Costco has *great* deals on these bulbs. Depending on the size, you can get an 8-pack for $20.
In the 2 houses I've owned in the past 8 years, I loaded every bulb socket with these things (excepting the oven and fridge). I've documented a $10-to-$20 savings per month, depending on the season. In those 8 years, I've had maybe a half dozen of the 30 or so bulbs in each house go bad.
Everybody seems to forget that McVoy contributed more than $500 000 worth of software to the osdl.
Yeah, that's about as impressive as Microsoft donating millions of Windows and Office copies to a country or school system, or the RIAA providing millions worth of music CDs in a settlement.
Once written, the bits composing a digital product approach zero in thier intrinsic value. That you feel the "donation" mentioned above was any real sacrifice to McVoy is kinda frightening.
I highly doubt many would have bought into the product had it *not* been for McVoy's selfless act. He had nothing to loose (certainly not sales), and everything to gain by allowing his product to gain instant market share of that magnitude.
Or at least he was when I was at Purdue with him ten or so years ago.:)
It's not like we've maintained any sort of contact over the years, but he was a really good guy when I knew him personally. Smart, eclectic, and funny as hell. Fun to have over for dinner, which was a common occurance back then.
I don't know whether he keeps tabs on Slashdot (not that he'd know who the hell I was anyway), but a major kudos to a good guy I knew long ago! I'd be lucky to some day earn a fraction of the respect that this guy has.
I don't know where it originated, but my 9-year-old daughter got this from a fortune cookie at a buffet:
One old friend is better then two new ones.
While the meaning of this really tweaked my kid's brain for a while, it can make sense in the business world. And while the meaning is indeed different than the saying you quote, there's a common theme: familiarity can be equated to security.
Is this even really possible? And if it is possible (I'm sure someone's made i work), is it really a feasible option for anyone but the most hard-core geek?
One of my pet peeves, too. It seems nobody does diff'ed updates. The BSD's core OS does diff downloads in source form, but it infuriates me that the ports/packages/whatever mechanism does *not*. Yeah, I know that source tarballs are grabbed from (mostly) official repositories in full form. But why can't a systems like ports or portage do an rsync or cvs update of the source tree itself on some maintained server?
And as a home modem user, updating Fedora Core 3 via POTS is a bothersome experience. Since the initial install, OpenOffice has been updated in its entirety 4 times, X.org twice, plus tons of other large updates, though the majority are one-off updates. My/var/cache/yum tree was hovering just over 2GB until I hand-weeded the obsolete RPMs, leaving the ~900MB of most current ones to burn to DVD-R so I don't need to dedicate many, many (admittedly, night-time) hours of download time again for subsequent installs.
Any developers care to comment on why delta/diff updates aren't more common?
Good for you! I haven't watched broadcast TV for close to 3 years. We rent some good series from Netflix or buy them, watch them when we want to, and we have a much better quality of living. TV *really* sucks the life from a family. And you don't notice this until you give up the TV-teat for a substantial amount of time.
And if you *do* happen across regular TV programming, you can actually see how inane commercials (and most shows) are today.
And no, this isn't elitism or snobbery talking. You can actually observe behavioral changes in yourself, spouse/partner, and kids after giving up TV. My kids comment how "zoned out" some of their friends are at their house when they visit -- taking a *lot* of effort to get them to turn their heads from the tube and acknowledge them and actually go, you know, *play* outside.
Hit Google and Amazon for reviews of the book "The God Gene". There's a public radio show called Radio West (produced here in Utah) that did an interview with the author in the last few months (archive of shows available online). An interesting thesis, much like the one you bring up.
I'm afraid that in the current low interest climate, those numbers are pretty optimistic. Unless you have access to a decent stock portfolio or mutual funds. The highest savings rate I can find today is 3.25% at emigrantdirect.com (being a happy customer myself). That beats the pants off of every money market account I could find at the time I went looking for a savings account.
Hell, rates are so low today, federal savings bonds look like a good deal.:)
However, you point is well taken, and thanks for backing up my post.
