Yes yes, this is all Bush's fault, and always will be. What isn't?
It all depends on one's political persuasion. While I found plenty to be unhappy about from 1/2001 until 1/2009, I have found it is also possible to blame anything anyone disagrees with on Bill Clinton. Wingnuts can be found with both right and left threads, and there are probably some that twist both ways. <g>
You may want to re-RTFA. The article doesn't make it real clear unless one is familiar with U.S. agency names, but the it's the U.S. customs who will search your stuff. The Mexicans could certainly do so as well, but I haven't heard the first thing about their policies.
BTW, if you find the U.S. policy objectionable, write your representatives and senators in Congress, and also write letters to the editor, etc. My reps (from Virginia) have made it clear that they have no intention of legislating a change, but maybe they'd change their minds if enough people complained.
Honestly here everyone. It's a human error and its bound to happen. Hell why even waste time bitching just read on, use your brain to figure out that the 3 was an oversight and spend all the time you do bitching on a more productive task.
It is fair sport to pick nits with spelling, etc. It becomes tedious and unsporting when the nitpicking erupts into a flame war.
Yes. And why shouldn't we be? Marketers are always approaching schools with devious schemes to insinuate their products, whether they are useful or not.
Perhaps it's just some concern about child safety, but IMHO, kids shouldn't be worrying about their heart rate unless they have identified health problems. When I was a kid, I am sure I routinely maxed out my heart rate many times, as did my classmates. Heck, I'm 51, and I still routinely max out my heart rate. I sometimes wear a heart monitor now, but it's purely out of curiosity, and to arm myself against the day that the doctor tells me I need to cut back because I'm getting "too old".
Well, I see I totally screwed up the math on this through not reading the problem correctly. It would make for an interesting high school algebra problem, though, that kids could relate to.
The teen's GPS, however, pegged the car at 45 mph in virtually the same location.
At issue is the distance from the stoplight at Freitas Road â" site of the first GPS "ping" that showed Malone stopped â" to the second ping 30 seconds later, when he was going 45 mph.
Sonoma County Deputy District Attorney Michael Li wrote in his closing arguments that given the distance, which he pegged at 1,980 feet, and time between pings, Malone would have had to have been traveling at an average speed faster than 45 mph, thus supporting the officer's observations and the radar.
But Martinez, in his written statement, said the distance was 1,950 to 2,010 feet, making it possible for Malone to travel the two points without speeding.
The difference between 1,980 and 2,010 feet is a red herring. If he covered 2,010 feet in 30 seconds, that's an average speed of 67 ft./min., or 44.3 m.p.h., awfully close to the 45 m.p.h. limit. It would take nearly instantaneous acceleration to get from a dead stop to 45 quickly enough to achieve that average speed over 30 seconds. I'm not sure they make cars that accelerate like that.
On the other hand, cars can decelerate much better than they accelerate, and it would be much easier to get from 62 to 45 m.p.h. upon noticing a police car beside the road ahead.
Frankly, I'm fed up with it. Here in the U.S., firearms enjoy respect because they are considered to be weapons and protected by the Second Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Any attempt to control or reduce the incidence of carrying firearms is met with stiff resistance, and politicians trip all over themselves trying to avoid any suggestion that they might infringe upon this right.
But knives? After boxcutter knives were apparently used in the September 11th hijackings, virtually anything having an edge was banned from the possession of airline travelers, even though no one would ever be to hijack a plane with anything short of a gun or a bomb on September 12, 2001. (Richard Reid proved that.) State legislatures introduced legislation to ban boxcutter knives. A person can't get into a courthouse or even board the ferry to the Statue of Liberty with a common pocket knife with a street-legal 2-1/4" blade. ("No tools or dual-use items", the Statue of Liberty brochure says, somewhat indirectly referring to knives.)
Our right to carry one of the most basic weapons, which Man has been carrying in one form or another for over 10,000 years, is being whittled away because the knife is considered a lowly tool.
So, dammit, I've had enough. This Swiss Army knife here in my pocket is not a tool, it's a weapon, and I insist on my right to carry it under the Second Amendment. The fact that I can also open a bottle of wine or tighten a loose screw is purely incidental.
