I don't know about TFA, but I pay about $10/month just to be connected to the gird, even if I don't use any electricity. That likely makes up most of the $11.34 electric bill. It also makes off grid living more attractive.
Because their billing structure would put the power company out of business if they allowed it.
You raise a good point. Read your electric bill. You don't pay per kWh for everything. You usually pay a flat fee to be connected to the grid, plus a fee for the amount of electricity you use. I pay something like $10/month just to be connected to the grid. If the OP's electric company has a similar billing structure, it would be much cheaper to go completely off the grid (though horribly inconvenient on cloudy days).
With people considering a space elevator, why not consider a space vacuum cleaner? A long tube with one end in space and the other split like, say, a flying spaghetti monster, with multiple ends to suck up particulates. And little dogs.
What shall we call such a colossal cleaning machine? Mega Maid?
My father was an excellent driver, even though he was blind in one eye and thus had no depth perception.
Binocular vision isn't the only thing that allows depth perception. There are actually more monocular cues to depth than binocular. However, binocular depth perception is superior, losing an eye doesn't eliminate the ability do judge depth. Your father had impaired depth perception.
I first learned about this here. Shortly afterward, I drove down to see my future mother-in-law in my fiancee's new car. My fiancee let her mother drive and I promptly was scolded for not having the mirrors the "correct" way. I tried to explain to her why it's better, but she wouldn't hear any of it.
My fiancee also complains about that method because if she has people in the back seat it leaves a blind spot behind the rear passenger's heads.
I think this method is wonderful. I just wonder why driver's education instructors don't teach it.
I'm familiar with this concept. I was helping a friend out with her Indiana state income tax and there was a line to declare sales tax on items purchased through the mail. The records one would have to keep to fill out that section would be ridiculous.
On the other hand, some states give you a deduction on your income tax if you can provide receipts for sales taxes paid. Illinois has a version of this system, but the sales tax has to be above a certain dollar amount. Basically the only thing that qualifies for the deduction, is a car.
People are much more likely to prove they paid sales tax to get money back than to volunteer information about avoiding sales taxes.
B) what the company's assets and fundamentals represent
I would replace the word asset with equity. AMD as a lot of assets ($11.2 billion) but they also have a lot of liabilities, or debt that has to be repaid ($8.6 billion). The liabilities must be paid before stock holders receive any money. Therefore, picking stocks based solely on the fact that the company has huge assets is a terrible idea.
The stock price of a company that is not making money and carries quite a bit of debt is most likely determined by what people are willing to pay for it. Not based on assets. People are willing to pay for it because they think it will make money in the future. I doubt the equity is large enough to make a difference in the price.
Who pays sales tax anymore? Especially since the invention of the internet. Here in Chicago, the lack of sales tax more than covers the cost of shipping.
Users downloading from P2P networks need to exercise caution anyway, but should also be sensitive to pop-ups appearing upon playing a downloaded video or audio stream
An ASF renamed to MP3 will play but it brings up a warning that says the format doesn't match the extension, do you really want to play this file?
So, the tricky part is getting WMP to not display the warning. Anybody have any suggestions on how that is done? I suspect the worm displays the warning and relies on the user to simply click OK.
Being able to make an asf look like an MP3 is...weird. If true then that is going to spread very quickly.
I suspect as a "feature" built into Windows Media Player to make things "just work" if a.asf file has the extension.mp3 WMP will detect that the file is a.asf file and play it anyway.
Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Windows Media framework.
Future generations of 10.000 years will probably have the means to detect radioactive sites from the other end of the galaxy.
Your are assuming that human knowledge will progress in the next 10,000 years. Humans have a tendency to regress in our knowledge every few hundred years. It's during these periods that we need to worry.
Some believe that civilization is on the verge of one of these regressions right now. The parent post might be alluding to this.
We should be more concerned about how to warn people in the more near future, like 200-500 years...
I once read that the speedometer on your car is only accurate to within +/- 2%. Therefore if your speedometer says you are traveling at exactly 75mph you could reasonably be traveling at 76.5mph. This doesn't include the reliability of the cop's radar gun, which despite his claims of it being calibrated, still has precision errors, because calibration only eliminates accuracy error.
It's been a while since I had an instrumentation class (please excuse any misused terminology), but my point is, you can use accuracy and precision to get out of a ticket written for up to 2mph over the speed limit.
A few months back I was playing around with some different operating systems on virtual machines and found Haiku (BeOS clone) to have a quick boot and almost ready for prime time. ReactOS had a quick boot but was almost unusable.
I can vouch for this. Haiku is fast at booting. I think some of the more feature rich versions of Haiku are a little slower. This is likely due to additional drivers.
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half an inch thick with an XGA touchscreen?
I don't know about TFA, but I pay about $10/month just to be connected to the gird, even if I don't use any electricity. That likely makes up most of the $11.34 electric bill. It also makes off grid living more attractive.
Because their billing structure would put the power company out of business if they allowed it.
