As far as my outsider's knowledge goes, many Americans choose to build 'cheap and lightly' with resulting lifetimes of less than 20 years.
Your "outsider's knowledge" is wrong, unsurprisingly. See the-age-of-the-housing-stock-by-state to get some real information. And, if you read the article, you'll see that the states with lower median housing age are those with higher growth (i.e. building a lot of new homes because the population is growing in those areas - not because they're replacing existing homes).
The only places I've seen homes/apartments actually being ripped down and replaced is where the location is more valuable then the existing building and the replacement is larger - this is mainly done in wealthy suburbs where smaller houses are being replaced with much larger ones (and then the small homes were usually built in the 1950's or 60's).
I live on the Gulf coast in Texas. It's hurricane territory. If the power is knocked out, the cable modem has no power, and in a few days the cell towers stop functioning. That's why we kept our land line phone.
You live on the gulf coast and don't have a backup generator? I live near Birmingham and have a UPS (for minor outages to keep some electronics running) and a small backup generator for longer outages (powers the refrigerator to keep food from spoiling and to charge the UPS). Our last power outage (the tornado that went from Tuscaloosa nearly to Georgia) lasted almost a day, but we had working wired broadband/vol-ip (u-verse) and cell service (sprint) the entire time (and didn't have to worry about food spoiling).
While our broadband comes over the phone lines, ours lines are mainly underground. We had many friends without a land line for a week because their above ground lines were ripped up by the tornado. Nothing is disaster proof - always have redundancy.
I assume you're only talking DSL - there are several other options in most of the Birmingham area. Charter cable offers 1 Mbps up with 8 Mbps down and AT&T U-Verse has 1 Mbps upstream speeds at the 3 Mbps downstream (both offer higher upstream rates with higher downstream rates).
From the article - "The Evo 4G will swap between 3G and WiMAX for data depending on what's available; it will make all voice calls over Sprint's CDMA 1X network."
NewEgg identified IPEX as the distributor of the phony chips. Their website, http://www.ipexinfo.com/ , is now returning empty pages. Google shows a cached page that was available earlier today.
Don't know if it's just overloaded or if they took it down on purpose.
I agree. I'll kill and eat anyone who wants to eat my dog then. That should strike enough fear into would be dog eaters to leave my dog alone. (sarcasm)
Don't eat them, that would be cannibalism!
It's not cannibalism if you feed them to your dog, however. And your dog will enjoy chewing on the bones, too!
At this moment, the parent to this is rated 'Troll' - obviously by stuck-up prudes who didn't watch the show...
Remember, Kaylee's first 'introduction' to the ship Serenity was on her back - making 'woopie' with Serenity's (then) engineer. (I hope 'woopie' is acceptable to those prudes out there...)
She might not mind 'helping out' fellow crew members if she was able to get a job on the ISS. God know, it could use her engineering skills...
So the real issue is that he thinks the blackberry "is quiet and has a pathetic vibrate mode".
His (oddRaisin's) solution is to abandon the blackberry and get a pager. mark*workfire has proposed an alternate solution that will probably solve oddRaisin's issue without changing/adding hardware - why are you complaining?
It's a better solution then just throwing hardware at the problem. I've had a blackberry and understand both the original issue and mark*workfire solution - it's (probably) the best given the limited info that oddRaisin provided (did he try anything, including RTFM to see how to setup different volumes based on the time/situaation?)
Something that has to be launched from an Atlas missile, has no docking facilities, no cargo space...this will replace the Shuttle how,exactly?
Because it's a experimental aircraft (hence the 'X' designation). Rather then trying to do everything at once, without testing all of the concepts out, they're refining one piece of the technology at a time.
It's a rather sensible approach - unlike NASA's Space Shuttle which tried to go from the drawing board to production with no real test vehicles for its new technology (very large engines that could be throttled, reusable/segmented solid boosters, etc). NASA tried paper-engineering the shuttle and it didn't live up to most of its design goals.
I'll be playing games on my PC as long as I have a PC capable of running Captain Comic.
Of course, I bought my first VGA graphics card and monitor specifically so that I could run Captain Comic at home. AFAIR it was also the last time I bought computer hardware to run a game.
I also enjoy a good game (or 10) of daleks also. It's fortunate that Windows XP still runs.com executables.
