I am sorry, I know I am from Europe, where being topless is just the norm sometimes even in a park, but calling a picture of 5 topless women PORN is a little bit of an overreaction.
I am not saying, that everyone viewing your private crap behind you in congress, and watching this kind of crap on any meeting is right, but it is not PORN.
Besides, he is at work. How many of us looked at this article/video at work? Well, then I guess we cannot throw the 1st stone at him.
Excuse my ignorance, but I still do not know if I happen to have the "Other OS" (e.g. Linux) installed on the PS3, would the update wipe it out, or just remove it from units that do not run Linux.
Currenty I had to revert back to a "newer" version of the wrt54g as my v1.0 crapped out. Turned out to be a bad, bloated capacitor so I changed it, but when things like these start to happen I tend not to trust electronics.
The version 8 (or 6?) WRT sometimes decides to freeze. With Linux (dd-wrt) sometimes, with Linksys firmware 1-2 times a DAY.
I also run my Asterisk PBX on an NSLU2. This setup is pretty stable, but just not enough to run Asterisk, and a Perl HA program at the same time (* has 4-5 sip server connections, 4-5 extensions and FXO through VOIP gateways.)
Actually if you do not need wireless, or could live with a USB stick WIFI "card", that might be enough for you.
For my problem, a low power mini-itx might be the solution, fanless and can run a few hours on a UPS (900VA), but still looking for a lower power, more embedded and elegant solution, that does not need 2 days of hacking just to have the WIFI radio up, while wondering why the WRT version is missing libraries run WvDial.
OK, just my quick thoughts about what the hell to replace my WRT with.
Why do Apple employees carry around such prototype devices? If the phone is such a secret, it should stay at the lab, no employee should have it with him at a BAR, where phones, wallets, virginity and other things get lost regularly after alcohol consumption!
Just my question, really.... if it is a secret keep it under a damn lock. Now to the guy who lost it: I never lost a phone and I would be extremely careful with a top secret prototype phone, so what else is there to say?
If it is a server I ask the networking department to give me something with many processors and a lot of memory. (if it is for something specific - not just an other web server - then I might get more specific).
If it is a desktop I go to the Apple store and buy something that has enough memory, or space for enough memory, and does not have a display permanently attached to it (unless it is a laptop)
If it is a PC for home, then it will run Linux anyway, so I just make sure it does use as little juice as possible.... my linux box is an NSLU2 and a WRT54G (v1.0).. and they are low power....
If it is a game PC I check the most advanced 1st person shooter's optimal requirements, and try to aim somewhere there. Then put the PC together, start it a few times, and never ever turn it on again until it is old enough to put Linux on it. I always have this fantasy of playing a lot, and having a nice fast windows machine, but then I realize, that I do not like any of the new games after I have all the expensive input devices too. I do that every 6-7 years, then I realize how much more I enjoy doing anything else other than staying +x hours in front of a video game.
At least these are the choices I made regarding computer purchases in the last 3 years.
Funny, that after many years in the industry I realized a few years ago, that I was doing what you just explained. I was convinced, that the technique was a lot better for working on a terminal (e.g. Unix admin tasks), but as I was coding more and more, typing more and more letters I realized the 6 finger typing was not efficient anymore.
I have to admit (and it is hard), that the last push was a colleague who was barely out of school, who typed violently fast while talking to people, looking at them.
So what did I do? I simply started forcing myself to touch type, and literally in a week I was using all my fingers as I should have before.
If you are pretty fast with your technique, you know where the keys are, now you just have to map it to the right finger and it will work just fine.
Well, I hope it helps....
BTW I am actually not a fast or good typist, so I try to write short and effective code I never have to touch again....yeah right
If you think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with saying this, you do not even deserve an explanation about how this planet is doomed because of ignorance like this.
What I wrote (3-wire) was for the most minimal setup of course.
Common ground, signal ground... grounds are connected together with a wire....
I am a software engineer, so if I messed with an electrical engineering term in a language, that is not my 1st, well.... then excuse me.... that should not put me in the "untrained technician" bin I hope:)....
