Yeah, Reading PA. Go look it up on a map. They weren't going to be having multiple substation outages that far inland. My own workplace didn't lose power and is about 20 miles further East. It doesn't hurt that they're about 200 yards from a substation and that both the substation and the plant site are fed by transmission lines on steel towards that stand WAY above the height of nearby trees.
Sure, not for this disaster, but how about the next one that might be a tornado that goes through Reading. Or an earthquake. Or an east coast ice storm that downs powerlines (including steel towered transmission lines) throughout the region.
Locating a datacenter well outside of a disaster zone just shows that they were lucky for this particular disaster.
I'd say that locating outside of the hurricane's path was the better choice
If it isn't a hurricane, it's an Earthquake. If not that, then a nasty Blizzard. Or a Tornado. You can't avoid them all, and its best to prepare as best you can for the events possible at the location that you choose. No one can prevent all disasters, but you can mitigate the risk.
And the best way to mitigate risk is to have your DR site in a completely different geographical area. Relying on a single datacenter to keep your company running during a large scale disaster is foolish.
What does Mr. Anonymous Coward, Site Reliability Engineer Extrordinaire, do now? More importantly, did you think of it before this hundred-year storm?
I think he'd do exactly what this ISP did -- locate their main facility outside the city so they aren't constrained by urban high-rise fire codes and expensive real estate costs.
Note that their Wilmington facility is in a high-rise building and only has around 10000 gallons of fuel. At 3MW, that gives them around 48 hours before they need to refuel, so if they experienced flooding and power loss at that site, they would have had the same problem as the NYC datacenters. Their suburban Reading facility has over 30,000 gallons of fuel - and are located above the 500 year flood plain.
I'd say that locating outside of the hurricane's path was the better choice - having backup power does no good if the carriers that serve you can't power their equipment (like the earlier anecdote from the other datacenter about one of their carriers having their generator confiscated by the NYPD)
Of course their power never went out, they had three separate electric companies wired in, if one went down a second kicked in, if that went down one of their two generators kicked in.
I wonder if that's true - I can believe that they bring in power from several different substations, but if there were a widespread grid outage, it seems like that would have taking out all of their substations.
I don't understand this comment:
We potentially have two power grids. We actually have three. The third we would never go to, I don’t think.
Why would they connect to a power source that they'd never go to?
Why do we have these same news reports every time MS releases a new operating system?
The truth is that Windows 7 (and even Windows XP) is more than sufficient for most users. For that matter, a ChromeBook is sufficient for "most" users that really need only a web browser. I work in IT during the day and do some software development so I use a computer and applications heavily at work, but when I'm home, a Chromebook would do pretty much anything I need a computer for. I'm not into gaming and haven't purchased software for my home laptop in years - I've bought a lot more apps for my phone than for my laptop. Even if I were interested in gaming, I'd probably use a game console so I could play on my TV.
Additionally, most users don't ever want to upgrade their operating system - they'll wait until they buy a new computer since that's generally necessary to take full advantage of the new OS anyway.
As long as MS maintains its OEM channel, then Win8 will be a slow steady success. Though they really need Win8 RT to be successful since the PC buying trend seems to be shifting to tablets.
Please don't confuse a bump in a major version number with a "huge rewrite". It's marketing for "we added more features," no "we've rewritten this for the seventh time."
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with your point but the US is a tiny part of the global mobile phone market. You could have 0% US market share but have a ton elsewhere and you would still be rolling in money.
Surely you could have clicked through the article I linked to before making your irrelevant point, Apple is doing even worse in the global market... from TFA:
In the third quarter, IDC reports, Android sales accounted for a staggering 75% of the smartphone market. Apple sales, meanwhile, accounted for only 15%. Android is still gaining share rapidly, so Apple's share may shrink even further.
How can Apple's stock tank? They are the only players in the smartphone and tablet market for the most part. In fact, all they have to do is introduce a new device and they just created a new ecosystem. Stock goes low, out comes a phablet.
