I suspected you weren't talking about the Vertex line. I got a 60GB Vertex III last year and shortly after installation it started randomly disappearing during intense gaming. I thought it was due to heat so I bolted a fan/heat sink to it but that didn't seem to help. I struggled with the issue for over six months until OCZ finally released a firmware update (it had released several prior) that fixed it. I never lost any data but it was a little unnerving every time it would vanish.
If they really wanted to get it pulled from YouTube they should just send Google a DMCA takedown notice claiming the chanting or other noises made by any Muslims in the video is copyrighted.
I have come to prefer Quickjava. It let's you toggle Java, Javascript, Cookies, Image Animations, Flash, Silverlight, Images, Stylesheets and Proxy quickly. If I encounter a site that is annoying I just toggle the appropriate plugin until I leave that site. The only thing it lacks is the ability to toggle per tab. If it had that it would be perfect.
You think enforcing fuel economy standards will turn us into the USSR?
Nope. Nice try at spin.
The economy of the U.S.S.R. was a Planned Economy which dictated just about every aspect of economic production.
I said if it were mandated that we must all drive vehicles of a certain efficiency no alternative vehicles would be produced. Thus my reference.
Your idea while intriguing has a fatal flaw as well. As the cost of driving increases so does the cost of shipping. Anything at your local grocers that had to be shipped (pretty much everything) will also go up. As it is in the US fuel is already taxed at the state and federal level to fund the highway system. In fact the legislature is scrambling to figure out a new way to tax vehicles so they can get revenue from electric cars.
You wouldn't be captain obvious' sidekick would you?
Unless you force people to buy the higher efficiency vehicle there will always be those who will not. And of course if you forced them to purchase the efficient model no company would build the inefficient ones anymore because there would be no demand. Welcome to the U.S.S.R.
FYI - Some of the biggest advances in efficiency for ICE technology have come from trying to create the fastest/strongest engines.
Shoretel uses open source and open standards tools. They do hosted or turnkey installs. I've been trying to get our office to upgrade from our existing Nortel Meridian Option 11 system for the last four years and my research into it has found mostly good things about them.
Think of it as a lease. If I agree to lease an apartment for 12 months but move out after 10 I am still obligated to pay the last 2 months or pay a penalty. If I pay the penalty I can leave whenever I want but the owner can lease my apartment again too.
Many states have mandated power companies purchase excess power from residential customers who supplement their power with some form of renewable source to encourage more investment in these technologies by end users. Deployment of most of these renewable technologies is prohibitively expensive for the average homeowner. So much so it would take them over 20 years to recoup the cost in electricity savings. Microsoft did not have any generation to "buy back". They had agreed to purchase x kWh of electricity ad ended up not needing that much. The power company had already invested the money for the electricity in to the raw material to produce the electricity and thus Microsoft was obliged to cover those costs under their PPA.
Because if they did that it wouldn't change the fact that the power plant would need to shut down. If it stayed operational that electricity would still hit the grid and since nobody used it would overload said grid. I'll let someone else research the fines associated with overloading the power grid.
Ultra-capacitors are indeed being deployed to the grid to great success. But the cost estimate of $0.05 kWh/cycle is in addition to the cost of generation. Currently the average cost of generation is $0.05 kWh so any electricity you generate and store now costs you $0.1 kWh. You just DOUBLED the cost of your electricity! It's still the best cost/benefit option for grid storage just not as appealing as having a PPA with a built in cushion. I suspect more widespread adoption will require regulation.
Basically large companies need to know what their costs are going to be long term. They enter in to Power Purchasing Agreements with electricity generators much like leasing a building. Based on these agreements the electricity generator knows what is expected of it's power plants and maintains them to meet these requirements. If demand is lower than expected they may have to shut down a plant or two since there isn't an economical way to store electricity on such a large scale. It costs a lot of money to shut down one of these facilities and even more to ramp back up. Rather than eat these costs many PPA's include penalties that will cover these contingencies. Since I'm tl;dr the article I don't know if that's what happened here but it makes sense that if Microsoft overestimated it's power needs on its PPA then these fines would have been to cover the plants down time. Since another comment mentioned hydro generation I'm guessing Microsoft running inefficient on purpose to avoid the fines didn't hurt the environment too much.
