America's cup boats typically are hauled out of the water after every days racing. There is little opportunity for stuff to stick to them because they are always moving, and anything that does stick is washed off. Furthermore there is a ton of work done at low reynolds numbers and boundary layers to ensure the boat bottoms are as efficient as possible - including micro-grooving the bottom material. I am not sure about America's cup, but in many racing series it is against the rules to add any shedding coatings other than anti-foul paint. America's cup boats do not use anti-foul.
It seems a long time ago that I built my first SMP computer back in the days of dual celerons (thought I used dual PIIs). The thing that was frustrating back then was that my copy of Windows (98 as I recall) couldn't take advantage of the extra processor, so I was stuck at whatever speed my #1 CPU was going for my games. What a waste of money.
At that time, however, I discovered Linux and had a SuSE system dual booting on it. And yet about the only thing ready for SMP around that time was compiling the kernel. Oh how I used to laugh with glee at compiling a brand new kernel, after just a tweak here or there, and have it ready in under a minute. I'd tweak just one thing and recompile just because I could do so quickly, check it out and then revert the changes. I could sit there imagining the bozos with their single processor computers waiting for multiple minutes to do that same thing. I was so cool!
*insert obligatory Monty Python quote: Oh how I'd lay awake at night and dream of being spit at in the face.*
This comes down to a fundamental question of who owns fossils, or any natural resources for that matter. I just wonder if 50 or 100 years from now, after someone has long paid for these at auction, that society/courts/prior landowners/native peoples/you-name-an-interest-group will sue for the return of these "stolen" artifacts.
We see this happen with art and antiquities all the time. Those things taken from their original home, either in time of war or time of peace are destined to be fought over years later. So how long will it be before society changes and it seems reasonable that one interest group gets enough support and whomever purchases the fossils will be forced to give them back, perhaps even without getting their money back.
I didn't see anything in the article that said hourly employees or employees who worked less than a full-time role got health insurance. However I did find in the following application to Fast Company a statement from the founder/CEO that he used the term "health benefits to all agents". http://www.fastcompany.com/fast-50-2008-application/fast-50-2008-application-76
I must admit, I too was about to discount the article based on the terminology they used. As it turns out, a little searching transformed my instinctive distaste into a little respect.
I do not know where you or the parent poster lives, but I can assure you anywhere south of northern Canada it is unlikely that the concrete will get below 0 celcius. I live in the NE United States where it can get quite cold and our basements are almost always temperate (50 degrees F in winter, 60 degrees F in summer). We do not, however, have permafrost. YMMV.
If meta-moderation is worth anything, the moderator(s) who participated in modding this interesting instead of funny will be corrected. Not that it matters anymore with the aggregated karma scores.
Parking meters are not only about collecting revenue. Another point of parking meters is to discourage car traffic in the cities, the more expensive the greater the disincentive to drive in. I understand that in a primarily residential area that it is nice to have meterless parking. Nevertheless, the existence of meters in residential areas will generally reduce congestion and encourage people to live a car-less lifestyle (or encourage only people who can live such a lifestyle to live there). In NYC, for example, most people who live in Manhattan do not have cars. It is simply too expensie, and mobility via taxi or subway too easy to justify a personal vehicle.
In the city I work in the local businesses have been working with the city to charge employees for parking, and the city has just installed these smart meters and jacked up the rates. The stated ideal has been to discourage driver only commuting and to get people to drive together or use mass transportation. I have started taking the bus myself, and talked three co-workers into doing the same. We each save between $50 and $120 a month on parking alone (where I work the fee for parking scales by salary).
Maybe YOU could be the engineer that invents the 100 year concrete and make yourself a fortune. Oh yeah, I forgot... there is the pesky thing about only being able to pick two out of the three requirements: cheap, delivered on time and long lasting.
Isn't it also possible that a significant volume of the online debate over the years against the RIAA/MPAA has been by technologically savvy folks, say perhaps people in IT? And why would these people want to bite the hand that feeds them, their own software alliance?
I am not so sure the BSA's actions to date are 100% responsible for the muted reaction to their approach to software piracy. I postulate that folks that want to sell software are more likely to support them, and the folks that want to sell CDs and Movies simply aren't in a position to influence the debate the way IT folks are.
Perhaps this article is why they tell you never to put money in your mouth. Not only do you get lots of germs ingested, but you all get trace amounts of coke. Suck on 1000 quarters to get a little high.
Isn't that always the way? I mean how many people riding Harleys are anything but Corporate Tax Accountants and Project Managers pretending to be bad boys & girls. How many people getting tatoos are getting them to express their individuality, ignoring the millions of tatoo wearing humans also expressing their individuality wearing virtually identical tats?
