*You buy a normal ICE car that averages 30mpg (there are plenty that do)
*You keep the car for 5 years and drive 1250 miles a month (15000 miles a year)
*Fuel price is presently $4/gal and will rise by 1% every month for the next 5 years
Given these assumptions, your 5 year fuel cost is $13611.61.
So now let's assume that you pay $22k out the door for the above car (which is a good estimate for a ICE car comparable in size/features to the Volt).
Your 5 year TCO (just figuring based on car and fuel cost, assuming maintenance, insurance, etc is identical) is 35611.61.
That having been said, if you're the type of person who doesn't keep cars that long, then you're probably better off buying an ICE car as I expect the volt will take a much larger depreciation hit (dollar amount, not percentage) over the first 2-3 years.
That's ROUGHLY what I'd expect to pay for a volt after figuring in tax, title, license, and figuring in the tax credit. I don't have data on how much electricity it takes to charge the volt, so I've omitted electricity costs over the 5 years, but just off this 5 minute analysis, it doesn't look like the TCOs of volt vs ICE is all that different over 5 years.
And don't forget the +$5000 "adjusted market value" fee. I just bought a Prius last weekend, and this is exactly what the dealer had on their window sticker. I didn't pay it, but only because they received a new car while I was on the lot, and I got to it before they had a chance to put their window sticker on it and I told them they had to sell it to me for what it said on the factory window sticker.
My kid isn't old enough for school yet, but my sister has four kids spread across elementary, middle and high school. Every one of them can get their homework assignments online, and my sister can look online to see if they've completed their assignments, check their grades, etc. At the beginning of each school year, the kids and parents are given a printout of the list of websites, along with login info, that they'll need throughout the year, and it's a pretty long list.
Back in the nineties when I graduated high school, our school had electronic attendance records, and one of our classes was entirely online. The teacher actually developed the entire curriculum, complete with quizzes, tests, lectures, etc herself. And this wasn't a computer class, it was physics. We had the precursor to a smart board in the classroom, so at the end of class, all of the lecture notes were available online. Granted, this was made possible by a challenge grant from Apple and other tech companies, but it's not like schools are in the dark ages.
I think it's pretty impressive to see the amount of technology in use in the classroom today. Many high schools have more tech integration than your average college, and high schools have to do it all with tax revenue. It's not like they're generating their own revenue like a business, or collecting tuition like a college.
If you are an IT geek, then there is a fair chance you have some IT gear in your home office (i.e. maybe a router or two, couple switches and perhaps a couple servers). If that's the case, then don't underestimate the effect of coexisting in the same room with the noise and the heat from that gear. Coming from an office environment, I took for granted that all of that stuff would be in a server room, but at home it may be in your office. Recommendation here is to get a good set of noise cancelling headphones, a good headset for your phone, and an A/C unit if necessary.
Come to think of it, a good phone, good headset and a good webcam are pretty universal requirements for teleworkers that are part of a larger team.
Just think about all those businesses out there that are otherwise smart enough to use VPN, but have servers out in AWS or Rackspace or GoDaddy that don't have an easy way to admin them other than by leaving RDP open. A lot of times those machines are stood up by software guys that don't know enough to be worried about public facing RDP.
Lots of newer copiers and MFPs that do color scanning will actually lock themselves out if they think you're trying to scan and/or copy money. We didn't know that until we tried to scan a $100 bill to use as part of a PowerPoint presentation, and then had to wait 4 days to get the necessary unlock codes to make our copier function again.
1) This sets a dangerous precedent by removing the incentive for large companies like Bayer to invest R&D dollars to develop new drugs. If governments can arbitrarily decide that your product isn't affordable enough and grant other companies licenses to sell it at prices which massively undercut you, then you sort of lose the desire to spend tons of money developing these products.
2) The cheaper drugs are stilling for $175 for a month's supply. Is this actual manufacturing + distribution cost or very near to it? It seems somewhat high, and I strongly disagree that the other company that has been granted a license to produce the drug should be doing so at a big profit since they didn't have a horse in the race when it was time to pony up the big money during the R&D phase. IF they should be granted a license to produce the drug, they should be compelled to do so at a price that is at or just very slightly above their cost.
