That's in bulk. Check out how much oranges or corn costs if you buy them on the futures market some time. Then swing by your local grocery store and compare prices.
$300/kilo doesn't include packaging, warehousing, shipping, regulatory fees, and retailer markup (which, considering it's A) a car dealership and B) radioactive is going to be quite a bit). Actually $200 is hopeful; $1000-$1500 seems more realistic.
Assuming 50% real world efficiency, and that your car averages 20mpg, 1 gram of thorium would still get you through your first 75,000 miles. I'm ok with that! They can design a helium fuel tank to not rupture in an explosive manner at highway speeds in a car, surely they can put 1g of thorium in a container that won't disperse the material in an aerosol form on impact. I'm not sure what the cost of Thorium is, but I'm willing to bet 1g of refined Thorium is under $200. I spend that much on gas in a month.
1. Ship the product 2. Ship the product on time and 3. Do it under budget
Pick any two. #1 is not optional. As long as conditions 1 and 2 or 3 are met you get to keep your job, and possibly a project completion bonus (if you're lucky). As long as security flaws aren't getting in the way of two of those three objectives, you can ignore them and patch them in a later firmware/software update.
Complaining to your manager that you need to delay the product and that you're going to have to exceed your budget to address security concerns that a junior engineer mentioned in a memo is probably not going to net you that fully paid team building exercise that involves playing golf in the Cayman Islands for a week next month. The fact that you blew your project over something like "security" isn't helping matters with the wife; that $3000 bonus you decided to eschew in favor of security isn't helping pay for the pair of diamond earrings, the new 47" plasma TV, new PS3 for junior who made a 3.8 last semester, or the 15th wedding anniversary trip to hawaii.
A major problem with fracking is that Texas is a prime candidate for the process, but at the same time relies heavily on regional aquifers for our drinking water due to drought conditions pretty much every summer. The fact that an external electric company poached our electrical generation capacity two years ago and did a bunch of bad things immediately after the acquisition doesn't leave me much faith that there will be many safety precautions, let alone feigning them. Texas is extremely liberal when it comes to accessing mineral rights.
Glad to see developers have solved the PS3 support problem, as my touch interface didn't give me enough analog options or virtual buttons. You still have to install all sorts of crappy 3rd party BT drivers and jump through various flaming hoops to get a BT keyboard to work on android.
I don't think that hitting the $150-250 android tablet price point is the problem; it's the "making Android work on a tablet that isn't frustrating to the end user" that is the problem. Perhaps when android tablets hit 3.2 or 3.3 I will consider one, but there's quite a bit of work to be done in the mean time to make the $200 savings worth it over an iPad. If you're buying a tablet, you probably already have a use for one, and plan to spend a lot of time using it. If the difference between a half-hearted android product and the industry leading, bleeding edge tablet technology is only $250, and you plan on using the device 2-3 hours a day (what I'd consider the minimum usage before I'd invest in the product), you might as well go ahead and buy the iPad.
I seriously doubt it was "accidental". Borderlands 2's main competition, Rage is getting shown to the public tomorrow at their big Quakecon media/fan event. Tomorrow. Announcing your product the day before your competition shows off a live demo of theirs? Well I never!
I was just referencing western europe's relative financial stability. I find it interesting people are focused on this particular point, rather than the overall idea.
A lot of people I know will torrent a movie rather than wait for it to arrive by mail from netflix, if it isn't available via streaming, or there is a higher quality version on bittorrent that you can't get from hulu or netflix.
This is essentially what Greece is about to do. Announce your own currency, set it at $1 fake dollar = $1 billion real dollars, then give all your creditors $20 fake dollars, call it a day and the debt is resolved! Actually this is what every country does that isn't western europe about every 60 years when their economy craters. The reason the dollar is so strong is that we haven't had to do this since it became a popular tactic about 100 years ago. Once we do that, we lose relevance in the global currency market, and paying off dictators like Saddam, Gadaffi and others puts us on a much more level playing field with Iran, Russia, China, India, Brazil etc. becomes much harder, because their currency is just as likely to be worth something tomorrow, after, or in the middle of a global or regional war.
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...and now a 22" HDTV costs $119, just like the old 19" $119 tvs cost. Unless you're one of the 10,000 people in the US who still take advantage of OTA TV, in which case you'll need a $150 converter box with HDMI out.
I don't think 3D is going to catch on in the mobile market unless they can fit the technology into a pair of wayfarers. 2D "3D" games didn't really take off until someone like iD software came along and made something interesting work with it (first person shooters). Even then there were years of terrible isometric 3D shooters that were complete failures. Prior to that people were content with true 2D games. Other than the marketing whiz-bang, there's not a lot in 3D to convince consumers to shell out the extra bucks for. I wouldn't mind a DS with adult sized (i.e. SNES controller) type buttons though.
