Seriously, I don't get this. We've got a reasonable solution for temporary housing, and it's not as wasteful as this. Mobile homes! They are cheaper, last longer, and are easier to setup and/or move.
From the article it would seem that relatively little skilled labour would be required to erect this cardboard dwelling.... in 6 hours. Hard to beat the portability of a couple pickup loads that the neighborhood joes can put together. Sure it might not be so easy to move _again_ but I don't think that's the market this thing is targetted at.
Admitted, a cardboard house is recycled, so we aren't chopping down a small stand of trees to produce it, but can't we re-use cardboard in another fashion? Is there a need to build a home out of cardboard?
Is there a need to build a home out of plywood, vinyl, steel, concrete, pvc, glass insulation, gyprock etc? Cheap, readily available ('pre-recycled') materials, easily and quickly errectible, compact (and cheap enough) to mass produce and store until needed. I'm sure, should some economies of scale help lower prices, there'd be _thousands_ of of families in florida who'd be in the market pretty much every fall...
Overall, it seems
like a good idea until bad things happen, and then a cardboard house isn't very appealing. Thieves, arsonists, storms, and the high cost make this unappealing.
Thieves: and no one ever breaks into brick & mortar houses eh?
Arsonists: As with straw bale structures it seems that, with the fire retardent mentioned in the article, arson is not any greater a concern than with traditional materials either
Storms: Long term use in wet environments might be suboptimal - but so is pretty much any material. if you're worried about hurricanes/tornadoes, well, again pretty much anything is liable to get smeared over a couple acres
Cost: if this is expensive, by almost any means of financial reckoning, well, I'd like to swap costs of living!
Why do people seem to think that SQL is the only way to filter and sort data? Don't get me wrong, it's convenient, but no more so than the facilities I've available in the programming system I use. It may be a pain in C/C++/Java though, so I suppose that explains the dblust.
It's a solved problem and SQL is (relatively) platform agnostic so it's convienient regardless of 'the programming system you use'. Leverage the tools at hand.
There are benifits to stuffing this in a db - think smart playlists on 'roids. I came to this conclusion from a different direction when working on a front end for a lan's icecast station. Now though I can use SQL to write playlists which is very tasty.
Yeah it's one person, and in the greater scheme of things it's nothing. But it is my way of "Voting" with my wallet. We just got done with all the election hype, and being told how important each and every vote is.
An argument which might hold a little water if there were some way to measure/record such a 'vote'. Whether $linux_binary_purchases == 0 because the market is insignificant or there is simply no supply is immaterial the end result is the same - you don't play. If you really wanted to say something worth saying you'd take the time to put it down on paper, in the form of a politely worded request for future platform support, and send it to someone able to improve the situation.
Rephrased as: "A smart president might attempt, and accomplish, much as an individual. A stupid one has no alternative to being lead around by the nose like a dog by his (largely unelected) cronies.".
It's currently -6C here and we've had ~10cm of snow in the last 3 days. My heart bleeds for your poor a/c./me cuddles up to the computer desk with 2 laptops, 2 desktops and 3 monitors on it
I'm couldn't say for sure but a little north of the yanks pretty much _anything_ white or beigish put into coffee is labeled 'cream'. be it powdered, dairy, nondairy or highly flavoured mystery sauce. Typically, though, dairy products sold expressly for coffee (think single serving plastic jobbies) contain ~ 10% MF.
Linus doesn't own anything. Really Linus is here used as a stand-in for the Open Source movement.
Otherwise, it would be prety easy to aruge that Tim Berners-Lee is more important than Linus.
0miportant != influential. Sir Tim certainly would have made the list in the past but it's hard to argue that he, as opposed to his body of work, has that kind of influence currently. If it were otherwise we'd, in all probability, befan boy lackies of who ever invented the abacus.
Spell checkers may be no substitute for learning to spell but they can be efficient time savers when one's vocabulary failed to come prepackaged with a infallible spelling guide. You don't have to use a spell checker to check for poor spelling. It's entirely possible to use one to check for better spelling.
