Uhhhh. Wouldn't making chips a bit more efficient be better, as opposed to making them "less likely to burn out at higher temps"
Seems that google's not really thinking green in this case (despite the pretension to do so in others), unless they plan on making use of the datacenter heat elsewhere.
When you have reps stating "I know this will probably hose my chances of re-election, but I'm doing it anyways," and stats/polls showing that citizen opposition was well over half, and yet it got rammed through anyways.
Do you still really think that they're listening to you up on capitol hill?
My first car was an '88 Camry. Great gas mileage, comfortable, had a sunroof, and overall a fairly enjoyable ride. It had a tendency to rust around the fenders, but while I got it around the upper 100,000 km's, I drove it to 350,000km and other than normal maintenance and a little extra oil, never really had any issues with it (towards 345,000 it blew a water pump, that's about all I can remember). The Camry cost me $4000 and sold for $1800.
My current car I bought new (Corolla). Regular maintenance of this one costs me more than my old Corolla, not to mention the stress the first few times somebody scraped my doors and dinged my bumper. Insurance for a new car is almost twice the older one as well. Buying used is great if you're careful about it, and it doesn't just save money on the purchase price.
Hopefully he tends to drive the limit. It seems that certain colours (bright red and yellow among them if I remember correctly) tends to make one's car more noticeable and likely to be snagged by cops. In some cases, these things can even influence your insurance rate (having a car that's sporty, or actually called a "sport" par example).
Efficiency counts in terms of size. Yes, if we need more power, we can build bigger collectors. However, in many cases space=money. Moreover, convenience=easier sell=more money.
There's already plenty of little solar gadgets for charging your cellular or whatever while camping, those wouldn't work too well if you needed an area the size of a football field to get enough power. More efficient collectors can mean (in general) that you can get *the same* amount of power (as a less efficient collector) in a smaller area, although with many techs there may be a minimum to that as well.
Imagine if you could power your air-conditioner with a simple collector that was the size of, well, the top of your air conditioner. That's convenient, efficient, and sellable. In fact, even if it doubled the cost of the unit itself (for a standard window unit, $150-400), the convenience - especially for mobile purposes - and savings-over-time feature (not to mention the gizmo feature) would probably make it a good sell.
OK, so I'm Canadian. I'm not really sure how things compared between Canada and the US, but I'd imagine that there's some relation.
First of all, my girlfriend is from China, but carries a strong education and multiple (non basket-weaving) degrees. She was able to come over without the usual wait-periods, and should hopefully be able to pick up a good job.
However, among many people I know through her, few of the immigrants have much of an education. Many have been around long enough to be landed, but they've little useful education, and thus are not working (rather they're now existing on student loans). In other cases they're working, but likely doing so "under the table" and thus not paying taxes. From what I've seen in the last several years, this happens *A LOT*
So for all of us paying taxes, how many have moved to Canada and are now living off of loans or untaxed income. How is that helpful to the country.
So with the above, the taxpayers are getting screwed...
Next...
My girlfriend has had issues finding a decent job. After upgrading her english courses, her english is good, but "booky" so in the initial stages it was like she was reciting from a text and getting the inflections or some pronunciation wrong (better than I could likely hope for learning Chinese though...). It's definitely good enough for her to work though, as one of her primary areas of expertise is accounting. OK, so what has she found so far. Well, people don't want to hire permanent immigrants because they'd have to pay them more. In fact, where she's working now, they're paying her zilch, but she's already been moved into *training* their staff on an accounting system. So here the immigrants with actual job skills are getting screwed as well.
So the system is broken. The only immigrants that get work are the ones that are cheap labour. Many choose to thus do work under the table because at least they can skip the taxes and still get gov't assistance, etc (taxpayers screwed). The others can't find decent jobs because, well, nobody wants to hire them at a decent wage, and they don't understand "the system" - and hell, neither do I - well enough to avoid being screwed (immigrants screwed).
I think the whole situation needs to be overhauled everywhere, because from what I can see, it DOESN'T work.
