Ideally to pick up milk you should cycle if possible anyway (maybe not if it is pelting it down with rain or if you live in San Francisco with all those hills).
The supermarket is only a mile away for me so for smaller runs to the supermarket I can pack a fair amount in a pair of panniers. Going more often (sort of just-in-time supply for dinner) keeps things under control but sometimes I get tempted by the idea of a reclining bicyle and a trailer but then safety probably is an issue, even more so than a traditional bicycle.
I find on my home systems (Win XP or Suse 9.1) opera 7 is more stable than Firefox. At work (different hardware set - always a good test) Opera is not installed so I can't compare or be sure it isn't just my machine in some strange way not playing nicely with Firefox.
Some people seem to forget the link between government spending and the source of the money. If people feel more connected to the money then they may feel more interested in the democratic process and the system by which the money gets spent, which would be a good thing. Too often I hear people saying "The Government should spending money funding X" without making the link between the spending and the revenue collection. Increasing spending and reducing total taxation rarely works long term, but people sometimes seem to want it to!
The library is not there to be a free porno store or to be a free public party chat line or any of 1,000 other non-library functions that the internet provides.
And so you subscribe to an organisation that keeps a list of such sites so that they can be blocked, much like many parents do.
I like open standards, but if I have to send someone something that they will be using with Visio, etc., then I have no choice but to send it in a format that they can manipulate in Visio. For read-only documents there are many more options, of course.
Well many Microsoft tool formats are defacto standards, so MS Word files may not be an official standard, but compatibility with them is a requirement. Other MS file formats are also effective standards if you need to communicate with other business users. The ones I had specifically in mind were Microsoft Project and Visio. Whilst SuSE contains tools that cover some of the Project and Visio functionality (although the Microsoft products are superior in these areas, and I say that as someone who runs Linux at work and home) they do it less well and don't (as far as I know) have the ability to save files in the native Microsoft formats. Thus if I want to collaborate on a diagram with someone who is running Visio essentially I have to run Visio as well. I can run Visio under Crossover Office, at least, and it works well.
The per seat cost at retail is about what you would expect to pay per seat with a large volume purchase from MS
For a fairer comparasion, given the number of tools that ship with SuSE, you'd need to add in the volume cost of Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, and the like. However some of the tools shipped with SuSE are less fully featured or standards-compatible than the Microsoft/Windows equivalents so you can't necessarily consider Kdevelop and Anjuta to have the same dollar value as Visual Studio (which has some nice features not present in Kdevelop or Anjuta, for example, and shipping both Kdevelop and Anjuta offers a nice choice but not much more functionality than shipping just one, simply very slightly different functionality).
For non-flashy bread-and-butter web pages, assuming you control the server environment, you are better off with something like LAMP and Zope,CMF and Plone on top. Very easy to use, extensible, etc., and you can change content from any architecture machine or browser (pretty much) as a client.
If you want lots of flashy graphics and flash animation, Zope is not the best route, though.
Music that you wrote or from bands you were or are part of. Might be interesting to see if there is any correlation between creative types who write their own music and their habits in terms of downloading, etc, etc.
If we could provide them with a reasonable assurance that, even though they're having someone install software for them, their server's core functions will remain untouched, that would be great.
That's an argument for hosting them virtually rather than directly (e.g. VMWare as an instance).
But in the UK, retailers have to provide a refund if a product is found to be of unmerchantable quality, I beleive it is a statutatory 30 day requirement.
No statutory requirement, just a "reasonable time" with what this is not being defined. What is defined is that the retailers have responsibility for defects in the product up to a limit of 5 years (England and Wales) or 6 years (Scotland) (or it might be the other way round!). You may be required to pay for the repair, and they don't have to offer it beyond a reasonable lifetime for the item, and you have to contact them about the defect as soon as you discover it. So a £1 wrist watch that has an expected lifetime of about a week or something but you should resonably expect the availability of a repair service via the retailer of your Rolex for the full 5 years.
I feel you could argue quite strongly that a product that you purchase with no indication of legal constraints on usage turns out to have an EULA that you dont agree to, and there was no indication of the existance of such conditions at time of sale was in fact of unmerchantable quality.
In the EU (including the UK) such EULAs have been deemed to have no legal binding anyway.
