Also, I think a lot of my opinion springs from the gal I hit last summer who slowed for a stop sign and decided (in her words to the cop) "I thought I could make it."
Fortunately I slammed my brakes and the impact was at a relatively slow speed, so no injuries.
Somebody with such poor judgment would have pulled out in front of you whether they stopped first or not.
1) Put the phone in airplane mode while driving.
2) Turn the sound AND vibration off. Put the phone face down so you can't see it.
3) Install a cigarette lighter plug in the trunk. Before getting in the car, turn the phone off and plug it in in the trunk. When you get to work, you're alive and as a bonus, your phone is fully charged.
A country the size of the US should not have any shortage of highly talented, skilled and educated people. Yet it has.
No it hasn't. Employers just aren't willing to pay market rates for talent and not work them into the ground, so they found a loophole in the system that allows them to hire foreign workers for less than market rate and work them into the ground.
Let's eliminate the various loopholes in overtime laws and H1-B laws and put some teeth into enforcement and see how many jobs open up overnight.
Southern California Edison has already outsourced thousands of jobs and sold off everything not nailed down. Frankly, I'm surprised that IT wasn't the FIRST to go.
And yet, ratepayers haven't seen a dime of all of these savings.
In 15 to 20 years time when "worn out" Model S battery packs start to become available I expect one of the main applications will be storage for domestic solar installations that can tolerate having only 70% capacity remaining.
Or even just regular UPS systems. A battery pack that a Tesla owner throws away because it's down to 15kWh will power my server room for 90 minutes.
Do you really think that oil producers pay retail, or even light commercial rates? The residential end user rates for electricity were 5.4 cents in 1980 and 7.8 cents in 1990. Refineries paid a fraction of that.
Here is the study where that figure was calculated from. Refineries are, at best, 90.1% efficient, considering all inputs and outputs. If you exclude less desirable outputs like road oil and asphalt, efficiency is more like 86.4%, with refineries purchasing 39.3 TWh of electricity and 34,000 short tons of coal to produce even more.
They could use the excess nighttime electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Normally, making hydrogen for fuel cells is expensive in terms of electrical use, but if you're not using it anyway...
Well, it takes 6kWh of electricity just to refine a gallon of gasoline. At 300Wh/mile, you can run an electric car 20 miles just on the refinery overhead of a gallon of gasoline.
Norton supposedly is MUCH improved and was re-engineered from the ground up in 2011. It has a good detection rate and fast performance according to av-total and other AV certification firms which release test results to the public.
Yeah, awesome. Symantec Client Security can detect "ZBot-like network activity" on a workstation, but it can neither detect nor remove the actual ZBot infection. Garbage.
The breach started two days before Black Friday. What incentive would management have to do anything that would jeopardize their ability to sell all the way until Christmas?
Levy a fine against them equivalent to their entire profit from November 27 until December 19 when they finally admitted the breach. Maybe companies will think twice before trying to sweep these things under the rug.
Love them or hate them, their software is what keeps people buying from Apple as opposed to Dell or Sony.
Actually, the EULA for their software is what keeps people buying from Apple. If they sold their OS for use on commodity hardware instead of tying it to Apple hardware, it would see a lot more market share.
(Perhaps this displays why using Netflix as the quintessential argument FOR net neutrality is a poor idea, since it is easy to dismiss it as just selfish people who want their movies to run without interruption even if it means everyone else's network experience suffers.)
Yeah, stupid selfish customers actually wanting to use the 6 Mbps they paid for.
That is a scooter, it actually has a completely different category with insurance companies as a proper motorcycle does. At least my experience shopping for my daughter when she was 18 it was that way, I was told point blank, "if you bought her a scooter instead of a 250cc ninja the insurance would be dramatically lower."
Good to know, thanks. I thought it was based strictly on engine size.
I see that you edited out the part where I said it likely made the price of the seat cheaper for someone else. In other words, the seat is unlikely to go empty.
To a point. A 737 seats about 137 passengers, so the number of people who can affect whether the entire flight happens or is cancelled is relatively small.
I must have been reading a different article. The one I read had working Fusion reactors, cars that float above the ground, Cubic TVs, windowless underground houses, no electic cords, colonies on the moon and automatic cooking machines in every kitchen.
And human-like robots in every house, but computers that were still massive building-sized devices that required scientists keying in instructions on punch cards or ticker tape to use.
But how about if you're pushing a large bank of snow? Or pulling stumps?
Throw some stuff in the bed? I wonder if there's stuff you could throw in the back of a snowplow truck that would weigh it down while plowing snow, but then magically drain out of the truck when the weather warmed up.
Pack with you? Because that's a concern with desktop workstations?
The CPU and two video cards have a combined TDP of 680 watts--and that's not including chipset, RAM, drives, power supply, etc. I hope this thing has lead weights in the bottom; otherwise, the fans needed to keep it from melting into a pile of slag will scoot it across the desk when they spin up.
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Also, I think a lot of my opinion springs from the gal I hit last summer who slowed for a stop sign and decided (in her words to the cop) "I thought I could make it." Fortunately I slammed my brakes and the impact was at a relatively slow speed, so no injuries.
Somebody with such poor judgment would have pulled out in front of you whether they stopped first or not.
No, instead you have the end of support for even LTS releases, and then you're hooped if the upgrade doesn't work.
As opposed to Windows 8 where upgrading isn't even an option?
1) Put the phone in airplane mode while driving.
