So, instead of people simply talking into bluetooth mics, gesturing wildly in space and acting like a schizophrenic off their meds, you're simultaneously going to have people waving their arms around like they are conducting a symphony.
Yep, cubicleville is going to get even weirder than it already is.
I walked out 45 minutes in at the theaters and it took 5 sittings to get through on DVD. Am I missing something?
You might consider refilling your Ritalin prescription.
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Under Windows it was a simple two step process. Under OS/2 1.2 it required the user to perform unnatural acts:
Not to diss your choice of sexual positions / partners / proclivities but at least once you did that the printer almost always worked. Windows wasn't called "plug and pray" for nothing.
Should have mentioned that I'm in SE Alaska - relatively mild temperature, gradient mostly from groundwater temp. We do need bigger wells than standard and drilling through recent volcanic muck is a bit harder than usual, plus getting the rig here, plus everything else that goes wrong....
Basically we pay for part of a barge to offload some wood onto and have it towed back to town, plus chainsaw maintenance and my ibuprofen. Probably can do this for another couple of years before my back gives out - this year I think we're going to borrow a small front loader to work with the logs. It is a significant amount of my generic exercise so although it's time consuming and annoying it has other benefits. But if I had to just buy the wood that would hurt.
Well, I'm in Alaska so about 50% above everywhere else is about right. Even with the geothermal credits, it still had quite a long payback period and with the usual retrofit issues we decided to just cut some more wood. Still would consider it for a new structure in the right environment.
Probably because cheap is relative. We specced a system for our house which is actually sited well for a geothermal loop - on volcanic clay with a lot of water flow (not sited well for many other things including structural stability, but that's not germane here).
Close to 50,000 grand to heat a 2200 sq. foot home. A lot of that cost was due to retrofitting and if I was building a house I might think about using that system (as well as shooting myself). Considering we heat with wood for a cost of about $400 a year, the payback time doesn't make sense.
That's a nice little brochure they have there but of course, YMMV. Savings not guaranteed. That's much of what Adams was saying - lots of suggestions and ideas from whole bunches of people, but each building is unique and the engineering required to make a good estimate of your thermal (and financial) budget seems to be beyond everyone in the residential building sector.
I imagine that for larger buildings you can afford to hire better engineers and get more data, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to spend $50,000 on thermal engineering for a $500,000 house (on top of the architect, structural engineer and your cousin the drywall guy).
That may well be true, however, the Colorado experience has shown that enough people buy Hunting and Fishing licenses to fund the system well enough. Currently the NPS isn't charging for rescues (with the exception of Denali which is actually a user fee that is specifically designed to pay for rescue support).
Having what amounts to be an 'insurance' fund could help the park system cope with the rash of bozos^Hstranded hikers a bit better.
No. Better to have schools reflect reality. No girls (at least not where I work). No sun. No windows. And the same damn project for ten years (with just minor upgrades).
Ah, you're in jail. I suppose that is a reasonable reality for a bunch of junior Americans.
Colorado has a reasonable system for wilderness rescue funding. You buy a hunting or fishing license and.25 goes to the fund which can be accessed by local government or rescue agencies solely to defray costs of a rescue. I'm not sure why the National Parks don't do something like this (get a Park Pass, don't pay for a rescue, don't get a pass, maybe pay for the rescue).
Probably some arcane legal reason but at least there are some ideas out in the field that seem to work well. Allows all of the volunteer groups to work with local government enforcement agencies and keeps counties from going bankrupt chasing Wilderness Wannabees all over the map.
That's using up everyone's time at home and at work. If you use up five minutes per person per week, that's still two full working weeks (83 hours of time per week) per thousand people.
You're awfully worried about what other people do with their time. Really, you're worried about 5 minutes per person per week? And you post here on Slashdot? I'd like to see what you think about spam.... it must be painful to watch.
Then we get to landfills. I simply don't buy, especially in places like the US with a lot of land, that landfills are that costly to build and operate.
Welcome to the real world. As it turns out, your wrong:
The useful life of the Larimer county landfill is anticipated to expire within the next eight years. Currently, due to heightened public sensibility and legislative pressure, the process of siting a landfill in the U.S. can take up to a decade. In the Colorado Front Range, siting a landfill is particularly difficult because the mountains to the west restrict development while the population through immigration has nearly doubled in twenty years.
