That's exactly what they're hoping for, tho -- auction fever.
I agree reserve sucks, but I do think their are plenty of other reasons for a reserve.
1) judge demand for a custom product, I may need $500 to build one, but I could mass produce at $200 each, if I get interest lower... 2) local sell, friend is willing to buy my car, set a reserve of $5000 sell it to him for the highest bid if the gain isn't enough to risk ebay fraud. 3) re-listing costs money, if I later decide I would part with it for $4500, but my highest bid was $2000, don't bother.
It does piss me off when they have a reserve set at a value over 95% of a "buy it now" price. That is clearly to judge demand at a lower price, but what a waste for the buyer.
good info, the statement you originally raised was that their was no comparing PV vs direct HotWater in efficiency. Their is not such a obvious winner in efficiency as you originally thought, but a clear winner in cost were my only points (I think we agree currently their?)
Also, unfortunately I am not going to mix solar with anything resembling those 4 Ton ground based Heat exchanges, for a normal house. Those $6000 HeatPump units, would probably require $50,000+ worth of PV array to turn (so really not worth it to me to talk about curently.) So anything commercially available now with 4+ EF is out of my realistic range.
I think I could stack up $2000 of PV panels, and turn one of the available HWHP water heaters. If I could modify that to go off of water instead of air, then I got something for some significant cooling and heating, whole house even, cold/hot water to boot.
Now, I am also interested in what can be done with say taking apart a window A/C. IE, I would very much like to find a small window AC unit, stack up some PV arrays to turn the compressor with a new DC motor, and again pump water across the heat exchanger. In theory for a few grand, I could be getting a little solar cooling and heat their also (this is more for camping, than just home.)
Not only is the theoretical maximum efficiency of blackbody air to water (with solar deflectors added in) max out to around 60%, so not much improvement needed to be equal. (since this 40%+ efficiency needs deflector as well)
being in the process of doing a solar water heater myself, regardless the path you choose, you still have to run a pump, to even get close to a 14% solar direct to water heater efficiency.
IE you can place the storage tank above the heater, and pull your fresh water through the heater, and storage tank, allowing some thermal circulation, then your incoming water pressure to move things, but you surely won't be anywhere near even the 14% efficiency of a 14% EF PV panel (you will be much, much cheaper though)
in my system I have got a 65Watt 12VDC water pump circulating pump, and on order, 3*15Watt PV solar panels, a cheap charge controller and a solar panel. I am re-using my old water heater, and ordering a on-demand water heater to make up for only having room for a 20 gallon tank, when a 100 Gallon tank would be better sized.
even 100% DIY, many free parts, and Arizona sun. I am still going to be over $1000, to save maybe $200 a year in grid electric.
will doubtfully be more than about 80% efficient (electrically).
actually I was just looking into HeatPumpWater heaters, according to a couple articles I read, the efficiency is stated as 1.4 (IE you get 40% more heating of the water than pure electric power into)
Compare to direct solar heating, where damn near 100%
actually Google search tells me even with solar concentrators, your efficiency would be closer to 60% in direct to water.
so a 40% efficient solar panel, into Heat pump EF of 1.4 would be a net of 56% efficient conversion, very close.
That heatPump extra 40% comes from having a warm ambient, so you get some free AC cooling their as well if desired. For some reason the HWHP systems are all air based heat pumps, I would think for maximum temperature and efficiency, I would want a hybrid, IE a closed loop solar water heater feeding into a heat pump heat exchanger, then to your hot water system. This would likely increase the efficiency's of both the systems above, since the incoming water temperature is cooler, the solar water heater is more efficient, since the Heat pump in is warmer, the HP is more efficient...
Also this would allows you to use antifreeze, and anti-corrosion chemicals in the Solar water heater as well, so you don't have issues with water freezing in winter, and with constant air bubbles into a open water heat exchanger, increasing corrosion rates, or hard water deposits, etc, etc.
I'm sure there's dozens of open source hardware designs for DVD jukeboxes
Well, your going to have to store on some kind of hardware at some point, that hardware is either not going to be enterprise grade, AND completely GPL'd firmware/schematics.
