The difference is the US learned years ago to call the enemy force some made up name even if they are operating canadian weaponry and wearing canadian uniforms. The press eats this shit up and loves to blow it out of proportion. Logic says the military plans for every contingency but idiots get riled up to learn neighboring country has plan.
Opiates do NOT kill you. The only deaths from opiates are overdose or drug interaction (such as combination with another drug that suppresses breathing). The only reason anyone overdoes is because the stuff because the are using products of unknown strength and underestimate the potency, or because they intended to commit suicide.
There is no known limit of opiates that will cause death, with sufficient tolerance someone can take almost unlimited doses. I believe the record is 35grams of morphine, which if you know anything about morphine doses would shock you with the severe quantity. A normal morphine does to your average patient is 5 milligram. The record 35 grams is 8000 times the average non-addict severe pain dose.
It will take a while for the technology to hit the manufacturers but it will hit panels for satellites first. When you are paying $20k per pound (0.5kg) to put something in space if you can get a higher efficiency with less weight you can pay a LOT more for the panels and still come out ahead.
They didn't need to "plead guilty", the department of homeland security issued a public press release a year ago telling everyone to uninstall Java. A year later Oracle has basically agreed.
If you are spending $25k over a $100 item there is something seriously wrong with your company.
We aren't a big company and our office managers and VP's can sign for $250 and justify it later. There should be no reason to have 4 people in a meeting to discuss spending $100 on an IT asset. At the most you should have a 5 minute conference call between CTO and CEO.
Minors most certainly can enter into a contract. That contract is legally binding against the company but the minor has the ability to walk away from the contract with no penalty.
It is a significant difference because the minor can enforce the contract if they want. This is precisely why most business refuse to execute a contract with a minor, it puts the minor, or their guardian, in a preferential position in the contract allowing them to walk away penalty free when it's not in their favor or to enforce the contract when it is.
If minors couldn't execute contracts business wouldn't even bother saying they don't contract with minors because any contract signed would be invalid. The problem is that the minor decides if it's valid or not which means the business has to say explicitly that they won't contract with minors and require disclosure of age. This gives them an out to cancel the contract in the event the minor lies, or in other words it takes away the ability of the minor to enforce contracts that are unfairly in favor of the minor.
DARE originated when I was in junior high. The kids that went to the DARE meetings to get the T-Shirts were the kids doing the drugs. They wanted the shirts to wear while smoking. DARE has never stopped a single kid from doing drugs and as the OP said was used by the kids doing drugs as a way to find new cool drugs to try.
A 3 billion loss accounts for a multi-year delay in the console cycle (normally 4 years the cycle with the 360 has been almost 8 years). Had that delay not occurred the losses would still be significantly worse, shortly after the RROD problems Microsoft had projected project losses in excess of 5 billion dollars for the entire Xbox product life.
They will NEVER make money on Xbox. Small quarterly profits will never earn back that 3 billion in losses unless they can delay the next console cycle to at least 10 years. It's questionable if the console will survive the device revolution (tablets).
I'd rather they enforce the law rigorously, then maybe we can get some of laws removed from the books. Selective enforcement is the bane of free society.
Yes and no. Tablets, phones and everything in between are replacing an aspect of computing, and that's strict consumption. Grandma doesn't need a PC to read email or look at grandkids photo's, she can use a tablet and have a much better user experience and gains the benefits of portability and reduced power use. People will use them to read books, watch movies or browse the internet. In general they won't be using them to create anything.
Almost everyone I know has a tablet, me and my wife each have one. We use them for light content consumption and casual entertainment. This is the use that the vast majority of people using tablets are using them for. That's a niche that isn't going away. Tablets are here to stay, just like PC's will continue to be used in business and computing that involves real work or creation of anything.
