Exactly, that line is still perfectly framed in my brain from the tall long dark haired woman in the mini-skirt. And she went from totally dumb to very savvy after they forced the helmut on her to make her do the surgery.
Sounds like an episode of star trek where the alien woman was not smart, but when she put on the magical helmet, the machine gave her fantastic amounts of knowledge into her brain for a short period of time. Of course, it almost killed bones when he tried to put spocks brain back in his body. The bloody alien tech is just never compatible with us humans.
When I upgraded my HVAC to 2 stage heat/cool, they could not setup the 2 stage heat to be activated from the thermostat controller, so it had to be set to switch to hi mode after 15 minutes of continuous demand. Why? Because there were only 5 wires. Why couldn't they design a thermostat/HVAC that only needed 2 wires? Instead, it still uses an ancient protocol that needs more wires for more features.
I read all these utopian comments and 2 things come to mind. When (not if, I use history as a guide) war comes, I can't wait to see us blast the enemy with all our software. We will fall fast when we run out of all those guns, ammo and bombs we have in warehouses, since we won't make them anymore. Already when I look at the war rooms etc I look at the innumerable laptops and think we are screwed. We don't make any of them. The second problem with this utopia is energy. While we may get robots to do everything for us, imagine the amount of energy that will be required to keep us leisurely occupied and the robots running.
of all spam comes from dynamic addresses. Their method (95%) is worse than simply rejecting all email from dynamic IP's. I find greylisting dynamics for 36 hours and statics for an hour filters over 99% of spam. If one gets thru, I just blacklist the IP.
Interesting the UK forbids repairs. I worked in a library in high school in the US and spent many an hour glueing paperbacks back together. Hardbacks were still fixable, but required more care with the glue. I'd say paperbacks would only last a few checkouts before repairs were needed. Hardbacks, the 26 number sounds reasonable, maybe slightly optimistic.
And that is the problem. Perhaps a rule should be added that says if I prove one of your patents is invalid, I get to pick one that has been validated that is now marked available to all for free.
I think they also got a break on their electric rate. The city has just decided it needs a giant residential and low usage commercial rate increase. They are starting with raising the connection rate from $6.50/mo to $22/mo. I've not heard what the cents/kwh will be yet. Dunno how I feel about subsidizing samsung's electric bill along with their property tax bill.
Wish I had mod points. So true. I recall my mother helping me and my brothers with english. Really just the fact my parents were interested in our performance and did not instantly blame the teacher was probably a good deal of the reason I did well in school. I am so tired of people blaming the schools. And oh, more money for the schools is always the answer. The answer is for parents to start caring about the lives they brought into this world and make sure those lives can survive after they leave the nest.
I also had the luxury of scholarships/jobs to pay for school and needed no loans. I firmly believe this is a good approach. BUT, living standards at dorms have become luxo condos level. The dorm I lived in could have been (and probably was) 2nd world war housing for troops. The walls were cinderblock, metal bunk beds, cheaply made units. It was a place to sleep and not much else. Perhaps if schools spent a little less on housing and alot less on stadiums & football coaches, maybe tuition would be less and not require so many student loans.
I am much less concerned about FB than experian et al. I wish I could put a block on any request for my credit info without my prior authorization. The only way it appears I can do anything but a tempoary block is to have already been the victim of a crime.
Agreed, here they steal outdoor condenser A/C units for the copper. I'm thinking you could make a whole lot more money on battery packs. Remember when people used to steal gas from a car. Whoa, 40-50 bucks for gas vs a very removable 10K battery pack. Electric's will be commuter cars unless they have the small gen like a volt. Recharging is just too slow. From the article and this is the fast charger... "
Still, the experience will have its shortcomings. Consider a Nissan Leaf that can go about 70 miles at highway speeds on a full charge. At the 80 percent charge delivered by a fast chargers, that drops to 56 miles, which youâ(TM)d cover in 48 minutes at 70 m.p.h. That means travelers would spend as much time charging as they would driving."
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No its not, EVERYTIME she calls me it happens. I ask again, what could she be doing wrong. I know the crappy phone has a prox sensor, I am not stupid. How is she using it that causes this problem. Somehow she hits the mute button and the prox sensor does not think the phone is against her face. No she is not being a cunt. She is a total non-tech, and it happens ALOT. It happens mid-sentence in many cases. When it happens I just start repeating "mute button". Has anyone else seen this? And no I don't need fanboi's like YOU to praise this crappy phone that fails as a phone. I know your cool and all, but I am asking a real question. What is she doing and how can she avoid it. I know she cradles it with her shoulder, is that it?
Curious, a friend of mine owns an iphone, every time we talk & I mean EVERY TIME, she somehow manages to hit the mute button with her chin. The end result from my perspective is the phone utterly fails as a phone. I don't know if it is the proximity sensor is bad or what, but I just don't see how anyone would use this thing as a phone with this problem. Is she doing something stupid? I've had many brands of phones and have never seen this. This is her 2nd iphone and it happened on her previous one as well, so I don't think it was a defect of just this one phone. I am just baffled. Does cool factor outweigh usability as a phone?
