You make it sound easy... I was in the middle of a multi-year remodeling of my house when I lost my job at a near-by company. I found a different job, but it is 55 miles one way. Now should I sell my house as is, or finish the job? The house should be worth more, but few people can see past the unfinished parts.
Oh, before you answer I have to mention that my new job is for a start-up that is not making money (yet they claim). If I move I take the chance that investors won't drop out suddenly and leave me jobless again. (Which has happened to me) Don't forget there are tax advantages to living in the same location for more than 2 years. (US only)
I'm lucky, I'm single so in theory I can move easily. It is much more difficult if you are married. Now you have to consider the wife's job (if she works, which I don't in general recommend, but that is not a decision I should be consulted on). What if you are sending your kids to a private school? Moving may mean you drive to the old area twice a day to deal with school, doubling the distance you drive. (Catholic schools are everywhere, but many other private schools have few equivalents in the country)
I choose to drive a Geo Metro instead. My effective gas useage is the same as the average person (or less), even though my commute is nearly twice average. They don't make those anymore though, and were never the safest car anyway.
Have you done a HVAC evaluation of a store? Don't jump to conclusions too quick, in many cases these stores need to run the AC anyway until the temperature is -10f. Body heat accounts for quite a bit. Particularly when there is other equipment that gives off heat as a by-product.
As the other guy said, cold air tends to sit in the coolers, not raise up. The effect is there, but it isn't as significant as you would guess.
All this assumes that the fridges vent the excess heat outside, which is not true for all of them.
Typical European revisionist history. You folks (a couple generations before, none of them are alive now) wanted world war I badly, badly enough that there was dancing in the streets when it finally started! When the US was pulled into that mess and helped solve it (though I'm not sure we picked the right sides), you forced the losers to pay unsustainable "repatriations" for what they did. When Germany couldn't do it they were forced into inflation. [1] That caused obvious problems, and in desperation the people turned to Hitler who despite his human rights failings got Germany out of their situation.
You claim to have learned from history? Well so has the US: the happenings in the rest of the world will drag us in. So we are better off fighting small wars now before the situation is out of control, than wait for it to become obvious to everyone how bad things are.
[1] Inflation high enough that you paid for your meal at a restaurant before you ate because the prices would go up before you finished!
A good UI is one that does not cause to you sit up and take notice at all. A good UI is one that lets you sit back and get your work done, without making/allowing mistakes, without making you do anything repetitive, allows fast work, and all this without getting in your way.
Now creating this interface is often difficult. It is worse because sometimes the best UI for novices is different from the best one for experts. A novice needs a easy to learn interface, while the expert already knows it and just wants something that gets the work done fast.
Example: An accountant needs more power from from an accounting package than the average Joe. (yet the average Joe needs to send everything to an accountant once in a while!) "Joe" doesn't know how double entry bookkeeping works, and shouldn't have to learn. The accountant needs to know and use it.
Its not often that you can tell someone that they asked a stupid question, but this is one of them.
Look closely at your browser window. Notice it says Slashdot.org? Depending on where on the page you are it is likely to say "News for nerds" someplace as well.
If that doesn't make it clear: I have no chance of getting the courage to talk to any girls. I like looking though.
Shooting/Not shooting to kill is for the movies. In the real world you shoot someone else only because you need to stop them. (Which means in this particular case where the guy was shot in the back doesn't qualify as reason to shoot) Unless you practice with 200 rounds a week you are not a good enough shot to hit anything other than the torso - a killing shot - at any time. When you consider that you are likely to be under stress at the time you have to shoot an attacker (If you are not in danger don't shoot) there is no reason to believe that you can hit someone anywhere other than the chest area which is also the are to aim at if you want to kill.
They'd broken in several times before to steal. It's reasonable to assume this was their plan. Even if it wasn't, they had been prevented from doing this.
The first is not a reasonable assumption. You could die if this time they are interested in murder not robbery. (Robbery because you are there) Though I agree that once you prevent someone from committing a crime you should leave it to the police. (Unless you have good reason to believe they will do more)
So is it up to private individuals to convict and punish criminals?
