Money is it. They need to have a return on investment, and since the life-cycle cost of buried cable is about 2-4x of overhead cables it would be difficult for them to recoup those costs without charging you all an extraordinary up-front connection fee. If your sub-division offered to pay up-front for the cabling costs I'm sure they would do it, but good luck getting the neighbors to sign on for that one.
In Massachusetts we do get a choice of the electric production company (but not the service provider), so unless they have cancelled this option for the particular Boston home owner above, I believe he still has a choice.
New England states have historically had a high price for electricity overall, but a large percentage of the cost is the supply charge which covers maintenance of the fragile "last mile" power lines.
A shelf company is a form of shell company, one that is formed and left idle (on the shelf) for later reuse after an aging period. All the shells I looked up were over 1 year old. I'm sure they have older ones in their available inventory.
Also the steppings at the low end of the sampling range are pretty course when you consider the energy level on the dB scale. The audio is sampled linearly, however it's energy can be interpreted as 20 * log10(iSample/iMaxVal), which you will see the stepping gets increasingly course as you get into the lower amplitudes, especially as you approach -60dB for 16-bit (relative to the 0dB maximum). The last 36dB from -60 to -96 is represented by only 32 values in 16 bit (just 5 bits). The same thing with 24 bit sampling would have 256 as many steps thanks to that extra 8 bits, so 8192 values instead of 32.
So yes, while 16-bits might theoretically have 96dB of range, in reality not all that range is really useful in terms of quality.
Geothermal systems can be used for cooling as well as heating. Depending on the design capacity of the system a traditional A/C system may not be needed or may only kick in on the hottest days.
Also the plan is for net zero, not zero every day.
There's usually an override for the ignition as well such as holding the start/stop for 3 seconds, but in a worst case scenario even that may not respond or more likely the driver doesn't know about it.
I call BS as well. Yes the ignition might be computer controlled, and yes the automatic transmission might be computer controlled, but the brake pedal will always work and will overpower the engine even if it running full power. There are exceptions of course, such as boiling the name fluid from long brake applications with not enough force.
Why cloud the situation with facts?:) Here's the interesting part: "Because the software is licensed, not sold, Microsoft reserves all rights (such as rights under intellectual property laws) not expressly granted in this agreement. In particular, this license does not give you any right to, and you may not: use or virtualize features of the software separately, publish, copy (other than the permitted backup copy), rent, lease, or lend the software; transfer the software (except as permitted by this agreement), attempt to circumvent technical protection measures in the software, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the software, except if the laws where you live permit this even when our agreement does not. In that case, you may do only what your law allows. " So by buying it you aren't actually buying it, you are long term leasing it. This way they can circumvent all usual consumer purchasing rights.
Was just going to ask that. I've had the same computer for 10 years by my own definition (the case). The operating system and pieces inside have changed many times.
Agreed. The Free Software Federation is set up to give legal advice and even can represent free software companies. At the very least they can point you to someone that can help.
Definitely one of the timeless ones (they do need to freshen the paint on the bridge though, it's been fading recently).
I always love visiting the MIT campus, you'll never know what you might find. I try not to gawk at the students, although sometimes they gawk at me since I look like a 40 year old student of MIT.
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Money is it. They need to have a return on investment, and since the life-cycle cost of buried cable is about 2-4x of overhead cables it would be difficult for them to recoup those costs without charging you all an extraordinary up-front connection fee. If your sub-division offered to pay up-front for the cabling costs I'm sure they would do it, but good luck getting the neighbors to sign on for that one.
In Massachusetts we do get a choice of the electric production company (but not the service provider), so unless they have cancelled this option for the particular Boston home owner above, I believe he still has a choice.
New England states have historically had a high price for electricity overall, but a large percentage of the cost is the supply charge which covers maintenance of the fragile "last mile" power lines.
A shelf company is a form of shell company, one that is formed and left idle (on the shelf) for later reuse after an aging period. All the shells I looked up were over 1 year old. I'm sure they have older ones in their available inventory.
Of the 1930 total applications, 307 are from a single company "Donuts" (donuts.co) using a boat load of Delaware shelf companies.
Hoard much?
This.
Also the steppings at the low end of the sampling range are pretty course when you consider the energy level on the dB scale. The audio is sampled linearly, however it's energy can be interpreted as 20 * log10(iSample/iMaxVal), which you will see the stepping gets increasingly course as you get into the lower amplitudes, especially as you approach -60dB for 16-bit (relative to the 0dB maximum). The last 36dB from -60 to -96 is represented by only 32 values in 16 bit (just 5 bits). The same thing with 24 bit sampling would have 256 as many steps thanks to that extra 8 bits, so 8192 values instead of 32.
So yes, while 16-bits might theoretically have 96dB of range, in reality not all that range is really useful in terms of quality.
Geothermal systems can be used for cooling as well as heating. Depending on the design capacity of the system a traditional A/C system may not be needed or may only kick in on the hottest days. Also the plan is for net zero, not zero every day.
Windows 9 will be Windows 8 with a selectable start menu. It will out-sell Windows 8 ten-fold.
When it comes to software or computing patents they apparently spend 90% of that allotted time by playing mine sweeper.
There's usually an override for the ignition as well such as holding the start/stop for 3 seconds, but in a worst case scenario even that may not respond or more likely the driver doesn't know about it.
I drove my old truck for a week with broken power steering. It was easy while moving, but was a real workout at low speed. Saved time at the gym!
I call BS as well. Yes the ignition might be computer controlled, and yes the automatic transmission might be computer controlled, but the brake pedal will always work and will overpower the engine even if it running full power. There are exceptions of course, such as boiling the name fluid from long brake applications with not enough force.
It's not sold, it is leased. That's how they avoid the law.
Why cloud the situation with facts? :) Here's the interesting part: "Because the software is licensed, not sold, Microsoft reserves all rights (such as rights under intellectual property laws) not expressly granted in this agreement. In particular, this license does not give you any right to, and you may not: use or virtualize features of the software separately, publish, copy (other than the permitted backup copy), rent, lease, or lend the software; transfer the software (except as permitted by this agreement), attempt to circumvent technical protection measures in the software, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the software, except if the laws where you live permit this even when our agreement does not. In that case, you may do only what your law allows. " So by buying it you aren't actually buying it, you are long term leasing it. This way they can circumvent all usual consumer purchasing rights.
I've got a few copies of Vista I'll sell to you really cheap ...
Was just going to ask that. I've had the same computer for 10 years by my own definition (the case). The operating system and pieces inside have changed many times.
Agreed. The Free Software Federation is set up to give legal advice and even can represent free software companies. At the very least they can point you to someone that can help.
They didn't feel guilty enough about their US tax evasion since "all the cool kids do it".
Definitely one of the timeless ones (they do need to freshen the paint on the bridge though, it's been fading recently).
I always love visiting the MIT campus, you'll never know what you might find. I try not to gawk at the students, although sometimes they gawk at me since I look like a 40 year old student of MIT.
You can see more hacks in the gallery.
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/
Google does the conversion if you ask, but it's definition of AU is rounded off. Google "1 au in smoots".