You sell the ladder because it's good customer relations, and you aren't going to lose your shirt. If you had a thousand people lined up to buy that ladder, you wouldn't sell it.
A advertised price is not a binding contract. It is advertising.
Unless best buy can be shown to be comitting deliberate fraudulent advertising... it is a clerical error, and they are not bound to do anything.
Implying that now you do?
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Which law is it that says they have to honor the order? They refunded your money because they were unable to complete the order. That is generally considered a fair business practice.
The $20 credit is a bonus, they did not have to do that for ANY reason. That was simply to try to say "Look we messed up, heres 20 bucks off your next purchase." They don't owe you jack.
Wait. Pretend you own a business. pretend you are building computers for someone. You price it out, but leave out a $500 part by accident. You take the guys money, and start building. A day later you realize your mistake. Are you obligated to provide it all to him? No. You can give back his money and cancel the transaction.
Yes, it would, but not nearly to the degree that it would affect visible light. The frequency that power is transmitted back at can be chosen such that weather does not affect it, etcetera.
WE have an atmosphere in the way, and as for satellites, a properly built system on the moon would be much more stable. We don't have to worry about keeping it in orbit, or, for that matter, blocking out our view of the sky.
Collect energy on the moon, and beam it down here in some more efficient and less cluttering fashion.
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I recall reading about this. If the beams are wide enough, they don't represent an immediate danger to anything passing through them.
You microwave oven cooks so well because you have a 1000W output, in a contained space (say a cubic foot) reflecting around so most of the energy is absorbed by what you are heating.
You also need to take into account what they mean by microwave. I think microwave is a general term for everything between 1Ghz and the visible spectrum. (1mm to 30cm wavelength)
Your microwave oven operates typically on 2.4Ghz (yes, in the ISM band) (Yes, that's one reason the ISM band is license free, becuase it's dirty)
At the appropriate wavelength, and over a wide enough area, the effects would be miniscule to anything but an appropriately tuned receiver.
Of course its'not. It's no magic bullet to cure humanity. When we talk of the world getting more connected, the global village, and whatnot, we are speaking of change over many, many, many years. That's where things are headed. We are not there yet. If it looks like we are, it's illusory.
The Internet does not give most a new viewpoint on foreign culture. Poeple still tend to stick to the news they know. People still worship their local news programs (Americans love CNN. BBC News in teh UK, etc). World views are still largely influenced by school and society.
The only way to truly understand and accept more cultures is to get out of your safe little homeland and go travelling.
MD-data failed because sony killed it. Not because it cost too much.
Even years later with 128MB zip disks.... MD-Data would still have been a better option had the drives been available. Even TODAY they would be a great option.
Hmm? What do you mean the system has to be overhauled?
One of the chief reasons the system is as big as it is is because the risk is shifted away from the client!
It has always been heavily on the merchant to make sure things are valid, to ensure that the credit card is valid, that it's being used by the right person, etcetera, becuase the merchant is the one that loses if it's not.
These companies cater to merchants by making sure they have a huge customer base who wants to USE their credit cards to buy things, and they reduce the amount of actual cash the merchant has to handle. THe onus has always been heavily on the merchant to keep things in order.
Since internet transactions don't have a signature, yes, it IS easy for the merchant to get screwed. But it's their choice.. they know the temrs.
The japanese computer has MILLIONS of processors. Google doesn't even come close to 1/100th of the size.
Google can NOT do 36.5 TERAFLOPS.
The japanese computer is bigger than the top 10 US supercomputers combined. DO you mean to say google is bigger than that?
ANd btw, this project has been in the works for years, I remember reading about it in some science magazine 3 or 4 years ago, when they started the project.
The whole name of a "Beowulf" cluster is misunderstood anyway.
A cluster is a cluster, there are many different kind. There is no one kind called a Beowulf.
Beowulf was the name of a project at NASA that was building clusters out of cheap computers. So I guess any cluster built out of cheap computers is a Beowulf. Beyond that, there is no set standard for how a "Beowulf" cluster operates. They all use different librarires, different cabling, etc.Some use PVM. Some just use mosix. Some use other stuff. Etc..
Entrapment is the police GET you to do a crime and then charge you for it. The kind of crime you would not have committed were it not for their interference.
Parking a car in an area known for car theft and waiting for it to be stolen is not entrapment, it's fishing. I believe as long as they can show the crime would have happened anyway.
Going undercover, going up to a street kid and telling him there is a car 2 blocks over with the keys in the ignition, THAT is entrapment.
