Something I learned from the basecamp people: Private offices are a big of a logistic problem when your headcount varies, you want to rearrange things, etc.
Here's what they did. IMHO, second only to my own home office on the appeal scale.
even the top end cars are not that impressive quality-wise if you've attended an auto show recently.
Can you please elaborate on this? I'm wondering how you can tell. I've heard this from a few mechanics - that cars are now designed to last just past their warranty. Disappointing.
I can't believe you just typed that in. Maybe I'm missing a MathML extension or something. Either way, here it is typeset, if anybody's interested. http://bit.ly/2lm0Da8
Erich, the Quadratic Formula is absolutely magic. I could convince you of that magic in a way you'd never forget, if you had a few hours. More importantly, I'd ask you what about maths you were interested in learning - the exact opposite approach to the forced, institutionalized education that everybody but the students has been so enamored with for 100+ years.
My understanding is that many of those techniques *are* being used today - horizontal wells, etc. The idea that we have a bunch of technological tricks up our sleeves is comforting but may not be true.
Regardless, even with vastly greater recovery techniques (I think we only extract 30% or so of a well these days), discovery peaked long ago. The writing's on the wall folks!
Its important to note that the extracting oil from sand is a difficult, slow process. There may be a lot there, we may be doing a lot to get it out (and causing horrible damage in the meantime), but the production rates are only expected to be in the few million barrel per day range by 2030, compared to Saudi Arabia's 9 million bpd.
I know its the "economist" and all, but must everyone in the media fail science 101!?
"At such high altitude, above the jet stream, the reduced air density means that the wind will be about 20 times weaker than at ground level, enabling the airship's solar-powered electric motors to keep it stationary with very little effort. "
Except that the reduced air density *also* gives the motors less to work with.
"The craft's aerodynamic shape not only reduces drag but also generates lift when facing into the wind..."
What good is lift when the craft doesn't need to exert any effort to keep itself aloft in the first place? Unless they're counting on wind and launching with less helium than would otherwise be req'd.
I've used these products for years (at work too) and realized I really needed to pay them back for the tremendous functionality they've given me to do my job.
I even sent money to dpreview since the content is so excellent I really wanted to pay for it (haven't bought yet, so couldn't use their linked retailers).
Several I would've liked to give to but giving money wasn't available or wasn't easy (paypal): fedora, pine, jpluck, xawtv, mplayer, xmms, grip, lame, EFF, Perl...
Besides supporting your favorite projects, you sometimes also get a hotline into the developer, and/or priority feature requests!
How does Linux play with the XP-M and its power saving features?
It seemed to take the kernel forever to catch up to the Athlon "disconnect on halt" bug that caused a lot of extra power to be used. Then, ACPI seemed to take forever.
I'm guessing all of these vendor-specific power savings modes and techniques (Cool n' Quiet) are not going to end up supported in Linux for a long time?
(PS. Your mother's really using linux on a laptop?)
Buy a little TV capture card from Hauppage with FM capability like this one. Plug it into your linux box and use xawtv's streamer application to record Loveline every night (or whatever your favorite radio show is). Then use lame to convert that to MP3.
Then, listen at work. I've been doing this for years. Its not great for productivity, but it keeps you from getting bored and getting even more off task.
Yet another place where linux rules for simplicity and functionality! The box doing this is a PII/333MHz, which also records video (a la Tivo).
Also, you can tune into Shoutcast's various comedy channels.
For as long as that was, the founder/prez forgot to mention the coolest feature of CD Baby (IMHO):
The "Sounds like" search feature lets you type in your favorite artist, and CD Baby lists CDs/artists that they have that sound like your favorite. Very handy for narrowing things down.
I've found some great unknown bands on there like Angry Hill and Soulpusher...
It is not contradictory to use technology to protect the environment. By and large, what these people are against is the thoughtless, greedy, UNSUSTAINABLE raping of earth's resources. Corporations have demonstrated themselves to be incapable of thought beyond the bottom line.
People like this are you and I. There's a saying: "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Instead of labeling these public servants, read a bit about the issues and I'll bet you find yourself in the same mindset./.ers are too smart to dismiss environmental issues and activism as "hippie stuff".
More importantly, running it at 1/2 load (500W), for 11.5 hours, uses 30 gallons at $30, so that's
$5.22/kWh. Yikes. That's almost 100x grid-provided electricity.
