That's shit. My parent's car will get almost 50mpg. It's a diesel. My car will get more than 30mpg, and it'll do 0-60 in 6.
From your own link, that 40 mpg includes the carbon involved in manufacturing the vehicle and well-to-wheels comparison, so emissions-wise, it depends on the power mix. From that same page, the Nissan Leaf in California puts out emissions equivalent to a 70 mpg petrol car.
The iPhone 3GS got its last update six months after they discontinued selling the phone. I don't see a lot of support from any smartphone manufacturers.
The simple fact is that if everyone did 10 MB of volume per month, the past 10 years of money spent on infrastructure upgrades would have been unnecessary. The upgrades were done for those who use 10 GB, but paid for equally by everyone. Make a case where that's fair.
Wait, they paid for upgrades? My DSL is the same 6Mbps down/768k up that has been around for a decade--except they call it "U-Verse" now and charge three times as much.
And that's after the hundreds of millions in taxes that were added to our bills to fund those infrastructure programs. The telcos basically kept that money.
Now that I'm in South Carolina, my apartment complex forces me into AT&T U-Verse, and it's not bad, but not great.
Is it real U-Verse? Around here, rather than actually deploy U-Verse, AT&T simply renamed all of its old crappy DSL offerings "U-Verse", so now they proudly offer U-Verse... with up to 6Mbps download and 768k upload speeds.
Regulation often has unintended consequences like this. If the thresholds were higher, for example, then the so-called "radioactive waste" probably wouldn't be.
Cool, we should just raise the thresholds high enough that they can dump the waste directly into the ocean. That way, the entire planet can be declared "radioactive waste-free." Problem solved, and the shareholders don't have to worry about those pesky "costs."
Hmmm, I think the state of California should be footing some of that bill since it is their updated regulation which is part of that cost. I really dislike how "chasing the nuisance" can lead to unrealistic costs for industries that generate unintentional or illusory externalities through the actions of the parties which experience (or merely think they experience) the externality.
The State of California caused the station to discharge radioactive waste into the environment and the steam tubes to corrode out prematurely?
The shareholders, not the ratepayers or taxpayers, should be shouldering that cost.
In other words, both those subsidies are in the same place. Whether you "see" them or not depends on what "see" means and how you spin it.
Southern California Edison has already told us to start doing stretching exercises in preparation for being bent over to pay for the upcoming $4+ billion to decommission San Onofre Nuclear Plant because it's being shuttered early. That's in addition to the nuclear subsidies I've been "seeing" in my previous bills.
If they were coming in too slow AFAIK the proper thing to do is to go around, i.e. go full throttle, pull back on the flight controls and climb. My understanding is that going around would normally not be a mistake even if they're slow enough that they knew they would touch down on the runway (on the landing gear) and bounce up again. The idea is that it's usually a lot safer to take off and go around for a second landing attempt than to attempt to complete a landing that seems to be going wrong.
This is my big problem with buying stuff from online DRM services. They never tell me for how long I can use the content, it's just implied that it will be for as long as the service is active. I don't know what the deal is, so I can't decide whether that $5 super-sale is really worth $5. I'd rather pay $20 and know that I own it forever.
It's not just online services. I have now-useless physical disks of software for which the DRM activation servers are long gone. This was software I paid $30-50 for a mere 10 years ago.
Windows XP end of support is a year away. I wonder how much longer after that before Microsoft turns off its online and phone activation servers?
That is a fair point, but I don't think it affects the end result. Whether you "send a message" accurately doesn't really matter, because we're talking about a Darwinian process here: companies that do figure it out, or just make the right lucky guess, will survive, while those that lose custom and can't figure out why will fail.
Or they'll just blame it on piracy and lobby the government to charge a 'piracy tax' on blank media, none of which goes to the artist.
Really? My wife has a couple hundred dollars worth of Broderbund software discs that don't work because Broderbund shut down their DRM activation servers years ago.
How is that different from being... a doctor, a fireman, a nuclear plant operator, a plumber, or an electrical line repairman?
