IIRC, both Buffett and David Gardner (Motley Fool) have said they would have better overall returns if they never sold anything they bought. Sure, some went to zero, but they were made up for by ones that came back.
Freshman year in college, learning how to use a sliderule was mandatory. A year later they were gone, completely disappeared. The TI SR-50 killed them.
Even if your commute is 80 miles each way (160 miles RT), the Chevy Bolt or the Tesla Model (any) will give you at least a 30% margin in real-world traffic.
Not an indoor antenna, but the RCA 751 is only 3 ft long and works great. It can be mounted on a wall, under the eaves of a house. It even comes with the mount, which is identical to the common sat TV mount.
Make sure your antenna receives UHF in addition to VHF. Lots of older antennas were VHF-only (channels 2-13).
Remember that the digital channel number shown on the screen now doesn't necessarily correlate to the actual radio channel. In our area, digital channel 7 (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) is transmitted at the pre-digital channel 21 frequency band.
An outdoor antenna with an outdoor amplifier is also recommended for fringe or rural areas.
Broadcast TV works pretty well in our rural area. Lots of people have dumped $60-120/month satellite subscriptions.
The Z-100 was an IBM work-alike which ran Z-DOS, an MS-DOS variant. It cost roughly $2,000. 128K RAM we later upgraded to 1 MB for $1,000. Had to add a couple of wires to the motherboard. Two 5.25 floppy drives. Added a 10 MB drive for $1,000 (yes, MB). 8088 chip. Added an 80287 math chip for around $125. My wife used it for her master's thesis on fractal worlds at which point we borrowed dual 8" floppy drives so it could run unattended. IIRC, it booted from 5.25 floppy, then ran the Pascal compiler from the 8" drives and stored results on the hard drive. Producing one image of a 3D fractal "world" (planet, mountains, tree, etc) took about 8 hours. I'm sure my phone could do it in a few seconds.
I learned to speed read in 5th grade about 50 years ago. A few kids were chosen for some sessions that taught us how to skim for meaning and comprehension. There was a special projector that would scroll a column of text while showing us a narrow window of 1-2 lines. I really worked at it and could "read" most novels in a day or two. This worked okay until I ran into All the Pretty Horses. The weird style made me slow down just to be able to read it. I came to really enjoy the lack of punctuation and occasional long, stream-of-consciousness passages. I know it drove a lot of people crazy, but it brought back a love or reading and is one of my favorite books of all time. It changed the way I read non-technical stuff. Speed reading is great when you're skimming for information, not so much when you're supposedly reading for enjoyment.
(Unless the law has changed...) California law says that if a high percentage (like 85%) of drivers go at or above a certain speed, then that speed is what the speed limit should be, regardless of the signage. There was a case in Palo Alto about 25 years ago where the police set up a speed trap on Embarcadero between the 101 freeway and El Camino and one of the drivers caught in it paid to have the traffic monitored (without police presence which obviously influences drivers) and proved that he had been driving at the same speed as most of the traffic. Somehow the driver knew that the law said that most drivers have a natural sense for what is a safe speed and will drive in a safe manner and that speed is allowed.
I worked on the Teleoperator Retrieval System (TRS) which was a small booster with an Apollo docking ring that an astronaut would remotely pilot from the Shuttle. The docking ring was supposed to clamp onto the Skylab docking port and then the booster would either push Skylab to a higher orbit or perform a controlled de-orbit. It was initially scheduled to fly on the 5th Shuttle. Then as the Shuttle main engines were being debugged at Stennis, it was scheduled for the 4th, the 3rd, the 2nd, the 1st and then it was, "Incoming!".
The uncontrolled reentry was pretty much a non-event except that it took a while to find any debris.
