My wife has asked. While her company officially says "no", her past two bosses have unofficially said "yes, if you do it no more than once or twice a month".
Didn't the CA public not want the Gay marriage thing in the first place?
It seems that 52.3% of the voting public didn't want gay marriage. However, California law requires that some types of constitutional amendments be ratified by 66.6% of the population, not just 50%, because some things shouldn't be subject to majority vote. One of the legal challenges argues that this amendment is one of those types.
that.01% of gay people
Depending on the studies, somewhere between 1-3% of the population is gay. Your statistics are off by a factor of 100-300.
piss off everyone else
52.3% of the voting population voted for it. Your 99.99% statistic of "everyone else" is off by a factor of almost 2.
your ability to hire out of that pool as that.01% of gay people that you can manage to hire is just that much better that its almost worth to piss off everyone else?
/sarcasm/ Yeah, I hear they hire black people too, and even (*gasp*) Asians. Clearly they should stop doing that because it "pisses off people"./sarcasm/
The best reason could be power savings. Depending on what you do with those machines, a small latest-generation PC could do the same, at a significantly-lower power requirement, for $100-200. If you plan to use the new computer for several years with it constantly active, you could easily save money in the long term.
That said, if you do the math and it just doesn't save you electricity to go new, then I readily agree there's no reason to upgrade just for upgrade's sake.
That depends on a few factors, including your definition of "PC". I play WoW exclusively on a MacBook Pro, having replaced my last PC desktop a year ago with a Mac Mini, then replaced that with a MacBook to be truly portable. (Incidentally, for the first time ever I resold a computer, getting 2/3 of what I paid for the Mac Mini back out.)
Another factor is WoW's age and popularity. It was the best-selling PC game of the 2008, but it plays just fine on 2-3 year old hardware. It plays better on hardware running Linux and WINE than it does on the exact same machine running Windows, so even if a savvy user isn't satisfied with its PC/Windows performance, they could squeeze more life from that hardware with free software.
I notice it doesn't mention how many jobs will be destroyed by this movement. I know that my entire company would go under, which represents a paltry 30 employees
Yes, but it won't destroy your jobs for several years, while they are developing and implementing this program. In the interim, there will be extra jobs while they pay those developers and implementers and you continue to be employed.
Plus, as an added bonus, you now have a multi-year lead time on knowing your occupation will be obsolete. Follow and learn what it takes to administer the new system, or train for another profession, and be ready to switch.
Ahh, I didn't RTFA. I assumed they were talking differential power from causing hard drive accesses, all the routers on the way having to process extra packets, etc.
Still, my original claim is accurate. Were Google not to exist, their infrastructure and base power consumption wouldn't either, and there would be an increase in road traffic.
It would be better if you rode the bus to the library. But that would be inconvenient. It says a lot about the issue that everybody (except all the kneejerk "skeptics" that will soon post on this story) cares about curbing greenhouse gases, but nobody is willing to make the troublesome lifestyle changes necessary to make a real difference.
My city doesn't have bus service. So yes, waiting for a bus would be incredibly inconvenient.
nobody is willing to make the troublesome lifestyle changes necessary to make a real difference.
Does this include you? People aren't going to make huge changes because, for the most part, that doesn't make a big difference. Everyone making a small change has a much, much bigger impact than just a few people (those unselfish enough to care) making a big change. Raising the minimum legal mileage for new cars by one MPG would be a much, much bigger change than me riding a bike to work every day. (Not that I could given the distance, nor could both me and my wife given how far apart we work no matter where we move.) I can choose to not buy another car until one that gets high mileage from an alternative fuel source is available, which is what I've been doing for the last few years.
I personally boil my tea and coffee water in the microwave.
I drink tap water at whatever temperature it comes out of the cold faucet. That reduces my carbon footprint further. =p
Of course, because Somalia is the only "free market" on the planet, and yet they still have bubbles.
