Send up 100, $1,000,000 drones with a single missile for each $190M fighter aircraft and see who wins. It's the air version of the disposable boat gambit in naval surface warfare.
By the way...I do remember hearing an interview with Pres. Carter a couple years ago about presidential power, and most presidents, before they take office, have all intents of being open and respecting the limits of power. Once they get in - no matter their stripe - they realize how frustrating the process of Washington DC is, and take every opportunity to short cut the red tape that exists. It's not unlike what a business executive would do, except that as President you really don't have the kind of power a CEO does in the organization. With the lengthening campaign cycle, it gets tougher and tougher to show "progress" during your term - or even just to say "I'm here for 4 years" and actually get things done in such a short time.
There are no perfect leaders, but I find it fascinating to see how each man has taken the job and applied his own sense of style and compass to the process.
Yes, but when it was Steve's crap it was a stunning shade of UPS brown, shined like the top of the Chrysler building, and the smell was described as "earthy and inviting, like a forest floor on a spring morning" by all the bloggers.
**Rated life is 5000hrs per energy comparison data provided by Philips. /quote)
I've emphasized it for you - it's right off the web page and PDF sell sheets from the GP.
Personally, I have several CFLs which are easily at 6000 hours - some of which are even run outside in sub-zero temps for part of the year. I also have had about 1/2 of my "house brand" CFLs die in less time than a standard lamp. Name brand (Philips, actually) have about a 10% early fail rate, but the others seem pretty long lived. The point is that I used the manufacturer suplied data on the GP item.
Yes, but do their lights suck total ass when it comes to color temperature and quality.
To be honest, my arguement with efficient lighting isn't that it is expensive on a per-hour basis (though it can be until the payback period occurs), but that most traditional CFL and LED lights are horrifically colored. I'm human, and my genome has spent a million years geting oh-so-comfortable with the blackbody radiation spectrum. It looks right, and by all other subjective measure lamps which are not blackbody spectrum are wrong. Most CFLs have a CRI in the high 70s, and a couple expensive ones are in the low 80s. That's aweful. Not CRI65 "cool white" T12 40watt awful, but bad. What's worse is that every different manufacturers 78CRI is a different 78CRI, even if you manage to get the same color temperature, resulting in a pastel rainbow of mismatched lighting colors. You can get 95-98 CRI lamps for straight tubes (T8/T5), but not in CFLs. They're expensive, but not horribly so. And don't get me started with warmup times and dimming ability.
The GP had what looks to be a good LED in terms of actual color and general performance, so that's what I based my numbers on. Note that the cost/$savings for the Philips are based on 5,000 hours, but their actual replacement time is 20,000hrs. That makes me think that their 90 or 95% numbers are 5000 hours and 20,000 hours is a 50% number.
I started down that road, but it is frought with peril for making my point. Specifically, the cost of energy is increasing at a rate greater than TVM, so when you bring all costs back to PV, you may find that the overall equation swings in favor of the LED. Or not. Suffice to say that engineering economics - like, really, all future-value economics - is a black art which just magnifies any incorrect assumptions you might make. Unless you can accurately predict the future cost of power and the future cost of light bulbs of both types, you're just pissing into the wind.
If your cell phone is a "distraction" all the time, you're using it wrong. Not that having a distraction from time to time is a bad thing. Still, my phone is a tool to get things done, which allows me to do more of what I want to do. Between work and my hobby/social activities, I probably have the equivalent of three pre-smart-phone full time jobs, and almost nothing gets lost or dropped or forgotten.
I still have "down time," it just gets interrupted less by all those nagging items I used to have to keep track of manually. My down time is of a higher quality now.
Maybe they just meant the standard should be 414.2 Gbps...and the next iteration will be 1Tbps. Sort of an A4-A3 transition, but for one dimentionsal....yeah, you're right. It's a stupid idea.
The people who are assuring you of this are liars. Most CFLs take 20-60 seconds to warm up to near full brightness.
