Just don't go to work. That's what I did when I had a bad boss. He was so bad I went about a year turning up only once in a while when I felt like it. Eventually I left and did something else - I don't think he ever found out. He was well on the road to a caffine + stress induced heart attack so it was probably best that I just kept out the way.
I'm not saying we should make it cheaper - I don't think we should. We should ensure that it is the same price though however you choose to be metered. At the minute we penalize those who can least afford to be penalized and hinder people who would like to know how much they pay for their electricity.
While I realize from a business point view many of the people on pre-pay meters are considered a risk if not out and out bad customers. Electricty, IMHO, falls into the category of an essential utility though and therefore should be the subject of some extra control measures. Yes, it's possible to argue that we can live without it but lets be realistic for a moment. It would be hard to get by with out electricity.
Such devices already exists (both plug in and induction). The problem is that they cost quite a bit compared to what they could save you (I've seen the plug in type for around 6 to 10 £). After all how much are they really going to save you considerring you have already bought the device that is being measured. Perhaps it would pay for itself if it encourages you not to leave things on stand-by. I would like to see clear ratings for power consumption on all electrical devices. Perhaps showing the number of watts or, as is done with fridges, an over all rating. I would also like to see the rating system for fridges revised. Current A rating would be given a D in the new scheme and the new A would be very very efficient. The problem is that over the years it has become easier and easier to get achieve A ratings so nearly everything is now A rated meaning there is little to compete over so little point in manufacturers improving.
That would certainly be interesting to see but it lacks the simplicity needed for wide adoption. It's one thing to turn on the computer the office and wander to the hall to see the money go up it's another to convert amps to total power used over a given time (although a spreadsheet could do it fairly easily I suppose). You can actually buy units that pulg into sockets which will tell you the cost of the leccy you have used. Again though, they aren't as simple as a central point meter and they miss hidden costs from things on stand-by etc.
Don't get me started on this one. I don't actually have any points on my licence and I have never been caught for speeding but it makes me really cross to see the way we are criminalizing just about everyone in our green and plesant land. It feels like it's getting to the stage where you can't walk down the street without breaking some petty little law and getting an on the spot fine and an ASBO. I can't help feeling that this current trend to arrest everyone for something is simply to build a DNA database which is something the police have wanted for a number of years. Just getting arrested is enough to get you put in their current DNA database for good - even if you are innocent.
I know this might sound a little strange but I actually looked into getting a pre-pay meter installed so that I could find out how much leccy was costing me. I couldn't believe the cost of it though. You have to pay for the meter (if you want one installed by request), electricity costs more and you have the hassle of getting the card charged up.
I think it is absolutely stupid that we make the people that can least afford it pay the most for electricity.
I find it strange the way people use electricity like it doesn't cost anything. I suspect it is because the link between using it and paying for it is weak in that you might pay for it upto a month after you use it. I firmly believe that _all_ electricity meters should have a display showing how much it is _actually_ costing you in some prominant place. How many people could honestly be bothered to climb into the broom cupboard to take a reading and then convert that reading from units in to £/$//etc using some tricky to understand pricing structure that changes with frightning regularity. It's just not going to happen so people will just keep paying whatever their bill shows and not understand how much different things cost to run.
I'm pretty new to the whole eBay thing (about a month) but I have to say as a new comer I am stunned by the complexity and cost of it. The fees are nothing short of scandalous and the number of things that you have got to get your head round before being able to sell well.... The whole auction thing is dead in most markets as it is dominated by businesses setting start prices which are what they want for an item (erm, I'm guilty of that too but that's not the point). To top it all the site is slow and generally confusing. I'm surprised no one has taken the market away from eBay.
I wonder how many times you can undergo this treatment and still be fine. Perhaps one could undergo it several times a night thus lenghtening the time you could potentially live by maybe 30 or 40%. I for one would welcome our new 160 year old overlords.
I am also confilicted on this matter, or at least I was. I have written my fair share of material which I want people to read and enjoy. I admit that most of the material I have written I have done so in order to draw people to my website so that I can make money off them but that doesn't really change the issue regarding copyright.
I made the decision to release my work without any form of DRM but a clear copyright notice which grants certain additional rights such as the right to print out a copy of the work. My thinking is this: I don't want to restrict and annoy the vast number of people that aren't doing anything a reasonal person wouldn't do with the work. If someone is redistributing the work without permission or passing it off as their own there are existing laws in place to punish these people and I will persue this path.
