You mean those No Trespassing signs I see along plots of land throughout town can be ignored? I seriously always thought that I could be prosecuted with a pretty significant chance of losing my case if I walked across the property if a) caught and b) up against a motivated property owner. Care to share some details of your findings that require more than a sign?
No, but if I am Sears and have just invested a boatload in the Discover card, I can very well prohibit anyone from purchasing items in my store with any other credit card. The catch in the retail domain, is that there is vigorous competition so 1) a customer can go elsewhere for the same goods at a similar price and 2) Sears would be very foolish to do so.
Contrast this to the eBay/Paypal situation where they also have a financial interest but have a pretty solid lock on the online auction domain.
In your example, by the "Boss" do you mean: a) your work boss, that is, you are now unemployed for using your work computer for p*rn? b) your wife, that is, you are now getting it *less* for being found to be a dirty wanker?
Haha, that is not a hill, just a slight incline. It is funny what some Texans call hills. Last year some of our local riders went to Texas to do a 5 day, 500 mile ride. They came back with all kinds of stories about the "warnings" they were given on a few days of the "hills" they were going to ride through. A few of them asked where the hills were and were told that they had just been through them.
But it is all perspective. I am in Connecticut and I consider some of our hilly rides very difficult. Yet last year (same time as the TX group) I rode from CT to Pennsylvania and got a taste of what some really steep hills were like in the Poconos. And yet, someone from Colorado might laugh at what I struggled up.
For those with a medical condition, especially one as specific as epilepsy, I think your physician would have the best advice rather than Slashdot. I would venture to say that those with a medical condition comprise a very small percentage of non-exercisers, most are just not making healthy lifestyles a priority and get onto the downward spiral that eventually leads to them having the medical conditions that make exercising difficult.
Good luck with your condition. I was once diagnosed with epilepsy as a child but either grew out of it, or was misdiagnosed. I was on Dilantin for almost the entire 1970s.
I have a HR monitor with my Garmin Edge 305 cycling computer. I do not know if it specifically correlate heart rate to calories burned. Yesterday it was reporting that for a 18 mile ride in just over an hour (17.7 mph) at my current weight of 187 pounds that I burned just over 1200 calories. My tracking software, SportTracks, recalculated it to just over 1000 calories.
I don't know, I always just used 40 calories per flat mile. It may be conservative, and it definitely doesn't account for the cubed increase in power needed to raise speed, but it works to help balance out what I eat. www.bikeforums.net has a whole training/nutrition section with some *very* knowledgable people and even they can't agree on the right on-bike methodology for measuring calories burned. (they can in a lab, however)
I guess the point is, if you are too old to understand or articulate the merits of a policy change, you should stop talking and leave the voting (abstain) to the people who do understand. This country is run by grumpy old men, who sometimes just don't get it.
Basically we need another Manhattan project, but where does the motivation come from? We are not in World War II in search of the ultimate weapon, and IMO we are not yet close to a tipping point regarding global warming to make the project palatable to the public (however mistaken and short-sighted that may be).
According to http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=245508 the Manhattan project cost $1 billion in 1945, something like $20 billion today. I also recall that the Hoover dam diverted a huge portion of its energy to the project.
So it may be some time before fusion gets the attention it needs. Until then, geothermal, wind and solar seem like relatively easier ways, both politically and scientifically, to address our energy needs.
I just finished playing Sudoku. You know, paper and pencil based numerical puzzles than can be maddeningly difficult. So at least I still like to play puzzle games. If you meant computer games, then I'd offer Portal like quite a few other people.
Funny, these are all great examples of Regression toward the mean. I was searching for some examples for use in a meeting later today, and some of yours are really good!
While your proposed solution is appealing, there is one fatal flaw... there is no current roof material that acts as both a solar panel and a suitable roofing material. So when replacing a roof you have all the costs of replacing the traditional roof plus the materials and labor of the solar panels you put on top of the traditional layer.
Now the combined solar panel/roofing material units are coming, just that they are not here yet. And in Florida, everything has to be hurricane proof, which is a somewhat more expensive problem to solve (clay tiles are cheap).
Probably the same thing that any former windows user would freak out about. I just did it for the first time in Ubuntu on my old laptop. Look at all the processes... they all must be using memory and CPU or something!!
