For every ounce of radio active substance Chernobyl blew into the sky, it blew tons of other nasty things like heavy metals and benzine like compounds. For nearly any spot where radio active substances are found in higher than normal quantities, you will find lots of other odd and very toxic substances.
Europe and Australia use VAT and GST which are sales taxes on products and services. They are changed at every stage of the products development along with credits unlike the typical model in the US where wholesalers don't pay any sales tax but also don't sell to the general public.
Another thing that is done nearly every where is to include the tax in the advertised price. While it means a $1.99 item in most US stores will cost you closer to $2.20, in other places the sales taxes are hidden which I think results in them getting raised with little complaint from the tax payers. VAT in Europe is approaching 20% and New Zealand went from 12.5% to 15% with nearly no outcry. One other nice bit (for the tax collectors) is that only some ratios work well for doing the supply chain calculations so the rates tend to go from 10% to 12.5% to 15% because if they picked other numbers the merchants would get confused about rounding.
Barring scams and identity theft, credit is safer than c Scams and identity theft can lead the crooks to your cash as well (if its in a bank). If someone steals money out of your credit card account, they stole the banks money but if they steal money out of a debit card, they steal your money. Guess who is in a better situation to deal with the loss?
Consumer protection rules are very clear on this. If the product is defective, its still covered under a warrantee and must be repaired or replaced at Microsoft's expense.
It gets very interesting when the problem starts to cause other people problems under "innocent third party" laws. The only draw back is that it too nearly 30 years for these laws (and an act of congress) to take out the lawn darts so I don't think this has any of the legal team at Microsoft losing sleep.
I have a Lux meter and a power meter and a test rig and a large assortment of bulbs... The savings from CFL isn't much and the amount of real light they produced isn't what the packages claim and they reduce their light output faster than older bulbs. It appears that the light output is based on their highest intensity point as if the entire bulb produced that (like the incandescent bulbs). Most of the non twist designs put out 1/3 the light on the end as the brightest part of the side and the twisties tend to produce less total light but are more consistent. I started by testing 20 bulbs I got from a local K-mart and grocery store and have since collected a few more. The best so far have been LED or halogen and the worst was ones are CFLs. Good quality long life incancesdents are in the same range as mid tier CFL. CFLs dim rapidly (to being useless based on their stated output in less than 1000 hours) while old bulbs would last 1000 hours at nearly full intensity 50% of the time (and 0% intensity 49.999% of the time)
Lookup "power factor". Most of what you will find involves resistive vs inductive loads but there are other power factor issues from switching power supplies that only kick in during part of the normal sine wave and that makes the grid much less efficient.
For the types that want to cut CO2 the VA is a better indicator since that is more related to waste on the in the power lines and generators than W.
How do you go about calculating how much coal a device with a power factor of.65 takes compared to a device that takes the same Watts but has a power factor of 1.0?
Does that include the taxes such as VAT? The Apple store in the US doesn't include the sales taxes so a $100 item will be somewhere between $100 and $112 depending on the local sales taxes. What are the import duties and how are shipping charges calculated? Exchange rates tend to be calculated about once per quarter so they might have used a rate of about 1.36. Once all that is figured out, the rest is just international gouging.
While the US style of tacking on the taxes after the price is annoying if you just want to spend $20, it means that every time the politicians raise the sales tax, every single voter gets reminded of it with every single purchase. That might be why US sales taxes are much lower than places where VAT is included in the price.
Besides we know what the real cost of the iphone is... its the price of the iPod touch plus about $30.
I keep getting conflicting info about this. One report that had real world calcuations, seems to indicate that bad power factor devices can result in a 30% drop in capacity in the house and that can result in overloading the home wiring without tripping fuses can breakers. I think the total loss=the loss your talking about + loss at the generation stage + loss in the device + whatever else. Does anyone have the full equations?
The problem coumpounds through each transfomer in the system. My power company figures it cost them 30% more to deliver power to a device with a power factor of.80 and they change the extra 30% plus an additional charge.
Many places don't allow power companies to charge power factor correction charges to homes but a business that has a PF of.8 will pay at least 20% more for their power.
But most sun machines are on very big pipes compared to most windows boxes. The same is true of Mac as the people who own them tend to be well off enough to have decent broadband.
Also a bot net of suns is worth far more per machine than windows machines. The numbers I've heard are a sun box on a big connection is worth at least $100 vs about $.1 for a windows box. And there are Solaris 10 botnets out there (thanks telnetd)
Most very low power modern devices have nasty power factors. PC power supplies tend to be.6 to.8. CFLs run from about.2 to.6 while many phone charges are about.2. That means for every watt delivered to the phone, there line losses in the grid are at least 3 W if not more. There are also losses in the generator so getting 1 Watt into your phone (or CFL) may require more power than putting 5W into a resistive load.
