If you work at a place that has a commercial-grade copier, they most likely have a scan function that will scan to PDF (or TIFF) to a folder or an email. You can get rid of a large backlog of paper and then once caught up, go for a consumer-grade duplex scanner like the ScanSnap (from what I can tell from the reviews it is the best of its class, but I don't own one.)
Or any router that can shape your traffic. The tomato router (open source firmware for a LinkSys WRT54GL) has the ability to prioritize BT traffic as the last priority, giving all the other protocols higher priority (http, etc).
I have this EXACT setup (except I kept my "changes" for a year) - it's positively wonderful.
The only thing I would add and you might have implied it, and it is a bit obvious....but I would suggest you make at least one of your mirrored drives external so that if disaster strikes (of the physical versus virtual kind), you rip it out and run....
I tried Sumatra for about 3 months and found it nice and quick, but had issues opening some files and had printing problems where it would cut off the right side of the page. YMMV.
I switched to Foxit Reader and have not had the same issues since.
I was a little unsure what exactly you were advocating in the original post, and now I know. While your arguments highlight the theoretical positive effects of deflation, the empirical evidence of the negative effects of deflation on an economy tends to sway me towards the side of inflationary policies. Most notably, Japan's ~15 years of deflation, during which their economy has not done terribly well.
I think another factor to consider is the investment effect of deflation vs. inflation. Inflation encourages investment and creation of value in the economy (if you don't do anything with your money, it loses value), while deflation discourages investment (the real value increases with nothing done on your part - you can stuff it in a mattress).
I think that's why deflation scares a lot of economists...you could reach a point in a deflationary economy where people start saving/not investing too much and your economy starts a downward slide.
They're temporarily adding 300 employees in Albuquerque for testing... Place called "Fab 7 Test".
Like our Third World State needs 300 temp jobs to get folks' hopes up.:(
You do realize that "Test" in the semiconductor world is an actual step in the manufacturing process, not a designation indicating that its a temporary "test" fab....maybe I'm wrong and they are explicitly temp employees, but my money is that those 300 employees will be around for more than a few years.
Yes, I've spent many a fine day floating down the Pentium....
Code names not product names/brands. Willamette, Coppermine, Banias, etc. versus Pentium, Centrino, et al
I'm pretty sure the city you are referring to was Fort Worth and not Austin. Maybe I'm wrong and there was another incident in Austin.
Intel essentially got caught with its pants down with the downturn/implosion in 2000. The whole fiasco was pretty much a lose-lose for BOTH Fort Worth and Intel - stopping everything at that stage in the game was a lot of money poured down the drain - I'm actually surprised they were honest with themselves enough to make the decision to stop given the momentum things like that have - although I'm sure lots of people lost their job over it!
The airport has had free WiFi for some time now, although you get what you pay for. My average time connected before getting dropped is about 2 minutes.
And as far as why NM goes....it's really not *that* surprising for those that know the area as Intel and Sprint are the two largest employers in the area. I'm sure they had a hand in encouraging it....
I suspect that the reason that all of the big companies are pitching this is that:
1) CPU's and operating systems have been commoditized by Intel/AMD/etc. and Linux, and they want to have a reason for you to buy bigger/better/more expensive systems.
Why would AMD and Intel want to make computing more efficient? Efficiency = more with the same or less = fewer CPU's. If anything, Intel and AMD want you to buy enough CPU horsepower to do it all yourself, not farm it out to "someone" else who has excess capacity.
The one way I see Intel/AMD winning in this "intiative" is for them to position themselves as the silicon that makes it all work together - network processors, mobile silicon and the like.
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If you work at a place that has a commercial-grade copier, they most likely have a scan function that will scan to PDF (or TIFF) to a folder or an email. You can get rid of a large backlog of paper and then once caught up, go for a consumer-grade duplex scanner like the ScanSnap (from what I can tell from the reviews it is the best of its class, but I don't own one.)
Or any router that can shape your traffic. The tomato router (open source firmware for a LinkSys WRT54GL) has the ability to prioritize BT traffic as the last priority, giving all the other protocols higher priority (http, etc).
Enjoy!
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
I have this EXACT setup (except I kept my "changes" for a year) - it's positively wonderful.
The only thing I would add and you might have implied it, and it is a bit obvious....but I would suggest you make at least one of your mirrored drives external so that if disaster strikes (of the physical versus virtual kind), you rip it out and run....
I tried Sumatra for about 3 months and found it nice and quick, but had issues opening some files and had printing problems where it would cut off the right side of the page. YMMV.
I switched to Foxit Reader and have not had the same issues since.
I was a little unsure what exactly you were advocating in the original post, and now I know. While your arguments highlight the theoretical positive effects of deflation, the empirical evidence of the negative effects of deflation on an economy tends to sway me towards the side of inflationary policies. Most notably, Japan's ~15 years of deflation, during which their economy has not done terribly well.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Examples_o
If you have one, I'd love to see any examples of deflation working to boost a country's economy.
I think another factor to consider is the investment effect of deflation vs. inflation. Inflation encourages investment and creation of value in the economy (if you don't do anything with your money, it loses value), while deflation discourages investment (the real value increases with nothing done on your part - you can stuff it in a mattress).
I think that's why deflation scares a lot of economists...you could reach a point in a deflationary economy where people start saving/not investing too much and your economy starts a downward slide.
Look like I was wrong! I read the article after posting this....doh!
They're temporarily adding 300 employees in Albuquerque for testing... Place called "Fab 7 Test". Like our Third World State needs 300 temp jobs to get folks' hopes up.
You do realize that "Test" in the semiconductor world is an actual step in the manufacturing process, not a designation indicating that its a temporary "test" fab....maybe I'm wrong and they are explicitly temp employees, but my money is that those 300 employees will be around for more than a few years.
Yes, I've spent many a fine day floating down the Pentium ....
Code names not product names/brands. Willamette, Coppermine, Banias, etc. versus Pentium, Centrino, et al
I'm pretty sure the city you are referring to was Fort Worth and not Austin. Maybe I'm wrong and there was another incident in Austin.
Intel essentially got caught with its pants down with the downturn/implosion in 2000. The whole fiasco was pretty much a lose-lose for BOTH Fort Worth and Intel - stopping everything at that stage in the game was a lot of money poured down the drain - I'm actually surprised they were honest with themselves enough to make the decision to stop given the momentum things like that have - although I'm sure lots of people lost their job over it!
The airport has had free WiFi for some time now, although you get what you pay for. My average time connected before getting dropped is about 2 minutes.
And as far as why NM goes....it's really not *that* surprising for those that know the area as Intel and Sprint are the two largest employers in the area. I'm sure they had a hand in encouraging it....
I suspect that the reason that all of the big companies are pitching this is that:
1) CPU's and operating systems have been commoditized by Intel/AMD/etc. and Linux, and they want to have a reason for you to buy bigger/better/more expensive systems.
Why would AMD and Intel want to make computing more efficient? Efficiency = more with the same or less = fewer CPU's. If anything, Intel and AMD want you to buy enough CPU horsepower to do it all yourself, not farm it out to "someone" else who has excess capacity.
The one way I see Intel/AMD winning in this "intiative" is for them to position themselves as the silicon that makes it all work together - network processors, mobile silicon and the like.