Which web shops? I checked 'major' stores, web-only stores, and several wii-tracking sites and the only ones with stock on-hand (or claiming to get stock soon) were a couple of eBay sellers that wanted much more then list price. I checked some (but not all) stores for bundles and those were sold-out also.
Also in the paper are one lemma, five theorems, a discussion thereof, a presentation and discussion of the the de-anonymizing algorithm, along with an interesting discussion of spareness within the original Netflix database (i.e. how similar are records from two different people).
Actually, I did read the entire paper - not in depth, but enough to get the basic picture of how they went about the task.
They presented what appears to be sound research before they decided they'd had done enough "serious" work and then descended into the depth of tabloid journalism by presenting what appear to be spurious and lurid claims about the individual in their "case study." That decent is what makes me wonder about the work they did before that and the applicability of it to a more general case.
Also, after reading it again, I'm still not convinced that their correlation between NetFlix and IMDB users is that great. Have they tried contacting the IMDB user(s) they identified to see if they're the NetFlix user(s) that they think they are?
First, we can immediately find his political orientation based on his strong opinions about "Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times" and "Fahrenheit 9/11." Strong guesses about his religious views can be made based on his ratings on "Jesus of Nazareth" and "The Gospel of John". He did not like "Super Size Me" at all; perhaps this implies something about his physical size? Both items that we found with predominantly gay themes, "Bent" and "Queer as folk" were rated one star out of five. He is a cultish follower of "Mystery Science Theater 3000". This is far from all we found about this one person, but having made our point, we will spare the reader further lurid details.
Finding a paragraph like this in a research paper makes me call into question the motives and intentions of the 'researchers.' They seems sort of like the Jerry Springer of research (since he's just trying to help the families he has on his show...).
They imply that the person didn't like "Super Size Me" because he's probably fat (or are they trying to imply that he has a problem with gaining weight and is jealous?).
Also, they imply that because he rated two "predominantly gay theme" items as poor he must not be homosexual. Or are they implying that because he rented/rated these that he must be gay (because who would ever rent them otherwise).
The fact that they use the "there's more juicy stuff about this guy, but we can't tell because we're serious researchers" line at the end is the pièce de résistance that really shows what motivates these researchers.
Thanks! You've pointed me at one likely solution for my need.
I'm not the OP, but am looking for a good/simple NAS solution. I'm currently running FreeBSD/Samba on an old PC as a home server, but I am looking for something a bit more turnkey for file sharing (don't want to risk my data on something I want to tweak and experiment with).
I've actually been looking at several external drive enclosures that also can be attached to a network (most of which seem to need drivers on Windows clients...). The MV20x0 series seems to be what I'm really looking for - a real, but cheap, home NAS solution. The fact that the FAQ is excellent and it has a mailing list (well, yahoo group) is a real plus. The review at SmallNetBuilder - HP Media Vault (MV2010 / MV2020): Big in size and performance didn't hurt either.
OTOH, the HP MediaSmart Servers (the EX47x) evidently are some of the first available machines based on Windows Home Server. It looks like they mainly get mediocre/poor reviews and the price is much higher then the MV20x0 line. I assume the price is because they're built more like PCs then a dedicated appliance (and have more expansion bays/etc). They probably meet some people's needs, but not mine.
play them through iTunes, record them through Goldwave and save them as MP3s
Seems like a painful/time consuming way to do it. I simply burn a CD with the DRM'd tracks and then re-import it.
Yes, this has the same issue as using Goldwave (converting from one lossy format to another) but it does save a lot of time. It also gives me a physical version (the CD) that I play in my car's CD player (it won't play MP3/ACC files on a data CD).
The real downside for me is that, unless it's a full album, it won't automatically add the tags to the MP3 file - I have to copy/paste those.
While it is inconvenient, it isn't that hard to check both Amazon and the iTunes Store for a track before buying it online.
Right now my process is: - Check Amazon to see if they have it - if so I buy it from them (and import it into iTunes). - If they don't, check iTunes Store and see if it's available without DRM - if so I buy it. - If I really want it now, buy the DRM'd track from iTunes (if available). If I can deal with not having it immediately, I don;t but the DRM version. - If it isn't not available online, check the used CD stores to see if it's available there (online and local stores).