Reminds me of the time in the mid-70's when we were going from Boulder to Arvada via the road south to Golden and mistakenly turned at the entrance to Rocky Flats (where the "triggers" for nukes were made). We pulled up to the security shack and the guard politely told us that we needed to back up, turn around, go back to the highway and take the next turn. We asked if we could pull forward a few feet and make a u-turn around the guard shack and he said that if we moved forward, he'd have to shoot us. We kindly thanked him for his assistance, backed up, turned around and got the hell out of there.
Reminds one of the scene in Burn After Reading where Chad tries to blackmail Osbourne Cox:
Osbourne Cox: If you ever carried out your proposed threat you would experience such a shitstorm of consequences, my friend, your empty little head would be spinning faster than the wheels of your Schwinn bicycle back there.
The school has a *legal* obligation to deal with cyberbullying. www.stopbullying.gov Whether it applies to situations outside the school is an interesting question.
One of my roommates in college was in the pharmacy program and had a *lot* of parties at our house. It quickly became clear that the they were in the program because, duh, "That's where the drugs are".
It took 8 hours and 18 minutes to warm up its systems, get a location fix, halt the spin, turn towards the sun, and, finally, point its communications antenna at Earth. Bah, I do that in 15 minutes *every* morning.
This. I use a Case Logic AUA-311 which holds (inventorying it as we speak...) a Chromebook, Nexus 7, iPod gen 4, flashlight, flash drives, magnifying glass, pen, pencil, a couple of small screwdrivers, etc. Plus a Kindle Touch when I might want to do some reading without a backlight. With all that stuff, it's still lighter than a laptop in a bag.
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Seems about right to me.
Actually got a scam call while typing this...
IIRC, both Buffett and David Gardner (Motley Fool) have said they would have better overall returns if they never sold anything they bought. Sure, some went to zero, but they were made up for by ones that came back.
Freshman year in college, learning how to use a sliderule was mandatory. A year later they were gone, completely disappeared. The TI SR-50 killed them.
Back in the 1970's, a couple of USGS geologists predicted that Mt St Helens was going to erupt soon. And you know what? It did.
Even if your commute is 80 miles each way (160 miles RT), the Chevy Bolt or the Tesla Model (any) will give you at least a 30% margin in real-world traffic.
Not an indoor antenna, but the RCA 751 is only 3 ft long and works great. It can be mounted on a wall, under the eaves of a house. It even comes with the mount, which is identical to the common sat TV mount.
Make sure your antenna receives UHF in addition to VHF. Lots of older antennas were VHF-only (channels 2-13).
Remember that the digital channel number shown on the screen now doesn't necessarily correlate to the actual radio channel. In our area, digital channel 7 (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) is transmitted at the pre-digital channel 21 frequency band.
An outdoor antenna with an outdoor amplifier is also recommended for fringe or rural areas.
Broadcast TV works pretty well in our rural area. Lots of people have dumped $60-120/month satellite subscriptions.
The Z-100 was an IBM work-alike which ran Z-DOS, an MS-DOS variant. It cost roughly $2,000.
128K RAM we later upgraded to 1 MB for $1,000. Had to add a couple of wires to the motherboard.
Two 5.25 floppy drives. Added a 10 MB drive for $1,000 (yes, MB).
8088 chip. Added an 80287 math chip for around $125.
My wife used it for her master's thesis on fractal worlds at which point we borrowed dual 8" floppy drives so it could run unattended.
IIRC, it booted from 5.25 floppy, then ran the Pascal compiler from the 8" drives and stored results on the hard drive.
Producing one image of a 3D fractal "world" (planet, mountains, tree, etc) took about 8 hours. I'm sure my phone could do it in a few seconds.
At night out here in the boonies, I want my car to see Bambi, the deer that's trying to kill me.
The problem being? It makes sense if you forgive a frequency given in units of wavelength.
You know, a small two-person operation that serves fewer than a quarter million people.
Republicans in Congress know that if they don't fall in line with President Bannon, they'll get primaried in their next election.
Like I told my kid the other day, "You might be a descendant of a big-mouthed sea creature with no anus, but I certainly am not!"
