Watches, smartwatches, health monitors - if you're not actively sick, they tend to be a bad idea.
Research studies have shown smartwatches actually encourage you to self-defeat health and exercise goals, by setting an upper limit on how much you do. Better methods include bar measures (where you start off in Red, go to Yellow, go to Green, and then go Yellow if you exercise too long without water or a rest break), candy systems (e.g. Pokemon Go where you get candy for your monsters if you complete a designated unit, but it doesn't stop adding), and other real feedback cycles.
Also, self-monitoring tends to decrease the reward aspect of the exercise itself.
Plus, seriously, who spends $500 on a fricking wristband?
no, peer reviewed scientific journals on ScienceDirect. Most alumni of research colleges and universities can access that, and a larger quantity of such research is available to the general public if it's federally funded in part. You can usually read the published articles, whereas research students staff and faculty can read the not yet published research.
Adapt. The future owes you nothing. Science has no agenda.
The energy of that storm was, from our own calculations, about 50/50 normal cyclical energy and human added climate change energy.
Future storms will be even higher levels of human created energy.
Heat doesn't just disappear. Although some ME and CE colleagues here at the UW have a cool example of transforming low grade heat into electricity to charge your cell phones in Africa and disaster zones (and also for hiking) check out their kickstarter
No, that's like thinking that your full tank of gas is immediately burnt after you fill it. The effects of the mass of your gas are added to vehicle weight over the duration of the gas tank being used. You start off with a full mass and it gets used up over the lifespan of the tank of gas, at the end of which it's a mostly empty (theoretical) tank of gas (actually, tanks are designed with a 10 percent reserve, so it goes from 110 percent to 10 percent).
The C02 you release does go in the atmosphere immediately, but the effect is over a 100 year period (as was proved more than 100 years ago). N02 has a 10-20 year lifespan. Methane is also a short duration gas, like N02, but both have other side effects. Think of it as a slowly deflating bubble of C02 - at the end of 100 years it's empty, but 50 years on it's only half empty. All the C02 in the atmosphere is from the last 100 years. We add a small fraction today (say 2016), but the prior 100 years is all there, on average. Thus we get the effects of the Arctic melting permafrost impacting us now, and for the time it takes to cycle it out.
it's like adding more and more blankets as you get hot. stop putting on more blankets. the blankets are slowly removed, but you'll still get hotter, since you have too many blankets on.
If you are having font size problems due to readability, in general, a site-wide font size increase is recommended. If a specific article chose very small fonts, most sites have A symbols with a +/- font size increase/decrease that applies to the page.
Or you can increase font sizes in general on Chrome and Opera and Firefox.
Now go Read The Fine Manual. I'm not here to solve your problems, grandpa.
Wrong. C02 persists in the lower atmosphere for around 100 years. You might be thinking of the upper troposhere, and the interactions of the shorter lived N02 and methane, which have shorter atmospheric lifespans.
Don't want to sound like an old fart, but I'm going to... the first web pages looked fairly similar to a printed page because the printed page is pretty much the ideal way to read. Jesus, some of us have grandparents who died in the war over Serif/Sans-Serif fonts.
unfortunately, Comic Sans won the font wars, in a lightning strike that was unforeseen by all
Actually, chicken and fish have about 1/20th the impact that grass-fed cattle do. Or just use beefalo, which is about 1/10th the impact and is way tastier.
What most people don't get is that CO2 takes about 100 years to cycle out of the atmosphere. And about 20 years to impact the cycles.
The climate change you see today is from what we did from 1900 to 1990. It's already baked in. The changes we do today affect 2035 to 2135.
However, planting trees or algae farms which we then store and don't use has an impact immeadiately.
Seaweed is actually a great carbon store.
In terms of immeadiate impacts, the best you can do is:
1. stop eating beef, unless it's free range beefalo or beef in non-pastoral settings (yes, cow farts do impact the climate, but it's what they eat especially that matters). Side effect: healthier for you in terms of heart risk and diet, bonus points.
2. stop flying on old inefficient airplanes except for turboprops. Use high speed rail where it exists, or boats.
3. replace all your old inefficient money wasting appliances with new high efficient energy star appliances. As a personal example, I cut my utility bill in HALF by doing this, and the new stuff is WAY QUIETER and uses less hot water. And my clothes wear out half as fast. massive cost savings here. Fridge, washer, dryer.