Your entire argument is completely wrong. Fortunately, most of the world agrees with me that a regulated market that tries to reduce the peaks and troughs is better than one allowed to ride freely, so your argument really doesn't matter that much anyway.
They were paid for with the money raised auctioning off the soon to be available bandwidth.
The government made billions of dollars on the deal even after you subtract the value of the coupons.
And they would've made two billion more if weren't for the coupon program. And all the money ends up in the same pool, so that would have been two billion less of debt taxpayers would need to pay off eventually.
Not that the coupon program isn't a fair thing to do to all the fixed-income people affected by the change. But don't pretend that it isn't taxpayers who will have to pay for it.
I would recommend that everybody should get their coupon, even if they have cable, if for no other reason than emergency preparedness. Sometimes you may need to catch a broadcast while the cable feeding to your living room is on the fritz.
How exactly does a coupon tune to a broadcast?
If you mean that everyone should have an OTA DTV tuner, then that will sort-of happen naturally, as most viewing screens sold are still televisions, not monitors, and thanks to some regulation by our government a television by definition must include a digital tuner. For me, my satellite box has a digital tuner and it works alongside the satellite tuners, or alone if the satellite is out. =p
Were there not a Google (or internet equivalent), I wouldn't sit back in my rocking chair, exclaim "Oh, well," and have a cup or two of tea. Instead, I'd get in my car and drive to the library to look whatever it was up in a reference book, or search the catalog for a book I could borrow on the topic.
In that way, Google (or equivalent) saves energy.
Now that said, I expect Google to do their best to minimize energy consumption. Given that their electricity costs directly hit their cost of doing business, I suspect they agree with this goal.
I don't even need my two [coupons], but picked them up anyways.
Uhh, I think they ran out of money because they have allocated it all towards coupons that have been distributed, but haven't been redeemed or expired.
In other words, you (and those like you) are part of the reason the program has run out of funding.
([coupons] assumed based on your post. If you meant [converter boxes], blowing taxpayer money and carbon dioxide for two pieces of junk to sit in your garage is equally foolish.)
The punishment for clearly and intentionally violating the constitution needs to be more than just A) the chance for impeachment (if you are still in office and it is politically viable), or B) it gets overturned seven years later.
That is one example of the type of thing that could be done to make this harder in the future. I ensure you that if Bush was heading out of the White House into a jail cell for the next 25 years, the next guy would be far less likely to try the same things.
The 622 and 722 have three tuners each: two satellite and one OTA. The only difference between the two is the hard drive size.
I pay for local channels through Dish Network, because I wanted to make sure I could record more than one show from those networks at a time. As a benefit, I get the full schedule data for not only those channels but also the OTA copies through Dish Network. (I know some data is carried in the OTA broadcast, but that's only usually 2-3 days of data. I get the full week+.)
OTA channels show up in a different color in the guide, and are clearly marked with an antenna. Either TV can watch shows from any unused tuner or from the DRV simultaneously, so I could, for example, record three shows at once while watch two shows simultaneously. I'm pretty happy with it except for the DRM. My old 510 didn't have DRM and I could back up shows by pulling out the hard drive and reading the data, for things I really wanted to keep (like my wife or friends on TV, etc.)
My usual grocery store (Central Market) sends us monthly coupons, addressed to us, despite the fact that we've never given them anything more than a credit card. We live rather far from the store, and I know that they don't send them at random to our town; only regular customers get 'em.
I've also done the full opt-out privacy thing for every card I have as soon as I get it.
Thus, yeah, I assumed that when I used my credit card the vendor had access to my billing address. Either that was automatic, or they could request it and it fell under the "permitted" clause.
Sure, if we knew when we'd pay it back. Since this is borrowed money, at some point in the future (hopefully, during a booming economy), we'll be taxed more to pay it back.