What's changed in this area and will likely be detrimental to the whole business is that PC's are now good enough. The CPU's are far more powerful than most people need except for special areas like engineering. But on the flipside Tablets aren't going to be yearly, bi-yearly or even tri-yearly purchases, people won't generally be buying to upgrade. They, for the most part, provide everything that's needed right now. The only way they will be able to drive sales is by making them lighter or have longer battery life. Otherwise sales will be related to breakage (or the hardware wearing out) and population expansion which will mean significantly less sales than the initial sales where everyone bought one. I personally expect tablet sales to drop off precipitously over the next 5 years.
So year, there isn't a post-pc world, but tablets aren't going anywhere either and the tablet form factor satisfies a LOT of general use among the general population. Combined with the fact that CPU's are generally good enough means PC's sales are going to remain stagnant for the foreseeable future. Tablet sales will also likely stagnate or decline significantly once the market has saturated. Neither will be seeing the sales the PC's have enjoyed for the last 30 years and it's going to be severely detrimental to the business as a whole.
That big yellow ball in the sky is emitting more radiation than that little chunk of P238. You might not be aware of this but without the earths magnetic field and atmosphere in the way that little ball of light would kill you very very quickly.
As others have already noted that P238 isn't really dangerous unless you are going to eat it. Though plutonium is believed to be an entirely a man-made material uranium and all the other naturally occurring radioactive elements exist outside the earth as well as on it. The several ounces on a space probe used as a thermolytic generator is insignificant entirely.
I know exactly what you are saying. Are you listening to what I'm saying? Assuming the numbers your using are correct and the payout time calculated as 10 years is accurate, you have a 22k investment that's returned in 10, doubled in 20 and another 50% by the 25 year life (assuming no increase in power rates). So a 22k investment today in 25 years returns 55K in 25 years, but that's assuming power rates remain fixed. It would not be illogical to assume power rates continue the trend of the last 20 years and continue to increase at around 5% (1-2% higher than inflation on average for the last 20 years) per annum. This increase in power costs not only decreases the break even period but dramatically increases the ROI because you have a guaranteed 5% ROI per year.
Yes there is a lost opportunity cost but I'd bet if you did the numbers you would find a respectable ROI of around 6% per annum assuming a fixed life of 25 years. The second part of my argument is that those 25 years are only the guaranteed life. Many panels significantly older than that are still fully functional though at degraded output (panels installed in the early 80's that are still functional with outputs, at least in the case I saw, of about 50% of purchase wattage). You could conceivably end up with 50 years of power where annual cost of power has exceeded inflation by several percent. And every year after the payoff is pure profit. It's essentially an annuity with a fixed return equivalent to annual energy price inflation and no guaranteed end date.
This is the entire business model behind Solar City. They come in and provide and install the panels for free. You then sign a contract with them to buy the power for the next X years at a fixed price (which is often set at a fixed percentage price of the local utility). Every year power prices increase they make more ROI on the installation. The ROI is so good on solar (it wasn't until panel prices fell below $1 a watt or ~$3.50 installed) that the primary reason everyone's not installing them is because most homeowners are unable to front the initial installation, hence the reason Solar City is so successful right now. Solar City wouldn't even be a viable business model if the ROI wasn't at least as good as traditional investments because they wouldn't be able to acquire the capital necessary to front the installation. Last I saw they were turning down investment capital because they don't have the workforce or customers to install that amount of capacity.
You can't ignore half the variables in a ROI calculation. There is a calculator on the internet that allows you to account for all the variables I'm aware of including panel degradation, financing, expected ROI, inflation (power and regular), local power rates, etc. You can find it here:
Not really. What's happening is exactly what happened in Australia, the UK and the USA. That is the Murdoch empire has been blasting the populace with carefully orchestrated propaganda designed to shift the political spectrum "right" and get poor people to vote against their own interests.
It will never cease to amaze me how pathetically effective this type of targeted propaganda is at actively getting people to do things that are not in their own interest.
The Canadian shift has taken the longest to occur, part of that is because it took Murdoch longer to penetrate and take over enough of the Canadian media because Canada still has ownership rules (at least until the propaganda machine gets those revoked as an affront to capitalism like they did in the US). Inevitably the Canadian people will fall to the far right just like everyone else under the sway of the Murdoch propaganda machine.