I actually use the 3-wire setup on simple electronic project, and if shielding is OK, and the distance is not too far it works pretty ok. Then again, I know, that is is enough to put a power supply nearby and the crap starts flowing on the port, in and out:)
Funny you mention it. Sometimes I wish we just had a really fast serial port on every device (think even appliances, alarms) - and a well documented command set for them (think AT for modems), but then I wish they just all had an ethernet port.....
I mean for terminal applications and simple control (think X10) the speed is sufficient, but the 1-1 nature of the connection would be just the same with a faster or USB port. On the other hand a network adapter with a simple tcp/udp stack would give you a faster, easily usable way to communicate with multiple devices, minimizing cost on the host where the devices are connected (in most aspects). And yeah, you can also make 1-1 with it (xlink cable)
Serial is cheap, simple, works really well, and you can hook up 15+ year old equipment to it with no problem.
Is it slow? Not really, but firmware updates should be through TFTP or HTTP by now anyways for larger files.
Complicated wiring? RX-TX TX-RX, common ground.
Also RS-232 has many brothers and sisters like: RS-422 (a high-speed system similar to RS-232 but with differential signaling) RS-423 (a high-speed system similar to RS-422 but with unbalanced signaling) RS-449 (a functional and mechanical interface that used RS-422 and RS-423 signals - it never caught on like RS-232 and was withdrawn by the EIA) RS-485 (a descendant of RS-422 that can be used as a bus in multidrop configurations)
On the USB console: yeah, you can have a USB console. Most like there will be a FTDI chip, which will make your USB into a serial connection. Want an example? Arduino.....
By the way, the post is kinda mis-worded.... USB is a serial bus, so a USB console is technically a SERIAL console:)
Well, regardless of the fact, that I am not interested in this game (no harsh critic, just simply does not interest me at all)... I have to put my 2c:
I would not buy a program that exits if the server is not reachable. I find it dreadful even for an online game, not a single player one.
I would say, that I would return it, but we all know, that this is not an option most of the time. Games have absolutely crap support, canned responses from Ubi (Ghost Recon problems), from EA (NFS) and from Codemasters (Dirt)......
In fact I got so mad over zero help from EA, that I haven't turned on my gaming machine for 3 months and I am not even planning to. All the games I purchased in the last final months of my gaming were full of bugs, lag issues, crashes, and some took more that a week to be able to run (with 0 help from the companies), that I just quit.....
Most of them were a console port, stripped of prior features and just plain dreadfully crap....
But either way... a game, that has this kind of protection that makes legal customers miserable is just plain ignorance from the publisher.
These netbooks have a vga out, so cranking out more GFX power might be preferred by those who connect them to projectors (presentation or movie) or their primary display.
I got one of the Aspire One netbooks for my wife for Christmas and the only dislike (besides Windows on it - both of us are Mac apes) is the tini-tiny touch pad. Even the keyboard is usable with my large hands for touch typing. While it is a perfect drag-it-around-the-house-or-garden laptop it is what it is: good for mail and web, skype... and well, that is it..... but most people need a laptop for only these.
While I must say, it is a nice feature for many, I was really happy with Gmail as it was, with as little added useless crap and blinking ads and all that what ruins other free mail providers.
I suspended my Facebook, do not use Twitter, and closed several social networking accounts to escape people bugging me. Now I have this thing popup saying that I am connected and following a bunch of people I do not even want to hear about:(
Argh... I think it would have been a nice way to put a popup, a mail or something to inform you, that BUZZ was available and that you can sign-up or enable it. I really wasn't happy to see myself suckered into the crap I am trying to avoid.
Then again : credit to google for the new feature, but please next time offer it, so it is an option, not something I have to opt-out form after I am already part of it.
This site I just googled: http://buytaert.net/cms-code-base-comparison has an interesting (not sure if accurate, but you can wc -l all the files in the latest if you want) comparison on CMS systems.
Wordpress has around 60.000 lines - not too much according to you - and first I somewhat agreed.
To write a module/plugin is relatively easy because docs are OK most of the time. But to MAINTAIN for example the entire WP codebase and knowing every little detail is a different thing IMO.
