I was going to suggest the Moto G line but I think it's good deal bigger than 5". Solid phone too. Whenever my G5+ dies (hopefully in a couple years), I'll grab the next in this line.
Trains are quite safe. But their travel time are a turnoff compared to flights in the US for anything long range. New England and the Mid Atlantic coast might be the only routes time competitive with air. It's basically a 3 day trip from New England to San Diego by train while it's one day by plane. Even if the airline is twice as much, the convenient will always trump rail.
But yeah, we definitely should fix airline salaries so they aren't shit.
That's something I would find interesting and wish people would actually think about and push towards.
I've watched all of TNG and DS9 in the last couple years and they're amazing shows. I watched TOS as well and I can appreciate it but I didn't enjoy it as much. Voyager has its flaws but I enjoy it enough too.
I really don't care about events in Kirk's time. Khan just feels lazy and wanting to build something based on name recognition. I likely won't watch the Academy show but it could be an interesting series as it's at least different from other series.
What my son and a lot of people will do in hot weather is turn the A/C to max, - he'll set it to 60 or whatever. It drives me nuts because it shortens the range and is totally unnecessary.
Totally bonkers to me too. It might be nice is you're super hot at the moment - say you've been working outside and are really hot (even then, hopefully you can cool off a bit before getting in your car). But that elevated temperature doesn't last and eventually you'll get freezing cold.
I've known folks who would do that at REI with their generous return policy.
Buy gear, use it for a reasonable lifespan until it doesn't work, then return/exchange it. REI has since changed its policy. Fuck those kinds of people.
Didn't Obama make fun of Trump at a White House Correspondent's Dinner or some other formal function? That's my memory about why he's been stewing for so long on these things.
In many ways they did. Their efforts powered the country as it grew towards what it is today. The problem for them is we've kept growing and grown past them.
Honestly, I'm surprised no one has bother to put solar or wind manufacturing/assembly in West Virginia. It easily appeals to their entitlement of powering the country and now you have another state caring about green energy that otherwise didn't.
Others you could put to work cleaning up the environmental impact of coal mining. Not as any sort of punishment or anything. But to help clean up everything we've done before.
That's actually in the works. The Committee for Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) under the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is working on defining a standard. I'd heard the new standard wouldn't impact anything coming out over the next few years.
However the reality is that manufacturers continue to push for reduced fuel consumption as fuel is one of the most significant operating costs of an airline. No one is lining up to buy gas guzzling aircraft.
Linux has a chicken/egg problem with games. There's limited AAA game support because there's limited install base and there's limited install base because of limited game support. Toss in Team Fortress 3, Left 4 Dead 3, and potentially DotA 3 and I think you will get a significant install boost so long as the installation process and operation is seamless from a user's perspective.
I feel like if Valve was really serious about Steam OS, they would have announced Half Life 3, Team Fortress 3, Portal 3, DotA 3, and Left 4 Dead 3 all as exclusives to their platform. That's probably enough install base to get serious traction for Linux in gaming and that might be enough to have a momentum shift. But they don't make games anymore.
Ugh. The streetcar system was such a stupid proposal and development. And if Atlanta actually had public transit that went places, you never would have needed such a useless piece of crap. And the Peach pass lanes on I-85?
The biggest problem with transportation in Georgia is the politicians and how they poisoned the well with the 400 toll. No one wants to give them more money because they know it will never go away.
Yea. Every station I listened to in Atlanta (when I lived there) got bought out and replaced with Top 40. So I stopped listening as I found something that replaced my original station. Eventually I gave up and just streamed Pandora with a cable...
It's inefficient too. Optimum is to utilize the Southwest approach but you queue up into 12 groups. Odd groups are port side of the craft and even are starboard side.
Groups 1-4 are the window seats where you alternate every other row. If economy are rows 6-30, group 1 would be the even rows 6-30 and group 3 the odd with 2 and 4 being the accompanying starboard side. The order of the line would be aft to fore of the plane. If you stop anywhere that isn't your row, your luggage will be removed and stored under the plane (as there needs to be consequences for improper boarding).
Repeat for the middle and aisle seats with groups 5-8 and 9-12 respectively using the same organization you did for the window seats. Because no one is stopping, throughput will be maximized. Families can board together when they have adjacent seating (to discourage families from booking two aisle seats or an aisle and a window).
