I wouldn't go that far, but I would seriously look into a high-deductible plan - mostly you'd act as if you had no insurance, but if something bad happened you'd be out of pocket 5 or 10 grand max. You can also get a combination high deductible/medical savings plan, where you can set aside pre tax money for health costs & any unused money rolls over to an IRA type account at 59 1/2 years old. So if you don't need it, you're saving for retirement, but if you do it's there.
This is a very, fucking, simple, means to save the city/town a lot of money and power, and it cuts down on light pollution as an added bonus!
Except that it doesn't, it costs them more money. I just put in a $10 led bulb for my porch light - at 4w vs 11w for the old CF bulb it replaced, which I could have replaced for $1, the led will never pay for itself. It does use less power, but not that much less.
I wouldn't trust Tesla's first car either, although charging $100K each may give Tesla an advantage in that it can afford to do more over-engineering and cherry-pick good parts than BYD can at its price segment.
A Tesla is basically a Lotus with batteries & an electric motor. Of course, I don't know that I'd trust a British car company either, but Lotus have been doing this for some time.
From the article, it'll cost $22000, have a range of 62 miles, and be available outside China in 2011.
It's a plug in hybrid; the 62 mile range is on batteries alone, then the gas engine can kick in. It's a long way from being good with batteries to making a good car, though.
That was my thought too - if all the stores are simply VPN'd to the HQ, then through the HQ is the only route so you're not going to gain anything. You'd have to have store to store VPNs running as well to get any benefit; at that point you might be just as well off doing the distribution tree someone suggested above.
I've got Vista 64bit on my main home computer, and it works great. And XP on my wife's old laptop does it well too. Never got it to work well with Kubuntu, but that's running on an older machine so probably a hardware thing.
Newegg has an MSI Wind Atom based barebones box for $139 that looks perfect to me for a home server. I'm with the others here - go low power rather than high power.
Checks are such a pain that our bank gave us a check scanner (optical recognition for the amounts, magnetic for account / routing numbers) so we do the processing ourselves. We scan them in through a web connection, then file them away for a month or so before shredding. The bank never touches them, and we never have to go into the branch anymore.
Yeah, one of the last checks I wrote was for a parking ticket in NYC. I went to pay it online, then saw that they were going to add a $2 fee. I know that they get hit with processing costs, but screw that, they can deal with my check & get their money slower. Having said that, all my bills are done either onto credit card or direct from my checking account, and none of them are trying to make me pay more for making their lives easier.
I suppose that the argument to legalize could be bolstered by your argument - if legal drugs can be obtained at your corner pharmacy, at a taxed-but-still-reasonable price, there's no incentive for flying bullets since criminals will no longer be the suppliers. The lower prices should mitigate the 13 year old turned hooker problem, as would the fact that the addict will be in contact with a system which should offer support services. The dead babies, like those with fetal alcohol syndrome, are a real problem, which should also be relieved by contact with support services. Certainly it's hard to imagine that a regulated trade could be worse than the current situation, and most likely it would be an improvement.
It doesn't require people to give up their cars, for one. People love their cars. We were discussing this at Thanksgiving - despite the horrible traffic around here, many people wouldn't use public transport even if it were free. I don't understand it, but it's undeniable that it's really really hard to get people to give up cars.
I'm in pretty much the same situation as you, and I'm curious as well. I use ipcop & Tomato on a WRT54GL, and ipcop at least doesn't have IPv6 support; DD-WRT seems to, but I don't think Tomato does. I guess I'll be waiting a while longer.
When I was in 4th grade, a friend and I were racing. He was a little faster than me, got out between 2 parked cars and got hit by a car going less than 25mph. He spent 6 months in traction. So, a lack of sense in kids has been around since at least the 70s;)
It also says that with default settings Avira would have less false positives but still detect over 50%. So I'm guessing you can tune the aggressiveness of Avira. I'm still happy with NOD32; these tests can never be comprehensive, and no program will ever be perfect.
Yeah, I switched to NOD32 a few years ago after first seeing someone on/. mention it. Been happy with it ever since. My biggest praise for it is that a lot of the users don't even know we're running an antivirus program, despite the little tray icon. We scan our email externally and run squidguard, so there isn't really much for it to do, but it catches stuff once in a while.