We have to maintain a similar size ASP JSCRIPT site (around 40k lines last time I checked), and who knows how much more for the native WIN components..... our decision was to rewrite the whole thing in PHP, and the rest in probably JAVA or C with perl for some data processing. Well, you have to imagine how happy we are with the completely undocumented code that has no comments, and updates sometimes come in the form of unexplained set of files in a cute zip package. A diff would show 10000 changed lines, and since it does not follow the MVC model, you have a lot of html/design embedded in the code (in an ugly way really)....... no explanation on what was changed, not even a list of functions......
Well, what I am just trying to say is that I can see how a small project can span over 3-5000 lines you know by hearth, but how someone else's crappy 40k code can be a nightmare at the same time.
By the way, the language is also a factor..... 40k lines of perl can be a lot to read ( considered "write only" by many), while 2 mouse gestures can generate a few-hundred lines easily in any visual IDE.........
And this is your opinion that I respect. However I am happy that where I live not everyone thinks like that.
I do not trust doctors and I think medicine is more of a business than what it should be, more to keep you on pills then actually cure you. I witnessed too many misdiagnosed cases, some of which ended in death or permanent damage.
I think most people do not care about what they do and doctors are not an exception. How many doctors drink too much, live an unhealthy lifestyle (long hours, smoking, coffe, alcohol etc)....
I am almost sure, that like any other industry, they would rush out products without sufficient testing - and there is a lot of evidence, just look at last 10 years recalls and the "if you died from xy drug we can get you some money" lawyer ads on tv....
Either way, the only conflict point here is obligatory : people should have a chance to decide, and the other side should not be worried : you are going to be protected while I die a horrible death from the flu....... see what is not right with this equation ?
I had my nvidia shutters a long time ago (10 years or so), and while it was really fun I do not see myself getting into this new tv new glasses thing.
I would expect to have an affordable at least 720p (1280x720?) glasses (per eye) tiny displays with a light helmet/head mount by now, but no... most headsets are still 640x480 or 800x600.... 1024 costs a lot more..... Just do not get it......
Technology is there and I think they would sell too......maybe I am just part of a crazy crowd who thinks that others would pay for such a thing.... then again, I am not the movie goer, a movie is not a social event in my dictionary....
I do not want to join a fight about all this. I am convinced, that the drug industry is doing a lot of evil things, and that most bodies like the FDA are actually ment to protect the interest of drug companies (e.g. drugs with same ingredients cannot be sold if they are from India, Canada, etc..) and not the end users'.
So I recommend making a search on your favourite torrent site or even youtube for "Are Vaccines safe" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhndCkEfJQg) and make up your mind. This video offers an alternative view with some traceable medical facts, and educates you that you have a choice in most states and some countries to chose not to vaccinate.
Here is the CNN Larry King special on vaccines : http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=larry+king+vaccines&search_type=&aq=f - this one is about the MMR cocktail as well.
By the way they want to make H1N1 shots obligatory in Costa Rica - where I live - and there will be a huge resistance to it as everyone is scared of the shots' side effects, and the fact that it had very little - if any - testing.
You can also make a search for flu shots and alcheimers, shots and tumors and find a scary amount of hype and facts....
I am searching for a light (preferably less or around 80kgs) electric dirt bike for some time, but battery time still prevents decent length enduro rides.
The leader at the moment seems to be : http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/ - on the dirt bike 2 hour/64 kilometers (almost double on the street version) with 2 and 4 hours to charge.
Then there is Quantiya http://quantya.com/ - similar to zero, seems sturdier, less bicycle like.
An interesting hybrid is the Stealth: http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/ - looks more like a downhill bike (it is) with a motor. It has pedals, so you can trick police into thinking that this is only a bicycle (it is).
At the point only Zero has a decent site with shopping cart and an easy way to orde one.
Also worth to note, that KTM (best enduro/offroad bikes currently) is planning an electric bike: http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/10/ktm-presents-electric-enduro.html This is a little like the Apple tablets, with all the sites showing the same few pictures, but they seem definitely authentic, however no news on the rumored 2010 mass production.
