As somebody who lives outside the US, the video was interesting for a number of different reasons.
Americans drive left-hand drive cars and drive on the right hand side of the road. I had to take travel sickness tablets after watching that.
Having never been to America, I now have an insight to what the scenery from LA to Oregon is like.
The roads are a lot wider? Is that because the US has bigger cars?
I think I shall drive from Sydney to the Gold Coast in Brisbane and do the same thing to compare and contrast with that video. Although I doubt the scenery would be as interesting as the route follows the coastline.
Looking at those pictures, being ambidextrous would be a huge advantage. The average person would be predominantly right or left handed and would probably end up being caught "out" much quicker than somebody who could use both hands with equal ease.
But then, the average person wouldn't be playing massive multiplayer thumbwrestling.
And true ambidexterity is rare.
Of course, that's why I mentioned the various factors which need to be taken into account. A home gym with a treadmill and weights is excellent - provided that the motivation is there.
I guess it's a matter of priorities in allocating time to exercise. Without health you don't have work, without work you don't have health.
In Australia, all schools require a uniform. I go to an all girls school and the winter uniform requires a necktie. I personally don't have a problem with wearing it, not only because the school makes me, but it makes you look more sensible (even if you're not) and purposeful.
It's interesting that the neckties were the cause for concern, but not the shirts or the belts. I'm assuming that's because the neckties are not washed as regularly as another other item of clothing. Why not just throw the necktie into the washing machine along with the rest of the clothes?
I am an exercise freak. There is nothing better than getting out and playing sport or doing some form of exercise, because for me it's an adrenaline rush.
Having said that, I don't exercise if it's boring. I cannot stand walking for long periods of time unless I have music or company with me. Obviously, exercise is hard work, and because exercise is fundamentally the most effective way of losing weight combined with sensible eating, trimming down to that size 8 or whatever is hard work too.
I don't do DDR becuase yes, it is harder than it looks and I feel stupid everytime I try. My friend has a DDR mat which she connects to her PC and she has a go at that but it's painstaking work to set it up, put the disc in and wait for it to load. Going out to the city to Intensity or Playtime is just too embarrassing because I'm terrible at it.
I dance, choreograph dance, do competition aerobics and play all sorts of team sports because it is just that much more fun and it's never monotonous and repetitive (no I'm not gay, I'm a girl - sorry but that stereotype exists, sadly). Unlike DDR, which I get bored of after about ten minutes, sport and dancing to music without jumping around on a crazy mat is a lot more appealing. Sure, DDR can improve your co-ordination skills and make you sweat a bit but that's about it in my opinion. You can achieve better co-ordination skills in playing sport as well as dancing and aerobics not to mention the benefits of flexibility, improved cardio-vascular system, creativity and social skills.
Of course, it's ultimately up to the individual. I understand that what is fun to me, isn't necessarily fun to everybody else, as there are other factors to account for such as fitness level, personal interests and expenses etc. There are so many ways to exercise it's not funny, so experimenting with different methods will surely find the right one for you.
By the way, try Capoeira - Brazilian martial arts which combines self-defence and dance!
...the prototype suit weighs only 21 kilograms -- on Earth.
Wow, 46 lbs for a spacesuit is definitely improved technology, since flight suits generally weigh more than 200 lbs on earth. That prototype would weigh less than 18 lbs on Mars since mass on Mars is about 38% the mass on Earth.
The plan is to tag some 900 top alpacas within five years.
I understand that Peru wants to save their pedigrees but tagging 900 out of 3,000,000 native Alpacas isn't going to be very effective. Although it's a great initiative, they're only micro-chipping a mere 0.03% which would make catching smugglers are very inefficient process.
The way this is going geeks will never need to leave the house.
And it's the perfect formula for obesity. Food delivered to your door without having to move? At least going out to do the shopping burned a couple of calories.
The CAN-SPAM Act 2003 states a maximum imprisonment term of 5 years for relevant offenders.
Soldiers who abuse prisoners receive a maximum penalty of 1 year in prison.
If the law reflects community standards at all, it is obvious that spamming is considered to be significantly more noxious and intolerable. Although I'm not sure who the Americans would want to see locked away more. Spammers or abusers of human rights?
Position in space:
Hubble - 375 miles above our heads.
Webb - 1 million miles away from Earth
Being so far out in space, wouldn't this make the Webb virtually impossible to service?
