Under the current NEXRAD Doppler system, a warning could be statewide, leading to false alarms for most of its residents.
No, not so much. The National Weather Service has started issuing storm-based (polygon-area based) warnings since August 2007. Prior to that, they were county-based warnings, which were a problem (Cook County, IL being about 50 miles tall by 40 miles wide, while average tornado widths are about 100 yards) but nowhere near the "statewide warning" the article claims.
Hmm. My experiences are limited to Win2k and OS X 10.5, so they may not apply to you.
Fonts - weird stuff sometimes. Some pages I need to increase the text size twice before it becomes readable. But most pages are OK on default.
Sluggish - I have the opposite experience in both OSes, in that it takes up significantly less memory, and renders pages faster. I've previous mentioned a GTK bug of some sort in Win2k that persists in Pidgin, so it's not a FF issue. (The most recent Win2k issue is that the Flash auto-installer just doesn't work.)
URL - I like the awesomebar because I remember titles and portions of links about 85% of the time. The awesomebar helps me out with this. Maybe getting in the habit of double-clicking the part of the URL you want to change would work better for you? (Unless you're an exclusive Ctrl+L guy... then you're just SOL.)
...much better than the ubiquitous aluminum foil bag that chips now come in, which is 50 to 70% air (by design, so the chips don't smash each other in transit).
That said, my hands are large enough that I usually can't reach the bottom 20% of the can. If they widened the Pringles can design so that my hands could reach the lingering chips on the bottom, that'd make my decade.
If that reference is too obscure for you, you could always clone them, open a theme park, and then give them lots of puzzles to do (upon pain of excruciating death!)
While CR does good, unbiased reports on the boring everyday items such as blenders and vacuum cleaners, their car reviews are awful and hold no water except with people who like to drive cars that have no soul...
Disclaimer: I use CR for most things. That said, I've seen people use crappy stuff. Maybe a blender has no soul (believe me, I don't derive enjoyment from driving my Civic, but that's because I use it primarily as a tool to get from point A to point B) but I *do* feel good when it "just works". As opposed to other blenders I've owned that don't blend, or blend very crappily.
The reason that Wii Fit is being reviewed is because it is passing itself off as a piece of exercise equipment, not (primarily) because it's a video game. CR happens to review exercise equipment.
Since your post makes it painfully obvious that you haven't used Wii Fit at all, I'll post about my actual experience, and then people can comment.
After 30 minutes of actual activity on Wii Fit, I am sore. I am also pretty fat (32.xx BMI, and I'm not an athlete, so that's pretty accurate). The game charts your progress (based on BMI, and as a relative percentage) every day, which is quite useful.
The game places an emphasis (peculiar, at first, I have to admit) on balance. This is for a few reasons. The Balance Board is the game's only input, but it can tell where your center of balance is (and what your weight is) very well. The game doesn't come with any weights for additional resistance, so any resistance your muscles would work against is directly related to your body position.
Finally, the emphasis on balance seems to be firmly rooted in eastern culture. I mean, I can't really think of why it's so important to have *exactly* 50.0% of my weight on my left foot, and 50.0% of my weight on my right foot, and right now, that goal seems impossible.
Where the game succeeds best is, as is noted in the CR review, is in the balance games. Some people can exercise without the additional benefit of visual stimulation -- they enjoy varying degrees of pain or short-term uncomfortability for the hope of long-term progress. I am not one of them. So this is a big boon to me. And these exercises are not of the Wii Sports variety, either; whereas that game would just give you tennis elbow, in Wii Fit you're fighting yourself while trying to head soccer balls or being the human Super Monkey Ball. (Fighting yourself. How very eastern.)
Most importantly, the game makes sense to anyone who hasn't touched a controller. It's straightforward in the way Nintendo has made all of their games in the Wii generation, so that everyone can use it. This alone will be why Wii Fit should outsell Gran Turismo by at least a factor of 2-3 : 1.
I don't exercise nearly as often as I should. I also don't think this game will be the start of a sweeping change in our culture (where everyone walks swinging their arms as much as possible to improve their posture). But it's a big step forward in getting the interactive part of exercise to the home, without having to resort to video tapes or DVDs (no feedback in terms of balance), Bally's (image conscious?) or personal trainers (far more expensive than $90).