Correct saying using a DVD, is not a opensource solution in it's self. However using ZFS, and simply doing a "zfs export" on a volume containing all your logs, and zfs history turned on, and dump that export to a dvd, would give a opensource solution. Thats all assuming that the poster is logging less than a DVD's worth of data in a reasonable amount of time.
so, ya I would go in steps:
STEP 1: will managing this data on DVD's work for you? start a thread exploring how to do it on a DVD.
STEP 1: will it work to a printer? start a thread using a printer.
STEP 1: will it work to a separate PC using a network solution, and read/write media? start a thread on that.
hmm, I'll bet thats how Bin Ladden got away with all of Iraq's WMD's. He shot them to the moon in IRAQ's supergun (along with the supergun, for the return trip don't ask me how, thats why it's a super gun.)
you can't avoid this even by going all-organic unless everything you consume comes from a deserted island
I think you stretched the whole you are what you eat bit too far. And are switching organic problems with Genetic Engineered.
1) Roundup is not a Genetic Engineered product, and has a very short half life, so thinking it is going to make it through a entire food chain is on the paranoid side (IMHO). As far as cancer causing, what isn't? I would worry first about someone watering their organic tomato crop with water that has arsenic in it, cause it doesn't have near the short half life dissolved in water, and is highly water soluble, and is a poison to animals, not at all to the plant you eat and also in much greater abundance than Roundup. Now being anti-irrigated crops would hurt us in AZ, you Midwesterners should jump on that as more evil than genetic engineered (lots of indisputable reasons.)
Also beans would be the bigger concern, it is a waste to spray all your corn with roundup, corn is tall and not as prone to catching short weeds and tearing up your combine (or having the sun blocked to your crop). Only real reason I can think of for RR corn is so over spray from neighboring beans isn't harming them.
When they first introduced RR crops, it was supposed to decrease Roundup exposure. IE when I last worked on a farm we sprayed highly concentrated roundup on the weeds directly when they were grown, so they could be distinguished from the food crop. RR was supposed to allow you to spray very diluted amounts when the crop and weeds were tiny (long time from harvesting) and more sensitive to spray. I hear rumors with more resistance, that is probably less true today, and you may have to spray more than once, since roundup doesn't get into plants from the ground, only if directly applied to a growing plants leaves.
So if a couple guys in a garage invent something, the companies with the capital needed to mass-produce this new product can either license it now or wait a couple years and not owe the inventor anything.
True, assuming a company wants to follow the rules, and cheat the inventor at the same time. Currently it seams cheapest to just produce the product, and if you ever get caught, tie it up in court until the inventor settles for lawyer fees. The only risk is if the inventor sells his patent to the competitor so their is real money coming at the manufacture.
I would just add to this proposal, a need to always credit the inventor of the product for Life+25.
That way if Taiwain imports want to sell a "Adjustable wrench - Crescent(tm)" Against a "Crescent Wrench", at least the inventor always gets credit, and the free market can decide if they want to reward the inventor, or the copier.
His point is that the kernels are optimized for servers.
I guess I read into it differently. I thought it was more about no TIVOisation allowed. IE the original OS was just a OS, you can build on it what you will, enter different file managers, etc, etc. and they were allowed to A) be compatible without too much hacking B) have a chance to make money without being bought out by M.S.
With MS not publishing the API's used for their apps, 3rd party developers are at a disadvantage. with so much integrated into the OS, without documentation about how to unravel/replace/build simular...
Well how that affects no development. Is independent developers/consumers cant reasonably take their known OS/ work OS and make it work as a base. So PC manufactures/board manufactures aren't building very many specialty spin off's. EXAMPLE: very very limited option in buying a quiet PC in a small form factor, that could, for example, make a nice TIVO looking PC, that is 1) low power and 2) build upon a OS that people are familiar with.
I don't think MS is to blame for this, people wanted simple PC's to learn without learning anything to start. Their market wasn't command line hackers, so slowly that completely faded out in the MS development cycle. And developers are getting stuck with shrink wrapped package as a starting platform. Thus you are limited to thinking inside the box
and it is about educational use. If the student is planning to run matlab, etc and is competent to install and run those packages, then they should either already be computer literate enough to upgrade memory and or CPU. Or it would be wise to give them the learning opportunity.
After all, a $36 memory upgrade, and a $50 CPU update are still cheaper than even the student version of any program that would likely need it.
