One of the big factors here is the licensing costs for DD and DTS. The terms for licensing those codecs are pretty harsh and can apply to a per device cost to all devices a manufacturer sells.
To date, all GM Electric cars have only supported 3.3kW Level 2 charging. Do you think 3.3kW charging plus CCS quick charging is sufficient for longer-range vehicles that might be used for road trips, like the forthcoming Bolt?
GM has been in-sourcing the production of many of the key components of their electric vehicles in recent years. What have the benefits and successes been of using that approach?
The -22F is not a problem, as long as the car is plugged in when left for prolonged periods. At well above that temperature, the battery management system will kick in and heat the battery to keep it within safe temperatures. Now, technically, they could probably disclaim coverage for that, but it seems unlikely if the battery management system does what it's supposed to do.
The $15k charge is a theoretical charge back-calculated from insurance settlements. It does not include any core rebate for returning the old drive train. Since no owner has owned the car for even the current 4 year warranty, we have no information on what Tesla would charge for a drive train replacement, swap or any other non-accident generated repair.
Tape is valuable when you want true off-line backup, that's not connected to a system or powered on at all. Yes, you can do cold backups on hard drives, but they're more likely to fail when restarted after 6 months or longer.
The thing is, if you want, you can setup MUDWiki that has all of this data for all of the great MUDs going back into time. Once you have that site, you can add it as a prominent link on the Wikipedia MUD page. Wikipedia doesn't have to contain every piece of information itself.
The one thing I will note about rackmount servers is that they are all very noisy. For home installation, a desktop chassis will nearly always fit your needs and will be much quieter and more power-efficient than a rackmount. I recently replaced my home server with about $850 in parts from newegg. If you're interested in making a quiet desktop, take a look at SilentPCReview.
If you're set on a rackmount server, I've been very happy with Silicon Mechanics, but their cheapest machine is still ~$1000.
I know Amazon has been really bad in communicating this, but you can copy non-proprietary formats to the Kindle for free. TXT files are supported natively, and most other files can be converted to Mobipocket files (.mobi) by the Mobipocket conversion tools. Once you have either a TXT or.MOBI file, you can copy it to the Kindle over the supplied USB cable. The $.10 transfer fee is only to use Amazon's converter and to copy the file across the Sprint wireless network. Yes, your HTML files aren't natively supported, but you can pretty easily convert those to MOBI (you may lose the hyperlinks, but the images should come through) and use them on a Kindle.
The key is that you only use this on the account that receives messages that hit the wildcard. As you observe, you obviously don't want to drop all NDRs from an account you regularly send mail from. However, the OP was concerned about bounce messages for wildcard-matching email addresses like ebay@example.com or slashdot@example.com. Those addresses are usually inbound only, and any NDRs directed them come from spammers and viruses, so we can silently drop them.
I've had a lot of luck setting up a procmail script on the address I use for emails that match the domain wildcard. If you drop messages with a null Return-Path, you'll get all true bounces. Add to that some From header matching for things like mailman lists and mails from mailer-daemon (for those mail systems that don't follow the RFCs) and you should be able to eliminate pretty much all bounce traffic from emails that hit your domain wildcard. Don't forget to forward everything that doesn't hit the rules back to your primary email address. An SPF record can also help, although not enough people are using it to make it really helpful, and it breaks mailing lists. Also, most mail admins understand that nearly all spam From headers are forged, and you shouldn't be blacklisted for being the subject of a Joe-Job.
Here are the current regexp lines I have in my.procmailrc for that user (all of these send the offending message to/dev/null):
* ^Return-Path: * ^From:.*majordomo * ^Subject:.*Returned.mail * ^From:.*mailer-daemon * ^Subject:.*mail.could.not.be.delivered * ^From:.*(postmaster|devnull) * ^Subject:.*autoreply * ^From:.*spamarrest
This is my favorite part:
A client calls your office number and imagines you in a suit in a downtown office. In fact, you're wearing jeans and enjoying a midmorning brunch with your spouse. The client is happy because he reached you in one try and didn't get voice mail. Your employer is happy because you're providing prompt and reliable customer service. But most of all, you're happy, because you're doing your job without being chained to a desk. What about your spouse in this situation? Do you think they appreciate having their midmorning brunch interrupted by a client's phone call? Interrupts cost, both in computing and in social relationships.
