I have encountered a couple of instances where a computer I had installed AVG on for a friend would lock up due to an update. There's always a risk with any of these types of programs that the cost (in terms of reduced performance, lock ups, etc) will exceed the perceived benefit. I don't run antivirus programs on my home machines, and haven't since at least 2000. I periodically (6mo-year) run one of the online scans. Even if the government gave me Norton or McAfee "free", I wouldn't run them. The money would be much better spent coming up with secure guidelines for users, and implementing ways for ISPs to notify their customers of suspicious activity coming from their machines.
XP isn't more popular because Vista is more bloated, it's because people find it good enough and some (usually badly written) apps didn't work under the new security model in Vista. Added eye candy didn't stop people moving from 2000 to XP, and it wasn't the reason people didn't upgrade to Vista...
Dear god man.. its not really that degraded of living outside of the USA is it??
Yes, it is... I was amazed when I moved to the UK & first saw how the water supply worked. To an American, the thought that you could have a (dead) pigeon in your water tank is horrifying; in the UK it's just accepted. See about 4 minutes into this classic Fawlty Towers, for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ-sRQ1oTxc Half of the places I lived didn't even have the most rudimentary of covers over the tank; the worst was a large open lead lined trough. A lot of my British roommates didn't even realize that drinking from any tap other than the kitchen cold tap was a bad idea, despite most of them having tales of bad stuff happening in their houses. The best one was the bathroom tap which stopped working; the plumber found their missing hamster clogging the pipe...
On the other hand, I drove my minivan to Orlando last month. It took 15 hours each way & cost about $175 in gas - the AutoTrain is about $900 for me to do the same trip (family of four). That $700 difference is what I paid to rent a townhouse for a week. That's the problem to me for so much of public transport - once you have the car, all of the maintenance & insurance etc are sunk cost, so the marginal cost of using it is pretty low.
The problem with the eee boxes is that they cost the same as the netbook versions, but you don't get the screen... I guess it's because it's a smaller market.
With dual sided dvd's so cheap these days, why bother 'shrinking' the dvd?
Because he's not looking to copy the disc, he's "trying to copy DVDs onto a portable media player" ie rip & convert. It's a much trickier problem; I've had pretty good luck luck with handbrake on XP, but it's never as simple as just making an iso would be.
He means that electric resistance heat is the least efficient way to heat your home. A heat pump usually is best (geothermal best of all), then natural gas, then lastly resistance heat. Check google for coefficient of performance.
I think you're assuming (and Gerzel below) that the "supply" is bits. The supply actually is the song Barracuda by Heart; you can supply any other songs you want, but there's a monopoly on that one. So they price accordingly.
Isn't Postini Services a service that makes money by being an "outsourced" spam filter?
Speaking of which, I've been considering moving a small (30 users) company to the Postini service. Anyone have any positive or negative experiences? It seems reasonably priced & certainly the gmail filters seem good. Thanks.
Without judging the merits of Shell's business decision, wind is getting pretty competitive. I just switched to a 100% wind provider with a 1 year price lock of 11.2 cents/kwh. That's the same as what Pepco charges me now. PV still is too expensive, but wind is getting there or in my case, is already here.
I always second the NOD32 idea - easy to administer, you hardly notice it's there until it catches something. I guess you never know what your antivirus misses, but it always tests well and at least it's not making things worse!
Yeah, have to agree. I was looking through it again recently, hadn't read it since it first came out, and I found it pretty weak. I liked it the first time though. Growing up really does suck.
It's typically very, very difficult to make a realistic calculation of how long it will take a residential PV system to pay for itself. People always ask me how long mine will take to pay for itself, and I always tell them honestly that I have absolutely no idea....
What you can do is to consider all your local factors: latitude, amount of sunny weather, whether you have a south-facing roof, whether there is any shade on your roof, and current local prices for electricity.
I recently tried to figure out if installing PV would make any kind of sense in my area, and you're right, it is tricky. A 1kw system seems to be about $10000; if I got on a list I might get $2500 back in a state subsidy. The problem is that the average insolation in MD is only around 4-4.5 hrs a day, so I could expect to produce maybe $150 worth of electricity a year. A system like that, located here, would never pay for itself, and that to me says that I'd be fooling myself to think I'd be "green" to do it. It's much better in this area to pay the little extra to buy wind power from the farms in WV.