For all the bitching and moaning we will see in this thread, the requirements for advertising on CFLs (and LEDs) is woefully inadequate for determining the actual light quality. They should be required to print:
Cold start to 10% light output time 10% to 90% light output time Color temperature CRI Lumens Rated Life, continuous (hours) Rated Life, short cycle (5 minute burn, cold cycle)
Much of the hate for CFLs comes down to the inability to actually choose lighting that is functional. And that's because (surprise) there's so little regulation on advertising in the market.
The answer is "because they're freakishly expensive." $23 per lamp vs 44 cents for a 60 watt incandescent. In terms of running cost, that's 0.46c/hr of LED (at the 5000 rated hours**) vs.032c/hr for incandescent (GE lamps at Walmart, $21/48 lamps with a 1330hr rated life). Yes - that's more than a factor of 10.
"But what about energy?" I hear you cry. Well, at 11c/kwh, it costs 11c x 0.0125w per hour for the led, or 0.1375 c per hour. The incandescent 60W it replaces - 11c x.060w = 0.66 c/hour.
So I can get an LED for 0.60c/hr or an incandescent at 0.69c/hr. That seems like a pretty minor payback - a dollar of savings will take me burning the lamp for over 1000 hours - and I'm out $23 right now.
*If this bulb does not last 4 years, return UPC and register receipt along with your name and address to GE Consumer & Industrial, Product Service Dept., 1975 Noble Road, Cleveland, OH 44112. GE will replace your bulb. So for $3-4 in packing and shipping I can get a new lamp if this one dies in four years, but if it dies in year 5, I'm SOL on a a $23 item. If my 60W blows early, I'm out 44c.
**Rated life is 5000hrs per energy comparison data provided by Philips.
I presume from the degree he is seeking, an associates, that this is a community college - basically a trade school for low-income white collar workers. This is at the high school (or lower) level, but the CC system takes in people for whom algebra is absolute rocket science.
Yes, it is. It may be done using Microsoft Office, but it's not about microsoft office. It's about keyboarding, mouse usage, starting up and shutting down a computer, executing a program from a graphical user interface, understanding the structure of files on a hard drive, understanding the print services, etc.
They happen to be teaching all of this by having the students use the most common business application in the US, if not in the world, the license for which costs the university and/or the student somewhere around 10-20% of the cost of the text.
Can you imagine the reputation a (community) college would get if all of their 2 year business graduates would get if they arrived at their first job completely innocent of the most common business application? These are mostly folks who barely made it through high school, many have learning speeds that are glacial. It may be nice to teach them that there are other programs out there but, let's face it - given the current job market employers want someone who can start producing on day one, not after a 2 week course in Microsoft Office that they should have learned how use in college.
they seem to be cultured and enlightened people who have a lot of respect for education
Yes, but unfortunately those are also the same people who tend NOT to be the ones with the guns and ammunition to change the policies set by the people who do.
Makes you wonder what kind of sadistic fuck would come up with such a paradigm on purpose, doesn't it?
If it makes you feel better, the cost to test/approve a "new" engineered item for use in residential construction, the costs are similar - $50,000-$100,000 - to complete all of the required testing and documentation (ICC-ES) for nearly "automatic" approval by code officials.It's all about the guarantee of safety, and it's partially because there is no one holding the bag when things go wrong. Nobody will (actually, no one can) put their livelihood on the line to vouch for it.
You'd think so. Many "industry" groups have negotiated rates for their members, which are often small shops (1-8 phones), so the only advantage is one of marketing. My current deal is $27/mo per phone plus $20 for unlimited data. That's it - $47/mo. For that I get 200 minutes per phone on my plan in a pool (2 phones = 400 shared minutes, about what we use), 250 texts per phone (neither of us are teenagers), and - as mentioned - unlimited internet.
I just find it odd, given how stingy they are with unlimited, that they'll just throw it out there for a pittace (relatively speaking).
