Surely ankle weights would have little or no effect on the effort expended on a bike? You know, because the one pedal is directly connected to the other, so the weight on one leg is counterbalanced by the weight on the other leg. If anything, I'd say the weights would give you a slight assist.
- Slippy
My thighs respectfully disagree :)
- Johnny
from iPhone
It works as an opposite. While yes the extra weight would help on the down stroke, I still have to lift my other leg with the weight on it. I eaither have all that weight on the up pedal whicj means I have to push it up on the down stroke or lift my leg with the weight on it. Add to that I now have 2Kg strapped to each ankle, that forces me to adjust my balance, working my core.
- Johnny
from iPhone
Might get some and see what a difference it makes
- Mo Kargas
I can get that, and I'm not going to argue with your thighs, obviously, but the weight on your left foot on its downstroke is assisting the right foot in its upstroke. I think. My physics-fu is rusty from years without training. Of course, if you lift off the pedal on the upstroke, you're making both legs work at the same time, increasing the workload throughout.
- Slippy
buuuut also increasing the chance you'll fall off the exercycle.
- Slippy
I think Slippy is right. All the work is on the downstroke, and that is alternated between the legs. While one works, the other rests. That's how you ride a bike.
- April
for the record, Johnny is also wearing nipple weights. But we aren't sure why
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
*reads last line* *SELF: memory.get(lastline).delete()*
- Mo Kargas
"There's only one thing more irritating than having to interrupt your Brazilian jazz class to feed the meter. That's racing outside, keys in hand, only to find a parking officer writing a ticket. In two East Bay cities, that most frustrating of urban experiences may soon be obsolete. Berkeley and Oakland are both considering a true rarity: driver-friendly ordinances that would forbid parking officers from writing tickets if the driver is present. "We're trying to have a kinder, gentler parking policy," said Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington, who proposed the Berkeley ordinance. "If you show up to move your car, that should be good enough. I don't think we should be punishing you for that." Berkeley's proposal originated with Frances Kalfus, a classical guitarist who takes Brazilian ensemble classes at the Jazz School in downtown Berkeley. Week after week, his teacher had to rush out of class to move his car. Three times in two months, he returned to class with a $45 ticket,...
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- Anne Bouey
from Bookmarklet
Wow, I'm surprised. They need the $ pretty badly.
- Spidra Webster
"The policy will have little impact on revenue. The city collects about $1.5 million annually from parking tickets, a minimal factor in the city's overall $350 million budget."
- Anne Bouey
Well, I'm glad they think 1.5M is minimal. It's not like South Berkeley needs any additional police presence due to perennial North Oakland/South Berkeley drugs wars...no sirree.
- Spidra Webster
I wonder how much this would impact them financially, though. Maybe this will have a minimal impact. If they are only not writing tickets if the driver is standing right there at the right time (which to me seems like the driver is making a good faith effort to return in time and I think the policy trends towards kindness and understanding); I'm willing to bet that most drivers they...
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- joey
I also wish that cities could find ways to get revenue that don't rely on people don't the 'wrong' thing in order for them to work. Seattle has the same problem; we just overhauled our parking system downtown to make more money and it feels like it's designed to get people to screw up so that they can be ticketed (in addition to doubling the price of street parking and lengthening the...
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- joey
Joey, right -- cities have large incentives to entrap citizens into paying fines, and there's really little in terms of checks and balances. Corruption invariably ensues.
- Stephen Mack
ddno عزیز، لطفا لینکهای بالاترین که مربوط به جامعه و سیاست میشه در اتاق اشتراک لینک بذارین نه فیدهای دیگر. ممنون.
- سيما كيا Sima kia
سیما جان اشتراک لینک قبلن یه روم عمومی بود و همه جور لینکی رو شامل می شد ولی ظاهرن الان با اون لوگوی بالاترینی که زدن دیگه فید عمومی قبول نمی کنن حرفی نیست اگر هم اشتباهی شده به خاطر این بود که من در جریان نبودم
- ddno نابود باد اسلام
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy.
- Ed Mason
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value.
- Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))...
- Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
I agree with Gregor ... By not having the comment sent with the link, it's just plain and boring and I'd rather just post directly to Facebook. Unfortunately, however, this would negate the very useful benefit of using the "Share on FriendFeed" bookmarklet.
- Dewade Fowler
I don't mind it publishing to my wall, but I don't want it to be my status update. It worked fine before y'all fixed it! (Go ahead. Roll your eyes.) ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Rossi
I get that cannot publish message all the time, because I specifically took away its permissions to publish to my wall. If the FF app gave me some sort of control over what it put on my wall, then I'd give it permissions to do so. As it stands, if everything I posted to FF made it to my FB wall, I'd be defriended by 90% of my friends rather quickly.
- Otto
Yay for new publishing methods! stream.publish FTW!
- Jesse Stay
I don't want to publish my friendfeed updates to facebook, they're too many. I blocked it and i'm always receiving error messages on facebook.
- Oscar
On the same environment, I saw that lite.facebook.com is fast as hell! With proxies, my comments gets directly inputted while FriendFeed takes a couple of seconds, one step at a time. And the message, as Oscar said, is always present if you decide to stop FriendFeed from posting to said service when you have the application on FB. It (script) thinks it wasn't decided, as if it was the...
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- Zu from AOD
Mine failed to post the most recent entry to my wall for unknown reasons. (I have it configured to use privatebrlewis@friendfeed rather than my regular brlewis ff account.)
