for computer users unless they try everything they can to prevent carpal tunnel. I know personally, my wrist started to get a little sore, sure it might not have been carpel tunnel, but I did things about it. I got a wrist rest, a comfy keyboard, and most importantly, started using a trackball. I know many geeks with carpal tunnel, or early stages of it, who just bear it. I have no sympathy for them. Now if you've tried alternatives, and still end up with it, that sucks, but despite this study, I still say it's an occumpational hazzard.
Where do I sign up? I mean seriously, the article says he's
Nick Bostrom, PhD, is currently a Research Fellow at Oxford University
So it isn't just anyone either, Oxford is paying people like this to write things like that under a 'research' grant? I'm struggling to describe him without the use of the word 'bonehead', but he's freaking getting paid for this. My faith in Oxford just dropped like a rock.
side note on air-fuel mixture ratios.
Many people have heard that you need a mixture reation of 14.7:1. 2 important notes about this fact, first, that ratio is by mass, not volume, and so per unit volume, an engine uses thousands of gallons of air per unit of fuel. Most underestimate the amount of air needed. Second, that 14.7:1 is the stoicheometric (sp?) correct, or chemically correct mixture ratio. As in, that ratio is what should occur under lab conditions. Under real world conditions, you get your best fuel economy in the ballpark of 16:1, and your best performance in the ballpark of 12:1, which is why the farther you push that accelerator, not only do you need more fuel for more air, but the RATIO should increase, since obviously pushing the pedal further down indicates a desire for acceleration.
Remember the days when DOS games would ask questions like this
minimum install (if you're low on space)- 50MB
standard install (reccommended)- 100MB
big install (runs faster)- 250MB
CRAZY INSTALL (no cd required!) - 500MB!!!
DOS was dead before CDs were really being used on computers.
He also thinks that with disk space becoming cheaper and cheaper, we'll be tempted to archive everything about ourselves, including pictures and videos.
But who would want to? I recently formatted my drive, but first backed up some data. My origional source code, email contacts, and a fistful of pic easily fit on a CD. (mp3s & porn live on another hard drive obviously) Right now, we can arcive quite a bit with still photos, and video is pretty easy as well. Sure it's not quite as accessible as something on the old hard drive, but if it was, I wouldn't look at those things much more. In short, I don't think I'm unique in saying sure there's a way, there's just not the will.
Sure, I'll say it's art, in the same way I'll nod my head and agree when someone tries to convince me that it's a programming language. In my experience, if a person doesn't understand why HTML isn't a programming language, it's not worth my while to explain it, I'll just play along and know the truth. I recon if people start saying it's art, I'll adopt the same aproach. I'm sure there are people who'll flame me for this, but that's thier 2 cents, this, on the other hand, is mine. Mod me as a troll if you like, I just can't sell HTML as a programming language or art.
Price ink cartridges the same time you printer shop. When I wanted to buy a printer, I got an Epson Stylus Color 800 over it's little brother, the 600, because of ink cartridge prices. The printer is significantly faster, but the big deal was the black ink cartridge had twice the capacity for only $4 greater cost. I recouped the price of the faster printer in the first two ink cartridges, since I'd have to buy 4 for the 600 series printer. My 2 bits, at least look at replacement ink cartridges when buying a new printer, it's enlightening.
I was reading the rules, and finally found just the loophole needed to win! The rules state
Participants while on the Route shall render all possible assistance to any another Participant on the same or other Team who has been injured and requires medical attention. Failure to do so shall be disqualifying.
Obviously, the solution is to go around to all the other teams, claiming to be stung in the fanny by a scorpion. When they refuse to suck out the poision, have them disqualified. (You have less than 6 hours to do this). Now, you might *actually* have to get stung in the fanny by a scorpion to make this work, but I'd take that risk for a cool million bucks!
I used to be a paperboy for a long time, and owned several mopeds. A brand new moped is well under a thousand dollars, and you can get a very good used one for about $300 still. plus it runs on regular pump gas, has turnsignals and gagues, and keys are required to unlock the steering wheel and steal it (barring carrying it away). The tiny engines for this bike mod are about the same price as a used moped, the fuel is about 10 times as expensive, they are louder, have less power and top speed, lower operating range (moped went over 100 miles on a gallon of regular fuel), mopeds are quieter etc. I'm pretty sure most places require a moped liscense (for those that actually get one) for any motor powered vehicle regardless of it's a rigged up bike or not.
I'm suprised the casinos aren't putting these things in their bigger chips. I work at a casino, and let me just say there are plenty of instances where they'd be awfully handy to have in place.
So let me get this straight, the board at the school will actually look at the decision in terms of cost, not for benefit to the students, that sounds a bit fishy. Also, who is this person or group of people who decided to push all this money at the school if they not just bailed on, but boycotted MS products?
