I order from Newegg using Linux and FireFox all the time... I place at least 10 orders per month with them... never had a problem. It's probably something in your local configuration - security settings perhaps.
Given the fact that Hybrid cars are more damaging to the environment overall than Humvees (even if they do help with localized urban pollution by moving and concentrating it to Sudbury, Ontario), I am surprised these things are still on the road. *sigh*
Well, I thought that was the end-goal of this whole GW movement - to return us to the stone age. Right? Maybe that's a bit on the extreme end of the spectrum, but there are certainly those out there who do not want us to have lights, electricity, cars, or anything like that. Don't get me wrong, I am all for conservation, but conservation and environmentalism are two completely different animals.
The point I was trying to make was that with so little data about a system that has time constants running into the millions of years, it is really impossible for anyone to say anything with any certainty. Do I personally think global warming is man-made? Probably not, but we can't say for sure. Do I think conservation is a good idea anyway? Of course I do. It is always better to use less of a finite resource.
The problem arises when the alarmists want to torpedo all of modern civilization to accomplish nothing. So far, the major "solutions" to this perceived "problem" actually consume more resources than the "problems" themselves. Cap and Trade is going to destroy the global economy (if it hasn't already), which will accomplish a reduction in use, sure, but at the expense of the global standard of living (yes, I know the standard of living is already very low in most places).
The major error in the way we are thinking is the same error we've been making for the last 50-100 years, and that is that the government is the solution to our problems. Until people take personal responsibility to "use less stuff," the problems will continue to worsen. We fought a bloody (adjective, not expletive) revolution over the idea that it was not the government's job to force solutions to non-existent problems on us. Multi-billion dollar studies followed by expensive legislation and ongoing compliance costs aren't going to be nearly as effective as personal choice. I cut my electricity bill in half just by washing my dishes by hand and hanging my clothes to dry.
Anyhow, a funny thought popped into my head on your last comment about advanced agriculture. Facts aside, have you SEEN Americans lately? I think it might not be a bad thing to raise the water a little.
And how far back, exactly, does that graph go? I mean, on a planetary timescale? How far back do we have actual, honest-to-god temperature measurements that are global and reliable? 50 years? Reliable, but only localized: what, 1000 years? Sorry, you don't get a decimal point from ice cores. You get "hot" or "cold," and you can't base $15 trillion of economic damage on a hunch.
Past performance does not guarantee future results.
We still see that disclaimer even though, by several orders of magnitude, we have spend more money trying to predict the stock market than we have to predict climate, and the stock market is far more predictable.
Global Warming fanatics think that any variation of temperature other than year after year decreases in temperature is proof that Global Warming is real
1) You have to use REALLY GOOD feedline from the antenna. This is an outdoor job, so I imagine it's a bit of a distance from the receiver to the feed point of the antenna. Use RG-6 for this. Find some quad-shielded coax with good weatherproof connectors.
2) This antenna has no preamp. Placing a preamp at the feed point (very important to be at the antenna-side of the coax) will work wonders. you can get an amp with a power injector pretty cheap
You are obviously tainted and not working in the best interest of the company. You have a job to do, and you should do it and not complain. That is what you are being paid for. When you put your own interests ahead of the company's interests, that's the point at which, as far as I am concerned, you no longer have a place in the company.
As a manager, If I even found out you had an anti-patent political position, I would probably terminate your employment on the grounds that you might sabotage the patent process.
The answers to most typical Security questions can be found in the internet.
For example, your mother's maiden name is a matter of public record, as is the place you went to high school, usually (most people advertise this on their Facebook page or elsewhere, anyway).
Security questions only make it easier for someone to steal your identity. The whole point is that they're supposed to be questions that only YOU know the answer to, but that is seldom the case. I just treat these as I do any other password and make them random strings of characters and symbols.. it's the only safe way to do it.
First of all, this in no way even closely resembles slavery. It also does not closely resemble indentured servitude.
