And it's not just that the legislature of big oil is trying to pick the automotive winner, but they are doing it on the backs of Texans' rights to choose for themselves what car they can buy.
I lol'd, especially when I realized that we could be talking about A LITA of cola. If Super Troopers somehow how make it into the movie, then the significance will be profound indeed.
From the article, one cannot tell what the fines are attributable to. For example, if the fines are in fact a form of back-pay on some of the taxes, then the comparison doesn't really make much sense. Google is presumably run by rational people who are working to optimize their bottom line.
I was thinking along these lines as well. There was Syncalc for the Atari 800 system, and I'm sure many others that don't immediately come to mind. It's actually surprising that neither the Commodore or Atari systems were mentioned at all as they had their own cottage industries of business-like software.
Your post reminds me of the US House representative who asked a navy admiral during a formal hearing if parking all the ships on one side of Guam would cause the island to tip over...
Yes, I still play. It's interesting to see other players who get trapped in a sort of hoarding mentality with extra toons that don't actually have any meta-game practicality. I think the publisher actually relies on this to sell coins so that players will buy more bag space.
While courts have found that identifying a suspect by IP address isn't sufficiently specific, maybe it should be enough to secure a search warrant. Then you can send in the cops and bust these creeps.
I'd like to see your math on the solar nonsense you just spewed. I looked at my electric bill very carefully, looked at 5KW system cost, and figured out my break-even point would arrive in 8 years. Since panels have a 20 year warranty, everything after the 8-year point is gravy. Beyond that, the major utility of Northern California (PG&E) has been steadily eroding the number of KWh for Tier-1 pricing, meaning that each year, more people are spending more money more quickly as they get pushed into Tiers 2, 3, and 4. A minimalist solar install can get people out of these higher tiers and save tons of money in the process.
And no, nuclear and hydroelectric do not "win out" environmentally. No solar panel ever made the news for spewing radioactive waste after a critical failure, and damns are actually creating huge problems for people living down river with damaged fisheries, reductions in fertile soil, and ultimately suffer from sedimentation.
Rather than attack the messenger, please point to the evidence contradicting the story's evidence. Not everybody automatically responds positively to, "it's fake news!"
I remember reading something about this kind of technology several years ago. The advantages were massive improvement in battery life (presumably before OLEDs became widely available) and its disadvantage was that the screen could only manage about 30 FPS before smearing would set in. I cannot remember what was said about its brightness.
With OLEDs out there, power consumption has dropped considerably. It's not great, but visually it's so superior to anything else that people will put up with the still-inferior battery performance.
It may be $5.00 worth of silicon, but the $1billion+ factory and the thousands of employees it took to design and QA that silicon must be amortized across each and every piece of silicon sold. It's not as though CPUs and software have similar capital expenses.
If you make accessories too expensive, you end up putting yourself in the price range of real laptops running Windows while holding no real competitive advantages. No thanks.
Not sure how many releases back you're talking about, but I have to give MS some credit for Power Query and Power Pivot being added to Excel. They are fairly powerful client windows into whatever database your company uses and allow for rapid generation of a poor-man's data cube. It's occasionally buggy, but still very useful.
My kids have on occasion wanted to buy movies from Comcast and I have resisted specifically because I don't want to have to do business with a specific utility in order to maintain access to purchased content. Instead, I have allowed that content to be purchased from the equivalent of merchants like Apple and Amazon. This story sets a dangerous path that suggests physical media may still be the only way to go. It also gives a certain amount of moral license back to torrent downloads.
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And it's not just that the legislature of big oil is trying to pick the automotive winner, but they are doing it on the backs of Texans' rights to choose for themselves what car they can buy.
*lie, not lay
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Yup. Swamp drained!
I lol'd, especially when I realized that we could be talking about A LITA of cola. If Super Troopers somehow how make it into the movie, then the significance will be profound indeed.
