It gets worse if you do an energy balance: According to the DOE (Table 1), municipal waste contains less than 12e6 BTU/Ton, so your 100 TPD waste stream will contain 1.2 E9 BTU tops.
Disregarding electrical output:
Naptha; 1,240 Gal @118700 BTU/Gal = 1.47E8 BTU Kerosene: 3400 Gal @134000 BTU/Gal = 4.56E8 BTU Diesel: 6900 Gal @129500 BTU/Gal = 8.94E8 BTU Fuel Oil: 3000 Gal @145000 BTU/Gal = 4.35E8 BTU Total Output: 1.93E9 BTU
So, either they have some energy input they're not telling us about, or it's a scam.
Could be the keyboards too, I find that since I went back to using Model M style keyboards, I'm much more productive.
Is that due to the keyboard's mechanics, or simply to the fact that you know that everyone in your office can tell when you're slacking because they can't hear the loud clicks?
FWIW, I share the Model M fetish, typing on a Unicomp now. Thrift stores can be a good source of cheap Model Ms as well.
Well Google has a track record of mining every bit of data about you. Even to the point of hiring contractors to take pictures of your house (from the "street" of course).
Bing maps has street view now too, on its beta version. It has a lot less coverage than Google's at this time.
The beta version uses Silverlight, and it doesn't seem to like moonlight, so at least you're safe from the prying eyes of linux users.
Maybe with EU on board we'll see handsets for the US market meeting the standard without having to wait forever while the US carriers get their shit together.
Don't forget that when you buy a Kindle book you cannot lend, sell, or give it away. If you purchase an interesting book for your Kindle and your wife wants to read it, she'll have to buy her own copy or borrow your entire Kindle.
Seems to me that this severely reduces the value of eBooks, so they should really cost about 1/3 - 1/2 of the paperback price to make up for it.
They are buying it from you at market rate. They're selling it to you at retail though. The local coal plant gets like 3 cents per kwh, while I pay 10.
That really depends on what your states PUC rules are. Some states use net metering which amounts to the meter running "backwards" in that you get full credit for all the power you put in against what you have to get out of the grid at night/on cloudy days. If you provide more power than you consume then it varies by state if you get wholesale credit or something else.
Compare this to being "off the grid". In that case any excess generation is simply lost, not to mention the capital cost of a battery bank. Of course, with net metering you are still vulnerable to power failures.
> So if the pricing of the eBooks reflects the reduction in production costs, > it might be far cheaper
Keep dreaming. Read any forum about eBooks, and the #1 thing everyone complains about endlessly is the fact that they're usually the same cost as the printed book... maybe, MAYBE a buck less... if you're lucky. By the time the eBook price goes down, the paperback edition is already in the 70% off pile at Borders.
That's my main bitch about eBooks. You lose the ability to sell or lend your copy, and yet you pay nearly as much as a dead-tree copy for something with nearly zero reproduction costs.
IMO an eBook should cost about 1/3 of a physical copy to make up for these losses.
Exactly. If only they had a halfway affordable price. The newest Sony Reader also has a touch screen but even it clocks in at $400 which is way too rich for my blood.
I used to work in the college textbook industry, and there was a constant background drum from the book publishers talking about switching everything to eBooks.
They're probably hoping to dry up the used textbook market.
However, all the students that I ever asked about it were very much in favor of being able to fold down corners, draw in the margins, use highlighers, etc.
It seems to me that this would be where eBooks would shine. Add a stylus to the reader and now all of your annotations, bookmarks, etc can be indexed and easily searchable. Add to this the obvious weight advantage and eBook texts start looking pretty good.
I have one of those Kill A Watt devices. I discovered leaving the TV turned on is no worse than a ~70 watt lightbulb. Not a big deal. (Figure 60 cents a month.)
In fact, if you ask me, it should be installed to anything including Virtual machines.
You actually bring up a good use case for a process-limited starter edition. When I fire up an XP VM on my linux box it is generally because I want to use some specific application.
If MSFT sold a starter edition to the general public cheap enough I'd probably bite. Not much danger of that happening, though.
In English, giga is pronounced with a hard-g (as in "giggling girls give gifts"). Check the Oxford English dictionary, or any other English dictionary if you don't believe me.
Got one right here, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language Copyright 1989 (More or less contemporaneous with BTTF) page 597 has gigacycle, gigahertz, gigaelecron volt and gigameter (But no gigawatt). All starting jig- with alternate pronunciations for a long or short "i" sound.
You're required to accept cash as payment for an existing debt, but there's nothing to stop you from walking away from a potential buyer if you don't want him to pay in cash.
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It gets worse if you do an energy balance:
According to the DOE (Table 1), municipal waste contains less than 12e6 BTU/Ton, so your 100 TPD waste stream will contain 1.2 E9 BTU tops.
Disregarding electrical output:
Naptha; 1,240 Gal @118700 BTU/Gal = 1.47E8 BTU
Kerosene: 3400 Gal @134000 BTU/Gal = 4.56E8 BTU
Diesel: 6900 Gal @129500 BTU/Gal = 8.94E8 BTU
Fuel Oil: 3000 Gal @145000 BTU/Gal = 4.35E8 BTU
Total Output: 1.93E9 BTU
So, either they have some energy input they're not telling us about, or it's a scam.
Could be the keyboards too, I find that since I went back to using Model M style keyboards, I'm much more productive.
