What usability problem? I have literally never lost a form by pressing the backspace key, and I use backspace to go back pages all the time. Is this really something people struggle with?
$10k and it sounds like ~70mins a day in saved commute. That's over 23 hours a month in time not wasted -- over half a work week! Maybe he'll waste that time anyway but there are certainly many productive things he could do with it.
Anyway, I know it's great to have people employed, but if it can be automated, why wasn't it before now? The more tedious jobs we can do with machines, the more people are freed up for other things.
Why wasn't the work automated? Cost. It's cheaper to pay $130/month for a human to do the work than it is to invest millions in factory automation.
This can be true even in developed countries. I worked for a German company for several years. This company produced very small items that needed to be packed in boxes of between 50 and 500 pieces. It was possible to automate the work but even considering German wages it was cheaper to pay humans than to buy machines.
We've had LED signals here in Osaka for 5+ years how and they work very well. Here are some links (in Japanese) with photos showing what they look like:
Green, Amber, Red (the amber is actually brighter than it seems in this photo)
I haven't experienced any problems with them and I drive daily here. There is no noticeable flicker and they are a lot brighter than the traditional signals they replaced.
Internet connectivity really evolved rapidly here. There were no unlimited connections when I first got here. Then it was unlimited late at night. Next came ISDN and finally ADSL and fibre.
Now I pay a total of $85/month for unlimited use of a gigabit fibre line...
NTT has been running gigabit fibre to houses for quite some time, as have the power companies.
I put gigabit fibre into my house two years ago when construction was completed. It's fast, but honestly in daily use I don't notice a huge difference from the 100Mb fibre I had at my last place.
I'm not in the US either, but it is important for everyone to see this sort of information as quite a few of these shops claim to ship internationally.
The only NY camera/electronics shop I would buy from is B&H Photo. Adorama is also good but they do not ship internationally. 99.9% of the rest of them are frauds and should be avoided at all costs.
Millennium Camera is one of the seemingly endless number of scam-stores based in Brooklyn. They have a lifetime Reseller Rating of (drum roll...) 0.31/10.
The excellent Brooklyn StoreFronts project lists Millennium Camera as being at the same location as several other known scam-shops: A&M Photo World LLC (AMPhotoWorld.com), Preferred Photo (PreferredPhoto.com), Wild Digital (WildDigital.com), Time 2 Envy (stores.ebay.com/Time2Envy)
Needless to say, the $999 price is not real and no one should order from Millennium Camera.
AC: a home built PVR is a responsible parents godsend
Responsible parents keep their little monsters away from the TV as much as possible.
TV sucks. It rots your brain and robs your imagination.
(Yes, I am a parent. My little monster (daughter) is 8 and watches little TV. It probably helps that neither of her parents are big TV people either -- I watch perhaps 2 hours per month.)
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Easier Said Than Done.
You said it yourself, you're 44 lb overweight, yet you can't seem to follow your simple formula. Ever wonder why?
I didn't say it was easy. Simple concepts are often not easy to implement.
Generally speaking people lack self discipline. Not only with regards to food but in most aspects of life. I do not claim to be different, although I do my best to kick myself in the rear regularly.
My weight is not a major priority for me at this time. I used to ride 100 to 200km per week and at that time I did not have any weight problems. Once I extract myself from this 9-5:30 job and have more time flexibility I will go back to exercising more. The problem will take care of itself.
They do once their sentence is up (or they get parole).
Everyone else can choose, they just don't feel it's worth their while.
I can choose, and I have chosen. I have a house 20 minutes from the downtown center of a very large city and a rural cottage near the ocean. I love both and have no desire to change either. You seem to have been able to choose too, and it's great you are happy with where you are.
Choosing where you live is a luxury though, really. Many people can't do it for any number of reasons: Citizenship/visa, lack of money, family obligations, work requirements, and a multitude that I haven't thought of in the last 30 seconds I'm sure.
I think eating fast food can be habit forming -- it's cheap, easy, everywhere, and...fast. It seems a bit early to compare it to nicotine or opiates though.
So who's smarter? The person who exercises 20 minutes a day and watches their diet, or the person who took the time to place themself somewhere where exercise is a part of their normal life.
Who's smarter? Apparently you think that you are...
Many people do not have the luxury of choosing where they live.
I don't consider the extra 20kg to be a failure, it's just the way that things are right now, and probably will be for the next 12 months or so.
I put this in a separate reply above but will restate it here: I have a family, a day job, and am building two businesses. Those are my priorities right now and will remain so until I quit the day job (planned for the end of 2007).
I don't like having the extra weight but at the current time I am not going to work on changing it. I'll get back to riding 100 to 200km per week (as I did until about 2002) once I get out of the day job. The weight will go soon enough.
