Or gradually crank up the amount of spam you let through over a period of weeks until you get to 100% then tell her you're about to install a new spam filter and crank it back to the original setting. She'll be happy with you and you might even be able to bill her for the work.
The point of storing the articles offline is to be able to access them offline seeing as how you can't access them online when you're offline by definition.
Absolutely. You have to have enough confidence to say "Just because you have failed to adequately butget time and/or resources for project X does not make it my emergency". Working extra when it really is called for is one thing but if it becomes a way of life, that's where the problems lie.
That brings up an interesting thought though... Why do monitors have to be flat anyway? How about an LCD that "wraps around" horizontally to maintain a constant angle/distance to the viewer? I could go for that...
(Cue hordes of people posting links to this having been around for decades [Note: Virtual reality rooms don't count])
There's a science fiction story I read once, in which people had various ornate cases for their portable computers, and kept the same one while replacing the innards.
Really? That's about as science fiction as having someone illuminate the road ahead while driving by activating a switch to pass electricity to light producing devices on the front of their car. I.e. it's everyday and commonplace (Three computers in my house have cases 7+ years old).
Mods, try to be on the lookout for copy and paste karma whores (man, plagiarism annoys me). Unfortunately with 700+ comments on the last discussion, this may not be easy, haha.
UK houses usually have ceramic roof tiles (a USA'n might call them "Spanish tiles" I think), sometimes slate, occasionally thatch but, as far as I know, never the tarpaper shingles that pass for roofing in the US.
Course, a standard US wood framed house would probably not be able to take the weight of a ceramic tile roof.
My father told me that wooden houses were banned after the great fire of London but I don't know how much veracity to give that...
Most houses are built with two brick layers (you can get them filed with foam, "cavity wall insulation". My parents house also has internal brick walls but I think that has now been dropped in favo(u)r of wood framed rockwall (gyproc) walls on newer constructions that I have seen.
As I found when I moved to the U.S., if you wander around and tell car salesmen that you want a "people carrier", you will get blank stares. The U.S. term is "minivan".
The light quality sucks, they can't be used with dimmer switches and the first one I got burned out in a day (couldn't find the receipt to take it back. Some cost saving).
That said, I do use them where it makes sense but a "drop in replacement" is pushing it.
A bigger saving would be to simply turn lights off. Or not have multi-kiloWatt christmas light displays.
I wouldn't set foot in Ikea again if you paid me. But you can get them in Wal Mart or Sam's for a lot less anyway.
That's the strategy I tend to use too. Though fortunately, my commute passes a gas station that's nearly always the cheapest price around so they get all my business most of the time. The only time they were high was during that blip a while back. I think they got a bit ahead of the curve. At that time I was filling up every day* but even then managed to avoid paying more than $2.99/gallon.
Rich
*Yes, that's "panic buying" and will tend to push the prices up some. But I was in the UK when the trucker strike cut gas off and that's not a pleasant situation to be in (even with my daily commute then being a ten minute walk). To bring things somewhat back on topic, that strike was due to the high price of gas due to the taxes there.
Most modern cars have knock detectors. If you use a lower octane fuel, they will retard the ignition (at a loss of power) and continue to run fine. You may have an older car for which this is not the case (you don't specify).
I am using gas in my car three grades lower than specified and it has been running fine for the past 100k.
You can code spaghettic crap in any language. Basic just made it easier which means you were introduced to the reasons *why* you should write plain, procedural modular code at an earlier stage,
If I want to add a quick comment to a site, often that I have found through Google search, and I have to go about registering, I often won't bother. If I just have to enter a captcha, I will. More often than not, these are usually things where I am posting stuff beneficial to others (how to fix a problem someone is having with something) so it's others that lose out.
It's up to the site owners if they want to run things that way of course. But it can be costly.
Removable media has the very important advantage that it's removable. It makes it less flexible but in the event that (say) a worm gets loose on your (or perhaps every) network or a bug in hardware firmware means that all drives get corrupted at midnight on new years eve or some other non-localised failure, your data is sitting somewhere in an unwritable state.
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Or gradually crank up the amount of spam you let through over a period of weeks until you get to 100% then tell her you're about to install a new spam filter and crank it back to the original setting. She'll be happy with you and you might even be able to bill her for the work.
Rich
The point of storing the articles offline is to be able to access them offline seeing as how you can't access them online when you're offline by definition.
Rich
Absolutely. You have to have enough confidence to say "Just because you have failed to adequately butget time and/or resources for project X does not make it my emergency". Working extra when it really is called for is one thing but if it becomes a way of life, that's where the problems lie.
Rich
No, because you'll lose out on having to pay for the mathematician you'll have to hire. 4*120!=500.
