That is exactly what spotify premium is. Cheap, easy to use, great selection and has high availability. £5 per month is the right price. I can't believe you think otherwise.
If you want free, use bittorrent and stop pretending you would ever pay for it.
Not only that, but after the 90's all the papers had very simular questions, and structure. You could just memorise the previous few years questions and all you'd need to do is change the values.
> Isn't "proper distribution channels" an artificial construct to bilk customers
No. They might make their 10-15% profit, but that is reward for the risk and hardwork they put into the R&D that goes into making those chips/boards.
You are IMHO robbing from society as a whole by buying stolen goods. Sure sometimes it's for the greater good, breaking the rules is a good way to influence change. But you can't do it forever. Someone has to pay for the R&D.
There are theories as to why cats extend life more than dogs/other groups. One is that when they purr, the vibration is good for you (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast02nov_1.htm). Another one is that they relax you more than other animals (they come and sit on your lap, don't take much effort to look after) and stress has been linked to dieing younger.
Either way, cats live a long time for their size, they must be doing something right.
There are still many other compatibility issues between PHP on Windows and Linux that make it hard to push things from a Windows box straight to a Linux box without extra testing.
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That's still a damn sight faster than ordering 30 servers from Dell or Rackspace. We are looking to running them as backup servers in case our main machines come under too much load or break.
A study published in Science, compared attitudes about evolution from the United States, 32 European countries (including Turkey) and Japan. The only country where acceptance of evolution was lower than in the United States was Turkey (25%). Public acceptance of evolution is most prevalent in Iceland, Denmark and Sweden at 80% of the population.
Once it spreads to humans, it will mutate at an even faster rate and will mutate into more deadly and less deadly strains. More deadly strains tend to kill themselfs off and less deadly strains are, well less deadly.
Unlike the 1918 virus, we have a lot of weapons and defences against the flu which given enough time will increase survival rates as well.
Fresh vegtibles can be grown in your garden. You might not have the selection, but it's more sustainable to get food (I didn't say it should be cheap either) locally and not import it from thousands of miles (massive waste of resource) away becauase the labour is cheaper there.
Imagine we are in a cooling cycle and all this CO2 we are pumping out holds off another ice age.
Not something I believe, but still possible. I personally think we should try and reduce pollution not only to minimize the effect in either direction to give us a chance for science to catch up, but also because I like clean air and fresh produce.
The bigger problem IMHO is over population combined with some kind of a cure to aging, Kim Stanly Robinson's Red Mars scares me the most.
Why not have them write it down or email it to themselfs? It's a laptop, the problem is when they lose it while traveling. I doubt they care that someone at work can access the company data as they probably already have access!
It might not be ideal, but it's a massive step up.
Fair point about the break-even point but you have to store that energy in batteries which are really bad.
Myth 2: Solar electricity can do everything right now!
No way. Solar electricity will eventually become a major player in the world's energy portfolio. The industry just doesn't have the capacity to meet all demands right now. But assuming that the proper investments are made now and are sustained, the industry will become significant in the next few decades.
In 2000, for example, worldwide PV shipments grew by 37% from the previous year. In 2001, they grew by another 38%. Although this brought shipments to about 400 megawatts per year, it's hardly enough to meet the entire burden of U.S. or world electricity needs... yet.
People are finally starting to get better at this.
Our University would pump hot air from the dorms at night into buildings to store the heat, then pump it back in the morning etc... They had one boiler for the whole campus pumping hot water where it was needed.
It all added up to loads of heat when you wanted or needed it. A nice cool place to sleep, and warm building for those working late, they saved thousands of pounds in energy costs, and most importantly it was way better for the environment.
Better building design, and shared communal boilers are the way to go if you really want to increase efficiency and save money.
The four R's: Reduce Reuse Remanufactor Recycle
In that order, people can make a difference. Recycling gets too much press, there are more pratical approaches that people can take to save energy.
There is one good reason, there is nowhere near enough solar panels to do this.
Another reason is the efficiency of solar panels is questionable at best. ie. the embodied energy is so high that it's better for the environment not to use them.
More time needs to be given to refine this tech, the same as any other tech. Jumping in 2 feet first is a sure way for it to end in disaster.
And when terrorism does happen, we have to act maturely and not go bomb the fuck out of countries and people that have nothing to do with a tiny minority of terrorists. Doing so will only extend the problem.
Even the IRA took 30 years to calm down. I bet you it would have lasted a lot longer if we started bombing innocent people in response.
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That is exactly what spotify premium is. Cheap, easy to use, great selection and has high availability. £5 per month is the right price. I can't believe you think otherwise.
If you want free, use bittorrent and stop pretending you would ever pay for it.
Not only that, but after the 90's all the papers had very simular questions, and structure. You could just memorise the previous few years questions and all you'd need to do is change the values.
