Wholesale is in the $140 range. Apple resellers don't make much on the hardware, but rather the accessories. That's why the salesmen will insit that you get the accompanying carry case or widget to go with it.
Notice how all cars have four wheels, a steering wheel, two or three foot pedals, and a host of other standard things. Some things, like color and style don't matter too much, but functional items need to be standardized.
You don't have a choice between steering wheel, side stick, or a game pad, to control your car. The engines all work the same (although the newer hybrids are a nice new "choice"). You have some choice in your fuels. But the large part of the auto industry is "standard", which means no choice.
first to make the cable, you have too start in space naturaly, and as you make it, to get the cable to land at the cable connection on the ground, its center of gravity has to be in geo-syncronous orbit, which means the middle of the cable! so you have to make the cable twice as long as you need.
I think the idea is to have a large body serve as an anchor in space. Either getting a small-ish asteroid or lifting tons of sand into orbit, which would have to be done the old fasioned way.
secondly the cable is supposed to be made out of carbon fiber nano-tubes. these fibers are insanely conductive and flamable, think of it as a lightning rod, 44,960 miles tall!
I'm sure a coating or lightweight sheath can be developed. Pretty much any cable in use today is not simply a strand of white steel. They are often treated and coated to deal with harsh environments (marine, artic, etc).
third the cable has to be connect at the earth's equator, a band of lattitude not known for it's geo-political stability
How about a ship? A ship also affords some stress relief as it is not fixed and can move about.
Operating a jet is not cheap. Pilot time and maintenance will eat up most of that money very quickly. I'd bet that he's using that plane a lot these days.
...ask yourself (or go look for definite figures) how much $$$ USGOV is pumping into NASA to keep it flying?
NASA's budget for 2005 was around 16 billion dollars, and has been in that ballpark for the last decade or so.
Those things are hardly profitable, and on top of it NASA has a need to win any pissing match, which leads to it under-bidding every other space-launch provider on commercial projects, even if it means that part of such commercial flights, whixh are supposed to be paid by a customer, is actually subsidied from taxes paid by US Citizens. In effect, your taxes pay for i.e. private telecomm satelites to be put up.
Most commercial satellites are launched by commercial launch service companies like Boeing and Lockheed, not by NASA. These companies simply rent space at the various space centers and bring in money for the facility. The personnel working for these companies are _not_ government employees. In effect, your taxes do not pay for a significant amount of commercial satellite launches. In fact, the government pays these companies to launch payloads instead of doing it themselves because they recognise that private industry can do it cheaper, and save the taxpayer some money. Very little that goes into space has NASA dollars in it.
Launching telecom satellites and space exploration are two different ventures, one is profitable, one is not. The profitable one will be handled by private industry, but if we want to get the other done, it will have to be either non-profit organizations like the Mars Society or the government. ( Government is much better at raising funds;-).
Anyway, using wikipedia and google to bolster your application may be stretching it a bit...but hey what do I know:).
Wikipedia and Google are poor choices for any kind of "proof". Since Wikipedia can be altered by anyone at any time, the contents are subject to change and may be of questionable authorship. A Google search is even worse because you can use a Google search to back up whatever theory or belief you want.
For any argument, you need to refer to a good, solid, and authoritative source. In this case, they should have been pointing to trademark law and court decisions in the jurisdiction. That is a good, solid and authoritative source to back up your claim.
Wikipedia and Google are good for casual use, but are nothing to stand on.
Moon colonies would be great, from a science fiction point of view, but without an actual practical reason that involves real colonists with real practical uses, this new moon plan will be just another short sighted waste of time and money.
I always thought that the moon would be a good place for an observatory. Send in the machinery to build a telescope and have them build a large Keck-sized scope or two. You could put or build all kinds of instruments there and maintain a small staff that can fix them when they break. This could be the "reason" to go and in doing so we just might develop some neat technology.
We're going to have to head to socialized medicine eventually if we want to be able to compete with nations who already have it. You see, companies don't want to pay for it so they'll just relocate to nations that don't force them to.
