You obviously didn't read any of the article... or have any knowledge of what a car free city means. Car free means YOU can't drive your car in the city. With special permits deliveries and commercial traffic still can operate. Also the car free city doesn't mean you can't have a car. There are places to store your car, connected to a mass transit hub, so that if you want to travel to a different city you pick up your car and go.
I don't understand why everyone is obsessed with a nice lawn. Why exactly do you need a lawn? It takes money to water and fertilize, you need a lawn mower, you need to mow it, etc. And it doesn't provide me anything that my neighborhood park can't do better. Now a small gardern I can accept, by why a yard? Even then many neighborhoods in seattle have community gardens.
GM, Firestone, Phillips Petroleum and others were actually convicted in an anti-trust case for doing this. The dismantled mass transit all across the country.
But if we working to build a car free city everyone would live within walking distance or quick transit distance of a farmer's market. The idea of the article was ideas on how to change a city to be car free, not do away with all cars and leave the cities the same.
You do know that statistically speaking you are much more likely to be killed while driving a truck than you are when you are driving a car. Trucks lack things like crumple zones, good tires, handling, brakes, and steering response. Not to mention if you hit something imovable (which is more likely because of the worse handling) you have much more energy to dissapate due to the increased weight (and no crumple zones to help). Not to mention the adequate power in your truck probably won't have you accelerating any faster than my 1.8l plastic audi.
Depends on where you are going, and what the traffic is like.
In a well laid out city, everything you ever wanted would be withing in a short walk or a short transit trip away.
I used to live in dallas, and while not perfect the light rail is getting much better now. When I moved from there last year I found that many times I could drive to a park and ride and spend the rest of the day on Public Transit.
why not get some sort of wagon then? Subaru, toyota, pontiac, ford, audi, bmw, mercedes and many more will sell you a wagon that probably beats your rodeo in seating room and cargo room. Not to mention you'll probably be much safer and get better gass mileage.
Any time you paint a picture with broad strokes, you lose little details like "there are SUVs that get good gas mileage" and "there are plenty of non-SUV vehicles that get absolutely horrid gas mileage". I have a friend with a 6 cylinder Mustang and watching the way he drives, I'd be willing to bet I get twice the mileage he does.
That's the driver's fault not the cars. His 6 cylinder Mustang would get much better mileage than your rodeo if you drove them both the same way. I'm sure I could make a toyota prius get 10 miles to the gallon if I really wanted, but that doesn't mean a ford excursion sucks less gass.
Actually when this is done in practice there is no rounding involved. In this case the actual price of the snack would be.93023255813954. That way no matter how many you buy it's still going to come out even. Luckily the consumer never sees this. Of course it is a hastle for the retailers especially if tax goes up by.25% or so... do they lower their prices, or start charging the customer more?
Of course the $.18 breaks the greedy algorithm, however many places have machines that calculate that give the coinage, and many other registers actually show what coins to give, so that's not a huge problem.
Most strip clubs I've been to have their own "money" you use the ATM in there or get change and you get "money" that can only be spent in there. Of course they will switch it out for regular dollars at any point you ask.
I agree the $1 coin is great. Why anyone would ever carry more than five $1's at a time is beyond me; and if carrying five extra coins is a hardship I think you have other problems:)
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that the price of goods is not partly determined by the demoninations of coins. for example, the reason why a candy bar is 50 cents or 65 cents and not say 48 cents is because we have nickels dimes and quarters. or that the reason a price is 5.95 cents and not 5.96 cents. etc..
But in most places where you have sales tax, the $.50 becomes $.53 or $.54 or $.55. Sales tax begins to make all values closer to having an equal chance of appearing. there are exceptions, such as places that figure in tax into the price (movie theater concessions and gas stations). However, a new coin wouldn't affect them at all it would simply give them more options.
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this assumes your change purse is stocked with all denominations. that's true at the cash register but not in my pocket. When I reach in my pocket and I pull out some change there are a myraid of ways I can make 25 cents. 5 nickels, 2 dimes and a nickel, 5 pennies+ etc...,
not so with his optimal set. if I'm nissing any of the denominations its hard to make it up with the others.
But you're just as likely to have any one coin as any other. The same can be said of our current system. If anything ends in a non multiple of.05 and I don't have any pennies, I can't work it. If any thing ends in anything other than.00 and I only have dimes, what can I do? With his optimal set you still have a myriad of ways of creating $.25: one $.25; five $.05; one $.05, one $.18 and two $.01. In fact, for any given number your chance of paying with the fewest possible coins is actually lower with this system.
third, entropy
again reaching for change in my pocket the goal is not to find the minumum number of coins but rather to be able to pay the bill without thinking too much. that is the more ways I can add up to the same value the more likely I will on a random grab find the right coins to make it. I dont care how many coins.
