My town (in Connecticut) has inadvertently experimented with varying driver speed based on road surface quality. In the street leading up to my neighborhood it used to be quite bumpy and potholed. The speed limit was 25 mph and on a good day you could do 30 mph. Two years ago they repaved it because of complaints from residents... the result was a very nice smooth surface with no additional impediments, and my observed average speed is 45 mph. Now the police regularly patrol this road and always have someone pulled over when I drive home from work. Since the town does not get revenue from tickets the patrol officer is part of my tax expense. I'd say it was not worth it.
Another road in town has a section that is washed out from the recent rainy NE weather. Again we all have to slow down to the posted speed limit. I propose we simply repair our roads to a minimal degree instead of following what the CT DOT suggests!
I have been to his site before, but just spent an hour there now. If I didn't need to work I think I could get lost for a few more hours. His site represents an interesting and intensive view of effective presentation of data-intensive information.
As long as this happens to everyone at the same time, cool. Unfortunately the way it works now is that you need a "senior" representative in Washington to ensure your cut of the pork pie. We are losing Senator Dodd this year, and no one wants to work with Lieberman anymore anyway, so instead of sending lots of funds to Washington and getting only a portion back, we'll likely get even less of the pie until our congressmen rise through the ranks again. For all the complaining we do about our senior congressmen, if they are successful at getting some or all of our money back, then they are doing what we need them to do.
My bet is that HIPAA (you got it right the first time, wrong the second) does not apply in this case. My clue is the British spelling of "authorisation". In addition, I believe in England they often organize by Districts of Health.
You are currently modded funny, but I would prefer not to purchase a car that prohibited me from pressing the brake and throttle at the same time and expecting power and braking. You don't need to be James Bond to do left-foot braking, you just need to understand when it is to be used (on the racetrack only). Obviously this situation doesn't apply to a Camry, and I don't know if any of their high performance cars have this same issue. If purchasing a high performance car I would expect the brake and throttle to work independently.
Heck, I even set up my racing pedals on my computer at home to be independent to allow for LFB.
With all the "brilliance" that the article refers to in Photoshop that was contributed by the Knoll family, are they fantastically wealthy? They basically created an industry segment all by themselves, one that is very robust to this day. I would hope they were suitably rewarded, though all of them are working in essentially the same places/jobs that they were 20 years ago! Do they work for fun or do they need to work for money?
The first permit was granted in 1976. It took 14 years to get to full power, due to a lot of red tape and a ton of protests. I can recall being in high school at the time construction was nearing an end and there were a ton of protests even then, mostly centered around the evacuation plan or lack thereof.
So the date will probably be 2025, given that it will take at least 10 years to build the thing.
We love our iPod Hi-Fi. The sounds is decent enough and is way better than any of the competing products that were available at the time (iHome among others). Sure we could have easily hooked up the iPod through a dock to the stereo, but we like the remote control but especially how it looks on the table top. And iPod in a dock hooked up to the non-remote-enabled stereo would have been worse. I am still a fan of it!
This is really helpful, thank you. It also helps to emphasize that I really don't need to pay $2,400 for a really nice phone. I am sticking with my $100 per year, very limited talk, text and data, Tracfone prepaid phone.
I was a newbie to TF2 last October (bought the game for $2 I think) and I constantly got rolled the first few weeks/months. It was only through persistence and the encouragement of my 13-year old son, who is very accomplished at the game, that I stuck with it and started to achieve positive kill/death ratios. I will also note that the public servers I play on (UO, Stompfest, Reddit), folks have been generally encouraging, even when doing something stupid. Not always ("move that sentry gun a$$hole!") but surprisingly often.
So where does one go to learn these multiplayer games, if not on a public server matched up against people who have been playing for months or years?
Mike Rowe, of MikeRoweSoft.com, did a Reddit Ask Me Anything that explained the situation from his point of view. I will note that they also had the Mike Rowe from the TV show also did a video answering viewer questions. So you get both kinds of Mike Rowe!
Kindof like the for dummies books? Well, except I have found quite a few "for dummies" books that have been extraordinarily helpful. I have a "Learn C in 24 hours' by Jesse Liberty that I bought many years ago. This is the kind of book that is routinely derided by those knowledgable in the subject. And yet, it was enough to get me started, and enough to get me to the right forums to learn the right way of doing things. I am forever grateful that I picked up that book at a bookstore and it got me further down the road than I was getting using the online documentation of the time (e.g. DJGPP free compiler, I think). Perhaps this book will get some enterprising young adult started in the right direction, enough to become a webmonkey and learn on slashdot that webmonkeys get no respect and they should then learn a real language.