My argument was that if the system of purchase contracts in the USA is similar to that in the UK then, as you say, put pressure on the retailers by returning goods and demanding refunds if the EULA is unacceptable. You can't complain to the manufacturers directly (and they might not listen to you) but if there is a groundswell affecting the retailer than a large retailer may be able to put effective pressure on the manufacturer.
As time goes on the models are hopefully heading in the right direction in terms of sophistication, though. In general the conclusions being drawn from a variety of sources and methods tend to point in the same general direction, but conclusions about extents, time scales, or some details (what will happen to the Atlantic Conveyer) differ. Concern about global warming isn't new, though. The trend was noticed over 100 years ago, but the cause was unknown.
And of course higher CO2 levels will result in more favorable conditions for photosynthesis.
All other things being constant, but there will be all sorts of other climate changes going on, so the picture is somewhat more complicated. We might find that rainfall changes and the rainforests start dying off or something (hopefully not!). I don't know what the latest state of research is, but the worry is that there are some feed forward mechanisms as well as feed back.
But it does come back to making tradeoffs in terms of costs and benefits.
Very much so, and some countries will lose and some will gain with global warming. Since we are all interlinked by trade these days then, to coin a phrase, no man is an island any longer.
The environmentalist types
I care about the environment. I think there are opportunities for future economic development and profit in devising ways to reduce global warming as well as a potential for avoiding costs from rapid climate change. I am not going to susbscribe to the extreme such as us all going and living in mud huts somewhere. Very very few environmentalists think that, thankfully.
If they can impose terms after the sale on you, you can impose terms after the sale on them.
When you buy an item (in the UK at least) your contract of sale is with the retailer, not the manufacturer. Here the manufacturer is imposing terms on you for the installation of the software which is an explicit contract between you and the manufacturer, but not one that is based on financial exchange since you are not paying the manufacturer: your retailer does this. So in the UK you would be within your rights to refuse to agree to the EULA but it would be very much up to the retailer to decide what to do in terms of a refund. I don't know how similar it would be in th e USA.
If you don't agree to the EULA you have no contract of any form with the manufacturer, just the retailer, which in turn has a contract related to the sale with the manufacturer. Thus you can only influence the manufacturer via the retailer.
Been saying all along you CAN waive rights via agreement of a contract.
This only applies in the USA, though. In the UK, for example, you can't sign away your rights so easily. This having been said, we have fewer fair-use rights here in the first place.
"The % of CO2 in the atmosphere will still remain at the current level and will take decades to come down"
There are carbon sinks that can absorb some of the CO2 being put into the environment. Some of these we have little control over (ocean chemistry) others we do (forest and other vegetation). We can have some effect on how quickly existing CO2 is removed from the atmosphere by reducing deforestation and/or encouraging fast-growing vegetation to trap the CO2. It may not be a big effect but since the system may be unstable relatively small effects on the total of CO2 when it is at a higher concentration now, as is likely a few years hence, might have a large effect on the dollars of damage done to property by adverse weather effects.
"I'm not saying it would always move at max speed, but it would flow much smoother."
Ordered flow at less than maximum speed (on average) may be able to transport more cars than disordered flow including some cars at maximum speed. Also with lower speeds safe distances are lower and more cars can be carried on the same road system, thus avoiding the need for expensive widening. If the flow is made sufficiently smooth then journey times may not be longer than those of today even with lower effecive speed limits as average speed today may actually be quite low due to disordered flow effects no matter what the speed limit actually is. Plus with ordered flow engines can be tailored to run more efficiently at the typical urban cycle controlled speed and be able to stay at this fixed speed for a greater proportion of the cycle with less changes in the speed. So these are all wins.
The downside is the complexity and the possible effects of design errors, software implementation errors or malicious hacking. Sadly an automated traffic system would be a very attractive target to terrorist hackers or extortionists who could threaten to bring an entire city to a standstill which could cause massive economic damage.
I think a simpler solution is simply to drive less in the sense of allowing workers to telecommute for part of the week where this is possible. If workers telecommuted for 2 days a week, and went in the office for 3, hotdesking as appropriate, then offices could be smaller and more energy efficient and traffic would be reduced, as would time spent by workers commuting during the week. Not all workers are able to telecommute, of course, and the broadband and VPN infrastructure needs to be available. Also managers may want to check up on workers so I think we'd have to accept webcams and the ability of managers to use those webcams to check we are working.
