The price is aproximately $0.01/kwh per the article. The cost to produce and store (for calm days) the electricity is not included. In reality, every buyer of electricity in Colorado is subsidizing the manufacturers and operators of wind generators.
Taking into consideration operation costs, a turbine life span of 30 years, and the initial investment in for a commercial turbine, the estimated cost of electricity generated is seven cents per kWh each (Pimentel, 2002). Other reports found wind energy costs ranging from 3.9 cents per kW in sites with ideal wind, to over 5 cents in less ideal locations. http://www.uwec.edu/grossmzc/elquiscl.html
It results in a more pleasant experience because you don't have the ads or the DJs,'' Rob Bennett, senior director for MSN Entertainment, said during a press briefing last week.
If people like DJs and screaming ads, they'll listen to the radio. If not, they'll listen to Microsoft. If local stations would throw away the play lists and develop a personality, they'd have nothing to worry about.
"Teaching to the Test" is like "Coding to the Spec", "Building to the Print" and "Flying to the Destination". A school must have standards which specify what students are taught and what they are to learn. Without testing, how are the customers (students, parents, taxpayers) to know if the teachers and administrators are doing their jobs?
In what other industry do workers have the gall to complain that they are being required to perform to a standard?
Google has reduced the price of its IPO to between $85 and $95 per share...
Google hasn't reduced anything. This is an auction and the buyers determine the price they are willing to pay. Reported "prices" are best guess speculation by Google or the press.
BTW, binaries available via BitTorrent and direct download are about three times bigger (270MB) than what you would have gotten via Automatic Updates (AU) because AU downloads only the components your system need.
Why seed hardware? In the case of the Sidewinder hardware, MSFT had included force feedback capability into Flight Simulator (for example). The new version of FS had enough new stuff to justify buying it without force feedback, but no one would know how cool the new feature was until hardware was available to show it off. Hardware manufacturers were in no particular hurry to re-design their products before a pile of software had been sold to create demand.
MSFT keeps them honest by selling hardware with the new features and, by the way, taking some sales away from the traditional hardware companies. Presto! Lots (OK, several) products on the market with new features.
Wireless Networking -- I think MSFT wanted to show everyone how it to autoconfigure a wireless network. "I don't know why Linksys can't make installation painless. We've done it."
BTW, have you ever wondered that there were five or ten major companies with TabletPCs available when the TabletPC software was released? Do you suppose some of the development cost was (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) underwritten by a large software company? How about PocketPC?
Microsoft often introduces hardware products to "seed the market". The Sidewinder Joystick was the first to include "force feedback" which was supported by MSFT games. Now there are plenty available from other manufacturers, so MSFT has killed the product line. I have a MSFT USB speaker system which was early to enter the market and early to leave.
Home networking products were introduced to jumpstart that market. Now there is plenty of good hardware available so its time to move on.
The "snail" generates no electricity. It is designed to be a lower cost and more flexible method for anchoring a turbine. It took some digging to find that.
"As usual, the ".org Pavilion" was where everything interesting and fun was. Crowds of friendly, smart, kind-hearted people mulling around the back-corner, kindly paid for by corporate interests, a small bone thrown our way."
Actually, the whole thing was paid for by the "corporate interests". It cost big bucks to rent the space for those big booths. You should say "Thank you, corporate interests."
Saying that OS X (client) comes free with every new mac is like saying that the tires come free with every new car. You pay for them, they're just not a line item on the invoice.
Here are some other "things" that kill birds: http://www.currykerlinger.com/birds.htm
Glass windows are the number one bird killer. House cats: 100 million per year Cars and trucks another 50 to 100 million per year Power line collisions: 174 million and on and on and on.
Saying PowerPoint is bad because people give mindless presentations with it is like saying newspapers are bad because all you've read is the National Enquirer
In the early days of Cell Phones, just after the earth cooled, the monthly fee included a whole 30 minutes of air time. Roaming cost a buck a minute and service was spotty.
The day will come when a few bucks a month will get you more wireless access than you can possibly use.
New stuff is always expensive. In a competitive environment, prices come down to cost plus a small profit margin. If you want to project the price of wireless access in a few years, figure out how much it will cost (hardware, labor, capital) for an efficient vendor to supply it, add a little for profit and you'll be genius.
If Linux is better and less expensive, why is it necessary to force people to use it? Are they too ignorant to figure it out for themselves?
If Microsoft products are inferior and more expensive, why is it necessary to prevent people from using them? Are they too ignorant to figure it out for themselves?
If Linux is better and less expensive and it competes in a free market, then Microsoft doesn't have a chance.
"But Brazil recently signed a letter of intent with IBM Corp. to help boost government use of such platforms as Linux."
We know that IBM has a lower cost Linux based alternative.
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The price is aproximately $0.01/kwh per the article. The cost to produce and store (for calm days) the electricity is not included. In reality, every buyer of electricity in Colorado is subsidizing the manufacturers and operators of wind generators.
Taking into consideration operation costs, a turbine life span of 30 years, and the initial investment in for a commercial turbine, the estimated cost of electricity generated is seven cents per kWh each (Pimentel, 2002). Other reports found wind energy costs ranging from 3.9 cents per kW in sites with ideal wind, to over 5 cents in less ideal locations.
http://www.uwec.edu/grossmzc/elquiscl.html
It results in a more pleasant experience because you don't have the ads or the DJs,'' Rob Bennett, senior director for MSN Entertainment, said during a press briefing last week.
