not online, but check out what is usually just called the idiots guide. Specifically "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot". Everything I know about auto mechanics I learned from that book. Like this site, it is sprinkled with personality and anecdotes (of a Santa Fe hippie in this case), but as a learning resources it is excellent.
yes, but I think for motorcycles, they let you fill on your own because most motorcycle tanks require a little more care from the filler (i.e. you don't just stick it in, turn it on, and wait for it to stop, instead, you're carefully holding the nozzle in the correct orientation and watching the level.)
> Solution: Mandate visually encoded supported standards on the USB cable in colored ring form, a la resistors.
I agree in principal, but please don't do it with colored rings. Many of us have much more limited color perception due to colorblindness. I recently purchased some 8 cable 1/4" TRS snakes, and the only thing identifying which connector on one side of the snake was connected to a connector on the other side were colored bands--many of which I couldn't tell apart. I ended up pulling out a multimeter to test continuity, and then labeled then with unique glyphs on each end that weren't dependent on color (i.e. 1, 2, 3, etc.).
from what I've seen, you have your order wrong--get the loan before you tear down the old place, unless you have enough money to secure the loan yourself. I've known several people here who started the teardown first, and then tried to get a loan, at which point the bank told them no because the property, with no house on it any longer, was no longer worth enough to secure the loan.
Even the ones that aren't are frequently well know. I haven't consumed audiobooks since before Amazon bought Audible, but my father and his wife consume them avidly, and they know the names of their favorite readers, and will frequently listen to books by their favorite readers where they don't know the author at all, just because they like the reader.
The issues is if the tent obstructs the cabin staff from providing assistance. Simply saying that "it is on the individual" isn't going to stop the airline from getting, and possible losing, a lawsuit by the family when the passenger dies or suffer hypoxic brain damage, and the cabin staff says "we skipped (or delayed) offering him assistance because he was wearing a tent that would have significantly impeded our ability to provide assistance to other passengers."
For me, it is THE differentiating feature that keeps me using Google maps, rather than a competing service. I take an annual 7 day motorcycle trip though the southwest US, and street view allows me to see a road from ground level which is far more useful that satellite view to determine the road contours, and whether it would be a nice ride. Admittedly, in all the places I ride, street view hasn't been updated since 2008, so its no longer useful to identify business, but its still quite useful.
Age of consent in the US varies from state to state, with the lowest being, I believe 14 years old in some states. The "18 or older" mentality probably has more to do with working in porn, hence all the "barely 18" type labels.
I would agree that online there are a bunch of loud "get off my lawn" type voicer (I remember a published article on one of the bigger ham forums, where the guy bemoaned that a local ham club advertised a event as a "maker" event to appeal to young people, to him maker was for women, i.e. home maker.)
But my local ham club was the most helpful, open, and interested group of people. Yes, they are mostly 65+ and some quite old, but they are doing new and interesting things, including many of the digital modes like the ones listed in the article. There is a group of about 5 of them, nicknamed the QRSS Mafia. They are using ultra low power (200mw and frequently less) to send signals to the opposite side of the planet. One of them was recieved 2500 miles away (New Mexico to Florida) on 8.5 microwatts. At the time it was the recorded world record for distance/power (on the planet, communicating with voyager 1 doesn't count.)
my father (75yo) still obsessively updates his personal website (using FrontPage!) For years he was proud that his article on Hill's Criteria of Causation was the top hit on google for a search on "hills criteria" or similar. At the time Wikipedia had no article on it (he's now #4 since wikipedia has a article as well as a couple of medical sites.)
His site has the look of a personal webpage from 1997, but since retiring, he still works on articles and publishes them on his site. His site is a mix of scholarly articles (Anthropology), old syllabi, and personal stuff.
this is my most hated Apple "UI modernization." Its not just a problem with website, apps, even Apple apps don't deal with it well. I always turn on scroll bars all the time (I do a lot of work with very long documents or files, and just scrolling with the scroll wheels doesn't cut it for these), and every time I do a VNC connection using the built in screen sharing app, the scroll bars are placed in the remote screen area, rather than outside it. So every time I connect to a remote screen, the first thing I have to do is enlarge the window so I can see everything.
I actually still have my Cube. I haven't powered it on in years, I can't bring myself to throw it out, but I can't figure anything useful for it to do. I have other PPC macs that are in regular use, but its mostly to support hardware that never made it to intel. Since I cant stick a PCI card in the Cube, it just sits there.
And the bigger deal (to me) is that none of the competitors are really competitors in the key area of the USPS--first class mail delivery. Can UPS, FedEX deliver a letter (or a bill, or check, or...) for $0.55?