They'll pay for it in the form of higher corporate taxes instead of a market of insurance providers. It is much less expensive for a company to find an "El Cheapo" insurance plan than to relocate to a socialist state with higher taxes.
The problem with the American healtcare system is that the healthcare provider's customer is _not_ the person that receives the service. The customer is the employer, not the employee. The needs of the customer are not the same as the needs of the patient.
In order to fix the healthcare problem in this country, the choice in healthcare prioviders needs to come back to the patient/employee. Shopping for a healthcare plan needs to be like shopping for car insurance. You can do this now, but you often pay more than your company because they get a "volume discount". Healthcare companies cater to their biggest customers and the individual accounts are not as important to them. This is a natural consequence of this type of market that has been created. Once the choice in providers is given back to the patient, you will see an adjustment in healtcare quality as the providers realize that the patient _is_ the customer.
Keep in mind the timing speeds for flash. Reading from them is not too bad, but the write times can be pretty long (microsecond range IIRC). A microsecond may not sound like a lot, but that becomes many seconds per megabyte.
Disks have a longer latency, but once the head gets over the right spot, they can transfer large amounts of data onto the media.
Flash disks probably would be worth it in regards to reliability, but you probably would not want to have your swapfile on it. Flash disk+Lots of RAM sounds like a good combination.
We need to seriously dump some national budget and tax money not only into recovery from such events, but also into research into either much better warning systems or as the article says: preventing them. There has to be a way to physically stop this things
Houses can be built to withstand hurricanes. They cost a more money, but they can be built. The reason there is so much destruction is that people _do_not_ build for hurricanes. They think it will never happen to them, so they decide to save some money and build a substandard building.
As far as flooding goes, people choose to build in low lying areas. Mabye it is close to a sceneic beach. Perhaps their whole region is low. But everyone gets a survey of their land when they buy a building so they have the information available to take the appropriate steps.
I'm suprised that people are calling for the "controlling" of a hurricane, when we couldn't even control some flooding. If we can't build a reliable levee system, how are we supposed to design a weather control system?
doublecheck the power requirements. If it is over 5 Watts for startup then an unpowered USB case won't cut it. Most of these cases have 2 plugs and each plug delivers 0.5A at 5V, for a maximum of 5 Watts power.
In order to work, someone must either run the Opener script with Administrator privileges,
This is the problem the author is trying to address, because (article quote) They think they are immune and typically have this idea that they can do whatever they want on their Macintosh and run what they like....
So you have users who feel invincible enough to run that script in the email, and they are often running with elevated priviledges.
Gas and air have been mixed, all that is needed is a spark.
The lower layers of an object will not compact in a zero-gravity environment.
Maybe not by gravity, but the inner region may have been compacted by impacts. As the comet travels the solar system, it collects more dust grains that exert the compaction force when they impact. So the process of accumulation is what compacts the comet.
Jesus has returned and he's a real estate agent. He's freeing up a good chunk of prime costal properties so He can build this "Heaven" development he's been planning.
This is just a guess, but they probably just ressurected the segment:offset method. This is what allowed the 8086 to access more than 64k of memory.
Some current DRAM controllers have a 40-bit address, so Windows could do the shift and add ((segment << 8) + offset) of two 32-bit registers to get the 40-bit address.
Again, just a guess, but this has been done before.
Atheists don't go anywhere. We just die. End of Life. That's it. Nothing else. Dead. Kaput. For a glimpse of what this is like, try to remember a time before you were conceived. That's what death will be like.
Alternatively, eternity is your last moment in life. If you die at peace with your life, your eternity will be peaceful. But the opposite is also true.
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
It's not unreasonable to assume that some piece of hardware (like a motherboard and CPU) will only be used with another piece of hardware (like a case).
It is when it comes to safety. Power supplies are all UL Listed, which indicates that they can handle fault conditions without risking the user. So whatever equipment they are hooked up to, they will protect the user from dangerous conditions.
Let's go back to the automobile for a minute. How many hardware interlocks are being replaced with software?
I don't know. I would assume that trivial things like windows and radios can be software controlled. but I'll wager a fair bet that your air bags are run through an ASIC.
