Prologis does this on some of their warehouses. If you have a warehouse or other large flat-roof building in a flight path, you could probably rent the space as a billboard. (GIS for "Prologis" for pics.)
OK, I'm a zealot, but if you mostly use a computer to browse the web and get email and write an occasional document buy a Linux computer.
Better yet, just wipe out and install Linux on your old computer. You'd have to have a pretty ancient computer not to be able to run a modern distro just for email, documents and browsing.
John Walker, one of the founders of Autodesk, has a pretty easy looking plan in his book, The Hacker's Diet. I haven't tried it myself, but I would if I didn't have wooden floors.:-)
if I've just installed Windows Server fresh, I can't go to the Internet and download drivers that I might need. I can't go download my backup software and install it. I basically can't do much of anything without reconfiguring the security settings first, even if I'm the administrator. And it doesn't just prompt, "This might be bad, do you really want to do this?" I doesn't allow it.
Has this changed in 2008? In 2003, it prompts you when it blocks something and gives you an "Add" button to easily add the sites to the whitelist. A server is probably only going to need to go to two or three sites in its lifetime, so it's trivial to whitelist them, and if you're using it as a workstation, you disable the Enhanced Security mode entirely (or use Firefox with NoScript.) What's hard about that?
Frankly, in that area of Oklahoma, they should first crack down on residents running their sewer pipes directly into the streams, THEN worry about things like fireworks.
Broadband for some people is kinda like my wife was with the DVR. She didn't understand why I ordered and paid extra for a DVR, and it was only after I showed her how to watch a 30 minute show in 22 minutes that she finally understood. People on dial-up don't understand what's available with broadband unless they're exposed to it.
My mother-in-law said the same thing--until I finally convinced her to get DSL (lowest tier.) Not tying up the line was a big deal for her, and it turned out to be two dollars cheaper than her old dial-up provider.
I set her up with a spare broadband router, so she's actually safer now than she was on dial-up.
From TFA: "While the total battery runtime certainly depends on the workload -- we used Mobilemark 07 -- the minimum and maximum power consumption measurements prove that Crucial's statements of low power consumption are in fact wrong: 1.6 W idle power is more than any 2.5" notebook hard drive requires."
From TFA: "While the total battery runtime certainly depends on the workload -- we used Mobilemark 07 -- the minimum and maximum power consumption measurements prove that Crucial's statements of low power consumption are in fact wrong: 1.6 W idle power is more than any 2.5" notebook hard drive requires."
It takes an enormous amount of work to make a good academic text.
No, it usually doesn't.
This may be true of the first edition, but it often doesn't take any work at all to make the 15th edition.
I've seen the successive editions of an accounting textbook side by side. Both books were virtually identical. The chapters were in the same order; they changed the '2005' to '2006' on all of the examples, and the numbers were different in the problems. This does not excuse them for charging $152 for a 200-sheet stack of 3-hole-punched paper in shrink-wrap, when last year's (hardcover bound) edition is perfectly fine.
It depends on the subject, of course, but I have a Comp. Sci. professor that has condensed the lessons and material from the books into lecture notes, which he then hands out at each class. The notes cover the material, and he typically recommends an older ($5 on Half) textbook for reference while working on the homework, which he also creates himself.
Since the subject changes very little, he peruses the latest edition of the "official" textbook to see if anything needs to be changed from year to year, and obviously he changes his homework and tests slightly each semester to prevent cheating, but let's face it: not a lot of subjects change significantly from year to year, so it's a one-time investment.
I've had other teachers who allow us to purchase the previous edition ($5-15) of the $120 textbook, where the textbook hasn't changed except the placement of images and rearranging of chapters. The material is the same, and he produces his own homework and tests anyway, so when he refers to the book, he refers to both (i.e. "Look at the diagram on page 24 of the new book, or page 32 of the old book.")
What I've learned at the community college level is never buy your textbook before the first day. If you can email the professor before the first day, even better. Also, check ratemyprofessor.com, as many reviews will tell you whether the instructor typically requires the textbook.
Generally speaking, a car battery that has degraded to the point that it won't reliably start the car, could still be viable for years if used to power 2-4 amps (24-48 watts) of lights. I don't think I'd buy a new battery for a project like that, but put a couple of secondhand batteries (wrecking yard?) together in parallel, and you should get good life from them.
