I take however long I think it will take based on previous similar work, and then I double it. If there's free time in the estimate I get to use it to sleep or walk to a coke machine, or do some of the other projects I am getting pushed onto me at the same time.
I was just thinking about that, it looked so amazing for it's time. It pipped DOOM to the post by over a year and a half! Not a bad effort, a dungeon crawling RPG, in 3d, using the familar pots of health and mana as a visual - now commonly stolen.
Jow Blow will not get on the bike because at 350lbs he'll find the seat very uncomfortable. The bike also is unlikely to be able to move someone of that weight from A to B. It won't be able to go up any decent inclines assuming it can be brought up to speed on the flat. Jow Blow should start to walk more often, swim, and engage in light exercise to shift some weight.
If getting up a slight incline of 40M over 500M is a problem currently then doing it less is not the answer. You should be looking at cycling up the incline every chance you get. Each time you do it your cardio will improve, you'll shift a bit of weight, and therefore have less weight to move up the incline making it easier. Your muscles will improve contributing to making it a fairly easy incline in time.
Barely assisting the bike over a 50KM ride is not going to really help your fitness. You need to get the heart pumping, break a sweat, and get breathing hard if you want fitness gains. Sure, you will gain a small amount of energy burn off, but that could have been done over a much shorter, but harder ride that pushed your cardio and circulatory systems.
Of course, they could ride to a local gym near work and use those showers. Or a racketball court, squash court, tennis court, pretty much any sort of sporting facility would be fine. There's a lot of options available, assuming you need to ride so hard and fast that you're drenched in sweat.
It may be of no help to some, but many large or even medium sized businesses now have a small gym area and showers - or even just showers. Every job I worked at the last last 8 years at least had showers and a changing room - so it is likely more common than some people think.
It's a good strategy. I used to upgrade my machine every 2 years or so - usually a piece by piece effort. Parts were above average in quality so were affordable and had a life or maybe 2 years. I got sick of how often I had to have my case open (remember the days of nasty beige cases with razor sharp steel edges, always left a little splash of blood inside those) and also Windows would play funny buggers sometimes over new pieces of hardware.
I switched to a 3 year, complete replacement, cycle a few years back. In practice though the second last machine I bought would still be plugging away after 6 years happily for most tasks but the latest games. My current system is at the 3 year mark now and still gives excellent performance - even for games. I expect a good 6 years plus out of it.
My laptop is a Mac Powerbook, the last of the PowerPC models. Unfortunately it was one of those from the bad batch of screens that Apple isn't fixing. I still use it every day, it still does everything it did when I bought it over 5 years ago, and it doesn't feel sluggish.
In an age when most of us could do with more exercise, not less, and could reduce energy usage not increase it - these seem like a bad idea. It will be interesting to see if the percentage of people who are obese in either of these countries increase in parallel with the switch to electric bikes.
I've been to Amsterdam, spent a few weeks there, and you'd be amazed at how few people are fat in that city - a lot of which can be contributed to the fact the ride everywhere. Compare that to the US, Britain, and even Australia - and it's quite the difference. America of course wins the prize - so if anything you guys need more incentive to ride pushbikes, not less.
Just expressing an opinion. Tell me, in the last 12 months which great comedy performance Billy Crystal held? Chevy Chase? I'll leave it to you then, name 3 performances by any of these great comediennes in the last 18 months.
Try to look towards the initial intent of the object for one moment. A pillow is designed to give you a head rest and a comforting nights sleep. A hammer is designed to bash nails into wood. A pistol is designed to kill people - not animals - other people. It's sole purpose is to fire a high speed projectile out it's barrel and into the face/chest, pelvis/etc of another human being.
but I will say you'd be surprised how much more understandable the interest is when they're a common and generally harmless part of your existence rather than an evil bogeyman.
33,000 Americans per year would agree with that statement...if they could, if they weren't full of holes and lying in graves they'd definitely call guns 'generally harmless'.