I think physical media is sort of outdated in well connected cities. It's easier to just dump a 1GB file to an FTP server or a million other options, public or private. Physical media works well for backups and distributing documents outside of your organization. By the time you hit 10-20gb you're well over DVD-R range, and not enough people have BR yet (if ever). At that point the data is probably worth more than what a USB powered portable hard drive would cost ($50-60) and you might as well go that way.
The only reason I own a DVD drive on my computer is that it made installing Windows 7 from scratch easier, and it was only $20.
Also, the Mac Plus (along with any mac running system 1-6) was running an OS coded entirely in assembly. I suspect Win7 would run dramatically faster in assembly, as well!
Huh. Here in Dallas we see 5-10 days in a row of 100+ heat (I've seen 112 once in 14 years) before it drops down to 98 for a day or two and then back up again. It generally doesn't get below 95 until 2am here and this time of year the overnight low is 85. Leaving a house at 79 my experience has been about $190-280, although I know some upstairs neighbors in the past have seen twice that.
Yeah, and they've defaulted on about 19 billion in loans (not kidding, look it up). I wouldn't invest too much time in to creating a long watch list on their site at this point. The only reason their creditors haven't called in their debts yet is because there's nothing left but a server farm, and a couple of CEOs spinning in their chairs waiting for their golden parachutes to deploy, or get an offer from another company (but would you really hire someone that managed to run Blockbuster in to the ground?)
Right, but other stuff gets removed. In the queue at our house, at any one time 2-3 out of the first 100 have a notification that they're going to be removed soon.
Do you have problems with the quality of the power in your neighborhood? Lightning/electrical storms? We have bad enough lightning in Dallas that it nuked my router last week. 10-20 lightning storms every summer in my neighborhood isn't at all uncommon. My GE brand CFL bulbs cost about $10/5 ($2 ea) and they're all working just fine after living here for 18-20 months. Then again in Dallas it's bright enough most of the year that the lights don't come on until 7pm.
My first/second gen no-name CFLs all crapped out after 3-6 months as well. Modern bulbs seem to work (and last) a lot longer. At least for me.
It's funny, because in Texas, for three-quarters of the year, where the statesman is representing, you not only have to pay for electricity to create that heat/light, but you have to pay 33% of that again for an AC unit to pump it back out of your house. If it's over 100F it's something like 50%.
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That's in bulk. Check out how much oranges or corn costs if you buy them on the futures market some time. Then swing by your local grocery store and compare prices.
$300/kilo doesn't include packaging, warehousing, shipping, regulatory fees, and retailer markup (which, considering it's A) a car dealership and B) radioactive is going to be quite a bit). Actually $200 is hopeful; $1000-$1500 seems more realistic.
Assuming 50% real world efficiency, and that your car averages 20mpg, 1 gram of thorium would still get you through your first 75,000 miles. I'm ok with that! They can design a helium fuel tank to not rupture in an explosive manner at highway speeds in a car, surely they can put 1g of thorium in a container that won't disperse the material in an aerosol form on impact. I'm not sure what the cost of Thorium is, but I'm willing to bet 1g of refined Thorium is under $200. I spend that much on gas in a month.
Yep. Your job as a product manager is to
1. Ship the product
2. Ship the product on time and
3. Do it under budget
Pick any two. #1 is not optional. As long as conditions 1 and 2 or 3 are met you get to keep your job, and possibly a project completion bonus (if you're lucky). As long as security flaws aren't getting in the way of two of those three objectives, you can ignore them and patch them in a later firmware/software update.
Complaining to your manager that you need to delay the product and that you're going to have to exceed your budget to address security concerns that a junior engineer mentioned in a memo is probably not going to net you that fully paid team building exercise that involves playing golf in the Cayman Islands for a week next month. The fact that you blew your project over something like "security" isn't helping matters with the wife; that $3000 bonus you decided to eschew in favor of security isn't helping pay for the pair of diamond earrings, the new 47" plasma TV, new PS3 for junior who made a 3.8 last semester, or the 15th wedding anniversary trip to hawaii.
A major problem with fracking is that Texas is a prime candidate for the process, but at the same time relies heavily on regional aquifers for our drinking water due to drought conditions pretty much every summer. The fact that an external electric company poached our electrical generation capacity two years ago and did a bunch of bad things immediately after the acquisition doesn't leave me much faith that there will be many safety precautions, let alone feigning them. Texas is extremely liberal when it comes to accessing mineral rights.
I can count on one hand the number of optical disks ruined by scratches since 1998. Then again, I didn't have a little brother...
Glad to see developers have solved the PS3 support problem, as my touch interface didn't give me enough analog options or virtual buttons. You still have to install all sorts of crappy 3rd party BT drivers and jump through various flaming hoops to get a BT keyboard to work on android.