All your assumptions assume power prices remain fixed. As he noted his payoff time is 10 years worst case. After those 10 years he has a guaranteed 15 years of warranty on the panels. Actual lifetime is unknown and in fact could be 50 years. Yes the early ROI is low but once you factor in guaranteed and non-guaranteed life the ROI is excellent.
They couldn't fix X. The developers behind wayland looked at what it would take to do the same thing they are doing but do it with updates to the X code. They saw a process that would take 20 years rather than 5.
X has 20+ years of legacy code, on a modern X install you are using at best 5% of the code. When you've reached a point where 95% of the code and application isn't even being used it's time to start over rather than work to upgrade what you have. You would spend so much time troubleshooting old code that you could literally rewrite the entire thing 4 times before you finish.
Wayland is designed like a modern interface that is used on almost every other OS. It's designed to be as simple as possible while being extensible. It isn't trying to be anything but a channel for programs to talk to graphics hardware. X was everything and the kitchensink as you said everything from drawing lines on vector displays to keyboard and mouse. X was a monster that's time to deprecate and replace.
Every one of the inventions is being pulled forward. It is clear you have no idea what's available out there. Thin film is beginning to dominate commercial installation, in fact it's so much better that it's very difficult to even purchase thin films any more because all the production is allocated to commercial installations. Other techniques are out there and being used, the better the cell the more likely it'll be relegated to commercial installation. Most of what's available for retail purchase is the output of older cell lines that are no longer competitive on the commercial side.
Solar is now significantly below $1 a watt and is approaching the point where in commercial installations it's amortized cost is approaching that of coal power. It's already cheaper than nuclear on all fronts.
Is that like the equivalent of yelling "first post"? Just because it happened before something else doesn't mean continuing to be the only one using it is the right thing. If they had issues with the programs that followed why didn't they devote time to fixing them and helping make them better and standardized across Linux?
The entire community benefits from working on the same base. Every time Ubuntu does their NIH game and develops yet another thing that is almost identical to the community standard they are dividing work that could be used to improve Linux in general. But I guess that's the point, Canonical has never been a team player, and it should never be more apparent than Shuttleworth's version of Balmers "burning platform" memo where he asserts PC's are dead and that Ubuntu will now focus exclusively on tablets and phones.
The only one kidding themselves is you. The Motorola deal required EXTENSIVE government anti-trust approval from the US, EU and China. Deals executed under those kind of delays have firewalls inserted that prevent the purchasing company management from having any say whatsoever in the operation of the purchaser until the deal closes. This is because the deal has a very real chance of not happening.
Deal breakup fees cover two things, that's the purchaser going through the purchasee's books with a fine tooth comb and the purchaser getting a look at all future products and development. They don't get any control over the company until the deal officially executes.
Maybe you don't realize this but this patent has been used by MS for almost a decade without reimbursement of any kind.
They've got 10 years of back patent royalties to pay and yes it's going to be a chunk of change from the current revenue. That's what happens when you don't pay your bills for a decade.
Seriously? Talking into your hand in public? Christ, after Bluetooth headsets there is NOTHING to be ashamed of. Those stupid headsets make people look like they are talking to all sorts of shit only crazy people talk to. Trees, bus benches, themselves, urinals (or a penis), Bluetooth headsets were the end of civilization if you ask me.
Careful you'll anger the children that don't remember a world without these little gadgets. I agree completely that they are nothing but a toy. Even if they are a toy you don't think you can live without if it came down to it you'd sell it and live without if the finances demanded it because it IS a toy.
Mod parent up. Just because you support his claims against the music industry doesn't mean Kim isn't a giant jackoff.
The guy has run the gambit of fraudulent business enterprises, hence the reason he hasn't been to his home country (Germany) in years and the name change (break the association with his criminal past).
He got lucky with Mega, otherwise he'd probably still be stealing old ladies checkbooks.
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The difference is the US learned years ago to call the enemy force some made up name even if they are operating canadian weaponry and wearing canadian uniforms. The press eats this shit up and loves to blow it out of proportion. Logic says the military plans for every contingency but idiots get riled up to learn neighboring country has plan.
