Jobs and a balanced budget? Holy shit, that's some funny stuff. The straight Republican line has always been that the government can't create jobs. And a balanced budget? You do know that we're in this fucking mess because at the first sign of a surplus to pay off the debt, the Republicans put in a 10 year tax cut that wiped out every single dollar of surplus that would have retired the debt? And while they were giving the surplus back, instead of cutting costs they super-finded the military and decided to commit to two immensely expensive wars.
And don't start crying about SS and Medicare. You know how they're actually doing at the moment? Well, they happen to be holding about 1/4 of the US Debt. That's right - the Republicans borrowed from the Democratic/Socialist piggy bank to bankroll their "war on terror."
Don't fucking talk about jobs and economy - they're as guilty as they come. The only difference is that they want to put monitors in your bedroom so you don't do anything they feel is out of place with their perfect religion, which absolves them of fucking over their fellow man every Sunday so that they can feel like they're holding the moral high ground while they trample the poor on the way to paying for a hooker or bedding their neighbors wives.
They put up what was probably the most moderate Republican candidate since, hell, before I was born in a lousy economy that needed real business know-how...and he still lost by almost 3 million votes to a black man who's never run a company because they forced him to wear that super-conservative Republican platform around his neck like a God damned albatross.
Do you see the world of music collapsing due to statutory mechanical licensing rights? Of course not. And you're always free to negotiate a lower rate if you have a big project. A basic set of statutory amounts for previously published works is a good idea. It prevents artificial scarcity, such as the Disney Vault, and plain scarcity where it's impossible to get a copy of what would otherwise be an unremarkable product due to limited publishing runs.
Your optimism appears boundless. If they claim that "excessive use" is prohibited, and they warn you when you appear to be using the service excessively, the number is irrelevant. If you ask "what is excessive" and they say "we'll warn you if you use too much" and do so, then they may be upholding your end of the bargain.
It's a bit like telling your child they can have as big a piece of cake as they want, but if it's bigger than you feel is appropriate they're grounded for a month. ATT doesn't want people going right up to their limit each month - they want you scared enough you'll take half of what they might otherwise let you just to be sure you're within their mysterious boundary.
I don't agree with this stance, but they have very crafty lawyers and lots of money, so I expect them to have the upper hand.
You must live in a populated area. There are still lots of places with voice cell service but practically no data. Then again, as heavy as most web stuff is (400-500k of CSS before the page even loads), there's really no sense in having a 4-10kb acoustic line. You would die of old age before the first page of a google map loaded.
Mine is 200 min per phone, available as a pool, and 250 SMS; more than we need given iMessage and all other communication forms, and with unlimited data it's less than $50 per handset. The only thing is misses is tethering.
So...what has happened to the military pilots who have racked up thousands of hours each over the past 10 years. Have they all decided to go be elementary school teachers?
I wondered, back in the 80s when I was in school, why pilots made 100k a year and bus drivers made 15k a year. Looks like pay for driving a vehicle with 60 passengers has equalized. [flame suit on]
[Agent]Hard to go to court if you've already contractually agreed to binding arbitration. [/Agent]
If ATT isn't limiting the actual bytes but rather "excessive usage" as a general, non-numeric term, then they don't have to show you anything. They tell you when you've consumed too much, and you reduce or they drop you. It's very one sided. But then, so are nearly all contracts where there is little or no effective competition.
In livestock, you can base the rate "on the hoof," or before slaughtering losses. You buy the steer on the hoof at the measured weight. The only difference is that it is clear, and most people buying livestock for slaughter are aware that a 40%+ loss between hoof and market is common. Still, when you sell to a consumer, what they receive in hand is the actual product weight.
Another analogy would be lumber, which is sold in "nominal" sizes, but for which the actual size is smaller by (most often) 1/2" for framing sizes 2" and over, and 1/4" for thickness of hard or decorative woods and sizes under 2". An addition, some hardwood vendors will charge a 10% surcharge for straightening loss. If you buy a 2x6, you get a 1.5x5.5 board. Even if you wanted to buy a board foot of lumber (thickness (in) x width (ft) x length (ft)), you'll get a "nominal" board foot - the previously mentioned 2x6, 1 foot log, is a BF of lumber, though it's clearly less than 144 cu in of material. The sizes are based on sawmill losses (cutting and planing to size) from a piece of standing timber. Even a "full" or "rough sawn" piece of lumber is less than nominal by the thickness of the sawmill blade (kerf).
