By this logic, even your computer has multiple operating systems. The chipset on your motherboard is not pure hardware - there are small cores in there running embedded software that you never see. I am not talking about BIOS, which is another type of firmware, that is visible to the user.
EVERYTHING these days has software. Shipping a software patch is cheaper than a recall. This goes back to the old joke - the mechanical engineer thinks it is an electrical problem, the electrical engineer thinks it is a mechanical problem, but they both agree that it should be fixed in software.
This story reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Kent Brockman breaks a story about the government training people to kill on an industrial scale. "They call it the 'Army', but I have a better name - Killbot Factory".
New designs come from improvements on old designs and from the experiences of the engineers and workers who work on them. If the reactors are shut down and the best of the workers find gainful employment in another industry, we will not have a good starting point for the improvement process. There will be a few old coots who hung around and a bunch of new kids with book smarts and no practical experience.
But at least the screens are the same distance away and in the same angular area. You can easily watch both screens. With the U, you'll be back and forth between the two, refocusing and changing your field of view.
Monty made some money for himself - why shouldn't he do this, particularly when the sale of the product would not have any material long term impact to the availability of the product.
Sun paid him off, and now he is doing the exact same thing, in open source, he gets to keep his money, and Oracle now has zero influence over this open source project.
Win, win, win, win(unless you are Oracle)!
Maybe he can do this every 10 years and buy a new boat. Good for him. It will also help get the message across that you really cannot buy Open Source software.
Not pure silicon. They are doped with various materials, often rare earths, in order to get the properties needed for the application.
If I recall, a PV is essentially a diode with the junction exposed to sunlight. The light hitting the cell creates a electron/hole pair, which accumulate to become the voltage that can be sent to a load.
Disasters (hurricane/earthquake) will render emergency services useless for days or even weeks. I lived through this during Andrew and saw it happen again during Katrina. When there are gangs roving about looting everything they can, I don't want to be forced to reload every 5 rounds.
Rural areas can experience this without disasters, simply because some meth heads realized that the police are a half hour away at best. I'm not waiting for the police to arrive and protect me. I believe that my life is equal to that of the police officer, I believe that I should be afforded access to the same equipment that he/she has for self defense.
Also, what is regular capacity? The Browning Hi-Power (1930's) and the Glock (1980's) were designed with 13 and 16 round magazines. This is their regular capacity. Limiting the number of bullets in a magazine only means that nutjobs will carry more magazines. The Sandy Hill shooter discharged something like 200 rounds. He had to reload 6 or 7 times to do that. If he had 10 round magazines, he would not have shot less, he simply would have reloaded more.
Picking an arbitrary number for this is what is silly. It is arbitrary. There is no logic. If you set the limit at 10, what makes 11 so threatening that it needs to be banned?
1) Spike strips and drug sniffing dogs are not prohibited. If I wanted them, I could get them or make/train them.
2) Police carry weapons for self defense. They are citizens like the rest of us and are (should be) subject to the same rules, including what equipment can be used for self defense. When we give civil government employees greater leeway to exercise their rights, then we set up a system where there is a privileged class based on your association with the government. Also, keep in mind that police are often allowed to take their weapons home when they are off duty. By your logic, all their equipment should be checked in since they no longer have a need for it.
3) Police are an after-the-fact response force. They need to be called and you need to wait for them to come. That takes time. They can not be relied upon to protect you. Only you can do that. If you want to wait for the white knights, that is fine. But do not make that decision for the rest of us.
If law enforcement or private security need them, then society in general needs them. Not everyone can afford private security, and law enforcement is many minutes away in most places.
You cannot argue that an item is simultaneously required for police use but unnecessary for the individual. If there are people in society that are threatening enough that the police force needs assault rifles, then individuals need access to the same weapons to effectively defend themselves and their family.
The only way I would accept an assault weapon ban is if the police were held to the same restrictions.
High Definition TV (multiple channels). Think about your TV viewing habits and then translate that over to the Internet ( 1 show needs about 25-40 Mbps ).
In the hurricane belt, you can be cut off from law enforcement for several days, even weeks. Criminals do exploit this, and often it is the public who ends up detaining them until the police are able to get there.
I've been through several of these (Andrew was the worst) and I would not want to be unarmed when they come through.
That is about right. Labor and transportation costs are usually more than materials when you are considering the cost of a product. Figure another $50 to $100 for all the other components, packaging and labelling, and you are probably around to $200. Add in the manufacturer's mark-up (3-4x) to pay for the factory and overhead, shipping, the wholesalers will want a 10-30% cut, and finally your retailer's profit of around 10%.
Also consider that Intel's $90 part started out as pennies worth of sand.
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They don't pay taxes where the costs are incurred either. The company buying the ads may also be playing the same game.
Gripen is designed to defend a relatively small airspace against intruding planes.
Brazil is not a small country. "Medium" range would probably be more appropriate.
By this logic, even your computer has multiple operating systems. The chipset on your motherboard is not pure hardware - there are small cores in there running embedded software that you never see. I am not talking about BIOS, which is another type of firmware, that is visible to the user.
