Bad news... The screen is probably consuming more power than all other components, combined. Even if the display is of f the majority of the time . This may not be true if you use your device as an mp 3 player, but otherwise, display power consumption overwhelmingly dominates...
The analyst may not be surprised if Apple ships a cheap iPhone, but I would be. What on earth would make anyone think they would? There's a reason why the "conventional wisdom" is that Apple sticks to the high end of the market
Conventional wisdom didn't predict that Apple would halve the price of their iPhone. They were constantly sold out, and the high pricetag was giving them massive profits. They dropped the price when nobody was expecting them to. In hindsight, it was probably a preemptive response to Android. They're just barely holding onto the #1 smart phone slot right now... imagine where we'd be today if the iPhone remained at twice the price.
Conventional wisdom was wrong about the iPhone before, and I can't see any reason it won't be wrong going forward. Carriers aren't competing for exclusive iPhone deals because they want a niche lifestyle product... They want the iPhone because its been a successful mass-market product. If it can't maintain the marketshare, it won't get the premium deals from carriers, and will just be an also-ran. An expensive phone nobody really has a good reason to buy, not even along side the cheaper Blackberries and Androids... just in the heap with the Palm and WinCE phones.
I never said you are lying. I said you are mistaken. Significant difference.
The equation is simple. CFLs use 1/4th the power. That means roughly 1/4th the temperature in a poorly ventilated space. Yet CFLs can easily handle temperatures well above 25% of what a bulb can.
I don't claim you're lying about your own experiences, any more than I would claim you're lying about the efficacy of a lucky rabbits foot or the like. I however, can only assume your experience is related to either cheap junk CFLs that were on the verge of breaking at room temps, or a methodological issue, such as using CFLs that are much, much higher power than needed to provide equivalance to the standard bulb recomended for said fixture. Of course there's millions of other remote possibilites as well, but these are the most likely.
In any case, there's no reason for CFLs to be unsuitable for recessed fixtures, so your statement is demonstrably false, no matter how many self styled experts or anecdotes you can come up with.
Halogen bulbs run hotter than normal bulbs,as designed, because of their smaller surface area.
A given amount of energy will heat up a smaller space a quicker than a larger space.
You can handle a 1500 watt space heater with minimal discomfort, yet a 45 watt soldering iron will vaporize skin... The soldering iron isn't 300x more efficient, and it would take 300x as long to heat up a room. Both are 100% efficient.
umm it goes into 'work'. If it uses 100 watts, it will do 100 watts of 'work' not heat.
That "work" also turns into heat. Light doesn't travel through walls, so where does it go? It becomes heat.
Wasted energy is indeed usually useless/unwanted heat, but useful work changes into heat after that fact, too. Where else would all that energy go? Its not being destroyed after it turns into work...
Were the US cellular market more accessible and dynamic, with doing things like "getting a spartan voice only plan for a bells and whistles smartphone" easy, rather than possible but obscure, it would be much harder to make the case for something that includes everything but the cell modem:
You've hit on something that's held intense morbid fascination forme for weeks now. Just recently, Motorola made available an iDEN version of their I1, older Android 1.x smartphone. Its retailing for just 350, and what's most impressive, unlimited nationwide voice and data on Boost Mobile is as little as $35/month.
Now, this is far from a panacea. I don't see myself buying it because the old as dirt version of the OS won't run Google maps & Navigation, or several other Android apps I've found quite useful. Secondly, I'm actually not that fond of Android... My old crappy 30 boost phone had a vastly better UI for everything it did, except web browsing. Droid drives me crazy fighting with the calendar app, contacts, etc. constantly. So while I like many things about android, I see myself trying to find something better, not sticking with Android. (I've always found Symbian to be a great OS, maybe an N900 or N8 is in my future... I don't know, maybe there are really good feature phones out there that will give me full features I use in a nicer interface, while having vastly better battery life.)
Additionally, I expect this much slower phone really won't have the horsepower to do the web/flash/h264 video playback I find quite convenient on my droid phone.
And finally, perhaps most important to all, the data speeds on standard boost iDEN are dialup speed... It will load a web page fast enought, but any media will be painfully slow. Sure, I overwhelimingly utilize Wifi for my usage, but I find it extremely nice to know I can still do everything if nedded/desired when not in-range of wifi. Its a matter of being prepared for anything...