Well, just my 2 cents on the topic. All I want now is a bike that can deliver 60-80 kilometers and can take rough enduro riding. Unfortunately most owners say that with hill climbs, aggressive riding or on a MX track, even the zeros empty a battery in half an hour. While 2 hours and 60 kilometers sound like a nice after work ride (I actually go 3-5:30 2-3 times a week after work, and usually put 60-80 kilometers of trails/road into my KTM 450 or my 300), but half an hour is completely unacceptable, as these bikes do not have pedals to get back to the truck or home after your batteries die (except the Stealth, but it is too bicycle like for what I do.)
Hope this sheds some light on the offroad segment of the electric market!
Hmm.. 8 years of music school.... do not play anything anymore (used to play the piano)..... I listen to electronic music - the complex kind: goa, psychedelic/progressive trance (and many other genres too).
I can both program and fall asleep listening to it, however when having a problem or need serious thinking I sometimes need complete silence.
Exactly, instead of the 2 finger swipe (which is just straight awkward as you said) they could have put a 2 finger touch (3rd button). Then I would have kept it.
I do not know what I was expecting, but I simply could not use it. It was a nice experience, but for "production" it failed for me.
So here is the deal: I ordered a Magic mouse and after an hour of use I put it back in the packaging and sold it to a colleague.
Why ?
The idea is great, the functions are not. Not being able to pinch, rotate and zoom without a key is one (stupid) thing, considering that the mouse can track 4 fingers.
Accidental actions (scroll mostly) is annoying. A button or ball moves when you move it, this thing tracks every touch, that annoyed me to hell.
Having no 3rd button however is an absolute deal breaker. I would live with a 3-finger touch, or 2 finger tap, but the lack of buttons just made me pack it and sell it.
And do not get me wrong, I use the Mightly mouse and several Logi trackballs and only Mac aluminium keyboards (except on my Macbook)...
I think the hardware is awesome but the drivers absolutely SUCK!
Just my 2c.
ps: the optical touch tracking looks interesting on the videos... maybe I would try that next....or just stay with my logis.
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I am sorry, I know I am from Europe, where being topless is just the norm sometimes even in a park, but calling a picture of 5 topless women PORN is a little bit of an overreaction.
I am not saying, that everyone viewing your private crap behind you in congress, and watching this kind of crap on any meeting is right, but it is not PORN.
Besides, he is at work. How many of us looked at this article/video at work? Well, then I guess we cannot throw the 1st stone at him.
Excuse my ignorance, but I still do not know if I happen to have the "Other OS" (e.g. Linux) installed on the PS3, would the update wipe it out, or just remove it from units that do not run Linux.
Currenty I had to revert back to a "newer" version of the wrt54g as my v1.0 crapped out. Turned out to be a bad, bloated capacitor so I changed it, but when things like these start to happen I tend not to trust electronics.
The version 8 (or 6?) WRT sometimes decides to freeze. With Linux (dd-wrt) sometimes, with Linksys firmware 1-2 times a DAY.
I also run my Asterisk PBX on an NSLU2. This setup is pretty stable, but just not enough to run Asterisk, and a Perl HA program at the same time (* has 4-5 sip server connections, 4-5 extensions and FXO through VOIP gateways.)
Actually if you do not need wireless, or could live with a USB stick WIFI "card", that might be enough for you.
For my problem, a low power mini-itx might be the solution, fanless and can run a few hours on a UPS (900VA), but still looking for a lower power, more embedded and elegant solution, that does not need 2 days of hacking just to have the WIFI radio up, while wondering why the WRT version is missing libraries run WvDial.
OK, just my quick thoughts about what the hell to replace my WRT with.
Quick question:
Why do Apple employees carry around such prototype devices? If the phone is such a secret, it should stay at the lab, no employee should have it with him at a BAR, where phones, wallets, virginity and other things get lost regularly after alcohol consumption!
Just my question, really .... if it is a secret keep it under a damn lock. Now to the guy who lost it: I never lost a phone and I would be extremely careful with a top secret prototype phone, so what else is there to say?
If it is a server I ask the networking department to give me something with many processors and a lot of memory. (if it is for something specific - not just an other web server - then I might get more specific).
If it is a desktop I go to the Apple store and buy something that has enough memory, or space for enough memory, and does not have a display permanently attached to it (unless it is a laptop)
If it is a PC for home, then it will run Linux anyway, so I just make sure it does use as little juice as possible.... my linux box is an NSLU2 and a WRT54G (v1.0) .. and they are low power....