Not everywhere has lots of places to stuff garbage. Go do a cursory search if you think Larimer County is an exception. Yeah, you can ship it to Africa, but, it's going to cost you. Might think about decreasing the amount of crap you send and how does that happen? Recycling (or precycling, that's better but a different discussion). In the little town in Southeast Alaska that I live in, siting an EPA approved landfill with a 20 year lifespan cost 20 million dollars. That's a lot of garbage. Currently we recycle (and get some marginal return) and try to get the bigger shippers to think about what they are sending up in the first place. Then we ship the rest to Oregon.
The world just might be more complex than you think and sometimes marginal improvements are all that you can do.
Your post reminds me of yesterday's QOTD: "I'm prepared for any emergency, it's just day to day stuff I can't handle" (or something to that effect).
We have a much better chance of handling an 'Extinction Level Event' if we a) don't completely trash the planet so there are some habitable areas left by the time the big ball hits b) try to figure out how to run civilizations so that even trivial little things like earthquakes, floods and rush hour don't cause major issues and c) learn how to maybe, perhaps, get along with ourselves and our current lifeboat.
Remember, that even big ball hits leave survivors. I had one of them for dinner last night. Tasted like chicken.
No, he said he hoped the Israeli regime would collapse. You are referring to the dodgy translation that was hastily posted. Anyone who can read Persian knows what he actually said. Iran's goal is nothing like the Taliban. Iran just wants to exist, without being screwed with. Which is a luxury they have not been afforded for decades.
Interesting. This has been brought up several times today. Certainly, bad translations have been responsible for many wars, conflicts and general bad karma. However, if Mr. Five O'Clock Shadow really had been quoted incorrectly, he's had plenty of time to go back and correct any misunderstandings. Haven't seen that.
His pronouncements about recent history (WWII) are also pretty off the mark (the Holocaust didn't happen). He certainly comes across as a major nutjob, nut unlike Sarah Palin for example. I think he's quite a bit smarter than that (or her) and is carefully crafting his message in order to gain support among certain factions that would not normally be supportive. But if that's the case, there are ways of getting that message to everybody else in Charge of Things. A certain amount of grandstanding is considered normal (I'm looking at you, Fox "News") but Ahmadinejad certainly sounds like he means to wipe Israel off the map.
Thus a certain amount of angst would be expected. From a perfectly rational standpoint, it would seem that poking sticks at the major military power in the region (Israel / US) isn't a really good idea. Especially since the former has started several preemptive wars in recent history and the latter has actually dropped nuclear weapons on an enemy. But rationality isn't what one typically finds in the Middle East.
Well, my anecdotal experiences are different. I know a half dozen folks who have netbooks. Every one of them hates them. They bought them for the wrong reasons, mostly - price. They hate the tiny keyboard and weirdo screen. The couple of people I know that have iPads just love them. They all want (or at least are satisfied with) a small subset of the available computing experience.
I bought my mother one - and of course had to check it out for a couple of weeks to make sure it worked OK - I won't buy one for me.
Way to limiting. Way to annoying. Besides I already have an iPhone and my vision isn't all that bad. But you have to admit, Apple has sat down and done some homework. They've identified an unserved market, spent the time and money to develop a product to serve that market. Sprinkled magic pixie dust all over the place and poof. Money in the bank.
Not a bad way to run a company. So long as they keep updating OS X and Mac Pros, I'm happy. Now, there is little to prevent Apple from making the MaxiPad - an iPad with ports, real OS X and the techy bits that we all know and love. I doubt that they will (at least until version 5) but they could do it. That makes me sad.
TFA seems to think that the only thing you could ever do on a personal computer could be done on a netbook and now that we have even more limited devices, the end of the computing world is neigh.
Kinda of a restricted view of the world. I'm sure there are people running Photoshop on an 10 inch netbook, but I sure don't envy them.
All this hype over the iPad is mind boggling. I just don't get it.
