I'll drive 1/2 the length of the UK in an evening to go see friends for a weekend. Once I drove the length of the UK (700ish miles) just to go on a white water rafting trip. Last summer we drove more than the length of the UK to go to NYC for a week.
I searched for "High Mileage Car United Kingdom" and this was one of the first hits, here was another.
Those are some very low numbers. My '98 has 250k and I haven't really even driven it the last 4 years. I know people with '00-'02 that have at least that. Somehow I doubt that those in the UK drive as much as us.
Medical Device #1 costs $500. It was made with an embedded RTOS on a ROM. It does one thing, ALL the time.
Medical Device #2 costs $250. It was made with Windows CE, a cheap TTL motor and a simple full screen app that launches at boot. It was developed fast, breezed through FDA 'certification'.
Imagine a pallet of florescent lightbulbs being scrapped. Somehow in accounting they were sent to the wrong facility.
Its logistically cheaper to scrap an entire room than try and salvage anything out of it. I'd dig through the scrap bin and find... you name it. - Although I'd rather waste 3x on the costs of a PC than $0.50 on the costs of killing brown people.
This is one of those forwards that your crazy uncle sends you all the time. Unlike "Lets not buy gas on 9/11", this one actually makes a bit of sense. - 1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. [You are paid X for being in 'full session'. If you show up to 50% of sessions, you get 50% pay.]
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. - I like the way that Indiana does it. "The Senate convenes its annual session the first Tuesday following the first Monday of January every year. In odd numbered years the senate must meet for 61 days (not necessarily consecutive days), and must adjourn no later than April 30. This is typically called a long session. In even numbered years, when elections are held, the Senate must meet for 30 days (not necessarily consecutive days) and adjourn no later than March 15."
There should be no such thing as a "career politician".
Synthetic sapphire isn't that expensive. Go into any grocery store, they'll have 20 checkout lanes with huge panes of it.
Synthetic gem looking sapphire is. Just like synthetic diamond is a dime a dozen, they slap it on anything they can, the gem quality stuff isn't as cheap.
Canada always gets left out of (or ripped off by) these buffet style streaming services (be it music, movies, or whatever) because no one wants to go through the hassle of negotiating licensing fees for such a small market.
I thought you guys were already the clear by paying a small tax on your CD-R disks?
Anyone with an IQ over 100 can filter stuff. I was looking for a particular camera and all of the 'negative' reviews were people that expected it to come with more than a 32MB SD card or AA batteries. They were utterly crushed when their "christmas was ruined" because of these details. That or people that had a problem with Amazon and had no fault of the product itself.
There were a core group of middle of the pack reviews that touched on all the positives and negatives and then the praising reviews that may have been real, but gave no real information about the product. "CAME in 2 dAYS! Thanks amazon, can't wait to try this out!"
They should invent something like... prestreaming. So like say I want to watch Harry Potter tonight. But I know he internet will be like busy. So I tell my TV to prestream it this morning so that when I go back to watch it tonight. It's like already there.
You could load it with down pipe. I think I just discovered my first patent!
Your car will run fine on it, your emissions will not. It'll do the same thing to the DPF that Lead did to catalytic converters. And those things are not cheap to replace.
WRONG. If it's a "new" diesel, it has to meet new EPA regulations. Meaning it's going to have high EGR or a DPF. There will be no soot. Powerstrokes and Cummins are the exact same way find a post 2007 truck, any one. They all lack the soot.
I'm "the" photographer for my family, friends, and team. I posted a status a few days ago that more or less said "All new family and rugby game photos will no longer be posted to Facebook. Send me your gmail or google account if you want an invite to Google+".
All it takes is a few big movers and the ball will start rolling itself.
Yeah, dang that Apple invented proprietary thunderbolt. You'd NEVER see a company like Intel trying to create something like that just to lock in the users.
Same with Display port. Apple should stick to plugs designed by a standards organization instead of inventing their own stuff.
And don't even get me started on that proprietary USB only iMac.
Fag (fg) n. 1. An extremely annoying, inconsiderate person most commonly associated with Harley riders. 2. A loud and obnoxious person who owns or frequently rides a Harley. - Before that, it was a homosexual. Before that, it was a bundle of sticks. - Words change idiot, moron, imbecile are no longer medical terms. N*gger, to me, isn't any black person. It's the black equivalent of white trash. (Though I just use white and black trash).
Google+ automatically uploads after. Qik does it life if it has network. You can even set default privacy settings so that only you can watch the video. OR you could stream it live at qik.com/username
Players will start having 2 twitter accounts, 1 for friends, 1 for 'fans'.
Or how about you actually punish schools? No more of this "aww, you did something illegal yesterday, we'll just mark all those Ws as Ls". If NCAA actually wanted to stop violations they'd cancel OSU's foot ball season. No vacating 2010 wins. No small fines. Cancel their season. You play 0 games. You get 0 revenue.
