Easy: Stop trying. Get some paper and a nice pencil. I went a little overkill and got one of those smartpens. Either way, paper > computer in this case. Spend less time thinking about writing/input and more time about the problems at hand.
Direct loans were cheap, and the consolidation brought them down to ~5% afair. I know the new loans are not as cheap, but thats because some idiot decided having non-direct loans and promising a profit to everyone who serviced them. Doh!
Contact some modern art facilities like Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, they often have 'new media' as part of their holdings and must have some sort of solution for this sort of work that they use when they obtain them. Lastly, contact the Internet Archive folks and see if you can work out a deal for it to be put into storage in wait for when it will hit public domain. Perhaps they could hold it for public domain use for free if you were willing to voluntarily reduce your copyright term to something more reasonable than a habajillion years past death.:)
Let me get this straight, amazon sells PD books while Sony has free PD books powered by google and epub support. Yikes. Happy I didn't get a kindle now.
I used it last weekend -- Obama was in town and the area near the stadium was covered well enough to use before going in. Sadly it didn't make it into the stadium, but it was useful outside.
You've never written software for airplanes, missile or missile defense, or nuclear plants, then! I'd wager that each of those have actual pitfalls rated in human death rather than merely some pissed off administrators because the money wasn't pushed around they way they want it to.
Because they can't. If you've never dealt with PTC, wolfram, matlab, etc. You don't know how obtuse these licensing agreements are. I remember one of them saying you had to use all the active licenses within a X mile radius of the center of campus, etc.
in the past given month, find the top 10, assume these cause the vast majority of the congestion and ask them to find ways to knock it off or they'll have to upgrade to a professional tier of bandwidth. Then, in theory if you keep doing this every month there will be less of the problem of congestion.
Otherwise, implement some sort of automated controls to ratelimit those who cause congestion. Do it based on total traffic volume, not by service.
Agreed, the sheer amount of free stuff Microsoft gives away at large schools is scary. I get a copy of windows for $5 as a student, Office for $10-15, etc.
Ok, so your argument is those with the most to gain are for it. Therefore, those with the most to lose if carbon emissions are against it for said reasons.
Exactly. I did a 'hybrid' air source geothermal/gas system and it was still at least 3 to 4 times cheaper. I will make up the cost of the air source heat pump in 4 or 5 years, easy, too. Plus I reduced my GHG by about 30% using 'green' power purchases for the heat pump power. This is in Minneapolis too, no slouch to cold temperatures. All the AHSP needed was a little more space, not an entire tear-out of a section of my yard. I'd love to do geothermal, but its really not a solution for people just trying to fix their dead furnace on an emergency (its dead jim) basis.
Worse, in places where electricity isn't as expensive we're talking about 20 year paybacks. I'm paying ~.10/kWh for wind generated power (100% of the generation portion of the bill goes to an account to fund wind generation). This cost has generally been around around ~$100 a year extra for me to offset carbon output. I've got a good sized ~1800sqft house and we've been keeping it fairly comfortable this summer, 73F -- my last bill [just came today] was 1037 kWh for $115. Windsource was nearly net 0 cost due to how expensive natrual gas is right now.
I agree with some posters -- figuring out how to cut a few hundred kWh should have been priority number one. Sealing/insulating the house might have been in order, too.
It'd be nice to be off-grid, but I really can't justify it at these prices.
Huge upside about Rhapsody is devices. I pay $15/mo and use it on my Nokia N810 (network play), Sansa e280 (offline play), Tivo, and computers. I can get a Sonos or Squeezebox and use it without a computer through Rhapsody Direct, even. Sure, I'm 'renting', but this is way cheaper than if I were to download a few hundred songs a month through iTunes.
Huge downside is Rhapsody doesn't work on my PS3. When in-game XMB has started I'd really love to queue up music from Rhapsody instead of in-game music.
I know a few of the colleges at the University of Minnesota have reverted to developing their own course packets instead of using books. Its obscene when the cost of a math book is $130+. I think my course packet cost was somewhere less than $45 for the same class, well over half off. This project has the upside that schools can collaborate on these 'course packets'.
The way we deal with that in the USA is to just call it a pre-existing-condition or ensure those who don't have any real negotiating power at their job to have to pay for 20% of everything. We ration here just like the best of them!
As far as I know, the CFL mercury content is less bad than the electricity use of an incandescent due to how coal plants discharge immense amounts of mercury every day.
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Easy: Stop trying. Get some paper and a nice pencil. I went a little overkill and got one of those smartpens. Either way, paper > computer in this case. Spend less time thinking about writing/input and more time about the problems at hand.
Direct loans were cheap, and the consolidation brought them down to ~5% afair. I know the new loans are not as cheap, but thats because some idiot decided having non-direct loans and promising a profit to everyone who serviced them. Doh!