I didn't even think about speed improvements. I suppose you could regulate player weights (overall or per position) but you'd be unable to do anything about speed and that's going to be the bigger hitter. Well short of playing in knee deep water....
Wonder if reduced padding might also help to mitigate some of the intensity of the hits.
My observation is that players have been getting bigger and bigger (at least in some positions) since I was a kid. How much do you think weight limits on players would impact things? Or suppose we removed all the shoulder pads so players wouldn't hit as hard?
I hope they get built in the Southeast. First, the area is anti-union and that seems to be something Tesla doesn't want to deal with. Second, the cost of land and labor is so much cheaper than out west. Third, trucks are popular in the region. Fourth, you'll be giving folks good jobs that they might just support politically in states that traditionally don't support greener things. Fifth, it'd help build up infrastructure in states that are likely ignored.
Yea. I remember reading something to the effect. Also about how they used to do controlled burns but residents complained about how the smoke ruined their nice views so they cut back or stopped. Then you get stuff like this.
I'd contend a lot of the success of the United States in the last 40 years has been due to acquiring all those smart folks from the other parts of the world and getting them to come here. They get settled, found American companies, hire people, and pay some level of taxes.
Now it sounds like we're going to educate them (though they might just go elsewhere) and force them out so other countries likely will offer them perks to come and do the same. Then in 10-20 years, we're going to be asking why aren't we the leaders in various industries.
I feel like the reuse for stuff like this is honestly better than trying to break them down for scrap. I'd be curious how easily the application could be repurposed for stuff like folding@home, seti@home, or other community distributed analysis efforts.
Also curious how readily you could add different phones into the collective. Is it easy with just homogeny or could mix and match work just fine (even within just Samsung)?
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I was going to suggest the Moto G line but I think it's good deal bigger than 5". Solid phone too. Whenever my G5+ dies (hopefully in a couple years), I'll grab the next in this line.
Trains are quite safe. But their travel time are a turnoff compared to flights in the US for anything long range. New England and the Mid Atlantic coast might be the only routes time competitive with air. It's basically a 3 day trip from New England to San Diego by train while it's one day by plane. Even if the airline is twice as much, the convenient will always trump rail.
But yeah, we definitely should fix airline salaries so they aren't shit.
They aren't. Slashdot sucks hard at Unicode. â(TM) should be an apostrophe.
That's something I would find interesting and wish people would actually think about and push towards.
I've watched all of TNG and DS9 in the last couple years and they're amazing shows. I watched TOS as well and I can appreciate it but I didn't enjoy it as much. Voyager has its flaws but I enjoy it enough too.
I really don't care about events in Kirk's time. Khan just feels lazy and wanting to build something based on name recognition. I likely won't watch the Academy show but it could be an interesting series as it's at least different from other series.
What my son and a lot of people will do in hot weather is turn the A/C to max, - he'll set it to 60 or whatever. It drives me nuts because it shortens the range and is totally unnecessary.
Totally bonkers to me too. It might be nice is you're super hot at the moment - say you've been working outside and are really hot (even then, hopefully you can cool off a bit before getting in your car). But that elevated temperature doesn't last and eventually you'll get freezing cold.
I've known folks who would do that at REI with their generous return policy.
Buy gear, use it for a reasonable lifespan until it doesn't work, then return/exchange it. REI has since changed its policy. Fuck those kinds of people.
Didn't Obama make fun of Trump at a White House Correspondent's Dinner or some other formal function? That's my memory about why he's been stewing for so long on these things.
I thought the default was car analogies?
In many ways they did. Their efforts powered the country as it grew towards what it is today. The problem for them is we've kept growing and grown past them.
Honestly, I'm surprised no one has bother to put solar or wind manufacturing/assembly in West Virginia. It easily appeals to their entitlement of powering the country and now you have another state caring about green energy that otherwise didn't.
Others you could put to work cleaning up the environmental impact of coal mining. Not as any sort of punishment or anything. But to help clean up everything we've done before.
That's actually in the works. The Committee for Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) under the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is working on defining a standard. I'd heard the new standard wouldn't impact anything coming out over the next few years.