In TX they do, I have served twice on juries for traffic court. 6 instead of 12 jurors. Both were hilarious. Speeding in both cases. I think the defendant is just hoping the officer doesn't show up, but in both cases I served on, they did. In both cases, as soon as the defendant opened their mouth, you could tell they were not holding a full deck and had no defence whatsoever. Deliberation took about a minute.
I agree about the recycling. I for one almost always rip apart my old disks to pilfer the magnets. The coil magnets are fantastic. I'd like to think that drives at least could get the magnet recycled somehow. If rare earths are not that rare, and its really the processing, maybe add a deposit of a couple of bucks on all drives so you could turn them in like aluminum cans and get your deposit back. The average household now has a few drives so it might make a lot of sense. Cell phones could have the same strategy as they have magic sauce in them too.
Eventually, (and granted it may be a very long time) we will run out of all of them. In the end we must get sufficient energy from the sun (or figure out how to make our own using fusion) or we are screwed. It may take a hundred or even a thousand more years, but eventually every drop of oil, gas, coal, & every fissionable piece of uranium will be spent. Given our ever increasing population/appetite for energy it may be sooner than anyone plans. So I think it might be wise to start really figuring out how to extract energy from the sun be it direct conversion, wind, hydro, ?. So if you are right, we are already overusing what mother earth/sun can give us.
While I expect they have the flood thing handled, what gives me pause is when I looked up how many nuclear sites there are (440 roughly) and how many major disasters have occurred (chernoble, TMI and now Fukishima). So a quick calculation says if I have a plant within a few miles of me, there is roughly a 1% chance in a typical lifetime that my home will be un-inhabitable for the next 100 years or so. I'm not a big pro or anti nuke guy. Actually I was sort of positive on them until I considered the probabilities. I mean, some people may be NIMBY about turbines, but man, I am definitely NIMBY for a nuke plant now.
Um, no the volt uses exactly what you describe except under some very specific circumstances. In fact one of the complaints people make of the Volt is it uses this "trick" to increase performance of the car under these high speed/hard accel cases. Under normal circumstances it drains the battery to near empty, and then starts the engine and recharges/supplies juice to the electric motors. I think your thinking of the prius which uses the weird transmission that directly connects the small engine to the drive train. I think both are fine methods, with maybe a slight preference for the volt because full electric operation is normal for commuting. The trailer idea for the S is an interesting one. I'd need more info before I could really comment. It might offer an elegant solution if the extra weight doesn't turn the car into a slug.
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Exactly, that line is still perfectly framed in my brain from the tall long dark haired woman in the mini-skirt. And she went from totally dumb to very savvy after they forced the helmut on her to make her do the surgery.
Sounds like an episode of star trek where the alien woman was not smart, but when she put on the magical helmet, the machine gave her fantastic amounts of knowledge into her brain for a short period of time. Of course, it almost killed bones when he tried to put spocks brain back in his body. The bloody alien tech is just never compatible with us humans.
When I upgraded my HVAC to 2 stage heat/cool, they could not setup the 2 stage heat to be activated from the thermostat controller, so it had to be set to switch to hi mode after 15 minutes of continuous demand. Why? Because there were only 5 wires. Why couldn't they design a thermostat/HVAC that only needed 2 wires? Instead, it still uses an ancient protocol that needs more wires for more features.
I read all these utopian comments and 2 things come to mind. When (not if, I use history as a guide) war comes, I can't wait to see us blast the enemy with all our software. We will fall fast when we run out of all those guns, ammo and bombs we have in warehouses, since we won't make them anymore. Already when I look at the war rooms etc I look at the innumerable laptops and think we are screwed. We don't make any of them. The second problem with this utopia is energy. While we may get robots to do everything for us, imagine the amount of energy that will be required to keep us leisurely occupied and the robots running.
of all spam comes from dynamic addresses. Their method (95%) is worse than simply rejecting all email from dynamic IP's. I find greylisting dynamics for 36 hours and statics for an hour filters over 99% of spam. If one gets thru, I just blacklist the IP.
Interesting the UK forbids repairs. I worked in a library in high school in the US and spent many an hour glueing paperbacks back together. Hardbacks were still fixable, but required more care with the glue. I'd say paperbacks would only last a few checkouts before repairs were needed. Hardbacks, the 26 number sounds reasonable, maybe slightly optimistic.
And that is the problem. Perhaps a rule should be added that says if I prove one of your patents is invalid, I get to pick one that has been validated that is now marked available to all for free.
I think they also got a break on their electric rate. The city has just decided it needs a giant residential and low usage commercial rate increase. They are starting with raising the connection rate from $6.50/mo to $22/mo. I've not heard what the cents/kwh will be yet. Dunno how I feel about subsidizing samsung's electric bill along with their property tax bill.
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Ah, you mean you don't want to work at walmart and get food stamps.
I would not ship it across country, I'd put it on a car of someone I don't like.