Yes, the process can be a hassle, but it's roughly the same as I shop for other things so it doesn't seem very inconvenient.
If emusic didn't have a subscription model, I'd probably be checking them first before Amazon.
Sun couldn't (easily) use SUN as their symbol even if it was available. They're listed with NASDAQ and all NASDAQ symbols are 4 characters long (sometimes 5 - the 5th is used as an indicator that there's something unusual about the security). Other examples are MSFT and AAPL (and, for a little while longer SCOX).
Symbols on the other US exchanges are all 3 letters or less. SUN (Sunoco) is listed on the NYSE, as is IBM and T (AT&T). Interestingly enough, the symbol "M" wasn't in use on the NYSE for a long time - the rumors was that it was being reserved for Microsoft (Macy's is now listed with "M").
I'm not sure if it'd work or not - but a better option that'll cause you fewer headaches in the long run is to run both Linux and Windows on the same machine. Pick the one you want to be the host OS and then install the other as a guest OS using VMware or Virtual PC (depending on the host OS).
If you do use wine, even if it works great for Outlook, sooner or later the company is going to want you to run Word/Excel/Project or probably some home-grown time-tracking app that won't run with wine.
I'd have the company set up a fully corporate standard PC (with Windows and all the corp. standard apps) and then install Gentoo as a guest OS. That way you can run all the apps the company requires and use the company tech support for Windows issues while being able to use Linux when you want.
They believe they are so smart and enlightened that if only the government would force everyone to live to the precise ideals pictured in their heads, the world would be a better place, and they would feel all emotionally fulfilled as self-loathing humans.
That sounds the exact same complaint against religious fundamentalists.
I don't think that there's any difference between some environmentalists and most religious fundamentalists - except the religions they practice.
I'll agree with that, provided you are reffering to his role in Jurassic Park as a mathmatician specializing in chaos theory, and not that Independence Day crap.
Screw both of 'em. The Fly.
The first character that came to my mind was New Jersey - the newest associate of Buckaroo Banzai!
Buckaroo Banzai: Have you ever thought about joining me full time?
New Jersey: Do you have an opening?
Buckaroo Banzai: Uh huh. Can you sing?
New Jersey: No... No. I can dance.
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As far as my outsider's knowledge goes, many Americans choose to build 'cheap and lightly' with resulting lifetimes of less than 20 years.
Your "outsider's knowledge" is wrong, unsurprisingly.
See the-age-of-the-housing-stock-by-state to get some real information. And, if you read the article, you'll see that the states with lower median housing age are those with higher growth (i.e. building a lot of new homes because the population is growing in those areas - not because they're replacing existing homes).
The only places I've seen homes/apartments actually being ripped down and replaced is where the location is more valuable then the existing building and the replacement is larger - this is mainly done in wealthy suburbs where smaller houses are being replaced with much larger ones (and then the small homes were usually built in the 1950's or 60's).
"Last Man on Earth", the Vincent Price movie version of "I am Legend" is available at the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/TheLastManOnEarth_72
Although I prefer Mathewson's original story to any of the movie adaptations, I think that this is the best movie of the three based on it.
I live on the Gulf coast in Texas. It's hurricane territory. If the power is knocked out, the cable modem has no power, and in a few days the cell towers stop functioning. That's why we kept our land line phone.
You live on the gulf coast and don't have a backup generator? I live near Birmingham and have a UPS (for minor outages to keep some electronics running) and a small backup generator for longer outages (powers the refrigerator to keep food from spoiling and to charge the UPS). Our last power outage (the tornado that went from Tuscaloosa nearly to Georgia) lasted almost a day, but we had working wired broadband/vol-ip (u-verse) and cell service (sprint) the entire time (and didn't have to worry about food spoiling).
While our broadband comes over the phone lines, ours lines are mainly underground. We had many friends without a land line for a week because their above ground lines were ripped up by the tornado. Nothing is disaster proof - always have redundancy.
I assume you're only talking DSL - there are several other options in most of the Birmingham area. Charter cable offers 1 Mbps up with 8 Mbps down and AT&T U-Verse has 1 Mbps upstream speeds at the 3 Mbps downstream (both offer higher upstream rates with higher downstream rates).