That taxation at that time will have an effect to slow the economy, which could be a good thing as smoothing out peaks can help lessen troughs and slow inflation. And if the jobs lost then change unemployment from 1% to 2%, it could be a good thing, depending on various definitions of full employment, as an over-employed economy could also result in rampant inflation.
I trust Obama with those powers a hell of a lot more than I trust Bush with them.
...but I trust the guy who'll replace the guy who'll replace Obama a lot less with them. So let's start now to limit those powers while we have someone in office who might (I said might) be willing to voluntarily relinquish some power to restore balance.
My ViP 722 receiver has an OTA digital tuner along with the satellite tuners. It lets me record a third channel simultaneously (for OTA channels), and if the weather is awful and the satellite isn't working, I can watch OTA news channels via the antenna over my TV in the room.
As I said, consider the amount carefully, as I suspect you'll have lawsuits that follow shortly after the service interruption.
As a customer of Dish Network who lived through the same thing with Viacom a few years ago, I have to say that I consider this very unlikely. They, too, provided a temporary credit for the channels lost. They, too, make me take a lot of channels I don't like for the few I do.
You already force us to take channels we don't want just so we can get the few we do want.
They force us to do so, however, only because they are themselves forced to do so by the content providers. If Time Warner tried to provide you with just Comedy Central and Nickelodeon from Viacom at the basic tier, with all the others pushed to a higher tier where you could chose to not buy them, Time Warner would be sued for contract violation.
The same is true for basically all the other content providers - they don't just provide the channels and say that they must be at the same or relative tiers to each other, they specify exactly which tiers have which channels. Remember all the hubub about BTN (the Big 10 Network) demanding to be put on the basic tier for the entire Midwest?
The way Dish Network ended the impasse was to start lobbying for an end to monopolistic trade practices by the content providers. The argument goes something like this:
1. Each channel provided is, in a way, a monopoly. No one else can provide that channel because copyright law granted the content provider an exclusive right to that content. (This considers a "channel" to be a unique, copyright-protected thing. Ignore if the individual shows are copyright protected or even unique to that channel.)
2. By force a service provider to take and resell a second channel, as a condition for being provided the first channel, content providers are exploiting their monopoly of that first channel. Nickelodeon is a very popular channel. By forcing Time Warner (and Dish Network) to also carry several other lesser-quality channels at the same tier, Viacom could be in violation of the law. (I don't think it's ever been tested in court.)
After Dish Network went down this path, they settled with Viacom rather quickly. Viacom didn't get the rate hikes they wanted (immediately; they were delayed a bit), and Dish Network dropped their suit.
Sadly, when congress actually took this up and considered legislating mandatory a-la-cart pricing, the bill was poisoned with FCC regulation of cable content. As much as I think the Democrat-controlled congress and executive will help the country next year, I very much doubt they'll revisit this without making it just as bad or worse.
CFL bulbs will give you 10+ years of service if you leave them on for at least 30 minutes everytime you turn one on. Not good for use in bathrooms or inside refrigerators.
To be fair, leaving them on continuously is also rough on them. I've lost two CFLs due to wear-out in the past 8 years, and both of them were in my front porch lamp. Because our porch is bathed in shadows at night, we leave a low-wattage CFL on 24/7 for security. The light has just "burnt out" and stopped working twice in eight years. (No off/on cycle required; just stopped illuminating.) Both times I've happily replaced it with another CFL.
Inside our house, every CFL is still in use, except one from a lamp that a cat knocked over and landed directly on the bulb.
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I've asked. I can't.
My wife has asked. While her company officially says "no", her past two bosses have unofficially said "yes, if you do it no more than once or twice a month".
Yeah, I meant (to the troll parent) that, if s/he really hates the networks that much, and wants the raw feed, that s/he could just watch CSPAN.
The original poster could capture CSPAN on a PC and share it among all the classroom, completely bypassing their inbound network pipe.
Didn't the CA public not want the Gay marriage thing in the first place?