I think it'd be great for college students to use computers apart from Microsoft
So do I, but if that is really the concern, why don't you talk him into putting a few cheap PCs up there with Linux and some free software? You can throw together a perfectly adequate PC for under a grand, a bank of non-Windows PC would be very affordable, and available to the students. Heck, I'd love to see how many folks actually sit down at those (on purpose).
Becase when the US inevitably bombs them, there is only one way to do it. You don't bomb someone till they agree, you don't bomb someone till they surrender, you don't bomb somone till they cry mercy. The only way to bomb someone is, back to the stone age. Once they are sufficiently bombed back to the stone age, they will view such a thing as magic. Belive me folks, they'll need that kind of 'artifact'.
all the geeks that have poor hygene to start with requesting slogan/comic t-shirts with deoderant built in...
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You know, it's quite easy to call the race after it's over. However, there are a whole lotta parts on a space shuttle that could lead to potential disaster, and all in all, I think reasonable precautions are being taken. Yes, you can't put a price on human lives, however, there's an associated risk with driving, flying, and launching into outer space, and I think reasonable precautions have been met. I find none of what happened to be neglegent or careless. That's just my $0.02 for what it's worth.
Yes, it was an exageration. However, I'm pretty sure you could float solder that much. For those that don't know what float soldering is, you heat the back of the board, (or not, works both ways) then you simply lay your circut board on a vat of molten solder. The solder will stick to the metal, and the green boards we are all familiar with repel solder. You then remove the board, and within seconds, the solder is cool, and the board is ready for use. In industrial applications, a line of boards can be 'floated' across a vat of solder, in production line manner, hence the term 'float solder'ing.
Fundamentally, I don't think model rockets should be further regulated. I do, however, have a problem with your statement. If I wanted to get a bomb around, I'd much rather use any number of model rocket engines, since 1) I don't have to drive the truck 2) It's way cooler than the alternative.
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how does a post recieve a rating of (Score:5, Troll), am I missing something?
The screens will be 1280 x 768 resolution and come in 17, 23, and 30 inch sizes
I want better res than that on my 19" moniter, that has to look like crap on a 30" screen
for computer users unless they try everything they can to prevent carpal tunnel. I know personally, my wrist started to get a little sore, sure it might not have been carpel tunnel, but I did things about it. I got a wrist rest, a comfy keyboard, and most importantly, started using a trackball. I know many geeks with carpal tunnel, or early stages of it, who just bear it. I have no sympathy for them. Now if you've tried alternatives, and still end up with it, that sucks, but despite this study, I still say it's an occumpational hazzard.
Where do I sign up? I mean seriously, the article says he's
Nick Bostrom, PhD, is currently a Research Fellow at Oxford University
So it isn't just anyone either, Oxford is paying people like this to write things like that under a 'research' grant? I'm struggling to describe him without the use of the word 'bonehead', but he's freaking getting paid for this. My faith in Oxford just dropped like a rock.
side note on air-fuel mixture ratios. Many people have heard that you need a mixture reation of 14.7:1. 2 important notes about this fact, first, that ratio is by mass, not volume, and so per unit volume, an engine uses thousands of gallons of air per unit of fuel. Most underestimate the amount of air needed. Second, that 14.7:1 is the stoicheometric (sp?) correct, or chemically correct mixture ratio. As in, that ratio is what should occur under lab conditions. Under real world conditions, you get your best fuel economy in the ballpark of 16:1, and your best performance in the ballpark of 12:1, which is why the farther you push that accelerator, not only do you need more fuel for more air, but the RATIO should increase, since obviously pushing the pedal further down indicates a desire for acceleration.
I'd just like to point out that this week Best Buy is selling 200 gig drives for under 200$US after rebates. Great deal for a drive that size.
Remember the days when DOS games would ask questions like this minimum install (if you're low on space)- 50MB standard install (reccommended)- 100MB big install (runs faster)- 250MB CRAZY INSTALL (no cd required!) - 500MB!!!
DOS was dead before CDs were really being used on computers.
...something something... what I wouldn't give for an archive of a Cowboy Neal webcam ...seomthing something...
He also thinks that with disk space becoming cheaper and cheaper, we'll be tempted to archive everything about ourselves, including pictures and videos.
But who would want to? I recently formatted my drive, but first backed up some data. My origional source code, email contacts, and a fistful of pic easily fit on a CD. (mp3s & porn live on another hard drive obviously) Right now, we can arcive quite a bit with still photos, and video is pretty easy as well. Sure it's not quite as accessible as something on the old hard drive, but if it was, I wouldn't look at those things much more. In short, I don't think I'm unique in saying sure there's a way, there's just not the will.
