And the funniest thing is that the current QWERTY key arrangement is here due to jamming issues with typewriters. It was designed to slow down the typing speed of old stenographers to resolve the jamming issue of old typewriters when they were typed on too fast.
...when reading this, my brain produces a level of gamma waves — those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory — never before reported in neuroscience!
Source: My mother was hit by a car while riding her bicycle about 6 years ago. She was in a coma for 6 weeks and suffered traumatic brain injury. Her surgeon told us she would have been dead without the helmet.
I'm glad your mother survived. I hope she didn't suffer any lasting injuries, and I hope the car driver; if they were at fault was appropriately punished and rehabilitated.
It sounds like her surgeon was a great surgeon. However, I doubt he's a great expert in physics and helmet safety. Even if he is, the majority of other experts would disagree with him.
Thanks for posting that, but I did say "credible study". The Thompson, Rivara and Thompson study is widely regarded as flawed. In fact the site I linked to has a page amost as long critiquing the study:
I dunno about patents so much. I think used properly they are useful. Unfortunately they are more often used to stifle innovation than they are to encourage it like they were intended to do!
My main worry is copyright. I think copyright law needs dramatic alteration! To me a Rudyard Kipling work that has been out-of-copyright for some time and bastardized by Disney to create "The Jungle Book" is more worthy of protection that a 20 year old computer game like "Tai-Chi Tortoise"
The first has a great deal of artistic merit, and will be recided in its original form for hundreds of years. The second will be in copyright for many years, despite the fact it has slipped from memory already!
There should be some distinction between a work that has potential monetary worth 75 years after its creation, and something that has no worth 5 years after creation.
I'm tempted to automatically put all e-mails to my domain that isn't for me on a web page, for public consumption. While most of them are obviously spam, some appear to be quite, um, interesting if you have odd kinks. As long as I announce this as a public service, would I be in my rights to do so?
I see no problems in making this mandatory in traffic a.s.a.p.
Drivers will oppose it. That's the main problem.
Drivers usually know when they're tired, but they tend to drive anyway. They don't need some electronics to tell them this.
They drive because they're impatient and not driving would be an inconvenience to them. It's not so much they don't care that they'll be involved in an accident, it's just that they don't think it'll happen to them.
Usability is so important. Put you time and effort in to that - the "open data" is already there thanks to OSM.
I just use a TomTom One with a decent bicycle mount. It's easy to use and with USB charging, I can easily power it with a standard battery to USB charger and it cost £100 (much less than an iPhone would have cost). Okay, it doesn't cover bridleways, but you can never be sure what the conditions are going to be like on bridleways. Muddy tracks suitable for horses aren't always suitable for a road bike.
You refer to "athletes". I suspect you made the same mistake as me. This "news" story does not refer to footballers, it actually refers to those that partake in "American Football", please do not confuse them with athletes that play real football!
David Beckham never had any significant amount of neurons to damage in the first place!
In my experience with BT (which some of my neighbours use). They set up their routers with WEP by default. It looks like I'll be getting free gaming. Yay!
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't that kind of semantic? They have the power to tax.
The BBC is funded by a licence. It is not funded by tax.
I can choose not to pay for a licence. I can not choose not to pay tax.
And the funniest thing is that the current QWERTY key arrangement is here due to jamming issues with typewriters. It was designed to slow down the typing speed of old stenographers to resolve the jamming issue of old typewriters when they were typed on too fast.
Actually, that's just an urban legend... http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/221/was-the-qwerty-keyboard-purposely-designed-to-slow-typists
...eye prefer two ewes speech recognition in sted
I am part of the problem too, I know
You're just a gasbag!
Let's wait until we have solid facts
Mod parent up! Funny!
...when reading this, my brain produces a level of gamma waves — those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory — never before reported in neuroscience!
"20% answered this question with 'No'. 8% answered 'Don't know.' And a whopping 72% answered the question 'Yes.' "
I dunno about anyone else, but I wonder how big the sample size is. I'm suspecting it should read like this...
"4 people answered this question with 'No'. 2 answered 'Don't know.' And a whopping 18 answered the question 'Yes.' "
Search doesn't take that many servers. Cuil only had a few hundred machines.