As soon as something becomes a brand and becomes widely known (hell, I read about Burning Man in Motorcyclist magazine!) then what it originally was is no more. See if we can name one thing that when it became officially organized and well known enough to sell tickets to stayed true to its origins?
Been there, done that. It gets much easier between ages 5 and 13. Now my kids are a bit older and the scenario you described has become somewhat more nighmarish.
daughter: *whines & stamps about* me: what's wrong, why are you stamping about? daughter: I'm totally mad at you, I can't stand it!!! me: why are you mad at me? daughter: all my friends get to wear Hollister (or Abercrombie) clothes and everyone has a cell phone but me me: why do you think you can't wear those things or have a cell phone? daughter: because... cause I don't know, I just can't. me: you can't what? daughter: I want to be cool, to dress nicely, to keep my friends me: but the brand you wear shouldn't make a difference what friends you have. We don't have the money to buy these expensive clothes or to get you a cell phone daughter: *whines and stamps* Daddy, I hate you. Can't you get a second job or something? me: if you can't speak to me respectfully then this conversation is over until you can. Good night. daughter: argh, you just don't understand! Stop with this effective parenting stuff, ok?!?!? *slams bedroom door*
For those that live in suburban or rural areas there is still quite a bit of interest in deer hunting. A single deer can provide venison in various forms (e.g. steaks, sausage) that will last many people a good way through the winter. With the overpopulation of deer around here it is apparently a rare year that hunters don't get at least one. I like venison and I find hunting a whole lot more appealing than raising a cow in my backyard. I am hoping one of my friends will take me under their wing and show me how it is done.
Just had to say it. When you "break" a car, you often end up at the side of the road having to fix it or get a tow truck. It is a great source of traffic jams. When you "brake" a car you slow the vehicle down, again a great source of traffic jams.
I have mod points and what you have said is insightful for the other thread. It is unfortunate you posted it into the wrong discussion as you will undoubtedly get off-topic moderation here.
Future mods - take it easy on V1, this post belongs in the one on green lasers.
Just to add my 2 cents, I completely agree. If you go on HowardForums @ http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=330 you can get all sorts of input on the phones and service. I paid $100 for one years service and 1300 minutes. At my usage that is approx. $8 a month and since I don't talk on the phone or text that much (I still have 900 minutes left with 5 months to go on the contract) it works out much better for me than a monthly $50 bill.
With that said, I think my family is going to move to a Verizon family plan this Christmas. It is going to suck paying $100 a month (+ taxes and fees) for 4 phones with my work discount.
But, but, but... we are Generation X, long forgotten in between the baby boomers and their annoying offspring, the GenY'ers. Now that the old fogeys are retiring it is our turn in charge, and we are going to create nostalgia for our youth era gone by. No longer do we have to relive the 1960s and 1970s... nooooo, that is only for the baby boomers. Now instead we get to relive bad hair, metal, band-aid, the dawn of personal computing and video games. We get to recreate Atari 2600 games and make them into movies. We get to mandate any new pop stars create hits "remaking" the hits of our generation... hopefully we'll do better than Phil Collins did with that Supremes remake. This way we'll get to like the current popular music. And g'damn it you are going to sit through it and like it. Maybe in time you too will get sick of it and create your own grunge movement. Rap doesn't count.
To all those GenY'ers who might complain, I say you guys have nothing to bitch about for quite some time. We GenX'ers after all have sat through countless replays of Beatles and Mama's and Papa's songs on the radio, umpteen recollections of what a tragedy it was when losing John Lennon, television show after show on JFK Jr., and that god-awful mess that "the Cuba crisis" was about. About the time you have listened to Nirvana's Teen Spirit for the 10,000th time, and have your own stars go tits up (and I mean beyond that dude who played the Joker in Batman) like Kurt Cobain, well then you can complain.
As a male, let me just say that it is sometimes good to be in the minority. The downside is that unless you are a dirty old man, there is no way to take advantage of the beautification of the female portion of the human race.
I know you are attributing your fitness change to the Wii fit. I would say it is likely your weight loss is more related to your biking to work. Our family just bought a Wii Fit and we like it very much, but I do not believe it has enough calorie burning activities to make any meaningful difference in an individual's weight.
So if your wife is not also biking, walking, running or playing sports, this is probably why she isn't losing weight.
Maybe you are joking but there is a sizeable facebook group (or which I am a member) dedicated to finding out how to make a bagpipe hero. The controllers are several hundred dollars right now and the software is not yet written, but there are lots of us out here.
I love guitar hero, but would love bagpipe hero a whole lot better!
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America's cup boats typically are hauled out of the water after every days racing. There is little opportunity for stuff to stick to them because they are always moving, and anything that does stick is washed off. Furthermore there is a ton of work done at low reynolds numbers and boundary layers to ensure the boat bottoms are as efficient as possible - including micro-grooving the bottom material. I am not sure about America's cup, but in many racing series it is against the rules to add any shedding coatings other than anti-foul paint. America's cup boats do not use anti-foul.