Just put that there is a $100 fee for using a phone in the theatre as a condition on the tickets and rake in the extra cash. Another solution is to take photos of people and put them on a big board titled "People who have been banned for cell phone use"
That might be the result of pumping the package full of carbon monoxide. The CO kills off the bacteria that changes the color and creates the nasty odour but doesn't kill off the bacteria that is making toxins that cooking won't fix.
"you can't win if you don't play"... The news papers continue to disprove that since there are frequent winners who never bought a ticket but somehow ended up with one in their possession. I suspect the odds of winning if you don't play aren't that much worse than the odds of winning if you do buy the ticket and the odds of having any prize money left after a decade is better if you don't play based on the bankruptcy rate of winners.
The overhead lines for straight lines aren't the problem. Its the lines over stations, turnouts and intersections and bridges that are the real problem.
The train and tram system in Melbourne use different power (AC/DC and different voltages) and there are places where the trams cross the train lines and there is a bit of fancy insulation going there and they need to maintain speed or else they stop.
Busses tend to weigh much less than trams since trams tend to be built like rail cars by companies that deal with rail roads. Trams could be much lighter but they aren't mostly because of a hundred years of doing things the same way. The new ones they just bought for Melbourne Australia are heavier and use more energy per passenger than the last ones and their energy requirement per passenger is still higher than high efficiency cars. Here in Melbourne one ticket will let your ride busses, trains or trams and the train and tram companies are heavily subsidised. That implies the cost per trip on the bus is lower.
It appears that people buy from them, just like it appears they are buying from spammers. For example, you visit the web page and you get handed a long life cookie. Some time later you go and sign up for a service or visit a legit business and the long life cookie goes off and the legit company counts you as being from another ad campaign and pay the click fee and they don't even know they just paid someone for typosquatting.
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I've been on the vi side of this war for decades. The only legit advantage the emacs has over vi involves cats walking on keyboards.
In most cases its more like:
1) Advertise an "advertising service"
2) get paid
3) send out spam
The person who bought the service in #1 never sells anything
Is HP turning back into the type of company it was decades ago?
For every ounce of radio active substance Chernobyl blew into the sky, it blew tons of other nasty things like heavy metals and benzine like compounds. For nearly any spot where radio active substances are found in higher than normal quantities, you will find lots of other odd and very toxic substances.
Europe and Australia use VAT and GST which are sales taxes on products and services. They are changed at every stage of the products development along with credits unlike the typical model in the US where wholesalers don't pay any sales tax but also don't sell to the general public.
Another thing that is done nearly every where is to include the tax in the advertised price. While it means a $1.99 item in most US stores will cost you closer to $2.20, in other places the sales taxes are hidden which I think results in them getting raised with little complaint from the tax payers. VAT in Europe is approaching 20% and New Zealand went from 12.5% to 15% with nearly no outcry. One other nice bit (for the tax collectors) is that only some ratios work well for doing the supply chain calculations so the rates tend to go from 10% to 12.5% to 15% because if they picked other numbers the merchants would get confused about rounding.
Barring scams and identity theft, credit is safer than c
Scams and identity theft can lead the crooks to your cash as well (if its in a bank). If someone steals money out of your credit card account, they stole the banks money but if they steal money out of a debit card, they steal your money. Guess who is in a better situation to deal with the loss?
Consumer protection rules are very clear on this. If the product is defective, its still covered under a warrantee and must be repaired or replaced at Microsoft's expense.
It gets very interesting when the problem starts to cause other people problems under "innocent third party" laws. The only draw back is that it too nearly 30 years for these laws (and an act of congress) to take out the lawn darts so I don't think this has any of the legal team at Microsoft losing sleep.
I have a Lux meter and a power meter and a test rig and a large assortment of bulbs... The savings from CFL isn't much and the amount of real light they produced isn't what the packages claim and they reduce their light output faster than older bulbs. It appears that the light output is based on their highest intensity point as if the entire bulb produced that (like the incandescent bulbs). Most of the non twist designs put out 1/3 the light on the end as the brightest part of the side and the twisties tend to produce less total light but are more consistent. I started by testing 20 bulbs I got from a local K-mart and grocery store and have since collected a few more. The best so far have been LED or halogen and the worst was ones are CFLs. Good quality long life incancesdents are in the same range as mid tier CFL. CFLs dim rapidly (to being useless based on their stated output in less than 1000 hours) while old bulbs would last 1000 hours at nearly full intensity 50% of the time (and 0% intensity 49.999% of the time)
Lookup "power factor". Most of what you will find involves resistive vs inductive loads but there are other power factor issues from switching power supplies that only kick in during part of the normal sine wave and that makes the grid much less efficient.
