Perhaps if one of your friends comments on that status and they are friends with your non-friend coworkers, your coworkers can then view your status. I haven't verified this, but developments in Facebook's privacy policy make it seem plausible at least.
I don't like it either. Whenever I ride in the US, its always in the street or on a bike lane. The only reason you would find me on a sidewalk is if it is deserted and the street traffic is dangerous. This isn't to say that people don't ride on the sidewalk in the US. Certainly the law says bikes belong on the road, but in many places that official location for bikes is far from safe.
This Summer I'm in Japan for a short internship, and by all accounts it is the safest place I have lived. I guess when my biggest complaint is that bikers on the sidewalk render me uncomfortable, it is a good sign.
I too love my bike. In every city I've lived in the law is either to ride on the sidewalk or bike lines are increasing at a surprising pace.
In Atlanta I had a six mile commute and only a bare area of that was without a bike lane, and a good portion of it was through a lovely scenic park. Of course such a commute would not be possible without a shower at work. Showers for employees is a requirement of LEED office buildings, and many are built at least to the minimal LEED requirements these days.
To be on topic, parking is free and easy to find almost everywhere on a bike. Even where there are no bike racks, a street sign or a small tree will do most of the time for securing your ride.
This obviously doesn't solve the issue of a corrupt or poorly-outsourced running of public resources, but I'm not wholly against anything that will push us away from an absurd amount of privately owned vehicles.
In Philadelphia, where I live, access to fresh produce is a large problem. Even in the city center we are limited to a very few expensive supermarkets. In the poorer areas of the city, sometimes all that exists within a reasonable area is a small corner store, and these stores do not exactly contain an abundance of healthy choices. Their signs advertise cigarettes, alcohol and bread as their staple products.
I've spoken with a few small grocery store owners who are in a program run by the city to help provide incentives to carry more products, including some fresh vegetables and fruits and sometimes small takeaway foods. But by and large, whole areas of the city seem derelict of proper nutrition. Its bad enough for government to intervene in providing what is necessary for a healthy diet and survival.
I'm currently in architecture school, and the expectation at both of the universities I have attended is to stay up all night for days at a time, especially during mid-reviews and final reviews. As for whether it increases creativity, it certainly does up to a point. A small anecdote, if I may be allowed: During my second year in architecture school I had a professor that gave us absurd amounts of work above and beyond that of the other studio sections. Her justification? So that we would learn work ethics even if it meant staying up all night. She even had a definition for the all-nighter. According to her, if we had time to go home and take a shower, it was not a true all-nighter.
The other thing I can say is that this semester, now in grad school half-way across the country, the all-nighter is just a prevalent or more so. It's the nature of architecture school. I ended up sleeping for 2-3 hours a day for almost two weeks towards the end of the semester, and eventually, with enough sleep deprivation you become despondent, and its time to put your head down or go home and get some rest so you can actually be productive.
Both of these cases were somewhat extreme. There have been tales on various architecture forums of schools trying to ban all-nighters, but the expectations of perfection, extreme amounts of production, and a project constantly in flux never go away, so the all-nighter won't either. Even at Georgia Tech which touts its 24 hour access to the architecture building and its resources (even parts of the wood shop), the administration gets nervous when people move cots and couches into the building.
I think I've ranted enough on the subject, but if anyone wants to start a thread, lets do it.
Yes, the yellow bikes program is a failure. Theft is rampant. I witnessed it in Atlanta with Decatur yellow bikes. It doesn't mean that every public transportation rental system will be a failure. We can learn from our mistakes. One needs only look to the successful Velib' bike rentals recently rolled out in Paris.
Under the Velib' system, anyone renting a bike must use a bank card which will lock 150 Euros in their account, as insurance on the bike. If it is stolen, and you report it to the police, the percentage of that you pay is substantially less. The program works great, and even now more Velib' stations are being added throughout the city. I think the system MIT proposes sounds more similar to this than the yellow bikes program.
As another poster mentioned, Flexcar is very successful as well.
I don't know why more people don't use PNG. Because it isn't recognized by FrontPage 3.0:P
This is funny because it's true. People's reliance on Microsoft products never ceases to amaze me.
For instance, I was in a website design class, and the assignment was to redesign my school's website. I made a nice layout using standard HTML and CSS that would work with the data formatting on the current website, but they wouldn't even go near it because it wasn't made in Frontpage!
When it comes to computers, people will usually use what is already there, instead of trying to find a good alternative, and GIF is a widespread format while PNG is relatively unknown. It's sad but true; just look at IE compared to Mozilla. There's really no contest in which is better, but it will be a slow transition if it happens at all. All anyone can do is to slowly show people why one is better, and hope for the best.