Have you looked at the amazon or other clouds? S3 hosts data at something like 10 cents per GB per month, with pretty minimal bandwidth costs. You pay for what you use. OP seems to be worries about "going viral" and getting a huge hosting bill but seems to forget that if he truly goes viral, he ought to have a ton of revenue coming in to offset those costs.
Amazon needs to get off their butts and create an instant video app for iOS and Android. I can watch instant video on my Android phone, but the experience is horrible, and there is currently no way to access Amazon IV on an iOS device. Seriously Amazon? I realize that Apple is really the company screwing me here by deciding thou shalt not run flash on an iPad, but Hulu, Netflix, etc have released Apps to let me watch their content, get with the program.
Don't sell him the domain, just lease it to him for all eternity.
You would retain ownership of the domain, and you would retain control of the DNS servers it's pointed at. This way you can point the DNS for the website at whatever webserver IP address he wants it pointed at, and you can point the MX record at whatever e-mail server you want. This lets him have the domain for web purposes while you retain it for e-mail purposes.
Alternately, you could also sell the domain to him, and just ask that he setup e-mail forwarding for any mailboxes you currently use so they are redirected to another of your e-mail accounts, however I would not do it this way because you wouldn't have any way to verify he isn't snooping on your e-mail.
All these analogies are sort of missing the point. All of the examples given list something that comes with something else, and both somethings are made by the same person. The whole point here is that Windows is not an inherent part of a computer because it is 3rd party AND not necessary for the computer to function.
The article talks about detecting people bringing guns into the stadium. How does this affect a legally armed citizen with a CCW permit? At least in my state, the law designates places in which private citizens may not carry firearms under any circumstances, regardless of permit. Places such as churches, airports, schools, courthouses, government buildings, etc are on this list. Football stadiums, at last check, are not.
What's that you say? Places can post signs that say no weapons allowed and Joe Citizen has to abide by their rules? That's actually not true, at least in my state. Places can post signs, but Joe Citizen is under no obligation to honor their policies. What he is obliged to do is leave if they ask him to, or risk being arrested for trespass.
Before you say that a busy place like a football stadium is no place for someone to have a desire to carry a gun, think about how many people are in close proximity there, how much alcohol will be consumed, how many people will get stupid drunk, and how many stupid people will be doing stupid things. This is EXACTLY why folks have a desire to be able to legally defend themselves in situations such as this.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for increasing public security, but if it compromises my ability to defend myself, I'll be watching from home.
Need an example? Schools are supposed to be uber-safe because nobody can have a gun there right? That's what the law says. But what that means in reality is that only the criminals will have guns. Just think about how all those college shootings might have gone very differently if law-abiding students with CCW permits had been allowed to carry on campus. People like to make CCW holders out as vigilantes, but for the most part we are probably better at minding our own business than the average citizen is, because (for the most part) we have a very thorough understanding of what a shit storm our lives will turn into if we act without proper justification.
Well, actually most (if not all, not sure) 801.11b gear isn't compatible with any type of security better than WEP, so it's mostly useless these days, even for those applications where the slower bandwidth differences wouldn't matter. As far as 802.11a, most devices these days are at least a/b/g if not a/b/g/n, so it's not that 802.11a has gone away, it's just that it's not used much anymore.
...is that after all the hard work you put yourself through to buy untraceable visa gift cards to pay for a VPN service to use with your 7 proxies on an open wifi connection...you get no satisfaction. What do I mean? Well, what's the payoff? How do you know you were successful? When the feds DON'T break down your front door?
I think you have a false sense of security there. The connection may be anonymous, however the IP is still traceable to the venue's ISP account, and if they have surveillance cameras (like just about everywhere does these days, for legal liability reasons) it's a simple matter to look at the timestamp and see who was in the place on a laptop at the time in question.
