Spoken like a morning person. Trust me, not everyone is like you.
Here's why I don't entirely buy this when I hear it from people.
Imagine it's late June, and there's this guy in New York City who can't possibly go to bed on a work day before 1AM, and can't get up before 9AM. Well, as far as someone in Seattle is concerned, he's going to bed at 10pm and getting up at 6am.
If that's the case - Why can't this guy in New York live on Seattle time? He'd be up with the sun.
For both the guy in Seattle and the guy in New York it's dark when they're going to bed (mostly) and light when they're getting up...
In theory, if this guy moved from New York to Seattle by jet and stayed on his old sleep-wake cycle he'd now be a 'morning person.' Of course it doesn't happen that way - A week after his move he'd still be up at 1AM Seattle time watching the daily show:) and complaining he can't wake up...
In my personal case, I live on the west coast. If I go to the east coast I can 'stay up late' and 'sleep in'. If I stayed on West coast time on the east coast, I'd no longer 'be a morning person.'
And for thousands of years, work time was determined by the sun
Yes, which for most of the year comes up before people get up to go to work. They got up earlier than we do, yet they had no alarm clocks. How? They went to bed earlier.
Huh? Virtually everything I read tells me lots of people on here are sleep-deprived. For thousands of years humans got up without alarm clocks - If you're going to be late for work because you don't have an alarm then you're not going to bed early enough.
Being late for work because the power went off and came back on in the middle of the night
If you need an alarm clock to get up in the morning you're not going to bed early enough. And don't argue that you 'can't go to bed earlier.' If you live in Seattle and go to bed in the winter 'early' at 9pm it's already midnight in New York, so just live on New York time instead:)
I find all this talk of internet access in economy hilarious. On most flights with the seat pitch what it is I can barely open a paperback book on the tray table. My laptop? Forget it!! It stays in the overhead bin.
>gas prices go up. That will affect both car travel and airplane travel.
Train travel costs will go up too... You need to get the energy from somewhere. Electric trains will likely be powered by gas-fired power plants, and those electric costs would go up. Hence, higher ticket prices.
Furthermore, the BILLIONS it would cost to install high-speed rail lines would have to be offset somehow. The political climate in the USA doesn't allow for government spending on infrastructure. Well, not in the USA anyway, you do build infrastructure in Iraq, but that's another topic:)
...anyway, you'd have to offset that cost in fares.
I've got more than 4000 retail dvd's and never had any need to rip it..
If I'm travelling I'll rip a collection of my DVDs and copy them to my laptop's hard drive. Then I can watch them on the road without needing to carry the original media. Also, if I'm on battery power the battery lasts much longer spinning the hard drive than it does spinning the DVD drive.
Then as we expanded PC usage, (around 1990 ish) new boxes came with Word and Excell - No choice
Granted, it's edging up on 17 years ago so my memories are fading, but when I was selling my first PCs back in the late 1990s, again I don't recall any of them coming with Excel and Word "for free." I remember when Windows started coming for free, but don't recall ever getting Word, and certainly not Excel. I do recall blundery conversations with customers buying new PCs over the years when they asked for a 'free' word processor and I suggesed users could 'use' Windows-Write (and then WordPad), but then most of them just pirated a copy of Word or WordPerfect. I'm still of the opinion that Word has its dominant position due to rampant piracy - Starting (if memory serves) with Word for Windows 2.0, and then the domination firmly cementing with the availability of CD-Burners and the resultant piracy of Office 97. Virtually everyone I knew had a pirated copy of Word 97, which made it the defacto standard.
Gave away as in FREE (but we make you pay more for the OS even if you don't want it.) buy a computer, and you were forced to buy windows, and that came with the office suite.
As their resident 'computer guy' I've set up dozens of windows boxen for friends over the years. Dells, HPs, Sony machines, white boxes, you name it. None of them (save one maybe) came pre-loaded with MS-Office. MS-Works? Yes. WordPerfect? Yes. But Office? No. They always had to buy it. As a result, they 'borrowed' the disk from work and installed it.
I've long argued piracy is good for the various companies
I agree. I think part of the reason MS Office is ubiquitous was that it was so easy to pirate back in the day. As a result it got huge traction in offices and homes. Now it's the 'defacto standard.' If it hadn't been as easily pirated I think users (particularly at home) would have sought out other (cheaper) options like MS-Works, WordPerfect, StarOffice, OpenOffice etc. and MS-Office wouldn't have the market share it has today.
I was a TRS-80 guy, so I didn't play with the C64 much, but wasn't it the case that the VIC-20 was the cheap machine and the C64 was the expensive machine?
>The perpetrators just happened to be living in Canada.
Yes, and they targeted two flights originating in Canada full of Canadians. The Canadians happened to be Hindus and Sikhs, but it was still a terrorist attack against Canadians launched in Canada. The attack might have been much worse, but the bomb meant for Air India Flight 301 (which had been put on board CP Air Flight 003 in Vancouver) exploded 'prematurely' at Narita airport.
