This is a flawed analogy. A more accurate one would be "You shouldn't allow the user to empty the oil, it should only be allowed by authorized Ford service agents." That's basically what the folks who are blaming MS want.
Wish I could mod this up. Baxter's stuff blend real science with sci-fi so well it's amazing. Evolution is certainly fine, but the Manifold series is great as well. I was sold when there was even a discussion about why gold is actually gold in color (look it up sometime, it's fascinating).
Um. Sorry to burst your self-righteous bubble, but TaxCut did indeed ask for property tax paid separate from a 1098 (ie. you're not using escrow). I haven't had any problem doing this for all the years I've used Taxcut (switched from TurboTax after their activation crap).
No, these probes were never to have RTGs as they were part of the "better, faster, cheaper" initiative. RTGs are many things, but they're not cheap. Additionally, the sun is strong enough for solar to work well on Mars as they latest landers have shown. RTGs are better suited for deep space missions like Cassini where you'd never be able to use solar and batteries wouldn't have the lifespan in the harsh cold.
That said, the Cassini protest got real press, even 60 Minutes did a piece. The main issue with it was that Cassini was using the Earth to slingshot its way to Saturn, and the anti-nuke wingnuts were concerned it'd crash during that maneuver.
As I said, torch lamps, they're very much rated for 150-watt. Obviously you wouldn't use those bulbs in an enclosed lamp.
The problem I still see with all the recommended replacements is the "soft white" or "warm" that seems to accompany them all. As to the guy who said "look harder", I guess I should have qualified that I'm looking for something I can buy locally, not off Amazon or elsewhere. I'd like to try to light to see if I like it and return it if not. Home Depot / Lowes, etc. can do this, online cannot. And at those local stores I've yet to see high-wattage replacements.
The highest I've seen readily available replace 100-watt bulbs, which is close, but not quite what I want. The more important issue is that as I mentioned they're clear bulbs, not "soft white". I've yet to see a CF have the equivilent spectrum.
Even in the case of the 100-watt CF bulbs, they're using 27-watts. So let's assume 40-watts for a 150 replacement. This reduces my 3x150-watts=450 to 3x40=120. Let's assume I use the lights 8 hours a day (overstatement, but let's assume maximum). This means I save 2.6KWH each day, which at about 10 cents per KWH means a savings of just over 26 cents a day, or about $95/year. Not bad, but unless the light quality is the same, not exactly enough to motivate me to jump out and buy them either.
I understand the sentiment. My large master-bathroom has 12x40 = 480 watts which is indeed quite bright, but realistically, that's on maybe an hour a day at most.
In the case of the 150-watts I mention, we're using 3 of them to light 3 total rooms, so 450-watts for 3 rooms, which I don't really consider excessive seeing as it's on the order of 350 square feet.
I ask this in all seriousness. In my house, the lights that are on the most are 150-watt clear torch lamps. There are no CF equivilents to that. The lights that are on second longest are outdoor floodlights, which again aren't suitable for CF.
The only "standard" 60-watt white bulbs I use are in my kitchen fixtures and are turned on maybe an hour a day at most.
Do other people have that many lamps that use standard 60-watt bulbs that can therefore be replaced?
They weren't necessarily preempted, but where I lived, they didn't air at regular times. Many of those episodes aired at times like 1:37 AM, etc. I TiVo'd it, so I didn't care, but I can see why other folks wouldn't watch it.
As for the out of order thing, Fox spent a lot of money and time advertiisng scenes from the Pilot that they then didn't show as the first episode. Yes, we could all figure out what's going on, but for the "general public", advertising something you don't show doesn't help.
As I recall the story picks up something like 9 months after the series (presumably after the episodes that weren't shown on Fox but were on DVD). Supposedly it blends stories so that newbies can watch it, but us dedicated Firefly freaks will be well rewarded for the wait.
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You're right, it's an unrealistic expectation right now, but to me that would be the price point that made me pull the trigger.
As always, pricing is a balance.
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It's just you. I thought about getting the mini back in December when it was about that price. However, I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
$99 for the 4GB mini, $150 for the 6 is about where the price should be IMHO. I know this is where they priced the shuffle instead, but to me that's horribly overpriced for a device/w no controls.
Presumably his state taxes works like North Carolina's does. If you do not keep all of your receipts, there's an option that allows you to use their estimate, which is something like 0.07% of your gross income.
So for instance, if you make $50,000 a year, you pay $35 in out of state "use tax".
You could argue that it's unfair for some, but for the majority of Slashdot readers, I suspect this is actually an underpayment. None the less, it's a perfectly legal way to fill out the tax forms.
