No elevated trains in Detroit? You mean except for the people mover, which at least covers downtown, right?
Granted, it's about the least useful form of public transportation imaginable (it doesn't connect to the actual train station or bus stations), but it does come in handy on game day.
Self-checkouts are a reward for people who can accept technology. I'm more likely to stop by the store now that I know I can run in, grab one or two things, and check out in a couple minutes instead of waiting in line behind some jackass who thinks that the "12 items or less" rule applies to everyone but him.
The Meijer that's closest to my house doesn't have enough self-checkout lanes, so they get clogged up with the luddites who can't follow directions. The one thats a few extra miles away has full self checkout and express lanes, so you very rarely have to wait to use one. It works out damn near even.
If I have a full load of groceries, then I'll still use regular checkout. But self-checkout is a godsend to me. I'm too impatient, and I seem to be a magnet for shopping on the days where there is only one lane open, and the guy ahead of me wants to pay for his groceries using a bridge card, cash, AND check (but only has an expired out of state ID, needs to borrow a pen, and has a couple around here somewhere for those frozen peas....)
Thanks for making up numbers that much of your argument hinges on. To make a real argument about the affect of the US government on Helium prices you'd have to get REAL numbers, not ones you just made up.
Not necessarily. This article concerns itself only with the national helium reserve. The fact that someone was buying the product created a significant portion of the market. That buyer quit, demand fell, prices fell, profits margins went away, so companies got out of the business of making the product. It doesn't matter if the government was paying $1/liter, $.10/liter, or $1 brazillion dollars per liter. Demand fell, prices went with it.
If there is money to be made, someone will make it. The article answers itself. There is a demand for the product, above and beyond party balloons, and that demand will be met.
you can always practice your data recovery skills using a torx screwdriver, and some very careful hands. I'm in the process of swapping platters between some identical drives just for the hell of it.
Outside of that umm.....there are always some really fun magnets to be pulled from old drives.
That's the funny thing with laws relating to alcohol. "implied" takes on a whole new meaning when MADD is involved. For instance, in Michigan, driving a car *implies* consent to a brethalizer test. Refuse the test, lose your license, end of story. You could blow 0.00's once an hour for the next week, doesn't change the fact that you refused the test, and as such your license is still suspended. After all, your consent was implied...
Assuming that some bar isn't going to sell off your information, or turn it over to a state/federal agency isn't the same as them being prevented from storing that information by law.
Fine, I'm burning cycles running a project that may (heck, when it comes to SETI, probably) won't see any tangible results.
But how is contributing to a project that was the basis for mainstreamed distributed computing any more wasteful than blowing 9 hours a night on WoW? I'd love to see a breakdown of the increased energy usage from a high-end CPU and a good video card vs. a PC that's on anyway and running BOINC when it's idle.
Screaming "carbon footprint!!" about something as trivial as BOINC is the real waste. Here, I've swapped 80% of the lights in my house for CFL's, and I burned 10 bucks worth of electricity last month (with an electric heater and 4x computers in the house no less!) does make me green enough to spare some processor cycles now?
A lot of popular titles from the NES (and probalby other games) are tied up in licensing hell. RBI baseball for example was released by the same publisher as Tetris (Tengen), and after the legal blood feud Nintendo had with them, I doubt we'll ever see those games come to the VC.
He's probably not emptying it completely at the end of the year, unless it's a collapsible pool. We would drain about 12 inches at the end of the season to make the pool easier to cover and to prevent damage over the winter (Michigan winters, gotta love 'em). The water left in the pool gave it its structural integrity.
My old employer had a timecard & access control system that used badges with a barcode. I scanned the back of my card and after some tweaking of the scan settings (the basic scan wasn't sharp enough) I was able to print out a backup badge to keep in my wallet.
Worked out pretty well, since I was prone to forgetting my badge.
Studies have shown that auto theft reached unprecedented levels in 1911. In future news; flying car theft will reach unprecedented levels in 2057.
More and more common thieves are learning the value of data. So more of it is being stolen. I bet MP3 player and cell phone theft rates are reaching "unprecedented" levels as well.
