Space: I was just emailing my wife about getting rid of several bookshelves worth of books and now you've got me wanting to get Young Harry Houdini for my son and Just a Geek for me. DAMN YOU!
Star Trek: Let me just say I'm 27 and a geek and I loved every Wesley Crusher episode when I was a kid. (Can't say the same for Teen Win, Lose, or Draw...). It was very inspiring to me and and and dammit the Traveler was cool! I digress.
Cats: My mother-in-law had a similar cat kidney situation. It's very hard. I think you did the right thing.
> Paypal wants to be treated like a real financial institution, but doesn't act like one.
Slight modification: Paypal wants the respect that real financial institutions command, but without the very real legal liabilities that go along with it.
I talked to someone who was in the middle of doing an Alamo-a-like in another city and he said the Alamo guys were not big on franchising. They don't want to jump the shark. As I understand it, the whole point is to make enough money to live well and run crazy ass shit at the downtown locations and rolling roadshows and whatnot.:)
Gee, I'm surprised all you MST3K-can-do-no-wrong people aren't hating on Alamo for letting those evil horrible intellectual property pirates, "The Sinus Show"*, perform on their premises.
/me rolls eyes,
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*formerly Mr. Sinus**
**formerly Mr. Sinus Theatre 3000
The Arbor went under and the space was bought out by The Cheescake Factory. However, it has reopened at the old Great Hills cinema location and is now called Regal Arbor Cinema @ Great Hills. It still shows first run "indie" films and participates in SXSW.
Yeah, you gotta buy the "100% juice" juice bottles if you want it to be actual juice. Only difference between that and straight up frozen concentrate is lack of pulp so you don't get any fiber.
Even better... use said swap file on its own ext2 fs. Use e2label to give it a name and if one of your drives craps out or rebooting into a new kernel changes the drive names (gawd I hate that), it'll still work. I have this in my fstab on one of the computers at work.
#### swap is a file on ext2 so we can use e2label(8) to ensure that
#### regardless of SCSI mount order, it will work. 2.4+ kernels write swap
#### files just as fast as partitions b/c they bypass the fs layer.
#### Creation commands:
#### mkfs.ext2 -L "/swap" -b 1024 -i 8192 -m 0 -N 1 -R stride=8/dev/sd...
#### dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap/swapfile bs=1024 count=2028319
Here we go again. Those Texas liberals are foisting unbearable regulations on those poor corporations whose customers voluntarily set up a service they didn't bother to understand and got burned in the process. Clearly what is needed is less regulation, not more hassle from the state. As more and more people are assaulted and cannot dial 911, people will learn over time that they need to set up emergency service through their telecom providers. This is how the market works, folks.
Don't come crying to me when your eight year old daughter is being raped by space slugs and can't call the police cause you didn't bother to read all the fine print.
As long as that's the only time you spin it down, sure. But note that most drives have a finite (and quite small) rated number of powercycles; I think a Maxtor I had recently was rated for around 10,000. Say you set aggressive PM on a machine that's actually used fairly frequently, and it ends up cycling 20 times per day. Great - now you have an estimated life of about 500 days. I'm reasonably sure (although I haven't done the math) that just leaving the drive running will actually save money on the replacement cost versus electrical savings, and I'm certain it'll save environmental costs.
In my experience, it's the drives that get used all the time that get hosed, not the ones that spend their nights sleeping. I don't think you need to shut down every time you go to the bathroom or anything, but not rebooting a crappy drive for 180 days is gonna eat up way more of the drive's hourly life than its start/stop cycles. For a drive rated at 150000 hours and 10000 start/stop cycles, that eats up a whole 2.88% of hours versus 0.01% of start/stop cycles. Whereas, if you had it running only 8 hours a day for those 180 days, you'd've spent only 0.96% of hours and 1.8% of cycles. Factoring in weekends, that's 1.32% of cycles. And we're talking about a shitty 10000 start/stop cycle, 150000 MTBF drive. Most desktop drives are 30k - 50k according to this PC Guide. At just 20000 cycles, as several 10000RPM drives are rated today, the figure drops to just 0.66% of cycles.