Automatic transmissions are heavier, much larger and more complex than manual transmissions. For most small vehicles this means they are unsuitable... if you take the form factor far enough, where weight is a serious penalty then automatic transmissions make no sense at all - motorcycles and racing cars.
I drive a stick because I enjoy it. I also use it to exercise my sense of superiority over the cavemen driving automatic vehicles.:-)
How about a citation? "Every" automotive expert? I have lived in a cold climate several times in my life, and currently live in a moderate climate where temps are usually below freezing all winter but not below 0 degrees F. In addition to that, several family members are certified mechanics or mechanical (automotive) engineers. With a properly chosen motor oil, there is no reason that a modern automobile cannot be started and driven away within seconds of turning the engine on. In addition, I have experience with the 2-cycle and 4-cycle snowmobile industry and the factory recommendations on those high performance motors is that they can be driven away immediately upon starting a cold engine.
Tappet Bros. and Consumer Reports are correct.
You are correct that startup from cold is the most damaging time for a motor. However it is not less damaging to let it warm up before driving it, as long as a) the oil is the correct viscosity for the temperatures and b) the driver does not accelerate too rapidly.
this is not actually a bad idea. I carry a spare $20 bill in my credit card wallet. If find it highly unlikely that anyone would guess to try the numbers on that bill before any password safety systems would lock out my account due to too many attempts.
If the passwords need frequent changing just swap out the $20 for another every 30 - 60 days.
Same circumstances, different results here. I grew up hunting and fishing, often shooting a.22LR rifle or 12guage shotgun in the afternoon after classes were finished (gotta love going to college in upstate NY) without any hearing protection. I have noticeable hearing loss in my right ear, and measurable hearing loss in my left ear. It wasn't enough hearing loss at the time to keep me out of the service, but as I have gotten older it has perhaps compounded with age-related hearing loss to make it noticeable.
I do shoot now, but I always double up on my hearing protection. Foam ear canal inserts combined with over the ear muffs.
We thought exactly the same thing when my 14 year old son bought a Wii with his hard earned and saved money last Spring. It sat gathering dust almost all summer, with his younger sister and I most often playing it. We only had Smash Bros, Wii Sports and Wii Fit to play and did not bother buying any more games because it really wasn't all that fun.
Fast forward to Christmas Day and I bought the family Wii Sports Resort and the required MotionPlus add-ons. The Wii has been played almost every day since. Our favorites are, in order, Archery, Swordplay and Table Tennis. Tons of replayability.
However we also bought my son an XBox360 with Assassin's Creed2 and ModernWarfare2. The difference between the two is dramatic, and if it wasn't for Wii Sports Resort I would still say that purchasing the Wii was a waste of money. The XBox is just soooo much better and the lack of motion sensing controllers for it does not seem at all to detract from the gaming experience. (Of course I hate the controllers, preferring a keyboard/mouse myself)
Yomega to be precise, and I still have a bunch of them... they went from the simple, that eventually got distributed with kid's Happy Meals, all the way up to titanium with special super bearings.
But any serious yo-yo'er of the time really didn't use the Yomega branded yos. Thanks for the nostalgia though.:-)
You sure it was the port side? Here on the East Coast of the US almost all lobstermen pull their pots up on the starboard side of the boat. They need to drive and pull the pots at the same time, so the winch system is typically right next to the wheel. Every lobster boat I have seen has the wheel on the starboard side, not sure why but it seems almost universal.
That said, I completely agree about the repeatable accuracy of LORAN-C. I was navigator for many years on a sailboat in Long Island Sound, off the coast of Connecticut. We used LORAN many times to get us within 20M or less or a specific spot, and since it was a sailboat it was helpful when we ended up in the channel, not on the shoal that a particular buoy was indicating. Some channels are only 5M wide (entrance to Watch Hill, RI for example). We used to call it Instrument Flight Rules - you couldn't see the rocks and buoys until it was too late.
