I am always on the lookout for cloud storage my current list from best to worst with their respective pros and cons are (*Based on what I have seen & most of my computers run linux so its a major part of my list)
1. Copy.com - Most free storage 15 gb, works with every environment, Integrates acceptably with linux, Most generous with new free space for referrals (+5 gb for both parties). I have not yet witnessed how it handles conflicting copies of a file. On that note If anyone wants a copy account we both get an extra 5 gigs if you follow my referral link https://copy.com?r=9frCDJ
2. Dropbox - Great handling of conflicting copies, works with every environment, great linux integration, lowest storage space and lowest storage space per referral. Great handling of conflicted copies.
3. Spideroak - Great linux integration, great encryption, No online viewing of files (due to the encryption) great linux integration
4. Box - great free space, none existent linux integration, no conflict checking/ history for free version. It ate many of my important school files because of this.
5. There are also Google drive and microsoft Onedrive but I have no experience with them.
To sum up, right now My favorite is copy.com due to copious amounts for free space and Linux intigration. Hope that helps
I worked with an organization who did biosand filters in the Dominican republic and Haiti, they actually wanted there filters to leave a small amount of the bacteria because then it aloud the people who were using the filters to build up an resistance in case they ever drank water that was not filtered.
Its worse than just that, i just tried to opt out, (I know I should not be on bell to begin with, but my wife set up the phone plans) the options are do you want targeted adds, or random unfiltered adds. Where is no adds, i am paying you way to much money for to little service. I will accept adds if I am getting a free service from someone, but when I am already drastically overpaying for my phone. No chance in hell. I am sending them a letter informing them that I will be leaving there service as in the spring when my contract is up and telling all of my friends to do the same thing.
I am working/in school, as/for mechanical Engineering. I have used Pro/Engineer and IronCad extensively they are polar opposites in the way that they operate. They also both have there advantages and disadvantages.
When I had to chose a 3d Cad Program for myself I chose IronCad mostly on price but after using it for two years I genuinely feel that It is the fastest to model and easiest to use (but coming from Pro/E offers at times hair pulling levels of frustration mostly due to differences in methodology) It has a 30 day free trial that you can use to see if you like it. http://www.ironcad.com/ That is what I would point someone on a budget towards (if money were no objective I would still go for Pro/E but would miss a lot of the features of IronCad)
I would love to do that, but I think that, that is, or will be Illegal under the tpp and nafta. Also can you think of a faster way to get voted out of office than to be the person who caused all of our cheap consumer goods to double in price? Not saying I don't think it should happen; just it would be tricky.
In one of my manufacturing process classed, the prof claimed he had done a lot of work for major companies off-shoring production. He then went on to explain that they saved very little money on the cheap offshore labour. (cheap labour + long shipping = aprox same as labour here) The big savings were gained from having no or very poor environmental laws. With that in mind I do not see this bringing much manufacturing back to North America or Europe. Plus if it was an advantage the cheap labour markets would just by the robots anyway.
The way to get manufacturing back here in my opinion, is to make a products store front cost true to what the real cost is. Ie sum of parts + labour + the cost of dealing with the waste.
Who cares about the whether the company is good or bad, That is a red herring. If the majority of citizens want something labeled, then label it.
Most of us live in democracies, why can't we have democratic rights?
I agree with everything you said, and would love if some of the more glaring "professional" missing features were addressed. But as I can't code/or if I tried GIMP would be far worse off, and at this time I am not able to contribute financially I don't feel that I have any right to dictate what features need working on. (Not that I am implying you feel that you have a right ether.)
What I am saying is if people want to get away from Photoshop, they need to find a constructive way to help. Even if it is bug checking, writing tutorials, or any other simple job that helps out the cause.
Every time there is anything posted about GIMP the entire comments consist of nothing but people complaining that it is not photoshop. What does it contribute to the discussion? We have all heard it before, many times. If you irrationally hate some piece of software, don't use it. If not enjoy the progression and the new features.
I for one, am glad that GIMP exists and want to thank all the people involved for all their hard work. It is not perfect but gets better with every release. I happily use it for all my photo manipulation needs.
This sounds good on paper, but could it not lead to extreme abuse? Think of how badly the parties sway the little things to be in their favour. Now think of how much they would warp the civics test. I feel that it would not take long until the civics test became a way from keeping people with opposing views from voting rather than ensuring only allowing qualified vote.