Bleh, math, anyway, point being, shutting down overnight and weekends won't hurt the hard drive within any reasonable timeframe.
There are sound arguments on either side of that one (largely regarding component life, thermal issues, etc.). On a newer computer with on-demand CPU throttling, I don't see a clear advantage to shutting them down completely.
Sounds like FUD to me. The clear advantage is that you buy no electricity when it's turned off.
Besides, most users don't use suspend to disk or something and have it in PM mode. They just leave it on at full blast. You press the enter key, you get the desktop in about a second. This is obviously harder on the hardware than shutting it down for over half the week (Sat + Sun + 5pm-8am M-F). You can halve the MTBF on your hard drive just by spinning it down at night and on weekends.
Anyway, I'm not harshin' on ya. It was a rant directed at stupid behavior I see at the office everyday.:)
I'd do this if I could find a nice brand that didn't flicker and had a spectrum reasonably close to an incandescent (or better, the sun). I can't stand that 60Hz strobe or the washed-out colors. Any suggestions?
Yeah, go to Home Depot and buy the natural light or full-spectrum ones. They're good for indoor plants as well as people. They also use less energy and produce less heat (here in Texas, that's GREAT).
Secondly, don't just use DPMS. If it's not a server, turn off the computer. <rant>It pisses me off so much when people leave the damn computer on all night and all weekend when it's not doing anything. I mean, you don't leave your car on all night and day just so you don't have to start it. WTF?</rant>
Kathy Grant, Time Warner-paid lobbyist of the Texas Cable and Telecommunications Association, buys the author of the bill, Phil King, his favorite espresso every time she gets. She's been pushing this bill BIG time.
It won't be easy though. According to a buddy of mine, they're already working on municipal wireless in McAllen and several of the surrounding colonias. I wrote Baxter and Barrientos myself arguing it wasn't fair to rural areas since it's not profitable for SBC, Cox, or Time Warner to build out there.
I just hope they don't have some fsckd up thing like a USF fee for broadband to rural areas. Talk about a huge corporate hand-out (on top of the existing ones...)
Standard 1 is apparently met through residing in the receiving state and using it there. I don't know how tight standard 4 is -- it's possible it has been interpreted very broadly. For example, the fact that the state vouchsafes the contract of sale of all legal imports (i.e., you can sue the seller in your own state) could meet this standard if it is interpreted broadly.
All I can say is that there is a Supreme Court standard in place and it is highly unlikely that the standard will change except possibly being narrowed or expanded slightly as cases come in.
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I'm not a use tax advocate, but it is legal under the USSC's interpretation of the Constitution. Here is an easy-to-understand summary:
"Upon clarification by counsel that he was arguing (at least primarily) that the imposition of collection responsibilities would unduly interfer with interstate commerce, Justice O'Connor confirmed that the issue is whether the tests established by Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady 430 U.S. 274, (1977) permit the state to impose this duty. Complete Auto held that a state may impose a tax upon interstate commerce activities if the following requirements are satisfied: 1. The activity has substantial nexus to the state; 2. The tax is fairly apportioned; 3. The tax does not discriminate against interstate commerce; and 4. The tax is fairly related to the services provided by the state."
You're incorrect for the same reason you can't operate a motorized vehicle in your state of residence without paying the proper taxes, regardless of what state you purchased it in. A use tax is an end-user tax on the use of an imported item in the state. If you don't use the item, you don't have to pay the tax. This sounds silly until you realize that you can reexport the item and pay no tax, which is how the tax satisfies Article 1. It's an intrastate tax only.
Having said that, I think it's a stupid tax because it's really hard to enforce and it only makes sense, if you can call it that, in states too dumb to have a progressive income tax like my home state of Texas.