It seems a long time ago that I built my first SMP computer back in the days of dual celerons (thought I used dual PIIs). The thing that was frustrating back then was that my copy of Windows (98 as I recall) couldn't take advantage of the extra processor, so I was stuck at whatever speed my #1 CPU was going for my games. What a waste of money.
At that time, however, I discovered Linux and had a SuSE system dual booting on it. And yet about the only thing ready for SMP around that time was compiling the kernel. Oh how I used to laugh with glee at compiling a brand new kernel, after just a tweak here or there, and have it ready in under a minute. I'd tweak just one thing and recompile just because I could do so quickly, check it out and then revert the changes. I could sit there imagining the bozos with their single processor computers waiting for multiple minutes to do that same thing. I was so cool!
*insert obligatory Monty Python quote: Oh how I'd lay awake at night and dream of being spit at in the face.*
This comes down to a fundamental question of who owns fossils, or any natural resources for that matter. I just wonder if 50 or 100 years from now, after someone has long paid for these at auction, that society/courts/prior landowners/native peoples/you-name-an-interest-group will sue for the return of these "stolen" artifacts.
We see this happen with art and antiquities all the time. Those things taken from their original home, either in time of war or time of peace are destined to be fought over years later. So how long will it be before society changes and it seems reasonable that one interest group gets enough support and whomever purchases the fossils will be forced to give them back, perhaps even without getting their money back.
I didn't see anything in the article that said hourly employees or employees who worked less than a full-time role got health insurance. However I did find in the following application to Fast Company a statement from the founder/CEO that he used the term "health benefits to all agents". http://www.fastcompany.com/fast-50-2008-application/fast-50-2008-application-76
I must admit, I too was about to discount the article based on the terminology they used. As it turns out, a little searching transformed my instinctive distaste into a little respect.
I do not know where you or the parent poster lives, but I can assure you anywhere south of northern Canada it is unlikely that the concrete will get below 0 celcius. I live in the NE United States where it can get quite cold and our basements are almost always temperate (50 degrees F in winter, 60 degrees F in summer). We do not, however, have permafrost. YMMV.
If meta-moderation is worth anything, the moderator(s) who participated in modding this interesting instead of funny will be corrected. Not that it matters anymore with the aggregated karma scores.
Parking meters are not only about collecting revenue. Another point of parking meters is to discourage car traffic in the cities, the more expensive the greater the disincentive to drive in. I understand that in a primarily residential area that it is nice to have meterless parking. Nevertheless, the existence of meters in residential areas will generally reduce congestion and encourage people to live a car-less lifestyle (or encourage only people who can live such a lifestyle to live there). In NYC, for example, most people who live in Manhattan do not have cars. It is simply too expensie, and mobility via taxi or subway too easy to justify a personal vehicle.
In the city I work in the local businesses have been working with the city to charge employees for parking, and the city has just installed these smart meters and jacked up the rates. The stated ideal has been to discourage driver only commuting and to get people to drive together or use mass transportation. I have started taking the bus myself, and talked three co-workers into doing the same. We each save between $50 and $120 a month on parking alone (where I work the fee for parking scales by salary).
Maybe YOU could be the engineer that invents the 100 year concrete and make yourself a fortune. Oh yeah, I forgot... there is the pesky thing about only being able to pick two out of the three requirements: cheap, delivered on time and long lasting.
Isn't it also possible that a significant volume of the online debate over the years against the RIAA/MPAA has been by technologically savvy folks, say perhaps people in IT? And why would these people want to bite the hand that feeds them, their own software alliance?
I am not so sure the BSA's actions to date are 100% responsible for the muted reaction to their approach to software piracy. I postulate that folks that want to sell software are more likely to support them, and the folks that want to sell CDs and Movies simply aren't in a position to influence the debate the way IT folks are.
Perhaps this article is why they tell you never to put money in your mouth. Not only do you get lots of germs ingested, but you all get trace amounts of coke. Suck on 1000 quarters to get a little high.
Isn't that always the way? I mean how many people riding Harleys are anything but Corporate Tax Accountants and Project Managers pretending to be bad boys & girls. How many people getting tatoos are getting them to express their individuality, ignoring the millions of tatoo wearing humans also expressing their individuality wearing virtually identical tats?
As soon as something becomes a brand and becomes widely known (hell, I read about Burning Man in Motorcyclist magazine!) then what it originally was is no more. See if we can name one thing that when it became officially organized and well known enough to sell tickets to stayed true to its origins?