Contact some modern art facilities like Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, they often have 'new media' as part of their holdings and must have some sort of solution for this sort of work that they use when they obtain them. Lastly, contact the Internet Archive folks and see if you can work out a deal for it to be put into storage in wait for when it will hit public domain. Perhaps they could hold it for public domain use for free if you were willing to voluntarily reduce your copyright term to something more reasonable than a habajillion years past death. :)
Let me get this straight, amazon sells PD books while Sony has free PD books powered by google and epub support. Yikes. Happy I didn't get a kindle now.
I used it last weekend -- Obama was in town and the area near the stadium was covered well enough to use before going in. Sadly it didn't make it into the stadium, but it was useful outside.
You've never written software for airplanes, missile or missile defense, or nuclear plants, then! I'd wager that each of those have actual pitfalls rated in human death rather than merely some pissed off administrators because the money wasn't pushed around they way they want it to.
Except its also a-ok on Mac OS X. I use it to backup my home mac server just fine. It appears to use some hack based on rdiff-backup.
Which, you are completely, utterly, incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1
If that doesn't scare the hell out of you, how about you go find some H5N1 and let us all know how happily safe it is!
Because they can't. If you've never dealt with PTC, wolfram, matlab, etc. You don't know how obtuse these licensing agreements are. I remember one of them saying you had to use all the active licenses within a X mile radius of the center of campus, etc.
in the past given month, find the top 10, assume these cause the vast majority of the congestion and ask them to find ways to knock it off or they'll have to upgrade to a professional tier of bandwidth. Then, in theory if you keep doing this every month there will be less of the problem of congestion.
Otherwise, implement some sort of automated controls to ratelimit those who cause congestion. Do it based on total traffic volume, not by service.
Seconded, again. They are perfect for this. I've used mine at the Minneapolis library back in the stacks at least once too. :)
Where I work they offer both Moodle and WebCT, a non-insignificant amount of classes use moodle.
https://moodle.umn.edu/
Something like 800 classes use it, it appears.
Agreed, the sheer amount of free stuff Microsoft gives away at large schools is scary. I get a copy of windows for $5 as a student, Office for $10-15, etc.
s/emissions are/emissions are taxed/
Ok, so your argument is those with the most to gain are for it. Therefore, those with the most to lose if carbon emissions are against it for said reasons.
This is an argument against action how?
Exactly. I did a 'hybrid' air source geothermal/gas system and it was still at least 3 to 4 times cheaper. I will make up the cost of the air source heat pump in 4 or 5 years, easy, too. Plus I reduced my GHG by about 30% using 'green' power purchases for the heat pump power. This is in Minneapolis too, no slouch to cold temperatures. All the AHSP needed was a little more space, not an entire tear-out of a section of my yard. I'd love to do geothermal, but its really not a solution for people just trying to fix their dead furnace on an emergency (its dead jim) basis.
I agree with this -- I don't think that WPA/WPA2 enterprise can be any worse than the security of SSL.
Worse, in places where electricity isn't as expensive we're talking about 20 year paybacks. I'm paying ~.10/kWh for wind generated power (100% of the generation portion of the bill goes to an account to fund wind generation). This cost has generally been around around ~$100 a year extra for me to offset carbon output. I've got a good sized ~1800sqft house and we've been keeping it fairly comfortable this summer, 73F -- my last bill [just came today] was 1037 kWh for $115. Windsource was nearly net 0 cost due to how expensive natrual gas is right now.
I agree with some posters -- figuring out how to cut a few hundred kWh should have been priority number one. Sealing/insulating the house might have been in order, too.
It'd be nice to be off-grid, but I really can't justify it at these prices.
I don't work for real but do use Rhapsody a lot.
Huge upside about Rhapsody is devices. I pay $15/mo and use it on my Nokia N810 (network play), Sansa e280 (offline play), Tivo, and computers. I can get a Sonos or Squeezebox and use it without a computer through Rhapsody Direct, even. Sure, I'm 'renting', but this is way cheaper than if I were to download a few hundred songs a month through iTunes.
Huge downside is Rhapsody doesn't work on my PS3. When in-game XMB has started I'd really love to queue up music from Rhapsody instead of in-game music.
Its stable, its been widely used, has great performance, and can handle most 'large' filesystems. Its not a 'newcomer' to the kernel, either.
I know a few of the colleges at the University of Minnesota have reverted to developing their own course packets instead of using books. Its obscene when the cost of a math book is $130+. I think my course packet cost was somewhere less than $45 for the same class, well over half off. This project has the upside that schools can collaborate on these 'course packets'.
Or, how about we take tax incentives out of health care and make everyone just pay for it outright? See the comment you replied to, for instance.
The way we deal with that in the USA is to just call it a pre-existing-condition or ensure those who don't have any real negotiating power at their job to have to pay for 20% of everything. We ration here just like the best of them!
StarTribune published it in Minneapolis, even put it on the front page of the comics below dilbert! woot!
As far as I know, the CFL mercury content is less bad than the electricity use of an incandescent due to how coal plants discharge immense amounts of mercury every day.