No, it may not reduce total consumption that much, reducing load during peak time can be a very big deal.
At the company I used to work at, our electrical co-op charged us (numbers from memory, may not be exact, but the proportions are close) a base rate of around $0.08/kwh, in the "yellow zone" (fairly frequently in the summer) we were charged around $0.12/kwh, and in the red, it was at least $0.15, sometimes higher, at which point our generator would kick in.
At the end of the summer cooling season (and again at the end of winter heating), we were sent a bill for about $1000 above our regular bill for the time we spent in yellow. 500-600 a year savings? not bad.
So yes, this could lead to significantly lower energy bills for some users, as long as everyone didn't start cooling their buildings down to 40 every morning, as other posters have pointed out.
IIRC, one of the reasons this virus has been so hard to make a vaccine for is that it is so deadly to chickens. Current flu vaccine production has a relatively low-tech method of production: they infect chicken eggs, and let them incubate a little while. then, they empty the eggs, and filter out all the antigens. h5n1 is so deadly to chickens, that it kills the embryoes long before they have a chance to produce anything of use.
summary: "This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!"
Sure, only 13 on the front page of/. (don't remember how much before) and they all seem relatively minor. Still, sure is better than what it was. Glad to see it.
thng
Just off the top of my head from business law a few years ago (IANAL), but preferential treatment can generally apply to any payments of creditors in 6-9 months before a bankruptcy filing.
The theory goes is that management knew it was coming, and taking action to pay off certain creditors ahead of time may be a detriment to everyone after the filing.
So yes, if someone caught wind of this payment and cared enough to raise a stink, this friend could've lost it due to preferential treatment of creditors.
It should be recycled, and afaik, the document destroyers in my town do that, and ship some of the paper to a nearby egg crate manufacturer.
I somewhat doubt that it will lead to so much more in landfills. if they recycled documents before, then they'll still probably recycle them, just probably exert more work to do so (or give to document destruction service). If they didn't recycle before (ie, just threw it all in the trash)... well, actually, it might not be a bad idea to let someone else deal with it totally (document destruction service)
regarding it decomposing in landfills...
not really A few (10?) years ago, Discover magazine had an article on this too. 40 year old newspapers (at the time), readable.
I removed it because it seemed to contain a CLSID, or some other method of tracking the email.
I just checked out the MS site, and you can go here, login with your.net passport, scroll down a bit more than 1/2 way, and select "Executive E-mail
Communication from Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and other Microsoft executives."
hope this helps
Confidence: [following Lister] You're hot. Take your helmet off.
Lister: I'll die!
Confidence: Why?
Lister: There's no oxygen out here!
Confidence: Hey! Oxygen's for losers! Come on.
Lister: I need oxygen!
Confidence: You don't need anything, King. You're the King!
[Lister has reached the end of the Catwalk.]
Lister: You're crazy! [Lister grabs the handrail and vaults around behind Confidence.]
Confidence: Who told you you needed oxygen, huh? Some loser who was trying to make you feel small. Look, I'll prove it to you. I'll take mine off first. We'll soon see who the crazy one is around here! [starts taking off his helmet]
Lister: NO!!!
[Confidence removes his helmet and his body decompresses which is to say it explodes all over the place.]
Every day, businesses face an ongoing challenge of making a wide variety of software from many different vendors work together. It's crucial to success in streamlining business processes, getting closer to customers and partners, or making mergers and acquisitions successful.
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Over the years, our industry has tried many approaches to come to grips with the heterogeneity of software. But the solution that has proven consistently effective - and the one that yields the greatest success for developers today - is a strong commitment to interoperability. That means letting different kinds of applications and systems do what they do best, while agreeing on a common "contract" for how disparate systems can communicate to exchange data with one another.
Interoperability is more pragmatic than other approaches, such as attempting to make all systems compatible at the code level, focusing solely on adding new layers of middleware that try to make all systems look and act the same, or seeking to make different systems interchangeable. With a common understanding of basic protocols, different software can interact smoothly with little or no specific knowledge of each other. The Internet is perhaps the most obvious example of this kind of interoperability, where any piece of software can connect and exchange data as long as it adheres to the key protocols.
