The first adopters always pay a premium. I am one of them. I am used to that. But that one was too soon, too harsh... "Too soon, too harsh"? Oh, poor babies... Get real. First adopters are idiots who'll pay to show they can afford the latest and greatest gadgets. Businesses are perfectly aware of this and quite rightly take fool advantage of them.
"In a carefully stage-managed meeting in Beijing with a senior Chinese official, which, unusually, was open to the media, Thomas Debrowski, Mattel's executive vice-president for worldwide operations, read out a prepared text that played down the role of Chinese factories in the recalls."
You don't, you co-locate industries which might make use of the high temperature waste steam on site. Including things like adsorption chillers.
Then you pipe the rest of the heat as hot water to homes and businesses which want to use it for space or water heating.
Tell your "engineering friend" to look up "District Heating" on Wikipedia or Google. It's been in practice for more than a century and is widespread in places like Iceland, Denmark and New York.
Really. It wasn't until I used Windows and scanned a few machines that I realised just why personal firewalls appeared at all. Didn't occur to me that there would be so much exposed.
14Pb for 170k employees isn't so much - 83 gigabytes per person. Sorry, this is completely naive. It's a misunderstanding of what an average is.
Each employee is NOT getting 83Gb of space on the SAN. They might get a few Gb for email. That space is used to store accounts, general business stuff, personal information, credit reports, market information, simulations etc primarily for data mining. Then of course it's replicated to several locations.
Both Labour and the Conservatives think that government can solve all our problems. This amounts to them being in control. They are both authoritarian. The only major party in the UK which isn't, is the LibDems.
Yeah. Well you deserve what you get. I rarely buy on the high street these days. There's always someone willing to cut the margins to reasonable levels.
If your economy starts importing stuff from the US in a major way, the Canadian dollar will also fall until the imbalance is removed. There's a tendency for trade to balance out unless like China, one currency is locked to a different rate than the other.
I beg to differ. Carbon fiber is better because it doesn't corrode, and it has a superior strength-to-weight ratio. Composites can suffer from all sorts of problems, from fatigue failures, ultraviolet weathering, water ingress, delamination etc.
They have different problems but they do have problems. I assume the Boeing engineers know what they are.
Yeah, but epoxy/fibre boats suffer from "Boat Pox", where blisters form under the skin and the GRP delaminates. Now, if that happens in a fibre wing, I suspect there would be disastrous consequences.
Would you care to reassure me in some other way please?
It's largely down to the ability to borrow and spend given to politicians. They just put it on tomorrow's tab. Without that ability, they have to raise taxes to pay for their pet projects. Raising taxation is... uncomfortable... for a politician because it makes them directly accountable to their electorate.
Borrowing the money on the other hand just increases inflation and makes them accountable to the bankers... Who are largely part of the "military industrial complex"...
It's a feature of the fractional reserve monetary system...
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No, I just don't care about the scheme. It's ... economically insane ... I look forward to seeing the numbers of these things which hit eBay.
Do a black (or silver) one for businesses. With OO installed.
I want a name...
And address would be handy.
Is to wire the balls of whoever thought up the word "mashup" to the mains supply and to shock them until they repent and take it back.
Because.... ???
Look. Go whine somewhere else. You've made your bed, go lie in it.
LISP.
"You are now a class three citizen, your happiness level will be raised accordingly."
If $1 will buy everything you need for a day in China, and it takes $50 in the USA, who's getting ripped off?
You need to think about the nature of money a bit.
"In a carefully stage-managed meeting in Beijing with a senior Chinese official, which, unusually, was open to the media, Thomas Debrowski, Mattel's executive vice-president for worldwide operations, read out a prepared text that played down the role of Chinese factories in the recalls."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/99b42156-683a-11dc-b475-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=9c33700c-4c86-11da-89df-0000779e2340,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F99b42156-683a-11dc-b475-0000779fd2ac%2Cdwp_uuid%3D9c33700c-4c86-11da-89df-0000779e2340.html
So... Who needs who more?
Yeah, China will be on the moon before the USA.
It's a federal republican democracy with a capitalist economy... Has been for years.
Doesn't make it a good democracy, but then, the US can't exactly throw stones in that regard either.
There are various ways of storing heat over night.
e.g.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1982STIN...8323793C
You don't, you co-locate industries which might make use of the high temperature waste steam on site. Including things like adsorption chillers.
Then you pipe the rest of the heat as hot water to homes and businesses which want to use it for space or water heating.
Tell your "engineering friend" to look up "District Heating" on Wikipedia or Google. It's been in practice for more than a century and is widespread in places like Iceland, Denmark and New York.
They could increase their efficiency above the Carnot limit and also improve profitability.
Certainly part of the reason we've essentially gone backwards in our exploration of space over the last 30 years. The sooner it's broken the better.
Really. It wasn't until I used Windows and scanned a few machines that I realised just why personal firewalls appeared at all. Didn't occur to me that there would be so much exposed.
Each employee is NOT getting 83Gb of space on the SAN. They might get a few Gb for email. That space is used to store accounts, general business stuff, personal information, credit reports, market information, simulations etc primarily for data mining. Then of course it's replicated to several locations.
Well stop voting for authoritarian parties then.
Both Labour and the Conservatives think that government can solve all our problems. This amounts to them being in control. They are both authoritarian. The only major party in the UK which isn't, is the LibDems.
Yeah. Well you deserve what you get. I rarely buy on the high street these days. There's always someone willing to cut the margins to reasonable levels.
Basically adverts for bees.
Importing is another aspect.
If your economy starts importing stuff from the US in a major way, the Canadian dollar will also fall until the imbalance is removed. There's a tendency for trade to balance out unless like China, one currency is locked to a different rate than the other.
They have different problems but they do have problems. I assume the Boeing engineers know what they are.
Yeah, but epoxy/fibre boats suffer from "Boat Pox", where blisters form under the skin and the GRP delaminates. Now, if that happens in a fibre wing, I suspect there would be disastrous consequences.
Would you care to reassure me in some other way please?
It's largely down to the ability to borrow and spend given to politicians. They just put it on tomorrow's tab. Without that ability, they have to raise taxes to pay for their pet projects. Raising taxation is ... uncomfortable ... for a politician because it makes them directly accountable to their electorate.
Borrowing the money on the other hand just increases inflation and makes them accountable to the bankers... Who are largely part of the "military industrial complex"...
It's a feature of the fractional reserve monetary system...