Yes a dime is 10 cents. Quarters are a lot more common. This is probably due to two factors. 1. People give change in the largest denomination coins possible. 2. Coins in denominations larger than the quarter (half and dollar coin) do not get used. They are generally minted solely for collectors.
So when you get back change of, lets say, $0.87, you'd get 3 quarters, 1 dime, and 2 pennies.
If I regularly went through a 40 cent toll like that, I would get rolls of dimes to use for the tolls.
Hold on now. You're suggesting that married people can't buy a car without notarized consent from their spouse? What if a guy just wants to buy an old motorcycle for a couple hundred bucks?
Sending Spam text messages is the same as sending spam emails, literally. Every carrier has a gateway that allows you to email to a number and have it received as a text. here is a listing of gateways. It is a little harder to target as you need to match the number up with the carrier.
I have done some work on web apps that sent text message alerts to users. In my experience, a few carriers blocked mass text emails as spam, but a number of them let everything through. Of the ones that blocked the spam, it was trivial to get them to add this particular nonprofit's emails to the white-list by calling the carrier. I imagine some social engineering could get them to white-list true spam.
You know what else is as anonymous as I need it to be. Dollar bills. If you're really paranoid and don't want to be traced by the serial number of the bills, use dollar coins.
Just cut the word "pyramid" from his comment. It's an abused term any more. Every system where a small group makes over sized profits and a larger group lose money is labeled a pyramid scheme, regardless of whether the people that lost money made terrible decisions along the way or not. In this case the new people to Bitcoins lost money by spending more on electricity and video cards than they earned while the people that had been in for a while could have sold out at the high.
This was the Grammys. They don't give out awards for technical merit. They give them out to stroke egos in the recording industry and to try and influence the direction the industry moves in.
That would be a terrible choice then. I don't recall any Grammys going out to other people that created music authoring programs. That includes the programs that professionals use to author their recordings.
Yes, but the quoted figure for the the labels is $8 million out of $45 million. That's $37 million that went to "Other than labels" A lot more than the $8 million iTunes takes is left out of their pockets. They don't even take a majority of the money.
Oh my god! I can't wait to run Apps while I'm watching a movie! I couldn't possible just want to watch a movie by itself. It's like that dipshit in the theater a couple rows up texting and playing with his phone in the movie is me!
Seriously, I want a dumb display panel. That's all. I've always plugged in my devices that provide content into my dumb display device. I don't want to have to replace a perfectly good 40 - 60" display panel just to get a faster processor or more memory on my game device, media streamer, etc..
Also being able to control it with existing iOS devices doesn't exactly hold much weight to someone with no iDevices.
Yes they do. Apparently, that's the only way they can get the ignorant masses to know that there is a difference. They don't try to explain the concept of a backlight and an LCD, they just say, "It's an LED TV!"
That's the way it should be. Movie producers start building up the content library. Then it's easier to get the public to embrace 4k since there are actually things to watch in 4k.
I have mixed feelings about DVRs. I was all about them and 100% loved them when I first got one through the local cable company. No commercials and my shows when I want to watch them.
Then I realized that commercial breaks were perfect times for me to get up and do something, bathroom, laundry, snack, whatever, and they were gone. Soon I found myself pressured to watch everything that was recorded before it continued to pile up higher and higher.
At some point, I felt I was spending too much time and money due to my cable. I cancelled it and went to an OTA antenna. Now I have commercials that act to get me off the couch, and if I miss a show, I miss a show. Life goes on and the loss of that episode is no big deal.
My experience is that the DVR was a fantastic change to my TV viewing habits, but it brought with it it's own problems. I'd still have one now though, if it wasn't for that monthly bill for cable TV.
I can think of no valid hypothesis that a cataract surgery would change his retina or brain and thus his perception of this light. I would tend to agree with the GP that the new lens is allowing more UV light to his retina. Enough for him to be able to see it.
