I got a 50" plasma about 6 months ago. I researched all the specs to make sure I got a great tv - and I did. But what I hadn't paid any attention to was power consumption. I was pretty surprised when I learned my new TV uses 690W.
If you look at the back of a plasma tv they have fans on the back. The screen itself gets warm enough you can feel the heat on the back of your hand 3" or 4" away.
I have friends who cannot afford some things as nice as mine. If you were to ask them why they don't have a nicer one, they would tell you a reason why they don't want it.
People rarely admit that price is the issue, even when it is.
Hell it worked for the dtv converter boxes, right? They're worth about $20, but given the coupons they cost $60.
Won't car dealerships just raise the price of the car you want by the same amount?
How can unions work in the era of the global market? Creating artificial scarcity of labor only results in pricing yourself out of the global market, right?
This is 100% SOP where I work. Exceptions are made for 1 or 2 days for "knowledge transfer". But nobody with high level infrastructure access will finish out their two weeks.
My bank has had this for a few months now. You're right. It doesn't work. Ultimately the false negative rate is so high [leads to] so many people get their password revoked [leads to] so they make resetting your password a "self service" feature with "Choose your own questions..." authentication.
Then the users make their questions along the lines of: "What color is blue?"
I have Verizon Wireless mobile broadband. It's ok for light work, but they throttle downloads back. The longer the download, the slower it gets throttled back to. Seems to encourage light use only.
NOT A CABLE MODEM REPLACEMENT, NOT EVEN A DSL REPLACEMENT.
I wonder how long it will take the **IAA to realize all they have to do is say they've blocked something, and then over @ slashdot is some genious showing the latest get-a-round...
Some of you know-it-alls couldn't keep a secret in a secret-tight box.
Security Experts??!?
Sometimes I feel like an outcast from society. Maybe in the future I'll be able to just withdraw from the world while the State suports me instead of working through it.
I was born in a trailer park, and I don't work for minimum pay now.
It's a shame not to expect people to better themselves.
'S a place where you pay at the gate, drive in, park your car, watch a movie projected on a 40' tall screen. Usually one tunes in the movie on FM and ends up jump starting their car.
Ever seen Greece? Yeah - like that.
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This happens to any system of sufficient size and age.
Europe has been there for a while.
The US is getting there now.
People are never content to leave well enough alone.
This process of making a similar item with a different SKU also keeps pricematches from happening. It is not the same item if the SKU is different.
I got a 50" plasma about 6 months ago. I researched all the specs to make sure I got a great tv - and I did. But what I hadn't paid any attention to was power consumption. I was pretty surprised when I learned my new TV uses 690W.
If you look at the back of a plasma tv they have fans on the back. The screen itself gets warm enough you can feel the heat on the back of your hand 3" or 4" away.
Do LCD's of this size use this much power?
Those SOB's took asprin when they had a fever! Get 'em!!!
I don't know the first thing about rocket science, so let me ask the crowd here.
How do you synchronize the firing of 12 solid fueled rockets?
I'm not sure I should believe you...
Grain?
Imagine how many people it must take to listen in to everyone's conversations. Now imagine all those poor people jobless. There's your problem.
I have friends who cannot afford some things as nice as mine. If you were to ask them why they don't have a nicer one, they would tell you a reason why they don't want it. People rarely admit that price is the issue, even when it is.
Hell it worked for the dtv converter boxes, right? They're worth about $20, but given the coupons they cost $60. Won't car dealerships just raise the price of the car you want by the same amount?
How can unions work in the era of the global market? Creating artificial scarcity of labor only results in pricing yourself out of the global market, right?
This is 100% SOP where I work. Exceptions are made for 1 or 2 days for "knowledge transfer". But nobody with high level infrastructure access will finish out their two weeks.
I use Misk Same price.
My bank has had this for a few months now.
You're right. It doesn't work.
Ultimately the false negative rate is so high [leads to] so many people get their password revoked [leads to] so they make resetting your password a "self service" feature with "Choose your own questions..." authentication.
Then the users make their questions along the lines of: "What color is blue?"
I have Verizon Wireless mobile broadband. It's ok for light work, but they throttle downloads back. The longer the download, the slower it gets throttled back to. Seems to encourage light use only.
NOT A CABLE MODEM REPLACEMENT, NOT EVEN A DSL REPLACEMENT.
Or better - Make it a golf game... Where people could upload their face onto the player!!!
I'm sure the entire slashdot-reading computer-illiterate community shall heed your warning.
F-that.
Burn the Witch!
Brilliant!
I wonder how long it will take the **IAA to realize all they have to do is say they've blocked something, and then over @ slashdot is some genious showing the latest get-a-round...
Some of you know-it-alls couldn't keep a secret in a secret-tight box.
Security Experts??!?
Yeah just stick it in your pc and format it before you stick it in your....
Wait...
Girls?
We have one of those. Her communications are overly elaborate. I wonder if they're all like that...
But you left out Blinky lights.
Clearly 60 sets of blinky lights are better than 1. And with the added 3 switches...
Blink-tastic!
Sometimes I feel like an outcast from society. Maybe in the future I'll be able to just withdraw from the world while the State suports me instead of working through it. I was born in a trailer park, and I don't work for minimum pay now. It's a shame not to expect people to better themselves.
'S a place where you pay at the gate, drive in, park your car, watch a movie projected on a 40' tall screen. Usually one tunes in the movie on FM and ends up jump starting their car. Ever seen Greece? Yeah - like that.
...all of you who live across the street from a drive in theater. Just because you can see it, doesn't men you can watch it!!!