Is there any reason to use Miro rather than VLC or BS Player?
Just the player, not that I know of. At least with democracy version, really the server was always the drive. with the peer to peer, it is about making your content available to you anywhere, and to others as well.
I considered it for our work, it would work good (without the 4 separate IT nazis that is) because we got 4 distinct locations, if you put a server at each location you could publish the video on one server, and the link between the locations would be spared the full load of all the clients viewing all our client.
As is, we judge the likely popularity center, transfer to the best guess server, and post a hard link, vlc is good for this setup.
Of course, this was when they were using those stupid install CDs.
it was 10 years ago when I (briefly) had comcast, the local setup had a "do it yourself" installation, which meant the modem was already configured when they brought it to my apartment, and they hand you the cd to install yourself.
Thats the smart way, cause that CD had all kinds of nuiscence apps, stuff like yahoo's add/search bar, ask jeeves... the only thing close to useful was a pre-setup outlook install for their email (which was a definite no no for myself, but potentially useful for others.)
Basically if they had installed that CD, It may have resulted in a good time to start a fresh OS install to be sure and remove it.
all F=M*A is telling you, is that you lose 2% acceleration for the same force, says nothing about economy or max available force.
Power=M*V^2 so when you add 2% to your mass, if you accelerated to 59.4MPH (sqrt(0.98*60^2)) instead of 60.0MPH you used the exact same amount of energy as the unloaded car. Since energy is not lost, even this extra energy to speed is not wasted, it is stored in momentum, so unless you don't use that momentum you don't even lose that. IE cornering now takes more force, but since that force is just changing direction, it is not lost (very very slight increase in frictional losses.) Of course if you slam on the brakes, instead of coasting to a stop then that energy is indeed wasted.
as your post says, in performance it's more about weight balance than anything. Since this weight is typically added very low, and in the center of the car, it changes angular momentum almost none. For a front wheel drive car, this actually improves weight balance. That is why in autocross it is typical (FWD only) to pull out the spare tire, seats, etc. But run with a full tank of fuel (this really depends on the car and course, if slight increase in braking, corning, and handling are more important than a slight decrease in acceleration.)
I've nothing against the tapping in and of itself,
as you say, snooping on just my phone calls, no whoop. However they have the computer power to snoop on everyones calls simultaneously, aggregate the data, look for patterns, and it is so secret they 1) can't document abuses 2) can't discipline anyone who abuses it.
eg: if 1000 people call in to the brokers to sell their Haliburton stock at the same time, a flag might instantly pop up on the VP's computer, and automatically sell his stock first. Knowing one persons calls to trade a stock, meaningless, knowing a 1000 insiders did simultaneously, priceless.
Japan was accused of doing stuff like this back in the 70's. eg: The phone Company would automatically take fax's sent or received out of country, and copy them to any interested company's, "in the nations best interest". So if a American executive in japan faxed out a private bid for a contract to his home office, that fax would get to the Japanese business also bidding...
You don't think it will affects you? Business knowing they can't do business inside the US through phones, email, etc. Because they can't trust the privacy of our government...
Also, for a license to be binding between two parties, don't the 2 parties have to have agreed to it?
Basically if MS doesn't abide by GPLv3, then their right to distribute the v3 code is gone. So now their vouchers may become valueless. They could be sued for distributing the vouchers, but that seams tough considering they seam to be giving them away.
Actually I bet that since the division of MS that is distributing the vouchers probably has no authority over Microsoft's patent portfolio, it seams highly unlikely that they would even have legal authority to enter into a licensing agreement on Microsoft's behalf. (After all I can't just go to any employee, say a MSN support technician of MS, and agree to give him $5000 for a 500 person site license of all versions of ms software. He would probably agree, pocket the money.)
Yes, pumps use a simple turbine attached to a rotary encoder. They could not afford to have anything more sophisticated and they must keep operating in a environment with little care or calibration.
Almost all of the pumps are digital now. If they add a single $1 thermocouple to the fuel tank, and give a discount at the beginning/end of the transaction (they vary my price at safeway and frys by $.03 - $.10 now based on my last grocery purchase), how difficult to do the same based on a single temperature gauge?