What about Broadcom's wireless products. Although they're not dangerous, the hardward clearly is not designed to prevent you from stepping on (US) Military frequencies. They rely on software to do that.
You said it. You have a lot fewer requirements when lives are not on the line.
At no point did I suggest the user could receive a shock - my examples concentrated on overheating issues. And I can tell you that a failed fan in a PSU can make the PSU _very_ hot - if something flamable was near it I can see a potential fire hazard.
Hot to touch is about 150 degrees. Hot to ignite a fire is usually in excess of 300 degrees. Big difference.
Anyhow, this case would most likely be ruled an accident. If the power supply caught something else (say a greasy rag) on fire, then it is neither the software's fault, nor the hardware manufacturer's. Flammable materials need to be handled appropriately and not stored in risky areas.
Not true at all - software _can_ make modern hardware damage itself:
And when such damage occurs then it is up to the hardware to prevent serious injury. None of the examples you provide come close to anything but destroying the equipment.
This is exactly what UL tests for. They stress components to make sure that they do not provide a hazard, even under drastic conditions. And if the power supply is faulty and exposes the user to dangerous condidtions, then manufacturer is liable (as is UL if they approved it).
Everything inside your PC case is low voltage, with the exception of the primary side of your UL listed power supply. There are no dangerous voltages inside your computer. I think that 24V is probably the highest possible potential that exists inside a computer (+/- 12V for the RS-232 stuff).
Note: I have designed devices and software for consumer, telecommunications, and medical use, so I am fully aware of the capabilities of hardware and software components.
1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; Personal use is clearly non-commercial.
Here's an idea for the lawyers. If you rent a movie for the sole purpose of ripping it, can the argument be made that you are doing so to avoid having to rent it again in the future. If this argument can be made then there is a commercial factor to consider because you are doing it to save money.
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Wholesale is in the $140 range. Apple resellers don't make much on the hardware, but rather the accessories. That's why the salesmen will insit that you get the accompanying carry case or widget to go with it.
Guess that's why everyone drives black Fords.
Notice how all cars have four wheels, a steering wheel, two or three foot pedals, and a host of other standard things. Some things, like color and style don't matter too much, but functional items need to be standardized.
You don't have a choice between steering wheel, side stick, or a game pad, to control your car. The engines all work the same (although the newer hybrids are a nice new "choice"). You have some choice in your fuels. But the large part of the auto industry is "standard", which means no choice.
Taco: "Our interview was turned into a meaningless stunt by some PR bitch!"
Cowboy Neal: "You bitter?"
Taco: "Yup! Bit him, too..."
first to make the cable, you have too start in space naturaly, and as you make it, to get the cable to land at the cable connection on the ground, its center of gravity has to be in geo-syncronous orbit, which means the middle of the cable! so you have to make the cable twice as long as you need.
I think the idea is to have a large body serve as an anchor in space. Either getting a small-ish asteroid or lifting tons of sand into orbit, which would have to be done the old fasioned way.
secondly the cable is supposed to be made out of carbon fiber nano-tubes. these fibers are insanely conductive and flamable, think of it as a lightning rod, 44,960 miles tall!
I'm sure a coating or lightweight sheath can be developed. Pretty much any cable in use today is not simply a strand of white steel. They are often treated and coated to deal with harsh environments (marine, artic, etc).
third the cable has to be connect at the earth's equator, a band of lattitude not known for it's geo-political stability
How about a ship? A ship also affords some stress relief as it is not fixed and can move about.
Operating a jet is not cheap. Pilot time and maintenance will eat up most of that money very quickly. I'd bet that he's using that plane a lot these days.
...ask yourself (or go look for definite figures) how much $$$ USGOV is pumping into NASA to keep it flying?
;-).
NASA's budget for 2005 was around 16 billion dollars, and has been in that ballpark for the last decade or so.
Those things are hardly profitable, and on top of it NASA has a need to win any pissing match, which leads to it under-bidding every other space-launch provider on commercial projects, even if it means that part of such commercial flights, whixh are supposed to be paid by a customer, is actually subsidied from taxes paid by US Citizens. In effect, your taxes pay for i.e. private telecomm satelites to be put up.
