"Tiger Direct had an entry-level garmin for $69.... I think you'll be better off with a dedicated GPS than a re-purposed phone. "
Exactly. When I read this " I was considering a Samsung Behold II ($100-200 on Craigslist)" I was starting to doubt the author had even priced GPS units since they're far below $100 now
Since "All he really needs it for is hunting and camping (no navigation)," why not get a device soley created for that purpose like a $75 Garmin eTrex. High sensitivity, waterproof, and up to 17 hours on two AA batteries.
Now if author's dad wanted a Android so he could use GPS and other software I would understand not buying a dedicated GPS, but he made no mention at all of ever using it for anything other than a GPS.
I'm not so worried about the few watermelon seeds I've eaten in my life as I am the sunflower seeds and.... oh god, I just realized I had peanut butter last night!
Is this Massachusetts, UK? I ask because I'm reading this on the bbc.co.uk, and I figured if this was in the US then shouldn't this be on some Boston news website?
"Bet this guy's dying to sue anyone who implements these devices without his permission..."
Honestly I don't see this going anywhere, with the patents and stuff this will probably cost more than a simple casket that any company can produce without a licensing fee. I can't imagine any family choosing this, if they were willing to screw grandpa into the ground and have him rest vertically they'd probably be just as inclined to choose cremation first.
Only people I could imagine opting for this is the US Govt to bury soldiers, but I'd imagine there'd be enough outrage to put an end to that.
We've had backhoes forever, if a cemetery wanted to bury people vertically they could have been doing that for the past 50+ yrs but obviously there's not much of a market because I've never heard of a cemetery that buried people vertically... actually I take that back, Upright Burials has been offering vertical burials since Dec 2009, but judging by their News Archive and Media page not much has been going on.
"At some point this whole "burying" thing needs to go. It is not an infinitely sustainable model to follow."
According to the Cremation Association, burying is already dying out, with over 1/3rd of deaths currently resulting in cremations and they're projecting over 50% by 2025.
However I see nothing wrong with burying the dead, it's deeply rooted in many cultures and religions and to say someone is wrong for burying their dead is equal to telling them their culture is wrong.
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it was presented as if two guys went on this hunt for typos, when really they went on a hunt to sell a book.
I think my "beef" should be clear, I don't read slashdot articles so I can be told to "buy the book", and I especially don't enjoy being mislead into thinking it's a ordinary news story when really it's a trap to sell a book.
Is NPR accepting ads now? At first I thought this was idle news, until I read "In 2 1/2 months, Herson and Deck traveled the perimeter of the country..."
Perimeter of the US in 2 1/2 months? That takes some $$$$$ to do that and 2 1/2 month without a day job... and here's how they did it, by writing a book, The Great Typo Hunt
A book about traveling the country and correcting signs. Must be an amazing read, what's their next book, the Amazing Highway Trash Cleanup?
Think I'll just wait for the movie like the Twilight series, hope they sparkle in the sunlight too
"A PADD was a clipboard, just future-visioned. It served exactly the same purpose, plot-wise, as all the paper in the new Battlestar Galactica being octagonal - it show you you were in a different world."
Agreed. Seems to me that it would be obvious that future technology would evolve beyond using dead trees with black powder stuck to it.
The technology that annoyed me the most about Star Trek and TNG was cameras. Here you're sending people over to strange ships and planets and asking "What's going on? Can you describe to me what you see?" Give me a break! 400 years in the future and they can't envision wireless video, but wireless audio is everywhere.
FTFA: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_lemonade_stand_runs_i.html "Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland.... The two (mother and daughter) live in Oregon City, but Fife knew her daughter would get few customers if she set up her stand at home... they drove up last Thursday with a friend and her daughter. They loaded a wheelbarrow that Julie steered to the corner of Northeast 26th and Alberta"
I'm all for kids selling lemonade on their lawn or neighborhood street corner, but I do not agree with parents driving their children to public fairs to sell lemonade.
Apparently there are hardware issues, which unfortunately will give first-time Android users a very poor first impression of Android.
It's also referred to as the GenTouch78 or just Gentouch. There's dozens of reviews on youtube if you want more opinions, but after watching the videos I won't be buying this particular device, I'll wait until someone manufactures a good Droid tablet.
I also have one. My PC has no 3.5" bays, the entire thing is 5.25" bays, so these 4-in-3 Cooler Master hard drive bays is where my four hard drives go. Huge 120mm fan keeps the drives very cool.
"First, you can't really average MPG's together like that. You have to convert to gallons used for some distance, average that, then convert back to MPG, or you'll be wrong."
yes you can
"Second, Notice the the HUGE difference in city mileage. Your improper average assumes an equal measure of city and highway driving. Further, traffic jams throw everything out the window: the Prius uses zero gas while at a stop, while the Corolla uses gas continuously (if you expect to have AC or heat, etc)."