The difference here is that it's secret. Which would follow the car insurance company model for what is required to drop you from their policy. You see, they will tell you that you have been dropped, but are not required to tell you what criteria they use to drop you. That's proprietary information / secret, and they won't tell you, though it's theoretically part of the contract you signed for the insurance. I suspect the same is true of US health insurance. Your ranking and whether you qualify for renewal is based on your condition and how much you cost, but I'd be willing to bet that data is never made public.
Well, technically, that's Reaganomics - it's how he "shrank" government but increased spending. Obama was handed a 1.3T deficit by the outgoing previous president (GWB signed that budget into law), and ended with a 1.1T deficit. 2013 Projected deficit by OMB is ~700B. That's a lot of scratch, but it's still less red ink than the red party.
Patient crowd, 40 minutes of serpentine line through the cafeteria tables. Not really a get off and get right back in line kind of thing, but it was fun, though. I might get back in line for one more ride before the park closes for the night, but only if I can find the funnel cake stand first.
One vote, one person. That's why they have lists of registered voters and they check you off after you have voted. Whether you email your scanned ballot or fax it in seems to be a trivial part of the process.
Remember that these fines are statutory, and were originally designed for the counterfeiter who intended to generate illicit profit by unlawfully reproducing work. In order to set a standard which would deter such infringement, a large value was set. If you're making several thousand copies of phonorecords in your industrial park building, it's easy to see that you could be tuning a solid 6 figure (or higher) profit on the black market. If they catch you with 10,000 copies of movies or records, you might be looking at $100,000 in merchandise, $300,000 with triple damages. If you're burning through a couple million dollars in sales a year, that's not a big deal. You may have sold 300-500,000 copies, but they can only charge what they can prove - your 10,000 pieces. However, if we presume your total production is larger than your inventory, there must be a way to punish you without having to track down every single disc you sold. Hence the efficiency of $150k per recording.
Is it insane in this case? Yes, it is. But it's the law, and the people who control the law (the ones who's deep pockets depend on the status quo) like it this way.
Generally, because it is industry players, we go with the second option, but does that mean auto-makers that were not making electric cars at the time the standard was made and who don't have patents involved in the standard should be forever frozen out of the market?
Actually, yes. That's the whole idea behind the large conglomerates and patent sharing. Nobody wants an upstart to eat their lunch, and patents are a good way to do that. So much the better if you can get all the big players to agree. It's been going on for decades in many industries, including automotive.
As a seasoned engineer, I heartily endorse the pencil as a proper tool. However, I suggest that a 0.9mm line is a better choice for nearly all of your work. The key is that must write larger, write more confidently, and make your work legible at a distance.
I too once wrote with fine-tipped pens and pencils, finding joy in compressing my work onto individual lines of 5 lpi graph paper. I have learned, however, that writing large allows more scrutiny of one's work, and enhances the ability to communicate more effectively.
Get a pencil and start writing larger. For $4, the Pentel Twist-erase III, 0.9mm, is my weapon of choice.
Do you mean "signed" as in "digitally certified" as part of the acrobat format? If so, you've got to be joking. Aside from the trivially easy task of saving the file as a TIFF at a sufficiently high resolution, if your program won't do that just take a (series of) screen capture at max resolution and bring it into Photoshop or your editor of choice. The weak link is that this is getting printed on regular paper for you to take through the gate - so whatever the digital encoding is on your downloaded ticket is lost when it is printed.
I know this because I produce digitally certified documents on a daily basis, and have to keep my digital public certificate available at all times. I have also come across people who have difficulty printing hard copies, and have sent them cert-PDF->TIFF->PDF versions so they can make local hard copies. I also get digitally certified files which I have to mark up and return. Again PDF-TIFF-PDF is the way to go.
More specifically: For every 1 watt-hour of energy used to make a solar panel (total, including mineral extraction, purification, manufacturing, transportation and installation energies), you get 1 watt-hour back in energy over the usable life of the panel. Until efficiencies get better, solar panels are really just a power storage device (like a batter) which require sunlight to discharge.
