True, but something more important happens in just 1 week: an election. ALL the representatives, and 1/3rd of the senators are up for election. If they see a response now, they know it is an issue. Make sure you mention that you are basing your vote on how they vote on this - that will get attention. Then vote both this election based on their promise. If they break the promise (or take the wrong side and get elected anyway), vote against them next time around.
There is one thing congressmen fear more than anything else: voters with a long memory. So give yourself a long memory and use it.
Err no, overall I ate healthier than the average student. Sure I ate McDonalds when working there, but most of my meals where elsewhere. I cook for myself, and I always made sure they were well balanced. My health is just fine. Better than many others my age in fact, in part because I've always avoided junk food, and when I did have it, just a little bit.
I also don't drink, and I never could stand crowds/parties. These two are major time and money wasters for the average kid. Mind you have to make your own choices. I have nothing against someone who chooses to enjoy school years and pay for it latter. That wasn't my choice. I'm annoyed when someone claims only the rich can get through school paying for it themselves, cause I did it.
I don't have a significant other. I'm still looking. Then again "everyone" knows that for the typical/. geek this is normal.:)
Mostly correct, but the toaster is a special case. The toaster is ungrounded because it is safer when (not if) someone puts a knife in it. For just about everything else, grounds are required by UL. Toasters are about the only thing where having a ground would make it fail UL!
Depends on the situation. I know for me as a student it often was. I paid for my tuition, books, dorm, and food working at McDonalds. No loans or grants, just simple hard work. Many years an extra $100 would break break the budget for several months. I had to live cheap in order to do it.
Things were not that bad. I reccomend it to everyone. Though I understand most are unwilling to give up anything resembling a life to do it.
I haven't seen this series, but I'm guessing it is like every other thing I've seen lately: build up artificial emotion, then turn the cameras on. Back in the studio have the narrator go a step further, just in case you don't get the emition, tell you how emotional everyone is getting.
Granted I don't own a TV, so I've only seen it a few times here and there at friends houses.
There are times where traffic lights are the safest solution to traffic problems. However in many cases a stop sign or a roundabout would be safer. However the light allows the city to control which drivers get to go.
Unfortunaly in the US we don't have many, meaning that people don't know how to react the few times they see them. Having more would make them safer here. In Europe they already have them often enough to see the safety benefits.
Not exactly. You don't need a full cellar extending below the frost line. You just need the foundation extending below the frost line. Generally once it is a given that you are digging down 6 feet all around the house, and putting in that much concrete block, you may was well put in the full cellar.
I've seen houses built without a cellar up here in MN though. This is normally done when the water level is just below the ground. A common situation here. People like to live next to the lake, and there are a lot of lakes in this state.
Maybe. His computer doesn't run on AC at all. You can buy 12 volt power supplies for some computers. Telecom runs their computers on 48 volts DC. (not all, but all the important ones)
Light bulbs don't care about DC. Small motors don't care. I suspect that he only has two devices that care: his fridge, and his furnace. Everything else transforms either doesn't care, or transforms the AC into something else anyway, so a good hacker could find that something else and make it work.
Warning, if you consider the above, don't just try things. You never know when you will discover the rare device that does care. Do some research first. The principals apply though.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but check out Home power magazine. Many things that a good hacker can adapt. They are most US based, so they won't cover some UK issues. (US is 60 hz)
Just watch the politics, there are very many publications more extreme on the "left". Interesting in other words, but don't believe everything they write.
Thats exactly the point. Any good general who knows that a target must be taken, but it will cost 90% of his men, will start looking for alternatives. Sending 1000 robots to get shot is a lot better than sending 500 men.
Bush has said often that there will not be a draft, there are enough troops. In fact more than enough, the military doesn't take everyone who walks through their doors trying to get in.
Kerry says we need 40,000 more troops. Where is he going to get them? True he can start with those who were refused, but is that enough?