My Husky has never needed any training to kill - she's killed critters from mice & voles up to rabbits since she was little. That grab & shake seems instinctive. The only thing I've seen survive was a small opossum - she didn't shake it, presumably because it was playing possum, and dropped it when I told her to. It strolled off a few minutes later.
I'm the same - stuck with 2K until I needed a new machine, went to Vista 64. My wife uses Photoshop & Dreamweaver, so Linux wasn't an option. It's fine, I actually like a lot of the Aero features. I might move to 7, but I'm not regretting buying Vista over XP.
That is an interesting article. It's not really surprising, however, that cost per graduating pupil is high in districts with low graduation rates. From the article, it seems like the allocated cost per pupil was around $18k per year. In my county, it's around $15k per year, with about $2k of that being capital expenditure. $18k seems in the right ballpark, especially since the kids we're talking about are going to need more support at every level given their backgrounds. Now, the fact that the system may be inefficient due to corruption etc is a problem, but the basic amount per student seems ok.
The note under the video said that, in addition to assessment (done by a remote doctor while a grunt does the actual extraction), the snake can do things like provide oxygen. It means that, while the grunt is pushing as fast as he can so as not to get shot, the patient is getting an initial assessment & the real work can start as soon as they get to a doctor. So yes, it's a limited and expensive toy, which may save lives in certain military zones.
I bought 2 4w LED bulbs off ebay for $20 just to try them out. They were advertised as being dimmable, so I put one in the bathroom and it worked just fine. The light was pretty unpleasant, though, even as only one of 4; as soon as my wife saw it it was banished. I'm sure the light temperatures will get better over time, but dimming at least seems not a big deal.
I have a 30g brown Zune also, and for the price it's been great. If it died tomorrow though, I'd get an ipod touch rather than another Zune. I recently was playing with a coworker's and really liked the wifi ability. Actually, I might get a touch if my Palm dies too; I mostly like it for the address book & book reader, and the screen on the touch would be even better for reading books.
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This was new to me; I just tried dragging it to the far right of all my tabs & it worked. Thanks to GP!
I have encountered a couple of instances where a computer I had installed AVG on for a friend would lock up due to an update. There's always a risk with any of these types of programs that the cost (in terms of reduced performance, lock ups, etc) will exceed the perceived benefit. I don't run antivirus programs on my home machines, and haven't since at least 2000. I periodically (6mo-year) run one of the online scans. Even if the government gave me Norton or McAfee "free", I wouldn't run them. The money would be much better spent coming up with secure guidelines for users, and implementing ways for ISPs to notify their customers of suspicious activity coming from their machines.
Or maybe because it isn't bloatware?
XP isn't more popular because Vista is more bloated, it's because people find it good enough and some (usually badly written) apps didn't work under the new security model in Vista. Added eye candy didn't stop people moving from 2000 to XP, and it wasn't the reason people didn't upgrade to Vista...
Dear god man.. its not really that degraded of living outside of the USA is it??
Yes, it is... I was amazed when I moved to the UK & first saw how the water supply worked. To an American, the thought that you could have a (dead) pigeon in your water tank is horrifying; in the UK it's just accepted. See about 4 minutes into this classic Fawlty Towers, for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ-sRQ1oTxc
Half of the places I lived didn't even have the most rudimentary of covers over the tank; the worst was a large open lead lined trough. A lot of my British roommates didn't even realize that drinking from any tap other than the kitchen cold tap was a bad idea, despite most of them having tales of bad stuff happening in their houses. The best one was the bathroom tap which stopped working; the plumber found their missing hamster clogging the pipe...
Well, if it's like the US there are connection & transmission & taxes thrown in, so the actual kWh might be a lot lower...
On the other hand, I drove my minivan to Orlando last month. It took 15 hours each way & cost about $175 in gas - the AutoTrain is about $900 for me to do the same trip (family of four). That $700 difference is what I paid to rent a townhouse for a week. That's the problem to me for so much of public transport - once you have the car, all of the maintenance & insurance etc are sunk cost, so the marginal cost of using it is pretty low.
The problem with the eee boxes is that they cost the same as the netbook versions, but you don't get the screen... I guess it's because it's a smaller market.
With dual sided dvd's so cheap these days, why bother 'shrinking' the dvd?
Because he's not looking to copy the disc, he's "trying to copy DVDs onto a portable media player" ie rip & convert. It's a much trickier problem; I've had pretty good luck luck with handbrake on XP, but it's never as simple as just making an iso would be.
