32 terabytes (ish) for $160k. That's list price, and that's Sun hardware. You could definitely get it much much cheaper (I just couldn't be bothered to seek it out).
I'd rather eat meat and die young. Pigs taste good.
As for environmental factors, the planet will do just fine all by itself. Until the sun explodes and destroys it, so I guess we'd better build some big engines.
And if I'm *required* to fly to the US for work, must I lose my job to keep my private life by refusing to comply ?
My company made very strong noises when I declined a trip to the US. They asked for my reasons in writing. I wrote an eloquent email describing my dislike for the US border processes and noted that I refused to be treated like a criminal.
Apart from several subsequent queries as to whether I was available for other trips, heard no more about it.
I'm not sure where you are, but UK companies are very unlikely to sack you for something like that. Especially if you're willing to fly to Germany at a day's notice, spend a couple of weeks in India, other inconvenient trips that crop up from time to time.
I think you'll find that 'Life On Earth' is going to be a considerable source of profit for the BBC. A significant portion of BBC revenue comes from its Natural History unit.
(Losing 'Strictly Come Dancing' can only be a good thing.)
Apart from that, you're quite right. Red Dwarf is available on DVD already, so why not make it available online, and use a distribution mechanism that minimises BBC hosting costs.
People in the UK can continue to watch it on digital TV, if they have access (most people do) or buy the DVD or wait for the DRM to get cracked, download the 'pirate' copy and bask in the knowledge they've broken the law and subverted the natural order of things. Some people enjoy this.
it really is no change from an development/programming/site maintenance standpoint to have the site available to just the UK or to everyone. It just takes more bandwidth costs and more server costs.
Given there are different UK and International versions of the site, and given the volume of international traffic, there is a significant cost associated with provision of this service beyond the UK.
I find clothes get more creased when I use a dryer. I bought non-iron shirts from M&S and they're fantastic - take them out of the washing machine, put them on a coat-hanger, then take them off that and wear them. Look perfectly uncreased, no ironing necessary.
I do have an iron, but it tends to only get used when I'm wearing a dress shirt or need to iron my suit or something. Rare.
It's quite hard to buy a washing machine here that doesn't have a 1000rpm spin cycle.
I think mine does 1600.
You're right though, it makes a massive difference. The difference for me is that I don't need a dryer at all, I just hang the clothes and a day later they're ready to wear.
You're being very negative and pessimistic. Fail after a year? Develop a leak?
My washing machine was bought in 1996. It's still working just fine. Never leaked. Gets used close on twice a week (once a week for clothes, then there's bedding, sports related clothing, towels, etc). No sitting around bored shitless in a laundromat, I'd have to pay nearer $10 per visit, time out of the day, restricted to opening hours, etc.
Oh, and try getting an insurance policy with a lower excess. If you can't afford to claim on the insurance, it generally isn't worth paying for.
Live doesn't make sense for MMORPGs. It doesn't make sense for modders. It doesn't make sense for those of us that don't trust Microsoft. It doesn't make sense for those of us over the age of 14 seeking mature gaming companions.
>> the only responsibility a company has is to its shareholders. The only reason a business exists is to make money for its owners
So call me European but I disagree with you.
A company has responsibility to its shareholders, its staff, its customers and the community in which it operates. While the relative weighting of those responsibilities is difficult to pin down, the relative importance the people running the company give to them makes very clear statements about the company.
As for the other point, many businesses do not exist for the purpose of making money for their owners. Not everybody has an exclusive focus on making money.
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32 terabytes (ish) for $160k. That's list price, and that's Sun hardware. You could definitely get it much much cheaper (I just couldn't be bothered to seek it out).
Storage is pretty cheap these days.
I'd rather eat meat and die young. Pigs taste good.
As for environmental factors, the planet will do just fine all by itself. Until the sun explodes and destroys it, so I guess we'd better build some big engines.
So do what everybody else with a PhD does and work outside your PhD speciality.
If you're capable of nuclear weapons physics then you're capable of a lot of other things as well.
And if I'm *required* to fly to the US for work, must I lose my job to keep my private life by refusing to comply ?
My company made very strong noises when I declined a trip to the US. They asked for my reasons in writing. I wrote an eloquent email describing my dislike for the US border processes and noted that I refused to be treated like a criminal.
Apart from several subsequent queries as to whether I was available for other trips, heard no more about it.
