In the consumer marketplace, there is a relatively fine line between good and great, between also-rans and champion products. It does take a significant amount of corporate force to insist that a product is done "right" and to drive (or inspire) people to make the extra effort on products. Whether it is true that it takes Steve Jobs to drive the company to produce the desirable products (and hence brand) to the level it has achieved will not really be known for 1-2 years after he is gone.
The problem is that Apple's contractual language is vague. Courts have routinely ruled that the party which does not write the agreement has leeway in interpreting the agreement. It's sort of a "one child cuts the cake, the second child chooses the piece" condition. If you write a poor contract, it is your failure. Apple could have made the sentence clear by rewriting to indicate that a "Computer labeled by Apple, Inc. or it's legally designated manufacturing agent" was the wording, rather than the ambiguous language they chose.
As an end user and a project manager, I'd have to ask you why your code doesn't allow such a possibility. Not that I don't understand the added effort and difficulties (okay, technically, I don't; I don't program for the web), and it would suck to have to make it all work properly, but that's kinda your job.
Funny, I'm just the opposite. Voicemail means one of my clients has a problem that can't wait. Either that or it's a real estate agent who equates "emergency" with "need something trivial". All I get via SMS are ads or notifications from my cell provider, which I routinely ignore. As for reminders...that's what having a PDA phone is for, right (or does your wife need to keep tabs on you?).
Thank goodness there's another major party candidate who hasn't spent money on this kind of taxpayer funded boondoggle. Oh, right, there isn't one. FTR, I agree. The costs should be borne by their campaigns.
True and false. The grid is powered by a large number of sources, including coal, gas, nuclear, wind, solar, et al. It may be "dirty," as you call it, but it is far cleaner than a vehicular internal combustion engine. Also, electricity generation is more resilient than gasoline as a power source. Its source can change, within limits, to adapt to short term market pressures, and over time it can change to adapt to the public's desire for alternatives which result in lower pollution. Technology on the power generation side can advance for electric cars, but it cannot for gasoline.
Three replies and no answer. Iirc, the range is 200 miles and the battery pack is about 52kWh. So take 200 miles and divide by your local electric rate (potentially your off-peak rate if it coincides with charging) times 52. To get your answer in miles per gallon instead of miles per dollar, just multiply the result by gas costs:
i.e., my electric rate is 8.6c/kWh, so I can go 200 miles for $4.47. I filled up Saturday for $3.82/gallon (Roanoke, Virginia), so my price-equivalent mileage is 171 mpg. if you happen to pay 25c/kWh, then the equivalent drops to 59 mpg.
As a comparison, the Aptera - far less sporty, about 1/4 the price, and not due to roll off the assembly line until next year - will be more than 3 times as efficient.
As for carbon footprint, if you get your electricity from wind, solar, or nuclear you would have a large reduction, if coal, then a moderate reduction. Power generation on a large scale is still much more efficient than the automotive ICE.
Even better, this means the TB drives will start falling in price (actually, they have in the past 2 months). I've got an unRaid box with 3 TB drives and 2 500G drives. I'm good for capacity now, but as soon as they get the hot spare feature up, it'd be nice to have a spare in their ready to go. Since I'm cheap, the lower the cost of a TB, the happier I am.
It will come in at just above the current retail pricing on TB drives, but below the ridiculous level. A TB drive will cost $200 (nominally, $150-175 on sale) and to get the 1.5 will set you back an extra 20% or so per gig. They'll be $225-$250 for Black Friday, limit 1, 3 per store.
I wanted to mod this, but there isn't a "wrong" moderation.
Not the part about the storage medium...that part is true. The incorrect part is getting enough H2 to run a vehicle for 100miles on 4kWh of power. The most efficient proposed vechile I know of (the aptera) will go 100-120 miles on a 10kWh battery; the tesla is 200 miles on a 52kWh battery. Internal combustion or fuel cell will be less efficient per joule of power stored.
So while hydrogen is a good idea, it's still not ideal. If that ultracap company (forgot the name) proves to be selling something other than snake oil, we might be in for a fun ride.