Of course, we had sense not to just dart out into the street willy-nilly either...
Kids, as a whole, don't have this sense. Certainly my 3rd grader, and others I know, will walk or run straight across without looking, despite having been admonished since they started walking to do so. I still hold their hands crossing the street, and I still say "now look both ways, is it safe?". One of these days it will sink in...
Yeah, but then you're not really doing drag & drop. And once you're not really using that, you can learn to use whatever works best; for an ipod that's usually itunes.
Now I buy all my online music from amazon. It's cheap and there is no DRM.
I don't think it's really cheap - in fact, I just ordered a cd from Amazon, because I could get a good used copy for $4.50 shipped, and they're charging $10 for the album download. This is a 10 year old album we're talking about. $5 for the download would have been worthwhile, but twice the used price, and exactly the same as the cost of the new cd shipped to my door is too much. I like that they're drm free, and I might use my Pepsi caps to try them out, but I'm not buying at those prices.
I have several mp3 players. I have to say that while drag & drop sounds fine in theory, it's not so great in practice. I ripped 400+ cds, they're all in individual artist directories. In the Zune or iTunes software it's easy to manage playlists etc, because you're looking at a database generated picture of all your files and can easily sort them. Drag & dropping from multiple directories quickly becomes a pain if you're not just dumping your entire collection onto the device. I like to have full control, so I've been resistant to using these programs, but they really are better. I haven't ever bought from any of the online music stores, so all my music is drm-free mp3s - if a better solution comes along, I'm sure they'll be compatible.
Regardless of the rpm, the car's engine is always producing enough power to turn the alternator against its resistance. The same is not true for standard wind generators; if the wind speed drops, there is no longer enough power to overcome the resistance of the generator. It sounds like this new design can reduce the resistance, therefore generating a reduced amount of power under conditions which would cause a standard design to generate no power.
I'll give props to my Snapgear SG300 here - currently at 250 days uptime since the last power outage, never had to reset it in 4+ years unless I did a firmware update. Really a rock solid little product.
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Dump the insurance and just pay cash.
I wouldn't go that far, but I would seriously look into a high-deductible plan - mostly you'd act as if you had no insurance, but if something bad happened you'd be out of pocket 5 or 10 grand max. You can also get a combination high deductible/medical savings plan, where you can set aside pre tax money for health costs & any unused money rolls over to an IRA type account at 59 1/2 years old. So if you don't need it, you're saving for retirement, but if you do it's there.
This is a very, fucking, simple, means to save the city/town a lot of money and power, and it cuts down on light pollution as an added bonus!
Except that it doesn't, it costs them more money. I just put in a $10 led bulb for my porch light - at 4w vs 11w for the old CF bulb it replaced, which I could have replaced for $1, the led will never pay for itself. It does use less power, but not that much less.
I wouldn't trust Tesla's first car either, although charging $100K each may give Tesla an advantage in that it can afford to do more over-engineering and cherry-pick good parts than BYD can at its price segment.
A Tesla is basically a Lotus with batteries & an electric motor. Of course, I don't know that I'd trust a British car company either, but Lotus have been doing this for some time.
The second linked article makes it more explicit.
From the article, it'll cost $22000, have a range of 62 miles, and be available outside China in 2011.
It's a plug in hybrid; the 62 mile range is on batteries alone, then the gas engine can kick in. It's a long way from being good with batteries to making a good car, though.
That was my thought too - if all the stores are simply VPN'd to the HQ, then through the HQ is the only route so you're not going to gain anything. You'd have to have store to store VPNs running as well to get any benefit; at that point you might be just as well off doing the distribution tree someone suggested above.
I've got Vista 64bit on my main home computer, and it works great. And XP on my wife's old laptop does it well too. Never got it to work well with Kubuntu, but that's running on an older machine so probably a hardware thing.
Newegg has an MSI Wind Atom based barebones box for $139 that looks perfect to me for a home server. I'm with the others here - go low power rather than high power.
Checks are such a pain that our bank gave us a check scanner (optical recognition for the amounts, magnetic for account / routing numbers) so we do the processing ourselves. We scan them in through a web connection, then file them away for a month or so before shredding. The bank never touches them, and we never have to go into the branch anymore.