Curse words are less manipulative than words like love, freedom, and peace. Would you ban those words as well, to protect us from the manipulators who use them?
And, I might add, non-"cursing" language has been used to manipulate people far more often and more effectively than any "swear words." If you don't believe me, go ask to see the financial records of your local megachurch.
True, but it's land that is often already being mowed anyway to keep the weeds down, or otherwise maintained, so the cost to mow down the switchgrass a couple times a year wouldn't be any different. To supplant 1% of the entire consumption of fuel in the U.S. for essentially free is a huge deal in my opinion.
Everyone else was probably under the impression that this was just another hijacking where the terrorists fly to some airport and demand the release of some people in exchange for the release of the passengers (never ends that way but at least the passengers usually all make it).
Which, by the way, was the SOP for most airlines in a hijack situation. Do what the hijackers want and nobody will get hurt, they'll fly the plane to some other country, and we'll negotiate to get the passengers back.
9/11 will never happen again, simply because anybody who threatens a plane full of people, even with a gun, will be carried off in a body bag.
What you are thinking of is rollover accidents, where SUVs generally do more poorly than cars. Driving the SUV properly should avoid the rollover risk. It's worth noting that sports cars tend to roll over even more than SUVs despite having a very low center of gravity - again, drivers pushing a car too hard.
True, but for sports cars, "too hard" never applies to swerving around a washing machine in 55 mph traffic. Sports cars that flip usually do so at hyperlegal speeds. SUVs can easily flip at well below freeway speeds.
Second: Have you ever been stuck behind a cyclists on a curvy and hilly 2 lane road for 10 miles, with few or no spots where you have enough visibility to pass safely, and line of cars piled up behind you so far that you can't see the end of the line?
No, but I live in the mountains, and I've been stuck behind plenty of SUVs that do that.
And you can't call yourself a Realtor unless you actually are, either. There is a difference between a Realtor and someone just licensed to practice real estate.
Yeah, they paid a fee to an organization to get their "title."
The reason for the confusion is that thousands of Realtors(TM or R or whatever) use the term as a generic term in conversation, and even use the term in lowercase, and without the (R) or (TM), in their marketing materials and newspaper ads. If every Xerox(TM/R)-licensed seller used "xerox" (lowercase) to describe themselves and their products ("We have xeroxes from every manufacturer!"), you would expect that kind of confusion too.
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Prologis does this on some of their warehouses. If you have a warehouse or other large flat-roof building in a flight path, you could probably rent the space as a billboard. (GIS for "Prologis" for pics.)
OK, I'm a zealot, but if you mostly use a computer to browse the web and get email and write an occasional document buy a Linux computer.
Better yet, just wipe out and install Linux on your old computer. You'd have to have a pretty ancient computer not to be able to run a modern distro just for email, documents and browsing.
John Walker, one of the founders of Autodesk, has a pretty easy looking plan in his book, The Hacker's Diet . I haven't tried it myself, but I would if I didn't have wooden floors. :-)
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if I've just installed Windows Server fresh, I can't go to the Internet and download drivers that I might need. I can't go download my backup software and install it. I basically can't do much of anything without reconfiguring the security settings first, even if I'm the administrator. And it doesn't just prompt, "This might be bad, do you really want to do this?" I doesn't allow it.
Has this changed in 2008? In 2003, it prompts you when it blocks something and gives you an "Add" button to easily add the sites to the whitelist. A server is probably only going to need to go to two or three sites in its lifetime, so it's trivial to whitelist them, and if you're using it as a workstation, you disable the Enhanced Security mode entirely (or use Firefox with NoScript.) What's hard about that?
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Frankly, in that area of Oklahoma, they should first crack down on residents running their sewer pipes directly into the streams, THEN worry about things like fireworks.
Broadband for some people is kinda like my wife was with the DVR. She didn't understand why I ordered and paid extra for a DVR, and it was only after I showed her how to watch a 30 minute show in 22 minutes that she finally understood. People on dial-up don't understand what's available with broadband unless they're exposed to it.
My mother-in-law said the same thing--until I finally convinced her to get DSL (lowest tier.) Not tying up the line was a big deal for her, and it turned out to be two dollars cheaper than her old dial-up provider.
I set her up with a spare broadband router, so she's actually safer now than she was on dial-up.