My thirteen-year-old has been after us to allow her to have a Facebook account. Now, I can already hear the next pitch: "But Dad, it could save my life!"
So really it just comes down to a few questions:
Is that [lifespan] just the battery?
If so, can the battery be replaced, and for how much?
What does the electricity to charge it cost?
That's true, I definitely overshot by assuming $5,000 would need to be spent to replace the battery. It was just a quick in-my-head calculation, and it was the best I could do without knowing how much the battery costs, or the amount of power needed to charge it.
What got me, besides the apparent instability of the device, was the fact that one can only go about 6,000 miles before battery replacement is necessary. That's going to quickly eat up any advantage to be had from the cheapness of electricity (about 7 cents / KWH around here).
I'll stick with bicycles, thank you. One costing under $1,000 will get me six miles in under a half-hour and will run 5-6,000 miles needing only $200 in parts -- and that's buying top-dollar tires.
When the Segway was finally unveiled, the disappointment pretty much killed off any widescale distribution of the device (along with crazy city ordinances).
I don't know about crazy city ordinances, but I was astounded by the speed with which the electric personal assistive mobility device gained recognition and all the rights of a bicycle under Virginia Law. I believe the law changes were in the books even before the first Segway hit pavement in Virginia. And I'm just willing to bet that you'll find similar treatment in state laws on both U.S. coasts.
There is a the pennyfarthing was replaced by the safety bicycle. And, with the range and battery lifetime given, it works out to about 83 cents a mile, which is probably still more expensive than a Hummer.
The open specification allowed the development of all kinds of open source tools (as well as closed-source tools) that make PDF much more useful to everyone, yet Adobe is protected from having its development investment and future business stolen.
If by having its business stolen you mean having to compete on the stre[n]gth of its products in a free market.
What I mean by "having its business stolen" is having someone else market or give away the idea that has cost the firm or individual(s) time and trouble to develop.
Take Robert Kearns, who invented the windshield wiper delay, for example. He came up with the idea of how to solve an annoyance that most of us experience from time to time. He went to the considerable time and expense of developing, perfecting, and patenting his idea, then approached the large auto manufacturers, asking them if they'd like to license his patent. They rebuffed him and proceeded to use his invention to make millions of dollars. It took him decades to get any compensation for his initial R&D. As far as competing on the strength of his products in a "free market", he could hardly have been able to start his own automobile manufacturer so he could sell his invention; would you argue, however, that Detroit was entitled to make money from his idea without compensating him?
See, e.g., In re Alappat, 33 F.3d 1526, 1571 (Fed. Cir. 1994)
(Newman, J., concurring). Given the reality that software
source code is human readable, and object code can be reverse
engineered, it is difficult for software developers to resort to
secrecy. Thus, without patent protection, the incentives to
innovate in the field of software are significantly reduced.
Patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code
on a patentee's terms -- which has fueled the explosive growth of
open source software development.
The emphasis on "on a patentee's terms" is mine, and the phrase omitted from TFA is vital to the meaning of the sentence as a whole. I believe Adobe's release of the Portable Document Format specification is a case in point. Adobe made the specification available with the stipulation that it not be used to develop products that compete with Adobe's products. The open specification allowed the development of all kinds of open source tools (as well as closed-source tools) that make PDF much more useful to everyone, yet Adobe is protected from having its development investment and future business stolen.
What I got from reading my Verizon DSL service agreement was that they were making no warranty at all concerning the actual throughput on my line, regardless of the advertised speed. And they wonder why I don't want to subscribe to FIOS, which seems to have the same disclaimer.
It would be interesting to know if other countries' ISPs commit to provide the advertised throughput.
This article reminds me of one of my all-time favorite books, Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon, by Jim Paul. The author chronicles how he built a working catapult, getting a National Endowment for the Arts grant to fund it. It sure makes my job look boring!
Actually, I think the SCOTUS backing of Customs' "right" to search anything they want goes farther back than Guantanamo and is rooted in a law that specifically allows searches of travelers' possessions upon entry to the U.S. It was written long before anyone ever conceived of the notion that one's entire life history could be fit on something as small as a thumb drive. I read the reference to it in the decision on that guy convicted of smuggling child porn into Vermont, but I can't easily find the article right now.
