Did anyone consider that there are plenty of kids dropping out and going to work because they _have_ to in order to support the rest of their family? How many times have you seen young kids going to work to help mom and dad pay for the rest of their (some inordinate amount of) siblings? Maybe if mom and dad would get "real" jobs instead of relying on having more children so their welfare pay is higher their older children could afford to stay in school.
That said, I too think the US education system isn't great. The kids I've seen "grow up" since I've been out of high school seem stupider and stupider by the day.
Not original, but I totally agree; Stupidity isn't illegal, but maybe we should remove the warning labels from everything and let the problem solve itself.
"I can legally play all of my favorite arcade games from those arcade-in-a-stick controllers"
Um, are you sure about that? Remember this from earlier this month. Not all of those are licensed ROMs. In fact, I've got a nickel that says most of them aren't.
(That's not to say that I don't own a SuperJoy and love the crap out of it. It gets more use than my real NES)
I dunno. I just tried viewing my gmail (which I use for almost all email now) and I keep getting "Document contains no data" or "Sorry, the server's down, try again later" errors.
Well, mine has been at 250Mb for at least a few weeks now. It starts with a 'd', and has been around since late '95, for those interested in chronological and/or alphabetical order.
No, I didn't read every comment. However, in the reading I did do, I found no mention of the fact that Red Bull energy drink was an obvious sponsor. Their logo emblazoned on his wing and chest.
This was in the LA Times and Popular Science almost a year ago. Oh well.
There aren't engines at each wheel, there's an electric motor at each wheel. The front page comment makes it sound like a fuel cell per wheel.
Okay, now the part I like most. GM insiders (and therefore outsiders too) nicknamed this thing the Skateboard chassis. One of the ideas is that you can change body styles to suit your mood. Don't want to drive the SUV today? Just drop the Roadster body on instead. Feeling nostalgiac for them old right-hand-drive British roadsters? Unplug the pedal and steering wheel assemblies, and plug em into the other side of the car. Or put em in the middle if you don't want side-seat drivers! Configurability is going to be their key selling point, the environmental friendliness will just be for the EPA folk. (that's my take on it anyway). It also will make it so GM can drop production costs drastically. They can just turn out platforms by the millions, making for low costs. Then they can develop just the body of the car seperately, no more having to redesign frames, chassis, engine mounts, etc... Everything will have the same plugin style mounting, cutting new model design time and cost by (my guess) at least 50%!
Okay, done raving about GM finally pulling their head outta their collective ass. Now if Mopar would pull theirs' the rest of the way out...
It seems that the city of LV has had designs on extending the MGM Grand monorail into something the whole Strip can use for some time (couple years?). More information can be found in PDF at http://www.rtc.co.clark.nv.us/rtc/monorail/DEISdoc ument.htm
As for the comment about Seattle's monorail; they've had one since 1962, built for the Century 21 World's Fair. It was the first full-scale ALWEG monorail in the States. In fact, Seattle is the only place with original ALWEG built monorails still running. This year has had a lot of advancements towards getting Seattle's bigger. Check out http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/News.html for bits of news (worldwide, but several entries about Seattle).
I don't recommend monitors by Envision. I bought a 17" one and keep getting eyestrain feeling headaches from it. My old 14" Sony Trinitron never did that to me (finally had to retire it when the red died...). I've also never had any problems with my wife's 15" Acer (54e, the only one I know the model number of).
In this little 10' x 10'-ish apartment office thing I have there are three desks. My desk is one of them 'L' shaped things that takes up half of two walls. One wall has another desk finishing it off, the other has a bookshelf. Wall three is a full width closet (the closet space in this apartment is wonderful, especially since I don't have a garage *grumble*), but it holds a third tiny desk with room for another computer. Wall four has a door in it, plus the area taken up by the side of desk #2, so there's about 4 feet of just plain wall space, full of a calendar, whiteboard, and a lamp for lighting (there is almost no overhead lighting in this damn state (SoCal) so I have to use floorspace instead).
How dare you call it "their made up language"! It is obviously a tribute the the great Swedish Chef, one of the best muppets of all time (it's true, even if there are hundreds of other best muppets of all time).
Here's a couple other places that speak Swedish Chef, and can make/. even more fun!