If you want me to try to walk out with your servers, just post the address. I'll let you know if I'm successful, but odds are you'll know long before then...
The wind blows continuously at speeds of 110 mph (and up to 180 mph in the winter) at the jet stream, tens of thousands of feet high. I somehow don't think stealing a few units of energy from the uber-lower atmosphere will make much of a difference.
Besides, wind is more of an effect than a cause. The fact that the sun heats land, causing updrafts, and air rushes in to replace it (causing wind) isn't going to end anytime soon.
Betas 2-5 (or so) have had an irritating tendency to crash on startup in Win2k for me, with no CrashReporter information. Since the problem doesn't seem to be widespread, though, I figured I would do a complete wipe once FF 3.0 final came out and see if it kept happening.
I also think there's still a GTK bug at 32-bit resolutions. But again, not a widespread issue...
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I was guesstimating. Didn't really want to do the research for a quick/. post. But the brands are correct.
The Dell was a PIII. The Sony VAIO is a P4. Anything prior to that, it's just too old for me to remember the details.
My goal regarding the future of Subversion...
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...getting all the other IT people in the office to use it. Even better? Getting them recognize why version control is so useful in the first place.:-D
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The second was the Throw out and Replace mentality it pushed on consumers.
I don't think the iMac did more or less to foster this mentality. My parents bought a 33 MHz Acer in the mid 90s. 4 years later, it's dying, the processor I'd replaced in 1999 wasn't cutting it, and 8 MB of RAM cost, well... a lot.
But look, a new Pentium-class HP! And it comes with a monitor, and a free printer with mail-in rebate. Bought it, trashed the Acer and corresponding dot-matrix printer.
Fast forward 4 years. The HP is dragging. Windows ME just didn't do it any favors. But look, a new Pentium II Dell! And it comes with a free monitor and a free printer (with mail-in rebate). Bought it, trashed the HP and corresponding inkjet printer.
Fast fowrard 4 years. The Dell is dragging. But look, a Sony VAIO!
In the meantime, the lamp iMac my then-girlfriend now-wife bought in college (2002 or 2003) is still running strong.
HDIS stands for Hopedale, Illinois, a tiny town on the bluffs of the Illinois River north of Peoria. But apparently, they have a seismographic station. Weird.
Also interesting to note is the absence of seismographic stations immediately around the New Madrid fault zone, here
The point was more that hypothetical guesses of 92 square mile grids were a waste of time and space. Obviously, California is building solar power plants and maintaining their wind power sources, and they're still barely keeping up with demand.
If a thermal solar power plant covers one neighborhood block or large warehouse, what can it power?
The problem (if you could call it that) isn't so much lack of available sources of energy. Allegedly, there is enough wind energy in South Dakota also to power the country if South Dakota was fully built out with wind turbines.
The problem is that transmission lines to move the power cost about $300,000 a mile, plus the cost of substations and transformers. It's not a stretch of the imagination to say that such an upgrade to the system would cost trillions of dollars.
Economics say that the closer power is produced to where it is consumed, the cheaper it actually is. Which is why covering New Mexico with these is a ludicrous proposition and not worth investigating. I'm wondering if it'll work in the Chicagoland metropolitan area first and foremost, and if the costs work out for such a plant to be built.
Giant shale fields still make for expensive recovery costs. And will this make make large expanses of the Dakotas like the strip mines of West Virginia?
I only use the bookmarks on the bookmark menu. I never open a sidebar or go into the separate bookmarks panel except to organize the bookmarks - a rarity indeed.
Same thing with history. It takes too long. I could have googled for it faster. The interface isn't slow, per se. I've never worked that way, and don't feel like starting anytime soon.
Now if I jump back to wikipedia, I don't have to type "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha..."... I can just type "Ha..." and based on my usage patterns it *knows* I want to go back there. That's smart.
Not perfect. Smart. People like using the Windows CMD+R command bar and launch bars for the exact same reason.
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As my lawyer friend says... the court of law doesn't necessarily judge based on who actually did the crime. It judges on who has the better story.
That said, the story still has to be based on a fact.
From the article...