- Bruce Lewis
I've uninstalled the FriendFeed application and now I cannot re-add it. I see the friendfeed app for a split second and then it reports an error.
- Erik Jacobs
Hacım, the search function is totally down, any news on that?
- mcd
They're VERY nice - comparable to Monster Beats Studio with a flatter frequency response and MUCH better build quality. Also, iPhone compatible with mike and volume and track skip on a control on the cord. SOFA KING light!
- teleken
It took me 1.5-years to get RSS after Dave Winer first showed it to me. So, I am getting faster. Took me just a few months to get friendfeed. Glad you kept after me.
- Robert Scoble
So how do I access it? <---I take that back. Didn't realize what I was looking at when I went to the site.
- Mattie Kenny
Josh: it was a seasonal thing last year at this time, so it is no longer possible. We may have to bring it back by popular demand, but for now the entries you see are all from last year.
- Bret Taylor
Bret - bring back those cute little red icons next to the FF posts! easy seasonal "flair" feature!
- Susan Beebe
Think of it this way though... Google has become a service. All these vital services for (the appearance) of free. Google was the company with more money than it needed and was about pushing the envelope, democratising technology and breaking the 'old ways'. Suddenly, the switch is being flipped and the commerce side is out and about. I don't agree with the idea that Google shouldn't make money, but I can understand a person's suspicions of a bait-and-switch
- Johnny
from iPhone
Well, I can still think those people haven't been paying attention and it's funny. They probably also think Google made Chrome just to give users a better browser and created Android just to give users another smartphone choice. The suspicion should have been there at the first mention of "free." :)
- Rah-PM 2012
I hope that opinion holds true with Microsoft of the 90s. They did nothing different.
- Eric
I don't recall Microsoft having anything free, though. Which is why I switched to Linux as soon as I learned about it.
- Rah-PM 2012
The problem is not Google favoring their own products. The problem is Google repeating, loudly and thousands of time over, that their search results are unbiased and that users trust their objectivity. They said it in their press release before their IPO, they said it in their IPO filings, they say it every quarter in their SEC filings, and they've said it under oath in front of Congress. If their methods have changed, they need to say why.
- I like big Botts
Have they changed? Doesn't appear so to me. Looks like they just added a few optional bells and whistles that highlight their own junk around the existing results. Someone feel free to correct me if that's wrong.
- Rah-PM 2012
To your previous comment, Microsoft offered Internet Explorer for free when Netscape was building their business. Then they pre-installed it on all Windows computers, representing well over 90% of all desktops which destroyed Netscape. You could argue that this is the freedom of companies to use their advantage in one area to snag another. You could argue whether monopolies are indeed a bad thing. But you can see how they draw parallels.
- Eric
Ah, I see. I missed all that cuz I was using Linux all those years...which is actually kinda funny. As far as all the monopoly stuff, I can't remember who said it (TechCrunch?), but I think Google is actually going to push it as far as they can to see where the line is. Then, they'll cross it and try to use the investigation to make Twitter and (especially) Facebook open things up a...
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- Rah-PM 2012
Don't you hate it when you record a live sporting event (say... football) and you tell TiVo to record an additional 60 minutes, and then you go the whole afternoon avoiding the score... and then the game goes into overtime... and then some dude fumbles, and you know what's going to happen, and it's bad... and then the TiVo recording stops? Yeah.
I had that discussion w/co-workers last week. That's when I appreciate my old VCR. Pop in an 8-hour tape, tell it to record and don't worry about it. Unless the game goes into, like, 17 overtimes.
- vicster
Ironically, that same thing happened to me - but I was watching about 1/2 behind real time and was saved by the rolling buffer. Not that I wanted to see that ending anyway, but....
- Ken Gidley
It seems like a really intelligent system could notice that an abnormally large number of people watching the sporting event live are staying on the channel, and that could be a cue that the event is ongoing, and that it could tell those devices recording the event to continue recording some extra time if there isn't a conflicting scheduled recording. We have the technology...
- Kevin Fox
I generally go 3 hours extra for sporting events. My biggest problem with sporting events and TiVo has been turning on the TV to start watching the game 2 hours in and having the Picture In Picture (with sound) give away the current score. :-(
- Brian Johns
Brian, that's my biggest concern with upgrading my TiVo. I never want to see live TV except when I explicitly ask for it. I hate that my TiVo times out to live TV, and I'd dislike it even more if it 'helpfully' showed me PIP live TV when I try and use core TiVo functions.
- Kevin Fox
from iPhone
There's PiP?? I want to enable that when I'm in Settings -> Channels -> Channels you recieve.
- Amit Patel
Amit, the new Premiere units have PIP (if you're in HDUI mode). To enable or disable PIP on a Premiere, use TiVo Central -> Settings & Messages -> Settings -> Displays -> Video Window -> Off. (Or, you can simply toggle it on/off by hitting the Slow Motion button.)
- Stephen Mack
Ooh, interesting. I have mostly TiVo 2s and one TiVo 3 but I might get a Premiere one of these days.
- Amit Patel
RT @YourAnonNews: SOPA & PIPA were mere harbingers of the censorship hurricane that's coming. While they're dead, ACTA & HR1981 loom menacingly on the horizon
Rock on, mah bruthah! I am down 55 lbs (not gonna do the math you silly man) from when I started last summer. The first 40 came off fast. the rest is slooooooooooooooooooow.
- Josh Haley
Has taken me 50% longer to lose 5kgs less!
- Mo Kargas