Jim Belushi. - he's terrible, not funny in the least John Belushi - great in The Blues Brothers, the nothing after Eddie Murphy - Bevilly Hills Cop was a long time ago and not that funny. As a voice actor in Shrek he is good. Billy Crystal - Never good, not even in The Princess Bride Dan Acroyd - Just not funny. Chevy Chase - Not funny Will Ferrell - Make him go away, please Bill Murray - Hasn't made me laugh in decades, though I still like to see him on screen Mike Myres - Hit and miss, best in Shrek as a voice actor
Most of these names are from the 80s and weren't even funny then. Yes, SNL has launched careers, but it's done it for the wrong people.
Ah, the Hinterlands. Nearest neighbors are 200-500 meters away, nearest I can see is about a kilometer away. My drive is 200m long so I don't think any drive by hacking is likely out here. Yup, sure is good:D
It's from a show on the BBC, and the British have a lot more tolerance and leniency over what can be broadcast. The show is called 'Monkey Dust' and features sections written by a lot of different British writers. It's pretty bleak all the way through. Torrents are kicking around the usual places.
I can't wait to buy one so I can sit on my couch, with my favorite TV show playing, and this puppy on my lap allowing me to read all my COLOUR FUCKING PICTURE BOOKS! Honestly, if it's a Kindle replacement, great - but I don't read pop-up books with pictures of cute dogs anymore, black and while will be fine.
What is it good for, bar reading on the crapper - which I'm a fan of?
If I want to browse the web I have a comfy chair and desk with a decent PC for that. Same for music, video editing, email, anything that would involve me having to press more than 3-4 buttons repeatedly...hell, I don't even txt I find that too annoying. I'd rather call the person.
I could use it at the kitchen table as a uber geek way to give my family the 'book off' I guess. I could whip it out in cafes and make the other fools who only have iphone jealous. Though the iPhone does tuck away in the pocket a little better when getting there.
I could watch some tv on it, but my 46" LCD streaming H264 from my PC does that far better.
I could head into the garden and browse the web on it - but maybe I should be getting my face out of the days dramas and simply sit and enjoy the garden instead.
All it's really going to be good for is allowing data, drama, work and other tiresome issues to penetrate even further into our lives. There needs to be some places you can go and get away from that - for me, I walk away from my PC and it's all behind me. For others, they constantly suckle at the teet of Twitter like alcoholics on a bottle.
Actually corporations like Microsoft do this all the time. By hanging onto small amounts of cash from their customers they can place this into overnight funds on the money market or other investments. You'd be surprised how much cash you could make if you had $20,000,000 on the overnight money market. It's quite legal, so there is no problem with that.
"The prison also cited some sparse evidence that a handful of non-inmate D&D players once committed some crimes that allegedly were related to their D&D playing."
My only crime was to CAST FIREBALL at LEVEL 6 and do 6D6 damage to everyone in a huge sphere in front of me...except the ones who made their saving throws.
I wouldn't even be here except I rolled a 4 on my SAVING THROW VS. JUDGES
For modern types who can expect to marry 2-3 times in their lifetime, it's like DeBeers is able to -tax- every couple on this earth 4-6 months wages for a piece of shiny glass. God forbid he offers you his grandmothers ring...that's not love, it didn't cost him anything, how is that love!
I have used Windows since Windows 2.0 both as a user and an admin. I must have installed it over 200 times, and can't say I've ever been left with no mouse due to a lost USB driver. Install anti-virus if you don't want porn ads, and stop visiting warez sites and clicking.exe links.
You're right about it slowly grinding to a halt, that's an issue with OS cruft, and is made worse if you install and un-install a lot of different software. I used to just re-install my OS every year or so under XP to speed it up again, under Vista it doesn't seem to be a problem so far.
Plenty of Windows software has it's own ideas about how it's interface should look and feel but that is by no means unique to Windows. Free software is often a step worse than Windows in this regard, and OS X a step better. Haven't seen any of the old fonts around for ages, but then I mainly only use newly released software that is fit for purpose.
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I take however long I think it will take based on previous similar work, and then I double it. If there's free time in the estimate I get to use it to sleep or walk to a coke machine, or do some of the other projects I am getting pushed onto me at the same time.
I was just thinking about that, it looked so amazing for it's time. It pipped DOOM to the post by over a year and a half! Not a bad effort, a dungeon crawling RPG, in 3d, using the familar pots of health and mana as a visual - now commonly stolen.