No, but it is up to private individuals to protect themselves. The police are under no obligation to respond to any incident. Even when they do respond fast talkers have told the police everything was okay and then went back into the bedroom to finish the rape. Most of us cannot protect ourselves from these incidents, but that is our fault. (though the risk in general is low enough that it is a safe risk to take)
You can't sell MS Windows perhaps, but I can, because I have never agreed to a MS license for my own personal use. (I have agreed at work, but that is work and nothing to do with my personal life) If I get a copy of Ms Windows you bet I will sell it, and they can talk to my lawyers if they don't like it.
Its not clear that first sale rights can be given away in a contract anyway. A contract that I didn't not agree to cannot enforce anything.
Perhaps the drivers are solid, but only if you are running the right Linux (not *BSD, reactos, or any of the other open source operating systems that would like good support for these cards) on 80386 (not PPC, sparc, MIPS, or any of the other systems linux and the others run on - though admitidly not all of them have the right hardware to connect the card - but some do. I'm not sure about x86-64 either, though I suspect not)
In short, your stable drivers are useless to me because I'm an old BSD guy (complete with beard) and I'm convinced that the sysV style init that most of linux uses is evil and all that. I'm looking for drivers that are stable on my systems, not theoretically stable if I'm willing to run something I don't otherwise like.
Quit using those old outdated apps that don't support modern copy and paste Its been standard for a few years now, both GNOME and KDE get it right. I'm sure others do too.
Its not our fault if you refuse to upgrade to something that supports the standard.
Depends. I have relatives who live in a township (36 sq miles) with the population of 96. That is the most populated township in the area. (the smallest has 30 people) For them one tower would cover everyone with great speeds, yet might be affordable to put up. (Affordable, but likely because they want to advertise they cover the entire US, though the tower could be profitable)
In the city you just turn the signal down a little and put up more towers. No big deal if you plan things right.
I've only been to one European city: Barcelona, Spain. (I don't count cities I only spend two hours at the airport). My home city of Minneapolis has breathable air, they do not. Sitting in the (now non-existant) smoking section in our restaurants you still breath cleaner air than you do outside in Barcelona.
I can't comment on all cities, but I can tell you that in my limited experience US cities are mu
Of course not, he gets it both ways, look it up. His money is sheltered from the taxes that he wants to place on everyone else. Easy to vote democrat when your money isn't effected by what the democrats do. Its when you have money that is affected by taxes that you start to question if they are worth it.
As I recall the first porn Spam I got was for 7 year old girls. I'm still sick about that one. (That was before I developed strong defenses to not read all of a short email before figuring out what it meant. It slows me down, but now I don't get as sick over email)
Toll booths are a bad idea, particularly in California where there is a pollution problem anyway. As you arrive at the booth you hit the breaks, turning good kinetic energy into heat. Then you leave the engine idling for a minute (at best) while you wait in line, slowly creeping forward to the booth. Then you floor it to get back up to speed for the next 3 miles where you repeat the process.
Compare that to a gas tax. Stop every 250 miles and fill up. You do have all the stopping issues, but must less often, and there is almost never a line to wait in. The engine is off where it doesn't add pollution. As a bonus, this is something you have to do anyway, so there is no additional cost.
Toll booths are a bad idea and waste enough gas already. We don't need more of them.
Every farm does have that, but it is illegal to fill any on-road vehicle from it. There is no gas tax paid on the fuel. Tractors are filled from it, but tractors are not used on the road. (There is a specific exception in the law for traveling on road to-from the fields, but only if a direct route is taken)
Every farmer I know drives the truck to town to fill it. I assume that once in a while someone checks to make sure they don't. In the case of diesel there is a dye added to off-road fuel that shows up for the next 7 fillups.
You have no clue what you are talking about. In Kde tabs are a part of kmdi which is a part of kdelibs. Konqueror and Konsole choose to show tabs differently, (as do most other apps), but the code for both is the same on the bottom level.
I gave up when I read about counting lines of codes with comments. Comments are useful, but they indicate nothing about quality or lack thereof. Some code is self documenting, and thus has few comments. Other code is just uncommented. You cannot safely assume either one, which is what you must do when using any automatically commenting counting method.
