Bandwidth costs money to me, too, and the net's not getting faster: the ads are just getting more monstrous and more Flash-enriched. The extra bandwidth required to serve those ads also costs money, meaning this is self-perpetuating.
When the edges of an ad are out in my peripheral vison, at 1600x1200 resolution on a 22" screen, the ad is too big.
I reserve the right to block ads if I can. If that eventually results in certain content not making it on the Web, so be it. Maybe more work should be put into content that is of a quality that people are willing to pay for.
I can easily afford the hosting fees required to put up a small ad-free site, with some scripting and maybe ecommerce. Any medium-sized business can also afford hosting. Everything else is Geocities fan pages for Blink 182 and people still clinging to the dotcom era. Sites like eBay and Amazon are successful because the main focus of their page is their products. Likewise with company web pages; many of them provide a wealth of information at no charge as it's in their best interest to keep developers up to date (Xilinx and other semiconductor manufacturers come to mind).
I know you're trying to be humorous, but there's not much difference between paging the whole office and emailing the whole office.
Hunting for some other solution is just looking at the symptom. Interoffice email is clogged with domain-wide announcements of things that usually have very little to do with the majority of users. What we really need is a reformation of email practices; better targeting of the audience is a good start. If the email system doesn't support group addresses, or makes it difficult to add and remove them, fix that.
Email can be as useful as any other online communication system if the signal-to-noise ratio is cut down to an acceptable level.
Wish I had mod points. You squished that bug quite thoroughly.
I knew it would take about.03 seconds for this to turn into a gun rights debate, instead of a free speech debate.
Though if you're buying site-blocking software, you know that you're imposing some form of censorship yourself, or excercising your right not to listen, if such a thing exists.
The neatest thing I ever saw on the web, period, was when about the second or so model of Rex came out. There was an application (don't remember if it was Java or Flash) that was an exact onscreen emulation of the Rex. You could do anything with it that you could do with a real Rex, except put it in your pocket and take it with you. Definitely head and shoulders above some of the "simulations" you see nowadays for some products, where all you can do is open a door or turn it over or something.
IIRC, Eagle does have downloadable simulations of their fishfinders that are about the same level of coolness.
This concept is not new or original. The original Rex was even grayscale! I thought it was really nifty because it doubled as a PCMCIA card; just pop it in your laptop and sync up. A PDA actually light enough to fit in a shirt pocket. Though mostly only good for addresses, clock, calculator, to-do list...what you need really, but no games to waste time with.
Well, most people who don't like ham are thinking of the processed compressed crap you get at the grocery store. They just don't know.
Go to the nearest Heavenly Ham (common roots to Honeybaked) and buy a ham sandwich on a croissant with honey mustard, tomato, lettuce, and Havarti cheese. Take a bite and then tell me this isn't love.
For the groups you mentioned, the same companies offer smoked turkey as well (it's every bit as good).
If you haven't carved a pumpkin yet, here's a tip: A RotoZip spiral saw works perfectly on pumpkin rind. Probably a lot safer than throwing your weight into a dull old serrated knife, especially when the pumpkin's really tough. Since the saw pushes the chips down, it doesn't make as much of a mess as you'd think. You have to be careful not to overshoot where you're trying to cut.
Here's a real winner! Give each employee one of those round cookie tins with the different kinds of butter cookies. I really like the flat ones with crunchy sugar crystals on top. Since you give it to them at work, they can keep it there all for themselves and not have the kids inhale them within five minutes. The decorative tins also add a truly festive air to the office, well into July.
If that's not an option, then hand out bulk Christmas cards containing a $25 certificate for a small local restaurant. If they haven't ever heard of "Ma's Pasta Shop" so much the better, they'll welcome the push to get out and experience new things! They may even go back, having discovered a new favorite restaurant; the gift that keeps on giving!
Seriously though; employees really do appreciate a generous gift, and will remember it for the rest of the year. I'd suggest giving part of the gift in cash, maybe $750 to $1000. Also have some seasonal gourmet foods sent to their home address; Honeybaked Ham gift packs are always fantastically delicious, and Pittman & Davis oranges and red grapefruit are the largest and sweetest you'll ever see. Remember, it's not all about the employee's reward and morale boost. This is an opportunity to show his family that you care about both him and his family, and the workplace isn't just where Daddy stays late and comes home tired and grumpy.
Also remember to give the cash bonus well in advance of the actual holiday. Not only do you catch the potential celebrators of other religious holidays, but you give them a welcome shot of cash for the gift-shopping season, which is often very stressful for tight budgets.
I think that in this case, "because it's there" provides alomst all the economic potential needed. Sure, you pay the way for the first couple explorers. But the pull of space is so strong, you only need wait for the tourism to begin.