Nuclear plant operators, firemen and electrical line repairmen are on call on a fixed schedule and get paid for those hours and if they're called in, they get paid overtime. Doctors and plumbers don't have to answer the phone at all, and if they choose to, they get paid between $150 and $6,000 an hour.
This is the most laughable aspect of the damn article: he wants to run a ton of computers at full blast to "go green." Last I checked, the utility company doesn't take BitCoins as payment.
Just mentioning "go green" is pretty embarrassing for this guy anyway. An HPC that averages 50% usage and 18,000 desktops that stay on 24/7 for AV scans? Seems like he'd save more money working on having his virus scans run at a very low level during the workday and using WOL to wake machines at night for the few minutes it takes to back them up.
Even at a low 50W idle draw with the screen off, 18,000 desktops are drawing 900kW of electricity. At a very low 5 cents/kWh, that's still $45 per hour.
Microsoft is essentially offering 'Buy Windows Server, get Hyper-V for free*', which is a pretty attractive offer for the outfits who aren't going to go for Xen or KVM; but need to run Windows Server stuff anyway, and probably have some MS-comfortable guys in the shop.
Better yet, that's also "Buy Windows Server Datacenter Edition, get Hyper-V for free, as well as free licensing for as many Windows Server guest OS instances that as you want to run." That is a huge money-saver for Microsoft shops even over the Free alternatives.
Which is precisely why people stick with MS. Regardless of what you think of their engineering or business practices, there is a certain amount of security in using the products that everyone else is using.
There are other ways to do the same, like using a cash card bought at the local convenience store. For me, disposable numbers are just the most convenient way to exercise that control.
Unless you're dealing with a scumbag company like 1&1 Internet, who will charge the card, and when it bounces, they'll just send you to collections.
As soon as it is turned back on it still has to move or generate all the heat energy over that hour it would have otherwise. Simply put, it will have to work a little harder to catch up what it would have been doing over that hour anyway. Same with hot water heaters, dehumidifiers, refrigerators, etc. Merely putting off washing clothes, cooking, etc obviously accomplishes nothing either.
That's why I have my heater set to switch on and off thousands of times per second to keep the temperature just right, since it doesn't use any more energy anyway.
Then there is the issue of closing post offices. There should be some standard, such as no post office for less than 5,000 people. For instance, evidently the people of Derby Connecticticut (3,000 people) are upset that their post office is going to close even though there is another a half mile away. Evidently the US taxpayer is expected to cover maintenance costs for the building. I know how they feel. My historic post office might close, which serves way over 20,000 people, although there are satellite kiosks in other areas, but the reality is that it is sitting on a very valuable piece of property and does not need to be that big. I kind of hope it does not close, but will understand if it does.
On the other hand, they're planning to close the Long Beach sorting center, which is pretty much the only center in Southern California that can accept Express Mail as late as 9:00pm and still deliver it to California the next day (something even FedEx and UPS don't do.) Yet, the "bulk mail acceptance facility" in Anaheim isn't in any danger, despite closing at 5:00pm.
The thing you really need to watch out for at red light cameras, even if you never run red lights, is the right-turn-on-red. If you don't come to a complete stop before turning, then you can get ticketed. A lot of people don't completely stop when the light is red but there are no cars around. I read somewhere that is actually the most common type of red-light ticket, but I'm not sure.
The red light cameras around here snap pictures of everybody who turns right on red, legal or not. So basically you stop, turn right, see the flash, and then sit on the edge of your seat for six weeks to see if the flash turns into a ticket.
Needless to say, there was a massive increase in traffic on the neighborhood streets as people detoured around the cameras on the major thoroughfare.
I have personally said (and done) exactly that. The after tax money the extra hours I was offered to work would have paid wasn't worth spending those hours working, so I didn't take them.
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That's shit. My parent's car will get almost 50mpg. It's a diesel. My car will get more than 30mpg, and it'll do 0-60 in 6.
From your own link, that 40 mpg includes the carbon involved in manufacturing the vehicle and well-to-wheels comparison, so emissions-wise, it depends on the power mix. From that same page, the Nissan Leaf in California puts out emissions equivalent to a 70 mpg petrol car.
