I know several bands that have toured small towns. I know people who live in a township, population 96, and there is a bar within 20 miles (which isn't considered a long distance to drive to people who live there) that plays live music fairly often. Good music, perhaps not, but they can get it. I know others who have toured small towns. There is money there. Not as much as the big city, but enough to make it.
Always die bankrupt. After all once you are gone who cares what happens. Give the family silverware to the one granddaughter who will care, the pictures to the other. Everything else is things and replaceable. Let it be sold to pay off all the debts.
Unfortunately I can't tell you when you can safely start spending like there is no tomorrow so you can get to this point. I knew people who didn't make 20, and know others still going strong after passing 100.
When AMD designed the x86-64 they considered adding registers, and did some worth. Eventually they added far less registers than expected, telling everyone that in the real world they were better off not exposing more to the real world, the processor could get better performance in the transllation unit than it could get by letting you use them.
Latter in the story he hinted that it would be RSA public key encryption. Hinted only though, so if it isn't don't be too surprized. Still if you are a betting guy it you could put money on it and call it a safe bet.
I don't mind communication from people I've never met before. I welcome it, so long as the person sending the mail has good reason to believe I'm the right person to contact. I'll help your trace my branch of the family tree for instance, if you need it. I don't even mind getting sales announcements from local stores.
However after filters I still get 30 emails a day, that I can't read at all (I don't know hat language uses that character set but I don't read it), is fraudulent, is illegal, or is offensive. (Not just porn, I've also got some that advocating KKK type positions though porn is the most common)
In essence, the unwanted communication is taking up a large part of my inbox.
dimminishing returns. Supporting every browser is often easier than supporting just the two most popular. In the former case you do some initial work to figure out what standards work, and stick to them. In the latter you test everything on both systems, and modify things until it works.
Maybe. I tried it, took the stairs to the 8th floor all the time. (part of the motivation was some students got a zero on a final because they were stuck in the dorm elevator for two hours!) That got boring so I started skipping steps, I reached 5 before I sprained my ankle, which slowed down my overall trip. (it was almost a mile to most of my classes across the river) I always made sure not to take that one elevator that got stuck, after that, and learned to use the bus.
I think there is a moral in there.
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True, and I admire people who do such things. One question though, what do you do about money? Somehow you have to eat, and I kinda doubt you carry 6 months food on your back. Even if you do though, where/how did you get the money to buy it? How did you pay your rent for your junk? Who took care of your wife and kids?
I assume (hope) that the wife and kids part wasn't an issue because they don't exist. However my point remains, how do you deal with them?
Serious question, if it wasn't for my house payment and the messy issue of food I would have spent a few months in Europe after I lost the last job.
No, cooking on THIN aluminum is bad. A thick aluminum pan will spread heat nicely, better than a solid stainless pan. Thin stainless would have the same problem. Thick copper is better yet.
My pans have a thick copper layer, covered by enough stainless steel. This is better yet, because I get the benefits of stainless you state, plus the heat transfer of copper, which avoids hot spots. Course I paid a lot for them, and they take a long time to warm up.
If this is true, (others have covered my questions well enough) Call the media. There is nothing a reporter loves more than a story about corrupt government. It might take a few months, but to reporters your story smells like a Pulitzer prize, and they will rush to take it.
If it is true, which I kinda doubt.
P.S. Sorry for the above, I don't know how I lost most of this message just before I hit submit.
My computers run freeBSD at home. I almost went with a non x86 CPU when I got them. Either way though, do I really have much hope of admining them remotely? (VNC is too painful over local networks)
Besides, I don't want to admin there systems. Apple somehow has managed to make their systems work such that most idiots can figure it out, and when they can't a few minutes on the phone fixes it.
This is the opposite problem though. Give a good modern mechanic a 1950 Chevy and the docs and it will run. Mind it will take the mechanic a while to figure out points, chokes, and all the other stuff that is different today. The basic theory is the same.