Their other measurements seem bogus too, but I'm not interesting in looking deeper into them.
Exactly, turn them in. They are the ones who hurt everyone. A few arrests like this would do some good, and might even get pressure off the net for a short time.
So it hits the bottom line harder. They still have to pay money to develop that cheap printer, but they don't get many sales because people buy postscript anyway, which means the postscript printers have a better return on investment.
You better make a reasonable effort to find out before you sign a contract. The courts will hold that a contract is valid if the minor showed a good (but not bad) fake id, or at least the parts that it is in your favor to have valid. If you don't make any effort the contract is void, but often only the parts that are in your favor! Of course law modifies this too.
Small correction: copyright law does not allow you to do whatever in all situations. You cannot publicly (which generally means charge money) show a DVD, even though you bought it. You cannot play a CD at your place of business (this might have changed in the last few years) I think there are a couple other exceptions which are generally designed to charge businesses extra money without interfering with people.
Of course if you have any questions or MIGHT be coming close to some such situation you need to see a lawyer.
I'm interested. How much will it cost? When on standby how much power will it suck from the wall? Will it turn on (nearly instantly)? Will it run my BSD (linux is acceptable but I'm a BSD guy) with complete driver support? Will it be cheap enough? Will it be small? Will it be silent?
I bought one of those wifi audio players a few months ago, and returned it the next day because it wasn't compatible with my systems. (I cannot accept any license agreement to not reverse engineer it, as a hacker reverse engineering it half the fun)
I'm very interested. However I'm picky about what the system must do. I've come close to building a mini-ITX system already to fill my media center PC needs. Now that the mac-mini is out I'm considering that. (Mostly I'm not sure if I can hack in a remote control, and a display that does a few lines of text)
I've never understood peoples desire for a "perfect" green lawn. Its a uniform ugly. One color, not variation. They rarely use it for any other activity, it doesn't support as much nature, yet they must have it.
Grass is fine on a golf course or a ballpark. It is worthless in front of your home.
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You make it sound easy... I was in the middle of a multi-year remodeling of my house when I lost my job at a near-by company. I found a different job, but it is 55 miles one way. Now should I sell my house as is, or finish the job? The house should be worth more, but few people can see past the unfinished parts.
Oh, before you answer I have to mention that my new job is for a start-up that is not making money (yet they claim). If I move I take the chance that investors won't drop out suddenly and leave me jobless again. (Which has happened to me) Don't forget there are tax advantages to living in the same location for more than 2 years. (US only)
I'm lucky, I'm single so in theory I can move easily. It is much more difficult if you are married. Now you have to consider the wife's job (if she works, which I don't in general recommend, but that is not a decision I should be consulted on). What if you are sending your kids to a private school? Moving may mean you drive to the old area twice a day to deal with school, doubling the distance you drive. (Catholic schools are everywhere, but many other private schools have few equivalents in the country)
I choose to drive a Geo Metro instead. My effective gas useage is the same as the average person (or less), even though my commute is nearly twice average. They don't make those anymore though, and were never the safest car anyway.
Have you done a HVAC evaluation of a store? Don't jump to conclusions too quick, in many cases these stores need to run the AC anyway until the temperature is -10f. Body heat accounts for quite a bit. Particularly when there is other equipment that gives off heat as a by-product.
As the other guy said, cold air tends to sit in the coolers, not raise up. The effect is there, but it isn't as significant as you would guess.
All this assumes that the fridges vent the excess heat outside, which is not true for all of them.
Typical European revisionist history. You folks (a couple generations before, none of them are alive now) wanted world war I badly, badly enough that there was dancing in the streets when it finally started! When the US was pulled into that mess and helped solve it (though I'm not sure we picked the right sides), you forced the losers to pay unsustainable "repatriations" for what they did. When Germany couldn't do it they were forced into inflation. [1] That caused obvious problems, and in desperation the people turned to Hitler who despite his human rights failings got Germany out of their situation.
You claim to have learned from history? Well so has the US: the happenings in the rest of the world will drag us in. So we are better off fighting small wars now before the situation is out of control, than wait for it to become obvious to everyone how bad things are.
