But a proper heat pump system would give you 2-3 times as much heat per watt. Resistance heat is almost never the best choice... And if you ever need to cool your house, you're just adding load to your cooling system.
I would guess that it's partly due to the whole of Africa essentially being an "isolated area" from an internet pipe perspective, partly due to a telecom monopoly, partly due to higher costs from overall lack of markets (ie, not a lot of competition among networking vendors), maybe a luxury tax? I don't know Tanzania, I'm just speculating.
I doubt I'm smarter than you but... I would guess that the HD Moore guy who ran the project owns the Metasploit name, trademark, domain etc, as well as the copyright on the code. So you can see how all that could be worth something, plus they're hiring him to keep working on it. If they wanted to they could presumably close the source going forward, though he says in his blog post that they're committed to keeping it open. If they can make a popular tool work well with their other products, it might be worth it to them and apparently it is, since they've done it.
It's $360 from newegg - not a bad little box really, especially since most small servers would be fine with the dual core Atom. It would probably be a better deal if what you want is a linux box.
the federal government ordered enough H1N1 u vaccines for every man, woman and child across the country who would want or need one
The point is, though, in the US there have been lots of orders as well, but the manufacturers look like they won't be able to fill all those orders in a timely fashion. I doubt that the Canadian orders will get filled any faster.
I've heard that most car fires are caused by someone pulling over onto a grassy shoulder, and the catalytic converter igniting the dried grass. They do get pretty hot.
Yeah, nowadays I use the High Quality setting in EAC with lame - 192kbps VBR, not sure that their command line options are exactly what you suggest but it's good enough for me! My point was that even with 128 CBR I couldn't tell the difference, and my ears were younger then.
I've done that too, with similar results. I've listened to a CD and 128kbps mp3 made by myself using EAC & the best headphones I had around, and couldn't tell the difference. (Admittedly, through a Soundblaster soundcard.) I've played a CD through a good component CD player, then the 128kbps mp3 version through a dvd player hooked to the same amp & speakers (pretty good NAD amp & B&W speakers). I still couldn't tell the difference, neither could my wife, so since then (this was 6+ years ago) I haven't worried about it. I rip my CDs at 196 or so and get on with listening to them. With improved codecs I can see that you could get listenable quality out of 48kbps.
like many people, I like bookstores, and am willing to pay more when buying a book in a nice environment.
If there are enough people like you, then there's no need for a price control system since people will support their local bookshops by paying higher prices. The problem is that when you have price controls those who don't share your views are still forced to pay the higher prices. Maybe the German people as a whole like bookstores more than Americans do, but I doubt it, since they needed to impose this law.
I think that there are other small drones out there that are closer to your $2k tricked out R/C airplane. But if you look at what kind of stuff the big drones are carrying, it's not really a surprise that they're pricey. Encrypted satellite links, cameras that can tell people apart from 5 miles away, infrared cameras that can do the same, that's all expensive stuff. Your $2k plane is going to have to be controlled by someone reasonably close to it, which is a big chunk of the advantage of the drones. From the article, there are over 2000 people at home supporting the 400 people in the field, which is 2000 less people to supply and protect.
Just you wait, many purchases will scrub both Androis & Windows 7 and install their favourite distro
I doubt it. If you want a Linux only netbook you can get one, if you buy one with Windows on it you'd probably dual boot. I like having both available, and I'm sure I'm not the only one - and Acer has the sales numbers to inform their statement, whereas we're just random/.ers speculating.
booting off a LiveCD won't save you from the truncated SSL cert attack that was demonstrated in the direction of PayPal the other day.. only having an up-to-date browser will do that.
I fail to see how that attack would affect me if I boot to my vulnerable browser and go straight to my banks website. Yes, If I typed the wrong address I might happen onto a cleverly constructed duplicate of my bank's site, but otherwise I'm safe. If you're careful enough to go to the trouble of booting into the live cd, you'd hope that you could type bankofamerica.com correctly. It's really moot anyway, because the people who most need to do it are the least likely to.
Maybe it wasn't a "front page" feature because it was only available in Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise (and not Home Premium). Thankfully, MS has corrected this mistake by including this feature (and all other backup features) in Windows 7 Home Premium as well.
That really pissed me off when I moved to Vista. I ended up just making a batch file for Robocopy to backup what I wanted - just like a Linux box, having to use command line tools to do what you need...;)
I had people opening lines of credit etc in my name a few years ago. One of the applications I got to see had so much information that I was baffled where they had managed to get it. Later one of the investigators told my it was from a university I had taken some classes at. This place was still using your SSN as a student id number, and apparently an employee was passing on information to a ring. It's a real pain to clear up. Since then I've had two data breach notices when companies have lost my information - the laughable part is that they always include helpful tips on how you can avoid id theft, like shred everything. None of their tips would have helped me, since it was always an institution that lost my information. Why go digging through garbage when you can get all the information nicely packaged up for you?
Also don't forget that as people switch from (taxed) petrol to (lower taxed) electricity, revenues will drop. The government will be raising taxes on SOMETHING to make up the difference. Try running your diesel on (untaxed) cooking oil in the UK, wait for the taxman to come knocking....