I don't hate the selfie stick due to the users of them. I first heard about a selfie stick when I was on vacation in Rome near the Roman forum. I couldn't walk ten feet without another street vendor trying to convince me to buy a selfie stick. It was constantly aggravating. I wanted to be left alone to enjoy myself, and I was constantly hearing people hawking selfie sticks to me. That made me really dislike the things. (I'll admit to also disliking selfies, probably because when I look at photos, the last thing I want to see in the photo is me.)
what makes me sad is that while Apple has done very well with these major transitions, it leaves behind instances where (for me) a completely unique application gets left in behind. I currently maintain an only system 7 computer for software that is incompatible with system 8 or 9. A MDD G4 running System 9 for software that won't run on OSX, and a Mac Pro running 10.6.8 to run PPC OSX application (through Rosetta.) I haven't upgraded to Catalina because I have some applications that will never make the transition to 64bit, and now I'll have to maintain something to keep intel compatibility on the table (assuming Apple EOLs Rosetta 2 like they did Rosetta.)
The main problem I've had with it is it gets lost--constantly. Now I'm generally disorganized, which probably explains why I cold never find it when I wanted it. I know some people leave it on the cable but my headphones get used much more on other devices than on the iPhone, so I was constantly pulling it off to plug into a mixer or keyboard, and it would get lost. In the end I solved it by junking my XS and getting a used SE.
To me this is the opposite of what I want in a small phone. It is less the physical size, rather that since 99.9% of all my usage is one handed, I need my thumb to be able to reach anywhere on the screen. With the ability to have minimal bezels, my preference would be to shrink the phone to meet the screen, not to enlarge the screen.
But your needs/desires are well catered to by the many many large phones. My needs/desires are completely ignored in the marketplace (maybe too few people agree with me). I tried larger phones. For a year or so I had a iPhone XS, but I absolutely hated it. So a month ago I upgraded it to a used SE, which I love.
I can't read the article (well, past the first paragraph and a half) but I live in the area where the wolf population is returning (southern NM) and it is very controversial around here. When you get out of the city, and drive through little ranching towns, you see billboard and lawn signs about eradicating the Grey Wolf. At some level I sympathize with the ranchers. Their livestock don't live in controlled pens, they have grazing permits with BLM and they just wander the empty parts of the state, which makes them susceptible to natural predators. At the same time, my environmentalist nature applauds the return of animals like this to the ecosystem.
Where I work, anyone in the world can read my emails. You just have to make a request, and we have 15 days to provide the email. There are some cut-outs like attorney/client communication or health related, but pretty much any email I’ve ever sent or received is subject to inspection by any member of the public. (Most government entities have a similar law and it generally more open than the Fed’s FOIA.
I was recently going through digitizing slides my father took when we lived in Nigeria in the mid ‘70s. One thing I noticed was the Kodachrome slides looked perfect—no color fading. Most of the Ektachrome and other E-6 type slides had significantly faded. They were mostly salvageable in Photoshop, but a lot of their color had gone.
Unfortunately Kodachrome will never come back like Ektachrome has. The development process was insanely complex compared to E-6 and it’s unlikely it would be cost effective for anyone to do it.
The funny thing is I never book mark. Most of the sites I visit I just remember the URL. On rare occasions when I can’t remember the URL, I’ll search for in on Google. Like most people, I use Google a lot when I’m looking for things I don’t already know, but not when going to my commonly used sites. In the early 2000s I developed a website for a local public radio station. One thing it thought me was the usefulness of “speakable URLs”. Since most pages I built would require someone on the air speaking the url, they had to be short and distinctive, easy to say, and easy to remember (since the listener wouldn’t be taking notes, they had to remember it long enough to get to a computer and type it in). That got me in the habit of just remembering the URL, which I still do to this day.
I don’t know about the “politically correct” comment, but the one thing I would ask of google if I could ask for something that they would deliver is to ALWAYS return results where ALL of my search terms are included. It doesn’t have to be verbatim, I’m good with them doing conjugations and maybe synonym matching, but if I add a qualifier to my search query, I didn’t add it because I don’t need it. This is my biggest frustration on the web. Lots of different search engines think it is better to return lots of unrelated garbage rather than returning no hits. No hits has actual meaning to me about my search, changing my search to return stuff I don’t want is just noise.
I haven't seen any stats, but anecdotally, I remember watching TopGear episodes a decade ago where they would go on about how Hondas were boring "old people" cars. Its funny because in my region on the US Hondas are very popular with young people hot-rodding them up.
The slightly tangential question I had was, OK, a potential active lifespan of 2-3 hours in aerosol form, but in a normal environment, how long is it likely to remain in aerosol form before settling on a surface, and in what environments is it likely to remain airborne for 2-3 hours?
Shifting meters (Stravinsky's Rite of Spring), quarter tone music (Charles Ives), other alternate scales (check out Okros Ensemble), Take 5 (5/4 meter). The title is absurd because there is virtually an infinite number of melodies.
Myst was really the last game I played. As the article mentions, Doom was released at about the same time, and really became the blueprint for the future of gaming. My problem was I couldn’t play a FPS for more than 10 minutes or so before bad headaches kicked in.
Sometimes I wonder if Myst was like Angry Birds. A game that gamers hated because it didn’t conform to their expectations, but something that found mor purchase with people that didn’t game heavily.