With any one of these concerns, I suppose I would buy in. However, with all of those issues, I can easily justify the higer prices I'm paying... but, my personal preferences aside, anyone can now get a decent android smartphone, with the cheapest of monthly rates anywhere, on a pretty good nationwide cellular carrier. Completely eliminating the necessity to carry both a pda/tablet and a seperate phone, and making the cellular data plan immesnsely cheap and a complete afterthought, as you described..
I don't know Ford's system, but for GM, all parts are "AC Delco" branded (tires not included), and all documentation recomends AC Delco replacements parts. So there's a good bit of truth to the statement...
Enclosed fixtures (the heat kills compact fluorescents) Upside-down fixtures (ditto)
Nonsense. CFLs use 1/4th the power of bulbs. If you've got a fixture rated for 100 watts, and put a 24 watt CFL in it, it will run very, very cool... Now a locate that makes large amounts of its own heat, like ovens, are a different story.
Anyplace you need instant light instead of having to wait 3-4 minutes to reach full brightness (ex: basement steps) Stoves, refrigerators.
This is nonsense. Only the cheapest piece of crap CFLs take more than a fraction of a second to reach 90%+ of their maximum brightness. Refrigerators are a notable exception, as indoor CFLs aren't designed for freezing temperatures. But there, and any place the light is going to be very frequently cycled on/off, LEDs are at least an order of magnitude superior in lifespan to either bulbs or CFLs, while being nearly as efficient as CFLs.
You're an idiot... A device that uses 100 watts of electrictricity will put out 100 watts of heat. End of story. No exceptions.
Light bulbs aren't being banned for being inefficient HEATERS, that wouldn't make any sense. They're being banned because they are inefficient light sources. They use lots of pwer and give off lots of heat for the small amount of light they give off.
Conservation of energy applies. Where would you say that 100 watts of electricity is going to, if it's not being turned into heat?
If you buy Viagra from a spam email, you'll likely get a placebo, or worse, something toxic... So it really isn't the mega companies hiring them, but the knock-off companies and their ilk, and they're operating outside the law as they always have. The internet has just expanded their audience.
Actually, that one is quite easy... they're usually called solar pathway lights. You're expected to encircle your driveway and walkway with them, where they give off a pathetic small amount of light for a couple hours...
Now then, if you remove the top piece and toss the junk housing, you have a self contained lighting system. You can pretty well get away with just drillings an LED sized hole in the roof of your yurt, and dropping the LED it through. Instant dirt cheap lighting.
Sure, they look like crap in your yard, but the bare LED shining down on you is bright enought to read by... The smaller the area, the less light you need. Additionally, you should note many people throw these things away, frequently... either because they're terrible for their stated purpose, because the housing falls apart, or because the junk NICD battery is no longer holding a charge. In the later case, a pack of NiMH batteries will make them better than new.
And they'll last longer if you add a very simple switch (or just cut one LED lead and bend it back and forth to close and open the circuit) so that the batteries don't get a shallow charge each day then drain to 0 every night...
How much cheaper can you get? You can get your solar light directly out of the trash.
I'll bet with current tech we can get past Voyager 1 within 10 years
Actually it was just yesterday on/. I was reading about solar sails and how they're so much faster than any other tech that we'd be able to get to Pluto in JUST 10 years (note Voyager will be much further out by then).
And the alignment of the planets that made the Voyager missions possible isnt coming again for decades and decades.
Don't get me wrong. I love the idea of flinging something like hubble out towards Proxima Centauri, but with current tech, your kids will be old before it gets there. Now, if you were to get a Bussard Ramjet working...
However like everyone else you insist on ignoring the possibility of a system C, a free-market in health care. This is a "non-starter" politically because no wealthy PACs would get a free ride on it, of course,
In free-market health care, the successful insurance companies are the ones who find a way to weasle their way out of paying for all those sick people. This isnt a theoretical concern either. Have a read about recission... Insurance companies have been doing this on a massive scale in the unregulated private health insurance market.
. Unless you want to return to living in a cage, boycotting both VISA and Mastercard is simply not an option,
What the hell are you talking about? First off, there are other credit card companies out there which are pretty widely accepted. Sure, you'll be mildly inconvenicenced when you wish to purchase from some online retailer who only accepts Visa/Master Card, but that's a hell of a long way from "living in a cage".
