60fps is probably the "best" standard we have that also matches a lot of existing hardware. 30 if you're you're an ATSC weenie, 29.97 if you still live in America in the 1960s. As to the GP, 50 is only there to be compatible with 25FPS PAL. And the goffy geekish need to have time domain frames come out in hundredths of a second.
You didn't say how much your solar panels cost, nor how much your sunny season electricity bill was. My most recent data from our local panel installer for a turn-key, non-storage system is 30c/kWh for 20,000+ watt systems, with no structure included (i.e. - you have to have a flat roof which can hold the weight with no obstructions). That's nearly 3x my current power rate.
Is your system paying back at least the 4% it would cost to borrow the money for the system?
No, it's a cost of business, like lighting, power, supplies, and raw materials. Everybody pays it - it's a zero sum game. You don't see two restaurants in the same town, one of which goes under when the meals tax goes up by 1% because they both pay it. International suppliers are not immune because - unless you purchase directly from an international source - there is an importer who pays the same 3% that the US manufacturer will pay when they sell to the retail outlet.
The same tax occurs on every thing which is imported. As soon as it changes hands, there's a 3% gross tax. If you import something and sell it - 3%. If you make something and sell it - 3%. Put a distributor in the middle - 3% twice (well, 1.03^2). Put a shell corporation designed to avoid taxes in the middle (i.e. - they by and sell at zero margin, allowing transfer of taxable transactions to a low-tax haven) - 3%.
Two issues:
Your photocopier supply company doesn't only charge you when you make copies for profit - they charge you for every copy. Your real estate broker and your stock broker do not base their commissions on the net profit, but on the total sale (or as a fixed fee - but never zero). Your electric company charges you for every kWh you use. The real estate taxes which pay for fire, police, and schools are not based on profit. Why would you based your military - which protects you 24/7/365.25, your transportation infrastructure on which you ship your goods, or the other services - on the profit over which the gov't has no control?
It has the (imho positive) side effect of rewarding short supply chains - the shorter the better. It penalizes low margin "churn" operations where very little value is added, as well as shell corporations which serve to shield (mostly) shady corporate money or liability gambits. It completely fucks with day traders and other market schemes which skim value based on value ripple. It rewards those who produce or add significant value as compared to those who don't.
Just be glad they didn't have pepper spray. They might have bathed her in it while she lay on the ground. It's apparently a popular compliance technique with the overweight law enforcement crowd.
Yeah, but on mobile you must hit "send" after the number, so it's not really an issue. The call gets routed by the mobile system digitally, not DTMF'd onto POTS.
Not robots in the scifi sense, but rather every bit of automation we've installed for the last 150 years. We've gotten so efficient by using automation that, quite simply, we don't need as many people to do things as we have in the past.
It was speculated in the 60s and 70s that our work weeks would drop to 5-10 hours with all the time savings from computers. We've saved all that time, but an hour of human work is still the same value and nobody want's to get paid 25% of a normal annual salary (say, $15,000 a year), so we simply produce more with fewer staff.
3%-5%, but on gross receipts, not profits. The security, safety, and infrastructure the US Government provides is a cost of doing business, not a luxury which is consumed when profit occurs.
No oil, but while Bush was off practicing escaltio on Iraq, he completely ignored PRK sucessfully creating a nuclear weapon.
I, for one, would be exceedingly happy to see us pull troops out of all of our bases worldwide and bring them home. I'm tired of paying to keep everyone else "safe."
And we're surprised it tanked? It may as well be a Touchpad, which was a flop until they gave them away.
The release cycle was totally backwards. You never lead with your stripped down version. They brought a knife to a gun fight.
I'm still interested in the Surface Pro, because it has the potential to be both my laptop and tablet on the go - neither of which can really fill the whole bill at the moment. Surface Pro will run all of my engineering apps, but also be a nice reader as well as have a pen input and a kick ass screen (if reports are to be believed). 4 hour battery will be a non-starter, of course. I haven't decided whether lack of LTE will be an issue; by then I may be on a shared data plan with tethering at no additional cost.
By then you've skimmed the profit and you declare bankruptcy. Just remember to file any patents you created as personal ones during the process, so that the shell of your startup is devoid of any value except the foosball table and the aeron chairs.
How many hours do you think it would take to do a full patent search on a new device as complicated as a pocket computer which incorporates several difference wireless and wired communications, as well as a full-fledged operating system?
Now, add your "pennies per device" to those thousands upon thousands of hours, at legal rates ($200-$600/hr), plus add on several thousand dollars for each to ensure compliance with the terms.
Pennies per device just turned into over a million dollars before a single handset is produced. That isn't stifling?
Intent is all a matter of perspective. If it were a one way trip to the Sun, or even the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, it would still be a suicide mission.
Why should the state do it - it's the localities which are assessing the tax (well, in some cases; in others the state collects and then refunds).
That's the whole idea behind the nexus concept. Unless you have a physical presence in every possible taxing jurisdiction, it's very difficult to keep up.
As for it being the state's fault - that is never a defense in any court of law. Practically all laws are written such that compliance is mandatory, whether or not you are informed, and whether or not the state provides data.
Breach of contract, violation of terms of service, vandalism of property. I see permanent ban on Verizon telecom services and a civil judgement against you, with possible criminal charges for the vandalism.
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60fps is probably the "best" standard we have that also matches a lot of existing hardware. 30 if you're you're an ATSC weenie, 29.97 if you still live in America in the 1960s. As to the GP, 50 is only there to be compatible with 25FPS PAL. And the goffy geekish need to have time domain frames come out in hundredths of a second.
Believing that all of societies AC appliances will miraculously change to DC via some cost-free conversion is even more retarded.