The iPhone 3GS got its last update six months after they discontinued selling the phone. I don't see a lot of support from any smartphone manufacturers.
The right wing tends to be against regulation that erodes personal freedoms.
Did you really just say that with a straight face? DOMA, blue laws, the drug war...
The simple fact is that if everyone did 10 MB of volume per month, the past 10 years of money spent on infrastructure upgrades would have been unnecessary. The upgrades were done for those who use 10 GB, but paid for equally by everyone. Make a case where that's fair.
Wait, they paid for upgrades? My DSL is the same 6Mbps down/768k up that has been around for a decade--except they call it "U-Verse" now and charge three times as much.
And that's after the hundreds of millions in taxes that were added to our bills to fund those infrastructure programs. The telcos basically kept that money.
Yes... Just fine. Those stories of long waits, or unavailable diagnostic care are just rumors, I am sure...
Hey, just like my HMO.
Now that I'm in South Carolina, my apartment complex forces me into AT&T U-Verse, and it's not bad, but not great.
Is it real U-Verse? Around here, rather than actually deploy U-Verse, AT&T simply renamed all of its old crappy DSL offerings "U-Verse", so now they proudly offer U-Verse... with up to 6Mbps download and 768k upload speeds.
Regulation often has unintended consequences like this. If the thresholds were higher, for example, then the so-called "radioactive waste" probably wouldn't be.
Cool, we should just raise the thresholds high enough that they can dump the waste directly into the ocean. That way, the entire planet can be declared "radioactive waste-free." Problem solved, and the shareholders don't have to worry about those pesky "costs."
Hmmm, I think the state of California should be footing some of that bill since it is their updated regulation which is part of that cost. I really dislike how "chasing the nuisance" can lead to unrealistic costs for industries that generate unintentional or illusory externalities through the actions of the parties which experience (or merely think they experience) the externality.
The State of California caused the station to discharge radioactive waste into the environment and the steam tubes to corrode out prematurely? The shareholders, not the ratepayers or taxpayers, should be shouldering that cost.
In other words, both those subsidies are in the same place. Whether you "see" them or not depends on what "see" means and how you spin it.
Southern California Edison has already told us to start doing stretching exercises in preparation for being bent over to pay for the upcoming $4+ billion to decommission San Onofre Nuclear Plant because it's being shuttered early. That's in addition to the nuclear subsidies I've been "seeing" in my previous bills.
If they were coming in too slow AFAIK the proper thing to do is to go around, i.e. go full throttle, pull back on the flight controls and climb. My understanding is that going around would normally not be a mistake even if they're slow enough that they knew they would touch down on the runway (on the landing gear) and bounce up again. The idea is that it's usually a lot safer to take off and go around for a second landing attempt than to attempt to complete a landing that seems to be going wrong.
That isn't always the best idea.
"Warez do you want to go today?"
This is my big problem with buying stuff from online DRM services. They never tell me for how long I can use the content, it's just implied that it will be for as long as the service is active. I don't know what the deal is, so I can't decide whether that $5 super-sale is really worth $5. I'd rather pay $20 and know that I own it forever.
It's not just online services. I have now-useless physical disks of software for which the DRM activation servers are long gone. This was software I paid $30-50 for a mere 10 years ago.
Windows XP end of support is a year away. I wonder how much longer after that before Microsoft turns off its online and phone activation servers?
That is a fair point, but I don't think it affects the end result. Whether you "send a message" accurately doesn't really matter, because we're talking about a Darwinian process here: companies that do figure it out, or just make the right lucky guess, will survive, while those that lose custom and can't figure out why will fail.
Or they'll just blame it on piracy and lobby the government to charge a 'piracy tax' on blank media, none of which goes to the artist.
Really? My wife has a couple hundred dollars worth of Broderbund software discs that don't work because Broderbund shut down their DRM activation servers years ago.
How is that different from being... a doctor, a fireman, a nuclear plant operator, a plumber, or an electrical line repairman?