Opiates do NOT kill you. The only deaths from opiates are overdose or drug interaction (such as combination with another drug that suppresses breathing). The only reason anyone overdoes is because the stuff because the are using products of unknown strength and underestimate the potency, or because they intended to commit suicide.
There is no known limit of opiates that will cause death, with sufficient tolerance someone can take almost unlimited doses. I believe the record is 35grams of morphine, which if you know anything about morphine doses would shock you with the severe quantity. A normal morphine does to your average patient is 5 milligram. The record 35 grams is 8000 times the average non-addict severe pain dose.
When you pay Dice.com for coverage you expect multiple articles damnit.
It will take a while for the technology to hit the manufacturers but it will hit panels for satellites first. When you are paying $20k per pound (0.5kg) to put something in space if you can get a higher efficiency with less weight you can pay a LOT more for the panels and still come out ahead.
They didn't need to "plead guilty", the department of homeland security issued a public press release a year ago telling everyone to uninstall Java. A year later Oracle has basically agreed.
If you are spending $25k over a $100 item there is something seriously wrong with your company.
We aren't a big company and our office managers and VP's can sign for $250 and justify it later. There should be no reason to have 4 people in a meeting to discuss spending $100 on an IT asset. At the most you should have a 5 minute conference call between CTO and CEO.
Minors most certainly can enter into a contract. That contract is legally binding against the company but the minor has the ability to walk away from the contract with no penalty.
It is a significant difference because the minor can enforce the contract if they want. This is precisely why most business refuse to execute a contract with a minor, it puts the minor, or their guardian, in a preferential position in the contract allowing them to walk away penalty free when it's not in their favor or to enforce the contract when it is.
If minors couldn't execute contracts business wouldn't even bother saying they don't contract with minors because any contract signed would be invalid. The problem is that the minor decides if it's valid or not which means the business has to say explicitly that they won't contract with minors and require disclosure of age. This gives them an out to cancel the contract in the event the minor lies, or in other words it takes away the ability of the minor to enforce contracts that are unfairly in favor of the minor.
DARE originated when I was in junior high. The kids that went to the DARE meetings to get the T-Shirts were the kids doing the drugs. They wanted the shirts to wear while smoking. DARE has never stopped a single kid from doing drugs and as the OP said was used by the kids doing drugs as a way to find new cool drugs to try.
A 3 billion loss accounts for a multi-year delay in the console cycle (normally 4 years the cycle with the 360 has been almost 8 years). Had that delay not occurred the losses would still be significantly worse, shortly after the RROD problems Microsoft had projected project losses in excess of 5 billion dollars for the entire Xbox product life.
They will NEVER make money on Xbox. Small quarterly profits will never earn back that 3 billion in losses unless they can delay the next console cycle to at least 10 years. It's questionable if the console will survive the device revolution (tablets).
I'd rather they enforce the law rigorously, then maybe we can get some of laws removed from the books. Selective enforcement is the bane of free society.
Yes and no. Tablets, phones and everything in between are replacing an aspect of computing, and that's strict consumption. Grandma doesn't need a PC to read email or look at grandkids photo's, she can use a tablet and have a much better user experience and gains the benefits of portability and reduced power use. People will use them to read books, watch movies or browse the internet. In general they won't be using them to create anything.
Almost everyone I know has a tablet, me and my wife each have one. We use them for light content consumption and casual entertainment. This is the use that the vast majority of people using tablets are using them for. That's a niche that isn't going away. Tablets are here to stay, just like PC's will continue to be used in business and computing that involves real work or creation of anything.
What's changed in this area and will likely be detrimental to the whole business is that PC's are now good enough. The CPU's are far more powerful than most people need except for special areas like engineering. But on the flipside Tablets aren't going to be yearly, bi-yearly or even tri-yearly purchases, people won't generally be buying to upgrade. They, for the most part, provide everything that's needed right now. The only way they will be able to drive sales is by making them lighter or have longer battery life. Otherwise sales will be related to breakage (or the hardware wearing out) and population expansion which will mean significantly less sales than the initial sales where everyone bought one. I personally expect tablet sales to drop off precipitously over the next 5 years.