If it is a game PC I check the most advanced 1st person shooter's optimal requirements, and try to aim somewhere there. Then put the PC together, start it a few times, and never ever turn it on again until it is old enough to put Linux on it. I always have this fantasy of playing a lot, and having a nice fast windows machine, but then I realize, that I do not like any of the new games after I have all the expensive input devices too. I do that every 6-7 years, then I realize how much more I enjoy doing anything else other than staying +x hours in front of a video game.
At least these are the choices I made regarding computer purchases in the last 3 years.
Funny, that after many years in the industry I realized a few years ago, that I was doing what you just explained. I was convinced, that the technique was a lot better for working on a terminal (e.g. Unix admin tasks), but as I was coding more and more, typing more and more letters I realized the 6 finger typing was not efficient anymore.
I have to admit (and it is hard), that the last push was a colleague who was barely out of school, who typed violently fast while talking to people, looking at them.
So what did I do? I simply started forcing myself to touch type, and literally in a week I was using all my fingers as I should have before.
If you are pretty fast with your technique, you know where the keys are, now you just have to map it to the right finger and it will work just fine.
Well, I hope it helps ....
BTW I am actually not a fast or good typist, so I try to write short and effective code I never have to touch again ... .yeah right
"These animals are not people. They are food."
If you think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with saying this, you do not even deserve an explanation about how this planet is doomed because of ignorance like this.
I was about to ask that.
However I am a vegan you insensitive clod, so whoever killed my carrot, tofu and cooked my noodles ... well should live this time
What I wrote (3-wire) was for the most minimal setup of course.
Common ground, signal ground ... grounds are connected together with a wire....
I am a software engineer, so if I messed with an electrical engineering term in a language, that is not my 1st, well .... then excuse me .... that should not put me in the "untrained technician" bin I hope :) ....
I actually use the 3-wire setup on simple electronic project, and if shielding is OK, and the distance is not too far it works pretty ok. Then again, I know, that is is enough to put a power supply nearby and the crap starts flowing on the port, in and out :)
Funny you mention it. Sometimes I wish we just had a really fast serial port on every device (think even appliances, alarms) - and a well documented command set for them (think AT for modems), but then I wish they just all had an ethernet port.....
I mean for terminal applications and simple control (think X10) the speed is sufficient, but the 1-1 nature of the connection would be just the same with a faster or USB port. On the other hand a network adapter with a simple tcp/udp stack would give you a faster, easily usable way to communicate with multiple devices, minimizing cost on the host where the devices are connected (in most aspects). And yeah, you can also make 1-1 with it (xlink cable)
Serial is cheap, simple, works really well, and you can hook up 15+ year old equipment to it with no problem.
Is it slow? Not really, but firmware updates should be through TFTP or HTTP by now anyways for larger files.
Complicated wiring? RX-TX TX-RX, common ground.
Also RS-232 has many brothers and sisters like:
RS-422 (a high-speed system similar to RS-232 but with differential signaling)
RS-423 (a high-speed system similar to RS-422 but with unbalanced signaling)
RS-449 (a functional and mechanical interface that used RS-422 and RS-423 signals - it never caught on like RS-232 and was withdrawn by the EIA)
RS-485 (a descendant of RS-422 that can be used as a bus in multidrop configurations)
On the USB console: yeah, you can have a USB console. Most like there will be a FTDI chip, which will make your USB into a serial connection. Want an example? Arduino.....
By the way, the post is kinda mis-worded.... USB is a serial bus, so a USB console is technically a SERIAL console :)
Well, regardless of the fact, that I am not interested in this game (no harsh critic, just simply does not interest me at all) ... I have to put my 2c:
I would not buy a program that exits if the server is not reachable. I find it dreadful even for an online game, not a single player one.
I would say, that I would return it, but we all know, that this is not an option most of the time. Games have absolutely crap support, canned responses from Ubi (Ghost Recon problems), from EA (NFS) and from Codemasters (Dirt)......