Is you do not talk about proxies! Seriously though, anyone who is halfway serious about their privacy isn't going to post details of how they retain their anonymity on a public blog where it's easily accessible and their IP, e-mail and possibly name is just one subpoena away...
Road Runner still leaves mail ports open. Frankly, I don't really see how you could effectively close them. Take for instance a person who has set up email at their own domain with a webhost. So they key in the webhosts SMTP server as the outgoing mail server in their mail client. If the ISP blocks smtp, this doesn't work and the ISP tells them to use the ISPs SMTP server for outbound mail. So they do that and it works fine, until they pick up and take their laptop/ipad/smartphone and connect through a network other than the ISPs network and now the ISP's mail server won't route mail for them since the connection isn't coming from an IP on the ISP's network. So you can't really lock down outbound mail ports without really pissing people off. And think about it, the majority of the world's spam comes from zombies. If those zombies couldn't send outbound mail then we wouldn't have such a huge spam problem, so that right there tells us that there are still lots of ISPs not filtering outbound smtp.
Why not just buy a ton of broken iPhones to put in the machine and then when it asks you to connect the cable to verify the phone works, connect it to your working iPhone that you have no intention of leaving in the machine? I doubt the machine has a method to connect the cable itself, so if the user has to connect the cable, how can the machine verify that the phone that was plugged in is the same one that the user puts in the slot?
So you're saying every person that's been frisked has violated the law? There are many reasons a copy would choose to check you for weapons, and quite a large number of those don't require you to have broken any laws at all. Frisking someone is a precaution LEOs take when they have reason to suspect that the person in question might be carrying a weapon or might want to cause them harm. Make sure you state things that are factually correct when it comes to issues like this, just because someone may be getting frisked does not make them a criminal.
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Let's assume the following:
*You buy a normal ICE car that averages 30mpg (there are plenty that do)
*You keep the car for 5 years and drive 1250 miles a month (15000 miles a year)
*Fuel price is presently $4/gal and will rise by 1% every month for the next 5 years
Given these assumptions, your 5 year fuel cost is $13611.61.
So now let's assume that you pay $22k out the door for the above car (which is a good estimate for a ICE car comparable in size/features to the Volt).
Your 5 year TCO (just figuring based on car and fuel cost, assuming maintenance, insurance, etc is identical) is 35611.61.
That having been said, if you're the type of person who doesn't keep cars that long, then you're probably better off buying an ICE car as I expect the volt will take a much larger depreciation hit (dollar amount, not percentage) over the first 2-3 years.
That's ROUGHLY what I'd expect to pay for a volt after figuring in tax, title, license, and figuring in the tax credit. I don't have data on how much electricity it takes to charge the volt, so I've omitted electricity costs over the 5 years, but just off this 5 minute analysis, it doesn't look like the TCOs of volt vs ICE is all that different over 5 years.
And don't forget the +$5000 "adjusted market value" fee. I just bought a Prius last weekend, and this is exactly what the dealer had on their window sticker. I didn't pay it, but only because they received a new car while I was on the lot, and I got to it before they had a chance to put their window sticker on it and I told them they had to sell it to me for what it said on the factory window sticker.
My kid isn't old enough for school yet, but my sister has four kids spread across elementary, middle and high school. Every one of them can get their homework assignments online, and my sister can look online to see if they've completed their assignments, check their grades, etc. At the beginning of each school year, the kids and parents are given a printout of the list of websites, along with login info, that they'll need throughout the year, and it's a pretty long list.
Back in the nineties when I graduated high school, our school had electronic attendance records, and one of our classes was entirely online. The teacher actually developed the entire curriculum, complete with quizzes, tests, lectures, etc herself. And this wasn't a computer class, it was physics. We had the precursor to a smart board in the classroom, so at the end of class, all of the lecture notes were available online. Granted, this was made possible by a challenge grant from Apple and other tech companies, but it's not like schools are in the dark ages.