That's weird, I'm almost certain that I heard about a competitor to Apple in the mobile device space:
In the US, Apple's market share is stronger. According to Comscore, Android had 53% of the market in September, as compared to Apple's 34%.
In the short term, Apple has nothing to fear, they have plenty of money in the bank, but they need to keep coming out with innovative, game changing devices - incremental updates of their existing product line isn't going to fend off the competition. And they need to avoid more Apple Maps type blunders - don't ship a product until it's done.
It dips again, they make a server grade appliance similar to the XServe except with an iOS version running server apps
I don't know what the purpose of such an "enterprise grade IOS appliance" would be, but I think it's unlikely that Apple would try a push into the crowded Enterprise server market again.
The biggest advantage of an eReader to me is that I generally read more than 1 book at a time. I might be reading a science fiction anthology, a fictional novel, and a non-fiction book, and I switch between them. With an eReader, I only need to carry a single small device with me instead of 3 bulky books.
I can see this is a good argument if you travel a lot, and certainly I take an eReader on holiday, but personally I do 99% of my reading at home in my library, not in coffee shops, art galleries, student bars or whatever. It's an age thing.
Horses for courses, as always.
I don't think it's an age thing, my 70 year old dad loves reading on a Kindle because he can crank the font up to a size he can read. He doesn't, however, enjoy the online shopping, so I buy books for him.
I do most of my reading during my commute, so the Kindle is ideal for that. If I did all of my reading at home, I'd probably read plain paper books since they tend to be a fraction of the cost of eBooks when you buy them used. But if not for that cost differential I'd probably stick with the Kindle, I find it to be quite usable.
And by delicate, I mean that I wouldn't be able to do NEARLY as much to an e-reader as I can with a paperback.
Read in the bathtub without worry of losing more than about $12 and the time Amazon takes to ship? Check Read it at the beach without the slightest care about sand or moisture? Check
My Kindle is better at these tasks than a book - I just put it in a zip-lock baggy and I'm good to go. I've dropped it in the hot tub more than once without a problem. Drop your book in the tub and you're probably not going to be reading it until it dries out. The beaches here tend to be breezy, so I prefer reading the zip-lock enclosed kindle over a paper book or magazine since the pages don't flutter with the wind.
Lob it across the bathroom away from the bathtub when I'm done reading for the time? Check Hurl it down the hallway towards a pile of things I'm gathering for whatever outing? Check
I agree that a kindle probably wouldn't stand up to this behavior, but when I'd done reading in the tub (whether an eBook, paperback, or magazine, I set it on the floor next to the tub, I don't really lob anything across the room.
Likewise when I'm gathering things for an outing, I generally put them in my backpack, I don't hurl them down the hall. But hey, everyone has their style.
Leave it in the car in the middle of winter? Sure! Leave it anywhere remotely close to a window in the middle of winter? No problem!
The coldest my Kindle has been is around 10 degrees left in my car overnight. I haven't used it below around 50 degrees - if I'm in a place much colder than that, I'm generally not going to be reading. I've also left it in the car during 90 degree days and it was fine. I don't know how well it stands up to extreme temperatures, but fortunately, we don't have those temperatures here. Would -50 temperatures kill a Kindle?
The biggest advantage of an eReader to me is that I generally read more than 1 book at a time. I might be reading a science fiction anthology, a fictional novel, and a non-fiction book, and I switch between them. With an eReader, I only need to carry a single small device with me instead of 3 bulky books.
What you are talking about is your employer redirecting all traffic through a proxy in which they have set up a snake-oil cert which your computer has been set up to trust. Which is neat and all, but quite besides the point. The mail was read on the server, hence the communication TO the server (which might be SSL) is irrelevant. If you encrypt your messages using a GPG identity or some such, then your employer will NOT be able to read your e-mail, or anyone else for that matter.
Moral of this story? Encrypt your data, shocking, I know.