It seems that 52.3% of the voting public didn't want gay marriage. However, California law requires that some types of constitutional amendments be ratified by 66.6% of the population, not just 50%, because some things shouldn't be subject to majority vote. One of the legal challenges argues that this amendment is one of those types.
that .01% of gay people
Depending on the studies, somewhere between 1-3% of the population is gay. Your statistics are off by a factor of 100-300.
piss off everyone else
52.3% of the voting population voted for it. Your 99.99% statistic of "everyone else" is off by a factor of almost 2.
your ability to hire out of that pool as that .01% of gay people that you can manage to hire is just that much better that its almost worth to piss off everyone else?
/sarcasm/ Yeah, I hear they hire black people too, and even (*gasp*) Asians. Clearly they should stop doing that because it "pisses off people". /sarcasm/
CSPAN?
The best reason could be power savings. Depending on what you do with those machines, a small latest-generation PC could do the same, at a significantly-lower power requirement, for $100-200. If you plan to use the new computer for several years with it constantly active, you could easily save money in the long term.
That said, if you do the math and it just doesn't save you electricity to go new, then I readily agree there's no reason to upgrade just for upgrade's sake.
That depends on a few factors, including your definition of "PC". I play WoW exclusively on a MacBook Pro, having replaced my last PC desktop a year ago with a Mac Mini, then replaced that with a MacBook to be truly portable. (Incidentally, for the first time ever I resold a computer, getting 2/3 of what I paid for the Mac Mini back out.)
Another factor is WoW's age and popularity. It was the best-selling PC game of the 2008, but it plays just fine on 2-3 year old hardware. It plays better on hardware running Linux and WINE than it does on the exact same machine running Windows, so even if a savvy user isn't satisfied with its PC/Windows performance, they could squeeze more life from that hardware with free software.
I notice it doesn't mention how many jobs will be destroyed by this movement. I know that my entire company would go under, which represents a paltry 30 employees
Yes, but it won't destroy your jobs for several years, while they are developing and implementing this program. In the interim, there will be extra jobs while they pay those developers and implementers and you continue to be employed.
Plus, as an added bonus, you now have a multi-year lead time on knowing your occupation will be obsolete. Follow and learn what it takes to administer the new system, or train for another profession, and be ready to switch.
Ahh, I didn't RTFA. I assumed they were talking differential power from causing hard drive accesses, all the routers on the way having to process extra packets, etc.
Still, my original claim is accurate. Were Google not to exist, their infrastructure and base power consumption wouldn't either, and there would be an increase in road traffic.
It would be better if you rode the bus to the library. But that would be inconvenient. It says a lot about the issue that everybody (except all the kneejerk "skeptics" that will soon post on this story) cares about curbing greenhouse gases, but nobody is willing to make the troublesome lifestyle changes necessary to make a real difference.
My city doesn't have bus service. So yes, waiting for a bus would be incredibly inconvenient.
nobody is willing to make the troublesome lifestyle changes necessary to make a real difference.
Does this include you? People aren't going to make huge changes because, for the most part, that doesn't make a big difference. Everyone making a small change has a much, much bigger impact than just a few people (those unselfish enough to care) making a big change. Raising the minimum legal mileage for new cars by one MPG would be a much, much bigger change than me riding a bike to work every day. (Not that I could given the distance, nor could both me and my wife given how far apart we work no matter where we move.) I can choose to not buy another car until one that gets high mileage from an alternative fuel source is available, which is what I've been doing for the last few years.
I personally boil my tea and coffee water in the microwave.
I drink tap water at whatever temperature it comes out of the cold faucet. That reduces my carbon footprint further. =p
Of course, because Somalia is the only "free market" on the planet, and yet they still have bubbles.
Your entire argument is completely wrong. Fortunately, most of the world agrees with me that a regulated market that tries to reduce the peaks and troughs is better than one allowed to ride freely, so your argument really doesn't matter that much anyway.
They were paid for with the money raised auctioning off the soon to be available bandwidth.
