Which is exactly the reason diesel is used. Diesel will give you much more torque than gasoline. This car is heavy due simply to the sheer size, and the extra armor on the vehicle. Given the size, it's probably more environmentally friendly to use Diesel than gas, simply because a vehicle of this size would use so much gas. Although it might be a good idea to use some sort of hybrid technology, since a lot of time it's touring around at low speeds. But it's essential that it have a diesel engine for when it needs to go at speed.
Just checked. If you go with plasma, you can get a 50 inch 3D TV for $800. The problem is, the glasses cost $120 a piece, so by the time you've outfitted a family of 4 with glasses, you've spent $480 on glasses. So the TV is cheap, but the glasses are kind of pricey.
The problem with poverty rate is that "poverty" is relative to other people in the country. You can't compare poverty rates in 2 different countries. Somebody who's in poverty in the US may not be in poverty in Estonia if they made the same amount of money. Somebody who only makes $10,000 a year would be considered living in poverty in the US, but in some other countries you could live quite well off that.
Which is part of the reason I got my own domain name years ago. It's the same problem with webmail providers. Once you start giving out that address, you're basically required to keep using their services. Over the years I've gone from Email.com, to Yahoo, to Gmail. As some point when I was using Yahoo, I got my own domain name, and started forwarding it to my webmail of choice. This way, I'm in control of my email address, and don't have to worry about some mail provider disappearing and taking my email address with it.
I'd also like to see it for things like software licenses. For instance, VS.Net Pro 2012 in the US costs $472, but in Canada, it costs $667. Amazon US refuses to ship this product to Canada. That's almost a $200 difference (41% more) per license. Things go both ways here. Textbooks are more expensive in the US, and software is often cheaper, at least compared to other first world countries.
I know a guy who worked as a rickshaw runner. You could rent out a rickshaw from some company who owned a bunch, and it was up to you how much you charged and to determine how to make any money. Most people did it for the novelty, and not because they had to get anywhere in a hurry, or because it was cheaper than any other form of transportation. I imagine that pedicabs are pretty much in the same situation. It's a little like taking a handsome cab around central park. Sure there's faster and cheaper ways to get around, but that's not always the goal.
I like this idea. You can't make it legal to unlock phones, but you can probably make it illegal to sell locked phones in the first place. I already stated elsewhere in these comments that it's unnecessary to lock phones in the first place since there's already a contract with fees for breaking it, and the have the technological capability to blacklist phones that are still under a contract.
I really don't see why phones are locked in the first place. You're already tied to the carrier with a legal contract. There shouldn't need to be a technical measure in place to make sure you don't take the phone to a different carrier. If you try to leave before the contract is over, there's already high fees for breaking the contract. If you choose to not pay those fees, it would probably look bad on your credit rating. After your contract term ends, you should be free to do whatever you want with the phone. Actually, If they now have the system in place to block stolen phones, the major providers could probably place the phones from non-paid contracts on a list where they would refuse to allow the phone be used until the contract is paid in full.
There's a lot of laws on the books that are never enforced. There's roads where everybody drives 15 miles per hour over the speed limit and nobody ever gets a ticket because everybody knows that it's perfectly safe and that the limit is just set too slow. There was recently a law passed in Florida where all non-US citizens had to have an international driver's license to drive in the state. They forgot about all the Canadians who go there every winter. Once they realized the problem, they told all the cops to just ignore the law. This is just without even mentioning the completely ridiculous laws that are still on the books from hundreds of years ago. Just because a law is on the books, doesn't mean they have to enforce it. If there's no mandatory minimum punishments required as part of the trade agreements, judges could just let people off with a very small fine, and cops would learn that it wasn't worth their time to charge anybody for breaking the law.
Why not have campaign spending limits so it's not such a big deal. They have campaign spending limits in Canada. Also, they should limit (or completely eliminated) the ability for corporations to donate to campaigns, and also limit the amount any individual could donate to campaigns down to something small enough that a reasonable percentage of the population could afford to make the same donation. That way, there's less inequality as rich people and corporations wouldn't be able to buy off politicians, and politicians would focus more on having a good campaign whether than just spend a boatload of money to plaster their face all over the media.
Exactly. If they decide to tax email, then people are just going to find other ways to send messages back and forth to each other over the internet. Since almost everybody uses webmail nowadays, the webmail providers could all get together and decide on a standard for sending email vi HTTP POST instead of SMTP. They might try to write the law such that they account for this, but then there would be a risk of taxing things that weren't actually email.
But what happens when cheaper, more power efficient ARM chips are powerful enough for desktops and laptops? I haven't bought a new machine because of speed issues since 2006. I bought a machine that year, and it's still running. I've since bought 2 laptops which were pretty much bottom of the line. Computers long ago reached the point where they were fast enough. If I'm able to buy an ARM based computer for $100 that plugs into the back of my screen and provides internet functionality, along with the ability to watch movies, listen to music, and play a few games, why would I spend $500 on a more traditional desktop? Intel chips will probably be around for quite a while on servers and workstations, but I think it won't be long until the laptop and desktop model is getting corroded by ARM chips.