Kerry has said that he would go to war in Iraq. He hasn't been real clear, and who knows what he would have really done, but there is a good chance that if he was president now there would still be troops in Iraq.
Some democrats (Not kerry, AFAIK) have tried to start a draft. Call a political play, but the fact is it is the democrats that are trying to start the draft.
In short, you are more in danger - on this issue - if Kerry is elected. There are, of course, thousands of issues. Study them and make a decision based on facts, not feelings.
It isn't meant to carry people. Put a gun on it, and you can send a bunch to places where you expect 90% casually rates, without worry. The few that make it take out the target, then people come latter, gather all the ones that didn't make it and fix them. No loss of life.
Issues like knowing who to shoot, telling the good guys from the bad, and the laws of robots are left as an exercise for the reader.:)
Ahh, but thats the beauty of market forces: All it takes is on person who has the foresight to realize the need 20 years in advance, and develops it. That person gets rich by investing long term, off everyone else. Thus rewarding someone with foresight to invest long term.
In case you have not noticed, alternative energy has been with us for years. I can recall reading about it in the early 1980s. Someone will be getting rich - someone who realizes the right time to invest.
Every adviser I've talked to has told me that money is best made investing long term, by which they mean not less than 10 years, and the most from 30 years.
No matter how many wrongs you add up, you will never create a right.
I'm well aware of the federal government intruding in states rights in all sorts of ways. Too bad the states as a whole don't have the guts to refuse that money. In the long run we would all be better off.
I can buy E-85 for $1.75/gallon, or regular gas for $2.00/gallon. Yes I lose a little milage with E-85, but not enough to make up the cost difference. Problem is my car isn't designed for e-85. If I could convert cheap enough I'd do it.
One other thing: my car is missing on one cylinder. If a cheap computer change could make the engine deal with that situation better I'd be happy. If I could just shut off that stupid blinking check engine light it would be nice. (been flashing for nearly 10,000 miles now, but since I still have enough power I don't care) I already know that the problem is. It isn't worth fixing. That means that nothing well tell me when some problem worth fixing happens. I'll replace the O2 sensor for instance. A computer I can program would be nice just for this reason.
If I earn $10,000/year of taxable income, and my tax rate changes by 1%, that amounts to $100 of my money. (number picked only to make the math easy) You can earn that much working part time at Mcdonald's. Since various candidates have proposed changing the tax rate, it is a real concern.
My vote alone isn't much. My vote with several other people who think like me it. There is more at stake than president. Everyone in the US is also voting on who goes to the house, and 2/3rds also are voting on a senator. Nearly all states, counties, townships, and towns also have their local election at the same time. As the areas get smaller, my vote matters more. The difference in tax rate between two towns can amount to several thousand per year, and that makes voting worth while.
Note that I'm arguing more than just taxes. I'm not arguing the benefit of what ever those taxes are spent on. However if you are in favor of current or higher taxes, remember most who promise to cut taxes also promise to cut programs. (though they are less willing to follow through)
And you have just forced a state to do something they don't want to. It is not fair for people in some state that does not want a lottery to pay taxes that would then go to someone in a different state that takes the lottery money.
Anything else is a poll tax. Already known to be unconstitutional.
Coke and Diet Coke do about the same to the teeth. Coke has sugar, so it is worse, but both are strong acids (they taste like battery acid because they taste like an other acid...).
I hate anything with carbonated water, so it is easy for me sitting on the sidelines to laugh at those who love the junk. I do eat fast food, but I'm careful about what I allow subway to put on my lunch. Ends up being healthier than most of the lunches I could get.
Interesting, I have never heard of dyspraxia before. Google is my friend though.
Some of it applies, some does not. Typical. Unless there is a treatment that will help (one without side effects, which often are worse), it really doesn't matter that there is a label.
Thank you though. It is worth knowing about even if there is nothing more to do.
