The Access frontend and VBA is one of the most powerful database tools I've ever used; if MS could link it to a backend that didn't suck (say...SQL Server) and host it for me, that would be better than having the local app.
For all the bashing of Access, it is/can be a very, very good front end to a lot of back end stuff. Hooking into a billion row Oracle DB, with client desktops spread from California to Ohio to Paris...yeah, we were doing that a decade ago with Office97. The real problem with Access is it makes everything look so easy. Non-developers quickly get in over their heads, and build/deploy stuff that is out of the realm of what Access can handle. Build within its limits, and you can do wonders.
Start looking up child obesity numbers and you'll see that schools need to be doing more, not less.
I'd imagine the program is to let kids know where their heart rates are, and where they should be to get good exercise. Even if they are recording everything, it's pretty meaningless information. You'd know a person's heart rate from 7th grade.
For the obese kids, it just getting some daily movement and exercise. Which can be monitored with a pencil, paper, and fingers on the wrist. The addition of an expensive HRM would benefit getting that last 5% improvement in the already very healthy kids. Who don't need, or already have one.
And for that matter 24" displays get barely any higher resolution than 21" displays.
Add to that the 'widescreen' tomfollery. Advertise a 20" Widescreen as better than a 20" 4:3, and get more money for fewer pixels. My 19" Planar is more square inches of screen than the 20" Acer. Or even a 22" whatever.
I haven't used it enough to know how it handles call when you pick up though, as I usually try not to take calls while driving:/
Exactly. Whatever was running (GPS in this instance) was boss...until you answered the phone. Convincing a 22year old female not to answer the phone or text for 5 hours was a physical impossibility.
As I said...phone for phone things, GPS for GPS things.
Sure I will concede a Tom Tom sort of device would have been the ideal solution but you gotta admit the GPS on the phone did do its job. My 2 cents.
Right. The Phone-GPS worked well. Until she got a call on it, and then the phone function took over. Then the situation was AFU.
Cramming too many functions in one small device brings a reduced functionality on all functions. Phone/GPS/mp3/games/ebook...you can only do so much on one little screen at a time.
A dedicated GPS is far, far better (IMHO) than a phone based GPS. Recently, on a cross country drive, I relied on my daughters GPS enabled phone, having loaned my GPS to the ex. Every time she got a call or text, she had to reset the GPS, because the phone/text function took over. And on a 5 hour drive, that was many, many times. Annoying, to say the least.
Of course, there may be GPS enabled phones that do not do this. But a dedicated GPS is so cheap now, why bother? Get a phone for the phone, and a GPS for the GPS.
Some would argue that a few guys walking/driving around on the Moon for a few days was not really 'meaningful'. Meaningful at the time, yes. Long term? Not so much.
Iran having nuclear plants for power is not the issue. Using those plants to (potentially) enrich enough material for a weapon is the issue.
There are established international rules for standing up a nuclear power plant. Iran is apparently choosing to ignore those international standards and rules, and do whatever they feel like doing.
Google's found a way to make it work, and in the AFK world there is evidence of commercial tailoring for sporting events like the SuperBowl.
Tailoring ads for a specific audience has been the norm for a very long time, not just the Superbowl. Finance and insurance during Sunday morning news shows, Coors during football, tampons during Oprah.
Its not that the audience is more suggestible, but you don't want to spend/waste ad money pointing to the wrong audience.
I think the market that a product like this is geared to is not the two-cars-in-the-burbs market.
True. But just outside of the dense inner city, many, many families think they need two cars. I was able to be a one car family for several years, simply because I could ride my bike to work. Most of the shopping, etc happened with the car.
If there's a low-range, commuter version good for maybe 10 miles between charges if you don't pedal that costs less than $1,000 plus the cost of the bike then there should be.
e-bikes carry a few disadvantages, primarily weight. A few years ago, I test rode a Giant LaFree. Rode OK, but the damn thing weighed 80lbs. That is a definite limiter on what you can do with it. Upstairs to the apartment? Yeah, right. On the car bike rack? yeah, right. A 20-30 lb bike, you can throw over your shoulder. At 80lbs, thats not happening for most people. Oh, and when the battery runs down, now you're pedalling an 80lb bike. Not fun.
Electrifying a bicycle adds 40+ lbs to a regular bike, removes the exercise value of a bike, and adds nothing to the creature comfort aspect.