I guess it depends on what task the computer is doing, but most of the time when I'm waiting for a computer it's because the disk or network is slowing it down, saving CPU cycles helps little, if at all in this case.
I'm from Canada and I remember it being this way when I was a kid. I'm not sure exactly when it changed. You would put the groceries on the conveyor. Somebody would scan them. Somebody else would bag them for you and put them on another cart so they could be taken out to your car for you. Some other grocery stores would bag your groceries, put them into plastic bins, then put them on rollers sending them down somewhere else in the store where you could drive your car around to pick them up. But the customer was never expected to bag their own groceries or push them out to the car by themselves.
I've noticed this at the bank as well. I used to have to get change for laundry at the bank. It was a hassle, because even if there was only a couple people in front of you, most of them would spend at least 5 minutes with whatever their problem was. Which is exactly the opposite of the people at the automated tellers. Most would be done within a 30 seconds. You sometimes get the rare case of the person who decides to pay 5 bills at the automated teller, but that's a rarity, and probably still faster than had they done the same at the teller.
I very much agree with this. The programs (which weren't included with the distro) that I've had the least problems installing on Linux were the ones that thrown in everything in the installer and use all their own libraries. Anything else just leads to dependancy hell. Once, I was trying to install a new version of MySQL server, and couldn't install it because it wanted a newer version of the MySQL client library than what KDE was using. To remove the existing MySQL client library in order to upgrade, I would have had to removed KDE.
If you don't have to have the information correct other than the address, I think it would be possible to build an automated system that would unsubscribe the entire city. Make sure to use a bunch of different IPs, or do it all from your local library or starbucks so they can't differentiate people who really wanted to opt out and those who wanted to opt out but didn't have connection at home, and therefore used a freely available one.
I was thinking it would be a good idea to just return it to them. If they have a local office, it would be great if 5000 (or maybe more) people all showed up the day after they were delivered to return them. I think it would really send the message home. That or create some big monument where you collect them all and build a giant statue to show just how much waste is being generated.
I guess if you already own a car, then going by car can be cheaper. But if you choose to not own a car, then money for insurance, plus gas, maintenance, and the cost of the car very much outweigh the cost of the extra food required to bike. Also, you should eat high quality food anyway, regardless of whether or not you commute by car or bicycle. My diet changes very little between the cycling season (april-november) and winter.
I wish universities would nullify your degree if you did something monumentally stupid such as this. For somebody who got educated at that university to say something so ridiculous and on such a large stage paints a really bad picture of the quality of education offered by that university. If they can give honorary degrees for good work, they should be able to nullify even a non-honorary degree for gross incompetence.
As a cyclist, I have to chime in here a bit. Even though I bike to and from daily to work, I'm pretty sure I eat less food calories than the average person in the population. Cyclists (in general) don't like any extra weight. It's way easier to lose 20 lbs than it is to cut 20 lbs off the bike. Even a decent bike won't weight much more than 30 lbs anyway, and the best of the best bikes are about 15 lbs. Also, I tend to travel less far, to work and otherwise, than the average person in my city. Because I don't even own a car I find it much more important to live a reasonable distance from my work. My commute is only 7 km each way. Also, I don't make many long trips in the evening or on weekends. I know people who will easily drive 30-40 km across the city to save $10 on groceries.
Yeah, a 7 inch tablet would not fit in my pants pockets. But I have a 31 inch waist and my pants aren't that baggy. Plus I'm a cyclist so my thighs are bigger than average meaning there isn't that much room in my pockets. Some other poster up above says he fits his nexus 7 in his shirt pocket. How big are his shirts? I don't even think I'd be able to fit a galaxy note in my shirt pocket. I could fit a tablet in cargo pants, but I really don't want my daily fashion choices to be influenced by the size of my tablet.
Exactly. I don't have a tablet but I'm really thinking about getting one. I really want a 10 inch tablet. Neither 7 inch nor 10 inch will fit in your pocket. So to carry it around you need some kind of backpack or messenger bag or whatever. So you might as well have the bigger tablet. I find that even my 4 inch phone is quite large. Next time around for a phone I'll just get the smallest thing that will do tethering, and use my tablet for mobile internet.
I on the other hand never took notes at all. But I was pretty good at sitting a listening to the teacher/professor. I didn't see much point in taking notes, because, like you, I never read them anyway when I did. I think the real trick is to stay focused on what the teacher is saying, and really listen, which is more than most people can accomplish in class. Taking notes was probably just your way of staying focused on the material.
