He's gotten as high as the comptroller's office who said to install the pirated Office. You can go higher still, but who's going to care and who actually understands the exposure to liability from a BSA audit? General Counsel? CIO? Those two should understand the legal and IT side of this issue. If they don't care, you're obviously dealing with a clue-deprived organization. Document this (on paper too) and don't be the fall guy.
If you forget about ebay prices of the Wii for a second, the Xbox360 is also being discounted. Just before Christmas, you could find deals for a 360 Premium at regular price bundled with a free Madden game or a $50 gift card. The deals aren't as good now, but you can still find them sometimes.
Here's the particles that'll fly out of a fusion reactor. Make electricity out of it
They do have a plan for that. A blanket around the reactor containing lithium will both capture heat and breed tritium that's needed for the fusion reaction. One big problem for commercial generation though is the logistical bottleneck of producing enough tritium. Just ITER will use a significant fraction of the world's supply of tritium. The lithium blanket will breed enough tritium for itself and maybe to seed another reactor.
Don't blame the bloated cost structure on development. Drug companies spend much more on marketing than R&D. All those TV commercials and freebies to doctors don't come cheap. Why are prescription drugs advertised on TV to everybody when only doctors can prescribe them?
Yeah. Since photons have no charge, a *magnetic* shield doesn't nothing against radiation. This article is about a magnetic shield to deflect charged particles like cosmic rays and solar wind.
California went a bit farther with their ReadyReturn program. Since the tax agency has your payroll info already, they mailed tax forms that precalculated the tax for people with easy returns. Intuit lobbied to kill it, and because one of our Board of Equalization members supported it, Intuit spent $1,000,000 to run attack ads against him in the election for State Comptroller. He still won, so to hell with Intuit.
John Edwards has proposed something similar for federal taxes, and I'm expecting similar fight. I don't know what the big deal is. An EZ filer doesn't need Turbotax.
It is ridiculous because it costs less for the IRS to process electronic returns vs. paper, but the only way to file electronically is through a tax prep firm thanks to industry lobbying. They lobbied to legislate inefficiency to protect the economic rents of private companies.
Tax prep fees are deductible only if they exceed 2% of your adjusted gross income. 50 bucks for Turbotax and electronic filing don't even come close to that.
Not exactly. Public performance royalties only go to the composer, not the performer. Britney Spears doesn't make any money from ASCAP/BMI, not unless she wrote any of her own songs. What sucks for webcasters and is different from radio is that they have to pay royalties to both the performer and composer.
That's only a problem if you never log in to gmail or some other personalized service. Once you do that, Google knows it's you. Sure, it can get confused if you log in from a friend's computer that never logged in to gmail before but has a Google cookie. Sure would be funny if all your friend's searches were linked to your Google profile that way.
The difference is your history of search queries and your private email isn't public record. Sure, magazine subscriptions and the stores where you shop are enough info to lump you into a vague category of "marketing preferences", but it's nowhere near the level of detail that Google/AOL/MSN could compile through your login.
Don't forget to clear your cookies or block them from Google. The default Google cookie doesn't expire for 30 years, and with it Google can track all your activity on Google sites, from maps to gmail to search.
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Any kind of portable electronics have a pretty high rate of loss, theft and accidental damage. iPods probably have a higher rate of theft than, say, mobile phones because they're easily transferrable and can't be disabled by the network. Compared to other brand MP3 players, they're a bigger theft target because of their popularity.
Nah, there's no physics more advanced than Newton involved in this explosion. Somebody miscalculated the forces and didn't build the structure strong enough. Mechanical engineers don't work with relativistic velocities or quantum dimensions.:)
That's an important point. Electricity can be generated from many different sources of energy. Jet fuel can only be made from oil, and the airlines are barely hanging on with current oil prices. All energy will be more expensive in the future, but oil prices will most likely outpace electrical rates. Anyone want to bet how long before oil prices put the airlines out of business?