If I was an Apple stock holder, I would be pissed at the idea that that warchest is going to be pissed away on dumb lawsuits like this instead of used to either create new products or just pay me my money with a dividend.
That's why good fish and game management gives hunting and fishing permits based on data of the population of a species. If there were so few elephants that killing one would lead to extinction of the species and the authorities allowed it to be hunted legally, who is at fault here? The hunter who has no idea how many elephants are out there, or the authorities that track them and do population counts?
Also, in your example, if you go back to year one and kill one fish and one elephant, you would have one fish and one elephant left. You would then have one fish and one elephant until they each died and then you would have none. So in that example allowing either fish or elephant to be killed would be irresponsible and lead to the loss of the entire population.
If you look around, you may find independent electronic stores that have resistors, capcitors, and other components. I haven't seen a large chain that carries that type of stuff since, well since Radio Shack went more towards consumer goods.
I think the real question of whether a product makes sense to sell in a brick and mortar store is "does this need a salesperson?". For resistors the answer is obviously "no". If you are looking for a resistor you need to know what resistance you need and a salesguy can't help you guess. Another important question is, "Will hands on experience help sell the product?". It's hard to think that the average Joe will want to buy a TV online without seeing the picture and getting a feel for the size of it.
It could be something other than a flat across the board rate. Something like the opposite of the current US tax code. The lowest tiers have the higher rates.
So say, the first 5GB is $1/GB, 5-50GB is charged at $0.50/GB, 50-100 at $0.25/GB, 100-250GB at $0.10, and 250GB and up at $0.05/GB.
So a user that consumes 5GB in a month, pays $5 a user that consumes a total of 50GB pays $27.5 ($5 + $22.5)
a user that consumes a total of 100GB pays $40 ($5 + $22.5 + 12.5)
a user that consumes a total of 250GB pays $55 ($5 + $22.5 + 12.5 + 15)
a user that consumes a total of 400GB pays $62.5 ($5 + $22.5 + 12.5 + 15 + 7.5)
Of course these numbers are arbitrary, but it would allow them to charge based on a scale and not have the low data usage people pay well more than their share vs the heavy data users paying much less than their share, but not make it onerous to be a heavy data user.
I'm more concerned with who has more smart phones that are used to spread PB & J on bread to make sandwiches.
What do you really care about? The actual marketshare and make up of the market, or just some pissing match to find a way to make your brand come out on top? I'm considering adding this to the list of topics not to discuss at a dinner party: politics, religion and Android vs. iPhone (really just brand loyalties).
Considering he sounds happy with his phone, it either works or he doesn't need it. Not everyone looking to get a cell phone needs or cares about IPsec / Cisco VPNs.
Well, they don't have to use his arbitrary price of $0.05/GB. They would set their price at something that would provide some profit and still be competitive in the market.
You're math is incorrect. F=MA. You are quoting M x V for the projectile. A better comparison would be to look at the kinetic energy of the projectiles which is 1/2 MV^2.
USS Iowa class battleship guns kinetic energy = 0.5*1200* 820^2 = 403440000 Joules, or 112 kWh.
9mm parabellum round kinetic energy = 0.5*.009*420^2 = 793.8 J or 0.0002205 kWh.
theoretical calculation for a projectile at 2500 m/s that weighs 5kg. Energy = 0.5*5*2500^2 = 15625000 J or 4.34 kWh. ~ 1/30th the energy of the battleship projectile.
If the high speed does cause the projectile to completely penetrate through the target, That means that the target doesn't absorb all of the projectiles energy. Considering the amount of energy involved, I don't think it would put a clean hole through a ship without some serious shockwaves and damage.
Two of these projectiles has enough energy to power my house for more than a day. The battleship's gun could power my house for close to 3 weeks.
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Yes a dime is 10 cents. Quarters are a lot more common. This is probably due to two factors.
1. People give change in the largest denomination coins possible.
2. Coins in denominations larger than the quarter (half and dollar coin) do not get used. They are generally minted solely for collectors.