That's a fine hack, well done old chap.
Jow Blow will not get on the bike because at 350lbs he'll find the seat very uncomfortable. The bike also is unlikely to be able to move someone of that weight from A to B. It won't be able to go up any decent inclines assuming it can be brought up to speed on the flat. Jow Blow should start to walk more often, swim, and engage in light exercise to shift some weight.
If getting up a slight incline of 40M over 500M is a problem currently then doing it less is not the answer. You should be looking at cycling up the incline every chance you get. Each time you do it your cardio will improve, you'll shift a bit of weight, and therefore have less weight to move up the incline making it easier. Your muscles will improve contributing to making it a fairly easy incline in time.
Barely assisting the bike over a 50KM ride is not going to really help your fitness. You need to get the heart pumping, break a sweat, and get breathing hard if you want fitness gains. Sure, you will gain a small amount of energy burn off, but that could have been done over a much shorter, but harder ride that pushed your cardio and circulatory systems.
Of course, they could ride to a local gym near work and use those showers. Or a racketball court, squash court, tennis court, pretty much any sort of sporting facility would be fine. There's a lot of options available, assuming you need to ride so hard and fast that you're drenched in sweat.
It may be of no help to some, but many large or even medium sized businesses now have a small gym area and showers - or even just showers. Every job I worked at the last last 8 years at least had showers and a changing room - so it is likely more common than some people think.
It's a good strategy. I used to upgrade my machine every 2 years or so - usually a piece by piece effort. Parts were above average in quality so were affordable and had a life or maybe 2 years. I got sick of how often I had to have my case open (remember the days of nasty beige cases with razor sharp steel edges, always left a little splash of blood inside those) and also Windows would play funny buggers sometimes over new pieces of hardware.
I switched to a 3 year, complete replacement, cycle a few years back. In practice though the second last machine I bought would still be plugging away after 6 years happily for most tasks but the latest games. My current system is at the 3 year mark now and still gives excellent performance - even for games. I expect a good 6 years plus out of it.
My laptop is a Mac Powerbook, the last of the PowerPC models. Unfortunately it was one of those from the bad batch of screens that Apple isn't fixing. I still use it every day, it still does everything it did when I bought it over 5 years ago, and it doesn't feel sluggish.
Quality gear lasts well.
In an age when most of us could do with more exercise, not less, and could reduce energy usage not increase it - these seem like a bad idea. It will be interesting to see if the percentage of people who are obese in either of these countries increase in parallel with the switch to electric bikes.
I've been to Amsterdam, spent a few weeks there, and you'd be amazed at how few people are fat in that city - a lot of which can be contributed to the fact the ride everywhere. Compare that to the US, Britain, and even Australia - and it's quite the difference. America of course wins the prize - so if anything you guys need more incentive to ride pushbikes, not less.
Just expressing an opinion. Tell me, in the last 12 months which great comedy performance Billy Crystal held? Chevy Chase? I'll leave it to you then, name 3 performances by any of these great comediennes in the last 18 months.
Try to look towards the initial intent of the object for one moment. A pillow is designed to give you a head rest and a comforting nights sleep. A hammer is designed to bash nails into wood. A pistol is designed to kill people - not animals - other people. It's sole purpose is to fire a high speed projectile out it's barrel and into the face/chest, pelvis/etc of another human being.
Which seems more 'generally harmless' now?
but I will say you'd be surprised how much more understandable the interest is when they're a common and generally harmless part of your existence rather than an evil bogeyman.
33,000 Americans per year would agree with that statement...if they could, if they weren't full of holes and lying in graves they'd definitely call guns 'generally harmless'.
I'd just tape the watch onto the gun with duct tape.
You know, if they looked like the Kilrathi from Wing Commander, or those hot blue chicks from Avatar - I saw it would be worth it.
I for one welcome our super sized Smurfette overlords.
Jim Belushi. - he's terrible, not funny in the least
John Belushi - great in The Blues Brothers, the nothing after
Eddie Murphy - Bevilly Hills Cop was a long time ago and not that funny. As a voice actor in Shrek he is good.
