WTF are you doing (or driving) that requires $7800/yr in gas? My daily commute is 20 miles each way. Between that and general around-town driving (groceries, kids to soccer, etc.) I put 10 gallons in per week. At the current $3.50/gal, that's a $1820/yr. Are you on the wrong side of town for where you work?
$3.50 a gallon? Lucky bastard. $4.10 minimum around here. I think diesel is up around $4.50.
I do about $2,500 a year in gas alone (~18,000 miles @ 28 mpg), but then my daily commute comes out to about 70 miles round trip.
1. It’s great to see this coming (finally) from a well-respected business source. The Lessigs, Doctorows and even Nissons of this world are potentially dismissed as impractical ideologues; not so Harvard Business.
Promising, I suppose, but this "article" only appears in the "blog" section of the website - which is usually reserved for the personal opinions of various writers and contributors rather than the "official" opinion of the publication.
It is promising that someone on their staff thinks this way, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is the majority (or even strong minority) opinion of the Harvard Business Journal.
A quick search didn't turn up any other reports of this besides discussion pointing back to the linked Network World article. Considering it seems very easy to detect (an SL folder in the main windows directory, accompanied by an automatic uninstall program?) it seems like people wouldn't have any trouble finding it if it is there. Anyone have any confirmation? Anyone besides Mr. Hassan finding this on their new Samsung?
... and launching part of the network in Kansas City. The city of Topeka had actually temporarily renamed itself Google, Kansas, the capital city of fiber optics, in a move to get Google to lay fiber there. It seems to have worked...
Heh. I'll translate this to more popular city names so everybody can understand the full impact of this statement:
... and launching part of the network in Los Angeles. The city of Sacramento had actually temporarily renamed itself Google, California, the capital city of fiber optics, in a move to get Google to lay fiber there. It seems to have worked...
To be fair, Topeka is only like 40 miles from KC, while Sac is closer to 300 miles from LA. But yeah - serious geography fail on the part of the submitter.
How much data is sent/received for the tests? I wouldn't want to hit my monthly cap...
Also, how long before the ISPs are able to uniquely identify traffic from/to these particular routers, and will "traffic shape" accordingly? I'm guessing more than one ISP employee has one to experiment on...
I'm not saying there aren't Republicans who have corporate cronies. I'm saying they aren't real conservatives. The current tension between the recently-sworn Tea Party members of Congress and the GOP old guard is evidence of this. Power corrupts. Which is why we should Amend the Constitution for term limits.
Right, because term limits have worked so well in the past.
Lots of people thought the same way you do, so here in California we implemented term limits for pretty much every elected position. Guess what? Now the only people who know how to get anything done are the paid lobbyists, as they are the only ones allowed to amass years of experience without changing jobs. The only thing term limits have accomplished is to give lobbyists more influence, and put politicians on a merry-go-round jumping from the house to the senate to X-random-elected-position.
Term limits suck. The only solution is an educated, interested populace.
But UK Transport Minister Norman Baker said it should not be "involved" in individual cities' transport choices.
"We will not be banning cars from city centres anymore than we will be having rectangular bananas," he said.
It's certainly an interesting idea. And it seems, using the example of London's congestion charge, that it wouldn't be a bad thing. I certainly encourage more people to use public transport, and ride bikes.
And for the Yanks who will complain they live in the suburbs, maybe lobby your local government for better public transport? And stop complaining, this is an article from Europe.
Better public transport? But that would take money away from our highways! Besides, public transport always ends up losing money - damn, thieving government types throwing money down the toilet. Clearly, you are an idiot.
The answer is obviously to continue building massive, sprawling suburbs on every arable acre of land in the US, then complain that we can't afford to build a new superhighway to every gated community out there. The news media tells me that the only answer to our economic woes is to build more single-family homes, as apparently the home construction industry is the basis of our entire economy - we can't afford to plan higher-density cities that might actually be serviceable by public transit!
