In normal atmospheric conditions, copper corrodes pretty quickly, but the corrosion then protects the underlying copper from further corrosion. Unlike steel or iron, where the rust likes to flake off and expose even more of the metal to corrosion. That's why they use copper as flashing on expensive, long life roofs. They do have the conductive thing somewhat backwards. I'm not sure they are saying steel is a better conductor than copper, just that it is a conductor. Because steel is stronger and lighter than copper, you can just upsize the gauge and be OK. I think.
Incorrect, as far as I can tell. The labor force participation rate is going down, but not because of any changes in methodology. U3 only means what it purports to mean, which is the number of people who want work, and are still actively looking for work.
You know, I always hear that higher taxes mean a lower incentive to work, and I'm not sure I believe it. More money is more money. If I need $1000, I'm going to keep working until I get $1000. Maybe I'm more (or less?) rational than the crowd.
It's not desperation, I don't think, as much as it is an "easy" way to make money. Why go to a job when you can make just as much for fewer hours of work? Copper gets you $3 a pound, I believe. Fill up your trunk once a week, and you aren't doing too badly. That shit weighs a lot- go to the home center and try to pick up a coil of 2 or 4 gauge wire.
Based on what I see, your standard copper thief is pretty smart. (Or at least as smart as the scrapyards force them to be.) There is a guy in the neighborhood who scraps metal as a side gig. He is pretty smart about what kind of metal is which. I've brought stuff to the scrapper before (lead-acid batteries were 11 cents a pound last time), and those guys police what you bring in pretty heavily. If you don't strip ALL the steel off of aluminum, for example, you get the steel price. I would not be surprised if the folks doing the stealing figured it out pretty quickly. My impression is that your metal thief is a little smarter than your standard mugger or guy stealing batteries from Walgreens.
I guess it depends on what the intervention is. Do you shoot the guy, or knock him in the head with a club? Those might be humane ways of ending the threat. Or do you wait until he's done, lock him in your basement, infect him with AIDS and watch him die over the course of a dozen years? Same result, different motivations.
Reminds me of an old IBM (or Telex?) printer I once worked on. Instead of a printhead that scanned across the whole page, the printhead was a bar that went across the whole page with pins every quarter inch or so. The bar vibrated back and forth and it was able to print an entire line of text in a couple of vibrations. I think tape drives are like that now- the head is (made up number for simplicity) really 8 heads, and it reads and writes one byte at a time. When it gets to the end of the tape, it steps up a track and reads the next stream of bytes. So the tape has (say) 64 physical tracks that are read 8 at a time.
I think it's neat and all, but I wonder if spinning magnetic media is really the way to go? Seems like the industry is leaving it behind.
And checking Amazon's S3 pricing shows that it seems to be impossible for them to make money if they are using S3 for backend. How the hell are they doing it?
Break it up into separate companies all you want, they would still all be owned by the same people. Line employees would know that YouTube is a "partner" and favor them, even if they were told not to. Solves nothing, the same way the AT&T breakup did. Oh, I can get my phone service from a smaller monopoly now. Gee, thanks.
You kind of answered your own question. If you want wikipedia entries, why don't you go right to wikipedia? The answer is, because it is nice to have google as a sort of commandline search that you can get all of the other places information exists about your query. The question and trouble is that facebook came up in search results before google+ and now it doesn't. Seems like a thing to investigate.
It looks like they are using the shareware model. Give the home user just enough (2gb, right?) to make it attractive, and they are in the door. Offer higher priced services for the business user. Its pricing looks to be a slam dunk for the small business who needs more than a USB drive hanging off of a desktop, but can't afford to develop an in-house solution. You can have 2tb of space for 10 users for $1350 a year. Always backed up, version controlled, available anywhere. Very difficult to get even close to that (with access anywhere, mind you) in house. You'd probably pay the employee setting up and maintaining it that much (2-5% of one employee's time? Very likely.), and that's before you buy the hardware.
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In normal atmospheric conditions, copper corrodes pretty quickly, but the corrosion then protects the underlying copper from further corrosion. Unlike steel or iron, where the rust likes to flake off and expose even more of the metal to corrosion. That's why they use copper as flashing on expensive, long life roofs. They do have the conductive thing somewhat backwards. I'm not sure they are saying steel is a better conductor than copper, just that it is a conductor. Because steel is stronger and lighter than copper, you can just upsize the gauge and be OK. I think.