I hope that you got the patches for the supposed "major performance bottlenecks" that Mr. Davis mentioned. It's seems a little funny to me that Mr. Davis made $550 an hour for the difficult job of running SysV and Linux through comparator and commenting on the output. At those rates you would think he would be grateful for performance bottlenecks.
He didn't get $550/hr to run comparator, he got the fee for being an expert recognizable as such to the court and damned near irrefutable on the subject. His reputation earned him $550/hr.
Your point might carry a little more weight if we ever heard of MS 'donating' anything that wasn't somehow tied up with trying to pass software at retail prices off as poartof their various monopoly suites.
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Other options might include something like python and anyGUI. There are lots of similar projects they're just not often bundled with machines in the retail sector.
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Sure - after all only old people use email.
I cut my own hair. Oh, wait - you mean barbers who don't measure their hair by the 1/16"?
Teaching ESL usually doesn't require the instructor to know the native language. often the curriculms are preset and formulaic.
It's a solved problem and SQL is (relatively) platform agnostic so it's convienient regardless of 'the programming system you use'. Leverage the tools at hand.
Too it's probably wise to mention that, in Korea, only old people are, umm, ahh, older than 25.
There are benifits to stuffing this in a db - think smart playlists on 'roids. I came to this conclusion from a different direction when working on a front end for a lan's icecast station. Now though I can use SQL to write playlists which is very tasty.
An argument which might hold a little water if there were some way to measure/record such a 'vote'. Whether $linux_binary_purchases == 0 because the market is insignificant or there is simply no supply is immaterial the end result is the same - you don't play. If you really wanted to say something worth saying you'd take the time to put it down on paper, in the form of a politely worded request for future platform support, and send it to someone able to improve the situation.
would like to welcome our new (evil) data collecting overlords.
Yay! I can see how the two are on par.
Plus it's tasty. mmmmm aaappplllleee.
It's currently -6C here and we've had ~10cm of snow in the last 3 days. My heart bleeds for your poor a/c. /me cuddles up to the computer desk with 2 laptops, 2 desktops and 3 monitors on it
man that'd be crazy!
I'm couldn't say for sure but a little north of the yanks pretty much _anything_ white or beigish put into coffee is labeled 'cream'. be it powdered, dairy, nondairy or highly flavoured mystery sauce. Typically, though, dairy products sold expressly for coffee (think single serving plastic jobbies) contain ~ 10% MF.
0miportant != influential. Sir Tim certainly would have made the list in the past but it's hard to argue that he, as opposed to his body of work, has that kind of influence currently. If it were otherwise we'd, in all probability, befan boy lackies of who ever invented the abacus.
Spell checkers may be no substitute for learning to spell but they can be efficient time savers when one's vocabulary failed to come prepackaged with a infallible spelling guide. You don't have to use a spell checker to check for poor spelling. It's entirely possible to use one to check for better spelling.
Weel there is the data sources manager. It allows you to reference all kinds of dbs & socuments as data sources, even spreadsheets.
He didn't get $550/hr to run comparator, he got the fee for being an expert recognizable as such to the court and damned near irrefutable on the subject. His reputation earned him $550/hr.
Oh! That reminds me: sed 's/ [a-zA-Z]/ K/g' /usr/share/dict/words > diktionary
Might as well save a little time.
I think they cal it 'Sol'
But that irish looney keeps wailing, and that's what keeps torturing me
Your point might carry a little more weight if we ever heard of MS 'donating' anything that wasn't somehow tied up with trying to pass software at retail prices off as poartof their various monopoly suites.
Other options might include something like python and anyGUI. There are lots of similar projects they're just not often bundled with machines in the retail sector.
Like always right to _choose_ not to purchase a service plan?
Dude - you do toad? That's like soooooooo gross!. If You Lick A Toad... You're Licking Every Toad That Toad Has Ever Been With