Since it records to WAV, that's what I've done with mine. Combine that with a simple batch file that runs each of the.wav files in the output directory into lame, and you 99% of the way there. Sure, I'd like something that encoded directly to MP3, but this works fine.
The PC software is definitely sub-par. You have to be an Administrator to run the software at all, although it will run through Run As.
As the only device on the market, it's a take it or leave it thing. If you want to record NPR, there are plenty of shoutcast streams that you can rip. The radioshark is mainly good for programs that aren't available elsewhere.
A jade figurine that you carve does not have a known value when it is created. You might be a great carver creating something with a value of thousands of dollars, or you could be horrible and might be only able to sell it for the jade value. Until art is sold, it doesn't have a known value. WoW gold on the other hand, is fungible, and there is a known value for it.
If this happens, it will make it even more likely that the IRS actually weighs in on the issue of the taxability of items obtained through online gameplay. There was a story on NPR's Marketplace a few weeks back about the fact that if you work and obtain something in payment that can be exchanged for money, you owe income tax on it, even if you don't sell it. Since eBay clearly establishes a value for a single piece of WoW gold, you are liable for income tax on that $0.05 you've earned when you sell that BoE item in the auction house or when you loot it. Do you claim the value of your WoW gold as miscellaneous income?
Note: I am not a tax lawyer, and this is not to be interpreted as tax or legal advice. Contact the IRS if you have any further questions.
I use readerware, and it is pretty nice. As a java appliation, it runs fine on linux. It's not as pretty as some of the native Windows and MacOS cataloging applications, but it does the job, and its website scrapers are very good.
The backing database for Readerware is HSQLDB (formerly Hypersonic SQL), which is open source, so that should meet the OPs desire for an open format backend. I've queried it a few times for reports that the readerware front-end can't handle.
Looking around more, it looks like 2am local is the time that the earth is heading directly into the cloud, so that's when they peak. Weird. Still, an idea of when they'll stop and start would have been nice.
Does anybody have actual times for the estimated start and end of the shower? Both of these articles regurgitate the same "go out at 2am" bullshit with no timezone listed. Should I go out at 2am UTC, 2am EDT, 2am HST?
Yes. My wife is a graduate student and we both looked quite seriously in doing studies in Britain. I don't have credentials to "determine whether carrying a foreign graduate degree is helpful or harmful" and I didn't claim them. I'm just giving my opinion on the subject and trying to help out someone on slashdot who asked for the help of the slashdot readership.
Of course all research is not done in the US. However, in general, most US faculty are not familiar with the strength and weaknesses of 99% of foreign universities. Yes, everybody's heard of Oxford and Cambridge. But do you know how their programs in classics are? (Pretty good, from what I've heard) How about sociology or biology? (No idea here) As one gets further in academia it becomes even more specialized. A department may be great for studies in East Asian religions but not have a single Islamist with tenure. It becomes even worse when you start talking about universities that aren't in the top 20 worldwide. I don't know how the physics program at the University of Nagasaki is and what they specialize in and I don't expect American professors serving on hiring commities to know either, even if they are tenured physicists familiar with the field.
When one gets to the graduate level and beyond what matters is the quality of the program in your subject, not the popular name recognition of the university. Yes in every discipline there's going to be a few foreign universities that have such great programs that you could expect American professors to be familiar with them. However, that makes for only 4-12 graduate slots in those programs every year. Chances of this guy getting one of those spots is quite slim. Getting a tenure-track position in academia is so competitive that you need to take every edge you can get. If you're hoping to get such a position in the US, it's my opinion that you should do your graduate work in the US if possible and practical. Doing otherwise will likely harm your chances of getting a tenured position in the US for little gain.
As I said before, if you're not working towards a tenured position in US academia then getting a degree outside the US might be a good idea.
Unless you're planning on staying in the country you get your final degree from, it's usually not a good idea. It will be much harder to get an academic job in the US with a foreign degree. If you're planning on just getting a masters and coming back to the states for the Ph.D., that can work, as can going to a foreign university and then getting a job in industry.