Nuclear plant operators, firemen and electrical line repairmen are on call on a fixed schedule and get paid for those hours and if they're called in, they get paid overtime. Doctors and plumbers don't have to answer the phone at all, and if they choose to, they get paid between $150 and $6,000 an hour.
This is the most laughable aspect of the damn article: he wants to run a ton of computers at full blast to "go green." Last I checked, the utility company doesn't take BitCoins as payment.
Just mentioning "go green" is pretty embarrassing for this guy anyway. An HPC that averages 50% usage and 18,000 desktops that stay on 24/7 for AV scans? Seems like he'd save more money working on having his virus scans run at a very low level during the workday and using WOL to wake machines at night for the few minutes it takes to back them up.
Even at a low 50W idle draw with the screen off, 18,000 desktops are drawing 900kW of electricity. At a very low 5 cents/kWh, that's still $45 per hour.
Microsoft is essentially offering 'Buy Windows Server, get Hyper-V for free*', which is a pretty attractive offer for the outfits who aren't going to go for Xen or KVM; but need to run Windows Server stuff anyway, and probably have some MS-comfortable guys in the shop.
Better yet, that's also "Buy Windows Server Datacenter Edition, get Hyper-V for free, as well as free licensing for as many Windows Server guest OS instances that as you want to run." That is a huge money-saver for Microsoft shops even over the Free alternatives.
Which is precisely why people stick with MS. Regardless of what you think of their engineering or business practices, there is a certain amount of security in using the products that everyone else is using.
With a few exceptions.
There are other ways to do the same, like using a cash card bought at the local convenience store. For me, disposable numbers are just the most convenient way to exercise that control.
Unless you're dealing with a scumbag company like 1&1 Internet, who will charge the card, and when it bounces, they'll just send you to collections.
As soon as it is turned back on it still has to move or generate all the heat energy over that hour it would have otherwise. Simply put, it will have to work a little harder to catch up what it would have been doing over that hour anyway. Same with hot water heaters, dehumidifiers, refrigerators, etc. Merely putting off washing clothes, cooking, etc obviously accomplishes nothing either.
That's why I have my heater set to switch on and off thousands of times per second to keep the temperature just right, since it doesn't use any more energy anyway.
Then there is the issue of closing post offices. There should be some standard, such as no post office for less than 5,000 people. For instance, evidently the people of Derby Connecticticut (3,000 people) are upset that their post office is going to close even though there is another a half mile away. Evidently the US taxpayer is expected to cover maintenance costs for the building. I know how they feel. My historic post office might close, which serves way over 20,000 people, although there are satellite kiosks in other areas, but the reality is that it is sitting on a very valuable piece of property and does not need to be that big. I kind of hope it does not close, but will understand if it does.
On the other hand, they're planning to close the Long Beach sorting center, which is pretty much the only center in Southern California that can accept Express Mail as late as 9:00pm and still deliver it to California the next day (something even FedEx and UPS don't do.) Yet, the "bulk mail acceptance facility" in Anaheim isn't in any danger, despite closing at 5:00pm.
The thing you really need to watch out for at red light cameras, even if you never run red lights, is the right-turn-on-red. If you don't come to a complete stop before turning, then you can get ticketed. A lot of people don't completely stop when the light is red but there are no cars around. I read somewhere that is actually the most common type of red-light ticket, but I'm not sure.
The red light cameras around here snap pictures of everybody who turns right on red, legal or not. So basically you stop, turn right, see the flash, and then sit on the edge of your seat for six weeks to see if the flash turns into a ticket.
Needless to say, there was a massive increase in traffic on the neighborhood streets as people detoured around the cameras on the major thoroughfare.
As soon as I started eating small protein rich meals every two hours with a cutoff of 7pm per his recommendations I came to life instantly.
Can you give me an example of what a day's worth of meals would be like for you?
I have personally said (and done) exactly that. The after tax money the extra hours I was offered to work would have paid wasn't worth spending those hours working, so I didn't take them.
Sounds like another job created.
That works until electric makes up a significant proportion of the traffic in the state.
Then tax it per kWh, with the in-garage chargers reporting consumption.