Servicing missions to the Hubble added about 4-5 years of operational life to the telescope and this was possible because being only a couple of hundred miles above the earth, it was accessible.
Obviously, we are human and we can make mistakes. So what happens if there is a problem discovered on the Webb telescope after its launch?
Is Linux Improving Life Of Poor In India?...Linux with its low cost, high security and open standards is rapidly becoming the driving force behind this revolution.
Although living standards have dramatically improved for all Indians, it is still widely considered to be a third world country.
Approximately 25% of the Indian population are below the poverty line
The water supply is so polluted that people must buy or boil their water.
The poor are discriminated against in education.
Health care in India? What health care?
If Linux claims to improve the life of the poor in India and proves it, even if it's "just" computers, then it's addressing the very real and continually growing division between the rich and the poor in regards to technology and computer use.
Hell, some people have never seen or heard of what a computer is.
It kind of scares me that there is no mention of laws relating what, how, who can launch into space.
Scaled Composites, which is a company founded to develop and design experimental aircraft obtained the world's first license for a sub-orbital manned rocket flight in early April, for their Ansari X Prize entry.
I don't know about laws relating to private rockets but I'm sure there are regulations in place and the team behind GoFast have been responsible in abiding by what rules exist, especially as its made amateur rocketry history and is a controversial area in law right now.
What with terrorism and 9/11 the enforcing of the law in this area would probably become more strict, even if they can potentially be used as weapons and have the ability to shoot down aircraft (despite the fact that this isn't very likely as guidance systems are exceedingly difficult to design).
Just imagine, if a true story like that made front page news, half of us would be walking into our favourite shops and looting all the goodies, or at least trying, to see if it actually works.
Then again, just imagine if that story got around to the managers of all your favourite shops...would they tighten security so that nothing like that happened to them? On second thoughts...
As Isreal pointed out: No manager likes to do manual labor.
I suppose if Germany decides not to support the European Commission on changes in the law to software patents, then nobody can sway them otherwise because they are a sovereign state and don't have to comply with what the WIPO or the EC says.
The WIPO as an agency of the UN, can aim to standardise patent laws worldwide but of course, international law isn't binding and Germany has all the right in the world to choose not to recognise law outside of their domestic jurisdiction.
Ultimately, if Germany doesn't have the political will to support the EC on changes to software patents...then nobody can force them.
By definition a Familiar Stranger (1) must be observed, (2) repeatedly, and (3) without any interaction.
But it is interaction, just not of the conventional sort. The two agents mutually interact by agreeing to not directly interact with one another. They say so themselves: The claim is that the relationship we have with these Familiar Strangers is indeed a real relationship in which both parties agree to mutually ignore each other
If A identifies B as a familiar stranger, then wouldn't B most likely identify A as a familiar stranger also?
A real relationship requires interaction (even if it is to ignore each other), so if a familiar stranger is a relationship without any interaction, is it a relationship at all?
...they want the world to know that the Church isn't afraid of science, that they like science, that science is great...
Just goes to show that religion isn't against science and vice versa. There's a wide-held misconception that science and religion are so conflicting with one another that you cannot believe in both areas of life. There is the belief that science seemingly sets out to disprove the existence of a god-figure. For example, it is through science that the seemingly anti-religious evolutionary theory is 'proven' and the creationist theory is 'proven' wrong.
Then again, there are those who study science and astromony and actually come to believe in a god figure. It is claimed that many astronomers and scientists actually do believe in God because all their research leads them to believe that there must be a superior being, case in point Brother Guy Consolmagno. It's the philosophers who say "If you believe in God, you won't when you walk out of my lesson in an hour."
The Ansari X Prize is modeled after the $25,000 Orteig Prize won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927 for his historic flight from New York to Paris.
The Ansari X Prize awards $10 million to the group who builds and flies a spaceship that can carry three passengers 62 miles into space within a matter of weeks.
The Orteig Prize awarded $25 000 to the sole man who flew non-stop on a single-engine aircraft 3635 miles from New York to Paris within a matter of hours (33.5 hours).
It's interesting how the model for this prize has evolved from modest air planes to surrealistic, yet impressively feasible spaceships.
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Camera phone? It seems these days that everybody needs a camera phone, or you're just not cool. People like David Beckham and his Vodafone advertisements get all the teenage girls lured in for a camera phone, then of course all the tweens want to copy and get a camera phone...and in the workplace, "No moustache, no promotion".
