Linux is a pain in the ass to learn and use. Every distro has things in all sorts of places, there is no consistency, NONE. Sorry, this is incorrect. I've got Ubuntu Feisty Fawn in a partition on my machine. Since I don't know much about Linux, I signed up for a free online course from HP. The course uses Fedora ?. I've had no trouble mapping the information presented in the course to Unbuntu. The biggest difference I've seen so far has been the fact that Ubuntu doesn't use a root account in the traditional sense.
This is not always the case; Imagine adding capacity to a PDP-11 to 'keep it modern.' The cost of powering the equipment more than makes up for any possible environmental ills. When DEC introduced their 'PDP-11/70 on a board' they pretty much obsoleted their existing PDP-11 line. We did a quick analysis and realized that the reduction in power costs from having to power a single board vs. many boards in a cabinet would pay for the upgrade in less than a year.
... but I dont even see a need for that other than the "because I can" factor... why load a dishwasher and then wait to get to work/a friend's to go online to tell it to turn on (again, other than the "because I can" factor)? The dishwasher is almost full, but you see that you have enough dinnerware in the cupboard for your next meal, so you put detergent into the dishwasher and decide to wait until after your next meal to run it. You go out someplace in public and encounter some friends you haven't seen for a while. After talking for a few minutes, you invite them over for dinner...oops...you don't have enough clean dinnerware for everyone. No problem, you call your dishwasher and tell it to start now so you have enough clean dinnerware for everyone when you bring your friends home for dinner.
Now, until the security issue is worked out, I don't want anything important in my house controlable over the net.
Ya and why does it matter? Why does it matter if it's proprietary? It's the wrong question. It's actually the correct question. Microsoft wants to lock you into their software and upgrade cycle. Apple wants to lock you into their HARDWARE and software along with their upgrade cycles.
If you want to spend your money on costly hardware and software upgrades, that's your choice. I prefer to spend my money on other things.
Remember on floppies the little plastic that you could move to enable write only? Think about that, but in software. If you hook up an iPod, the in-dash system should automatically play music from it. You should be able to go into a menu and copy from the iPod to the in-dash system, with it asking you to confirm before proceeding. Remember, we're talking teenagers here. "Hey cool, I'll just upload my mp3 player to the car and not even have to plug it in again to hear my music!". A little while later, "Hey Beau, let's upload your mp3 player, too."
But I also fail to see how this is "utterly ridiculous" as a patent. (Here we go again.) The relevant criterion is "non-obviousness". When Bezos told his programmers to implement "one-click", their first implementation took two clicks: buy, then confirm. So he told them to go do it again. It's gotten a little better since 1999, but at that time, that was the thinking of programmers: you have to confirm everything. Just because something has never been done on the internet before, doesn't make it "non-obvious".
One of my grandfather's brothers was a dairy farmer. He could call the feed store and say, "This is John Brown. I need x tons of feed tomorrow." The feed would show up the next day and the cost was added to his account which he paid on a periodic basis.
This is the non-internet version of 'one-click' ordering. It is "utterly ridiculous" to grant a patent for the Amazon "one-click" ordering.
We have the perfect Unix based desktop already and it's called Mac OS. Why should I trade one proprietary platform for another?
I'm working on migrating from XP Pro to Ubuntu 7.04. I will still have to keep my 2 - XP partitions around - there is some Windows-only software my wife needs for work, and my employer's VPN software won't work with Linux.
As usual, the people who can least afford to lose something will be losing something in this digital switchover. Not necessarily. There are many people who didn't grow up in the cellular era who can afford cell phones, but see no reason to have one except for emergencies.
Take key out of ignition open door and lock it out of habit. Put down keys, pick up groceries in the back seat. Shut doors. It's physically impossible to do that in my car. Guarantees no lock outs, but it drives me crazy.
One place I worked had a diesel generator backup installed. When the first power outage hit, it was discovered that that the diesel exhaust was upwind of the HVAC intake for the data center. Shortly thereafter, the diesel exhaust stack was extended enough so that it no longer fed the HVAC intake.
Yes, but some people don't have any hard-wired phone service at all. I know, I know. But they made that choice. Why should I pay for a phone I'd never use when all my neighbors have POTS?
Obviously that was a mistake. Babies are not routinely being given carry permits, you jerk. In Illinois an FOID, Firearm Owner's IDentification card, is not a carry permit as Illinois does not have a carry permit system. Only the police and criminals are allowed to carry firearms.
Although I doubt this would be true if you would count any taxes that went to the upkeep of said power stations. For instance, are the employees paid strictly from the profits from the power stations, or from city taxes? I don't know about Austin, but in San Antonio, the power company is a separate legal entity from, but owned by the city. It has its own CEO, etc., and the employees are not paid out of taxes. In fact, it returns a rather large profit to the city.
From the CPS Energy web site http://www.cpsenergy.com/content_listInternet.asp?sect_id=2593&elmt_id=12 "CPS Energy bills rank the lowest of the nation's 20 largest cities and the company has earned the highest financial ratings of any electric system in the country. Proceeds from CPS Energy remain in San Antonio and account for more than one-fifth of the city's annual operating budget."
What part of the country do you live in that has competition for power? Actually, you answered your own question in your reply to yourself. Some markets in Texas are degregulated and you can buy your power from one of several producers.
Municipal owned utilities, such as in Austin and San Antonio, were exempt from deregulation and they tend to have the lowest consumer retail power prices in the state.
FYI, electric utilities require state/local approval to raise prices. This is incorrect. Some states have deregulated their utilities.
