The article linked to says power consumption will be 40% lower than the 65nm predecessor, but I haven't been able to find a reliable figure for the 65nm power consumption. Does anyone have that or a link? All I've found online are puff-pieces saying the power is very low or may be in the future, but no actual spec.
I could copy and mail you the extensive documentation we assembled for the Attorney general, including letters containing blantant and demonstrable lies by PayPal representatives. My impression may be wrong, but my guess is you really do not care that much however.
There is a wealth of anti-Paypal information on line, but our particular problem is no longer a common complaint.
Maybe putting it in better context would help make the story more understandable. When the seller doesn't deliver the promised item, Paypal is at risk of being stuck with the cost if a payment transfer to the seller was folloed by a successful chargeback. So Paypal's policy, as soon as there was a sign of fraud, was not to transfer any money to either the buyer or the seller. Paypal employees were apparently judged or rewarded based on their success at avoiding loss of revenue. Hence the incentive for Paypal representatives to stonewall by lying about who has the money and why. So although attempted theft was not the explicit policy of the company, in our case this was the the result. I believe that Paypal's processes have improved in the several years since this happened. Our experience was not a long time after the purchase of Paypal by EBay, so EBay may have had a hand in the improvement also. At the time, EBay declined to do anything about our particular case however, and it was only government intervention that solved the problem.
>Or am I thinking eBay is just being an evil corporation or no reason?
I think evil is a safe assumption.
My wife had an experience a few years ago where Paypal, which is owned by eBay, siezed her $1200 payment and pretended that the seller had it. Paypal apparently had a policy of protecting/maximizing their profit by doing this in any situation where the buyer or seller appeared to the other to be doubtful. It took weeks for us to figure out that it was Paypal that had the money and was scamming us - each time we called we got a different lie. We sued them to recover, but lawsuit was thrown out because the online disclaimer we signed with Paypal contained language prohibiting lawsuits, and because the judge thought that Paypal was out of his jurisdiction. Eventually, a state Surgeon General contacted Paypal about our case, at which point Paypal just gave the money back with no explanation. I was shocked that a company with the visibility of Paypal would outright try to steal our money in that manner.
An additional comment in this context....A lot of posters talk about 'the US Government' like its a direct extension of the US President's will or something. Actually its a huge sprawling bureacracy made up of a lot of poorly informed and poorly coordinated parts, working to satisfy conflicting mandates and personal interests. By poorly informed I mean that people don't have access to relevant facts from other parts of the bureaucracy, because everyone controls information in order to protect their own turf. Furthermore there are morons making decisions and covering their asses at every level. Even an exceptionally capable and honest president would in control in only a very constrained way. Much of what people attribute to Bush actually has more to do with the CIA, State Department, and Defense Department bureaucracies than with the president and his cabinet. So yes, things would be a lot different under a different administration, and perhaps a lot better, but not nearly to the extent that many people seem to imagine.
As an example of where this sort of thing leads....A few months ago the fire alarm system malfunctioned at 2am in a 2-story Philadelphia hotel I was staying in. The fire marshall, backed up by numerous police, believed it was unsafe for people to enter a building which lacked a working alarm system. So the patrons, many half-dressed, remained locked out for the remainder of the night. Eventually, at dawn, people were allowed to retrieve their belongings, with individual escort. This wasn't due to a concern about looting - the keycard system was still working. And there was no danger that anyone would stay in the 'unsafe' building for more than a few minutes, due to the ear-splitting alarm that was still blaring.
Now, of course alarm systems are a good idea. But I think this degree of public passivity and dependency is very dangerous. And it won't protect us from 9/11 type disasters - if anything it will make them more likely.
"...the Higgs boson may already have been found in previous observations of the known universe."
But what about in observations of the unknown universe, did they find anything there?
So NASA management is naturally heavily politicized, very often determining what information is publicized and what is suppressed. (I have worked at NASA.) It seems a lot more people understand this dynamic in regard to for-profit organizations than in regard to government and research interests.
Why have they been wasting our time with this dark energy stuff for the last decade then? Why posit the dark energy if its only needed to fix a model that was derived with what has for a while now known to be a false assumption? It seems stupid. Instead of endless science articles on dark energy, instead there should have been articles on scientists working to solve pde's with really hard constraints that match modern astronomical observations. I don't get it. Is there more to the story?