Perhaps I am living in a dream world but I hope that by treating my consumers in a mature manner they will in turn respect my work more.
I'd be interested to know how much of what is covered in this book is also supported by Calc. While I realize that this book is about Excel I am also interested to know how portable the knowledge I would gleen from it is.
We had a keyboard at teh first place I worked that we called the sneezy keyboard. I'm sure I don't need to paint you a picture of why. It was used by one member of staff that refused to take a day off work for anything and would often sit there... well you get the idea. For some reason that keyboard was placed on one of the heavily used testing machines so most of the developers had to use it now and then. I wonder how many of use came down with something because of it.
Under the current climate if these people get close to actually changing things something will happen to stop them from actually having any real effect. I'm not saying they will disapear but I wouldn't be surprised is some legislation got rushed through that altered things so that their case became pointless.
I would be interested to know why the brain confuses words as well as it happens to me quite frequently. I suspect it's related to dyslexia but I have never found time to actually go and read up on it enough to find out (I'm sure someone will have studied it though).
I welcome the day when we reformulate English so that it follows hard and fast grammatical rules and much of the ambiguity is removed. I don't see it happening anytime soon though. The first thing to go would / should be the apostrophe. It's so badly used it's next to pointless already.
Please accept an aplogy if I upset or offended you in anyway. I did think there was a small chance that it might be part of the joke. I don't spend my time proof reading/. posts and if memory serves this is only the second time I have posted a correction in about 5 years. The reason I did it is simple: a couple of years ago I was a research assistant at a top university. One of the lecturers that I had frequent dealings with didn't know the difference between sight and cite which made him the laughing stock of the department. Thing is, no one told him because they were too embarrassed to so he kept going round making a fool of himself.
Lets assume, for a moment, that you didn't know the difference. Would you rather a) go around the rest of you life with people laughing at you b) be told by a complete stranger who you will never meet that you are using the wrong word? I would pick b everytime. Anyway, sorry for trying to help.
These guys really want their pound of flesh don't they? After buying the CD and a license for public performance they want more so that you can publicly perform it from a different source. What if you play some as oggs and some as mp3s? Do you have to play twice? Lets just hope that with the easy distribution that the Internet provides more bands will go solo.
I don't think we will ever be free of DRM but then nor do I think DRM will ever be what the music industry wants. I suspect what we will end up with is the sort of DRM that we currently find on DVD which is good enough to stop casual copying. It might be possible to go one step further as is being tried with next gen DVD but much further than that and you are going to start to annoy a large portion of Jonny Sixpack users.
IIRC HD-DVD has the ability to kill keys. I wonder how long it will be before human error accidently adds a good key to the kill list and screws up a huge number of players.
Agreed. I would also have another nutron detector set up specifically to read the background neutron count. Thick lead sheilding all round the experiment with plenty of before and after neutron measurements would be nice as well.
What makes me really skeptical is the way the experimenter is trying to change the world but hasn't been taken the time to set up a 110% bullet proof experiment. If I was going to announce something like this tothe world I would make damn sure there wasn't any possible way someone could pick simple holes in my experiment.
While he is certainly one of the first to moot this idea I struggle to believe he is the first. I have heard people talking about this sort of thing for years. I haven't read the article yet (naturally) but I do know that there are some big problems with this type of technology that aren't going to be solved in the near future. I suspect this is just another set of plans talking about how we could remove CO2 using algae rather than an in depth costing to see if it is actually worth it. By worth it I don't mean would people pay more for their leccy I mean worth it in terms of CO2 emmissions. If over all running this plant only saves us 5% of our carbon emmission it's just not worth the investment.
The fact that they are burning the oil produced by the algae means that there probably isn't going to be an over all saving.
....he shouldn't have painted the case or buffed up the tube. In the old rusty yellow it looking intimidating and cool. Now it looks like a sandwich box that has asperations to be a model of the star ship enterprise. Still, respect to the guy for doing it. I wonder if he has a track on this ipod that plays Geiger counter noises.
No I don't have trouble opening a book but you have got to admit that after a couple of hours holding a paper back open it becomes annoying. Especially when one slip slams the book shut loosing your place. There is the option of breaking the spine but then the pages fall out. Things have got worse in the last couple of years as publishers have started printing nearer the spine and closer to the outside edge. This means the book has got to held open more firmly and there is less thumb room. Roll on e-books.