From TFA: "While the total battery runtime certainly depends on the workload -- we used Mobilemark 07 -- the minimum and maximum power consumption measurements prove that Crucial's statements of low power consumption are in fact wrong: 1.6 W idle power is more than any 2.5" notebook hard drive requires."
From TFA: "While the total battery runtime certainly depends on the workload -- we used Mobilemark 07 -- the minimum and maximum power consumption measurements prove that Crucial's statements of low power consumption are in fact wrong: 1.6 W idle power is more than any 2.5" notebook hard drive requires."
It takes an enormous amount of work to make a good academic text.
No, it usually doesn't.
This may be true of the first edition, but it often doesn't take any work at all to make the 15th edition.
I've seen the successive editions of an accounting textbook side by side. Both books were virtually identical. The chapters were in the same order; they changed the '2005' to '2006' on all of the examples, and the numbers were different in the problems. This does not excuse them for charging $152 for a 200-sheet stack of 3-hole-punched paper in shrink-wrap, when last year's (hardcover bound) edition is perfectly fine.
So you have to use the newer version.
Or don't.
It depends on the subject, of course, but I have a Comp. Sci. professor that has condensed the lessons and material from the books into lecture notes, which he then hands out at each class. The notes cover the material, and he typically recommends an older ($5 on Half) textbook for reference while working on the homework, which he also creates himself.
Since the subject changes very little, he peruses the latest edition of the "official" textbook to see if anything needs to be changed from year to year, and obviously he changes his homework and tests slightly each semester to prevent cheating, but let's face it: not a lot of subjects change significantly from year to year, so it's a one-time investment.
I've had other teachers who allow us to purchase the previous edition ($5-15) of the $120 textbook, where the textbook hasn't changed except the placement of images and rearranging of chapters. The material is the same, and he produces his own homework and tests anyway, so when he refers to the book, he refers to both (i.e. "Look at the diagram on page 24 of the new book, or page 32 of the old book.")
What I've learned at the community college level is never buy your textbook before the first day. If you can email the professor before the first day, even better. Also, check ratemyprofessor.com, as many reviews will tell you whether the instructor typically requires the textbook.
Uh, yeah. Or not.
And change the combination on my luggage!
Generally speaking, a car battery that has degraded to the point that it won't reliably start the car, could still be viable for years if used to power 2-4 amps (24-48 watts) of lights. I don't think I'd buy a new battery for a project like that, but put a couple of secondhand batteries (wrecking yard?) together in parallel, and you should get good life from them.
And, I might add, non-"cursing" language has been used to manipulate people far more often and more effectively than any "swear words." If you don't believe me, go ask to see the financial records of your local megachurch.
This is when a 'fanboi' mod would come in handy.
It sounds even better when you say it in a Ralph Wiggum voice.
True, but it's land that is often already being mowed anyway to keep the weeds down, or otherwise maintained, so the cost to mow down the switchgrass a couple times a year wouldn't be any different. To supplant 1% of the entire consumption of fuel in the U.S. for essentially free is a huge deal in my opinion.
Which, by the way, was the SOP for most airlines in a hijack situation. Do what the hijackers want and nobody will get hurt, they'll fly the plane to some other country, and we'll negotiate to get the passengers back.
9/11 will never happen again, simply because anybody who threatens a plane full of people, even with a gun, will be carried off in a body bag.
True, but for sports cars, "too hard" never applies to swerving around a washing machine in 55 mph traffic. Sports cars that flip usually do so at hyperlegal speeds. SUVs can easily flip at well below freeway speeds.
No, but I live in the mountains, and I've been stuck behind plenty of SUVs that do that.
Castles on a hill at the end of a long treacherous road are too expensive and hard to find anymore.
I'm one of those old fashioned guys who would rather have a 700 sq. ft. house and a 1,500 sq. ft. garage. :-)
Yeah, they paid a fee to an organization to get their "title."
The reason for the confusion is that thousands of Realtors(TM or R or whatever) use the term as a generic term in conversation, and even use the term in lowercase, and without the (R) or (TM), in their marketing materials and newspaper ads. If every Xerox(TM/R)-licensed seller used "xerox" (lowercase) to describe themselves and their products ("We have xeroxes from every manufacturer!"), you would expect that kind of confusion too.