"I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour after touring the destruction by air Tuesday.
WTF? This is a terrible disaster, but I'm guessing Hiroshima didn't look like it had been flooded by the ocean after being hit by a hurricane. Hiroshima was leveled by a NUCLEAR BOMB. Big difference. I'm not sure what's more amazing, that the governor of a state would make such a ridiculous comparison or that a reporter wouldn't just let the remark slip by.
Anyone with a bit of brains, power tools, and decent ability can build a 4 color screen printing station out of nothing more than lumber and common hardware, all of which is easily obtainable from Home Depot.
Have you priced lumber at Home Depot lately? Your plan would probably still cost $8,000.
Even if it's a stupid mistake? Exactly how many dumb things does someone have to do before being labeled 'stupid'. To quote Forrest Gump "Stupid is as Stupid does."
Thing is, Adobe's not buying up competitive products. They aren't attempting to corner the photo editing market, or the html editing market - those are both already more or less monopolized. Adobe's just putting these products under one roof.
I don't see why this shouldn't get legislative approval, it's not creating a monopoly, just combining two companies that have products that control their market segments. AFAIK, nothing illegal in that.
Voice all over the Internet is annoying. I saw a eBay listing recently where the seller had a voice message welcoming you every time the page loaded. The first time was OK every subsequent view was increasingly annoying - and I viewed it every time.
Voice has it's place, and for meetings or tech support it's OK, but in many places it has become the blink tag of the 21st century.
the gym, there is the occasional arm-banded radio, but all of the mp3 players are iPods.
Interesting. At my gym I actually see more non-iPod mp3 players, but the demographic is a little older.
I'm not disparaging the iPod, the only issues I have with it is I don't like the battery replacement(I would say this was a mistake by Apple, just not a big enough one to curb their momentum) and until the shuffle they have been more money than I wanted to spend. Bought my Rio over a year ago for about $100 - at the time I couldn't touch an iPod for near that.
The iPod is a great product, iTunes is allegedly great, I just like to see diversity in the market.
Actually, I would say things are cheaper if you CAN do them yourself. Most iPod owners aren't going to attempt it, just like most car owners don't repair their own cars. Including the cost of labor is reasonable.
My Rio is an S35S, flash based, screen, I have no idea. Granted, it isn't a 20Gb or 40Gb iPod, can't really compare it to one of those. Can compare it to a shuffle though, and I have had mine twice as long and probably used it twice as much as my sister without a problem.
Ummm... no. One Google search found this site. The battery is $28, replacement fee is $20 and shipping costs would probably make up the balance. Perhaps not exactly $60, but if a person doesn't have the expertise to replace it himself, it could easily be $60. There is no way I've spent even $30 on AAA batteries for my Rio.
Also, we bought my sister an iPod Shuffle for her birthday back in Feb, and it's dead now. I'm guessing it's battery, good thing it's under warranty.
Personally I like the flash players - I'm leary about the hard drives, plus every flash player I've seen is easily expandable and smaller than most hard drive models. I use mine primarily at the gym, so don't need 20GB of space, just enough music for a couple hours.
I didn't buy a Rio for one simple reason: No expandability. I couldn't add a larger memory card. So I got a little Kodak camera/mp3 player instead that could use compact flash.
Hmmm... I just added a 512Mb card to my Rio player. Most of the models I see listed show they are expandable.
Personally, I'm a little dissappointed. I have a Rio S35S. It's no iPod, but it hasn't given me any trouble, battery usage is good, takes an SD card. Overall a quality product.
Personally I do all those trips under my own power--and I don't think continuing to be completely without a car would be a possibility in the country.
Sure it would. I bet there are still people living in the Ozarks or the Smoky Mountains that don't have a car. Travel around on horseback, or walk. Most people just wouldn't.
Also, I suspect that most of us would find we use more energy today then we did when we were kids--that's just the way things have gone....
Absolutely, and I would agree with the idea that it's easier to live a modern american lifestyle in a city. Many people that live in the city are much as you described, I have a good friend who got an aparment in downtown Denver so she could walk to work, to see her friends or wherever else she needs to go. She hates driving and hates owning a car.
I don't know the numbers (would be curious if someone else did), but I had the impression it required a pretty fair swath of forest to keep a family in cooking and heating fuel for a year.
I grew up in a situation similar to what we were discussing, we actually used coal and wood to heat our house. Dad would go get a truckload of coal in the fall and it would last all winter. Wood did take signifcantly more, but I don't think I would call it 'a pretty fair swath of forest'. There are really too many variables to make any kind of blanket statement, climate, housing structure, efficiency of the stoves, type of wood, etc... All I can say is a good size tree will give a lot of burnable wood.
But I got the impression most home schoolers shipped their kids around pretty regularly for social reasons and to share teaching duties
I'm sure some of them do. Personally I don't know anyone who lives out in the sticks and home schools. My issue wasn't with the homeschooling, it was with the blanket statement that city living is more economical.
For the typical person, I'd imagine the differences are that you're heating a house instead of an appartment and travelling 20 miles for your supplies and social life instead of 2....
