I will NEVER buy or recommend another Cisco or Linksys product again.
I agree with the other posters who have noted that this would have been vetted at the highest levels. This represents a corporate mindset there now and I want no part of it or to support it.
And I will explain to everyone that I discuss this with the part of their service agreement that says they will gladly hand your internet usage information over to courts and third parties.
BestBuy has moved away from the tech end and gone more to straight consumer. It used to be you could go in and buy hard drives, ethernet cards, and cables at good prices. Now, if they even have the parts, you are lucky, and the cables are way, way overpriced. They jumped on the Monster bandwagon and never left.
On the other hand, I bought my microwave, refrigerator, vacuum, a 32" Sony LCD, PS3, and carpet shampooer all there. Occasional DVDs. But I only go there when I really need something instead of perusing their computer parts and pieces so they lose the convenience buys from me.
It always seems in the store near me that the staff just stands around and for the most part are really pretty ignorant about what they sell. They either speak without knowing or are simply lying about product features and are less than helpful - they are an outright annoyance. Thankfully they will go away if you tell them you are just looking.
But all in all I have spent a fair amount of money at my local BestBuy. The prices on stuff can be OK if you buy on sale, and having a smart phone handy while shopping so you can compare prices really is handy. I can wait a couple of days if the price difference is good enough.
All in all I wonder why they are having so many problems. I think they could do themselves a huge favor if they fired all the minimum wage idiots who probably lose business for them and paid knowledgeable people a good wage instead. I don't need their help but a lot of people are lost in today's world. BestBuy being a knowledge resource could help them out.
Also, with more employers using Facebook to spy on employees, as well as spouses spying on spouses, etc, there is a disincentive for users now building.
And as Facebook tries to cash in on the associations and data mining, users will have to be forced to look at even more ads.
I heard that this morning. Finally someone said they would *donate* $10 to their cause. I doubt many bigger companies will have that kind of response.
The thing I think Wall Street is missing is that people tune those ads out or block them. Maybe Facebook has come up with some new methods to lock people into getting the message but if they make it too onerous, people will simply quit Facebook.
I also heard an analysis on NPR yesterday that talked about how the price to earnings was sky high and to actually be worth what the IPO is intended to go for, Facebook will have to soak up a huge percentage of the entire world's advertising dollars.
Maybe Facebook has some secret plan up their sleeve, but I won't be buying any.
You do realize that protecting against EMP is a side benefit of protecting against the much more likely solar storms that can induce huge currents in power grids and wreak havoc with satellites, right?
Oh wait. You are busy having fun. My mistake. Carry on.
I have a Honda Civic Hybrid. It is a 2005 that I bought in November of 2004.
At the time I bought it, I got a $1500 tax credit and no excise tax. As far as features, it was comparable to the EX (top line Civic) so the price difference I paid to get the hybrid wasn't all that much.
I got 50-54 miles per gallon (honest) during the time I had the stock Goodrich tires on it but mileage took a nosedive (44-46 mpg) when I put Michelins on it. I'm now on Yokohama tires and am back up in the 46-48 range. I think the Goodrich tires were an especially hard (high mileage) compound and know they were a bit slippery feeling but the mileage was incredible.
I ran the numbers and tried different grades of gasoline and it is most economical to feed it mid-grade instead of regular. It is not enough to just hunt for the cheapest gasoline because it is almost always crap and the mileage really drops off. With mid grade the mileage peaks and it actually costs less per mile to run with that. Also, the best mileage will come from different gas stations in the winter and summer as apparently not all winter and summer formulations are created equal.
For most of the car's life gas has been in the $3-$4 range and I kept track of the savings over driving a regular Honda. I used to have an HX (the high mileage version) so know what the best I could get would have been. My car broke even for me (remembering the tax credits as well as the price difference being between an EX rather than a DX (as most like to mistakenly compare)) at 27,000 miles.
I now have well over 100,000 miles on it and it just keeps paying dividends. I did have to have the hybrid battery replaced at 67,000 miles but that was under warranty and didn't cost me a cent. There are companies that disassemble, match cells, and rebuild hybrid battery packs for the Civic Hybrid for about $700 - you don't need to pay the retail price for a new pack (another oft-cited but erroneous argument against hybrids). I wouldn't be surprised if I need to replace the pack again in the not too distant future but $700 is quite reasonable. It certainly beats the $5000 that the replacement pack I got at 67,000 miles was valued at. But again, you don't have to buy new packs. The battery technology has improved and now Hondas have lithium packs instead of the older NiMH (what I have now).
The only unknown is the electronics package and the IMA motor itself. If one of those fail, I do not know the price to fix but it should be easy enough to find a replacement at the junk yard or some such if necessary.