Basically, a $9 probe, they can be installed in any of the lines running out of the tank, since their are only a few equipment manufactures, the cost of software updates would be spread over thousands of locations. I would think under $5000/station to refit existing stations (if required at all stations.) A additional cost of $50 per station to add it into new locations.
because transporting 30kg of extra fuel around is free
pretty much (lose more performance, than economy, since rolling resistance isn't changed much, just have to allow the extra momentum to carry you up the hills, avoid using brakes when possible.) But I figure it is our duty as free market consumers to reward stations for being competitive. IE if no one shopped around for the cheaper fuel, then their would be little incentive for their to be low cost stations that reduce their costs, and lower their prices.
The garmin GPS software on my PDA, downloads gas prices, and gives cheapest prices along my planed route. So I do that before I leave work, on days I need gas. Although on any given week it only saves maybe $2, I figure enough people do this that it keeps the prices down by double that amount.
don't change the stickers that list the content on them in the summer months,
Many of the gas stations in AZ say "from Oct to March this fuel may contain up to 8% ethanol." on those stickers. I noticed this, because I was tracking my fuel economy in my PDA, and noticed my fuel economy would drop by over 5% if I used the safeway gas during this time period (A station with these stickers) I figured this was mostly due to it being a carburetted vehicle, so no automatic tuning to compensate (otherwise it should be more like 10% less energy * 8% of fuel = 0.8% less expected economy.)
no shortage of programmers or software engineers in the U.S.; there is a shortage of people who are interested in being paid next to nothing.
And the difference is? Of course they can always pay enough to pull the talent away from their current employers... Thats never been the question in my book. Their is just not a ethical (in my view of a perfect world anyway) way to keep all the capable people of learning a desirable skill like programming, especially something as relocatable. So the second best, in my view, is for a country to try and move/lockdown/get the best talent, and the best infrastructure possible. It seams were losing ground in both fronts. With below average broadband speed, and restricting immigration, and not allowing graduates to stay, the US seams to be loosing out on potential.
although I am very surprised at Canada seamed like they are very restrictive on who can work their on a permanent basis (compared to the US) And high tax rates would hold them down. (personal income tax, but according/. think their is no difference from taxing a individual or a company, since they just pass it along.)
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I agree reserve sucks, but I do think their are plenty of other reasons for a reserve.
1) judge demand for a custom product, I may need $500 to build one, but I could mass produce at $200 each, if I get interest lower...
2) local sell, friend is willing to buy my car, set a reserve of $5000 sell it to him for the highest bid if the gain isn't enough to risk ebay fraud.
3) re-listing costs money, if I later decide I would part with it for $4500, but my highest bid was $2000, don't bother.
It does piss me off when they have a reserve set at a value over 95% of a "buy it now" price. That is clearly to judge demand at a lower price, but what a waste for the buyer.
craigslist could also be used as a counter-example for his other complaint.
notice, I didn't say a good example, I have never tried to know.
but what a great time to clean out all those non ipv6 zombie machines currently facing the internet.
good info, the statement you originally raised was that their was no comparing PV vs direct HotWater in efficiency. Their is not such a obvious winner in efficiency as you originally thought, but a clear winner in cost were my only points (I think we agree currently their?)
Also, unfortunately I am not going to mix solar with anything resembling those 4 Ton ground based Heat exchanges, for a normal house. Those $6000 HeatPump units, would probably require $50,000+ worth of PV array to turn (so really not worth it to me to talk about curently.) So anything commercially available now with 4+ EF is out of my realistic range.
I think I could stack up $2000 of PV panels, and turn one of the available HWHP water heaters. If I could modify that to go off of water instead of air, then I got something for some significant cooling and heating, whole house even, cold/hot water to boot.
Now, I am also interested in what can be done with say taking apart a window A/C. IE, I would very much like to find a small window AC unit, stack up some PV arrays to turn the compressor with a new DC motor, and again pump water across the heat exchanger. In theory for a few grand, I could be getting a little solar cooling and heat their also (this is more for camping, than just home.)
Not only is the theoretical maximum efficiency of blackbody air to water (with solar deflectors added in) max out to around 60%, so not much improvement needed to be equal. (since this 40%+ efficiency needs deflector as well)
being in the process of doing a solar water heater myself, regardless the path you choose, you still have to run a pump, to even get close to a 14% solar direct to water heater efficiency.