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Just don't go to work. That's what I did when I had a bad boss. He was so bad I went about a year turning up only once in a while when I felt like it. Eventually I left and did something else - I don't think he ever found out. He was well on the road to a caffine + stress induced heart attack so it was probably best that I just kept out the way.
I'm not saying we should make it cheaper - I don't think we should. We should ensure that it is the same price though however you choose to be metered. At the minute we penalize those who can least afford to be penalized and hinder people who would like to know how much they pay for their electricity.
While I realize from a business point view many of the people on pre-pay meters are considered a risk if not out and out bad customers. Electricty, IMHO, falls into the category of an essential utility though and therefore should be the subject of some extra control measures. Yes, it's possible to argue that we can live without it but lets be realistic for a moment. It would be hard to get by with out electricity.
Such devices already exists (both plug in and induction). The problem is that they cost quite a bit compared to what they could save you (I've seen the plug in type for around 6 to 10 £). After all how much are they really going to save you considerring you have already bought the device that is being measured. Perhaps it would pay for itself if it encourages you not to leave things on stand-by. I would like to see clear ratings for power consumption on all electrical devices. Perhaps showing the number of watts or, as is done with fridges, an over all rating. I would also like to see the rating system for fridges revised. Current A rating would be given a D in the new scheme and the new A would be very very efficient. The problem is that over the years it has become easier and easier to get achieve A ratings so nearly everything is now A rated meaning there is little to compete over so little point in manufacturers improving.
That would certainly be interesting to see but it lacks the simplicity needed for wide adoption. It's one thing to turn on the computer the office and wander to the hall to see the money go up it's another to convert amps to total power used over a given time (although a spreadsheet could do it fairly easily I suppose). You can actually buy units that pulg into sockets which will tell you the cost of the leccy you have used. Again though, they aren't as simple as a central point meter and they miss hidden costs from things on stand-by etc.
Don't get me started on this one. I don't actually have any points on my licence and I have never been caught for speeding but it makes me really cross to see the way we are criminalizing just about everyone in our green and plesant land. It feels like it's getting to the stage where you can't walk down the street without breaking some petty little law and getting an on the spot fine and an ASBO. I can't help feeling that this current trend to arrest everyone for something is simply to build a DNA database which is something the police have wanted for a number of years. Just getting arrested is enough to get you put in their current DNA database for good - even if you are innocent.
I know this might sound a little strange but I actually looked into getting a pre-pay meter installed so that I could find out how much leccy was costing me. I couldn't believe the cost of it though. You have to pay for the meter (if you want one installed by request), electricity costs more and you have the hassle of getting the card charged up.
I think it is absolutely stupid that we make the people that can least afford it pay the most for electricity.
I find it strange the way people use electricity like it doesn't cost anything. I suspect it is because the link between using it and paying for it is weak in that you might pay for it upto a month after you use it. I firmly believe that _all_ electricity meters should have a display showing how much it is _actually_ costing you in some prominant place. How many people could honestly be bothered to climb into the broom cupboard to take a reading and then convert that reading from units in to £/$//etc using some tricky to understand pricing structure that changes with frightning regularity. It's just not going to happen so people will just keep paying whatever their bill shows and not understand how much different things cost to run.
I'm pretty new to the whole eBay thing (about a month) but I have to say as a new comer I am stunned by the complexity and cost of it. The fees are nothing short of scandalous and the number of things that you have got to get your head round before being able to sell well.... The whole auction thing is dead in most markets as it is dominated by businesses setting start prices which are what they want for an item (erm, I'm guilty of that too but that's not the point). To top it all the site is slow and generally confusing. I'm surprised no one has taken the market away from eBay.
I wonder how many times you can undergo this treatment and still be fine. Perhaps one could undergo it several times a night thus lenghtening the time you could potentially live by maybe 30 or 40%. I for one would welcome our new 160 year old overlords.
I am also confilicted on this matter, or at least I was. I have written my fair share of material which I want people to read and enjoy. I admit that most of the material I have written I have done so in order to draw people to my website so that I can make money off them but that doesn't really change the issue regarding copyright.
I made the decision to release my work without any form of DRM but a clear copyright notice which grants certain additional rights such as the right to print out a copy of the work. My thinking is this: I don't want to restrict and annoy the vast number of people that aren't doing anything a reasonal person wouldn't do with the work. If someone is redistributing the work without permission or passing it off as their own there are existing laws in place to punish these people and I will persue this path.
Perhaps I am living in a dream world but I hope that by treating my consumers in a mature manner they will in turn respect my work more.
