I live in the city now and it sucks because although there isn't always enough scattered light to see your surroundings, the sky is always bright. Sometimes you can't even see Orion's dagger, and I can rarely see all three stars[sic] of the dagger. M42 looks like a really faint star when it is visible, and I can kinda-sorta make out the topmost star with averted vision on occasion.
One night was particularly dark though, so I was able to photograph Uranus (I know, I know, they will rename it to Urectum by 2620 to end the anus joke once and for all) and the Orion nebula. I was up most of the night trying to shoot various objects with a 300mm lens but even as dark and clear as the sky was that night, I still couldn't see a whole lot, and the Milky Way wasn't visible at all (aside from individual nearby and bright stars, I'll mention that to ward off semantics nazis).
Driving out to really sparse rural areas is well worth it. Most of the USA is empty space, so drive far from the cities on a clear night, step out of the car, let your eyes adjust for three to five minutes, and look up; the Milky Way will be extremely obvious, to the point where you can clearly see the shapes and structures you often see in photographs. The color won't be as visible as you see in photos, but it is striking nonetheless.:)
Where I grew up I thought the sky was dark - especially compared to the city. But really, it isn't dark sky. It was probably 5.0 or so. Now when I visit, the sky is closer to the mid-4 range most of the time. It's really saddening when I drive around and look at how outdoor lighting is installed - how it sprays light everywhere, much of it directly up to the sky. It is ruining astronomy, and it is a gross waste of electricity. The fixtures are poorly designed, and installed poorly as well. I'm completely against the nannystate mentality so I don't want to see laws ordering everyone to use better fixtures. I wish manufacturers could be coaxed to redesign their fixtures to be more efficient, and that they would provide training programs so installers would understand how and where different fixtures should be used.
I often wonder how the sky must have looked before the Industrial Revolution. As progress in technology is made, we actually take huge leaps backwards in so many other areas.:-(
Every marque with the BOSE system will have the same problem for line-out voltage and impedance issues. For those systems all you need is a line-out converter.
Amplifier installation? Unless you're installing a monstrous amp, installing an amplifier in a Corvette is simple.
Speaker installs? Okay, slightly more difficult, but no more difficult than any other sportscar.
System sounds? Not a problem - multiple solutions exist for that. Just be glad the head unit in that car doesn't act as the hub for the CAN bus. The Corvette is far from the most complicated or challenging auto sound vehicle.
It's not like the Amiga didn't come with it. As a home computer, that was really innovative; business-class computers of the time booted from magnetic media, not ROM and so they were infinitely updatable. The 8-bit computers? Not so much.
So you had to boot up your kickstart and workbench floppy and then you could program in AmigaBASIC or install your assembler of choice if you wished to program in assembly. It was a whole lot better than the C=64, the 8-bit Ataris, and so on; the OS was upgradable, something you simply did not have in home computers of the time, and it is something we take for granted today. What we have today was unimaginable then. Just think - the iPhone or Android phone in your pocket has hundreds or even thousands of times more processing power, RAM, and storage than home computers or even mainframes or supercomputers of the 1980s, and even these modern wonders feature upgradable software. (now, as far as whether or not your smartphone manufacturer actually delivers software updates is a different matter).
There are some that believe the person share of the burden should be based on that person, or organizations, use of services.
I agree. Therefore, a single person should pay the least in taxes, followed by married couples which have only one working spouse, followed by people with dependents - especially children who attend public schools. The child tax credit should be eliminated, because it is unfair for single and married childless taxpayers pick up more of the tax burden despite their using fewer resources.
Now I am really liking your logic. Seriously. It's always irked me that people who use the most resources pay the least in taxes, and people who use the least, pay the most.
Now, as far as the 1% is concerned, they provide far more than their share of the burden by creating jobs, which employ others and further add tax revenues. Why punish success when it does in fact trickle down? Trickle down voodoo economics works a hell of a lot better than the "bubble up" theory liberals seem to espouse, because very little bubbles up from welfare and other forms of "wealth redistribution."
