In North America and Europe, the largest single source of methane comes from landfills.
I have a relative who is an engineer for a company that produces bricks. A current strategy that this company uses is to build brick factories, which consume enormous amounts of power in their kilns, next to large landfills. This burns methane, reducing the amount in the atmosphere, and reduces the amount of fossil fuels burned at power generating facilities. http://www.pwmag.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=7 60&articleID=390150
We need to be working on more solutions like this instead of arguing about the minutiae about global warming.
In the United States the only way your prints are kept on file is if you commit a crime and are charged.
Just because you are charged doesn't mean that you committed a crime. The FBI keeps more than just crime-related prints: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAFIS
My brother-in-law, in trying to cultivate his superman status, claims that he only needs 4-5 hours of sleep per night. But everyone who knows him knows that he goes into a semi-comatose state for 24 hours once per week. No real savings there:
6 nights x 4.5 hours = 27 hours
1 days x 24 hours = 24 hours
Total = 51 hours/week
51 hours/7 days = 7.29 hours per day (just like the rest of us)
That's definitely true for medium and large entities who can afford an IT staff. I'm not so sure about small businesses like most of my customers. Many of them use odd mismatches of Outlook Express, webmail and Lord knows what else to do their email.
Not that it contradicts what you are saying, but my experience working for many years at a Fortune 100 company is exactly the opposite. I worked as a copy writer at the regional headquarters for this outfit but spent most of my time addressing the rest of the computer-illiterate staff's technical issues--like finding documents they saved and assuring them that the color of the floppy disk was not related to its function. Why floppy disks? Because nobody could understand how to save anything on the network shares.
Don't even get me started about some of the stupid computer conversations that I had there. Needless to say, they didn't exactly make full use of the Exchange server that they had. No calendaring, no tasks, no contact lists--only email.
Businesses typically have volume licensing agreements that work out far cheaper.
Most of my customers are small business with fewer than 10 employees, so many of them are not eligible for big volume discounts (my nonprofit customers get MS products cheaply though). I was cabling a collision repair customer's shop yesterday and he had four MS Office SBE packages on his desk that he had purchased the previous day from Sam's Club. Why he didn't purchase OEM Versions from us is beyond me, since I ended up installing the software and will probably also end up supporting it. One of the reasons that he bought the Office suites is that it was in the "System Requirements" for his industry-specific software.
Of the small number of home users who do buy it separately, most are smart enough to buy an upgrade rather than a new product, having established a chain of previously licensed software back to the dawn of time.
I still don't understand why most people think that they need MS Office as opposed to the numerous lower priced or free offerings. Most people simply don't understand that you *do not* need a $400 office suite for word processing. No joke, most people I know think that MS Word is the only way to type a letter to Grandma.
Of the 500 or so users who work for my customers, only two individuals use any of the "advanced" features of Office. And both of these only use Mail Merge to create mass mailings. Hardly justifies the expense.
Most people do not even understand how to even properly format documents in MS Word, yet they blindly drop $400 every time a new version comes out. Ridiculous.
This is why tort reform as it pertains to Intellectual Property needs to be addressed.
Here's why it will never happen: http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/mems.asp. If money buys influence--and it absolutely does--then what group has the most influence? That doesn't even account for the fact that most Congressmen and Congresswomen are lawyers themselves.
Personally, I like to build my own system, as high-end as I want. That way, I don't spend $4000 on something that could cost 300-500 bucks.
There is no way that either of the systems would cost anything like $300-$500, even at wholesale. My wholesale account at Ingram Micro indicates that the two GeForce 8800 video cards alone would cost nearly $1200 (and they don't even have any available) and the processor almost $1000. The fact is that on an older system, you might, by biding your time and doing rebates, be able to save a substantial amount of money, but not on high-demand hardware like this.
On the other hand, I never bother to buy any of the latest high-end stuff; I know that it will be half as much in six months.
Like demands that Wal-Mart be somehow less damaging to higher-priced local businesses, without actually running Wal-Mart out of town, because gee, it's sure nice to be able to go in there for lower prices.
There used to be a general store type operation in the small town in rural Oklahoma that my mom lived in for a few years. Their prices were exorbitant, their service horrible, their refund policy non-existent and they paid minimum wage to their employees. But they were the only game in town unless you wanted to drive 75 miles to the nearest city of consequence. When Walmart came to town, the store quickly went out of business much to the delight of the locals.
The moral of they story? Even though Plaid-pants Republicans and the Limousine Liberals don't consider it stylish to be a Walmart shopper, many of us are glad that there are Walmart stores.
Is it just me or does it sound like MS is going to charge a per seat charge for some enhanced ability to connect from a Windows machine to Linux servers? Or is it just straight blackmail for exemption for future litigation? Or both? I can't tell.
I've always had an unhealthy appreciation of pocket knives and have coveted one of these Boker Damascus steel models: https://www.bokerusa.com/images/1054DAMASCUS.jpg. I just can't see dropping > $500 on a knife to strip wires and sharpen pencils.
That's true, it is just a snide comment and it really doesn't advance the debate. You point is well taken. Maybe I need to switch to decaf.