All in all, it's probably not a great idea unless you're planning on moving out of the US permanently. Few people will have heard of where you studied, so they'll just assume the worst. If you can study here in the US, do so.
Yeah, but 5% is an unrealistic rate of return for the stock market over 40 years. 10-11% is the historical average over long periods like that. $100 per month 40 years 11% return You will have $860,012.71 in the end.
Also, as you get older, you'll probably have more money to save.
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Sure, AC-3 alone is patent-free, but each newer version of DD or DTS adds new patents and new licenses.
One of the big factors here is the licensing costs for DD and DTS. The terms for licensing those codecs are pretty harsh and can apply to a per device cost to all devices a manufacturer sells.
To date, all GM Electric cars have only supported 3.3kW Level 2 charging. Do you think 3.3kW charging plus CCS quick charging is sufficient for longer-range vehicles that might be used for road trips, like the forthcoming Bolt?
GM has been in-sourcing the production of many of the key components of their electric vehicles in recent years. What have the benefits and successes been of using that approach?
If you have the opportunity to acquire a Spark EV, do it. I love mine. Fast, fun, 4-door. It's a great car.
The -22F is not a problem, as long as the car is plugged in when left for prolonged periods. At well above that temperature, the battery management system will kick in and heat the battery to keep it within safe temperatures. Now, technically, they could probably disclaim coverage for that, but it seems unlikely if the battery management system does what it's supposed to do.
The $15k charge is a theoretical charge back-calculated from insurance settlements. It does not include any core rebate for returning the old drive train. Since no owner has owned the car for even the current 4 year warranty, we have no information on what Tesla would charge for a drive train replacement, swap or any other non-accident generated repair.
Tape is valuable when you want true off-line backup, that's not connected to a system or powered on at all. Yes, you can do cold backups on hard drives, but they're more likely to fail when restarted after 6 months or longer.
Even in the External Links section? How annoying. Were these general MUD Wikis, or ones specific to a single MUD?
The thing is, if you want, you can setup MUDWiki that has all of this data for all of the great MUDs going back into time. Once you have that site, you can add it as a prominent link on the Wikipedia MUD page. Wikipedia doesn't have to contain every piece of information itself.
The one thing I will note about rackmount servers is that they are all very noisy. For home installation, a desktop chassis will nearly always fit your needs and will be much quieter and more power-efficient than a rackmount. I recently replaced my home server with about $850 in parts from newegg. If you're interested in making a quiet desktop, take a look at SilentPCReview.
If you're set on a rackmount server, I've been very happy with Silicon Mechanics, but their cheapest machine is still ~$1000.
I know Amazon has been really bad in communicating this, but you can copy non-proprietary formats to the Kindle for free. TXT files are supported natively, and most other files can be converted to Mobipocket files (.mobi) by the Mobipocket conversion tools. Once you have either a TXT or .MOBI file, you can copy it to the Kindle over the supplied USB cable. The $.10 transfer fee is only to use Amazon's converter and to copy the file across the Sprint wireless network. Yes, your HTML files aren't natively supported, but you can pretty easily convert those to MOBI (you may lose the hyperlinks, but the images should come through) and use them on a Kindle.
The key is that you only use this on the account that receives messages that hit the wildcard. As you observe, you obviously don't want to drop all NDRs from an account you regularly send mail from. However, the OP was concerned about bounce messages for wildcard-matching email addresses like ebay@example.com or slashdot@example.com. Those addresses are usually inbound only, and any NDRs directed them come from spammers and viruses, so we can silently drop them.
The first line above should be:
* ^Return-Path: <>
Darn HTML-like comments.
Here are the current regexp lines I have in my
* ^From:.*majordomo
* ^Subject:.*Returned.mail
* ^From:.*mailer-daemon
* ^Subject:.*mail.could.not.be.delivered
* ^From:.*(postmaster|devnull)
* ^Subject:.*autoreply
* ^From:.*spamarrest
Since it records to WAV, that's what I've done with mine. Combine that with a simple batch file that runs each of the .wav files in the output directory into lame, and you 99% of the way there. Sure, I'd like something that encoded directly to MP3, but this works fine.
The PC software is definitely sub-par. You have to be an Administrator to run the software at all, although it will run through Run As.
