I have a friend who decided the family didn't need a TV anymore since everyone was watching shows on tablets or laptops in their own rooms. He walked through the house one evening to discover that his wife and two children were independently watching the same show from netflix in 3 different locations in the house having all started at different times... So now the family doesn't even watch TV together and it uses up 3 times the bandwidth.
My family is similar except that we still occasionally gather around the TV and watch a movie together; or my son and I will watch Top Gear or MythBusters together... Don't worry; we also do plenty of outdoors stuff or creative stuff together too...
I'd been living with sleep apnea for years, but didn't realize it. I just thought that getting up to pee 3 or 4 times in a night was normal for a 42 year old... Turns out it's not. It was my body's way of trying to figure out why it was awake and concluding it must be because my bladder was full. I did a sleep study and found that I would stop breathing 260 times in the first 3 hours of sleep after which time I started waking up and that was the end of the study... I was fitted with a sleep apnea dental appliance (the TAP3 device) and the first night I slept through the entire night for the first time in years... My wife kept waking up to make sure I was still breathing because I wasn't snoring or making any noise at all. After some adjustment, I can say I sleep like a baby now... I spent a lot of money on matresses and pillows before, thinking it was the bed's fault...
The way the dental appliance works is by extending your lower jaw (as though you have a terrible underbite) which opens up your airway.
Very occasionally, I will forget it when I go somewhere for an overnight, and I sleep like shit those nights... I wake up multiple times, have a sore throat in the morning (from snoring loudly), have no energy, and no motivation.
I've had it for 2.5 years now and can't imagine life without it. I also can't imagine life with a CPAP machine though I hear they work great for some people.
The actual transit engineer certainly doesn't know how to think outside of the box... And if you read his credentials, he's not a transit engineer (is there even such a thing?)... He's a civic planner who's been employed in his field for a short 7 years.
He says the headway is essentially restricted by the amount of time it takes for each pod to decelerate to a stop, close an airlock, pressurize the container, open the other airlock, etc... Then trying to get the old arthritic passenget in/out of the pod in 60 seconds. Even I, a lowly firmware guy, can conceive of a few different ways to handle that. These are not huge obstacles on which to form the basis of analysis and reject the idea.
My brother-in-law and sister-in-law think I'm the paranoid guy quivering in the basement of my house because I'm concerned about this crap... They are the typical "I've done nothing wrong, I have nothing to hide. If knowing that I called my gynecologist last week turns them on, then have at it. I have nothing to hide..." sort of people... I never know how to respond to their fearless proclamations so I try to change the subject and lately, have been just avoiding contact with them completely... Infuriating... I can always think of plenty of responses when I'm in the car on my way home...
If you can keep them working. I bought one used because the PO couldn't keep it working. I dismantled it, cleaned the chamber and catalytic converter and got it to work again. It worked for a few weeks and then was reporting a flame error... Took it apart again and just could not get it to work. The air intake port was clean, fan running, but just could not get the mix good enough to get it to ignite; even manually... took the nozzle out and it lit fine; just wouldn't light in the chamber.. After a few weeks of screwing around with it; off to the garbage it went. If you google them, there is no end of people having trouble with the things. Poor design.
The blu-ray mosquito laser needs to be marketed...
I've always said, since the NSA is reading all of my e-mail anyway, the least they could do is filter out all the spam for me... If I could subscribe, via RSS from an NSA site, a.procmailrc; that'd be bitchin'...
Yes. She's learned that she can engineer something cool as long as she has some tenacity.. She's a 15 year old.. This idea is not likely to change the world but what world changing technology did you come up with when you were 15? My son has been 'inventing' since he was 6... He's almost 12 now and his inventions are starting to become interesting and I can see a steady progression to useful. This is just a notable datapoint on her life trajectory...
Her parents probably encouraged her and clearly she has the self confidence to believe she can succeed. If any child of yours ever has a seed of an idea, you will likely squash it in its infancy and your kid will just plop himself/herself back down in front of the xbox.
Except for the 600lbs of "something you don't need" that you're always dragging around (either batteries or internal combustion engine)... How much more efficient would your Focus be if it used the same engine, and lost the batteries/electric motors?
That thing needs a handle on top that you can rotate 1/4 turn, hear a hissing noise, and then pull out a long cylindrical CPU core that is all lit up with blue LEDs from a super-cap... On the side of it should be a double digit 7 segment display slowly counting down to 0.
