As bikes/HPVs are claimed to be the most energy efficient form of transport in terms of speed or distance per horsepower of energy put in, I wonder how well they fair when taking human energy efficiency into consideration, when spending a whole day on my bike, I can easily consume 4-5000 calories and only go 80 miles. How would this compare to a car travelling at it's most efficient speed in terms of energy input in petrol?
In the UofK I can get myself most of the non chart (read non-crap) CDs for £5 in my local HMV, the fact that iTunes charges £7 for a DRMed version of the album without the little shiny jewel case seems a bit silly and I'm amazed how thick the ipod generation seems to be.
Anything that keeps kids off the streets causing trouble is good. I'd rather have kids posting surveys nonstop, leaving comments, putting more crap on their profile etc than breaking into my car or selling drugs.
This seems to be the general agreement of modern society: leave them on their own in front of the computer. It doesn't really teach most children anything and child obeisity rates are rising. I'd much rather some kids broke into your car, got caught by the cops and learnt a valuable life lesson than spent their hours staring at their friends myspace accounts endlessly LOL-ing. (But I'd like it even more if they were encouraged to do something constructive!)
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As bikes/HPVs are claimed to be the most energy efficient form of transport in terms of speed or distance per horsepower of energy put in, I wonder how well they fair when taking human energy efficiency into consideration, when spending a whole day on my bike, I can easily consume 4-5000 calories and only go 80 miles. How would this compare to a car travelling at it's most efficient speed in terms of energy input in petrol?
Wouldn't it be nice to have tagging as an integral part of a filesystem, filetype unaware. Imagine a picasa-like desktop experience. Lush
Sorry for not RTFA ;)
But what exactly is "to fast" on a bicycle?
I've heard us humans can't travel beyond 26mph
In the UofK I can get myself most of the non chart (read non-crap) CDs for £5 in my local HMV, the fact that iTunes charges £7 for a DRMed version of the album without the little shiny jewel case seems a bit silly and I'm amazed how thick the ipod generation seems to be.
Anything that keeps kids off the streets causing trouble is good. I'd rather have kids posting surveys nonstop, leaving comments, putting more crap on their profile etc than breaking into my car or selling drugs. This seems to be the general agreement of modern society: leave them on their own in front of the computer. It doesn't really teach most children anything and child obeisity rates are rising. I'd much rather some kids broke into your car, got caught by the cops and learnt a valuable life lesson than spent their hours staring at their friends myspace accounts endlessly LOL-ing. (But I'd like it even more if they were encouraged to do something constructive!)