I tried installing Google Chrome on my office computer, and Chrome took over, insisting on being the default browser and even running when I was trying to run Firefox. My conclusion was that the two can't peaceably coexist on the same computer. My recollection is that I even had to go so far as removing both programs just to get Firefox working correctly again.
Moreover, it's an old document. The PDF summaries of two of them I looked at say they were created in 2007, and an endnote reads:
This document was originally published in 2000 with a grant from NAFSA: Association of
International Educators Region XII. 2004 revision by Laurie Cox, University of Southern
California, and Co-Chair of SCICC (Southern California International Careers Consortium);
co-editors: Lay Tuan Tan, California State University Fullerton, and SCICC Board member
and Phil Hofer, University of La Verne.
My memory is a little fuzzy, but I don't remember us being in a recession in 2004.
One of the rabbis my geeky wife and I discussed our then-pending marriage with handed me a sheet entitled The Rules. I remember exactly two of them:
Rule 1: The male is always wrong.
. . .
Rule ?: If at any time the female suspects the male knows the rules, she may change them.
In the ensuing 18 years, I have found these two rules to be the most accurate advice anyone has ever given me.
But seriously, the main thing to do with your wife is to talk to her and share your feelings, and listen to her when she talks. A very good book on communications between the genders is You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, by Deborah Tannen. The executive summary: When your female partner tells you about a problem, most of the time she wants you to shut up and listen, and not to try and tell her how to fix it. Besides helping me get along with women, the book has also helped me get along better with other men.
In any case, felicitations to you and your geeky honey. Live long and prosper, and be fruitful and multiply.
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Yes yes, this is all Bush's fault, and always will be. What isn't?
It all depends on one's political persuasion. While I found plenty to be unhappy about from 1/2001 until 1/2009, I have found it is also possible to blame anything anyone disagrees with on Bill Clinton. Wingnuts can be found with both right and left threads, and there are probably some that twist both ways. <g>
Maybe they were all bored and frustrated with the Bush administration's modus operandi of ignoring scientific research?
You may want to re-RTFA. The article doesn't make it real clear unless one is familiar with U.S. agency names, but the it's the U.S. customs who will search your stuff. The Mexicans could certainly do so as well, but I haven't heard the first thing about their policies.
BTW, if you find the U.S. policy objectionable, write your representatives and senators in Congress, and also write letters to the editor, etc. My reps (from Virginia) have made it clear that they have no intention of legislating a change, but maybe they'd change their minds if enough people complained.
Honestly here everyone. It's a human error and its bound to happen. Hell why even waste time bitching just read on, use your brain to figure out that the 3 was an oversight and spend all the time you do bitching on a more productive task.
It is fair sport to pick nits with spelling, etc. It becomes tedious and unsporting when the nitpicking erupts into a flame war.
technically, this is a calculus problem
Yes, I know. My trouble is that I never managed a passing grade in second semester calculus, and that was thirty years ago.
Are people really this paranoid?
Yes. And why shouldn't we be? Marketers are always approaching schools with devious schemes to insinuate their products, whether they are useful or not.
Perhaps it's just some concern about child safety, but IMHO, kids shouldn't be worrying about their heart rate unless they have identified health problems. When I was a kid, I am sure I routinely maxed out my heart rate many times, as did my classmates. Heck, I'm 51, and I still routinely max out my heart rate. I sometimes wear a heart monitor now, but it's purely out of curiosity, and to arm myself against the day that the doctor tells me I need to cut back because I'm getting "too old".
Well, I see I totally screwed up the math on this through not reading the problem correctly. It would make for an interesting high school algebra problem, though, that kids could relate to.
From TFA:
The teen's GPS, however, pegged the car at 45 mph in virtually the same location.
At issue is the distance from the stoplight at Freitas Road â" site of the first GPS "ping" that showed Malone stopped â" to the second ping 30 seconds later, when he was going 45 mph.
