This article fails to deduct from that $4T how much the rest of the world owes the US for all the technology that has come out of us being an industrialized nation. Sure, we could live like people in remote Africa, living off the land with a small carbon footprint, and then there would be probably a billion more people per year dying from diseases that have been cured or rendered treatable, starving from less food grown per acre, dying from dehydration since there would be less clean water technologies, etc.
Almost all of this carbon usage was unavoidable if we wanted technology to advance. Even today, while people champion "green" energy, the fact of the matter is, "green" energy is still not even close to being a viable alternative to deliver the energy the world requires. We talk about "green" KILOwatt wind and solar farms in areas that have coal and gas power plants delivering MEGAwatts. One day "green" energy technology will be a viable option, but today it can only replace a small fraction of carbon-heavy power generation.
That is absolutely not true. I have purchased many albums that were released in the 1970s and 1980s after hearing songs on the radio within the last 10 years. Some of those songs I had never heard before (like some deep tracks), and some just grew on me.
This is exactly what I was thinking. I am actually in the market for a device like this but I need 1TB of storage space for my music collection (in FLAC format). Having such a small amount of disk space will ensure this product has no chance of making it - especially at that price point.
Is that they will now lower the speed limit. Eventually they'll get it low enough to hit their revenue goals - since that is what automated traffic devices are for anyway.
First, I agree with the other people who replied to your post that small arms can defeat more equipped military forces and that has been shown time and time again.
Second, armed civilians act as a deterrent to tyrannical gov't. Even if the gov't could win that war, the cost would be astronomical in terms of casualties and public perception for the people serving for the gov't side. They are not going to fire missles at their own neighbors. With a disarmed "people", gov't can simply take what they want with limited to no force. Those same forces who wouldn't fire on their own neighbors may be willing to lock them up.
Kind of ironic that you would label me as "dumb" when you can't seem to comprehend my simple response to the parent. I merely corrected what was stated as an incorrect fact. Nowhere did I express my opinion nor state this incident was acceptable.
You go on to say "Christie's actions", which at this point is libelous and ignorant. Despite 3 investigations, testimony, thousands of documents and months of time, not a single piece of evidence has shown that he knew or had anything to do with this.
There is evidence of 3 people involved, 2 of which worked for Christie and do not anymore (one resigned and one was fired).
As for my opinion... I do not find this incident acceptable and if crimes were proven to be committed, the people who committed them should be punished. So far Christie is not one of those people.
Care to quote your source? Despite months of testimony, 3 separate investigations and thousands of documents being released, there has yet to be a single shred of evidence that Christie had anything to do with these lanes being closed. There has been evidence of 3 people being involved with this, 2 of which worked for Christie and no longer do (one resigned and one was fired). Please stop spreading allegations as fact.
No one died as a result of this traffic jam. The media tried to claim that one person died to sensationalize the story and the family of that person came out and said that was untrue. Source
Except that there are services nowadays SPECIFICALLY built for this type of scaling, like AWS. You can spin up extra servers for temporary high traffic - especially high traffic that was absolutely foreseen. Funny how Amazon's website can handle the traffic on black Friday just fine.
Sorry, but I've been doing web development for 15 years and have worked on large projects. I can't see the cost for this project being more than $20-30M for up-front development (that includes planning, documentation, meetings, coding and testing - all without outsourcing) and at most $20-30M per year for software licensing, hosting, bandwidth and maintenance. And I'm talking top-dollar.
For $634M, they could have gone down the wrong path (the one you mention) and committed to long term-contracts for those unnecessary idle servers and still have $300M leftover.
I'd need to see videos of this working before it means anything to me. No mention in the article how you get a firing pin and springs made out of polymer to work.
Firearms account for approximately 18,000 suicides annually in the US and approximately 10,000 homicides.
So, even if we lump in homicides with your suicides AND assume homicides are committed by legal gun owners (which most times they are not): 28,000 is 0.035% of 80 million gun owners in the US, which means it is NOT the "primary purpose of owning a gun". It in fact accounts for a MINISCULE use of firearms.
The primary purposes for owning a gun - BY FAR - NOT EVEN CLOSE - are self defense and sport (including competitive shooting, recreational shooting and hunting).
Also, I suspect that you are misinformed on what an "assault rifle" is which is not your fault since the media spreads so much hysteria and disinformation...
An assault rifle is a marketing term. These rifles function EXACTLY THE SAME as semiautomatic hunting rifles. The only differences are: they look more menacing, have accessory rails and a different grip. You can buy a wooden rifle - not considered an "assault rifle" - which fires the EXACT same caliber bullets, at EXACTLY the same rate with EXACTLY the same capacity.
Also, while you did not mention it here, let me also bring up "high capacity magazines" since a lot of "anti-gun wackos" (as I'll call them) bring these up for argument. The difference between shooting a 30 round magazine and three 10 round magazines is about 4 seconds. With just a small amount of practice, anyone can reload in under 2 seconds.