I plan on replacing this hybrid with another fairly soon. I need to be able to rely on my car and at about 120,000 miles, it is probably a good time to swap it out for a new one. What I haven't been able to decide is Honda Civic Hybrid or Toyota Prius.
If people would actually run the numbers instead of listening to the people with bones to pick against hybrids, they might have a more valid conclusion. The "Because Hybrids Don't Pay For Themselves" thread title is just plain and categorically wrong.
We live in a $3-$4 per gallon gas world now and the advantage hybrids have over conventional engines is even more when gas prices go up. Instead of having all the inefficiencies of a big engine for acceleration when all you need it for is cruise, you get an optimized engine for cruise and the battery assist for acceleration with recouping the energy from braking.
Make up your own mind. I have a hybrid and the numbers are way in the plus column. I will be buying another.
As an aside, I also have a Volkswagen Jetta TDI which gets basically the same mileage as the HCH - 44-46 mpg. Diesel is more expensive than gas so it is a bit more expensive to drive. Volkswagen is coming out with a TDI/hybrid soon and that ought to really kick for mileage.
My brother mentioned the other day that he opted for a $2000/yr raise just by ditching cable.
If more people would put their satellite and cable subscriptions in a yearly cost light, they might be more inclined to drop them and go with free over the air HDTV and streaming.
Codeweavers' Crossover (http://www.codeweavers.com) product is a beefed up Wine and they allow a 2 week trial. Very reasonably priced.
You can install Windows software and run it without having to have a VM or a Windows license. It works great for a lot of Windows apps they don't specifically list on their website but they also list apps they have tested and know specifically will run.
I use it for a number of Windows applications where I don't have to boot up to a now very old version of XP on an old hard drive. I just installed the apps in "bottles" under Linux and then just run them whenever I want to.
The way I read the article, your first point is incorrect.
The heat is being used as an energy source and is being converted to light. The heat is not flowing elsewhere and it isn't a differential causing it to flow. The LED is simply converting some of the heat in its active volume into light. As the heat is being converted to light, the device cools. The 230% figure comes from the amount of light out compared to what should be coming out based on current and voltage. They never claim creation of energy.
It is a legitimate scientific article that explores the limits of current and voltage in an LED.
I was a student at the time and after hearing the news bits about Michelangelo, I found an early virus scanner that was capable of detecting it. I think it was McAfee but not 100% sure. I downloaded it and tested my computer and it was indeed infected.
I asked the virus scanner to remove it since it said it would/could and sure enough it did. The down side was that Michelangelo was a boot sector infector and removing the virus made the system unbootable and I didn't know how to repair that. End result for me was that March 6th came a bit early.
But I wanted to track down where the infection came from so scanned all my floppies. I only found it on a few of them but one of the ones I found it on was the driver disk that came with the motherboard I had recently used to build my system. I checked with some friends in the computer shop where I was at school and they didn't believe it could possibly be the driver disk - but as luck would have it, they had a similar new motherboard from the same manufacturer with a still-sealed driver disk marked the same as mine.
After making sure all was clean, they broke the seal on the driver disk and scanned it. Positive for Michelangelo.
I don't remember the manufacturer name but wish I did. But the thing was that Michelangelo was being spread with driver disks from this one manufacturer and maybe others. No idea for how long.
I think sounding the alarm on viruses is the better path. I know some people tune it out and happily believe that they have never had an infection, but the reality now is that the people writing them don't announce their presence if they can help it. It's not about showing off. It's about money and how much of people's the criminals can snatch.
And your flaw is there is now the ability to deploy the chicken (and egg) such that there will be outlets that can charge for electricity and that will lead to more electric cars.
I guess you haven't heard about the Leaf or Volt, Tesla Motors, etc?
My father had an electronics designer where he worked build a box with blinking lights, some do-nothing knobs, and some toggle switches. He then stenciled it with Binary Ultimate Load Lifter Secondary Harmonic Integral Trace.
Similar results. People would stare at it in amazement thinking it was very important.
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They just went on my blacklist.
I will NEVER buy or recommend another Cisco or Linksys product again.
I agree with the other posters who have noted that this would have been vetted at the highest levels. This represents a corporate mindset there now and I want no part of it or to support it.
And I will explain to everyone that I discuss this with the part of their service agreement that says they will gladly hand your internet usage information over to courts and third parties.
Hopefully he puts a screen over the entrance and exit to help prevent that.
Waves aren't that big out on the open ocean. It's more of a gentle rise and fall.
Big waves are made when the wave motion interacts with a shallow bottom like near shore.
Actually, South Africa found a way to reverse their strategic choice and dismantled all of their nuclear weapons.
