since you lived in a house about 50% smaller than today's homes.
Try ~75% smaller. My house is from 1962, it's very typical of a house from that era at just under 1200 sq ft. When I bought it in 2004 I couldn't interest a builder in anything smaller than 3,000 sq ft and 4,000+ was the norm. If I could have built a reasonable sized house with modern efficiencies I would have but as it is I have a small inefficient home that still costs me a way smaller percentage of my wages.
Thank you! I came across Agave Nectar while my wife was suffering from gestational diabetes and the low glycemic index was important at that point. I liked the taste and figured it had to be better than HFCS as I assumed it was the same stuff as the Mexicans used to make their beer like liquor. That was a seriously informative piece and the site in general seems to be well researched and is forthcoming with citations. Looks like it's Stevia for me then =) It's too bad the FDA fought Stevia for so long despite the mountain of evidence on its safety. I know I steered clear of it after the warning order came out, too bad that was probably a hatchet job by the corn lobby.
Honey and table sugar have almost the same glycemic index (62 vs 64) so I have no idea what you are prattling on about. Now agave nectar, that's a good alternative (index of 30).
I use WSUS on the server side because it doesn't require yet another freaking agent on my servers. In my experience the reliability of a windows server is inversely proportional to the number of third party packages running on it. I run AV because it's required by policy, I run a backup agent if the server has a large number of small files, other than that I avoid them like the plague. I do monitoring using WMI and SNMP, do patching via WSUS, etc.
BD Video movies have a maximum data transfer rate of 54 Mbit/s, a maximum AV bitrate of 48 Mbit/s (for both audio and video data), and a maximum video bit rate of 40 Mbit/s.
Exactly, even a decade ago the huge degausser's the US Navy uses on their ships weren't powerful enough to wipe a HDD, ever since HDD's started using the GMR effect in 1997 in fact.
Actually that's the MAX datarate and the max video+audio rate is even lower at 48Mbps, that's high for the US but already here for many other countries.
No, it doesn't because an online backup is not the same as an offline backup. It only takes one pissed off sysadmin or one software snafu to blow up all your online backups, it would take the destruction of 3 separate facilities for all my offline backups to go away.
SLC flash has essentially unlimited writes for all but the most corner of corner cases but it's incredibly expensive on a $/GB basis (though it's much cheaper TCO than short stroking a bunch of 15k HDD's on a $/IOP basis).
US GDP in 1804 was $530M, the cost of the purchase was $15M, or about 3%. One asteroid contains enough metals to pay for the entire shuttle program, we just have to focus our efforts in this area if we want to find a positive ROI =)
The purchase price was 3% of GDP, how long do you think it was before the territories were net contributing 3% of GDP? I would guess decades considering 6 years after the purchase they still contained only 1.3% of the population and even today only contains ~12%.
The Louisiana Purchase took quite a while to pay off, it was still quite a deal and the right thing to do. A nation which stagnates is a nation which is slowly dying. Since Imperialism here at home doesn't look to have a net positive payout I say we should focus a bit more of our finances on something that is at least likely to advance human knowledge if not material wealth.
3% of GDP was the smallest percentage we had spent on exploration in the history of the country (well really before the country was discovered as Spain spent more than 3% of GDP on Columbus's voyage despite being broke). The fact that we now spend even less is a national disgrace.
Man I was so reminded of how absolutely terrible vinyl is when I went to audition my new speakers. All the HiFi shops use a mix of vinyl and CD's because that's what their clientele expects but I honestly can't understand how people who profess to love music can stand vinyl. The pops and hissing 10-20 times per track even with multi-thousand dollar turntables was unbearable. I'll gladly stick with MP3's that I can't ABX distinguish from the source material (even if the source is 192/24 digital) the vast majority of the time (I can FLAC any CD's that have a serious problem with LAME).
The bigger announcement was that they were dropping the stupid VDI licensing thing. Paying an extra $23/year on top of the outrageous fees we already pay for Select and Open licenses just for the privileged of using the desktop OS licenses in a virtual environment was just stupid and I'm very glad it was dropped, might make it a bit easier to find a positive ROI on a VDI project now.
CD's aren't long term, not compared to a digital file. CD's break down, get lost, or scratched. I have never lost a single MP3, I've losts or damaged plenty of CD's. Also high bitrate LAME MP3's are completely transparent even on my new Vandersteen speakers (with a very few exceptions where cymbals get muddied). If you're really worried about compression artifacts then buy the lossless files from itunes.
I can do all that with Amazon MP3's (well perhaps not lend them legally) without the inconvenience of physical media and with the ability to easily have a backup (Mozy for the win).
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Are you missing the difference between trillion and billion? Or did you say mean to say that the food industry is 3.2 trillion?
reduction of real, inflation-adjusted wages inland, loss of spending power of the average citizen, erosion of our middle class.
We've had that in the US too without the increase in exports...
since you lived in a house about 50% smaller than today's homes.