Most commercial satellites are launched by commercial launch service companies like Boeing and Lockheed, not by NASA. These companies simply rent space at the various space centers and bring in money for the facility. The personnel working for these companies are _not_ government employees. In effect, your taxes do not pay for a significant amount of commercial satellite launches. In fact, the government pays these companies to launch payloads instead of doing it themselves because they recognise that private industry can do it cheaper, and save the taxpayer some money. Very little that goes into space has NASA dollars in it.
Launching telecom satellites and space exploration are two different ventures, one is profitable, one is not. The profitable one will be handled by private industry, but if we want to get the other done, it will have to be either non-profit organizations like the Mars Society or the government. ( Government is much better at raising funds
Anyway, using wikipedia and google to bolster your application may be stretching it a bit...but hey what do I know :).
Wikipedia and Google are poor choices for any kind of "proof". Since Wikipedia can be altered by anyone at any time, the contents are subject to change and may be of questionable authorship. A Google search is even worse because you can use a Google search to back up whatever theory or belief you want.
For any argument, you need to refer to a good, solid, and authoritative source. In this case, they should have been pointing to trademark law and court decisions in the jurisdiction. That is a good, solid and authoritative source to back up your claim.
Wikipedia and Google are good for casual use, but are nothing to stand on.
Moon colonies would be great, from a science fiction point of view, but without an actual practical reason that involves real colonists with real practical uses, this new moon plan will be just another short sighted waste of time and money.
I always thought that the moon would be a good place for an observatory. Send in the machinery to build a telescope and have them build a large Keck-sized scope or two. You could put or build all kinds of instruments there and maintain a small staff that can fix them when they break. This could be the "reason" to go and in doing so we just might develop some neat technology.
But could he unlock it if he had a cold and his "node was stubbed up".
We're going to have to head to socialized medicine eventually if we want to be able to compete with nations who already have it. You see, companies don't want to pay for it so they'll just relocate to nations that don't force them to.
They'll pay for it in the form of higher corporate taxes instead of a market of insurance providers. It is much less expensive for a company to find an "El Cheapo" insurance plan than to relocate to a socialist state with higher taxes.
The problem with the American healtcare system is that the healthcare provider's customer is _not_ the person that receives the service. The customer is the employer, not the employee. The needs of the customer are not the same as the needs of the patient.
In order to fix the healthcare problem in this country, the choice in healthcare prioviders needs to come back to the patient/employee. Shopping for a healthcare plan needs to be like shopping for car insurance. You can do this now, but you often pay more than your company because they get a "volume discount". Healthcare companies cater to their biggest customers and the individual accounts are not as important to them. This is a natural consequence of this type of market that has been created. Once the choice in providers is given back to the patient, you will see an adjustment in healtcare quality as the providers realize that the patient _is_ the customer.
Keep in mind the timing speeds for flash. Reading from them is not too bad, but the write times can be pretty long (microsecond range IIRC). A microsecond may not sound like a lot, but that becomes many seconds per megabyte.
Disks have a longer latency, but once the head gets over the right spot, they can transfer large amounts of data onto the media.
Flash disks probably would be worth it in regards to reliability, but you probably would not want to have your swapfile on it. Flash disk+Lots of RAM sounds like a good combination.
We need to seriously dump some national budget and tax money not only into recovery from such events, but also into research into either much better warning systems or as the article says: preventing them. There has to be a way to physically stop this things
Houses can be built to withstand hurricanes. They cost a more money, but they can be built. The reason there is so much destruction is that people _do_not_ build for hurricanes. They think it will never happen to them, so they decide to save some money and build a substandard building.
As far as flooding goes, people choose to build in low lying areas. Mabye it is close to a sceneic beach. Perhaps their whole region is low. But everyone gets a survey of their land when they buy a building so they have the information available to take the appropriate steps.