I'm not sure where you are, but UK companies are very unlikely to sack you for something like that. Especially if you're willing to fly to Germany at a day's notice, spend a couple of weeks in India, other inconvenient trips that crop up from time to time.
No, you have it the wrong way round.
Foreigners are nice people, and we want them to come here and get jobs.
It's the locals that are natural born criminals. Pre-natal ASBO sir?
stfu or take a stand. Don't just bitch about it.
Oh, and you don't have to be unionised to act. Or are you scared of losing your job? There's always another job.
You're entirely correct. There is however an even simpler option: Refuse to travel to the US.
Hence the gradual (and regretably partial) migration to xhtml.
Bah. Knew I should have picked a country that wasn't Italy.
That's raw genius.
Then link in that his client played a Sony infected CD on the computer.
Close with a counter-claim against the RIAA for the time taken to reinstall the OS
You've described the "everything works as expected" use case.
It's the other routes through the paypal value chain that scare me senseless.
Depends which part of Europe.
In the UK credit cards are prevalent. In France they have a whole other scheme, other European countries have mixed levels of take-up.
So most of the people I know have a card, but I live in the UK. I can easily believe that a random person in Italy wouldn't have one.
Which does raise an interesting question - how do Europeans pay for goods and services online?
The flowers are nice though, I like decayed vegetation wrapped around bent wiring on a bridge. Makes me feel better.
I think you'll find that 'Life On Earth' is going to be a considerable source of profit for the BBC. A significant portion of BBC revenue comes from its Natural History unit.
(Losing 'Strictly Come Dancing' can only be a good thing.)
Apart from that, you're quite right. Red Dwarf is available on DVD already, so why not make it available online, and use a distribution mechanism that minimises BBC hosting costs.
People in the UK can continue to watch it on digital TV, if they have access (most people do) or buy the DVD or wait for the DRM to get cracked, download the 'pirate' copy and bask in the knowledge they've broken the law and subverted the natural order of things. Some people enjoy this.
it really is no change from an development/programming/site maintenance standpoint to have the site available to just the UK or to everyone. It just takes more bandwidth costs and more server costs.
Given there are different UK and International versions of the site, and given the volume of international traffic, there is a significant cost associated with provision of this service beyond the UK.
Then again, I'm happy to continue to fund it.
lawyers have one of the highest burnout rate, did you know ?
Good.
Sorry, you expect fucking sympathy?
Whales.
I find clothes get more creased when I use a dryer. I bought non-iron shirts from M&S and they're fantastic - take them out of the washing machine, put them on a coat-hanger, then take them off that and wear them. Look perfectly uncreased, no ironing necessary.
I do have an iron, but it tends to only get used when I'm wearing a dress shirt or need to iron my suit or something. Rare.
(another energy saving
It's quite hard to buy a washing machine here that doesn't have a 1000rpm spin cycle.
I think mine does 1600.
You're right though, it makes a massive difference. The difference for me is that I don't need a dryer at all, I just hang the clothes and a day later they're ready to wear.
You're being very negative and pessimistic. Fail after a year? Develop a leak?
My washing machine was bought in 1996. It's still working just fine. Never leaked. Gets used close on twice a week (once a week for clothes, then there's bedding, sports related clothing, towels, etc). No sitting around bored shitless in a laundromat, I'd have to pay nearer $10 per visit, time out of the day, restricted to opening hours, etc.
Oh, and try getting an insurance policy with a lower excess. If you can't afford to claim on the insurance, it generally isn't worth paying for.
Who said it had to be in your backyard?
I don't even own a dryer. I also lack a clothesline in my garden.
I have a spare room, and it does have clothes racks in it. They work very nicely.
My boiler has electric ignition. Oh well.
And it costs money.
Live doesn't make sense for MMORPGs. It doesn't make sense for modders. It doesn't make sense for those of us that don't trust Microsoft. It doesn't make sense for those of us over the age of 14 seeking mature gaming companions.
It might be easy; that doesn't make it good.
I reckon Linus does care. Otherwise he would have picked an alternate licence for his operating system.
Oh, and can you get yeti onto nuke for porsche. ta.
>> the only responsibility a company has is to its shareholders. The only reason a business exists is to make money for its owners
So call me European but I disagree with you.
A company has responsibility to its shareholders, its staff, its customers and the community in which it operates. While the relative weighting of those responsibilities is difficult to pin down, the relative importance the people running the company give to them makes very clear statements about the company.
As for the other point, many businesses do not exist for the purpose of making money for their owners. Not everybody has an exclusive focus on making money.