People who think Linux costs $0.00 IMHO think their time is worth $0.00
I have used linux off and on for the last 10 years or so. I have yet to encounter an install that worked 100% perfect out of the "box". Some installs were darn close, but I always ended up in strange forums from google searches to try and get some aspect working properly.
Windows is only $400 if your time is free. Out of the box windows does nothing of interest to me aside from a (with XP) very old web browser, and requires a lot of patching and suplementary programs to get to a working state. When something doesn't work in windows (at work I had an issue with connecting a Windows 2000 SP2 box to a Windows 2003 Cluster, the supplier wont support SP4, so I ended up connecting to a linux box which has the share mounted, worked first time. My linux laptop connects to the cluster fine. Found lots of spam webpages, and several forums with people asking the same question, but nothing of any use, in 3 hours of searching.
Out of the box linux does pretty much everything I want. I spend all day with computers at work, when I get home I was simple things, email, web browser, watching video, listening to music. I don't want to deal with patches, virus scanning, personal firewalls, adware etc.
When I buy a new machine, it takes about 4 hours to clean the crap off a windows install, bring it uptodate, install essentials like anti virus, anti spyware, not to mention driver problems when I plug something in.
Ubuntu is a 30 minute install from a CD that I do on the train on the way into work (when I got a new laptop a few months ago)
Perhaps these things aren't windows' fault, but the point remains that as a home user, Windows takes a lot more time for admining (and installing) than linux.
i got a train , well several , in and out of madrid recently and it was almost exactly like airline screening , xrays + wands , i suppose it to be expected.
Really? How strange, I've never seen anyone checking in central London, and the UK has
I've read about police doing metal-detecting wands looking for knives in some of the dodgy areas outside zone 1, and have seen poice with sniffer dogs looking for drugs in dodgy areas, but the only check I've had in the last 4 years are ticket checks.
Where would one put the panels though? A 40 m^2 roof is pretty darn huge. The typical American home has a roof roughly half that size.
Fine, use it to supply half your power. It'll take the same amount of time to start making savings.
Utah and Nevada have lots of cheap (free) land, or so I gather from TV shots of thousands of square miles of desert. Coat 10 square miles in these panels and you've got enough supply to power half a million homes@40sqm. Probably better than average weather too. You could probably do the same floating them out at sea.
Replace lead acid with stored water or similar, and you'll have a more environmentally friendly system for storing the energy.
If, and it's a big if, these cells last 10 years at those rates you should break even. however that's not the only consideration. Oil is a political hot potato, ignoring the reserves left and the price those are at, being dependent on foreign oil is a strategic risk. The cost, and more importantly global availability, of raw materials is also essential.
But even if you ignore storing power, and you only use it to suplement your data centre, you can save a lot of dosh. Imagine if google decided to string out a few square miles of these panels, and drew the power in the day to power their servers, suplementing with mains power as night/weather requires. It wouldn't reduce the absolute peak load on the grid, but that's where things like quick-start gas turbines come in. The surplus power could be used to do things like electroysing water back to hydrogen when it's sunny, and if the weather turns bad, slow down the electroysling. Throw some windmills in, I assume that the big U.S. deserts don't have much wind otherwise they are perfect places to throw thousands of windmills down, but when it's bad weather you might get more power from the windmills to compensate.
Assuming that the PP figures are accurate, assuming these panels will last 10 years, and assuming they can live in desert or ocean conditions, and you're getting to the price point where it's commercially posible to do this. You might get a better ROI elsewhere, however lets not forget the publicity it would generate, and the freedom from energy price fluctuations.
Why should a lender trust you to repay the $60K loan - the $100K loan - when you have no history of managing debt on a much smaller scale?
At the moment in the UK it's over $300K for a 1 bed flat within an hour of London, $500K for one in London. Even if you somehow manage a 10% deposit ($30K)
There is a house price crash coming, although even then a London flat will still be need well over $200K for a mortgage.
I also have a Windows server (running 2003, cost me a few hundred pounds to build) that has only ever been restarted for updates.
And a few more hunderd pounds for the software. Updates come out every month, our corporate IS deparment has insited we install the latest GDI exploit within 4 weeks, this requires a full restart. Why the graphics library requires a restart of a file share is anyones guess.