On the other hand, you're saying it is fair for that 5% to bear 60% of the total burden? That does not strike me as fair at all. That 5% should bear only 5% of the burden. What needs to be done is not tax increases, but spending cuts.
In other news, TSA has now announced that in addition to not allowing the wearing of jewelry/accessories which have details vaguely resemble miniscule guns a few mm in length and not allowing the oh-so-dangerous hydrogen hydroxide aboard aircraft, they will also be banning cotton clothing due to recent chatter about the ability to weave dangerous devices into cotton fabric. Full story at 11.
I use my credit card for everything possible, and pay it every month. It's more convenient to spend an hour a month paying bills online then paying AmEx a day or two later than it is to deal with checks, buy stamps and envelopes, mail the checks off, and waiting for them to clear.:-)
If it can run ICS or Honeycomb and has both WiFi and Bluetooth, I'll buy one even at $250. I want an Android tablet for one purpose: to run Torque via an ODB-II adapter.
I agree that it's sometimes better to get this information in print. Ditto for books: Sometimes I still buy two or three hard copies of books when dealing with a project I need to implement in an infrastructure, for many reasons. One is that it is better to not be chained to the desk (or a hot 17" laptop on my lap) curl up on the sofa studying the books. Kindle? Do not want. Real tablet? Sure, they're great. Ditto for my iPhone; many of the books I own in print, I also have eBooks of, and I've read many books on my iPhone. But, when I just want to concentrate and really study, or even while working at a server, or building software, unless I need bleeding-edge info or am tracking down solutions to obscure bugs, I prefer a book. They never need charging, do not need an internet connection, are more portable than a laptop, and just browsing through a book to skim through all the topics to get an overview is much more comfortable than loading page after page after page in a web browser or in an eBook/PDF reader. Highlighting in a printed book or magazine is far superior to highlighting features in Acrobat Reader.
Siri was originally available as an app in the app store, on the iPhone 4 and it has since been hacked to install on older phones such as the 3GS. When the iPhone 4S came out, it was announced that the app would be removed from the app store, and even if you had purchased it on your iPhone4, it will no longer work. It is not a hardware limitation at all.
state law often has a minimum limit, which is a delta of a certain mph below the posted speed limit. In MA and RI, it is 10mph under the posted limit, unless there is an alternate lower limit posted (in some areas it might be 45mph min/65mph max but if the limit is posted only as 65mph then the legal minimum is 55mph)
outside of urban areas, speed limits on federal interstate highways are set at a speed of 1/3 to 1/2 of the designed-for speed, based on 1960s automotive chassis, braking, and lighting tech. The only places the Interstate limits make sense is within city limits when there are sharp curves, curves banked exactly the wrong way, and narrow lanes and tunnels with many, many on and off ramps that intersect the highway with low-speed traffic.
It's easy. Politicians love to look busy by passing new laws rather than prodding the executive branch into enforcing laws already on the books. If any of the following were to be enforced regularly, the problem would solve itself by either teaching inattentive drivers to change their ways, or remove them from the roads:
* reckless driving
* Driving below minimum legal speed (usually 10mph below speed limit)
* hindering the flow of traffic
* improper lane changes
* failure to use indicators when required
* failure to yield the right of way
* failure to maintain control of the vehicle
* following too closely
* driving left of center
* traveling in the passing lane
* failure to obey traffic signals
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That is why it is being killed off.
. . . and the "doesn't" is used in a perfectly cromulent way. :)
I live in the city now and it sucks because although there isn't always enough scattered light to see your surroundings, the sky is always bright. Sometimes you can't even see Orion's dagger, and I can rarely see all three stars[sic] of the dagger. M42 looks like a really faint star when it is visible, and I can kinda-sorta make out the topmost star with averted vision on occasion.
One night was particularly dark though, so I was able to photograph Uranus (I know, I know, they will rename it to Urectum by 2620 to end the anus joke once and for all) and the Orion nebula. I was up most of the night trying to shoot various objects with a 300mm lens but even as dark and clear as the sky was that night, I still couldn't see a whole lot, and the Milky Way wasn't visible at all (aside from individual nearby and bright stars, I'll mention that to ward off semantics nazis).