They are allowing it to be taught on equal footing (I think). That would be similar to allowing an alternate teaching of gravity. Nobody has proven the fundamental reason gravity works, though it has been demonstrated that the effect has certain parameters and is highly repeatable. Evolution has similar backing. Other theories, such as the various stories of creation by Christians, Pastafarians, et alias, do not have the base of scientific review. It is not "science." It should be taught in the appropriate class - i.e. Religion.
If some people want to call parts of science class a sham, that's fine. Science has been shown to be wrong in some cases over time, such as the model of the atom, but science is specifically about updating as new discoveries are found. Don't start teaching religion in science class, or literature in mathematics class for that matter.
I didn't check the register, but we seem to be assuming that McCain was present for the vote and actually abstained. Kennedy was also listed as "Not Voting," though I presume it was because he is recovering. Voting yea is a definite ding. Missing the vote entirely isn't exactly winning top honors in my book either, though.
...you want as much as possible. Doesn't excuse the vote, of course.
Interesting that all presidents change their mind about the powers of the president after they ascend to office. Nobody wants the other guy to have all the candy, but you know that you'll only use the powers to advance the right (i.e your) agenda, so it's all good.
Isn't it the French and Swiss who have figured out this problem? France generates a constant stream of cheap, nuclear-based electricity and sells the extra to Switzerland during low-demand times for a reduced rate. The Swiss take that electricity and use it to pump water up into reservoirs in the mountains. When the peak demand hits, the Swiss let the water back through hydroelectric dams and sell the power back to the French at a premium. Using the same principal for intermittent generation and constant draw works as well.
Here in Virginia, one local electric company does the same with a two-lake system (Smith Mountain and Leesville lakes), but uses primarily coal-fired plants for generation.
Personally, I think solar is the ultimate way to capture energy for use. It is closest to the source (i.e. high up on the food chain; plant, wave, wind are all at least one step removed), and minimizes the added heat to the environment (nuclear ultimately adds 1 J of heat to earth for every J of energy released in the process). Solar will still add some heat, as solar farms will change the local albedo, but it should be less than 1 J per J of energy produced.
FWIW, I'm not a greenie (I drive an F150 with a V8), but I want a Tesla and I'd be happy to get an Aptera...though I'd want a second battery in the trunk.
Though it may be a horrible way to run a government, letting the people decide directly would be hideous without serious reform of legal language. You need look no further than the 90+% of Americans who think that the "tax rebate" is a good idea and that they are somehow "owed" this money for all the taxes they are paying. No, I would rather (and it is just as likely) have a congress which is not allowed to receive more than $10 from social security number, and the money must come from the donor residing more than 184 days in that district. Cost of ads be damned; go out and shake hands if you need to campaign. Outlawing lobbyists is an even better idea. Disallowing combined bills is another one.
Surprisingly, many congressmen are intelligent, and actually do understand things when explained at the undergraduate level. The problem is that the people doing the explaining are not mostly-impartial staffers but paid shills trying to push legislation. Any system will be gamed; it is human nature. Ours is surprisingly good, but also deeply flawed by the simple fact that humans run it. Not that non-humans would do better, just that governance of any large population is inherently poor. We simply don't scale.
My mod points ran out or I'd flag your post. I'm barely linux literate, and it was a snap to set up and a snap to run. Serves my media machines. Case, MB, and cooling are key, but relatively simple with a browse of the forums.
There have been some minor speed concerns because the parity is calculated by the CPU, so the Limeware team added a cache drive to allow faster writing, and offline transfer to the array. For consumer media it's not an issue (few writes, reads are faster than my poorly tuned gigabit network), but the team is planning on making the cache drive a hot spare. So if you lost one drive, the hot spare would step in (auto/manual isn't certain at this point). The added bonus is that a failure of 2 drives means the loss of only one drive worth of data. With 6-8 drives, that's a nice bonus.
Sure, it was 20 years ago, but it was a pretty good book for the unwashed masses.
One might say the same about most technical subjects. Given the overwhelming list bias towards fiction, it isn't that surprising. How may of your parents or children took A New Kind of Science to the beach this summer?
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In the consumer marketplace, there is a relatively fine line between good and great, between also-rans and champion products. It does take a significant amount of corporate force to insist that a product is done "right" and to drive (or inspire) people to make the extra effort on products. Whether it is true that it takes Steve Jobs to drive the company to produce the desirable products (and hence brand) to the level it has achieved will not really be known for 1-2 years after he is gone.