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How about the "I have nothing to do but futz around with bug reports and code all day" branch?:) -l
I dunno, it seems to me the most dollar-valued abilities in the world reduce to slightly informed gambling. If stocks were a quarter a piece and displayed in rows of 3 to 5, I wonder how many more rich grandmas we'd have daytrading...
In a regular corporation, much of the capital becomes wealth distributed to executives who put it into their yacht fund, which in essence is punishing shareholders who are better served by reinvestment in the firm.
AGREED. Just imagine...
We offer extensive, discount CEO services -- with moneyback guarantee! No golden parachutes, no ridiculous number manipulation, no yachts! Just quality leadership at a reasonable price. You can't afford NOT to call.
/me tries to figure out how to work in an 800 number and something about 19.95 plus shipping and handling...
The future of shareholder rights is outsourcing management.
You assume he's 1) paid a lump sum up front and 2) has no tax shelters available to him. It'll still be a large amount, though... maybe here's a new revenue model for governments: Make companies recompense their engineers properly and keeping the taxes.:)
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Space: I was just emailing my wife about getting rid of several bookshelves worth of books and now you've got me wanting to get Young Harry Houdini for my son and Just a Geek for me. DAMN YOU!
Star Trek: Let me just say I'm 27 and a geek and I loved every Wesley Crusher episode when I was a kid. (Can't say the same for Teen Win, Lose, or Draw...). It was very inspiring to me and and and dammit the Traveler was cool! I digress.
Cats: My mother-in-law had a similar cat kidney situation. It's very hard. I think you did the right thing.
-l
> Paypal wants to be treated like a real financial institution, but doesn't act like one.
Slight modification: Paypal wants the respect that real financial institutions command, but without the very real legal liabilities that go along with it.
Cheers,
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I talked to someone who was in the middle of doing an Alamo-a-like in another city and he said the Alamo guys were not big on franchising. They don't want to jump the shark. As I understand it, the whole point is to make enough money to live well and run crazy ass shit at the downtown locations and rolling roadshows and whatnot. :)
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/me rolls eyes,
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*formerly Mr. Sinus**
**formerly Mr. Sinus Theatre 3000
The Arbor
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Yeah, you gotta buy the "100% juice" juice bottles if you want it to be actual juice. Only difference between that and straight up frozen concentrate is lack of pulp so you don't get any fiber.
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Here we go again. Those Texas liberals are foisting unbearable regulations on those poor corporations whose customers voluntarily set up a service they didn't bother to understand and got burned in the process. Clearly what is needed is less regulation, not more hassle from the state. As more and more people are assaulted and cannot dial 911, people will learn over time that they need to set up emergency service through their telecom providers. This is how the market works, folks.
Don't come crying to me when your eight year old daughter is being raped by space slugs and can't call the police cause you didn't bother to read all the fine print.
Tongue firmly planted in cheek,
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In my experience, it's the drives that get used all the time that get hosed, not the ones that spend their nights sleeping. I don't think you need to shut down every time you go to the bathroom or anything, but not rebooting a crappy drive for 180 days is gonna eat up way more of the drive's hourly life than its start/stop cycles. For a drive rated at 150000 hours and 10000 start/stop cycles, that eats up a whole 2.88% of hours versus 0.01% of start/stop cycles. Whereas, if you had it running only 8 hours a day for those 180 days, you'd've spent only 0.96% of hours and 1.8% of cycles. Factoring in weekends, that's 1.32% of cycles. And we're talking about a shitty 10000 start/stop cycle, 150000 MTBF drive. Most desktop drives are 30k - 50k according to this PC Guide. At just 20000 cycles, as several 10000RPM drives are rated today, the figure drops to just 0.66% of cycles.
Bleh, math, anyway, point being, shutting down overnight and weekends won't hurt the hard drive within any reasonable timeframe.
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Sounds like FUD to me. The clear advantage is that you buy no electricity when it's turned off.