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Thank you! (note: at least the parent poster didn't spell it HIPPA)
My town (in Connecticut) has inadvertently experimented with varying driver speed based on road surface quality. In the street leading up to my neighborhood it used to be quite bumpy and potholed. The speed limit was 25 mph and on a good day you could do 30 mph. Two years ago they repaved it because of complaints from residents... the result was a very nice smooth surface with no additional impediments, and my observed average speed is 45 mph. Now the police regularly patrol this road and always have someone pulled over when I drive home from work. Since the town does not get revenue from tickets the patrol officer is part of my tax expense. I'd say it was not worth it.
Another road in town has a section that is washed out from the recent rainy NE weather. Again we all have to slow down to the posted speed limit. I propose we simply repair our roads to a minimal degree instead of following what the CT DOT suggests!
I have been to his site before, but just spent an hour there now. If I didn't need to work I think I could get lost for a few more hours. His site represents an interesting and intensive view of effective presentation of data-intensive information.
As long as this happens to everyone at the same time, cool. Unfortunately the way it works now is that you need a "senior" representative in Washington to ensure your cut of the pork pie. We are losing Senator Dodd this year, and no one wants to work with Lieberman anymore anyway, so instead of sending lots of funds to Washington and getting only a portion back, we'll likely get even less of the pie until our congressmen rise through the ranks again. For all the complaining we do about our senior congressmen, if they are successful at getting some or all of our money back, then they are doing what we need them to do.
My bet is that HIPAA (you got it right the first time, wrong the second) does not apply in this case. My clue is the British spelling of "authorisation". In addition, I believe in England they often organize by Districts of Health.
You are currently modded funny, but I would prefer not to purchase a car that prohibited me from pressing the brake and throttle at the same time and expecting power and braking. You don't need to be James Bond to do left-foot braking, you just need to understand when it is to be used (on the racetrack only). Obviously this situation doesn't apply to a Camry, and I don't know if any of their high performance cars have this same issue. If purchasing a high performance car I would expect the brake and throttle to work independently.
Heck, I even set up my racing pedals on my computer at home to be independent to allow for LFB.
With all the "brilliance" that the article refers to in Photoshop that was contributed by the Knoll family, are they fantastically wealthy? They basically created an industry segment all by themselves, one that is very robust to this day. I would hope they were suitably rewarded, though all of them are working in essentially the same places/jobs that they were 20 years ago! Do they work for fun or do they need to work for money?
Not quite true. One of the most storied, protested nuclear power plants is Seabrook Station in New Hampshire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabrook_Station_Nuclear_Power_Plant
The first permit was granted in 1976. It took 14 years to get to full power, due to a lot of red tape and a ton of protests. I can recall being in high school at the time construction was nearing an end and there were a ton of protests even then, mostly centered around the evacuation plan or lack thereof.
So the date will probably be 2025, given that it will take at least 10 years to build the thing.
This one anecdote simply points out that there is one racist individual at Apple, not that the whole company is racist.
We love our iPod Hi-Fi. The sounds is decent enough and is way better than any of the competing products that were available at the time (iHome among others). Sure we could have easily hooked up the iPod through a dock to the stereo, but we like the remote control but especially how it looks on the table top. And iPod in a dock hooked up to the non-remote-enabled stereo would have been worse. I am still a fan of it!
This is really helpful, thank you. It also helps to emphasize that I really don't need to pay $2,400 for a really nice phone. I am sticking with my $100 per year, very limited talk, text and data, Tracfone prepaid phone.
I was a newbie to TF2 last October (bought the game for $2 I think) and I constantly got rolled the first few weeks/months. It was only through persistence and the encouragement of my 13-year old son, who is very accomplished at the game, that I stuck with it and started to achieve positive kill/death ratios. I will also note that the public servers I play on (UO, Stompfest, Reddit), folks have been generally encouraging, even when doing something stupid. Not always ("move that sentry gun a$$hole!") but surprisingly often.
So where does one go to learn these multiplayer games, if not on a public server matched up against people who have been playing for months or years?
Are you sure it isn't trademark? Where is KDawson when you need him?
Mike Rowe, of MikeRoweSoft.com, did a Reddit Ask Me Anything that explained the situation from his point of view. I will note that they also had the Mike Rowe from the TV show also did a video answering viewer questions. So you get both kinds of Mike Rowe!
Kindof like the for dummies books? Well, except I have found quite a few "for dummies" books that have been extraordinarily helpful. I have a "Learn C in 24 hours' by Jesse Liberty that I bought many years ago. This is the kind of book that is routinely derided by those knowledgable in the subject. And yet, it was enough to get me started, and enough to get me to the right forums to learn the right way of doing things. I am forever grateful that I picked up that book at a bookstore and it got me further down the road than I was getting using the online documentation of the time (e.g. DJGPP free compiler, I think). Perhaps this book will get some enterprising young adult started in the right direction, enough to become a webmonkey and learn on slashdot that webmonkeys get no respect and they should then learn a real language.