Where I work (a hydraulic repair shop) we use HulaPoint mice on the test stands. They're a nice little stainless steel box, with two buttons and a 'wobble pad' (three buttons aren't needed, since I haven't yet convinced the powers that be to run Linux over win98). The cool thing about them is that they are constantly doused with hydraulic oil, knocked off the desk, shot with 3500+ PSI of oil, etc... So far they're holding up great.
Downside is, the price is around $400, so I don't think I'll be getting one anytime soon.
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As previously mentioned, Furbys kinda look like a Mogwai. In fact, they look so much like Mogwai, there's a Furby-Mogwai available (what was his name? Gizmo?). I've seen it at Wal-Mart a couple times, with the "Limited Edition" type of box, and the Gremlins movie logo-title looking thing on it.
What I meant was that since they say it'll take three years for this technology to be developed, that they'd have to race the World Champion three years from now. There is a chance that the WC in three years might be different from the one today.
Okay, the webpage says they'll race the World Champion (whoever that will be in three years I guess). I wonder if they stopped to think about whether someone like Schumacher or Villaneuve (please forgive possible misspellings) would even consider racing against a machine? I know I wouldn't, and the racers I know would definately scoff at the idea.
Second thought, I wonder why they chose F1? It wasn't that long ago that the governing body of F1 started being more strict on what kinds of electronics could be in the cars. Someone said (can't recall who) something about the cars almost being smart enough to drive themselves. If they were truly out to show that the computer can do it better, they should put it in a World of Outlaws car (struggle to go straight, let go to go around the turn, sideways). Or how about Motorcross (the old kind, where you weren't allowed to put your feet down)? Anybody watched "On Any Sunday"? Let's see a robot try to put a motorcycle over a 30-ish inch log laying across the trail, and then make the 90 degree turn right after the log... Most people can't do that..
There's nothing wrong with electric cars (well, okay, nothing wrong with the idea anyway). However, it still seems that it's just not quite time yet. Recently I read an article in which a General Motors high-up guy said something like "for us, the cheapest way to get NiMH batteries is to buy a Toyota EV, take the batteries, and throw the rest of the car away" (or similar).
Personally, I don't see storage as the problem here. The range of an EV is getting better by the day (almost). The problem is the recharge time. I, and most other people are used to spending a few minutes at a gas station to "recharge" the fuel tank. If someone comes up with a snazzy way to recharge a bank of NiMH batteries in a time equal to filling up a 20 gal tank, then there's virtually no problem.
Another thing I recently read made the comment that the current (year 2000) Honda Civic actually produces cleaner air out the tailpipe than it breathes in, when driving in downtown Los Angeles. Granted, there's no Oxygen in the exhaust, but there's less NOx, CO2, etc... than went in the front. I dunno, I think the environmental aspect of "needing" alternative-fuel vehicles is losing it's oomph. Today's Honda motors are almost 90% cleaner than the Honda motors of 10 years ago. The problem now is simply the fact that we're slowly but surely running out of fossil fuels.
The only convention we have around here is that there needs to be either a little plastic figurine, or a stuffed animal sitting atop the machine to match the name.
For example, yoda has a little rubber Yoda sitting above it. Eeyore has an Eeyore beanie-baby like thingus sitting on it's monitor.
Currently there's one exception, but it will be remedied shortly. We were trying to figure out a name for my new box, and ended up naming it Al (I said "what shall we call it", my wife sort of sang "call it Al"). Since we aren't about to rename one of the other boxes to Eddie, I guess I'll have to rename Al (probably will become Tick, or Chairface, since I've got those bendable rubber figures sitting on it already)
SecureCRT (vandyke.com) is always available for a download. Granted it dies in 30 days, but god forbid anyone should be away from their own box for that long.
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Did anyone consider that there are plenty of kids dropping out and going to work because they _have_ to in order to support the rest of their family? How many times have you seen young kids going to work to help mom and dad pay for the rest of their (some inordinate amount of) siblings? Maybe if mom and dad would get "real" jobs instead of relying on having more children so their welfare pay is higher their older children could afford to stay in school.
That said, I too think the US education system isn't great. The kids I've seen "grow up" since I've been out of high school seem stupider and stupider by the day.
