That's a confusing way to say it. 288 percent more energy. So if I input 1 unit of energy, I get 2.88 output? Or do I get 3.88 units output? And that's just electricity. What about the units of energy spent on making the acetic acid? You'd have to consider those, too.
Because you "earn" a number of things other than your salary. Vacation days, other time off, benefits, insurance, retirement pay, bonuses, and all sorts of stuff. Those are part of the remuneration for working for that employer. However, your employer can dick you out of all them if it wants to, even if you've already "earned" them. An employee can decide not to come in ever again, but usually, a company doesn't run in such a way that a single employee quitting ruins their business. An employee, however, usually only have on job that pays the bills. So if that employer decided to let you go with no notice, the individual is often totally fucked.
Things being equal doesn't always mean things are fair, and this is one of those cases.
We don't know if god exists either, but billions of people build their lives around that premise. At least we know WE exist, and that means we know other plants could have life like us. That's some reason to look, don't you think?
Besides why should I spend $399 for Vista ultimate when I can get Leopard ultimate for $129 and Neo Office J for free?
Because you'll have to pay a considerable premium for Apple hardware to run it on? And if cost is an issue, you can't ignore that. Also, how does it relate to being a homeowner?
I do nightly backups from our production server to a second server. Both are running RAID. So effectively, I backup one RAID to another. Maybe that's what the GP was talking about? Making a specific "backup" server on his network, instead of tapes? Sure, this is different from tapes, but it's got advantages and disadvantages.
Oil production will form a bell curve. You're right in that we won't run out. However, the real question to ask is:
1) When will the curve peak? (google "peak oil") 2) Will we have time to develop alternative technologies before it causes a major depression?
Our entire economy is built around growth right now: more people, more energy demand, more debt. It's completely unsustaintable. The question, though is how quickly we can adapt from something unsustainable to something sustainable, and at what cost. If the change is slow (20-40 years), then I don't worry too much. If it happens as a sort of system-shock (5 years), it's going to be a disaster.
Or you could beat the cost of both a mac AND windows system, and go with linux?
As for as knowing hardware will work, Apple could just as easily define a strict HCL. And trying to resell computer hardware is a joke, I don't care who makes it. You might get a little bit of money back on it, but it's certainly not what I'd call an investment.
But I sense a lot of fanboyism in your post, so I'm probably just wasting my keystrokes here. xD Don't get me wrong, I like osx. I think apple hardware is overpriced, and I don't like vendor lock-in.
I had the same problem. As it turns out, I had an auto-approval setup for updates that supersede previous updates. I look, and, sure enough, there was an update in there for "Windows Desktop Search 2.6.5 (KB911993)" and "Windows Desktop Search 2.6.6 (KB926356)". So when the new version came down the pipe, it was automatically approved, and sent out to all my workstations. What confuses me is that the previous versions never installed and came up on my taskbar. I have installed all the updates on my workstation (sans WDS 3.0.1) and I don't see any trace of WDS.
What really gets me is that that isn't truly an "update" as I think of it, it's new software. Perhaps an "upgrade", but not an "update".
Not screwing with your life? I say, having to buy new hardware that's EXACTLY the same as the hardware I already have, just because of a DRM scheme that prevents the OS from running on the hardware I already own seems a bit like screwing with my life. Suggesting someone download Ubuntu -- that's not so bad. But suggesting someone throw their hardware into the trashcan and buy all new, identical hardware, just to run a different OS? What's up with that?
I don't think we're in the minority. It doesn't what we think, short of being so pissed off about something, we use our forth amendment rights and topple a corrupt government. In the wonderful age of technology, even voting is irrelevant anymore, because it's so easy to rig the counts.
Are you sure it was your ISP's fault? Some BT clients are horrible, and they'll create so many NAT states that a typical consumer firewall will not have the resources to route very well. I've seen it happen at home before, using a Buffalo with DD-WRT. I've seen a similar thing happen with the pfsense box I use at the office when one workstation had some sort of bot on it. I started using uTorrent and limiting the connections it would make, and never had the problem again.
Your point is valid, but the Express editions are limited when you start getting into database-driven applications, which is pretty much anything in the corporate world. Of course, getting right down to it: the.NET SDK is free, so you could write all your code in notepad if you wanted to, and compile it from the command line.