So when you get back change of, lets say, $0.87, you'd get 3 quarters, 1 dime, and 2 pennies.
If I regularly went through a 40 cent toll like that, I would get rolls of dimes to use for the tolls.
Hold on now. You're suggesting that married people can't buy a car without notarized consent from their spouse? What if a guy just wants to buy an old motorcycle for a couple hundred bucks?
Sending Spam text messages is the same as sending spam emails, literally. Every carrier has a gateway that allows you to email to a number and have it received as a text. here is a listing of gateways. It is a little harder to target as you need to match the number up with the carrier.
I have done some work on web apps that sent text message alerts to users. In my experience, a few carriers blocked mass text emails as spam, but a number of them let everything through. Of the ones that blocked the spam, it was trivial to get them to add this particular nonprofit's emails to the white-list by calling the carrier. I imagine some social engineering could get them to white-list true spam.
You know what else is as anonymous as I need it to be. Dollar bills. If you're really paranoid and don't want to be traced by the serial number of the bills, use dollar coins.
Just cut the word "pyramid" from his comment. It's an abused term any more. Every system where a small group makes over sized profits and a larger group lose money is labeled a pyramid scheme, regardless of whether the people that lost money made terrible decisions along the way or not. In this case the new people to Bitcoins lost money by spending more on electricity and video cards than they earned while the people that had been in for a while could have sold out at the high.
This was the Grammys. They don't give out awards for technical merit. They give them out to stroke egos in the recording industry and to try and influence the direction the industry moves in.
That would be a terrible choice then. I don't recall any Grammys going out to other people that created music authoring programs. That includes the programs that professionals use to author their recordings.
Yes, but the quoted figure for the the labels is $8 million out of $45 million. That's $37 million that went to "Other than labels" A lot more than the $8 million iTunes takes is left out of their pockets. They don't even take a majority of the money.
Except that the GP is right and US citizens hold more of the debt. http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/longterm/debt/ownership.html. China is the largest foreign holder of US debt, but they don't hold more than domestic holders.
Oh my god! I can't wait to run Apps while I'm watching a movie! I couldn't possible just want to watch a movie by itself. It's like that dipshit in the theater a couple rows up texting and playing with his phone in the movie is me!
Seriously, I want a dumb display panel. That's all. I've always plugged in my devices that provide content into my dumb display device. I don't want to have to replace a perfectly good 40 - 60" display panel just to get a faster processor or more memory on my game device, media streamer, etc..
Also being able to control it with existing iOS devices doesn't exactly hold much weight to someone with no iDevices.
Yes they do. Apparently, that's the only way they can get the ignorant masses to know that there is a difference. They don't try to explain the concept of a backlight and an LCD, they just say, "It's an LED TV!"
That's the way it should be. Movie producers start building up the content library. Then it's easier to get the public to embrace 4k since there are actually things to watch in 4k.
I have mixed feelings about DVRs. I was all about them and 100% loved them when I first got one through the local cable company. No commercials and my shows when I want to watch them.
Then I realized that commercial breaks were perfect times for me to get up and do something, bathroom, laundry, snack, whatever, and they were gone. Soon I found myself pressured to watch everything that was recorded before it continued to pile up higher and higher.
At some point, I felt I was spending too much time and money due to my cable. I cancelled it and went to an OTA antenna. Now I have commercials that act to get me off the couch, and if I miss a show, I miss a show. Life goes on and the loss of that episode is no big deal.
My experience is that the DVR was a fantastic change to my TV viewing habits, but it brought with it it's own problems. I'd still have one now though, if it wasn't for that monthly bill for cable TV.
I would think you would need vision in the X-ray spectrum to have true X-ray vision, which is a bit beyond the ultraviolet end.
I can think of no valid hypothesis that a cataract surgery would change his retina or brain and thus his perception of this light. I would tend to agree with the GP that the new lens is allowing more UV light to his retina. Enough for him to be able to see it.