Yep. Those dastardly liberals are FORCING god-fearing Americans like ourselves down a path towards hippydom. It's a travesty I tell ya.
Get over yourself. No, current CFL's don't work that well in extreme cold. Normal CFL bulbs do take longer to warm up, and you can get sealed CFL's designed for outdoor use. Ditto for dimmer switches. I've only seen the low-wattage dimmable bulbs at Home depot, but they do exist.
Traffic lights? Dude, new traffic lights have been using LED's almost exclusively for a long time now. LED's are ideal for that application, since you're not throwing a beam of light, just illuminating something. The fact that LED's last longer and use less electricity are just added bonuses.
The incandescent light bulb hasn't changed all that much since the tungsten filament came along almost 100 years ago. Incandescent lights burn 80-90% of their energy to make heat, not to throw light. That's just a huge fucking waste. The old bulbs should go away, just like cars without catalytic converters, and the need for leaded gas. Technology moves forward.
Knock if off you two. I just finished a two week run with my community theater's production of "Julius Caeser" as Caeser's understudy, and I don't want to have to school you both with an Aldis Lamp!
You can joke about this being a case of closing the barn door long after the horses have gone scurrying into the country side but......someone got punished and a preventative measure is being taken. You can't hope for a whole lot more than that, especially from a government agency.
You're confusing MST3K's run on comedy central with its run on SciFi. Scifi finally killed off MST3k, though in their defense it was a mercy killing at that point. The show had had its run and needed to end. The fan support kept it limping along.
Either I got a bad build, or I've got a weird system setup. FF3b1 was using 180 megs (yes, 180 megs) of memory to load my intranet page, and would try and scream upwards from there before my poor IBM laptop (P3 800, 320 megs of ram) ground to a halt. FF 2.0.9 was using 30 megs.
I wish I could have submitted a bug report, but my machine would freeze before firefox actually crashed.
(and no, it does also take me 15 minutes to move a 20 meg file on my mac.....)
What's the verdict on GPO management for firefox? I've seen an XPI that allows for IE-like management of firefox from a domain controller, but it hasn't been updated in quite some time (I've tried it for 2.0.9, but the XPI will only work with 2.0.0). Will 3 support honest-to-god, grown up management? or will I still have to use hacked together scripts from "Billy Bob's house of chick, waffles, and firefox"?
That's my biggest knock on firefox right now; trying to manage it centrally is more hassle that it's worth. I've seen the tools out there now and my choices are A. a collection of logon and logoff scripts B. roll my own MSI's and have to re-push firefox when I need to make a change or C. create custom config files at install before the machine is rolled out, then go back to and do B. if I need to make a change.
Oh, and it'd be nice if I didn't need administrative rights to finish installing some of the updates (Either 2.0.7 or 2.0.9 wouldn't finish auto-updating unless a domain admin was starting firefox.)
It makes me ask: What kind of administrator is using automatic updates on their machines anyway?
Let's face facts, while Microsoft should take much of the blame on this any admin should know at this point that automatic updates is opening yourself up to all types of undesirable installs. This is nothing new and it's sad to see "professionals" in the field are still leaving security updates and other installs to go through without even sending a glance it's way first.
Mmmhmm. And when Sasser and Blaster were tear assing through networks you were probably screaming bloody murder because lazy ass admins "weren't patching their systems." WSUS allows several classifications of updates. Critical and Security updates (things like the blaster & sasser patches), Updates (which is what desktop search 3.01 was. Even if you didn't install desktop search, it helpfully "updated" your installation to include it), Update rollups (compilations of non essential updates), and service packs. The complaint here is that the default behavior of this "update" is more like a new program altogether. It's noticeable and has prompted a lot of "hey, WTF is this on my desktop?" calls.