BestBuy has moved away from the tech end and gone more to straight consumer. It used to be you could go in and buy hard drives, ethernet cards, and cables at good prices. Now, if they even have the parts, you are lucky, and the cables are way, way overpriced. They jumped on the Monster bandwagon and never left.
On the other hand, I bought my microwave, refrigerator, vacuum, a 32" Sony LCD, PS3, and carpet shampooer all there. Occasional DVDs. But I only go there when I really need something instead of perusing their computer parts and pieces so they lose the convenience buys from me.
It always seems in the store near me that the staff just stands around and for the most part are really pretty ignorant about what they sell. They either speak without knowing or are simply lying about product features and are less than helpful - they are an outright annoyance. Thankfully they will go away if you tell them you are just looking.
But all in all I have spent a fair amount of money at my local BestBuy. The prices on stuff can be OK if you buy on sale, and having a smart phone handy while shopping so you can compare prices really is handy. I can wait a couple of days if the price difference is good enough. All in all I wonder why they are having so many problems. I think they could do themselves a huge favor if they fired all the minimum wage idiots who probably lose business for them and paid knowledgeable people a good wage instead. I don't need their help but a lot of people are lost in today's world. BestBuy being a knowledge resource could help them out.
Or he saw a Big Bang Theory episode...
Also, with more employers using Facebook to spy on employees, as well as spouses spying on spouses, etc, there is a disincentive for users now building.
And as Facebook tries to cash in on the associations and data mining, users will have to be forced to look at even more ads.
I wouldn't bet on it being a good investment.
I heard that this morning. Finally someone said they would *donate* $10 to their cause. I doubt many bigger companies will have that kind of response.
The thing I think Wall Street is missing is that people tune those ads out or block them. Maybe Facebook has come up with some new methods to lock people into getting the message but if they make it too onerous, people will simply quit Facebook.
I also heard an analysis on NPR yesterday that talked about how the price to earnings was sky high and to actually be worth what the IPO is intended to go for, Facebook will have to soak up a huge percentage of the entire world's advertising dollars.
Maybe Facebook has some secret plan up their sleeve, but I won't be buying any.
Do you really expect a virus or exploit to announce to you that your system has been pwned?
They used to do that but it's rare now.
These days all that saying you have never run into a virus or exploit means for many people is that they are silently pwned.
You do realize that protecting against EMP is a side benefit of protecting against the much more likely solar storms that can induce huge currents in power grids and wreak havoc with satellites, right?
Oh wait. You are busy having fun. My mistake. Carry on.
All TVs with a remote control are exploitable. ;-)
http://www.tvbgone.com/
He's just an old 6502 cpu. Not much memory space. I can understand how the story topic would FIFO out...
Nimy - there are companies that rebuild hybrid packs for about $700.
I have a Honda Civic Hybrid. It is a 2005 that I bought in November of 2004.
At the time I bought it, I got a $1500 tax credit and no excise tax. As far as features, it was comparable to the EX (top line Civic) so the price difference I paid to get the hybrid wasn't all that much.
I got 50-54 miles per gallon (honest) during the time I had the stock Goodrich tires on it but mileage took a nosedive (44-46 mpg) when I put Michelins on it. I'm now on Yokohama tires and am back up in the 46-48 range. I think the Goodrich tires were an especially hard (high mileage) compound and know they were a bit slippery feeling but the mileage was incredible.
I ran the numbers and tried different grades of gasoline and it is most economical to feed it mid-grade instead of regular. It is not enough to just hunt for the cheapest gasoline because it is almost always crap and the mileage really drops off. With mid grade the mileage peaks and it actually costs less per mile to run with that. Also, the best mileage will come from different gas stations in the winter and summer as apparently not all winter and summer formulations are created equal.
For most of the car's life gas has been in the $3-$4 range and I kept track of the savings over driving a regular Honda. I used to have an HX (the high mileage version) so know what the best I could get would have been. My car broke even for me (remembering the tax credits as well as the price difference being between an EX rather than a DX (as most like to mistakenly compare)) at 27,000 miles.
I now have well over 100,000 miles on it and it just keeps paying dividends. I did have to have the hybrid battery replaced at 67,000 miles but that was under warranty and didn't cost me a cent. There are companies that disassemble, match cells, and rebuild hybrid battery packs for the Civic Hybrid for about $700 - you don't need to pay the retail price for a new pack (another oft-cited but erroneous argument against hybrids). I wouldn't be surprised if I need to replace the pack again in the not too distant future but $700 is quite reasonable. It certainly beats the $5000 that the replacement pack I got at 67,000 miles was valued at. But again, you don't have to buy new packs. The battery technology has improved and now Hondas have lithium packs instead of the older NiMH (what I have now).