The problem is that Apple's contractual language is vague. Courts have routinely ruled that the party which does not write the agreement has leeway in interpreting the agreement. It's sort of a "one child cuts the cake, the second child chooses the piece" condition. If you write a poor contract, it is your failure. Apple could have made the sentence clear by rewriting to indicate that a "Computer labeled by Apple, Inc. or it's legally designated manufacturing agent" was the wording, rather than the ambiguous language they chose.
As an end user and a project manager, I'd have to ask you why your code doesn't allow such a possibility. Not that I don't understand the added effort and difficulties (okay, technically, I don't; I don't program for the web), and it would suck to have to make it all work properly, but that's kinda your job.
Funny, I'm just the opposite. Voicemail means one of my clients has a problem that can't wait. Either that or it's a real estate agent who equates "emergency" with "need something trivial". All I get via SMS are ads or notifications from my cell provider, which I routinely ignore. As for reminders...that's what having a PDA phone is for, right (or does your wife need to keep tabs on you?).
Thank goodness there's another major party candidate who hasn't spent money on this kind of taxpayer funded boondoggle. Oh, right, there isn't one. FTR, I agree. The costs should be borne by their campaigns.
Apologies to Pixar.
What makes you think they'll drop the price of CDs in this scenario?
True and false. The grid is powered by a large number of sources, including coal, gas, nuclear, wind, solar, et al. It may be "dirty," as you call it, but it is far cleaner than a vehicular internal combustion engine. Also, electricity generation is more resilient than gasoline as a power source. Its source can change, within limits, to adapt to short term market pressures, and over time it can change to adapt to the public's desire for alternatives which result in lower pollution. Technology on the power generation side can advance for electric cars, but it cannot for gasoline.
Three replies and no answer. Iirc, the range is 200 miles and the battery pack is about 52kWh. So take 200 miles and divide by your local electric rate (potentially your off-peak rate if it coincides with charging) times 52. To get your answer in miles per gallon instead of miles per dollar, just multiply the result by gas costs:
i.e., my electric rate is 8.6c/kWh, so I can go 200 miles for $4.47. I filled up Saturday for $3.82/gallon (Roanoke, Virginia), so my price-equivalent mileage is 171 mpg.
if you happen to pay 25c/kWh, then the equivalent drops to 59 mpg.
As a comparison, the Aptera - far less sporty, about 1/4 the price, and not due to roll off the assembly line until next year - will be more than 3 times as efficient.
As for carbon footprint, if you get your electricity from wind, solar, or nuclear you would have a large reduction, if coal, then a moderate reduction. Power generation on a large scale is still much more efficient than the automotive ICE.
Even better, this means the TB drives will start falling in price (actually, they have in the past 2 months). I've got an unRaid box with 3 TB drives and 2 500G drives. I'm good for capacity now, but as soon as they get the hot spare feature up, it'd be nice to have a spare in their ready to go. Since I'm cheap, the lower the cost of a TB, the happier I am.
It will come in at just above the current retail pricing on TB drives, but below the ridiculous level. A TB drive will cost $200 (nominally, $150-175 on sale) and to get the 1.5 will set you back an extra 20% or so per gig. They'll be $225-$250 for Black Friday, limit 1, 3 per store.
I wanted to mod this, but there isn't a "wrong" moderation.
Not the part about the storage medium...that part is true. The incorrect part is getting enough H2 to run a vehicle for 100miles on 4kWh of power. The most efficient proposed vechile I know of (the aptera) will go 100-120 miles on a 10kWh battery; the tesla is 200 miles on a 52kWh battery. Internal combustion or fuel cell will be less efficient per joule of power stored.
So while hydrogen is a good idea, it's still not ideal. If that ultracap company (forgot the name) proves to be selling something other than snake oil, we might be in for a fun ride.
They are allowing it to be taught on equal footing (I think). That would be similar to allowing an alternate teaching of gravity. Nobody has proven the fundamental reason gravity works, though it has been demonstrated that the effect has certain parameters and is highly repeatable. Evolution has similar backing. Other theories, such as the various stories of creation by Christians, Pastafarians, et alias, do not have the base of scientific review. It is not "science." It should be taught in the appropriate class - i.e. Religion.