I think it's pretty impressive to see the amount of technology in use in the classroom today. Many high schools have more tech integration than your average college, and high schools have to do it all with tax revenue. It's not like they're generating their own revenue like a business, or collecting tuition like a college.
Your sound card works perfectly!
If you are an IT geek, then there is a fair chance you have some IT gear in your home office (i.e. maybe a router or two, couple switches and perhaps a couple servers). If that's the case, then don't underestimate the effect of coexisting in the same room with the noise and the heat from that gear. Coming from an office environment, I took for granted that all of that stuff would be in a server room, but at home it may be in your office. Recommendation here is to get a good set of noise cancelling headphones, a good headset for your phone, and an A/C unit if necessary.
Come to think of it, a good phone, good headset and a good webcam are pretty universal requirements for teleworkers that are part of a larger team.
Just think about all those businesses out there that are otherwise smart enough to use VPN, but have servers out in AWS or Rackspace or GoDaddy that don't have an easy way to admin them other than by leaving RDP open. A lot of times those machines are stood up by software guys that don't know enough to be worried about public facing RDP.
Problem solved.
Lots of newer copiers and MFPs that do color scanning will actually lock themselves out if they think you're trying to scan and/or copy money. We didn't know that until we tried to scan a $100 bill to use as part of a PowerPoint presentation, and then had to wait 4 days to get the necessary unlock codes to make our copier function again.
I didn't RTFA, but I see two big problems here.
1) This sets a dangerous precedent by removing the incentive for large companies like Bayer to invest R&D dollars to develop new drugs. If governments can arbitrarily decide that your product isn't affordable enough and grant other companies licenses to sell it at prices which massively undercut you, then you sort of lose the desire to spend tons of money developing these products.
2) The cheaper drugs are stilling for $175 for a month's supply. Is this actual manufacturing + distribution cost or very near to it? It seems somewhat high, and I strongly disagree that the other company that has been granted a license to produce the drug should be doing so at a big profit since they didn't have a horse in the race when it was time to pony up the big money during the R&D phase. IF they should be granted a license to produce the drug, they should be compelled to do so at a price that is at or just very slightly above their cost.
Have you looked at the amazon or other clouds? S3 hosts data at something like 10 cents per GB per month, with pretty minimal bandwidth costs. You pay for what you use. OP seems to be worries about "going viral" and getting a huge hosting bill but seems to forget that if he truly goes viral, he ought to have a ton of revenue coming in to offset those costs.
Amazon needs to get off their butts and create an instant video app for iOS and Android. I can watch instant video on my Android phone, but the experience is horrible, and there is currently no way to access Amazon IV on an iOS device. Seriously Amazon? I realize that Apple is really the company screwing me here by deciding thou shalt not run flash on an iPad, but Hulu, Netflix, etc have released Apps to let me watch their content, get with the program.
Don't sell him the domain, just lease it to him for all eternity.
You would retain ownership of the domain, and you would retain control of the DNS servers it's pointed at. This way you can point the DNS for the website at whatever webserver IP address he wants it pointed at, and you can point the MX record at whatever e-mail server you want. This lets him have the domain for web purposes while you retain it for e-mail purposes.
Alternately, you could also sell the domain to him, and just ask that he setup e-mail forwarding for any mailboxes you currently use so they are redirected to another of your e-mail accounts, however I would not do it this way because you wouldn't have any way to verify he isn't snooping on your e-mail.
After #1 above, I wouldn't be surprised if legal action was taken against you for sifting through their data.
Contact the person whose data was on the drive. I suspect that they'll take care of contacting Newegg for you...
Although if they're not smart enough to wipe a drive before returning it...maybe not.
All these analogies are sort of missing the point. All of the examples given list something that comes with something else, and both somethings are made by the same person. The whole point here is that Windows is not an inherent part of a computer because it is 3rd party AND not necessary for the computer to function.
The article talks about detecting people bringing guns into the stadium. How does this affect a legally armed citizen with a CCW permit? At least in my state, the law designates places in which private citizens may not carry firearms under any circumstances, regardless of permit. Places such as churches, airports, schools, courthouses, government buildings, etc are on this list. Football stadiums, at last check, are not.
