The added support cost was in staffing and phones. The phone issue was solved by the customer getting VOIP lines with US numbers. The staffing never was. You see people in the UK start work a lot earlier than the US so we had to increase staffing at that hour.
After two back to back hurricanes 3 weeks apart I got an generator. It could not run my ac but I did at least have fans. Not having to store lots of gas and and not having to worry about CO would make it a real winner for me. If it is small enough and light enough you could even replace the engine in plug in hybrids with one.
At the company I used to work for we ran into this but in reverse. A company in South Africa wanted to buy our software but they didn't want to pay the same as in the US they said it was too expensive for the market. The issue was that it was a lot more expensive for us to support customers outside the US and Canada than in the US and Canada. In the end they paid the same as everyone else. And yes we charged everyone he same rate but some nations really wanted us to take a lot less.
Wow so negative. Imagine this as a generator replacement. They already burn hydrocarbons. I would love one for Hurricane season here in South FL. No fire hazard or less of one than a gas generator. No CO issue. No noise.
"If they were unhappy, they would have walked in one direction long enough to "discover" others. Leave them be."
Yes we need to protect them. It is our responsibility to keep them safe from the modern world. We all know that they just could not handle knowing about rest of the world, science, and technology. It is our responsibility to protect them like innocent children or some endangered wild animal. Kipling would be proud of how take responsibility for your burden.
I suggest you look at the costs pr KWh and you will see that those are the facts. Wind does beat coal but not gas. Solar because of generation does not match peak use and a lack of storage tech, is nothing but a green dog and pony show for most uses. Now for remote locations and other uses it is great but for baseload generation it is still JNGE.
" The Old-School Nuke industry wants to keep their Dyno-Reactors until they blow up, Literally. It's WAAAY too profitable to be the sole-source for solid reactor fuel." what a load of dingo's kidneys The US has invested almost nothing in civilian reactor design for decades and has built no new plants in decades. The DOE has no money to work on a LFTR and natural gas is so dirt cheap now nuclear can not complete. Solar also can not complete except as a "look what we are doing project". Wind is doing better but still can not really compete with cheap gas. With out the DOE willing to fund it the LFTR will sit on the shelf in the US.
Frankly I am well educated in aviation, chemistry, physics, and computer science. I am terrified by the fact that new services almost always get really stupid things wrong like Newsweek saying that Earhart ran out of jet fuel! If they get that wrong how much other stuff is just wrong that I am not an educated in? I mean that is a simple fact that anybody could check just by looking at the picture of her plane! As far as my sanity... Well that is a matter of opinion.
Actually all the news services said that it "exploded" and most blamed the engine. It was funny because when I heard this at work I was surprised since I could not figure out how a hybrid rocket could "explode". Lots of ways it could fail but explode did not make a lot of sense to me. A co worker said, "well I guess it can". I guess I should always trust my physics and chemistry classes over reporters.
Because you do not need to be anywhere near orbital velocities for friction to be an issue. The SR-71 cruises at around 1/9th orbital velocity and had a lot of heat issues to deal with. It needs the foldable tail to create a stable, high drag configuration to get it safely down to denser air.
The Amiga had the same CPU, better audio and graphics than the ST. The ST was a much better machine than the PC at the time and honestly the Mac. The issue that both the Amiga and ST had was IMHO they where not designed well for business. The Amiga 1000 should have had a slot for an HD controller and 512mb on the motherboard with sockets for another 512mb of ram. The ST was built as a "home" computer and also lacked a lot of the expansion that was needed to make it a real business machine. Businesses wanted a machine that you put on your desk not one with a bunch of external boxes of stuff like hard drives. The Amiga was also badly hurt by Borland when they failed to deliver TurboPascal for it like they promised at launch. Two great machines that failed because of marketing. Commodore and Atari should have really pushed for Lotus,Borland, Aston-Tate, and other PC software makers to port to the Amiga and ST.
"You can't just spin a hunk of Uranium on a CNC lathe and get the shape you want. " Actually yes you can. Uranium is not all that radioactive. It is about as dangerous as lead to work with. A good shop vac and good mask and shower would be all you really need.
At the time it was the only way to make a computer at the price and performance of the Amiga. Also at the time no one knew the future. Windows 95 was a decade away. Windows was a bad joke. Mac OS was stuck in black and white and at a price point well beyond the Amiga and ST. One does wonder what have happened if the Amiga was based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... instead of Tripos.
Actually I had an Amiga and it was a better system but I still thought the ST was cool. It was the PC that sucked and still won. BTW before anyone goes of how the PC was open when the Amiga launched you had 286s, running MS-Dos that limited you to 640 of real memory with out a lot of tricks and a 33mb partition limit on hard drives. Oh and the OS did not handle graphics, printing, or audio. If you wanted to do any of those you had to do it all yourself. Every program had to have a bunch of printer drivers to print and you just usually hoped that your printer could emulate an epson, Okidata, or Diablo printer.
CP/M was written for hobbyists. PIP was from a time when even floppy disks were uncommon. As far as ease of use CP/M beat the daylight out of toggle switches. The issue is that once CP/M became mainstream it was going to be hard to change the syntax. Kind of like MS-DOS using \ for paths and / for switches.
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NXP making a secure element for any OS is about as shocking as nVidia making a GPU.
That is what they do.
Yes. It was targeted to specific industry and ran 4k a seat.
But at least we charged the same to everyone.
We also had to change the spell checker to UK spellings.
The added support cost was in staffing and phones. The phone issue was solved by the customer getting VOIP lines with US numbers. The staffing never was. You see people in the UK start work a lot earlier than the US so we had to increase staffing at that hour.