You would think he was in politics, the way he dodged that question. He should have had the guts to say something. A well worded defense on software patents might change someone's mind. I know I'd personally be open to changing my mind, if someone would just tell me why.
Someday I might play devil's advocate and come up with a defense. I'm not as well respected, nor as good a writer as he is though, so I'd rather he did it. Instead he played politics, ignoring a question that might inflame people against him.
No, you need to solve the problem better than the competition. Sony wasn't a name in video games for years, but they own the market now. Nintendo wasn't a name when Atari was raking in cash with the 2600. (Yes Nintendo did have some games, but they weren't a big player, and they didn't have a console) Sony figured out how to do it better.
I recall seeing Segas with CD adaptors long before the dreamcast, so it isn't even a case of seeing a new direction. Instead they saw a market that was ready, and they took it.
Marketing is always important. Who was the first to fly across the Atlantic? Most people answer Lindberg, which is wrong. I can't recall who was first though, Lindburg has the marketing. (I'm also not sure how to spell his name, sorry)
I'm going to explain this HOW? I can do it on my own, (though on my system I never have this problem, FreeBSD and linux get this part right) but I'm not gonna drive over to their house everytime they want to install something. Gas isn't free in case you haven't noticed.
Point taken. I don't mean to suggest that call centers are a majority of the jobs. At ~1 billion people there, there aren't enough English speaking people in the rest of the world to support a majority of your people on those jobs. They are however jobs, and they bring money into your country. Alone, not it won't rescue your country. Nothing alone will, it is a piece of the solution, and an easy one at that.
However even if you reject all call center jobs, that doesn't change my point. For better of worse (mostly worse, English is a awful language in many ways) it is the standard for world communication at this time. Speak it well and many other jobs will come your way. The world works much better when we work together. Don't try to prove Fermat's last therom - someone else did, study their proof, and see if that leads you to something new.
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Hmm,, 3500 spread over 30 years. Or 3000 spread over... one day.
Does that put it in perspective? One single day, with no real warning.
Perhaps we are over reacting, but that is a large blow any way you look at it.
True, but something more important happens in just 1 week: an election. ALL the representatives, and 1/3rd of the senators are up for election. If they see a response now, they know it is an issue. Make sure you mention that you are basing your vote on how they vote on this - that will get attention. Then vote both this election based on their promise. If they break the promise (or take the wrong side and get elected anyway), vote against them next time around.
There is one thing congressmen fear more than anything else: voters with a long memory. So give yourself a long memory and use it.
Err no, overall I ate healthier than the average student. Sure I ate McDonalds when working there, but most of my meals where elsewhere. I cook for myself, and I always made sure they were well balanced. My health is just fine. Better than many others my age in fact, in part because I've always avoided junk food, and when I did have it, just a little bit.
I also don't drink, and I never could stand crowds/parties. These two are major time and money wasters for the average kid. Mind you have to make your own choices. I have nothing against someone who chooses to enjoy school years and pay for it latter. That wasn't my choice. I'm annoyed when someone claims only the rich can get through school paying for it themselves, cause I did it.
I don't have a significant other. I'm still looking. Then again "everyone" knows that for the typical /. geek this is normal. :)
Mostly correct, but the toaster is a special case. The toaster is ungrounded because it is safer when (not if) someone puts a knife in it. For just about everything else, grounds are required by UL. Toasters are about the only thing where having a ground would make it fail UL!
Depends on the situation. I know for me as a student it often was. I paid for my tuition, books, dorm, and food working at McDonalds. No loans or grants, just simple hard work. Many years an extra $100 would break break the budget for several months. I had to live cheap in order to do it.
Things were not that bad. I reccomend it to everyone. Though I understand most are unwilling to give up anything resembling a life to do it.
I haven't seen this series, but I'm guessing it is like every other thing I've seen lately: build up artificial emotion, then turn the cameras on. Back in the studio have the narrator go a step further, just in case you don't get the emition, tell you how emotional everyone is getting.