A computer, at night even/w the monitor "on" will probably draw about 100W of power tops. This assumes the monitor is energy star compliant and goes into a typical sleep state and that your PC isn't running some CPU intensive task, so at the very least cut your numbers to 20% and you get $400/month for the 100 machine scenario. This isn't nothing, but you're better off convincing people not to take clients to expensive dinners.
The answer is yes, it would have been much more money. Any such orbiter would have had to have a high gain transmitter to send data back to Earth and all associated navigational aids to turn to/from Titan and Earth.
As it turns out our ground based scopes seem to be doing better than anticipated, so there might not be much data loss afterall.
Laptops (and other electronics) are also banned during takeoff/landing because these are the two most dangerous portions of the flight, and they don't want your laptops flying around the cabin in the event of an emergency.
Excepting of course, that you're wrong. Cassini violated no treaties because it's not using a nuclear reactor, it's using an RTG generator. This means that the plutonium is decaying, and in the process creating heat. This heat is used to generate electricity. There is, however, no fission reactor like you'd find in a power plant. This technology has been in use since the 1960s.
The 72 pounds of plutonium were also encased in a storage device that is designed not to break apart in the case of explosion. This was verified both through testing and through the fact that at least one other probe using the same technology actually did have a catastrophic failure and the RTG returned to Earth intact.
Now, I guess we could argue this point, but it's one of those things where either you trust engineering or you don't, but if you don't trust engineering and science, there are a heck of a lot of things you should be worrying more about than Cassini.
Alas, the terms by which Universal picked up the movie rights from Fox prohibt them from making a TV show for a good long while. However, they have committed to making 2 more movies if the first one does well.
The movie ("Serenity") is in post production, and will come out 4/22/2005. The decision by which Universal will judge success is primarily opening weekend box office numbers.
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This is a flawed analogy. A more accurate one would be "You shouldn't allow the user to empty the oil, it should only be allowed by authorized Ford service agents." That's basically what the folks who are blaming MS want.
Wish I could mod this up. Baxter's stuff blend real science with sci-fi so well it's amazing. Evolution is certainly fine, but the Manifold series is great as well. I was sold when there was even a discussion about why gold is actually gold in color (look it up sometime, it's fascinating).
Where can I get that for $10/month/user? I like the concept of hosted Exchange, but haven't seen it that cheap.
Um. Sorry to burst your self-righteous bubble, but TaxCut did indeed ask for property tax paid separate from a 1098 (ie. you're not using escrow). I haven't had any problem doing this for all the years I've used Taxcut (switched from TurboTax after their activation crap).
No, these probes were never to have RTGs as they were part of the "better, faster, cheaper" initiative. RTGs are many things, but they're not cheap. Additionally, the sun is strong enough for solar to work well on Mars as they latest landers have shown. RTGs are better suited for deep space missions like Cassini where you'd never be able to use solar and batteries wouldn't have the lifespan in the harsh cold.
That said, the Cassini protest got real press, even 60 Minutes did a piece. The main issue with it was that Cassini was using the Earth to slingshot its way to Saturn, and the anti-nuke wingnuts were concerned it'd crash during that maneuver.
As I said, torch lamps, they're very much rated for 150-watt. Obviously you wouldn't use those bulbs in an enclosed lamp.
The problem I still see with all the recommended replacements is the "soft white" or "warm" that seems to accompany them all. As to the guy who said "look harder", I guess I should have qualified that I'm looking for something I can buy locally, not off Amazon or elsewhere. I'd like to try to light to see if I like it and return it if not. Home Depot / Lowes, etc. can do this, online cannot. And at those local stores I've yet to see high-wattage replacements.
The highest I've seen readily available replace 100-watt bulbs, which is close, but not quite what I want. The more important issue is that as I mentioned they're clear bulbs, not "soft white". I've yet to see a CF have the equivilent spectrum.
Even in the case of the 100-watt CF bulbs, they're using 27-watts. So let's assume 40-watts for a 150 replacement. This reduces my 3x150-watts=450 to 3x40=120. Let's assume I use the lights 8 hours a day (overstatement, but let's assume maximum). This means I save 2.6KWH each day, which at about 10 cents per KWH means a savings of just over 26 cents a day, or about $95/year. Not bad, but unless the light quality is the same, not exactly enough to motivate me to jump out and buy them either.
I understand the sentiment. My large master-bathroom has 12x40 = 480 watts which is indeed quite bright, but realistically, that's on maybe an hour a day at most.
In the case of the 150-watts I mention, we're using 3 of them to light 3 total rooms, so 450-watts for 3 rooms, which I don't really consider excessive seeing as it's on the order of 350 square feet.