However, it is interesting that you brought up the "debate" aspect because the facts still remain: if an equally snide comment that just as equally doesn't advance the debate is made, but is something that conforms to the prevailing Slahdot attitude, it will rarely get modded down. A cursory look at the sigs and posts on Slashdot will bear this out. In addition, dissent is usually countered with shout-downs and piling on. Because of this, all that remains is a forum for polemics, pissing matches and "snide comments." This is the reason that Slashdot is not a serious place to discuss serious issues, therefore the "debate," as you put it, is generally irrelevant.
Please do not take this as a personal attack--I will readily admit that your particular post history reveals a general reasonableness, but I'm afraid that you are rather the exception in that regard.
If that were the case, why wasn't it modded "off topic?" The real reason is that Slashdot, as a community, is just as narrow-minded and hostile to nonconforming viewpoints as any of the right-wing, conservative, Bible-thumping communities that are excoriated here. It is an extreme rarity when someone gets modded down--no matter how "off topic" they are--if they keep to the party line. You know it's true whether you acknowledge it or not, which is why you're being so insulting in your reply. An arrow hurts when it hits its target.
Of course I was. Dissent is not welcome here. Standard forms for being modded up are as follows:
- M$ is teh suck
- George Bush is teh suck
- Americans are teh suck
- Christians are teh suck
- Corporations (except Google and Apple) are teh suck
You are using it on a non-supported platform. Deal with it. Blizzard has no responsibility to take how Cedega does things into account. You can whine all you want about it not being fair, or how you have some 'right' to play it on your Linux enabled toaster, but you don't.
You must be new here. The dissemination of factual information is not encouraged here. Prepare to be boarded and modded down by the Ministry of Anti-MS Zealotry.
In the case of the US, we are a federal republic ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic ) as are a number of other nations. One could say that we get to vote for the government, it's just that Diebold gets to change it if they want.
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In North America and Europe, the largest single source of methane comes from landfills.
7 60&articleID=390150
I have a relative who is an engineer for a company that produces bricks. A current strategy that this company uses is to build brick factories, which consume enormous amounts of power in their kilns, next to large landfills. This burns methane, reducing the amount in the atmosphere, and reduces the amount of fossil fuels burned at power generating facilities. http://www.pwmag.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=
We need to be working on more solutions like this instead of arguing about the minutiae about global warming.
In the United States the only way your prints are kept on file is if you commit a crime and are charged.
Just because you are charged doesn't mean that you committed a crime. The FBI keeps more than just crime-related prints: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAFIS
although pedestrians could also be asked to give prints if they are suspected to have committed an offence.
In the US the police need "probable cause" but they usually just make that up if you object to a search or some other privacy infringing action.
My brother-in-law, in trying to cultivate his superman status, claims that he only needs 4-5 hours of sleep per night. But everyone who knows him knows that he goes into a semi-comatose state for 24 hours once per week. No real savings there:
6 nights x 4.5 hours = 27 hours
1 days x 24 hours = 24 hours
Total = 51 hours/week
51 hours/7 days = 7.29 hours per day (just like the rest of us)
That's definitely true for medium and large entities who can afford an IT staff. I'm not so sure about small businesses like most of my customers. Many of them use odd mismatches of Outlook Express, webmail and Lord knows what else to do their email.
Not that it contradicts what you are saying, but my experience working for many years at a Fortune 100 company is exactly the opposite. I worked as a copy writer at the regional headquarters for this outfit but spent most of my time addressing the rest of the computer-illiterate staff's technical issues--like finding documents they saved and assuring them that the color of the floppy disk was not related to its function. Why floppy disks? Because nobody could understand how to save anything on the network shares.
Don't even get me started about some of the stupid computer conversations that I had there. Needless to say, they didn't exactly make full use of the Exchange server that they had. No calendaring, no tasks, no contact lists--only email.
Businesses typically have volume licensing agreements that work out far cheaper.
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Most of my customers are small business with fewer than 10 employees, so many of them are not eligible for big volume discounts (my nonprofit customers get MS products cheaply though). I was cabling a collision repair customer's shop yesterday and he had four MS Office SBE packages on his desk that he had purchased the previous day from Sam's Club. Why he didn't purchase OEM Versions from us is beyond me, since I ended up installing the software and will probably also end up supporting it. One of the reasons that he bought the Office suites is that it was in the "System Requirements" for his industry-specific software.
Of the small number of home users who do buy it separately, most are smart enough to buy an upgrade rather than a new product, having established a chain of previously licensed software back to the dawn of time.
Lol...probably true. However, upgrades are not that much cheaper, for example: http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/search.do?search
What would be smarter--though not necessarily legal--is to buy a Teacher & Students Edition off the intarweb for next to nothing http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Office-Student-Te
Paris Hilton a "geek girl?" Whatever. She is the most clueless tramp that ever walked the planet. Her idiocy is legendary: http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2006/01/19/ paris_hilton_is_a_genius.html. She's the perfect example of someone who's famous for being famous.
I still don't understand why most people think that they need MS Office as opposed to the numerous lower priced or free offerings. Most people simply don't understand that you *do not* need a $400 office suite for word processing. No joke, most people I know think that MS Word is the only way to type a letter to Grandma.