The 747-8I is supposed to be the fastest airliner in the world, something like mach 0.91. Not that any airlines are likely to actually fly it that fast...
Unfortunately the anti-nuclear lobby is milking the Fukushima problems for all they're worth, and it seems to be working quite well for them.
I know politicians are bound, to a lesser or greater extent, by public opinion, but I was still genuinely surprised to see someone with a doctorate in physical chemistry citing Fukushima as a reason to cut back on nuclear power. I assume there was more to it behind the scenes, but it's still a shame to see such unsound reasoning being given credibility.
I don't have any sources to back it up, but I did read right around the time that Merkel announced they were "reconsidering" license extensions to nuke plants that it was likely this was largely a political move for the upcoming election (which I think happened last week?). The gist was that they were trying to shore up support in a particular area that had gone Christian Democrat in previous elections but that leans strongly green (basically a "swing state"). The (to me) surprisingly rapid decision to abandon nuclear was apparently just a strategy to win votes in this election, which from what I've heard didn't work out real well.
Okay, just looked it up on wikipedia - it was referring to the Baden-Wurttemberg elections, where the christian democrats lost 9 seats and the greens gained 19.
2) The reason the regs "require" a hazmat team is that there's a lot of things that "need" one per those regs- they've set the bar so low that saying this is silly.
The reasoning for this is actually pretty simple. OSHA regulations are for protecting workers, not geared towards a homeowner. In this case they basically start with the proposition that it is your job to be cleaning up after broken CFLs, and you will be doing it 40 hours a week for 50 weeks per year. When you are exposed to something that often for that long, you need to take far greater precautions than someone who has to deal with one broken CFL once a year. Even if it really isn't your job to handle CFL breakages all the time, OSHA regulations are generally designed to protect workers in the worst case, so they are very conservative.
I'm not going to run out and replace my $100 2TB external backup with one of these any time soon. However, I've been tempted to snag a small 40 gig model and use that as my OS drive, and use my existing internal 1TB HDD for the actual data. I think the article is right, in that the price per gig needs to hit $1 before you start seeing acceptance for mass storage solutions from consumers. 95% of users can't tell the difference between a 5600 RPM HDD and a 10,000 RPM one, so they won't care about SSD speeds that much either.
The difference between a 10,000 RPM hard drive and and SSD is much bigger than the difference between a 5600 RPM HDD and a 10,000 RPM HDD. They will notice.
Like many others I went with an SSD for my boot drive when I built my last system (Crucial 64GB RealSSD), in combination with a cheap 7200 RPM HDD for data. The SSD makes a HUGE difference - no waiting for applications to start, very quick startup (the longest part by far is the various BIOS checks that it feels the need to go through), no need to defrag, etc. Very nice. The one downside is that since the HDD is rarely used it tends to go to sleep, so when something DOES need to access it it takes a couple seconds to spin up and get going. After cruising through everything with the SSD this makes waiting for the HDD to get going especially painful, but it isn't a big deal - and obviously you would have the same issue using two HDDs.
With the availability of a relatively cheap 40 GB option I can see the start of widespread adoption in the corporate world. In my experience 40 GB is plenty for OS and applications for the vast majority of office drones (myself included), with pretty much all data staying on the server these days. With the cheapest HDDs you can get generally around the $40 mark you are looking at only a $40 price difference to stick in an SSD, with the attendant massive speed increase. Having an SSD makes everything else much faster - virus scans are quicker, the computer is more responsive, no need for defragging - and if you are using it for relatively static application and OS data only, you should see a significant decrease in drive failures. At this point I would be pretty pissed if management/IT went ahead with a new computer system rollout that didn't take advantage of SSDs in workstations (well, except for the fact that the computer manufacturers all like their massive markup on SSDs so it is doubtful you could get them built at a reasonable price right now).
Replace? Wait until you get the bill for decommissioning a nuclear plant.