IE you can place the storage tank above the heater, and pull your fresh water through the heater, and storage tank, allowing some thermal circulation, then your incoming water pressure to move things, but you surely won't be anywhere near even the 14% efficiency of a 14% EF PV panel (you will be much, much cheaper though)
in my system I have got a 65Watt 12VDC water pump circulating pump, and on order, 3*15Watt PV solar panels, a cheap charge controller and a solar panel. I am re-using my old water heater, and ordering a on-demand water heater to make up for only having room for a 20 gallon tank, when a 100 Gallon tank would be better sized.
even 100% DIY, many free parts, and Arizona sun. I am still going to be over $1000, to save maybe $200 a year in grid electric.
actually I was just looking into HeatPumpWater heaters, according to a couple articles I read, the efficiency is stated as 1.4 (IE you get 40% more heating of the water than pure electric power into) actually Google search tells me even with solar concentrators, your efficiency would be closer to 60% in direct to water.
so a 40% efficient solar panel, into Heat pump EF of 1.4 would be a net of 56% efficient conversion, very close.
That heatPump extra 40% comes from having a warm ambient, so you get some free AC cooling their as well if desired. For some reason the HWHP systems are all air based heat pumps, I would think for maximum temperature and efficiency, I would want a hybrid, IE a closed loop solar water heater feeding into a heat pump heat exchanger, then to your hot water system. This would likely increase the efficiency's of both the systems above, since the incoming water temperature is cooler, the solar water heater is more efficient, since the Heat pump in is warmer, the HP is more efficient...
Also this would allows you to use antifreeze, and anti-corrosion chemicals in the Solar water heater as well, so you don't have issues with water freezing in winter, and with constant air bubbles into a open water heat exchanger, increasing corrosion rates, or hard water deposits, etc, etc.
Well, your going to have to store on some kind of hardware at some point, that hardware is either not going to be enterprise grade, AND completely GPL'd firmware/schematics.
Correct saying using a DVD, is not a opensource solution in it's self. However using ZFS, and simply doing a "zfs export" on a volume containing all your logs, and zfs history turned on, and dump that export to a dvd, would give a opensource solution. Thats all assuming that the poster is logging less than a DVD's worth of data in a reasonable amount of time.
so, ya I would go in steps:
STEP 1: will managing this data on DVD's work for you? start a thread exploring how to do it on a DVD.
STEP 1: will it work to a printer? start a thread using a printer.
STEP 1: will it work to a separate PC using a network solution, and read/write media? start a thread on that.
surprised no one has suggested stenography in naked photos posted to usenet?
Translation, linux is responsible for 5000 jobs lost. All of a sudden B.Gates might have a point about that sucking sound.
125 Acres/6 =20 acres. so 20 Acres of office space would likely require a good 600 employees, correct.
seriously though, freeing that many physical resources for more productive uses sounds like a win/win.
hmm, I'll bet thats how Bin Ladden got away with all of Iraq's WMD's. He shot them to the moon in IRAQ's supergun (along with the supergun, for the return trip don't ask me how, thats why it's a super gun.)
I think you stretched the whole you are what you eat bit too far. And are switching organic problems with Genetic Engineered.
1) Roundup is not a Genetic Engineered product, and has a very short half life, so thinking it is going to make it through a entire food chain is on the paranoid side (IMHO). As far as cancer causing, what isn't? I would worry first about someone watering their organic tomato crop with water that has arsenic in it, cause it doesn't have near the short half life dissolved in water, and is highly water soluble, and is a poison to animals, not at all to the plant you eat and also in much greater abundance than Roundup. Now being anti-irrigated crops would hurt us in AZ, you Midwesterners should jump on that as more evil than genetic engineered (lots of indisputable reasons.)
Also beans would be the bigger concern, it is a waste to spray all your corn with roundup, corn is tall and not as prone to catching short weeds and tearing up your combine (or having the sun blocked to your crop). Only real reason I can think of for RR corn is so over spray from neighboring beans isn't harming them.