If I was an Apple stock holder, I would be pissed at the idea that that warchest is going to be pissed away on dumb lawsuits like this instead of used to either create new products or just pay me my money with a dividend.
That's why good fish and game management gives hunting and fishing permits based on data of the population of a species. If there were so few elephants that killing one would lead to extinction of the species and the authorities allowed it to be hunted legally, who is at fault here? The hunter who has no idea how many elephants are out there, or the authorities that track them and do population counts?
Also, in your example, if you go back to year one and kill one fish and one elephant, you would have one fish and one elephant left. You would then have one fish and one elephant until they each died and then you would have none. So in that example allowing either fish or elephant to be killed would be irresponsible and lead to the loss of the entire population.
Those phones on every corner are in peoples pockets now. Payphones are rapidly disappearing in the US.
If you look around, you may find independent electronic stores that have resistors, capcitors, and other components. I haven't seen a large chain that carries that type of stuff since, well since Radio Shack went more towards consumer goods.
I think the real question of whether a product makes sense to sell in a brick and mortar store is "does this need a salesperson?". For resistors the answer is obviously "no". If you are looking for a resistor you need to know what resistance you need and a salesguy can't help you guess. Another important question is, "Will hands on experience help sell the product?". It's hard to think that the average Joe will want to buy a TV online without seeing the picture and getting a feel for the size of it.
Awesome quality control. Rather than waste their time confirming your diagnosis, they waste the next guy that buys its time.
It could be something other than a flat across the board rate. Something like the opposite of the current US tax code. The lowest tiers have the higher rates.
So say, the first 5GB is $1/GB, 5-50GB is charged at $0.50/GB, 50-100 at $0.25/GB, 100-250GB at $0.10, and 250GB and up at $0.05/GB.
So a user that consumes 5GB in a month, pays $5
a user that consumes a total of 50GB pays $27.5 ($5 + $22.5)
a user that consumes a total of 100GB pays $40 ($5 + $22.5 + 12.5)
a user that consumes a total of 250GB pays $55 ($5 + $22.5 + 12.5 + 15)
a user that consumes a total of 400GB pays $62.5 ($5 + $22.5 + 12.5 + 15 + 7.5)
Of course these numbers are arbitrary, but it would allow them to charge based on a scale and not have the low data usage people pay well more than their share vs the heavy data users paying much less than their share, but not make it onerous to be a heavy data user.
I'm more concerned with who has more smart phones that are used to spread PB & J on bread to make sandwiches.
What do you really care about? The actual marketshare and make up of the market, or just some pissing match to find a way to make your brand come out on top? I'm considering adding this to the list of topics not to discuss at a dinner party: politics, religion and Android vs. iPhone (really just brand loyalties).
Considering he sounds happy with his phone, it either works or he doesn't need it. Not everyone looking to get a cell phone needs or cares about IPsec / Cisco VPNs.
Well, they don't have to use his arbitrary price of $0.05/GB. They would set their price at something that would provide some profit and still be competitive in the market.
You're math is incorrect. F=MA. You are quoting M x V for the projectile. A better comparison would be to look at the kinetic energy of the projectiles which is 1/2 MV^2.
USS Iowa class battleship guns kinetic energy = 0.5*1200* 820^2 = 403440000 Joules, or 112 kWh.
9mm parabellum round kinetic energy = 0.5*.009*420^2 = 793.8 J or 0.0002205 kWh.
theoretical calculation for a projectile at 2500 m/s that weighs 5kg. Energy = 0.5*5*2500^2 = 15625000 J or 4.34 kWh. ~ 1/30th the energy of the battleship projectile.
If the high speed does cause the projectile to completely penetrate through the target, That means that the target doesn't absorb all of the projectiles energy. Considering the amount of energy involved, I don't think it would put a clean hole through a ship without some serious shockwaves and damage.
Two of these projectiles has enough energy to power my house for more than a day. The battleship's gun could power my house for close to 3 weeks.