I don't think that hitting the $150-250 android tablet price point is the problem; it's the "making Android work on a tablet that isn't frustrating to the end user" that is the problem. Perhaps when android tablets hit 3.2 or 3.3 I will consider one, but there's quite a bit of work to be done in the mean time to make the $200 savings worth it over an iPad. If you're buying a tablet, you probably already have a use for one, and plan to spend a lot of time using it. If the difference between a half-hearted android product and the industry leading, bleeding edge tablet technology is only $250, and you plan on using the device 2-3 hours a day (what I'd consider the minimum usage before I'd invest in the product), you might as well go ahead and buy the iPad.
Sheer. Shear has destructive connotations.
Saudi Arabia isn't a democracy though.
I seriously doubt it was "accidental". Borderlands 2's main competition, Rage is getting shown to the public tomorrow at their big Quakecon media/fan event. Tomorrow. Announcing your product the day before your competition shows off a live demo of theirs? Well I never!
I was just referencing western europe's relative financial stability. I find it interesting people are focused on this particular point, rather than the overall idea.
A lot of people I know will torrent a movie rather than wait for it to arrive by mail from netflix, if it isn't available via streaming, or there is a higher quality version on bittorrent that you can't get from hulu or netflix.
This is essentially what Greece is about to do. Announce your own currency, set it at $1 fake dollar = $1 billion real dollars, then give all your creditors $20 fake dollars, call it a day and the debt is resolved! Actually this is what every country does that isn't western europe about every 60 years when their economy craters. The reason the dollar is so strong is that we haven't had to do this since it became a popular tactic about 100 years ago. Once we do that, we lose relevance in the global currency market, and paying off dictators like Saddam, Gadaffi and others puts us on a much more level playing field with Iran, Russia, China, India, Brazil etc. becomes much harder, because their currency is just as likely to be worth something tomorrow, after, or in the middle of a global or regional war.
...and now a 22" HDTV costs $119, just like the old 19" $119 tvs cost. Unless you're one of the 10,000 people in the US who still take advantage of OTA TV, in which case you'll need a $150 converter box with HDMI out.
I don't think 3D is going to catch on in the mobile market unless they can fit the technology into a pair of wayfarers. 2D "3D" games didn't really take off until someone like iD software came along and made something interesting work with it (first person shooters). Even then there were years of terrible isometric 3D shooters that were complete failures. Prior to that people were content with true 2D games. Other than the marketing whiz-bang, there's not a lot in 3D to convince consumers to shell out the extra bucks for. I wouldn't mind a DS with adult sized (i.e. SNES controller) type buttons though.
Slashdot is shilling for Netflix, but who are you shilling for? At least there were links to back up the headline. Where's your citations?
Oh wow, you really "got" him! Ha ha! Shower us more in your brilliance.
I think physical media is sort of outdated in well connected cities. It's easier to just dump a 1GB file to an FTP server or a million other options, public or private. Physical media works well for backups and distributing documents outside of your organization. By the time you hit 10-20gb you're well over DVD-R range, and not enough people have BR yet (if ever). At that point the data is probably worth more than what a USB powered portable hard drive would cost ($50-60) and you might as well go that way.
The only reason I own a DVD drive on my computer is that it made installing Windows 7 from scratch easier, and it was only $20.
Also, the Mac Plus (along with any mac running system 1-6) was running an OS coded entirely in assembly. I suspect Win7 would run dramatically faster in assembly, as well!
Huh. Here in Dallas we see 5-10 days in a row of 100+ heat (I've seen 112 once in 14 years) before it drops down to 98 for a day or two and then back up again. It generally doesn't get below 95 until 2am here and this time of year the overnight low is 85. Leaving a house at 79 my experience has been about $190-280, although I know some upstairs neighbors in the past have seen twice that.
Don't you guys use evaporative coolers though? What does it cost to cool a 1500sq ft house in July there?
Yeah, and they've defaulted on about 19 billion in loans (not kidding, look it up). I wouldn't invest too much time in to creating a long watch list on their site at this point. The only reason their creditors haven't called in their debts yet is because there's nothing left but a server farm, and a couple of CEOs spinning in their chairs waiting for their golden parachutes to deploy, or get an offer from another company (but would you really hire someone that managed to run Blockbuster in to the ground?)
Right, but other stuff gets removed. In the queue at our house, at any one time 2-3 out of the first 100 have a notification that they're going to be removed soon.
Do you have problems with the quality of the power in your neighborhood? Lightning/electrical storms? We have bad enough lightning in Dallas that it nuked my router last week. 10-20 lightning storms every summer in my neighborhood isn't at all uncommon. My GE brand CFL bulbs cost about $10/5 ($2 ea) and they're all working just fine after living here for 18-20 months. Then again in Dallas it's bright enough most of the year that the lights don't come on until 7pm.
My first/second gen no-name CFLs all crapped out after 3-6 months as well. Modern bulbs seem to work (and last) a lot longer. At least for me.
It's funny, because in Texas, for three-quarters of the year, where the statesman is representing, you not only have to pay for electricity to create that heat/light, but you have to pay 33% of that again for an AC unit to pump it back out of your house. If it's over 100F it's something like 50%.