The article seems to imply that the unique feature is an operational, not a visual, one:
In 1953 Hilfiker added a red second hand, which pauses briefly at the top of each minute "to enable trains to depart punctually", as he put it.
For copyright, it's a very slippery slope - and not a slam dunk: A clock with no numbers, as shown (but without the ball), is clearly in the public domain, having existed prior to [name your favorite PD date]. The aspect ratio of the marks and the relative size of the red circle is different. One could claim that the design is based on the original, and with so few options for modification only an exact replica is infringing. For example: if I were to arrange "Silent Night" for SATB, it's entirely possible that I may have the exact same arrangement as another, existing composer, save only the font (or even the same one if we both used something simple or default - like a clock with black bars instead of numbers and a red second hand). My work is not infringing.
Now if it's trademark, it may be different. Is a moving clock the trademark, or is it a fixed image - and in what position in the hand. One might also have to prove that an iPhone would be mistaken for a train station. I'm not as familiar with trademark (obviously) but I suspect there is some wiggle room. UPS has trademarked the color brown, but if I were to use the color for anything other than shipping services, I'm okay to use it at will.
Yes and no; it depends on your chosen line of work. John whatever-his-name-is that runs Papa Johns, from what I gather, started with very little cash. He also probably violated most of the building code laws.
I started with $10,000 in the bank, and dropped as low as about $6,000, and was back to that $10k in the first 8 months, though I took no salary. I also had a MS in engineering and had worked for 3-4 years in the field I started my business in, AND (the big one) I already had my professional license (cheap, if you don't count school and experience). I'm also lucky that I'm computer savvy and can run my own network, set everything up, and keep it working. Oh, and that "gray area" - I used unlicensed software for the first 1-2 years (probably $15-20k market value, if I had to guess). As I made enough to buy licenses, I did, and now I even pay for my shareware and freeware (yes, I donate if it saves me time).
Many tradesmen who have a skill which is marketable to the general public can start a business for $2000-3000 if they don't have expenses. It's hard; very hard, but it can be done. I don't recommend it for anyone who has kids unless there are no other alternatives.
I'm fairly certain. The sim size is different from my iP4, so I can't test it (I'm not willing to chance damaging my old SIM just yet). However, this is an evolution from the "new" verizon iPad, which I did verify would connect with my AT&T GSM SIM just fine (and I used it for the remaining 20 days on my AT&T prepaid) as well as the Verizon LTE network. I was a bit disappointed that the iP5 couldn't do LTE for both V and AT&T bands, but having GSM fall back is nice for use where there is no CDMA (like the US Virgin Islands).
FWIW, the iPhone5 is nothing special. The screen A/R adds nothing but makes the handset a bit less balanced. The glass on the front but not back also makes it seem less balanced when compared with my 4. To top it off, the aluminum back is going to be a scratch-magnet (just like my iPod classic), and I'm going to have to get a case - or at least a skin - for the back. *sigh* On the other hand, the connector is, in fact, robust - if supremely annoying in it non-standard and doesn't-fit-anything-I-own-ness, and they didn't even include an adapter. I'd kill Steve Jobs for this if he wan't already dead.
That said, it's perfectly functional, and my corporate plan had a pricing error that got me the phone for $149 ($157 with tax, activated and shipped to my office). I also get a small voice plan, 250 texts (I'm not a teen), and unlimited data (yes, really), for $47/month. Oh, and it's got a new battery in it, so I don't have to worry about that expense on my iPhone4. I consider it a "handset swap" with a new radio, a new battery, and a refreshed warranty for $150; a fair trade, but not much upgrade.
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Send up 100, $1,000,000 drones with a single missile for each $190M fighter aircraft and see who wins. It's the air version of the disposable boat gambit in naval surface warfare.
How many different spacecraft are there coming on line in the next couple of years to afford naming rights?
Let's face it, the military is the only branch of government with a budget big enough to have a fleet of vessels anymore.