Not original, but I totally agree; Stupidity isn't illegal, but maybe we should remove the warning labels from everything and let the problem solve itself.
I'll just have to use interestingosity instead. Or maybe interestingological. Interestingologicalosityness?
I'm of the opinion that thinkgeek should carry a wallet that says "Bad Mother Fscker"
"But some believe development and releases will slow down if distribution-specific patches have to be checked and accepted first."
We certainly don't need anything that will further slow releases...
"I can legally play all of my favorite arcade games from those arcade-in-a-stick controllers"
Um, are you sure about that? Remember this from earlier this month. Not all of those are licensed ROMs. In fact, I've got a nickel that says most of them aren't.
(That's not to say that I don't own a SuperJoy and love the crap out of it. It gets more use than my real NES)
I dunno. I just tried viewing my gmail (which I use for almost all email now) and I keep getting "Document contains no data" or "Sorry, the server's down, try again later" errors.
Well, mine has been at 250Mb for at least a few weeks now. It starts with a 'd', and has been around since late '95, for those interested in chronological and/or alphabetical order.
"One wonders why someone that can't afford food would have spent money on a computer on which to play these games."
You obviously don't live in Southern California.
No, I didn't read every comment. However, in the reading I did do, I found no mention of the fact that Red Bull energy drink was an obvious sponsor. Their logo emblazoned on his wing and chest.
I thought it was funny as hell.
This was in the LA Times and Popular Science almost a year ago. Oh well.
There aren't engines at each wheel, there's an electric motor at each wheel. The front page comment makes it sound like a fuel cell per wheel.
Okay, now the part I like most. GM insiders (and therefore outsiders too) nicknamed this thing the Skateboard chassis. One of the ideas is that you can change body styles to suit your mood. Don't want to drive the SUV today? Just drop the Roadster body on instead. Feeling nostalgiac for them old right-hand-drive British roadsters? Unplug the pedal and steering wheel assemblies, and plug em into the other side of the car. Or put em in the middle if you don't want side-seat drivers! Configurability is going to be their key selling point, the environmental friendliness will just be for the EPA folk. (that's my take on it anyway). It also will make it so GM can drop production costs drastically. They can just turn out platforms by the millions, making for low costs. Then they can develop just the body of the car seperately, no more having to redesign frames, chassis, engine mounts, etc... Everything will have the same plugin style mounting, cutting new model design time and cost by (my guess) at least 50%!
Okay, done raving about GM finally pulling their head outta their collective ass. Now if Mopar would pull theirs' the rest of the way out...
It seems that the city of LV has had designs on extending the MGM Grand monorail into something the whole Strip can use for some time (couple years?). More information can be found in PDF at http://www.rtc.co.clark.nv.us/rtc/monorail/DEISdoc ument.htm
As for the comment about Seattle's monorail; they've had one since 1962, built for the Century 21 World's Fair. It was the first full-scale ALWEG monorail in the States. In fact, Seattle is the only place with original ALWEG built monorails still running. This year has had a lot of advancements towards getting Seattle's bigger. Check out http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/News.html for bits of news (worldwide, but several entries about Seattle).
I don't recommend monitors by Envision. I bought a 17" one and keep getting eyestrain feeling headaches from it. My old 14" Sony Trinitron never did that to me (finally had to retire it when the red died...). I've also never had any problems with my wife's 15" Acer (54e, the only one I know the model number of).
Eek, I was just thinking the same thing. I had to go ask my wife if Nemesis was indeed the name of that guy's project movie though.
weird...
Not that I have quit that much stuff.
In this little 10' x 10'-ish apartment office thing I have there are three desks. My desk is one of them 'L' shaped things that takes up half of two walls. One wall has another desk finishing it off, the other has a bookshelf. Wall three is a full width closet (the closet space in this apartment is wonderful, especially since I don't have a garage *grumble*), but it holds a third tiny desk with room for another computer. Wall four has a door in it, plus the area taken up by the side of desk #2, so there's about 4 feet of just plain wall space, full of a calendar, whiteboard, and a lamp for lighting (there is almost no overhead lighting in this damn state (SoCal) so I have to use floorspace instead).
Okay, shutting up
Rules for successfully surviving a trilogy:
Step 1: Don't run Microsoft servers (duh...)