Except today, you would replace "moustache" with "camera phone".
There are plenty of payphones around and they are probably cheaper than the rates some mobile phone services provide, not to mention it's a little more difficult to steal than a mobile.
You can buy a decent camera for about the same price as a camera phone, any day. Plus, mobile phones become obsolete almost as soon as they become the trend. In my opinion, a couple of bucks and a camera when I need one will do the job just as well, if not better than a camera phone.
Unless one of your courses requires you to carry around the entire Encyclopedia Britainnica, you really need to start working out.
I'm a high school student, so I have five different subjects to cater for. Each one requires at least one textbook, two for Maths plus all my notebooks for each subject. Considering that each textbook weighs an average of 3-4 lbs that's 18-24 lbs just on textbooks alone...according to this article no student should carry more than 15 lbs so it's affecting a significant number of students.
Also, as a female, it's quite possible that we are more disadvantaged as our upper bodies have to carry a larger proportion in mass than men do, generally speaking. : )
Two potential benefits should accrue from doing this. First, in electronic format, textbooks can be continually corrected and updated, without the delays inherent in printed books. Second, free textbooks hold the potential for fundamentally altering the economics of higher education, particularly in those environments where money is scarce.
It would also eliminate the need to carry around excessively heavy textbooks which often lead to back pain and other detrimental health issues.
Schools and other educational institutions would probably welcome this as well as it saves storage space, and most importantly, financial resources which can be used in other areas where the money would be of better use such as upgrading technology which is a critical factor. There is nothing worse than having equipment and resources which are outdated and obsolete.
Swiping my own card takes, what, 2 seconds? Entering the PIN (if I'm using a debit card) takes another 2 seconds.
As a student who primarily uses cash, I find that this paypass system would be really efficient if only security wasn't an issue with fraudulent readers.
At the supermarket or anywhere with lenghty queues no matter what time of the day, there is a sufficient difference between somebody who is paying cash, and somebody who is paying by credit card. There is a lengthy delay as the card is swiped, PIN inserted, waiting for approval, then waiting for the receipt and then signing the receipt and verifying it with the signature on the back of the card. All in all, it's at least double the time it would take to pay by cash.
It's understandable that today most people carry around electronic cash as it's so convenient, it would definitely be a welcome process in the busiest of areas of consumer spending as there is nothing to lose and it saves time. Not just for those who do use credit cards but also for those who have to purchase by cash.
The crew will also be able to listen to music, view photos from home and read e-books, allowing them to have some of the comforts of home on their journey.
Considering that the Expedition 9 crew are spending almost 6 months aboard the International Space Station, this is a great way of keeping in touch with family and civilisation as a whole.
The iPaq being used in space is another example where the benefits of technology can be felt as it would reduce the effects of "asthenia" where astronauts experience phases of fatigue, low motivation, hypersensitivty and irritability with the change in environment and lack of social communication. The iPaq obviously aims to provide a solution to that problem to a great extent.
A real jet engine, say the one used on a F-16, runs around the figure of $350,000 USD...Finding used parts at the junk yard will yield much less cost. A complete engine can typically be built for less than $300 USD.
It's interesting how price isn't an obstacle when it comes to building your own jet engine. The average person may think that it's impossible but these guys have proven that you don't need high tech equipment, just a couple of basic tools to be able to build something so out of the ordinary.
This would definitely be a source of inspiration for those budding innovators and inventors.
Based on a stratified random sample of 1000 registered voters performed for ITAA by the Winston Group, the new poll finds that 77 percent of respondents are either not very concerned or not concerned at all about the security of election systems, regardless of technology platform.
A sample group of 1000 people is just that. A sample, and hardly reflects whether the majority of Americans trust e-voting machines or not.
A thousand people do not speak for 291 million people which number the American population.
Although Kazaa's licensing agreement is clear about the existence and intent of each of these programs, critics say consumers rarely take the time to pore over the legalese in licensing agreements before installing new software. Attaching all sorts of extra programs to a piece of unrelated software abuses the consumer's trust, the critics charge.
This would probably be the number one reason why spyware is so easily transmitted onto computers. When downloading or installing a program, chances are the consumers are in a rush to do their work and want the "paperwork" quickly dealt with, so it's only skimmed. Therefore, they miss the spyware information hidden in the the legalese.