By the way...I do remember hearing an interview with Pres. Carter a couple years ago about presidential power, and most presidents, before they take office, have all intents of being open and respecting the limits of power. Once they get in - no matter their stripe - they realize how frustrating the process of Washington DC is, and take every opportunity to short cut the red tape that exists. It's not unlike what a business executive would do, except that as President you really don't have the kind of power a CEO does in the organization. With the lengthening campaign cycle, it gets tougher and tougher to show "progress" during your term - or even just to say "I'm here for 4 years" and actually get things done in such a short time.
There are no perfect leaders, but I find it fascinating to see how each man has taken the job and applied his own sense of style and compass to the process.
I do not envy the job in any way.
Yes, but when it was Steve's crap it was a stunning shade of UPS brown, shined like the top of the Chrysler building, and the smell was described as "earthy and inviting, like a forest floor on a spring morning" by all the bloggers.
Can we expect AAPL below 500 by Christmas?
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Just kidding! Of course it won't. These things only go in one direction!
You should learn to read.
**Rated life is 5000hrs per energy comparison data provided by Philips. /quote)
I've emphasized it for you - it's right off the web page and PDF sell sheets from the GP.
Personally, I have several CFLs which are easily at 6000 hours - some of which are even run outside in sub-zero temps for part of the year. I also have had about 1/2 of my "house brand" CFLs die in less time than a standard lamp. Name brand (Philips, actually) have about a 10% early fail rate, but the others seem pretty long lived. The point is that I used the manufacturer suplied data on the GP item.
Yes, but do their lights suck total ass when it comes to color temperature and quality.
To be honest, my arguement with efficient lighting isn't that it is expensive on a per-hour basis (though it can be until the payback period occurs), but that most traditional CFL and LED lights are horrifically colored. I'm human, and my genome has spent a million years geting oh-so-comfortable with the blackbody radiation spectrum. It looks right, and by all other subjective measure lamps which are not blackbody spectrum are wrong. Most CFLs have a CRI in the high 70s, and a couple expensive ones are in the low 80s. That's aweful. Not CRI65 "cool white" T12 40watt awful, but bad. What's worse is that every different manufacturers 78CRI is a different 78CRI, even if you manage to get the same color temperature, resulting in a pastel rainbow of mismatched lighting colors. You can get 95-98 CRI lamps for straight tubes (T8/T5), but not in CFLs. They're expensive, but not horribly so. And don't get me started with warmup times and dimming ability.
The GP had what looks to be a good LED in terms of actual color and general performance, so that's what I based my numbers on. Note that the cost/$savings for the Philips are based on 5,000 hours, but their actual replacement time is 20,000hrs. That makes me think that their 90 or 95% numbers are 5000 hours and 20,000 hours is a 50% number.
I started down that road, but it is frought with peril for making my point. Specifically, the cost of energy is increasing at a rate greater than TVM, so when you bring all costs back to PV, you may find that the overall equation swings in favor of the LED. Or not. Suffice to say that engineering economics - like, really, all future-value economics - is a black art which just magnifies any incorrect assumptions you might make. Unless you can accurately predict the future cost of power and the future cost of light bulbs of both types, you're just pissing into the wind.
If your cell phone is a "distraction" all the time, you're using it wrong. Not that having a distraction from time to time is a bad thing. Still, my phone is a tool to get things done, which allows me to do more of what I want to do. Between work and my hobby/social activities, I probably have the equivalent of three pre-smart-phone full time jobs, and almost nothing gets lost or dropped or forgotten.
I still have "down time," it just gets interrupted less by all those nagging items I used to have to keep track of manually. My down time is of a higher quality now.
Maybe they just meant the standard should be 414.2 Gbps...and the next iteration will be 1Tbps. Sort of an A4-A3 transition, but for one dimentionsal....yeah, you're right. It's a stupid idea.
The people who are assuring you of this are liars. Most CFLs take 20-60 seconds to warm up to near full brightness.