So now we see why its just being sold as a backup device - for occasional use only. Too bad!
This is the bane of the "Hydrogen Powered Economy". We can't just dig/pump hydrogen out of the ground. Extracting requires a source of energy... oops, chicken and egg.
For utility/residential applications, efficiency isn't very important since there's LOTS of roof area... you can use relatively inefficient technology. What really matters is $/Watt. How much do I have to spend to generate energy equivalent my house's usage?
"Mounted into the base of the chair is a power cord wired to the sockets and, when powered, would illuminate the colored epoxy resin buttons and switches (one of the epoxy resin "lights" is missing). "
Hmmm... uh... one of the lights is missing here... and Naugahide... not real crazy about that material... I'm going to have to ask for $3000 off your asking price, what with all the repairs I'm going to have to make....
If you buy something from a vendor that uses Yahoo (its not always obvious), Yahoo goes ahead and saves your addresses and phones "so you don't have to type it in again." Gee, thanks. The time saved can be spent recycling all the paper junk mail I'll be getting.
I found both my home and work addresses AND phone numbers! I quickly deleted them, but as security conscious as I am, I had no idea Yahoo was saving that stuff away for future marketing "opportunities".
Am I the only one that remembers Amazon's declaration last year that all our credit card numbers and addresses were their corporate asset?
When that story broke, I logged in and removed all my personal information. I haven't shopped there since.
Maybe they finally turned a profit by selling "their" business asset to a bunch of other retailers or maybe even Russian credit card number blackmailers.
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Something I learned from the basecamp people: Private offices are a big of a logistic problem when your headcount varies, you want to rearrange things, etc.
Here's what they did. IMHO, second only to my own home office on the appeal scale.
https://basecamp.com/about/off...
even the top end cars are not that impressive quality-wise if you've attended an auto show recently.
Can you please elaborate on this? I'm wondering how you can tell. I've heard this from a few mechanics - that cars are now designed to last just past their warranty. Disappointing.
Am I the only one who sees in this trend just a huge explosion of single-use containers going right to the landfill?
Really cool in-browser visualizer of 5 different algorithms for solving this problem...
http://haseebq.com/n-queens-visualizer/
I'm showing 129MB, and slowly climbing - for several minutes now. Weird. Memory leak?
I can't believe you just typed that in. Maybe I'm missing a MathML extension or something. Either way, here it is typeset, if anybody's interested.
http://bit.ly/2lm0Da8
Erich, the Quadratic Formula is absolutely magic. I could convince you of that magic in a way you'd never forget, if you had a few hours.
More importantly, I'd ask you what about maths you were interested in learning - the exact opposite approach to the forced, institutionalized education that everybody but the students has been so enamored with for 100+ years.
My understanding is that many of those techniques *are* being used today - horizontal wells, etc. The idea that we have a bunch of technological tricks up our sleeves is comforting but may not be true.
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Regardless, even with vastly greater recovery techniques (I think we only extract 30% or so of a well these days), discovery peaked long ago. The writing's on the wall folks!
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/campbell/images/growin
Even though I'm edumacated and thought I understood the implications of exponential growth, I still found this enlightening:
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461
Dr. Bartlett explains what exponential growth really means, and how quickly things can go badly when you grow exponentially.
Its important to note that the extracting oil from sand is a difficult, slow process. There may be a lot there, we may be doing a lot to get it out (and causing horrible damage in the meantime), but the production rates are only expected to be in the few million barrel per day range by 2030, compared to Saudi Arabia's 9 million bpd.
I know its the "economist" and all, but must everyone in the media fail science 101!?
"At such high altitude, above the jet stream, the reduced air density means that the wind will be about 20 times weaker than at ground level, enabling the airship's solar-powered electric motors to keep it stationary with very little effort. "
Except that the reduced air density *also* gives the motors less to work with.
"The craft's aerodynamic shape not only reduces drag but also generates lift when facing into the wind..."
What good is lift when the craft doesn't need to exert any effort to keep itself aloft in the first place? Unless they're counting on wind and launching with less helium than would otherwise be req'd.
This year I gave to:
TightVNC
Vim
Jpilot
Mozilla
KDE
I've used these products for years (at work too) and realized I really needed to pay them back for the tremendous functionality they've given me to do my job.