On the flipside, picture having a hyper-curious child... For about the first couple hours of a long trip, your child is emitting a constant stream of questions about what he sees outside the window and you're happily answering them, engaging your child in the journey and getting some science or culture lessons in here and there... Now tell me how you deal with 8 straight hours of that? So you force him to limit himself to one question every 2 minutes; every 5 minutes... After a while, you just want him to shut up...
He's almost 12 now and has his own ipod so listens to music but the pause button gets pressed fairly regularly for another question to sneak out...
spoken like a non-parent. I _am_ a parent and my child _was_ bullied... My child has plenty of self esteem, probably too much self-reliance (he can weld, drive stick, build a tree fort with power tools, and hack python), and as much independence as an 11 year old should have. The bully's parents would not admit their child was a bully, the school suggested we put our son in Hockey; the bully's dad had a black eye when we spoke to them about his child's bullying... We moved schools, which is a drastic step. Was the original school to blame? Absolutely. There was a problem, we brought it to their attention, and they told us they were powerless unless there was a physical injury and a police report. The most they would do was keep the bully away from my child but in order to make it "fair", they instructed my son to stay away from the bully as well. The side effect of this was the bully began hanging around with my son's friends effectively ostracizing my son.
Until you manage to raise a child yourself, you should probably keep shut...
You're an idiot. The most expensive MBP w/Retina display is $2799.. I'm sure you could make it $3000 if you added a bunch of options... Certainly not "mid-range". The cheapest MBP w/Retina display is $1199; just slightly more than your $500-$1000 PC laptop... At the local clearance outlet, I see a similarly configured ASUS, on special, for $699, limit 2 per customer, while supplies last...
Sure, you can make any point if you're willing to outright lie...
Not a fanboi; I'm largely indifferent about Apple and I hack linux kernels for a living..
I'm not using sea-water so maybe this is only tangentially interesting... The water that comes out of my 10gpm well is at 8C. When I had my new forced-air furnace installed, I asked the installer to put in an evaporator coil to prepare for future air-conditioning... Cost me an extra $180. Later I removed the orifice, hooked up a solenoid valve wired to my furnace. I plumbed well water through the evaporator coil and directed the waste water outside to an outdoor faucet which, in the summer, is hooked up to soaker hoses to water the flower beds... The plants like the warmish water and, while not terribly efficient cooling, it does manage to keep the inside of the house below 22C when outside temps are over 30C... The house has a lot of solar heat load due to big windows with mountain views on the west side and even with awnings up, would get excruciatingly hot without some cooling assistance... My only operating cost is the electricity to pull the water out of the ground
I could probably make better use of the waste water by sprinkling it on the roof before collecting from the eaves and doing drip irrigation on the flower beds, but that will be a project for another year.
I was in a beer club at the time. We did tours where you'd bring the club into your brewing setup and brew some beer... One guys' garage we went to, he used a tiger torch to boil the wort... He used styrofoam fish-packaging coolers for the sparge, draining into a bucket and pouring back over top... Lots of window screen and garden hose... Plus it was february and there was snow on the ground outside... It reminded me of Blade Runner... "I just do eyes!"... We were after a bitter, but we got to drinking a bit much and during the initial mash, he'd sort of burned the grain with the tiger torch so it was like a bitter with a charcoal after taste... He called it a "RauchBier"... It was damn good but we knew we'd never drink it anything exactly like it ever again...
Consistancy is really the hard part of brewing beer. It's pretty easy to brew a great beer. It's hard to brew the same great beer a second time and have it wind up the same as the first time.
over 10 years ago, I was doing full-grain brewing using NetBSD (because it's what I had, along with a re-purposed ISA gpio card)... Controlling temperature during the mash and sparge was critical... If you keep your temperatures constant, you can stay within the optimal range for whatever amylase you're going for... I've always been able to brew a good beer... It wasn't until I was able to brew the same good beer a second time that I felt I had achieved my goal...
When you go to a brew pub and order the bitter, you expect it to taste the same as the last time you ordered a bitter...
there's nothing special about Linux specifically about doing this. It's just process control. The process here is fairly simple you could do just as well with an AVR or a 6502...
Around here the law is still.08 but if you're caught at.05 or above, they will suspend your license for 24 hours but not charge you with DUI. Ignoring the legalities of that, my point in posting is that this has affected my willingness to go out and meet up with friends at a pub... I know I never drank anywhere near what was required to blow.08 and probably never drank anywhere near what is required to blow.05... But now we just never seem to meet up anymore... It's not like a big drunk-fest or anything... We used to just sit around and chat over a pint or two... I would typically switch to a club soda for the last hour or so before going home...