For all the bitching and moaning we will see in this thread, the requirements for advertising on CFLs (and LEDs) is woefully inadequate for determining the actual light quality. They should be required to print:
Cold start to 10% light output time
10% to 90% light output time
Color temperature
CRI
Lumens
Rated Life, continuous (hours)
Rated Life, short cycle (5 minute burn, cold cycle)
Much of the hate for CFLs comes down to the inability to actually choose lighting that is functional. And that's because (surprise) there's so little regulation on advertising in the market.
The answer is "because they're freakishly expensive." $23 per lamp vs 44 cents for a 60 watt incandescent. In terms of running cost, that's 0.46c/hr of LED (at the 5000 rated hours**) vs .032c/hr for incandescent (GE lamps at Walmart, $21/48 lamps with a 1330hr rated life). Yes - that's more than a factor of 10.
"But what about energy?" I hear you cry. Well, at 11c/kwh, it costs 11c x 0.0125w per hour for the led, or 0.1375 c per hour. The incandescent 60W it replaces - 11c x .060w = 0.66 c/hour.
So I can get an LED for 0.60c/hr or an incandescent at 0.69c/hr. That seems like a pretty minor payback - a dollar of savings will take me burning the lamp for over 1000 hours - and I'm out $23 right now.
*If this bulb does not last 4 years, return UPC and register receipt along with your name and address to GE Consumer & Industrial, Product Service Dept., 1975 Noble Road, Cleveland, OH 44112. GE will replace your bulb. So for $3-4 in packing and shipping I can get a new lamp if this one dies in four years, but if it dies in year 5, I'm SOL on a a $23 item. If my 60W blows early, I'm out 44c.
**Rated life is 5000hrs per energy comparison data provided by Philips.
I presume from the degree he is seeking, an associates, that this is a community college - basically a trade school for low-income white collar workers. This is at the high school (or lower) level, but the CC system takes in people for whom algebra is absolute rocket science.
Yes, it is. It may be done using Microsoft Office, but it's not about microsoft office. It's about keyboarding, mouse usage, starting up and shutting down a computer, executing a program from a graphical user interface, understanding the structure of files on a hard drive, understanding the print services, etc.
They happen to be teaching all of this by having the students use the most common business application in the US, if not in the world, the license for which costs the university and/or the student somewhere around 10-20% of the cost of the text.
Can you imagine the reputation a (community) college would get if all of their 2 year business graduates would get if they arrived at their first job completely innocent of the most common business application? These are mostly folks who barely made it through high school, many have learning speeds that are glacial. It may be nice to teach them that there are other programs out there but, let's face it - given the current job market employers want someone who can start producing on day one, not after a 2 week course in Microsoft Office that they should have learned how use in college.
. It'd probably be a good test case for the courts to screw up.
Sorry, couldn't help myself ;-)
they seem to be cultured and enlightened people who have a lot of respect for education
Yes, but unfortunately those are also the same people who tend NOT to be the ones with the guns and ammunition to change the policies set by the people who do.
Makes you wonder what kind of sadistic fuck would come up with such a paradigm on purpose, doesn't it?
IPX/SPX FTW!
If it makes you feel better, the cost to test/approve a "new" engineered item for use in residential construction, the costs are similar - $50,000-$100,000 - to complete all of the required testing and documentation (ICC-ES) for nearly "automatic" approval by code officials.It's all about the guarantee of safety, and it's partially because there is no one holding the bag when things go wrong. Nobody will (actually, no one can) put their livelihood on the line to vouch for it.
Well, there are other reasons the Aptera died, but it's a damned shame that it did.
You'd think so. Many "industry" groups have negotiated rates for their members, which are often small shops (1-8 phones), so the only advantage is one of marketing. My current deal is $27/mo per phone plus $20 for unlimited data. That's it - $47/mo. For that I get 200 minutes per phone on my plan in a pool (2 phones = 400 shared minutes, about what we use), 250 texts per phone (neither of us are teenagers), and - as mentioned - unlimited internet.