I even sent money to dpreview since the content is so excellent I really wanted to pay for it (haven't bought yet, so couldn't use their linked retailers).
Several I would've liked to give to but giving money wasn't available or wasn't easy (paypal): fedora, pine, jpluck, xawtv, mplayer, xmms, grip, lame, EFF, Perl...
Besides supporting your favorite projects, you sometimes also get a hotline into the developer, and/or priority feature requests!
I thought pilot-link didn't yet support the newer datebook, addressbook and to-do list apps in the T3?
How does Linux play with the XP-M and its power saving features?
It seemed to take the kernel forever to catch up to the Athlon "disconnect on halt" bug that caused a lot of extra power to be used. Then, ACPI seemed to take forever.
I'm guessing all of these vendor-specific power savings modes and techniques (Cool n' Quiet) are not going to end up supported in Linux for a long time?
(PS. Your mother's really using linux on a laptop?)
Buy a little TV capture card from Hauppage with FM capability like this one. Plug it into your linux box and use xawtv's streamer application to record Loveline every night (or whatever your favorite radio show is). Then use lame to convert that to MP3.
Then, listen at work. I've been doing this for years. Its not great for productivity, but it keeps you from getting bored and getting even more off task.
Yet another place where linux rules for simplicity and functionality! The box doing this is a PII/333MHz, which also records video (a la Tivo).
Also, you can tune into Shoutcast's various comedy channels.
Math Magic by Scott Flansburg. I've seen the guy demo his skills on TV and he's amazing.
and don't forget the Doomsday Algorithm which is actually useful on an almost daily basis.
There's always this company's products... (I work for them). There were five different companies demo'ing the chipset sending video at CES this year.
For as long as that was, the founder/prez forgot to mention the coolest feature of CD Baby (IMHO):
The "Sounds like" search feature lets you type in your favorite artist, and CD Baby lists CDs/artists that they have that sound like your favorite. Very handy for narrowing things down.
I've found some great unknown bands on there like Angry Hill and Soulpusher...
~gb
It is not contradictory to use technology to protect the environment. By and large, what these people are against is the thoughtless, greedy, UNSUSTAINABLE raping of earth's resources. Corporations have demonstrated themselves to be incapable of thought beyond the bottom line.
People like this are you and I. There's a saying: "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Instead of labeling these public servants, read a bit about the issues and I'll bet you find yourself in the same mindset.
~gb
More importantly, running it at 1/2 load (500W), for 11.5 hours, uses 30 gallons at $30, so that's
$5.22/kWh. Yikes. That's almost 100x grid-provided electricity.
So now we see why its just being sold as a backup device - for occasional use only. Too bad!
This is the bane of the "Hydrogen Powered Economy". We can't just dig/pump hydrogen out of the ground. Extracting requires a source of energy... oops, chicken and egg.
~gb
For utility/residential applications, efficiency isn't very important since there's LOTS of roof area... you can use relatively inefficient technology. What really matters is $/Watt. How much do I have to spend to generate energy equivalent my house's usage?
~gb
Maybe the "picnic" would be useful to you... its an open source TCP/IP stack for a PIC microcontroller...
"Mounted into the base of the chair is a power cord wired to the sockets and, when powered, would illuminate the colored epoxy resin buttons and switches (one of the epoxy resin "lights" is missing). "
Hmmm... uh... one of the lights is missing here... and Naugahide... not real crazy about that material... I'm going to have to ask for $3000 off your asking price, what with all the repairs I'm going to have to make....
If you buy something from a vendor that uses Yahoo (its not always obvious), Yahoo goes ahead and saves your addresses and phones "so you don't have to type it in again." Gee, thanks. The time saved can be spent recycling all the paper junk mail I'll be getting.
I found both my home and work addresses AND phone numbers! I quickly deleted them, but as security conscious as I am, I had no idea Yahoo was saving that stuff away for future marketing "opportunities".
Please everyone go check!
Am I the only one that remembers Amazon's declaration last year that all our credit card numbers and addresses were their corporate asset?
When that story broke, I logged in and removed all my personal information. I haven't shopped there since.
Maybe they finally turned a profit by selling "their" business asset to a bunch of other retailers or maybe even Russian credit card number blackmailers.