Let's see...Japan is almost half the size of Texas so when they lay fiber they lay one big honkin bundle of the stuff. In N. America it has to stretch from sea to shining sea. Granted there's some dead spots in the middle that don't need much in the way of fiber but still. What needs to happen is the pipe be it fiber or coax or POTS or wireless (cellular) needs to be put under the control of a non-profit regulated group and let the service providers compete on...wait for it...service.
Well Rage was kinda weak from a storyline POV from the jump so my expectations weren't set too high for that ending. I was so engrossed in the whole ME universe that playing the game for me made up for the WTF ending but Borderlands ending really pissed me off. I really enjoyed the game and then it was like...As a reward for making it to the end *spoiler* - you get to wait 1k years to try again. It would seem that they couldn't wait that long so they made up a second vault for the sequel. I had more fun with Claptrap's Revenge DLC than the final boss fight.
Case in point. I was just asked what type of digital picture frame to should get. I said get an Android tablet and throw a picture frame app on it. For the price of the decent digital picture frames ($99 - $130) you can find quite a few good tablets.
If this is false advertising, what is true advertising? Can you think of a single ad out there where the company told the complete and clear truth about a product? Anybody?
Metamucil: We help you go to the toilet so you won’t get cancer and die.
AT&T: You may think phone service stinks since deregulation, but don’t mess with us, because we’re all you’ve got. In fact, if we fold, you’ll have no damn phones. AT&T - We’re tired of taking your crap!
Paramount Pictures: Paramount Pictures presents The Freak. This movie won’t just scare you, it will #$%@ you up for life.
That would be very...un-Apple-like. They currently make money on every device legitimately sold by 3rd party OEMs (iHome, JBL) by requiring an NDA and licensing agreement through their MFi program. I found and interesting read here about the reasoning behind the Square CC reader using the audio port. They cite several valid reasons but one that sticks out in a big way is basically it costs Square US $1 to manufacture the device but it would have cost them $4-$8 per device in licensing if they had gone with the 30 pin dock connector.
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I suspected you weren't talking about the Vertex line. I got a 60GB Vertex III last year and shortly after installation it started randomly disappearing during intense gaming. I thought it was due to heat so I bolted a fan/heat sink to it but that didn't seem to help. I struggled with the issue for over six months until OCZ finally released a firmware update (it had released several prior) that fixed it. I never lost any data but it was a little unnerving every time it would vanish.
If they really wanted to get it pulled from YouTube they should just send Google a DMCA takedown notice claiming the chanting or other noises made by any Muslims in the video is copyrighted.
It was on The Verge and it is pretty obvious Steve Perlman was both the architect and destroyer of OnLive.
I have come to prefer Quickjava. It let's you toggle Java, Javascript, Cookies, Image Animations, Flash, Silverlight, Images, Stylesheets and Proxy quickly. If I encounter a site that is annoying I just toggle the appropriate plugin until I leave that site. The only thing it lacks is the ability to toggle per tab. If it had that it would be perfect.
I stopped using Chrome when I couldn't install it on my D: drive without hacking.
You think enforcing fuel economy standards will turn us into the USSR?
Nope. Nice try at spin.
The economy of the U.S.S.R. was a Planned Economy which dictated just about every aspect of economic production.
I said if it were mandated that we must all drive vehicles of a certain efficiency no alternative vehicles would be produced. Thus my reference.
Your idea while intriguing has a fatal flaw as well. As the cost of driving increases so does the cost of shipping. Anything at your local grocers that had to be shipped (pretty much everything) will also go up. As it is in the US fuel is already taxed at the state and federal level to fund the highway system. In fact the legislature is scrambling to figure out a new way to tax vehicles so they can get revenue from electric cars.
You're right! You are no car expert.
You wouldn't be captain obvious' sidekick would you?
Unless you force people to buy the higher efficiency vehicle there will always be those who will not. And of course if you forced them to purchase the efficient model no company would build the inefficient ones anymore because there would be no demand. Welcome to the U.S.S.R.
FYI - Some of the biggest advances in efficiency for ICE technology have come from trying to create the fastest/strongest engines.
Shoretel uses open source and open standards tools. They do hosted or turnkey installs. I've been trying to get our office to upgrade from our existing Nortel Meridian Option 11 system for the last four years and my research into it has found mostly good things about them.
Think of it as a lease. If I agree to lease an apartment for 12 months but move out after 10 I am still obligated to pay the last 2 months or pay a penalty. If I pay the penalty I can leave whenever I want but the owner can lease my apartment again too.