For my small desktop fleet, I just went ahead and auto-approved everything after declining IE 7.0 (we don't use IE in the first place). At the rate new exploits work their way into the wild, coupled with the time it takes for my network to get all the updates sync'd out and installed (about a week for all the stragglers to get in. 80% of the network is patched within 48 hours), it's just far easier for me to worry about cleaning up a poison patch later. This is the first time in two years of using WSUS that we've been "burned" by anything, and I'll take some complaining and a little time to find a removal script over walking in and finding my network a smoking hole because *I* didn't approval a blaster-level patch.
I'm doing the same things with ubuntu, apt, mail, and cron. I know when the updates come through (I'm the one that scheduled them), I'm notified what updates came through (so I have a troubleshooting starting point) and I have my machines broken down so that the most important systems (a handful of windows servers) wait for my explicit command before installing anything. Auto-updates are a necessity now that we've moved out of the world of boot-floppy viruses
Solving the problem of supplying clean energy to the nation and eliminating our dependence on oil and coal...no.
Creating a new solution for delivering a large amount of power to the middle of nowhere without hauling around as much gear...yes. This offers a new way to setup a forward base of operations quickly and without having to waste precious cargo space on generators and fuel. You can have 5-10 *always on* megawatts waiting for you.
On the "not quite as evil" side of things, you could set up a very good sized mash unit in a post-katrina or post-tsunami like area that no longer has, and won't have for quite a while, infrastructure.
My neighborhood has no streetlights. We don't have a problem with break-ins because;
-It's too dark to find our neighborhood. Unless you know it's here, the blazingly bright apartment complexes a mile down the road look like way better targets.
-It's too dark to see what you're doing. Are you breaking in to a pinto, or a lexus? If there's no moon, it's tough to tell.
Seriously though, just *having* a light on doesn't do anything more than give a thief a well lit work environment. I took this picture http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1400894628&size=l on the way home from a trip to New Jersey. You're looking at SE Michigan, in the metro Detroit area. There are hundreds of thousands of lights in that picture that are shining straight up, wasting energy and brightening the night sky.
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"OH GOD! It smells like ozone, burned flesh, and Thai food!"
No elevated trains in Detroit? You mean except for the people mover, which at least covers downtown, right?
Granted, it's about the least useful form of public transportation imaginable (it doesn't connect to the actual train station or bus stations), but it does come in handy on game day.
that depends, will there be looting?
Self-checkouts are a reward for people who can accept technology. I'm more likely to stop by the store now that I know I can run in, grab one or two things, and check out in a couple minutes instead of waiting in line behind some jackass who thinks that the "12 items or less" rule applies to everyone but him.
The Meijer that's closest to my house doesn't have enough self-checkout lanes, so they get clogged up with the luddites who can't follow directions. The one thats a few extra miles away has full self checkout and express lanes, so you very rarely have to wait to use one. It works out damn near even.
If I have a full load of groceries, then I'll still use regular checkout. But self-checkout is a godsend to me. I'm too impatient, and I seem to be a magnet for shopping on the days where there is only one lane open, and the guy ahead of me wants to pay for his groceries using a bridge card, cash, AND check (but only has an expired out of state ID, needs to borrow a pen, and has a couple around here somewhere for those frozen peas....)
Thanks for making up numbers that much of your argument hinges on. To make a real argument about the affect of the US government on Helium prices you'd have to get REAL numbers, not ones you just made up.
Not necessarily. This article concerns itself only with the national helium reserve. The fact that someone was buying the product created a significant portion of the market. That buyer quit, demand fell, prices fell, profits margins went away, so companies got out of the business of making the product. It doesn't matter if the government was paying $1/liter, $.10/liter, or $1 brazillion dollars per liter. Demand fell, prices went with it.
If there is money to be made, someone will make it. The article answers itself. There is a demand for the product, above and beyond party balloons, and that demand will be met.
you can always practice your data recovery skills using a torx screwdriver, and some very careful hands. I'm in the process of swapping platters between some identical drives just for the hell of it.
Outside of that umm.....there are always some really fun magnets to be pulled from old drives.
That's the funny thing with laws relating to alcohol. "implied" takes on a whole new meaning when MADD is involved. For instance, in Michigan, driving a car *implies* consent to a brethalizer test. Refuse the test, lose your license, end of story. You could blow 0.00's once an hour for the next week, doesn't change the fact that you refused the test, and as such your license is still suspended. After all, your consent was implied...
