Under $100k in my area (suburban Washington DC), is barely a living wage.
It's amazing how weak people get once they get paid a good salary for any length of time. Why don't you try going to a park and finding a homeless guy that sleeps on a bench and tell him how you can barely live with less than $100k a year.
You are either exaggerating, or you have no concept of what is really needed to live and what things are luxuries.
I don't understand why you think the greatest competitor would be the iPad mini. Unless by competitor, you mean which one sells more. A competitor should be a similar device, not a smaller form factor tablet.
I imagine it's the path of least resistance. Imagine you are flapping your wings for hours at a time to fly somewhere. You find that going a little to the left takes less effort... so you stay a little to the left. They then learn this least effort location in relation to the leading birds.
Thank you for the details. You can indeed hit a margin call without trading on margin. This can be avoided by having a larger balance in your account. For example, if you had a large enough balance that your account would have to drop by 50-75% to hit the minimum requirements you wouldn't have to worry about it (assumming you aren't buying companies that are dying). If a brokerage started liquidating positions on a volatility spike of that magnitude, they would not have much business left.
Yes, it is a very small sample set. That is why I ended with, "This is all assuming future failures follow the same rate as currently seen". It is very possible that the failure rate is actually higher. It could also be lower.
They had 1 out of 36 engines that have failed. That's a 2.78% chance of an engine failing. The odds of a launch having no failures at all is, 77.60%, the odds of having one and only one failure is, 19.96%. A successfull launch as defined by one or no engine failures has a 97.56% chance.
This is a risk of 2 or more engine failures of 2.44%, not 6.25% like you say (1 in 16). This is all assuming future failures follow the same rate as currently seen.
A "Loonie" is a Canadian dollar coin named after the image of a loon on the coin. I'm not Canadian, but I don't think "loon" is common slang for money like "buck" is.
The point is to constantly restate the fact that Canadian dollars are worth more than US dollars. Like the post you originally replied to said. The problem is that you replied to that as if it were wrong and 10 year old data, when in fact is was correct and current and agreeing with your bizarrely contradictory statement.
This is awesome! I think/. has just jumped the shark for me. Finally a [citation needed] has the citation as TFA itself! Of course it's still not a fact because it's in the article, but it is the entire reason this page of comments exists.
NASA could build their own system to get into space. I think they might have tried it a couple of times before.
No, that's silly. The US should clearly freeze and confiscate a British woman's assets. Or fine a British woman for outbidding NASA on a Russian trip to space. NASA might even consider not going on this trip.
Her bidding this seat up is a great thing. It shows that there is money, lots of money, to be made in commercial space flight. This is just further motivation to develop the industry, which will have the longer term effects of lowering the cost AND allowing more people to go into space.
Same s how you defend your suckiness at soccer by claiming "oh but we don't care about that game anyway."
This isn't a defense mechanism to explain bad performance. Americans really don't give a shit about soccer. Games are not shown on TV unless you are watching a Spanish language channel, OR it's either the World cup or Olympics. I hear there's an American soccer league, but it's small potatoes. Any trash talk by other countries about soccer falls on deaf ears.
HUDs of one form or another have been available in automobiles since 1988. source. These are factory systems. I'm sure its also possible to get aftermarket versions as well.
Google Maps always has north at the top of the map. If you want to test this, start scrolling up on the map. Google maps never lays out the map differently.
You may be confused into thinking that 7th Ave is a perfectly North/South street and 14th st is perfectly East/West. They are not.
Excellent analysis. I have two minor nits to pick.
First, You could spread the purchase of the 5 bulbs out and buy one every 2000 hours of use and have an alternative investment for that money. This would give minor time value of money increase. Not going to be much of any effect. maybe a couple pennies.
Second, from my experience a 100W replacement would be closer to 15W. Not a big difference. Of course I am going on power consumption of the regular bulb shape replacements. Spotlights might be more efficient in LEDs. This would still just be $7 in your example, still giving the LED a massive advantage.
I replaced all the bulbs in my house with LEDs about 3 years ago. I did the calculations and found that the payback point with my light usage in my house would be around 3 years. That point has passed and all the LEDs are still working. I am now in the point where I'm not buying more LEDs, but I'm enjoying the lower electric consumption.
You'll still be able to get "trouble" or "rough service" bulbs. They are excluded from this efficiency issue. People really need to read what is and is not banned. From Wikipedia
Various specialty bulbs, including appliance bulbs, "rough service" bulbs, colored lights, plant lights, and 3-way bulbs, are exempt from these requirements as well as light bulbs currently less than 40 watts or more than 150 watts.
I don't want to get sidetracked here, but you cannot honestly be using a 50% ROI for your calculations. If that is conservative, every penny you have and could possibly be found should be put into AAPL.
Not to mention that being charged 8% interest on a credit card means you don't have the money to buy the bulb. You can't invest credit card debt into stocks in an alternative timeline calculation.
Why did the guy go public with it at all. If everyone has the patch, he's just harming people that can't or didn't update. The vulnerability was identified and patched because of him. No need to go public with it.
Well, I never said it was "evil" or "good", and I probably would complain if they used Torx Plus.
Torx may have upset people originally, but it does have advantages over Phillips screws. Torx Plus doesn't give the same sort of improvement. The Pentalobe fasteners likewise are not any better than Torx. Why not use the same fasteners everyone else does? This isn't like the new connector, which can be argued to offer more than the standard microUSB. This is a fastener.
Bullshit. V1.2 of the USB battery charging specification permits up to 5A of current. This dates to 2010, so it's not like Apple hasn't had plenty of time to use it instead of their proprietary plug.
If anyone is not quite sure how much 5 A is, it is enough to power a smallbelt sander. If there is a device that takes more current to charge than a belt sander, I'd love to hear about it.