What do you mean, wait? I've been paying a nuclear energy decommissioning fee on my electric bill for years. Since PG&E has never actually decommissioned a nuclear power plant, I assume all of this is being saved up for when they decide to shutter Diablo Canyon.
Decommissioning Rancho Seco doesn't seem to have caused SMUD (local utility that built a nuke plant, then a few years later shut it down in response to public outcry) to implode, either. They still manage rates significantly lower than PG&E, in spite of having built a plant and operated it for all of 15 years before decommissioning it again.
Anyone who does usability studies can assure you that people won't read confirmations, they'll just blindly click OK. And it's worth noting here that this was entirely an ID10T error, not a computer glitch, although I'm sure a fair number of folks will try to blame it on the computer.
People don't read confirmations for everyday tasks that always pop up numerous times a day. If it is a task that is presumably rare, like mass-mailing tens of thousands of people over an emergency alert system, they are probably going to pay attention to what the confirmation dialog says.
Just because I click through idiotic confirmation dialogs without reading them every time I open a document I downloaded from the internet doesn't mean that I click haphazardly through confirmations while reinstalling my OS. Uh, maybe that's not the best example... but you get the point.
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Slot car Construction Set? Not familiar with that.
Racing Destruction Set, now there was a game.
I probably spent the most time on Pool of Radiance, but there were a lot of others...
Did somebody say nuclear wessel?
WTF are you doing (or driving) that requires $7800/yr in gas? My daily commute is 20 miles each way. Between that and general around-town driving (groceries, kids to soccer, etc.) I put 10 gallons in per week. At the current $3.50/gal, that's a $1820/yr. Are you on the wrong side of town for where you work?
$3.50 a gallon? Lucky bastard. $4.10 minimum around here. I think diesel is up around $4.50.
I do about $2,500 a year in gas alone (~18,000 miles @ 28 mpg), but then my daily commute comes out to about 70 miles round trip.
But yeah - what does GP drive, an M1?
oh shit they never released a 2? hm what about the The Osborne-2 "Executive"
Obviously a re-badged etch-a-sketch.
Wouldn't something like R be better suited to that kind of data analysis?
What does he look like, a filthy Pirate?
My favourite colour is black - so I should be driving a model T? Imagine flying down the highway at 22km/h...
Sorry, no such luck... Model T's only fly in MPH.
Looks like Professor Edward T. Vieira, Jr. is in need of an ass-kicking.
Right after I finish clubbing this baby seal to death in Grand Theft Orca.
1. It’s great to see this coming (finally) from a well-respected business source. The Lessigs, Doctorows and even Nissons of this world are potentially dismissed as impractical ideologues; not so Harvard Business.
Promising, I suppose, but this "article" only appears in the "blog" section of the website - which is usually reserved for the personal opinions of various writers and contributors rather than the "official" opinion of the publication.
It is promising that someone on their staff thinks this way, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is the majority (or even strong minority) opinion of the Harvard Business Journal.
A quick search didn't turn up any other reports of this besides discussion pointing back to the linked Network World article. Considering it seems very easy to detect (an SL folder in the main windows directory, accompanied by an automatic uninstall program?) it seems like people wouldn't have any trouble finding it if it is there. Anyone have any confirmation? Anyone besides Mr. Hassan finding this on their new Samsung?
Does this mean Kansas City is the new porn capital of the world?
... and launching part of the network in Kansas City. The city of Topeka had actually temporarily renamed itself Google, Kansas, the capital city of fiber optics, in a move to get Google to lay fiber there. It seems to have worked...
Heh. I'll translate this to more popular city names so everybody can understand the full impact of this statement:
... and launching part of the network in Los Angeles. The city of Sacramento had actually temporarily renamed itself Google, California, the capital city of fiber optics, in a move to get Google to lay fiber there. It seems to have worked...
To be fair, Topeka is only like 40 miles from KC, while Sac is closer to 300 miles from LA. But yeah - serious geography fail on the part of the submitter.