I think it was the book The Millionaire Next Door (or something like that) that tells how the majority of millionaires are the result of fiscal conservative living, not raking in cash hand over fist.
Perhaps it's standardization? I'm just guessing here. Is there a IEFT/IEEE/ANSI/whatever standard for things like BASH, Ruby, and Perl?
I'm not trying to be a wise-ass. I'm sincere here. Maybe a ratified standard by some authority is what sets COBOL, BASIC, and Ada apart from their more agile scripting counterparts, whether or not a compiler or interpreter implimentation exists.
I live in a rural, mostly poor, white-bread dairy town, and I can tell you there are shiny sports cars in many of those driveways and satellite dishes on many of those roof-tops. The poor-but-must-have-shiny-things mentality crosses all races. I noticed the same thing in Salt Lake City, too, in the white trash 'burbs as well as the poorer minority (mostly hispanic) 'hoods downtown.
In my small town I've witnessed more poor whites buy loads of garbage with food stamps then drive away in nice cars than the poor hispanics (who at least have the sense and ability to maintain their own 20-year-old cars themselves).
If there was racism in the origial poster's comment, it was only because *you* perceived it. So you might be the one with the problem.
As a non-LDS person living in this cultural wasteland of a state, I can plainly see that this is a problem than can be (and is) solved by the private sector.
There are tons of "family friendly" ISPs out here, and evrybody knows you can get filtering software for your computers.
What's next, movies? There are CleanFlicks signs all over this town (talk about a bastardization of culture!). Maybe that's not good enough. Let's have The State maintain a list of objectionable movies so we can force the private sector to bend its practices due to our lack of ability to control our children (or ourselves, in the case of porn).
This is just ridiculous. What next, a state Porn Czar? Oh wait...
But,if you're a pack-rat of bits, like so many of us are, you can often consolidate CDs to DVDs.
I've long since tossed original CD media for legit copies of Windows, Office, and games I owned. Sure, I may never *need* that copy of Windows NT 3.51 and the 32-bit version of MS Office 4.3, but I have ISO mages of them on DVD-Rs labeled "NT Versions" and "Office Versions" respecively.
At worst, you can fit 6 full CD-ROM ISOs onto a current DVD-R. Usually you can get quite a few more, especially for those old driver CDs you just can't bear to toss.
That comic's a scream. I haven't played D&D since probably 1983 or so, but I recall enough to appreciate the pokes at the newer versions.:) I sucked down the entire archive and have been reading the whole thing through. I'm hooked.
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That's the general concept behind Heifer International. They give people livestock so that they may propogate their own food supply.
In the 2 houses I've owned in the past 8 years, I loaded every bulb socket with these things (excepting the oven and fridge). I've documented a $10-to-$20 savings per month, depending on the season. In those 8 years, I've had maybe a half dozen of the 30 or so bulbs in each house go bad.
Not a bad deal.
Yeah, that's about as impressive as Microsoft donating millions of Windows and Office copies to a country or school system, or the RIAA providing millions worth of music CDs in a settlement.
Once written, the bits composing a digital product approach zero in thier intrinsic value. That you feel the "donation" mentioned above was any real sacrifice to McVoy is kinda frightening. I highly doubt many would have bought into the product had it *not* been for McVoy's selfless act. He had nothing to loose (certainly not sales), and everything to gain by allowing his product to gain instant market share of that magnitude.
It's not like we've maintained any sort of contact over the years, but he was a really good guy when I knew him personally. Smart, eclectic, and funny as hell. Fun to have over for dinner, which was a common occurance back then.
I don't know whether he keeps tabs on Slashdot (not that he'd know who the hell I was anyway), but a major kudos to a good guy I knew long ago! I'd be lucky to some day earn a fraction of the respect that this guy has.
One old friend is better then two new ones.
While the meaning of this really tweaked my kid's brain for a while, it can make sense in the business world. And while the meaning is indeed different than the saying you quote, there's a common theme: familiarity can be equated to security.
I see used Toshiba Librettos in the local classifieds web site occasionally, and they're on ebay. Those would make decent ebook readers.
Is this even really possible? And if it is possible (I'm sure someone's made i work), is it really a feasible option for anyone but the most hard-core geek?