Simply put, interoperability is a proven approach for dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of the marketplace. Today I want to focus on two major thrusts of Microsoft's product interoperability strategy: First, we continue to support customers' needs for software that works well with what they have today. Second, we are working with the industry to define a new generation of software and Web services based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which enables software to efficiently share information and opens the door to a greater degree of "interoperability by design" across many different kinds of software. Our goal is to harness all the power inherent in modern (and not so modern) business software, and enable them to work together so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We want to further eliminate friction among heterogeneous architectures and applications without compromising their distinctive underlying capabilities.
This may seem like an obvious approach, but the desire for interoperability is sometimes mixed up with other issues. For example, interoperability is sometimes viewed merely as adherence to a published specification of some kind, either from one or more vendors or a standards organization. But simply publishing a specification may not be enough, because it overlooks much of the hard work it takes to successfully develop interoperable products - namely, ensuring that the "contract" defined by a specification is successfully implemented in software and tested in a production environment.
Sometimes interoperability is also confused with open source software. Interoperability is about how different software systems work together. Open source is a methodology for licensing and/or developing software - that may or may not be interoperable. Ad
I used the US Census bureau list of names for a school project once (this is the 1990 listing). Wrote a small perl script that took random names from each file and put them together for a full name. There are last names, men's first names and women's first names files.
Funny thing is they've kind of already done this.
The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) was originally designed to fairly tax high income people, basically by disallowing many deductions and exemptions.
Problem is, the income level where it kicked in was not indexed for inflation. So every year as individual incomes rise, more and more people fall into the group who are eligible to be charged AMT.
My tax prof said this was terrible, and he was quite worked up about it. It's really a back door way of increasing taxes.
Tropic Designs Weatherpulse in my experience is a good program, and doesn't seem to come w/ any spyware (scanned using adaware, spybot, and Giant/MS spyware). They have forums there and the developer(s?) is active in them.
I've been testing it to quietly replace weather bug on the salesmen's desks here. I think it'd work.
Well I hope this post was informative, I wish all former employees would call out on their experiences. I think this only helps consumers understand the mendling that goes on behind the scenes.
I have a problem with Best Buy at all times of the year but especially at Christmas when they block off lanes so you can only enter/exit in one spot. That way they have an easier time trapping you in there to tell you that they do not work on commissions but that they are happy to help you look for everything they offer.
First, I assume you are talking about the checkout lanes, not general merchandise lanes. I'm not really defending but just explaining. Single queues are more efficient at getting people through the line. That way, people are fed to the next available teller, instead of picking a random line and being stuck w/ the slow trainee, or happening to be behind people buying 20 items when you just wanted to pickup a cable.
Now, they probably do have other reasons-if you feel you're already commited to the purchase because you do'nt have an easy way out of the line, you may have less second guessing your purchase.
You may be thinking of the Microsoft baseline security analyzer. FWICT, it finds most (if not more) of the security updates on windows update (based on v4) and I added the "more" because it also scans other products, like MSSQL (v5 of windowsupdate seems to have some of this ability)
It is not quite like windows update, in that they will still need to download them, and would probably just confuse them.
If they're running windows 2k sp3(?) or higher, or Windows XP, just turn on Automatic updating, and choose either install updates automatically, or download updates automatically and prompt to install.
Yeah, it's a bit misleading. Basically, all they're doing is telling the building up to the moment energy prices, and they're dynamically adjusting power consumption based on the price levels ($.30 and $.75/hour) , whether it's turning the A/C up a degree, or dimming lights (speculation). The XML isn't a magic bullet in this case, but more like the right tool for the job, which is information interchange across systems.
In addition, it sounds somewhat similar to what many companies have for off-peak electricity, where you give the power company authority to selectively shut off appliances (electric heat, water heaters, etc) when demand (and usually price) is high. The difference, it seems, is that this is much more fine-grained in control, and it will likely be the end user's choice.
Goodwill only comes into play when a company is bought or sold. If you build a company, never buying or selling other companies and recording the transactions according to GAAP, you will never have goodwill on your books.
Goodwill doesn't randomly appear on the books because you think ppl love you or you have a neat new product. No, goodwill doesn't take into account IP, because it's not supposed to. IP is an asset, and is thus included in the amount of the sale (the patents and buildings in my example). This is one reason goodwill is sometimes called "blue-sky" because someone thinks a company is worth more than its assets, IP and physical assets alike.