Same in the UK, 32% above $10K, 41% above $75K, 17.5% on purchases, 310% tax on petrol (yes, over 3 fold, works out to be about 20/mile for a small car).
In the UK public transport is great on commuter routes in and out of london (aside from the cost -- 35/mile), however long distance (>150 miles) costs a fortune, over $1/mile in some cases, and takes forever aside from city to city). Hospitals are collapsing, Education is a free-for-all, average house prices are 8x average earnings.
However we don't have Bush as a leader, so we're better off than America anyway.
The TV License is required for anyone who owns a 'device capable of receiving broadcast TV signals.' This was more recently clarified to include a computer used to receive simulcast web streams.
Only when used (or intended to be used) to such an effect.
"television receiver" means any apparatus installed or used for the purpose of receiving (whether by means of wireless telegraphy or otherwise) any television programme service, whether or not it is installed or used for any other purpose.
Installed for the purpose of receiving a tv programme Used for the purpose of....
You can install or use for any other purpose with no need for a license.
1) There is no legal requirement to have a TV license to own a TV, or a capture card, only to use them to receive Broadcast TV signals. Capturing from your DVD/VCR/DV camera is fine. 2) Last time I bought a TV I gave my postcode as SW1A 2AA
If you don't like or obey the GPL, then it's as if you've never seen it. Copyright legislation applies, and you don't have to show loss to be in breach of the law. In the UK it's upto 10 years in jail.
In that case you should direct efforts against stop and search, and not mention racial profiling. Being against racial profiling distorts the issue, and those in favour of stop and search just make sure they include a few old grannies in their lists and appease everyone.
I haven't seen a serious person argue in favour of emacs for years, those that do are only doing it to argue, they secretly use vi (or vim or one of it's decendents), and even write their arguments in vi.
That's not what racial profiling is. What you're describing is a situation where the cops are (or should be) looking for someone who committed a crime who fits a particular description, and of course race is part of that description
In the 1980s and 90s an (american funded) terror campaign of bombings was going on in the mainland UK, the ones planting the bombs were White, Irish men aged 20-40.
Police effort was not put into stopping little old Tibettan ladies.
Now you could argue they should stop and search anyone, but if they are, stopping little old ladies just to tick the diversity boxes makes no sense.
The guy who called the meetings was not shy about admitting that this biggest concern was the potential drop in value of his grade 2 listed cottage which was positioned quite close to the mast.
This is actually a serious point. Take the case of a first time buyer, scrapes together a 5% mortgage on a £200k flat, takes a £190K mortgage out. Starts repaying on a 25 year repayment mortgage. House prices in that area are stagnant. Phone mast built a year later, house value drops to £170K, guy now can't sell his flat as he is in negative equity.
It's not just rich owners of grade 2 cottages that are affected.
He should receive compensation from the phone company for the loss of value.
Gotta love/. moderation. I'll get moded Stupid for pointing out that you get modded Informative for pointing out the ridiculousness of the parent, who pointed out that the parent got modded Redundant for repeating the parents point that the parent was modded Funny for pointing out the parent got modded Flamebait for correcting the spelling in his own post
Do you think people in Cuba all buy $200,000 houses?
$200K will buy you a car parking space in London, or a 1 bed flat in a rural town in the middle of nowhere (Barnstaple). You can get a small terraced house about 40 minutes tube from central London for about $500K, but that's in a very dense housing area.
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People who think Linux costs $0.00 IMHO think their time is worth $0.00
I have used linux off and on for the last 10 years or so. I have yet to encounter an install that worked 100% perfect out of the "box". Some installs were darn close, but I always ended up in strange forums from google searches to try and get some aspect working properly.
Windows is only $400 if your time is free. Out of the box windows does nothing of interest to me aside from a (with XP) very old web browser, and requires a lot of patching and suplementary programs to get to a working state. When something doesn't work in windows (at work I had an issue with connecting a Windows 2000 SP2 box to a Windows 2003 Cluster, the supplier wont support SP4, so I ended up connecting to a linux box which has the share mounted, worked first time. My linux laptop connects to the cluster fine. Found lots of spam webpages, and several forums with people asking the same question, but nothing of any use, in 3 hours of searching.