I ask this in all seriousness. In my house, the lights that are on the most are 150-watt clear torch lamps. There are no CF equivilents to that. The lights that are on second longest are outdoor floodlights, which again aren't suitable for CF.
The only "standard" 60-watt white bulbs I use are in my kitchen fixtures and are turned on maybe an hour a day at most.
Do other people have that many lamps that use standard 60-watt bulbs that can therefore be replaced?
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Nope. Hawaii is 5 hours behind when it's EST, 6 hours behind in EDT.
They weren't necessarily preempted, but where I lived, they didn't air at regular times. Many of those episodes aired at times like 1:37 AM, etc. I TiVo'd it, so I didn't care, but I can see why other folks wouldn't watch it.
As for the out of order thing, Fox spent a lot of money and time advertiisng scenes from the Pilot that they then didn't show as the first episode. Yes, we could all figure out what's going on, but for the "general public", advertising something you don't show doesn't help.
So for $400 I can buy some hardware and install some software on my PC that's nowhere near my TV? How does that make Tivo irrelevant again?
No, the movie is not a rehash.
As I recall the story picks up something like 9 months after the series (presumably after the episodes that weren't shown on Fox but were on DVD). Supposedly it blends stories so that newbies can watch it, but us dedicated Firefly freaks will be well rewarded for the wait.
You're right, it's an unrealistic expectation right now, but to me that would be the price point that made me pull the trigger.
As always, pricing is a balance.
It's just you. I thought about getting the mini back in December when it was about that price. However, I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
/w no controls.
$99 for the 4GB mini, $150 for the 6 is about where the price should be IMHO. I know this is where they priced the shuffle instead, but to me that's horribly overpriced for a device
Presumably his state taxes works like North Carolina's does. If you do not keep all of your receipts, there's an option that allows you to use their estimate, which is something like 0.07% of your gross income.
So for instance, if you make $50,000 a year, you pay $35 in out of state "use tax".
You could argue that it's unfair for some, but for the majority of Slashdot readers, I suspect this is actually an underpayment. None the less, it's a perfectly legal way to fill out the tax forms.
Except that your assumption is faulty.
/w the monitor "on" will probably draw about 100W of power tops. This assumes the monitor is energy star compliant and goes into a typical sleep state and that your PC isn't running some CPU intensive task, so at the very least cut your numbers to 20% and you get $400/month for the 100 machine scenario. This isn't nothing, but you're better off convincing people not to take clients to expensive dinners.
A computer, at night even
Wish I had mod points, this one is a very clever reference.
The answer is yes, it would have been much more money. Any such orbiter would have had to have a high gain transmitter to send data back to Earth and all associated navigational aids to turn to/from Titan and Earth.
As it turns out our ground based scopes seem to be doing better than anticipated, so there might not be much data loss afterall.
Laptops (and other electronics) are also banned during takeoff/landing because these are the two most dangerous portions of the flight, and they don't want your laptops flying around the cabin in the event of an emergency.
I was thinking of mounting an IPod or a mini-IPod in my car as a quickie MP3 solution.
However, one essential piece of the puzzle would be to power the device externally.
Since neither of the devices seems to have a power jack on it (which seems odd to me), does anyone have any suggestions on accomplishing my goal?
Having never seen an IPod charger (yes I live in a cave on Mars), is it a cradle or does it just charge over a USB trickle or what?
Well this is true, but not for the reason you say.
First off, Fox sold the movie rights to Universal, who in turn made the movie.
However, part of the deal was that Universal couldn't create a TV series from the movie within X number of years (where X is undisclosed).
None the less, Universal has more or less talked about making a trilogy if Serenity does well, particularly on opening weekend.
Excepting of course, that you're wrong. Cassini violated no treaties because it's not using a nuclear reactor, it's using an RTG generator. This means that the plutonium is decaying, and in the process creating heat. This heat is used to generate electricity. There is, however, no fission reactor like you'd find in a power plant. This technology has been in use since the 1960s.
The 72 pounds of plutonium were also encased in a storage device that is designed not to break apart in the case of explosion. This was verified both through testing and through the fact that at least one other probe using the same technology actually did have a catastrophic failure and the RTG returned to Earth intact.
Now, I guess we could argue this point, but it's one of those things where either you trust engineering or you don't, but if you don't trust engineering and science, there are a heck of a lot of things you should be worrying more about than Cassini.
Alas, the terms by which Universal picked up the movie rights from Fox prohibt them from making a TV show for a good long while. However, they have committed to making 2 more movies if the first one does well.
The movie ("Serenity") is in post production, and will come out 4/22/2005. The decision by which Universal will judge success is primarily opening weekend box office numbers.