If I couldn't do my family's grocery shopping with it, I wouldn't consider it.
Are you doing you family's shopping every day? On every trip? No. In a typical 2 car family, one car is used almost exclusively to get dad to and from work. 30 minutes each way, and it sits, parked, the other 23 hours.
No, it (or a bike/Segway/bus/whatever) is not a total replacement for all of your vehicles. But maybe a replacement for one of your vehicles.
The range on this seems to be a bit lacking, though. And the price is a bit high.
The crappiness of MySpace pages is a 1-1 recreation of the crappiness of Geocities. Eyebleedingly bad html backgrounds, autoplay audio, blinkies, etc, etc. And it was very much of a (shortlived) 'community'.
AOL, when it was really popular, was the entire online world for several million people. The AOL chatrooms and internal IM were VERY popular. And then they let them out into the wider internet world....:(
Pay $10 a month or whatever, listen to any music you want, every month you get to permanently keep so many songs.
Like emusic.com used to be. $14.95/month, all you can download. Regular mp3s. Of course, their catalog is a bit...eclectic. I think now it's 40 tracks/month.
I've gotten the impression that this was less true in the US as Myspace seems to have been the first community website for "regular" people (as opposed to geeks and specific subcultures) that actually gained some popularity there).
Why do stealth planes need maneuverability? Don't they rely on long-range engagement and hopefully not being detected?
Key word, hopefully. Eventually, it may come down to jet v jet. Eyeball to eyeball. Disregarding that got the USAF into trouble in the early stages of Vietnam. Relying on BVR missiles instead of missiles and guns.
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Coincidentally, a few years later the building would later survive a direct hit from a B-25 relatively unscathed.
Which is sort of to be expected. A hard shell building, with a relatively small aircraft (F-15 size, F-16 weight), not a lot of fuel, and low speed.
Cars that burn gasoline are being called "green." Coal power plants are talking about being/going "green." etc.
Ahhh, the power of marketing.
Surely they've considered this and have an option to alter the pause mechanics?
Yes. It's called "Buy some other headphones(TM)"
...but if you're driving...
You shouldn't have plugs in both ears. Illegal in most places. Dangerous in all places.
Oh, and put the phone down. You're driving.
The Access frontend and VBA is one of the most powerful database tools I've ever used; if MS could link it to a backend that didn't suck (say...SQL Server) and host it for me, that would be better than having the local app.
For all the bashing of Access, it is/can be a very, very good front end to a lot of back end stuff. Hooking into a billion row Oracle DB, with client desktops spread from California to Ohio to Paris...yeah, we were doing that a decade ago with Office97.
The real problem with Access is it makes everything look so easy. Non-developers quickly get in over their heads, and build/deploy stuff that is out of the realm of what Access can handle. Build within its limits, and you can do wonders.
Start looking up child obesity numbers and you'll see that schools need to be doing more, not less.
I'd imagine the program is to let kids know where their heart rates are, and where they should be to get good exercise. Even if they are recording everything, it's pretty meaningless information. You'd know a person's heart rate from 7th grade.
For the obese kids, it just getting some daily movement and exercise. Which can be monitored with a pencil, paper, and fingers on the wrist. The addition of an expensive HRM would benefit getting that last 5% improvement in the already very healthy kids. Who don't need, or already have one.
It's not as sexy to report "University of Kentucky students take pictures from space on $150 budget".
Actually, I'd expect MIT students to do stuff like this. Podunk U students doing it would be more newsworthy.
And for that matter 24" displays get barely any higher resolution than 21" displays.
Add to that the 'widescreen' tomfollery. Advertise a 20" Widescreen as better than a 20" 4:3, and get more money for fewer pixels.
My 19" Planar is more square inches of screen than the 20" Acer. Or even a 22" whatever.
Like any current mid to high end home theater projector, but with several inch wide lines running through the picture.
In case you hadn't heard, the federal government has basically banned IE
Which federal govt? Not the US.
I haven't used it enough to know how it handles call when you pick up though, as I usually try not to take calls while driving :/
Exactly. Whatever was running (GPS in this instance) was boss...until you answered the phone.
Convincing a 22year old female not to answer the phone or text for 5 hours was a physical impossibility.
As I said...phone for phone things, GPS for GPS things.
Sure I will concede a Tom Tom sort of device would have been the ideal solution but you gotta admit the GPS on the phone did do its job. My 2 cents.