If this is indeed an 'academy' film I think there will be some issues with the actor's ages here. In 2008, Sinise will be 53, Damon will be 38 and Brady 35. By contrast, in 1966, when TOS went to air, Nimoy and Shatner were each 35 and Kelly was 46.
...and TOS was supposed to be *after* Spock had already served for some years on the Enterprise under Pike and Kirk had served on both the Republic and the Farragut.
Get it al secured let them work trough an encrypted citryx metaframe connection to a central cluster of applications
This isn't always pratical. For example, FEMA collects personal data on laptops after hurricanes and other disasters. Often there's no network to connect to. Last week I was at an airport for three hours - Only signal I could get was a 10kb Wifi connection.
I find all this talk of internet access in economy hilarious. On most flights with the seat pitch what it is I can barely open a paperback book on the tray table. My laptop? Forget it!! It stays in the overhead bin.
>What would happen if we all started replying with the same auto generated mails?
Generally there's nothing to 'reply to' - To order the viagra you've got to go to a web site, or fax in an order - and all the latest 'pump and dump' stock-selling emails don't sell anything at all. They buy some stock, spam out their messages, then dump the stock when the price goes up. Often the company in question knows nothing about it.
>than one year for old houses in northern climates
Get your facts straight before you post your profanity-laced vitriol, you Anonymous Coward. In my old house I can't use blown-insulation, so to insulate I've got to completely move out of the main floor, rip all the plaster off and insulate, then re-drywall, and re-paint, then move back in. When the walls off I'll probably need to do re-do the electrical etc. in order to pass inspection. That's easily $25,000+ in my reno market, not to mention filling the landfill with plaster and other assorted rubble. Assuming I'm in the house 10 years, that's $2500 per year. I'd only spend that much if I ran my furnace at 30C 24/7.
So putting better insulation in your house won't save you on electricity/heating/cooling?
It will, but not enough to justify the expense. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so I basically run the heating mornings / evenings / weekends from mid-October to mid-April. It's off at night and during weekdays, when no one is home. During that time I'm probably spending hundreds of dollars heating the outside, combusting natural gas and creating greenhouse gases. However, even if I do that for eight years it still won't cost as much as it would to insulate the house better.
your overall cost down the line is reduced.
Yes, but not suffciently.
And you will likely be able to sell at a higher price
Maybe so, but this isn't liquidity that I can access now in order to fund improvements.
I think the reason is the one you suggest lower down in your post - The cost.
I should really improve my insulation, but don't. Why? Because there's no payback in natural gas savings.
I could install solar heat, but I don't. Why? No payback.
I could buy a hybrid car. I don't. Why? No payback
...so I do the things I can afford: Recycle, fix dripping taps, take the bus when I can. I realize there are often higher-purpose reasons than cost savings, but many people simply can't *afford* to be green.
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Here's why I don't entirely buy this when I hear it from people.
Imagine it's late June, and there's this guy in New York City who can't possibly go to bed on a work day before 1AM, and can't get up before 9AM. Well, as far as someone in Seattle is concerned, he's going to bed at 10pm and getting up at 6am.
If that's the case - Why can't this guy in New York live on Seattle time? He'd be up with the sun.
For both the guy in Seattle and the guy in New York it's dark when they're going to bed (mostly) and light when they're getting up...
In theory, if this guy moved from New York to Seattle by jet and stayed on his old sleep-wake cycle he'd now be a 'morning person.' Of course it doesn't happen that way - A week after his move he'd still be up at 1AM Seattle time watching the daily show :) and complaining he can't wake up...
In my personal case, I live on the west coast. If I go to the east coast I can 'stay up late' and 'sleep in'. If I stayed on West coast time on the east coast, I'd no longer 'be a morning person.'
About the same here. The upside is I usually do something else at the same time, like watch a few movies, as there's lots of dead time.
"Please wait."
Yes, which for most of the year comes up before people get up to go to work. They got up earlier than we do, yet they had no alarm clocks. How? They went to bed earlier.
Huh? Virtually everything I read tells me lots of people on here are sleep-deprived. For thousands of years humans got up without alarm clocks - If you're going to be late for work because you don't have an alarm then you're not going to bed early enough.
...and I own three televisions :)
If you need an alarm clock to get up in the morning you're not going to bed early enough. And don't argue that you 'can't go to bed earlier.' If you live in Seattle and go to bed in the winter 'early' at 9pm it's already midnight in New York, so just live on New York time instead :)
I find all this talk of internet access in economy hilarious. On most flights with the seat pitch what it is I can barely open a paperback book on the tray table. My laptop? Forget it!! It stays in the overhead bin.
...or so Slashdot has tried to convince me.
>gas prices go up. That will affect both car travel and airplane travel.
Train travel costs will go up too... You need to get the energy from somewhere. Electric trains will likely be powered by gas-fired power plants, and those electric costs would go up. Hence, higher ticket prices.