From the article - "The Evo 4G will swap between 3G and WiMAX for data depending on what's available; it will make all voice calls over Sprint's CDMA 1X network."
NewEgg identified IPEX as the distributor of the phony chips. Their website, http://www.ipexinfo.com/ , is now returning empty pages. Google shows a cached page that was available earlier today.
Don't know if it's just overloaded or if they took it down on purpose.
I agree. I'll kill and eat anyone who wants to eat my dog then.
That should strike enough fear into would be dog eaters to leave my dog alone. (sarcasm)
Don't eat them, that would be cannibalism!
It's not cannibalism if you feed them to your dog, however. And your dog will enjoy chewing on the bones, too!
What did River do? I'd say she was less a crew member than Inara.
What did River do???? She kicked big-time Reaver butt (and beat up Jayne a couple of times)...
I'd count all 9 of them as crew - as Mal did (except for the part of the movie when Simon & River left).
At this moment, the parent to this is rated 'Troll' - obviously by stuck-up prudes who didn't watch the show...
Remember, Kaylee's first 'introduction' to the ship Serenity was on her back - making 'woopie' with Serenity's (then) engineer. (I hope 'woopie' is acceptable to those prudes out there...)
She might not mind 'helping out' fellow crew members if she was able to get a job on the ISS. God know, it could use her engineering skills...
Of course it would be based on the actual experiences of PETA staffers: http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
So the real issue is that he thinks the blackberry "is quiet and has a pathetic vibrate mode".
His (oddRaisin's) solution is to abandon the blackberry and get a pager. mark*workfire has proposed an alternate solution that will probably solve oddRaisin's issue without changing/adding hardware - why are you complaining?
It's a better solution then just throwing hardware at the problem. I've had a blackberry and understand both the original issue and mark*workfire solution - it's (probably) the best given the limited info that oddRaisin provided (did he try anything, including RTFM to see how to setup different volumes based on the time/situaation?)
Or to Oath of Fealty, which is about a realistic attempt at describing what an arcology would be like.
just think of it as evolution in action...
Something that has to be launched from an Atlas missile, has no docking facilities, no cargo space...this will replace the Shuttle how,exactly?
Because it's a experimental aircraft (hence the 'X' designation). Rather then trying to do everything at once, without testing all of the concepts out, they're refining one piece of the technology at a time.
It's a rather sensible approach - unlike NASA's Space Shuttle which tried to go from the drawing board to production with no real test vehicles for its new technology (very large engines that could be throttled, reusable/segmented solid boosters, etc). NASA tried paper-engineering the shuttle and it didn't live up to most of its design goals.
I'll be playing games on my PC as long as I have a PC capable of running Captain Comic.
.com executables.
Of course, I bought my first VGA graphics card and monitor specifically so that I could run Captain Comic at home. AFAIR it was also the last time I bought computer hardware to run a game.
I also enjoy a good game (or 10) of daleks also. It's fortunate that Windows XP still runs
That must have been the previous presidential election - he's served 2 terms and can't run again this time...
Which web shops? I checked 'major' stores, web-only stores, and several wii-tracking sites and the only ones with stock on-hand (or claiming to get stock soon) were a couple of eBay sellers that wanted much more then list price. I checked some (but not all) stores for bundles and those were sold-out also.
Actually, I did read the entire paper - not in depth, but enough to get the basic picture of how they went about the task.
They presented what appears to be sound research before they decided they'd had done enough "serious" work and then descended into the depth of tabloid journalism by presenting what appear to be spurious and lurid claims about the individual in their "case study." That decent is what makes me wonder about the work they did before that and the applicability of it to a more general case.
Also, after reading it again, I'm still not convinced that their correlation between NetFlix and IMDB users is that great. Have they tried contacting the IMDB user(s) they identified to see if they're the NetFlix user(s) that they think they are?
Finding a paragraph like this in a research paper makes me call into question the motives and intentions of the 'researchers.' They seems sort of like the Jerry Springer of research (since he's just trying to help the families he has on his show...).
They imply that the person didn't like "Super Size Me" because he's probably fat (or are they trying to imply that he has a problem with gaining weight and is jealous?).