Unless, of course, the employer runs screen capture software on your computer.
The moral of the story is still, don't trust anyone else's hardware. And probably don't even trust your own hardware if you're CIA director, since you never know if its been compromised.
Keep in mind that if you read your email using your work computer, then your employer can read it too - don't trust SSL to keep it private, your employer can transparently decrypt the SSL stream and re-encrypt using their own cert which your (well, your employer's) computer will trust.
If you want to keep your private email private, only read it on your own device, don't trust anyone else's device.
"When I buy a car the dealer doesn't tell me that I have to buy a car alarm with it at extra cost."
You've not bought a car from a dealer lot recently, have you?
Expect to find LoJack (even in markets where the local police have bought zero units), alarms, windshield VIN etching, clear paint protectors, sealants, rust proofing, teflon upholstery protection and a wide variety of exciting floor mats pre installed and added on to the price of every actually available car, taking them way above and beyond the "Starting From..." low, low advertized MSRP on the banners around the lot. Listen to the radio commercials where whichever "mile of cars" with "over X thousand vehicles to choose from!" has "three at this price."
"
If you fall for this, then you deserve what you get -- trumped up dealer add-ons have always been a part of the car buying game. Unless you're looking for a hard to find car (in which case you're going to just have to pay whatever the dealer asks), if you don't want a dealer add-on, just tell him you'll get the car elsewhere. He'll either remove them or write them off (since the dealer cost is a small fraction of what they are charging).
I just bought a car a few months ago, and that's exactly what I did -- I told the salesman I wasn't going to pay for his "$199 upgraded floor mats", "$299 auto-dimming compass mirror", "$59 first aid kit", and certainly wasn't going to buy a $299 paint protection package. I was clear that if it's not on the manufacturer's window sheet, I'm not paying for it. After the traditional "I need to approve this with my manager", they took the mats (the same OEM mats are available for $59 online) out of the car and threw in the mirror and first aid kit for "free" and stopped trying to upsell the rustproofing and paint protection package. I still got the car under published invoice price (which of course, is not his real cost for the car).
Shop around, look for cars well outside your area, so you can tell the dealer "I saw this exact car at XXX dealer, if you don't want to sell me the car, I'll get it from him". But above all, be prepared to walk if you don't get the deal you want.
not necessarily, he can always say that it wasn't well indicated on the box or website when he bought the game. So this can be applied under "false advertisement" since it doesn't tell him that he must pay additional money.
But he doesn't have to buy it -- he can pick a secure password and protect it (and protect his computer against keyloggers and other malware). When I buy a car the dealer doesn't tell me that I have to buy a car alarm with it at extra cost. Because I don't. It might be prudent, depending on where I park the car, but it's not necessary.
Actually your car analogy doesn't work here. When I bought my car, the dealership installed another car alarm system for higher revenue on the sale.
The analogy still applies - the car dealer installed an alarm system that you wanted, and you paid for it. If you didn't want the alarm system, you wouldn't have paid for it. The dealer may have said "Oh, too late, it's already installed, you have to pay for it", and if you don't want it, you just say "No problem, I'll buy the car at another dealer, and suddenly you'll find that the "non-removable" alarm system can suddenly be removed, or that the $499 alarm system is yours for free. They aren't going to let you walk over an alarm that cost them less than $100 to install.
This is like Blizzard saying "Do you want the $6 token to make your account safer? If you want it, you pay the $6, if you don't, you say "No thanks".
not necessarily, he can always say that it wasn't well indicated on the box or website when he bought the game. So this can be applied under "false advertisement" since it doesn't tell him that he must pay additional money.
But he doesn't have to buy it -- he can pick a secure password and protect it (and protect his computer against keyloggers and other malware). When I buy a car the dealer doesn't tell me that I have to buy a car alarm with it at extra cost. Because I don't. It might be prudent, depending on where I park the car, but it's not necessary.
If they win this suit, I'm going after Google to pay my phone bills since they give me the option of using SMS based authentication to protect my Gmail account.