At some point though, with the rise of housing costs, getting a barely-affordable loan VS renting becomes almost academic. In a lot of places housing became a seller's market. That in turn led to massive price inflation. Price inflation of purchases led to price inflation of rentals. So in some cases, you can barely afford to rent, you can barely afford to buy, and you go with buy because at least in that case you're hoping to end up with something tangible.
Well, I've never seen somebody change from being "white" to being black (though I suppose in odd Michael Jackson like cases, it can go the other way).
The eventual change from full-haired to bald is a lot different that being born with certain characteristics. Are we going to next argue that having a strong predisposition for cancer shouldn't be "fixed" because that's the way you started genetically?
As somebody who is inflicted with an increasingly receding hairline, I'd have to say that a "picard" (or hell, full baldness, even Jean-Luc had *some* hair) is probably an improvement. Trying to find the right haircut and style to adjust for receding sidelines is a real annoyance. I'd be tempted to shave the whole damn thing off, if not for the fact that I've seen others do so and then have the same hassles dealing with the parts that come back...
Ummm, and how is a shit sandwich better than shit? Are you perhaps running for government (after all, they often seem to "resolve" shitty situations by creating different forms of shitty situations).
What's so sensitive about the economy of a nation that it must be kept secret, thereby not even allowing the nation itself (the people) to know about it?
Uh, passwords, bank account numbers, and all sorts of info that would let people walk away with money that wasn't theirs?
To be fair, most distros don't require you to compile kernels. The kernel itself gets updated at various intervals as a package, and then the package can be downloaded along with a shitload of loadable modules.
Rolling your own is more for if you want cutting-edge, or perhaps for some oft-unused module that wasn't available in the distro's current kernel offerings.
This is actually something I've always worried about, if we're breeding "weak genes." However, this may be offset by the fact that many human deficiencies may now be compensated for, various illnesses may be all but eradicated, and genetic research - for good or bad - has been developing steadily. You can already take tests which assess the chances of having a baby for various developmental issues, I'd imagine one day you could also prevent them.
Seems to me that, as personal development happens the most during your early years of life, then having children at around 20-25 would probably mean you've done the bigger share of "evolving" already. Even if you account 17-year-olds making babies, they've still passed the heavily formative years of infanthood and early puberty.
And to add to that... what we consider "old" these days would be considered pretty much "ancient" by many of our ancestors. Wasn't 40-50 considered a pretty ripe old age a few centuries back?
The fact that they're sticking people who haven't committed a crime into a police database is also questionable. If they haven't done anything wrong and really aren't under suspicion of a crime (last time I checked, peaceful protests weren't a crime), then why the fuck do the even need to be entered in any database?
The header has to be set by the antispam app, which in turn has to identify/tag SPAM. The rules that cause spamassassin and others to weight things as SPAM can be adjusted, and a little manual tweaking can actually help a lot if you get the same SPAM rather redundantly.
Depends on the SPAM header, but if we're getting a lot of any particular SPAM variety, then adding a rule which will tag+filter/trash it without killing off legit mail is part of the job.
Seems to me that the spammers must be working on a basis of whatever words most likely to interest the reader into clicking further, so it's perhaps an indicator of how interesting "person X" is overall at a given time. I've seen various celebrity names pop up, and I believe that Obama's did awhile back before the newer spams containing Palin's name in conjunction with various sexual keywords.
Damn. I forgot the hot-tub part, probably since I've never personally owned one (though I have relatives that do, I'd rather not think of the *naked* part).
I'd agree that a hot-tub is an improvement, provided that it has a warm path back to the house, otherwise the moment is somewhat broken when you have to get out and face the cold again (otherwise, outdoor hot-tub on a winter day is a winner). I suppose an indoor hot-tub/spa with a glass enclosure might be good as well.
Lived in Interior BC (down to -38 on the odd occasion, dry cold though so it's not too bad if you're not in the wind) and now live in Toronto (last winter was >-30, not sure what the regular is, but it's a wet cold so it tends to "seep in" a bit more):
I had gas heat in BC, and I have hot-water heat in Ontario.
I've had electric before in BC as well, though. The power consumption depends on how you use it, among other things.
