I'm a very experienced Windows user and a casual Linux user (at work), and what you describe is true for me also. I've dabbled with Ubuntu but I just can't figure out the applications. There's a huge learning curve from becoming a Linux user (my current situation) to a Linux adminstrator - which is what I would need to be if I used Linux at home.
Anybody know how they (or Grandcentral back then) can afford to give dedicated phone numbers? I wonder what it costs to obtain and maintain a real phone number like that.
I third this. I had an N810 but the interface was sluggish and the keyboard was "squishy". All in all, very unsatisfying. Sold it on eBay.
The iPod Touch is a big improvement, IMHO.
I would argue that the existing "winner takes all" method of the electoral college encourages people to not bother voting. To wit: the presidential campaigns focus on a few critical states that are close in the polling data. By ignoring the rest of the country this implies to the people of the other 40+ states that their votes don't matter. The people in these other states don't see the campaigns and they are told by the media that their state is already decided. Why bother voting?
It seems like the executive decisions should be based on the needs of the people equally. The current system gives extra representation to the people in the small states. Why should their vote count for more than a person in a big state? For example, a person in Wyoming gets 4x the voting power of someone in Texas, as shown in the 9th column here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population
I've tried to make an HTPC but I could never get the remote working properly. Are you able to put the machine into standby using the remote? I'm interested in saving power as much as possible.
Actually, the article says they increase the efficiency by 100% - which tells me that they doubled their efficiency from whatever they began with. But, in any case, this is minuscule amount of power that we are talking about.
Gather enough newspapers from all around the country and pretty much anything you find will be almost as reliable as finding something written by a random blogger on the web.
I find this comparison a little shaky.
Major newspapers have long used professional (paid) journalists who are overseen by professional (paid) editors - both with reputations to protect. I don't see this type of control from a random blogger.
ComEd in Illinois offers this on a voluntary basis - and they give you a monthly credit for doing so. http://www.exeloncorp.com/ourcompanies/comed/comedres/save_energy_money/energy_savings_program_with_comed.htm They hook up something to the air conditioner (outside the house) and this allows them to cycle the loads in a given region. They have well-detailed arrangements for how much time the air conditioner can be off at a single time and during which hours it can occur. It seems like a very good way to minimize the system load and they pass some of their savings on to the consumer. My friend has been using this for a few years and they have only need to activate the thing a couple times. It's especially useful for people that have an empty house during the day.
IANAL, or constitutional authority, but I seem to remember from school that an Ex Post Facto law is one that makes some illegal retroactively. This is not the case here. This is a forgiveness of an illegal act, in the same vein as a presidential pardon perhaps.
Not that I agree with this in any sense. I fully support Senator Dodd.
My wife has got me in the habit of carrying a cellphone, now that we have kids and other responsibilities. They are convenient, but certainly not as good as landlines. I'm constantly annoyed at the audio delay when talking to somebody. And the frequency dropouts in the audio, along with the various Bluetooth headsets that give poor audio quality make the entire cell phone experience mostly annoying.
I certainly agree that we could save money by going all wireless, but I don't see it as a replacement for landline yet.
I know that a lot of people say "there is no secure DRM because the key is sent with the information" - or something to that effect. But I don't understand why DirectTV and the cable companies seemed to have figured out how to lock down their content and the DVD companies can't. Does anybody know the difference here? I've been curious about this for a while.
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I'm a very experienced Windows user and a casual Linux user (at work), and what you describe is true for me also. I've dabbled with Ubuntu but I just can't figure out the applications. There's a huge learning curve from becoming a Linux user (my current situation) to a Linux adminstrator - which is what I would need to be if I used Linux at home.
Darn, it's from 2009. I was expecting the submission date to be from in future.
I believe there should be.
Anybody know how they (or Grandcentral back then) can afford to give dedicated phone numbers? I wonder what it costs to obtain and maintain a real phone number like that.
I third this. I had an N810 but the interface was sluggish and the keyboard was "squishy". All in all, very unsatisfying. Sold it on eBay. The iPod Touch is a big improvement, IMHO.
I definitely like Nebraska's implementation. By using district-by-district results it keeps the normally gargantuan presidential at a local level.
I would argue that the existing "winner takes all" method of the electoral college encourages people to not bother voting. To wit: the presidential campaigns focus on a few critical states that are close in the polling data. By ignoring the rest of the country this implies to the people of the other 40+ states that their votes don't matter. The people in these other states don't see the campaigns and they are told by the media that their state is already decided. Why bother voting?
It seems like the executive decisions should be based on the needs of the people equally. The current system gives extra representation to the people in the small states. Why should their vote count for more than a person in a big state? For example, a person in Wyoming gets 4x the voting power of someone in Texas, as shown in the 9th column here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population
I've tried to make an HTPC but I could never get the remote working properly. Are you able to put the machine into standby using the remote? I'm interested in saving power as much as possible.
The New York Times has introduced an API that will help with data mining for congressional voting. Hopefully the budgeting aspect is included. http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/introducing-the-congress-api/
Actually, the article says they increase the efficiency by 100% - which tells me that they doubled their efficiency from whatever they began with. But, in any case, this is minuscule amount of power that we are talking about.
Last time I checked, porn was not illegal.
While the summary says "porn", the article is referring to child pornography - which is illegal.
Gather enough newspapers from all around the country and pretty much anything you find will be almost as reliable as finding something written by a random blogger on the web.
I find this comparison a little shaky. Major newspapers have long used professional (paid) journalists who are overseen by professional (paid) editors - both with reputations to protect. I don't see this type of control from a random blogger.
ComEd in Illinois offers this on a voluntary basis - and they give you a monthly credit for doing so. http://www.exeloncorp.com/ourcompanies/comed/comedres/save_energy_money/energy_savings_program_with_comed.htm They hook up something to the air conditioner (outside the house) and this allows them to cycle the loads in a given region. They have well-detailed arrangements for how much time the air conditioner can be off at a single time and during which hours it can occur. It seems like a very good way to minimize the system load and they pass some of their savings on to the consumer. My friend has been using this for a few years and they have only need to activate the thing a couple times. It's especially useful for people that have an empty house during the day.
IANAL, or constitutional authority, but I seem to remember from school that an Ex Post Facto law is one that makes some illegal retroactively. This is not the case here. This is a forgiveness of an illegal act, in the same vein as a presidential pardon perhaps. Not that I agree with this in any sense. I fully support Senator Dodd.
My wife has got me in the habit of carrying a cellphone, now that we have kids and other responsibilities. They are convenient, but certainly not as good as landlines. I'm constantly annoyed at the audio delay when talking to somebody. And the frequency dropouts in the audio, along with the various Bluetooth headsets that give poor audio quality make the entire cell phone experience mostly annoying. I certainly agree that we could save money by going all wireless, but I don't see it as a replacement for landline yet.
I know that a lot of people say "there is no secure DRM because the key is sent with the information" - or something to that effect. But I don't understand why DirectTV and the cable companies seemed to have figured out how to lock down their content and the DVD companies can't. Does anybody know the difference here? I've been curious about this for a while.
Would this help with the planes that hit the World Trade Center? They stayed more than 200 feet above the ground during their whole flight.
Perhaps all of us who took the time to read the article deserve "honorable mention" for that Golden Hourglass award.