According to the article, an alternative test called Sweet 16 was produced and was subsequently killed by the MMSE copyright owners' legal action. It sounded like the Sweet 16 used completely new copy but similar logic. Can you copyright logic if all the words are completely different? I'd love to see a comparison of those two tests.
On a side note, I hope no one owns the copyright on the eye chart. I like getting my eyes checked every year or two.
First, their streaming selection is pitiful at best
Second, ISP bandwidth caps
Third, bandwidth is still not even close to transmitting DTS-HD audio with high quality HD video at 40Mbps like some Blu-rays. There will always be people, such as myself, who want high quality and can tell the difference,
I'm actually dropping the streaming portion of my subscription and keeping the discs.
There have been many unbiased studies done which have concluded that having a large differential in speeds between vehicles is far more dangerous and responsible for far more accidents than the actual speed itself. Also, studies have found that increasing the speed limit does not cause drivers to exceed the new limit and in fact sometimes actually reduced the average speed of drivers.
Unfortunately, legislators set rules and regulation based upon unfounded hysteria, gut feelings and revenue purposes instead of facts and figures.
If you are interested, there are many resources at motorists.org.
The article is not clear what search terms produced 22% malicious URLs. That seems like a high number to me. If you search for "photoshop crack" or "keygen" you're going to get WAY more malware than searching for "fuzzy bunnies".
While I agree that more spam and malware sites have gotten into Google listings, I don't think the problem is quite as dire as the article makes it seem for the typical Google user.
I just ripped my music collection a few months ago and discovered approximately 50% of my CD-Rs over 7 years old were garbage. Lost a good chunk of my live music collection. Most of the ones that survived were the deep-blue colored CD-Rs. I lost about 100 discs in total and physically all were pristine (no scratches, smudges, etc).
I had always heard that they didn't last too long but I never expected less than 10 years. Funny that technology from decades ago (cassette) and a century ago (vinyl) still work, yet stuff made in 2003 is garbage.
I agree. I've always said the same thing about hardware and software... no matter how fast the hardware gets, the software progresses too and always calls for a little more power to run it. So, even though my hardware may be 10x faster and 10x more powerful than few years ago, it still takes almost as long to launch and run today's application as it did to launch 3 releases previous on the old hardware.
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Not sure where you are from but for here in the US, here are a ton of sources on this topic which back up AC's post: https://www.motorists.org/issu...
This article fails to deduct from that $4T how much the rest of the world owes the US for all the technology that has come out of us being an industrialized nation. Sure, we could live like people in remote Africa, living off the land with a small carbon footprint, and then there would be probably a billion more people per year dying from diseases that have been cured or rendered treatable, starving from less food grown per acre, dying from dehydration since there would be less clean water technologies, etc. Almost all of this carbon usage was unavoidable if we wanted technology to advance. Even today, while people champion "green" energy, the fact of the matter is, "green" energy is still not even close to being a viable alternative to deliver the energy the world requires. We talk about "green" KILOwatt wind and solar farms in areas that have coal and gas power plants delivering MEGAwatts. One day "green" energy technology will be a viable option, but today it can only replace a small fraction of carbon-heavy power generation.
That is absolutely not true. I have purchased many albums that were released in the 1970s and 1980s after hearing songs on the radio within the last 10 years. Some of those songs I had never heard before (like some deep tracks), and some just grew on me.
This is exactly what I was thinking. I am actually in the market for a device like this but I need 1TB of storage space for my music collection (in FLAC format). Having such a small amount of disk space will ensure this product has no chance of making it - especially at that price point.
Sorry, but even taking those items into consideration, that's an outrageous number.
Is that they will now lower the speed limit. Eventually they'll get it low enough to hit their revenue goals - since that is what automated traffic devices are for anyway.
First, I agree with the other people who replied to your post that small arms can defeat more equipped military forces and that has been shown time and time again.
Second, armed civilians act as a deterrent to tyrannical gov't. Even if the gov't could win that war, the cost would be astronomical in terms of casualties and public perception for the people serving for the gov't side. They are not going to fire missles at their own neighbors. With a disarmed "people", gov't can simply take what they want with limited to no force. Those same forces who wouldn't fire on their own neighbors may be willing to lock them up.
Kind of ironic that you would label me as "dumb" when you can't seem to comprehend my simple response to the parent. I merely corrected what was stated as an incorrect fact. Nowhere did I express my opinion nor state this incident was acceptable. You go on to say "Christie's actions", which at this point is libelous and ignorant. Despite 3 investigations, testimony, thousands of documents and months of time, not a single piece of evidence has shown that he knew or had anything to do with this. There is evidence of 3 people involved, 2 of which worked for Christie and do not anymore (one resigned and one was fired). As for my opinion... I do not find this incident acceptable and if crimes were proven to be committed, the people who committed them should be punished. So far Christie is not one of those people.
Care to quote your source? Despite months of testimony, 3 separate investigations and thousands of documents being released, there has yet to be a single shred of evidence that Christie had anything to do with these lanes being closed. There has been evidence of 3 people being involved with this, 2 of which worked for Christie and no longer do (one resigned and one was fired). Please stop spreading allegations as fact.