Out of the box linux does pretty much everything I want. I spend all day with computers at work, when I get home I was simple things, email, web browser, watching video, listening to music. I don't want to deal with patches, virus scanning, personal firewalls, adware etc.
When I buy a new machine, it takes about 4 hours to clean the crap off a windows install, bring it uptodate, install essentials like anti virus, anti spyware, not to mention driver problems when I plug something in.
Ubuntu is a 30 minute install from a CD that I do on the train on the way into work (when I got a new laptop a few months ago)
Perhaps these things aren't windows' fault, but the point remains that as a home user, Windows takes a lot more time for admining (and installing) than linux.
i got a train , well several , in and out of madrid recently and it was almost exactly like airline screening , xrays + wands , i suppose it to be expected.
Really? How strange, I've never seen anyone checking in central London, and the UK has
I've read about police doing metal-detecting wands looking for knives in some of the dodgy areas outside zone 1, and have seen poice with sniffer dogs looking for drugs in dodgy areas, but the only check I've had in the last 4 years are ticket checks.
I even have my wife's voice giving me directions
Thought about that, but I instinctivly go the other way when SWMBO gives me directions, she's that bad!
Where would one put the panels though? A 40 m^2 roof is pretty darn huge. The typical American home has a roof roughly half that size.
Fine, use it to supply half your power. It'll take the same amount of time to start making savings.
Utah and Nevada have lots of cheap (free) land, or so I gather from TV shots of thousands of square miles of desert. Coat 10 square miles in these panels and you've got enough supply to power half a million homes@40sqm. Probably better than average weather too. You could probably do the same floating them out at sea.
Replace lead acid with stored water or similar, and you'll have a more environmentally friendly system for storing the energy.
If, and it's a big if, these cells last 10 years at those rates you should break even. however that's not the only consideration. Oil is a political hot potato, ignoring the reserves left and the price those are at, being dependent on foreign oil is a strategic risk. The cost, and more importantly global availability, of raw materials is also essential.
But even if you ignore storing power, and you only use it to suplement your data centre, you can save a lot of dosh. Imagine if google decided to string out a few square miles of these panels, and drew the power in the day to power their servers, suplementing with mains power as night/weather requires. It wouldn't reduce the absolute peak load on the grid, but that's where things like quick-start gas turbines come in. The surplus power could be used to do things like electroysing water back to hydrogen when it's sunny, and if the weather turns bad, slow down the electroysling. Throw some windmills in, I assume that the big U.S. deserts don't have much wind otherwise they are perfect places to throw thousands of windmills down, but when it's bad weather you might get more power from the windmills to compensate.
Assuming that the PP figures are accurate, assuming these panels will last 10 years, and assuming they can live in desert or ocean conditions, and you're getting to the price point where it's commercially posible to do this. You might get a better ROI elsewhere, however lets not forget the publicity it would generate, and the freedom from energy price fluctuations.
Why should a lender trust you to repay the $60K loan - the $100K loan - when you have no history of managing debt on a much smaller scale?
At the moment in the UK it's over $300K for a 1 bed flat within an hour of London, $500K for one in London. Even if you somehow manage a 10% deposit ($30K)
There is a house price crash coming, although even then a London flat will still be need well over $200K for a mortgage.
So, experian, are you going to answer your phone next time I call?
If they don't answer their phone I doubt they'll respond via slashdot. Write a registered letter
they dont seem to care about their carbon footprint, i dont see that going hand in hand with being not evil.
Of course they do. They used to drive 20 miles to the airport, they now drive 4, it's a shorter trip, therefore saving the planet.
It might be tricky to break the sound barrier with a solar-powered craft though.
Good aerodynamics, lots of altitude, aim down.
Blue Peter Technology is effectively something so simple a child could do it.
Given a quantity of washing-up bottles and plenty of sticky-back plastic
War plans for your soldiers? Nope.
All the secondary uses for PCs can no longer user Windows because you just can't rely on Microsofts WGA server letting you use your PC.
Dunno about you but war plans are a primary use of my computer.
I also have a Windows server (running 2003, cost me a few hundred pounds to build) that has only ever been restarted for updates.