I don't think you understand entropy. First the change is not a close system. But more importantly entropy in this case would mean that any possible value has just as equal chance of appearing. What you said does make a little sense, having coins that are multiples of eachother does make it easier to add up values (because coins can easily double for eachother). However, if you are worried about speed, you shouldn't be calculating the change the cashier should. You pay with any amount > the cost, and the cashier makes change.
If this is the decision of the court linux will probably be worse off than if IBM actually looses the suit.
Imagine I work for the shiney widget company. We have to divisions. One is Free Widget and the other is Closed Widget. All the Free Widget software is released under GPL, but was forked off of Closed Widget. We keep our two divisions entirely seperate to guard against any of our closed code ending up in the free code, because we want to retain the IP on Closed Widget.
At some point we begin to liscense Closed Widget code out to other companies. The Slimey Widget Company is one such company, and they also contribute to Free Widget. We assume they follow the same process that we do completly isolating people from the two code branches. However, they contribute some of the Closed Widget code into Free Widget. Now none of our people on the Free Widget project have any knowledge of changes that have been made to the Closed Widget because we keep them isolated. So our company has no way of knowing that we are distributing our own IP.
If it was upheld that the Closed Widget then becomes open source, do you see why major companies like IBM will no longer want to contribute to open source projects? No company is going to contribute unless it can distribute, but distributing could cause licensing problems if any of their IP'd code accidently shows up in the open code.
This might also make larger companies forbid programers from contributing to open source projects, and if no company lets their programers contribute, who exactly will contribute?
somehow bringing order from disorder (flying in the face of everything else in our entropically increasing universe)
Second law of theromodynamics:
All physical processes create entropy (microscopic disorder).
The entropy of a closed system cannot decrease, ie- entropy can be created but not destroyed.
This means the entropy of a living organism can decrease, because a living organism is not a closed system. Since it is an open system, entropy can leave and enter. Entropy doesn't have to be destroyed- just moved. Food, water, and energy enter and leave your body all the time, thus making it an open system.
Also keep in mind that complexity is not the destruction of disorder or the creation of order. In fact, there is more disorder in complex systems. There is far more entropy in a nuclear power plant than there is in an ice cube, and a pretty snowflake has much more complexity than the drop of water from whence it came.
know how difficult this is to accept for most people, but all I can say is to give it a shot, stripping away everything non-God apart from it (which leaves you really with the (gasp) Bible...). And then, you may finally see how silly it is to think that electrified chemicals and enough time led to the creation of the singular ball of pure creational brilliance in our universe.
The act of true "intelligent design" is minimalist. In real-life engineering (which being an engineer I'm sure you're aware of), the best designs incorporate the least complexity required to accomplish a given task. The biosystem, on the other hand, is not minimalist. It is ridiculously complex with enormous, unnecessary duplication. Did you know that the human eye is wired backwards, thus reducing visual acuity and creating a blind spot? Squid and octopus eyeballs are wired properly, but they're on a different branch of the evolutionary tree. Why didn't we inherit their design instead of ours? Why would we and all other vertebrates be stuck with a bad eyeball design? Could it be that we're stuck with "legacy hardware" because we evolved along a different branch? Or is it just coincidence that God made the same mistake thousands of times in all the species which happen to belong to one particular family of animals, while he didn't make that mistake once in any of the species belonging to a different family of animals? I don't see an brilliance in the design of our universe.
If there was a creator the only thing he/she/it ever did was define the laws of physics and then press play. The brilliance being that the one unified law would allow all of the universe and life to come about, and being omnipitent the creator would know this in the beginning.
Tell me how following the teachings of one man is any different that following the teachings of one god? It isn't. If you were to do that you're just moving your spirituality from one thing to another.
try thousands of dollars... or 10's of thousands of dollars.
If I could upgrade my system to a full HD with HD-DVD for less than 2 grand, I'd do it right now... and I'm not a videophile. It was hundreds of dollars, I'd get two:)
I built my own set of moral standards... Now I can't say that I'm the first person to come up with the idea of not killing people, but that doesn't mean I'm following the teachings of someone in particular. It's perfectly OK to adopt a moral standard from someone else if you find it fits your framework and believe it's good. That's not the same as following the teachings of someone. Jesus said some good things, they're not terribly original things, but some of them are good nonethless. However, Jesus also ate times said some things that could be construed as being racist and not very tolerant. So am I supposed to follow those as well? Following the teachings of any one person is just stupid. Especially teachings that are 2000 years old.
you should be taking the good things, ignoring the bad and building your own moral code, and then allow everyone else to do the same.
That's quite possibly the lamest thing I've ever heard. Why follow the teachings of some guy? Are you so weak and stupid you can't figure out right and wrong yourself?
