The brain remakes itself constantly, in weeks, not decades. ANYTHING you do repetitively becomes a source of new pathways. So in our case, our brains are already optimized to Bear Party bootlegs and Pizza Bites.
First off, CFLs suck, and always will. Ignore them.
The comparison is incandescent and LED. I did some figgerin' and those $40 LED bulbs at Home Depot actually are pretty cheap.
Inputs:
Midwestern US, relatively cheap coal power. Overhead 60w floods. Unlikely to be damaged. Energy use: 65w vs 9.5w. Time on: 5 hours per day.
Time to payback: 2 years. Your milage may vary. Use half the light light, payback takes twice as long.
Once you pay back, every 2 years, it puts $40 in your pocket, per bulb. Bulb should last 10-30 years at that level of use. Don't think of it as a light source. Think of it as an energy farm that feeds on your waste and turns it into BitCoins and lower atmospheric CO2.
Actually, it's not a "privilege". The US Constitution is explicitly grants the people a right to peaceably assemble. That doesn't ensure folks a ticket, but it does make government prohibition on travel unconstitutional.
With important new partnership, Microsoft open a new front on malware distributors, by curbing proliferation of the fundamental skills needed to write software! Windows has never been more secure!
War story from a reporter in South Africa involved chasing down an organ smuggling ring. Had to call his editor and ask if it would be ok to actually take possession of a cooler full of kidneys for a while, grab some photos, then give it back. Editor (correctly) told him he was out of his mind, file the story and call the cops.
Thing is, I don't think the thieves were very smart, and nothing ever got implanted. If there was a white-market for organs though, well then, who's really gonna check once it's onboard?
I'm done with lock in. I'll wait for the books, buy from DRM free publishers (Hi Baen! Hi TOR!), or read Jane Austin. Meanwhile, piracy. The hardware exists (the Kobo Touch is delightful), and open will win because it's a better f'ing product.
And yes, I am bitter that I have $100+ in books locked away on a broken Kindle and a broken Nook that I can't legally transfer to the device of my choice. (Learn from my fail: eInk screens require a case with a rigid screen protector. The screen's a creampuff.)
It is a commonly held myth that freshwater is a renewable resource. One you start pumping it from the ground, it's more similar to a fossil fuel than a forest. Many underground aquifers are not replenished on a timescale useful to humans. Likewise, midwestern US water sources (lakes) are one-time glacial melts that won't replace themselves until the next ice age rolls through.
Number of features is the Dr. Strangelove "mineshaft gap" of the software world. Microsoft Word: 1000+ features. Seriously. Google Document: maybe 50? Which is expanding marketshare? Microsoft's barely-tolerated "ribbon" UI was a direct response to Too Many Features.
Retaining "ownership" of intellectual property is not a solution if the same agreement also gives a perpetual, royalty free license to use that content to Google and unnamed future partners for the wide open purpose of "operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones".
Simple test: Can you put my kid's face in an advertisement without notifying me? Answer looks like yes to me.
Separating children from parents by strangers in an institutional setting should NEVER be allowed. I mean, Think Of The Children actually applies here.
Yes, but... When balanced against methane sinks (using your helpful link), the NET GAIN of methane is ~20Tg/year. Which means that adding 10Tg/year would be a 50% increase in the rate of methane accumulation. Seems like bad news.
On the plus side, doing something about those cows would potentially tip the delta back down to neutral or below.
Anyone tried this yet? Works ok on Dropbox, although the initial upload is a beast (file of noise the size of your storage volume). Afterwards, I think it's only syncing the parts that change. Remote access requires downloading the whole file again.
> I think a lot of people were expecting a lot more from Google Drive than this offering.
The reason DropBox won over the existing services (there were many) was simplicity. It's a folder that syncs. That's all people want. More features, more complexity: Microsoft has tried it. Dropbox ate their lunch.
Google is offering a folder that syncs, at a lower price on an ID management platform many people already use. Seems likely to work.
> Not that education or textbooks today are perfect, but there have been advances.
An interesting question is whether the rate of advancement would be faster or slower using an open source approach. Personally, I wouldn't bet on the gatekeepers.
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The brain remakes itself constantly, in weeks, not decades. ANYTHING you do repetitively becomes a source of new pathways. So in our case, our brains are already optimized to Bear Party bootlegs and Pizza Bites.
Wait, are we talking about cell phone contracts again?
This. The only way Facebook goes away is if better options exist and users have a workable path to migrate. If we have those, then F the rest.
First off, CFLs suck, and always will. Ignore them.
The comparison is incandescent and LED. I did some figgerin' and those $40 LED bulbs at Home Depot actually are pretty cheap.
Inputs:
Midwestern US, relatively cheap coal power.