The whole point of the research was to show how inefficient the oil production process was, not how inefficient cars are! It says right there that only 1/10,750th of the plant matter made it to oil and natural gas. So actually, the plant matter represented by one gallon of gas is about 18 pounds.
Go look up ethanol production and other plant fuel oils under development. It doesn't take 98 tons to make a gallon.
No, Mr. Blogger, this does not make me think about how inefficient cars are. That was not the point of the article.
Well, the vast majority of companies currently run some version of Windows. If you need to run Windows software, use a Windows box...and if company requirements demand using Windows software, that means the software was intended to run on a Windows box. Someone who has time at work to set up a Linux box and then spend inordinate effort to get a Windows application running on it...they don't have enough work, in my opinion.
I just can't see a good reason for anyone to run it. Linux at this point does not need zealots, but it is still the underdog and needs support. Running Windows software on Linux machines isn't going to get more software developed for Linux.
Now don't get me started on Cygwin! That's another usless...well, it has use to me if only to provide an X server to remote to another box. Even so, there is a native VNC for Linux.
That's why I don't run WINE and have absolutely no appreciation for the WINE project. At all. The effort would be better spent writing software for Linux that at least has some measure of security built in the the OS.
If you run proprietary software, then you have proprietary bugs and security holes. WINE is a lot of work, just to provide a crutch for people who want to say they run Linux, but are afraid of learning a different way to get their stuff done.
Sometimes the old way just works. There are lots of things like that in this world.
Some distrustful people still keep all their money hidden in a jar in the kitchen or under their mattress. Sure, they don't get interest, and sure, they don't have ultra-convenient access wherever they are. But you know what? They never have to worry about a bank error.
I would say that if people are already living there, they have figured out the logistics of providing heat and energy. It's Earth, you can do that.
But on some other planet...this is where I see the experience coming in really handy. I mean, you can't exactly run out and chop down a tree on Mars. Small nuclear power plants will be essential to any space colonization attempts. Perhaps the reactor could be launched along with the personnel ship, in an unmanned cargo vessel. Probably couldn't run it in space, but if so that would be pretty useful as well.
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Are talking about sharing your bandwidth, or sharing the cost? Because Speakeasy has a setup where you can share your cable connection with a neighbor, and they will handle the billing.
Too bad I can only get Roadrunner. My neighbor has Roadrunner also, but they are home at different times of the day and really just use it as a faster AOL so they don't have to wait so long for pages to load. For a 50% reduction in costs, I'd probably see barely a 5% reduction in service.
I wonder what the energy tradeoff is between your typical glass bottle and your typical plastic bottle. Obviously the plastic bottle consumes a resource, but does the glass bottle consume a greater amount of those same resources every time is is ground up and melted? I suppose glass containers would be much more resource-friendly coupled with nuclear power. Either run the sand-melting plant, or nuke a beach.;-)
Though it doesn't seem to be working for me, at 6'3"....
The engineering school I went to shares a town with a medium-sized state college. An interesting statistic is that except for one year, our starting salary has always been far above theirs.
That one year was 1979, when Larry Bird (6'9") from ISU signed a $3,250,000 contract with the Celtics.
I remember reading this book long ago. It was published in 1984, actually. Well written; would probably be an interesting read now even for a children's book. You might find it at a local library (send the kid in to get it, don't want to scare all the little kids in that section of the library).
It tells pretty much the same story about Captain Kidd, through the eyes of his cat. While no one really knows how far Kidd went, there are enough ambiguities to make this at least one possibility. We probably will never really know...the lure of incredible wealth is certainly very strong.
No, they forgot to mention that it removes any stain known to man, restores rough and damaged skin, makes an old corroded penny bright and shiny as new, reverses aging AND tones your abs, what would you expect to pay for this? $199? no. $99? no. All for the low low price of $19.95 per month, but WAIT, call now and receive a second ClearSpeed absolutely free, that's right, an $80 value at no additional cost, and THAT'S NOT ALL, mention that you saw this program and you will get a complimentary terry-cloth bathrobe COMPLETELY FREE + shipping and handling, call now to receive this amazing one-time offer, operators are standing by!
As well as the fact that I've seen this press release trolled by AC's on Slashdot.
25Gflops on 3W? That must be some unorthodox technology at work there. Anyone hear anything about some research corporation finding an amazing processor in a robot from the future?
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Bandwidth costs money to me, too, and the net's not getting faster: the ads are just getting more monstrous and more Flash-enriched. The extra bandwidth required to serve those ads also costs money, meaning this is self-perpetuating.