Driving out to really sparse rural areas is well worth it. Most of the USA is empty space, so drive far from the cities on a clear night, step out of the car, let your eyes adjust for three to five minutes, and look up; the Milky Way will be extremely obvious, to the point where you can clearly see the shapes and structures you often see in photographs. The color won't be as visible as you see in photos, but it is striking nonetheless. :)
Where I grew up I thought the sky was dark - especially compared to the city. But really, it isn't dark sky. It was probably 5.0 or so. Now when I visit, the sky is closer to the mid-4 range most of the time. It's really saddening when I drive around and look at how outdoor lighting is installed - how it sprays light everywhere, much of it directly up to the sky. It is ruining astronomy, and it is a gross waste of electricity. The fixtures are poorly designed, and installed poorly as well. I'm completely against the nannystate mentality so I don't want to see laws ordering everyone to use better fixtures. I wish manufacturers could be coaxed to redesign their fixtures to be more efficient, and that they would provide training programs so installers would understand how and where different fixtures should be used.
I often wonder how the sky must have looked before the Industrial Revolution. As progress in technology is made, we actually take huge leaps backwards in so many other areas. :-(
Nice! Now people are thinking!
But better yet - how about a sintered cladding aluminum and iron oxides?
Plutonium is only mildly radioactive thanks to its long half life. Cesium-137 would be a far better deterrent.
"Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." – Henry Spencer
Every marque with the BOSE system will have the same problem for line-out voltage and impedance issues. For those systems all you need is a line-out converter.
Amplifier installation? Unless you're installing a monstrous amp, installing an amplifier in a Corvette is simple.
Speaker installs? Okay, slightly more difficult, but no more difficult than any other sportscar.
System sounds? Not a problem - multiple solutions exist for that. Just be glad the head unit in that car doesn't act as the hub for the CAN bus. The Corvette is far from the most complicated or challenging auto sound vehicle.
No one filed a patent for it until now.
Contrast that to the delusional, self-important hipster who is taking a break from his job at Starbucks to flame iPhone users. ;)
It's not like the Amiga didn't come with it. As a home computer, that was really innovative; business-class computers of the time booted from magnetic media, not ROM and so they were infinitely updatable. The 8-bit computers? Not so much.
So you had to boot up your kickstart and workbench floppy and then you could program in AmigaBASIC or install your assembler of choice if you wished to program in assembly. It was a whole lot better than the C=64, the 8-bit Ataris, and so on; the OS was upgradable, something you simply did not have in home computers of the time, and it is something we take for granted today. What we have today was unimaginable then. Just think - the iPhone or Android phone in your pocket has hundreds or even thousands of times more processing power, RAM, and storage than home computers or even mainframes or supercomputers of the 1980s, and even these modern wonders feature upgradable software. (now, as far as whether or not your smartphone manufacturer actually delivers software updates is a different matter).
I agree. Therefore, a single person should pay the least in taxes, followed by married couples which have only one working spouse, followed by people with dependents - especially children who attend public schools. The child tax credit should be eliminated, because it is unfair for single and married childless taxpayers pick up more of the tax burden despite their using fewer resources.
Now I am really liking your logic. Seriously. It's always irked me that people who use the most resources pay the least in taxes, and people who use the least, pay the most.
Now, as far as the 1% is concerned, they provide far more than their share of the burden by creating jobs, which employ others and further add tax revenues. Why punish success when it does in fact trickle down? Trickle down voodoo economics works a hell of a lot better than the "bubble up" theory liberals seem to espouse, because very little bubbles up from welfare and other forms of "wealth redistribution."
On the other hand, you're saying it is fair for that 5% to bear 60% of the total burden? That does not strike me as fair at all. That 5% should bear only 5% of the burden. What needs to be done is not tax increases, but spending cuts.