Sure, I'll say it's art, in the same way I'll nod my head and agree when someone tries to convince me that it's a programming language. In my experience, if a person doesn't understand why HTML isn't a programming language, it's not worth my while to explain it, I'll just play along and know the truth. I recon if people start saying it's art, I'll adopt the same aproach. I'm sure there are people who'll flame me for this, but that's thier 2 cents, this, on the other hand, is mine. Mod me as a troll if you like, I just can't sell HTML as a programming language or art.
Price ink cartridges the same time you printer shop. When I wanted to buy a printer, I got an Epson Stylus Color 800 over it's little brother, the 600, because of ink cartridge prices. The printer is significantly faster, but the big deal was the black ink cartridge had twice the capacity for only $4 greater cost. I recouped the price of the faster printer in the first two ink cartridges, since I'd have to buy 4 for the 600 series printer. My 2 bits, at least look at replacement ink cartridges when buying a new printer, it's enlightening.
Aardvark Daily reports that the ISP is also banning its users from saying bad things
how do they know what you say? spyware must be getting awfully advanced, I mean, they can moniter what you type, but...
http://www.tanksforsale.co.uk/
I was reading the rules, and finally found just the loophole needed to win! The rules state
Participants while on the Route shall render all possible assistance to any another Participant on the same or other Team who has been injured and requires medical attention. Failure to do so shall be disqualifying.
Obviously, the solution is to go around to all the other teams, claiming to be stung in the fanny by a scorpion. When they refuse to suck out the poision, have them disqualified. (You have less than 6 hours to do this). Now, you might *actually* have to get stung in the fanny by a scorpion to make this work, but I'd take that risk for a cool million bucks!
I used to be a paperboy for a long time, and owned several mopeds. A brand new moped is well under a thousand dollars, and you can get a very good used one for about $300 still. plus it runs on regular pump gas, has turnsignals and gagues, and keys are required to unlock the steering wheel and steal it (barring carrying it away). The tiny engines for this bike mod are about the same price as a used moped, the fuel is about 10 times as expensive, they are louder, have less power and top speed, lower operating range (moped went over 100 miles on a gallon of regular fuel), mopeds are quieter etc. I'm pretty sure most places require a moped liscense (for those that actually get one) for any motor powered vehicle regardless of it's a rigged up bike or not.
I'm suprised the casinos aren't putting these things in their bigger chips. I work at a casino, and let me just say there are plenty of instances where they'd be awfully handy to have in place.
So let me get this straight, the board at the school will actually look at the decision in terms of cost, not for benefit to the students, that sounds a bit fishy. Also, who is this person or group of people who decided to push all this money at the school if they not just bailed on, but boycotted MS products?
I think it'd be great for college students to use computers apart from Microsoft
So do I, but if that is really the concern, why don't you talk him into putting a few cheap PCs up there with Linux and some free software? You can throw together a perfectly adequate PC for under a grand, a bank of non-Windows PC would be very affordable, and available to the students. Heck, I'd love to see how many folks actually sit down at those (on purpose).
Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Becase when the US inevitably bombs them, there is only one way to do it. You don't bomb someone till they agree, you don't bomb someone till they surrender, you don't bomb somone till they cry mercy. The only way to bomb someone is, back to the stone age. Once they are sufficiently bombed back to the stone age, they will view such a thing as magic. Belive me folks, they'll need that kind of 'artifact'.
all the geeks that have poor hygene to start with requesting slogan/comic t-shirts with deoderant built in...
You know, it's quite easy to call the race after it's over. However, there are a whole lotta parts on a space shuttle that could lead to potential disaster, and all in all, I think reasonable precautions are being taken. Yes, you can't put a price on human lives, however, there's an associated risk with driving, flying, and launching into outer space, and I think reasonable precautions have been met. I find none of what happened to be neglegent or careless. That's just my $0.02 for what it's worth.
Yes, it was an exageration. However, I'm pretty sure you could float solder that much. For those that don't know what float soldering is, you heat the back of the board, (or not, works both ways) then you simply lay your circut board on a vat of molten solder. The solder will stick to the metal, and the green boards we are all familiar with repel solder. You then remove the board, and within seconds, the solder is cool, and the board is ready for use. In industrial applications, a line of boards can be 'floated' across a vat of solder, in production line manner, hence the term 'float solder'ing.
that I'll be punished for stealing songs, if they release details, my freinds will never let me live down my collection of Ricky Martain MP3s!
Fundamentally, I don't think model rockets should be further regulated. I do, however, have a problem with your statement. If I wanted to get a bomb around, I'd much rather use any number of model rocket engines, since
1) I don't have to drive the truck
2) It's way cooler than the alternative.
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