For the types that want to cut CO2 the VA is a better indicator since that is more related to waste on the in the power lines and generators than W.
.65 takes compared to a device that takes the same Watts but has a power factor of 1.0?
How do you go about calculating how much coal a device with a power factor of
The plant in China that makes it pays far less for power than you do. I've seen figures that range from about US$.002 to $.04 per kW.
Does that include the taxes such as VAT? The Apple store in the US doesn't include the sales taxes so a $100 item will be somewhere between $100 and $112 depending on the local sales taxes. What are the import duties and how are shipping charges calculated? Exchange rates tend to be calculated about once per quarter so they might have used a rate of about 1.36. Once all that is figured out, the rest is just international gouging.
While the US style of tacking on the taxes after the price is annoying if you just want to spend $20, it means that every time the politicians raise the sales tax, every single voter gets reminded of it with every single purchase. That might be why US sales taxes are much lower than places where VAT is included in the price.
Besides we know what the real cost of the iphone is... its the price of the iPod touch plus about $30.
I keep getting conflicting info about this. One report that had real world calcuations, seems to indicate that bad power factor devices can result in a 30% drop in capacity in the house and that can result in overloading the home wiring without tripping fuses can breakers. I think the total loss=the loss your talking about + loss at the generation stage + loss in the device + whatever else. Does anyone have the full equations?
The problem coumpounds through each transfomer in the system. My power company figures it cost them 30% more to deliver power to a device with a power factor of .80 and they change the extra 30% plus an additional charge.
Many places don't allow power companies to charge power factor correction charges to homes but a business that has a PF of .8 will pay at least 20% more for their power.
But most sun machines are on very big pipes compared to most windows boxes. The same is true of Mac as the people who own them tend to be well off enough to have decent broadband.
Also a bot net of suns is worth far more per machine than windows machines. The numbers I've heard are a sun box on a big connection is worth at least $100 vs about $.1 for a windows box. And there are Solaris 10 botnets out there (thanks telnetd)
Most very low power modern devices have nasty power factors. PC power supplies tend to be .6 to .8. CFLs run from about .2 to .6 while many phone charges are about .2. That means for every watt delivered to the phone, there line losses in the grid are at least 3 W if not more. There are also losses in the generator so getting 1 Watt into your phone (or CFL) may require more power than putting 5W into a resistive load.
Just put that there is a $100 fee for using a phone in the theatre as a condition on the tickets and rake in the extra cash. Another solution is to take photos of people and put them on a big board titled "People who have been banned for cell phone use"
That might be the result of pumping the package full of carbon monoxide. The CO kills off the bacteria that changes the color and creates the nasty odour but doesn't kill off the bacteria that is making toxins that cooking won't fix.
Too bad they appear to cost about 400,000 euros.
"you can't win if you don't play"...
The news papers continue to disprove that since there are frequent winners who never bought a ticket but somehow ended up with one in their possession. I suspect the odds of winning if you don't play aren't that much worse than the odds of winning if you do buy the ticket and the odds of having any prize money left after a decade is better if you don't play based on the bankruptcy rate of winners.
The overhead lines for straight lines aren't the problem. Its the lines over stations, turnouts and intersections and bridges that are the real problem.
The train and tram system in Melbourne use different power (AC/DC and different voltages) and there are places where the trams cross the train lines and there is a bit of fancy insulation going there and they need to maintain speed or else they stop.
Busses tend to weigh much less than trams since trams tend to be built like rail cars by companies that deal with rail roads. Trams could be much lighter but they aren't mostly because of a hundred years of doing things the same way. The new ones they just bought for Melbourne Australia are heavier and use more energy per passenger than the last ones and their energy requirement per passenger is still higher than high efficiency cars. Here in Melbourne one ticket will let your ride busses, trains or trams and the train and tram companies are heavily subsidised. That implies the cost per trip on the bus is lower.
It appears that people buy from them, just like it appears they are buying from spammers. For example, you visit the web page and you get handed a long life cookie. Some time later you go and sign up for a service or visit a legit business and the long life cookie goes off and the legit company counts you as being from another ad campaign and pay the click fee and they don't even know they just paid someone for typosquatting.
Estes has done a number of smaller model rockets based on the Star Wars movies.
The Estes x-wing I built about 1987 did about what the one in the video did only it got about 25 feet high before
crashing and burning.