> Isn't "proper distribution channels" an artificial construct to bilk customers
No. They might make their 10-15% profit, but that is reward for the risk and hardwork they put into the R&D that goes into making those chips/boards.
You are IMHO robbing from society as a whole by buying stolen goods. Sure sometimes it's for the greater good, breaking the rules is a good way to influence change. But you can't do it forever. Someone has to pay for the R&D.
There are theories as to why cats extend life more than dogs/other groups. One is that when they purr, the vibration is good for you (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast02nov_1.htm). Another one is that they relax you more than other animals (they come and sit on your lap, don't take much effort to look after) and stress has been linked to dieing younger.
Either way, cats live a long time for their size, they must be doing something right.
There are still many other compatibility issues between PHP on Windows and Linux that make it hard to push things from a Windows box straight to a Linux box without extra testing.
That's still a damn sight faster than ordering 30 servers from Dell or Rackspace. We are looking to running them as backup servers in case our main machines come under too much load or break.
Didn't people say the same thing about Google, Myspace etc... They are all turning into money earner in this new digital landscape.
The potential of these sites to become long term hubs for people to visit has got to be worth the few million MS is dropping into it.
myreal.address@gmail.com
myrealaddress+spamcatcher@gmail.com
if someone sends a emails to myrealaddress and not myreal.address then I know it's spam
I thought that they were hiring anyone good enough to make a good competitive site.
Once it spreads to humans, it will mutate at an even faster rate and will mutate into more deadly and less deadly strains. More deadly strains tend to kill themselfs off and less deadly strains are, well less deadly.
Unlike the 1918 virus, we have a lot of weapons and defences against the flu which given enough time will increase survival rates as well.
Because on average you'd pay less.
If we paid in the same percentage per capita into our healthcare system as you, there would be riots on the streets.
Try shopping 3 times a week, that way you don't need to use a freezer and the food is fresher
Wouldn't you need scissors to cut the tape into a arrow shape? And what;s the string for? How can you vote with that?
Fresh vegtibles can be grown in your garden. You might not have the selection, but it's more sustainable to get food (I didn't say it should be cheap either) locally and not import it from thousands of miles (massive waste of resource) away becauase the labour is cheaper there.
I just wish people would drive less as cars do pump out alot of polution.
Imagine we are in a cooling cycle and all this CO2 we are pumping out holds off another ice age.
Not something I believe, but still possible. I personally think we should try and reduce pollution not only to minimize the effect in either direction to give us a chance for science to catch up, but also because I like clean air and fresh produce.
The bigger problem IMHO is over population combined with some kind of a cure to aging, Kim Stanly Robinson's Red Mars scares me the most.
Why not have them write it down or email it to themselfs? It's a laptop, the problem is when they lose it while traveling. I doubt they care that someone at work can access the company data as they probably already have access!
It might not be ideal, but it's a massive step up.
This is what drives me crazy as well. I'm going to download a program to change the acceleration curves once I get my own macbook
Fair point about the break-even point but you have to store that energy in batteries which are really bad.
Myth 2: Solar electricity can do everything right now!
No way. Solar electricity will eventually become a major player in the world's energy portfolio. The industry just doesn't have the capacity to meet all demands right now. But assuming that the proper investments are made now and are sustained, the industry will become significant in the next few decades.
In 2000, for example, worldwide PV shipments grew by 37% from the previous year. In 2001, they grew by another 38%. Although this brought shipments to about 400 megawatts per year, it's hardly enough to meet the entire burden of U.S. or world electricity needs... yet.
I'm pretty sure they could pay in stock it they wanted.
People are finally starting to get better at this.
Our University would pump hot air from the dorms at night into buildings to store the heat, then pump it back in the morning etc... They had one boiler for the whole campus pumping hot water where it was needed.
It all added up to loads of heat when you wanted or needed it. A nice cool place to sleep, and warm building for those working late, they saved thousands of pounds in energy costs, and most importantly it was way better for the environment.
Better building design, and shared communal boilers are the way to go if you really want to increase efficiency and save money.
The four R's:
Reduce
Reuse
Remanufactor
Recycle
In that order, people can make a difference. Recycling gets too much press, there are more pratical approaches that people can take to save energy.
There is one good reason, there is nowhere near enough solar panels to do this.
Another reason is the efficiency of solar panels is questionable at best. ie. the embodied energy is so high that it's better for the environment not to use them.
More time needs to be given to refine this tech, the same as any other tech. Jumping in 2 feet first is a sure way for it to end in disaster.
I thought they set up digg to draw away that crowd.
Terrorism is not going to go away anywhere fast.
And when terrorism does happen, we have to act maturely and not go bomb the fuck out of countries and people that have nothing to do with a tiny minority of terrorists. Doing so will only extend the problem.
Even the IRA took 30 years to calm down. I bet you it would have lasted a lot longer if we started bombing innocent people in response.