Of course this is the fault of the consumers but over time its become a deceptive trade practice as those responsible for the programs know that legal jargon only succeeds in confusing the average user. Many would probably regard it as an abuse of the system.
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Americans drive left-hand drive cars and drive on the right hand side of the road. I had to take travel sickness tablets after watching that.
Having never been to America, I now have an insight to what the scenery from LA to Oregon is like.
The roads are a lot wider? Is that because the US has bigger cars?
I think I shall drive from Sydney to the Gold Coast in Brisbane and do the same thing to compare and contrast with that video. Although I doubt the scenery would be as interesting as the route follows the coastline.
But then, the average person wouldn't be playing massive multiplayer thumbwrestling.
And true ambidexterity is rare.
I guess it's a matter of priorities in allocating time to exercise. Without health you don't have work, without work you don't have health.
It's interesting that the neckties were the cause for concern, but not the shirts or the belts. I'm assuming that's because the neckties are not washed as regularly as another other item of clothing. Why not just throw the necktie into the washing machine along with the rest of the clothes?
Having said that, I don't exercise if it's boring. I cannot stand walking for long periods of time unless I have music or company with me. Obviously, exercise is hard work, and because exercise is fundamentally the most effective way of losing weight combined with sensible eating, trimming down to that size 8 or whatever is hard work too.
I don't do DDR becuase yes, it is harder than it looks and I feel stupid everytime I try. My friend has a DDR mat which she connects to her PC and she has a go at that but it's painstaking work to set it up, put the disc in and wait for it to load. Going out to the city to Intensity or Playtime is just too embarrassing because I'm terrible at it.
I dance, choreograph dance, do competition aerobics and play all sorts of team sports because it is just that much more fun and it's never monotonous and repetitive (no I'm not gay, I'm a girl - sorry but that stereotype exists, sadly). Unlike DDR, which I get bored of after about ten minutes, sport and dancing to music without jumping around on a crazy mat is a lot more appealing. Sure, DDR can improve your co-ordination skills and make you sweat a bit but that's about it in my opinion. You can achieve better co-ordination skills in playing sport as well as dancing and aerobics not to mention the benefits of flexibility, improved cardio-vascular system, creativity and social skills.
Of course, it's ultimately up to the individual. I understand that what is fun to me, isn't necessarily fun to everybody else, as there are other factors to account for such as fitness level, personal interests and expenses etc. There are so many ways to exercise it's not funny, so experimenting with different methods will surely find the right one for you.
By the way, try Capoeira - Brazilian martial arts which combines self-defence and dance!
Wow, 46 lbs for a spacesuit is definitely improved technology, since flight suits generally weigh more than 200 lbs on earth. That prototype would weigh less than 18 lbs on Mars since mass on Mars is about 38% the mass on Earth.
And this is just the prototype!
I understand that Peru wants to save their pedigrees but tagging 900 out of 3,000,000 native Alpacas isn't going to be very effective. Although it's a great initiative, they're only micro-chipping a mere 0.03% which would make catching smugglers are very inefficient process.
And it's the perfect formula for obesity. Food delivered to your door without having to move? At least going out to do the shopping burned a couple of calories.
Soldiers who abuse prisoners receive a maximum penalty of 1 year in prison.
If the law reflects community standards at all, it is obvious that spamming is considered to be significantly more noxious and intolerable. Although I'm not sure who the Americans would want to see locked away more. Spammers or abusers of human rights?
Servicing missions to the Hubble added about 4-5 years of operational life to the telescope and this was possible because being only a couple of hundred miles above the earth, it was accessible.
Obviously, we are human and we can make mistakes. So what happens if there is a problem discovered on the Webb telescope after its launch?
Approximately 25% of the Indian population are below the poverty line
The water supply is so polluted that people must buy or boil their water.
The poor are discriminated against in education.
Health care in India? What health care?
If Linux claims to improve the life of the poor in India and proves it, even if it's "just" computers, then it's addressing the very real and continually growing division between the rich and the poor in regards to technology and computer use.
Hell, some people have never seen or heard of what a computer is.
Scaled Composites, which is a company founded to develop and design experimental aircraft obtained the world's first license for a sub-orbital manned rocket flight in early April, for their Ansari X Prize entry.
