Really? Man, I'm not using enough energy, then! According to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, I'm using 25kWh of power a day, a little more than 1kW per hour. In the winter, it's about twice that amount. That's for ~2,000 sq. foot home with two persons living in it.
Then again, maybe that fluorescent light bulb I installed last year is working better than I imagined!
Can you point to a resource pointing to that 5Kw figure? I find it a bit hard to swallow.
I don't have my copy of Wired at the office with me, but I think they may have only listed eight in the magazine as well.
It's quite far from a definitive list. This doesn't prove that IBM is the best and Eli Lilly is the worst; it's just that IBM did the single best thing to protect the privacy of employees and Eli Lilly did the single worst thing. They probably didn't do a real formal survey, either...just tallyed up the privacy stories that they could find with a Google News search.
The order form offers up to 512MB RAM and the option of a 7200RPM 80GB hard drive. Even with that, the specs for this model lists "2.0GB maximum system memory".
It's really not a bad box for the price, for people who would rather buy preconfigured systems instead of building them from parts.
It's cheap budget PC. I mean the most RAM it can have is 256Mb...40G 5.4kRPM hd...yay.
Not true! I bought one of these machines very shortly after they came out with the Mandrake Linux CD's. I got mine installed with 512MB RAM and a 7200RPM hard drive, and it can be upgraded to a maximum of 2GB of RAM.
As a Linux user, I take offense to the notion that because I get most software for free, I won't pay for any software. As a matter of fact, one of the compelling reasons for me to use Linux is the fact that I can legally obtain a lot of quality software for free. As a result, I don't mind purchasing an occasional Loki game, because copying it would be illegal. It's so much easier to pay for an occasional piece of software than in the Windows world, where everything "free" ends up being adware or crippleware anyway.
Here's an excerpt from the Seattle Times article covering the event:
According to the revised policy, the company shares
customer information with its subsidiaries and affiliate
businesses to offer services such as product
recommendations and special offers. However, if
Amazon.com plans to use the information in a way not
specified in the new policy, it must seek customer
approval.
In the previous policy, the company said it may "choose to
sell, rent or lease customer information in the future," but
it didn't specify the terms of such use.
Actually, I can't live without alpha channels, or at least a transparency channel. I'm using primarily PNGs and JPEGs on my websites, EXCEPT when I need transparency. Then, I'm forced to use GIFs, because the transparent channel is rendered as black in Netscape.
I think alpha channels is a major feature of PNG and should be supported immediately.
"...if you use it for your website, you are encouraged to pay for it to get support and to support further development."
And the same is said of software from the FSF.. Personally, if I was making money from using free software, I would feel a certain obligation to give some of those profits back to the people who created it, either for further development, or even just so they can have fun with seeing some money for once. And if you're not making any money off of it and can't afford to send them anything, there's no skin off of anyone's back.
Has anyone else noticed that Tik (the TCL/Tk client) and TNT (the Emacs Lisp client) that AOL developed have been missing from their web site for about a week now? Going to the AIM web site and clicking on the links for the above give you an empty page now. Do you suppose AOL's yanked these as well? Lucky for me, I already have the source... 8-)
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I think this was an attempt at humor.
All license plates in New Mexico are yellow.
Really? Man, I'm not using enough energy, then! According to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, I'm using 25kWh of power a day, a little more than 1kW per hour. In the winter, it's about twice that amount. That's for ~2,000 sq. foot home with two persons living in it.
Then again, maybe that fluorescent light bulb I installed last year is working better than I imagined!
Can you point to a resource pointing to that 5Kw figure? I find it a bit hard to swallow.
I don't have my copy of Wired at the office with me, but I think they may have only listed eight in the magazine as well.
It's quite far from a definitive list. This doesn't prove that IBM is the best and Eli Lilly is the worst; it's just that IBM did the single best thing to protect the privacy of employees and Eli Lilly did the single worst thing. They probably didn't do a real formal survey, either...just tallyed up the privacy stories that they could find with a Google News search.
The order form offers up to 512MB RAM and the option of a 7200RPM 80GB hard drive. Even with that, the specs for this model lists "2.0GB maximum system memory". It's really not a bad box for the price, for people who would rather buy preconfigured systems instead of building them from parts.
There are a number of DVD-ROMs on the market too. I believe you can buy both Debian and Mandrake installations on DVD.
Not true! I bought one of these machines very shortly after they came out with the Mandrake Linux CD's. I got mine installed with 512MB RAM and a 7200RPM hard drive, and it can be upgraded to a maximum of 2GB of RAM.
Free Software keeps me an honest man.
A fellow in Australia caught some pretty good pictures of thieves who came into his house and forgot to steal the webcam.
http://www.geocities.com/osz/rob2/wanted.htm
Actually, I can't live without alpha channels, or at least a transparency channel. I'm using primarily PNGs and JPEGs on my websites, EXCEPT when I need transparency. Then, I'm forced to use GIFs, because the transparent channel is rendered as black in Netscape.
I think alpha channels is a major feature of PNG and should be supported immediately.
"...if you use it for your website, you are encouraged to pay for it to get support and to support further development."
And the same is said of software from the FSF.. Personally, if I was making money from using free software, I would feel a certain obligation to give some of those profits back to the people who created it, either for further development, or even just so they can have fun with seeing some money for once. And if you're not making any money off of it and can't afford to send them anything, there's no skin off of anyone's back.
Isn't life wonderful?
Has anyone else noticed that Tik (the TCL/Tk client) and TNT (the Emacs Lisp client) that AOL developed have been missing from their web site for about a week now? Going to the AIM web site and clicking on the links for the above give you an empty page now. Do you suppose AOL's yanked these as well? Lucky for me, I already have the source... 8-)