If you've good thermostats and adjustable base-heaters in a per-room basis, you can let them crank the heat down a lot at night in the larger but unused areas of the house, and then warm up in the morning. For the bedrooms, you can adjust to your own comfort level at night-time, but let them drop in times when you're in common areas. So the temperates around the house will see-saw depending on what rooms you need warmth in more, but you can adjust to conserve power while maintaining overall comfort.
Still, nothing's quite as nice as having a good efficient gas fireplace in the central area of the house, especially if *that* has a thermostat (my last house did). You can turn it down at night, but it sure heats up a room quickly and when you've got "cold-balls" from shoveling a few feet of snow, nothing beats sitting in front of the hot fireplace!
Weekly/Monthly OS-restore on disc, regular file backups synced on a USB drive (thumb or external HDD, depending on volume) has usually been the way I go.
When I have to completely rebuild a client's dead system (OS reinstall) I try to image the disk if I have time. That way the next time's a lot faster. Saves me time, saves them money.
Actually, I find that the OS changes quite a lot, mainly due to patches, updates, etc. Most of these wouldn't likely be too difficult to re-download, but it would still be more convenient to have a "one-stop restore." Heck, having a seperate OS restore might be more valuable, if you could fix the OS core of viruses etc while keeping your documents in place.
Maybe one idea might be to have a "core" restore disk, and then another one for person stuff like documents, etc.
The "core" disk could be re-usable (up to capacity) but just adding differential updates with whatever has changed since the last backup.
This is mainly for windows users though. I'm not much of a windows user myself ('nix) but having an up-to-date restore disk would do wonders for a lot of the people I've done private repair service, etc for.
Of course, expecting those people to do backups is another thing entirely, but at least I could write a restore point here and there for the "regulars" who tend to much things up fairly commonly.
Even at home, it'd be nice to be able to back up my entire computer onto one disk
It would be nice to be able to create on-the-spot full-machine restore disks. Great for a monthly/semi-monthly backup in case the machine/drive dies (replace drive, plug in disk, and auto-restore).
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Uhhhh. Wouldn't making chips a bit more efficient be better, as opposed to making them "less likely to burn out at higher temps"
Seems that google's not really thinking green in this case (despite the pretension to do so in others), unless they plan on making use of the datacenter heat elsewhere.
If there was no SPAM, how could they sell you anti-spam packages with their service...?
When you have reps stating "I know this will probably hose my chances of re-election, but I'm doing it anyways," and stats/polls showing that citizen opposition was well over half, and yet it got rammed through anyways.
Do you still really think that they're listening to you up on capitol hill?
My first car was an '88 Camry. Great gas mileage, comfortable, had a sunroof, and overall a fairly enjoyable ride. It had a tendency to rust around the fenders, but while I got it around the upper 100,000 km's, I drove it to 350,000km and other than normal maintenance and a little extra oil, never really had any issues with it (towards 345,000 it blew a water pump, that's about all I can remember). The Camry cost me $4000 and sold for $1800.
My current car I bought new (Corolla). Regular maintenance of this one costs me more than my old Corolla, not to mention the stress the first few times somebody scraped my doors and dinged my bumper. Insurance for a new car is almost twice the older one as well. Buying used is great if you're careful about it, and it doesn't just save money on the purchase price.
Hopefully he tends to drive the limit. It seems that certain colours (bright red and yellow among them if I remember correctly) tends to make one's car more noticeable and likely to be snagged by cops. In some cases, these things can even influence your insurance rate (having a car that's sporty, or actually called a "sport" par example).
Efficiency counts in terms of size. Yes, if we need more power, we can build bigger collectors. However, in many cases space=money. Moreover, convenience=easier sell=more money.
There's already plenty of little solar gadgets for charging your cellular or whatever while camping, those wouldn't work too well if you needed an area the size of a football field to get enough power. More efficient collectors can mean (in general) that you can get *the same* amount of power (as a less efficient collector) in a smaller area, although with many techs there may be a minimum to that as well.