Many states have mandated power companies purchase excess power from residential customers who supplement their power with some form of renewable source to encourage more investment in these technologies by end users. Deployment of most of these renewable technologies is prohibitively expensive for the average homeowner. So much so it would take them over 20 years to recoup the cost in electricity savings. Microsoft did not have any generation to "buy back". They had agreed to purchase x kWh of electricity ad ended up not needing that much. The power company had already invested the money for the electricity in to the raw material to produce the electricity and thus Microsoft was obliged to cover those costs under their PPA.
I take it you've never been a bean counter at a large energy company?
And I've been following compressed-air tech for a very long time.
Because if they did that it wouldn't change the fact that the power plant would need to shut down. If it stayed operational that electricity would still hit the grid and since nobody used it would overload said grid. I'll let someone else research the fines associated with overloading the power grid.
Ultra-capacitors are indeed being deployed to the grid to great success. But the cost estimate of $0.05 kWh/cycle is in addition to the cost of generation. Currently the average cost of generation is $0.05 kWh so any electricity you generate and store now costs you $0.1 kWh. You just DOUBLED the cost of your electricity! It's still the best cost/benefit option for grid storage just not as appealing as having a PPA with a built in cushion. I suspect more widespread adoption will require regulation.
Basically large companies need to know what their costs are going to be long term. They enter in to Power Purchasing Agreements with electricity generators much like leasing a building. Based on these agreements the electricity generator knows what is expected of it's power plants and maintains them to meet these requirements. If demand is lower than expected they may have to shut down a plant or two since there isn't an economical way to store electricity on such a large scale. It costs a lot of money to shut down one of these facilities and even more to ramp back up. Rather than eat these costs many PPA's include penalties that will cover these contingencies. Since I'm tl;dr the article I don't know if that's what happened here but it makes sense that if Microsoft overestimated it's power needs on its PPA then these fines would have been to cover the plants down time. Since another comment mentioned hydro generation I'm guessing Microsoft running inefficient on purpose to avoid the fines didn't hurt the environment too much.
Let's see...Japan is almost half the size of Texas so when they lay fiber they lay one big honkin bundle of the stuff. In N. America it has to stretch from sea to shining sea. Granted there's some dead spots in the middle that don't need much in the way of fiber but still. What needs to happen is the pipe be it fiber or coax or POTS or wireless (cellular) needs to be put under the control of a non-profit regulated group and let the service providers compete on...wait for it...service.
What lost Science and Engineering jobs? or were you trying to infer call center jobs were in fact science and engineering positions?
In the words of River Song - *SHHH* Spoilers!
Well Rage was kinda weak from a storyline POV from the jump so my expectations weren't set too high for that ending. I was so engrossed in the whole ME universe that playing the game for me made up for the WTF ending but Borderlands ending really pissed me off. I really enjoyed the game and then it was like...As a reward for making it to the end *spoiler* - you get to wait 1k years to try again. It would seem that they couldn't wait that long so they made up a second vault for the sequel. I had more fun with Claptrap's Revenge DLC than the final boss fight.
Case in point. I was just asked what type of digital picture frame to should get. I said get an Android tablet and throw a picture frame app on it. For the price of the decent digital picture frames ($99 - $130) you can find quite a few good tablets.
I like to believe the more evil angle that the camera OEM is paying terrorists to destroy them...so they can sell more cameras.
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If this is false advertising, what is true advertising? Can you think of a single ad out there where the company told the complete and clear truth about a product? Anybody?
Buy Volvos. They’re Boxy (But They’re Good).
Metamucil: We help you go to the toilet so you won’t get cancer and die.
AT&T: You may think phone service stinks since deregulation, but don’t mess with us, because we’re all you’ve got. In fact, if we fold, you’ll have no damn phones. AT&T - We’re tired of taking your crap!
Paramount Pictures: Paramount Pictures presents The Freak. This movie won’t just scare you, it will #$%@ you up for life.
Ahhh...Crazy People
That would be very...un-Apple-like. They currently make money on every device legitimately sold by 3rd party OEMs (iHome, JBL) by requiring an NDA and licensing agreement through their MFi program. I found and interesting read here about the reasoning behind the Square CC reader using the audio port. They cite several valid reasons but one that sticks out in a big way is basically it costs Square US $1 to manufacture the device but it would have cost them $4-$8 per device in licensing if they had gone with the 30 pin dock connector.