New technology means a few things to them they don't like: 1) new competitors, where they do not have government granted monopolies 2) new business models, which are murder on large established companies
Now the power companies solution is generally conservation, they don't want to make the new capital expenditure any sooner than necessary, but the oil companies have a hige vested interest in the status quo. It's low margin, but hugely profitable, due to the fact that one cannot compete with them.
Considering where our tax dollars are going, I think what you're trying to say he's part of the military industrial complex? All of those people are employed though, so I'm confused.
My understanding is that much of our oil comes from when plants were new, nothing was breaking down and consuming their cells, that are much tougher than animal cells. That has since changed. The carbon in a fallen tree is not going to be stored for millions of years and become oil, it is going to be broken down into CO2 by fungi and bacteria well before then.
It wasn't long ago that it couldn't support a million people with an American standard of living.
Things like clean water, medicine, TV and the internet did not exist.
The earth could quite possibly support billions of people with American life styles, just not right now, With the ability to convert energy to matter and matter to energy with very little loss for example (I don't think that's coming soon, but it is still quite likely that in 2050 the earth can sustain 9 billion people quite well, even if right now it can only sustain one billion).
It's not the pay they like, it's the "A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's dormitories, and then each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames."
They don't like the low wages as much as the like the complete control over a worker's life.
Most have good WYSIWYG editors for content, and basic easy to mark-up themes (or good enough to use selecting a few options if you don't need anything that custom).
Though this ask/. mentions legacy ASP, so I assume the author knows something about his/her specifics I don't (anything about legacy ASP for one).
I don't know where I'd ever use a WYSIWYG editor for HTML, aside from adding articles to my established theme, but I don't edit legacy ASP applications either.
1) I'm pretty sure gp meant the problem was pollution in the traditional sense (poor air quality), which is what most of the summary was about, is the bigger problem 2) the dates make for a meaningless comparison,making I clear the article is a fluff piece.
CA on is a real problem, but is not what I assume the primary focus of the article is, as it's not generally called pollution.
The site's product page talked about how it'd be useful for everyone, Rural Indian, European Student, American Businessman, blah blah. Listed prices and everything, I was never able to buy one.
OLPC at least has a history of getting reasonable priced things into my hands (original BOGO was slightly more than a netbook, lower speced, but far more rugged, portable, and usable outdoor). For $200 at the time (the cost without charity, but unavailable in small/medium quantities, I think 500 was the minimum to buy at cost), it was a great deal, though less general purpose than a more expensive netbook.
I imagine that the XO-3 will be more rugged, more sun view-able, bulkier and slower than a typical tablet, but even at $200 be a decent deal.
If they actually controlled the prices, then the flood would of effected nothing. The fact that a supply shortage resulted in a steep price increase shows that the market is actually working as a market. Were there no shortage and prices shot up, that would be evidence of market manipulation, and if prices stayed the same even though there was a shortage it would be stronger evidence.
Suppliers that manipulate price charge the most they possibly can, in a market prices fluctuate with supply and demand.
This is actually probably healthy for the industry, based on how low prices were getting, and the consolidation mentioned, along with competition from new players (SSD manufacturers), there was most likely an over-supply of HDDs, pushing prices too low to be sustainable.
This flooding may be the only thing that keeps us with 2 suppliers in the long run.
Do you use the defrost/defog most of the time? cars with AC run it while defrosting, to keep the air dryer. I know I use defrost more than I use AC, as I prefer to have hot air coming out of the top and lower vents, rather than the middle, or lower only. Also, while the engine's cold idle speeds are higher, though I don't kow how much extra gas that takes.
I actually get better economy in the winter, I assume it has to do with the fact that a "gallon" of gas is more when the ground is cold, and that cold air expands more.
Certainly in a hybrid, where it will be running the engine to produce heat when it may not otherwise, cold weather will hurt efficiency more than a conventional drive, where the heat is essentially free.
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It would take a few election of that, but eventually two things could happen (but not necessarily).
1) if the job is shorter, it will be less sought after by the power hungry.
2) eventually people that are not not going to take campaign money from big corporations in exchange for votes will make it in.
The most disturbing things about Chris Dodd to me are that he doesn't care about money from his voters, and that he thinks of it as a career.
The fact that huge unpopularity of a bill doesn't put his job at risk, but donations do is a little surprising to me.
New technology means a few things to them they don't like:
1) new competitors, where they do not have government granted monopolies
2) new business models, which are murder on large established companies
Now the power companies solution is generally conservation, they don't want to make the new capital expenditure any sooner than necessary, but the oil companies have a hige vested interest in the status quo. It's low margin, but hugely profitable, due to the fact that one cannot compete with them.
Considering where our tax dollars are going, I think what you're trying to say he's part of the military industrial complex? All of those people are employed though, so I'm confused.
I believe it also takes a new type of biomass.
My understanding is that much of our oil comes from when plants were new, nothing was breaking down and consuming their cells, that are much tougher than animal cells. That has since changed. The carbon in a fallen tree is not going to be stored for millions of years and become oil, it is going to be broken down into CO2 by fungi and bacteria well before then.
Technology plays a role too though.
It wasn't long ago that it couldn't support a million people with an American standard of living.