And as a home modem user, updating Fedora Core 3 via POTS is a bothersome experience. Since the initial install, OpenOffice has been updated in its entirety 4 times, X.org twice, plus tons of other large updates, though the majority are one-off updates. My /var/cache/yum tree was hovering just over 2GB until I hand-weeded the obsolete RPMs, leaving the ~900MB of most current ones to burn to DVD-R so I don't need to dedicate many, many (admittedly, night-time) hours of download time again for subsequent installs.
Any developers care to comment on why delta/diff updates aren't more common?
So would using v1 or v2 D&D books/rules count as "classic"?
And if you *do* happen across regular TV programming, you can actually see how inane commercials (and most shows) are today.
And no, this isn't elitism or snobbery talking. You can actually observe behavioral changes in yourself, spouse/partner, and kids after giving up TV. My kids comment how "zoned out" some of their friends are at their house when they visit -- taking a *lot* of effort to get them to turn their heads from the tube and acknowledge them and actually go, you know, *play* outside.
Even better, blame it on Shakespeare. Lots of poison in Shakespeare.
Hit Google and Amazon for reviews of the book "The God Gene". There's a public radio show called Radio West (produced here in Utah) that did an interview with the author in the last few months (archive of shows available online). An interesting thesis, much like the one you bring up.
Sometime you just gotta kill someone after dealing with a prick like that. ;-)
Hell, rates are so low today, federal savings bonds look like a good deal. :)
However, you point is well taken, and thanks for backing up my post.
I think it was the book The Millionaire Next Door (or something like that) that tells how the majority of millionaires are the result of fiscal conservative living, not raking in cash hand over fist.
I'm not trying to be a wise-ass. I'm sincere here. Maybe a ratified standard by some authority is what sets COBOL, BASIC, and Ada apart from their more agile scripting counterparts, whether or not a compiler or interpreter implimentation exists.
I live in a rural, mostly poor, white-bread dairy town, and I can tell you there are shiny sports cars in many of those driveways and satellite dishes on many of those roof-tops. The poor-but-must-have-shiny-things mentality crosses all races. I noticed the same thing in Salt Lake City, too, in the white trash 'burbs as well as the poorer minority (mostly hispanic) 'hoods downtown.
In my small town I've witnessed more poor whites buy loads of garbage with food stamps then drive away in nice cars than the poor hispanics (who at least have the sense and ability to maintain their own 20-year-old cars themselves).
If there was racism in the origial poster's comment, it was only because *you* perceived it. So you might be the one with the problem.
There are tons of "family friendly" ISPs out here, and evrybody knows you can get filtering software for your computers.
What's next, movies? There are CleanFlicks signs all over this town (talk about a bastardization of culture!). Maybe that's not good enough. Let's have The State maintain a list of objectionable movies so we can force the private sector to bend its practices due to our lack of ability to control our children (or ourselves, in the case of porn).
This is just ridiculous. What next, a state Porn Czar? Oh wait...
Does archive.org have an official response with regard to these missing days?
archive.org has been around for quite some time, and they offer no small service. They've obviously secured funding from somewhere.
But,if you're a pack-rat of bits, like so many of us are, you can often consolidate CDs to DVDs.
I've long since tossed original CD media for legit copies of Windows, Office, and games I owned. Sure, I may never *need* that copy of Windows NT 3.51 and the 32-bit version of MS Office 4.3, but I have ISO mages of them on DVD-Rs labeled "NT Versions" and "Office Versions" respecively.
At worst, you can fit 6 full CD-ROM ISOs onto a current DVD-R. Usually you can get quite a few more, especially for those old driver CDs you just can't bear to toss.
That comic's a scream. I haven't played D&D since probably 1983 or so, but I recall enough to appreciate the pokes at the newer versions. :) I sucked down the entire archive and have been reading the whole thing through. I'm hooked.
If Sexy Losers ran a bit more frequently, I'd vote for it. It brings crude humor to a whole new level. :)
Diesels have a higher initial cost than pure gasoline vehicles. Your point?
You a LISP hacker or something?