For that matter, once the 1950s mechanic gets over the shock of how cars have changed and digs into it he will discover things aren't that much different. No points, and a bunch of additions, but the theory is the same, plus you have this handy computer to tell you what is wrong. It will take some time to get up to speed, but I have no doubt a good 1950 mechanic would have no problem.
Cars however are well documented. Get the factory manual sometime if you don't believe me. (Not a Chilton's or such, the real book published by the factory)
So I'm supposed to drive 15 miles once a week, every time my friends decide they want to install some software? I think I can figure out how to accomplish what you have just said. There is no way I could explain it to someone else.
People say Unix is hard, and then toss me this as the easy alternative?
I don't remember all the details any more, fortunately google is your friend. Most are inflammatory, but then to gun owners they deserve it. Direct that search to rec.guns for even more comments.
In short, anyone who sells S&W guns cannot sell a high capacity magazine for any gun, nor can they sell you two guns withinn 2 weeks.(So you can't spend your bonus on those guns you have been wanted all year) No indiced dealer can buy guns. (Note the word indicted, not convicted. You can indict someone on false charges, and by the time it winds through the courts that dealer will be out of business)
Its not entirely on line, but over on USENET rec.guns most people are boycotting Smith And Wesson. Looking at their balance sheet it seems to be working. Been going on actively for nearly 10 years, with the goal to kill S&W as an example to others of why you don't sell out on your customers.
Yeah, except that some patches are known to break other programs. (generally badly programed software, but not always) They almost always require a reboot to install (forget about mission critical 24x7 servers). They don't always install correctly. (this last is my fault for running 2000 with "only" 64mg of ram, but what else can I do when a DIMM gets bad memory?)
Thats ignoring new systems which don't come patched from the factory. The only [easy] way to get patched is to connect to the Internet where you will be infected before the patch can download.
Who cares if they wake up and you have to leave for a bit to take care of them? You still got 10 minutes of work done that you wouldn't have, and yet you were still there for the family[1] when they needed you. Of course if it is a regular thing that you have to work after the kids are in bed there might be a problem. Might because some jobs will let you work from the office for 6 hours a day, meet the kids off the bus, and work the other 2 hours after they are in bed. (If you do this make sure it is an honest 2 hours, otherwise the rest of us who want to do this won't be allowed!)
[1]Well the kids, You have to figgure out how to take care of the spouse too. I'm not sure how to fit that in. It can be done, but don't forget about it.
Not mine. Cops do show up at off-road meets though and check. They can tell if off-road diesel has been used in your truck within the last 7 fill ups. Only worth there time where a lot of people will be around who: drive diesels, know about off-road diesel, and use enoguh diesel that it is woth the bother of getting the off-road version. In other words not worth checking someone on the disk of the road. However someone who has a off-road diesel truck might tow it with a on-road truck that is worth checking.
Sure I can postulate a rising supply and a constant price, if I also postulate a rising demand (one which after production losses exactly == the supply rise. Assuming of course that there is no monopoly or other situation involved)
Though in general you are right, there is a negative demand for this stuff. Those who take it away could make a lot of money right now if they can convert some of it to biodiesel and sell it.
In fact rising prices would be good in small amounts. Some resteraunts dump their waste grease down the drain, which is illegal (but how can you prove who did it) because it is cheaper than paying to haul it away. A few years back I read a news paper article about it. Grease clogs the sewers, one city is cleaning a certain pipe weekly.
Waste grease is not the answer to the entire fuel problem. It is however part of the answer. (short of a break through in perpetual motion machines)
Car manufactures follow demand. Sure they can try to influence it, but they still have to follow the laws of supply and demand. Many companies (foreign especially) were caught off guard by the SUV fad. Honda for instance had to start from scratch when the realized a need for one.
Car manufactures are comfortable making gas guzzlers because people buy them. They don't sell Geo metros anymore, nor any other car in that class (in the US, Europe has the SMART in a smaller class. VW's TDIs are a larger class of cars with milage in the metro's class). There is no significant demand for cars that are not gas guzzler.
