Unless you live in a hot region where air conditioning is needed
...which is approximately everyone in North America living south of Minnesota.
Unnatural colour of CFL light being harsher on your eyes is another story...
I hated to color of CFL bulbs. One day I noticed that the kids had left the lights on in my bedroom, and as I turned the corner from the hallway I realized that it was the sunlight streaming in from an open window. That harsh, unnaturally blue-white color everyone hates? It's about the same color as sunlight. I can't stand the ugly, dim yellow of incandescent bulbs anymore. It seems quaint in a "wow, I can't believe we ever liked this" sort of way now.
According to Consumer Reports, a "typical gas furnace made in the early 1970s has an AFUE of about 65 percent.", so your $1 of natural gas would get you about 61,000BTU of heat. Compared to a perfectly efficient electrical heat source, that ancient furnace would be approximately half as expensive to run. Newer furnaces can reach upward of 97% efficient, or about one third the price of electric heat.
Electric heat is only efficient in terms of energy conversion. In terms of wallet-to-warmth conversion, it sucks.
How about make it run well on on all hardware capable of running XP SP3? You may not get the fancy display bells and whistles (Aero), but the core APIs and should still be the same. This would actually get a lot of people to upgrade.
No, it wouldn't. Almost no one (in relative terms) upgrades the OS on the PC beyond what Software Update offers, and even that's not a sure thing. The people most likely to upgrade their PC's OS are also the people most likely to upgrade their PC.
There were calls for removing the offending package from the software repository based solely on its name. That is censorship. Calling out people who act badly is perfectly OK.
Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with that! That seemed to be Steve Holden's original plan: to explain why it would be worse to remove the offensively-named software than to begrudgingly tolerate it.
There's plenty of stuff that offends me to some degree or another, but I ignore it and move on because I can't censor someone else without giving them the power to censor me in return. Yes, those names are stupid, juvenile, and annoying. I'll be damned if I want to put anyone in the position of having the power to ban or reject software for those reasons, though. I'd rather be offended and annoyed than silenced.
Wallets predict the end of PayPal by Square (and any other credit card processors who make it easier to accept credit cards than deal with PayPal's nightmareishness).
He was worried about users having to learn new applications, the implication being that he wasn't certain that they could keep using their old apps. Please try to pay attention.
Unless you're in a Google datacenter, I bet your end-to-end bandwidth has nothing on SATA. And if Gmail is really optimized in that way, then it will start the caching only once I open the site. Contrast with Mail.app which starts when I start my Mac and begins caching as soon as a network interface comes up. I guess I could have Gmail as a startup item, but I bet that's not nearly so common.
I'd also assert that low-bandwidth conditions are more common than high-bandwidth links. I was at a technical conference where everyone had a laptop, and you were lucky to get on at all with the convention center's Wifi. I could still use my local client and mail gradually trickled in while I was doing other stuff, but webmail would've been essentially useless. I don't go to large conferences every day, true, but I'm in poor-connectivity situations often enough that it's something I account for.
It comes down to different strokes for different folks. The best webmail (which is definitely Gmail IMHO) is much slower and clumsier than a decent local client. I'll use webmail if I have to but I much prefer the lower latency of having my mail on my hard drive.
I'm willing to bet that they aren't removing Evolution from Ubuntu but just aren't installing it by default. If you're upgrading an older system, you'll get a newer version of Evolution along with everything else.
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Unless you live in a hot region where air conditioning is needed
...which is approximately everyone in North America living south of Minnesota.
Unnatural colour of CFL light being harsher on your eyes is another story...
I hated to color of CFL bulbs. One day I noticed that the kids had left the lights on in my bedroom, and as I turned the corner from the hallway I realized that it was the sunlight streaming in from an open window. That harsh, unnaturally blue-white color everyone hates? It's about the same color as sunlight. I can't stand the ugly, dim yellow of incandescent bulbs anymore. It seems quaint in a "wow, I can't believe we ever liked this" sort of way now.
There's energy-efficient and cost-efficient. Electric heat is the former but not even remotely the latter.
1kWh is equal to 3,413 BTUs. At $0.1109/hWh, that's 9.0kWh/$, or about 31,000BTU/$.
As of April 11, natural gas cost $11.02/1000ft^3. At 1030BTU/ft^3, that's about 94,000BTU/$.
According to Consumer Reports, a "typical gas furnace made in the early 1970s has an AFUE of about 65 percent.", so your $1 of natural gas would get you about 61,000BTU of heat. Compared to a perfectly efficient electrical heat source, that ancient furnace would be approximately half as expensive to run. Newer furnaces can reach upward of 97% efficient, or about one third the price of electric heat.
Electric heat is only efficient in terms of energy conversion. In terms of wallet-to-warmth conversion, it sucks.
How about make it run well on on all hardware capable of running XP SP3? You may not get the fancy display bells and whistles (Aero), but the core APIs and should still be the same. This would actually get a lot of people to upgrade.
No, it wouldn't. Almost no one (in relative terms) upgrades the OS on the PC beyond what Software Update offers, and even that's not a sure thing. The people most likely to upgrade their PC's OS are also the people most likely to upgrade their PC.
You've been invited. :-)
The more the merrier, right?
Say pretty please! OK.
Got ya.
Nope; too late. Ah, what the heck - sent.
You're hooked up.
It should be on its way now.
Check your inbox. :-)
Got you covered.
Both of yours are sent.
I sent it.
It's on its way.
Gotcha.
Done.
There were calls for removing the offending package from the software repository based solely on its name. That is censorship. Calling out people who act badly is perfectly OK.
Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with that! That seemed to be Steve Holden's original plan: to explain why it would be worse to remove the offensively-named software than to begrudgingly tolerate it.
There's plenty of stuff that offends me to some degree or another, but I ignore it and move on because I can't censor someone else without giving them the power to censor me in return. Yes, those names are stupid, juvenile, and annoying. I'll be damned if I want to put anyone in the position of having the power to ban or reject software for those reasons, though. I'd rather be offended and annoyed than silenced.
Wallets predict the end of PayPal by Square (and any other credit card processors who make it easier to accept credit cards than deal with PayPal's nightmareishness).
Sorry about that. I was sending an Internet and the tubes must've been filled.
He was worried about users having to learn new applications, the implication being that he wasn't certain that they could keep using their old apps. Please try to pay attention.
Unless you're in a Google datacenter, I bet your end-to-end bandwidth has nothing on SATA. And if Gmail is really optimized in that way, then it will start the caching only once I open the site. Contrast with Mail.app which starts when I start my Mac and begins caching as soon as a network interface comes up. I guess I could have Gmail as a startup item, but I bet that's not nearly so common.
I'd also assert that low-bandwidth conditions are more common than high-bandwidth links. I was at a technical conference where everyone had a laptop, and you were lucky to get on at all with the convention center's Wifi. I could still use my local client and mail gradually trickled in while I was doing other stuff, but webmail would've been essentially useless. I don't go to large conferences every day, true, but I'm in poor-connectivity situations often enough that it's something I account for.
It comes down to different strokes for different folks. The best webmail (which is definitely Gmail IMHO) is much slower and clumsier than a decent local client. I'll use webmail if I have to but I much prefer the lower latency of having my mail on my hard drive.
I'm willing to bet that they aren't removing Evolution from Ubuntu but just aren't installing it by default. If you're upgrading an older system, you'll get a newer version of Evolution along with everything else.