Well, you also have to consider the price of oil is ever-increasing, as is the demand. It's quite likely that the supply of oil will eventually peak (google peak oil), but without a similar decline in demand, or even rate of demand increase.
I don't know when that will happen, exactly, but I wouldn't want to be caught empty-handed when my golden ticket expired. At some point, the planes that can fly without oil will be the only planes in the sky. We might be able to convert almost all consumer transport to electric or hydrogen (assuming we can produce the energy they would use somehow), but right now, jet fuel is the only thing to fuel jets -- and if we can find an way to make it without using oil, we have a vested interest in doing so, from just about every perspective, economic and otherwise.
You sent it to Palm three times at your own expense, yet haven't dug into your wallet for a software solution because you shouldn't have to spend more money to enjoy a product.
Hm. Sounds like you've already spent plenty of money shipping it to Palm. What's $20 more?
Since when is Communism an "expressly anti-theistic belief system"? Nothing about that in the wikipedia article.
I'd also point out that if we, for example, had laws claiming belief in god was illegal, and the punishment was death, we'd still be killing people in the name of religion. For example, Hitler. I think killing the jews could easily be considered religiously motivated. They also killed a lot of homosexuals, and I think that could be considered religiously motivated, too. Religion is the only institution that tries to actively persecute homosexuals, even to this day.
This is a common misconception some people seem to have. Not following an avenue or course of action that would result in increased profits is NOT THE SAME as losing money. It's making less money. Losing money would be having to spend more than you made, and we both know that's not what's happening. It's a typical "investor class" mentality to look at not making money the same as actually losing money. There's something to be said for making a little less money, but also offering a better service. Human decency is what I'd call it. Poor business sense might be what someone else calls it. Go figure.
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It's not a true democracy if there are elections anyway. In a true democracy, the people would rule, by either voting directly on issues, OR instead of elected representatives, the representatives would be chosen at random. Anything else, and you will eventually end up with an plutocracy -- which is what's happened in the U.S.
That would mean if you started at $35k a year, you'd be making about $117k a year now. I find that a little hard to believe. If it is true, then congrats to you. You've found the American dream, seems like.:-)
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I think that's the line where it stops being technology and becomes magic.
But yeah, she's never has had to, so maybe there's some merit in that statement.
You're exactly right. #3 is a classic example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It's such a well-known situation that it has its own idiom.
That's a confusing way to say it. 288 percent more energy. So if I input 1 unit of energy, I get 2.88 output? Or do I get 3.88 units output? And that's just electricity. What about the units of energy spent on making the acetic acid? You'd have to consider those, too.
India?
Because you "earn" a number of things other than your salary. Vacation days, other time off, benefits, insurance, retirement pay, bonuses, and all sorts of stuff. Those are part of the remuneration for working for that employer. However, your employer can dick you out of all them if it wants to, even if you've already "earned" them. An employee can decide not to come in ever again, but usually, a company doesn't run in such a way that a single employee quitting ruins their business. An employee, however, usually only have on job that pays the bills. So if that employer decided to let you go with no notice, the individual is often totally fucked.
Things being equal doesn't always mean things are fair, and this is one of those cases.
We don't know if god exists either, but billions of people build their lives around that premise. At least we know WE exist, and that means we know other plants could have life like us. That's some reason to look, don't you think?
Assuming you already had apple hardware to run it on. Otherwise, you'd have to buy that, too.
I do nightly backups from our production server to a second server. Both are running RAID. So effectively, I backup one RAID to another. Maybe that's what the GP was talking about? Making a specific "backup" server on his network, instead of tapes? Sure, this is different from tapes, but it's got advantages and disadvantages.
It does make some good products. They just lock you into the platform. Which is sad.
Oil production will form a bell curve. You're right in that we won't run out. However, the real question to ask is:
1) When will the curve peak? (google "peak oil")
2) Will we have time to develop alternative technologies before it causes a major depression?
Our entire economy is built around growth right now: more people, more energy demand, more debt. It's completely unsustaintable. The question, though is how quickly we can adapt from something unsustainable to something sustainable, and at what cost. If the change is slow (20-40 years), then I don't worry too much. If it happens as a sort of system-shock (5 years), it's going to be a disaster.
Tell that to the boys on the osx86 project. :)
Or you could beat the cost of both a mac AND windows system, and go with linux?