The government made billions of dollars on the deal even after you subtract the value of the coupons.
And they would've made two billion more if weren't for the coupon program. And all the money ends up in the same pool, so that would have been two billion less of debt taxpayers would need to pay off eventually.
Not that the coupon program isn't a fair thing to do to all the fixed-income people affected by the change. But don't pretend that it isn't taxpayers who will have to pay for it.
I would recommend that everybody should get their coupon, even if they have cable, if for no other reason than emergency preparedness. Sometimes you may need to catch a broadcast while the cable feeding to your living room is on the fritz.
How exactly does a coupon tune to a broadcast?
If you mean that everyone should have an OTA DTV tuner, then that will sort-of happen naturally, as most viewing screens sold are still televisions, not monitors, and thanks to some regulation by our government a television by definition must include a digital tuner. For me, my satellite box has a digital tuner and it works alongside the satellite tuners, or alone if the satellite is out. =p
Were there not a Google (or internet equivalent), I wouldn't sit back in my rocking chair, exclaim "Oh, well," and have a cup or two of tea. Instead, I'd get in my car and drive to the library to look whatever it was up in a reference book, or search the catalog for a book I could borrow on the topic.
In that way, Google (or equivalent) saves energy.
Now that said, I expect Google to do their best to minimize energy consumption. Given that their electricity costs directly hit their cost of doing business, I suspect they agree with this goal.
I don't even need my two [coupons], but picked them up anyways.
Uhh, I think they ran out of money because they have allocated it all towards coupons that have been distributed, but haven't been redeemed or expired.
In other words, you (and those like you) are part of the reason the program has run out of funding.
([coupons] assumed based on your post. If you meant [converter boxes], blowing taxpayer money and carbon dioxide for two pieces of junk to sit in your garage is equally foolish.)
Retarding the economy is good for the economy? Yeah right.
Exactly. I'm glad we agree. Oh, were you sarcastic?
But what you're missing is that free markets don't create bubbles; governments do.
Really? So you don't think that the economic boom in Somalia because of the influx of ransom money from pirating can be described as a "bubble"?
The punishment for clearly and intentionally violating the constitution needs to be more than just A) the chance for impeachment (if you are still in office and it is politically viable), or B) it gets overturned seven years later.
That is one example of the type of thing that could be done to make this harder in the future. I ensure you that if Bush was heading out of the White House into a jail cell for the next 25 years, the next guy would be far less likely to try the same things.
The 622 and 722 have three tuners each: two satellite and one OTA. The only difference between the two is the hard drive size.
I pay for local channels through Dish Network, because I wanted to make sure I could record more than one show from those networks at a time. As a benefit, I get the full schedule data for not only those channels but also the OTA copies through Dish Network. (I know some data is carried in the OTA broadcast, but that's only usually 2-3 days of data. I get the full week+.)
OTA channels show up in a different color in the guide, and are clearly marked with an antenna. Either TV can watch shows from any unused tuner or from the DRV simultaneously, so I could, for example, record three shows at once while watch two shows simultaneously. I'm pretty happy with it except for the DRM. My old 510 didn't have DRM and I could back up shows by pulling out the hard drive and reading the data, for things I really wanted to keep (like my wife or friends on TV, etc.)
My usual grocery store (Central Market) sends us monthly coupons, addressed to us, despite the fact that we've never given them anything more than a credit card. We live rather far from the store, and I know that they don't send them at random to our town; only regular customers get 'em.
I've also done the full opt-out privacy thing for every card I have as soon as I get it.
Thus, yeah, I assumed that when I used my credit card the vendor had access to my billing address. Either that was automatic, or they could request it and it fell under the "permitted" clause.
Sure, if we knew when we'd pay it back. Since this is borrowed money, at some point in the future (hopefully, during a booming economy), we'll be taxed more to pay it back.