Undervolting goes well with underclocking too. If you have a good CPU, you can undervolt a lot even at stock speed. You can tweak it pretty easily in Windows using RMClock. It's a little more challenging in Linux, but still possible. You have to edit the voltage tables in the speedstep_centrino kernel module and recompile it.
Yes, if you look at modern racetracks, there's plenty of runoff room, so most of the time, cars will slide off and safely come to a stop. Collisions are pretty rare, and if they occur, they'll hit barriers at an oblique angle. However, if you've seen crashes where the cars tumble and roll, they do a great job protecting the driver. A street car rolling the same way would be a fatality.
You can't compare a one-off F1 car to any mass produced vehicle. A Dallara Indycar chassis is just as crashworthy, and they cost $300,000. Indycars are still handmade, but at least they're produced in larger quantities and for several years per design. Most of the R&D cost of an F1 car is in aerodynamics and wringing the last bit of power out of those 18,000 rpm engines. Building a strong, crashworthy structure that hits minimum weight is the easy part.
Urban areas used to be a requirement back in the days when communication was difficult and expensive.
And in the future, energy will be expensive. Without cheap oil for transportation, surburbia becomes completely unaffordable. Even assuming your telecommuter's utopia eliminates most commuting, there's still all the other car trips that suburbanites have to make.
That's an important point. Before the ethanol boom, most of our corn wasn't used for food either. We already grow more corn than we could possibly eat, even with all our processed food full of corn syrup. You could say the factory farms and resulting cheap meat are a make-work program for our corn farmers. I'm as much a carnivore as the next guy here, but I'd rather have an occasional meal with good quality grass-fed beef than stuff myself with lots of cheap meat in every meal.
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Ah yes, the GMAC business model. Lose money selling cars, make money charging interest.
He's gotten as high as the comptroller's office who said to install the pirated Office. You can go higher still, but who's going to care and who actually understands the exposure to liability from a BSA audit? General Counsel? CIO? Those two should understand the legal and IT side of this issue. If they don't care, you're obviously dealing with a clue-deprived organization. Document this (on paper too) and don't be the fall guy.
If you forget about ebay prices of the Wii for a second, the Xbox360 is also being discounted. Just before Christmas, you could find deals for a 360 Premium at regular price bundled with a free Madden game or a $50 gift card. The deals aren't as good now, but you can still find them sometimes.
They do have a plan for that. A blanket around the reactor containing lithium will both capture heat and breed tritium that's needed for the fusion reaction. One big problem for commercial generation though is the logistical bottleneck of producing enough tritium. Just ITER will use a significant fraction of the world's supply of tritium. The lithium blanket will breed enough tritium for itself and maybe to seed another reactor.
http://www-fusion-magnetique.cea.fr/gb/cea/next/c
Don't blame the bloated cost structure on development. Drug companies spend much more on marketing than R&D. All those TV commercials and freebies to doctors don't come cheap. Why are prescription drugs advertised on TV to everybody when only doctors can prescribe them?
Yeah. Since photons have no charge, a *magnetic* shield doesn't nothing against radiation. This article is about a magnetic shield to deflect charged particles like cosmic rays and solar wind.
California went a bit farther with their ReadyReturn program. Since the tax agency has your payroll info already, they mailed tax forms that precalculated the tax for people with easy returns. Intuit lobbied to kill it, and because one of our Board of Equalization members supported it, Intuit spent $1,000,000 to run attack ads against him in the election for State Comptroller. He still won, so to hell with Intuit.
John Edwards has proposed something similar for federal taxes, and I'm expecting similar fight. I don't know what the big deal is. An EZ filer doesn't need Turbotax.
It is ridiculous because it costs less for the IRS to process electronic returns vs. paper, but the only way to file electronically is through a tax prep firm thanks to industry lobbying. They lobbied to legislate inefficiency to protect the economic rents of private companies.