And besides that, I lived without any credit/debit cards for a very long time, all without being reduced to neanderthal status... Cash works damn near everywhere in the real world. You seriously limit where you can make purchases online, but plenty of large retailers will accept ACH payment.
Seriously, boycotts typically mean serious sacrifices. Walking 10 miles every day rather than ride a bus is a hell of a lot harder than paying cash for your groceries, and not always buying from the first, cheapest online retailer you come across.
"Because battery technology hasn't developed as quickly as the electronic devices they power, a greater and greater percentage of the volume of these devices is taken up by the batteries needed to keep them running.
I take issue with the premise. It couldn't be more wrong.
A) Part of the development of electronics is reducing power consumption. If they're needing more battery power, its because they AREN'T developing very quickly.
B) The fact that we can make devices that use a lot of power isn't novel at all. The opposite is true. If you need massive batteries to make up for the rampant waste of your device, you apparently designed it quite poorly.
C) My new Droid2 has a much smaller battery than my 10 year old Cassiopia E-100; yet the battery life is about 25% better, this despite a 300% faster CPU, and builtin wifi, gps, cell, etc., so I'm hard pressed to see any way in which this the premise is objectively true.
D) Even back then (10 years ago), there was a huge disparity between the power consumption of comarable devices. Compare the 3 hour battery like of the E-100 with the approx. 1 month runtime of my Psion5mx (symbian-based). There are notable differences, of course, but the later was by far the better PDA all around.
E) And make no mistake, there's next to nothing you can name that smartphones do today that needs a super high-end CPU. Yes, I'm sorry to say you're paying hundreds of dollars on high end hardware solely to compensate for software bloat. MP3s worked just fine on Intel 386s. H.264 is the big one, but an integrated DSP can handle most of that heavy lifting.
To be fair, their accomplishments were made possible by said pioneering space projects which taught humanity many lessions.
Its the same price gimick heard in the halls of congress about the costs of some given newer project. F-200... Why? Because the later jet is an exact copy of the former, so all the original R&D costs are tied up in the per-unit price estimates of the F-200 project, and none are accounted for in the F-201, despite it being an already-sunk cost either way.
The key part you're misrepresenting is that police can't be held liable (in civil courts) for failing to enforce a given law. Think of the legislative nightmare it would be if 1 bystander in a mob could sue the cops for not protecting him. How about if every crazy lady who endlessly reports suspiscious behavior gets to sue the one time in a million something really was amiss? How about if every celebrity opted to forego private security and opt to require the cops to protect them?
Yes cops are there to protect the public, but they still get to make judgement calls and dont have to cater toy you. Sorry.
you get to deal with application incompatabilities one at a time as they come up, rather than having to spend a week or few all at once when upgrading a distro.
Sounds like a complete nightmare to me... Install one server and everything works fine, then install the server next to it the next day, and its broken and wont work... the hell with that!
I know the security patches get applied to downlevel releases as well by distributors, but that seems so cumbersome compared to following the application's software releases.
Wow... so you really WANT to be unable to install a bugfix, because unrelated changes to the package break things? That's utterly insane.
The lack of intelligent responses here must just be because of the weekend./. Has been getting steadily worse, but I hope it didn't suddenly get this bad...
This is something I wish a Linux distro would do. Not rolling the entire damned thing, just get non essential software out of the damned repo.
and that's different from a minimal OS install (that every Linux distro is capable of) how? Its not like the distro guys are trying to FORCE you to use the firefox packages they provide. If you want to get it some harder way, go right ahead.
Anything in the extras bin can depend only on thing included with the base OS.
Now that sounds like a damn nightmare! Do you really mean that you want every KDE application out there packaged with statically compiled libs? Talk about massive and unnecessary bloat...
BAM, I FIXED LINUX.
AFAICT, all you've done is impose the limitations of Windows on Linux, where it's unecessary and senseless.
Oh.. RPMs hidden over there. But they have dependencies specific to Fedora.
That's admittedly bad, but that's entirely the fault of the packager. There are plenty of groups releasing a single RPM and DEB that will work on any release of the OS. It simply takes a bit more work... Your proposal of making packagers work even harder isn't going to fix this, its going to ensure you NEVER see Linux packages provided.
