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Yes, it would have to be a big pipe, but is that possible? Or, could you not attach a cone to the top of the cylinder to condense the flow into a smaller (pipe size flow)?
Take 10% of the money and put it into an easily accessible account you can use day-to-day. The other 90% put in a high-interest account and forget about for 12 months.
You can then use that 12-month period to decide what you want to do, but safe in the knowledge, in this case, you have enough money readily available to live and not worry about bills. You also have the bonus of a nice lot of interest added to your sum next year.
Wow. Just wow! You must feel bad/ill after drinking it, right?
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You won't say that to your parents and guarantee they get it right first time when typing it in (although I guess that's what Google is for. Did you mean...).
It's a hurdle, and one they need to fix if there's any chance of this being a "distributed Facebook replacement"
I created a workstation that allowed my screen to be at eye height and keyboard/mouse to be at the right height for my elbows to be at right-angles. That was by far the most comfortable position to stand and type/mouse from. Later on I found having the mouse higher actually helped too with arm ache.
As for how long I could stand for, the first week was not a problem. I was doing 8am-1pm followed by 30 minutes sitting down, and then 1:30pm-6pm without a break other than a walk to the toilet occasionally.
From week two my legs really started to ache from the kneee down, I found myself leaning on the desk to take away the pressure. Investigating why this was happening I found it is to do with keeping your legs stationary as the muscles can cramp or just go stiff. The solution is to keep moving so a cheap manual treadmill should do the trick. The alternative of taking frequent breaks doesn't work as it breaks concentration.
If you have to do this for a couple of weeks then you should be able to cope, if you want to make a "change for life" then come up with some way to keep moving while working.
For those who do sit down all day and don't have back problems a word of caution. Sitting all day makes your lower back very stiff, but you won't notice this until you try to do something and hurt yourself. It may be a lifting task that an unstiff back could cope with. Taking time to exercise and stretch can save you such a disaster, I am healing well now, but still get twinges and have to be carefull.
Is it the fact some department or person at a media company is tasked with deciding how to protect the content and all they have is a DRM solution? Would coming up with an alternative that's classed as thinking outside the box make them fear for their job?
I'd also like to say I'm getting pretty tired of every device I own needing an update. If I don't boot up my PS3/360 for a week I can't play a new game without having to wait for some update to install, reboot the machine, and test it has fixed some obscure vulnerability.
Courtesy of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agree...
"Since "gmail" is 50% fewer characters than "googlemail," we estimate this name change will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day. At about 217 microjoules per keystroke, that's about the energy of 20 bonbons saved every day!"
But seriously, glad this trademark dispute finally got sorted out.
It takes very little time, gathers my thoughts, and motivates me to get through what's written down. There is no greater motivater than crossing entries off the list.
"Those who have to-do lists usually manage them constantly"
Correct. By doing the work and crossing stuff off!
"half the time the tasks on the list never get done"
This isn't a fault of the list, it's the author clearly not having enough time, or not working hard enough to clear it. Either way it highlights a problem that needs fixing.
His concept of the One Thing System actually turns out to be a todo list. You just focus on the first thing on that list and don't do anything else until it is done, he even goes on to suggest making a list! :
"Make a list of possible things to do, if you like, or routine tasks that need to get done for one reason or another. "
So, don't kill your todo list, just use it properly (or better)
31% failure rate for laptops after 3 years seems very high. I'm also surprised to find Lenovo well down the list for reliability, but I do forget they are no longer real ThinkPads though.
I give up. It's like a political steamroller. It doesn't matter how many people stand in front of it, there's no stopping it.
Surely that was more profitable than the current focus of selling individual digital tracks? If publishers decided they would only sell digital albums and digital singles, and not split them up, wouldn't that work in their favour?
As a consumer I hope that doesn't happen, I just don't fully understand why EMI would argue against just selling digital albums.