You didn't say how much your solar panels cost, nor how much your sunny season electricity bill was. My most recent data from our local panel installer for a turn-key, non-storage system is 30c/kWh for 20,000+ watt systems, with no structure included (i.e. - you have to have a flat roof which can hold the weight with no obstructions). That's nearly 3x my current power rate.
Is your system paying back at least the 4% it would cost to borrow the money for the system?
No, it's a cost of business, like lighting, power, supplies, and raw materials. Everybody pays it - it's a zero sum game. You don't see two restaurants in the same town, one of which goes under when the meals tax goes up by 1% because they both pay it. International suppliers are not immune because - unless you purchase directly from an international source - there is an importer who pays the same 3% that the US manufacturer will pay when they sell to the retail outlet.
The same tax occurs on every thing which is imported. As soon as it changes hands, there's a 3% gross tax. If you import something and sell it - 3%. If you make something and sell it - 3%. Put a distributor in the middle - 3% twice (well, 1.03^2). Put a shell corporation designed to avoid taxes in the middle (i.e. - they by and sell at zero margin, allowing transfer of taxable transactions to a low-tax haven) - 3%.
Two issues:
Your photocopier supply company doesn't only charge you when you make copies for profit - they charge you for every copy. Your real estate broker and your stock broker do not base their commissions on the net profit, but on the total sale (or as a fixed fee - but never zero). Your electric company charges you for every kWh you use. The real estate taxes which pay for fire, police, and schools are not based on profit. Why would you based your military - which protects you 24/7/365.25, your transportation infrastructure on which you ship your goods, or the other services - on the profit over which the gov't has no control?
It has the (imho positive) side effect of rewarding short supply chains - the shorter the better. It penalizes low margin "churn" operations where very little value is added, as well as shell corporations which serve to shield (mostly) shady corporate money or liability gambits. It completely fucks with day traders and other market schemes which skim value based on value ripple. It rewards those who produce or add significant value as compared to those who don't.
Live Free Or Die.
It's not a motto, it's an enforced regulation.
Um, she wasn't trying to get away. That was the problem - she wouldn't leave.
Just be glad they didn't have pepper spray. They might have bathed her in it while she lay on the ground. It's apparently a popular compliance technique with the overweight law enforcement crowd.
Yeah, but on mobile you must hit "send" after the number, so it's not really an issue. The call gets routed by the mobile system digitally, not DTMF'd onto POTS.
Because if you have any more, they wouldn't have time to tell their story and if you had any less they wouldn't make as much money?
Not robots in the scifi sense, but rather every bit of automation we've installed for the last 150 years. We've gotten so efficient by using automation that, quite simply, we don't need as many people to do things as we have in the past.
It was speculated in the 60s and 70s that our work weeks would drop to 5-10 hours with all the time savings from computers. We've saved all that time, but an hour of human work is still the same value and nobody want's to get paid 25% of a normal annual salary (say, $15,000 a year), so we simply produce more with fewer staff.
3%-5%, but on gross receipts, not profits. The security, safety, and infrastructure the US Government provides is a cost of doing business, not a luxury which is consumed when profit occurs.
Um, no. Posters are generally 3:2 (24x36 being one of the most popular sizes)
For. The. Win.
(I fear the day that my old 20" 4:3 side monitors die)
No oil, but while Bush was off practicing escaltio on Iraq, he completely ignored PRK sucessfully creating a nuclear weapon.
I, for one, would be exceedingly happy to see us pull troops out of all of our bases worldwide and bring them home. I'm tired of paying to keep everyone else "safe."
And we're surprised it tanked? It may as well be a Touchpad, which was a flop until they gave them away.
The release cycle was totally backwards. You never lead with your stripped down version. They brought a knife to a gun fight.
I'm still interested in the Surface Pro, because it has the potential to be both my laptop and tablet on the go - neither of which can really fill the whole bill at the moment. Surface Pro will run all of my engineering apps, but also be a nice reader as well as have a pen input and a kick ass screen (if reports are to be believed). 4 hour battery will be a non-starter, of course. I haven't decided whether lack of LTE will be an issue; by then I may be on a shared data plan with tethering at no additional cost.
By then you've skimmed the profit and you declare bankruptcy. Just remember to file any patents you created as personal ones during the process, so that the shell of your startup is devoid of any value except the foosball table and the aeron chairs.
How many hours do you think it would take to do a full patent search on a new device as complicated as a pocket computer which incorporates several difference wireless and wired communications, as well as a full-fledged operating system?
Now, add your "pennies per device" to those thousands upon thousands of hours, at legal rates ($200-$600/hr), plus add on several thousand dollars for each to ensure compliance with the terms.
Pennies per device just turned into over a million dollars before a single handset is produced. That isn't stifling?
What the hell are we going to do with the rest of them?
Intent is all a matter of perspective. If it were a one way trip to the Sun, or even the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, it would still be a suicide mission.
22?
Why should the state do it - it's the localities which are assessing the tax (well, in some cases; in others the state collects and then refunds).
That's the whole idea behind the nexus concept. Unless you have a physical presence in every possible taxing jurisdiction, it's very difficult to keep up.
As for it being the state's fault - that is never a defense in any court of law. Practically all laws are written such that compliance is mandatory, whether or not you are informed, and whether or not the state provides data.
It's not the subscription pricing, it's the magnitude of the pricing. And they know that.
" I'll bet that if it's ever deployed DHS will have a back door."
And that's supposed to make us feel better?
Breach of contract, violation of terms of service, vandalism of property. I see permanent ban on Verizon telecom services and a civil judgement against you, with possible criminal charges for the vandalism.
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