There are several forms of energy needed to move a car. First is acceleration, f=ma, which is linear, change the force and you change the acceleration. Except we are not working in a frictionless vacuume. So add in friction, which first comes from rolling resistance, and is the biggest factor at low speed. I don't recall the equations anymore, but this too is liniar. Toss in losses from the drivetrain, and essentially you get better milage the faster you go. (some of those losses are constant, things like the alternator) As you gain speed wind resistance becomes the biggest factor, and this is a squared relation.
Gas milage is an optimization problem. You get the worst at 0MPH, over comming engine loss without doing any work. (work not in the physics sense) As you go faster you get better milage, until wind resistance becomes the biggest factor at which time it goes down. For heavy cars this speed is increased, for big cars it is decreased. (Note, the two go togather) Small cars the speed is higher because of less wind resistance, while lower because of less mass. (again, wind resistance is the bigger factor) Older cars tend to have more wind resistance. A big engine has more internal losses, so this speed is faster, a small engine with less internal resistance lowers the speed. (unless you have a tiny engine this isn't a factor)
Unless you keep a log and are willing to expiriment it is hard to say more. In general though a new truck will max out at 60 mph, a compact car at about 75mph. However load changes things, truckers have found the max to be 68mph (the company can set the cruise control for the driver) when fully loaded. My geo metro appears to max out at 60 mph (because the engine has to go to less efficant but more powerful modes to maintain faster speeds). My S10 does best at 65-70, in part because of the large engine.
Compare the diesel to the V10 though, cause in ability the V10 is a better match for the diesel. At least for the case of trucks, where torque counts more than HP. I'm of course assuming you are buying the truck because you need it, not just for image. I know people with the V10 who use the truck lane uphill because they cannot maintain speed with the load they are towing. Now your looking at 8-9 mpg unloaded. (actual numbers)
In the case of cars HP is a little more meaningful, but even then most people drive torque.
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I know several bands that have toured small towns. I know people who live in a township, population 96, and there is a bar within 20 miles (which isn't considered a long distance to drive to people who live there) that plays live music fairly often. Good music, perhaps not, but they can get it. I know others who have toured small towns. There is money there. Not as much as the big city, but enough to make it.
Always die bankrupt. After all once you are gone who cares what happens. Give the family silverware to the one granddaughter who will care, the pictures to the other. Everything else is things and replaceable. Let it be sold to pay off all the debts.
Unfortunately I can't tell you when you can safely start spending like there is no tomorrow so you can get to this point. I knew people who didn't make 20, and know others still going strong after passing 100.
When AMD designed the x86-64 they considered adding registers, and did some worth. Eventually they added far less registers than expected, telling everyone that in the real world they were better off not exposing more to the real world, the processor could get better performance in the transllation unit than it could get by letting you use them.
Latter in the story he hinted that it would be RSA public key encryption. Hinted only though, so if it isn't don't be too surprized. Still if you are a betting guy it you could put money on it and call it a safe bet.
I don't mind communication from people I've never met before. I welcome it, so long as the person sending the mail has good reason to believe I'm the right person to contact. I'll help your trace my branch of the family tree for instance, if you need it. I don't even mind getting sales announcements from local stores.
However after filters I still get 30 emails a day, that I can't read at all (I don't know hat language uses that character set but I don't read it), is fraudulent, is illegal, or is offensive. (Not just porn, I've also got some that advocating KKK type positions though porn is the most common)
In essence, the unwanted communication is taking up a large part of my inbox.
dimminishing returns. Supporting every browser is often easier than supporting just the two most popular. In the former case you do some initial work to figure out what standards work, and stick to them. In the latter you test everything on both systems, and modify things until it works.
Maybe. I tried it, took the stairs to the 8th floor all the time. (part of the motivation was some students got a zero on a final because they were stuck in the dorm elevator for two hours!) That got boring so I started skipping steps, I reached 5 before I sprained my ankle, which slowed down my overall trip. (it was almost a mile to most of my classes across the river) I always made sure not to take that one elevator that got stuck, after that, and learned to use the bus.
I think there is a moral in there.