Furthermore, the BILLIONS it would cost to install high-speed rail lines would have to be offset somehow. The political climate in the USA doesn't allow for government spending on infrastructure. Well, not in the USA anyway, you do build infrastructure in Iraq, but that's another topic :)
If I'm travelling I'll rip a collection of my DVDs and copy them to my laptop's hard drive. Then I can watch them on the road without needing to carry the original media. Also, if I'm on battery power the battery lasts much longer spinning the hard drive than it does spinning the DVD drive.
Granted, it's edging up on 17 years ago so my memories are fading, but when I was selling my first PCs back in the late 1990s, again I don't recall any of them coming with Excel and Word "for free." I remember when Windows started coming for free, but don't recall ever getting Word, and certainly not Excel. I do recall blundery conversations with customers buying new PCs over the years when they asked for a 'free' word processor and I suggesed users could 'use' Windows-Write (and then WordPad), but then most of them just pirated a copy of Word or WordPerfect. I'm still of the opinion that Word has its dominant position due to rampant piracy - Starting (if memory serves) with Word for Windows 2.0, and then the domination firmly cementing with the availability of CD-Burners and the resultant piracy of Office 97. Virtually everyone I knew had a pirated copy of Word 97, which made it the defacto standard.
As their resident 'computer guy' I've set up dozens of windows boxen for friends over the years. Dells, HPs, Sony machines, white boxes, you name it. None of them (save one maybe) came pre-loaded with MS-Office. MS-Works? Yes. WordPerfect? Yes. But Office? No. They always had to buy it. As a result, they 'borrowed' the disk from work and installed it.
I agree. I think part of the reason MS Office is ubiquitous was that it was so easy to pirate back in the day. As a result it got huge traction in offices and homes. Now it's the 'defacto standard.' If it hadn't been as easily pirated I think users (particularly at home) would have sought out other (cheaper) options like MS-Works, WordPerfect, StarOffice, OpenOffice etc. and MS-Office wouldn't have the market share it has today.
I was a TRS-80 guy, so I didn't play with the C64 much, but wasn't it the case that the VIC-20 was the cheap machine and the C64 was the expensive machine?
Not if you used a phrase such as "My name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify me." - A phrase isn't hard to remember.
Yes, and they targeted two flights originating in Canada full of Canadians. The Canadians happened to be Hindus and Sikhs, but it was still a terrorist attack against Canadians launched in Canada. The attack might have been much worse, but the bomb meant for Air India Flight 301 (which had been put on board CP Air Flight 003 in Vancouver) exploded 'prematurely' at Narita airport.
yep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_flight_182
...with those *shoes* the robot's wearing? Can't he at least lace them up?
This isn't always pratical. For example, FEMA collects personal data on laptops after hurricanes and other disasters. Often there's no network to connect to. Last week I was at an airport for three hours - Only signal I could get was a 10kb Wifi connection.
I find all this talk of internet access in economy hilarious. On most flights with the seat pitch what it is I can barely open a paperback book on the tray table. My laptop? Forget it!! It stays in the overhead bin.
Generally there's nothing to 'reply to' - To order the viagra you've got to go to a web site, or fax in an order - and all the latest 'pump and dump' stock-selling emails don't sell anything at all. They buy some stock, spam out their messages, then dump the stock when the price goes up. Often the company in question knows nothing about it.
>than one year for old houses in northern climates
Get your facts straight before you post your profanity-laced vitriol, you Anonymous Coward. In my old house I can't use blown-insulation, so to insulate I've got to completely move out of the main floor, rip all the plaster off and insulate, then re-drywall, and re-paint, then move back in. When the walls off I'll probably need to do re-do the electrical etc. in order to pass inspection. That's easily $25,000+ in my reno market, not to mention filling the landfill with plaster and other assorted rubble. Assuming I'm in the house 10 years, that's $2500 per year. I'd only spend that much if I ran my furnace at 30C 24/7.
It doesn't have to be wildy cheaper, just 'affordable.' Right now, the vast majority of the middle class can't afford to go green. Yet.
It will, but not enough to justify the expense. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so I basically run the heating mornings / evenings / weekends from mid-October to mid-April. It's off at night and during weekdays, when no one is home. During that time I'm probably spending hundreds of dollars heating the outside, combusting natural gas and creating greenhouse gases. However, even if I do that for eight years it still won't cost as much as it would to insulate the house better.
your overall cost down the line is reduced.
Yes, but not suffciently.
And you will likely be able to sell at a higher price
Maybe so, but this isn't liquidity that I can access now in order to fund improvements.
I think the reason is the one you suggest lower down in your post - The cost.
I should really improve my insulation, but don't. Why? Because there's no payback in natural gas savings.
I could install solar heat, but I don't. Why? No payback.
I could buy a hybrid car. I don't. Why? No payback
...so I do the things I can afford: Recycle, fix dripping taps, take the bus when I can. I realize there are often higher-purpose reasons than cost savings, but many people simply can't *afford* to be green.