Sugar-coat it however you want, but hard disk manufacturers did this for selfish marketing reasons only. A Seagate ST-225 20 megabyte drive is about 21,000,000 bytes. A 360K floppy disk is 362,496 bytes formatted. 256MB of RAM is 262,144K, or 268,435,456 bytes.
It was only when some manufacturer couldn't quite fit a gigabyte on a hard disk that 1,000,000,000 bytes became "good enough" to call a gigabyte.
Use the excess to split water for hydrogen. Use the hydrogen in fuel cells on large trucks and other large vehicles where straight battery power is currently impossible.
Odd. Just checked the Lincoln Continental randomly, and its weight is half to three-quarter ton lighter than it was when I was a kid....
I was referring to the small cars that the OP was talking about, but actually, the 2015 Continental is about the same or slightly heavier than a 30-year-old (1985) Continental.
The OP states the police will only respond if there is video. If that were a policy, not only would it be published but it would also open the police department up to a number of 'neglect of duty' lawsuits.
It is in fact the policy in an increasing number of jurisdictions, including San Jose, Detroit, Las Vegas, Akron and Milwaukee that alarms be verified by video or eyewitness before police will respond. In other jurisdictions, such as Bakersfield, Saturday night response times can be up to three hours for non-verified alarms.
While light is wonderful for fuel efficiency, I'm finding that with each new generation of car I drive, strong lateral gusts of wind tend to pose more of a problem while driving. This is purely conjecture of course, but I just don't remember having these troubles in the past, where it's harder to immediately compensate for a sudden strong gust of wind that can literally alter your cars course in an instant.
Well, given that cars are heavier today than the same model from 30 years ago, I'd guess that the problem is that cars are taller than they used to be and present a larger side profile to crosswinds.
Your city doesn't require any camera for monitoring by police. You do need a permit and so does your alarm company. Perhaps your alarm company told you that but they are just trying to up sell you their camera system. https://www.houstonburglaralar...
In a lot of jurisdictions, video verified alarms are given a higher response priority by police.
A number of car audio systems that I have seen have removable face plates. Thief looks in, sees that the faceplate has been removed and will then realize the unit is worthless to resell and will move on.
I had two faceplate-less car stereos stolen. Turns out that they know that most people leave the faceplate in the glovebox. Some other crims are too stupid to know that you can't just walk into a stereo shop and buy a replacement faceplate. (I was in a stereo shop for two hours and no fewer than three idiots came in with a bare stereo looking to buy a faceplate.)
Y2.038K is coming, and as we saw with Y2K, companies will wait until the last minute and then scramble to make sure their code handles the clock overflow properly.
COBOL programmers (if there are any left by mid-2037) will probably make a lot of money for those six months.
Internal combustion engines are at most 40% efficient, and a huge portion of the excess energy goes out the tailpipe as heat. You would reap far more rewards tapping the exhaust system for heat than the tires.
California requires guards, alarm company employees and private investigators to be licensed and to submit to regular background checks. Google has about 200 guards just at its Mountain View headquarters, which is plenty to warrant the extra work needed to run that in house.
I wonder if any of the "innovations" from the last three years were his anyway. I would presume that Jobs would have 3-5 years of projects and products in the pipeline, and maybe more if he knew he would be leaving the company soon. So are we still working out of Jobs' notebook, or has Cook started actually calling the shots creatively?
I don't know about current engines, but for the longest time Hondas also required valve adjustments every 15k miles and timing belt replacements every 90k.
I am such a customer. I have "basic local channels" from Time Warner because Internet would be more expensive without them. Of course, since they've switched to digital, I can no longer watch them without a box, which I refuse to pay for.
They are dreaming. We are thinking about throttling them here right now. Why should we let all those other sites suffer due to one service using nearly 75% of our bandwidth.
Customers are DEMANDING those bits. If you can't afford to keep those bits flowing, start charging your customers more.
Most of all of this is entirely workers driven. It's not blaming the workers per se, except maybe blaming workers for not suing employers when they break the law.