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Repent! (if you ever ran an MS server)
Here's a couple other places that speak Swedish Chef, and can make /. even more fun!
the Dialectizer
the Encheferizer
Del
Where I work (a hydraulic repair shop) we use HulaPoint mice on the test stands. They're a nice little stainless steel box, with two buttons and a 'wobble pad' (three buttons aren't needed, since I haven't yet convinced the powers that be to run Linux over win98). The cool thing about them is that they are constantly doused with hydraulic oil, knocked off the desk, shot with 3500+ PSI of oil, etc... So far they're holding up great.
Downside is, the price is around $400, so I don't think I'll be getting one anytime soon.
Del
As previously mentioned, Furbys kinda look like a Mogwai. In fact, they look so much like Mogwai, there's a Furby-Mogwai available (what was his name? Gizmo?). I've seen it at Wal-Mart a couple times, with the "Limited Edition" type of box, and the Gremlins movie logo-title looking thing on it.
Del
What I meant was that since they say it'll take three years for this technology to be developed, that they'd have to race the World Champion three years from now. There is a chance that the WC in three years might be different from the one today.
Del
Okay, the webpage says they'll race the World Champion (whoever that will be in three years I guess). I wonder if they stopped to think about whether someone like Schumacher or Villaneuve (please forgive possible misspellings) would even consider racing against a machine? I know I wouldn't, and the racers I know would definately scoff at the idea.
Second thought, I wonder why they chose F1? It wasn't that long ago that the governing body of F1 started being more strict on what kinds of electronics could be in the cars. Someone said (can't recall who) something about the cars almost being smart enough to drive themselves. If they were truly out to show that the computer can do it better, they should put it in a World of Outlaws car (struggle to go straight, let go to go around the turn, sideways). Or how about Motorcross (the old kind, where you weren't allowed to put your feet down)? Anybody watched "On Any Sunday"? Let's see a robot try to put a motorcycle over a 30-ish inch log laying across the trail, and then make the 90 degree turn right after the log... Most people can't do that..
Del
There's nothing wrong with electric cars (well, okay, nothing wrong with the idea anyway). However, it still seems that it's just not quite time yet. Recently I read an article in which a General Motors high-up guy said something like "for us, the cheapest way to get NiMH batteries is to buy a Toyota EV, take the batteries, and throw the rest of the car away" (or similar).
Personally, I don't see storage as the problem here. The range of an EV is getting better by the day (almost). The problem is the recharge time. I, and most other people are used to spending a few minutes at a gas station to "recharge" the fuel tank. If someone comes up with a snazzy way to recharge a bank of NiMH batteries in a time equal to filling up a 20 gal tank, then there's virtually no problem.
Another thing I recently read made the comment that the current (year 2000) Honda Civic actually produces cleaner air out the tailpipe than it breathes in, when driving in downtown Los Angeles. Granted, there's no Oxygen in the exhaust, but there's less NOx, CO2, etc... than went in the front. I dunno, I think the environmental aspect of "needing" alternative-fuel vehicles is losing it's oomph. Today's Honda motors are almost 90% cleaner than the Honda motors of 10 years ago. The problem now is simply the fact that we're slowly but surely running out of fossil fuels.
Shutting up...
Del
The only convention we have around here is that there needs to be either a little plastic figurine, or a stuffed animal sitting atop the machine to match the name.
For example, yoda has a little rubber Yoda sitting above it. Eeyore has an Eeyore beanie-baby like thingus sitting on it's monitor.
Currently there's one exception, but it will be remedied shortly. We were trying to figure out a name for my new box, and ended up naming it Al (I said "what shall we call it", my wife sort of sang "call it Al"). Since we aren't about to rename one of the other boxes to Eddie, I guess I'll have to rename Al (probably will become Tick, or Chairface, since I've got those bendable rubber figures sitting on it already)
Del
SecureCRT (vandyke.com) is always available for a download. Granted it dies in 30 days, but god forbid anyone should be away from their own box for that long.
Del
Just imagine, "Apple.com, now part of the Go Network" "apple.go.com" *gag*
If Disney did buy Apple, I don't think I could stop myself from buying an iMac and putting Mickey Mouse ears on it though
Del