He means that electric resistance heat is the least efficient way to heat your home. A heat pump usually is best (geothermal best of all), then natural gas, then lastly resistance heat. Check google for coefficient of performance.
I think you're assuming (and Gerzel below) that the "supply" is bits. The supply actually is the song Barracuda by Heart; you can supply any other songs you want, but there's a monopoly on that one. So they price accordingly.
Isn't Postini Services a service that makes money by being an "outsourced" spam filter?
Speaking of which, I've been considering moving a small (30 users) company to the Postini service. Anyone have any positive or negative experiences? It seems reasonably priced & certainly the gmail filters seem good.
Thanks.
Without judging the merits of Shell's business decision, wind is getting pretty competitive. I just switched to a 100% wind provider with a 1 year price lock of 11.2 cents/kwh. That's the same as what Pepco charges me now. PV still is too expensive, but wind is getting there or in my case, is already here.
I always second the NOD32 idea - easy to administer, you hardly notice it's there until it catches something. I guess you never know what your antivirus misses, but it always tests well and at least it's not making things worse!
Yeah, have to agree. I was looking through it again recently, hadn't read it since it first came out, and I found it pretty weak. I liked it the first time though. Growing up really does suck.
It's typically very, very difficult to make a realistic calculation of how long it will take a residential PV system to pay for itself. People always ask me how long mine will take to pay for itself, and I always tell them honestly that I have absolutely no idea. ...
What you can do is to consider all your local factors: latitude, amount of sunny weather, whether you have a south-facing roof, whether there is any shade on your roof, and current local prices for electricity.
I recently tried to figure out if installing PV would make any kind of sense in my area, and you're right, it is tricky. A 1kw system seems to be about $10000; if I got on a list I might get $2500 back in a state subsidy. The problem is that the average insolation in MD is only around 4-4.5 hrs a day, so I could expect to produce maybe $150 worth of electricity a year. A system like that, located here, would never pay for itself, and that to me says that I'd be fooling myself to think I'd be "green" to do it. It's much better in this area to pay the little extra to buy wind power from the farms in WV.
My Husky has never needed any training to kill - she's killed critters from mice & voles up to rabbits since she was little. That grab & shake seems instinctive. The only thing I've seen survive was a small opossum - she didn't shake it, presumably because it was playing possum, and dropped it when I told her to. It strolled off a few minutes later.
I'm the same - stuck with 2K until I needed a new machine, went to Vista 64. My wife uses Photoshop & Dreamweaver, so Linux wasn't an option. It's fine, I actually like a lot of the Aero features. I might move to 7, but I'm not regretting buying Vista over XP.
That is an interesting article. It's not really surprising, however, that cost per graduating pupil is high in districts with low graduation rates. From the article, it seems like the allocated cost per pupil was around $18k per year. In my county, it's around $15k per year, with about $2k of that being capital expenditure. $18k seems in the right ballpark, especially since the kids we're talking about are going to need more support at every level given their backgrounds. Now, the fact that the system may be inefficient due to corruption etc is a problem, but the basic amount per student seems ok.
The note under the video said that, in addition to assessment (done by a remote doctor while a grunt does the actual extraction), the snake can do things like provide oxygen. It means that, while the grunt is pushing as fast as he can so as not to get shot, the patient is getting an initial assessment & the real work can start as soon as they get to a doctor. So yes, it's a limited and expensive toy, which may save lives in certain military zones.
I bought 2 4w LED bulbs off ebay for $20 just to try them out. They were advertised as being dimmable, so I put one in the bathroom and it worked just fine. The light was pretty unpleasant, though, even as only one of 4; as soon as my wife saw it it was banished. I'm sure the light temperatures will get better over time, but dimming at least seems not a big deal.
The cops around here rip the baffles out of their new Harleys first thing they do. They're not worried about the noise.
Yes but IIRC using ogg almost always reduces battery life since the hardware isn't optimized for it.
I have a 30g brown Zune also, and for the price it's been great. If it died tomorrow though, I'd get an ipod touch rather than another Zune. I recently was playing with a coworker's and really liked the wifi ability. Actually, I might get a touch if my Palm dies too; I mostly like it for the address book & book reader, and the screen on the touch would be even better for reading books.
For example, America doesn't have any energy production to speak of.
Actually, the US is 70% or more self-sufficient in overall energy - see:
http://www.cera.com/aspx/cda/public1/news/articles/newsArticleDetails.aspx?CID=8560
I liked his line about restoring science to its rightful place, as well as reclaiming the moral high ground.