Yeah, that's the problem. If you confront them at hire time, you won't get hired, so instead you end up working 50+ hour weeks, keeping secretive timecards, then trying to sue after you leave. If you succeed, you get a lump sum that puts you into a higher tax bracket that year, meaning you've lost more of it to taxes. If you fail, you get nothing and maybe have to pay lawyers for their time. Either way, you've now damaged relations with your new employer by taking time off during your first month of employment and eliminated any chance of reemployment with your old employer.
The real solution is specific plain-English rules sent to every employer by the labor board about who is really exempt and who isn't, followed by regular audits and massive fines for non-compliance.
The job market sucks, and it's never going to get any better. Off-shoring and abundant work Visas guarantee that.
...and the fact that Americans are doing the work of two or three people now. Why hire four IT workers to cover 24 hour days when we can hire one guy and just make him on call 24 hours a day?
If you don't mind spending thousands of dollars on a generator that can keep up with the car's power drain, and the snickers of everyone around you when you pull into a gas station with your $100K EV to fill up the tank.:-)
Hey, if it's just occasional cross-country use, there's always a pusher trailer.
No, not unless you would like your Internet access technologies refreshed and upgraded about as often as your water pipes or electric lines are. Which is to say approximately never.
Verizon hasn't seen fit to upgrade the maximum speed of the DSL in my old neighborhood from the 3Mbps that it installed sometime in the last century. How can it be any worse than that?
Your vehicle registration fee doesn't even remotely cover the cost of maintaining roads.
Yup. In California, vehicle registration is a form of use tax and is based mostly on the value of the vehicle. Thus, a 2014 Smart ForTwo has a much higher registration renewal cost than a 1984 Ford F-250.
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Sugar-coat it however you want, but hard disk manufacturers did this for selfish marketing reasons only. A Seagate ST-225 20 megabyte drive is about 21,000,000 bytes. A 360K floppy disk is 362,496 bytes formatted. 256MB of RAM is 262,144K, or 268,435,456 bytes. It was only when some manufacturer couldn't quite fit a gigabyte on a hard disk that 1,000,000,000 bytes became "good enough" to call a gigabyte.
If it was determined in 2017 that the airbag in a mid-70's Cadillac was defective, I don't think they would be required to recall it.
Use the excess to split water for hydrogen. Use the hydrogen in fuel cells on large trucks and other large vehicles where straight battery power is currently impossible.
"Brave"? Getting a crypto virus from malvertising is stupid, not Brave.
Odd. Just checked the Lincoln Continental randomly, and its weight is half to three-quarter ton lighter than it was when I was a kid....
I was referring to the small cars that the OP was talking about, but actually, the 2015 Continental is about the same or slightly heavier than a 30-year-old (1985) Continental.
The OP states the police will only respond if there is video. If that were a policy, not only would it be published but it would also open the police department up to a number of 'neglect of duty' lawsuits.
It is in fact the policy in an increasing number of jurisdictions, including San Jose, Detroit, Las Vegas, Akron and Milwaukee that alarms be verified by video or eyewitness before police will respond. In other jurisdictions, such as Bakersfield, Saturday night response times can be up to three hours for non-verified alarms.
While light is wonderful for fuel efficiency, I'm finding that with each new generation of car I drive, strong lateral gusts of wind tend to pose more of a problem while driving. This is purely conjecture of course, but I just don't remember having these troubles in the past, where it's harder to immediately compensate for a sudden strong gust of wind that can literally alter your cars course in an instant.
Well, given that cars are heavier today than the same model from 30 years ago, I'd guess that the problem is that cars are taller than they used to be and present a larger side profile to crosswinds.
Your city doesn't require any camera for monitoring by police. You do need a permit and so does your alarm company. Perhaps your alarm company told you that but they are just trying to up sell you their camera system. https://www.houstonburglaralar...
In a lot of jurisdictions, video verified alarms are given a higher response priority by police.
A number of car audio systems that I have seen have removable face plates. Thief looks in, sees that the faceplate has been removed and will then realize the unit is worthless to resell and will move on.