Imagine if you could power your air-conditioner with a simple collector that was the size of, well, the top of your air conditioner. That's convenient, efficient, and sellable. In fact, even if it doubled the cost of the unit itself (for a standard window unit, $150-400), the convenience - especially for mobile purposes - and savings-over-time feature (not to mention the gizmo feature) would probably make it a good sell.
OK, so I'm Canadian. I'm not really sure how things compared between Canada and the US, but I'd imagine that there's some relation.
First of all, my girlfriend is from China, but carries a strong education and multiple (non basket-weaving) degrees. She was able to come over without the usual wait-periods, and should hopefully be able to pick up a good job.
However, among many people I know through her, few of the immigrants have much of an education. Many have been around long enough to be landed, but they've little useful education, and thus are not working (rather they're now existing on student loans). In other cases they're working, but likely doing so "under the table" and thus not paying taxes. From what I've seen in the last several years, this happens *A LOT*
So for all of us paying taxes, how many have moved to Canada and are now living off of loans or untaxed income. How is that helpful to the country.
So with the above, the taxpayers are getting screwed...
Next...
My girlfriend has had issues finding a decent job. After upgrading her english courses, her english is good, but "booky" so in the initial stages it was like she was reciting from a text and getting the inflections or some pronunciation wrong (better than I could likely hope for learning Chinese though...). It's definitely good enough for her to work though, as one of her primary areas of expertise is accounting. OK, so what has she found so far. Well, people don't want to hire permanent immigrants because they'd have to pay them more. In fact, where she's working now, they're paying her zilch, but she's already been moved into *training* their staff on an accounting system. So here the immigrants with actual job skills are getting screwed as well.
So the system is broken. The only immigrants that get work are the ones that are cheap labour. Many choose to thus do work under the table because at least they can skip the taxes and still get gov't assistance, etc (taxpayers screwed). The others can't find decent jobs because, well, nobody wants to hire them at a decent wage, and they don't understand "the system" - and hell, neither do I - well enough to avoid being screwed (immigrants screwed).
I think the whole situation needs to be overhauled everywhere, because from what I can see, it DOESN'T work.
At some point though, with the rise of housing costs, getting a barely-affordable loan VS renting becomes almost academic. In a lot of places housing became a seller's market. That in turn led to massive price inflation. Price inflation of purchases led to price inflation of rentals. So in some cases, you can barely afford to rent, you can barely afford to buy, and you go with buy because at least in that case you're hoping to end up with something tangible.
Well, I've never seen somebody change from being "white" to being black (though I suppose in odd Michael Jackson like cases, it can go the other way).
The eventual change from full-haired to bald is a lot different that being born with certain characteristics. Are we going to next argue that having a strong predisposition for cancer shouldn't be "fixed" because that's the way you started genetically?
As somebody who is inflicted with an increasingly receding hairline, I'd have to say that a "picard" (or hell, full baldness, even Jean-Luc had *some* hair) is probably an improvement. Trying to find the right haircut and style to adjust for receding sidelines is a real annoyance. I'd be tempted to shave the whole damn thing off, if not for the fact that I've seen others do so and then have the same hassles dealing with the parts that come back...
Ummm, and how is a shit sandwich better than shit? Are you perhaps running for government (after all, they often seem to "resolve" shitty situations by creating different forms of shitty situations).
What's so sensitive about the economy of a nation that it must be kept secret, thereby not even allowing the nation itself (the people) to know about it?
Uh, passwords, bank account numbers, and all sorts of info that would let people walk away with money that wasn't theirs?
To be fair, most distros don't require you to compile kernels. The kernel itself gets updated at various intervals as a package, and then the package can be downloaded along with a shitload of loadable modules.
Rolling your own is more for if you want cutting-edge, or perhaps for some oft-unused module that wasn't available in the distro's current kernel offerings.
This is actually something I've always worried about, if we're breeding "weak genes." However, this may be offset by the fact that many human deficiencies may now be compensated for, various illnesses may be all but eradicated, and genetic research - for good or bad - has been developing steadily. You can already take tests which assess the chances of having a baby for various developmental issues, I'd imagine one day you could also prevent them.
Seems to me that, as personal development happens the most during your early years of life, then having children at around 20-25 would probably mean you've done the bigger share of "evolving" already. Even if you account 17-year-olds making babies, they've still passed the heavily formative years of infanthood and early puberty.
