Don't punish them for not shutting down. Just put software on the machines that powers down the machine for them, after popping up a suitable warning dialog and giving them a chance to delay the shutdown if they are still at their desks. Set the software to start checking after the end of normal business hours, and start checking before the start of normal business hours, and you're done. I've worked at several companies in which if you were there after hours, you had to get up every half hour and turn the lights back on. Why not do a simular thing with the computers?
We've been explicitly told by our IT department NOT to turn off our PCs, so that they can run backups on them while we're not there. I suspect this is true at many companies. The best you can do is set up power management to automatically shut off the video and hard drive after a suitable idle period. I guess they don't trust "Wake On LAN" to wake the machine up for backups. It also makes it easier for IT to do an automated audit or inventory of what is on the LAN if none of them are ever turned off. With the dickless Sun workstations we used to have, the argument was made that wear and tear on the machines from power cycling them costs more than the energy savings from shutting them off when not in use.
Obviously this only works for items for which the sales tax exceeds the shipping costs. A 10% tax would pay for a lot of shipping, if you use USPS book rate instead of FedEx next day delivery. You are correct in that it certainly wouldn't make sense for all of your purchases.
If taxes are charged based on the location of the seller, this would be a good time to invest in office and warehouse space in those states that DO NOT charge sales tax, e.g. Oregon. If taxes are charged based on the location of the buyer, I see a big future in people renting PO Boxes in those same states, and having them re-ship their purchases or just drive across the border to pick them up. A 10% VAT us a huge psychological barrier; as the sales tax exceeds that amount, people are much more willing to take gray market measures to avoid the tax. Seattle sales tax is already 9.3%; faced with a multi-billion dollar deficit, it will inevitably go even higher.
Human beings only have about a 120 degree maximum field of view, so 360 degrees isn't that useful. It is easier to rotate the image into your field of view than to turn your head 360 degrees to see it all, IMHO.
Sex is great, and I enjoy it immensely, but I'd never consider it the "one reason" to be with a girl. Absolutely! Sex is great, but having someone to cook, do laundry, and clean toilets for you is even better!;-)
Compact Fluorescents are only a temporary solution until we get cost-effective LED light bulbs. They are available now (even at Costco). Which means pretty soon they should actually make sense to use. Right now, they are still a little pricey, despite lasting 30 times longer than incandescents. Plus, those "environmentally friendly" CFLs contain mercury... just what we need more of in our landfills!
'Tourists might find information about the Liberty Bell, for example, at a site ending in.philly.'
Provided the tourist already knows where the Liberty Bell is, and that "philly" is both a TLD and an abreviation for Philadelphia. Otherwise, they would just google it. This reminds me of the question "Why is the word 'dictionary' in the dictionary?" If you know how to find it, you already know the definition!
For read data, it makes more economic sense to cache to RAM instead of SSD and just read everything into RAM at startup. Fpr writes, I'm not that sure -- is a write to SSD really that much faster than a write to disk? It might make sense to use SSD for journaling in those cases where a transaction can't complete until you are certain the results have been saved. But in that case, your network latencies are probably much greater than you disk write latency anyway.
Yes and no. Without hormones, your basic instinctual drives would be nowhere near as strong. But you would probably still do things out of force of habit. I take care of my family now not because I enjoy it, but because of strongly held beliefs that I should do so. Take away the instincts, and a reasoned belief about my purpose in life still remains.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of it. It isn't a universal solution; they provide a list of sites that they currently work with. 95% of them appear to be porn sites -- as if there was a shortage of downloadable porn trailers on the 'net!
Plus, loudly announcing at parties that you are boycotting D&D is a great way to score points with hot chicks!
I've never bought anything from WotC, and I never intend to, despite the fact their rule sets inspired many old computer strategy games. I'm pretty sure anybody out there that actually has a life is already effective boycotting D&D too...
My argument was that flash provides no value to the consumer of video. But professional video producers wont make their videos available on the web unless they believe that they wont be "pirated", and unless they derive some revenue from making them available. I sorta like being able to watch TV shows and movies on the 'net with fewer commercials than broadcast TV. But if I could easily get at those video streams without the commercials, I would.
The whole point of using flash for video is to 1) prevent viewers from skipping over ads, and 2) prevent viewers from saving the streaming video to disk. If you allow native web browser applications, then what is to prevent users from substituting their own native application which violates points 1 and 2?
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Don't punish them for not shutting down. Just put software on the machines that powers down the machine for them, after popping up a suitable warning dialog and giving them a chance to delay the shutdown if they are still at their desks. Set the software to start checking after the end of normal business hours, and start checking before the start of normal business hours, and you're done. I've worked at several companies in which if you were there after hours, you had to get up every half hour and turn the lights back on. Why not do a simular thing with the computers?