I had two faceplate-less car stereos stolen. Turns out that they know that most people leave the faceplate in the glovebox. Some other crims are too stupid to know that you can't just walk into a stereo shop and buy a replacement faceplate. (I was in a stereo shop for two hours and no fewer than three idiots came in with a bare stereo looking to buy a faceplate.)
Y2.038K is coming, and as we saw with Y2K, companies will wait until the last minute and then scramble to make sure their code handles the clock overflow properly.
COBOL programmers (if there are any left by mid-2037) will probably make a lot of money for those six months.
Internal combustion engines are at most 40% efficient, and a huge portion of the excess energy goes out the tailpipe as heat. You would reap far more rewards tapping the exhaust system for heat than the tires.
But then again, Goodyear is in the tire business.
California requires guards, alarm company employees and private investigators to be licensed and to submit to regular background checks. Google has about 200 guards just at its Mountain View headquarters, which is plenty to warrant the extra work needed to run that in house.
I wonder if any of the "innovations" from the last three years were his anyway. I would presume that Jobs would have 3-5 years of projects and products in the pipeline, and maybe more if he knew he would be leaving the company soon. So are we still working out of Jobs' notebook, or has Cook started actually calling the shots creatively?
I don't know about current engines, but for the longest time Hondas also required valve adjustments every 15k miles and timing belt replacements every 90k.
I am such a customer. I have "basic local channels" from Time Warner because Internet would be more expensive without them. Of course, since they've switched to digital, I can no longer watch them without a box, which I refuse to pay for.
They are dreaming. We are thinking about throttling them here right now. Why should we let all those other sites suffer due to one service using nearly 75% of our bandwidth.
Customers are DEMANDING those bits. If you can't afford to keep those bits flowing, start charging your customers more.
Unlike Verizon, which hasn't upgraded the 3Mbps/750kbps (on a good day) DSL service it installed in my area in 1997?
Yes, THANK YOU. Wake me when there's a low-powered $35 RasPi-like board with an x86 chip on it.
Most of all of this is entirely workers driven. It's not blaming the workers per se, except maybe blaming workers for not suing employers when they break the law.
Yeah, that's the problem. If you confront them at hire time, you won't get hired, so instead you end up working 50+ hour weeks, keeping secretive timecards, then trying to sue after you leave. If you succeed, you get a lump sum that puts you into a higher tax bracket that year, meaning you've lost more of it to taxes. If you fail, you get nothing and maybe have to pay lawyers for their time. Either way, you've now damaged relations with your new employer by taking time off during your first month of employment and eliminated any chance of reemployment with your old employer.
The real solution is specific plain-English rules sent to every employer by the labor board about who is really exempt and who isn't, followed by regular audits and massive fines for non-compliance.
The job market sucks, and it's never going to get any better. Off-shoring and abundant work Visas guarantee that.
...and the fact that Americans are doing the work of two or three people now. Why hire four IT workers to cover 24 hour days when we can hire one guy and just make him on call 24 hours a day?
If you don't mind spending thousands of dollars on a generator that can keep up with the car's power drain, and the snickers of everyone around you when you pull into a gas station with your $100K EV to fill up the tank. :-)
Hey, if it's just occasional cross-country use, there's always a pusher trailer.
No, not unless you would like your Internet access technologies refreshed and upgraded about as often as your water pipes or electric lines are. Which is to say approximately never.
Verizon hasn't seen fit to upgrade the maximum speed of the DSL in my old neighborhood from the 3Mbps that it installed sometime in the last century. How can it be any worse than that?
Except that the Prius costs more energy to make than many vehicles with a higher fuel consumption.
I'm willing to bet that it doesn't take much more energy than other cars its weight.
Win.
Your vehicle registration fee doesn't even remotely cover the cost of maintaining roads.
Yup. In California, vehicle registration is a form of use tax and is based mostly on the value of the vehicle. Thus, a 2014 Smart ForTwo has a much higher registration renewal cost than a 1984 Ford F-250.