And then, with free market economics, there will be a market for selling products to ensure your car never gets delayed and always gets spaces opened for it:-)
Several years ago a couple of friends of mine designed and sold an interactive storytelling based card game. Highly recommended if you can track down a copy of 'Once Upon a Time' (I doubt it is still in production so I don't think my friends are going to get any extra revenue from this, sadly).
Just checked: it is still available, and very reasonably, but I am not meaning to advertise for their sake, it's just a good game worth having, and a good alternative to charades or the TV.
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The supermarket is only a mile away for me so for smaller runs to the supermarket I can pack a fair amount in a pair of panniers. Going more often (sort of just-in-time supply for dinner) keeps things under control but sometimes I get tempted by the idea of a reclining bicyle and a trailer but then safety probably is an issue, even more so than a traditional bicycle.
I find on my home systems (Win XP or Suse 9.1) opera 7 is more stable than Firefox. At work (different hardware set - always a good test) Opera is not installed so I can't compare or be sure it isn't just my machine in some strange way not playing nicely with Firefox.
Some people seem to forget the link between government spending and the source of the money. If people feel more connected to the money then they may feel more interested in the democratic process and the system by which the money gets spent, which would be a good thing. Too often I hear people saying "The Government should spending money funding X" without making the link between the spending and the revenue collection. Increasing spending and reducing total taxation rarely works long term, but people sometimes seem to want it to!
But it is also the people's money
And so you subscribe to an organisation that keeps a list of such sites so that they can be blocked, much like many parents do.
I like open standards, but if I have to send someone something that they will be using with Visio, etc., then I have no choice but to send it in a format that they can manipulate in Visio. For read-only documents there are many more options, of course.
Well many Microsoft tool formats are defacto standards, so MS Word files may not be an official standard, but compatibility with them is a requirement. Other MS file formats are also effective standards if you need to communicate with other business users. The ones I had specifically in mind were Microsoft Project and Visio. Whilst SuSE contains tools that cover some of the Project and Visio functionality (although the Microsoft products are superior in these areas, and I say that as someone who runs Linux at work and home) they do it less well and don't (as far as I know) have the ability to save files in the native Microsoft formats. Thus if I want to collaborate on a diagram with someone who is running Visio essentially I have to run Visio as well. I can run Visio under Crossover Office, at least, and it works well.
Surely FrontPage Express rather than Wordpad?
For a fairer comparasion, given the number of tools that ship with SuSE, you'd need to add in the volume cost of Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, and the like. However some of the tools shipped with SuSE are less fully featured or standards-compatible than the Microsoft/Windows equivalents so you can't necessarily consider Kdevelop and Anjuta to have the same dollar value as Visual Studio (which has some nice features not present in Kdevelop or Anjuta, for example, and shipping both Kdevelop and Anjuta offers a nice choice but not much more functionality than shipping just one, simply very slightly different functionality).
Three weeks isn't long to test a new release of Gnome enough to be able to offer it in something that may be installed by corporate users.
If you want lots of flashy graphics and flash animation, Zope is not the best route, though.
Music that you wrote or from bands you were or are part of. Might be interesting to see if there is any correlation between creative types who write their own music and their habits in terms of downloading, etc, etc.
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That's an argument for hosting them virtually rather than directly (e.g. VMWare as an instance).
In which case you have authorised anything to run. The original poster is correct apart from instances of machines being hacked into, virus, etc.
No statutory requirement, just a "reasonable time" with what this is not being defined. What is defined is that the retailers have responsibility for defects in the product up to a limit of 5 years (England and Wales) or 6 years (Scotland) (or it might be the other way round!). You may be required to pay for the repair, and they don't have to offer it beyond a reasonable lifetime for the item, and you have to contact them about the defect as soon as you discover it. So a £1 wrist watch that has an expected lifetime of about a week or something but you should resonably expect the availability of a repair service via the retailer of your Rolex for the full 5 years.
I feel you could argue quite strongly that a product that you purchase with no indication of legal constraints on usage turns out to have an EULA that you dont agree to, and there was no indication of the existance of such conditions at time of sale was in fact of unmerchantable quality.
In the EU (including the UK) such EULAs have been deemed to have no legal binding anyway.