In fact I got so mad over zero help from EA, that I haven't turned on my gaming machine for 3 months and I am not even planning to. All the games I purchased in the last final months of my gaming were full of bugs, lag issues, crashes, and some took more that a week to be able to run (with 0 help from the companies), that I just quit.....
Most of them were a console port, stripped of prior features and just plain dreadfully crap....
But either way ... a game, that has this kind of protection that makes legal customers miserable is just plain ignorance from the publisher.
These netbooks have a vga out, so cranking out more GFX power might be preferred by those who connect them to projectors (presentation or movie) or their primary display.
I got one of the Aspire One netbooks for my wife for Christmas and the only dislike (besides Windows on it - both of us are Mac apes) is the tini-tiny touch pad. Even the keyboard is usable with my large hands for touch typing. While it is a perfect drag-it-around-the-house-or-garden laptop it is what it is: good for mail and web, skype ... and well, that is it..... but most people need a laptop for only these.
While I must say, it is a nice feature for many, I was really happy with Gmail as it was, with as little added useless crap and blinking ads and all that what ruins other free mail providers.
I suspended my Facebook, do not use Twitter, and closed several social networking accounts to escape people bugging me. Now I have this thing popup saying that I am connected and following a bunch of people I do not even want to hear about :(
Argh ... I think it would have been a nice way to put a popup, a mail or something to inform you, that BUZZ was available and that you can sign-up or enable it. I really wasn't happy to see myself suckered into the crap I am trying to avoid.
Then again : credit to google for the new feature, but please next time offer it, so it is an option, not something I have to opt-out form after I am already part of it.
This site I just googled: http://buytaert.net/cms-code-base-comparison has an interesting (not sure if accurate, but you can wc -l all the files in the latest if you want) comparison on CMS systems.
Wordpress has around 60.000 lines - not too much according to you - and first I somewhat agreed.
To write a module/plugin is relatively easy because docs are OK most of the time. But to MAINTAIN for example the entire WP codebase and knowing every little detail is a different thing IMO.
We have to maintain a similar size ASP JSCRIPT site (around 40k lines last time I checked), and who knows how much more for the native WIN components..... our decision was to rewrite the whole thing in PHP, and the rest in probably JAVA or C with perl for some data processing.
Well, you have to imagine how happy we are with the completely undocumented code that has no comments, and updates sometimes come in the form of unexplained set of files in a cute zip package. A diff would show 10000 changed lines, and since it does not follow the MVC model, you have a lot of html/design embedded in the code (in an ugly way really)....... no explanation on what was changed, not even a list of functions......
Well, what I am just trying to say is that I can see how a small project can span over 3-5000 lines you know by hearth, but how someone else's crappy 40k code can be a nightmare at the same time.
By the way, the language is also a factor..... 40k lines of perl can be a lot to read ( considered "write only" by many), while 2 mouse gestures can generate a few-hundred lines easily in any visual IDE.........
just my 2c really.......
And this is your opinion that I respect. However I am happy that where I live not everyone thinks like that.
I do not trust doctors and I think medicine is more of a business than what it should be, more to keep you on pills then actually cure you.
I witnessed too many misdiagnosed cases, some of which ended in death or permanent damage.
I think most people do not care about what they do and doctors are not an exception. How many doctors drink too much, live an unhealthy lifestyle (long hours, smoking, coffe, alcohol etc)....
I am almost sure, that like any other industry, they would rush out products without sufficient testing - and there is a lot of evidence, just look at last 10 years recalls and the "if you died from xy drug we can get you some money" lawyer ads on tv ....
Either way, the only conflict point here is obligatory : people should have a chance to decide, and the other side should not be worried : you are going to be protected while I die a horrible death from the flu....... see what is not right with this equation ?
I had my nvidia shutters a long time ago (10 years or so), and while it was really fun I do not see myself getting into this new tv new glasses thing.
I would expect to have an affordable at least 720p (1280x720?) glasses (per eye) tiny displays with a light helmet/head mount by now, but no... most headsets are still 640x480 or 800x600 .... 1024 costs a lot more..... Just do not get it......
Technology is there and I think they would sell too......maybe I am just part of a crazy crowd who thinks that others would pay for such a thing.... then again, I am not the movie goer, a movie is not a social event in my dictionary....
it is 3d .... then you can move in time within the boundaries of the movie. that is an extra D there for you.