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Been there, done that. It gets much easier between ages 5 and 13. Now my kids are a bit older and the scenario you described has become somewhat more nighmarish.
daughter: *whines & stamps about*
me: what's wrong, why are you stamping about?
daughter: I'm totally mad at you, I can't stand it!!!
me: why are you mad at me?
daughter: all my friends get to wear Hollister (or Abercrombie) clothes and everyone has a cell phone but me
me: why do you think you can't wear those things or have a cell phone?
daughter: because... cause I don't know, I just can't.
me: you can't what?
daughter: I want to be cool, to dress nicely, to keep my friends
me: but the brand you wear shouldn't make a difference what friends you have. We don't have the money to buy these expensive clothes or to get you a cell phone
daughter: *whines and stamps* Daddy, I hate you. Can't you get a second job or something?
me: if you can't speak to me respectfully then this conversation is over until you can. Good night.
daughter: argh, you just don't understand! Stop with this effective parenting stuff, ok?!?!? *slams bedroom door*
Just wait!!! :-)
Matilda, is that you?
For those that live in suburban or rural areas there is still quite a bit of interest in deer hunting. A single deer can provide venison in various forms (e.g. steaks, sausage) that will last many people a good way through the winter. With the overpopulation of deer around here it is apparently a rare year that hunters don't get at least one. I like venison and I find hunting a whole lot more appealing than raising a cow in my backyard. I am hoping one of my friends will take me under their wing and show me how it is done.
Breaking != Braking.
Just had to say it. When you "break" a car, you often end up at the side of the road having to fix it or get a tow truck. It is a great source of traffic jams. When you "brake" a car you slow the vehicle down, again a great source of traffic jams.
Since the researchers are at Oxford, shouldn't the new material be "Aluminium"?
I have mod points and what you have said is insightful for the other thread. It is unfortunate you posted it into the wrong discussion as you will undoubtedly get off-topic moderation here.
Future mods - take it easy on V1, this post belongs in the one on green lasers.
Just to add my 2 cents, I completely agree. If you go on HowardForums @ http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=330 you can get all sorts of input on the phones and service. I paid $100 for one years service and 1300 minutes. At my usage that is approx. $8 a month and since I don't talk on the phone or text that much (I still have 900 minutes left with 5 months to go on the contract) it works out much better for me than a monthly $50 bill.
With that said, I think my family is going to move to a Verizon family plan this Christmas. It is going to suck paying $100 a month (+ taxes and fees) for 4 phones with my work discount.
But, but, but... we are Generation X, long forgotten in between the baby boomers and their annoying offspring, the GenY'ers. Now that the old fogeys are retiring it is our turn in charge, and we are going to create nostalgia for our youth era gone by. No longer do we have to relive the 1960s and 1970s... nooooo, that is only for the baby boomers. Now instead we get to relive bad hair, metal, band-aid, the dawn of personal computing and video games. We get to recreate Atari 2600 games and make them into movies. We get to mandate any new pop stars create hits "remaking" the hits of our generation... hopefully we'll do better than Phil Collins did with that Supremes remake. This way we'll get to like the current popular music. And g'damn it you are going to sit through it and like it. Maybe in time you too will get sick of it and create your own grunge movement. Rap doesn't count.
To all those GenY'ers who might complain, I say you guys have nothing to bitch about for quite some time. We GenX'ers after all have sat through countless replays of Beatles and Mama's and Papa's songs on the radio, umpteen recollections of what a tragedy it was when losing John Lennon, television show after show on JFK Jr., and that god-awful mess that "the Cuba crisis" was about. About the time you have listened to Nirvana's Teen Spirit for the 10,000th time, and have your own stars go tits up (and I mean beyond that dude who played the Joker in Batman) like Kurt Cobain, well then you can complain.
Now get off my lawn.
Perhpas consider looking further back in your movie histories. The 1980s were particularly bad. Raquel Welch? Any of the Bond girls?
Going even further back, look at Audrey Hepburn for example, she was smoking cute.
As a male, let me just say that it is sometimes good to be in the minority. The downside is that unless you are a dirty old man, there is no way to take advantage of the beautification of the female portion of the human race.
Just don't also decide to go back and take care of Hitler. Everyone does that their first time and it is annoying to have to go back and fix it.
I know you are attributing your fitness change to the Wii fit. I would say it is likely your weight loss is more related to your biking to work. Our family just bought a Wii Fit and we like it very much, but I do not believe it has enough calorie burning activities to make any meaningful difference in an individual's weight.
So if your wife is not also biking, walking, running or playing sports, this is probably why she isn't losing weight.
Maybe you are joking but there is a sizeable facebook group (or which I am a member) dedicated to finding out how to make a bagpipe hero. The controllers are several hundred dollars right now and the software is not yet written, but there are lots of us out here.
I love guitar hero, but would love bagpipe hero a whole lot better!