Based on the discussion earlier this week about teaching children how to program, I followed a recommended link to the Alice language. What a fantastic idea that builds upon many of the concepts of teaching and learning an object based computer programming language. That it extends so naturally from the MIT based Scratch language is just a bonus.
So I got to know a little of Dr. Pausch's work earlier this week thank to Slashdot, and now get to sit here in sadness for a few minutes thanks to the same.
It seems we are in the same place years and years later. Way back when overclocking Celeron 400s was the rage, I bought a multi-processor motherboard to run twin Intel Pentium IIs. I bought a SuSE Linux package after reading that Windows 95 would not support dual processors... you can see where this is going... except for rolling my own kernel and a few other things (like compiling code), the system largely ran on one processor even with SMP turned on in the kernel.
So it seems we have similar complaints 8 or more years later. How disappointing. I only wish I knew how to program to the level where I could help solve this.
I think you will find the interest in text based games is very different for the current teenage crowd than it was for most of us in the early 80s. Our text based games were a) all we could reasonably code and b) we hadn't seen what was really possible with computers yet.
Take it from a teenagers perspective, like my 12 year old who has played portal, unreal tournament, Lego star wars, you name it. Programming or playing a text based game will be fun for a little while, but honestly there will be a point where he'll ask what the point is, and then the gap between what a single, beginner programmer can do and a full development team of game writers can do.
My son and I had this very same conversation this weekend. He has always said he wants to be a doctor, and is brilliant at his school work (way better than I was). Now he said he might be interested in something technology related, so I described a few careers and ways of starting out... and downloaded Python to teach myself so that I can give him a positive start if that is what he wants to do. Knowing him, and many other kids, "simple" programming won't have much draw unless it relates to their own experience, and that might mean *gasp* giving him Visual Basic since he has spent so much time in Windows, at home and at school.
Sorry for the ramble. My point is, text based games might have held our rapt attention back when we had Apple ]['s in school, and Atari 800XLs at home, but nowadays I think it has to be more.
I used to drive autocross, which is where the comment about sitting all day for 4 minutes of seat time came from. As for flagging at the track, I did that for a few years at Limerock in CT. Lots of fun, all the excitement of watching racing plus the opportunity to be *real close* to the action. My corner was the downhill, where we'd often have students plowing into the tires at high speed. Ouch.
Avid autocrosser? You mean you like to drive great distances to sit on your ass all day long for 4 minutes of seat time per day? Nice...
See, we can poke fun at anyone's choice of automotive entertainment.
Glad to see you graduated to the real world of racing, Amateur road racing... nothing beats the excitement of competing in an actual SCCA race (not the bring-yer-car-to-the-track-days) where there is no such thing as insurance. The lump in your throat and the racing of the heart can be just as much from fright at the thought of wrecking your $X investment in a first turn crash as it is from the eagerness for a 110+mph run down the front straightaway.
p.s. NASCAR is mostly boring, and just like American Football or sex, all the excitement is in the last 10 minutes of an event. Especially Superspeedway, like Talladega or Daytona... drafting inches from one another, 185+ mph, the typical final turn 10 car pileup and the luckiest SOB wins.
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You mean those No Trespassing signs I see along plots of land throughout town can be ignored? I seriously always thought that I could be prosecuted with a pretty significant chance of losing my case if I walked across the property if a) caught and b) up against a motivated property owner. Care to share some details of your findings that require more than a sign?
No, but if I am Sears and have just invested a boatload in the Discover card, I can very well prohibit anyone from purchasing items in my store with any other credit card. The catch in the retail domain, is that there is vigorous competition so 1) a customer can go elsewhere for the same goods at a similar price and 2) Sears would be very foolish to do so.
Contrast this to the eBay/Paypal situation where they also have a financial interest but have a pretty solid lock on the online auction domain.
In your example, by the "Boss" do you mean:
a) your work boss, that is, you are now unemployed for using your work computer for p*rn?
b) your wife, that is, you are now getting it *less* for being found to be a dirty wanker?
Haha, that is not a hill, just a slight incline. It is funny what some Texans call hills. Last year some of our local riders went to Texas to do a 5 day, 500 mile ride. They came back with all kinds of stories about the "warnings" they were given on a few days of the "hills" they were going to ride through. A few of them asked where the hills were and were told that they had just been through them.