When the edges of an ad are out in my peripheral vison, at 1600x1200 resolution on a 22" screen, the ad is too big.
I reserve the right to block ads if I can. If that eventually results in certain content not making it on the Web, so be it. Maybe more work should be put into content that is of a quality that people are willing to pay for.
I can easily afford the hosting fees required to put up a small ad-free site, with some scripting and maybe ecommerce. Any medium-sized business can also afford hosting. Everything else is Geocities fan pages for Blink 182 and people still clinging to the dotcom era. Sites like eBay and Amazon are successful because the main focus of their page is their products. Likewise with company web pages; many of them provide a wealth of information at no charge as it's in their best interest to keep developers up to date (Xilinx and other semiconductor manufacturers come to mind).
I know you're trying to be humorous, but there's not much difference between paging the whole office and emailing the whole office.
Hunting for some other solution is just looking at the symptom. Interoffice email is clogged with domain-wide announcements of things that usually have very little to do with the majority of users. What we really need is a reformation of email practices; better targeting of the audience is a good start. If the email system doesn't support group addresses, or makes it difficult to add and remove them, fix that.
Email can be as useful as any other online communication system if the signal-to-noise ratio is cut down to an acceptable level.
Wish I had mod points. You squished that bug quite thoroughly.
.03 seconds for this to turn into a gun rights debate, instead of a free speech debate.
I knew it would take about
Though if you're buying site-blocking software, you know that you're imposing some form of censorship yourself, or excercising your right not to listen, if such a thing exists.
The neatest thing I ever saw on the web, period, was when about the second or so model of Rex came out. There was an application (don't remember if it was Java or Flash) that was an exact onscreen emulation of the Rex. You could do anything with it that you could do with a real Rex, except put it in your pocket and take it with you. Definitely head and shoulders above some of the "simulations" you see nowadays for some products, where all you can do is open a door or turn it over or something.
IIRC, Eagle does have downloadable simulations of their fishfinders that are about the same level of coolness.
This concept is not new or original. The original Rex was even grayscale! I thought it was really nifty because it doubled as a PCMCIA card; just pop it in your laptop and sync up. A PDA actually light enough to fit in a shirt pocket. Though mostly only good for addresses, clock, calculator, to-do list...what you need really, but no games to waste time with.
Well, most people who don't like ham are thinking of the processed compressed crap you get at the grocery store. They just don't know.
Go to the nearest Heavenly Ham (common roots to Honeybaked) and buy a ham sandwich on a croissant with honey mustard, tomato, lettuce, and Havarti cheese. Take a bite and then tell me this isn't love.
For the groups you mentioned, the same companies offer smoked turkey as well (it's every bit as good).
I'm making myself hungry now...
If you haven't carved a pumpkin yet, here's a tip: A RotoZip spiral saw works perfectly on pumpkin rind. Probably a lot safer than throwing your weight into a dull old serrated knife, especially when the pumpkin's really tough. Since the saw pushes the chips down, it doesn't make as much of a mess as you'd think. You have to be careful not to overshoot where you're trying to cut.
Here's a real winner! Give each employee one of those round cookie tins with the different kinds of butter cookies. I really like the flat ones with crunchy sugar crystals on top. Since you give it to them at work, they can keep it there all for themselves and not have the kids inhale them within five minutes. The decorative tins also add a truly festive air to the office, well into July.
If that's not an option, then hand out bulk Christmas cards containing a $25 certificate for a small local restaurant. If they haven't ever heard of "Ma's Pasta Shop" so much the better, they'll welcome the push to get out and experience new things! They may even go back, having discovered a new favorite restaurant; the gift that keeps on giving!
Seriously though; employees really do appreciate a generous gift, and will remember it for the rest of the year. I'd suggest giving part of the gift in cash, maybe $750 to $1000. Also have some seasonal gourmet foods sent to their home address; Honeybaked Ham gift packs are always fantastically delicious, and Pittman & Davis oranges and red grapefruit are the largest and sweetest you'll ever see. Remember, it's not all about the employee's reward and morale boost. This is an opportunity to show his family that you care about both him and his family, and the workplace isn't just where Daddy stays late and comes home tired and grumpy.
Also remember to give the cash bonus well in advance of the actual holiday. Not only do you catch the potential celebrators of other religious holidays, but you give them a welcome shot of cash for the gift-shopping season, which is often very stressful for tight budgets.
I think that in this case, "because it's there" provides alomst all the economic potential needed. Sure, you pay the way for the first couple explorers. But the pull of space is so strong, you only need wait for the tourism to begin.
Better to have them burn up, rather than remain mostly intact as they plummet into a high-population area.
Ah, but you misunderstand. What CmdrTaco was really trying to say was "To much spare time!"