I do not want to join a fight about all this. I am convinced, that the drug industry is doing a lot of evil things, and that most bodies like the FDA are actually ment to protect the interest of drug companies (e.g. drugs with same ingredients cannot be sold if they are from India, Canada, etc..) and not the end users'.
So I recommend making a search on your favourite torrent site or even youtube for "Are Vaccines safe" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhndCkEfJQg) and make up your mind.
This video offers an alternative view with some traceable medical facts, and educates you that you have a choice in most states and some countries to chose not to vaccinate.
Here is the CNN Larry King special on vaccines : http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=larry+king+vaccines&search_type=&aq=f - this one is about the MMR cocktail as well.
By the way they want to make H1N1 shots obligatory in Costa Rica - where I live - and there will be a huge resistance to it as everyone is scared of the shots' side effects, and the fact that it had very little - if any - testing.
You can also make a search for flu shots and alcheimers, shots and tumors and find a scary amount of hype and facts....
The correct link for the stealth is:
http://www.stealthelectricbikes.com.au/
The copy paste did not work quite well and I put the zero's link there agin...
I am searching for a light (preferably less or around 80kgs) electric dirt bike for some time, but battery time still prevents decent length enduro rides.
The leader at the moment seems to be :
http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/ - on the dirt bike 2 hour/64 kilometers (almost double on the street version) with 2 and 4 hours to charge.
Then there is Quantiya
http://quantya.com/ - similar to zero, seems sturdier, less bicycle like.
An interesting hybrid is the Stealth:
http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/ - looks more like a downhill bike (it is) with a motor. It has pedals, so you can trick police into thinking that this is only a bicycle (it is).
At the point only Zero has a decent site with shopping cart and an easy way to orde one.
Also worth to note, that KTM (best enduro/offroad bikes currently) is planning an electric bike:
http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/10/ktm-presents-electric-enduro.html
This is a little like the Apple tablets, with all the sites showing the same few pictures, but they seem definitely authentic, however no news on the rumored 2010 mass production.
Well, just my 2 cents on the topic. All I want now is a bike that can deliver 60-80 kilometers and can take rough enduro riding. Unfortunately most owners say that with hill climbs, aggressive riding or on a MX track, even the zeros empty a battery in half an hour. While 2 hours and 60 kilometers sound like a nice after work ride (I actually go 3-5:30 2-3 times a week after work, and usually put 60-80 kilometers of trails/road into my KTM 450 or my 300), but half an hour is completely unacceptable, as these bikes do not have pedals to get back to the truck or home after your batteries die (except the Stealth, but it is too bicycle like for what I do.)
Hope this sheds some light on the offroad segment of the electric market!
I thought everyone on /. is using rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock already.
Hmm.. 8 years of music school.... do not play anything anymore (used to play the piano)..... I listen to electronic music - the complex kind: goa, psychedelic/progressive trance (and many other genres too).
I can both program and fall asleep listening to it, however when having a problem or need serious thinking I sometimes need complete silence.
Exactly, instead of the 2 finger swipe (which is just straight awkward as you said) they could have put a 2 finger touch (3rd button). Then I would have kept it.
I do not know what I was expecting, but I simply could not use it. It was a nice experience, but for "production" it failed for me.
So here is the deal: I ordered a Magic mouse and after an hour of use I put it back in the packaging and sold it to a colleague.
Why ?
The idea is great, the functions are not. Not being able to pinch, rotate and zoom without a key is one (stupid) thing, considering that the mouse can track 4 fingers.
Accidental actions (scroll mostly) is annoying. A button or ball moves when you move it, this thing tracks every touch, that annoyed me to hell.
Having no 3rd button however is an absolute deal breaker. I would live with a 3-finger touch, or 2 finger tap, but the lack of buttons just made me pack it and sell it.
And do not get me wrong, I use the Mightly mouse and several Logi trackballs and only Mac aluminium keyboards (except on my Macbook)...
I think the hardware is awesome but the drivers absolutely SUCK!
Just my 2c.
ps: the optical touch tracking looks interesting on the videos... maybe I would try that next... .or just stay with my logis.