You don't get it because you aren't the target demographic. The socially challenged male in his basement with 12 computers (all of which have been stripped to the bare plastic at least twice) and his Gentoo compiling microwave oven doesn't need an iPad.
My 80 year old mother and apparently everyone else in her Assisted Living place are in the iPad demographic and they are falling all over themselves (actually not very hard to do at 80) trying to buy one.
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That's really the problem, isn't it?
Size matters.
Oh, they'll be RCA connectors for the next 200 years. Count on it.
So, instead of people simply talking into bluetooth mics, gesturing wildly in space and acting like a schizophrenic off their meds, you're simultaneously going to have people waving their arms around like they are conducting a symphony.
Yep, cubicleville is going to get even weirder than it already is.
You might consider refilling your Ritalin prescription.
Not to diss your choice of sexual positions / partners / proclivities but at least once you did that the printer almost always worked. Windows wasn't called "plug and pray" for nothing.
Not to worry then. With the economy going the way it is, nobody is going to have a budget for anything more expensive than a couple of new signs.
Should have mentioned that I'm in SE Alaska - relatively mild temperature, gradient mostly from groundwater temp. We do need bigger wells than standard and drilling through recent volcanic muck is a bit harder than usual, plus getting the rig here, plus everything else that goes wrong....
Basically we pay for part of a barge to offload some wood onto and have it towed back to town, plus chainsaw maintenance and my ibuprofen. Probably can do this for another couple of years before my back gives out - this year I think we're going to borrow a small front loader to work with the logs. It is a significant amount of my generic exercise so although it's time consuming and annoying it has other benefits. But if I had to just buy the wood that would hurt.
And that's a conclusion you can take to the bank (after the grant comes in, of course).
Well, I'm in Alaska so about 50% above everywhere else is about right. Even with the geothermal credits, it still had quite a long payback period and with the usual retrofit issues we decided to just cut some more wood. Still would consider it for a new structure in the right environment.
Probably because cheap is relative. We specced a system for our house which is actually sited well for a geothermal loop - on volcanic clay with a lot of water flow (not sited well for many other things including structural stability, but that's not germane here).
Close to 50,000 grand to heat a 2200 sq. foot home. A lot of that cost was due to retrofitting and if I was building a house I might think about using that system (as well as shooting myself). Considering we heat with wood for a cost of about $400 a year, the payback time doesn't make sense.
That's a nice little brochure they have there but of course, YMMV. Savings not guaranteed. That's much of what Adams was saying - lots of suggestions and ideas from whole bunches of people, but each building is unique and the engineering required to make a good estimate of your thermal (and financial) budget seems to be beyond everyone in the residential building sector.
I imagine that for larger buildings you can afford to hire better engineers and get more data, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to spend $50,000 on thermal engineering for a $500,000 house (on top of the architect, structural engineer and your cousin the drywall guy).
That may well be true, however, the Colorado experience has shown that enough people buy Hunting and Fishing licenses to fund the system well enough. Currently the NPS isn't charging for rescues (with the exception of Denali which is actually a user fee that is specifically designed to pay for rescue support).
Having what amounts to be an 'insurance' fund could help the park system cope with the rash of bozos^Hstranded hikers a bit better.
Ah, you're in jail. I suppose that is a reasonable reality for a bunch of junior Americans.
Colorado has a reasonable system for wilderness rescue funding. You buy a hunting or fishing license and .25 goes to the fund which can be accessed by local government or rescue agencies solely to defray costs of a rescue. I'm not sure why the National Parks don't do something like this (get a Park Pass, don't pay for a rescue, don't get a pass, maybe pay for the rescue).
Probably some arcane legal reason but at least there are some ideas out in the field that seem to work well. Allows all of the volunteer groups to work with local government enforcement agencies and keeps counties from going bankrupt chasing Wilderness Wannabees all over the map.
You're awfully worried about what other people do with their time. Really, you're worried about 5 minutes per person per week? And you post here on Slashdot? I'd like to see what you think about spam.... it must be painful to watch.