I don't mind shutting most cores down, or running them at kHz speed for battery, and ramping up for hard core use. Even ignoring thermal dissipation, you still have the wireless communication they noted. Right now, I work on a 4960x1600 desktop. I certainly hope in 5-10 years I'm not still stuck at 90dpi on my desktop. But even at 2560x1600 - my central monitor - I need 5.8Gbps to drive the monitor at 60Hz with no overhead, uncompressed. Simply moving to 180dpi on my setup would mean 45Gbps of information be passed over a wireless link. That seems...unlikely.
Physics, mostly. Take 1200W/m^2, then imagine the upper surface area biggest plane you can practically create - that'd be ~1200m2 for a 787 dreamliner, or 1.44MW. That's the limit of power you will have on a sunny day with 100% efficient solar panels. Buy really expensive cells, and divide that number by 5. Then multiply by 0.7 for really efficient conversion to a form you can use. Your now at 202kW, or 271HP. That's probably around 10% of the cruising HP of an actual jetliner.
Assuming that actually works... Speed - you're probably looking at a prop or fan flying at maximum efficiency, which probably means relatively slow. Overall cost efficiency - solar panels cost, in power, as much or more than the electricity used to make them.
Sure, you could put the power of today's typical desktop in a phone with such a beast, but by then we should have desktop boxes with an order of magnitude more power than one - and we'll find a way to "need" that extra power on the desktop. It's not just about chip capability and battery life - I'm mean you can always plug in a phone and run it full power 24/7. But you start running up against the limits of thermal dissipation. It's no surprise that maximum TDP has not changed a whole lot on the desktop per processor. We're still limited by the ability to aircool a chip that's really a 130+/- watt heater. That won't change. Remember also that until you standardize a dock with a real video connector (or crazy fast wireless video - not this compressed crap we use for movies), you're still limited to that little tiny window on the portable device.
The biggest potential savings is if they can shut down 47 cores and run one thread at low power when I'm not "using" it so the battery lasts as long as possible.
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Jobs and a balanced budget? Holy shit, that's some funny stuff. The straight Republican line has always been that the government can't create jobs. And a balanced budget? You do know that we're in this fucking mess because at the first sign of a surplus to pay off the debt, the Republicans put in a 10 year tax cut that wiped out every single dollar of surplus that would have retired the debt? And while they were giving the surplus back, instead of cutting costs they super-finded the military and decided to commit to two immensely expensive wars.
And don't start crying about SS and Medicare. You know how they're actually doing at the moment? Well, they happen to be holding about 1/4 of the US Debt. That's right - the Republicans borrowed from the Democratic/Socialist piggy bank to bankroll their "war on terror."
Don't fucking talk about jobs and economy - they're as guilty as they come. The only difference is that they want to put monitors in your bedroom so you don't do anything they feel is out of place with their perfect religion, which absolves them of fucking over their fellow man every Sunday so that they can feel like they're holding the moral high ground while they trample the poor on the way to paying for a hooker or bedding their neighbors wives.
They put up what was probably the most moderate Republican candidate since, hell, before I was born in a lousy economy that needed real business know-how...and he still lost by almost 3 million votes to a black man who's never run a company because they forced him to wear that super-conservative Republican platform around his neck like a God damned albatross.
Do you see the world of music collapsing due to statutory mechanical licensing rights? Of course not. And you're always free to negotiate a lower rate if you have a big project. A basic set of statutory amounts for previously published works is a good idea. It prevents artificial scarcity, such as the Disney Vault, and plain scarcity where it's impossible to get a copy of what would otherwise be an unremarkable product due to limited publishing runs.
Your optimism appears boundless. If they claim that "excessive use" is prohibited, and they warn you when you appear to be using the service excessively, the number is irrelevant. If you ask "what is excessive" and they say "we'll warn you if you use too much" and do so, then they may be upholding your end of the bargain.
It's a bit like telling your child they can have as big a piece of cake as they want, but if it's bigger than you feel is appropriate they're grounded for a month. ATT doesn't
want people going right up to their limit each month - they want you scared enough you'll take half of what they might otherwise let you just to be sure you're within their mysterious boundary.
I don't agree with this stance, but they have very crafty lawyers and lots of money, so I expect them to have the upper hand.