Rich
That brings up an interesting thought though... Why do monitors have to be flat anyway? How about an LCD that "wraps around" horizontally to maintain a constant angle/distance to the viewer? I could go for that...
(Cue hordes of people posting links to this having been around for decades [Note: Virtual reality rooms don't count])
Rich
Mmmm, custard
Rich
There's a science fiction story I read once, in which people had various ornate cases for their portable computers, and kept the same one while replacing the innards.
Really? That's about as science fiction as having someone illuminate the road ahead while driving by activating a switch to pass electricity to light producing devices on the front of their car. I.e. it's everyday and commonplace (Three computers in my house have cases 7+ years old).
Rich
And protecting your important data is as simple as taking off your tinfoil hat and placing it on the computer.
Rich
Most likely when the PSU catches fire and the capacitors explode if you're covering it with a blanket.
Rich
Mods, try to be on the lookout for copy and paste karma whores (man, plagiarism annoys me). Unfortunately with 700+ comments on the last discussion, this may not be easy, haha.
1) Slate is not ceramic tile
2)Are you unable to parse "standard US wood framed house"? See this page on that site:
http://www.jenkinsslate.com/thinkingabout.html
Upgrades are required to install a slate roof on most US houses.
Rich
Course, they don't get many hurricanes in the UK either.
During a recent storm in Tennessee, several brick homes were demolished. Course, they were wooden framed so it's hard to tell.
Personally, when I finally get to have my own house built, I'm intending to get it double walled brick UK style.
Rich
UK houses usually have ceramic roof tiles (a USA'n might call them "Spanish tiles" I think), sometimes slate, occasionally thatch but, as far as I know, never the tarpaper shingles that pass for roofing in the US.
Course, a standard US wood framed house would probably not be able to take the weight of a ceramic tile roof.
My father told me that wooden houses were banned after the great fire of London but I don't know how much veracity to give that...
Rich
Most houses are built with two brick layers (you can get them filed with foam, "cavity wall insulation". My parents house also has internal brick walls but I think that has now been dropped in favo(u)r of wood framed rockwall (gyproc) walls on newer constructions that I have seen.
Rich
As I found when I moved to the U.S., if you wander around and tell car salesmen that you want a "people carrier", you will get blank stares. The U.S. term is "minivan".
Rich
The light quality sucks, they can't be used with dimmer switches and the first one I got burned out in a day (couldn't find the receipt to take it back. Some cost saving).
That said, I do use them where it makes sense but a "drop in replacement" is pushing it.
A bigger saving would be to simply turn lights off. Or not have multi-kiloWatt christmas light displays.
I wouldn't set foot in Ikea again if you paid me. But you can get them in Wal Mart or Sam's for a lot less anyway.
Rich
That's the strategy I tend to use too. Though fortunately, my commute passes a gas station that's nearly always the cheapest price around so they get all my business most of the time. The only time they were high was during that blip a while back. I think they got a bit ahead of the curve. At that time I was filling up every day* but even then managed to avoid paying more than $2.99/gallon.
Rich
*Yes, that's "panic buying" and will tend to push the prices up some. But I was in the UK when the trucker strike cut gas off and that's not a pleasant situation to be in (even with my daily commute then being a ten minute walk). To bring things somewhat back on topic, that strike was due to the high price of gas due to the taxes there.
Most modern cars have knock detectors. If you use a lower octane fuel, they will retard the ignition (at a loss of power) and continue to run fine. You may have an older car for which this is not the case (you don't specify).
I am using gas in my car three grades lower than specified and it has been running fine for the past 100k.
Rich
There is no room for Men Kampf in the classroom. Schools already have their hands filled preaching their own brand of propaganda.
Rich
You can code spaghettic crap in any language. Basic just made it easier which means you were introduced to the reasons *why* you should write plain, procedural modular code at an earlier stage,
Rich
It'd help some but most of the problem with the analog copying will be duplicated across the copies.
Rich
Works great at nightclubs with girls you don't like too (without the dot).
If I want to add a quick comment to a site, often that I have found through Google search, and I have to go about registering, I often won't bother. If I just have to enter a captcha, I will. More often than not, these are usually things where I am posting stuff beneficial to others (how to fix a problem someone is having with something) so it's others that lose out.
It's up to the site owners if they want to run things that way of course. But it can be costly.
Rich
The beauty of the Segway is that its footprint is very close to that of a pedestrian.
Which is all very well until you are the pedestrian.
Rich
Removable media has the very important advantage that it's removable. It makes it less flexible but in the event that (say) a worm gets loose on your (or perhaps every) network or a bug in hardware firmware means that all drives get corrupted at midnight on new years eve or some other non-localised failure, your data is sitting somewhere in an unwritable state.
Rich