I just find it odd, given how stingy they are with unlimited, that they'll just throw it out there for a pittace (relatively speaking).
The article seems to imply that the unique feature is an operational, not a visual, one:
In 1953 Hilfiker added a red second hand, which pauses briefly at the top of each minute "to enable trains to depart punctually", as he put it.
For copyright, it's a very slippery slope - and not a slam dunk: A clock with no numbers, as shown (but without the ball), is clearly in the public domain, having existed prior to [name your favorite PD date]. The aspect ratio of the marks and the relative size of the red circle is different. One could claim that the design is based on the original, and with so few options for modification only an exact replica is infringing. For example: if I were to arrange "Silent Night" for SATB, it's entirely possible that I may have the exact same arrangement as another, existing composer, save only the font (or even the same one if we both used something simple or default - like a clock with black bars instead of numbers and a red second hand). My work is not infringing.
Now if it's trademark, it may be different. Is a moving clock the trademark, or is it a fixed image - and in what position in the hand. One might also have to prove that an iPhone would be mistaken for a train station. I'm not as familiar with trademark (obviously) but I suspect there is some wiggle room. UPS has trademarked the color brown, but if I were to use the color for anything other than shipping services, I'm okay to use it at will.
Kind of my point - if his father had never been anything but a $5/hr laborer, we'd have someone else running for POTUS.
Yes and no; it depends on your chosen line of work. John whatever-his-name-is that runs Papa Johns, from what I gather, started with very little cash. He also probably violated most of the building code laws.
I started with $10,000 in the bank, and dropped as low as about $6,000, and was back to that $10k in the first 8 months, though I took no salary. I also had a MS in engineering and had worked for 3-4 years in the field I started my business in, AND (the big one) I already had my professional license (cheap, if you don't count school and experience). I'm also lucky that I'm computer savvy and can run my own network, set everything up, and keep it working. Oh, and that "gray area" - I used unlicensed software for the first 1-2 years (probably $15-20k market value, if I had to guess). As I made enough to buy licenses, I did, and now I even pay for my shareware and freeware (yes, I donate if it saves me time).
Many tradesmen who have a skill which is marketable to the general public can start a business for $2000-3000 if they don't have expenses. It's hard; very hard, but it can be done. I don't recommend it for anyone who has kids unless there are no other alternatives.
I'm fairly certain. The sim size is different from my iP4, so I can't test it (I'm not willing to chance damaging my old SIM just yet). However, this is an evolution from the "new" verizon iPad, which I did verify would connect with my AT&T GSM SIM just fine (and I used it for the remaining 20 days on my AT&T prepaid) as well as the Verizon LTE network. I was a bit disappointed that the iP5 couldn't do LTE for both V and AT&T bands, but having GSM fall back is nice for use where there is no CDMA (like the US Virgin Islands).
FWIW, the iPhone5 is nothing special. The screen A/R adds nothing but makes the handset a bit less balanced. The glass on the front but not back also makes it seem less balanced when compared with my 4. To top it off, the aluminum back is going to be a scratch-magnet (just like my iPod classic), and I'm going to have to get a case - or at least a skin - for the back. *sigh* On the other hand, the connector is, in fact, robust - if supremely annoying in it non-standard and doesn't-fit-anything-I-own-ness, and they didn't even include an adapter. I'd kill Steve Jobs for this if he wan't already dead.
That said, it's perfectly functional, and my corporate plan had a pricing error that got me the phone for $149 ($157 with tax, activated and shipped to my office). I also get a small voice plan, 250 texts (I'm not a teen), and unlimited data (yes, really), for $47/month. Oh, and it's got a new battery in it, so I don't have to worry about that expense on my iPhone4. I consider it a "handset swap" with a new radio, a new battery, and a refreshed warranty for $150; a fair trade, but not much upgrade.