We've cut our winter bill from 300 to 150; and our summer bill from 200 to about 100, by doing the following:
Setting AC to 82, and using fans in the rooms we occupy
In the winter, we keep the temperature at 58, and use blankets while downstairs; and a space heater set to 72 while upstairs. (not as applicable in your case).
I admit the winters are a bit chilly while in the living area, but blankets and sweatshirts take care of that; and you alos get used to it faster than you'd think.
The summers are surprisingly easy at 82 - the movement of the air from the fans makes it 'feel' 5-8 degrees cooler than it is.
agreed, four tens were great. An extra two hours a day doesn't make much difference as far as what you can get done when you get home, but four day workweeks sure are nice.
Of course I don't understand this obsession with a 40 hour workweek for any job that essentially consists of consistent and directed thought.
Are you saying that the combination of your mother's personality and yours did not net you a good enough result? Sounds like the test worked just fine in this instance, since it weeded out one person who would 'cheat'.
Fortunately, date and time of purchase are also stored. So unless this malicious person knew/exactly/ the hour, minute, second of purchase, he's out of luck...
Have you listened to any? The big-name conservative hosts, at least, have all been calling this since early 2008, and predicting it's not going to get better any time soon.
Of course with our current president and next president both working hard to print up more money to throw at the problem, I think 2010 is only going to see continued decline.
5 gph / 20 gallons, 4 hours per tank at 115 mph, so assuming you're spending most of the flight in the equivalent of "cruise" you're looking at the equivalent of 20-25mpg.
Considering the speed you're traveling, that's pretty darned good. OTOH, you're not going to buy a plane for its fuel efficiency...
More to the point, you are responsible for throwing the stuff away in the first place.
I think you're missing something here. The things happening to this village in china are the direct result of throwing things away responsibly. The electronics tossed in with the regular trash are/not/ causing them their problems - it is the stuff that is getting recycled, because they are the ones doing the recycling.
FTFA:
If you're part of the 20% trying to do the right thing by recycling your e-waste, there's something else to worry about. Old phones and computers can be dismantled to get at the useful metals inside, but doing so safely is time-consuming. Thus, many electronics recyclers ship American e-waste abroad, where it is stripped and burned with little concern for environmental or human healt
GP was a jackass, and he completely misses the mark, as you seem to be doing. As long as the Chinese government is willing to allow this to happen, properly disposing of your waste contributes to the problem.
A quarter of IT staff in small and medium-sized businesses have suffered verbal or physical abuse at work,
Physical abuse?! Why the hell would you stand still for it even once, without immediately reporting it to the police? IANAL, but as far as I k now practically any form of physical abuse falls under the common definition of 'assault'.
Actually, the Impreza doesn't look too bad at all by dimensions. The biggest problem I run into is leg room; surprisingly, my wife's Mazda 6 gives me marginally more than my '03 Mustang does.
"[deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker."
Usage changes meaning over time. This is a lost battle.
When you cashed out, you gave Best Buy your phone number, too. Every Best Buy cashier asks for it when they start your transaction. With a phone number, and/or a credit card number, anyone could find you.
You mean you give it to them? I just say "no" and they put in all zeros or something.
It's not like the United States has a safe with trillions of dollars that can be distributed or invested in some central planning scheme. The trillions of dollars which are being offered represent money that the US government doesn't have.
All money is money that the US government doesn't have. We have not been out of debt since sometime the Depression. The debt has not decreased ever, except for two brief periods in the 60s and 40s. Even during Clinton's much-lauded 'budget surpluses' our debt was increasing year over year.
Oprah is a public figure who actually has the ability to bring awareness of patent laws (and how ridiculous they are) to huge number of people who never even/considered/ that patents may affect their lives.
In fact, I hope she loses the case on its merits. If she does, you can be pretty sure that changes to patent law will follow.
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See? This is what happens when you let women into the military! They cut the balls off of our planes...
Erm, someone had to say it right?
Guys? Um, guys?
We've cut our winter bill from 300 to 150; and our summer bill from 200 to about 100, by doing the following:
I admit the winters are a bit chilly while in the living area, but blankets and sweatshirts take care of that; and you alos get used to it faster than you'd think.
The summers are surprisingly easy at 82 - the movement of the air from the fans makes it 'feel' 5-8 degrees cooler than it is.