Right. The Phone-GPS worked well. Until she got a call on it, and then the phone function took over. Then the situation was AFU.
Cramming too many functions in one small device brings a reduced functionality on all functions. Phone/GPS/mp3/games/ebook...you can only do so much on one little screen at a time.
...or a phone with GPS?
A dedicated GPS is far, far better (IMHO) than a phone based GPS.
Recently, on a cross country drive, I relied on my daughters GPS enabled phone, having loaned my GPS to the ex. Every time she got a call or text, she had to reset the GPS, because the phone/text function took over. And on a 5 hour drive, that was many, many times. Annoying, to say the least.
Of course, there may be GPS enabled phones that do not do this. But a dedicated GPS is so cheap now, why bother? Get a phone for the phone, and a GPS for the GPS.
Some would argue that a few guys walking/driving around on the Moon for a few days was not really 'meaningful'.
Meaningful at the time, yes. Long term? Not so much.
Iran having nuclear plants for power is not the issue.
Using those plants to (potentially) enrich enough material for a weapon is the issue.
There are established international rules for standing up a nuclear power plant. Iran is apparently choosing to ignore those international standards and rules, and do whatever they feel like doing.
If she is capable of a degree in an American university what value is there in an American degree?
She's there for the 'Mrs' degree.
Google's found a way to make it work, and in the AFK world there is evidence of commercial tailoring for sporting events like the SuperBowl.
Tailoring ads for a specific audience has been the norm for a very long time, not just the Superbowl.
Finance and insurance during Sunday morning news shows, Coors during football, tampons during Oprah.
Its not that the audience is more suggestible, but you don't want to spend/waste ad money pointing to the wrong audience.
I think the market that a product like this is geared to is not the two-cars-in-the-burbs market.
True. But just outside of the dense inner city, many, many families think they need two cars.
I was able to be a one car family for several years, simply because I could ride my bike to work. Most of the shopping, etc happened with the car.
If there's a low-range, commuter version good for maybe 10 miles between charges if you don't pedal that costs less than $1,000 plus the cost of the bike then there should be.
e-bikes carry a few disadvantages, primarily weight. A few years ago, I test rode a Giant LaFree. Rode OK, but the damn thing weighed 80lbs. That is a definite limiter on what you can do with it. Upstairs to the apartment? Yeah, right. On the car bike rack? yeah, right. A 20-30 lb bike, you can throw over your shoulder. At 80lbs, thats not happening for most people.
Oh, and when the battery runs down, now you're pedalling an 80lb bike. Not fun.
Electrifying a bicycle adds 40+ lbs to a regular bike, removes the exercise value of a bike, and adds nothing to the creature comfort aspect.
If I couldn't do my family's grocery shopping with it, I wouldn't consider it.
Are you doing you family's shopping every day? On every trip?
No. In a typical 2 car family, one car is used almost exclusively to get dad to and from work. 30 minutes each way, and it sits, parked, the other 23 hours.
No, it (or a bike/Segway/bus/whatever) is not a total replacement for all of your vehicles. But maybe a replacement for one of your vehicles.
The range on this seems to be a bit lacking, though. And the price is a bit high.
The crappiness of MySpace pages is a 1-1 recreation of the crappiness of Geocities. Eyebleedingly bad html backgrounds, autoplay audio, blinkies, etc, etc. And it was very much of a (shortlived) 'community'.
AOL, when it was really popular, was the entire online world for several million people. The AOL chatrooms and internal IM were VERY popular.
And then they let them out into the wider internet world....:(
...like a push for a global taxation system
You. Are. High.
Pay $10 a month or whatever, listen to any music you want, every month you get to permanently keep so many songs.
Like emusic.com used to be. $14.95/month, all you can download. Regular mp3s.
Of course, their catalog is a bit...eclectic. I think now it's 40 tracks/month.
I've gotten the impression that this was less true in the US as Myspace seems to have been the first community website for "regular" people (as opposed to geeks and specific subcultures) that actually gained some popularity there).
You're forgetting AOL and GeoCities.
Why do stealth planes need maneuverability? Don't they rely on long-range engagement and hopefully not being detected?
Key word, hopefully. Eventually, it may come down to jet v jet. Eyeball to eyeball.
Disregarding that got the USAF into trouble in the early stages of Vietnam. Relying on BVR missiles instead of missiles and guns.