Acording to Political compass the NDP are almost exactly in the centre the Liberals are to the right and the Conservitives are far right, According to that site everyone has moved substantial to the right, to the point that the NDP are nearly where the Libs were 10 years ago and the Libs are where the Cons were 10 years ago. Intrestingly, it actually puts the Liberals right of Barak Obama.
It is funny I have been attempting to do something very similar to this for my land. But have hit quite a few road blocks, first it was explained to me from the resource management people here in Alberta Canada that it is Illegal to store rain water that way. I can not take rain water that could potential go to someone else's land and keep it for myself. Which i begrudgingly admit is understandable. That is what it is considered if I were to make a water collection pit. Second they analyze the amount of surface area in any collection pit and calculate the evaporation, which is (surprisingly to me) very high. On that basis too they disallow the idea.
Water management comes down to, if you want more water available to use you need to have swamps, the natural way for the land to store (and clean) water without evaporative loses or unfairly keeping water from your neighbors. Ironically they are the very thing farmers have been doing their best to get rid of.
To sum up, land with swamps = good for the land, good for the water, good for the water table, bad for large mechanized efficient farming.
This has been my opinion on the matter taken from, talking with people employed by the environment ministry, research (google), talking with other farmers, and experience on my own farm.
I have no issue with that, just doing anything would be a step in the right direction and I will happily support any cordanated boycott (or other logical plan) with these goals. As an additional point for going after apple, they did just post record profits again. So everyone knows that they could easily do more to improve the lives of the workers.
Boycotting apple is a good idea, yes everyone is using the same factories but it is unrealistic to boycott everyone at the same time. So why not pick the bully in the group and lay him out? Apple is used by people who claim to care, so force apple to care. Then once they are forced into it, move the next company down the line. I bet it would not take long and no one would be using the appealing worker conditions.
My process is fairly simple What I do, is I pick a price point that I want to spend then I look at Lenovo, dell, hp, and a few of the big box stores and get the machine with the best specs I can at that price.
I used to be biased towards Thinkpads but I am not happy with the build quality or longevity of my most recent, a w500. The only thing they (in my opinion) still have going for them is they are easy to disassemble and repair or upgrade. Although parts from Lenovo are ghastly expensive.
What I find interesting, is when I read through the comments on Slashdot a year ago there was virtually no argument that global warming was happening and was man made. Even on sites like fark the majority of people were under the "human caused global warming" banner. Yet now there seams to be a resurgence in the "its not caused by us" camp. What has changed?
/don tinfoil hat
I have noticed a lot of marketing aimed at denying global warming. Is it possible that the marketing is working?
This is unfortunately not true. I have met Christian fundamentalists right here in Alberta Canada who actively promote nuclear war. They honestly believe that a nuclear war is in effect Armageddon and it will bring the second coming where all the righteous will be swept up seconds before the bombs hit.
"Millions of Americans, primarily premillennialist fundamentalist Christians, believe that God has foreordained a global nuclear war as the precursor to the Second Coming of Christ"
I am all for helping new tech become feasible but with one catch.
This may be crazy, and I might be slightly off topic, but to me, if tax payers pay for researching new technology then shouldn't the information gained from that research remain in the public?
The law was made in the 70's with strict guidelines imposed to appease the insurance companies. The current Government is currently looking at how to fix the situation. In fact they have already introduced legislation that, if passed will do so.
(disclaimer) a friend who works for the ministry tells me this
I disagree with the statement that nuclear is the only alternative we have. With the invention of the "hot dry rock" geothermal method, geothermal is now a practical alternative and suitable for base load power. What this means is that almost anywhere we drill (6-10 km down) we can make a power plant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power
If you don't believe me check the MIT report, actually it should be read anyway. The report is a fascinating read and estimates that the resource is around 13000 ZJ, with 2000 ZJ being extractable.
The MIT report -- http://geothermal.inel.gov/publications/future_of_geothermal_energy.pdf
I know this can't help the citizens of the USA, but for people in the rest of the world if we don't like the way the USA treats us we could stop doing business with them, or more practically start putting the mechanisms in place so we don't have to deal with them. It would not take much to force a change. from my point of view the USA is positioning itself very close to how England was before the yanks got mad and spoiled all there tea. i.e. taking in resources and then selling them back to the country that they came from at a profit. The point of this is they are vulnerable if we start selling our resources to other countries.