"... meaningless without giving the base number ..."
From the report the article was based on:
"There were 11,489 cassettes purchased during the Holiday Season (an increase of 140% over 2015)".
I learned to speed read in 5th grade about 50 years ago. A few kids were chosen for some sessions that taught us how to skim for meaning and comprehension. There was a special projector that would scroll a column of text while showing us a narrow window of 1-2 lines. I really worked at it and could "read" most novels in a day or two. This worked okay until I ran into All the Pretty Horses. The weird style made me slow down just to be able to read it. I came to really enjoy the lack of punctuation and occasional long, stream-of-consciousness passages. I know it drove a lot of people crazy, but it brought back a love or reading and is one of my favorite books of all time. It changed the way I read non-technical stuff.
Speed reading is great when you're skimming for information, not so much when you're supposedly reading for enjoyment.
(Unless the law has changed...) California law says that if a high percentage (like 85%) of drivers go at or above a certain speed, then that speed is what the speed limit should be, regardless of the signage.
There was a case in Palo Alto about 25 years ago where the police set up a speed trap on Embarcadero between the 101 freeway and El Camino and one of the drivers caught in it paid to have the traffic monitored (without police presence which obviously influences drivers) and proved that he had been driving at the same speed as most of the traffic. Somehow the driver knew that the law said that most drivers have a natural sense for what is a safe speed and will drive in a safe manner and that speed is allowed.
As others noted, nobody was hurt.
I worked on the Teleoperator Retrieval System (TRS) which was a small booster with an Apollo docking ring that an astronaut would remotely pilot from the Shuttle. The docking ring was supposed to clamp onto the Skylab docking port and then the booster would either push Skylab to a higher orbit or perform a controlled de-orbit. It was initially scheduled to fly on the 5th Shuttle. Then as the Shuttle main engines were being debugged at Stennis, it was scheduled for the 4th, the 3rd, the 2nd, the 1st and then it was, "Incoming!".
The uncontrolled reentry was pretty much a non-event except that it took a while to find any debris.
Reminds me of the time in the mid-70's when we were going from Boulder to Arvada via the road south to Golden and mistakenly turned at the entrance to Rocky Flats (where the "triggers" for nukes were made). We pulled up to the security shack and the guard politely told us that we needed to back up, turn around, go back to the highway and take the next turn. We asked if we could pull forward a few feet and make a u-turn around the guard shack and he said that if we moved forward, he'd have to shoot us. We kindly thanked him for his assistance, backed up, turned around and got the hell out of there.
Reminds one of the scene in Burn After Reading where Chad tries to blackmail Osbourne Cox:
Osbourne Cox: If you ever carried out your proposed threat you would experience such a shitstorm of consequences, my friend, your empty little head would be spinning faster than the wheels of your Schwinn bicycle back there.
Chad Feldheimer: Y-you think that's a Schwinn?
Google "shift left", take the Wikipedia link, check out the operators. In other words, geek humor.
The school has a *legal* obligation to deal with cyberbullying.
www.stopbullying.gov
Whether it applies to situations outside the school is an interesting question.
One of my roommates in college was in the pharmacy program and had a *lot* of parties at our house. It quickly became clear that the they were in the program because, duh, "That's where the drugs are".
It took 8 hours and 18 minutes to warm up its systems, get a location fix, halt the spin, turn towards the sun, and, finally, point its communications antenna at Earth. Bah, I do that in 15 minutes *every* morning.
"Okay. Sure. We did A and B and C and ... and SI and SJ and SK. But that's it."
This.
I use a Case Logic AUA-311 which holds (inventorying it as we speak...) a Chromebook, Nexus 7, iPod gen 4, flashlight, flash drives, magnifying glass, pen, pencil, a couple of small screwdrivers, etc. Plus a Kindle Touch when I might want to do some reading without a backlight. With all that stuff, it's still lighter than a laptop in a bag.