Why are binary installs so current for Windows and Mac, but not RHEL? The 1.7 source compiles just fine on Cent 5.5. But no RPM.
People don't buy RHEL for the sake of getting someone to package the latest software for you... they buy it because it gives you a stable platform where apllications and scripts wont break when one package is updated. AND because RedHat puts a substantial ammount of additional testing and code auditing into what they release.
If you don't want that, and instead want the latest releases as soon as they appear, you should have installed Fedora instead. The fact that you're using CentOS must mean you actually want some of the features you're now advocating getting rid of.
That's just scratching the surface of the problem though. There is no attempt to maintain stable binary compatibility in Linux... Just maintain binary compatibility.
Binary compatibilty in Linux is pretty good, actually. Its only kernel modules where binary compatibilty is routinely broken. Some kernel interfaces occasionally change, breaking user apps tightly integrated with the kernel, but that's about it, and I see that happen on the order of a decade or so, not often at all... Glibc changes can be taken care of by installing compat packages, and even that's usually only needed because the developer uses some private or deprecated call that's later removed.
I've had to migrate dozens of binary-only programs to work on much newer versions of Linux without significant trouble, and where there are problems, its because of something like the path to X11 fonts or similar changing, which wouldn't be resolved by static compiles.
Have you tried downloading Firefox binaries lately? No? They work fine, despite your above claims. And the fact that you haven't is just proof that even you find using your distros package repo more convenient than doing things the uncontrolled Windows way... Of course I don't hear about antivirus and spyware removal for Linux, so, maybe the Windows way isn't too much of a panacea after all.
Sadly there's little that can be done about it, auditing processes will catch companies that merely don't meet the standards, but there's nothing that can be done about those who intentionally falsify records or aim for loopholes.
In fact there is no end to what can be done about it...
My first thought would be to simply include large dollar amounts in the contract to be payable upon breach... You have to sign it to be certified, and no matter how lacking criminal laws are about eWaste, the civil courts still enforce whatever contract terms you signed-up for. It would be a huge downside to all potential scammers, and a huge looming threat should you misjudge which loopholes you can get away with exploiting.
scumbag company lies to everyone and scams them, but it's all the environmentalists fault for falling for the same scam everyone else did?
No, its their fault for putting a system in place to certify companies as "non-scumbags", but having NO VERIFICATION AT ALL that they are doing what they've said they do. That their own waste ends up trashing the environment is just perfectly ironic, and keeps them from weasling out by blaming some 3rd party, since it was all them.
Nobody forced them to come up with their scheme. If they couldn't handle the responsibilty, as they clearly don't want to, they shouldn't have come out with it.
What's important is how such a system would compare in relation to the alternatives...
Okay. The alternative is that anyone can invest $5,000 in a used truck and become a delivery service that will be more secure, reliable, and capable of all kinds of special handling. Even now, newspapers are dropped on your doorstep for pennies, and supermarkets are offering to deliver groceries for free. It cost 50 cents to get a pair of DVDs delivered from you door to the door of anyone, anywhere in the country. Some years ago, many people were getting bottles of milk delivered to their door for a small premium.
Delivery trucks would be very efficient if faced with the volume of deliveries necessary to sustain a dedicated tube system (see previous examples). They work so well because they can piggy back on existing infrastructure that needs to be overbuilt for peek demand, and so their costs are quite minimal.
Observations are considered as "should be impossible" when they disagree with the interpretive/explanatory model being used (often formula-based like e=mc^2 or whatever). There's no difference between the two statements, as best I can tell.
There's a big difference, actually. The "formula" wasn't pulled out of the air, you see. It is an accepted theory because it was "proven" with observations (closer to home).
While it's always possible to formulate some (more complex) equation based on updated observations, that wouldn't help to solve the "near-far" problem, that the physical laws we observe here, doesn't match the action we observe at great distances...
They could easily work on a laptop and only deploy on the real hardware. Moving these people off the mainframe reduces the load on the mainframe, taking money from IBM (they charge for turning on each CPU).