I do not believe you. Could you please do us a favor? Conduct a study about it and share the results with us. ;)
In other news, TSA has now announced that in addition to not allowing the wearing of jewelry/accessories which have details vaguely resemble miniscule guns a few mm in length and not allowing the oh-so-dangerous hydrogen hydroxide aboard aircraft, they will also be banning cotton clothing due to recent chatter about the ability to weave dangerous devices into cotton fabric. Full story at 11.
I use my credit card for everything possible, and pay it every month. It's more convenient to spend an hour a month paying bills online then paying AmEx a day or two later than it is to deal with checks, buy stamps and envelopes, mail the checks off, and waiting for them to clear. :-)
Most of the OBD-II interfaces are either bluetooth or wifi.
http://www.amazon.com/OBDLink-Bluetooth-Multiprotocol-OBD-II-ScanTool/dp/B003XNADSA/ref=sr_1_11?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1325175467&sr=1-11
http://www.amazon.com/ELM327-Bluetooth-Diagnostic-Scanner-Scantool/dp/B0051CAE1C/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1325175347&sr=8-4
http://www.amazon.com/Soliport-Bluetooth-Diagnostic-Scanner-wireless/dp/B004KL0I9I/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1325175347&sr=8-3
http://www.amazon.com/OBDLink-OBD-II-Interface-Adapter-425101/dp/B002M07XHO/ref=sr_1_3?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1325175402&sr=1-3
If it can run ICS or Honeycomb and has both WiFi and Bluetooth, I'll buy one even at $250. I want an Android tablet for one purpose: to run Torque via an ODB-II adapter.
Right, because prior to high def people didn't keep the same television set for 10-20 years. Gotcha.
I agree that it's sometimes better to get this information in print. Ditto for books: Sometimes I still buy two or three hard copies of books when dealing with a project I need to implement in an infrastructure, for many reasons. One is that it is better to not be chained to the desk (or a hot 17" laptop on my lap) curl up on the sofa studying the books. Kindle? Do not want. Real tablet? Sure, they're great. Ditto for my iPhone; many of the books I own in print, I also have eBooks of, and I've read many books on my iPhone. But, when I just want to concentrate and really study, or even while working at a server, or building software, unless I need bleeding-edge info or am tracking down solutions to obscure bugs, I prefer a book. They never need charging, do not need an internet connection, are more portable than a laptop, and just browsing through a book to skim through all the topics to get an overview is much more comfortable than loading page after page after page in a web browser or in an eBook/PDF reader. Highlighting in a printed book or magazine is far superior to highlighting features in Acrobat Reader.
Is your name Lorena?
occupy DNS?
Siri was originally available as an app in the app store, on the iPhone 4 and it has since been hacked to install on older phones such as the 3GS. When the iPhone 4S came out, it was announced that the app would be removed from the app store, and even if you had purchased it on your iPhone4, it will no longer work. It is not a hardware limitation at all.
state law often has a minimum limit, which is a delta of a certain mph below the posted speed limit. In MA and RI, it is 10mph under the posted limit, unless there is an alternate lower limit posted (in some areas it might be 45mph min/65mph max but if the limit is posted only as 65mph then the legal minimum is 55mph)
outside of urban areas, speed limits on federal interstate highways are set at a speed of 1/3 to 1/2 of the designed-for speed, based on 1960s automotive chassis, braking, and lighting tech. The only places the Interstate limits make sense is within city limits when there are sharp curves, curves banked exactly the wrong way, and narrow lanes and tunnels with many, many on and off ramps that intersect the highway with low-speed traffic.
It's easy. Politicians love to look busy by passing new laws rather than prodding the executive branch into enforcing laws already on the books. If any of the following were to be enforced regularly, the problem would solve itself by either teaching inattentive drivers to change their ways, or remove them from the roads:
* reckless driving
* Driving below minimum legal speed (usually 10mph below speed limit)
* hindering the flow of traffic
* improper lane changes
* failure to use indicators when required
* failure to yield the right of way
* failure to maintain control of the vehicle
* following too closely
* driving left of center
* traveling in the passing lane
* failure to obey traffic signals
. . . and so on