I can buy a little 1000W gas generator for $400. It's not hard to imagine a "range extending" generator you could use for such trips. Plug-in hybrid designs already include a generator for just such an eventuality; if you had a 500 mile range, and knew you were going further, you could run a small generator from the moment of departure, which would mean you would get a range boost even from a small source that wouldn't run the car on its own.
The only way price would go that high are if we choose to make them so, through taxes. In Europe, taxes raise the price to $8-9/gal, yet there's still plenty of traffic. Despite what Ost99 says in his follow up, that is an incentive to save fuel - European cars are generally more efficient & smaller than American cars.
I also think it's often hard for Europeans to get their head around how much more Americans drive - not only are there almost twice as many cars here per capita, but each one gets driven twice as far per year. So a European would have to drive 4 times what he or she currently does, in a larger vehicle using more gas per mile, to average what an American does. It's hard to grasp if you're used to the European way. A few years ago I was in Britain, and drove from London to Edinburgh. My attitude was, it's only 8 hours, and with luggage & kids much easier. All my friends who live there would have taken the train or the plane, none would have driven.
Yet that would also affect my daughter, who is not a teenager and has quite sensitive hearing. So it would certainly annoy individuals who are not in the target group.
I just did this on BoA's site. The problem is, once you're in the website, you can set up the SMS message thing. So your attacker gets in, changes it to send the SMS to a burner phone, or a Google Voice account, and your security is sidestepped. So what was the point again? The $20 device you can buy is a better option, but I don't want to pay for it, so I'm using the bogus option.
I have a book I'd like to photograph - it's a large, hand-typed bound family history, done in the 70s by a relative. You can't get it on a scanner without breaking the binding. I tried years ago to scan & ocr it with a handheld scanner, but the tools available then were just too painful I'm going to give it another shot now. So, some people may well find this discussion useful.
While I wouldn't rely too heavily on Fox News myself, and I'm not sure about politifact, I've found factcheck.org to be quite objective in, well, checking facts. If you read their report, you'll see that they provide a detailed breakdown of why the 90% number is inaccurate. I think you'd do well to read that one, at least - I'd never heard of these statistics before, and I found it interesting.
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But a proper heat pump system would give you 2-3 times as much heat per watt. Resistance heat is almost never the best choice... And if you ever need to cool your house, you're just adding load to your cooling system.
I would guess that it's partly due to the whole of Africa essentially being an "isolated area" from an internet pipe perspective, partly due to a telecom monopoly, partly due to higher costs from overall lack of markets (ie, not a lot of competition among networking vendors), maybe a luxury tax? I don't know Tanzania, I'm just speculating.
Tax? Well perhaps, although books tend not to be taxed in the UK - who knows how ebooks will be treated though.
TFA says that EU taxes on ebooks are higher than paper books; if it's like most other VAT that's 20% right there, your $10 book becomes $12.
I have a Minnie Mouse antenna topper on the minivan, but I won't be buying any DRM from them.
This is Disney. Their lawyers are the ones responsible for ensuring that nothing after Mickey Mouse was created will ever enter the public domain...
I doubt I'm smarter than you but... I would guess that the HD Moore guy who ran the project owns the Metasploit name, trademark, domain etc, as well as the copyright on the code. So you can see how all that could be worth something, plus they're hiring him to keep working on it. If they wanted to they could presumably close the source going forward, though he says in his blog post that they're committed to keeping it open. If they can make a popular tool work well with their other products, it might be worth it to them and apparently it is, since they've done it.
It's $360 from newegg - not a bad little box really, especially since most small servers would be fine with the dual core Atom. It would probably be a better deal if what you want is a linux box.
the federal government ordered enough H1N1 u vaccines for every man, woman and child across the country who would want or need one
The point is, though, in the US there have been lots of orders as well, but the manufacturers look like they won't be able to fill all those orders in a timely fashion. I doubt that the Canadian orders will get filled any faster.
I think it would be much more interesting to know who designed and built it.
I found that out by the simple expedient of reading the article:
Buses in the Shanghai pilot are made by Germantown, TN-based Foton America Bus Co, which uses ultracapacitors manufactured by Shanghai Aowei.
I've heard that most car fires are caused by someone pulling over onto a grassy shoulder, and the catalytic converter igniting the dried grass. They do get pretty hot.
Yeah, nowadays I use the High Quality setting in EAC with lame - 192kbps VBR, not sure that their command line options are exactly what you suggest but it's good enough for me! My point was that even with 128 CBR I couldn't tell the difference, and my ears were younger then.
I've done that too, with similar results. I've listened to a CD and 128kbps mp3 made by myself using EAC & the best headphones I had around, and couldn't tell the difference. (Admittedly, through a Soundblaster soundcard.) I've played a CD through a good component CD player, then the 128kbps mp3 version through a dvd player hooked to the same amp & speakers (pretty good NAD amp & B&W speakers). I still couldn't tell the difference, neither could my wife, so since then (this was 6+ years ago) I haven't worried about it. I rip my CDs at 196 or so and get on with listening to them. With improved codecs I can see that you could get listenable quality out of 48kbps.
like many people, I like bookstores, and am willing to pay more when buying a book in a nice environment.