To sum up what I am saying is if you don't like it don't put up with it we are enabling this sort of behaviour by continuing on as normal and that does no one any favours
/ I like the people of USA, just not there government, actually I don't like my own government ether
I have the same laptop (i think) dv6110ca and the only distribution that i could get to run was Slackware 11. with an upgraded kernel 2.6.20, and the newest bios from HP's site. everything but the winmodem works now. if you need any help getting it to work you can email me at
vlad_il_insky at gmail.com (without the _ _ )
these are interesting questions, first the financial picture... I went from 400 feeders plus 100 range cows (feeders are feedlot animals and range cows are cows out on the, well, range. They produce calves every year) I made the switch when I realized that I was constantly breaking even on my feeders. with buying them, a yearly 30 000$ vet bill (at least 70% of that were anti-biotic's the rest vaccines and various vet activities) land rent fuel, feed, every waking moment of my life ether feeding animals or producing feed for them (actually i like the taking care of the animals part)
as apposed to my range cow calves witch rarely got sick and when sold actualy made me money. I went to only range cows and my total income went from 4-500 000$ a year to 80 000 (all numbers approx) but I kept way more of it. In additions to this I tried fatting up a few animals and selling them as meat privately
financially i had the same amount of spending money but with way less work and way less stress. to be fair last year i rented my farm to my cousin and have started trying to travel the world. I am way to young and feel a driving need to see more of the planet to be stuck forever. i will farm again though but it will be in a much smarter and sustainable fashion.
how did I become interested in IT? I became interested in IT when i realized i knew nothing about computers. I hate being inept at anything. so I picked up a new hobby and now run a Slackware box with a burning interesting in all things open source.
Yeah i could have made a lot more money in IT. most of my friends are in IT now. but there are a few problems with IT (for me). No one is their own boss, and they are stuck inside all day without doing any physical work. I need to be out side and I need to do Physical work. its just who I am
finally someone asked the question of what I did with sick animals. After the switch only 1-2 animals got sick a year. i treated them and sold them on the standard market.
Slashdot Mirror
I am always on the lookout for cloud storage my current list from best to worst with their respective pros and cons are (*Based on what I have seen & most of my computers run linux so its a major part of my list)
1. Copy.com - Most free storage 15 gb, works with every environment, Integrates acceptably with linux, Most generous with new free space for referrals (+5 gb for both parties). I have not yet witnessed how it handles conflicting copies of a file. On that note If anyone wants a copy account we both get an extra 5 gigs if you follow my referral link https://copy.com?r=9frCDJ
2. Dropbox - Great handling of conflicting copies, works with every environment, great linux integration, lowest storage space and lowest storage space per referral. Great handling of conflicted copies.
3. Spideroak - Great linux integration, great encryption, No online viewing of files (due to the encryption) great linux integration 4. Box - great free space, none existent linux integration, no conflict checking/ history for free version. It ate many of my important school files because of this. 5. There are also Google drive and microsoft Onedrive but I have no experience with them.
To sum up, right now My favorite is copy.com due to copious amounts for free space and Linux intigration. Hope that helps
I worked with an organization who did biosand filters in the Dominican republic and Haiti, they actually wanted there filters to leave a small amount of the bacteria because then it aloud the people who were using the filters to build up an resistance in case they ever drank water that was not filtered.
I whole heartedly agree and wanted to mod you up by my points just expired
Its worse than just that, i just tried to opt out, (I know I should not be on bell to begin with, but my wife set up the phone plans) the options are do you want targeted adds, or random unfiltered adds. Where is no adds, i am paying you way to much money for to little service. I will accept adds if I am getting a free service from someone, but when I am already drastically overpaying for my phone. No chance in hell. I am sending them a letter informing them that I will be leaving there service as in the spring when my contract is up and telling all of my friends to do the same thing.
I am working/in school, as/for mechanical Engineering. I have used Pro/Engineer and IronCad extensively they are polar opposites in the way that they operate. They also both have there advantages and disadvantages.
When I had to chose a 3d Cad Program for myself I chose IronCad mostly on price but after using it for two years I genuinely feel that It is the fastest to model and easiest to use (but coming from Pro/E offers at times hair pulling levels of frustration mostly due to differences in methodology) It has a 30 day free trial that you can use to see if you like it. http://www.ironcad.com/ That is what I would point someone on a budget towards (if money were no objective I would still go for Pro/E but would miss a lot of the features of IronCad)
As a lover of open source I often look towards FreeCad http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page longingly and have great hope for it. it may be worth a look
I would love to do that, but I think that, that is, or will be Illegal under the tpp and nafta. Also can you think of a faster way to get voted out of office than to be the person who caused all of our cheap consumer goods to double in price? Not saying I don't think it should happen; just it would be tricky.