EVERYTHING these days has software. Shipping a software patch is cheaper than a recall. This goes back to the old joke - the mechanical engineer thinks it is an electrical problem, the electrical engineer thinks it is a mechanical problem, but they both agree that it should be fixed in software.
This story reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Kent Brockman breaks a story about the government training people to kill on an industrial scale. "They call it the 'Army', but I have a better name - Killbot Factory".
New designs come from improvements on old designs and from the experiences of the engineers and workers who work on them. If the reactors are shut down and the best of the workers find gainful employment in another industry, we will not have a good starting point for the improvement process. There will be a few old coots who hung around and a bunch of new kids with book smarts and no practical experience.
Hardly a recipe for success.
Their value will be as consumers of the services that must be provided to them.
But at least the screens are the same distance away and in the same angular area. You can easily watch both screens. With the U, you'll be back and forth between the two, refocusing and changing your field of view.
Unionized morons?
rear galley?
Monty made some money for himself - why shouldn't he do this, particularly when the sale of the product would not have any material long term impact to the availability of the product.
Sun paid him off, and now he is doing the exact same thing, in open source, he gets to keep his money, and Oracle now has zero influence over this open source project.
Win, win, win, win(unless you are Oracle)!
Maybe he can do this every 10 years and buy a new boat. Good for him. It will also help get the message across that you really cannot buy Open Source software.
So they get to keep doing what they were doing AND have a boatload of cash in the bank.
Not pure silicon. They are doped with various materials, often rare earths, in order to get the properties needed for the application.
If I recall, a PV is essentially a diode with the junction exposed to sunlight. The light hitting the cell creates a electron/hole pair, which accumulate to become the voltage that can be sent to a load.
And it happens often enough that there are rules about how much you get based on things like your education level, age when you went in, etc.
Many states will compensate you for the term, to the tune of around $50k per year.
Followed by Ballmer squirting his data.
SNL:
Asswipe: "az-WEE-peh"
Disasters (hurricane/earthquake) will render emergency services useless for days or even weeks. I lived through this during Andrew and saw it happen again during Katrina. When there are gangs roving about looting everything they can, I don't want to be forced to reload every 5 rounds.
Rural areas can experience this without disasters, simply because some meth heads realized that the police are a half hour away at best. I'm not waiting for the police to arrive and protect me. I believe that my life is equal to that of the police officer, I believe that I should be afforded access to the same equipment that he/she has for self defense.
Also, what is regular capacity? The Browning Hi-Power (1930's) and the Glock (1980's) were designed with 13 and 16 round magazines. This is their regular capacity. Limiting the number of bullets in a magazine only means that nutjobs will carry more magazines. The Sandy Hill shooter discharged something like 200 rounds. He had to reload 6 or 7 times to do that. If he had 10 round magazines, he would not have shot less, he simply would have reloaded more.
Picking an arbitrary number for this is what is silly. It is arbitrary. There is no logic. If you set the limit at 10, what makes 11 so threatening that it needs to be banned?
1) Spike strips and drug sniffing dogs are not prohibited. If I wanted them, I could get them or make/train them.
2) Police carry weapons for self defense. They are citizens like the rest of us and are (should be) subject to the same rules, including what equipment can be used for self defense. When we give civil government employees greater leeway to exercise their rights, then we set up a system where there is a privileged class based on your association with the government. Also, keep in mind that police are often allowed to take their weapons home when they are off duty. By your logic, all their equipment should be checked in since they no longer have a need for it.
3) Police are an after-the-fact response force. They need to be called and you need to wait for them to come. That takes time. They can not be relied upon to protect you. Only you can do that. If you want to wait for the white knights, that is fine. But do not make that decision for the rest of us.
If law enforcement or private security need them, then society in general needs them. Not everyone can afford private security, and law enforcement is many minutes away in most places.
You cannot argue that an item is simultaneously required for police use but unnecessary for the individual. If there are people in society that are threatening enough that the police force needs assault rifles, then individuals need access to the same weapons to effectively defend themselves and their family.
The only way I would accept an assault weapon ban is if the police were held to the same restrictions.
Players are getting bigger and faster, but brains are still delicate.
High Definition TV (multiple channels). Think about your TV viewing habits and then translate that over to the Internet ( 1 show needs about 25-40 Mbps ).
They already have 2 F16-A engines in hand.
Perhaps that what these engines are intended to be used in. They are not invulnerable and do wear out eventually.
In the hurricane belt, you can be cut off from law enforcement for several days, even weeks. Criminals do exploit this, and often it is the public who ends up detaining them until the police are able to get there.
I've been through several of these (Andrew was the worst) and I would not want to be unarmed when they come through.
What AC said, but not anonymously.
That's the point I'm trying to make with the GP. There is more to cost than raw materials.
That is about right. Labor and transportation costs are usually more than materials when you are considering the cost of a product. Figure another $50 to $100 for all the other components, packaging and labelling, and you are probably around to $200. Add in the manufacturer's mark-up (3-4x) to pay for the factory and overhead, shipping, the wholesalers will want a 10-30% cut, and finally your retailer's profit of around 10%.
Also consider that Intel's $90 part started out as pennies worth of sand.