There are no 7-9. You see the story originally didn't end in ROTJ and Luke and Leia were not related. When Luke confonted vader in episode 6, he was orginally supposed to fail. The Luke's sister (the other yoda spoke of) was the only chance to save the day. 7-9 were about her redeeming luke and anakin. George decided at some point (either during ESB or before ROTJ) to scrap those ideas and make it end in episode 6.
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I noticed there is a BSD port for it. Could I run it as a cron job on my BSD machine?
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There was a radio show I used to listen to while in Dallas religiously. The problem is that now that I'm in seattle it's on from 1:00 - 3:00 PDT, and I can't listen then (they don't like us streaming audio at work). I'd like something to record it every day. The problem is that the stream is from streamaudio.com, and requires windows media player. Any ideas?
I actually grew up in Oklahoma, just north of Tulsa in Bartlesville, and graduated from OU. I live in Seattle now, and I actually miss the weather some times as crazy as that sounds. A few days ago I saw lightening and heard thunder here and it brought a smile to my face.
If you haven't ever been to the middle of the US, and you get a chance, watch the weather reports some time. If you're from the west coast they will simply amaze you. All the weather people are real meterologists (most with phd's) and they really know what they're talking about. When there is a severe storm or tornado they track the thing and tell you at what time it's going to hit certain intersections in the city. The weather people here are just a joke.
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You obviously didn't read any of the article... or have any knowledge of what a car free city means. Car free means YOU can't drive your car in the city. With special permits deliveries and commercial traffic still can operate. Also the car free city doesn't mean you can't have a car. There are places to store your car, connected to a mass transit hub, so that if you want to travel to a different city you pick up your car and go.
I don't understand why everyone is obsessed with a nice lawn. Why exactly do you need a lawn? It takes money to water and fertilize, you need a lawn mower, you need to mow it, etc. And it doesn't provide me anything that my neighborhood park can't do better. Now a small gardern I can accept, by why a yard? Even then many neighborhoods in seattle have community gardens.
GM, Firestone, Phillips Petroleum and others were actually convicted in an anti-trust case for doing this. The dismantled mass transit all across the country.
But if we working to build a car free city everyone would live within walking distance or quick transit distance of a farmer's market. The idea of the article was ideas on how to change a city to be car free, not do away with all cars and leave the cities the same.
We're building a new one. Although, I'll probably continue to ride the bus for most trips.
You do know that statistically speaking you are much more likely to be killed while driving a truck than you are when you are driving a car. Trucks lack things like crumple zones, good tires, handling, brakes, and steering response. Not to mention if you hit something imovable (which is more likely because of the worse handling) you have much more energy to dissapate due to the increased weight (and no crumple zones to help). Not to mention the adequate power in your truck probably won't have you accelerating any faster than my 1.8l plastic audi.
Depends on where you are going, and what the traffic is like. In a well laid out city, everything you ever wanted would be withing in a short walk or a short transit trip away.
I used to live in dallas, and while not perfect the light rail is getting much better now. When I moved from there last year I found that many times I could drive to a park and ride and spend the rest of the day on Public Transit.
I'm not rich by any means, but any time I have more than 5 one dollar bills I always make sure to trade them in for a bigger bill.
Actually when this is done in practice there is no rounding involved. In this case the actual price of the snack would be .93023255813954. That way no matter how many you buy it's still going to come out even. Luckily the consumer never sees this. Of course it is a hastle for the retailers especially if tax goes up by .25% or so... do they lower their prices, or start charging the customer more?
1 x $.25 + 3 x $.05 + 1 x $.18 = $.88 in 5 coins.
3 x $.25 + 1 x $.10 + 3 x $.01 = $.88 in 7 coins
Of course the $.18 breaks the greedy algorithm, however many places have machines that calculate that give the coinage, and many other registers actually show what coins to give, so that's not a huge problem.
Most strip clubs I've been to have their own "money" you use the ATM in there or get change and you get "money" that can only be spent in there. Of course they will switch it out for regular dollars at any point you ask. I agree the $1 coin is great. Why anyone would ever carry more than five $1's at a time is beyond me; and if carrying five extra coins is a hardship I think you have other problems :)
If this is the decision of the court linux will probably be worse off than if IBM actually looses the suit. Imagine I work for the shiney widget company. We have to divisions. One is Free Widget and the other is Closed Widget. All the Free Widget software is released under GPL, but was forked off of Closed Widget. We keep our two divisions entirely seperate to guard against any of our closed code ending up in the free code, because we want to retain the IP on Closed Widget.
At some point we begin to liscense Closed Widget code out to other companies. The Slimey Widget Company is one such company, and they also contribute to Free Widget. We assume they follow the same process that we do completly isolating people from the two code branches. However, they contribute some of the Closed Widget code into Free Widget. Now none of our people on the Free Widget project have any knowledge of changes that have been made to the Closed Widget because we keep them isolated. So our company has no way of knowing that we are distributing our own IP.