Try ~75% smaller. My house is from 1962, it's very typical of a house from that era at just under 1200 sq ft. When I bought it in 2004 I couldn't interest a builder in anything smaller than 3,000 sq ft and 4,000+ was the norm. If I could have built a reasonable sized house with modern efficiencies I would have but as it is I have a small inefficient home that still costs me a way smaller percentage of my wages.
Hey and you might help the obesity epidemic as well.
Thank you! I came across Agave Nectar while my wife was suffering from gestational diabetes and the low glycemic index was important at that point. I liked the taste and figured it had to be better than HFCS as I assumed it was the same stuff as the Mexicans used to make their beer like liquor. That was a seriously informative piece and the site in general seems to be well researched and is forthcoming with citations. Looks like it's Stevia for me then =) It's too bad the FDA fought Stevia for so long despite the mountain of evidence on its safety. I know I steered clear of it after the warning order came out, too bad that was probably a hatchet job by the corn lobby.
Honey and table sugar have almost the same glycemic index (62 vs 64) so I have no idea what you are prattling on about. Now agave nectar, that's a good alternative (index of 30).
I use WSUS on the server side because it doesn't require yet another freaking agent on my servers. In my experience the reliability of a windows server is inversely proportional to the number of third party packages running on it. I run AV because it's required by policy, I run a backup agent if the server has a large number of small files, other than that I avoid them like the plague. I do monitoring using WMI and SNMP, do patching via WSUS, etc.
BD Video movies have a maximum data transfer rate of 54 Mbit/s, a maximum AV bitrate of 48 Mbit/s (for both audio and video data), and a maximum video bit rate of 40 Mbit/s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Bit_rate
It actually points to the source of the information which actually points to the specification =)
Exactly, even a decade ago the huge degausser's the US Navy uses on their ships weren't powerful enough to wipe a HDD, ever since HDD's started using the GMR effect in 1997 in fact.
Blu-ray spec is 54Mbps at the low end.
Actually that's the MAX datarate and the max video+audio rate is even lower at 48Mbps, that's high for the US but already here for many other countries.
No, it doesn't because an online backup is not the same as an offline backup. It only takes one pissed off sysadmin or one software snafu to blow up all your online backups, it would take the destruction of 3 separate facilities for all my offline backups to go away.
SLC flash has essentially unlimited writes for all but the most corner of corner cases but it's incredibly expensive on a $/GB basis (though it's much cheaper TCO than short stroking a bunch of 15k HDD's on a $/IOP basis).
US GDP in 1804 was $530M, the cost of the purchase was $15M, or about 3%. One asteroid contains enough metals to pay for the entire shuttle program, we just have to focus our efforts in this area if we want to find a positive ROI =)
The purchase price was 3% of GDP, how long do you think it was before the territories were net contributing 3% of GDP? I would guess decades considering 6 years after the purchase they still contained only 1.3% of the population and even today only contains ~12%.
The Louisiana Purchase took quite a while to pay off, it was still quite a deal and the right thing to do. A nation which stagnates is a nation which is slowly dying. Since Imperialism here at home doesn't look to have a net positive payout I say we should focus a bit more of our finances on something that is at least likely to advance human knowledge if not material wealth.
3% of GDP was the smallest percentage we had spent on exploration in the history of the country (well really before the country was discovered as Spain spent more than 3% of GDP on Columbus's voyage despite being broke). The fact that we now spend even less is a national disgrace.
Man I was so reminded of how absolutely terrible vinyl is when I went to audition my new speakers. All the HiFi shops use a mix of vinyl and CD's because that's what their clientele expects but I honestly can't understand how people who profess to love music can stand vinyl. The pops and hissing 10-20 times per track even with multi-thousand dollar turntables was unbearable. I'll gladly stick with MP3's that I can't ABX distinguish from the source material (even if the source is 192/24 digital) the vast majority of the time (I can FLAC any CD's that have a serious problem with LAME).
DOSBOX will let you scale the CPU speed.
The bigger announcement was that they were dropping the stupid VDI licensing thing. Paying an extra $23/year on top of the outrageous fees we already pay for Select and Open licenses just for the privileged of using the desktop OS licenses in a virtual environment was just stupid and I'm very glad it was dropped, might make it a bit easier to find a positive ROI on a VDI project now.
Do you REALLY want to compare the bit error rate of HDD's to CDDA?!? Many orders of magnitude difference and the winner ain't CDDA!
Like I said I use Mozy online backup as well as having my MP3's on 3 local PC's, that's 3 more backups than you have with a CD =)
CD's aren't long term, not compared to a digital file. CD's break down, get lost, or scratched. I have never lost a single MP3, I've losts or damaged plenty of CD's. Also high bitrate LAME MP3's are completely transparent even on my new Vandersteen speakers (with a very few exceptions where cymbals get muddied). If you're really worried about compression artifacts then buy the lossless files from itunes.
That $0 comes with a !=0 chance of a six figure lawsuit attached.
I can do all that with Amazon MP3's (well perhaps not lend them legally) without the inconvenience of physical media and with the ability to easily have a backup (Mozy for the win).
Large PSU's are closer to 92+% efficient (HP DL380 G6 750W PSU is 91.5% efficient at 100% load, probably even better at 75-80% load).