Welcome to the real world. As it turns out, your wrong:
Not everywhere has lots of places to stuff garbage. Go do a cursory search if you think Larimer County is an exception. Yeah, you can ship it to Africa, but, it's going to cost you. Might think about decreasing the amount of crap you send and how does that happen? Recycling (or precycling, that's better but a different discussion). In the little town in Southeast Alaska that I live in, siting an EPA approved landfill with a 20 year lifespan cost 20 million dollars. That's a lot of garbage. Currently we recycle (and get some marginal return) and try to get the bigger shippers to think about what they are sending up in the first place. Then we ship the rest to Oregon.
The world just might be more complex than you think and sometimes marginal improvements are all that you can do.
Could be worse you know. Space is hard on things.
Your post reminds me of yesterday's QOTD: "I'm prepared for any emergency, it's just day to day stuff I can't handle" (or something to that effect).
We have a much better chance of handling an 'Extinction Level Event' if we a) don't completely trash the planet so there are some habitable areas left by the time the big ball hits b) try to figure out how to run civilizations so that even trivial little things like earthquakes, floods and rush hour don't cause major issues and c) learn how to maybe, perhaps, get along with ourselves and our current lifeboat.
Remember, that even big ball hits leave survivors. I had one of them for dinner last night. Tasted like chicken.
Interesting. This has been brought up several times today. Certainly, bad translations have been responsible for many wars, conflicts and general bad karma. However, if Mr. Five O'Clock Shadow really had been quoted incorrectly, he's had plenty of time to go back and correct any misunderstandings. Haven't seen that.
His pronouncements about recent history (WWII) are also pretty off the mark (the Holocaust didn't happen). He certainly comes across as a major nutjob, nut unlike Sarah Palin for example. I think he's quite a bit smarter than that (or her) and is carefully crafting his message in order to gain support among certain factions that would not normally be supportive. But if that's the case, there are ways of getting that message to everybody else in Charge of Things. A certain amount of grandstanding is considered normal (I'm looking at you, Fox "News") but Ahmadinejad certainly sounds like he means to wipe Israel off the map.
Thus a certain amount of angst would be expected. From a perfectly rational standpoint, it would seem that poking sticks at the major military power in the region (Israel / US) isn't a really good idea. Especially since the former has started several preemptive wars in recent history and the latter has actually dropped nuclear weapons on an enemy. But rationality isn't what one typically finds in the Middle East.
Well, my anecdotal experiences are different. I know a half dozen folks who have netbooks. Every one of them hates them. They bought them for the wrong reasons, mostly - price. They hate the tiny keyboard and weirdo screen. The couple of people I know that have iPads just love them. They all want (or at least are satisfied with) a small subset of the available computing experience.
I bought my mother one - and of course had to check it out for a couple of weeks to make sure it worked OK - I won't buy one for me.
Way to limiting. Way to annoying. Besides I already have an iPhone and my vision isn't all that bad. But you have to admit, Apple has sat down and done some homework. They've identified an unserved market, spent the time and money to develop a product to serve that market. Sprinkled magic pixie dust all over the place and poof. Money in the bank.
Not a bad way to run a company. So long as they keep updating OS X and Mac Pros, I'm happy. Now, there is little to prevent Apple from making the MaxiPad - an iPad with ports, real OS X and the techy bits that we all know and love. I doubt that they will (at least until version 5) but they could do it. That makes me sad.
TFA seems to think that the only thing you could ever do on a personal computer could be done on a netbook and now that we have even more limited devices, the end of the computing world is neigh.
Kinda of a restricted view of the world. I'm sure there are people running Photoshop on an 10 inch netbook, but I sure don't envy them.
You don't get it because you aren't the target demographic. The socially challenged male in his basement with 12 computers (all of which have been stripped to the bare plastic at least twice) and his Gentoo compiling microwave oven doesn't need an iPad.
My 80 year old mother and apparently everyone else in her Assisted Living place are in the iPad demographic and they are falling all over themselves (actually not very hard to do at 80) trying to buy one.
Get over it, dude. Go take something apart.
What's Ballmer got to do with all of this?
Excuse me, Mr. Zoomshorts: This is slashdot, not /b/. Did you mom switch your keyboard to Dvorak layout again?
I'm thinking caltrops.
Agreed. The lack of any sense of humor among slashdotters is truly astounding.
Blowing yourself up and getting a whole passel of virgins? Just a thought.