You raise a good point. Read your electric bill. You don't pay per kWh for everything. You usually pay a flat fee to be connected to the grid, plus a fee for the amount of electricity you use. I pay something like $10/month just to be connected to the grid. If the OP's electric company has a similar billing structure, it would be much cheaper to go completely off the grid (though horribly inconvenient on cloudy days).
Excuse me. The healthcare discussion may be interesting and all, but the article is about solar power. Offtopic!
For the most value for your money I prefer the box of blocks (no doors, windows, filler, etc.) from the LEGO website.
a boy can never have too many LEGO bricks. Parents tend to feel otherwise.
So, basically the Western world cleaned up it's pollution by moving it to China?
With people considering a space elevator, why not consider a space vacuum cleaner? A long tube with one end in space and the other split like, say, a flying spaghetti monster, with multiple ends to suck up particulates. And little dogs.
What shall we call such a colossal cleaning machine? Mega Maid?
A better use of GM's time would be to detect when a driver is old, then disable the engine and lock the brakes.
But Buick and Cadillac sales would plummet! GM's on tough times already. They need to play up to their main demographic.
My father was an excellent driver, even though he was blind in one eye and thus had no depth perception.
Binocular vision isn't the only thing that allows depth perception. There are actually more monocular cues to depth than binocular. However, binocular depth perception is superior, losing an eye doesn't eliminate the ability do judge depth. Your father had impaired depth perception.
I first learned about this here. Shortly afterward, I drove down to see my future mother-in-law in my fiancee's new car. My fiancee let her mother drive and I promptly was scolded for not having the mirrors the "correct" way. I tried to explain to her why it's better, but she wouldn't hear any of it.
My fiancee also complains about that method because if she has people in the back seat it leaves a blind spot behind the rear passenger's heads.
I think this method is wonderful. I just wonder why driver's education instructors don't teach it.
I'm familiar with this concept. I was helping a friend out with her Indiana state income tax and there was a line to declare sales tax on items purchased through the mail. The records one would have to keep to fill out that section would be ridiculous.
On the other hand, some states give you a deduction on your income tax if you can provide receipts for sales taxes paid. Illinois has a version of this system, but the sales tax has to be above a certain dollar amount. Basically the only thing that qualifies for the deduction, is a car.
People are much more likely to prove they paid sales tax to get money back than to volunteer information about avoiding sales taxes.
New Yorkers pay sales tax.
Notice how New York didn't make the list.
B) what the company's assets and fundamentals represent
I would replace the word asset with equity. AMD as a lot of assets ($11.2 billion) but they also have a lot of liabilities, or debt that has to be repaid ($8.6 billion). The liabilities must be paid before stock holders receive any money. Therefore, picking stocks based solely on the fact that the company has huge assets is a terrible idea.
The stock price of a company that is not making money and carries quite a bit of debt is most likely determined by what people are willing to pay for it. Not based on assets. People are willing to pay for it because they think it will make money in the future. I doubt the equity is large enough to make a difference in the price.
Who pays sales tax anymore? Especially since the invention of the internet. Here in Chicago, the lack of sales tax more than covers the cost of shipping.
An ASF renamed to MP3 will play but it brings up a warning that says the format doesn't match the extension, do you really want to play this file?
So, the tricky part is getting WMP to not display the warning. Anybody have any suggestions on how that is done? I suspect the worm displays the warning and relies on the user to simply click OK.
Being able to make an asf look like an MP3 is...weird. If true then that is going to spread very quickly.
I suspect as a "feature" built into Windows Media Player to make things "just work" if a .asf file has the extension .mp3 WMP will detect that the file is a .asf file and play it anyway.
Well there's your problem!
Future generations of 10.000 years will probably have the means to detect radioactive sites from the other end of the galaxy.
Your are assuming that human knowledge will progress in the next 10,000 years. Humans have a tendency to regress in our knowledge every few hundred years. It's during these periods that we need to worry.
Some believe that civilization is on the verge of one of these regressions right now. The parent post might be alluding to this.
We should be more concerned about how to warn people in the more near future, like 200-500 years...
So close, only missed three in one day by a few hours.
I once read that the speedometer on your car is only accurate to within +/- 2%. Therefore if your speedometer says you are traveling at exactly 75mph you could reasonably be traveling at 76.5mph. This doesn't include the reliability of the cop's radar gun, which despite his claims of it being calibrated, still has precision errors, because calibration only eliminates accuracy error.
It's been a while since I had an instrumentation class (please excuse any misused terminology), but my point is, you can use accuracy and precision to get out of a ticket written for up to 2mph over the speed limit.
A few months back I was playing around with some different operating systems on virtual machines and found Haiku (BeOS clone) to have a quick boot and almost ready for prime time. ReactOS had a quick boot but was almost unusable.
Haiku booted under 10-15 seconds
I can vouch for this. Haiku is fast at booting. I think some of the more feature rich versions of Haiku are a little slower. This is likely due to additional drivers.
A year ago, a lot of teenagers with a strong sense of priorities and a social conscience would have fought Facebook to the death on this
You know why they aren't fighting Facebook right now? Because they already did and they won. TFA is from 2007.