Wish I had mod points. So true. I recall my mother helping me and my brothers with english. Really just the fact my parents were interested in our performance and did not instantly blame the teacher was probably a good deal of the reason I did well in school. I am so tired of people blaming the schools. And oh, more money for the schools is always the answer. The answer is for parents to start caring about the lives they brought into this world and make sure those lives can survive after they leave the nest.
I also had the luxury of scholarships/jobs to pay for school and needed no loans. I firmly believe this is a good approach. BUT, living standards at dorms have become luxo condos level. The dorm I lived in could have been (and probably was) 2nd world war housing for troops. The walls were cinderblock, metal bunk beds, cheaply made units. It was a place to sleep and not much else. Perhaps if schools spent a little less on housing and alot less on stadiums & football coaches, maybe tuition would be less and not require so many student loans.
So are you saying it is better to let the cycle continue and not stop the pedophile? I hope not.
I am much less concerned about FB than experian et al. I wish I could put a block on any request for my credit info without my prior authorization. The only way it appears I can do anything but a tempoary block is to have already been the victim of a crime.
Still, the experience will have its shortcomings. Consider a Nissan Leaf that can go about 70 miles at highway speeds on a full charge. At the 80 percent charge delivered by a fast chargers, that drops to 56 miles, which youâ(TM)d cover in 48 minutes at 70 m.p.h. That means travelers would spend as much time charging as they would driving." "
No its not, EVERYTIME she calls me it happens. I ask again, what could she be doing wrong. I know the crappy phone has a prox sensor, I am not stupid. How is she using it that causes this problem. Somehow she hits the mute button and the prox sensor does not think the phone is against her face. No she is not being a cunt. She is a total non-tech, and it happens ALOT. It happens mid-sentence in many cases. When it happens I just start repeating "mute button". Has anyone else seen this? And no I don't need fanboi's like YOU to praise this crappy phone that fails as a phone. I know your cool and all, but I am asking a real question. What is she doing and how can she avoid it. I know she cradles it with her shoulder, is that it?
Curious, a friend of mine owns an iphone, every time we talk & I mean EVERY TIME, she somehow manages to hit the mute button with her chin. The end result from my perspective is the phone utterly fails as a phone. I don't know if it is the proximity sensor is bad or what, but I just don't see how anyone would use this thing as a phone with this problem. Is she doing something stupid? I've had many brands of phones and have never seen this. This is her 2nd iphone and it happened on her previous one as well, so I don't think it was a defect of just this one phone. I am just baffled. Does cool factor outweigh usability as a phone?
In TX they do, I have served twice on juries for traffic court. 6 instead of 12 jurors. Both were hilarious. Speeding in both cases. I think the defendant is just hoping the officer doesn't show up, but in both cases I served on, they did. In both cases, as soon as the defendant opened their mouth, you could tell they were not holding a full deck and had no defence whatsoever. Deliberation took about a minute.
Umm, he lives in texas.
I agree about the recycling. I for one almost always rip apart my old disks to pilfer the magnets. The coil magnets are fantastic. I'd like to think that drives at least could get the magnet recycled somehow. If rare earths are not that rare, and its really the processing, maybe add a deposit of a couple of bucks on all drives so you could turn them in like aluminum cans and get your deposit back. The average household now has a few drives so it might make a lot of sense. Cell phones could have the same strategy as they have magic sauce in them too.
Eventually, (and granted it may be a very long time) we will run out of all of them. In the end we must get sufficient energy from the sun (or figure out how to make our own using fusion) or we are screwed. It may take a hundred or even a thousand more years, but eventually every drop of oil, gas, coal, & every fissionable piece of uranium will be spent. Given our ever increasing population/appetite for energy it may be sooner than anyone plans. So I think it might be wise to start really figuring out how to extract energy from the sun be it direct conversion, wind, hydro, ?. So if you are right, we are already overusing what mother earth/sun can give us.
Its probably in case they have another password malfunction and allow just anyone to download your data. With the new terms, they are allowed to.
While I expect they have the flood thing handled, what gives me pause is when I looked up how many nuclear sites there are (440 roughly) and how many major disasters have occurred (chernoble, TMI and now Fukishima). So a quick calculation says if I have a plant within a few miles of me, there is roughly a 1% chance in a typical lifetime that my home will be un-inhabitable for the next 100 years or so. I'm not a big pro or anti nuke guy. Actually I was sort of positive on them until I considered the probabilities. I mean, some people may be NIMBY about turbines, but man, I am definitely NIMBY for a nuke plant now.
Um, no the volt uses exactly what you describe except under some very specific circumstances. In fact one of the complaints people make of the Volt is it uses this "trick" to increase performance of the car under these high speed/hard accel cases. Under normal circumstances it drains the battery to near empty, and then starts the engine and recharges/supplies juice to the electric motors. I think your thinking of the prius which uses the weird transmission that directly connects the small engine to the drive train. I think both are fine methods, with maybe a slight preference for the volt because full electric operation is normal for commuting. The trailer idea for the S is an interesting one. I'd need more info before I could really comment. It might offer an elegant solution if the extra weight doesn't turn the car into a slug.