Granted I don't own a TV, so I've only seen it a few times here and there at friends houses.
There are times where traffic lights are the safest solution to traffic problems. However in many cases a stop sign or a roundabout would be safer. However the light allows the city to control which drivers get to go.
Unfortunaly in the US we don't have many, meaning that people don't know how to react the few times they see them. Having more would make them safer here. In Europe they already have them often enough to see the safety benefits.
Not exactly. You don't need a full cellar extending below the frost line. You just need the foundation extending below the frost line. Generally once it is a given that you are digging down 6 feet all around the house, and putting in that much concrete block, you may was well put in the full cellar.
I've seen houses built without a cellar up here in MN though. This is normally done when the water level is just below the ground. A common situation here. People like to live next to the lake, and there are a lot of lakes in this state.
Maybe. His computer doesn't run on AC at all. You can buy 12 volt power supplies for some computers. Telecom runs their computers on 48 volts DC. (not all, but all the important ones)
Light bulbs don't care about DC. Small motors don't care. I suspect that he only has two devices that care: his fridge, and his furnace. Everything else transforms either doesn't care, or transforms the AC into something else anyway, so a good hacker could find that something else and make it work.
Warning, if you consider the above, don't just try things. You never know when you will discover the rare device that does care. Do some research first. The principals apply though.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but check out Home power magazine. Many things that a good hacker can adapt. They are most US based, so they won't cover some UK issues. (US is 60 hz)
Just watch the politics, there are very many publications more extreme on the "left". Interesting in other words, but don't believe everything they write.
Thats exactly the point. Any good general who knows that a target must be taken, but it will cost 90% of his men, will start looking for alternatives. Sending 1000 robots to get shot is a lot better than sending 500 men.
Bush has said often that there will not be a draft, there are enough troops. In fact more than enough, the military doesn't take everyone who walks through their doors trying to get in.
Kerry says we need 40,000 more troops. Where is he going to get them? True he can start with those who were refused, but is that enough?
Kerry has said that he would go to war in Iraq. He hasn't been real clear, and who knows what he would have really done, but there is a good chance that if he was president now there would still be troops in Iraq.
Some democrats (Not kerry, AFAIK) have tried to start a draft. Call a political play, but the fact is it is the democrats that are trying to start the draft.
In short, you are more in danger - on this issue - if Kerry is elected. There are, of course, thousands of issues. Study them and make a decision based on facts, not feelings.
It isn't meant to carry people. Put a gun on it, and you can send a bunch to places where you expect 90% casually rates, without worry. The few that make it take out the target, then people come latter, gather all the ones that didn't make it and fix them. No loss of life.
Issues like knowing who to shoot, telling the good guys from the bad, and the laws of robots are left as an exercise for the reader. :)
Ahh, but thats the beauty of market forces: All it takes is on person who has the foresight to realize the need 20 years in advance, and develops it. That person gets rich by investing long term, off everyone else. Thus rewarding someone with foresight to invest long term.
In case you have not noticed, alternative energy has been with us for years. I can recall reading about it in the early 1980s. Someone will be getting rich - someone who realizes the right time to invest.
Every adviser I've talked to has told me that money is best made investing long term, by which they mean not less than 10 years, and the most from 30 years.
No matter how many wrongs you add up, you will never create a right.
I'm well aware of the federal government intruding in states rights in all sorts of ways. Too bad the states as a whole don't have the guts to refuse that money. In the long run we would all be better off.
I can buy E-85 for $1.75/gallon, or regular gas for $2.00/gallon. Yes I lose a little milage with E-85, but not enough to make up the cost difference. Problem is my car isn't designed for e-85. If I could convert cheap enough I'd do it.
One other thing: my car is missing on one cylinder. If a cheap computer change could make the engine deal with that situation better I'd be happy. If I could just shut off that stupid blinking check engine light it would be nice. (been flashing for nearly 10,000 miles now, but since I still have enough power I don't care) I already know that the problem is. It isn't worth fixing. That means that nothing well tell me when some problem worth fixing happens. I'll replace the O2 sensor for instance. A computer I can program would be nice just for this reason.