True, and I admire people who do such things. One question though, what do you do about money? Somehow you have to eat, and I kinda doubt you carry 6 months food on your back. Even if you do though, where/how did you get the money to buy it? How did you pay your rent for your junk? Who took care of your wife and kids?
I assume (hope) that the wife and kids part wasn't an issue because they don't exist. However my point remains, how do you deal with them?
Serious question, if it wasn't for my house payment and the messy issue of food I would have spent a few months in Europe after I lost the last job.
No, cooking on THIN aluminum is bad. A thick aluminum pan will spread heat nicely, better than a solid stainless pan. Thin stainless would have the same problem. Thick copper is better yet.
My pans have a thick copper layer, covered by enough stainless steel. This is better yet, because I get the benefits of stainless you state, plus the heat transfer of copper, which avoids hot spots. Course I paid a lot for them, and they take a long time to warm up.
If this is true, (others have covered my questions well enough) Call the media. There is nothing a reporter loves more than a story about corrupt government. It might take a few months, but to reporters your story smells like a Pulitzer prize, and they will rush to take it.
If it is true, which I kinda doubt.
P.S. Sorry for the above, I don't know how I lost most of this message just before I hit submit.
If it is true, which I kinda doubt.
My computers run freeBSD at home. I almost went with a non x86 CPU when I got them. Either way though, do I really have much hope of admining them remotely? (VNC is too painful over local networks)
Besides, I don't want to admin there systems. Apple somehow has managed to make their systems work such that most idiots can figure it out, and when they can't a few minutes on the phone fixes it.
This is the opposite problem though. Give a good modern mechanic a 1950 Chevy and the docs and it will run. Mind it will take the mechanic a while to figure out points, chokes, and all the other stuff that is different today. The basic theory is the same.
For that matter, once the 1950s mechanic gets over the shock of how cars have changed and digs into it he will discover things aren't that much different. No points, and a bunch of additions, but the theory is the same, plus you have this handy computer to tell you what is wrong. It will take some time to get up to speed, but I have no doubt a good 1950 mechanic would have no problem.
Cars however are well documented. Get the factory manual sometime if you don't believe me. (Not a Chilton's or such, the real book published by the factory)
Exactly, it takes away something from the hands of law abiding people. (Okay, I had to delete the perfectly legal part. otherwise the point stands)
So I'm supposed to drive 15 miles once a week, every time my friends decide they want to install some software? I think I can figure out how to accomplish what you have just said. There is no way I could explain it to someone else.
People say Unix is hard, and then toss me this as the easy alternative?
I tried doing that for a friend. Unfortunatly half the junk he wants to run requires the administrator account.
Fortunatly it is easy to make firefox the default browser, and I don't think he knows the difference. I know he doesn't care.
I don't remember all the details any more, fortunately google is your friend. Most are inflammatory, but then to gun owners they deserve it. Direct that search to rec.guns for even more comments.
In short, anyone who sells S&W guns cannot sell a high capacity magazine for any gun, nor can they sell you two guns withinn 2 weeks.(So you can't spend your bonus on those guns you have been wanted all year) No indiced dealer can buy guns. (Note the word indicted, not convicted. You can indict someone on false charges, and by the time it winds through the courts that dealer will be out of business)
Its not entirely on line, but over on USENET rec.guns most people are boycotting Smith And Wesson. Looking at their balance sheet it seems to be working. Been going on actively for nearly 10 years, with the goal to kill S&W as an example to others of why you don't sell out on your customers.
Yeah, except that some patches are known to break other programs. (generally badly programed software, but not always) They almost always require a reboot to install (forget about mission critical 24x7 servers). They don't always install correctly. (this last is my fault for running 2000 with "only" 64mg of ram, but what else can I do when a DIMM gets bad memory?)
Thats ignoring new systems which don't come patched from the factory. The only [easy] way to get patched is to connect to the Internet where you will be infected before the patch can download.