As the only device on the market, it's a take it or leave it thing. If you want to record NPR, there are plenty of shoutcast streams that you can rip. The radioshark is mainly good for programs that aren't available elsewhere.
A jade figurine that you carve does not have a known value when it is created. You might be a great carver creating something with a value of thousands of dollars, or you could be horrible and might be only able to sell it for the jade value. Until art is sold, it doesn't have a known value. WoW gold on the other hand, is fungible, and there is a known value for it.
Again, IANAL, and this is speculation at best.
If this happens, it will make it even more likely that the IRS actually weighs in on the issue of the taxability of items obtained through online gameplay. There was a story on NPR's Marketplace a few weeks back about the fact that if you work and obtain something in payment that can be exchanged for money, you owe income tax on it, even if you don't sell it. Since eBay clearly establishes a value for a single piece of WoW gold, you are liable for income tax on that $0.05 you've earned when you sell that BoE item in the auction house or when you loot it. Do you claim the value of your WoW gold as miscellaneous income?
Note: I am not a tax lawyer, and this is not to be interpreted as tax or legal advice. Contact the IRS if you have any further questions.
I use readerware, and it is pretty nice. As a java appliation, it runs fine on linux. It's not as pretty as some of the native Windows and MacOS cataloging applications, but it does the job, and its website scrapers are very good.
The backing database for Readerware is HSQLDB (formerly Hypersonic SQL), which is open source, so that should meet the OPs desire for an open format backend. I've queried it a few times for reports that the readerware front-end can't handle.
Looking around more, it looks like 2am local is the time that the earth is heading directly into the cloud, so that's when they peak. Weird. Still, an idea of when they'll stop and start would have been nice.
Does anybody have actual times for the estimated start and end of the shower? Both of these articles regurgitate the same "go out at 2am" bullshit with no timezone listed. Should I go out at 2am UTC, 2am EDT, 2am HST?
Yes. My wife is a graduate student and we both looked quite seriously in doing studies in Britain. I don't have credentials to "determine whether carrying a foreign graduate degree is helpful or harmful" and I didn't claim them. I'm just giving my opinion on the subject and trying to help out someone on slashdot who asked for the help of the slashdot readership.
Of course all research is not done in the US. However, in general, most US faculty are not familiar with the strength and weaknesses of 99% of foreign universities. Yes, everybody's heard of Oxford and Cambridge. But do you know how their programs in classics are? (Pretty good, from what I've heard) How about sociology or biology? (No idea here) As one gets further in academia it becomes even more specialized. A department may be great for studies in East Asian religions but not have a single Islamist with tenure. It becomes even worse when you start talking about universities that aren't in the top 20 worldwide. I don't know how the physics program at the University of Nagasaki is and what they specialize in and I don't expect American professors serving on hiring commities to know either, even if they are tenured physicists familiar with the field.
When one gets to the graduate level and beyond what matters is the quality of the program in your subject, not the popular name recognition of the university. Yes in every discipline there's going to be a few foreign universities that have such great programs that you could expect American professors to be familiar with them. However, that makes for only 4-12 graduate slots in those programs every year. Chances of this guy getting one of those spots is quite slim. Getting a tenure-track position in academia is so competitive that you need to take every edge you can get. If you're hoping to get such a position in the US, it's my opinion that you should do your graduate work in the US if possible and practical. Doing otherwise will likely harm your chances of getting a tenured position in the US for little gain.
As I said before, if you're not working towards a tenured position in US academia then getting a degree outside the US might be a good idea.
Unless you're planning on staying in the country you get your final degree from, it's usually not a good idea. It will be much harder to get an academic job in the US with a foreign degree. If you're planning on just getting a masters and coming back to the states for the Ph.D., that can work, as can going to a foreign university and then getting a job in industry.
All in all, it's probably not a great idea unless you're planning on moving out of the US permanently. Few people will have heard of where you studied, so they'll just assume the worst. If you can study here in the US, do so.
Yeah, but 5% is an unrealistic rate of return for the stock market over 40 years. 10-11% is the historical average over long periods like that.
$100 per month
40 years
11% return
You will have $860,012.71 in the end.
Also, as you get older, you'll probably have more money to save.