Assuming that some bar isn't going to sell off your information, or turn it over to a state/federal agency isn't the same as them being prevented from storing that information by law.
Fine, I'm burning cycles running a project that may (heck, when it comes to SETI, probably) won't see any tangible results.
But how is contributing to a project that was the basis for mainstreamed distributed computing any more wasteful than blowing 9 hours a night on WoW? I'd love to see a breakdown of the increased energy usage from a high-end CPU and a good video card vs. a PC that's on anyway and running BOINC when it's idle.
Screaming "carbon footprint!!" about something as trivial as BOINC is the real waste. Here, I've swapped 80% of the lights in my house for CFL's, and I burned 10 bucks worth of electricity last month (with an electric heater and 4x computers in the house no less!) does make me green enough to spare some processor cycles now?
A lot of popular titles from the NES (and probalby other games) are tied up in licensing hell. RBI baseball for example was released by the same publisher as Tetris (Tengen), and after the legal blood feud Nintendo had with them, I doubt we'll ever see those games come to the VC.
He's probably not emptying it completely at the end of the year, unless it's a collapsible pool. We would drain about 12 inches at the end of the season to make the pool easier to cover and to prevent damage over the winter (Michigan winters, gotta love 'em). The water left in the pool gave it its structural integrity.
My old employer had a timecard & access control system that used badges with a barcode. I scanned the back of my card and after some tweaking of the scan settings (the basic scan wasn't sharp enough) I was able to print out a backup badge to keep in my wallet.
Worked out pretty well, since I was prone to forgetting my badge.
Studies have shown that auto theft reached unprecedented levels in 1911. In future news; flying car theft will reach unprecedented levels in 2057.
More and more common thieves are learning the value of data. So more of it is being stolen. I bet MP3 player and cell phone theft rates are reaching "unprecedented" levels as well.
Yep. Those dastardly liberals are FORCING god-fearing Americans like ourselves down a path towards hippydom. It's a travesty I tell ya.
Get over yourself. No, current CFL's don't work that well in extreme cold. Normal CFL bulbs do take longer to warm up, and you can get sealed CFL's designed for outdoor use. Ditto for dimmer switches. I've only seen the low-wattage dimmable bulbs at Home depot, but they do exist.
Traffic lights? Dude, new traffic lights have been using LED's almost exclusively for a long time now. LED's are ideal for that application, since you're not throwing a beam of light, just illuminating something. The fact that LED's last longer and use less electricity are just added bonuses.
The incandescent light bulb hasn't changed all that much since the tungsten filament came along almost 100 years ago. Incandescent lights burn 80-90% of their energy to make heat, not to throw light. That's just a huge fucking waste. The old bulbs should go away, just like cars without catalytic converters, and the need for leaded gas. Technology moves forward.
Knock if off you two. I just finished a two week run with my community theater's production of "Julius Caeser" as Caeser's understudy, and I don't want to have to school you both with an Aldis Lamp!
You can joke about this being a case of closing the barn door long after the horses have gone scurrying into the country side but......someone got punished and a preventative measure is being taken. You can't hope for a whole lot more than that, especially from a government agency.
You're confusing MST3K's run on comedy central with its run on SciFi. Scifi finally killed off MST3k, though in their defense it was a mercy killing at that point. The show had had its run and needed to end. The fan support kept it limping along.
Either I got a bad build, or I've got a weird system setup. FF3b1 was using 180 megs (yes, 180 megs) of memory to load my intranet page, and would try and scream upwards from there before my poor IBM laptop (P3 800, 320 megs of ram) ground to a halt. FF 2.0.9 was using 30 megs.
I wish I could have submitted a bug report, but my machine would freeze before firefox actually crashed.
(and no, it does also take me 15 minutes to move a 20 meg file on my mac.....)
Not enough of us apparently.