Besides, most users don't use suspend to disk or something and have it in PM mode. They just leave it on at full blast. You press the enter key, you get the desktop in about a second. This is obviously harder on the hardware than shutting it down for over half the week (Sat + Sun + 5pm-8am M-F). You can halve the MTBF on your hard drive just by spinning it down at night and on weekends.
Anyway, I'm not harshin' on ya. It was a rant directed at stupid behavior I see at the office everyday. :)
Cheers,
-l
Yeah, go to Home Depot and buy the natural light or full-spectrum ones. They're good for indoor plants as well as people. They also use less energy and produce less heat (here in Texas, that's GREAT).
Secondly, don't just use DPMS. If it's not a server, turn off the computer. <rant>It pisses me off so much when people leave the damn computer on all night and all weekend when it's not doing anything. I mean, you don't leave your car on all night and day just so you don't have to start it. WTF?</rant>
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Kathy Grant, Time Warner-paid lobbyist of the Texas Cable and Telecommunications Association, buys the author of the bill, Phil King, his favorite espresso every time she gets. She's been pushing this bill BIG time.
It won't be easy though. According to a buddy of mine, they're already working on municipal wireless in McAllen and several of the surrounding colonias. I wrote Baxter and Barrientos myself arguing it wasn't fair to rural areas since it's not profitable for SBC, Cox, or Time Warner to build out there.
I just hope they don't have some fsckd up thing like a USF fee for broadband to rural areas. Talk about a huge corporate hand-out (on top of the existing ones...)
-l
Standard 1 is apparently met through residing in the receiving state and using it there. I don't know how tight standard 4 is -- it's possible it has been interpreted very broadly. For example, the fact that the state vouchsafes the contract of sale of all legal imports (i.e., you can sue the seller in your own state) could meet this standard if it is interpreted broadly. All I can say is that there is a Supreme Court standard in place and it is highly unlikely that the standard will change except possibly being narrowed or expanded slightly as cases come in. -l
COMPLETE AUTO TRANSIT, INC. v. BRADY, 430 U.S. 274 (1977)
You may not like or agree with that interpretation, of course, but that's the Law of the Land today...
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You're incorrect for the same reason you can't operate a motorized vehicle in your state of residence without paying the proper taxes, regardless of what state you purchased it in. A use tax is an end-user tax on the use of an imported item in the state. If you don't use the item, you don't have to pay the tax. This sounds silly until you realize that you can reexport the item and pay no tax, which is how the tax satisfies Article 1. It's an intrastate tax only.
Having said that, I think it's a stupid tax because it's really hard to enforce and it only makes sense, if you can call it that, in states too dumb to have a progressive income tax like my home state of Texas.
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How about the "I have nothing to do but futz around with bug reports and code all day" branch? :)
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Not to mention the Internet is sort of a non-stop World's Fair... (uncensored, too, for the most part. ;)
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Additionally:
Does the tax-shaped hole in your pocketbook have a real effect on you in any way?
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I dunno, it seems to me the most dollar-valued abilities in the world reduce to slightly informed gambling. If stocks were a quarter a piece and displayed in rows of 3 to 5, I wonder how many more rich grandmas we'd have daytrading...
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OK, the descent is great and all, but I think I speak for the people of Earth when I say, "I want to hear the big crash at the end!"
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AGREED. Just imagine...
We offer extensive, discount CEO services -- with moneyback guarantee! No golden parachutes, no ridiculous number manipulation, no yachts! Just quality leadership at a reasonable price. You can't afford NOT to call.
/me tries to figure out how to work in an 800 number and something about 19.95 plus shipping and handling...
The future of shareholder rights is outsourcing management.
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Of course, donating to the Republican party can be considered one giant tax shelter...
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You assume he's 1) paid a lump sum up front and 2) has no tax shelters available to him. It'll still be a large amount, though... maybe here's a new revenue model for governments: Make companies recompense their engineers properly and keeping the taxes. :)
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