The only unknown is the electronics package and the IMA motor itself. If one of those fail, I do not know the price to fix but it should be easy enough to find a replacement at the junk yard or some such if necessary.
I plan on replacing this hybrid with another fairly soon. I need to be able to rely on my car and at about 120,000 miles, it is probably a good time to swap it out for a new one. What I haven't been able to decide is Honda Civic Hybrid or Toyota Prius.
If people would actually run the numbers instead of listening to the people with bones to pick against hybrids, they might have a more valid conclusion. The "Because Hybrids Don't Pay For Themselves" thread title is just plain and categorically wrong.
We live in a $3-$4 per gallon gas world now and the advantage hybrids have over conventional engines is even more when gas prices go up. Instead of having all the inefficiencies of a big engine for acceleration when all you need it for is cruise, you get an optimized engine for cruise and the battery assist for acceleration with recouping the energy from braking.
Make up your own mind. I have a hybrid and the numbers are way in the plus column. I will be buying another.
As an aside, I also have a Volkswagen Jetta TDI which gets basically the same mileage as the HCH - 44-46 mpg. Diesel is more expensive than gas so it is a bit more expensive to drive. Volkswagen is coming out with a TDI/hybrid soon and that ought to really kick for mileage.
Not just bats. Here we have huge problems with idiots scribing gang symbols and slogans into anything with a glass pane using diamond rings.
I would bet there will be all sorts of graffiti etched into the screens in no time.
My brother mentioned the other day that he opted for a $2000/yr raise just by ditching cable.
If more people would put their satellite and cable subscriptions in a yearly cost light, they might be more inclined to drop them and go with free over the air HDTV and streaming.
You don't even need a VM to run Microsoft Office. I've been running it in Linux with Codeweavers' Crossover and it works fine.
Codeweavers' Crossover (http://www.codeweavers.com) product is a beefed up Wine and they allow a 2 week trial. Very reasonably priced.
You can install Windows software and run it without having to have a VM or a Windows license. It works great for a lot of Windows apps they don't specifically list on their website but they also list apps they have tested and know specifically will run.
I use it for a number of Windows applications where I don't have to boot up to a now very old version of XP on an old hard drive. I just installed the apps in "bottles" under Linux and then just run them whenever I want to.
Maybe the network of networks won't melt down but instead become self aware... ;-)
The way I read the article, your first point is incorrect.
The heat is being used as an energy source and is being converted to light. The heat is not flowing elsewhere and it isn't a differential causing it to flow. The LED is simply converting some of the heat in its active volume into light. As the heat is being converted to light, the device cools. The 230% figure comes from the amount of light out compared to what should be coming out based on current and voltage. They never claim creation of energy.
It is a legitimate scientific article that explores the limits of current and voltage in an LED.
I was a student at the time and after hearing the news bits about Michelangelo, I found an early virus scanner that was capable of detecting it. I think it was McAfee but not 100% sure. I downloaded it and tested my computer and it was indeed infected.
I asked the virus scanner to remove it since it said it would/could and sure enough it did. The down side was that Michelangelo was a boot sector infector and removing the virus made the system unbootable and I didn't know how to repair that. End result for me was that March 6th came a bit early.
But I wanted to track down where the infection came from so scanned all my floppies. I only found it on a few of them but one of the ones I found it on was the driver disk that came with the motherboard I had recently used to build my system. I checked with some friends in the computer shop where I was at school and they didn't believe it could possibly be the driver disk - but as luck would have it, they had a similar new motherboard from the same manufacturer with a still-sealed driver disk marked the same as mine.
After making sure all was clean, they broke the seal on the driver disk and scanned it. Positive for Michelangelo.
I don't remember the manufacturer name but wish I did. But the thing was that Michelangelo was being spread with driver disks from this one manufacturer and maybe others. No idea for how long.
I think sounding the alarm on viruses is the better path. I know some people tune it out and happily believe that they have never had an infection, but the reality now is that the people writing them don't announce their presence if they can help it. It's not about showing off. It's about money and how much of people's the criminals can snatch.
Which means we should expect to see something along those lines...
Chicken and egg! Why of course!
And your flaw is there is now the ability to deploy the chicken (and egg) such that there will be outlets that can charge for electricity and that will lead to more electric cars.
I guess you haven't heard about the Leaf or Volt, Tesla Motors, etc?
My father had an electronics designer where he worked build a box with blinking lights, some do-nothing knobs, and some toggle switches. He then stenciled it with Binary Ultimate Load Lifter Secondary Harmonic Integral Trace.
Similar results. People would stare at it in amazement thinking it was very important.
Detail it to Brian Krebs. He would be a very good source of information on what to do.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/