What? You're throwing traffic jams into this? You're micromanaging, we're going to assume over 195,000 miles the Corolla will average 30mpg (26/34) and the Prius will average 49.5mpg. Yes you will have traffic jams getting 20mpg in the Corolla, but you'll also have family vacations flirting with 40mpg over a 195,000 mile life time. This is an average. The Corolla is easily capable of averaging 30mpg over it's lifetime: my wife has a 4-door Saturn 4-cylinder that has averaged high 20s over it's lifetime and it's not rated anywhere near 26/34 mpg.
"how do you even begin to value the quietness of a Prius at a stoplight?"
Um.... you don't. That's why I said at the end of my post "this is assuming you're deciding between the two cars comparing gas prices only, not size of vehicle, status, smugness, etc."
"Invalid assumption:
Gas will be $3 for the next 195,000 miles. When I bought my Prius, gas was $1.49 a gallon."
You're right, this assumes gas will average $3 a gallon from the day you purchase it until you reach 195,000 miles.
However even if gas doubled to $6 a gallon it would still take 97,500 miles to break even, and that's if gas averaged $6 a gallon for that entire time. It's unlikely to average $6 a gallon, so the calculation is still valid.
97,500 miles / 49.5mpg x $6 average per gallon = $11,818 dollars
97,5000 miles / 30mpg x $6 average per gallon = $19,500 dollars
$19,500 - $11,818 = $7682.
Also the 5% interest is an average. My local credit union gives me 4% on my checking account, I have no doubt I could easily find some place to stash $7635 that would average 5% interest.
I didn't even figure into my calculations how much $$$ would be lost in trying to finance the $7,000 more the Prius costs, so really the Corolla is an even better deal than I had figured.
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"Tiger Direct had an entry-level garmin for $69.... I think you'll be better off with a dedicated GPS than a re-purposed phone. "
Exactly. When I read this " I was considering a Samsung Behold II ($100-200 on Craigslist)" I was starting to doubt the author had even priced GPS units since they're far below $100 now
Since "All he really needs it for is hunting and camping (no navigation)," why not get a device soley created for that purpose like a $75 Garmin eTrex. High sensitivity, waterproof, and up to 17 hours on two AA batteries.
Now if author's dad wanted a Android so he could use GPS and other software I would understand not buying a dedicated GPS, but he made no mention at all of ever using it for anything other than a GPS.
I'm not so worried about the few watermelon seeds I've eaten in my life as I am the sunflower seeds and.... oh god, I just realized I had peanut butter last night!
Is this Massachusetts, UK? I ask because I'm reading this on the bbc.co.uk, and I figured if this was in the US then shouldn't this be on some Boston news website?
"Bet this guy's dying to sue anyone who implements these devices without his permission..."
Honestly I don't see this going anywhere, with the patents and stuff this will probably cost more than a simple casket that any company can produce without a licensing fee. I can't imagine any family choosing this, if they were willing to screw grandpa into the ground and have him rest vertically they'd probably be just as inclined to choose cremation first.
Only people I could imagine opting for this is the US Govt to bury soldiers, but I'd imagine there'd be enough outrage to put an end to that.
We've had backhoes forever, if a cemetery wanted to bury people vertically they could have been doing that for the past 50+ yrs but obviously there's not much of a market because I've never heard of a cemetery that buried people vertically... actually I take that back, Upright Burials has been offering vertical burials since Dec 2009, but judging by their News Archive and Media page not much has been going on.
"At some point this whole "burying" thing needs to go. It is not an infinitely sustainable model to follow."
According to the Cremation Association, burying is already dying out, with over 1/3rd of deaths currently resulting in cremations and they're projecting over 50% by 2025.
However I see nothing wrong with burying the dead, it's deeply rooted in many cultures and religions and to say someone is wrong for burying their dead is equal to telling them their culture is wrong.
it was presented as if two guys went on this hunt for typos, when really they went on a hunt to sell a book.
I think my "beef" should be clear, I don't read slashdot articles so I can be told to "buy the book", and I especially don't enjoy being mislead into thinking it's a ordinary news story when really it's a trap to sell a book.
**citation needed
"People who go to Mile High Music Festival "
Why would anyone bother after hearing this? I'd sell my tickets to whatever idiot was willing to pay for them.
From the link it looks like the only band I would want to hear is Dave Matthews Band http://www.milehighmusicfestival.com/images/stories/schedule/schedule-print.jpg
And there's no way in hell I'd spend $99 on the cheap tickets to see Dave Matthews Band
http://tickethorse.com/event.aspx?id=314
"You can; it's clumsy but it's quite correct, in the same way that it's is a perfectly acceptable contraction of 'it has'."
No. Assistant's is possessive, like "this is the assistant's pen".
Is NPR accepting ads now? At first I thought this was idle news, until I read "In 2 1/2 months, Herson and Deck traveled the perimeter of the country..."
Perimeter of the US in 2 1/2 months? That takes some $$$$$ to do that and 2 1/2 month without a day job... and here's how they did it, by writing a book, The Great Typo Hunt
A book about traveling the country and correcting signs. Must be an amazing read, what's their next book, the Amazing Highway Trash Cleanup?
Think I'll just wait for the movie like the Twilight series, hope they sparkle in the sunlight too
oh if only i had mod points!!!!