I'd be interested to know how much of what is covered in this book is also supported by Calc. While I realize that this book is about Excel I am also interested to know how portable the knowledge I would gleen from it is.
We had a keyboard at teh first place I worked that we called the sneezy keyboard. I'm sure I don't need to paint you a picture of why. It was used by one member of staff that refused to take a day off work for anything and would often sit there... well you get the idea. For some reason that keyboard was placed on one of the heavily used testing machines so most of the developers had to use it now and then. I wonder how many of use came down with something because of it.
Under the current climate if these people get close to actually changing things something will happen to stop them from actually having any real effect. I'm not saying they will disapear but I wouldn't be surprised is some legislation got rushed through that altered things so that their case became pointless.
I've still not fully figured out Web 1.0 yet.
So that would be why none of my websites seem to do very well. Sigh.
The title says it all!
I would be interested to know why the brain confuses words as well as it happens to me quite frequently. I suspect it's related to dyslexia but I have never found time to actually go and read up on it enough to find out (I'm sure someone will have studied it though).
I welcome the day when we reformulate English so that it follows hard and fast grammatical rules and much of the ambiguity is removed. I don't see it happening anytime soon though. The first thing to go would / should be the apostrophe. It's so badly used it's next to pointless already.
Down with the apostrophe!
Please accept an aplogy if I upset or offended you in anyway. I did think there was a small chance that it might be part of the joke. I don't spend my time proof reading /. posts and if memory serves this is only the second time I have posted a correction in about 5 years. The reason I did it is simple: a couple of years ago I was a research assistant at a top university. One of the lecturers that I had frequent dealings with didn't know the difference between sight and cite which made him the laughing stock of the department. Thing is, no one told him because they were too embarrassed to so he kept going round making a fool of himself.
Lets assume, for a moment, that you didn't know the difference. Would you rather a) go around the rest of you life with people laughing at you b) be told by a complete stranger who you will never meet that you are using the wrong word? I would pick b everytime. Anyway, sorry for trying to help.
The word you were looking for is cite not sight. Damn homophones going round confusing people again.
These guys really want their pound of flesh don't they? After buying the CD and a license for public performance they want more so that you can publicly perform it from a different source. What if you play some as oggs and some as mp3s? Do you have to play twice? Lets just hope that with the easy distribution that the Internet provides more bands will go solo.
I don't think we will ever be free of DRM but then nor do I think DRM will ever be what the music industry wants. I suspect what we will end up with is the sort of DRM that we currently find on DVD which is good enough to stop casual copying. It might be possible to go one step further as is being tried with next gen DVD but much further than that and you are going to start to annoy a large portion of Jonny Sixpack users.
IIRC HD-DVD has the ability to kill keys. I wonder how long it will be before human error accidently adds a good key to the kill list and screws up a huge number of players.
Agreed. I would also have another nutron detector set up specifically to read the background neutron count. Thick lead sheilding all round the experiment with plenty of before and after neutron measurements would be nice as well.
What makes me really skeptical is the way the experimenter is trying to change the world but hasn't been taken the time to set up a 110% bullet proof experiment. If I was going to announce something like this tothe world I would make damn sure there wasn't any possible way someone could pick simple holes in my experiment.
While he is certainly one of the first to moot this idea I struggle to believe he is the first. I have heard people talking about this sort of thing for years. I haven't read the article yet (naturally) but I do know that there are some big problems with this type of technology that aren't going to be solved in the near future. I suspect this is just another set of plans talking about how we could remove CO2 using algae rather than an in depth costing to see if it is actually worth it. By worth it I don't mean would people pay more for their leccy I mean worth it in terms of CO2 emmissions. If over all running this plant only saves us 5% of our carbon emmission it's just not worth the investment.
The fact that they are burning the oil produced by the algae means that there probably isn't going to be an over all saving.
....he shouldn't have painted the case or buffed up the tube. In the old rusty yellow it looking intimidating and cool. Now it looks like a sandwich box that has asperations to be a model of the star ship enterprise. Still, respect to the guy for doing it. I wonder if he has a track on this ipod that plays Geiger counter noises.
No I don't have trouble opening a book but you have got to admit that after a couple of hours holding a paper back open it becomes annoying. Especially when one slip slams the book shut loosing your place. There is the option of breaking the spine but then the pages fall out. Things have got worse in the last couple of years as publishers have started printing nearer the spine and closer to the outside edge. This means the book has got to held open more firmly and there is less thumb room. Roll on e-books.