Employees suing over unpaid overtime is nothing new. Similarly, being paid for 40 hours when you worked 45 is so incredibly far from slavery that it only serves to marginalize the travesty that was real slavery throughout history.
Since there has been no trial and no finding of guilt, the USAF in fact has done nothing wrong. Those accused of violating the law are "innocent until having been proved guilty," remember? Since the USAF has not been found guilty, then they have not done anything wrong as far as the rest of us are concerned.
I thought the legislative branch was responsible for declaring things illegal? Isn't it simply up to a judge to decide whether the fee is illegal framed within the way a law is written?
This is just what we need - more distractions for the driver, who is already heavily distracted by the starbucks latte in one hand, newspaper in the other, and 3 screaming kids in the back seat.
"WTF is this bluescreen about?" screeeeeeech *crash*
Perhaps because volcanoes are strongly associated with seismic activity and that activity might likely destroy any underground infrastructure constructed to harness that heat energy..
It's 22MWh per kilowatt of peak output, not per panel. How many square meters of panel does it take at a very generous 13% efficiency and 1360W/m^2 full Sun? About 5.65 square meters. That's still 3.4MWh per kilowatt of peak output. About 5 years for my numbers.
On what basis are you calling 22MWh ridiculous? Do you have some document that disagrees with the guy who does this for a living?
A Solar Energy analyst I hired to evaluate my house said that it takes 22MWh to grow enough silicon for 1kW peak output. If you consider you need 22,000 hours of full, peak Sun just to cover the energy expended to grow the panel (not including the energy to package it, ship it, install it, and so on), it's pretty clear that unless you have a steerable panel and live in a place where you can get 4-6 hours per day of "full" Sun, PV quickly becomes a non-starter.
For example, where I live, and given the orientation of my house, the solar analyst said I'd get, on average, about 700 hours per year of Peak Sun Equivalent. At that rate, it would take 31 years just to cover the energy cost of growing the silicon in the panel, while only saving me $115 per year per kW of PV panels installed. He instead recommended a solar hot water system to augment my electric water heater. It's about 1/10 the cost and with a good tank, will net more energy than the PV will.
Fair enough. I don't use the service either, and I didn't know whether they actually allowed you to burn to CD since that seemed like a trivial way to circumvent the DRM.
I honestly thought that if the solution were really that trivial, it would have been total non-news and hence not made it to the front page...
I think some have misunderstood my suggestion. I did not mean to suggest a recompression after the initial decompression.
DRMed File -> Decomp -> S/PDIF Output -> S/PDIF Input -> Uncompressed File -> Burn to CD / Output to Speakers
Obviously if you recompress you're going to have a lossy step, but that's not a requirement. If you're buying music online, you probably don't care much about quality anyway. If you care about quality, you buy the CD and convert it yourself, or you find a place that sells files compressed with a lossless codec like FLAC.
Seriously, why do you even need to use compression anymore? Your average album is what, 45 minutes / 450MB uncompressed and maybe about 325MB FLACed? How is that even significant anymore on today's storage landscape?
MP3/AAC and all these lossy codecs are being completely obviated by cheap hard disk space and gargantuan FLASH. The only real reasons to use them anymore is to reduce the number of bits that have to be moved from one place to another, and to squeeze more onto portables. Quality is not really as important on portables because usually people are in noisy ambient environments and the artifacts in the music are easily drowned out by background noise.
Back when Flash was small and expensive, I used to encode my music at 48kbit MONO for my MP3 player, which I used for cycling and running. Nowadays, my music at home is all uncompressed on my server and 192kbit on my portables.
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I order from Newegg using Linux and FireFox all the time... I place at least 10 orders per month with them... never had a problem. It's probably something in your local configuration - security settings perhaps.
You still have to pay Use Tax even if you buy something out of state.
http://www.tennessee.gov/revenue/tntaxes/usetax.htm
So, just buy from Newegg and make your life easier..
