Similar refinement: I would do a descending clock auction: start at $19, every 6 hours price goes down another $1, maximum number of copies sold in the auction is, say, 100,000. An optional (in my opinion useful) subtlety is to keep progressive sales information private, so the fear of missing the deal is the more palpable to potential buyers.
I think a similar format would work for a site like woot.com. Maybe it has been tried?
1996: I was an contract programmer. As a favor to a friend and fellow contractor, I agreed to update some ancient POS (point of sale, piece of s...) software for one of his clients. The program ran on SCO Unix. Interface was curses. I had never used any flavor of Unix before, and I wasn't about to buy a license for SCO. So, 12 hours after meeting with the client for the first time, I had installed a dual boot RedHat system and got the code to compile under ncurses, which required a few dozen changes to the least-common-API. I was using vi to edit the code, which was also brand new to me then. About a week later, the improvements completed and running under Linux, I took the modified code back to the customer on a floppy, to deliver the finished product. To my astounded delight, it compiled and worked under SCO!
The ease with which I, as a developer, was able to adapt to this alien platform, forever linked me to it. Having RedHat installed on my development machine (a beefy Pentium 166 as I recall), I kept it there and started using it more and more.
This plant will be more economical than other plants since the fuel cost is negative. Therefore it should be dispatched preferentially to fossil or even nukes.
This review is of documentation of some software. The only motivation to read the documentation is if one were interested in using the software itself; in that case reading the documentation is mandatory. The review should have been framed as a review of the software, mentioning that one of its main strengths is the extensive and well-written documentation.
I notice that most of the comments are about the tradeoffs of using exim vs qmail, postfix, sendmail, etc. These comments get to the heart of the matter, but the reviewer doesn't provide any insight in this area!
I find it wholesome to purge the old cruft from my 120ish GB of hard disk every 2 weeks to make room for the latest huge.file
Seems like I've been doing that since the old days with a 5MB hard drive on my Apple ][e. The cleansing just takes longer now. I suppose there is no reason to hope that a terabyte will be any easier to keep tidy.
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Similar refinement: I would do a descending clock auction: start at $19, every 6 hours price goes down another $1, maximum number of copies sold in the auction is, say, 100,000. An optional (in my opinion useful) subtlety is to keep progressive sales information private, so the fear of missing the deal is the more palpable to potential buyers.
I think a similar format would work for a site like woot.com. Maybe it has been tried?
1996: I was an contract programmer. As a favor to a friend and fellow contractor, I agreed to update some ancient POS (point of sale, piece of s...) software for one of his clients. The program ran on SCO Unix. Interface was curses. I had never used any flavor of Unix before, and I wasn't about to buy a license for SCO. So, 12 hours after meeting with the client for the first time, I had installed a dual boot RedHat system and got the code to compile under ncurses, which required a few dozen changes to the least-common-API. I was using vi to edit the code, which was also brand new to me then. About a week later, the improvements completed and running under Linux, I took the modified code back to the customer on a floppy, to deliver the finished product. To my astounded delight, it compiled and worked under SCO!
The ease with which I, as a developer, was able to adapt to this alien platform, forever linked me to it. Having RedHat installed on my development machine (a beefy Pentium 166 as I recall), I kept it there and started using it more and more.
However, unless you are a politician, anyone calling you on behalf of a politician is just hawking wares as well.
Why buy a new box, when the payback on power bill savings will be years away? Just use one of your ol' klunkers.
Underclock it and buy a low-rpm quiet fan for $20 if it's noise you're worried about.
Spoken like someone with no kids.
This plant will be more economical than other plants since the fuel cost is negative. Therefore it should be dispatched preferentially to fossil or even nukes.
I notice that most of the comments are about the tradeoffs of using exim vs qmail, postfix, sendmail, etc. These comments get to the heart of the matter, but the reviewer doesn't provide any insight in this area!
I find it wholesome to purge the old cruft from my 120ish GB of hard disk every 2 weeks to make room for the latest huge.file
Seems like I've been doing that since the old days with a 5MB hard drive on my Apple ][e. The cleansing just takes longer now. I suppose there is no reason to hope that a terabyte will be any easier to keep tidy.