And a few more hunderd pounds for the software. Updates come out every month, our corporate IS deparment has insited we install the latest GDI exploit within 4 weeks, this requires a full restart. Why the graphics library requires a restart of a file share is anyones guess.
Same in the UK, 32% above $10K, 41% above $75K, 17.5% on purchases, 310% tax on petrol (yes, over 3 fold, works out to be about 20/mile for a small car).
In the UK public transport is great on commuter routes in and out of london (aside from the cost -- 35/mile), however long distance (>150 miles) costs a fortune, over $1/mile in some cases, and takes forever aside from city to city). Hospitals are collapsing, Education is a free-for-all, average house prices are 8x average earnings.
However we don't have Bush as a leader, so we're better off than America anyway.
The TV License is required for anyone who owns a 'device capable of receiving broadcast TV signals.' This was more recently clarified to include a computer used to receive simulcast web streams.
Only when used (or intended to be used) to such an effect.
"television receiver" means any apparatus installed or used for the purpose of receiving (whether by means of wireless telegraphy or otherwise) any television programme service, whether or not it is installed or used for any other purpose.
Installed for the purpose of receiving a tv programme
Used for the purpose of....
You can install or use for any other purpose with no need for a license.
1) There is no legal requirement to have a TV license to own a TV, or a capture card, only to use them to receive Broadcast TV signals. Capturing from your DVD/VCR/DV camera is fine.
2) Last time I bought a TV I gave my postcode as SW1A 2AA
Its in there in black and white that this is illegal.
It's amazing how many shades of grey there are in black and white. Fire in a crowded theatre etc.
The GPL is not legislation nor magic pixie dust.
If you don't like or obey the GPL, then it's as if you've never seen it. Copyright legislation applies, and you don't have to show loss to be in breach of the law. In the UK it's upto 10 years in jail.
In that case you should direct efforts against stop and search, and not mention racial profiling. Being against racial profiling distorts the issue, and those in favour of stop and search just make sure they include a few old grannies in their lists and appease everyone.
vi vs. emacs
I haven't seen a serious person argue in favour of emacs for years, those that do are only doing it to argue, they secretly use vi (or vim or one of it's decendents), and even write their arguments in vi.
That's not what racial profiling is. What you're describing is a situation where the cops are (or should be) looking for someone who committed a crime who fits a particular description, and of course race is part of that description
In the 1980s and 90s an (american funded) terror campaign of bombings was going on in the mainland UK, the ones planting the bombs were White, Irish men aged 20-40.
Police effort was not put into stopping little old Tibettan ladies.
Now you could argue they should stop and search anyone, but if they are, stopping little old ladies just to tick the diversity boxes makes no sense.
My girlfriend has a car charger
Just because your blow-up doll has a vibrator doesn't mean it's your girlfriend.
Naturally it assumes independent experts have validated that the drop in value is due to the mast.
The guy who called the meetings was not shy about admitting that this biggest concern was the potential drop in value of his grade 2 listed cottage which was positioned quite close to the mast.
This is actually a serious point. Take the case of a first time buyer, scrapes together a 5% mortgage on a £200k flat, takes a £190K mortgage out. Starts repaying on a 25 year repayment mortgage. House prices in that area are stagnant. Phone mast built a year later, house value drops to £170K, guy now can't sell his flat as he is in negative equity.
It's not just rich owners of grade 2 cottages that are affected.
He should receive compensation from the phone company for the loss of value.
Loki had no problem turning a profit on porting Windows games -- it was their looting of the finances that drove the company under.
So where's the next company to get in to this guarenteed profit game?
Gotta love /. moderation. I'll get moded Stupid for pointing out that you get modded Informative for pointing out the ridiculousness of the parent, who pointed out that the parent got modded Redundant for repeating the parents point that the parent was modded Funny for pointing out the parent got modded Flamebait for correcting the spelling in his own post
Do you think people in Cuba all buy $200,000 houses?
$200K will buy you a car parking space in London, or a 1 bed flat in a rural town in the middle of nowhere (Barnstaple). You can get a small terraced house about 40 minutes tube from central London for about $500K, but that's in a very dense housing area.