If people like DJs and screaming ads, they'll listen to the radio. If not, they'll listen to Microsoft. If local stations would throw away the play lists and develop a personality, they'd have nothing to worry about.
"Teaching to the Test" is like "Coding to the Spec", "Building to the Print" and "Flying to the Destination". A school must have standards which specify what students are taught and what they are to learn. Without testing, how are the customers (students, parents, taxpayers) to know if the teachers and administrators are doing their jobs?
In what other industry do workers have the gall to complain that they are being required to perform to a standard?
Informative? I thought it was a joke. If it isn't a joke, then its sad.
Google has reduced the price of its IPO to between $85 and $95 per share ...
Google hasn't reduced anything. This is an auction and the buyers determine the price they are willing to pay. Reported "prices" are best guess speculation by Google or the press.
From http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/EntryViewPag e.aspx?guid=145b9d07-3e65-42de-8116-2704c8ce1a83 (Don Park's daily habit)
BTW, binaries available via BitTorrent and direct download are about three times bigger (270MB) than what you would have gotten via Automatic Updates (AU) because AU downloads only the components your system need.
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Steve needs to get a new iBlade for his iRazor.
From Microsoft:
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*Important* Customers who have deployed Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC2 are not at risk.
Strangely, the next post on the thread was rated "5" for saying exactly the same thing you did.
Welcome to Slashdot!
This maakes no more economic sense the last "power from poop" story:0 9/182320 6
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/
Why seed hardware? In the case of the Sidewinder hardware, MSFT had included force feedback capability into Flight Simulator (for example). The new version of FS had enough new stuff to justify buying it without force feedback, but no one would know how cool the new feature was until hardware was available to show it off. Hardware manufacturers were in no particular hurry to re-design their products before a pile of software had been sold to create demand.
MSFT keeps them honest by selling hardware with the new features and, by the way, taking some sales away from the traditional hardware companies. Presto! Lots (OK, several) products on the market with new features.
Wireless Networking -- I think MSFT wanted to show everyone how it to autoconfigure a wireless network. "I don't know why Linksys can't make installation painless. We've done it."
BTW, have you ever wondered that there were five or ten major companies with TabletPCs available when the TabletPC software was released? Do you suppose some of the development cost was (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) underwritten by a large software company? How about PocketPC?
Microsoft often introduces hardware products to "seed the market". The Sidewinder Joystick was the first to include "force feedback" which was supported by MSFT games. Now there are plenty available from other manufacturers, so MSFT has killed the product line. I have a MSFT USB speaker system which was early to enter the market and early to leave.
Home networking products were introduced to jumpstart that market. Now there is plenty of good hardware available so its time to move on.
The "snail" generates no electricity. It is designed to be a lower cost and more flexible method for anchoring a turbine. It took some digging to find that.
This news is so exciting ... well, I don't know what I'll do.
The world is passing by folks. If this qualifies as newsworthy, you need to get out more.
"As usual, the ".org Pavilion" was where everything interesting and fun was. Crowds of friendly, smart, kind-hearted people mulling around the back-corner, kindly paid for by corporate interests, a small bone thrown our way."
Actually, the whole thing was paid for by the "corporate interests". It cost big bucks to rent the space for those big booths. You should say "Thank you, corporate interests."
"Things such as price or product identification numbers are identified by bracketing them with so-called tags, as in Deluxe Toaster , $19.95 ."
They're "tags", not "so-called tags".
Tags! Like those little things they hang on stuff at the store to tell you how much it costs. Tags.
Of course, he may have been referring to their use in a "software program".
Or you could print the document and put it in a safety deposit box.
Saying that OS X (client) comes free with every new mac is like saying that the tires come free with every new car. You pay for them, they're just not a line item on the invoice.
And if they change the software program inside the ATM machine ...
Here are some other "things" that kill birds:
http://www.currykerlinger.com/birds.htm
Glass windows are the number one bird killer.
House cats: 100 million per year
Cars and trucks another 50 to 100 million per year
Power line collisions: 174 million
and on and on and on.
There is no story here, folks.
Saying PowerPoint is bad because people give mindless presentations with it is like saying newspapers are bad because all you've read is the National Enquirer
In the early days of Cell Phones, just after the earth cooled, the monthly fee included a whole 30 minutes of air time. Roaming cost a buck a minute and service was spotty.
The day will come when a few bucks a month will get you more wireless access than you can possibly use.
New stuff is always expensive. In a competitive environment, prices come down to cost plus a small profit margin. If you want to project the price of wireless access in a few years, figure out how much it will cost (hardware, labor, capital) for an efficient vendor to supply it, add a little for profit and you'll be genius.
Truckin'- got my chips cashed in
Keep Truckin' like the doodah man
Together - more or less in line
*LOOK OUT! YOU'RE GONNA CRASH!*
Just keep truckin' on
If Linux is better and less expensive, why is it necessary to force people to use it? Are they too ignorant to figure it out for themselves?
If Microsoft products are inferior and more expensive, why is it necessary to prevent people from using them? Are they too ignorant to figure it out for themselves?
If Linux is better and less expensive and it competes in a free market, then Microsoft doesn't have a chance.
"But Brazil recently signed a letter of intent with IBM Corp. to help boost government use of such platforms as Linux."
We know that IBM has a lower cost Linux based alternative.