4. get a hybrid or plug in car or truck. In Canada they have 2017 model plug in trucks. Same goes for business. Saves TONS OF DOLLARS on fuel and maintenance. Plus, if you buy high end cars, the added electric power makes your car a speed demon! Ultra fast!
Look, when we built the Internet (back in the ARPA days), it was restricted to trusted players at military and research universities.
Then we let in the unwashed masses.
Then some morons decided to give Internet capability to every single device in the Internet of Things.
First principles, people:
Build one Internet based on IPv6sec for the trusted peers. The backbone.
Build a second Internet for the identified non-object computers based on IPv6sec. The unwashed masses. If parts misbehave, turn off their feeds until they fix them. Drought solves lots of problems.
Build a third Internet for the Internet of Things based on IPv6 and IPv4. Restrict the ports and traffic to essentials. So you can't play Disney in your car, too bad.
I think he means internet 3, which is at all top tier research universities in the US and UK. They do switch design, which is why you're hearing about 100 Gbps switches commercially available today, and they have quite a few 40 Gbps ports throughout almost all top tier campus locations.
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most of that is diet. you don't need a watch to alter your eating behavior, unless you're using it as a spoon ....
seriously, what's wrong with you. you can get the apps to do that on your cell phone, why would you buy an extra watch?
(stares at lazy posters)
Nobody except Asia buys watches anymore.
Watches, smartwatches, health monitors - if you're not actively sick, they tend to be a bad idea.
Research studies have shown smartwatches actually encourage you to self-defeat health and exercise goals, by setting an upper limit on how much you do. Better methods include bar measures (where you start off in Red, go to Yellow, go to Green, and then go Yellow if you exercise too long without water or a rest break), candy systems (e.g. Pokemon Go where you get candy for your monsters if you complete a designated unit, but it doesn't stop adding), and other real feedback cycles.
Also, self-monitoring tends to decrease the reward aspect of the exercise itself.
Plus, seriously, who spends $500 on a fricking wristband?
Except we have no rights in America
no, peer reviewed scientific journals on ScienceDirect. Most alumni of research colleges and universities can access that, and a larger quantity of such research is available to the general public if it's federally funded in part. You can usually read the published articles, whereas research students staff and faculty can read the not yet published research.
Adapt. The future owes you nothing. Science has no agenda.
The energy of that storm was, from our own calculations, about 50/50 normal cyclical energy and human added climate change energy.
Future storms will be even higher levels of human created energy.
Heat doesn't just disappear. Although some ME and CE colleagues here at the UW have a cool example of transforming low grade heat into electricity to charge your cell phones in Africa and disaster zones (and also for hiking) check out their kickstarter
No, that's like thinking that your full tank of gas is immediately burnt after you fill it. The effects of the mass of your gas are added to vehicle weight over the duration of the gas tank being used. You start off with a full mass and it gets used up over the lifespan of the tank of gas, at the end of which it's a mostly empty (theoretical) tank of gas (actually, tanks are designed with a 10 percent reserve, so it goes from 110 percent to 10 percent).
The C02 you release does go in the atmosphere immediately, but the effect is over a 100 year period (as was proved more than 100 years ago). N02 has a 10-20 year lifespan. Methane is also a short duration gas, like N02, but both have other side effects. Think of it as a slowly deflating bubble of C02 - at the end of 100 years it's empty, but 50 years on it's only half empty. All the C02 in the atmosphere is from the last 100 years. We add a small fraction today (say 2016), but the prior 100 years is all there, on average. Thus we get the effects of the Arctic melting permafrost impacting us now, and for the time it takes to cycle it out.
it's like adding more and more blankets as you get hot. stop putting on more blankets. the blankets are slowly removed, but you'll still get hotter, since you have too many blankets on.
If you are having font size problems due to readability, in general, a site-wide font size increase is recommended. If a specific article chose very small fonts, most sites have A symbols with a +/- font size increase/decrease that applies to the page.
Or you can increase font sizes in general on Chrome and Opera and Firefox.
Now go Read The Fine Manual. I'm not here to solve your problems, grandpa.
Wrong. C02 persists in the lower atmosphere for around 100 years. You might be thinking of the upper troposhere, and the interactions of the shorter lived N02 and methane, which have shorter atmospheric lifespans.