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Under $100k in my area (suburban Washington DC), is barely a living wage.
It's amazing how weak people get once they get paid a good salary for any length of time. Why don't you try going to a park and finding a homeless guy that sleeps on a bench and tell him how you can barely live with less than $100k a year.
You are either exaggerating, or you have no concept of what is really needed to live and what things are luxuries.
I don't understand why you think the greatest competitor would be the iPad mini. Unless by competitor, you mean which one sells more. A competitor should be a similar device, not a smaller form factor tablet.
I imagine it's the path of least resistance. Imagine you are flapping your wings for hours at a time to fly somewhere. You find that going a little to the left takes less effort... so you stay a little to the left. They then learn this least effort location in relation to the leading birds.
Thank you for the details. You can indeed hit a margin call without trading on margin. This can be avoided by having a larger balance in your account. For example, if you had a large enough balance that your account would have to drop by 50-75% to hit the minimum requirements you wouldn't have to worry about it (assumming you aren't buying companies that are dying). If a brokerage started liquidating positions on a volatility spike of that magnitude, they would not have much business left.
The Hakapelitta brand is made by Nokian tires. A separate publicly traded company from Nokia.
I like that the summary thinks $6 to $10 billion is a "drop in the bucket" compared to $100 billion. How big a drop fills up 6 to 10% of a bucket?
Yes, it is a very small sample set. That is why I ended with, "This is all assuming future failures follow the same rate as currently seen". It is very possible that the failure rate is actually higher. It could also be lower.
flying death trap? That's a bit harsh isn't it. No one is telling you to get into it.
They had 1 out of 36 engines that have failed. That's a 2.78% chance of an engine failing. The odds of a launch having no failures at all is, 77.60%, the odds of having one and only one failure is, 19.96%. A successfull launch as defined by one or no engine failures has a 97.56% chance.
This is a risk of 2 or more engine failures of 2.44%, not 6.25% like you say (1 in 16). This is all assuming future failures follow the same rate as currently seen.
A "Loonie" is a Canadian dollar coin named after the image of a loon on the coin. I'm not Canadian, but I don't think "loon" is common slang for money like "buck" is.
The point is to constantly restate the fact that Canadian dollars are worth more than US dollars. Like the post you originally replied to said. The problem is that you replied to that as if it were wrong and 10 year old data, when in fact is was correct and current and agreeing with your bizarrely contradictory statement.
Where is the maple syrup at TJ Maxx and Marshall's? Aren't those clothing stores?
Did you mistype the ratio? 8.4:1 would be 84 android devices for every 10 iPhones.
This is awesome! I think /. has just jumped the shark for me. Finally a [citation needed] has the citation as TFA itself! Of course it's still not a fact because it's in the article, but it is the entire reason this page of comments exists.
NASA could build their own system to get into space. I think they might have tried it a couple of times before.
No, that's silly. The US should clearly freeze and confiscate a British woman's assets. Or fine a British woman for outbidding NASA on a Russian trip to space. NASA might even consider not going on this trip.
Her bidding this seat up is a great thing. It shows that there is money, lots of money, to be made in commercial space flight. This is just further motivation to develop the industry, which will have the longer term effects of lowering the cost AND allowing more people to go into space.
Same s how you defend your suckiness at soccer by claiming "oh but we don't care about that game anyway."
This isn't a defense mechanism to explain bad performance. Americans really don't give a shit about soccer. Games are not shown on TV unless you are watching a Spanish language channel, OR it's either the World cup or Olympics. I hear there's an American soccer league, but it's small potatoes. Any trash talk by other countries about soccer falls on deaf ears.
HUDs of one form or another have been available in automobiles since 1988. source. These are factory systems. I'm sure its also possible to get aftermarket versions as well.
Corporations have free reign, access and usage of special "corporate" copyright tools. Try getting access to those as a person.
Google Maps always has north at the top of the map. If you want to test this, start scrolling up on the map. Google maps never lays out the map differently.
You may be confused into thinking that 7th Ave is a perfectly North/South street and 14th st is perfectly East/West. They are not.
Excellent analysis. I have two minor nits to pick.
I replaced all the bulbs in my house with LEDs about 3 years ago. I did the calculations and found that the payback point with my light usage in my house would be around 3 years. That point has passed and all the LEDs are still working. I am now in the point where I'm not buying more LEDs, but I'm enjoying the lower electric consumption.
Various specialty bulbs, including appliance bulbs, "rough service" bulbs, colored lights, plant lights, and 3-way bulbs, are exempt from these requirements as well as light bulbs currently less than 40 watts or more than 150 watts.
I don't want to get sidetracked here, but you cannot honestly be using a 50% ROI for your calculations. If that is conservative, every penny you have and could possibly be found should be put into AAPL.
Not to mention that being charged 8% interest on a credit card means you don't have the money to buy the bulb. You can't invest credit card debt into stocks in an alternative timeline calculation.
Why did the guy go public with it at all. If everyone has the patch, he's just harming people that can't or didn't update. The vulnerability was identified and patched because of him. No need to go public with it.
Well, I never said it was "evil" or "good", and I probably would complain if they used Torx Plus.
Torx may have upset people originally, but it does have advantages over Phillips screws. Torx Plus doesn't give the same sort of improvement. The Pentalobe fasteners likewise are not any better than Torx. Why not use the same fasteners everyone else does? This isn't like the new connector, which can be argued to offer more than the standard microUSB. This is a fastener.
Bullshit. V1.2 of the USB battery charging specification permits up to 5A of current. This dates to 2010, so it's not like Apple hasn't had plenty of time to use it instead of their proprietary plug.
If anyone is not quite sure how much 5 A is, it is enough to power a small belt sander. If there is a device that takes more current to charge than a belt sander, I'd love to hear about it.