Except it practically never works that way... making it cheaper and infintely easier for people to develop and test software for IBM mainframes is likely to make the platform much more popular, not less. And realistically, would you expect companies to run critical software on an emulator? Personally, I think this will, at best, eat the low end of IBMs market... those who want to run a handful of legacy apps without the money or time to rewrite them. They aren't cash cows, often buying old used equipment, keeping it running for decades, and if anything, forcing IBM support to keep familar with ancient platforms and all possible compatibility issues that might arise.
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Bad news... The screen is probably consuming more power than all other components, combined. Even if the display is of f the majority of the time . This may not be true if you use your device as an mp 3 player, but otherwise, display power consumption overwhelmingly dominates...
Conventional wisdom didn't predict that Apple would halve the price of their iPhone. They were constantly sold out, and the high pricetag was giving them massive profits. They dropped the price when nobody was expecting them to. In hindsight, it was probably a preemptive response to Android. They're just barely holding onto the #1 smart phone slot right now... imagine where we'd be today if the iPhone remained at twice the price.
Conventional wisdom was wrong about the iPhone before, and I can't see any reason it won't be wrong going forward. Carriers aren't competing for exclusive iPhone deals because they want a niche lifestyle product... They want the iPhone because its been a successful mass-market product. If it can't maintain the marketshare, it won't get the premium deals from carriers, and will just be an also-ran. An expensive phone nobody really has a good reason to buy, not even along side the cheaper Blackberries and Androids... just in the heap with the Palm and WinCE phones.
I never said you are lying. I said you are mistaken. Significant difference.
The equation is simple. CFLs use 1/4th the power. That means roughly 1/4th the temperature in a poorly ventilated space. Yet CFLs can easily handle temperatures well above 25% of what a bulb can.
I don't claim you're lying about your own experiences, any more than I would claim you're lying about the efficacy of a lucky rabbits foot or the like. I however, can only assume your experience is related to either cheap junk CFLs that were on the verge of breaking at room temps, or a methodological issue, such as using CFLs that are much, much higher power than needed to provide equivalance to the standard bulb recomended for said fixture. Of course there's millions of other remote possibilites as well, but these are the most likely.
In any case, there's no reason for CFLs to be unsuitable for recessed fixtures, so your statement is demonstrably false, no matter how many self styled experts or anecdotes you can come up with.
Halogen bulbs run hotter than normal bulbs,as designed, because of their smaller surface area.
A given amount of energy will heat up a smaller space a quicker than a larger space.
You can handle a 1500 watt space heater with minimal discomfort, yet a 45 watt soldering iron will vaporize skin... The soldering iron isn't 300x more efficient, and it would take 300x as long to heat up a room. Both are 100% efficient.
That "work" also turns into heat. Light doesn't travel through walls, so where does it go? It becomes heat.
Wasted energy is indeed usually useless/unwanted heat, but useful work changes into heat after that fact, too. Where else would all that energy go? Its not being destroyed after it turns into work...
You've hit on something that's held intense morbid fascination forme for weeks now. Just recently, Motorola made available an iDEN version of their I1, older Android 1.x smartphone. Its retailing for just 350, and what's most impressive, unlimited nationwide voice and data on Boost Mobile is as little as $35/month.
Now, this is far from a panacea. I don't see myself buying it because the old as dirt version of the OS won't run Google maps & Navigation, or several other Android apps I've found quite useful. Secondly, I'm actually not that fond of Android... My old crappy 30 boost phone had a vastly better UI for everything it did, except web browsing. Droid drives me crazy fighting with the calendar app, contacts, etc. constantly. So while I like many things about android, I see myself trying to find something better, not sticking with Android. (I've always found Symbian to be a great OS, maybe an N900 or N8 is in my future... I don't know, maybe there are really good feature phones out there that will give me full features I use in a nicer interface, while having vastly better battery life.)
Additionally, I expect this much slower phone really won't have the horsepower to do the web/flash/h264 video playback I find quite convenient on my droid phone.
And finally, perhaps most important to all, the data speeds on standard boost iDEN are dialup speed... It will load a web page fast enought, but any media will be painfully slow. Sure, I overwhelimingly utilize Wifi for my usage, but I find it extremely nice to know I can still do everything if nedded/desired when not in-range of wifi. Its a matter of being prepared for anything...