So year, there isn't a post-pc world, but tablets aren't going anywhere either and the tablet form factor satisfies a LOT of general use among the general population. Combined with the fact that CPU's are generally good enough means PC's sales are going to remain stagnant for the foreseeable future. Tablet sales will also likely stagnate or decline significantly once the market has saturated. Neither will be seeing the sales the PC's have enjoyed for the last 30 years and it's going to be severely detrimental to the business as a whole.
That big yellow ball in the sky is emitting more radiation than that little chunk of P238. You might not be aware of this but without the earths magnetic field and atmosphere in the way that little ball of light would kill you very very quickly.
As others have already noted that P238 isn't really dangerous unless you are going to eat it. Though plutonium is believed to be an entirely a man-made material uranium and all the other naturally occurring radioactive elements exist outside the earth as well as on it. The several ounces on a space probe used as a thermolytic generator is insignificant entirely.
I know exactly what you are saying. Are you listening to what I'm saying? Assuming the numbers your using are correct and the payout time calculated as 10 years is accurate, you have a 22k investment that's returned in 10, doubled in 20 and another 50% by the 25 year life (assuming no increase in power rates). So a 22k investment today in 25 years returns 55K in 25 years, but that's assuming power rates remain fixed. It would not be illogical to assume power rates continue the trend of the last 20 years and continue to increase at around 5% (1-2% higher than inflation on average for the last 20 years) per annum. This increase in power costs not only decreases the break even period but dramatically increases the ROI because you have a guaranteed 5% ROI per year.
Yes there is a lost opportunity cost but I'd bet if you did the numbers you would find a respectable ROI of around 6% per annum assuming a fixed life of 25 years. The second part of my argument is that those 25 years are only the guaranteed life. Many panels significantly older than that are still fully functional though at degraded output (panels installed in the early 80's that are still functional with outputs, at least in the case I saw, of about 50% of purchase wattage). You could conceivably end up with 50 years of power where annual cost of power has exceeded inflation by several percent. And every year after the payoff is pure profit. It's essentially an annuity with a fixed return equivalent to annual energy price inflation and no guaranteed end date.
This is the entire business model behind Solar City. They come in and provide and install the panels for free. You then sign a contract with them to buy the power for the next X years at a fixed price (which is often set at a fixed percentage price of the local utility). Every year power prices increase they make more ROI on the installation. The ROI is so good on solar (it wasn't until panel prices fell below $1 a watt or ~$3.50 installed) that the primary reason everyone's not installing them is because most homeowners are unable to front the initial installation, hence the reason Solar City is so successful right now. Solar City wouldn't even be a viable business model if the ROI wasn't at least as good as traditional investments because they wouldn't be able to acquire the capital necessary to front the installation. Last I saw they were turning down investment capital because they don't have the workforce or customers to install that amount of capacity.
You can't ignore half the variables in a ROI calculation. There is a calculator on the internet that allows you to account for all the variables I'm aware of including panel degradation, financing, expected ROI, inflation (power and regular), local power rates, etc. You can find it here:
http://pvcalc.org/pvcalc
Just remember, things like the useful life are completely unknown entities.
Not really. What's happening is exactly what happened in Australia, the UK and the USA. That is the Murdoch empire has been blasting the populace with carefully orchestrated propaganda designed to shift the political spectrum "right" and get poor people to vote against their own interests.
It will never cease to amaze me how pathetically effective this type of targeted propaganda is at actively getting people to do things that are not in their own interest.
The Canadian shift has taken the longest to occur, part of that is because it took Murdoch longer to penetrate and take over enough of the Canadian media because Canada still has ownership rules (at least until the propaganda machine gets those revoked as an affront to capitalism like they did in the US). Inevitably the Canadian people will fall to the far right just like everyone else under the sway of the Murdoch propaganda machine.