If there are enough people like you, then there's no need for a price control system since people will support their local bookshops by paying higher prices. The problem is that when you have price controls those who don't share your views are still forced to pay the higher prices. Maybe the German people as a whole like bookstores more than Americans do, but I doubt it, since they needed to impose this law.
I think that there are other small drones out there that are closer to your $2k tricked out R/C airplane. But if you look at what kind of stuff the big drones are carrying, it's not really a surprise that they're pricey. Encrypted satellite links, cameras that can tell people apart from 5 miles away, infrared cameras that can do the same, that's all expensive stuff. Your $2k plane is going to have to be controlled by someone reasonably close to it, which is a big chunk of the advantage of the drones. From the article, there are over 2000 people at home supporting the 400 people in the field, which is 2000 less people to supply and protect.
Just you wait, many purchases will scrub both Androis & Windows 7 and install their favourite distro
I doubt it. If you want a Linux only netbook you can get one, if you buy one with Windows on it you'd probably dual boot. I like having both available, and I'm sure I'm not the only one - and Acer has the sales numbers to inform their statement, whereas we're just random /.ers speculating.
booting off a LiveCD won't save you from the truncated SSL cert attack that was demonstrated in the direction of PayPal the other day.. only having an up-to-date browser will do that.
I fail to see how that attack would affect me if I boot to my vulnerable browser and go straight to my banks website. Yes, If I typed the wrong address I might happen onto a cleverly constructed duplicate of my bank's site, but otherwise I'm safe. If you're careful enough to go to the trouble of booting into the live cd, you'd hope that you could type bankofamerica.com correctly. It's really moot anyway, because the people who most need to do it are the least likely to.
Maybe it wasn't a "front page" feature because it was only available in Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise (and not Home Premium). Thankfully, MS has corrected this mistake by including this feature (and all other backup features) in Windows 7 Home Premium as well.
That really pissed me off when I moved to Vista. I ended up just making a batch file for Robocopy to backup what I wanted - just like a Linux box, having to use command line tools to do what you need... ;)
I had people opening lines of credit etc in my name a few years ago. One of the applications I got to see had so much information that I was baffled where they had managed to get it. Later one of the investigators told my it was from a university I had taken some classes at. This place was still using your SSN as a student id number, and apparently an employee was passing on information to a ring. It's a real pain to clear up. Since then I've had two data breach notices when companies have lost my information - the laughable part is that they always include helpful tips on how you can avoid id theft, like shred everything. None of their tips would have helped me, since it was always an institution that lost my information. Why go digging through garbage when you can get all the information nicely packaged up for you?
Also don't forget that as people switch from (taxed) petrol to (lower taxed) electricity, revenues will drop. The government will be raising taxes on SOMETHING to make up the difference. Try running your diesel on (untaxed) cooking oil in the UK, wait for the taxman to come knocking....
I can buy a little 1000W gas generator for $400. It's not hard to imagine a "range extending" generator you could use for such trips. Plug-in hybrid designs already include a generator for just such an eventuality; if you had a 500 mile range, and knew you were going further, you could run a small generator from the moment of departure, which would mean you would get a range boost even from a small source that wouldn't run the car on its own.
The only way price would go that high are if we choose to make them so, through taxes. In Europe, taxes raise the price to $8-9/gal, yet there's still plenty of traffic. Despite what Ost99 says in his follow up, that is an incentive to save fuel - European cars are generally more efficient & smaller than American cars.
I also think it's often hard for Europeans to get their head around how much more Americans drive - not only are there almost twice as many cars here per capita, but each one gets driven twice as far per year. So a European would have to drive 4 times what he or she currently does, in a larger vehicle using more gas per mile, to average what an American does. It's hard to grasp if you're used to the European way. A few years ago I was in Britain, and drove from London to Edinburgh. My attitude was, it's only 8 hours, and with luggage & kids much easier. All my friends who live there would have taken the train or the plane, none would have driven.
Yet that would also affect my daughter, who is not a teenager and has quite sensitive hearing. So it would certainly annoy individuals who are not in the target group.
I just did this on BoA's site. The problem is, once you're in the website, you can set up the SMS message thing. So your attacker gets in, changes it to send the SMS to a burner phone, or a Google Voice account, and your security is sidestepped. So what was the point again? The $20 device you can buy is a better option, but I don't want to pay for it, so I'm using the bogus option.
I have a book I'd like to photograph - it's a large, hand-typed bound family history, done in the 70s by a relative. You can't get it on a scanner without breaking the binding. I tried years ago to scan & ocr it with a handheld scanner, but the tools available then were just too painful I'm going to give it another shot now. So, some people may well find this discussion useful.
While I wouldn't rely too heavily on Fox News myself, and I'm not sure about politifact, I've found factcheck.org to be quite objective in, well, checking facts. If you read their report, you'll see that they provide a detailed breakdown of why the 90% number is inaccurate. I think you'd do well to read that one, at least - I'd never heard of these statistics before, and I found it interesting.