With any one of these concerns, I suppose I would buy in. However, with all of those issues, I can easily justify the higer prices I'm paying... but, my personal preferences aside, anyone can now get a decent android smartphone, with the cheapest of monthly rates anywhere, on a pretty good nationwide cellular carrier. Completely eliminating the necessity to carry both a pda/tablet and a seperate phone, and making the cellular data plan immesnsely cheap and a complete afterthought, as you described..
I don't know Ford's system, but for GM, all parts are "AC Delco" branded (tires not included), and all documentation recomends AC Delco replacements parts. So there's a good bit of truth to the statement...
Won't someone please think of the children... And their easy bake ovens...
Nonsense. CFLs use 1/4th the power of bulbs. If you've got a fixture rated for 100 watts, and put a 24 watt CFL in it, it will run very, very cool... Now a locate that makes large amounts of its own heat, like ovens, are a different story.
You're an idiot... A device that uses 100 watts of electrictricity will put out 100 watts of heat. End of story. No exceptions.
Light bulbs aren't being banned for being inefficient HEATERS, that wouldn't make any sense. They're being banned because they are inefficient light sources. They use lots of pwer and give off lots of heat for the small amount of light they give off.
Conservation of energy applies. Where would you say that 100 watts of electricity is going to, if it's not being turned into heat?
If you buy Viagra from a spam email, you'll likely get a placebo, or worse, something toxic... So it really isn't the mega companies hiring them, but the knock-off companies and their ilk, and they're operating outside the law as they always have. The internet has just expanded their audience.
Actually, that one is quite easy... they're usually called solar pathway lights. You're expected to encircle your driveway and walkway with them, where they give off a pathetic small amount of light for a couple hours...
Now then, if you remove the top piece and toss the junk housing, you have a self contained lighting system. You can pretty well get away with just drillings an LED sized hole in the roof of your yurt, and dropping the LED it through. Instant dirt cheap lighting.
Sure, they look like crap in your yard, but the bare LED shining down on you is bright enought to read by... The smaller the area, the less light you need. Additionally, you should note many people throw these things away, frequently... either because they're terrible for their stated purpose, because the housing falls apart, or because the junk NICD battery is no longer holding a charge. In the later case, a pack of NiMH batteries will make them better than new.
And they'll last longer if you add a very simple switch (or just cut one LED lead and bend it back and forth to close and open the circuit) so that the batteries don't get a shallow charge each day then drain to 0 every night...
How much cheaper can you get? You can get your solar light directly out of the trash.
Actually it was just yesterday on /. I was reading about solar sails and how they're so much faster than any other tech that we'd be able to get to Pluto in JUST 10 years (note Voyager will be much further out by then).
And the alignment of the planets that made the Voyager missions possible isnt coming again for decades and decades.
Don't get me wrong. I love the idea of flinging something like hubble out towards Proxima Centauri, but with current tech, your kids will be old before it gets there. Now, if you were to get a Bussard Ramjet working...
In free-market health care, the successful insurance companies are the ones who find a way to weasle their way out of paying for all those sick people. This isnt a theoretical concern either. Have a read about recission... Insurance companies have been doing this on a massive scale in the unregulated private health insurance market.
What the hell are you talking about? First off, there are other credit card companies out there which are pretty widely accepted. Sure, you'll be mildly inconvenicenced when you wish to purchase from some online retailer who only accepts Visa/Master Card, but that's a hell of a long way from "living in a cage".
And besides that, I lived without any credit/debit cards for a very long time, all without being reduced to neanderthal status... Cash works damn near everywhere in the real world. You seriously limit where you can make purchases online, but plenty of large retailers will accept ACH payment.
Seriously, boycotts typically mean serious sacrifices. Walking 10 miles every day rather than ride a bus is a hell of a lot harder than paying cash for your groceries, and not always buying from the first, cheapest online retailer you come across.
I take issue with the premise. It couldn't be more wrong.
A) Part of the development of electronics is reducing power consumption. If they're needing more battery power, its because they AREN'T developing very quickly.
B) The fact that we can make devices that use a lot of power isn't novel at all. The opposite is true. If you need massive batteries to make up for the rampant waste of your device, you apparently designed it quite poorly.
C) My new Droid2 has a much smaller battery than my 10 year old Cassiopia E-100; yet the battery life is about 25% better, this despite a 300% faster CPU, and builtin wifi, gps, cell, etc., so I'm hard pressed to see any way in which this the premise is objectively true.