You must live in a populated area. There are still lots of places with voice cell service but practically no data. Then again, as heavy as most web stuff is (400-500k of CSS before the page even loads), there's really no sense in having a 4-10kb acoustic line. You would die of old age before the first page of a google map loaded.
Mine is 200 min per phone, available as a pool, and 250 SMS; more than we need given iMessage and all other communication forms, and with unlimited data it's less than $50 per handset. The only thing is misses is tethering.
So...what has happened to the military pilots who have racked up thousands of hours each over the past 10 years. Have they all decided to go be elementary school teachers?
I wondered, back in the 80s when I was in school, why pilots made 100k a year and bus drivers made 15k a year. Looks like pay for driving a vehicle with 60 passengers has equalized. [flame suit on]
[Agent]Hard to go to court if you've already contractually agreed to binding arbitration. [/Agent]
If ATT isn't limiting the actual bytes but rather "excessive usage" as a general, non-numeric term, then they don't have to show you anything. They tell you when you've consumed too much, and you reduce or they drop you. It's very one sided. But then, so are nearly all contracts where there is little or no effective competition.
In livestock, you can base the rate "on the hoof," or before slaughtering losses. You buy the steer on the hoof at the measured weight. The only difference is that it is clear, and most people buying livestock for slaughter are aware that a 40%+ loss between hoof and market is common. Still, when you sell to a consumer, what they receive in hand is the actual product weight.
Another analogy would be lumber, which is sold in "nominal" sizes, but for which the actual size is smaller by (most often) 1/2" for framing sizes 2" and over, and 1/4" for thickness of hard or decorative woods and sizes under 2". An addition, some hardwood vendors will charge a 10% surcharge for straightening loss. If you buy a 2x6, you get a 1.5x5.5 board. Even if you wanted to buy a board foot of lumber (thickness (in) x width (ft) x length (ft)), you'll get a "nominal" board foot - the previously mentioned 2x6, 1 foot log, is a BF of lumber, though it's clearly less than 144 cu in of material. The sizes are based on sawmill losses (cutting and planing to size) from a piece of standing timber. Even a "full" or "rough sawn" piece of lumber is less than nominal by the thickness of the sawmill blade (kerf).
The difference here is that it's secret. Which would follow the car insurance company model for what is required to drop you from their policy. You see, they will tell you that you have been dropped, but are not required to tell you what criteria they use to drop you. That's proprietary information / secret, and they won't tell you, though it's theoretically part of the contract you signed for the insurance. I suspect the same is true of US health insurance. Your ranking and whether you qualify for renewal is based on your condition and how much you cost, but I'd be willing to bet that data is never made public.
Well, technically, that's Reaganomics - it's how he "shrank" government but increased spending. Obama was handed a 1.3T deficit by the outgoing previous president (GWB signed that budget into law), and ended with a 1.1T deficit. 2013 Projected deficit by OMB is ~700B. That's a lot of scratch, but it's still less red ink than the red party.
How many times do you get to vote for yourself for president, anyway? Take your chance!
Patient crowd, 40 minutes of serpentine line through the cafeteria tables. Not really a get off and get right back in line kind of thing, but it was fun, though. I might get back in line for one more ride before the park closes for the night, but only if I can find the funnel cake stand first.
One vote, one person. That's why they have lists of registered voters and they check you off after you have voted. Whether you email your scanned ballot or fax it in seems to be a trivial part of the process.
I don't think a hurricane counts, in comparison.
Why not, right? I mean, it's not like there's much independant honesty in the other ads in the 2012 race.
Remember that these fines are statutory, and were originally designed for the counterfeiter who intended to generate illicit profit by unlawfully reproducing work. In order to set a standard which would deter such infringement, a large value was set. If you're making several thousand copies of phonorecords in your industrial park building, it's easy to see that you could be tuning a solid 6 figure (or higher) profit on the black market. If they catch you with 10,000 copies of movies or records, you might be looking at $100,000 in merchandise, $300,000 with triple damages. If you're burning through a couple million dollars in sales a year, that's not a big deal. You may have sold 300-500,000 copies, but they can only charge what they can prove - your 10,000 pieces. However, if we presume your total production is larger than your inventory, there must be a way to punish you without having to track down every single disc you sold. Hence the efficiency of $150k per recording.