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At the company I used to work at, our electrical co-op charged us (numbers from memory, may not be exact, but the proportions are close) a base rate of around $0.08/kwh, in the "yellow zone" (fairly frequently in the summer) we were charged around $0.12/kwh, and in the red, it was at least $0.15, sometimes higher, at which point our generator would kick in.
At the end of the summer cooling season (and again at the end of winter heating), we were sent a bill for about $1000 above our regular bill for the time we spent in yellow. 500-600 a year savings? not bad.
So yes, this could lead to significantly lower energy bills for some users, as long as everyone didn't start cooling their buildings down to 40 every morning, as other posters have pointed out.
IIRC, one of the reasons this virus has been so hard to make a vaccine for is that it is so deadly to chickens. Current flu vaccine production has a relatively low-tech method of production: they infect chicken eggs, and let them incubate a little while. then, they empty the eggs, and filter out all the antigens. h5n1 is so deadly to chickens, that it kills the embryoes long before they have a chance to produce anything of use.
summary: "This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!"
Sure, only 13 on the front page of /. (don't remember how much before) and they all seem relatively minor. Still, sure is better than what it was. Glad to see it.
thng
The theory goes is that management knew it was coming, and taking action to pay off certain creditors ahead of time may be a detriment to everyone after the filing.
So yes, if someone caught wind of this payment and cared enough to raise a stink, this friend could've lost it due to preferential treatment of creditors.
gets a chocolate chip cookie
sits back at computer, clearing out the ad cookies
I somewhat doubt that it will lead to so much more in landfills. if they recycled documents before, then they'll still probably recycle them, just probably exert more work to do so (or give to document destruction service). If they didn't recycle before (ie, just threw it all in the trash)... well, actually, it might not be a bad idea to let someone else deal with it totally (document destruction service)
regarding it decomposing in landfills... not really A few (10?) years ago, Discover magazine had an article on this too. 40 year old newspapers (at the time), readable.
I removed it because it seemed to contain a CLSID, or some other method of tracking the email.
I just checked out the MS site, and you can go here, login with your .net passport, scroll down a bit more than 1/2 way, and select "Executive E-mail
Communication from Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and other Microsoft executives."
hope this helps
thng
Confidence: [following Lister] You're hot. Take your helmet off.
Lister: I'll die!
Confidence: Why?
Lister: There's no oxygen out here!
Confidence: Hey! Oxygen's for losers! Come on.
Lister: I need oxygen!
Confidence: You don't need anything, King. You're the King!
[Lister has reached the end of the Catwalk.]
Lister: You're crazy! [Lister grabs the handrail and vaults around behind Confidence.]
Confidence: Who told you you needed oxygen, huh? Some loser who was trying to make you feel small. Look, I'll prove it to you. I'll take mine off first. We'll soon see who the crazy one is around here! [starts taking off his helmet]
Lister: NO!!!
[Confidence removes his helmet and his body decompresses which is to say it explodes all over the place.]
(Red Dwarf, Confidence and paranoia)
Every day, businesses face an ongoing challenge of making a wide variety of software from many different vendors work together. It's crucial to success in streamlining business processes, getting closer to customers and partners, or making mergers and acquisitions successful.
This email outlines some of the work Microsoft is doing to make its products interoperate well in a diverse IT environment; it is one in an occasional series of emails from Microsoft executives about technology and public-policy issues important to computer users, our industry, and anyone who cares about the future of high technology. If you would like to receive these emails in the future, please go to *link removed* to subscribe. We will not send you future executive emails unless you choose to subscribe.
Whether you are connecting with partners' systems, accessing data from a mainframe, connecting applications written in different programming languages or trying to log on across multiple systems, bringing heterogeneous technologies together while reducing costs is today a challenge that touches every part of the organization.
Over the years, our industry has tried many approaches to come to grips with the heterogeneity of software. But the solution that has proven consistently effective - and the one that yields the greatest success for developers today - is a strong commitment to interoperability. That means letting different kinds of applications and systems do what they do best, while agreeing on a common "contract" for how disparate systems can communicate to exchange data with one another.