ANd how much more is the Tesla the the 328x? They w
ere more in the 6 range last time I looked.
After two back to back hurricanes 3 weeks apart I got an generator. It could not run my ac but I did at least have fans. Not having to store lots of gas and and not having to worry about CO would make it a real winner for me. If it is small enough and light enough you could even replace the engine in plug in hybrids with one.
At the company I used to work for we ran into this but in reverse.
A company in South Africa wanted to buy our software but they didn't want to pay the same as in the US they said it was too expensive for the market.
The issue was that it was a lot more expensive for us to support customers outside the US and Canada than in the US and Canada. In the end they paid the same as everyone else.
And yes we charged everyone he same rate but some nations really wanted us to take a lot less.
I don't think it was Zalman but Moneual that got the loans. They own Zalman
Not if you are using biodiesel.
Wow so negative. Imagine this as a generator replacement. They already burn hydrocarbons. I would love one for Hurricane season here in South FL. No fire hazard or less of one than a gas generator. No CO issue. No noise.
"If they were unhappy, they would have walked in one direction long enough to "discover" others. Leave them be."
Yes we need to protect them. It is our responsibility to keep them safe from the modern world. We all know that they just could not handle knowing about rest of the world, science, and technology. It is our responsibility to protect them like innocent children or some endangered wild animal.
Kipling would be proud of how take responsibility for your burden.
I suggest you look at the costs pr KWh and you will see that those are the facts. Wind does beat coal but not gas. Solar because of generation does not match peak use and a lack of storage tech, is nothing but a green dog and pony show for most uses. Now for remote locations and other uses it is great but for baseload generation it is still JNGE.
Almost no casual programer uses functional languages and do not tend to be used for large FOSS projects.
You shall be missed.
" The Old-School Nuke industry wants to keep their Dyno-Reactors until they blow up, Literally. It's WAAAY too profitable to be the sole-source for solid reactor fuel."
what a load of dingo's kidneys
The US has invested almost nothing in civilian reactor design for decades and has built no new plants in decades.
The DOE has no money to work on a LFTR and natural gas is so dirt cheap now nuclear can not complete. Solar also can not complete except as a "look what we are doing project". Wind is doing better but still can not really compete with cheap gas.
With out the DOE willing to fund it the LFTR will sit on the shelf in the US.
"But when I remember correctly the Uranium content of the best ton of uranium ore was about 0,3%."
Sigh...
It is not even uranium you need but uranium 235 or uranium 233 but that is even more difficult to get.
Frankly I am well educated in aviation, chemistry, physics, and computer science.
I am terrified by the fact that new services almost always get really stupid things wrong like Newsweek saying that Earhart ran out of jet fuel! If they get that wrong how much other stuff is just wrong that I am not an educated in? I mean that is a simple fact that anybody could check just by looking at the picture of her plane!
As far as my sanity... Well that is a matter of opinion.
Actually all the news services said that it "exploded" and most blamed the engine.
It was funny because when I heard this at work I was surprised since I could not figure out how a hybrid rocket could "explode". Lots of ways it could fail but explode did not make a lot of sense to me.
A co worker said, "well I guess it can".
I guess I should always trust my physics and chemistry classes over reporters.
Because you do not need to be anywhere near orbital velocities for friction to be an issue. The SR-71 cruises at around 1/9th orbital velocity and had a lot of heat issues to deal with.
It needs the foldable tail to create a stable, high drag configuration to get it safely down to denser air.
The Amiga had the same CPU, better audio and graphics than the ST. The ST was a much better machine than the PC at the time and honestly the Mac.
The issue that both the Amiga and ST had was IMHO they where not designed well for business.
The Amiga 1000 should have had a slot for an HD controller and 512mb on the motherboard with sockets for another 512mb of ram.
The ST was built as a "home" computer and also lacked a lot of the expansion that was needed to make it a real business machine. Businesses wanted a machine that you put on your desk not one with a bunch of external boxes of stuff like hard drives.
The Amiga was also badly hurt by Borland when they failed to deliver TurboPascal for it like they promised at launch.
Two great machines that failed because of marketing.
Commodore and Atari should have really pushed for Lotus,Borland, Aston-Tate, and other PC software makers to port to the Amiga and ST.
"You can't just spin a hunk of Uranium on a CNC lathe and get the shape you want. "
Actually yes you can. Uranium is not all that radioactive. It is about as dangerous as lead to work with.
A good shop vac and good mask and shower would be all you really need.
At the time it was the only way to make a computer at the price and performance of the Amiga. Also at the time no one knew the future. Windows 95 was a decade away. Windows was a bad joke. Mac OS was stuck in black and white and at a price point well beyond the Amiga and ST.
One does wonder what have happened if the Amiga was based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... instead of Tripos.
Actually that statement is 100% correct since the definition of a reliable server is one that does not crash.
Emacs, Amiga, Motorola, ascii.
Actually I had an Amiga and it was a better system but I still thought the ST was cool. It was the PC that sucked and still won. BTW before anyone goes of how the PC was open when the Amiga launched you had 286s, running MS-Dos that limited you to 640 of real memory with out a lot of tricks and a 33mb partition limit on hard drives.
Oh and the OS did not handle graphics, printing, or audio. If you wanted to do any of those you had to do it all yourself. Every program had to have a bunch of printer drivers to print and you just usually hoped that your printer could emulate an epson, Okidata, or Diablo printer.
CP/M was written for hobbyists. PIP was from a time when even floppy disks were uncommon. As far as ease of use CP/M beat the daylight out of toggle switches. The issue is that once CP/M became mainstream it was going to be hard to change the syntax. Kind of like MS-DOS using \ for paths and / for switches.