No, not so much. The National Weather Service has started issuing storm-based (polygon-area based) warnings since August 2007. Prior to that, they were county-based warnings, which were a problem (Cook County, IL being about 50 miles tall by 40 miles wide, while average tornado widths are about 100 yards) but nowhere near the "statewide warning" the article claims.
Awful FAQ here: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/sbwarnings/FAQ/engage.html
Hmm. My experiences are limited to Win2k and OS X 10.5, so they may not apply to you.
Fonts - weird stuff sometimes. Some pages I need to increase the text size twice before it becomes readable. But most pages are OK on default.
Sluggish - I have the opposite experience in both OSes, in that it takes up significantly less memory, and renders pages faster. I've previous mentioned a GTK bug of some sort in Win2k that persists in Pidgin, so it's not a FF issue. (The most recent Win2k issue is that the Flash auto-installer just doesn't work.)
URL - I like the awesomebar because I remember titles and portions of links about 85% of the time. The awesomebar helps me out with this. Maybe getting in the habit of double-clicking the part of the URL you want to change would work better for you? (Unless you're an exclusive Ctrl+L guy... then you're just SOL.)
Well geez, when you put it that way everything costs a hell of a lot more than steal.
Yes, but unless I misread my history, the Romans didn't get in the habit of launching the Space Shuttle off their roads, either. :-D
...much better than the ubiquitous aluminum foil bag that chips now come in, which is 50 to 70% air (by design, so the chips don't smash each other in transit).
That said, my hands are large enough that I usually can't reach the bottom 20% of the can. If they widened the Pringles can design so that my hands could reach the lingering chips on the bottom, that'd make my decade.
I was more thinking along the lines of making sure they don't step on the chickens and soil our quilts.
If that reference is too obscure for you, you could always clone them, open a theme park, and then give them lots of puzzles to do (upon pain of excruciating death!)
Disclaimer: I use CR for most things. That said, I've seen people use crappy stuff. Maybe a blender has no soul (believe me, I don't derive enjoyment from driving my Civic, but that's because I use it primarily as a tool to get from point A to point B) but I *do* feel good when it "just works". As opposed to other blenders I've owned that don't blend, or blend very crappily.
The reason that Wii Fit is being reviewed is because it is passing itself off as a piece of exercise equipment, not (primarily) because it's a video game. CR happens to review exercise equipment.
Since your post makes it painfully obvious that you haven't used Wii Fit at all, I'll post about my actual experience, and then people can comment.
After 30 minutes of actual activity on Wii Fit, I am sore. I am also pretty fat (32.xx BMI, and I'm not an athlete, so that's pretty accurate). The game charts your progress (based on BMI, and as a relative percentage) every day, which is quite useful.
The game places an emphasis (peculiar, at first, I have to admit) on balance. This is for a few reasons. The Balance Board is the game's only input, but it can tell where your center of balance is (and what your weight is) very well. The game doesn't come with any weights for additional resistance, so any resistance your muscles would work against is directly related to your body position.
Finally, the emphasis on balance seems to be firmly rooted in eastern culture. I mean, I can't really think of why it's so important to have *exactly* 50.0% of my weight on my left foot, and 50.0% of my weight on my right foot, and right now, that goal seems impossible.
Where the game succeeds best is, as is noted in the CR review, is in the balance games. Some people can exercise without the additional benefit of visual stimulation -- they enjoy varying degrees of pain or short-term uncomfortability for the hope of long-term progress. I am not one of them. So this is a big boon to me. And these exercises are not of the Wii Sports variety, either; whereas that game would just give you tennis elbow, in Wii Fit you're fighting yourself while trying to head soccer balls or being the human Super Monkey Ball. (Fighting yourself. How very eastern.)
Most importantly, the game makes sense to anyone who hasn't touched a controller. It's straightforward in the way Nintendo has made all of their games in the Wii generation, so that everyone can use it. This alone will be why Wii Fit should outsell Gran Turismo by at least a factor of 2-3 : 1.
I don't exercise nearly as often as I should. I also don't think this game will be the start of a sweeping change in our culture (where everyone walks swinging their arms as much as possible to improve their posture). But it's a big step forward in getting the interactive part of exercise to the home, without having to resort to video tapes or DVDs (no feedback in terms of balance), Bally's (image conscious?) or personal trainers (far more expensive than $90).