Interoperability is more pragmatic than other approaches, such as attempting to make all systems compatible at the code level, focusing solely on adding new layers of middleware that try to make all systems look and act the same, or seeking to make different systems interchangeable. With a common understanding of basic protocols, different software can interact smoothly with little or no specific knowledge of each other. The Internet is perhaps the most obvious example of this kind of interoperability, where any piece of software can connect and exchange data as long as it adheres to the key protocols.
Simply put, interoperability is a proven approach for dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of the marketplace. Today I want to focus on two major thrusts of Microsoft's product interoperability strategy: First, we continue to support customers' needs for software that works well with what they have today. Second, we are working with the industry to define a new generation of software and Web services based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which enables software to efficiently share information and opens the door to a greater degree of "interoperability by design" across many different kinds of software. Our goal is to harness all the power inherent in modern (and not so modern) business software, and enable them to work together so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We want to further eliminate friction among heterogeneous architectures and applications without compromising their distinctive underlying capabilities.
This may seem like an obvious approach, but the desire for interoperability is sometimes mixed up with other issues. For example, interoperability is sometimes viewed merely as adherence to a published specification of some kind, either from one or more vendors or a standards organization. But simply publishing a specification may not be enough, because it overlooks much of the hard work it takes to successfully develop interoperable products - namely, ensuring that the "contract" defined by a specification is successfully implemented in software and tested in a production environment.
Sometimes interoperability is also confused with open source software. Interoperability is about how different software systems work together. Open source is a methodology for licensing and/or developing software - that may or may not be interoperable. Ad
I used the US Census bureau list of names for a school project once (this is the 1990 listing). Wrote a small perl script that took random names from each file and put them together for a full name.
There are last names, men's first names and women's first names files.
The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) was originally designed to fairly tax high income people, basically by disallowing many deductions and exemptions.
Problem is, the income level where it kicked in was not indexed for inflation. So every year as individual incomes rise, more and more people fall into the group who are eligible to be charged AMT.
My tax prof said this was terrible, and he was quite worked up about it. It's really a back door way of increasing taxes.
thng
thng
Was wondering what kind of kilts the robots would have.
Go check it here
Singing hits like Grandpa Got Run Over By A Beer Truck and Super Dooper Yooper Love Machine?
No? ummm.....
ND is the only state that does not have voter registration.
your wish has been answered: http://www.bestbuysux.org/
click through the disclaimer, then go to employee comments on the left hand menu. lots of good stories from employees and customers.
First, I assume you are talking about the checkout lanes, not general merchandise lanes. I'm not really defending but just explaining. Single queues are more efficient at getting people through the line. That way, people are fed to the next available teller, instead of picking a random line and being stuck w/ the slow trainee, or happening to be behind people buying 20 items when you just wanted to pickup a cable.
Now, they probably do have other reasons-if you feel you're already commited to the purchase because you do'nt have an easy way out of the line, you may have less second guessing your purchase.
Yep, my mistake-Baystar is in California. thought about it awhile after I posted. maybe I'll wait till after noon to post from now on
so it should be "we'll see you in court, eh."
Sounds like the IT architects need some glass stomachs
however, I am pretty sure I remember seeing that in the 2k auto update options. ymmv.
It is not quite like windows update, in that they will still need to download them, and would probably just confuse them.
If they're running windows 2k sp3(?) or higher, or Windows XP, just turn on Automatic updating, and choose either install updates automatically, or download updates automatically and prompt to install.
Hope this helps
The XML isn't a magic bullet in this case, but more like the right tool for the job, which is information interchange across systems.
In addition, it sounds somewhat similar to what many companies have for off-peak electricity, where you give the power company authority to selectively shut off appliances (electric heat, water heaters, etc) when demand (and usually price) is high. The difference, it seems, is that this is much more fine-grained in control, and it will likely be the end user's choice.
Goodwill doesn't randomly appear on the books because you think ppl love you or you have a neat new product. No, goodwill doesn't take into account IP, because it's not supposed to. IP is an asset, and is thus included in the amount of the sale (the patents and buildings in my example). This is one reason goodwill is sometimes called "blue-sky" because someone thinks a company is worth more than its assets, IP and physical assets alike.