I can't make him fall asleep; I can only make him be in bed with the lights out... It's his choice to stay awake or fall asleep. I can't control when he needs to get up for school.
We've deployed various strategies like 'no screen time after 8', or 'reading only after 8' or what have you...
In my university days, to make photocopies, you needed to buy a magstrip card and they would 'deposit' funds to it. When it ran out, you took it back and they'd write more funds onto it. I discovered that if I took a short length of 9-track tape and taped it over the magstrip and made the copy, I now had two mag strips with N-1 copies available. The photocopier read the number of copies from the first magstrip through the second, and then subtracted one, and wrote back to both of them. Since there were always 'empty' cards in the garbage next to the photocopier, I had no practical limit to my photocopying ability.
You are absolutely correct. It was sometimes a drag having to leave a social function early because our son needed to be in bed by 8:30... We even suffered the ribbing of friends who let their young (gr 3) children stay up until 10 or 11 so they could stay at social functions...
Our son is 11 now, is in bed by 8:45, and is woken up by me at 6:45. He complains that most of his friends at school get to stay up until 10 and why can't he, etc... On very rare occasions, does he get to stay up late and it sure shows in his ability to concentrate/focus the next day. Invariably, the next day will be one with lots of behavioral issues and defiance... He's basically a pain in the ass...
If you go to a restaurant these days, it's not uncommon to see toddlers at the table with their parents at 9PM or later... People are eager to get their kids sleeping through the night and then they're eager to get them on an 8 hour sleep schedule...
My co-workers mock me for my beer rituals... If we go to a patio for a few cold ones at lunch, I won't let the server take the menu away... I need the menu to shade my beer so the UV doesn't make the hops all skunky. Nobody believes that I can even taste the difference but it's obvious to me... Skunky beer sucks... So if you're on a patio, keep it shaded or in a coozy...
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I have a friend who decided the family didn't need a TV anymore since everyone was watching shows on tablets or laptops in their own rooms. He walked through the house one evening to discover that his wife and two children were independently watching the same show from netflix in 3 different locations in the house having all started at different times... So now the family doesn't even watch TV together and it uses up 3 times the bandwidth.
My family is similar except that we still occasionally gather around the TV and watch a movie together; or my son and I will watch Top Gear or MythBusters together... Don't worry; we also do plenty of outdoors stuff or creative stuff together too...
I'd been living with sleep apnea for years, but didn't realize it. I just thought that getting up to pee 3 or 4 times in a night was normal for a 42 year old... Turns out it's not. It was my body's way of trying to figure out why it was awake and concluding it must be because my bladder was full. I did a sleep study and found that I would stop breathing 260 times in the first 3 hours of sleep after which time I started waking up and that was the end of the study... I was fitted with a sleep apnea dental appliance (the TAP3 device) and the first night I slept through the entire night for the first time in years... My wife kept waking up to make sure I was still breathing because I wasn't snoring or making any noise at all. After some adjustment, I can say I sleep like a baby now... I spent a lot of money on matresses and pillows before, thinking it was the bed's fault...
The way the dental appliance works is by extending your lower jaw (as though you have a terrible underbite) which opens up your airway.
Very occasionally, I will forget it when I go somewhere for an overnight, and I sleep like shit those nights... I wake up multiple times, have a sore throat in the morning (from snoring loudly), have no energy, and no motivation.
I've had it for 2.5 years now and can't imagine life without it. I also can't imagine life with a CPAP machine though I hear they work great for some people.
The actual transit engineer certainly doesn't know how to think outside of the box ... And if you read his credentials, he's not a transit engineer (is there even such a thing?)... He's a civic planner who's been employed in his field for a short 7 years.
He says the headway is essentially restricted by the amount of time it takes for each pod to decelerate to a stop, close an airlock, pressurize the container, open the other airlock, etc ... Then trying to get the old arthritic passenget in/out of the pod in 60 seconds. Even I, a lowly firmware guy, can conceive of a few different ways to handle that. These are not huge obstacles on which to form the basis of analysis and reject the idea.