1) Caffeine is addictive. People don't just drink caffeine to stay awake, caffeine junkies drink it because if they don't, they hurt.
2) This is probably a great alternative to cns stimulants. IT probably IS much, much easier on your body and hence safer.
3) #2 does not mean that you still don't need sleep, it just means you don't have to deal with the jittery side effects of most CNS stimulants when you need to avert nature and stay awake. You STILL need to (and invariably will) catch up on lost sleep.
How long you will sleep after being awake for 36 hours is not a constant, but what is a constant is that, over time, you average 8 hours a day, period, without variation. IF you miss some, you will make it up, over the next few days, or even weeks.
Track your sleep for a year, and just see what happens. Don't forget to count nodding off at the desk and sleeping on the bus.
The reason they do this is simple: Marketing, marketing, marketing.
Though you or I would love to simply pay for what we use, it would become a support nightmare for the company, and would be more confusing for their average customer (the only customer who matters). Customers would leave for other ISPs who offer them fixed rates, etc. After all, who wants to run a webserver?
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IT's not the law, whatsoever.
You sell the ladder because it's good customer relations, and you aren't going to lose your shirt. If you had a thousand people lined up to buy that ladder, you wouldn't sell it.
A advertised price is not a binding contract. It is advertising.
Unless best buy can be shown to be comitting deliberate fraudulent advertising... it is a clerical error, and they are not bound to do anything.
Which law is it that says they have to honor the order? They refunded your money because they were unable to complete the order. That is generally considered a fair business practice.
The $20 credit is a bonus, they did not have to do that for ANY reason. That was simply to try to say "Look we messed up, heres 20 bucks off your next purchase."
They don't owe you jack.
Wait. Pretend you own a business. pretend you are building computers for someone. You price it out, but leave out a $500 part by accident. You take the guys money, and start building. A day later you realize your mistake. Are you obligated to provide it all to him? No.
You can give back his money and cancel the transaction.
Nikola Tesla.
And Tesla had the right idea.
Yes, it would, but not nearly to the degree that it would affect visible light. The frequency that power is transmitted back at can be chosen such that weather does not affect it, etcetera.
WE have an atmosphere in the way, and as for satellites, a properly built system on the moon would be much more stable. We don't have to worry about keeping it in orbit, or, for that matter, blocking out our view of the sky.
Collect energy on the moon, and beam it down here in some more efficient and less cluttering fashion.
I recall reading about this.
If the beams are wide enough, they don't represent an immediate danger to anything passing through them.
You microwave oven cooks so well because you have a 1000W output, in a contained space (say a cubic foot) reflecting around so most of the energy is absorbed by what you are heating.
You also need to take into account what they mean by microwave. I think microwave is a general term for everything between 1Ghz and the visible spectrum. (1mm to 30cm wavelength)
Your microwave oven operates typically on 2.4Ghz (yes, in the ISM band) (Yes, that's one reason the ISM band is license free, becuase it's dirty)
At the appropriate wavelength, and over a wide enough area, the effects would be miniscule to anything but an appropriately tuned receiver.
You and everyone like you who accepts credit card transactions from online customers, in spite of the risks, are all on a level playing field.
IT's not too much to ask, no, however, the article sounds more like whining than asking.
In Europe, with the GSM system there, you usually ahve two options.
1) An open GSM phone. You can use this anywhere, on any network. Either roaming, or with a sim card from that network.
2) A branded phone, where it is locked to a certain carrier. So you can't just take any sim card and use it, you have to use that network.
With #2, they usually sell the phone cheaper, because you are stuck with their network. Which makes sense.
But.. a carrier will not refuse service or differentiate at all as to what phone you use.
That is the thinking that prevents the world from going forward.
Yes, many of the current aggressors as defined by some of the world happen to be muslim at this point in time.
At one time, they were German. Or Russian. Does that mean Russian Orthodox churches were equally responsible?
Religion is a tool. Islam happens to be abused in some areas.
Of course its'not. It's no magic bullet to cure humanity. When we talk of the world getting more connected, the global village, and whatnot, we are speaking of change over many, many, many years. That's where things are headed. We are not there yet. If it looks like we are, it's illusory.
The Internet does not give most a new viewpoint on foreign culture. Poeple still tend to stick to the news they know. People still worship their local news programs (Americans love CNN. BBC News in teh UK, etc). World views are still largely influenced by school and society.
The only way to truly understand and accept more cultures is to get out of your safe little homeland and go travelling.
MD-data failed because sony killed it.
Not because it cost too much.
