If I have to have 2 IT people and a manager on staff to oversee the online services, that's about $300K/yr in salary and benefits.
If serving up documents online is essentially free once it's all set up, then the cost per page is zero. Plus the overhead of $300K/yr. Let's say it's not a very busy department and rarely gets requests, and it only served up 1,000,000 pages a year. That's 30 cents a page in costs understand the proposed scenario.
If those requesting the documents aren't paying what is effectively a type of use tax, then the costs would need to be covered by the general fund.
Luckily a license agreement isn't part of the terms of sale, at least in the 1980's and under universal commercial code. The main limitation is in his rights to copy, so he can't duplicate it except for personal use. The ROMs are probably not transferrable to another party once they are outside of the original hardware, but it's hard to say for certain without knowing the case law. (so.. gray area)
I still use it (on Linux). It works fine. Executor is nice because there is no gray area ROMs to deal with like some of the other emulators. Is it bug-for-bug compatible with particular Apple hardware? No. Does it run most old Mac apps? yes.
The architecture of their 68K processor emulation is a pretty interesting read, in that it can both interpret instructions or be compiled to do a sort of virtualization by catching instructions natively (like if you want to run Mac on another 68K like an Amiga)
Spending your time typesetting instead of writing? Why wouldn't I work with a publisher or hire an editor to do that dirty business? At least when dealing with novels that don't need much typesetting, or rather have to be typeset multiple times to fit a variety of trade formats.
TeX is perhaps ideal for publishing papers and writing textbooks. You can quickly splice together lots of data with a tiny bit of markup, and that surely beats fighting the auto-formatting in a WYSIWYG editor.
WordStar is still used by a few full-time authors, after trying it for a bit I can see the appeal. Sometimes you just need a digital version of a typewriter's basic functionality, and not the huge fucking headache that modern software often ends up being.
If you want someone to switch software, you have to make some logical arguments that take their own use cases into consideration. If they can get by running their stuff in vDos or DOSbox, then I say let them.
At a client's request, I got a them setup in vDos, including printing and faxing, with their patient records app and saved them a fortune in software and re-training. Their only employee wasn't really up to the task of switching away from the software she has been using for the last 30 years. Once she retires maybe they'll switch over to something more modern.
What gets me are the self described experts that can't configure their browser not to assume the character encoding of an HTML form. Or/.'s unwillingness to add a tiny bit of code to fix it./. might not be the website we want, but it's the website we deserve.
The sodium is a pain in the ass to recovery. But you can add a little acetic acid to the sodium bicarbonate and you can get the CO2 back easily enough. (and turn your useful vinegar into less valuable acetate)
The storage is never ideal, and the metal quickly tarnishes and contaminates the storage medium. After several months it's not unusual to fish black lumps out of some brown mineral oil. I can't imagine the shelf life of these chemical batteries to be all that great.
It might be the small samples, but it's really expensive to buy sodium too. I'm not sure if the price reflects the energy it takes to produce, the losses in storage, the complexity of safely shipping it, or a little of all of those.
However, not all plastics are simple ethylene chains. Plastics such as vinyl have chlorine atoms that can produce toxic gases.
As stated in previous post: "And some chlorine compounds if there is any polyvinyl chloride in the mix. You can deal with both with some chemistry in the scrubbers. Some waste compounds like formaldehyde are valuable for making more plastic."
I was certain by the 1980's that computers were going to be a really big deal for everyone, despite only a tiny fraction of people in my neighborhood owning one. But I never could have predicted that people would use computers in such stupid ways as they do today.
Clearly you have never burned plastics before. Its a nasty process that releases lots of weird toxic fumes.
Depends on the temperature, pressure, and atmosphere you burn it under. A simple higher temperature, like found in an incinerator, will turn common plastic (polythene, polypropene, styrene, butadiene, acrylonitrile, ) into H2O, CO2, and N2.
In practice you get some NOx rather than N2 from acrylonitrile. And some chlorine compounds if there is any polyvinyl chloride in the mix. You can deal with both with some chemistry in the scrubbers. Some waste compounds like formaldehyde are valuable for making more plastic.
Then there's the fact that it takes LOTs of energy to burn plastics, probably more than to melt a metal with a low melting point like Aluminum.
You say it's a "fact", but it's not true. There commercial systems currently in operation that burn plastic for net energy. Holding a match under a chunk of plastic isn't the same as blowing with a gas mix in a high temperature oven.
Gasification in "waste-to-energy" plants is what gets the media excited, because it can go into modified cars. But I don't agree that it is worth the additional energy and processing. On site power generation is simpler than a gasification plant and avoids the waste in conversion, bottling and shipping.
It's not a law, it's an agreement. I can refuse service except in special cases (i.e. ones covered by the Fourteenth Amendment). If you show up and agree to a transaction according to my terms, then we have a contract. Universal Commercial code standardizes the kinds of contracts that are formed for normal sales. But I am not aware of hard currency being always accepted.