What's that you say? Places can post signs that say no weapons allowed and Joe Citizen has to abide by their rules? That's actually not true, at least in my state. Places can post signs, but Joe Citizen is under no obligation to honor their policies. What he is obliged to do is leave if they ask him to, or risk being arrested for trespass.
Before you say that a busy place like a football stadium is no place for someone to have a desire to carry a gun, think about how many people are in close proximity there, how much alcohol will be consumed, how many people will get stupid drunk, and how many stupid people will be doing stupid things. This is EXACTLY why folks have a desire to be able to legally defend themselves in situations such as this.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for increasing public security, but if it compromises my ability to defend myself, I'll be watching from home.
Need an example? Schools are supposed to be uber-safe because nobody can have a gun there right? That's what the law says. But what that means in reality is that only the criminals will have guns. Just think about how all those college shootings might have gone very differently if law-abiding students with CCW permits had been allowed to carry on campus. People like to make CCW holders out as vigilantes, but for the most part we are probably better at minding our own business than the average citizen is, because (for the most part) we have a very thorough understanding of what a shit storm our lives will turn into if we act without proper justification.
How is content hosted in china but streamed via US servers? That statement doesn't make much sense.
Well, actually most (if not all, not sure) 801.11b gear isn't compatible with any type of security better than WEP, so it's mostly useless these days, even for those applications where the slower bandwidth differences wouldn't matter. As far as 802.11a, most devices these days are at least a/b/g if not a/b/g/n, so it's not that 802.11a has gone away, it's just that it's not used much anymore.
By your factors combined, I am captain planet!
...is that after all the hard work you put yourself through to buy untraceable visa gift cards to pay for a VPN service to use with your 7 proxies on an open wifi connection...you get no satisfaction. What do I mean? Well, what's the payoff? How do you know you were successful? When the feds DON'T break down your front door?
I think you have a false sense of security there. The connection may be anonymous, however the IP is still traceable to the venue's ISP account, and if they have surveillance cameras (like just about everywhere does these days, for legal liability reasons) it's a simple matter to look at the timestamp and see who was in the place on a laptop at the time in question.
Is you do not talk about proxies! Seriously though, anyone who is halfway serious about their privacy isn't going to post details of how they retain their anonymity on a public blog where it's easily accessible and their IP, e-mail and possibly name is just one subpoena away...
Road Runner still leaves mail ports open. Frankly, I don't really see how you could effectively close them. Take for instance a person who has set up email at their own domain with a webhost. So they key in the webhosts SMTP server as the outgoing mail server in their mail client. If the ISP blocks smtp, this doesn't work and the ISP tells them to use the ISPs SMTP server for outbound mail. So they do that and it works fine, until they pick up and take their laptop/ipad/smartphone and connect through a network other than the ISPs network and now the ISP's mail server won't route mail for them since the connection isn't coming from an IP on the ISP's network. So you can't really lock down outbound mail ports without really pissing people off. And think about it, the majority of the world's spam comes from zombies. If those zombies couldn't send outbound mail then we wouldn't have such a huge spam problem, so that right there tells us that there are still lots of ISPs not filtering outbound smtp.
Why not just buy a ton of broken iPhones to put in the machine and then when it asks you to connect the cable to verify the phone works, connect it to your working iPhone that you have no intention of leaving in the machine? I doubt the machine has a method to connect the cable itself, so if the user has to connect the cable, how can the machine verify that the phone that was plugged in is the same one that the user puts in the slot?
So you're saying every person that's been frisked has violated the law? There are many reasons a copy would choose to check you for weapons, and quite a large number of those don't require you to have broken any laws at all. Frisking someone is a precaution LEOs take when they have reason to suspect that the person in question might be carrying a weapon or might want to cause them harm. Make sure you state things that are factually correct when it comes to issues like this, just because someone may be getting frisked does not make them a criminal.