Even years later with 128MB zip disks.... MD-Data would still have been a better option had the drives been available. Even TODAY they would be a great option.
Hmm?
What do you mean the system has to be overhauled?
One of the chief reasons the system is as big as it is is because the risk is shifted away from the client!
It has always been heavily on the merchant to make sure things are valid, to ensure that the credit card is valid, that it's being used by the right person, etcetera, becuase the merchant is the one that loses if it's not.
These companies cater to merchants by making sure they have a huge customer base who wants to USE their credit cards to buy things, and they reduce the amount of actual cash the merchant has to handle. THe onus has always been heavily on the merchant to keep things in order.
Since internet transactions don't have a signature, yes, it IS easy for the merchant to get screwed. But it's their choice.. they know the temrs.
So paypal cant'just accept a proxy transaction for someone...
but can I simply deposit money in my paypal account?
See, that's a business transaction between me & paypal, not between me and a merchant, which is how it SHOULD be.
Otherwise you get weird things happening, where MC can't deal with the merchant directly.
It was published in Scientific American, I think, about 3 or 4 years ago.
You *JUST* found out about it because you get your news from a narrow band of news sources.
This was in Scientific American, or something similar 3 years ago or so, when the project was starting.
The japanese computer has MILLIONS of processors. Google doesn't even come close to 1/100th of the size.
Google can NOT do 36.5 TERAFLOPS.
The japanese computer is bigger than the top 10 US supercomputers combined. DO you mean to say google is bigger than that?
ANd btw, this project has been in the works for years, I remember reading about it in some science magazine 3 or 4 years ago, when they started the project.
The whole name of a "Beowulf" cluster is misunderstood anyway.
A cluster is a cluster, there are many different kind. There is no one kind called a Beowulf.
Beowulf was the name of a project at NASA that was building clusters out of cheap computers. So I guess any cluster built out of cheap computers is a Beowulf.
Beyond that, there is no set standard for how a "Beowulf" cluster operates. They all use different librarires, different cabling, etc.Some use PVM. Some just use mosix. Some use other stuff. Etc..
640 nodes * 5104 processors is 3266560 processors.
35.6 teraflops (35600000000000 flops)
35600000000000/3266560 = 2724579 (2.7 megaflops per processor)
Where did you get 8 gigaflops from?
I remember seeing this in a magazine a couple years back as a planned project.
Nice to see it working now.
Yes, this is true.
As for more third-world countries and the like... let me assure you....
Okay, I live in Costa Rica. It's not even third world.. but my internet connection here is more reliable than my phone connection.
Entrapment is the police GET you to do a crime and then charge you for it. The kind of crime you would not have committed were it not for their interference.
Parking a car in an area known for car theft and waiting for it to be stolen is not entrapment, it's fishing. I believe as long as they can show the crime would have happened anyway.
Going undercover, going up to a street kid and telling him there is a car 2 blocks over with the keys in the ignition, THAT is entrapment.
Uhh.. mountain dew and coffee taste good the same way cocaine smells good.
It's the positive response of your body to the caffeine that makes your mind decide "This flavor is a good flavor."
1) Caffeine is addictive. People don't just drink caffeine to stay awake, caffeine junkies drink it because if they don't, they hurt.
2) This is probably a great alternative to cns stimulants. IT probably IS much, much easier on your body and hence safer.
3) #2 does not mean that you still don't need sleep, it just means you don't have to deal with the jittery side effects of most CNS stimulants when you need to avert nature and stay awake. You STILL need to (and invariably will) catch up on lost sleep.
How long you will sleep after being awake for 36 hours is not a constant, but what is a constant is that, over time, you average 8 hours a day, period, without variation. IF you miss some, you will make it up, over the next few days, or even weeks.
Track your sleep for a year, and just see what happens. Don't forget to count nodding off at the desk and sleeping on the bus.
The reason they do this is simple: Marketing, marketing, marketing.
Though you or I would love to simply pay for what we use, it would become a support nightmare for the company, and would be more confusing for their average customer (the only customer who matters). Customers would leave for other ISPs who offer them fixed rates, etc. After all, who wants to run a webserver?
with these equations is that, although they are an esimated guess, there are far too many unknowns.
Until we find *some* kind of life *somewhere* else other than earth, we simply do not have anything to really go on to build statistics.
It's like, say I bring you over to my computer, tell you to hit enter, and then the computer shows you a number on the screen.
I tell you that this program follows a pattern, (not random) and that the numbers it produces are between one and a hundred billion.
Then I ask you what the probability of the same number coming up again is.
You have nothing to go on.