In one of my manufacturing process classed, the prof claimed he had done a lot of work for major companies off-shoring production. He then went on to explain that they saved very little money on the cheap offshore labour. (cheap labour + long shipping = aprox same as labour here) The big savings were gained from having no or very poor environmental laws.
With that in mind I do not see this bringing much manufacturing back to North America or Europe. Plus if it was an advantage the cheap labour markets would just by the robots anyway.
The way to get manufacturing back here in my opinion, is to make a products store front cost true to what the real cost is. Ie sum of parts + labour + the cost of dealing with the waste.
I still want a baxter to play with though
Who cares about the whether the company is good or bad, That is a red herring. If the majority of citizens want something labeled, then label it. Most of us live in democracies, why can't we have democratic rights?
I agree with everything you said, and would love if some of the more glaring "professional" missing features were addressed. But as I can't code/or if I tried GIMP would be far worse off, and at this time I am not able to contribute financially I don't feel that I have any right to dictate what features need working on. (Not that I am implying you feel that you have a right ether.)
What I am saying is if people want to get away from Photoshop, they need to find a constructive way to help. Even if it is bug checking, writing tutorials, or any other simple job that helps out the cause.
Every time there is anything posted about GIMP the entire comments consist of nothing but people complaining that it is not photoshop. What does it contribute to the discussion? We have all heard it before, many times. If you irrationally hate some piece of software, don't use it. If not enjoy the progression and the new features.
I for one, am glad that GIMP exists and want to thank all the people involved for all their hard work. It is not perfect but gets better with every release. I happily use it for all my photo manipulation needs.
This sounds good on paper, but could it not lead to extreme abuse? Think of how badly the parties sway the little things to be in their favour. Now think of how much they would warp the civics test. I feel that it would not take long until the civics test became a way from keeping people with opposing views from voting rather than ensuring only allowing qualified vote.
Acording to Political compass the NDP are almost exactly in the centre the Liberals are to the right and the Conservitives are far right, According to that site everyone has moved substantial to the right, to the point that the NDP are nearly where the Libs were 10 years ago and the Libs are where the Cons were 10 years ago. Intrestingly, it actually puts the Liberals right of Barak Obama.
http://politicalcompass.org/canada2011
It is funny I have been attempting to do something very similar to this for my land. But have hit quite a few road blocks, first it was explained to me from the resource management people here in Alberta Canada that it is Illegal to store rain water that way. I can not take rain water that could potential go to someone else's land and keep it for myself. Which i begrudgingly admit is understandable. That is what it is considered if I were to make a water collection pit. Second they analyze the amount of surface area in any collection pit and calculate the evaporation, which is (surprisingly to me) very high. On that basis too they disallow the idea.
Water management comes down to, if you want more water available to use you need to have swamps, the natural way for the land to store (and clean) water without evaporative loses or unfairly keeping water from your neighbors. Ironically they are the very thing farmers have been doing their best to get rid of.
To sum up, land with swamps = good for the land, good for the water, good for the water table, bad for large mechanized efficient farming.
This has been my opinion on the matter taken from, talking with people employed by the environment ministry, research (google), talking with other farmers, and experience on my own farm.
I have no issue with that, just doing anything would be a step in the right direction and I will happily support any cordanated boycott (or other logical plan) with these goals. As an additional point for going after apple, they did just post record profits again. So everyone knows that they could easily do more to improve the lives of the workers.
Boycotting apple is a good idea, yes everyone is using the same factories but it is unrealistic to boycott everyone at the same time. So why not pick the bully in the group and lay him out? Apple is used by people who claim to care, so force apple to care. Then once they are forced into it, move the next company down the line. I bet it would not take long and no one would be using the appealing worker conditions.
just my thoughts on the situation - Vlad
My process is fairly simple What I do, is I pick a price point that I want to spend then I look at Lenovo, dell, hp, and a few of the big box stores and get the machine with the best specs I can at that price.
I used to be biased towards Thinkpads but I am not happy with the build quality or longevity of my most recent, a w500. The only thing they (in my opinion) still have going for them is they are easy to disassemble and repair or upgrade. Although parts from Lenovo are ghastly expensive.