That taxation at that time will have an effect to slow the economy, which could be a good thing as smoothing out peaks can help lessen troughs and slow inflation. And if the jobs lost then change unemployment from 1% to 2%, it could be a good thing, depending on various definitions of full employment, as an over-employed economy could also result in rampant inflation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment
I trust Obama with those powers a hell of a lot more than I trust Bush with them.
...but I trust the guy who'll replace the guy who'll replace Obama a lot less with them. So let's start now to limit those powers while we have someone in office who might (I said might) be willing to voluntarily relinquish some power to restore balance.
My ViP 722 receiver has an OTA digital tuner along with the satellite tuners. It lets me record a third channel simultaneously (for OTA channels), and if the weather is awful and the satellite isn't working, I can watch OTA news channels via the antenna over my TV in the room.
there seems to be no other major technical programmers' magazines
Doesn't Computer qualify as a major technical programmers' magazine? It is the official publication of the official software engineering society...
(It certainly doesn't include enough hardware articles to keep me interested, so I assume it fascinates hard-core technical programmers.)
As I said, consider the amount carefully, as I suspect you'll have lawsuits that follow shortly after the service interruption.
As a customer of Dish Network who lived through the same thing with Viacom a few years ago, I have to say that I consider this very unlikely. They, too, provided a temporary credit for the channels lost. They, too, make me take a lot of channels I don't like for the few I do.
You already force us to take channels we don't want just so we can get the few we do want.
They force us to do so, however, only because they are themselves forced to do so by the content providers. If Time Warner tried to provide you with just Comedy Central and Nickelodeon from Viacom at the basic tier, with all the others pushed to a higher tier where you could chose to not buy them, Time Warner would be sued for contract violation.
The same is true for basically all the other content providers - they don't just provide the channels and say that they must be at the same or relative tiers to each other, they specify exactly which tiers have which channels. Remember all the hubub about BTN (the Big 10 Network) demanding to be put on the basic tier for the entire Midwest?
The way Dish Network ended the impasse was to start lobbying for an end to monopolistic trade practices by the content providers. The argument goes something like this:
1. Each channel provided is, in a way, a monopoly. No one else can provide that channel because copyright law granted the content provider an exclusive right to that content. (This considers a "channel" to be a unique, copyright-protected thing. Ignore if the individual shows are copyright protected or even unique to that channel.)
2. By force a service provider to take and resell a second channel, as a condition for being provided the first channel, content providers are exploiting their monopoly of that first channel. Nickelodeon is a very popular channel. By forcing Time Warner (and Dish Network) to also carry several other lesser-quality channels at the same tier, Viacom could be in violation of the law. (I don't think it's ever been tested in court.)
After Dish Network went down this path, they settled with Viacom rather quickly. Viacom didn't get the rate hikes they wanted (immediately; they were delayed a bit), and Dish Network dropped their suit.
Sadly, when congress actually took this up and considered legislating mandatory a-la-cart pricing, the bill was poisoned with FCC regulation of cable content. As much as I think the Democrat-controlled congress and executive will help the country next year, I very much doubt they'll revisit this without making it just as bad or worse.
GPS unit 1341235423523 bought 50 gallons of gas but only drove 50 miles per the GPS. Odd that Prius is only getting 1 MPG.
But the rest of the gas went into my lawnmowers over the course of a year, which didn't cause any road wear.
CFL bulbs will give you 10+ years of service if you leave them on for at least 30 minutes everytime you turn one on. Not good for use in bathrooms or inside refrigerators.
To be fair, leaving them on continuously is also rough on them. I've lost two CFLs due to wear-out in the past 8 years, and both of them were in my front porch lamp. Because our porch is bathed in shadows at night, we leave a low-wattage CFL on 24/7 for security. The light has just "burnt out" and stopped working twice in eight years. (No off/on cycle required; just stopped illuminating.) Both times I've happily replaced it with another CFL.
Inside our house, every CFL is still in use, except one from a lamp that a cat knocked over and landed directly on the bulb.