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Which is exactly the reason diesel is used. Diesel will give you much more torque than gasoline. This car is heavy due simply to the sheer size, and the extra armor on the vehicle. Given the size, it's probably more environmentally friendly to use Diesel than gas, simply because a vehicle of this size would use so much gas. Although it might be a good idea to use some sort of hybrid technology, since a lot of time it's touring around at low speeds. But it's essential that it have a diesel engine for when it needs to go at speed.
Just checked. If you go with plasma, you can get a 50 inch 3D TV for $800. The problem is, the glasses cost $120 a piece, so by the time you've outfitted a family of 4 with glasses, you've spent $480 on glasses. So the TV is cheap, but the glasses are kind of pricey.
The problem with poverty rate is that "poverty" is relative to other people in the country. You can't compare poverty rates in 2 different countries. Somebody who's in poverty in the US may not be in poverty in Estonia if they made the same amount of money. Somebody who only makes $10,000 a year would be considered living in poverty in the US, but in some other countries you could live quite well off that.
Which is part of the reason I got my own domain name years ago. It's the same problem with webmail providers. Once you start giving out that address, you're basically required to keep using their services. Over the years I've gone from Email.com, to Yahoo, to Gmail. As some point when I was using Yahoo, I got my own domain name, and started forwarding it to my webmail of choice. This way, I'm in control of my email address, and don't have to worry about some mail provider disappearing and taking my email address with it.
I'd also like to see it for things like software licenses. For instance, VS.Net Pro 2012 in the US costs $472, but in Canada, it costs $667. Amazon US refuses to ship this product to Canada. That's almost a $200 difference (41% more) per license. Things go both ways here. Textbooks are more expensive in the US, and software is often cheaper, at least compared to other first world countries.
I know a guy who worked as a rickshaw runner. You could rent out a rickshaw from some company who owned a bunch, and it was up to you how much you charged and to determine how to make any money. Most people did it for the novelty, and not because they had to get anywhere in a hurry, or because it was cheaper than any other form of transportation. I imagine that pedicabs are pretty much in the same situation. It's a little like taking a handsome cab around central park. Sure there's faster and cheaper ways to get around, but that's not always the goal.
I like this idea. You can't make it legal to unlock phones, but you can probably make it illegal to sell locked phones in the first place. I already stated elsewhere in these comments that it's unnecessary to lock phones in the first place since there's already a contract with fees for breaking it, and the have the technological capability to blacklist phones that are still under a contract.
I really don't see why phones are locked in the first place. You're already tied to the carrier with a legal contract. There shouldn't need to be a technical measure in place to make sure you don't take the phone to a different carrier. If you try to leave before the contract is over, there's already high fees for breaking the contract. If you choose to not pay those fees, it would probably look bad on your credit rating. After your contract term ends, you should be free to do whatever you want with the phone. Actually, If they now have the system in place to block stolen phones, the major providers could probably place the phones from non-paid contracts on a list where they would refuse to allow the phone be used until the contract is paid in full.
There's a lot of laws on the books that are never enforced. There's roads where everybody drives 15 miles per hour over the speed limit and nobody ever gets a ticket because everybody knows that it's perfectly safe and that the limit is just set too slow. There was recently a law passed in Florida where all non-US citizens had to have an international driver's license to drive in the state. They forgot about all the Canadians who go there every winter. Once they realized the problem, they told all the cops to just ignore the law. This is just without even mentioning the completely ridiculous laws that are still on the books from hundreds of years ago. Just because a law is on the books, doesn't mean they have to enforce it. If there's no mandatory minimum punishments required as part of the trade agreements, judges could just let people off with a very small fine, and cops would learn that it wasn't worth their time to charge anybody for breaking the law.
Why not have campaign spending limits so it's not such a big deal. They have campaign spending limits in Canada. Also, they should limit (or completely eliminated) the ability for corporations to donate to campaigns, and also limit the amount any individual could donate to campaigns down to something small enough that a reasonable percentage of the population could afford to make the same donation. That way, there's less inequality as rich people and corporations wouldn't be able to buy off politicians, and politicians would focus more on having a good campaign whether than just spend a boatload of money to plaster their face all over the media.
Exactly. If they decide to tax email, then people are just going to find other ways to send messages back and forth to each other over the internet. Since almost everybody uses webmail nowadays, the webmail providers could all get together and decide on a standard for sending email vi HTTP POST instead of SMTP. They might try to write the law such that they account for this, but then there would be a risk of taxing things that weren't actually email.
When I read the title I envisioned a facial recognition scanner which would match the scanned face to a database of convicted criminals.