Of the 500 or so users who work for my customers, only two individuals use any of the "advanced" features of Office. And both of these only use Mail Merge to create mass mailings. Hardly justifies the expense.
Most people do not even understand how to even properly format documents in MS Word, yet they blindly drop $400 every time a new version comes out. Ridiculous.
Indeed, it seems like a small minority are first world (USA as the most obvious example)
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It would seem that the last thing poor people in the US need is another reason to be sedentary ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd
This is why tort reform as it pertains to Intellectual Property needs to be addressed.
Here's why it will never happen: http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/mems.asp. If money buys influence--and it absolutely does--then what group has the most influence? That doesn't even account for the fact that most Congressmen and Congresswomen are lawyers themselves.
Personally, I like to build my own system, as high-end as I want. That way, I don't spend $4000 on something that could cost 300-500 bucks.
There is no way that either of the systems would cost anything like $300-$500, even at wholesale. My wholesale account at Ingram Micro indicates that the two GeForce 8800 video cards alone would cost nearly $1200 (and they don't even have any available) and the processor almost $1000. The fact is that on an older system, you might, by biding your time and doing rebates, be able to save a substantial amount of money, but not on high-demand hardware like this.
On the other hand, I never bother to buy any of the latest high-end stuff; I know that it will be half as much in six months.
BWAHAHA...SNOOOOOORT!!! Cough, cough, cough.
What is that you ask? The sound of a Diet Code Red Mountain Dew going through my nose and onto my keyboard.
Thanks a lot.
Like demands that Wal-Mart be somehow less damaging to higher-priced local businesses, without actually running Wal-Mart out of town, because gee, it's sure nice to be able to go in there for lower prices.
There used to be a general store type operation in the small town in rural Oklahoma that my mom lived in for a few years. Their prices were exorbitant, their service horrible, their refund policy non-existent and they paid minimum wage to their employees. But they were the only game in town unless you wanted to drive 75 miles to the nearest city of consequence. When Walmart came to town, the store quickly went out of business much to the delight of the locals.
The moral of they story? Even though Plaid-pants Republicans and the Limousine Liberals don't consider it stylish to be a Walmart shopper, many of us are glad that there are Walmart stores.
Is it just me or does it sound like MS is going to charge a per seat charge for some enhanced ability to connect from a Windows machine to Linux servers? Or is it just straight blackmail for exemption for future litigation? Or both? I can't tell.
I've always had an unhealthy appreciation of pocket knives and have coveted one of these Boker Damascus steel models: https://www.bokerusa.com/images/1054DAMASCUS.jpg. I just can't see dropping > $500 on a knife to strip wires and sharpen pencils.
That's true, it is just a snide comment and it really doesn't advance the debate. You point is well taken. Maybe I need to switch to decaf.
However, it is interesting that you brought up the "debate" aspect because the facts still remain: if an equally snide comment that just as equally doesn't advance the debate is made, but is something that conforms to the prevailing Slahdot attitude, it will rarely get modded down. A cursory look at the sigs and posts on Slashdot will bear this out. In addition, dissent is usually countered with shout-downs and piling on. Because of this, all that remains is a forum for polemics, pissing matches and "snide comments." This is the reason that Slashdot is not a serious place to discuss serious issues, therefore the "debate," as you put it, is generally irrelevant.
Please do not take this as a personal attack--I will readily admit that your particular post history reveals a general reasonableness, but I'm afraid that you are rather the exception in that regard.
If that were the case, why wasn't it modded "off topic?" The real reason is that Slashdot, as a community, is just as narrow-minded and hostile to nonconforming viewpoints as any of the right-wing, conservative, Bible-thumping communities that are excoriated here. It is an extreme rarity when someone gets modded down--no matter how "off topic" they are--if they keep to the party line. You know it's true whether you acknowledge it or not, which is why you're being so insulting in your reply. An arrow hurts when it hits its target.
Damn! You're right. I wish I had thought of that.
Of course I was. Dissent is not welcome here. Standard forms for being modded up are as follows:
- M$ is teh suck
- George Bush is teh suck
- Americans are teh suck
- Christians are teh suck
- Corporations (except Google and Apple) are teh suck
You could probably think of a few yourself.
Parent modded -1 Non-Groupthink Compliant
Why did this get modded "Troll"? He has a point. If I had mod points I would upmod this...
If he wanted be modded +5 Informative, he would have written, "M$ teh suck."
Do you really have to ask? Because this is Slashdot. Facts and reason have no place here unless they support the group-think mentality.
You are using it on a non-supported platform. Deal with it. Blizzard has no responsibility to take how Cedega does things into account. You can whine all you want about it not being fair, or how you have some 'right' to play it on your Linux enabled toaster, but you don't.
You must be new here. The dissemination of factual information is not encouraged here. Prepare to be boarded and modded down by the Ministry of Anti-MS Zealotry.
I believe that the preferred spelling is "pwn3d."
In the case of the US, we are a federal republic ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic ) as are a number of other nations. One could say that we get to vote for the government, it's just that Diebold gets to change it if they want.