Apartment I can see, social life and supplies I doubt. When you live outside of town, even a few miles, you actually plan your shopping trips. Personally, now that I live in town, I probably make 20 trips to the store for every 2 that we made when I was a kid and we lived 5 miles outside of town.
And that "teacher unit" will in the majority of cases not be competent to teach every subject at the high school level.
Not sure where you went to school, but I sure as hell had teachers in my high school clases that were not competent to teach the subjects they were teaching. My high school physics teacher had never taught physics before. He sat in on the class before ours, took notes, and taught the same lesson to us. Nice guy, but hardly competent in that subject.
I'm no proponent of homeschooling, but not based on the reasons you state. As far as quality of education goes, I'm sure most home schooled children do at least as well as most attending public school. For every public school teacher that's dedicated and inspired there are many that are either disillusioned and bitter or lazy and protecting their tenure. I think homeschooling turns out socially inept children, but public education in most places is pretty much a minimum baseline.
(Sorry, but if the goal is energy efficiency, we're waaay better off with people living in the big city and taking the bus to school.)
How so? If you live in the country the way people did 100 or even 50 years ago, you can live very cheaply. Only come to town once a week or so, homeschool your kids, grow your own food, about the only fuel source you would need would be for heat.
Big city life may be more economical in some areas (New York, Chicago, Boston), but in others there is little advantage (LA, Denver). In many cities, most jobs aren't near the preferred housing and most people drive rather than take the bus, often due to inadequate public transportation. Just because you live in a city doesn't mean you are more economical.
The problem is when parents start looking at school as babysitting.
I'm not sure that's quite the GP's point either. From the original post
...the problem is not one of information transfer, but of physical control.
In most states it's not legal to leave elementary age children home alone. If parents are working, they have to provide some type of outside care for these children. The public school system has conveniently evolved to provide this supervision for much of the day.
If kids were learning from home it would still require someone to 'babysit' them, both for safety reasons and also to keep them focused on their studies. I have met few kids that are disciplined and focused enough to concentrate on school work without supervision from an adult.
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"I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour after touring the destruction by air Tuesday.
WTF? This is a terrible disaster, but I'm guessing Hiroshima didn't look like it had been flooded by the ocean after being hit by a hurricane. Hiroshima was leveled by a NUCLEAR BOMB. Big difference. I'm not sure what's more amazing, that the governor of a state would make such a ridiculous comparison or that a reporter wouldn't just let the remark slip by.
Great, more people coming to Colorado. Just what we need.
Don't know about you, but my parent's basement isn't flooded.
Anyone with a bit of brains, power tools, and decent ability can build a 4 color screen printing station out of nothing more than lumber and common hardware, all of which is easily obtainable from Home Depot.
Have you priced lumber at Home Depot lately? Your plan would probably still cost $8,000.
No doubt, I think the flood detection was adequate in this case. Everyone was given several days to evacuate.
Law enforcement ripping t-shirts off girls. Your tax dollars at work.
Making a mistake doesn't make him stupid.
Even if it's a stupid mistake? Exactly how many dumb things does someone have to do before being labeled 'stupid'. To quote Forrest Gump "Stupid is as Stupid does."
Thing is, Adobe's not buying up competitive products. They aren't attempting to corner the photo editing market, or the html editing market - those are both already more or less monopolized. Adobe's just putting these products under one roof.
I don't see why this shouldn't get legislative approval, it's not creating a monopoly, just combining two companies that have products that control their market segments. AFAIK, nothing illegal in that.
And are you regularly deleting your cookies that would tell it you've already heard this message? :^)
Not intentionally, but I run Linux and Opera, so who knows how the page interpreted my visits.
Voice all over the Internet is annoying. I saw a eBay listing recently where the seller had a voice message welcoming you every time the page loaded. The first time was OK every subsequent view was increasingly annoying - and I viewed it every time.
Voice has it's place, and for meetings or tech support it's OK, but in many places it has become the blink tag of the 21st century.
but what really sold me on the iPod was the UI.
Thing is I run Linux. I don't think they have a UI for my OS.
the gym, there is the occasional arm-banded radio, but all of the mp3 players are iPods.
Interesting. At my gym I actually see more non-iPod mp3 players, but the demographic is a little older.
I'm not disparaging the iPod, the only issues I have with it is I don't like the battery replacement(I would say this was a mistake by Apple, just not a big enough one to curb their momentum) and until the shuffle they have been more money than I wanted to spend. Bought my Rio over a year ago for about $100 - at the time I couldn't touch an iPod for near that.
The iPod is a great product, iTunes is allegedly great, I just like to see diversity in the market.
You do know you have to charge the Shuffle, right?
Really? You don't just warranty it when it quits working???
Actually, I would say things are cheaper if you CAN do them yourself. Most iPod owners aren't going to attempt it, just like most car owners don't repair their own cars. Including the cost of labor is reasonable.
My Rio is an S35S, flash based, screen, I have no idea. Granted, it isn't a 20Gb or 40Gb iPod, can't really compare it to one of those. Can compare it to a shuffle though, and I have had mine twice as long and probably used it twice as much as my sister without a problem.
