Perhaps, but it may also be that the special offers kindles out sell the ad free ones 10 or 20 to 1. Eeveryone I have talked to about their Kindles (various relatives, friends, etc.) have opted for the Special Offers model since they were introduced. Since Amazon does not release detailed sales numbers it is hard to tell for sure though.
I can't help wonder if the reason is that no one buys the regular model anymore. My wife has a special offers Kindle Keyboard (e-paper reader) with special offers and it seems to be done tastefully, and unobtrusively, even less distracting than the banner ad at the top of the page here. I can see why most people would chose the cheaper price if the downside is unobtrusive ad on the screen saver, etc.
The reason it is about to run out of juce as you put it, is that the material in the thermocouples have degraded, the Plutonium in the RTG's is still very hot, it is just the part that converts this heat to electricity is breaking down. In a manned ship it would be a relatively simple matter of pulling out the worn out thermocouple and inserting a fresh one. (of course a manned ship would likely need a much larger power source than an RTG could ever provide) This of course brings up the point of limited space for spare parts and needing to design everything with universal plug in modules and have onboard micro fabrication facilities.
The problem is we still think technology as a whole is advancing at the same rate it did in the 20th century where we went from the first powered flight to landing men on the moon in under 70 years, and today we have the U.S. Air Force still flying planes that first flew 60 years ago (B-52's) . The truth of the matter is some fields like computers and even microscale engineering do continue to advance, but many important fields for such a project have barely changed in the last half century.
I suspect Kryptonite had a bit more markup built into their business model, this sort of recall would likely bankrupt the lock company if they offered it for free which would leave the hotels without replacement parts, or locks for new constuction, etc. Remember hotels love standarization and these locks must offer remote programming from the front desk, etc.
Our local community area name starts with a B, there is a also a local "school" for retarded citizens, called the "Association of Retarded Citizens". Their sign reads "B'ARC" you can't make this up, I just tried to look it up on google street view, but the map is a few years out of date and still shows them at their old location with the sign that spells out the community name.
I doubt that most smart phone users even know there is an OS under their applications, to them any phone with a fairly robust feature set, good web browser and downloadable applications (from angry birds to bar code scanners) is a smart phone. There are probably a few other assumptions like a touchscreen interface and a highly customizable experience.
There is a difference here, before running for president McCain had congreess declair that his birth to US Citizens on a US military base overseas is equal to being born in the U.S.
Have you looked at the layers in the PDF they released, when the certificate seals, date stamp elements and signatures are on different layers than the blocks of the text and the background it is at a minimum cause for conern the document was altered. Supporters of this document will say it was just touched up for legibility, but who in their right mind "photoshops" something that they know might be used for legal evidence even if it was done for clarity? Note this is something I looked at myself, I suggest being a geek you download the official released copy yourself, disect it and form your own conclusion if it should be suspect.
This just goes to show how wide the political spectrum is in the U.S. today, where I live most people are Repulican, and the general vibe I get is that they feel Romey is so liberal that the base of the party will just boycott the election without someone more conservative on the ticket to make them bother showing up at the polling places on election day.
Part of the problem is the CSR had the option to not follow the rules, they should have a box to type the challenge response, and the computer should have enough logic to only accept a close match, not counting capitalization or minor spelling differences. If they can't get it right, escalate the call to a supervisor level who may then have more leeway.
To put 20 million gallons into perspective, a typical high quality home garden hose has a practical flow rate of 20 to 25 gallons per minute, it would take such a hose a bit under 2 years to disperse this much Agent Orange.
My point was not the potential destruction of the data center, but instead its network access might be effected by a major event hundreds of miles away.
This is only partly true, unfortunately most of the potential ash cloud maps are misleading since they show the total potential footprint regardless of seasonal wind patterns, and are partly based on historical data. The real footprint would likely be an area about 1/3 of the potential footprint, the exact length, width and direction dependent upon prevailing winds at the time of the eruption. (translation, If the eruption happened in the winter time the footprint would range from Wy to the gulf coast, however in summer it would more likely range from WY across the US/Canadian border to the mid Atlantic states)
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You know that arguement is going to get real interesting in a few years when they perfect artificial wombs
Perhaps, but it may also be that the special offers kindles out sell the ad free ones 10 or 20 to 1. Eeveryone I have talked to about their Kindles (various relatives, friends, etc.) have opted for the Special Offers model since they were introduced. Since Amazon does not release detailed sales numbers it is hard to tell for sure though.