And to add to that... what we consider "old" these days would be considered pretty much "ancient" by many of our ancestors. Wasn't 40-50 considered a pretty ripe old age a few centuries back?
The fact that they're sticking people who haven't committed a crime into a police database is also questionable. If they haven't done anything wrong and really aren't under suspicion of a crime (last time I checked, peaceful protests weren't a crime), then why the fuck do the even need to be entered in any database?
The header has to be set by the antispam app, which in turn has to identify/tag SPAM. The rules that cause spamassassin and others to weight things as SPAM can be adjusted, and a little manual tweaking can actually help a lot if you get the same SPAM rather redundantly.
Depends on the SPAM header, but if we're getting a lot of any particular SPAM variety, then adding a rule which will tag+filter/trash it without killing off legit mail is part of the job.
Seems to me that the spammers must be working on a basis of whatever words most likely to interest the reader into clicking further, so it's perhaps an indicator of how interesting "person X" is overall at a given time. I've seen various celebrity names pop up, and I believe that Obama's did awhile back before the newer spams containing Palin's name in conjunction with various sexual keywords.
Damn. I forgot the hot-tub part, probably since I've never personally owned one (though I have relatives that do, I'd rather not think of the *naked* part).
I'd agree that a hot-tub is an improvement, provided that it has a warm path back to the house, otherwise the moment is somewhat broken when you have to get out and face the cold again (otherwise, outdoor hot-tub on a winter day is a winner). I suppose an indoor hot-tub/spa with a glass enclosure might be good as well.
Lived in Interior BC (down to -38 on the odd occasion, dry cold though so it's not too bad if you're not in the wind) and now live in Toronto (last winter was >-30, not sure what the regular is, but it's a wet cold so it tends to "seep in" a bit more):
I had gas heat in BC, and I have hot-water heat in Ontario.
I've had electric before in BC as well, though. The power consumption depends on how you use it, among other things.
If you've good thermostats and adjustable base-heaters in a per-room basis, you can let them crank the heat down a lot at night in the larger but unused areas of the house, and then warm up in the morning. For the bedrooms, you can adjust to your own comfort level at night-time, but let them drop in times when you're in common areas. So the temperates around the house will see-saw depending on what rooms you need warmth in more, but you can adjust to conserve power while maintaining overall comfort.
Still, nothing's quite as nice as having a good efficient gas fireplace in the central area of the house, especially if *that* has a thermostat (my last house did). You can turn it down at night, but it sure heats up a room quickly and when you've got "cold-balls" from shoveling a few feet of snow, nothing beats sitting in front of the hot fireplace!
Something like this? Looks like it's rather similar to existing vehicles to me.
Weekly/Monthly OS-restore on disc, regular file backups synced on a USB drive (thumb or external HDD, depending on volume) has usually been the way I go.
When I have to completely rebuild a client's dead system (OS reinstall) I try to image the disk if I have time. That way the next time's a lot faster. Saves me time, saves them money.
Actually, I find that the OS changes quite a lot, mainly due to patches, updates, etc. Most of these wouldn't likely be too difficult to re-download, but it would still be more convenient to have a "one-stop restore." Heck, having a seperate OS restore might be more valuable, if you could fix the OS core of viruses etc while keeping your documents in place.
Maybe one idea might be to have a "core" restore disk, and then another one for person stuff like documents, etc.
The "core" disk could be re-usable (up to capacity) but just adding differential updates with whatever has changed since the last backup.
This is mainly for windows users though. I'm not much of a windows user myself ('nix) but having an up-to-date restore disk would do wonders for a lot of the people I've done private repair service, etc for.
Of course, expecting those people to do backups is another thing entirely, but at least I could write a restore point here and there for the "regulars" who tend to much things up fairly commonly.
Even at home, it'd be nice to be able to back up my entire computer onto one disk
It would be nice to be able to create on-the-spot full-machine restore disks. Great for a monthly/semi-monthly backup in case the machine/drive dies (replace drive, plug in disk, and auto-restore).