When they first introduced RR crops, it was supposed to decrease Roundup exposure. IE when I last worked on a farm we sprayed highly concentrated roundup on the weeds directly when they were grown, so they could be distinguished from the food crop. RR was supposed to allow you to spray very diluted amounts when the crop and weeds were tiny (long time from harvesting) and more sensitive to spray. I hear rumors with more resistance, that is probably less true today, and you may have to spray more than once, since roundup doesn't get into plants from the ground, only if directly applied to a growing plants leaves.
True, assuming a company wants to follow the rules, and cheat the inventor at the same time.
Currently it seams cheapest to just produce the product, and if you ever get caught, tie it up in court until the inventor settles for lawyer fees. The only risk is if the inventor sells his patent to the competitor so their is real money coming at the manufacture.
I would just add to this proposal, a need to always credit the inventor of the product for Life+25.
That way if Taiwain imports want to sell a "Adjustable wrench - Crescent(tm)" Against a "Crescent Wrench", at least the inventor always gets credit, and the free market can decide if they want to reward the inventor, or the copier.
I guess I read into it differently.
I thought it was more about no TIVOisation allowed. IE the original OS was just a OS, you can build on it what you will, enter different file managers, etc, etc. and they were allowed to A) be compatible without too much hacking B) have a chance to make money without being bought out by M.S.
With MS not publishing the API's used for their apps, 3rd party developers are at a disadvantage. with so much integrated into the OS, without documentation about how to unravel/replace/build simular...
Well how that affects no development. Is independent developers/consumers cant reasonably take their known OS/ work OS and make it work as a base. So PC manufactures/board manufactures aren't building very many specialty spin off's. EXAMPLE: very very limited option in buying a quiet PC in a small form factor, that could, for example, make a nice TIVO looking PC, that is 1) low power and 2) build upon a OS that people are familiar with.
I don't think MS is to blame for this, people wanted simple PC's to learn without learning anything to start. Their market wasn't command line hackers, so slowly that completely faded out in the MS development cycle. And developers are getting stuck with shrink wrapped package as a starting platform. Thus you are limited to thinking inside the box
and it is about educational use. If the student is planning to run matlab, etc and is competent to install and run those packages, then they should either already be computer literate enough to upgrade memory and or CPU. Or it would be wise to give them the learning opportunity.
After all, a $36 memory upgrade, and a $50 CPU update are still cheaper than even the student version of any program that would likely need it.
Just the player, not that I know of. At least with democracy version, really the server was always the drive.
with the peer to peer, it is about making your content available to you anywhere, and to others as well.
I considered it for our work, it would work good (without the 4 separate IT nazis that is) because we got 4 distinct locations, if you put a server at each location you could publish the video on one server, and the link between the locations would be spared the full load of all the clients viewing all our client.
As is, we judge the likely popularity center, transfer to the best guess server, and post a hard link, vlc is good for this setup.
it was 10 years ago when I (briefly) had comcast, the local setup had a "do it yourself" installation, which meant the modem was already configured when they brought it to my apartment, and they hand you the cd to install yourself.
Thats the smart way, cause that CD had all kinds of nuiscence apps, stuff like yahoo's add/search bar, ask jeeves... the only thing close to useful was a pre-setup outlook install for their email (which was a definite no no for myself, but potentially useful for others.)
Basically if they had installed that CD, It may have resulted in a good time to start a fresh OS install to be sure and remove it.
all F=M*A is telling you, is that you lose 2% acceleration for the same force, says nothing about economy or max available force.
Power=M*V^2 so when you add 2% to your mass, if you accelerated to 59.4MPH (sqrt(0.98*60^2)) instead of 60.0MPH you used the exact same amount of energy as the unloaded car. Since energy is not lost, even this extra energy to speed is not wasted, it is stored in momentum, so unless you don't use that momentum you don't even lose that. IE cornering now takes more force, but since that force is just changing direction, it is not lost (very very slight increase in frictional losses.) Of course if you slam on the brakes, instead of coasting to a stop then that energy is indeed wasted.
as your post says, in performance it's more about weight balance than anything. Since this weight is typically added very low, and in the center of the car, it changes angular momentum almost none. For a front wheel drive car, this actually improves weight balance. That is why in autocross it is typical (FWD only) to pull out the spare tire, seats, etc. But run with a full tank of fuel (this really depends on the car and course, if slight increase in braking, corning, and handling are more important than a slight decrease in acceleration.)
as you say, snooping on just my phone calls, no whoop. However they have the computer power to snoop on everyones calls simultaneously, aggregate the data, look for patterns, and it is so secret they 1) can't document abuses 2) can't discipline anyone who abuses it.
eg: if 1000 people call in to the brokers to sell their Haliburton stock at the same time, a flag might instantly pop up on the VP's computer, and automatically sell his stock first. Knowing one persons calls to trade a stock, meaningless, knowing a 1000 insiders did simultaneously, priceless.