As for as knowing hardware will work, Apple could just as easily define a strict HCL. And trying to resell computer hardware is a joke, I don't care who makes it. You might get a little bit of money back on it, but it's certainly not what I'd call an investment.
But I sense a lot of fanboyism in your post, so I'm probably just wasting my keystrokes here. xD Don't get me wrong, I like osx. I think apple hardware is overpriced, and I don't like vendor lock-in.
I had the same problem. As it turns out, I had an auto-approval setup for updates that supersede previous updates. I look, and, sure enough, there was an update in there for "Windows Desktop Search 2.6.5 (KB911993)" and "Windows Desktop Search 2.6.6 (KB926356)". So when the new version came down the pipe, it was automatically approved, and sent out to all my workstations. What confuses me is that the previous versions never installed and came up on my taskbar. I have installed all the updates on my workstation (sans WDS 3.0.1) and I don't see any trace of WDS.
What really gets me is that that isn't truly an "update" as I think of it, it's new software. Perhaps an "upgrade", but not an "update".
Not screwing with your life? I say, having to buy new hardware that's EXACTLY the same as the hardware I already have, just because of a DRM scheme that prevents the OS from running on the hardware I already own seems a bit like screwing with my life. Suggesting someone download Ubuntu -- that's not so bad. But suggesting someone throw their hardware into the trashcan and buy all new, identical hardware, just to run a different OS? What's up with that?
I don't think we're in the minority. It doesn't what we think, short of being so pissed off about something, we use our forth amendment rights and topple a corrupt government. In the wonderful age of technology, even voting is irrelevant anymore, because it's so easy to rig the counts.
Are you sure it was your ISP's fault? Some BT clients are horrible, and they'll create so many NAT states that a typical consumer firewall will not have the resources to route very well. I've seen it happen at home before, using a Buffalo with DD-WRT. I've seen a similar thing happen with the pfsense box I use at the office when one workstation had some sort of bot on it. I started using uTorrent and limiting the connections it would make, and never had the problem again.
Your point is valid, but the Express editions are limited when you start getting into database-driven applications, which is pretty much anything in the corporate world. Of course, getting right down to it: the .NET SDK is free, so you could write all your code in notepad if you wanted to, and compile it from the command line.
Well, you also have to consider the price of oil is ever-increasing, as is the demand. It's quite likely that the supply of oil will eventually peak (google peak oil), but without a similar decline in demand, or even rate of demand increase.
I don't know when that will happen, exactly, but I wouldn't want to be caught empty-handed when my golden ticket expired. At some point, the planes that can fly without oil will be the only planes in the sky. We might be able to convert almost all consumer transport to electric or hydrogen (assuming we can produce the energy they would use somehow), but right now, jet fuel is the only thing to fuel jets -- and if we can find an way to make it without using oil, we have a vested interest in doing so, from just about every perspective, economic and otherwise.
You sent it to Palm three times at your own expense, yet haven't dug into your wallet for a software solution because you shouldn't have to spend more money to enjoy a product.
Hm. Sounds like you've already spent plenty of money shipping it to Palm. What's $20 more?
Since when is Communism an "expressly anti-theistic belief system"? Nothing about that in the wikipedia article.
I'd also point out that if we, for example, had laws claiming belief in god was illegal, and the punishment was death, we'd still be killing people in the name of religion. For example, Hitler. I think killing the jews could easily be considered religiously motivated. They also killed a lot of homosexuals, and I think that could be considered religiously motivated, too. Religion is the only institution that tries to actively persecute homosexuals, even to this day.
- On average we are now losing money.
This is a common misconception some people seem to have. Not following an avenue or course of action that would result in increased profits is NOT THE SAME as losing money. It's making less money. Losing money would be having to spend more than you made, and we both know that's not what's happening. It's a typical "investor class" mentality to look at not making money the same as actually losing money. There's something to be said for making a little less money, but also offering a better service. Human decency is what I'd call it. Poor business sense might be what someone else calls it. Go figure.
It's not a true democracy if there are elections anyway. In a true democracy, the people would rule, by either voting directly on issues, OR instead of elected representatives, the representatives would be chosen at random. Anything else, and you will eventually end up with an plutocracy -- which is what's happened in the U.S.
9% per year, four fourteen years?
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That would mean if you started at $35k a year, you'd be making about $117k a year now. I find that a little hard to believe. If it is true, then congrats to you. You've found the American dream, seems like.