[1] Inflation high enough that you paid for your meal at a restaurant before you ate because the prices would go up before you finished!
A good UI is one that does not cause to you sit up and take notice at all. A good UI is one that lets you sit back and get your work done, without making/allowing mistakes, without making you do anything repetitive, allows fast work, and all this without getting in your way.
Now creating this interface is often difficult. It is worse because sometimes the best UI for novices is different from the best one for experts. A novice needs a easy to learn interface, while the expert already knows it and just wants something that gets the work done fast.
Example: An accountant needs more power from from an accounting package than the average Joe. (yet the average Joe needs to send everything to an accountant once in a while!) "Joe" doesn't know how double entry bookkeeping works, and shouldn't have to learn. The accountant needs to know and use it.
Its not often that you can tell someone that they asked a stupid question, but this is one of them.
Look closely at your browser window. Notice it says Slashdot.org? Depending on where on the page you are it is likely to say "News for nerds" someplace as well.
If that doesn't make it clear: I have no chance of getting the courage to talk to any girls. I like looking though.
Some of the girls working at Panera are good looking. However many of their customers are good looking, and that is good enough for me.
About as hard as not shooting to kill.
Shooting/Not shooting to kill is for the movies. In the real world you shoot someone else only because you need to stop them. (Which means in this particular case where the guy was shot in the back doesn't qualify as reason to shoot) Unless you practice with 200 rounds a week you are not a good enough shot to hit anything other than the torso - a killing shot - at any time. When you consider that you are likely to be under stress at the time you have to shoot an attacker (If you are not in danger don't shoot) there is no reason to believe that you can hit someone anywhere other than the chest area which is also the are to aim at if you want to kill.
They'd broken in several times before to steal. It's reasonable to assume this was their plan. Even if it wasn't, they had been prevented from doing this.
The first is not a reasonable assumption. You could die if this time they are interested in murder not robbery. (Robbery because you are there) Though I agree that once you prevent someone from committing a crime you should leave it to the police. (Unless you have good reason to believe they will do more)
So is it up to private individuals to convict and punish criminals?
No, but it is up to private individuals to protect themselves. The police are under no obligation to respond to any incident. Even when they do respond fast talkers have told the police everything was okay and then went back into the bedroom to finish the rape. Most of us cannot protect ourselves from these incidents, but that is our fault. (though the risk in general is low enough that it is a safe risk to take)
You can't sell MS Windows perhaps, but I can, because I have never agreed to a MS license for my own personal use. (I have agreed at work, but that is work and nothing to do with my personal life) If I get a copy of Ms Windows you bet I will sell it, and they can talk to my lawyers if they don't like it.
Its not clear that first sale rights can be given away in a contract anyway. A contract that I didn't not agree to cannot enforce anything.
Perhaps the drivers are solid, but only if you are running the right Linux (not *BSD, reactos, or any of the other open source operating systems that would like good support for these cards) on 80386 (not PPC, sparc, MIPS, or any of the other systems linux and the others run on - though admitidly not all of them have the right hardware to connect the card - but some do. I'm not sure about x86-64 either, though I suspect not)
In short, your stable drivers are useless to me because I'm an old BSD guy (complete with beard) and I'm convinced that the sysV style init that most of linux uses is evil and all that. I'm looking for drivers that are stable on my systems, not theoretically stable if I'm willing to run something I don't otherwise like.
Quit using those old outdated apps that don't support modern copy and paste Its been standard for a few years now, both GNOME and KDE get it right. I'm sure others do too.
Its not our fault if you refuse to upgrade to something that supports the standard.
Depends. I have relatives who live in a township (36 sq miles) with the population of 96. That is the most populated township in the area. (the smallest has 30 people) For them one tower would cover everyone with great speeds, yet might be affordable to put up. (Affordable, but likely because they want to advertise they cover the entire US, though the tower could be profitable)
In the city you just turn the signal down a little and put up more towers. No big deal if you plan things right.
I've only been to one European city: Barcelona, Spain. (I don't count cities I only spend two hours at the airport). My home city of Minneapolis has breathable air, they do not. Sitting in the (now non-existant) smoking section in our restaurants you still breath cleaner air than you do outside in Barcelona.