Getting exercise is actually more important than what you eat or how much of it. The problem is that most people are lazy and lack self-discipline.
Watching TV while chowing down on processed snack food is a lot easier than basic exercise like doing sit-ups, push-ups, jumping-jacks, climbing stairs, or going for a walk. (Note that all of those are FREE, no money necessary.)
In my case it is not laziness but lack of time. I have a family, a day job, and am building two businesses. Those are my priorities right now and as such I don't have time to exercise like I know I should (I sleep 4 to 5 hours per night and watch at most 1 or 2 hours of TV per month, usually less). It is a lifestyle choice and will probably stay this way for another 12 months or so until I quit the day job.
It's a lifestyle choice. In a very few cases it is a medical problem, but most of us are ugly fat porkers because we're lazy and eat too much of the wrong food.
I'm fully aware that the extra 20kg that I pack around every day is there because of my own choices and the priorities I have set.
I do want to lose the weight, but at 188cm (6'2") the extra 20kg isn't grossly visible when I'm wearing clothes and there are other things that I have set as higher priorities at the current time.
So I'll remain as a self-described "ugly fat porker" until I get sick enough of it to fix the problem.
My 20kg of extra flab is a lifestyle choice too... I choose to prioritize work and social life over getting more exercise. If I made exercise a higher priority than at least my social life (and partially the extra work I do) then I would rapidly lose that 20kg.
I bought a MacBook Pro a month ago, my first Mac in 15 years.
The touchpad works quite well overall, the two-finger scrolling is especially good IMO.
You can perform a right-click with the touchpad as well, but you have to turn on the feature first. Once it is on just have two fingers on the touchpad and click the button -- right click.
Overall the MacBook Pro is far and away the nicest notebook I have used, and I've used a lot of notebooks. My Toshiba Libretto and IBM ThinkPad are soon to be for sale.
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What usability problem? I have literally never lost a form by pressing the backspace key, and I use backspace to go back pages all the time. Is this really something people struggle with?
$10k and it sounds like ~70mins a day in saved commute. That's over 23 hours a month in time not wasted -- over half a work week! Maybe he'll waste that time anyway but there are certainly many productive things he could do with it.
Anyway, I know it's great to have people employed, but if it can be automated, why wasn't it before now? The more tedious jobs we can do with machines, the more people are freed up for other things.
Why wasn't the work automated? Cost. It's cheaper to pay $130/month for a human to do the work than it is to invest millions in factory automation.
This can be true even in developed countries. I worked for a German company for several years. This company produced very small items that needed to be packed in boxes of between 50 and 500 pieces. It was possible to automate the work but even considering German wages it was cheaper to pay humans than to buy machines.
We've had LED signals here in Osaka for 5+ years how and they work very well. Here are some links (in Japanese) with photos showing what they look like:
Red Light, Green Arrow
Pedestrian Crossing
Green, Amber, Red (the amber is actually brighter than it seems in this photo)
I haven't experienced any problems with them and I drive daily here. There is no noticeable flicker and they are a lot brighter than the traditional signals they replaced.
Internet connectivity really evolved rapidly here. There were no unlimited connections when I first got here. Then it was unlimited late at night. Next came ISDN and finally ADSL and fibre.
Now I pay a total of $85/month for unlimited use of a gigabit fibre line...
This is not new.
NTT has been running gigabit fibre to houses for quite some time, as have the power companies.
I put gigabit fibre into my house two years ago when construction was completed. It's fast, but honestly in daily use I don't notice a huge difference from the 100Mb fibre I had at my last place.
256k is great and all but the latency's a biatch.
A minimum of 6.5 minutes, worst case 44 minutes. I think I'll pass. ;)
I just signed up for 1Gbps up and down here in Osaka. $90/month. I have to upgrade my firewall now as it is the bottleneck in the connection!
I'm not in the US either, but it is important for everyone to see this sort of information as quite a few of these shops claim to ship internationally.
The only NY camera/electronics shop I would buy from is B&H Photo. Adorama is also good but they do not ship internationally. 99.9% of the rest of them are frauds and should be avoided at all costs.
Millennium Camera is one of the seemingly endless number of scam-stores based in Brooklyn. They have a lifetime Reseller Rating of (drum roll...) 0.31/10.
The excellent Brooklyn StoreFronts project lists Millennium Camera as being at the same location as several other known scam-shops: A&M Photo World LLC (AMPhotoWorld.com), Preferred Photo (PreferredPhoto.com), Wild Digital (WildDigital.com), Time 2 Envy (stores.ebay.com/Time2Envy)
Needless to say, the $999 price is not real and no one should order from Millennium Camera.
AC: a home built PVR is a responsible parents godsend
Responsible parents keep their little monsters away from the TV as much as possible.
TV sucks. It rots your brain and robs your imagination.