"It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You [violated the rules] so you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir! "
In Indiana there was no 'late bus'. If you chose to do an "extra curricular" then it was just that, extra. You walked, got picked up by your parents or found friends. I remember closing the public library at 8 pm after being there since 5, 5 days a week while my mom got off work and came over to get me.
I'm glad to see that this is finally happening. A "good" lecture on a subject needs to only be done once. It seem like a waste repeating the same thing year after year. Where students (speaking for myself) need help is in the actual implementation of the lecture subject. Now that the students are doing 'homework' in class, that resource is available. And if Kahn's methods don't work for you, then maybe there need to be 3-4 different teaching styles. One that is heavy on theory light on examples, heavy on examples and light on theory and some that mix it up a bit.
In college we would get together in study groups or the teacher or TA had office hours (hopefully). For elementary, middle and high school students this really isn't an option. They're usually in class all day and then go home. So if they get hung up on something simple they're essentially stalled. Resulting in frustration, loss of interest and possibly a bad grade. Thankfully my teachers would often assign at least one 'type' of problem where the answer was in the back of the book. If I didn't get it I could figure out how to get the right answer and then apply that to other problems.
This worked all the way up through this year when I took a graduate level linear algebra class. The teacher made Ben Stein look animated. The course material was very dry and it was way too theoretical (for myself). If a homework answer wasn't in the back of the book. I'd find a similar problem that did have the answer, work through it to get the solution and feel a bit more confident on the homework problems. I can't name the number of "Eureka!" moments I had while doing homework.
I'd much rather watch a video on how to do something (welding, car repair, etc) and have someone watch over my shoulder while I do it and be there for questions than have them lecture to me and then go "alright, now you get to do it blind". I'm glad to see that teachers are getting an opportunity to 'teach' rather than 'lecture'.
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I'll drive 1/2 the length of the UK in an evening to go see friends for a weekend.
Once I drove the length of the UK (700ish miles) just to go on a white water rafting trip.
Last summer we drove more than the length of the UK to go to NYC for a week.
I searched for "High Mileage Car United Kingdom" and this was one of the first hits, here was another.
Those are some very low numbers. My '98 has 250k and I haven't really even driven it the last 4 years. I know people with '00-'02 that have at least that. Somehow I doubt that those in the UK drive as much as us.
Medical Device #1 costs $500. It was made with an embedded RTOS on a ROM. It does one thing, ALL the time.
Medical Device #2 costs $250. It was made with Windows CE, a cheap TTL motor and a simple full screen app that launches at boot. It was developed fast, breezed through FDA 'certification'.
Which one is the normal consumer going to buy?
See also voting machines, ATMs, etc.
You - and only you - have got the right to decide how your personal data is used/stored.
Americans: So basically it's HIPAA for all your data instead of just medical stuff.
Only for sufficiently large values of 62.
Imagine a pallet of florescent lightbulbs being scrapped. Somehow in accounting they were sent to the wrong facility.
Its logistically cheaper to scrap an entire room than try and salvage anything out of it. I'd dig through the scrap bin and find... you name it.
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Although I'd rather waste 3x on the costs of a PC than $0.50 on the costs of killing brown people.
We were invited. Punch vas served. Check vit Poland.
This is one of those forwards that your crazy uncle sends you all the time. Unlike "Lets not buy gas on 9/11", this one actually makes a bit of sense.
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1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. [You are paid X for being in 'full session'. If you show up to 50% of sessions, you get 50% pay.]
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
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I like the way that Indiana does it. "The Senate convenes its annual session the first Tuesday following the first Monday of January every year. In odd numbered years the senate must meet for 61 days (not necessarily consecutive days), and must adjourn no later than April 30. This is typically called a long session. In even numbered years, when elections are held, the Senate must meet for 30 days (not necessarily consecutive days) and adjourn no later than March 15."
There should be no such thing as a "career politician".
Synthetic sapphire isn't that expensive. Go into any grocery store, they'll have 20 checkout lanes with huge panes of it.
Synthetic gem looking sapphire is. Just like synthetic diamond is a dime a dozen, they slap it on anything they can, the gem quality stuff isn't as cheap.
Google Checkout.
Easy to setup.
Low fees.
You can send invoices via e-mail (or have them automatically generated).
They also don't pretend to be a bank. You can't keep a balance, they shuffle it off into your bank account one a month.
And unlike PayPal, they're not holding $2k+ of my money ransom.
Canada always gets left out of (or ripped off by) these buffet style streaming services (be it music, movies, or whatever) because no one wants to go through the hassle of negotiating licensing fees for such a small market.
I thought you guys were already the clear by paying a small tax on your CD-R disks?
Anyone with an IQ over 100 can filter stuff. I was looking for a particular camera and all of the 'negative' reviews were people that expected it to come with more than a 32MB SD card or AA batteries. They were utterly crushed when their "christmas was ruined" because of these details. That or people that had a problem with Amazon and had no fault of the product itself.