Is it insane in this case? Yes, it is. But it's the law, and the people who control the law (the ones who's deep pockets depend on the status quo) like it this way.
Generally, because it is industry players, we go with the second option, but does that mean auto-makers that were not making electric cars at the time the standard was made and who don't have patents involved in the standard should be forever frozen out of the market?
Actually, yes. That's the whole idea behind the large conglomerates and patent sharing. Nobody wants an upstart to eat their lunch, and patents are a good way to do that. So much the better if you can get all the big players to agree. It's been going on for decades in many industries, including automotive.
As a seasoned engineer, I heartily endorse the pencil as a proper tool. However, I suggest that a 0.9mm line is a better choice for nearly all of your work. The key is that must write larger, write more confidently, and make your work legible at a distance.
I too once wrote with fine-tipped pens and pencils, finding joy in compressing my work onto individual lines of 5 lpi graph paper. I have learned, however, that writing large allows more scrutiny of one's work, and enhances the ability to communicate more effectively.
Get a pencil and start writing larger. For $4, the Pentel Twist-erase III, 0.9mm, is my weapon of choice.
Do you mean "signed" as in "digitally certified" as part of the acrobat format? If so, you've got to be joking. Aside from the trivially easy task of saving the file as a TIFF at a sufficiently high resolution, if your program won't do that just take a (series of) screen capture at max resolution and bring it into Photoshop or your editor of choice. The weak link is that this is getting printed on regular paper for you to take through the gate - so whatever the digital encoding is on your downloaded ticket is lost when it is printed.
I know this because I produce digitally certified documents on a daily basis, and have to keep my digital public certificate available at all times. I have also come across people who have difficulty printing hard copies, and have sent them cert-PDF->TIFF->PDF versions so they can make local hard copies. I also get digitally certified files which I have to mark up and return. Again PDF-TIFF-PDF is the way to go.
More specifically: For every 1 watt-hour of energy used to make a solar panel (total, including mineral extraction, purification, manufacturing, transportation and installation energies), you get 1 watt-hour back in energy over the usable life of the panel. Until efficiencies get better, solar panels are really just a power storage device (like a batter) which require sunlight to discharge.
Yeah, 0.10% not 10%. Silly maths.
I don't mind shutting most cores down, or running them at kHz speed for battery, and ramping up for hard core use. Even ignoring thermal dissipation, you still have the wireless communication they noted. Right now, I work on a 4960x1600 desktop. I certainly hope in 5-10 years I'm not still stuck at 90dpi on my desktop. But even at 2560x1600 - my central monitor - I need 5.8Gbps to drive the monitor at 60Hz with no overhead, uncompressed. Simply moving to 180dpi on my setup would mean 45Gbps of information be passed over a wireless link. That seems...unlikely.
Physics, mostly. Take 1200W/m^2, then imagine the upper surface area biggest plane you can practically create - that'd be ~1200m2 for a 787 dreamliner, or 1.44MW. That's the limit of power you will have on a sunny day with 100% efficient solar panels. Buy really expensive cells, and divide that number by 5. Then multiply by 0.7 for really efficient conversion to a form you can use. Your now at 202kW, or 271HP. That's probably around 10% of the cruising HP of an actual jetliner.
Assuming that actually works...
Speed - you're probably looking at a prop or fan flying at maximum efficiency, which probably means relatively slow.
Overall cost efficiency - solar panels cost, in power, as much or more than the electricity used to make them.
Sure, you could put the power of today's typical desktop in a phone with such a beast, but by then we should have desktop boxes with an order of magnitude more power than one - and we'll find a way to "need" that extra power on the desktop. It's not just about chip capability and battery life - I'm mean you can always plug in a phone and run it full power 24/7. But you start running up against the limits of thermal dissipation. It's no surprise that maximum TDP has not changed a whole lot on the desktop per processor. We're still limited by the ability to aircool a chip that's really a 130+/- watt heater. That won't change. Remember also that until you standardize a dock with a real video connector (or crazy fast wireless video - not this compressed crap we use for movies), you're still limited to that little tiny window on the portable device.
The biggest potential savings is if they can shut down 47 cores and run one thread at low power when I'm not "using" it so the battery lasts as long as possible.
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