Also, they imply that because he rated two "predominantly gay theme" items as poor he must not be homosexual. Or are they implying that because he rented/rated these that he must be gay (because who would ever rent them otherwise).
The fact that they use the "there's more juicy stuff about this guy, but we can't tell because we're serious researchers" line at the end is the pièce de résistance that really shows what motivates these researchers.
Thanks! You've pointed me at one likely solution for my need.
I'm not the OP, but am looking for a good/simple NAS solution. I'm currently running FreeBSD/Samba on an old PC as a home server, but I am looking for something a bit more turnkey for file sharing (don't want to risk my data on something I want to tweak and experiment with).
I've actually been looking at several external drive enclosures that also can be attached to a network (most of which seem to need drivers on Windows clients...). The MV20x0 series seems to be what I'm really looking for - a real, but cheap, home NAS solution. The fact that the FAQ is excellent and it has a mailing list (well, yahoo group) is a real plus. The review at SmallNetBuilder - HP Media Vault (MV2010 / MV2020): Big in size and performance didn't hurt either.
OTOH, the HP MediaSmart Servers (the EX47x) evidently are some of the first available machines based on Windows Home Server. It looks like they mainly get mediocre/poor reviews and the price is much higher then the MV20x0 line. I assume the price is because they're built more like PCs then a dedicated appliance (and have more expansion bays/etc). They probably meet some people's needs, but not mine.
Seems like a painful/time consuming way to do it. I simply burn a CD with the DRM'd tracks and then re-import it.
Yes, this has the same issue as using Goldwave (converting from one lossy format to another) but it does save a lot of time. It also gives me a physical version (the CD) that I play in my car's CD player (it won't play MP3/ACC files on a data CD).
The real downside for me is that, unless it's a full album, it won't automatically add the tags to the MP3 file - I have to copy/paste those.
While it is inconvenient, it isn't that hard to check both Amazon and the iTunes Store for a track before buying it online.
Right now my process is:
- Check Amazon to see if they have it - if so I buy it from them (and import it into iTunes).
- If they don't, check iTunes Store and see if it's available without DRM - if so I buy it.
- If I really want it now, buy the DRM'd track from iTunes (if available). If I can deal with not having it immediately, I don;t but the DRM version.
- If it isn't not available online, check the used CD stores to see if it's available there (online and local stores).
Yes, the process can be a hassle, but it's roughly the same as I shop for other things so it doesn't seem very inconvenient.
If emusic didn't have a subscription model, I'd probably be checking them first before Amazon.
Sun couldn't (easily) use SUN as their symbol even if it was available. They're listed with NASDAQ and all NASDAQ symbols are 4 characters long (sometimes 5 - the 5th is used as an indicator that there's something unusual about the security). Other examples are MSFT and AAPL (and, for a little while longer SCOX).
Symbols on the other US exchanges are all 3 letters or less. SUN (Sunoco) is listed on the NYSE, as is IBM and T (AT&T). Interestingly enough, the symbol "M" wasn't in use on the NYSE for a long time - the rumors was that it was being reserved for Microsoft (Macy's is now listed with "M").
I'm not sure if it'd work or not - but a better option that'll cause you fewer headaches in the long run is to run both Linux and Windows on the same machine. Pick the one you want to be the host OS and then install the other as a guest OS using VMware or Virtual PC (depending on the host OS).
If you do use wine, even if it works great for Outlook, sooner or later the company is going to want you to run Word/Excel/Project or probably some home-grown time-tracking app that won't run with wine.
I'd have the company set up a fully corporate standard PC (with Windows and all the corp. standard apps) and then install Gentoo as a guest OS. That way you can run all the apps the company requires and use the company tech support for Windows issues while being able to use Linux when you want.
They believe they are so smart and enlightened that if only the government would force everyone to live to the precise ideals pictured in their heads, the world would be a better place, and they would feel all emotionally fulfilled as self-loathing humans.
That sounds the exact same complaint against religious fundamentalists.
I don't think that there's any difference between some environmentalists and most religious fundamentalists - except the religions they practice.
I'll agree with that, provided you are reffering to his role in Jurassic Park as a mathmatician specializing in chaos theory, and not that Independence Day crap.
Screw both of 'em. The Fly.
The first character that came to my mind was New Jersey - the newest associate of Buckaroo Banzai!