and nothing can convert even a tiny fraction of the energy in the grid into heat and survive for more than a few seconds.
Your post is mostly right, but pretty much all line loss is converted to heat, and that rests somewhere between 5-10%. High voltage power equipment can get quite hot while conducting power.
Your main point stands, there is cost associated with varying levels of power transmission, whereas telecom incurs it's main cost when increase demand forces the construction of new infrastructure.
You do realize that the electric transmission companies charge generating utilities and distribution utilities a per kWh and per kW cost as well as a simple access cost. The generating companies pass that on to the distribution companies who in turn pass it on to the customers. The only difference between telecom and electric power is that regulation of electric power requires for upgrades as companies that fail to maintain reliability get hit with some stiff fines.
has a particularly bad connection fee of $22 per month.
Most connection fees are based on population density. If you live in a dense city then the connection fee is less because the utility can recoup the cost of the same amount of wire over more people.
The big difference between electricity and cellphone data charges... I can self-regulate
I mean, say you visit a specific news site every day. Not unreasonable. But how do you know what's going to be on the page from one day to the next?
I don't know about other carriers, but on AT&T it's possible to see how much data you've used during the current billing cycle. What's to stop you from self-regulating your data usage. If you visit the same news site you can reasonable estimate the amount of content data they're going to send your way as well as the amount of advertisement data they're feeding you.
The real difference between electricity pricing and cellphone pricing is, as others have stated, the terms of the electricity rates are open and transparent. It takes much more effort (though not that much, you really only need a good pair of glasses) to determine cellphone rates.
I'm not sure where YOU live, but that would be outlawed in most of Canada due to standard utility regulations.
As I understand it, most utilities in the United States of America that offer tiered pricing also offer flat rate pricing. The thought is that by using tiered pricing that customers in the end can end up saving money by drawing less load from the grid. Now, if the customer doesn't understand how to do this and runs their washer, dryer, dishwasher, electric oven, hair dryer, coffee maker, etc. all at once then they will be paying more. It's a form of load control that has varying effectiveness depending on how aware the customer is.
Also, in reverse meme fashion, the world isn't just Canada. The general concept of electric utility regulation is fairly constant among western nations but there's a lot of variation in the details.
VW lupo -vs- the lady in the ford expedition that she bought so she could feel "safe" on the road
=
I'm paying attention and therefore decide to swerve out of the way. She's not paying attention because she's in a "safe" vehicle. She sees the accident with only a second to react. She jerks the wheel. She rolls and bounces over my lupo. I drive away unscathed.
My guess is that the companies will try to charge their customers more for "location based services," and also charging the companies that use location data to actually provide those "services."
If it came to it I would pay to not be apart of this service. It doesn't make sense that one would have to and it's a shame that eventually you won't be able to go after telcos for disseminating every last iota of information they have on you.
because obviously every person who ever used a BBS also signed up for a slashdot account years ago. slashdotid != age or anything meaningful to anyone who's not a douche
You're post brings up an interesting question, is anything meaningful to the douche?
Do cows use quantum entanglement? no. Do sheep? no. Plants do. Why would I eat the *smarter* lifeform?
In fact, I'd celebrate with a burger if it weren't for the fact that lettuces are a plant. Anybody know of a meat-based replacement for a plant-friendly person such as myself?
Like I say to the vegetarians, we have incisors for a reason. I guess to you I'd say, we have molars for a reason.
Wow, those 'features' all sound very useless..., or that there is a use to track your car's battery charge when you're not in it.
Imagine this, you're at work on a Friday, it's 2pm and you want to know if you've got enough juice in your car to get home or if you should wait till three to start that early weekend.
Gestures and multi-touch are anti-usability. They are more obscure than UNIX two-letter commands.
I find this hard to believe. Explain to me how bringing two fingers together or apart is anti-user friendly. I think this makes good sense. Or how rotating one finger about the other rotates an image. Again, seems fairly self explanatory.
Ironic, given the failure rate of iPods. What use is a working button if the hard drive fails after a year or so. I've had nothing but trouble with iPods
Nice anecdote, here's another one. I'm still using my mini from 2004. Replaced the battery once in 2007 and again early this year so it could run longer, but other than a few scuffs no problems. Therefore, iPods must be behemoths of longevity.
Reality, probably somewhere in between these two stories.
Uh little guy? Apple? Have you been looking at their revenues, profit and market capitalization recently? If anything, non-Apple smartphones are the little guys in the smartphone and App market.
I'll give you the App market as currently the iPhone is the only phone accessible to the "App store." As for smartphones, Apple has a nice hold on the consumer smart phone industry, not necessarily a vice grip, but they definitely caused regular people to want smart phones. As for overall phones, I do believe Nokia has a significant leg up on Apple in terms of market share.
We had a rule, though...you could pick Oddjob if you wanted, but whatever your kill count was at the end of the round, we got to punch you that many times.
We had two rules when playing GoldenEye. 1) Quit your bitchin. 2) Don't break the controller. Everything else was fair game.