Who cares if they wake up and you have to leave for a bit to take care of them? You still got 10 minutes of work done that you wouldn't have, and yet you were still there for the family[1] when they needed you. Of course if it is a regular thing that you have to work after the kids are in bed there might be a problem. Might because some jobs will let you work from the office for 6 hours a day, meet the kids off the bus, and work the other 2 hours after they are in bed. (If you do this make sure it is an honest 2 hours, otherwise the rest of us who want to do this won't be allowed!)
[1]Well the kids, You have to figgure out how to take care of the spouse too. I'm not sure how to fit that in. It can be done, but don't forget about it.
Not mine. Cops do show up at off-road meets though and check. They can tell if off-road diesel has been used in your truck within the last 7 fill ups. Only worth there time where a lot of people will be around who: drive diesels, know about off-road diesel, and use enoguh diesel that it is woth the bother of getting the off-road version. In other words not worth checking someone on the disk of the road. However someone who has a off-road diesel truck might tow it with a on-road truck that is worth checking.
Sure I can postulate a rising supply and a constant price, if I also postulate a rising demand (one which after production losses exactly == the supply rise. Assuming of course that there is no monopoly or other situation involved)
Though in general you are right, there is a negative demand for this stuff. Those who take it away could make a lot of money right now if they can convert some of it to biodiesel and sell it.
In fact rising prices would be good in small amounts. Some resteraunts dump their waste grease down the drain, which is illegal (but how can you prove who did it) because it is cheaper than paying to haul it away. A few years back I read a news paper article about it. Grease clogs the sewers, one city is cleaning a certain pipe weekly.
Waste grease is not the answer to the entire fuel problem. It is however part of the answer. (short of a break through in perpetual motion machines)
Car manufactures follow demand. Sure they can try to influence it, but they still have to follow the laws of supply and demand. Many companies (foreign especially) were caught off guard by the SUV fad. Honda for instance had to start from scratch when the realized a need for one.
Car manufactures are comfortable making gas guzzlers because people buy them. They don't sell Geo metros anymore, nor any other car in that class (in the US, Europe has the SMART in a smaller class. VW's TDIs are a larger class of cars with milage in the metro's class). There is no significant demand for cars that are not gas guzzler.
There are several forms of energy needed to move a car. First is acceleration, f=ma, which is linear, change the force and you change the acceleration. Except we are not working in a frictionless vacuume. So add in friction, which first comes from rolling resistance, and is the biggest factor at low speed. I don't recall the equations anymore, but this too is liniar. Toss in losses from the drivetrain, and essentially you get better milage the faster you go. (some of those losses are constant, things like the alternator) As you gain speed wind resistance becomes the biggest factor, and this is a squared relation.
Gas milage is an optimization problem. You get the worst at 0MPH, over comming engine loss without doing any work. (work not in the physics sense) As you go faster you get better milage, until wind resistance becomes the biggest factor at which time it goes down. For heavy cars this speed is increased, for big cars it is decreased. (Note, the two go togather) Small cars the speed is higher because of less wind resistance, while lower because of less mass. (again, wind resistance is the bigger factor) Older cars tend to have more wind resistance. A big engine has more internal losses, so this speed is faster, a small engine with less internal resistance lowers the speed. (unless you have a tiny engine this isn't a factor)
Unless you keep a log and are willing to expiriment it is hard to say more. In general though a new truck will max out at 60 mph, a compact car at about 75mph. However load changes things, truckers have found the max to be 68mph (the company can set the cruise control for the driver) when fully loaded. My geo metro appears to max out at 60 mph (because the engine has to go to less efficant but more powerful modes to maintain faster speeds). My S10 does best at 65-70, in part because of the large engine.
Compare the diesel to the V10 though, cause in ability the V10 is a better match for the diesel. At least for the case of trucks, where torque counts more than HP. I'm of course assuming you are buying the truck because you need it, not just for image. I know people with the V10 who use the truck lane uphill because they cannot maintain speed with the load they are towing. Now your looking at 8-9 mpg unloaded. (actual numbers)
In the case of cars HP is a little more meaningful, but even then most people drive torque.