However the reality is that manufacturers continue to push for reduced fuel consumption as fuel is one of the most significant operating costs of an airline. No one is lining up to buy gas guzzling aircraft.
Exactly!
Linux has a chicken/egg problem with games. There's limited AAA game support because there's limited install base and there's limited install base because of limited game support. Toss in Team Fortress 3, Left 4 Dead 3, and potentially DotA 3 and I think you will get a significant install boost so long as the installation process and operation is seamless from a user's perspective.
I feel like if Valve was really serious about Steam OS, they would have announced Half Life 3, Team Fortress 3, Portal 3, DotA 3, and Left 4 Dead 3 all as exclusives to their platform. That's probably enough install base to get serious traction for Linux in gaming and that might be enough to have a momentum shift. But they don't make games anymore.
Ugh. The streetcar system was such a stupid proposal and development. And if Atlanta actually had public transit that went places, you never would have needed such a useless piece of crap. And the Peach pass lanes on I-85?
The biggest problem with transportation in Georgia is the politicians and how they poisoned the well with the 400 toll. No one wants to give them more money because they know it will never go away.
Yea. Every station I listened to in Atlanta (when I lived there) got bought out and replaced with Top 40. So I stopped listening as I found something that replaced my original station. Eventually I gave up and just streamed Pandora with a cable...
It's inefficient too. Optimum is to utilize the Southwest approach but you queue up into 12 groups. Odd groups are port side of the craft and even are starboard side.
Groups 1-4 are the window seats where you alternate every other row. If economy are rows 6-30, group 1 would be the even rows 6-30 and group 3 the odd with 2 and 4 being the accompanying starboard side. The order of the line would be aft to fore of the plane. If you stop anywhere that isn't your row, your luggage will be removed and stored under the plane (as there needs to be consequences for improper boarding).
Repeat for the middle and aisle seats with groups 5-8 and 9-12 respectively using the same organization you did for the window seats. Because no one is stopping, throughput will be maximized. Families can board together when they have adjacent seating (to discourage families from booking two aisle seats or an aisle and a window).
I didn't even think about speed improvements. I suppose you could regulate player weights (overall or per position) but you'd be unable to do anything about speed and that's going to be the bigger hitter. Well short of playing in knee deep water....
Wonder if reduced padding might also help to mitigate some of the intensity of the hits.
My observation is that players have been getting bigger and bigger (at least in some positions) since I was a kid. How much do you think weight limits on players would impact things? Or suppose we removed all the shoulder pads so players wouldn't hit as hard?
Actually civilian receivers lose lock completely. It's to prevent their use on missiles.
Visitors no longer exists. They were phasing it out right around the time I met someone on it. Claimed it was "a distraction".
I hope they get built in the Southeast. First, the area is anti-union and that seems to be something Tesla doesn't want to deal with. Second, the cost of land and labor is so much cheaper than out west. Third, trucks are popular in the region. Fourth, you'll be giving folks good jobs that they might just support politically in states that traditionally don't support greener things. Fifth, it'd help build up infrastructure in states that are likely ignored.
Seems like a net win across the board to me.
Yea. I remember reading something to the effect. Also about how they used to do controlled burns but residents complained about how the smoke ruined their nice views so they cut back or stopped. Then you get stuff like this.
I'd contend a lot of the success of the United States in the last 40 years has been due to acquiring all those smart folks from the other parts of the world and getting them to come here. They get settled, found American companies, hire people, and pay some level of taxes.
Now it sounds like we're going to educate them (though they might just go elsewhere) and force them out so other countries likely will offer them perks to come and do the same. Then in 10-20 years, we're going to be asking why aren't we the leaders in various industries.
I feel like the reuse for stuff like this is honestly better than trying to break them down for scrap. I'd be curious how easily the application could be repurposed for stuff like folding@home, seti@home, or other community distributed analysis efforts.
Also curious how readily you could add different phones into the collective. Is it easy with just homogeny or could mix and match work just fine (even within just Samsung)?
I would agree that I found the plot lackluster. But the visuals and atmosphere were amazing. Such a cool world.
Leto's performance as Wallace was awful. Not sure how that kind of nutjob could have ever run a company.