People working in the inteligence and other sensitive business can't afford to have "secrets", because it could lead them to being blackmailed. Maybe Petraeus decided it was the most ethical thing to do (he would probably insist other members of the staff to resign were they in the same situation...)
But once he went public with it, it was no longer a "secret", so could not result in blackmail.
It's software. Look at the menu options and read the manual if you need a reference.
Can you not think?
I don't know if you'd bother to read the question, but he wasn't asking how to use the software, he was asking what software was recommended. It's not like he said "Hey, I just installed VMware on my computer and I don't know how to use it. Help!"
I fail to see how your post was modded insightful - you didn't even answer the question that was asked.
That's my point. While the heating elements are gas or oil powered, the fans to circulate the air are electric. Even radiators require SOME electricity to operate. At least in America, even gas-powered water heaters use electricity to ignite the pilot light when the water heater is activated, the pilot light does not stay lit 24/7 like older water heaters used to.
Hot water and steam heating systems can operate via convection - no electricity needed. (some do use electric circulating pumps, but many (especially older ones) use no electricity to circulate the water). Even some air based systems use convection to get the heated air to the rooms - no fans are needed, just big ducts.
Pretty amazing. Those low numbers aren't attainable here. You'd die of heat exposure.
How did Americans survive before the advent of air conditioning?
I lived in Memphis, TN for 5 years without any air conditioning - summertime temperatures were regularly well into the 90's with high humidity. Those in the southwest where there is low humidity in the summer can get by with "swamp coolers" to cool their house, but in Memphis my only reprieve was a whole house fan - a big 3 foot diameter fan that sucked air up into the attic through a central hallway - brought a nice breeze in through all open windows. Things got uncomfortable on the hottest days, but I was never near death.
If you're really living in an area where you'd die of heat exposure if the air conditioning fails, I'd move someplace safer.
what they tend to do here (least the places i've lived) instead is you pay the normal rate for juice, however its made locally. and then if you want it from a "green source" cause youre "environmentally conscious", you can pay extra for electricy that comes from a green source...cause it's somehow different from normal electricity. and there was a big scandal recently cause someone found out they were paying the premium and it couldnt be determined just how much of their juice was from the regular old power plant down the road, cause the systems arent seperate.
Since it's all one big grid, you don't need to know where *your* electricity is generated to know that you're taking advantage of "green" energy. If people are paying for 1MWh of "green" power and some green plant somewhere is injecting 1MWh of green energy into the grid, then they are getting what they are paying for.
It doesn't matter if most of the power to your house comes from the coal plant down the street and most of the power from the green goes to the industrial plant next door to the "green" plant. Your higher "green" rates are paying for that "green" generator to be hooked into the grid and generating power, reducing demand from non-green sources.
The race organizers (and the people talking to them) are idiots. They should have realized that they'd not be running another race in NY for a while and didn't really need the generators, and sold them at a 20% (or 50%, or whatever) markup to someone who wanted them, confident in their ability to buy more once stuff got back to normal. More people have generators, and the guys running the race make a profit off of their extra stuff that someone else wanted.
I think the generators in question were large rented generators, so the race organizers probably could not legally turn them over to someone else. The government could commandeer them, but most rental contracts won't allow you to sub-rent the equipment.
But even if they were owned generators, selling used generators for a 20% - 50% markup probably constitutes price gouging.
Slashdot Mirror
Time is not an ingredient.
The truly universal ingredient list would be: "Protons, Neutrons, Electrons"
I thought the universal ingredient list was quarks and electrons?
I just built 2 itx boxes:
1 with a e-350 apu board, 8gb of ram, and a 1tb hard drive for $195.00 for everything.
1 with a intel g550, itx board, 8gb of ram,and a 1Tb hd for $265 for everything.