I can't help wonder if the reason is that no one buys the regular model anymore. My wife has a special offers Kindle Keyboard (e-paper reader) with special offers and it seems to be done tastefully, and unobtrusively, even less distracting than the banner ad at the top of the page here. I can see why most people would chose the cheaper price if the downside is unobtrusive ad on the screen saver, etc.
Look at the new Kindle Paperwhite introduced with the new Fire, but not getting any press
True by calling Chile, Latin America is a bit like Calling Japan, Asia
The reason it is about to run out of juce as you put it, is that the material in the thermocouples have degraded, the Plutonium in the RTG's is still very hot, it is just the part that converts this heat to electricity is breaking down. In a manned ship it would be a relatively simple matter of pulling out the worn out thermocouple and inserting a fresh one. (of course a manned ship would likely need a much larger power source than an RTG could ever provide) This of course brings up the point of limited space for spare parts and needing to design everything with universal plug in modules and have onboard micro fabrication facilities.
The problem is we still think technology as a whole is advancing at the same rate it did in the 20th century where we went from the first powered flight to landing men on the moon in under 70 years, and today we have the U.S. Air Force still flying planes that first flew 60 years ago (B-52's) . The truth of the matter is some fields like computers and even microscale engineering do continue to advance, but many important fields for such a project have barely changed in the last half century.
As good as they are, they still can not anticipate the road ahead.
Am I the only one to think, how many modern servers does the city of Seattle really need? Google says the population is only 608,000 in 2010
I suspect Kryptonite had a bit more markup built into their business model, this sort of recall would likely bankrupt the lock company if they offered it for free which would leave the hotels without replacement parts, or locks for new constuction, etc. Remember hotels love standarization and these locks must offer remote programming from the front desk, etc.
Our local community area name starts with a B, there is a also a local "school" for retarded citizens, called the "Association of Retarded Citizens". Their sign reads "B'ARC" you can't make this up, I just tried to look it up on google street view, but the map is a few years out of date and still shows them at their old location with the sign that spells out the community name.
Much the same can be said about my year old higher end Thinkpad
I doubt that most smart phone users even know there is an OS under their applications, to them any phone with a fairly robust feature set, good web browser and downloadable applications (from angry birds to bar code scanners) is a smart phone. There are probably a few other assumptions like a touchscreen interface and a highly customizable experience.
There is a difference here, before running for president McCain had congreess declair that his birth to US Citizens on a US military base overseas is equal to being born in the U.S.
Have you looked at the layers in the PDF they released, when the certificate seals, date stamp elements and signatures are on different layers than the blocks of the text and the background it is at a minimum cause for conern the document was altered. Supporters of this document will say it was just touched up for legibility, but who in their right mind "photoshops" something that they know might be used for legal evidence even if it was done for clarity? Note this is something I looked at myself, I suggest being a geek you download the official released copy yourself, disect it and form your own conclusion if it should be suspect.
Wow the liberal mindset of my bicycle is old and broken, my neighbor has 2 nice new bicycles, so he should give me one.
This just goes to show how wide the political spectrum is in the U.S. today, where I live most people are Repulican, and the general vibe I get is that they feel Romey is so liberal that the base of the party will just boycott the election without someone more conservative on the ticket to make them bother showing up at the polling places on election day.
Sure that is great for you, but why punish those of us that live in places with plenty of ground water and hundreds of inches per year of rainfall.
Part of the problem is the CSR had the option to not follow the rules, they should have a box to type the challenge response, and the computer should have enough logic to only accept a close match, not counting capitalization or minor spelling differences. If they can't get it right, escalate the call to a supervisor level who may then have more leeway.
The problem here is often lack of good choices like:
Paternal Grandfather's name? for someone who is John Smith III
Or name of city you grew up in, when it is your current city?
At this point Mother's maiden name looks good when given 3 choices
And as long as you always answer 42, or 416 what is the problem with that?
To put 20 million gallons into perspective, a typical high quality home garden hose has a practical flow rate of 20 to 25 gallons per minute, it would take such a hose a bit under 2 years to disperse this much Agent Orange.
At least this is all there was to it:
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My point was not the potential destruction of the data center, but instead its network access might be effected by a major event hundreds of miles away.
This is only partly true, unfortunately most of the potential ash cloud maps are misleading since they show the total potential footprint regardless of seasonal wind patterns, and are partly based on historical data. The real footprint would likely be an area about 1/3 of the potential footprint, the exact length, width and direction dependent upon prevailing winds at the time of the eruption. (translation, If the eruption happened in the winter time the footprint would range from Wy to the gulf coast, however in summer it would more likely range from WY across the US/Canadian border to the mid Atlantic states)