If some people want to call parts of science class a sham, that's fine. Science has been shown to be wrong in some cases over time, such as the model of the atom, but science is specifically about updating as new discoveries are found. Don't start teaching religion in science class, or literature in mathematics class for that matter.
as perjury for corporations, and would it even apply to civil proceedings. It certainly seems willful in this case.
Oh, well, at least it's another potential arrow in the quiver of the defense for those targeted by the RIAA.
Not that we'll get one, but isn't the fun of polls arguing about what you would have picked if it were available?
I didn't check the register, but we seem to be assuming that McCain was present for the vote and actually abstained. Kennedy was also listed as "Not Voting," though I presume it was because he is recovering. Voting yea is a definite ding. Missing the vote entirely isn't exactly winning top honors in my book either, though.
...you want as much as possible. Doesn't excuse the vote, of course.
Interesting that all presidents change their mind about the powers of the president after they ascend to office. Nobody wants the other guy to have all the candy, but you know that you'll only use the powers to advance the right (i.e your) agenda, so it's all good.
Evil, overreaching bastards, yes, but they don't quite have the "batshit crazy" all over them like JT does.
Isn't it the French and Swiss who have figured out this problem? France generates a constant stream of cheap, nuclear-based electricity and sells the extra to Switzerland during low-demand times for a reduced rate. The Swiss take that electricity and use it to pump water up into reservoirs in the mountains. When the peak demand hits, the Swiss let the water back through hydroelectric dams and sell the power back to the French at a premium. Using the same principal for intermittent generation and constant draw works as well.
Here in Virginia, one local electric company does the same with a two-lake system (Smith Mountain and Leesville lakes), but uses primarily coal-fired plants for generation.
Personally, I think solar is the ultimate way to capture energy for use. It is closest to the source (i.e. high up on the food chain; plant, wave, wind are all at least one step removed), and minimizes the added heat to the environment (nuclear ultimately adds 1 J of heat to earth for every J of energy released in the process). Solar will still add some heat, as solar farms will change the local albedo, but it should be less than 1 J per J of energy produced.
FWIW, I'm not a greenie (I drive an F150 with a V8), but I want a Tesla and I'd be happy to get an Aptera...though I'd want a second battery in the trunk.
Your orbital mechanics professor must be so proud.
Not anymore (in the US at least). Anything more than 13 oz must be hand delivered to a post office...just in case you're mailing a bomb.
Though it may be a horrible way to run a government, letting the people decide directly would be hideous without serious reform of legal language. You need look no further than the 90+% of Americans who think that the "tax rebate" is a good idea and that they are somehow "owed" this money for all the taxes they are paying. No, I would rather (and it is just as likely) have a congress which is not allowed to receive more than $10 from social security number, and the money must come from the donor residing more than 184 days in that district. Cost of ads be damned; go out and shake hands if you need to campaign. Outlawing lobbyists is an even better idea. Disallowing combined bills is another one.
Surprisingly, many congressmen are intelligent, and actually do understand things when explained at the undergraduate level. The problem is that the people doing the explaining are not mostly-impartial staffers but paid shills trying to push legislation. Any system will be gamed; it is human nature. Ours is surprisingly good, but also deeply flawed by the simple fact that humans run it. Not that non-humans would do better, just that governance of any large population is inherently poor. We simply don't scale.
My mod points ran out or I'd flag your post. I'm barely linux literate, and it was a snap to set up and a snap to run. Serves my media machines. Case, MB, and cooling are key, but relatively simple with a browse of the forums.
There have been some minor speed concerns because the parity is calculated by the CPU, so the Limeware team added a cache drive to allow faster writing, and offline transfer to the array. For consumer media it's not an issue (few writes, reads are faster than my poorly tuned gigabit network), but the team is planning on making the cache drive a hot spare. So if you lost one drive, the hot spare would step in (auto/manual isn't certain at this point). The added bonus is that a failure of 2 drives means the loss of only one drive worth of data. With 6-8 drives, that's a nice bonus.
...use magazine photos?
Sorry, it's the only thing that came to mind.
Sure, it was 20 years ago, but it was a pretty good book for the unwashed masses.
One might say the same about most technical subjects. Given the overwhelming list bias towards fiction, it isn't that surprising. How may of your parents or children took A New Kind of Science to the beach this summer?