Actually, I didn't even know about the whole PNG versus GIF thing, but after reading Burn All GIFs, I'm going to convert the one GIF on my website to a PNG.
Playing Galaga or Pac-Man in the arcade now costs 50 cents if you can even find a machine! I get a good laugh that they charge twice as much 20 years later.
I don't know about horrendous. Many of us have caps perpetually set at 128kbits (Comcast, many others). It seems like Optimum Online are being rather generous. I would kill for a 1Mbit upload.
In the computer lab at my high school the only way to save files you're working on is via a floppy drive. I would like to see floppies replaced with compact flash cards that connect to a computer via a front USB port. It would be more conveniant, durable, and allow for larger files. I'm tired of having my floppies split into peices.
Comcast caps the upstream bandwidth at 16kB/s. I don't think any company will be looked favorably upon for blocking a filesharing network that everyone knows about. I'm glad Comcast didn't take that route.
In the member services area of Comcast.net go to Broadband Products and then where it says go pro click on more. I wouldn't be suprised if their customer support doesn't know anything, they never do.
Comcast offers a 3.5 Mbps downspeed for ~$95/mo. I didn't pay it because I felt it was a ripoff (especially when the increased upspeed bandwidth was less than half of what @Home offered). Now that a company offers about the same downspeed for the same cost I can see it might very well have been a ripoff. The sad thing is that this company's announcement won't affect Comcast in the least considering it's a monopoly.
Comcast has hardly been providing good service these days. The upload has been capped to near nothing and the service slows down greatly at random intervals. Perhaps if it was a good service I would be willing to pay more for my 15-20 gigs a month but if they raise the fee now I'm switching to DSL.
I've been having a problem with Comcast ever since @Home went out of business. When the problem (which consists of me not being able to access my web space on any subaccounts) first occurred I was told it was going to be fixed in a few days. I called back a week later and the tech had no idea that there was a problem. I called back a month later after that with the same response and the obligatory instructions to call them back if the problem wasn't fixed. I just called them about the problem again today and it still hasn't been fixed and the tech handling it still had no idea about it until he asked his manager and told me it was a widespread outage.
My question is how does a widespread outage not get fixed over the course of months? Not that it's the fault of the techie but they had no idea it was going on at all, which makes for a very unpleasant experience for me.
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I've been moderating the beta posts off-topic as well.
Horizontal space really is not that hard -- just resize your browser window if you don't want text over all 1920 pixels of width.
Perhaps if one of your friends comments on that status and they are friends with your non-friend coworkers, your coworkers can then view your status. I haven't verified this, but developments in Facebook's privacy policy make it seem plausible at least.
I don't like it either. Whenever I ride in the US, its always in the street or on a bike lane. The only reason you would find me on a sidewalk is if it is deserted and the street traffic is dangerous. This isn't to say that people don't ride on the sidewalk in the US. Certainly the law says bikes belong on the road, but in many places that official location for bikes is far from safe.
This Summer I'm in Japan for a short internship, and by all accounts it is the safest place I have lived. I guess when my biggest complaint is that bikers on the sidewalk render me uncomfortable, it is a good sign.
I too love my bike. In every city I've lived in the law is either to ride on the sidewalk or bike lines are increasing at a surprising pace.
In Atlanta I had a six mile commute and only a bare area of that was without a bike lane, and a good portion of it was through a lovely scenic park. Of course such a commute would not be possible without a shower at work. Showers for employees is a requirement of LEED office buildings, and many are built at least to the minimal LEED requirements these days.
To be on topic, parking is free and easy to find almost everywhere on a bike. Even where there are no bike racks, a street sign or a small tree will do most of the time for securing your ride.
This obviously doesn't solve the issue of a corrupt or poorly-outsourced running of public resources, but I'm not wholly against anything that will push us away from an absurd amount of privately owned vehicles.
I'd like to share a short personal anecdote here.
In Philadelphia, where I live, access to fresh produce is a large problem. Even in the city center we are limited to a very few expensive supermarkets. In the poorer areas of the city, sometimes all that exists within a reasonable area is a small corner store, and these stores do not exactly contain an abundance of healthy choices. Their signs advertise cigarettes, alcohol and bread as their staple products.
I've spoken with a few small grocery store owners who are in a program run by the city to help provide incentives to carry more products, including some fresh vegetables and fruits and sometimes small takeaway foods. But by and large, whole areas of the city seem derelict of proper nutrition. Its bad enough for government to intervene in providing what is necessary for a healthy diet and survival.
If you don't mind, I'd love to see these letters posted to Wikileaks.
