Yes it has occured to me, and I even have a dynamo which generates power from the wheel. However, they have several problems:
A: They don't produce that much light, and they don't blink. I bike through rush hour traffic, and need bright lights like my 10-Watt halogen, and bright flashing lights, which get the drivers attention.
B: They increase the effort required to pedal, especially considering how dim the lights are.
C: The light output is directly connected to your pedalling effort: The light dims when you slow down, and it goes off when you stop. That is really bad.
Every bike that I saw in Germany, Switzerland and Austria had a nice dynamo built into the wheel hub. Apparently they are more efficient then the dynamo that I have. Those have only recently appeared for sale in the States, apparently because of some dumb patent issue. The hubs aren't cheap either. About $80.
I commute by bicycle. Now that it is getting dark early, and I bike through heavy traffic, I have several bike lights:
- One 10-Watt halogen light with a lead-acid battery. It's lasted me for several years, but is starting to loose it's charge. - 2-3 blinking lights which take any old AA & AAA batteries.
I'm getting sick of having to toss the discharged alkaline batteries all the time, and am looking for a replacement.
Since I'm comparing the prices of the different kinds of batteries and chargers, I'd also like to compare the different toxicity levels.
Are NiMH's safer then NiCADs or Alkalines?
Ironically, my lead-acid battery gets the most frowns, but it seems like it's actually one of the least toxic options. There are several places near me which recycle lead-acid batteries (They strip the batteries, neutralize the acid, and take the lead; all in-house).
besides, if you don't want matrix spoilers who the f told you to read matrix stories? or heck, even read slashdot.
Hard to miss it when it's on the front page.
even more importantly if one line can spoil your movie experience, there wasn't much to begin with.
It doesn't spoil the entire experience, but it certainly does put a damper on a large chunk of the the Matrix discussions, alot of which revolved around around "what is the matrix".
As a subscriber, I saw this article before it was posted to the front page, and decided to email the on-duty editor. There's a mailto: link in each article for daddypants@slashdot.org.
In this case, daddypants@slashdot.org was being forwarded somewhere else, but the emails were bouncing:
jdp@mccarthy.vg
(generated from pudge@andover.net)
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<jdp@mccarthy.vg>:
host akane.blockstackers.com [216.144.199.194]:
550 Unknown local part jdp in <jdp@mccarthy.vg>
Many companies are now refusing to touch java since MS JVM will be unsupported (I argued with our R/D VP for two hours, I showed him the Sun, IBM, and Blockdown JVM... it didn't matter).
Our.jsp pages are being converted to.csp
Why does the MS JVM have any influence on your.jsp pages?
My Dog Has Fleas is a positively fantasic password compared to the usual choice of a middle name, spouse's name, child's name or birthdate.
Well, not really.
Using your child's name for a password is a million times more secure then posting it on Slashdot:)
And with the Slasdot crowd, maybe someone really does have a kid named "j3Nn!f3r". What could be more secure then that? It's so secure that those poor kindergarteners can't even pronounce it!!!
So all in all, I gotta say that there is one huge glaring thing that a lot of PC users find wrong with Macs: they aren't PCs
Why do you blame this on just PC users? The reverse is also true. Plenty of Mac users don't like Windows because Windows lacks some nifty Mac features.
I don't have popeye arms, but but my shoulders and arms went from average to rock hard after 2.5 months of bike commuting to my new job (30 minutes each way, where my old job was about 5 minutes of riding, a 40 minute train ride and another 10 minutes of riding).
Huh? Since when do you need upper body strength on a bike?
One of the best ways to prevent back, shoulder and arm strain is to build up those muscles.
Suprisingly, I use your arms and back muscles alot when bicycling: steering, going over bumps, etc. Your back can get really sore because it's the only thing holding up the rest of your body. It's easier to hold a good posture for a long period of time if those muscles are stronger.
Something that some motorcycle cops taught me. It's how they can sit upright on a motorcycle for hours at a time.
It also helps if you sit in an office chair all day.
All that pushing up and down on the handlebars builds some upper body strength.
to hire 10,000 new employees. The important question is what country will these 10,000 new employees be in, if you know what I mean,
Let's also remember that it's not unusual for companies like IBM to lay off or terminate the contracts of a thousand employees with their left hand, and still hire another thousand employees with their right hand.
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Another vote for bicycle.
Better for your knees & hips and you can actually get some upper body exercise.