If I earn $10,000/year of taxable income, and my tax rate changes by 1%, that amounts to $100 of my money. (number picked only to make the math easy) You can earn that much working part time at Mcdonald's. Since various candidates have proposed changing the tax rate, it is a real concern.
My vote alone isn't much. My vote with several other people who think like me it. There is more at stake than president. Everyone in the US is also voting on who goes to the house, and 2/3rds also are voting on a senator. Nearly all states, counties, townships, and towns also have their local election at the same time. As the areas get smaller, my vote matters more. The difference in tax rate between two towns can amount to several thousand per year, and that makes voting worth while.
Note that I'm arguing more than just taxes. I'm not arguing the benefit of what ever those taxes are spent on. However if you are in favor of current or higher taxes, remember most who promise to cut taxes also promise to cut programs. (though they are less willing to follow through)
And you have just forced a state to do something they don't want to. It is not fair for people in some state that does not want a lottery to pay taxes that would then go to someone in a different state that takes the lottery money.
Anything else is a poll tax. Already known to be unconstitutional.
When your margin of error is 10%, 6 feet = 1 meters. You are making the common freshman mistake of using more digits than are significant.
Coke and Diet Coke do about the same to the teeth. Coke has sugar, so it is worse, but both are strong acids (they taste like battery acid because they taste like an other acid...).
I hate anything with carbonated water, so it is easy for me sitting on the sidelines to laugh at those who love the junk. I do eat fast food, but I'm careful about what I allow subway to put on my lunch. Ends up being healthier than most of the lunches I could get.
Interesting, I have never heard of dyspraxia before. Google is my friend though.
Some of it applies, some does not. Typical. Unless there is a treatment that will help (one without side effects, which often are worse), it really doesn't matter that there is a label.
Thank you though. It is worth knowing about even if there is nothing more to do.
You would think he was in politics, the way he dodged that question. He should have had the guts to say something. A well worded defense on software patents might change someone's mind. I know I'd personally be open to changing my mind, if someone would just tell me why.
Someday I might play devil's advocate and come up with a defense. I'm not as well respected, nor as good a writer as he is though, so I'd rather he did it. Instead he played politics, ignoring a question that might inflame people against him.
No, you need to solve the problem better than the competition. Sony wasn't a name in video games for years, but they own the market now. Nintendo wasn't a name when Atari was raking in cash with the 2600. (Yes Nintendo did have some games, but they weren't a big player, and they didn't have a console) Sony figured out how to do it better.
I recall seeing Segas with CD adaptors long before the dreamcast, so it isn't even a case of seeing a new direction. Instead they saw a market that was ready, and they took it.
Marketing is always important. Who was the first to fly across the Atlantic? Most people answer Lindberg, which is wrong. I can't recall who was first though, Lindburg has the marketing. (I'm also not sure how to spell his name, sorry)
I'm going to explain this HOW? I can do it on my own, (though on my system I never have this problem, FreeBSD and linux get this part right) but I'm not gonna drive over to their house everytime they want to install something. Gas isn't free in case you haven't noticed.
Point taken. I don't mean to suggest that call centers are a majority of the jobs. At ~1 billion people there, there aren't enough English speaking people in the rest of the world to support a majority of your people on those jobs. They are however jobs, and they bring money into your country. Alone, not it won't rescue your country. Nothing alone will, it is a piece of the solution, and an easy one at that.
However even if you reject all call center jobs, that doesn't change my point. For better of worse (mostly worse, English is a awful language in many ways) it is the standard for world communication at this time. Speak it well and many other jobs will come your way. The world works much better when we work together. Don't try to prove Fermat's last therom - someone else did, study their proof, and see if that leads you to something new.