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The article linked to says power consumption will be 40% lower than the 65nm predecessor, but I haven't been able to find a reliable figure for the 65nm power consumption. Does anyone have that or a link? All I've found online are puff-pieces saying the power is very low or may be in the future, but no actual spec.
I could copy and mail you the extensive documentation we assembled for the Attorney general, including letters containing blantant and demonstrable lies by PayPal representatives. My impression may be wrong, but my guess is you really do not care that much however. There is a wealth of anti-Paypal information on line, but our particular problem is no longer a common complaint. Maybe putting it in better context would help make the story more understandable. When the seller doesn't deliver the promised item, Paypal is at risk of being stuck with the cost if a payment transfer to the seller was folloed by a successful chargeback. So Paypal's policy, as soon as there was a sign of fraud, was not to transfer any money to either the buyer or the seller. Paypal employees were apparently judged or rewarded based on their success at avoiding loss of revenue. Hence the incentive for Paypal representatives to stonewall by lying about who has the money and why. So although attempted theft was not the explicit policy of the company, in our case this was the the result. I believe that Paypal's processes have improved in the several years since this happened. Our experience was not a long time after the purchase of Paypal by EBay, so EBay may have had a hand in the improvement also. At the time, EBay declined to do anything about our particular case however, and it was only government intervention that solved the problem.
>Or am I thinking eBay is just being an evil corporation or no reason? I think evil is a safe assumption. My wife had an experience a few years ago where Paypal, which is owned by eBay, siezed her $1200 payment and pretended that the seller had it. Paypal apparently had a policy of protecting/maximizing their profit by doing this in any situation where the buyer or seller appeared to the other to be doubtful. It took weeks for us to figure out that it was Paypal that had the money and was scamming us - each time we called we got a different lie. We sued them to recover, but lawsuit was thrown out because the online disclaimer we signed with Paypal contained language prohibiting lawsuits, and because the judge thought that Paypal was out of his jurisdiction. Eventually, a state Surgeon General contacted Paypal about our case, at which point Paypal just gave the money back with no explanation. I was shocked that a company with the visibility of Paypal would outright try to steal our money in that manner.
An additional comment in this context....A lot of posters talk about 'the US Government' like its a direct extension of the US President's will or something. Actually its a huge sprawling bureacracy made up of a lot of poorly informed and poorly coordinated parts, working to satisfy conflicting mandates and personal interests. By poorly informed I mean that people don't have access to relevant facts from other parts of the bureaucracy, because everyone controls information in order to protect their own turf. Furthermore there are morons making decisions and covering their asses at every level. Even an exceptionally capable and honest president would in control in only a very constrained way. Much of what people attribute to Bush actually has more to do with the CIA, State Department, and Defense Department bureaucracies than with the president and his cabinet. So yes, things would be a lot different under a different administration, and perhaps a lot better, but not nearly to the extent that many people seem to imagine.
As an example of where this sort of thing leads....A few months ago the fire alarm system malfunctioned at 2am in a 2-story Philadelphia hotel I was staying in. The fire marshall, backed up by numerous police, believed it was unsafe for people to enter a building which lacked a working alarm system. So the patrons, many half-dressed, remained locked out for the remainder of the night. Eventually, at dawn, people were allowed to retrieve their belongings, with individual escort. This wasn't due to a concern about looting - the keycard system was still working. And there was no danger that anyone would stay in the 'unsafe' building for more than a few minutes, due to the ear-splitting alarm that was still blaring. Now, of course alarm systems are a good idea. But I think this degree of public passivity and dependency is very dangerous. And it won't protect us from 9/11 type disasters - if anything it will make them more likely.
"...the Higgs boson may already have been found in previous observations of the known universe." But what about in observations of the unknown universe, did they find anything there?
A billionaire businessman wants the government to take more money from other people and give it to him so he can help the poor.
the world is full of kings and queens
who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
So NASA management is naturally heavily politicized, very often determining what information is publicized and what is suppressed. (I have worked at NASA.) It seems a lot more people understand this dynamic in regard to for-profit organizations than in regard to government and research interests.
That puts things in better perspective, thanks. I was aware of the individual factors you mentioned, but you still laid it out more clearly.
Why have they been wasting our time with this dark energy stuff for the last decade then? Why posit the dark energy if its only needed to fix a model that was derived with what has for a while now known to be a false assumption? It seems stupid. Instead of endless science articles on dark energy, instead there should have been articles on scientists working to solve pde's with really hard constraints that match modern astronomical observations. I don't get it. Is there more to the story?