Not really related (well, sort of), but it looks like Kansas City, Kansas are the lucky winnars! of the Google Community Fiber project.
How much data is sent/received for the tests? I wouldn't want to hit my monthly cap...
Also, how long before the ISPs are able to uniquely identify traffic from/to these particular routers, and will "traffic shape" accordingly? I'm guessing more than one ISP employee has one to experiment on...
I'm not saying there aren't Republicans who have corporate cronies. I'm saying they aren't real conservatives. The current tension between the recently-sworn Tea Party members of Congress and the GOP old guard is evidence of this. Power corrupts. Which is why we should Amend the Constitution for term limits.
Right, because term limits have worked so well in the past.
Lots of people thought the same way you do, so here in California we implemented term limits for pretty much every elected position. Guess what? Now the only people who know how to get anything done are the paid lobbyists, as they are the only ones allowed to amass years of experience without changing jobs. The only thing term limits have accomplished is to give lobbyists more influence, and put politicians on a merry-go-round jumping from the house to the senate to X-random-elected-position.
Term limits suck. The only solution is an educated, interested populace.
So yeah, we're screwed.
Bakersfield has no chance of surviving.
Now there's a relief.
"We will not be banning cars from city centres anymore than we will be having rectangular bananas,"
Another politician outed himself as a retard who doesn't have any real arguments, so he resorts to stupid rants.
I think you underestimate the dangers posed by quadrilateral fruit.
The UK government has already said they don't like the plan. From the BBC UK rejects EU call for city centre ban on petrol cars:
It's certainly an interesting idea. And it seems, using the example of London's congestion charge, that it wouldn't be a bad thing. I certainly encourage more people to use public transport, and ride bikes.
And for the Yanks who will complain they live in the suburbs, maybe lobby your local government for better public transport? And stop complaining, this is an article from Europe.
Better public transport? But that would take money away from our highways! Besides, public transport always ends up losing money - damn, thieving government types throwing money down the toilet. Clearly, you are an idiot.
The answer is obviously to continue building massive, sprawling suburbs on every arable acre of land in the US, then complain that we can't afford to build a new superhighway to every gated community out there. The news media tells me that the only answer to our economic woes is to build more single-family homes, as apparently the home construction industry is the basis of our entire economy - we can't afford to plan higher-density cities that might actually be serviceable by public transit!
And slower airliners.
The 747-8I is supposed to be the fastest airliner in the world, something like mach 0.91. Not that any airlines are likely to actually fly it that fast...
Unfortunately the anti-nuclear lobby is milking the Fukushima problems for all they're worth, and it seems to be working quite well for them.
I know politicians are bound, to a lesser or greater extent, by public opinion, but I was still genuinely surprised to see someone with a doctorate in physical chemistry citing Fukushima as a reason to cut back on nuclear power. I assume there was more to it behind the scenes, but it's still a shame to see such unsound reasoning being given credibility.
I don't have any sources to back it up, but I did read right around the time that Merkel announced they were "reconsidering" license extensions to nuke plants that it was likely this was largely a political move for the upcoming election (which I think happened last week?). The gist was that they were trying to shore up support in a particular area that had gone Christian Democrat in previous elections but that leans strongly green (basically a "swing state"). The (to me) surprisingly rapid decision to abandon nuclear was apparently just a strategy to win votes in this election, which from what I've heard didn't work out real well.
Okay, just looked it up on wikipedia - it was referring to the Baden-Wurttemberg elections, where the christian democrats lost 9 seats and the greens gained 19.
2) The reason the regs "require" a hazmat team is that there's a lot of things that "need" one per those regs- they've set the bar so low that saying this is silly.