I don't know about laws relating to private rockets but I'm sure there are regulations in place and the team behind GoFast have been responsible in abiding by what rules exist, especially as its made amateur rocketry history and is a controversial area in law right now.
What with terrorism and 9/11 the enforcing of the law in this area would probably become more strict, even if they can potentially be used as weapons and have the ability to shoot down aircraft (despite the fact that this isn't very likely as guidance systems are exceedingly difficult to design).
Then again, just imagine if that story got around to the managers of all your favourite shops...would they tighten security so that nothing like that happened to them? On second thoughts...
As Isreal pointed out: No manager likes to do manual labor.
The WIPO as an agency of the UN, can aim to standardise patent laws worldwide but of course, international law isn't binding and Germany has all the right in the world to choose not to recognise law outside of their domestic jurisdiction.
Ultimately, if Germany doesn't have the political will to support the EC on changes to software patents...then nobody can force them.
If A identifies B as a familiar stranger, then wouldn't B most likely identify A as a familiar stranger also?
A real relationship requires interaction (even if it is to ignore each other), so if a familiar stranger is a relationship without any interaction, is it a relationship at all?
Just goes to show that religion isn't against science and vice versa. There's a wide-held misconception that science and religion are so conflicting with one another that you cannot believe in both areas of life.
There is the belief that science seemingly sets out to disprove the existence of a god-figure. For example, it is through science that the seemingly anti-religious evolutionary theory is 'proven' and the creationist theory is 'proven' wrong.
Then again, there are those who study science and astromony and actually come to believe in a god figure. It is claimed that many astronomers and scientists actually do believe in God because all their research leads them to believe that there must be a superior being, case in point Brother Guy Consolmagno. It's the philosophers who say "If you believe in God, you won't when you walk out of my lesson in an hour."
The Orteig Prize awarded $25 000 to the sole man who flew non-stop on a single-engine aircraft 3635 miles from New York to Paris within a matter of hours (33.5 hours).
It's interesting how the model for this prize has evolved from modest air planes to surrealistic, yet impressively feasible spaceships.
Except today, you would replace "moustache" with "camera phone".
There are plenty of payphones around and they are probably cheaper than the rates some mobile phone services provide, not to mention it's a little more difficult to steal than a mobile.
You can buy a decent camera for about the same price as a camera phone, any day. Plus, mobile phones become obsolete almost as soon as they become the trend. In my opinion, a couple of bucks and a camera when I need one will do the job just as well, if not better than a camera phone.
I'm a high school student, so I have five different subjects to cater for. Each one requires at least one textbook, two for Maths plus all my notebooks for each subject. Considering that each textbook weighs an average of 3-4 lbs that's 18-24 lbs just on textbooks alone...according to this article no student should carry more than 15 lbs so it's affecting a significant number of students.
Also, as a female, it's quite possible that we are more disadvantaged as our upper bodies have to carry a larger proportion in mass than men do, generally speaking. : )
Schools and other educational institutions would probably welcome this as well as it saves storage space, and most importantly, financial resources which can be used in other areas where the money would be of better use such as upgrading technology which is a critical factor. There is nothing worse than having equipment and resources which are outdated and obsolete.
As a student who primarily uses cash, I find that this paypass system would be really efficient if only security wasn't an issue with fraudulent readers.
At the supermarket or anywhere with lenghty queues no matter what time of the day, there is a sufficient difference between somebody who is paying cash, and somebody who is paying by credit card. There is a lengthy delay as the card is swiped, PIN inserted, waiting for approval, then waiting for the receipt and then signing the receipt and verifying it with the signature on the back of the card. All in all, it's at least double the time it would take to pay by cash.
It's understandable that today most people carry around electronic cash as it's so convenient, it would definitely be a welcome process in the busiest of areas of consumer spending as there is nothing to lose and it saves time. Not just for those who do use credit cards but also for those who have to purchase by cash.
The iPaq being used in space is another example where the benefits of technology can be felt as it would reduce the effects of "asthenia" where astronauts experience phases of fatigue, low motivation, hypersensitivty and irritability with the change in environment and lack of social communication. The iPaq obviously aims to provide a solution to that problem to a great extent.
This would definitely be a source of inspiration for those budding innovators and inventors.
Of course this is the fault of the consumers but over time its become a deceptive trade practice as those responsible for the programs know that legal jargon only succeeds in confusing the average user. Many would probably regard it as an abuse of the system.