But it is all perspective. I am in Connecticut and I consider some of our hilly rides very difficult. Yet last year (same time as the TX group) I rode from CT to Pennsylvania and got a taste of what some really steep hills were like in the Poconos. And yet, someone from Colorado might laugh at what I struggled up.
For those with a medical condition, especially one as specific as epilepsy, I think your physician would have the best advice rather than Slashdot. I would venture to say that those with a medical condition comprise a very small percentage of non-exercisers, most are just not making healthy lifestyles a priority and get onto the downward spiral that eventually leads to them having the medical conditions that make exercising difficult.
Good luck with your condition. I was once diagnosed with epilepsy as a child but either grew out of it, or was misdiagnosed. I was on Dilantin for almost the entire 1970s.
I have a HR monitor with my Garmin Edge 305 cycling computer. I do not know if it specifically correlate heart rate to calories burned. Yesterday it was reporting that for a 18 mile ride in just over an hour (17.7 mph) at my current weight of 187 pounds that I burned just over 1200 calories. My tracking software, SportTracks, recalculated it to just over 1000 calories.
I don't know, I always just used 40 calories per flat mile. It may be conservative, and it definitely doesn't account for the cubed increase in power needed to raise speed, but it works to help balance out what I eat. www.bikeforums.net has a whole training/nutrition section with some *very* knowledgable people and even they can't agree on the right on-bike methodology for measuring calories burned. (they can in a lab, however)
I guess the point is, if you are too old to understand or articulate the merits of a policy change, you should stop talking and leave the voting (abstain) to the people who do understand. This country is run by grumpy old men, who sometimes just don't get it.
Well, there's no use crying over every mistake
Do we really need notification of a (dot)1 release?
Basically we need another Manhattan project, but where does the motivation come from? We are not in World War II in search of the ultimate weapon, and IMO we are not yet close to a tipping point regarding global warming to make the project palatable to the public (however mistaken and short-sighted that may be).
According to http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=245508 the Manhattan project cost $1 billion in 1945, something like $20 billion today. I also recall that the Hoover dam diverted a huge portion of its energy to the project.
So it may be some time before fusion gets the attention it needs. Until then, geothermal, wind and solar seem like relatively easier ways, both politically and scientifically, to address our energy needs.
I just finished playing Sudoku. You know, paper and pencil based numerical puzzles than can be maddeningly difficult. So at least I still like to play puzzle games. If you meant computer games, then I'd offer Portal like quite a few other people.
I'm making a note here, huge success!
Case in point, Portal. The cake is a lie.
Haven't there been lots of examples of mineral oil cooled PCs, submersing everything but the optical drives?
Agreed. The original Star Wars was universally panned by the critics.
Funny, these are all great examples of Regression toward the mean. I was searching for some examples for use in a meeting later today, and some of yours are really good!
While your proposed solution is appealing, there is one fatal flaw... there is no current roof material that acts as both a solar panel and a suitable roofing material. So when replacing a roof you have all the costs of replacing the traditional roof plus the materials and labor of the solar panels you put on top of the traditional layer.
Now the combined solar panel/roofing material units are coming, just that they are not here yet. And in Florida, everything has to be hurricane proof, which is a somewhat more expensive problem to solve (clay tiles are cheap).
Probably the same thing that any former windows user would freak out about. I just did it for the first time in Ubuntu on my old laptop. Look at all the processes... they all must be using memory and CPU or something!!