Yeah, one of the last checks I wrote was for a parking ticket in NYC. I went to pay it online, then saw that they were going to add a $2 fee. I know that they get hit with processing costs, but screw that, they can deal with my check & get their money slower. Having said that, all my bills are done either onto credit card or direct from my checking account, and none of them are trying to make me pay more for making their lives easier.
I suppose that the argument to legalize could be bolstered by your argument - if legal drugs can be obtained at your corner pharmacy, at a taxed-but-still-reasonable price, there's no incentive for flying bullets since criminals will no longer be the suppliers. The lower prices should mitigate the 13 year old turned hooker problem, as would the fact that the addict will be in contact with a system which should offer support services. The dead babies, like those with fetal alcohol syndrome, are a real problem, which should also be relieved by contact with support services. Certainly it's hard to imagine that a regulated trade could be worse than the current situation, and most likely it would be an improvement.
It doesn't require people to give up their cars, for one. People love their cars. We were discussing this at Thanksgiving - despite the horrible traffic around here, many people wouldn't use public transport even if it were free. I don't understand it, but it's undeniable that it's really really hard to get people to give up cars.
I'm in pretty much the same situation as you, and I'm curious as well. I use ipcop & Tomato on a WRT54GL, and ipcop at least doesn't have IPv6 support; DD-WRT seems to, but I don't think Tomato does. I guess I'll be waiting a while longer.
You make a lazy, extremely convenient fix sound like a bad thing ;)
As he said, virtual hosts don't support SSL. That's why you won't see cheap hosts offer you an SSL option.
When I was in 4th grade, a friend and I were racing. He was a little faster than me, got out between 2 parked cars and got hit by a car going less than 25mph. He spent 6 months in traction. So, a lack of sense in kids has been around since at least the 70s ;)
It also says that with default settings Avira would have less false positives but still detect over 50%. So I'm guessing you can tune the aggressiveness of Avira. I'm still happy with NOD32; these tests can never be comprehensive, and no program will ever be perfect.
Yeah, I switched to NOD32 a few years ago after first seeing someone on /. mention it. Been happy with it ever since. My biggest praise for it is that a lot of the users don't even know we're running an antivirus program, despite the little tray icon. We scan our email externally and run squidguard, so there isn't really much for it to do, but it catches stuff once in a while.
Of course, we had sense not to just dart out into the street willy-nilly either...
Kids, as a whole, don't have this sense. Certainly my 3rd grader, and others I know, will walk or run straight across without looking, despite having been admonished since they started walking to do so. I still hold their hands crossing the street, and I still say "now look both ways, is it safe?". One of these days it will sink in...
Yeah, but then you're not really doing drag & drop. And once you're not really using that, you can learn to use whatever works best; for an ipod that's usually itunes.
Now I buy all my online music from amazon. It's cheap and there is no DRM.
I don't think it's really cheap - in fact, I just ordered a cd from Amazon, because I could get a good used copy for $4.50 shipped, and they're charging $10 for the album download. This is a 10 year old album we're talking about. $5 for the download would have been worthwhile, but twice the used price, and exactly the same as the cost of the new cd shipped to my door is too much. I like that they're drm free, and I might use my Pepsi caps to try them out, but I'm not buying at those prices.
I have several mp3 players. I have to say that while drag & drop sounds fine in theory, it's not so great in practice. I ripped 400+ cds, they're all in individual artist directories. In the Zune or iTunes software it's easy to manage playlists etc, because you're looking at a database generated picture of all your files and can easily sort them. Drag & dropping from multiple directories quickly becomes a pain if you're not just dumping your entire collection onto the device. I like to have full control, so I've been resistant to using these programs, but they really are better. I haven't ever bought from any of the online music stores, so all my music is drm-free mp3s - if a better solution comes along, I'm sure they'll be compatible.
Regardless of the rpm, the car's engine is always producing enough power to turn the alternator against its resistance. The same is not true for standard wind generators; if the wind speed drops, there is no longer enough power to overcome the resistance of the generator. It sounds like this new design can reduce the resistance, therefore generating a reduced amount of power under conditions which would cause a standard design to generate no power.
He's planning to close gitmo, for one.
I'll give props to my Snapgear SG300 here - currently at 250 days uptime since the last power outage, never had to reset it in 4+ years unless I did a firmware update. Really a rock solid little product.