If the state is suing them to clean their shit up, odds are they aren't going to easily pass that on to the consumer In every state where the utility rates are regulated, the utilities are guaranteed a certain rate of return. If their costs go up, the regulaters allow them to raise their rates to maintain their guaranteed rate of return. If their costs go up due to being required to add additional pollution control equipment, their rates will be increased and the customer will pay for the cost of those pollution controls.
It's easy to say the idea is obvious once someone else has thought of it and presented it to you - but was it "obvious" to people before Amazon did it? If so, then why was Amazon the first? This is one of those "... on the internet." obvious bogus patents. The only difference between this and something that was common many, many years ago is doing it on the internet. You walked into the General Store, said hello to the owner, picked out items, told the owner to put the items on your tab/bill and walk out with those items.
Afterall, by the time a customer has gone to the trouble of replacing Gnome and removing Mono, they may as well have just imaged the drive themselves. When the box shows up, boot your Live CD and install it however you want.
Since I use Gnome and and want to do development with Mono, I can skip the above step.
Personally, I prefer to buy my own equipment to renting it. Unfortunately, Time-Warner/Road Runner won't allow me to do that. I'm sure I've paid for several cable modems over the past 7 years.
Just now you might need to move closer to West Texas to get the deal. Warran Buffet is planning to string you some more transmission though. Why would I want to do this?
I see that your wonderful wind power in South Texas is being opposed by nature groups. No matter what kind of energy production method is used and no matter where it is located, somebody or some group will oppose it and sue.
Another location issue pertains specifically to Texas. Texas wind power has been growing very rapidly and may easily meet anticipated demand. Wind costs about $1.30/Watt to build while the nuclear plant, at this early phase, is anticipated to cost $2.20/Watt without modifications that come up in the licensing process or construction delays that genrally plague large projects. That's interesting since the power utility in San Antonio, Texas - CPS - indicates that the power it gets from its South Texas nuclear process is more expensive than the power it gets from its coal plants and less epensive than the power it gets from its wind farm in West Texas.
I have no idea what the password is on my router. When I need to do something on it, I hit the 'reset to factory default' button, do what I need to do, and then change the password to some random string and forget about it.
This is incorrect. When I lived in Texas, I paid an ISP tax because Texas' tax is grandfathered. When I lived in Florida, I didn't pay an ISP tax because the law that is about to expire, prohibits such a tax.
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... but I dont even see a need for that other than the "because I can" factor... why load a dishwasher and then wait to get to work/a friend's to go online to tell it to turn on (again, other than the "because I can" factor)? The dishwasher is almost full, but you see that you have enough dinnerware in the cupboard for your next meal, so you put detergent into the dishwasher and decide to wait until after your next meal to run it. You go out someplace in public and encounter some friends you haven't seen for a while. After talking for a few minutes, you invite them over for dinner...oops...you don't have enough clean dinnerware for everyone. No problem, you call your dishwasher and tell it to start now so you have enough clean dinnerware for everyone when you bring your friends home for dinner.Now, until the security issue is worked out, I don't want anything important in my house controlable over the net.
If you want to spend your money on costly hardware and software upgrades, that's your choice. I prefer to spend my money on other things.
How about when your teenager plugs in their 50GB mp3 player and it gets auto-loaded to the car-audio system and your half full system is now full?
One of my grandfather's brothers was a dairy farmer. He could call the feed store and say, "This is John Brown. I need x tons of feed tomorrow." The feed would show up the next day and the cost was added to his account which he paid on a periodic basis.
This is the non-internet version of 'one-click' ordering. It is "utterly ridiculous" to grant a patent for the Amazon "one-click" ordering.
I'm working on migrating from XP Pro to Ubuntu 7.04. I will still have to keep my 2 - XP partitions around - there is some Windows-only software my wife needs for work, and my employer's VPN software won't work with Linux.
open door and lock it out of habit.
Put down keys, pick up groceries in the back seat.
Shut doors. It's physically impossible to do that in my car. Guarantees no lock outs, but it drives me crazy.
One place I worked had a diesel generator backup installed. When the first power outage hit, it was discovered that that the diesel exhaust was upwind of the HVAC intake for the data center. Shortly thereafter, the diesel exhaust stack was extended enough so that it no longer fed the HVAC intake.
From the CPS Energy web site http://www.cpsenergy.com/content_listInternet.asp?sect_id=2593&elmt_id=12 "CPS Energy bills rank the lowest of the nation's 20 largest cities and the company has earned the highest financial ratings of any electric system in the country. Proceeds from CPS Energy remain in San Antonio and account for more than one-fifth of the city's annual operating budget."
Municipal owned utilities, such as in Austin and San Antonio, were exempt from deregulation and they tend to have the lowest consumer retail power prices in the state.
Since I use Gnome and and want to do development with Mono, I can skip the above step.
I see that your wonderful wind power in South Texas is being opposed by nature groups. No matter what kind of energy production method is used and no matter where it is located, somebody or some group will oppose it and sue.
I have no idea what the password is on my router. When I need to do something on it, I hit the 'reset to factory default' button, do what I need to do, and then change the password to some random string and forget about it.
This is incorrect. When I lived in Texas, I paid an ISP tax because Texas' tax is grandfathered. When I lived in Florida, I didn't pay an ISP tax because the law that is about to expire, prohibits such a tax.
My guess is that the people in Texas will continue to get BOHICAed since Texas' ISP tax is grandfathered in the existing law.