fprintf@fprintf-laptop:~$ ps -axv /sbin/init /sbin/udevd --daemon /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc /sbin/syslogd -u syslog /bin/dd bs 1 if /proc/k /sbin/klogd -P /var/run /usr/bin/dbus-daemon -- /usr/sbin
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND
1 ? Ss 0:02 34 84 2759 1688 0.1
2 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [kthreadd]
3 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [ksoftirqd/0]
4 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [watchdog/0]
5 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [events/0]
6 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [khelper]
40 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [kblockd/0]
43 ? S 0:03 0 0 0 0 0.0 [kacpid]
44 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [kacpi_notify]
126 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [kseriod]
157 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [pdflush]
158 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [pdflush]
159 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [kswapd0]
198 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [aio/0]
1258 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [ksnapd]
1511 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [ksuspend_usbd]
1513 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [khubd]
1657 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [ata/0]
1659 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [ata_aux]
1673 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [scsi_eh_0]
1677 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [scsi_eh_1]
2550 ? S 0:01 0 0 0 0 0.0 [kjournald]
2776 ? Ss 0:00 0 63 2452 1060 0.1
3096 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [pccardd]
3106 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [kpsmoused]
3113 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [pccardd]
3172 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [irda_sir_wq]
4146 ? Ss 0:00 0 328 2111 540 0.0 dhclient3 -e IF_METRIC=
4641 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 0 12 1703 508 0.0
4642 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 0 12 1703 512 0.0
4646 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 0 12 1703 508 0.0
4647 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 0 12 1703 508 0.0
4649 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 0 12 1703 504 0.0
4824 ? Ss 0:00 0 17 2438 1368 0.1
4858 ? Ss 0:00 0 25 1910 684 0.0
4914 ? S 0:00 0 45 1826 540 0.0
4916 ? Ss 0:00 0 19 3264 2164 0.2
4938 ? Ss 0:04 0 307 2588 1360 0.1
4954 ? Ss 0:00 0 293 4402 1984 0.1
Based on the discussion earlier this week about teaching children how to program, I followed a recommended link to the Alice language. What a fantastic idea that builds upon many of the concepts of teaching and learning an object based computer programming language. That it extends so naturally from the MIT based Scratch language is just a bonus.
So I got to know a little of Dr. Pausch's work earlier this week thank to Slashdot, and now get to sit here in sadness for a few minutes thanks to the same.
That was unbelievable. Thank you for sharing that link (for those of us challenged behind video-disabled firewalls @ work).
As an owner of a Microsoft Natural keyboard that is still going strong, I'd say that you are mistaken... some of their hardware has been quite good!
It seems we are in the same place years and years later. Way back when overclocking Celeron 400s was the rage, I bought a multi-processor motherboard to run twin Intel Pentium IIs. I bought a SuSE Linux package after reading that Windows 95 would not support dual processors... you can see where this is going... except for rolling my own kernel and a few other things (like compiling code), the system largely ran on one processor even with SMP turned on in the kernel.
So it seems we have similar complaints 8 or more years later. How disappointing. I only wish I knew how to program to the level where I could help solve this.
I think you will find the interest in text based games is very different for the current teenage crowd than it was for most of us in the early 80s. Our text based games were a) all we could reasonably code and b) we hadn't seen what was really possible with computers yet.
Take it from a teenagers perspective, like my 12 year old who has played portal, unreal tournament, Lego star wars, you name it. Programming or playing a text based game will be fun for a little while, but honestly there will be a point where he'll ask what the point is, and then the gap between what a single, beginner programmer can do and a full development team of game writers can do.
My son and I had this very same conversation this weekend. He has always said he wants to be a doctor, and is brilliant at his school work (way better than I was). Now he said he might be interested in something technology related, so I described a few careers and ways of starting out... and downloaded Python to teach myself so that I can give him a positive start if that is what he wants to do. Knowing him, and many other kids, "simple" programming won't have much draw unless it relates to their own experience, and that might mean *gasp* giving him Visual Basic since he has spent so much time in Windows, at home and at school.
Sorry for the ramble. My point is, text based games might have held our rapt attention back when we had Apple ]['s in school, and Atari 800XLs at home, but nowadays I think it has to be more.
I used to drive autocross, which is where the comment about sitting all day for 4 minutes of seat time came from. As for flagging at the track, I did that for a few years at Limerock in CT. Lots of fun, all the excitement of watching racing plus the opportunity to be *real close* to the action. My corner was the downhill, where we'd often have students plowing into the tires at high speed. Ouch.
Avid autocrosser? You mean you like to drive great distances to sit on your ass all day long for 4 minutes of seat time per day? Nice...
See, we can poke fun at anyone's choice of automotive entertainment.
Glad to see you graduated to the real world of racing, Amateur road racing... nothing beats the excitement of competing in an actual SCCA race (not the bring-yer-car-to-the-track-days) where there is no such thing as insurance. The lump in your throat and the racing of the heart can be just as much from fright at the thought of wrecking your $X investment in a first turn crash as it is from the eagerness for a 110+mph run down the front straightaway.
p.s. NASCAR is mostly boring, and just like American Football or sex, all the excitement is in the last 10 minutes of an event. Especially Superspeedway, like Talladega or Daytona... drafting inches from one another, 185+ mph, the typical final turn 10 car pileup and the luckiest SOB wins.