Given the fact that Hybrid cars are more damaging to the environment overall than Humvees (even if they do help with localized urban pollution by moving and concentrating it to Sudbury, Ontario), I am surprised these things are still on the road. *sigh*
08:13:50 up 133 days, 11:30, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
RX bytes:105620848566 (98.3 GiB) TX bytes:24404986554 (22.7 GiB)
98GB in 4 months... I think I'll be allright...
I wonder how much electricity was used, and therefore coal and #6 burned, to find that prime - which will be used for what exactly?
And just write the 1's and 0's on it... :)
Well, I thought that was the end-goal of this whole GW movement - to return us to the stone age. Right? Maybe that's a bit on the extreme end of the spectrum, but there are certainly those out there who do not want us to have lights, electricity, cars, or anything like that. Don't get me wrong, I am all for conservation, but conservation and environmentalism are two completely different animals.
The point I was trying to make was that with so little data about a system that has time constants running into the millions of years, it is really impossible for anyone to say anything with any certainty. Do I personally think global warming is man-made? Probably not, but we can't say for sure. Do I think conservation is a good idea anyway? Of course I do. It is always better to use less of a finite resource.
The problem arises when the alarmists want to torpedo all of modern civilization to accomplish nothing. So far, the major "solutions" to this perceived "problem" actually consume more resources than the "problems" themselves. Cap and Trade is going to destroy the global economy (if it hasn't already), which will accomplish a reduction in use, sure, but at the expense of the global standard of living (yes, I know the standard of living is already very low in most places).
The major error in the way we are thinking is the same error we've been making for the last 50-100 years, and that is that the government is the solution to our problems. Until people take personal responsibility to "use less stuff," the problems will continue to worsen. We fought a bloody (adjective, not expletive) revolution over the idea that it was not the government's job to force solutions to non-existent problems on us. Multi-billion dollar studies followed by expensive legislation and ongoing compliance costs aren't going to be nearly as effective as personal choice. I cut my electricity bill in half just by washing my dishes by hand and hanging my clothes to dry.
Anyhow, a funny thought popped into my head on your last comment about advanced agriculture. Facts aside, have you SEEN Americans lately? I think it might not be a bad thing to raise the water a little.
I like my Spam chilled... no other way to have it..
And how far back, exactly, does that graph go? I mean, on a planetary timescale? How far back do we have actual, honest-to-god temperature measurements that are global and reliable? 50 years? Reliable, but only localized: what, 1000 years? Sorry, you don't get a decimal point from ice cores. You get "hot" or "cold," and you can't base $15 trillion of economic damage on a hunch.
Past performance does not guarantee future results.
We still see that disclaimer even though, by several orders of magnitude, we have spend more money trying to predict the stock market than we have to predict climate, and the stock market is far more predictable.
Will it make my Sony Bluray player take less than 10 minutes to boot and play a disc?
Global Warming fanatics think that any variation of temperature other than year after year decreases in temperature is proof that Global Warming is real
1) You have to use REALLY GOOD feedline from the antenna. This is an outdoor job, so I imagine it's a bit of a distance from the receiver to the feed point of the antenna. Use RG-6 for this. Find some quad-shielded coax with good weatherproof connectors.
2) This antenna has no preamp. Placing a preamp at the feed point (very important to be at the antenna-side of the coax) will work wonders. you can get an amp with a power injector pretty cheap
You are obviously tainted and not working in the best interest of the company. You have a job to do, and you should do it and not complain. That is what you are being paid for. When you put your own interests ahead of the company's interests, that's the point at which, as far as I am concerned, you no longer have a place in the company.
As a manager, If I even found out you had an anti-patent political position, I would probably terminate your employment on the grounds that you might sabotage the patent process.
Tell me something. Why do Brits put up with this crap?
The answers to most typical Security questions can be found in the internet.
For example, your mother's maiden name is a matter of public record, as is the place you went to high school, usually (most people advertise this on their Facebook page or elsewhere, anyway).