Sonoma County Deputy District Attorney Michael Li wrote in his closing arguments that given the distance, which he pegged at 1,980 feet, and time between pings, Malone would have had to have been traveling at an average speed faster than 45 mph, thus supporting the officer's observations and the radar.
But Martinez, in his written statement, said the distance was 1,950 to 2,010 feet, making it possible for Malone to travel the two points without speeding.
The difference between 1,980 and 2,010 feet is a red herring. If he covered 2,010 feet in 30 seconds, that's an average speed of 67 ft./min., or 44.3 m.p.h., awfully close to the 45 m.p.h. limit. It would take nearly instantaneous acceleration to get from a dead stop to 45 quickly enough to achieve that average speed over 30 seconds. I'm not sure they make cars that accelerate like that. On the other hand, cars can decelerate much better than they accelerate, and it would be much easier to get from 62 to 45 m.p.h. upon noticing a police car beside the road ahead.
Frankly, I'm fed up with it. Here in the U.S., firearms enjoy respect because they are considered to be weapons and protected by the Second Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Any attempt to control or reduce the incidence of carrying firearms is met with stiff resistance, and politicians trip all over themselves trying to avoid any suggestion that they might infringe upon this right.
But knives? After boxcutter knives were apparently used in the September 11th hijackings, virtually anything having an edge was banned from the possession of airline travelers, even though no one would ever be to hijack a plane with anything short of a gun or a bomb on September 12, 2001. (Richard Reid proved that.) State legislatures introduced legislation to ban boxcutter knives. A person can't get into a courthouse or even board the ferry to the Statue of Liberty with a common pocket knife with a street-legal 2-1/4" blade. ("No tools or dual-use items", the Statue of Liberty brochure says, somewhat indirectly referring to knives.)
Our right to carry one of the most basic weapons, which Man has been carrying in one form or another for over 10,000 years, is being whittled away because the knife is considered a lowly tool.
So, dammit, I've had enough. This Swiss Army knife here in my pocket is not a tool, it's a weapon, and I insist on my right to carry it under the Second Amendment. The fact that I can also open a bottle of wine or tighten a loose screw is purely incidental.
My thirteen-year-old has been after us to allow her to have a Facebook account. Now, I can already hear the next pitch: "But Dad, it could save my life!"
So really it just comes down to a few questions:
Is that [lifespan] just the battery?
If so, can the battery be replaced, and for how much?
What does the electricity to charge it cost?
That's true, I definitely overshot by assuming $5,000 would need to be spent to replace the battery. It was just a quick in-my-head calculation, and it was the best I could do without knowing how much the battery costs, or the amount of power needed to charge it.
What got me, besides the apparent instability of the device, was the fact that one can only go about 6,000 miles before battery replacement is necessary. That's going to quickly eat up any advantage to be had from the cheapness of electricity (about 7 cents / KWH around here).
I'll stick with bicycles, thank you. One costing under $1,000 will get me six miles in under a half-hour and will run 5-6,000 miles needing only $200 in parts -- and that's buying top-dollar tires.
When the Segway was finally unveiled, the disappointment pretty much killed off any widescale distribution of the device (along with crazy city ordinances).
I don't know about crazy city ordinances, but I was astounded by the speed with which the electric personal assistive mobility device gained recognition and all the rights of a bicycle under Virginia Law. I believe the law changes were in the books even before the first Segway hit pavement in Virginia. And I'm just willing to bet that you'll find similar treatment in state laws on both U.S. coasts.
There is a the pennyfarthing was replaced by the safety bicycle. And, with the range and battery lifetime given, it works out to about 83 cents a mile, which is probably still more expensive than a Hummer.
The open specification allowed the development of all kinds of open source tools (as well as closed-source tools) that make PDF much more useful to everyone, yet Adobe is protected from having its development investment and future business stolen.
If by having its business stolen you mean having to compete on the stre[n]gth of its products in a free market.
What I mean by "having its business stolen" is having someone else market or give away the idea that has cost the firm or individual(s) time and trouble to develop.