Japan was accused of doing stuff like this back in the 70's. eg: The phone Company would automatically take fax's sent or received out of country, and copy them to any interested company's, "in the nations best interest". So if a American executive in japan faxed out a private bid for a contract to his home office, that fax would get to the Japanese business also bidding...
You don't think it will affects you? Business knowing they can't do business inside the US through phones, email, etc. Because they can't trust the privacy of our government...
Also, for a license to be binding between two parties, don't the 2 parties have to have agreed to it?
Basically if MS doesn't abide by GPLv3, then their right to distribute the v3 code is gone. So now their vouchers may become valueless. They could be sued for distributing the vouchers, but that seams tough considering they seam to be giving them away.
Actually I bet that since the division of MS that is distributing the vouchers probably has no authority over Microsoft's patent portfolio, it seams highly unlikely that they would even have legal authority to enter into a licensing agreement on Microsoft's behalf. (After all I can't just go to any employee, say a MSN support technician of MS, and agree to give him $5000 for a 500 person site license of all versions of ms software. He would probably agree, pocket the money.)
Almost all of the pumps are digital now. If they add a single $1 thermocouple to the fuel tank, and give a discount at the beginning/end of the transaction (they vary my price at safeway and frys by $.03 - $.10 now based on my last grocery purchase), how difficult to do the same based on a single temperature gauge?
Basically, a $9 probe, they can be installed in any of the lines running out of the tank, since their are only a few equipment manufactures, the cost of software updates would be spread over thousands of locations. I would think under $5000/station to refit existing stations (if required at all stations.) A additional cost of $50 per station to add it into new locations.
pretty much (lose more performance, than economy, since rolling resistance isn't changed much, just have to allow the extra momentum to carry you up the hills, avoid using brakes when possible.) But I figure it is our duty as free market consumers to reward stations for being competitive. IE if no one shopped around for the cheaper fuel, then their would be little incentive for their to be low cost stations that reduce their costs, and lower their prices.
The garmin GPS software on my PDA, downloads gas prices, and gives cheapest prices along my planed route. So I do that before I leave work, on days I need gas. Although on any given week it only saves maybe $2, I figure enough people do this that it keeps the prices down by double that amount.
Many of the gas stations in AZ say "from Oct to March this fuel may contain up to 8% ethanol." on those stickers.
I noticed this, because I was tracking my fuel economy in my PDA, and noticed my fuel economy would drop by over 5% if I used the safeway gas during this time period (A station with these stickers)
I figured this was mostly due to it being a carburetted vehicle, so no automatic tuning to compensate (otherwise it should be more like 10% less energy * 8% of fuel = 0.8% less expected economy.)
well, since cnn shows software engineer as the best job, I won't even mention the crap you have to put up with as a plumber.
1 - Software engineer
$80,500 average pay 46% 10-year growth 44,800 annual job openings stress B
And the difference is? Of course they can always pay enough to pull the talent away from their current employers...
Thats never been the question in my book. Their is just not a ethical (in my view of a perfect world anyway) way to keep all the capable people of learning a desirable skill like programming, especially something as relocatable. So the second best, in my view, is for a country to try and move/lockdown/get the best talent, and the best infrastructure possible. It seams were losing ground in both fronts. With below average broadband speed, and restricting immigration, and not allowing graduates to stay, the US seams to be loosing out on potential.
although I am very surprised at Canada seamed like they are very restrictive on who can work their on a permanent basis (compared to the US) And high tax rates would hold them down.
(personal income tax, but according
also a great way to bypass laws on selling alcohol to minors. IE pump it all into their gas tanks, just cause they got a keg tap in the tank.