And like the C5 - and the Segway - its few devotees will continue to claim that the problems will be dealt with by re-designing entire cities in order to facilitate their particular mode of transport.
Actually, in the Netherlands and many other countries, cities are redesigned to accomodate more and faster cycling. See this new cycling highway recently built in the Netherlands. Guess what vehicles were used for the opening ceremony.
I think it is you who never rode a recumbent in traffic. I use recumbents for my daily commute and long trips for ten years now. Even lowracers in a busy city. Since a year i ride a velomobile (a real one, without engine). It is less dangerous than riding a traditional bicycle in traffic. Of course one should never count on being seen, but the main problem with visibility is 'rubber necking'. Drivers don't see anything else but your velomobile. Luckily, I never heard one crash into something until now. *knock knock*.
Come on, you're an Apple customer now. Why would you want to listen to podcasts which aren't in the iTunes Store? You don't want to anymore. You just don't, right?
I think you should take into account the fact this picture was almost certainly "google bombed". It's childish photoshopping, ugly, not funny and should have been drowned in the thousands of Michelle Obama pictures available on the internet on prominent sites like cnn, wikipedia etc. The fact it showed up on the first page of search results instead of page 43, makes it very likely the search engine was gamed. So Google should have corrected this anyway.
On a side note, Michelle Obama is an ape. Al humans are. For some reason people find this fact offensive. Strange. Probably they missed that interesting book some British dude wrote around 1859.
Apple and Microsoft attack the problem of user interface from two completely different points of view. Microsoft wants things to be orthogonal, logical, menu driven, hierarchical, and otherwise fully featured. Apple takes the approach that the user should not want to fuss with all sorts of menus and submenus he arrogantly thinks he needs (no two button mouse for years!) and just should want to do what Apple discovered they need as simply as possible. So you end up with two completely different interfaces.
Apple's interface is elegant but inflexible. Everything fits into the existing scheme and runs perfectly within that scheme and noone could possibly ever want to do something outside the scheme.
I've watched these clouds last week on the island of Juist, Germany. It was quite amazing and mysterious, something like Aurora Borealis. You do not overlook a phenomen like this. If they had been around all through history, many cultures would have believed them to be spirits or gods and worshipped them.
Maybe this teacher is a lost cause. However, the harsh response will likely tick off not only the teacher but her 10 colleagues who might otherwise have been on the fence. The superintendent is also less likely to intervene since he'll feel like he's stuck in a war between two zealots
That is, assuming her collegues like her. Just maybe they regard her as a nervous, over-reacting troublemaker.
You could even merge Synaptic with the new universal package manager: just give users check boxes, as in Display: [] Free Open Source Software, [] Commercial Software (requires UbuntuShop account), and [] Free Proprietary Software.
Bad. Very bad. Using package managers in Linux systems has two major advantages: ease of use (why is this argument so sparsely used?), and security. As long as the package repositories of my distro are based on source code, i can trust them. When they start to offer software which is supplied in binary form only, i can no longer trust my distro.
Seriously, combining user reviews and tags to sort software into Synaptic would be a huge improvement.
The keyword in GP's post is not "capitalism". The keyword is "religion". In both capitalistic and socialistic systems one can easily reach the conclusion that selling DVD's in a way the consumer still doesn't have the right to play it, is just not a fair deal. Only when an economic system becomes a religion, an unfair deal becomes an "innovative business method".
Modern recumbents do fine in the hills, as long as you are doing more than one hill. Using your arms is not very efficient, and after a short sprint the energy in the muscles is gone and needs to be replenished.
In the long run, your power is limited by your heart-lung system, and in the really-long-run, by the digestion system. Not by your muscles. So you'd better get as much of your energy as possible directly into the pedals, and let the rest of your body rest as much as possible.
My experience in the Tilff-Bastogne-Tilff cyclosportif (220 km and steep hills) fits this: The first half many people on conventional racing bikes climb faster than me, in the second half i climb faster.
The problem was always the weight difference. My Challenge Jester weighs no less then 12 kg. But a modern Fujin SLII came in at only 8 kg last year. Will be probably less nowadays.