My brother-in-law and sister-in-law think I'm the paranoid guy quivering in the basement of my house because I'm concerned about this crap... They are the typical "I've done nothing wrong, I have nothing to hide. If knowing that I called my gynecologist last week turns them on, then have at it. I have nothing to hide ..." sort of people ... I never know how to respond to their fearless proclamations so I try to change the subject and lately, have been just avoiding contact with them completely... Infuriating ... I can always think of plenty of responses when I'm in the car on my way home ...
I was working on it in my heated garage... It's too late now. It went into my dumpster which got taken to the dump a few weeks ago.
If you can keep them working. I bought one used because the PO couldn't keep it working. I dismantled it, cleaned the chamber and catalytic converter and got it to work again. It worked for a few weeks and then was reporting a flame error... Took it apart again and just could not get it to work. The air intake port was clean, fan running, but just could not get the mix good enough to get it to ignite; even manually... took the nozzle out and it lit fine; just wouldn't light in the chamber.. After a few weeks of screwing around with it; off to the garbage it went. If you google them, there is no end of people having trouble with the things. Poor design.
The blu-ray mosquito laser needs to be marketed...
I've always said, since the NSA is reading all of my e-mail anyway, the least they could do is filter out all the spam for me ... If I could subscribe, via RSS from an NSA site, a .procmailrc; that'd be bitchin'...
Great. It's a 2013. What about installing new maps when the truck is 10 years old and the likes of me can afford to buy it from you?
Yes. She's learned that she can engineer something cool as long as she has some tenacity.. She's a 15 year old.. This idea is not likely to change the world but what world changing technology did you come up with when you were 15? My son has been 'inventing' since he was 6... He's almost 12 now and his inventions are starting to become interesting and I can see a steady progression to useful. This is just a notable datapoint on her life trajectory...
Her parents probably encouraged her and clearly she has the self confidence to believe she can succeed. If any child of yours ever has a seed of an idea, you will likely squash it in its infancy and your kid will just plop himself/herself back down in front of the xbox.
Except for the 600lbs of "something you don't need" that you're always dragging around (either batteries or internal combustion engine)... How much more efficient would your Focus be if it used the same engine, and lost the batteries/electric motors?
You should try Isrea-lite... It's more bitter.
That thing needs a handle on top that you can rotate 1/4 turn, hear a hissing noise, and then pull out a long cylindrical CPU core that is all lit up with blue LEDs from a super-cap... On the side of it should be a double digit 7 segment display slowly counting down to 0.
On the flipside, picture having a hyper-curious child... For about the first couple hours of a long trip, your child is emitting a constant stream of questions about what he sees outside the window and you're happily answering them, engaging your child in the journey and getting some science or culture lessons in here and there... Now tell me how you deal with 8 straight hours of that? So you force him to limit himself to one question every 2 minutes; every 5 minutes... After a while, you just want him to shut up...
He's almost 12 now and has his own ipod so listens to music but the pause button gets pressed fairly regularly for another question to sneak out ...
spoken like a non-parent. I _am_ a parent and my child _was_ bullied... My child has plenty of self esteem, probably too much self-reliance (he can weld, drive stick, build a tree fort with power tools, and hack python), and as much independence as an 11 year old should have. The bully's parents would not admit their child was a bully, the school suggested we put our son in Hockey; the bully's dad had a black eye when we spoke to them about his child's bullying... We moved schools, which is a drastic step. Was the original school to blame? Absolutely. There was a problem, we brought it to their attention, and they told us they were powerless unless there was a physical injury and a police report. The most they would do was keep the bully away from my child but in order to make it "fair", they instructed my son to stay away from the bully as well. The side effect of this was the bully began hanging around with my son's friends effectively ostracizing my son.
Until you manage to raise a child yourself, you should probably keep shut ...
You're an idiot. The most expensive MBP w/Retina display is $2799.. I'm sure you could make it $3000 if you added a bunch of options... Certainly not "mid-range". The cheapest MBP w/Retina display is $1199; just slightly more than your $500-$1000 PC laptop... At the local clearance outlet, I see a similarly configured ASUS, on special, for $699, limit 2 per customer, while supplies last...
Sure, you can make any point if you're willing to outright lie...
Not a fanboi; I'm largely indifferent about Apple and I hack linux kernels for a living..
I hope these things taste better than Arugula...
