While moving between star, open or microsoft office is trivial for technical people, the average user has major problems with the gui being slighting different and commands being in different menus.
The site got stuck at the "Loading" screen (rabbits and green vine). I had to reload to get it to come up. Being American, I, of course, clicked on the British flag and was greeted in German. Had to reload (again), because nothing happened after the rabbit's trip. Was told my "Session timed out" the first time I tried to take the test. Was presented with "Unable to verify the identity of www.origenxbox360.com as a trusted site" cert warning after the test. Was told my "Session timed out" after I dismissed the cert warning.
At least with telecommuting there is a definite, tangible energy savings, unlike questionable tactics such as extending Daylight Saving Time.
It would make so much more sense for an "Energy Policy Act" from the US government to provide assistance (via tax breaks or assistance) to companies to lessen the weekly energy consumption of their employees.
Allow companies to let their employees telecommute one day a week, for example. Or, help companies move to a 4 day week (10 hour work day, not every employee would have the same day "off").
These are simple actions with an instant benefit of 20% savings in energy.
Beyond that, the government could have linked federal dollars to adoption of "Dark Sky" ordinances at the state and local level. This would shave a few more percent off the US energy budget by getting rid of over-lighting, trespass lighting (light that unnecessarily spills over to a different property), and useless lighting (light that doesn't actually light anything - ie, heads out to space).
This would allow us to stop short circuiting the carbon cycle and use atmospheric CO2 (via biomass) as a source for oil.
The cost per barrel of this oil has historically been around $100, which made it a hard sell. The combination of a spike in oil prices and a $42 per barrel biofuel tax credit (to be enacted at the end of the year) will make it much more attractive.
The remaining issue then is production - getting enough plants online to start making a dent in our fossil oil use.
While I believe this is not the ultimate answer, it is a step in the right direction.
$220 million / 2.7 million users = $81.48 / year $81.48 per year / 12 month = $6.79 / month
The average VOIP account only is only $6.79 per month? That doesn't seem right. I have one of the cheaper accounts available ($14.99, VoicePulse), so I am a little skeptical of that number.
From the linked article, Vonage has 750,000 customers. Assuming they are all on the cheapest plan:
750,000 x $14.99 x 12 = 134,910,000
Which would mean for all non-Vonage VOIP customers:
$85 million / 2 million customers / 12 months = $3.54 per month per customer
Given the other players involved (VoicePulse, Voicewing, AT&T, Time Warner), I have a hard time believing that number.
But METAR is not very accessible to developers... just three or four years ago I spent a good deal of time trying to find information on how to break down the METAR codes into something meaningful.
You must have not looked very hard. UCAR has had Perl-based decoders for a lot longer than that.
How can you copyright a satellite photo of the earth? Since you're so far away, there's no selection of angle (other than "down"), so it seems to me these are similar to a photograph of any other 2-dimensional object, in other words, not copyrightable.
Take a look at this image (WTC, 6/30/2000). If your premise was correct, we'd only see the tops of the buildings. As it is, you can see the East and South sides (assuming North is to the top of the image).
Now, take a look at this image(WTC, 6/8/2002). Not only can you see the sides of the buildings, they are imaged at a different angle than the first picture; you see the North side, not the South.
If there were a way for the same satellite to take two images, one right after the other, it would be possible to make a stereographic image.
I do this all the time when traveling. I take two images of large, far-away objects (mountain range, river valley, seaside inlet). If I'm in a plane or train, I take two snapshots a few seconds apart; if walking, I usually go anywhere from a few hundred feet to half a mile.
When using either the proper viewing equipment (think "ViewMaster") or simply crossing your eyes when the images are placed next to each other, you get a 3D view of the scene.
Regardless, there is no way you can say these images are equivalent to a picture of a 2D object.
I would not go this route, although I've often thought of wind generation for a property I own. In your situation, I would try to save energy use in other areas.
Or, you can go another route. You can "purchase" 100 kWh blocks of wind energy for $2.50 per block.
While your particular residence will not be powered by wind, one of the participating grids will purchase X blocks of wind power instead of having to generate those blocks via fossil.
You might want to look at that image again... it says that there is a 20% chance that winds will be tropical storm force at Cape Canaveral between now and next Wednesday.