What I find interesting, is when I read through the comments on Slashdot a year ago there was virtually no argument that global warming was happening and was man made. Even on sites like fark the majority of people were under the "human caused global warming" banner. Yet now there seams to be a resurgence in the "its not caused by us" camp. What has changed?
/remove tinfoil hat
/don tinfoil hat
I have noticed a lot of marketing aimed at denying global warming. Is it possible that the marketing is working?
This is unfortunately not true. I have met Christian fundamentalists right here in Alberta Canada who actively promote nuclear war. They honestly believe that a nuclear war is in effect Armageddon and it will bring the second coming where all the righteous will be swept up seconds before the bombs hit.
"Millions of Americans, primarily premillennialist fundamentalist Christians, believe that God has foreordained a global nuclear war as the precursor to the Second Coming of Christ"
http://jhp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/4/92 I stole that quote from here
I am all for helping new tech become feasible but with one catch.
This may be crazy, and I might be slightly off topic, but to me, if tax payers pay for researching new technology then shouldn't the information gained from that research remain in the public?
The law was made in the 70's with strict guidelines imposed to appease the insurance companies. The current Government is currently looking at how to fix the situation. In fact they have already introduced legislation that, if passed will do so.
(disclaimer) a friend who works for the ministry tells me this
I disagree with the statement that nuclear is the only alternative we have. With the invention of the "hot dry rock" geothermal method, geothermal is now a practical alternative and suitable for base load power. What this means is that almost anywhere we drill (6-10 km down) we can make a power plant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power
If you don't believe me check the MIT report, actually it should be read anyway. The report is a fascinating read and estimates that the resource is around 13000 ZJ, with 2000 ZJ being extractable.
The MIT report -- http://geothermal.inel.gov/publications/future_of_geothermal_energy.pdf
I know this can't help the citizens of the USA, but for people in the rest of the world if we don't like the way the USA treats us we could stop doing business with them, or more practically start putting the mechanisms in place so we don't have to deal with them. It would not take much to force a change. from my point of view the USA is positioning itself very close to how England was before the yanks got mad and spoiled all there tea. i.e. taking in resources and then selling them back to the country that they came from at a profit. The point of this is they are vulnerable if we start selling our resources to other countries.
To sum up what I am saying is if you don't like it don't put up with it we are enabling this sort of behaviour by continuing on as normal and that does no one any favours
/ I like the people of USA, just not there government, actually I don't like my own government ether
This would be so useful, I will second the call for a open source 3D Parametric Modeling program.
I have the same laptop (i think) dv6110ca and the only distribution that i could get to run was Slackware 11. with an upgraded kernel 2.6.20, and the newest bios from HP's site. everything but the winmodem works now. if you need any help getting it to work you can email me at vlad_il_insky at gmail.com (without the _ _ )
these are interesting questions, first the financial picture... I went from 400 feeders plus 100 range cows (feeders are feedlot animals and range cows are cows out on the, well, range. They produce calves every year) I made the switch when I realized that I was constantly breaking even on my feeders. with buying them, a yearly 30 000$ vet bill (at least 70% of that were anti-biotic's the rest vaccines and various vet activities) land rent fuel, feed, every waking moment of my life ether feeding animals or producing feed for them (actually i like the taking care of the animals part)
as apposed to my range cow calves witch rarely got sick and when sold actualy made me money. I went to only range cows and my total income went from 4-500 000$ a year to 80 000 (all numbers approx) but I kept way more of it. In additions to this I tried fatting up a few animals and selling them as meat privately
financially i had the same amount of spending money but with way less work and way less stress. to be fair last year i rented my farm to my cousin and have started trying to travel the world. I am way to young and feel a driving need to see more of the planet to be stuck forever. i will farm again though but it will be in a much smarter and sustainable fashion.
how did I become interested in IT? I became interested in IT when i realized i knew nothing about computers. I hate being inept at anything. so I picked up a new hobby and now run a Slackware box with a burning interesting in all things open source.
Yeah i could have made a lot more money in IT. most of my friends are in IT now. but there are a few problems with IT (for me). No one is their own boss, and they are stuck inside all day without doing any physical work. I need to be out side and I need to do Physical work. its just who I am
finally someone asked the question of what I did with sick animals. After the switch only 1-2 animals got sick a year. i treated them and sold them on the standard market.