No, but it sure would be nice to replace DVDs with flash drives. The disks I get from netflix are often unreadable. Recently, I went through seven replacements for a particular disk and eventually just gave up.
Spend more than $5 on a DVD player and you won't have this problem.
I'm in graduate school and I barely have that much. Four courses, Three hours per course per day. That's 60 hours of work a week. Plus a job. No, no way do high school students truly have three hours of work per class per day. That would be 90+ hours per week.
- don't block the sunset as much for the same reason
I was with you up until this point. This is Massachusetts, the east coast. As the Chili Peppers said, "The sun may rise in the east at least it settles in a final location."
Their extremal points (i.e. the set of limits of those series) form a Cantor set in time,
In case readers aren't into higher level mathematical theory, this is a Cantor Set. For all you CS people out there, it's every zero and two pattern in ternary (base 3) less than the value one.
No, I'll hate Comedy Central. They have allowed South Park to ridicule nearly all forms of religious, political and ideological belief and then they break because some nut job says it's wrong. South Park is meant to be abrasive, brash, offending and at times, thought provoking. Just because some people are going to be upset is no reason to censor the show. I'm sure there are plenty of Christians who are upset with certain episodes of South Park. I'm sure the Scientology people are upset with South Park. A lot of people in politics in the USA are probably upset with South Park. Deal with it, First Amendment*, Fuck Yeah.
* I know this is only a First Amendment issue ideologically and not legally.
In WA, one can not restrain a child to prevent them from running into traffic and possibly getting killed when they are having some kind of tantrum, if the result is that a mark is left on their body,
I find this hard to believe. If anyone witnessed you horse-collaring the child to keep them from running in front of a bus and as a result the kid scrapped their knee I really doubt that anyone could press charges. Now, if your idea of keeping the kid from running into the street is to punch them in the face, then yeah, you probably did something wrong, but using force to keep a child from being killed doesn't seem wrong or prosecutable in any jurisdiction.
It takes a hell of a lot to get your child taken away from you if you are female. If the situation were reversed, the father would have lost custody in an instant.
plus alimony, plus child support, plus jail time, plus...
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and nothing can convert even a tiny fraction of the energy in the grid into heat and survive for more than a few seconds.
Your post is mostly right, but pretty much all line loss is converted to heat, and that rests somewhere between 5-10%. High voltage power equipment can get quite hot while conducting power.
Your main point stands, there is cost associated with varying levels of power transmission, whereas telecom incurs it's main cost when increase demand forces the construction of new infrastructure.
You do realize that the electric transmission companies charge generating utilities and distribution utilities a per kWh and per kW cost as well as a simple access cost. The generating companies pass that on to the distribution companies who in turn pass it on to the customers. The only difference between telecom and electric power is that regulation of electric power requires for upgrades as companies that fail to maintain reliability get hit with some stiff fines.
None of your plans allow for the user to have a refrigerator. That's a shame, no cold beer.
has a particularly bad connection fee of $22 per month.
Most connection fees are based on population density. If you live in a dense city then the connection fee is less because the utility can recoup the cost of the same amount of wire over more people.
The big difference between electricity and cellphone data charges... I can self-regulate
I mean, say you visit a specific news site every day. Not unreasonable. But how do you know what's going to be on the page from one day to the next?
I don't know about other carriers, but on AT&T it's possible to see how much data you've used during the current billing cycle. What's to stop you from self-regulating your data usage. If you visit the same news site you can reasonable estimate the amount of content data they're going to send your way as well as the amount of advertisement data they're feeding you.
The real difference between electricity pricing and cellphone pricing is, as others have stated, the terms of the electricity rates are open and transparent. It takes much more effort (though not that much, you really only need a good pair of glasses) to determine cellphone rates.
I'm not sure where YOU live, but that would be outlawed in most of Canada due to standard utility regulations.
As I understand it, most utilities in the United States of America that offer tiered pricing also offer flat rate pricing. The thought is that by using tiered pricing that customers in the end can end up saving money by drawing less load from the grid. Now, if the customer doesn't understand how to do this and runs their washer, dryer, dishwasher, electric oven, hair dryer, coffee maker, etc. all at once then they will be paying more. It's a form of load control that has varying effectiveness depending on how aware the customer is.
Also, in reverse meme fashion, the world isn't just Canada. The general concept of electric utility regulation is fairly constant among western nations but there's a lot of variation in the details.
VW lupo
-vs-
the lady in the ford expedition that she bought so she could feel "safe" on the road
=
I'm paying attention and therefore decide to swerve out of the way. She's not paying attention because she's in a "safe" vehicle. She sees the accident with only a second to react. She jerks the wheel. She rolls and bounces over my lupo. I drive away unscathed.
My guess is that the companies will try to charge their customers more for "location based services," and also charging the companies that use location data to actually provide those "services."