(Yes, I am a parent. My little monster (daughter) is 8 and watches little TV. It probably helps that neither of her parents are big TV people either -- I watch perhaps 2 hours per month.)
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Easier Said Than Done.
You said it yourself, you're 44 lb overweight, yet you can't seem to follow your simple formula. Ever wonder why?
I didn't say it was easy. Simple concepts are often not easy to implement.
Generally speaking people lack self discipline. Not only with regards to food but in most aspects of life. I do not claim to be different, although I do my best to kick myself in the rear regularly.
My weight is not a major priority for me at this time. I used to ride 100 to 200km per week and at that time I did not have any weight problems. Once I extract myself from this 9-5:30 job and have more time flexibility I will go back to exercising more. The problem will take care of itself.
They do once their sentence is up (or they get parole).
Everyone else can choose, they just don't feel it's worth their while.
I can choose, and I have chosen. I have a house 20 minutes from the downtown center of a very large city and a rural cottage near the ocean. I love both and have no desire to change either. You seem to have been able to choose too, and it's great you are happy with where you are.
Choosing where you live is a luxury though, really. Many people can't do it for any number of reasons: Citizenship/visa, lack of money, family obligations, work requirements, and a multitude that I haven't thought of in the last 30 seconds I'm sure.
I think eating fast food can be habit forming -- it's cheap, easy, everywhere, and...fast. It seems a bit early to compare it to nicotine or opiates though.
So who's smarter? The person who exercises 20 minutes a day and watches their diet, or the person who took the time to place themself somewhere where exercise is a part of their normal life.
Who's smarter? Apparently you think that you are...
Many people do not have the luxury of choosing where they live.
I don't consider the extra 20kg to be a failure, it's just the way that things are right now, and probably will be for the next 12 months or so.
I put this in a separate reply above but will restate it here: I have a family, a day job, and am building two businesses. Those are my priorities right now and will remain so until I quit the day job (planned for the end of 2007).
I don't like having the extra weight but at the current time I am not going to work on changing it. I'll get back to riding 100 to 200km per week (as I did until about 2002) once I get out of the day job. The weight will go soon enough.
Getting exercise is actually more important than what you eat or how much of it. The problem is that most people are lazy and lack self-discipline.
Watching TV while chowing down on processed snack food is a lot easier than basic exercise like doing sit-ups, push-ups, jumping-jacks, climbing stairs, or going for a walk. (Note that all of those are FREE, no money necessary.)
In my case it is not laziness but lack of time. I have a family, a day job, and am building two businesses. Those are my priorities right now and as such I don't have time to exercise like I know I should (I sleep 4 to 5 hours per night and watch at most 1 or 2 hours of TV per month, usually less). It is a lifestyle choice and will probably stay this way for another 12 months or so until I quit the day job.
Heh heh.
It's a lifestyle choice. In a very few cases it is a medical problem, but most of us are ugly fat porkers because we're lazy and eat too much of the wrong food.
Smoking is different as it is an addictive drug. (Thankfully I don't smoke so I don't have to deal with that particular addiction nightmare...)
If you are 20lbs overweight and holding that level then you will probably find more exercise to be a bigger help than eating less.
I'm fully aware that the extra 20kg that I pack around every day is there because of my own choices and the priorities I have set.
I do want to lose the weight, but at 188cm (6'2") the extra 20kg isn't grossly visible when I'm wearing clothes and there are other things that I have set as higher priorities at the current time.
So I'll remain as a self-described "ugly fat porker" until I get sick enough of it to fix the problem.
That is a lifestyle choice.
My 20kg of extra flab is a lifestyle choice too... I choose to prioritize work and social life over getting more exercise. If I made exercise a higher priority than at least my social life (and partially the extra work I do) then I would rapidly lose that 20kg.
Losing weight is incredibly simple. The entire topic can be covered in 4 words: Eat less, exercise more.
Not surprisingly people become ugly fat porkers because they don't follow that simple four word formula.
(This isn't self-righteous spew -- I need to lose about 20kg to be at my optimal weight. At least I know the only person I have to blame is myself.)
Yes, but touchpad taps will rapidly drive any touch-typist insane.
I bought a MacBook Pro a month ago, my first Mac in 15 years.
The touchpad works quite well overall, the two-finger scrolling is especially good IMO.
You can perform a right-click with the touchpad as well, but you have to turn on the feature first. Once it is on just have two fingers on the touchpad and click the button -- right click.
Overall the MacBook Pro is far and away the nicest notebook I have used, and I've used a lot of notebooks. My Toshiba Libretto and IBM ThinkPad are soon to be for sale.
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro, my first Mac in 15 years.
:)
I'd really like to hear which keyboard and mouse you are using and what you think of them.
Thanks in advance!