Things like clean water, medicine, TV and the internet did not exist.
The earth could quite possibly support billions of people with American life styles, just not right now, With the ability to convert energy to matter and matter to energy with very little loss for example (I don't think that's coming soon, but it is still quite likely that in 2050 the earth can sustain 9 billion people quite well, even if right now it can only sustain one billion).
Which comes back to working conditions.
It's not the pay they like, it's the "A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's dormitories, and then each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames."
They don't like the low wages as much as the like the complete control over a worker's life.
This is generally true.
Most have good WYSIWYG editors for content, and basic easy to mark-up themes (or good enough to use selecting a few options if you don't need anything that custom).
Though this ask /. mentions legacy ASP, so I assume the author knows something about his/her specifics I don't (anything about legacy ASP for one).
I don't know where I'd ever use a WYSIWYG editor for HTML, aside from adding articles to my established theme, but I don't edit legacy ASP applications either.
SOPA is backed by comcast too.
It used to get real slow to find posts more than a couple pages off the first wall page (things may have changed in 2 years though).
But I agree, stuff used to be there. Also, don't you need to install a timeline app, and pick who gets to see a timeline vs your wall?
I hardly feel it was shoved down users throats.
Outlook webmail was one of the first uses.
You're right, it was for new updates on MS's homepage initially, it wasn't until the next year it was used for Outlook Web Access.
A couple years later it was included in Gecko, and the first time it blew my mind was using google maps years later.
It's still a communication created and consumed on employees hardware, and transmitted from it.
Probably cached too, but perhaps not.
Or at least composed an email using outlook webmail?
People have been doing business communications from home computers for a long time. AJAX was developed initially to make that work better.
1) I'm pretty sure gp meant the problem was pollution in the traditional sense (poor air quality), which is what most of the summary was about, is the bigger problem
2) the dates make for a meaningless comparison,making I clear the article is a fluff piece.
CA on is a real problem, but is not what I assume the primary focus of the article is, as it's not generally called pollution.
Block heater could be the difference.
I would think denser air would allow for more expansion, giving power and efficiency (much like a turbo can), but what do I know.
Hmmm, where have I read about Indian cheap computers coming available within a month before?
Oh, right, it was here http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/02/10/07/1233208/indian-linux-pda-for-300
The site's product page talked about how it'd be useful for everyone, Rural Indian, European Student, American Businessman, blah blah. Listed prices and everything, I was never able to buy one.
OLPC at least has a history of getting reasonable priced things into my hands (original BOGO was slightly more than a netbook, lower speced, but far more rugged, portable, and usable outdoor). For $200 at the time (the cost without charity, but unavailable in small/medium quantities, I think 500 was the minimum to buy at cost), it was a great deal, though less general purpose than a more expensive netbook.
I imagine that the XO-3 will be more rugged, more sun view-able, bulkier and slower than a typical tablet, but even at $200 be a decent deal.
If they actually controlled the prices, then the flood would of effected nothing. The fact that a supply shortage resulted in a steep price increase shows that the market is actually working as a market. Were there no shortage and prices shot up, that would be evidence of market manipulation, and if prices stayed the same even though there was a shortage it would be stronger evidence.
Suppliers that manipulate price charge the most they possibly can, in a market prices fluctuate with supply and demand.
This is actually probably healthy for the industry, based on how low prices were getting, and the consolidation mentioned, along with competition from new players (SSD manufacturers), there was most likely an over-supply of HDDs, pushing prices too low to be sustainable.
This flooding may be the only thing that keeps us with 2 suppliers in the long run.
Do you use the defrost/defog most of the time? cars with AC run it while defrosting, to keep the air dryer. I know I use defrost more than I use AC, as I prefer to have hot air coming out of the top and lower vents, rather than the middle, or lower only. Also, while the engine's cold idle speeds are higher, though I don't kow how much extra gas that takes.
I actually get better economy in the winter, I assume it has to do with the fact that a "gallon" of gas is more when the ground is cold, and that cold air expands more.
Certainly in a hybrid, where it will be running the engine to produce heat when it may not otherwise, cold weather will hurt efficiency more than a conventional drive, where the heat is essentially free.
Well, if WMF has some contributors that are terrorist aligned, under new legislation they could be jailed indefinitely without trial.
In the broadest reading of the law that is, of course we know that will never happen in the land of the free...
at 24.9 years, you better have enough equity to prevent that from happening even after the collapse.
You've paid off 50 (12% interest rate) - 70 (5% interest rate) percent of the balance at that point, and had years of inflation in your favor.
The smart money is paying the extra 20% a payment and getting a 15 year mortgage if paying interest is so offensive to you.
It wasn't the law requiring I buy scan dongles for ipro, and if the software were gpl, there would be a version that didn't require them.
Yes you can, ride half a car-width to the right, and accelerate. I see it all the time.
City driving is a bitch.
Agreed, but as a typical computer user (web, email word processing ) they are a huge part of "just works"
This was pretty much fixed in 4.5, and I'd say completely fixed in 4.6 with a lot of code clean-up done while making compatible with mobile GL.
I found nothing to "just work" with 512M of RAM for a while (I upgraded a while ago).
Once Flash, and Web-browsing were in the mix, it just wasn't enough.