There were a core group of middle of the pack reviews that touched on all the positives and negatives and then the praising reviews that may have been real, but gave no real information about the product. "CAME in 2 dAYS! Thanks amazon, can't wait to try this out!"
They should invent something like... prestreaming. So like say I want to watch Harry Potter tonight. But I know he internet will be like busy. So I tell my TV to prestream it this morning so that when I go back to watch it tonight. It's like already there.
You could load it with down pipe. I think I just discovered my first patent!
Your car will run fine on it, your emissions will not. It'll do the same thing to the DPF that Lead did to catalytic converters. And those things are not cheap to replace.
WRONG. If it's a "new" diesel, it has to meet new EPA regulations. Meaning it's going to have high EGR or a DPF. There will be no soot. Powerstrokes and Cummins are the exact same way find a post 2007 truck, any one. They all lack the soot.
Where are you at?
Right now there is a $0.10 difference between it and regular. It's actually cheaper than premium.
The problem with Facebook is that it's full of narcissistic bullshit like that, and people being emo because they want attention
So basically Facebook has finally absorbed the rest of the MySpace users. Back in the day Facebook was more or less like Google+ is now.
Facebook keeps making changes to the UI and telling people "you'll get over it where else are you going to go". Except now there is an alternative.
relevant web comic.
I'm "the" photographer for my family, friends, and team. I posted a status a few days ago that more or less said "All new family and rugby game photos will no longer be posted to Facebook. Send me your gmail or google account if you want an invite to Google+".
All it takes is a few big movers and the ball will start rolling itself.
Yeah, dang that Apple invented proprietary thunderbolt. You'd NEVER see a company like Intel trying to create something like that just to lock in the users.
Same with Display port. Apple should stick to plugs designed by a standards organization instead of inventing their own stuff.
And don't even get me started on that proprietary USB only iMac.
Fag (fg) n.
1. An extremely annoying, inconsiderate person most commonly associated with Harley riders.
2. A loud and obnoxious person who owns or frequently rides a Harley.
-
Before that, it was a homosexual.
Before that, it was a bundle of sticks.
-
Words change idiot, moron, imbecile are no longer medical terms. N*gger, to me, isn't any black person. It's the black equivalent of white trash. (Though I just use white and black trash).
So ... like Qik. And Google+
Google+ automatically uploads after.
Qik does it life if it has network. You can even set default privacy settings so that only you can watch the video. OR you could stream it live at qik.com/username
You could just get drunk and blab to TMZ.
Players will start having 2 twitter accounts, 1 for friends, 1 for 'fans'.
Or how about you actually punish schools? No more of this "aww, you did something illegal yesterday, we'll just mark all those Ws as Ls". If NCAA actually wanted to stop violations they'd cancel OSU's foot ball season. No vacating 2010 wins. No small fines. Cancel their season. You play 0 games. You get 0 revenue.
"It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You [violated the rules] so you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir! "
I've never had a problem getting an itemized bill from the hospital. Have you tried asking?
Once I was charged for a pair of crutches when I had actually brought my own in.
In Indiana there was no 'late bus'. If you chose to do an "extra curricular" then it was just that, extra. You walked, got picked up by your parents or found friends. I remember closing the public library at 8 pm after being there since 5, 5 days a week while my mom got off work and came over to get me.
I'm glad to see that this is finally happening. A "good" lecture on a subject needs to only be done once. It seem like a waste repeating the same thing year after year. Where students (speaking for myself) need help is in the actual implementation of the lecture subject. Now that the students are doing 'homework' in class, that resource is available. And if Kahn's methods don't work for you, then maybe there need to be 3-4 different teaching styles. One that is heavy on theory light on examples, heavy on examples and light on theory and some that mix it up a bit.
In college we would get together in study groups or the teacher or TA had office hours (hopefully). For elementary, middle and high school students this really isn't an option. They're usually in class all day and then go home. So if they get hung up on something simple they're essentially stalled. Resulting in frustration, loss of interest and possibly a bad grade. Thankfully my teachers would often assign at least one 'type' of problem where the answer was in the back of the book. If I didn't get it I could figure out how to get the right answer and then apply that to other problems.
This worked all the way up through this year when I took a graduate level linear algebra class. The teacher made Ben Stein look animated. The course material was very dry and it was way too theoretical (for myself). If a homework answer wasn't in the back of the book. I'd find a similar problem that did have the answer, work through it to get the solution and feel a bit more confident on the homework problems. I can't name the number of "Eureka!" moments I had while doing homework.
I'd much rather watch a video on how to do something (welding, car repair, etc) and have someone watch over my shoulder while I do it and be there for questions than have them lecture to me and then go "alright, now you get to do it blind". I'm glad to see that teachers are getting an opportunity to 'teach' rather than 'lecture'.
This guy needs beaten just for this.