it really matter to Microsoft anymore?
They sunk costs into IE as a way to maintain their monopoly in the 1990s. They were really scared shitless that a browser could become the OS for all intents and purposes and then people would move away from a microsofty world.
The problem is that for small businesses that already occurred. I know people that use quickbooks online and other such services and their OSes don't matter for shit.
And almost nobody in the west will dare to make IE only websites anymore, just nothing to gain. And pushing possible IE only standards (like Silverlight might have become) is also out the window.
So what is in it for Microsoft anymore? They could dump their browser team into other projects and save the money imo.
But who says Neanderthals were dumber though? They managed to survive the cold climate for much longer than we have (which takes considerable more resources and planning than surviving tropic temperatures), and my knowledge is rudimentary, but from what I seen in documentaries, them dying off/merging may simply have been a matter of a warming earth. They were more barrel chested and not able to withstand the warmer climates as well.
Now if North Korea could humanize actual humans, then we'd be set.
Maybe you are thinking of Paris Hilton or something (and maybe someone will refute me on her, idk), but JB is famous because he has talent, he appeared in youtube vids that had apparently enough draw for multiple people wanting to sign him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
You and I may think his music sucks, I don't think he has the talent near, say, some of the Jacksons at his age, but he's not famous simply for being famous.
A lot of basic farming came from (or was first invented) in China too. There was a good documentary on all this on the History channel but be damned if I can find the title.
So what's with the focus on the 19th century and it's communication/travelling tech?
Just wondering.
Why would I want to force out competent math or english teachers on the basis they cannot code?
Wouldn't the be like forcing out physical education teachers because they don't know the basics of Shakespeare?
If we want kids to learn computers (and many do just through osmosis), maybe we should have a computer class k-12 that focuses on different things and leave that to a dedicated teacher.
However, I am skeptical kids need to learn how to code or any of that or that often. Every kid learning CS doesn't make much sense to me. Sure, they need to know directories and all that, but knowing how to code? Idk.
Temporary until they decide they really like them.
There are no rights. Contracts need to be consented to, otherwise there is no contract, just terms dicated to the individual whether he agrees or not.
There is just a list of revokable privileges and it gets shorter every year.
No, read what I wrote again. More worried != worried, in the same way a isdn is faster than dialup, but neither are fast.
Just a few short decades ago, black holes weren't thought to exist and if they did, be rare things, now they are at the center of every galaxy playing a huge part in galactic formation. There is a lot of hand waving going on with dark matter and dark energy, which is code for "we don't know wtf is going on", so excuse my skepticism on the "simple physics" of it all.
We can't even replace someone's arm or liver (yet), or predict weather out farther than a week or two (and not even that super reliably), and have a probe barely out of our single solar system and yet people take these megapredictions so srsly.
I find the work on how the universe was in the past or will be in the future fascinating, but would laugh at anybody trying to stake a serious claim on it being ultimately true. Sure, it may be possibly true, as well as all the predictions predicated on the big bang or explaining what went on the first thousands of years on it, but the grain of salt I'm taking it with ought to be the size of the moon.
Whatever happens, let's hope the species evolved into some higher form (regression is possible) and some get off this rock before bad shit happens. I'm far more worried about a huge asteroid hit or a mega volcano under yellow stone ushering a global iceage than the eventual death of the planet by being boiled by an expanding sun.
Got bogged down by the rules.
I always had a lot more fun as a kid playing pretend games (when kids still played those instead of video games) than RPGs with a lot of rules. I think the amount of books and their expense just killed it. Tried several RPGing systems since, BESM and the like.
I learned that I like it a lot better when a computer takes care of all the details.
I think the obvious downside isn't just the rentseeking, but incentivizing the cottage industry to seek rooting of a vehicle.
Considering that self-driving cars are coming up, I would want to completely discourage that, because there's no telling how much damage something like that can cause.
I already forsee people seeing their self-driving cars as too timid (OH COME ON, HERBY, YOU COULD HAVE TOTALLY MADE THAT LIGHT IF YOU JUST CUT HIM OFF) and redesigning them to be more aggressive.
Tell me, when this pricing goes into effect for this ISP, and people shut off their computers/don't download anything at night, what is saved in that period?
A massive amount of electricity? Or water? Was a huge amount of bandwidth saved overnight?