Bikes let you see more of the world: you can go farther then jogging or walking, you see, hear & experience more of the world then you would ever see in a car (cars are very isolating).
Plus, a bike is pretty geeky. Alot of mechanical parts to tweak, tune your own gears, design your own lighting system, hook a generator up to your rims. Use your GPS, take a camera.
Bah, Alien Resurrection almost ruined the whole series. No respect for the story arc, crap actors (Except Weaver), a bunch of gore that added nothing to the plot. The gore in Alien (1)? Essential.
The whole thing was anti-climatic. Yes, this alien was apparently strong enough to rip open steel doors, but somehow it couldn't move away from the crack in the window and got sucked out into space, piecemeal. The only thing worse then an unrealistic death scene is an unrealistic death scene that is drawn out just to show you more gore.
Why don't you use Windows Emergency Repair disks, you GNU hippies?
Because I'm lazy. Why use 4 floppies, which only contain a small number of utilities, when I can just use a single CD-ROM with zillions of powerful utilities, network access, etc.
Also, with 4 floppies, I've always found that one of the four disks will be corrupted when I try to use it.
With Win98, I kept 2-3 emergency disks lying around just in case one disk was corrupt. The same strategy for Win2K would require 8 or 12 disks disks.
Sounds like a configuration issue on your end. I have no problems viewing PDFs, JPGs, or other non-harmful attachments.
Unfortunately, it seems to be a common configuration issue. Many of my friends cannot use Outlook at different workplaces to open PDFs or plain text files. JPGs seem fine.
The workaround suggested by one sysadmin? Convert the PDF or plain text attachment into a MS Word document.
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Yes it has occured to me, and I even have a dynamo which generates power from the wheel. However, they have several problems:
A: They don't produce that much light, and they don't blink. I bike through rush hour traffic, and need bright lights like my 10-Watt halogen, and bright flashing lights, which get the drivers attention.
B: They increase the effort required to pedal, especially considering how dim the lights are.
C: The light output is directly connected to your pedalling effort: The light dims when you slow down, and it goes off when you stop. That is really bad.
I'm worked a bit to attach rechargable batteries to the dynamo, but I don't know that much about batteries, and I've burned through several already.
Every bike that I saw in Germany, Switzerland and Austria had a nice dynamo built into the wheel hub. Apparently they are more efficient then the dynamo that I have. Those have only recently appeared for sale in the States, apparently because of some dumb patent issue. The hubs aren't cheap either. About $80.
I commute by bicycle. Now that it is getting dark early, and I bike through heavy traffic, I have several bike lights:
- One 10-Watt halogen light with a lead-acid battery. It's lasted me for several years, but is starting to loose it's charge.
- 2-3 blinking lights which take any old AA & AAA batteries.
I'm getting sick of having to toss the discharged alkaline batteries all the time, and am looking for a replacement.
Since I'm comparing the prices of the different kinds of batteries and chargers, I'd also like to compare the different toxicity levels.
Are NiMH's safer then NiCADs or Alkalines?
Ironically, my lead-acid battery gets the most frowns, but it seems like it's actually one of the least toxic options. There are several places near me which recycle lead-acid batteries (They strip the batteries, neutralize the acid, and take the lead; all in-house).
Subversion
The article was written in September 2002. SVN was at 0.14 then.
It's those overlords you guys all keep talking about!
So in otherwords, they are criminals who are making disposable, traceless, cheap cell phones which will frequently be used by criminals.
How convenient.
The makers of the Matrix have said for years that it is NOT a matrix-within-a-matrix.
That's nice, but most of us only saw Reloaded about 6 months ago...
besides, if you don't want matrix spoilers who the f told you to read matrix stories? or heck, even read slashdot.
Hard to miss it when it's on the front page.
even more importantly if one line can spoil your movie experience, there wasn't much to begin with.
It doesn't spoil the entire experience, but it certainly does put a damper on a large chunk of the the Matrix discussions, alot of which revolved around around "what is the matrix".
What's next? "Trinity is dead"?
In this case, daddypants@slashdot.org was being forwarded somewhere else, but the emails were bouncing:
Many companies are now refusing to touch java since MS JVM will be unsupported (I argued with our R/D VP for two hours, I showed him the Sun, IBM, and Blockdown JVM... it didn't matter).
.jsp pages are being converted to .csp
.jsp pages?