Is that due to the keyboard's mechanics, or simply to the fact that you know that everyone in your office can tell when you're slacking because they can't hear the loud clicks?
FWIW, I share the Model M fetish, typing on a Unicomp now. Thrift stores can be a good source of cheap Model Ms as well.
Well Google has a track record of mining every bit of data about you. Even to the point of hiring contractors to take pictures of your house (from the "street" of course).
Bing maps has street view now too, on its beta version. It has a lot less coverage than Google's at this time.
The beta version uses Silverlight, and it doesn't seem to like moonlight, so at least you're safe from the prying eyes of linux users.
Warning:
Persons denying the existence of robots may be robots themselves!
FWIW, I'm glad you're not a developer anymore, too!
China mandated micro-USB charging sockets in December 2006, so the EU is just falling in line. Yawn.
And South Korea did so a year earlier.
Maybe with EU on board we'll see handsets for the US market meeting the standard without having to wait forever while the US carriers get their shit together.
I can't hear you!
Wouldn't that be a mebibotnet.
Mebibotnet, Mebibotnet... Now that just rolls off the tongue!
Scott Carrier made a very interesting argument that humans are exceptional distance runners a decade or so ago on This American Life.
This episode which you are referring to is here.
Inside Adobe Reader (version 8 at least) under Tools|Preferences|Internet uncheck "Display PDF in browser" in the "Web Browser Options" group.
It's not obvious, but if you hold down the control key while mousing text is selected and automatically copied to the clip board.
Once you get used to it this is actually quite convenient.
It's not really a deal-breaker for me, as long as the DRM eBook purchase price was discounted enough to make up for it. I'm not seeing that now.
IMO, that point would be about 1/3 to 1/2 of the paperback price.
Don't forget that when you buy a Kindle book you cannot lend, sell, or give it away. If you purchase an interesting book for your Kindle and your wife wants to read it, she'll have to buy her own copy or borrow your entire Kindle.
Seems to me that this severely reduces the value of eBooks, so they should really cost about 1/3 - 1/2 of the paperback price to make up for it.
I smell a new volume unit: The gym bag.
No, that's just your sneakers in there.
They are buying it from you at market rate. They're selling it to you at retail though. The local coal plant gets like 3 cents per kwh, while I pay 10.
That really depends on what your states PUC rules are. Some states use net metering which amounts to the meter running "backwards" in that you get full credit for all the power you put in against what you have to get out of the grid at night/on cloudy days. If you provide more power than you consume then it varies by state if you get wholesale credit or something else.
Compare this to being "off the grid". In that case any excess generation is simply lost, not to mention the capital cost of a battery bank. Of course, with net metering you are still vulnerable to power failures.
A horse in my wallet, now and today, that is what impresses me, really.
I dunno, any horse manages to keep a copy in the nucleus of each of its cells.
> So if the pricing of the eBooks reflects the reduction in production costs,
> it might be far cheaper
Keep dreaming. Read any forum about eBooks, and the #1 thing everyone complains about endlessly is the fact that they're usually the same cost as the printed book... maybe, MAYBE a buck less... if you're lucky. By the time the eBook price goes down, the paperback edition is already in the 70% off pile at Borders.
That's my main bitch about eBooks. You lose the ability to sell or lend your copy, and yet you pay nearly as much as a dead-tree copy for something with nearly zero reproduction costs.
IMO an eBook should cost about 1/3 of a physical copy to make up for these losses.
Fat chance of that happening.
Exactly. If only they had a halfway affordable price. The newest Sony Reader also has a touch screen but even it clocks in at $400 which is way too rich for my blood.
I used to work in the college textbook industry, and there was a constant background drum from the book publishers talking about switching everything to eBooks.
They're probably hoping to dry up the used textbook market.
However, all the students that I ever asked about it were very much in favor of being able to fold down corners, draw in the margins, use highlighers, etc.
It seems to me that this would be where eBooks would shine. Add a stylus to the reader and now all of your annotations, bookmarks, etc can be indexed and easily searchable. Add to this the obvious weight advantage and eBook texts start looking pretty good.
I have one of those Kill A Watt devices. I discovered leaving the TV turned on is no worse than a ~70 watt lightbulb. Not a big deal. (Figure 60 cents a month.)
Lessee here...
70 W * 24Hr/Day * 30 days/month* .001 kW/W = 50.4 kWh / month
Damn, you're only paying 1.2 cents per kwh?
In fact, if you ask me, it should be installed to anything including Virtual machines.
You actually bring up a good use case for a process-limited starter edition. When I fire up an XP VM on my linux box it is generally because I want to use some specific application.
If MSFT sold a starter edition to the general public cheap enough I'd probably bite. Not much danger of that happening, though.
In English, giga is pronounced with a hard-g (as in "giggling girls give gifts"). Check the Oxford English dictionary, or any other English dictionary if you don't believe me.
Got one right here, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language Copyright 1989 (More or less contemporaneous with BTTF) page 597 has gigacycle, gigahertz, gigaelecron volt and gigameter (But no gigawatt). All starting jig- with alternate pronunciations for a long or short "i" sound.
Now get off my lawn!
Gigawatt is correctly pronounced jiggawatt. And it's 10^9 watts, not 2^20.
Damn kids.
You're required to accept cash as payment for an existing debt, but there's nothing to stop you from walking away from a potential buyer if you don't want him to pay in cash.
Curse you, stomv!
I couldn't resist clicking the little stars.
The shiny, candy-like stars...