Like this? The Thys rowing bike is great technology, but it's not fast. It's heavier and less aerodynamic than a legs-only HPV. Using more muscles does not give you more power for more than a short sprint, because your power is limited by the heart-lung system.
Companies use flash because it's a weapon against adblockers. It ties form & content together. With webstandards, users have the power to decide which parts of a website they want to see and which not. Many companies, especially advertisers, don't like that.
That is the problem of webstandards. They put the user in the drivers seat. They are good for you and not for the advertisers.
So science uncovers yet another way in which our world and universe are mediocre instead of special. Is this surprising?
No, it isn't. I think we need a better definition of the anthropic principle. My proposal is: "There is at least one universe which contains
at least one species thinking it's the center of said universe."
is not correlation!=causation. The problem is collecting the data. Without insight, we will never be able to collect meaningful information. Any statistical method relies on data collected by people who knew what they were measuring.
The entire cost is borne by ISPs and the site you download from How about
Education of the people working at the company;
The juridical and monetary systems that make doing any business possible;
Scientific research which forms the base of any modern technology;
Basic health care, environmental protection, police, fire protection and many other generic systems that give people the possibility to be a customer instead of a hunter-gatherer?
It's ridiculous to exempt an entire economic sector from taxes. It is stealing from people in other businesses.
Seriously, i don't think they are as smart as you presume. They use the cell phones in combat to communicate. I'm afraid they want the networks shut down so they can call each other without being tracked. They're muslim terrorists you know, the type of guys who tried to sink a navy vessel but failed because they overloaded their boat.
There are tens of thousands of people employed making digital content, in a huge industry that pays its taxes and keeps people employed.
Sorry, there is no such thing as industries keeping people employed. Check your economy for dummy's. Industries hire people because they need them to make a profit. If some industry fails, it's a chance for other industries to hire said people to make profit using a business model which is arguably better. When an industry fails because technology made the production damn cheap and within reach of everyone, there is a real, structural growth in the economy. It means productivity has gone up. This is exactly what happened with music and film. It has become cheap to make and cheap to distribute. The huge costs of studio equipment and record factories are gone. More digital content will be made for less money. More budget will be available for art and entertainment of a higher quality, like live gigs and high quality film theatres.
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Mirrors are the old and crappy fix;
Yes, they are pretty bad. I used to have a bicycle with a mirror, and I rarely could see anything in that mirror because it vibrated too much.
Mirrors work very well on a velomobile. They are near your eye and hardly vibrate due to the short mount.
And like the C5 - and the Segway - its few devotees will continue to claim that the problems will be dealt with by re-designing entire cities in order to facilitate their particular mode of transport.
Actually, in the Netherlands and many other countries, cities are redesigned to accomodate more and faster cycling. See this new cycling highway recently built in the Netherlands. Guess what vehicles were used for the opening ceremony.
Comparing a velomobile with a Sinclair C5 is like comparing double espresso with herbal tea.
I think it is you who never rode a recumbent in traffic. I use recumbents for my daily commute and long trips for ten years now. Even lowracers in a busy city. Since a year i ride a velomobile (a real one, without engine). It is less dangerous than riding a traditional bicycle in traffic. Of course one should never count on being seen, but the main problem with visibility is 'rubber necking'. Drivers don't see anything else but your velomobile. Luckily, I never heard one crash into something until now. *knock knock*.
Come on, you're an Apple customer now. Why would you want to listen to podcasts which aren't in the iTunes Store? You don't want to anymore. You just don't, right?
How is he a hypocrit? It is a well known fact laws are made for other people, not for yourself. Especially when you hold a lot of power.
I think you should take into account the fact this picture was almost certainly "google bombed". It's childish photoshopping, ugly, not funny and should have been drowned in the thousands of Michelle Obama pictures available on the internet on prominent sites like cnn, wikipedia etc. The fact it showed up on the first page of search results instead of page 43, makes it very likely the search engine was gamed. So Google should have corrected this anyway.
On a side note, Michelle Obama is an ape. Al humans are. For some reason people find this fact offensive. Strange. Probably they missed that interesting book some British dude wrote around 1859.