I just bought a Zotaz Zbox - AMD E-450, 2GB RAM, 64GB for $300 in the same formfactor as this "new" Intel formfactor: 4.17in x 4.17in x 1.46in
http://www.zotacusa.com/zbox-nano-xs-ad11-plus.html
Yeah, Reading PA. Go look it up on a map. They weren't going to be having multiple substation outages that far inland. My own workplace didn't lose power and is about 20 miles further East. It doesn't hurt that they're about 200 yards from a substation and that both the substation and the plant site are fed by transmission lines on steel towards that stand WAY above the height of nearby trees.
Sure, not for this disaster, but how about the next one that might be a tornado that goes through Reading. Or an earthquake. Or an east coast ice storm that downs powerlines (including steel towered transmission lines) throughout the region.
Locating a datacenter well outside of a disaster zone just shows that they were lucky for this particular disaster.
I'd say that locating outside of the hurricane's path was the better choice
If it isn't a hurricane, it's an Earthquake. If not that, then a nasty Blizzard. Or a Tornado. You can't avoid them all, and its best to prepare as best you can for the events possible at the location that you choose. No one can prevent all disasters, but you can mitigate the risk.
And the best way to mitigate risk is to have your DR site in a completely different geographical area. Relying on a single datacenter to keep your company running during a large scale disaster is foolish.
What does Mr. Anonymous Coward, Site Reliability Engineer Extrordinaire, do now? More importantly, did you think of it before this hundred-year storm?
I think he'd do exactly what this ISP did -- locate their main facility outside the city so they aren't constrained by urban high-rise fire codes and expensive real estate costs.
Note that their Wilmington facility is in a high-rise building and only has around 10000 gallons of fuel. At 3MW, that gives them around 48 hours before they need to refuel, so if they experienced flooding and power loss at that site, they would have had the same problem as the NYC datacenters. Their suburban Reading facility has over 30,000 gallons of fuel - and are located above the 500 year flood plain.
generators + diesel, it's not rocket science.
I'd say that locating outside of the hurricane's path was the better choice - having backup power does no good if the carriers that serve you can't power their equipment (like the earlier anecdote from the other datacenter about one of their carriers having their generator confiscated by the NYPD)
Of course their power never went out, they had three separate electric companies wired in, if one went down a second kicked in, if that went down one of their two generators kicked in.
I wonder if that's true - I can believe that they bring in power from several different substations, but if there were a widespread grid outage, it seems like that would have taking out all of their substations.
I don't understand this comment:
We potentially have two power grids. We actually have three. The third we would never go to, I don’t think.
Why would they connect to a power source that they'd never go to?
Why do we have these same news reports every time MS releases a new operating system?
The truth is that Windows 7 (and even Windows XP) is more than sufficient for most users. For that matter, a ChromeBook is sufficient for "most" users that really need only a web browser. I work in IT during the day and do some software development so I use a computer and applications heavily at work, but when I'm home, a Chromebook would do pretty much anything I need a computer for. I'm not into gaming and haven't purchased software for my home laptop in years - I've bought a lot more apps for my phone than for my laptop. Even if I were interested in gaming, I'd probably use a game console so I could play on my TV.
Additionally, most users don't ever want to upgrade their operating system - they'll wait until they buy a new computer since that's generally necessary to take full advantage of the new OS anyway.
As long as MS maintains its OEM channel, then Win8 will be a slow steady success. Though they really need Win8 RT to be successful since the PC buying trend seems to be shifting to tablets.
Please don't confuse a bump in a major version number with a "huge rewrite". It's marketing for "we added more features," no "we've rewritten this for the seventh time."
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 still had GDI-related vulnerabilities in WMF/EMF handling left over from the Windows 3.0 days... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms08-021
Windows Phone 7 was based on the WinCE kernel, Windows Phone 8 is based on the WinNT kernel. if that's not a "huge rewrite", I don't know what is.
>In the US
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with your point but the US is a tiny part of the global mobile phone market. You could have 0% US market share but have a ton elsewhere and you would still be rolling in money.