Take Robert Kearns, who invented the windshield wiper delay, for example. He came up with the idea of how to solve an annoyance that most of us experience from time to time. He went to the considerable time and expense of developing, perfecting, and patenting his idea, then approached the large auto manufacturers, asking them if they'd like to license his patent. They rebuffed him and proceeded to use his invention to make millions of dollars. It took him decades to get any compensation for his initial R&D. As far as competing on the strength of his products in a "free market", he could hardly have been able to start his own automobile manufacturer so he could sell his invention; would you argue, however, that Detroit was entitled to make money from his idea without compensating him?
TFA says:
patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code [...] which has fueled the explosive growth of open source software development.
Here's the quoted footnote from the Amicus brief:
See, e.g., In re Alappat, 33 F.3d 1526, 1571 (Fed. Cir. 1994) (Newman, J., concurring). Given the reality that software source code is human readable, and object code can be reverse engineered, it is difficult for software developers to resort to secrecy. Thus, without patent protection, the incentives to innovate in the field of software are significantly reduced. Patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code on a patentee's terms -- which has fueled the explosive growth of open source software development.
The emphasis on "on a patentee's terms" is mine, and the phrase omitted from TFA is vital to the meaning of the sentence as a whole. I believe Adobe's release of the Portable Document Format specification is a case in point. Adobe made the specification available with the stipulation that it not be used to develop products that compete with Adobe's products. The open specification allowed the development of all kinds of open source tools (as well as closed-source tools) that make PDF much more useful to everyone, yet Adobe is protected from having its development investment and future business stolen.
What I got from reading my Verizon DSL service agreement was that they were making no warranty at all concerning the actual throughput on my line, regardless of the advertised speed. And they wonder why I don't want to subscribe to FIOS, which seems to have the same disclaimer. It would be interesting to know if other countries' ISPs commit to provide the advertised throughput.
This article reminds me of one of my all-time favorite books, Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon, by Jim Paul. The author chronicles how he built a working catapult, getting a National Endowment for the Arts grant to fund it. It sure makes my job look boring!
They have at least fixed the lack of a captcha on the "Email a friend" page.
Actually, I think the SCOTUS backing of Customs' "right" to search anything they want goes farther back than Guantanamo and is rooted in a law that specifically allows searches of travelers' possessions upon entry to the U.S. It was written long before anyone ever conceived of the notion that one's entire life history could be fit on something as small as a thumb drive. I read the reference to it in the decision on that guy convicted of smuggling child porn into Vermont, but I can't easily find the article right now.
I tried installing Google Chrome on my office computer, and Chrome took over, insisting on being the default browser and even running when I was trying to run Firefox. My conclusion was that the two can't peaceably coexist on the same computer. My recollection is that I even had to go so far as removing both programs just to get Firefox working correctly again.
Moreover, it's an old document. The PDF summaries of two of them I looked at say they were created in 2007, and an endnote reads:
This document was originally published in 2000 with a grant from NAFSA: Association of International Educators Region XII. 2004 revision by Laurie Cox, University of Southern California, and Co-Chair of SCICC (Southern California International Careers Consortium); co-editors: Lay Tuan Tan, California State University Fullerton, and SCICC Board member and Phil Hofer, University of La Verne.
My memory is a little fuzzy, but I don't remember us being in a recession in 2004.
That was so close! One of the largest vendors of Microsoft products is Dell, which happens to be in the Western District of Texas.
Better luck next time!
One of the rabbis my geeky wife and I discussed our then-pending marriage with handed me a sheet entitled The Rules. I remember exactly two of them:
. . .
In the ensuing 18 years, I have found these two rules to be the most accurate advice anyone has ever given me.
But seriously, the main thing to do with your wife is to talk to her and share your feelings, and listen to her when she talks. A very good book on communications between the genders is You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, by Deborah Tannen. The executive summary: When your female partner tells you about a problem, most of the time she wants you to shut up and listen, and not to try and tell her how to fix it. Besides helping me get along with women, the book has also helped me get along better with other men.
In any case, felicitations to you and your geeky honey. Live long and prosper, and be fruitful and multiply.
...how do you clean them?
The Trufocals web site describes how to clean them, and they look pretty maintainable.
Unfortunately, at $895 a pop, I think I can still stick to my outrageously priced progressive lenses.