I'm suprised that people are calling for the "controlling" of a hurricane, when we couldn't even control some flooding. If we can't build a reliable levee system, how are we supposed to design a weather control system?
doublecheck the power requirements. If it is over 5 Watts for startup then an unpowered USB case won't cut it. Most of these cases have 2 plugs and each plug delivers 0.5A at 5V, for a maximum of 5 Watts power.
In order to work, someone must either run the Opener script with Administrator privileges,
This is the problem the author is trying to address, because (article quote) They think they are immune and typically have this idea that they can do whatever they want on their Macintosh and run what they like....
So you have users who feel invincible enough to run that script in the email, and they are often running with elevated priviledges.
Gas and air have been mixed, all that is needed is a spark.
Turn on the Lat/Lon grid and goto 6055' N 101.57' E
The lower layers of an object will not compact in a zero-gravity environment.
Maybe not by gravity, but the inner region may have been compacted by impacts. As the comet travels the solar system, it collects more dust grains that exert the compaction force when they impact. So the process of accumulation is what compacts the comet.
Jesus has returned and he's a real estate agent. He's freeing up a good chunk of prime costal properties so He can build this "Heaven" development he's been planning.
This is just a guess, but they probably just ressurected the segment:offset method. This is what allowed the 8086 to access more than 64k of memory.
Some current DRAM controllers have a 40-bit address, so Windows could do the shift and add ((segment << 8) + offset) of two 32-bit registers to get the 40-bit address.
Again, just a guess, but this has been done before.
Atheists don't go anywhere. We just die. End of Life. That's it. Nothing else. Dead. Kaput. For a glimpse of what this is like, try to remember a time before you were conceived. That's what death will be like.
Alternatively, eternity is your last moment in life. If you die at peace with your life, your eternity will be peaceful. But the opposite is also true.
Eve (female) is "stable"?!?
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
It's not unreasonable to assume that some piece of hardware (like a motherboard and CPU) will only be used with another piece of hardware (like a case).
It is when it comes to safety. Power supplies are all UL Listed, which indicates that they can handle fault conditions without risking the user. So whatever equipment they are hooked up to, they will protect the user from dangerous conditions.
Let's go back to the automobile for a minute. How many hardware interlocks are being replaced with software?
I don't know. I would assume that trivial things like windows and radios can be software controlled. but I'll wager a fair bet that your air bags are run through an ASIC.
What about Broadcom's wireless products. Although they're not dangerous, the hardward clearly is not designed to prevent you from stepping on (US) Military frequencies. They rely on software to do that.
You said it. You have a lot fewer requirements when lives are not on the line.
At no point did I suggest the user could receive a shock - my examples concentrated on overheating issues. And I can tell you that a failed fan in a PSU can make the PSU _very_ hot - if something flamable was near it I can see a potential fire hazard.
Hot to touch is about 150 degrees. Hot to ignite a fire is usually in excess of 300 degrees. Big difference.
Anyhow, this case would most likely be ruled an accident. If the power supply caught something else (say a greasy rag) on fire, then it is neither the software's fault, nor the hardware manufacturer's. Flammable materials need to be handled appropriately and not stored in risky areas.
Not true at all - software _can_ make modern hardware damage itself:
And when such damage occurs then it is up to the hardware to prevent serious injury. None of the examples you provide come close to anything but destroying the equipment.
This is exactly what UL tests for. They stress components to make sure that they do not provide a hazard, even under drastic conditions. And if the power supply is faulty and exposes the user to dangerous condidtions, then manufacturer is liable (as is UL if they approved it).
Everything inside your PC case is low voltage, with the exception of the primary side of your UL listed power supply. There are no dangerous voltages inside your computer. I think that 24V is probably the highest possible potential that exists inside a computer (+/- 12V for the RS-232 stuff).
Note: I have designed devices and software for consumer, telecommunications, and medical use, so I am fully aware of the capabilities of hardware and software components.
1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
Personal use is clearly non-commercial.
Here's an idea for the lawyers. If you rent a movie for the sole purpose of ripping it, can the argument be made that you are doing so to avoid having to rent it again in the future. If this argument can be made then there is a commercial factor to consider because you are doing it to save money.