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I'm currently in architecture school, and the expectation at both of the universities I have attended is to stay up all night for days at a time, especially during mid-reviews and final reviews. As for whether it increases creativity, it certainly does up to a point. A small anecdote, if I may be allowed: During my second year in architecture school I had a professor that gave us absurd amounts of work above and beyond that of the other studio sections. Her justification? So that we would learn work ethics even if it meant staying up all night. She even had a definition for the all-nighter. According to her, if we had time to go home and take a shower, it was not a true all-nighter. The other thing I can say is that this semester, now in grad school half-way across the country, the all-nighter is just a prevalent or more so. It's the nature of architecture school. I ended up sleeping for 2-3 hours a day for almost two weeks towards the end of the semester, and eventually, with enough sleep deprivation you become despondent, and its time to put your head down or go home and get some rest so you can actually be productive. Both of these cases were somewhat extreme. There have been tales on various architecture forums of schools trying to ban all-nighters, but the expectations of perfection, extreme amounts of production, and a project constantly in flux never go away, so the all-nighter won't either. Even at Georgia Tech which touts its 24 hour access to the architecture building and its resources (even parts of the wood shop), the administration gets nervous when people move cots and couches into the building. I think I've ranted enough on the subject, but if anyone wants to start a thread, lets do it.
Yes, the yellow bikes program is a failure. Theft is rampant. I witnessed it in Atlanta with Decatur yellow bikes. It doesn't mean that every public transportation rental system will be a failure. We can learn from our mistakes. One needs only look to the successful Velib' bike rentals recently rolled out in Paris.
Under the Velib' system, anyone renting a bike must use a bank card which will lock 150 Euros in their account, as insurance on the bike. If it is stolen, and you report it to the police, the percentage of that you pay is substantially less. The program works great, and even now more Velib' stations are being added throughout the city. I think the system MIT proposes sounds more similar to this than the yellow bikes program.
As another poster mentioned, Flexcar is very successful as well.
For instance, I was in a website design class, and the assignment was to redesign my school's website. I made a nice layout using standard HTML and CSS that would work with the data formatting on the current website, but they wouldn't even go near it because it wasn't made in Frontpage!
When it comes to computers, people will usually use what is already there, instead of trying to find a good alternative, and GIF is a widespread format while PNG is relatively unknown. It's sad but true; just look at IE compared to Mozilla. There's really no contest in which is better, but it will be a slow transition if it happens at all. All anyone can do is to slowly show people why one is better, and hope for the best.
Actually, I didn't even know about the whole PNG versus GIF thing, but after reading Burn All GIFs, I'm going to convert the one GIF on my website to a PNG.
Playing Galaga or Pac-Man in the arcade now costs 50 cents if you can even find a machine! I get a good laugh that they charge twice as much 20 years later.
I don't know about horrendous. Many of us have caps perpetually set at 128kbits (Comcast, many others). It seems like Optimum Online are being rather generous. I would kill for a 1Mbit upload.
In the computer lab at my high school the only way to save files you're working on is via a floppy drive. I would like to see floppies replaced with compact flash cards that connect to a computer via a front USB port. It would be more conveniant, durable, and allow for larger files. I'm tired of having my floppies split into peices.
Comcast caps the upstream bandwidth at 16kB/s. I don't think any company will be looked favorably upon for blocking a filesharing network that everyone knows about. I'm glad Comcast didn't take that route.
In the member services area of Comcast.net go to Broadband Products and then where it says go pro click on more. I wouldn't be suprised if their customer support doesn't know anything, they never do.
Comcast offers a 3.5 Mbps downspeed for ~$95/mo. I didn't pay it because I felt it was a ripoff (especially when the increased upspeed bandwidth was less than half of what @Home offered). Now that a company offers about the same downspeed for the same cost I can see it might very well have been a ripoff. The sad thing is that this company's announcement won't affect Comcast in the least considering it's a monopoly.
WD-40 is flammable but it shouldn't be ignited by the heat in a power supply.
Comcast has hardly been providing good service these days. The upload has been capped to near nothing and the service slows down greatly at random intervals. Perhaps if it was a good service I would be willing to pay more for my 15-20 gigs a month but if they raise the fee now I'm switching to DSL.
I've been having a problem with Comcast ever since @Home went out of business. When the problem (which consists of me not being able to access my web space on any subaccounts) first occurred I was told it was going to be fixed in a few days. I called back a week later and the tech had no idea that there was a problem. I called back a month later after that with the same response and the obligatory instructions to call them back if the problem wasn't fixed. I just called them about the problem again today and it still hasn't been fixed and the tech handling it still had no idea about it until he asked his manager and told me it was a widespread outage. My question is how does a widespread outage not get fixed over the course of months? Not that it's the fault of the techie but they had no idea it was going on at all, which makes for a very unpleasant experience for me.