I can remember an instance where my apartment complex refused to accept a deposit in cash. They would not accept a personal check either. I was required to get a cashiers check in order to rent from them (the amount exceeded what is allowed for a money order at the time). A bit of a hassle because I could easily get cash from an ATM at any time, but I had to go to the bank during business hours to deal with a bank teller.
I could not find any cases that establish that what is written on money is automatically law, or a law passed by Congress that requires accepting hard currency "for all debts public and private". If someone can prove me wrong, then great, we all learn something.
We have record of original contracts that are 5000 years old, on cuneiform tablets.
Libertarians may like to take the idea of contracts to their logical extreme, but the use of contracts to sort out the obligations of parties is not some new government conspiracy.
Just like your sign forgot to ask me if I agreed before you performed services.
Works in most common law jurisdictions. Feel free to have your day in court if you have the free time. Or you can save yourself a hassle and take my advice.
not accepting cash for a hair job and taking someone to court for it will end badly for that business.
Depends on the jurisdiction, but that's generally the case. For example, I know that businesses usually lose in small claims court in California. And the way small claims court is structured here it's very cheap for the plaintiff to pursue but it can be expensive for the defendant to prepare a defense.
A judge might get annoyed and order the plaintiff to immediately pay what is owed, in cash, and order the defendant to accept it. To stop the policy entirely would have to go beyond small claims court, but it's probably enough of a hassle that the business will change their behavior. (likely posting multiple signs rather than accepting cash, because people are stubborn)
The injury you can get from Staphylococcus and Listeria monocytogenes are more significant to a wider population of people than the small (but measurable) increase in cancer from nitrates.
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Have we reached the point where what's bad for Google should be viewed as good for the rest of the universe?
If you like the way the Internet currently is, then you should side with Google. Their motivation is to maintain the status quo.
If I have to have 2 IT people and a manager on staff to oversee the online services, that's about $300K/yr in salary and benefits.
If serving up documents online is essentially free once it's all set up, then the cost per page is zero. Plus the overhead of $300K/yr. Let's say it's not a very busy department and rarely gets requests, and it only served up 1,000,000 pages a year. That's 30 cents a page in costs understand the proposed scenario.
If those requesting the documents aren't paying what is effectively a type of use tax, then the costs would need to be covered by the general fund.
Iran knows not to buy industrial controls from the U.S. (Stuxnet). And the U.S. should know not to buy computers and phones from China.
Luckily a license agreement isn't part of the terms of sale, at least in the 1980's and under universal commercial code. The main limitation is in his rights to copy, so he can't duplicate it except for personal use. The ROMs are probably not transferrable to another party once they are outside of the original hardware, but it's hard to say for certain without knowing the case law. (so .. gray area)
I still use it (on Linux). It works fine. Executor is nice because there is no gray area ROMs to deal with like some of the other emulators. Is it bug-for-bug compatible with particular Apple hardware? No. Does it run most old Mac apps? yes.
The architecture of their 68K processor emulation is a pretty interesting read, in that it can both interpret instructions or be compiled to do a sort of virtualization by catching instructions natively (like if you want to run Mac on another 68K like an Amiga)
I can't wait to see what new ads they will blast me with and what plug-ins they will automatically install.
Spending your time typesetting instead of writing? Why wouldn't I work with a publisher or hire an editor to do that dirty business? At least when dealing with novels that don't need much typesetting, or rather have to be typeset multiple times to fit a variety of trade formats.
TeX is perhaps ideal for publishing papers and writing textbooks. You can quickly splice together lots of data with a tiny bit of markup, and that surely beats fighting the auto-formatting in a WYSIWYG editor.
WordStar is still used by a few full-time authors, after trying it for a bit I can see the appeal. Sometimes you just need a digital version of a typewriter's basic functionality, and not the huge fucking headache that modern software often ends up being.
If you want someone to switch software, you have to make some logical arguments that take their own use cases into consideration. If they can get by running their stuff in vDos or DOSbox, then I say let them.
At a client's request, I got a them setup in vDos, including printing and faxing, with their patient records app and saved them a fortune in software and re-training. Their only employee wasn't really up to the task of switching away from the software she has been using for the last 30 years. Once she retires maybe they'll switch over to something more modern.
What gets me are the self described experts that can't configure their browser not to assume the character encoding of an HTML form. Or /.'s unwillingness to add a tiny bit of code to fix it. /. might not be the website we want, but it's the website we deserve.
The sodium is a pain in the ass to recovery. But you can add a little acetic acid to the sodium bicarbonate and you can get the CO2 back easily enough. (and turn your useful vinegar into less valuable acetate)
NaHCO3 + CH3COOH --> CO2 + H2O + Na+(aq) + CH3COO-(aq)
The storage is never ideal, and the metal quickly tarnishes and contaminates the storage medium. After several months it's not unusual to fish black lumps out of some brown mineral oil. I can't imagine the shelf life of these chemical batteries to be all that great.