Automatic transmissions are heavier, much larger and more complex than manual transmissions. For most small vehicles this means they are unsuitable... if you take the form factor far enough, where weight is a serious penalty then automatic transmissions make no sense at all - motorcycles and racing cars.
I drive a stick because I enjoy it. I also use it to exercise my sense of superiority over the cavemen driving automatic vehicles. :-)
How about a citation? "Every" automotive expert? I have lived in a cold climate several times in my life, and currently live in a moderate climate where temps are usually below freezing all winter but not below 0 degrees F. In addition to that, several family members are certified mechanics or mechanical (automotive) engineers. With a properly chosen motor oil, there is no reason that a modern automobile cannot be started and driven away within seconds of turning the engine on. In addition, I have experience with the 2-cycle and 4-cycle snowmobile industry and the factory recommendations on those high performance motors is that they can be driven away immediately upon starting a cold engine.
Tappet Bros. and Consumer Reports are correct.
You are correct that startup from cold is the most damaging time for a motor. However it is not less damaging to let it warm up before driving it, as long as a) the oil is the correct viscosity for the temperatures and b) the driver does not accelerate too rapidly.
this is not actually a bad idea. I carry a spare $20 bill in my credit card wallet. If find it highly unlikely that anyone would guess to try the numbers on that bill before any password safety systems would lock out my account due to too many attempts.
If the passwords need frequent changing just swap out the $20 for another every 30 - 60 days.
Same circumstances, different results here. I grew up hunting and fishing, often shooting a .22LR rifle or 12guage shotgun in the afternoon after classes were finished (gotta love going to college in upstate NY) without any hearing protection. I have noticeable hearing loss in my right ear, and measurable hearing loss in my left ear. It wasn't enough hearing loss at the time to keep me out of the service, but as I have gotten older it has perhaps compounded with age-related hearing loss to make it noticeable.
I do shoot now, but I always double up on my hearing protection. Foam ear canal inserts combined with over the ear muffs.
We thought exactly the same thing when my 14 year old son bought a Wii with his hard earned and saved money last Spring. It sat gathering dust almost all summer, with his younger sister and I most often playing it. We only had Smash Bros, Wii Sports and Wii Fit to play and did not bother buying any more games because it really wasn't all that fun.
Fast forward to Christmas Day and I bought the family Wii Sports Resort and the required MotionPlus add-ons. The Wii has been played almost every day since. Our favorites are, in order, Archery, Swordplay and Table Tennis. Tons of replayability.
However we also bought my son an XBox360 with Assassin's Creed2 and ModernWarfare2. The difference between the two is dramatic, and if it wasn't for Wii Sports Resort I would still say that purchasing the Wii was a waste of money. The XBox is just soooo much better and the lack of motion sensing controllers for it does not seem at all to detract from the gaming experience. (Of course I hate the controllers, preferring a keyboard/mouse myself)
Yomega to be precise, and I still have a bunch of them... they went from the simple, that eventually got distributed with kid's Happy Meals, all the way up to titanium with special super bearings.
But any serious yo-yo'er of the time really didn't use the Yomega branded yos. Thanks for the nostalgia though. :-)
We lose money on every transaction, but at least we make up for it in volume!
You sure it was the port side? Here on the East Coast of the US almost all lobstermen pull their pots up on the starboard side of the boat. They need to drive and pull the pots at the same time, so the winch system is typically right next to the wheel. Every lobster boat I have seen has the wheel on the starboard side, not sure why but it seems almost universal.
That said, I completely agree about the repeatable accuracy of LORAN-C. I was navigator for many years on a sailboat in Long Island Sound, off the coast of Connecticut. We used LORAN many times to get us within 20M or less or a specific spot, and since it was a sailboat it was helpful when we ended up in the channel, not on the shoal that a particular buoy was indicating. Some channels are only 5M wide (entrance to Watch Hill, RI for example). We used to call it Instrument Flight Rules - you couldn't see the rocks and buoys until it was too late.
Until Opera and Chrome get usable, working AdBlock+ and NoScript, then there are no good alternatives to Firefox.
So does that mean I get extra points when applying for a C programming position?