But what happens when cheaper, more power efficient ARM chips are powerful enough for desktops and laptops? I haven't bought a new machine because of speed issues since 2006. I bought a machine that year, and it's still running. I've since bought 2 laptops which were pretty much bottom of the line. Computers long ago reached the point where they were fast enough. If I'm able to buy an ARM based computer for $100 that plugs into the back of my screen and provides internet functionality, along with the ability to watch movies, listen to music, and play a few games, why would I spend $500 on a more traditional desktop? Intel chips will probably be around for quite a while on servers and workstations, but I think it won't be long until the laptop and desktop model is getting corroded by ARM chips.
I guess it depends on what task the computer is doing, but most of the time when I'm waiting for a computer it's because the disk or network is slowing it down, saving CPU cycles helps little, if at all in this case.
I'm from Canada and I remember it being this way when I was a kid. I'm not sure exactly when it changed. You would put the groceries on the conveyor. Somebody would scan them. Somebody else would bag them for you and put them on another cart so they could be taken out to your car for you. Some other grocery stores would bag your groceries, put them into plastic bins, then put them on rollers sending them down somewhere else in the store where you could drive your car around to pick them up. But the customer was never expected to bag their own groceries or push them out to the car by themselves.
I've noticed this at the bank as well. I used to have to get change for laundry at the bank. It was a hassle, because even if there was only a couple people in front of you, most of them would spend at least 5 minutes with whatever their problem was. Which is exactly the opposite of the people at the automated tellers. Most would be done within a 30 seconds. You sometimes get the rare case of the person who decides to pay 5 bills at the automated teller, but that's a rarity, and probably still faster than had they done the same at the teller.
I very much agree with this. The programs (which weren't included with the distro) that I've had the least problems installing on Linux were the ones that thrown in everything in the installer and use all their own libraries. Anything else just leads to dependancy hell. Once, I was trying to install a new version of MySQL server, and couldn't install it because it wanted a newer version of the MySQL client library than what KDE was using. To remove the existing MySQL client library in order to upgrade, I would have had to removed KDE.
If you don't have to have the information correct other than the address, I think it would be possible to build an automated system that would unsubscribe the entire city. Make sure to use a bunch of different IPs, or do it all from your local library or starbucks so they can't differentiate people who really wanted to opt out and those who wanted to opt out but didn't have connection at home, and therefore used a freely available one.
I was thinking it would be a good idea to just return it to them. If they have a local office, it would be great if 5000 (or maybe more) people all showed up the day after they were delivered to return them. I think it would really send the message home. That or create some big monument where you collect them all and build a giant statue to show just how much waste is being generated.
I guess if you already own a car, then going by car can be cheaper. But if you choose to not own a car, then money for insurance, plus gas, maintenance, and the cost of the car very much outweigh the cost of the extra food required to bike. Also, you should eat high quality food anyway, regardless of whether or not you commute by car or bicycle. My diet changes very little between the cycling season (april-november) and winter.
I wish universities would nullify your degree if you did something monumentally stupid such as this. For somebody who got educated at that university to say something so ridiculous and on such a large stage paints a really bad picture of the quality of education offered by that university. If they can give honorary degrees for good work, they should be able to nullify even a non-honorary degree for gross incompetence.
As a cyclist, I have to chime in here a bit. Even though I bike to and from daily to work, I'm pretty sure I eat less food calories than the average person in the population. Cyclists (in general) don't like any extra weight. It's way easier to lose 20 lbs than it is to cut 20 lbs off the bike. Even a decent bike won't weight much more than 30 lbs anyway, and the best of the best bikes are about 15 lbs. Also, I tend to travel less far, to work and otherwise, than the average person in my city. Because I don't even own a car I find it much more important to live a reasonable distance from my work. My commute is only 7 km each way. Also, I don't make many long trips in the evening or on weekends. I know people who will easily drive 30-40 km across the city to save $10 on groceries.
Yeah, a 7 inch tablet would not fit in my pants pockets. But I have a 31 inch waist and my pants aren't that baggy. Plus I'm a cyclist so my thighs are bigger than average meaning there isn't that much room in my pockets. Some other poster up above says he fits his nexus 7 in his shirt pocket. How big are his shirts? I don't even think I'd be able to fit a galaxy note in my shirt pocket. I could fit a tablet in cargo pants, but I really don't want my daily fashion choices to be influenced by the size of my tablet.
Exactly. I don't have a tablet but I'm really thinking about getting one. I really want a 10 inch tablet. Neither 7 inch nor 10 inch will fit in your pocket. So to carry it around you need some kind of backpack or messenger bag or whatever. So you might as well have the bigger tablet. I find that even my 4 inch phone is quite large. Next time around for a phone I'll just get the smallest thing that will do tethering, and use my tablet for mobile internet.
I on the other hand never took notes at all. But I was pretty good at sitting a listening to the teacher/professor. I didn't see much point in taking notes, because, like you, I never read them anyway when I did. I think the real trick is to stay focused on what the teacher is saying, and really listen, which is more than most people can accomplish in class. Taking notes was probably just your way of staying focused on the material.