Surely you could have clicked through the article I linked to before making your irrelevant point, Apple is doing even worse in the global market... from TFA:
In the third quarter, IDC reports, Android sales accounted for a staggering 75% of the smartphone market. Apple sales, meanwhile, accounted for only 15%. Android is still gaining share rapidly, so Apple's share may shrink even further.
How can Apple's stock tank? They are the only players in the smartphone and tablet market for the most part. In fact, all they have to do is introduce a new device and they just created a new ecosystem. Stock goes low, out comes a phablet.
That's weird, I'm almost certain that I heard about a competitor to Apple in the mobile device space:
http://www.businessinsider.com/mobile-market-share-2012-11
In the US, Apple's market share is stronger. According to Comscore, Android had 53% of the market in September, as compared to Apple's 34%.
In the short term, Apple has nothing to fear, they have plenty of money in the bank, but they need to keep coming out with innovative, game changing devices - incremental updates of their existing product line isn't going to fend off the competition. And they need to avoid more Apple Maps type blunders - don't ship a product until it's done.
It dips again, they make a server grade appliance similar to the XServe except with an iOS version running server apps
I don't know what the purpose of such an "enterprise grade IOS appliance" would be, but I think it's unlikely that Apple would try a push into the crowded Enterprise server market again.
The biggest advantage of an eReader to me is that I generally read more than 1 book at a time. I might be reading a science fiction anthology, a fictional novel, and a non-fiction book, and I switch between them. With an eReader, I only need to carry a single small device with me instead of 3 bulky books.
I can see this is a good argument if you travel a lot, and certainly I take an eReader on holiday, but personally I do 99% of my reading at home in my library, not in coffee shops, art galleries, student bars or whatever. It's an age thing.
Horses for courses, as always.
I don't think it's an age thing, my 70 year old dad loves reading on a Kindle because he can crank the font up to a size he can read. He doesn't, however, enjoy the online shopping, so I buy books for him.
I do most of my reading during my commute, so the Kindle is ideal for that. If I did all of my reading at home, I'd probably read plain paper books since they tend to be a fraction of the cost of eBooks when you buy them used. But if not for that cost differential I'd probably stick with the Kindle, I find it to be quite usable.
And by delicate, I mean that I wouldn't be able to do NEARLY as much to an e-reader as I can with a paperback.
Read in the bathtub without worry of losing more than about $12 and the time Amazon takes to ship? Check
Read it at the beach without the slightest care about sand or moisture? Check
My Kindle is better at these tasks than a book - I just put it in a zip-lock baggy and I'm good to go. I've dropped it in the hot tub more than once without a problem. Drop your book in the tub and you're probably not going to be reading it until it dries out. The beaches here tend to be breezy, so I prefer reading the zip-lock enclosed kindle over a paper book or magazine since the pages don't flutter with the wind.
Lob it across the bathroom away from the bathtub when I'm done reading for the time? Check
Hurl it down the hallway towards a pile of things I'm gathering for whatever outing? Check
I agree that a kindle probably wouldn't stand up to this behavior, but when I'd done reading in the tub (whether an eBook, paperback, or magazine, I set it on the floor next to the tub, I don't really lob anything across the room.
Likewise when I'm gathering things for an outing, I generally put them in my backpack, I don't hurl them down the hall. But hey, everyone has their style.
Leave it in the car in the middle of winter? Sure!
Leave it anywhere remotely close to a window in the middle of winter? No problem!
The coldest my Kindle has been is around 10 degrees left in my car overnight. I haven't used it below around 50 degrees - if I'm in a place much colder than that, I'm generally not going to be reading. I've also left it in the car during 90 degree days and it was fine. I don't know how well it stands up to extreme temperatures, but fortunately, we don't have those temperatures here. Would -50 temperatures kill a Kindle?
The biggest advantage of an eReader to me is that I generally read more than 1 book at a time. I might be reading a science fiction anthology, a fictional novel, and a non-fiction book, and I switch between them. With an eReader, I only need to carry a single small device with me instead of 3 bulky books.