Are you a moron?
Ummm... no. One Google search found this site. The battery is $28, replacement fee is $20 and shipping costs would probably make up the balance. Perhaps not exactly $60, but if a person doesn't have the expertise to replace it himself, it could easily be $60. There is no way I've spent even $30 on AAA batteries for my Rio.
Also, we bought my sister an iPod Shuffle for her birthday back in Feb, and it's dead now. I'm guessing it's battery, good thing it's under warranty.
Personally I like the flash players - I'm leary about the hard drives, plus every flash player I've seen is easily expandable and smaller than most hard drive models. I use mine primarily at the gym, so don't need 20GB of space, just enough music for a couple hours.
The average computer uses as much as two circus tents worth of coal to run on any given day.
What is this supposed to mean. Didn't know coal was measured in 'circus tents'. Is that a weight or volume comparison?
I'd rather use a player where I am not limited to closed formats like aac.
Let's not forget paying $60 to replace a battery.
I didn't buy a Rio for one simple reason: No expandability. I couldn't add a larger memory card. So I got a little Kodak camera/mp3 player instead that could use compact flash.
Hmmm... I just added a 512Mb card to my Rio player. Most of the models I see listed show they are expandable.
Personally, I'm a little dissappointed. I have a Rio S35S. It's no iPod, but it hasn't given me any trouble, battery usage is good, takes an SD card. Overall a quality product.
Personally I do all those trips under my own power--and I don't think continuing to be completely without a car would be a possibility in the country.
Sure it would. I bet there are still people living in the Ozarks or the Smoky Mountains that don't have a car. Travel around on horseback, or walk. Most people just wouldn't.
Also, I suspect that most of us would find we use more energy today then we did when we were kids--that's just the way things have gone....
Absolutely, and I would agree with the idea that it's easier to live a modern american lifestyle in a city. Many people that live in the city are much as you described, I have a good friend who got an aparment in downtown Denver so she could walk to work, to see her friends or wherever else she needs to go. She hates driving and hates owning a car.
I don't know the numbers (would be curious if someone else did), but I had the impression it required a pretty fair swath of forest to keep a family in cooking and heating fuel for a year.
I grew up in a situation similar to what we were discussing, we actually used coal and wood to heat our house. Dad would go get a truckload of coal in the fall and it would last all winter. Wood did take signifcantly more, but I don't think I would call it 'a pretty fair swath of forest'. There are really too many variables to make any kind of blanket statement, climate, housing structure, efficiency of the stoves, type of wood, etc... All I can say is a good size tree will give a lot of burnable wood.
But I got the impression most home schoolers shipped their kids around pretty regularly for social reasons and to share teaching duties
I'm sure some of them do. Personally I don't know anyone who lives out in the sticks and home schools. My issue wasn't with the homeschooling, it was with the blanket statement that city living is more economical.
For the typical person, I'd imagine the differences are that you're heating a house instead of an appartment and travelling 20 miles for your supplies and social life instead of 2....
Apartment I can see, social life and supplies I doubt. When you live outside of town, even a few miles, you actually plan your shopping trips. Personally, now that I live in town, I probably make 20 trips to the store for every 2 that we made when I was a kid and we lived 5 miles outside of town.
And that "teacher unit" will in the majority of cases not be competent to teach every subject at the high school level.
Not sure where you went to school, but I sure as hell had teachers in my high school clases that were not competent to teach the subjects they were teaching. My high school physics teacher had never taught physics before. He sat in on the class before ours, took notes, and taught the same lesson to us. Nice guy, but hardly competent in that subject.
I'm no proponent of homeschooling, but not based on the reasons you state. As far as quality of education goes, I'm sure most home schooled children do at least as well as most attending public school. For every public school teacher that's dedicated and inspired there are many that are either disillusioned and bitter or lazy and protecting their tenure. I think homeschooling turns out socially inept children, but public education in most places is pretty much a minimum baseline.
(Sorry, but if the goal is energy efficiency, we're waaay better off with people living in the big city and taking the bus to school.)
How so? If you live in the country the way people did 100 or even 50 years ago, you can live very cheaply. Only come to town once a week or so, homeschool your kids, grow your own food, about the only fuel source you would need would be for heat.
Big city life may be more economical in some areas (New York, Chicago, Boston), but in others there is little advantage (LA, Denver). In many cities, most jobs aren't near the preferred housing and most people drive rather than take the bus, often due to inadequate public transportation. Just because you live in a city doesn't mean you are more economical.
The problem is when parents start looking at school as babysitting.
...the problem is not one of information transfer, but of physical control.
I'm not sure that's quite the GP's point either. From the original post
In most states it's not legal to leave elementary age children home alone. If parents are working, they have to provide some type of outside care for these children. The public school system has conveniently evolved to provide this supervision for much of the day.
If kids were learning from home it would still require someone to 'babysit' them, both for safety reasons and also to keep them focused on their studies. I have met few kids that are disciplined and focused enough to concentrate on school work without supervision from an adult.