All your assumptions assume power prices remain fixed. As he noted his payoff time is 10 years worst case. After those 10 years he has a guaranteed 15 years of warranty on the panels. Actual lifetime is unknown and in fact could be 50 years. Yes the early ROI is low but once you factor in guaranteed and non-guaranteed life the ROI is excellent.
They couldn't fix X. The developers behind wayland looked at what it would take to do the same thing they are doing but do it with updates to the X code. They saw a process that would take 20 years rather than 5.
X has 20+ years of legacy code, on a modern X install you are using at best 5% of the code. When you've reached a point where 95% of the code and application isn't even being used it's time to start over rather than work to upgrade what you have. You would spend so much time troubleshooting old code that you could literally rewrite the entire thing 4 times before you finish.
Wayland is designed like a modern interface that is used on almost every other OS. It's designed to be as simple as possible while being extensible. It isn't trying to be anything but a channel for programs to talk to graphics hardware. X was everything and the kitchensink as you said everything from drawing lines on vector displays to keyboard and mouse. X was a monster that's time to deprecate and replace.
Every one of the inventions is being pulled forward. It is clear you have no idea what's available out there. Thin film is beginning to dominate commercial installation, in fact it's so much better that it's very difficult to even purchase thin films any more because all the production is allocated to commercial installations. Other techniques are out there and being used, the better the cell the more likely it'll be relegated to commercial installation. Most of what's available for retail purchase is the output of older cell lines that are no longer competitive on the commercial side.
Solar is now significantly below $1 a watt and is approaching the point where in commercial installations it's amortized cost is approaching that of coal power. It's already cheaper than nuclear on all fronts.
Is that like the equivalent of yelling "first post"? Just because it happened before something else doesn't mean continuing to be the only one using it is the right thing. If they had issues with the programs that followed why didn't they devote time to fixing them and helping make them better and standardized across Linux?
The entire community benefits from working on the same base. Every time Ubuntu does their NIH game and develops yet another thing that is almost identical to the community standard they are dividing work that could be used to improve Linux in general. But I guess that's the point, Canonical has never been a team player, and it should never be more apparent than Shuttleworth's version of Balmers "burning platform" memo where he asserts PC's are dead and that Ubuntu will now focus exclusively on tablets and phones.
The only one kidding themselves is you. The Motorola deal required EXTENSIVE government anti-trust approval from the US, EU and China. Deals executed under those kind of delays have firewalls inserted that prevent the purchasing company management from having any say whatsoever in the operation of the purchaser until the deal closes. This is because the deal has a very real chance of not happening.
Deal breakup fees cover two things, that's the purchaser going through the purchasee's books with a fine tooth comb and the purchaser getting a look at all future products and development. They don't get any control over the company until the deal officially executes.
Maybe you don't realize this but this patent has been used by MS for almost a decade without reimbursement of any kind.
They've got 10 years of back patent royalties to pay and yes it's going to be a chunk of change from the current revenue. That's what happens when you don't pay your bills for a decade.
Seriously? Talking into your hand in public? Christ, after Bluetooth headsets there is NOTHING to be ashamed of. Those stupid headsets make people look like they are talking to all sorts of shit only crazy people talk to. Trees, bus benches, themselves, urinals (or a penis), Bluetooth headsets were the end of civilization if you ask me.
Just get a power port surgically inserted into your wrist.
Careful you'll anger the children that don't remember a world without these little gadgets. I agree completely that they are nothing but a toy. Even if they are a toy you don't think you can live without if it came down to it you'd sell it and live without if the finances demanded it because it IS a toy.
Mod parent up. Just because you support his claims against the music industry doesn't mean Kim isn't a giant jackoff.
The guy has run the gambit of fraudulent business enterprises, hence the reason he hasn't been to his home country (Germany) in years and the name change (break the association with his criminal past).
He got lucky with Mega, otherwise he'd probably still be stealing old ladies checkbooks.
http://dx.com/p/megafeis-m806-8-capacitive-screen-android-4-1-quad-core-tablet-pc-w-tf-wi-fi-camera-white-221323