What you are talking about is your employer redirecting all traffic through a proxy in which they have set up a snake-oil cert which your computer has been set up to trust. Which is neat and all, but quite besides the point. The mail was read on the server, hence the communication TO the server (which might be SSL) is irrelevant. If you encrypt your messages using a GPG identity or some such, then your employer will NOT be able to read your e-mail, or anyone else for that matter.
Moral of this story? Encrypt your data, shocking, I know.
Unless, of course, the employer runs screen capture software on your computer.
The moral of the story is still, don't trust anyone else's hardware. And probably don't even trust your own hardware if you're CIA director, since you never know if its been compromised.
Keep in mind that if you read your email using your work computer, then your employer can read it too - don't trust SSL to keep it private, your employer can transparently decrypt the SSL stream and re-encrypt using their own cert which your (well, your employer's) computer will trust.
If you want to keep your private email private, only read it on your own device, don't trust anyone else's device.
"When I buy a car the dealer doesn't tell me that I have to buy a car alarm with it at extra cost."
You've not bought a car from a dealer lot recently, have you?
Expect to find LoJack (even in markets where the local police have bought zero units), alarms, windshield VIN etching, clear paint protectors, sealants, rust proofing, teflon upholstery protection and a wide variety of exciting floor mats pre installed and added on to the price of every actually available car, taking them way above and beyond the "Starting From..." low, low advertized MSRP on the banners around the lot. Listen to the radio commercials where whichever "mile of cars" with "over X thousand vehicles to choose from!" has "three at this price."
"
If you fall for this, then you deserve what you get -- trumped up dealer add-ons have always been a part of the car buying game. Unless you're looking for a hard to find car (in which case you're going to just have to pay whatever the dealer asks), if you don't want a dealer add-on, just tell him you'll get the car elsewhere. He'll either remove them or write them off (since the dealer cost is a small fraction of what they are charging).
I just bought a car a few months ago, and that's exactly what I did -- I told the salesman I wasn't going to pay for his "$199 upgraded floor mats", "$299 auto-dimming compass mirror", "$59 first aid kit", and certainly wasn't going to buy a $299 paint protection package. I was clear that if it's not on the manufacturer's window sheet, I'm not paying for it. After the traditional "I need to approve this with my manager", they took the mats (the same OEM mats are available for $59 online) out of the car and threw in the mirror and first aid kit for "free" and stopped trying to upsell the rustproofing and paint protection package. I still got the car under published invoice price (which of course, is not his real cost for the car).
Shop around, look for cars well outside your area, so you can tell the dealer "I saw this exact car at XXX dealer, if you don't want to sell me the car, I'll get it from him". But above all, be prepared to walk if you don't get the deal you want.
not necessarily, he can always say that it wasn't well indicated on the box or website when he bought the game. So this can be applied under "false advertisement" since it doesn't tell him that he must pay additional money.
But he doesn't have to buy it -- he can pick a secure password and protect it (and protect his computer against keyloggers and other malware). When I buy a car the dealer doesn't tell me that I have to buy a car alarm with it at extra cost. Because I don't. It might be prudent, depending on where I park the car, but it's not necessary.
Actually your car analogy doesn't work here. When I bought my car, the dealership installed another car alarm system for higher revenue on the sale.
The analogy still applies - the car dealer installed an alarm system that you wanted, and you paid for it. If you didn't want the alarm system, you wouldn't have paid for it. The dealer may have said "Oh, too late, it's already installed, you have to pay for it", and if you don't want it, you just say "No problem, I'll buy the car at another dealer, and suddenly you'll find that the "non-removable" alarm system can suddenly be removed, or that the $499 alarm system is yours for free. They aren't going to let you walk over an alarm that cost them less than $100 to install.