My argument was that if the system of purchase contracts in the USA is similar to that in the UK then, as you say, put pressure on the retailers by returning goods and demanding refunds if the EULA is unacceptable. You can't complain to the manufacturers directly (and they might not listen to you) but if there is a groundswell affecting the retailer than a large retailer may be able to put effective pressure on the manufacturer.
As time goes on the models are hopefully heading in the right direction in terms of sophistication, though. In general the conclusions being drawn from a variety of sources and methods tend to point in the same general direction, but conclusions about extents, time scales, or some details (what will happen to the Atlantic Conveyer) differ. Concern about global warming isn't new, though. The trend was noticed over 100 years ago, but the cause was unknown.
All other things being constant, but there will be all sorts of other climate changes going on, so the picture is somewhat more complicated. We might find that rainfall changes and the rainforests start dying off or something (hopefully not!). I don't know what the latest state of research is, but the worry is that there are some feed forward mechanisms as well as feed back.
But it does come back to making tradeoffs in terms of costs and benefits.
Very much so, and some countries will lose and some will gain with global warming. Since we are all interlinked by trade these days then, to coin a phrase, no man is an island any longer.
The environmentalist types
I care about the environment. I think there are opportunities for future economic development and profit in devising ways to reduce global warming as well as a potential for avoiding costs from rapid climate change. I am not going to susbscribe to the extreme such as us all going and living in mud huts somewhere. Very very few environmentalists think that, thankfully.
True. I was just basing my comments about what I knew of the law here as that is what I know.
When you buy an item (in the UK at least) your contract of sale is with the retailer, not the manufacturer. Here the manufacturer is imposing terms on you for the installation of the software which is an explicit contract between you and the manufacturer, but not one that is based on financial exchange since you are not paying the manufacturer: your retailer does this. So in the UK you would be within your rights to refuse to agree to the EULA but it would be very much up to the retailer to decide what to do in terms of a refund. I don't know how similar it would be in th e USA.
If you don't agree to the EULA you have no contract of any form with the manufacturer, just the retailer, which in turn has a contract related to the sale with the manufacturer. Thus you can only influence the manufacturer via the retailer.
This only applies in the USA, though. In the UK, for example, you can't sign away your rights so easily. This having been said, we have fewer fair-use rights here in the first place.
There are carbon sinks that can absorb some of the CO2 being put into the environment. Some of these we have little control over (ocean chemistry) others we do (forest and other vegetation). We can have some effect on how quickly existing CO2 is removed from the atmosphere by reducing deforestation and/or encouraging fast-growing vegetation to trap the CO2. It may not be a big effect but since the system may be unstable relatively small effects on the total of CO2 when it is at a higher concentration now, as is likely a few years hence, might have a large effect on the dollars of damage done to property by adverse weather effects.
Ordered flow at less than maximum speed (on average) may be able to transport more cars than disordered flow including some cars at maximum speed. Also with lower speeds safe distances are lower and more cars can be carried on the same road system, thus avoiding the need for expensive widening. If the flow is made sufficiently smooth then journey times may not be longer than those of today even with lower effecive speed limits as average speed today may actually be quite low due to disordered flow effects no matter what the speed limit actually is. Plus with ordered flow engines can be tailored to run more efficiently at the typical urban cycle controlled speed and be able to stay at this fixed speed for a greater proportion of the cycle with less changes in the speed. So these are all wins.
The downside is the complexity and the possible effects of design errors, software implementation errors or malicious hacking. Sadly an automated traffic system would be a very attractive target to terrorist hackers or extortionists who could threaten to bring an entire city to a standstill which could cause massive economic damage.
I think a simpler solution is simply to drive less in the sense of allowing workers to telecommute for part of the week where this is possible. If workers telecommuted for 2 days a week, and went in the office for 3, hotdesking as appropriate, then offices could be smaller and more energy efficient and traffic would be reduced, as would time spent by workers commuting during the week. Not all workers are able to telecommute, of course, and the broadband and VPN infrastructure needs to be available. Also managers may want to check up on workers so I think we'd have to accept webcams and the ability of managers to use those webcams to check we are working.
And then, with free market economics, there will be a market for selling products to ensure your car never gets delayed and always gets spaces opened for it :-)
Just checked: it is still available, and very reasonably, but I am not meaning to advertise for their sake, it's just a good game worth having, and a good alternative to charades or the TV.