If it came to it I would pay to not be apart of this service. It doesn't make sense that one would have to and it's a shame that eventually you won't be able to go after telcos for disseminating every last iota of information they have on you.
"Yes Congressman, I was a horny 14 year old that wanted to score pussy. Your secretary tells me you are *still* like that."
One up that with, "Your secretary tells me you are still looking for 14 year old poon."
because obviously every person who ever used a BBS also signed up for a slashdot account years ago.
slashdotid != age or anything meaningful to anyone who's not a douche
You're post brings up an interesting question, is anything meaningful to the douche?
Do cows use quantum entanglement? no. Do sheep? no. Plants do. Why would I eat the *smarter* lifeform?
In fact, I'd celebrate with a burger if it weren't for the fact that lettuces are a plant. Anybody know of a meat-based replacement for a plant-friendly person such as myself?
Like I say to the vegetarians, we have incisors for a reason. I guess to you I'd say, we have molars for a reason.
Wow, those 'features' all sound very useless..., or that there is a use to track your car's battery charge when you're not in it.
Imagine this, you're at work on a Friday, it's 2pm and you want to know if you've got enough juice in your car to get home or if you should wait till three to start that early weekend.
Gestures and multi-touch are anti-usability. They are more obscure than UNIX two-letter commands.
I find this hard to believe. Explain to me how bringing two fingers together or apart is anti-user friendly. I think this makes good sense. Or how rotating one finger about the other rotates an image. Again, seems fairly self explanatory.
Ironic, given the failure rate of iPods. What use is a working button if the hard drive fails after a year or so. I've had nothing but trouble with iPods
Nice anecdote, here's another one. I'm still using my mini from 2004. Replaced the battery once in 2007 and again early this year so it could run longer, but other than a few scuffs no problems. Therefore, iPods must be behemoths of longevity.
Reality, probably somewhere in between these two stories.
Uh little guy? Apple? Have you been looking at their revenues, profit and market capitalization recently? If anything, non-Apple smartphones are the little guys in the smartphone and App market.
I'll give you the App market as currently the iPhone is the only phone accessible to the "App store." As for smartphones, Apple has a nice hold on the consumer smart phone industry, not necessarily a vice grip, but they definitely caused regular people to want smart phones. As for overall phones, I do believe Nokia has a significant leg up on Apple in terms of market share.
(things like Prison Break and The Anarchist's Cookbook would be off the menu for sure)
Maybe the second one, but really, Prison Break. Do you really think that escape plan would work in real life?
If only that were remotely true.
Fine, replace $5 with $25 and you'll be fine. Pro tip, the dvd player built into a tv probably costs less than $1.
We had a rule, though...you could pick Oddjob if you wanted, but whatever your kill count was at the end of the round, we got to punch you that many times.
We had two rules when playing GoldenEye. 1) Quit your bitchin. 2) Don't break the controller. Everything else was fair game.
No, but it sure would be nice to replace DVDs with flash drives. The disks I get from netflix are often unreadable. Recently, I went through seven replacements for a particular disk and eventually just gave up.
Spend more than $5 on a DVD player and you won't have this problem.
I'm in graduate school and I barely have that much. Four courses, Three hours per course per day. That's 60 hours of work a week. Plus a job. No, no way do high school students truly have three hours of work per class per day. That would be 90+ hours per week.
- don't block the sunset as much for the same reason
I was with you up until this point. This is Massachusetts, the east coast. As the Chili Peppers said, "The sun may rise in the east at least it settles in a final location."
Their extremal points (i.e. the set of limits of those series) form a Cantor set in time,
In case readers aren't into higher level mathematical theory, this is a Cantor Set. For all you CS people out there, it's every zero and two pattern in ternary (base 3) less than the value one.
Don't hate Comedy Central, hate Islam.
No, I'll hate Comedy Central. They have allowed South Park to ridicule nearly all forms of religious, political and ideological belief and then they break because some nut job says it's wrong. South Park is meant to be abrasive, brash, offending and at times, thought provoking. Just because some people are going to be upset is no reason to censor the show. I'm sure there are plenty of Christians who are upset with certain episodes of South Park. I'm sure the Scientology people are upset with South Park. A lot of people in politics in the USA are probably upset with South Park. Deal with it, First Amendment*, Fuck Yeah.
* I know this is only a First Amendment issue ideologically and not legally.
In WA, one can not restrain a child to prevent them from running into traffic and possibly getting killed when they are having some kind of tantrum, if the result is that a mark is left on their body,
I find this hard to believe. If anyone witnessed you horse-collaring the child to keep them from running in front of a bus and as a result the kid scrapped their knee I really doubt that anyone could press charges. Now, if your idea of keeping the kid from running into the street is to punch them in the face, then yeah, you probably did something wrong, but using force to keep a child from being killed doesn't seem wrong or prosecutable in any jurisdiction.
It takes a hell of a lot to get your child taken away from you if you are female. If the situation were reversed, the father would have lost custody in an instant.
plus alimony, plus child support, plus jail time, plus...