But of course yearly storage fees for a couple hundreds of thousands would be... a couple hundreds of thousands
but.... but.... she's an aspiring actress!! You can't expect her to do anything more than smile for the camera
dam u spelin' nazi!!
-- The Grammaer Nazi
I would have fired her too because she doesn't know english: You can't combine "Being your assistant has been" as "Being your assistant's been"
--The Grammer Nazi
am i the only one surprised that a 19 yr old could afford a $40,000+ car? Even on eBay they're $40 grand http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200504383411
beautiful car, but i wouldn't want to pay the gas bill, with 12/18mpg.
"A PADD was a clipboard, just future-visioned. It served exactly the same purpose, plot-wise, as all the paper in the new Battlestar Galactica being octagonal - it show you you were in a different world."
Agreed. Seems to me that it would be obvious that future technology would evolve beyond using dead trees with black powder stuck to it.
The technology that annoyed me the most about Star Trek and TNG was cameras. Here you're sending people over to strange ships and planets and asking "What's going on? Can you describe to me what you see?" Give me a break! 400 years in the future and they can't envision wireless video, but wireless audio is everywhere.
Hope the church finally leaves them alone.
Why is the link to a private blog instead of the real news article? http://www.thelocal.se/28150/20100803/
FTFA:
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_lemonade_stand_runs_i.html
"Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland.... The two (mother and daughter) live in Oregon City, but Fife knew her daughter would get few customers if she set up her stand at home... they drove up last Thursday with a friend and her daughter. They loaded a wheelbarrow that Julie steered to the corner of Northeast 26th and Alberta"
I'm all for kids selling lemonade on their lawn or neighborhood street corner, but I do not agree with parents driving their children to public fairs to sell lemonade.
"For those unfamiliar with this ultracheap Augen tablet, I'll do my best to sum it up: it's an unusable POS that somehow made it into production"
"Just wonderful. Another bottom feeder to poison Linux sales in big box retail."
Actually these videos came to the same conclusion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3OBmxGGC_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wPJYcfXsrM
Apparently there are hardware issues, which unfortunately will give first-time Android users a very poor first impression of Android.
It's also referred to as the GenTouch78 or just Gentouch. There's dozens of reviews on youtube if you want more opinions, but after watching the videos I won't be buying this particular device, I'll wait until someone manufactures a good Droid tablet.
I also have one. My PC has no 3.5" bays, the entire thing is 5.25" bays, so these 4-in-3 Cooler Master hard drive bays is where my four hard drives go. Huge 120mm fan keeps the drives very cool.
Reasonably priced at only $20
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817993002
"First, you can't really average MPG's together like that. You have to convert to gallons used for some distance, average that, then convert back to MPG, or you'll be wrong."
yes you can
"Second, Notice the the HUGE difference in city mileage. Your improper average assumes an equal measure of city and highway driving. Further, traffic jams throw everything out the window: the Prius uses zero gas while at a stop, while the Corolla uses gas continuously (if you expect to have AC or heat, etc)."
What? You're throwing traffic jams into this? You're micromanaging, we're going to assume over 195,000 miles the Corolla will average 30mpg (26/34) and the Prius will average 49.5mpg. Yes you will have traffic jams getting 20mpg in the Corolla, but you'll also have family vacations flirting with 40mpg over a 195,000 mile life time. This is an average. The Corolla is easily capable of averaging 30mpg over it's lifetime: my wife has a 4-door Saturn 4-cylinder that has averaged high 20s over it's lifetime and it's not rated anywhere near 26/34 mpg.
"how do you even begin to value the quietness of a Prius at a stoplight?"
Um.... you don't. That's why I said at the end of my post "this is assuming you're deciding between the two cars comparing gas prices only, not size of vehicle, status, smugness, etc."
"Invalid assumption: Gas will be $3 for the next 195,000 miles. When I bought my Prius, gas was $1.49 a gallon."
You're right, this assumes gas will average $3 a gallon from the day you purchase it until you reach 195,000 miles.
However even if gas doubled to $6 a gallon it would still take 97,500 miles to break even, and that's if gas averaged $6 a gallon for that entire time. It's unlikely to average $6 a gallon, so the calculation is still valid.
97,500 miles / 49.5mpg x $6 average per gallon = $11,818 dollars
97,5000 miles / 30mpg x $6 average per gallon = $19,500 dollars
$19,500 - $11,818 = $7682.
Also the 5% interest is an average. My local credit union gives me 4% on my checking account, I have no doubt I could easily find some place to stash $7635 that would average 5% interest.
I didn't even figure into my calculations how much $$$ would be lost in trying to finance the $7,000 more the Prius costs, so really the Corolla is an even better deal than I had figured.
"Trade in value for 2005 Prius in excellent condition is around $11,000 while trade in value of Corolla in excellent condition is around $6,000."
Actually that's not true. I wanted to throw resale value into my post but they're both worth about the same when sold on the market:
$6000 2005 corolla
$6900 2004 corolla
$6400 2005 Prius
$6900 2004 Prius
And all these vehicles have similar mileage and are in similar condition (not salvage, etc).