...and then migrate the servers over to India where they can do your job for a third of the cost.
And where they burn 4x as many hours in the process ;)
Of course I don't understand this obsession with a 40 hour workweek for any job that essentially consists of consistent and directed thought.
Are you saying that the combination of your mother's personality and yours did not net you a good enough result? Sounds like the test worked just fine in this instance, since it weeded out one person who would 'cheat'.
Fortunately, date and time of purchase are also stored. So unless this malicious person knew /exactly/ the hour, minute, second of purchase, he's out of luck...
Or you're so sure of the infalibility of Apple's system that you're willing to bet a couple thousand bucks, in exchange for... Nothing?
Because an email address is considered proof of identity?
But is it not more lossy to go from WAV->AAC->MP3 than to go from WAV->MP3? I think that was GP's point.
Annoyingly, those preferences don't work for the RSS feed...
You sound like a conservative talk radio pundit.
Have you listened to any? The big-name conservative hosts, at least, have all been calling this since early 2008, and predicting it's not going to get better any time soon.
Of course with our current president and next president both working hard to print up more money to throw at the problem, I think 2010 is only going to see continued decline.
we would probably get sued for saying Bob* was a shitty dev
* My apologies to anyone named Bob or Robert.
They have deeply imprinted this policy onto your mind, it seems.
500 miles on 1 tank - quite remarkable if the tank is 1 liter... but if it's a 200 liter tank, then it's not very efficient, is it
If you look at the specs...
Cruise: 100 kts (115 mph) Fuel burn: 5 gph Fuel tank: 20 gallons On road: 30 mpg, 65 mph
5 gph / 20 gallons, 4 hours per tank at 115 mph, so assuming you're spending most of the flight in the equivalent of "cruise" you're looking at the equivalent of 20-25mpg.
Considering the speed you're traveling, that's pretty darned good. OTOH, you're not going to buy a plane for its fuel efficiency...
I guess we see how that really works, now don't we.
More to the point, you are responsible for throwing the stuff away in the first place.
I think you're missing something here. The things happening to this village in china are the direct result of throwing things away responsibly. The electronics tossed in with the regular trash are /not/ causing them their problems - it is the stuff that is getting recycled, because they are the ones doing the recycling.
FTFA:
If you're part of the 20% trying to do the right thing by recycling your e-waste, there's something else to worry about. Old phones and computers can be dismantled to get at the useful metals inside, but doing so safely is time-consuming. Thus, many electronics recyclers ship American e-waste abroad, where it is stripped and burned with little concern for environmental or human healt
GP was a jackass, and he completely misses the mark, as you seem to be doing. As long as the Chinese government is willing to allow this to happen, properly disposing of your waste contributes to the problem.
A quarter of IT staff in small and medium-sized businesses have suffered verbal or physical abuse at work,
Physical abuse?! Why the hell would you stand still for it even once, without immediately reporting it to the police? IANAL, but as far as I k now practically any form of physical abuse falls under the common definition of 'assault'.
So why the hell would anyone stand for it?
Actually, the Impreza doesn't look too bad at all by dimensions. The biggest problem I run into is leg room; surprisingly, my wife's Mazda 6 gives me marginally more than my '03 Mustang does.
Arg. Wrong mod. Posting to undo.
"[deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker."
Usage changes meaning over time. This is a lost battle.
I was lying to myself.
You are too
At the low end will be LexusZero; and at the high end will be LOL, Lexus Online.
When you cashed out, you gave Best Buy your phone number, too. Every Best Buy cashier asks for it when they start your transaction. With a phone number, and/or a credit card number, anyone could find you.
You mean you give it to them? I just say "no" and they put in all zeros or something.
It's not like the United States has a safe with trillions of dollars that can be distributed or invested in some central planning scheme. The trillions of dollars which are being offered represent money that the US government doesn't have.
All money is money that the US government doesn't have. We have not been out of debt since sometime the Depression. The debt has not decreased ever, except for two brief periods in the 60s and 40s. Even during Clinton's much-lauded 'budget surpluses' our debt was increasing year over year.
In fact, I hope she loses the case on its merits. If she does, you can be pretty sure that changes to patent law will follow.
Hah, true and intriguing...
See? Simple, obvious solutions are best.