I can't comment on all cities, but I can tell you that in my limited experience US cities are mu
Of course not, he gets it both ways, look it up. His money is sheltered from the taxes that he wants to place on everyone else. Easy to vote democrat when your money isn't effected by what the democrats do. Its when you have money that is affected by taxes that you start to question if they are worth it.
As I recall the first porn Spam I got was for 7 year old girls. I'm still sick about that one. (That was before I developed strong defenses to not read all of a short email before figuring out what it meant. It slows me down, but now I don't get as sick over email)
Toll booths are a bad idea, particularly in California where there is a pollution problem anyway. As you arrive at the booth you hit the breaks, turning good kinetic energy into heat. Then you leave the engine idling for a minute (at best) while you wait in line, slowly creeping forward to the booth. Then you floor it to get back up to speed for the next 3 miles where you repeat the process.
Compare that to a gas tax. Stop every 250 miles and fill up. You do have all the stopping issues, but must less often, and there is almost never a line to wait in. The engine is off where it doesn't add pollution. As a bonus, this is something you have to do anyway, so there is no additional cost.
Toll booths are a bad idea and waste enough gas already. We don't need more of them.
Every farm does have that, but it is illegal to fill any on-road vehicle from it. There is no gas tax paid on the fuel. Tractors are filled from it, but tractors are not used on the road. (There is a specific exception in the law for traveling on road to-from the fields, but only if a direct route is taken)
Every farmer I know drives the truck to town to fill it. I assume that once in a while someone checks to make sure they don't. In the case of diesel there is a dye added to off-road fuel that shows up for the next 7 fillups.
You have no clue what you are talking about. In Kde tabs are a part of kmdi which is a part of kdelibs. Konqueror and Konsole choose to show tabs differently, (as do most other apps), but the code for both is the same on the bottom level.
I gave up when I read about counting lines of codes with comments. Comments are useful, but they indicate nothing about quality or lack thereof. Some code is self documenting, and thus has few comments. Other code is just uncommented. You cannot safely assume either one, which is what you must do when using any automatically commenting counting method.
Their other measurements seem bogus too, but I'm not interesting in looking deeper into them.
Exactly, turn them in. They are the ones who hurt everyone. A few arrests like this would do some good, and might even get pressure off the net for a short time.
So it hits the bottom line harder. They still have to pay money to develop that cheap printer, but they don't get many sales because people buy postscript anyway, which means the postscript printers have a better return on investment.
You better make a reasonable effort to find out before you sign a contract. The courts will hold that a contract is valid if the minor showed a good (but not bad) fake id, or at least the parts that it is in your favor to have valid. If you don't make any effort the contract is void, but often only the parts that are in your favor! Of course law modifies this too.
Small correction: copyright law does not allow you to do whatever in all situations. You cannot publicly (which generally means charge money) show a DVD, even though you bought it. You cannot play a CD at your place of business (this might have changed in the last few years) I think there are a couple other exceptions which are generally designed to charge businesses extra money without interfering with people.
Of course if you have any questions or MIGHT be coming close to some such situation you need to see a lawyer.
I'm interested. How much will it cost? When on standby how much power will it suck from the wall? Will it turn on (nearly instantly)? Will it run my BSD (linux is acceptable but I'm a BSD guy) with complete driver support? Will it be cheap enough? Will it be small? Will it be silent?
I bought one of those wifi audio players a few months ago, and returned it the next day because it wasn't compatible with my systems. (I cannot accept any license agreement to not reverse engineer it, as a hacker reverse engineering it half the fun)
I'm very interested. However I'm picky about what the system must do. I've come close to building a mini-ITX system already to fill my media center PC needs. Now that the mac-mini is out I'm considering that. (Mostly I'm not sure if I can hack in a remote control, and a display that does a few lines of text)
I've never understood peoples desire for a "perfect" green lawn. Its a uniform ugly. One color, not variation. They rarely use it for any other activity, it doesn't support as much nature, yet they must have it.
Grass is fine on a golf course or a ballpark. It is worthless in front of your home.
I'm not biologist, but I know you are wrong. Red Oak is fair common in the north, and it holds onto (dead) leaves until spring.