I'm not using sea-water so maybe this is only tangentially interesting ... The water that comes out of my 10gpm well is at 8C. When I had my new forced-air furnace installed, I asked the installer to put in an evaporator coil to prepare for future air-conditioning... Cost me an extra $180. Later I removed the orifice, hooked up a solenoid valve wired to my furnace. I plumbed well water through the evaporator coil and directed the waste water outside to an outdoor faucet which, in the summer, is hooked up to soaker hoses to water the flower beds... The plants like the warmish water and, while not terribly efficient cooling, it does manage to keep the inside of the house below 22C when outside temps are over 30C... The house has a lot of solar heat load due to big windows with mountain views on the west side and even with awnings up, would get excruciatingly hot without some cooling assistance... My only operating cost is the electricity to pull the water out of the ground
I could probably make better use of the waste water by sprinkling it on the roof before collecting from the eaves and doing drip irrigation on the flower beds, but that will be a project for another year.
(This is in Southern Alberta)
I was in a beer club at the time. We did tours where you'd bring the club into your brewing setup and brew some beer... One guys' garage we went to, he used a tiger torch to boil the wort... He used styrofoam fish-packaging coolers for the sparge, draining into a bucket and pouring back over top ... Lots of window screen and garden hose... Plus it was february and there was snow on the ground outside... It reminded me of Blade Runner... "I just do eyes!" ... We were after a bitter, but we got to drinking a bit much and during the initial mash, he'd sort of burned the grain with the tiger torch so it was like a bitter with a charcoal after taste... He called it a "RauchBier"... It was damn good but we knew we'd never drink it anything exactly like it ever again...
Consistancy is really the hard part of brewing beer. It's pretty easy to brew a great beer. It's hard to brew the same great beer a second time and have it wind up the same as the first time.
over 10 years ago, I was doing full-grain brewing using NetBSD (because it's what I had, along with a re-purposed ISA gpio card)... Controlling temperature during the mash and sparge was critical... If you keep your temperatures constant, you can stay within the optimal range for whatever amylase you're going for... I've always been able to brew a good beer... It wasn't until I was able to brew the same good beer a second time that I felt I had achieved my goal...
When you go to a brew pub and order the bitter, you expect it to taste the same as the last time you ordered a bitter...
there's nothing special about Linux specifically about doing this. It's just process control. The process here is fairly simple you could do just as well with an AVR or a 6502...
Alberta, Canada.
Around here the law is still .08 but if you're caught at .05 or above, they will suspend your license for 24 hours but not charge you with DUI. Ignoring the legalities of that, my point in posting is that this has affected my willingness to go out and meet up with friends at a pub... I know I never drank anywhere near what was required to blow .08 and probably never drank anywhere near what is required to blow .05... But now we just never seem to meet up anymore... It's not like a big drunk-fest or anything... We used to just sit around and chat over a pint or two... I would typically switch to a club soda for the last hour or so before going home...
I can't make him fall asleep; I can only make him be in bed with the lights out... It's his choice to stay awake or fall asleep. I can't control when he needs to get up for school.
We've deployed various strategies like 'no screen time after 8', or 'reading only after 8' or what have you...
In my university days, to make photocopies, you needed to buy a magstrip card and they would 'deposit' funds to it. When it ran out, you took it back and they'd write more funds onto it. I discovered that if I took a short length of 9-track tape and taped it over the magstrip and made the copy, I now had two mag strips with N-1 copies available. The photocopier read the number of copies from the first magstrip through the second, and then subtracted one, and wrote back to both of them. Since there were always 'empty' cards in the garbage next to the photocopier, I had no practical limit to my photocopying ability.
This was almost 30 years ago, mind you.
You are absolutely correct. It was sometimes a drag having to leave a social function early because our son needed to be in bed by 8:30... We even suffered the ribbing of friends who let their young (gr 3) children stay up until 10 or 11 so they could stay at social functions...
Our son is 11 now, is in bed by 8:45, and is woken up by me at 6:45. He complains that most of his friends at school get to stay up until 10 and why can't he, etc ... On very rare occasions, does he get to stay up late and it sure shows in his ability to concentrate/focus the next day. Invariably, the next day will be one with lots of behavioral issues and defiance... He's basically a pain in the ass...
If you go to a restaurant these days, it's not uncommon to see toddlers at the table with their parents at 9PM or later... People are eager to get their kids sleeping through the night and then they're eager to get them on an 8 hour sleep schedule...
My co-workers mock me for my beer rituals... If we go to a patio for a few cold ones at lunch, I won't let the server take the menu away... I need the menu to shade my beer so the UV doesn't make the hops all skunky. Nobody believes that I can even taste the difference but it's obvious to me... Skunky beer sucks... So if you're on a patio, keep it shaded or in a coozy...