Security questions only make it easier for someone to steal your identity. The whole point is that they're supposed to be questions that only YOU know the answer to, but that is seldom the case. I just treat these as I do any other password and make them random strings of characters and symbols.. it's the only safe way to do it.
First of all, this in no way even closely resembles slavery. It also does not closely resemble indentured servitude.
Employees suing over unpaid overtime is nothing new. Similarly, being paid for 40 hours when you worked 45 is so incredibly far from slavery that it only serves to marginalize the travesty that was real slavery throughout history.
Since there has been no trial and no finding of guilt, the USAF in fact has done nothing wrong. Those accused of violating the law are "innocent until having been proved guilty," remember? Since the USAF has not been found guilty, then they have not done anything wrong as far as the rest of us are concerned.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
I thought the legislative branch was responsible for declaring things illegal? Isn't it simply up to a judge to decide whether the fee is illegal framed within the way a law is written?
This is just what we need - more distractions for the driver, who is already heavily distracted by the starbucks latte in one hand, newspaper in the other, and 3 screaming kids in the back seat.
"WTF is this bluescreen about?" screeeeeeech *crash*
Perhaps because volcanoes are strongly associated with seismic activity and that activity might likely destroy any underground infrastructure constructed to harness that heat energy..
It's 22MWh per kilowatt of peak output, not per panel. How many square meters of panel does it take at a very generous 13% efficiency and 1360W/m^2 full Sun? About 5.65 square meters. That's still 3.4MWh per kilowatt of peak output. About 5 years for my numbers.
On what basis are you calling 22MWh ridiculous? Do you have some document that disagrees with the guy who does this for a living?
no no no.. not his ego...
He'll just go up and show off his acting skills, and the asteroid will just get up and walk out of the theater...
A Solar Energy analyst I hired to evaluate my house said that it takes 22MWh to grow enough silicon for 1kW peak output. If you consider you need 22,000 hours of full, peak Sun just to cover the energy expended to grow the panel (not including the energy to package it, ship it, install it, and so on), it's pretty clear that unless you have a steerable panel and live in a place where you can get 4-6 hours per day of "full" Sun, PV quickly becomes a non-starter.
For example, where I live, and given the orientation of my house, the solar analyst said I'd get, on average, about 700 hours per year of Peak Sun Equivalent. At that rate, it would take 31 years just to cover the energy cost of growing the silicon in the panel, while only saving me $115 per year per kW of PV panels installed. He instead recommended a solar hot water system to augment my electric water heater. It's about 1/10 the cost and with a good tank, will net more energy than the PV will.
Fair enough. I don't use the service either, and I didn't know whether they actually allowed you to burn to CD since that seemed like a trivial way to circumvent the DRM.
I honestly thought that if the solution were really that trivial, it would have been total non-news and hence not made it to the front page...
What the hell was I thinking? hah...
I think some have misunderstood my suggestion. I did not mean to suggest a recompression after the initial decompression.
DRMed File -> Decomp -> S/PDIF Output -> S/PDIF Input -> Uncompressed File -> Burn to CD / Output to Speakers
Obviously if you recompress you're going to have a lossy step, but that's not a requirement. If you're buying music online, you probably don't care much about quality anyway. If you care about quality, you buy the CD and convert it yourself, or you find a place that sells files compressed with a lossless codec like FLAC.
Seriously, why do you even need to use compression anymore? Your average album is what, 45 minutes / 450MB uncompressed and maybe about 325MB FLACed? How is that even significant anymore on today's storage landscape?
MP3/AAC and all these lossy codecs are being completely obviated by cheap hard disk space and gargantuan FLASH. The only real reasons to use them anymore is to reduce the number of bits that have to be moved from one place to another, and to squeeze more onto portables. Quality is not really as important on portables because usually people are in noisy ambient environments and the artifacts in the music are easily drowned out by background noise.
Back when Flash was small and expensive, I used to encode my music at 48kbit MONO for my MP3 player, which I used for cycling and running. Nowadays, my music at home is all uncompressed on my server and 192kbit on my portables.