It might be the small samples, but it's really expensive to buy sodium too. I'm not sure if the price reflects the energy it takes to produce, the losses in storage, the complexity of safely shipping it, or a little of all of those.
the hydrogen is in in the "organic electrolyte". the potential energy is in the sodium metal and possibly the electrolyte.
It's not free energy. It's an ordinary and expensive chemical reaction.
By canceling your Netflix membership for 3 months a year.
However, not all plastics are simple ethylene chains. Plastics such as vinyl have chlorine atoms that can produce toxic gases.
As stated in previous post: "And some chlorine compounds if there is any polyvinyl chloride in the mix. You can deal with both with some chemistry in the scrubbers. Some waste compounds like formaldehyde are valuable for making more plastic."
I was certain by the 1980's that computers were going to be a really big deal for everyone, despite only a tiny fraction of people in my neighborhood owning one. But I never could have predicted that people would use computers in such stupid ways as they do today.
You might be better served with a Chromebook. It does boil down to the applications you expect your employee to need for her job.
Apple hardware with the warranty can be a good deal for a small business.
I should have invested in mustache wax, fair-trade coffee, and LPs.
What can we blame bad parenting on now?
there are no bad parents, only bad children.
Clearly you have never burned plastics before. Its a nasty process that releases lots of weird toxic fumes.
Depends on the temperature, pressure, and atmosphere you burn it under. A simple higher temperature, like found in an incinerator, will turn common plastic (polythene, polypropene, styrene, butadiene, acrylonitrile, ) into H2O, CO2, and N2.
In practice you get some NOx rather than N2 from acrylonitrile. And some chlorine compounds if there is any polyvinyl chloride in the mix. You can deal with both with some chemistry in the scrubbers. Some waste compounds like formaldehyde are valuable for making more plastic.
Then there's the fact that it takes LOTs of energy to burn plastics, probably more than to melt a metal with a low melting point like Aluminum.
You say it's a "fact", but it's not true. There commercial systems currently in operation that burn plastic for net energy. Holding a match under a chunk of plastic isn't the same as blowing with a gas mix in a high temperature oven.
Gasification in "waste-to-energy" plants is what gets the media excited, because it can go into modified cars. But I don't agree that it is worth the additional energy and processing. On site power generation is simpler than a gasification plant and avoids the waste in conversion, bottling and shipping.
Only too 3.5 years and fucking with hardware and software to artificially obsolete Win7!
Plus there is only 5 more years before EOL for Windows 10. Now is the time to get ready to upgrade to Windows 11!
It's not a law, it's an agreement. I can refuse service except in special cases (i.e. ones covered by the Fourteenth Amendment). If you show up and agree to a transaction according to my terms, then we have a contract. Universal Commercial code standardizes the kinds of contracts that are formed for normal sales. But I am not aware of hard currency being always accepted.
I can remember an instance where my apartment complex refused to accept a deposit in cash. They would not accept a personal check either. I was required to get a cashiers check in order to rent from them (the amount exceeded what is allowed for a money order at the time). A bit of a hassle because I could easily get cash from an ATM at any time, but I had to go to the bank during business hours to deal with a bank teller.
I could not find any cases that establish that what is written on money is automatically law, or a law passed by Congress that requires accepting hard currency "for all debts public and private". If someone can prove me wrong, then great, we all learn something.
We have record of original contracts that are 5000 years old, on cuneiform tablets.
Libertarians may like to take the idea of contracts to their logical extreme, but the use of contracts to sort out the obligations of parties is not some new government conspiracy.
Just like your sign forgot to ask me if I agreed before you performed services.
Works in most common law jurisdictions. Feel free to have your day in court if you have the free time. Or you can save yourself a hassle and take my advice.
not accepting cash for a hair job and taking someone to court for it will end badly for that business.
Depends on the jurisdiction, but that's generally the case. For example, I know that businesses usually lose in small claims court in California. And the way small claims court is structured here it's very cheap for the plaintiff to pursue but it can be expensive for the defendant to prepare a defense.
A judge might get annoyed and order the plaintiff to immediately pay what is owed, in cash, and order the defendant to accept it. To stop the policy entirely would have to go beyond small claims court, but it's probably enough of a hassle that the business will change their behavior. (likely posting multiple signs rather than accepting cash, because people are stubborn)
People die every year from eating contaminated or unwashed lettuce. Even organic food can be risky.
Best option is to eat nothing at all, or to keep stupid opinions to yourself.
The injury you can get from Staphylococcus and Listeria monocytogenes are more significant to a wider population of people than the small (but measurable) increase in cancer from nitrates.