Overhead 60w floods. Unlikely to be damaged.
Energy use: 65w vs 9.5w.
Time on: 5 hours per day.
Time to payback: 2 years. Your milage may vary. Use half the light light, payback takes twice as long.
Once you pay back, every 2 years, it puts $40 in your pocket, per bulb. Bulb should last 10-30 years at that level of use. Don't think of it as a light source. Think of it as an energy farm that feeds on your waste and turns it into BitCoins and lower atmospheric CO2.
There's a difference between locking people into your products and making products that people want to use.
Actually, it's not a "privilege". The US Constitution is explicitly grants the people a right to peaceably assemble. That doesn't ensure folks a ticket, but it does make government prohibition on travel unconstitutional.
With important new partnership, Microsoft open a new front on malware distributors, by curbing proliferation of the fundamental skills needed to write software! Windows has never been more secure!
Principal matters here, because books are important to, say, education institutions, where civil disobedience (DRM removal edition) is not viable.
It's exactly the stuck pixels via stabbing that destroyed both. Toss it in your bag with your car keys, and it's toast.
Chicago is painting roofs white and planting roof grasses for this purpose. http://chicagogreenroofinitiative.com/
Fortunately for humanity, lots of people are willing to donate a kidney to save a stranger's life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/health/lives-forever-linked-through-kidney-transplant-chain-124.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1
War story from a reporter in South Africa involved chasing down an organ smuggling ring. Had to call his editor and ask if it would be ok to actually take possession of a cooler full of kidneys for a while, grab some photos, then give it back. Editor (correctly) told him he was out of his mind, file the story and call the cops.
Thing is, I don't think the thieves were very smart, and nothing ever got implanted. If there was a white-market for organs though, well then, who's really gonna check once it's onboard?
I'm done with lock in. I'll wait for the books, buy from DRM free publishers (Hi Baen! Hi TOR!), or read Jane Austin. Meanwhile, piracy. The hardware exists (the Kobo Touch is delightful), and open will win because it's a better f'ing product.
And yes, I am bitter that I have $100+ in books locked away on a broken Kindle and a broken Nook that I can't legally transfer to the device of my choice. (Learn from my fail: eInk screens require a case with a rigid screen protector. The screen's a creampuff.)
It is a commonly held myth that freshwater is a renewable resource. One you start pumping it from the ground, it's more similar to a fossil fuel than a forest. Many underground aquifers are not replenished on a timescale useful to humans. Likewise, midwestern US water sources (lakes) are one-time glacial melts that won't replace themselves until the next ice age rolls through.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/12/15/us-water-california-idUSTRE5BE0FP20091215
Number of features is the Dr. Strangelove "mineshaft gap" of the software world. Microsoft Word: 1000+ features. Seriously. Google Document: maybe 50? Which is expanding marketshare? Microsoft's barely-tolerated "ribbon" UI was a direct response to Too Many Features.
How about user count as a metric of success?
Which will we run out of first, oil or dirt?
Whoever wrote the tagline for this piece should get a beer and day off. Well played.
Because platform lockin leads to crap platforms. Competition!
Retaining "ownership" of intellectual property is not a solution if the same agreement also gives a perpetual, royalty free license to use that content to Google and unnamed future partners for the wide open purpose of "operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones".
Simple test: Can you put my kid's face in an advertisement without notifying me? Answer looks like yes to me.
Separating children from parents by strangers in an institutional setting should NEVER be allowed. I mean, Think Of The Children actually applies here.
Because you can't treat a plant inhumanely. Sheep can suffer. And we know how compatible capitalism and bioethics is.
Yes, but... When balanced against methane sinks (using your helpful link), the NET GAIN of methane is ~20Tg/year. Which means that adding 10Tg/year would be a 50% increase in the rate of methane accumulation. Seems like bad news.
On the plus side, doing something about those cows would potentially tip the delta back down to neutral or below.
In theory, you can sync a TrueCrypt vault.
Anyone tried this yet? Works ok on Dropbox, although the initial upload is a beast (file of noise the size of your storage volume). Afterwards, I think it's only syncing the parts that change. Remote access requires downloading the whole file again.
> I think a lot of people were expecting a lot more from Google Drive than this offering.
The reason DropBox won over the existing services (there were many) was simplicity. It's a folder that syncs. That's all people want. More features, more complexity: Microsoft has tried it. Dropbox ate their lunch.
Google is offering a folder that syncs, at a lower price on an ID management platform many people already use. Seems likely to work.
> Not that education or textbooks today are perfect, but there have been advances.
An interesting question is whether the rate of advancement would be faster or slower using an open source approach. Personally, I wouldn't bet on the gatekeepers.