The reasoning for this is actually pretty simple. OSHA regulations are for protecting workers, not geared towards a homeowner. In this case they basically start with the proposition that it is your job to be cleaning up after broken CFLs, and you will be doing it 40 hours a week for 50 weeks per year. When you are exposed to something that often for that long, you need to take far greater precautions than someone who has to deal with one broken CFL once a year. Even if it really isn't your job to handle CFL breakages all the time, OSHA regulations are generally designed to protect workers in the worst case, so they are very conservative.
I don't know if it's stupid to be corrupt... unethical maybe, but not stupid
We call the smart ones "Senator".
I'm not going to run out and replace my $100 2TB external backup with one of these any time soon. However, I've been tempted to snag a small 40 gig model and use that as my OS drive, and use my existing internal 1TB HDD for the actual data. I think the article is right, in that the price per gig needs to hit $1 before you start seeing acceptance for mass storage solutions from consumers. 95% of users can't tell the difference between a 5600 RPM HDD and a 10,000 RPM one, so they won't care about SSD speeds that much either.
The difference between a 10,000 RPM hard drive and and SSD is much bigger than the difference between a 5600 RPM HDD and a 10,000 RPM HDD. They will notice.
Like many others I went with an SSD for my boot drive when I built my last system (Crucial 64GB RealSSD), in combination with a cheap 7200 RPM HDD for data. The SSD makes a HUGE difference - no waiting for applications to start, very quick startup (the longest part by far is the various BIOS checks that it feels the need to go through), no need to defrag, etc. Very nice. The one downside is that since the HDD is rarely used it tends to go to sleep, so when something DOES need to access it it takes a couple seconds to spin up and get going. After cruising through everything with the SSD this makes waiting for the HDD to get going especially painful, but it isn't a big deal - and obviously you would have the same issue using two HDDs.
With the availability of a relatively cheap 40 GB option I can see the start of widespread adoption in the corporate world. In my experience 40 GB is plenty for OS and applications for the vast majority of office drones (myself included), with pretty much all data staying on the server these days. With the cheapest HDDs you can get generally around the $40 mark you are looking at only a $40 price difference to stick in an SSD, with the attendant massive speed increase. Having an SSD makes everything else much faster - virus scans are quicker, the computer is more responsive, no need for defragging - and if you are using it for relatively static application and OS data only, you should see a significant decrease in drive failures. At this point I would be pretty pissed if management/IT went ahead with a new computer system rollout that didn't take advantage of SSDs in workstations (well, except for the fact that the computer manufacturers all like their massive markup on SSDs so it is doubtful you could get them built at a reasonable price right now).
it's nice to see people not only get upset about something once in a while, but to actually vote against it as well.
When was the last time Germany was hit by a tsunami?
To be fair, two of their nuclear facilities are on the coast. You never really know when England might sink into the sea and cause a massive tsunami.
Replace? Wait until you get the bill for decommissioning a nuclear plant.
What do you mean, wait? I've been paying a nuclear energy decommissioning fee on my electric bill for years. Since PG&E has never actually decommissioned a nuclear power plant, I assume all of this is being saved up for when they decide to shutter Diablo Canyon.
Decommissioning Rancho Seco doesn't seem to have caused SMUD (local utility that built a nuke plant, then a few years later shut it down in response to public outcry) to implode, either. They still manage rates significantly lower than PG&E, in spite of having built a plant and operated it for all of 15 years before decommissioning it again.
Anyone who does usability studies can assure you that people won't read confirmations, they'll just blindly click OK. And it's worth noting here that this was entirely an ID10T error, not a computer glitch, although I'm sure a fair number of folks will try to blame it on the computer.
People don't read confirmations for everyday tasks that always pop up numerous times a day. If it is a task that is presumably rare, like mass-mailing tens of thousands of people over an emergency alert system, they are probably going to pay attention to what the confirmation dialog says.
Just because I click through idiotic confirmation dialogs without reading them every time I open a document I downloaded from the internet doesn't mean that I click haphazardly through confirmations while reinstalling my OS. Uh, maybe that's not the best example... but you get the point.