How have the bankers corrupted the system, in your opinion?
Incorrect, as far as I can tell. The labor force participation rate is going down, but not because of any changes in methodology. U3 only means what it purports to mean, which is the number of people who want work, and are still actively looking for work.
You know, I always hear that higher taxes mean a lower incentive to work, and I'm not sure I believe it. More money is more money. If I need $1000, I'm going to keep working until I get $1000. Maybe I'm more (or less?) rational than the crowd.
It's not desperation, I don't think, as much as it is an "easy" way to make money. Why go to a job when you can make just as much for fewer hours of work? Copper gets you $3 a pound, I believe. Fill up your trunk once a week, and you aren't doing too badly. That shit weighs a lot- go to the home center and try to pick up a coil of 2 or 4 gauge wire.
Based on what I see, your standard copper thief is pretty smart. (Or at least as smart as the scrapyards force them to be.) There is a guy in the neighborhood who scraps metal as a side gig. He is pretty smart about what kind of metal is which. I've brought stuff to the scrapper before (lead-acid batteries were 11 cents a pound last time), and those guys police what you bring in pretty heavily. If you don't strip ALL the steel off of aluminum, for example, you get the steel price. I would not be surprised if the folks doing the stealing figured it out pretty quickly. My impression is that your metal thief is a little smarter than your standard mugger or guy stealing batteries from Walgreens.
In Chicago, I'm seeing more and more buildings with razor wire along the perimeter of roofs. It's ugly, and really bums me out.
Don't you forfeit your citizenship when you start to fight with the enemy?
Blame Fox and "24". Seriously.
Only if it has a mustache.
The most terrifying thing must be knowing (or not knowing) when the shit volcano is finally over.
I guess it depends on what the intervention is. Do you shoot the guy, or knock him in the head with a club? Those might be humane ways of ending the threat. Or do you wait until he's done, lock him in your basement, infect him with AIDS and watch him die over the course of a dozen years? Same result, different motivations.
Replace prison with hospital, and that's how we got MRSA.
Reminds me of an old IBM (or Telex?) printer I once worked on. Instead of a printhead that scanned across the whole page, the printhead was a bar that went across the whole page with pins every quarter inch or so. The bar vibrated back and forth and it was able to print an entire line of text in a couple of vibrations. I think tape drives are like that now- the head is (made up number for simplicity) really 8 heads, and it reads and writes one byte at a time. When it gets to the end of the tape, it steps up a track and reads the next stream of bytes. So the tape has (say) 64 physical tracks that are read 8 at a time.
I think it's neat and all, but I wonder if spinning magnetic media is really the way to go? Seems like the industry is leaving it behind.
Adderall!
I am surprised there is that much duplication out there!
I agree. I think they are more worried about keeping their shit secret than they are getting into other people's stuff.
And checking Amazon's S3 pricing shows that it seems to be impossible for them to make money if they are using S3 for backend. How the hell are they doing it?
That's correct grammar (bunch - is), but man, does that sentence hurt my brain.
Why should google give competitors information they generated? Kinda like Nielson or Arbitron ratings.
The price they charge doesn't matter. Anti competitive is anti competitive no matter what the price.
Break it up into separate companies all you want, they would still all be owned by the same people. Line employees would know that YouTube is a "partner" and favor them, even if they were told not to. Solves nothing, the same way the AT&T breakup did. Oh, I can get my phone service from a smaller monopoly now. Gee, thanks.
You kind of answered your own question. If you want wikipedia entries, why don't you go right to wikipedia? The answer is, because it is nice to have google as a sort of commandline search that you can get all of the other places information exists about your query. The question and trouble is that facebook came up in search results before google+ and now it doesn't. Seems like a thing to investigate.
It looks like they are using the shareware model. Give the home user just enough (2gb, right?) to make it attractive, and they are in the door. Offer higher priced services for the business user. Its pricing looks to be a slam dunk for the small business who needs more than a USB drive hanging off of a desktop, but can't afford to develop an in-house solution. You can have 2tb of space for 10 users for $1350 a year. Always backed up, version controlled, available anywhere. Very difficult to get even close to that (with access anywhere, mind you) in house. You'd probably pay the employee setting up and maintaining it that much (2-5% of one employee's time? Very likely.), and that's before you buy the hardware.
Honest question: what is insecure about Dropbox?