From the article, one cannot tell what the fines are attributable to. For example, if the fines are in fact a form of back-pay on some of the taxes, then the comparison doesn't really make much sense. Google is presumably run by rational people who are working to optimize their bottom line.
I was thinking along these lines as well. There was Syncalc for the Atari 800 system, and I'm sure many others that don't immediately come to mind. It's actually surprising that neither the Commodore or Atari systems were mentioned at all as they had their own cottage industries of business-like software.
Your post reminds me of the US House representative who asked a navy admiral during a formal hearing if parking all the ships on one side of Guam would cause the island to tip over...
Let's Make Polling Great Again!
Talk about a guy obsessed with image. I can't ever remember another story quite like this one.
Yes, I still play. It's interesting to see other players who get trapped in a sort of hoarding mentality with extra toons that don't actually have any meta-game practicality. I think the publisher actually relies on this to sell coins so that players will buy more bag space.
are the editors awake?
While courts have found that identifying a suspect by IP address isn't sufficiently specific, maybe it should be enough to secure a search warrant. Then you can send in the cops and bust these creeps.
I'd like to see your math on the solar nonsense you just spewed. I looked at my electric bill very carefully, looked at 5KW system cost, and figured out my break-even point would arrive in 8 years. Since panels have a 20 year warranty, everything after the 8-year point is gravy. Beyond that, the major utility of Northern California (PG&E) has been steadily eroding the number of KWh for Tier-1 pricing, meaning that each year, more people are spending more money more quickly as they get pushed into Tiers 2, 3, and 4. A minimalist solar install can get people out of these higher tiers and save tons of money in the process.
And no, nuclear and hydroelectric do not "win out" environmentally. No solar panel ever made the news for spewing radioactive waste after a critical failure, and damns are actually creating huge problems for people living down river with damaged fisheries, reductions in fertile soil, and ultimately suffer from sedimentation.
Just when you thought you couldn't get any dumber, social media companies step in to help
...because I had never heard of any of this stuff until today. Reading the comments, it sounds like my life is happier for being ignorant.
Just use Greenwich Mean Time and then use a dimension table to figure out what your offset is. Doesn't seem that complicated.
Thanks for the free art. I heard some guy paid $500k for something I just downloaded...
Rather than attack the messenger, please point to the evidence contradicting the story's evidence. Not everybody automatically responds positively to, "it's fake news!"
I remember reading something about this kind of technology several years ago. The advantages were massive improvement in battery life (presumably before OLEDs became widely available) and its disadvantage was that the screen could only manage about 30 FPS before smearing would set in. I cannot remember what was said about its brightness. With OLEDs out there, power consumption has dropped considerably. It's not great, but visually it's so superior to anything else that people will put up with the still-inferior battery performance.
It may be $5.00 worth of silicon, but the $1billion+ factory and the thousands of employees it took to design and QA that silicon must be amortized across each and every piece of silicon sold. It's not as though CPUs and software have similar capital expenses.
If you make accessories too expensive, you end up putting yourself in the price range of real laptops running Windows while holding no real competitive advantages. No thanks.
Not sure how many releases back you're talking about, but I have to give MS some credit for Power Query and Power Pivot being added to Excel. They are fairly powerful client windows into whatever database your company uses and allow for rapid generation of a poor-man's data cube. It's occasionally buggy, but still very useful.
I'd pay good money for the next version of Office if they'd let the user ditch the ribbon for the classic menu drop-downs.
My kids have on occasion wanted to buy movies from Comcast and I have resisted specifically because I don't want to have to do business with a specific utility in order to maintain access to purchased content. Instead, I have allowed that content to be purchased from the equivalent of merchants like Apple and Amazon. This story sets a dangerous path that suggests physical media may still be the only way to go. It also gives a certain amount of moral license back to torrent downloads.
with my gas furnace...
And what of my gas stove?
I sure hope this only applies to new construction and not existing homes