Billy Crystal - Never good, not even in The Princess Bride
Dan Acroyd - Just not funny.
Chevy Chase - Not funny
Will Ferrell - Make him go away, please
Bill Murray - Hasn't made me laugh in decades, though I still like to see him on screen
Mike Myres - Hit and miss, best in Shrek as a voice actor
Most of these names are from the 80s and weren't even funny then. Yes, SNL has launched careers, but it's done it for the wrong people.
Here here. I even provide extra ports and cables for laptops that visit who prefer wires.
Ah, the Hinterlands. Nearest neighbors are 200-500 meters away, nearest I can see is about a kilometer away. My drive is 200m long so I don't think any drive by hacking is likely out here. Yup, sure is good :D
It's from a show on the BBC, and the British have a lot more tolerance and leniency over what can be broadcast. The show is called 'Monkey Dust' and features sections written by a lot of different British writers. It's pretty bleak all the way through. Torrents are kicking around the usual places.
All hail the Pedo Finder General!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvsoVdvtZC4
I was thinking more along the lines of "Run Spot Run"
I can't wait to buy one so I can sit on my couch, with my favorite TV show playing, and this puppy on my lap allowing me to read all my COLOUR FUCKING PICTURE BOOKS! Honestly, if it's a Kindle replacement, great - but I don't read pop-up books with pictures of cute dogs anymore, black and while will be fine.
What is it good for, bar reading on the crapper - which I'm a fan of?
If I want to browse the web I have a comfy chair and desk with a decent PC for that. Same for music, video editing, email, anything that would involve me having to press more than 3-4 buttons repeatedly...hell, I don't even txt I find that too annoying. I'd rather call the person.
I could use it at the kitchen table as a uber geek way to give my family the 'book off' I guess. I could whip it out in cafes and make the other fools who only have iphone jealous. Though the iPhone does tuck away in the pocket a little better when getting there.
I could watch some tv on it, but my 46" LCD streaming H264 from my PC does that far better.
I could head into the garden and browse the web on it - but maybe I should be getting my face out of the days dramas and simply sit and enjoy the garden instead.
All it's really going to be good for is allowing data, drama, work and other tiresome issues to penetrate even further into our lives. There needs to be some places you can go and get away from that - for me, I walk away from my PC and it's all behind me. For others, they constantly suckle at the teet of Twitter like alcoholics on a bottle.
Actually corporations like Microsoft do this all the time. By hanging onto small amounts of cash from their customers they can place this into overnight funds on the money market or other investments. You'd be surprised how much cash you could make if you had $20,000,000 on the overnight money market. It's quite legal, so there is no problem with that.
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/monmrt.html
I'm quite fond of stoned girls who aren't virgins.
"The prison also cited some sparse evidence that a handful of non-inmate D&D players once committed some crimes that allegedly were related to their D&D playing."
My only crime was to CAST FIREBALL at LEVEL 6 and do 6D6 damage to everyone in a huge sphere in front of me...except the ones who made their saving throws.
I wouldn't even be here except I rolled a 4 on my SAVING THROW VS. JUDGES
For modern types who can expect to marry 2-3 times in their lifetime, it's like DeBeers is able to -tax- every couple on this earth 4-6 months wages for a piece of shiny glass. God forbid he offers you his grandmothers ring...that's not love, it didn't cost him anything, how is that love!
Not if you get the carbon from the corpses of Sierra Leone workers!
I have used Windows since Windows 2.0 both as a user and an admin. I must have installed it over 200 times, and can't say I've ever been left with no mouse due to a lost USB driver. Install anti-virus if you don't want porn ads, and stop visiting warez sites and clicking .exe links.
You're right about it slowly grinding to a halt, that's an issue with OS cruft, and is made worse if you install and un-install a lot of different software. I used to just re-install my OS every year or so under XP to speed it up again, under Vista it doesn't seem to be a problem so far.
Plenty of Windows software has it's own ideas about how it's interface should look and feel but that is by no means unique to Windows. Free software is often a step worse than Windows in this regard, and OS X a step better. Haven't seen any of the old fonts around for ages, but then I mainly only use newly released software that is fit for purpose.