Phenomenal. Street View can also now confirm what I suspected all along; Indiana is just a black hole.
I wonder what the cooling properties are in there?
If you want me to try to walk out with your servers, just post the address. I'll let you know if I'm successful, but odds are you'll know long before then...
Besides, wind is more of an effect than a cause. The fact that the sun heats land, causing updrafts, and air rushes in to replace it (causing wind) isn't going to end anytime soon.
Betas 2-5 (or so) have had an irritating tendency to crash on startup in Win2k for me, with no CrashReporter information. Since the problem doesn't seem to be widespread, though, I figured I would do a complete wipe once FF 3.0 final came out and see if it kept happening. I also think there's still a GTK bug at 32-bit resolutions. But again, not a widespread issue...
The Dell was a PIII. The Sony VAIO is a P4. Anything prior to that, it's just too old for me to remember the details.
...getting all the other IT people in the office to use it. Even better? Getting them recognize why version control is so useful in the first place. :-D
I don't think the iMac did more or less to foster this mentality. My parents bought a 33 MHz Acer in the mid 90s. 4 years later, it's dying, the processor I'd replaced in 1999 wasn't cutting it, and 8 MB of RAM cost, well... a lot.
But look, a new Pentium-class HP! And it comes with a monitor, and a free printer with mail-in rebate. Bought it, trashed the Acer and corresponding dot-matrix printer.
Fast forward 4 years. The HP is dragging. Windows ME just didn't do it any favors. But look, a new Pentium II Dell! And it comes with a free monitor and a free printer (with mail-in rebate). Bought it, trashed the HP and corresponding inkjet printer.
Fast fowrard 4 years. The Dell is dragging. But look, a Sony VAIO!
In the meantime, the lamp iMac my then-girlfriend now-wife bought in college (2002 or 2003) is still running strong.
True, but there's more than just the New Madrid Fault there. Why not one near St. Louis, one near Paducah, KY, and one near Evansville, too?
How about this one?
HDIS stands for Hopedale, Illinois, a tiny town on the bluffs of the Illinois River north of Peoria. But apparently, they have a seismographic station. Weird.
Also interesting to note is the absence of seismographic stations immediately around the New Madrid fault zone, here
So I guess this makes Iben Browning right!
17 years late. And off by a magnitude of 3.
The point was more that hypothetical guesses of 92 square mile grids were a waste of time and space. Obviously, California is building solar power plants and maintaining their wind power sources, and they're still barely keeping up with demand.
If a thermal solar power plant covers one neighborhood block or large warehouse, what can it power?
The problem (if you could call it that) isn't so much lack of available sources of energy. Allegedly, there is enough wind energy in South Dakota also to power the country if South Dakota was fully built out with wind turbines.
The problem is that transmission lines to move the power cost about $300,000 a mile, plus the cost of substations and transformers. It's not a stretch of the imagination to say that such an upgrade to the system would cost trillions of dollars.
Economics say that the closer power is produced to where it is consumed, the cheaper it actually is. Which is why covering New Mexico with these is a ludicrous proposition and not worth investigating. I'm wondering if it'll work in the Chicagoland metropolitan area first and foremost, and if the costs work out for such a plant to be built.
Giant shale fields still make for expensive recovery costs. And will this make make large expanses of the Dakotas like the strip mines of West Virginia?
Alligator blood? Man, that's cold.
Apparently, this was related to an outdated list of phishing sites, causing the browser to try to download updated sites in one bite. See here: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2007/11/firefox_3_beta_1.html. It hasn't happened to me in months, so I think it's been fixed.
Yeah, I know. I never used them.
... I can just type "Ha..." and based on my usage patterns it *knows* I want to go back there. That's smart.
I only use the bookmarks on the bookmark menu. I never open a sidebar or go into the separate bookmarks panel except to organize the bookmarks - a rarity indeed.
Same thing with history. It takes too long. I could have googled for it faster. The interface isn't slow, per se. I've never worked that way, and don't feel like starting anytime soon.
Now if I jump back to wikipedia, I don't have to type "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha..."
Not perfect. Smart. People like using the Windows CMD+R command bar and launch bars for the exact same reason.