No, I read the scientific research online, n00b
Then you turned off the menu bar. Turn it back on.
Don't want to sound like an old fart, but I'm going to... the first web pages looked fairly similar to a printed page because the printed page is pretty much the ideal way to read.
Jesus, some of us have grandparents who died in the war over Serif/Sans-Serif fonts.
unfortunately, Comic Sans won the font wars, in a lightning strike that was unforeseen by all
Actually, chicken and fish have about 1/20th the impact that grass-fed cattle do. Or just use beefalo, which is about 1/10th the impact and is way tastier.
It was underwater. Or don't you remember the last storm. The one that flooded all the subways, cut off power to half the city, and destroyed Rockaway?
N00b.
Ooh a gramma nazi. News flash, english changes over time. C?
We actually have had more major hurricanes this year (more than 12 to date) than prior years, and the year isn't over.
Hit the refresh on NOAA dot gov.
We;ll name the next one after you, farmboi.
What most people don't get is that CO2 takes about 100 years to cycle out of the atmosphere. And about 20 years to impact the cycles.
The climate change you see today is from what we did from 1900 to 1990. It's already baked in. The changes we do today affect 2035 to 2135.
However, planting trees or algae farms which we then store and don't use has an impact immeadiately.
Seaweed is actually a great carbon store.
In terms of immeadiate impacts, the best you can do is:
1. stop eating beef, unless it's free range beefalo or beef in non-pastoral settings (yes, cow farts do impact the climate, but it's what they eat especially that matters). Side effect: healthier for you in terms of heart risk and diet, bonus points.
2. stop flying on old inefficient airplanes except for turboprops. Use high speed rail where it exists, or boats.
3. replace all your old inefficient money wasting appliances with new high efficient energy star appliances. As a personal example, I cut my utility bill in HALF by doing this, and the new stuff is WAY QUIETER and uses less hot water. And my clothes wear out half as fast. massive cost savings here. Fridge, washer, dryer.
4. get a hybrid or plug in car or truck. In Canada they have 2017 model plug in trucks. Same goes for business. Saves TONS OF DOLLARS on fuel and maintenance. Plus, if you buy high end cars, the added electric power makes your car a speed demon! Ultra fast!
Seriously, there's even a setting on most pages to change the default font size, so the text renders in a larger font size.
Look on /. ... long pause ... no, it's not here. I've never seen one on any page, much less most pages.
click on your name upper right - options - ta da! there it is on slashdot
On most web sites there is a font size (usually an A) and +/- next to it. Click on that.
Seriously, there's even a setting on most pages to change the default font size, so the text renders in a larger font size.
Now go by some reading glasses, millenials, you're getting old. Stop pretending you're young.
Ooh, even less privacy! sounds like a winner!
Is it like SnapCat for Cryptkeepers?
Let me Heart that for you 3>
Think about it, if China had not weaponized botnets and put IP in every product, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Now upgrade to IPv6sec and stop whining. And shut out IoT.
Look, the answer is simple. Hire women. Promote them. Stop whining about how they don't show up at your frat parties and won't be your girlfriends.
Valid criticism. However, I'll be honest, I always could afford a T1 line at work and at home.
People in Africa spend 1/8th of their income on cell phones and charging them.
One-eighth.
To you it's only $20, to them it's half of what they make in a week.
To them, 10 Mbps is not bad. But it's still a fraction of what the rich can afford (but choose not to).
Look, when we built the Internet (back in the ARPA days), it was restricted to trusted players at military and research universities.
Then we let in the unwashed masses.
Then some morons decided to give Internet capability to every single device in the Internet of Things.
First principles, people:
Build one Internet based on IPv6sec for the trusted peers. The backbone.
Build a second Internet for the identified non-object computers based on IPv6sec. The unwashed masses. If parts misbehave, turn off their feeds until they fix them. Drought solves lots of problems.
Build a third Internet for the Internet of Things based on IPv6 and IPv4. Restrict the ports and traffic to essentials. So you can't play Disney in your car, too bad.
I think he means internet 3, which is at all top tier research universities in the US and UK. They do switch design, which is why you're hearing about 100 Gbps switches commercially available today, and they have quite a few 40 Gbps ports throughout almost all top tier campus locations.