D) Even back then (10 years ago), there was a huge disparity between the power consumption of comarable devices. Compare the 3 hour battery like of the E-100 with the approx. 1 month runtime of my Psion5mx (symbian-based). There are notable differences, of course, but the later was by far the better PDA all around.
E) And make no mistake, there's next to nothing you can name that smartphones do today that needs a super high-end CPU. Yes, I'm sorry to say you're paying hundreds of dollars on high end hardware solely to compensate for software bloat. MP3s worked just fine on Intel 386s. H.264 is the big one, but an integrated DSP can handle most of that heavy lifting.
To be fair, their accomplishments were made possible by said pioneering space projects which taught humanity many lessions.
Its the same price gimick heard in the halls of congress about the costs of some given newer project. F-200... Why? Because the later jet is an exact copy of the former, so all the original R&D costs are tied up in the per-unit price estimates of the F-200 project, and none are accounted for in the F-201, despite it being an already-sunk cost either way.
The key part you're misrepresenting is that police can't be held liable (in civil courts) for failing to enforce a given law. Think of the legislative nightmare it would be if 1 bystander in a mob could sue the cops for not protecting him. How about if every crazy lady who endlessly reports suspiscious behavior gets to sue the one time in a million something really was amiss? How about if every celebrity opted to forego private security and opt to require the cops to protect them?
Yes cops are there to protect the public, but they still get to make judgement calls and dont have to cater toy you. Sorry.
Sounds like a complete nightmare to me... Install one server and everything works fine, then install the server next to it the next day, and its broken and wont work... the hell with that!
Wow... so you really WANT to be unable to install a bugfix, because unrelated changes to the package break things? That's utterly insane.
The lack of intelligent responses here must just be because of the weekend. /. Has been getting steadily worse, but I hope it didn't suddenly get this bad...
and that's different from a minimal OS install (that every Linux distro is capable of) how? Its not like the distro guys are trying to FORCE you to use the firefox packages they provide. If you want to get it some harder way, go right ahead.
In fact there is no end to what can be done about it...
My first thought would be to simply include large dollar amounts in the contract to be payable upon breach... You have to sign it to be certified, and no matter how lacking criminal laws are about eWaste, the civil courts still enforce whatever contract terms you signed-up for. It would be a huge downside to all potential scammers, and a huge looming threat should you misjudge which loopholes you can get away with exploiting.
No, its their fault for putting a system in place to certify companies as "non-scumbags", but having NO VERIFICATION AT ALL that they are doing what they've said they do. That their own waste ends up trashing the environment is just perfectly ironic, and keeps them from weasling out by blaming some 3rd party, since it was all them.
Nobody forced them to come up with their scheme. If they couldn't handle the responsibilty, as they clearly don't want to, they shouldn't have come out with it.
Okay. The alternative is that anyone can invest $5,000 in a used truck and become a delivery service that will be more secure, reliable, and capable of all kinds of special handling. Even now, newspapers are dropped on your doorstep for pennies, and supermarkets are offering to deliver groceries for free. It cost 50 cents to get a pair of DVDs delivered from you door to the door of anyone, anywhere in the country. Some years ago, many people were getting bottles of milk delivered to their door for a small premium.
Delivery trucks would be very efficient if faced with the volume of deliveries necessary to sustain a dedicated tube system (see previous examples). They work so well because they can piggy back on existing infrastructure that needs to be overbuilt for peek demand, and so their costs are quite minimal.
There's a big difference, actually. The "formula" wasn't pulled out of the air, you see. It is an accepted theory because it was "proven" with observations (closer to home).
While it's always possible to formulate some (more complex) equation based on updated observations, that wouldn't help to solve the "near-far" problem, that the physical laws we observe here, doesn't match the action we observe at great distances...
Except it practically never works that way... making it cheaper and infintely easier for people to develop and test software for IBM mainframes is likely to make the platform much more popular, not less. And realistically, would you expect companies to run critical software on an emulator? Personally, I think this will, at best, eat the low end of IBMs market... those who want to run a handful of legacy apps without the money or time to rewrite them. They aren't cash cows, often buying old used equipment, keeping it running for decades, and if anything, forcing IBM support to keep familar with ancient platforms and all possible compatibility issues that might arise.