It'd be nice if mozilla could offer up those tools instead of having to dig around, hoping you've asked google the right question
What's the verdict on GPO management for firefox? I've seen an XPI that allows for IE-like management of firefox from a domain controller, but it hasn't been updated in quite some time (I've tried it for 2.0.9, but the XPI will only work with 2.0.0). Will 3 support honest-to-god, grown up management? or will I still have to use hacked together scripts from "Billy Bob's house of chick, waffles, and firefox"?
That's my biggest knock on firefox right now; trying to manage it centrally is more hassle that it's worth. I've seen the tools out there now and my choices are A. a collection of logon and logoff scripts B. roll my own MSI's and have to re-push firefox when I need to make a change or C. create custom config files at install before the machine is rolled out, then go back to and do B. if I need to make a change.
Oh, and it'd be nice if I didn't need administrative rights to finish installing some of the updates (Either 2.0.7 or 2.0.9 wouldn't finish auto-updating unless a domain admin was starting firefox.)
It makes me ask: What kind of administrator is using automatic updates on their machines anyway?
Let's face facts, while Microsoft should take much of the blame on this any admin should know at this point that automatic updates is opening yourself up to all types of undesirable installs.
This is nothing new and it's sad to see "professionals" in the field are still leaving security updates and other installs to go through without even sending a glance it's way first.
Mmmhmm. And when Sasser and Blaster were tear assing through networks you were probably screaming bloody murder because lazy ass admins "weren't patching their systems." WSUS allows several classifications of updates. Critical and Security updates (things like the blaster & sasser patches), Updates (which is what desktop search 3.01 was. Even if you didn't install desktop search, it helpfully "updated" your installation to include it), Update rollups (compilations of non essential updates), and service packs. The complaint here is that the default behavior of this "update" is more like a new program altogether. It's noticeable and has prompted a lot of "hey, WTF is this on my desktop?" calls.
For my small desktop fleet, I just went ahead and auto-approved everything after declining IE 7.0 (we don't use IE in the first place). At the rate new exploits work their way into the wild, coupled with the time it takes for my network to get all the updates sync'd out and installed (about a week for all the stragglers to get in. 80% of the network is patched within 48 hours), it's just far easier for me to worry about cleaning up a poison patch later. This is the first time in two years of using WSUS that we've been "burned" by anything, and I'll take some complaining and a little time to find a removal script over walking in and finding my network a smoking hole because *I* didn't approval a blaster-level patch.
I'm doing the same things with ubuntu, apt, mail, and cron. I know when the updates come through (I'm the one that scheduled them), I'm notified what updates came through (so I have a troubleshooting starting point) and I have my machines broken down so that the most important systems (a handful of windows servers) wait for my explicit command before installing anything. Auto-updates are a necessity now that we've moved out of the world of boot-floppy viruses
Solving the problem of supplying clean energy to the nation and eliminating our dependence on oil and coal...no.
Creating a new solution for delivering a large amount of power to the middle of nowhere without hauling around as much gear...yes. This offers a new way to setup a forward base of operations quickly and without having to waste precious cargo space on generators and fuel. You can have 5-10 *always on* megawatts waiting for you.
On the "not quite as evil" side of things, you could set up a very good sized mash unit in a post-katrina or post-tsunami like area that no longer has, and won't have for quite a while, infrastructure.
My neighborhood has no streetlights. We don't have a problem with break-ins because;
-It's too dark to find our neighborhood. Unless you know it's here, the blazingly bright apartment complexes a mile down the road look like way better targets.
-It's too dark to see what you're doing. Are you breaking in to a pinto, or a lexus? If there's no moon, it's tough to tell.
Seriously though, just *having* a light on doesn't do anything more than give a thief a well lit work environment. I took this picture http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1400894628&size=l on the way home from a trip to New Jersey. You're looking at SE Michigan, in the metro Detroit area. There are hundreds of thousands of lights in that picture that are shining straight up, wasting energy and brightening the night sky.
Not much. But it does drop packets after it dies....
Oh I'm sorry, you wanted an argument. This is abuse.
Funny how an article on the dangers of toner in the air is using a picture of an HP inkjet printer.