No one died as a result of this traffic jam. The media tried to claim that one person died to sensationalize the story and the family of that person came out and said that was untrue. Source
Please provide a source for that claim because Amazon seems to contradict that:
http://aws.amazon.com/federal/
Except that there are services nowadays SPECIFICALLY built for this type of scaling, like AWS. You can spin up extra servers for temporary high traffic - especially high traffic that was absolutely foreseen. Funny how Amazon's website can handle the traffic on black Friday just fine.
Sorry, but I've been doing web development for 15 years and have worked on large projects. I can't see the cost for this project being more than $20-30M for up-front development (that includes planning, documentation, meetings, coding and testing - all without outsourcing) and at most $20-30M per year for software licensing, hosting, bandwidth and maintenance. And I'm talking top-dollar.
For $634M, they could have gone down the wrong path (the one you mention) and committed to long term-contracts for those unnecessary idle servers and still have $300M leftover.
I'd need to see videos of this working before it means anything to me. No mention in the article how you get a firing pin and springs made out of polymer to work.
Firearms account for approximately 18,000 suicides annually in the US and approximately 10,000 homicides.
So, even if we lump in homicides with your suicides AND assume homicides are committed by legal gun owners (which most times they are not): 28,000 is 0.035% of 80 million gun owners in the US, which means it is NOT the "primary purpose of owning a gun". It in fact accounts for a MINISCULE use of firearms.
The primary purposes for owning a gun - BY FAR - NOT EVEN CLOSE - are self defense and sport (including competitive shooting, recreational shooting and hunting).
Also, I suspect that you are misinformed on what an "assault rifle" is which is not your fault since the media spreads so much hysteria and disinformation...
An assault rifle is a marketing term. These rifles function EXACTLY THE SAME as semiautomatic hunting rifles. The only differences are: they look more menacing, have accessory rails and a different grip. You can buy a wooden rifle - not considered an "assault rifle" - which fires the EXACT same caliber bullets, at EXACTLY the same rate with EXACTLY the same capacity.
Also, while you did not mention it here, let me also bring up "high capacity magazines" since a lot of "anti-gun wackos" (as I'll call them) bring these up for argument. The difference between shooting a 30 round magazine and three 10 round magazines is about 4 seconds. With just a small amount of practice, anyone can reload in under 2 seconds.
Eight on the Break is pretty good. They usually have about 10 pins that rotate.
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Called CaptureLive HD. It is a combination of room hardware and server software.
http://www.crestron.com/resources/product_and_programming_resources/catalogs_and_brochures/online_catalog/default.asp?cat=1058&subcat=1505&id=2321
According to the article, an alternative test called Sweet 16 was produced and was subsequently killed by the MMSE copyright owners' legal action. It sounded like the Sweet 16 used completely new copy but similar logic. Can you copyright logic if all the words are completely different? I'd love to see a comparison of those two tests.
On a side note, I hope no one owns the copyright on the eye chart. I like getting my eyes checked every year or two.
I'm actually dropping the streaming portion of my subscription and keeping the discs.
There have been many unbiased studies done which have concluded that having a large differential in speeds between vehicles is far more dangerous and responsible for far more accidents than the actual speed itself. Also, studies have found that increasing the speed limit does not cause drivers to exceed the new limit and in fact sometimes actually reduced the average speed of drivers.
Unfortunately, legislators set rules and regulation based upon unfounded hysteria, gut feelings and revenue purposes instead of facts and figures.
If you are interested, there are many resources at motorists.org.
I'm sure legislation will fix the problem... after all, inmates are in jail because they FOLLOW laws! Politicians are morons.
you can file for wrongful dismissal
Unless you work in one of the many states with "at-will" employment where they can let you go for no reason.
The article is not clear what search terms produced 22% malicious URLs. That seems like a high number to me. If you search for "photoshop crack" or "keygen" you're going to get WAY more malware than searching for "fuzzy bunnies".
While I agree that more spam and malware sites have gotten into Google listings, I don't think the problem is quite as dire as the article makes it seem for the typical Google user.
I just ripped my music collection a few months ago and discovered approximately 50% of my CD-Rs over 7 years old were garbage. Lost a good chunk of my live music collection. Most of the ones that survived were the deep-blue colored CD-Rs. I lost about 100 discs in total and physically all were pristine (no scratches, smudges, etc).
I had always heard that they didn't last too long but I never expected less than 10 years. Funny that technology from decades ago (cassette) and a century ago (vinyl) still work, yet stuff made in 2003 is garbage.
I agree. I've always said the same thing about hardware and software... no matter how fast the hardware gets, the software progresses too and always calls for a little more power to run it. So, even though my hardware may be 10x faster and 10x more powerful than few years ago, it still takes almost as long to launch and run today's application as it did to launch 3 releases previous on the old hardware.
How does an algebra text book become obsolete?