We've been explicitly told by our IT department NOT to turn off our PCs, so that they can run backups on them while we're not there. I suspect this is true at many companies. The best you can do is set up power management to automatically shut off the video and hard drive after a suitable idle period. I guess they don't trust "Wake On LAN" to wake the machine up for backups. It also makes it easier for IT to do an automated audit or inventory of what is on the LAN if none of them are ever turned off. With the dickless Sun workstations we used to have, the argument was made that wear and tear on the machines from power cycling them costs more than the energy savings from shutting them off when not in use.
Obviously this only works for items for which the sales tax exceeds the shipping costs. A 10% tax would pay for a lot of shipping, if you use USPS book rate instead of FedEx next day delivery. You are correct in that it certainly wouldn't make sense for all of your purchases.
If taxes are charged based on the location of the seller, this would be a good time to invest in office and warehouse space in those states that DO NOT charge sales tax, e.g. Oregon. If taxes are charged based on the location of the buyer, I see a big future in people renting PO Boxes in those same states, and having them re-ship their purchases or just drive across the border to pick them up. A 10% VAT us a huge psychological barrier; as the sales tax exceeds that amount, people are much more willing to take gray market measures to avoid the tax. Seattle sales tax is already 9.3%; faced with a multi-billion dollar deficit, it will inevitably go even higher.
What is this "friend" thing of which you speak?
Wouldn't they be much more useful if we used them as speedbumps?
Human beings only have about a 120 degree maximum field of view, so 360 degrees isn't that useful. It is easier to rotate the image into your field of view than to turn your head 360 degrees to see it all, IMHO.
Vincent Van Gogh might have a problem with this system...
Mom... Is that you?
No, the sun has just discovered industrial-strength clearasil.
I don't see any mention of DSLinux having been tested on the DSi... has it?
This is slashdot. We get hardons looking at picture of naked electronics. If you don't, try hanging out somewhere else.
I'd be more interested in finding out how you managed to invite female chimps to your BBQ. Whatever works for you...
Sex is great, and I enjoy it immensely, but I'd never consider it the "one reason" to be with a girl. Absolutely! Sex is great, but having someone to cook, do laundry, and clean toilets for you is even better! ;-)
Compact Fluorescents are only a temporary solution until we get cost-effective LED light bulbs. They are available now (even at Costco). Which means pretty soon they should actually make sense to use. Right now, they are still a little pricey, despite lasting 30 times longer than incandescents. Plus, those "environmentally friendly" CFLs contain mercury... just what we need more of in our landfills!
Oh shit, you're right... ICANN Has Cheezburger
There is one exception to this: .cheezburger has been reserved for ICANN's exclusive use.
.cheezburger?!? I think you're making this up! And you're about 1 week too late.
What?!? ICANN has
'Tourists might find information about the Liberty Bell, for example, at a site ending in .philly.'
Provided the tourist already knows where the Liberty Bell is, and that "philly" is both a TLD and an abreviation for Philadelphia. Otherwise, they would just google it. This reminds me of the question "Why is the word 'dictionary' in the dictionary?" If you know how to find it, you already know the definition!
For read data, it makes more economic sense to cache to RAM instead of SSD and just read everything into RAM at startup. Fpr writes, I'm not that sure -- is a write to SSD really that much faster than a write to disk? It might make sense to use SSD for journaling in those cases where a transaction can't complete until you are certain the results have been saved. But in that case, your network latencies are probably much greater than you disk write latency anyway.
Yes and no. Without hormones, your basic instinctual drives would be nowhere near as strong. But you would probably still do things out of force of habit. I take care of my family now not because I enjoy it, but because of strongly held beliefs that I should do so. Take away the instincts, and a reasoned belief about my purpose in life still remains.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of it. It isn't a universal solution; they provide a list of sites that they currently work with. 95% of them appear to be porn sites -- as if there was a shortage of downloadable porn trailers on the 'net!
I've never bought anything from WotC, and I never intend to, despite the fact their rule sets inspired many old computer strategy games. I'm pretty sure anybody out there that actually has a life is already effective boycotting D&D too...
My argument was that flash provides no value to the consumer of video. But professional video producers wont make their videos available on the web unless they believe that they wont be "pirated", and unless they derive some revenue from making them available. I sorta like being able to watch TV shows and movies on the 'net with fewer commercials than broadcast TV. But if I could easily get at those video streams without the commercials, I would.
The whole point of using flash for video is to 1) prevent viewers from skipping over ads, and 2) prevent viewers from saving the streaming video to disk. If you allow native web browser applications, then what is to prevent users from substituting their own native application which violates points 1 and 2?