Yeah, but they also only had a few hundred users :p
I went to Slashdot and the service was terrible. They treated me badly and I think they cloned my credit card.
Right, anyone know CmdrTaco's number?
Source: My mother was hit by a car while riding her bicycle about 6 years ago. She was in a coma for 6 weeks and suffered traumatic brain injury. Her surgeon told us she would have been dead without the helmet.
I'm glad your mother survived. I hope she didn't suffer any lasting injuries, and I hope the car driver; if they were at fault was appropriately punished and rehabilitated.
It sounds like her surgeon was a great surgeon. However, I doubt he's a great expert in physics and helmet safety. Even if he is, the majority of other experts would disagree with him.
http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001855/wearing-a-helmet-dramatically-reduces-the-risk-of-head-and-facial-injuries-for-bicyclists-involved-in-a-crash-even-if-it-involves-a-motor-vehicle
Thanks for posting that, but I did say "credible study". The Thompson, Rivara and Thompson study is widely regarded as flawed. In fact the site I linked to has a page amost as long critiquing the study:
http://chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/Thompson,_Rivara_and_Thompson_(1989)
Cyclists should wear helmets because it can save their life if hit by a car
[Citation Needed]
There's no evidence to suggest that a helmet offers protection in a collision with a car.
AFAIK, the only credible research implicates that there may be some benefit in a low speed (aprox ~15mph) impact.
There's a good write-up of all the issues surronding bicycle helmets here:
http://chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/Cycle_helmet_debate
what happens when a civil society cowtows to any crazy shit
I, for one, welcome, and kowtow to our new bovine overlords!
I dunno about patents so much. I think used properly they are useful. Unfortunately they are more often used to stifle innovation than they are to encourage it like they were intended to do!
My main worry is copyright. I think copyright law needs dramatic alteration! To me a Rudyard Kipling work that has been out-of-copyright for some time and bastardized by Disney to create "The Jungle Book" is more worthy of protection that a 20 year old computer game like "Tai-Chi Tortoise"
The first has a great deal of artistic merit, and will be recided in its original form for hundreds of years. The second will be in copyright for many years, despite the fact it has slipped from memory already!
There should be some distinction between a work that has potential monetary worth 75 years after its creation, and something that has no worth 5 years after creation.
I'm tempted to automatically put all e-mails to my domain that isn't for me on a web page, for public consumption. While most of them are obviously spam, some appear to be quite, um, interesting if you have odd kinks. As long as I announce this as a public service, would I be in my rights to do so?
Like this?
But choosing .NET is a choice, and whenever anybody does it, I can't help but ask "why?"
I do .NET because that's where the money is. Next question please!
Also, beware the Sandkings.
O'RLY?
Do Dying Drivers Defy Death Deploying Drowsiness Device?
I see no problems in making this mandatory in traffic a.s.a.p.
Drivers will oppose it. That's the main problem.
Drivers usually know when they're tired, but they tend to drive anyway. They don't need some electronics to tell them this.
They drive because they're impatient and not driving would be an inconvenience to them. It's not so much they don't care that they'll be involved in an accident, it's just that they don't think it'll happen to them.
Usability is so important. Put you time and effort in to that - the "open data" is already there thanks to OSM.
I just use a TomTom One with a decent bicycle mount. It's easy to use and with USB charging, I can easily power it with a standard battery to USB charger and it cost £100 (much less than an iPhone would have cost). Okay, it doesn't cover bridleways, but you can never be sure what the conditions are going to be like on bridleways. Muddy tracks suitable for horses aren't always suitable for a road bike.
You refer to "athletes". I suspect you made the same mistake as me. This "news" story does not refer to footballers, it actually refers to those that partake in "American Football", please do not confuse them with athletes that play real football!
David Beckham never had any significant amount of neurons to damage in the first place!
This reminds me of Windows. It's impossible to override certain key combinations like CTRL+ALT+DELETE.
Is this true?
Odd coincidence, but last nioght I got a Windows
from above TFS: "from the i-wonder-if-it-rhymes-with-shmactivision dept. "
I wonder if it rhymes with Electronic Farts?
In my experience with BT (which some of my neighbours use). They set up their routers with WEP by default. It looks like I'll be getting free gaming. Yay!