Our
Why does the MS JVM have any influence on your
My Dog Has Fleas is a positively fantasic password compared to the usual choice of a middle name, spouse's name, child's name or birthdate.
:)
Well, not really.
Using your child's name for a password is a million times more secure then posting it on Slashdot
And with the Slasdot crowd, maybe someone really does have a kid named "j3Nn!f3r". What could be more secure then that? It's so secure that those poor kindergarteners can't even pronounce it!!!
What's the advantage of freshrpms over Fedora's apt utilities and apt repository?
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO
Apparently the new up2date also supports apt repositories.
So all in all, I gotta say that there is one huge glaring thing that a lot of PC users find wrong with Macs: they aren't PCs
Why do you blame this on just PC users? The reverse is also true. Plenty of Mac users don't like Windows because Windows lacks some nifty Mac features.
Then don't post it here -- send it (in the form of a question) to Ask Slashdot.
Then we will never ever see the question. Or was that your intention?
It's interesting that all of the images except the smileys are broken.
It's a wierd conspiracy. You will obey the cheeseball smiley faces...
Well, it's not extreme muscle building.
I don't have popeye arms, but but my shoulders and arms went from average to rock hard after 2.5 months of bike commuting to my new job (30 minutes each way, where my old job was about 5 minutes of riding, a 40 minute train ride and another 10 minutes of riding).
Huh? Since when do you need upper body strength on a bike?
One of the best ways to prevent back, shoulder and arm strain is to build up those muscles.
Suprisingly, I use your arms and back muscles alot when bicycling: steering, going over bumps, etc. Your back can get really sore because it's the only thing holding up the rest of your body. It's easier to hold a good posture for a long period of time if those muscles are stronger.
Something that some motorcycle cops taught me. It's how they can sit upright on a motorcycle for hours at a time.
It also helps if you sit in an office chair all day.
All that pushing up and down on the handlebars builds some upper body strength.
to hire 10,000 new employees. The important question is what country will these 10,000 new employees be in, if you know what I mean,
Let's also remember that it's not unusual for companies like IBM to lay off or terminate the contracts of a thousand employees with their left hand, and still hire another thousand employees with their right hand.
Another vote for bicycle.
Better for your knees & hips and you can actually get some upper body exercise.
Bikes let you see more of the world: you can go farther then jogging or walking, you see, hear & experience more of the world then you would ever see in a car (cars are very isolating).
Plus, a bike is pretty geeky. Alot of mechanical parts to tweak, tune your own gears, design your own lighting system, hook a generator up to your rims. Use your GPS, take a camera.
"Hi I'm Paul Anderson.
You may remember me as the director of Stellar Hit Movies like Resident Evil
[imdb.com] and Event Horizon."
Bah, Alien Resurrection almost ruined the whole series. No respect for the story arc, crap actors (Except Weaver), a bunch of gore that added nothing to the plot. The gore in Alien (1)? Essential.
The whole thing was anti-climatic. Yes, this alien was apparently strong enough to rip open steel doors, but somehow it couldn't move away from the crack in the window and got sucked out into space, piecemeal. The only thing worse then an unrealistic death scene is an unrealistic death scene that is drawn out just to show you more gore.
where scientists and men with guns find a pyramid built by predators and run into teenage predators fighting aliens in a manhood ritual.
Hey, I think that was the plot for several dozen Star Trek episodes. Except for the Antarctica.
Why don't you use Windows Emergency Repair disks, you GNU hippies?
Because I'm lazy. Why use 4 floppies, which only contain a small number of utilities, when I can just use a single CD-ROM with zillions of powerful utilities, network access, etc.
Also, with 4 floppies, I've always found that one of the four disks will be corrupted when I try to use it.
With Win98, I kept 2-3 emergency disks lying around just in case one disk was corrupt. The same strategy for Win2K would require 8 or 12 disks disks.
And while we're at it, lets ban the charge for the actual item as well.
I work hard. I think I deserve a free plasma television.
But they allow MS Word attachments, which have also had problem in the past.
Sounds like a configuration issue on your end. I have no problems viewing PDFs, JPGs, or other non-harmful attachments.
Unfortunately, it seems to be a common configuration issue. Many of my friends cannot use Outlook at different workplaces to open PDFs or plain text files. JPGs seem fine.
The workaround suggested by one sysadmin? Convert the PDF or plain text attachment into a MS Word document.