If it was upheld that the Closed Widget then becomes open source, do you see why major companies like IBM will no longer want to contribute to open source projects? No company is going to contribute unless it can distribute, but distributing could cause licensing problems if any of their IP'd code accidently shows up in the open code.
This might also make larger companies forbid programers from contributing to open source projects, and if no company lets their programers contribute, who exactly will contribute?
- All physical processes create entropy (microscopic disorder).
- The entropy of a closed system cannot decrease, ie- entropy can be created but not destroyed.
This means the entropy of a living organism can decrease, because a living organism is not a closed system. Since it is an open system, entropy can leave and enter. Entropy doesn't have to be destroyed- just moved. Food, water, and energy enter and leave your body all the time, thus making it an open system.Also keep in mind that complexity is not the destruction of disorder or the creation of order. In fact, there is more disorder in complex systems. There is far more entropy in a nuclear power plant than there is in an ice cube, and a pretty snowflake has much more complexity than the drop of water from whence it came. The act of true "intelligent design" is minimalist. In real-life engineering (which being an engineer I'm sure you're aware of), the best designs incorporate the least complexity required to accomplish a given task. The biosystem, on the other hand, is not minimalist. It is ridiculously complex with enormous, unnecessary duplication. Did you know that the human eye is wired backwards, thus reducing visual acuity and creating a blind spot? Squid and octopus eyeballs are wired properly, but they're on a different branch of the evolutionary tree. Why didn't we inherit their design instead of ours? Why would we and all other vertebrates be stuck with a bad eyeball design? Could it be that we're stuck with "legacy hardware" because we evolved along a different branch? Or is it just coincidence that God made the same mistake thousands of times in all the species which happen to belong to one particular family of animals, while he didn't make that mistake once in any of the species belonging to a different family of animals? I don't see an brilliance in the design of our universe.
If there was a creator the only thing he/she/it ever did was define the laws of physics and then press play. The brilliance being that the one unified law would allow all of the universe and life to come about, and being omnipitent the creator would know this in the beginning.
Tell me how following the teachings of one man is any different that following the teachings of one god? It isn't. If you were to do that you're just moving your spirituality from one thing to another.
try thousands of dollars... or 10's of thousands of dollars. If I could upgrade my system to a full HD with HD-DVD for less than 2 grand, I'd do it right now... and I'm not a videophile. It was hundreds of dollars, I'd get two :)
I built my own set of moral standards... Now I can't say that I'm the first person to come up with the idea of not killing people, but that doesn't mean I'm following the teachings of someone in particular. It's perfectly OK to adopt a moral standard from someone else if you find it fits your framework and believe it's good. That's not the same as following the teachings of someone. Jesus said some good things, they're not terribly original things, but some of them are good nonethless. However, Jesus also ate times said some things that could be construed as being racist and not very tolerant. So am I supposed to follow those as well? Following the teachings of any one person is just stupid. Especially teachings that are 2000 years old.
you should be taking the good things, ignoring the bad and building your own moral code, and then allow everyone else to do the same.
That's quite possibly the lamest thing I've ever heard. Why follow the teachings of some guy? Are you so weak and stupid you can't figure out right and wrong yourself?
There are no 7-9. You see the story originally didn't end in ROTJ and Luke and Leia were not related. When Luke confonted vader in episode 6, he was orginally supposed to fail. The Luke's sister (the other yoda spoke of) was the only chance to save the day. 7-9 were about her redeeming luke and anakin. George decided at some point (either during ESB or before ROTJ) to scrap those ideas and make it end in episode 6.
I noticed there is a BSD port for it. Could I run it as a cron job on my BSD machine?
There was a radio show I used to listen to while in Dallas religiously. The problem is that now that I'm in seattle it's on from 1:00 - 3:00 PDT, and I can't listen then (they don't like us streaming audio at work). I'd like something to record it every day. The problem is that the stream is from streamaudio.com, and requires windows media player. Any ideas?
I was in norman when the tornado hit moore in 1999. I sat on the roof of my house and watched it travel across I-35.
I actually grew up in Oklahoma, just north of Tulsa in Bartlesville, and graduated from OU. I live in Seattle now, and I actually miss the weather some times as crazy as that sounds. A few days ago I saw lightening and heard thunder here and it brought a smile to my face.
If you haven't ever been to the middle of the US, and you get a chance, watch the weather reports some time. If you're from the west coast they will simply amaze you. All the weather people are real meterologists (most with phd's) and they really know what they're talking about. When there is a severe storm or tornado they track the thing and tell you at what time it's going to hit certain intersections in the city. The weather people here are just a joke.