This is like Blizzard saying "Do you want the $6 token to make your account safer? If you want it, you pay the $6, if you don't, you say "No thanks".
not necessarily, he can always say that it wasn't well indicated on the box or website when he bought the game. So this can be applied under "false advertisement" since it doesn't tell him that he must pay additional money.
But he doesn't have to buy it -- he can pick a secure password and protect it (and protect his computer against keyloggers and other malware). When I buy a car the dealer doesn't tell me that I have to buy a car alarm with it at extra cost. Because I don't. It might be prudent, depending on where I park the car, but it's not necessary.
If they win this suit, I'm going after Google to pay my phone bills since they give me the option of using SMS based authentication to protect my Gmail account.
People working in the inteligence and other sensitive business can't afford to have "secrets", because it could lead them to being blackmailed. Maybe Petraeus decided it was the most ethical thing to do (he would probably insist other members of the staff to resign were they in the same situation...)
But once he went public with it, it was no longer a "secret", so could not result in blackmail.
It's software. Look at the menu options and read the manual if you need a reference.
Can you not think?
I don't know if you'd bother to read the question, but he wasn't asking how to use the software, he was asking what software was recommended. It's not like he said "Hey, I just installed VMware on my computer and I don't know how to use it. Help!"
I fail to see how your post was modded insightful - you didn't even answer the question that was asked.
That's my point. While the heating elements are gas or oil powered, the fans to circulate the air are electric. Even radiators require SOME electricity to operate. At least in America, even gas-powered water heaters use electricity to ignite the pilot light when the water heater is activated, the pilot light does not stay lit 24/7 like older water heaters used to.
Hot water and steam heating systems can operate via convection - no electricity needed. (some do use electric circulating pumps, but many (especially older ones) use no electricity to circulate the water). Even some air based systems use convection to get the heated air to the rooms - no fans are needed, just big ducts.
Pretty amazing. Those low numbers aren't attainable here. You'd die of heat exposure.
How did Americans survive before the advent of air conditioning?
I lived in Memphis, TN for 5 years without any air conditioning - summertime temperatures were regularly well into the 90's with high humidity. Those in the southwest where there is low humidity in the summer can get by with "swamp coolers" to cool their house, but in Memphis my only reprieve was a whole house fan - a big 3 foot diameter fan that sucked air up into the attic through a central hallway - brought a nice breeze in through all open windows. Things got uncomfortable on the hottest days, but I was never near death.
If you're really living in an area where you'd die of heat exposure if the air conditioning fails, I'd move someplace safer.
what they tend to do here (least the places i've lived) instead is you pay the normal rate for juice, however its made locally. and then if you want it from a "green source" cause youre "environmentally conscious", you can pay extra for electricy that comes from a green source...cause it's somehow different from normal electricity. and there was a big scandal recently cause someone found out they were paying the premium and it couldnt be determined just how much of their juice was from the regular old power plant down the road, cause the systems arent seperate.
Since it's all one big grid, you don't need to know where *your* electricity is generated to know that you're taking advantage of "green" energy. If people are paying for 1MWh of "green" power and some green plant somewhere is injecting 1MWh of green energy into the grid, then they are getting what they are paying for.
It doesn't matter if most of the power to your house comes from the coal plant down the street and most of the power from the green goes to the industrial plant next door to the "green" plant. Your higher "green" rates are paying for that "green" generator to be hooked into the grid and generating power, reducing demand from non-green sources.
The race organizers (and the people talking to them) are idiots. They should have realized that they'd not be running another race in NY for a while and didn't really need the generators, and sold them at a 20% (or 50%, or whatever) markup to someone who wanted them, confident in their ability to buy more once stuff got back to normal. More people have generators, and the guys running the race make a profit off of their extra stuff that someone else wanted.
I think the generators in question were large rented generators, so the race organizers probably could not legally turn them over to someone else. The government could commandeer them, but most rental contracts won't allow you to sub-rent the equipment.
But even if they were owned generators, selling used generators for a 20% - 50% markup probably constitutes price gouging.