2) Turn the sound AND vibration off. Put the phone face down so you can't see it.
3) Install a cigarette lighter plug in the trunk. Before getting in the car, turn the phone off and plug it in in the trunk. When you get to work, you're alive and as a bonus, your phone is fully charged.
I'm just not so sure that processed soybeans fried in rapeseed oil and salt water is any healthier than meat.
Or we've been demonizing fat for so long that they're afraid to put any in.
A country the size of the US should not have any shortage of highly talented, skilled and educated people. Yet it has.
No it hasn't. Employers just aren't willing to pay market rates for talent and not work them into the ground, so they found a loophole in the system that allows them to hire foreign workers for less than market rate and work them into the ground.
Let's eliminate the various loopholes in overtime laws and H1-B laws and put some teeth into enforcement and see how many jobs open up overnight.
Southern California Edison has already outsourced thousands of jobs and sold off everything not nailed down. Frankly, I'm surprised that IT wasn't the FIRST to go.
And yet, ratepayers haven't seen a dime of all of these savings.
In 15 to 20 years time when "worn out" Model S battery packs start to become available I expect one of the main applications will be storage for domestic solar installations that can tolerate having only 70% capacity remaining.
Or even just regular UPS systems. A battery pack that a Tesla owner throws away because it's down to 15kWh will power my server room for 90 minutes.
Do you really think that oil producers pay retail, or even light commercial rates? The residential end user rates for electricity were 5.4 cents in 1980 and 7.8 cents in 1990. Refineries paid a fraction of that.
Here is the study where that figure was calculated from. Refineries are, at best, 90.1% efficient, considering all inputs and outputs. If you exclude less desirable outputs like road oil and asphalt, efficiency is more like 86.4%, with refineries purchasing 39.3 TWh of electricity and 34,000 short tons of coal to produce even more.
They could use the excess nighttime electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Normally, making hydrogen for fuel cells is expensive in terms of electrical use, but if you're not using it anyway...
Well, it takes 6kWh of electricity just to refine a gallon of gasoline. At 300Wh/mile, you can run an electric car 20 miles just on the refinery overhead of a gallon of gasoline.
Norton supposedly is MUCH improved and was re-engineered from the ground up in 2011. It has a good detection rate and fast performance according to av-total and other AV certification firms which release test results to the public.
Yeah, awesome. Symantec Client Security can detect "ZBot-like network activity" on a workstation, but it can neither detect nor remove the actual ZBot infection. Garbage.
Symantec: where software goes to die.
The idea some people got that all existing Windows apps were supposed to be rewritten as Modern Apps is certainly wrong.
What's the point of having nice big buttons to touch to launch an app if you still have to use a mouse to use the app?
The breach started two days before Black Friday. What incentive would management have to do anything that would jeopardize their ability to sell all the way until Christmas?
Levy a fine against them equivalent to their entire profit from November 27 until December 19 when they finally admitted the breach. Maybe companies will think twice before trying to sweep these things under the rug.
Actually, Aspartame is phenylalanine-based. Sucralose contains no phenylalanine.
Love them or hate them, their software is what keeps people buying from Apple as opposed to Dell or Sony.
Actually, the EULA for their software is what keeps people buying from Apple. If they sold their OS for use on commodity hardware instead of tying it to Apple hardware, it would see a lot more market share.
(Perhaps this displays why using Netflix as the quintessential argument FOR net neutrality is a poor idea, since it is easy to dismiss it as just selfish people who want their movies to run without interruption even if it means everyone else's network experience suffers.)
Yeah, stupid selfish customers actually wanting to use the 6 Mbps they paid for.
That is a scooter, it actually has a completely different category with insurance companies as a proper motorcycle does. At least my experience shopping for my daughter when she was 18 it was that way, I was told point blank, "if you bought her a scooter instead of a 250cc ninja the insurance would be dramatically lower."
Good to know, thanks. I thought it was based strictly on engine size.
I see that you edited out the part where I said it likely made the price of the seat cheaper for someone else. In other words, the seat is unlikely to go empty.
To a point. A 737 seats about 137 passengers, so the number of people who can affect whether the entire flight happens or is cancelled is relatively small.
Insurance rates are disgustingly high for anyone 18-25
Shop around. When I was 23 I had PL/PD/Medical on my 250cc Helix for $75/year from Progressive--and that was in the SF Bay Area.
But the plane would still fly without your single seat. Only collective action, in the form of many people not flying, can help in this case
A 737 on a 2 hour flight uses 7kg less fuel for every passenger removed. That's about 3.2 gallons of Jet A. Every little bit, it turns out, does help.
I must have been reading a different article. The one I read had working Fusion reactors, cars that float above the ground, Cubic TVs, windowless underground houses, no electic cords, colonies on the moon and automatic cooking machines in every kitchen.
And human-like robots in every house, but computers that were still massive building-sized devices that required scientists keying in instructions on punch cards or ticker tape to use.
But how about if you're pushing a large bank of snow? Or pulling stumps?
Throw some stuff in the bed? I wonder if there's stuff you could throw in the back of a snowplow truck that would weigh it down while plowing snow, but then magically drain out of the truck when the weather warmed up.
Pack with you? Because that's a concern with desktop workstations?
The CPU and two video cards have a combined TDP of 680 watts--and that's not including chipset, RAM, drives, power supply, etc. I hope this thing has lead weights in the bottom; otherwise, the fans needed to keep it from melting into a pile of slag will scoot it across the desk when they spin up.