Apple and Microsoft attack the problem of user interface from two completely different points of view. Microsoft wants things to be orthogonal, logical, menu driven, hierarchical, and otherwise fully featured. Apple takes the approach that the user should not want to fuss with all sorts of menus and submenus he arrogantly thinks he needs (no two button mouse for years!) and just should want to do what Apple discovered they need as simply as possible. So you end up with two completely different interfaces.
Apple's interface is elegant but inflexible. Everything fits into the existing scheme and runs perfectly within that scheme and noone could possibly ever want to do something outside the scheme.
Or is the "fixed your typos"-meme dead by now?
Of course, all of this revenue dwarfs the money that can be made by serving the agenda of oil companies.
I've watched these clouds last week on the island of Juist, Germany. It was quite amazing and mysterious, something like Aurora Borealis. You do not overlook a phenomen like this. If they had been around all through history, many cultures would have believed them to be spirits or gods and worshipped them.
So, what great evil does await me when using this distro? Will it eat my bicycle or infect my record collection with the GPL?
You could even merge Synaptic with the new universal package manager: just give users check boxes, as in Display: [] Free Open Source Software, [] Commercial Software (requires UbuntuShop account), and [] Free Proprietary Software.
Bad. Very bad. Using package managers in Linux systems has two major advantages: ease of use (why is this argument so sparsely used?), and security. As long as the package repositories of my distro are based on source code, i can trust them. When they start to offer software which is supplied in binary form only, i can no longer trust my distro.
Seriously, combining user reviews and tags to sort software into Synaptic would be a huge improvement.
This could be an interesting thing to try.
The keyword in GP's post is not "capitalism". The keyword is "religion". In both capitalistic and socialistic systems one can easily reach the conclusion that selling DVD's in a way the consumer still doesn't have the right to play it, is just not a fair deal. Only when an economic system becomes a religion, an unfair deal becomes an "innovative business method".
Modern recumbents do fine in the hills, as long as you are doing more than one hill. Using your arms is not very efficient, and after a short sprint the energy in the muscles is gone and needs to be replenished. In the long run, your power is limited by your heart-lung system, and in the really-long-run, by the digestion system. Not by your muscles. So you'd better get as much of your energy as possible directly into the pedals, and let the rest of your body rest as much as possible. My experience in the Tilff-Bastogne-Tilff cyclosportif (220 km and steep hills) fits this: The first half many people on conventional racing bikes climb faster than me, in the second half i climb faster. The problem was always the weight difference. My Challenge Jester weighs no less then 12 kg. But a modern Fujin SLII came in at only 8 kg last year. Will be probably less nowadays.
Like this? The Thys rowing bike is great technology, but it's not fast. It's heavier and less aerodynamic than a legs-only HPV. Using more muscles does not give you more power for more than a short sprint, because your power is limited by the heart-lung system.
Companies use flash because it's a weapon against adblockers. It ties form & content together. With webstandards, users have the power to decide which parts of a website they want to see and which not. Many companies, especially advertisers, don't like that.
That is the problem of webstandards. They put the user in the drivers seat. They are good for you and not for the advertisers.
So science uncovers yet another way in which our world and universe are mediocre instead of special. Is this surprising?
No, it isn't. I think we need a better definition of the anthropic principle. My proposal is: "There is at least one universe which contains at least one species thinking it's the center of said universe."
is not correlation!=causation. The problem is collecting the data. Without insight, we will never be able to collect meaningful information. Any statistical method relies on data collected by people who knew what they were measuring.
I'm looking forward in great excitement to the evidence you will provide for your explanation.
"Frenchware"?
Seriously, i don't think they are as smart as you presume. They use the cell phones in combat to communicate. I'm afraid they want the networks shut down so they can call each other without being tracked. They're muslim terrorists you know, the type of guys who tried to sink a navy vessel but failed because they overloaded their boat.
When an industry fails because technology made the production damn cheap and within reach of everyone, there is a real, structural growth in the economy. It means productivity has gone up. This is exactly what happened with music and film. It has become cheap to make and cheap to distribute. The huge costs of studio equipment and record factories are gone. More digital content will be made for less money. More budget will be available for art and entertainment of a higher quality, like live gigs and high quality film theatres.