Imagine it as a sort of toast to slacking.
*clank of Mountain Dew cans*
The blogger who posted this doesn't get it.
The whole point of the research was to show how inefficient the oil production process was, not how inefficient cars are! It says right there that only 1/10,750th of the plant matter made it to oil and natural gas. So actually, the plant matter represented by one gallon of gas is about 18 pounds.
Go look up ethanol production and other plant fuel oils under development. It doesn't take 98 tons to make a gallon.
No, Mr. Blogger, this does not make me think about how inefficient cars are. That was not the point of the article.
Well, the vast majority of companies currently run some version of Windows. If you need to run Windows software, use a Windows box...and if company requirements demand using Windows software, that means the software was intended to run on a Windows box. Someone who has time at work to set up a Linux box and then spend inordinate effort to get a Windows application running on it...they don't have enough work, in my opinion.
I just can't see a good reason for anyone to run it. Linux at this point does not need zealots, but it is still the underdog and needs support. Running Windows software on Linux machines isn't going to get more software developed for Linux.
Now don't get me started on Cygwin! That's another usless...well, it has use to me if only to provide an X server to remote to another box. Even so, there is a native VNC for Linux.
You are totally on-base here.
That's why I don't run WINE and have absolutely no appreciation for the WINE project. At all. The effort would be better spent writing software for Linux that at least has some measure of security built in the the OS.
If you run proprietary software, then you have proprietary bugs and security holes. WINE is a lot of work, just to provide a crutch for people who want to say they run Linux, but are afraid of learning a different way to get their stuff done.
...I do. And the third hand is indeed as useful as many seem to believe.
Sometimes the old way just works. There are lots of things like that in this world.
Some distrustful people still keep all their money hidden in a jar in the kitchen or under their mattress. Sure, they don't get interest, and sure, they don't have ultra-convenient access wherever they are. But you know what? They never have to worry about a bank error.
I would say that if people are already living there, they have figured out the logistics of providing heat and energy. It's Earth, you can do that.
But on some other planet...this is where I see the experience coming in really handy. I mean, you can't exactly run out and chop down a tree on Mars. Small nuclear power plants will be essential to any space colonization attempts. Perhaps the reactor could be launched along with the personnel ship, in an unmanned cargo vessel. Probably couldn't run it in space, but if so that would be pretty useful as well.
Are talking about sharing your bandwidth, or sharing the cost? Because Speakeasy has a setup where you can share your cable connection with a neighbor, and they will handle the billing.
Too bad I can only get Roadrunner. My neighbor has Roadrunner also, but they are home at different times of the day and really just use it as a faster AOL so they don't have to wait so long for pages to load. For a 50% reduction in costs, I'd probably see barely a 5% reduction in service.
I wonder what the energy tradeoff is between your typical glass bottle and your typical plastic bottle. Obviously the plastic bottle consumes a resource, but does the glass bottle consume a greater amount of those same resources every time is is ground up and melted? I suppose glass containers would be much more resource-friendly coupled with nuclear power. Either run the sand-melting plant, or nuke a beach. ;-)
There goes all your family time.
*thwack* Bad geek!
Not a problem if you weld the case shut.
Though it doesn't seem to be working for me, at 6'3"....
The engineering school I went to shares a town with a medium-sized state college. An interesting statistic is that except for one year, our starting salary has always been far above theirs.
That one year was 1979, when Larry Bird (6'9") from ISU signed a $3,250,000 contract with the Celtics.
I remember reading this book long ago. It was published in 1984, actually. Well written; would probably be an interesting read now even for a children's book. You might find it at a local library (send the kid in to get it, don't want to scare all the little kids in that section of the library).
It tells pretty much the same story about Captain Kidd, through the eyes of his cat. While no one really knows how far Kidd went, there are enough ambiguities to make this at least one possibility. We probably will never really know...the lure of incredible wealth is certainly very strong.
No, they forgot to mention that it removes any stain known to man, restores rough and damaged skin, makes an old corroded penny bright and shiny as new, reverses aging AND tones your abs, what would you expect to pay for this? $199? no. $99? no. All for the low low price of $19.95 per month, but WAIT, call now and receive a second ClearSpeed absolutely free, that's right, an $80 value at no additional cost, and THAT'S NOT ALL, mention that you saw this program and you will get a complimentary terry-cloth bathrobe COMPLETELY FREE + shipping and handling, call now to receive this amazing one-time offer, operators are standing by!
As well as the fact that I've seen this press release trolled by AC's on Slashdot.
25Gflops on 3W? That must be some unorthodox technology at work there. Anyone hear anything about some research corporation finding an amazing processor in a robot from the future?