Tax prep fees are deductible only if they exceed 2% of your adjusted gross income. 50 bucks for Turbotax and electronic filing don't even come close to that.
Not exactly. Public performance royalties only go to the composer, not the performer. Britney Spears doesn't make any money from ASCAP/BMI, not unless she wrote any of her own songs. What sucks for webcasters and is different from radio is that they have to pay royalties to both the performer and composer.
Pretty easy to calculate. A PS3 uses about 180W when it's folding. Assuming electricity costs $0.11/kW/h, it costs $14.25 per month to run it 24/7.
That's only a problem if you never log in to gmail or some other personalized service. Once you do that, Google knows it's you. Sure, it can get confused if you log in from a friend's computer that never logged in to gmail before but has a Google cookie. Sure would be funny if all your friend's searches were linked to your Google profile that way.
The difference is your history of search queries and your private email isn't public record. Sure, magazine subscriptions and the stores where you shop are enough info to lump you into a vague category of "marketing preferences", but it's nowhere near the level of detail that Google/AOL/MSN could compile through your login.
Sure, they can track a session that way, but close your browser, start at www.google.com, and there's no session id in the URL any more.
Don't forget to clear your cookies or block them from Google. The default Google cookie doesn't expire for 30 years, and with it Google can track all your activity on Google sites, from maps to gmail to search.
Any kind of portable electronics have a pretty high rate of loss, theft and accidental damage. iPods probably have a higher rate of theft than, say, mobile phones because they're easily transferrable and can't be disabled by the network. Compared to other brand MP3 players, they're a bigger theft target because of their popularity.
Nah, there's no physics more advanced than Newton involved in this explosion. Somebody miscalculated the forces and didn't build the structure strong enough. Mechanical engineers don't work with relativistic velocities or quantum dimensions. :)
That's an important point. Electricity can be generated from many different sources of energy. Jet fuel can only be made from oil, and the airlines are barely hanging on with current oil prices. All energy will be more expensive in the future, but oil prices will most likely outpace electrical rates. Anyone want to bet how long before oil prices put the airlines out of business?
Undervolting goes well with underclocking too. If you have a good CPU, you can undervolt a lot even at stock speed. You can tweak it pretty easily in Windows using RMClock. It's a little more challenging in Linux, but still possible. You have to edit the voltage tables in the speedstep_centrino kernel module and recompile it.
i ght-undervolt+speedstep.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-341298-highl
Yes, if you look at modern racetracks, there's plenty of runoff room, so most of the time, cars will slide off and safely come to a stop. Collisions are pretty rare, and if they occur, they'll hit barriers at an oblique angle. However, if you've seen crashes where the cars tumble and roll, they do a great job protecting the driver. A street car rolling the same way would be a fatality.
You can't compare a one-off F1 car to any mass produced vehicle. A Dallara Indycar chassis is just as crashworthy, and they cost $300,000. Indycars are still handmade, but at least they're produced in larger quantities and for several years per design. Most of the R&D cost of an F1 car is in aerodynamics and wringing the last bit of power out of those 18,000 rpm engines. Building a strong, crashworthy structure that hits minimum weight is the easy part.
Formula 1 race cars are made out of carbon fiber and weigh a little over 1000lbs. Drivers regularly walk away from 150mph crashes.
And in the future, energy will be expensive. Without cheap oil for transportation, surburbia becomes completely unaffordable. Even assuming your telecommuter's utopia eliminates most commuting, there's still all the other car trips that suburbanites have to make.
That's an important point. Before the ethanol boom, most of our corn wasn't used for food either. We already grow more corn than we could possibly eat, even with all our processed food full of corn syrup. You could say the factory farms and resulting cheap meat are a make-work program for our corn farmers. I'm as much a carnivore as the next guy here, but I'd rather have an occasional meal with good quality grass-fed beef than stuff myself with lots of cheap meat in every meal.
Gasoline barely cost $1.25 a gallon in 1997. Efficiency and running out of cheap oil was the last thing on our minds.