It was two large, male officers versus one small woman...and a 2-ton vehicle. Given her attitude (that she was pulled over illegally), entering her vehicle might have been enough reason for her to put her idling SUV into drive and hit the accelerator, dragging two officers with her.
This is not to say what the officers did was right or wrong, just that there are a lot of things they need to consider before taking action, so things that may seem extreme in a review of video might seem necessary in the moment.
Yes, I have seen them work. I have even seen the photo sets.
The reason they take two photos is that they need to prove that your car was not in the intersection before the light turned red.
Maybe it's a difference in jurisdictional requirements (some place may not require that level of "proof"), equipment manufacturer (eg, municipality didn't pay for the "two photo" option), or equipment age (eg, camera bought 10 years ago didn't work this way).
It sounds like you are under the impression that a red-light camera just takes a single shot of the car.
When tripped, a camera actually takes two pictures; somewhat wide-angle shots that show the position of the car, the state of the intersection, and the state of the traffic signal.
The first shot will show your car behind the stop line (not in the intersection) and a red signal. The second will show your car in the intersection with the light still red. The photos are timestamped.
This way, they can prove in court that the car in the photo actually ran the red light at the time specified (the subject of the article above notwithstanding).
The 9-1-1 emergency number has been nearly universal throughout North America for about 37 years. The idea is simple; 9-1-1 works for things with dial tones.
It's a wonder how we survived as little as 10 years ago when we actually had to dial *GASP* SEVEN digits to call the police, fire, or ambulance.
Everyone I knew had a little sticker on their phones that said:
POLICE XXX-YYYY FIRE XXX-YYYY AMB XXX-YYYY
They were given out for free by the local organizations.
Now, we get the priviledge of paying $12 per year per line to save a few digits.
The goal of (some of) the Kansas Board of education is to DE-EMPHASIZE the teaching of evolution. Not emphasize ID, or any other biases.
If they are not trying to push ID, why are they only talking about the Judeo-Christian creation belief and not that of any other religion (Hindu, American Indian, Aboriginal, etc)?
Those have just as much proven support as ID... and contradictions to the beliefs? Well, that's just God's, Shiva's, Zeus's, or [ Error: deity name not found ]'s doing.
Who says your smart folder just lumps all your MP3 files together? What if it automatically manages smart sub-folders named by album or artist or genre or BPM or whatever?
Frankly, I have no idea if any implementation does this. It seems like the next logical step after gathering the data is to provide a method to organize it via "smart rules".
Take a look at Runway 9-Right. You can see a plane just after touchdown (by the shadow you can tell that the nose is still in the air). Now, scroll left. You can see what looks to be another plane on approach, a few hundred yards out!
I would think it's just an artifact of different scans.
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While moving between star, open or microsoft office is trivial for technical people, the average user has major problems with the gui being slighting different and commands being in different menus.
Ummm... you've seen these, right?
Worked just fine here, probably something wrong with your system.
Yeah, I guess that's what Microsoft conclude when visiting their site with Safari and Firefox.
And of course you can't include Oracle in any impartial study.
You could, except for the fact that the license you just paid thousands per CPU for doesn't allow you to publish the results.
What a great example of Microsoft quality:
The site got stuck at the "Loading" screen (rabbits and green vine). I had to reload to get it to come up.
Being American, I, of course, clicked on the British flag and was greeted in German.
Had to reload (again), because nothing happened after the rabbit's trip.
Was told my "Session timed out" the first time I tried to take the test.
Was presented with "Unable to verify the identity of www.origenxbox360.com as a trusted site" cert warning after the test.
Was told my "Session timed out" after I dismissed the cert warning.
At least with telecommuting there is a definite, tangible energy savings, unlike questionable tactics such as extending Daylight Saving Time.
It would make so much more sense for an "Energy Policy Act" from the US government to provide assistance (via tax breaks or assistance) to companies to lessen the weekly energy consumption of their employees.
Allow companies to let their employees telecommute one day a week, for example. Or, help companies move to a 4 day week (10 hour work day, not every employee would have the same day "off").
These are simple actions with an instant benefit of 20% savings in energy.
Beyond that, the government could have linked federal dollars to adoption of "Dark Sky" ordinances at the state and local level. This would shave a few more percent off the US energy budget by getting rid of over-lighting, trespass lighting (light that unnecessarily spills over to a different property), and useless lighting (light that doesn't actually light anything - ie, heads out to space).
Actually, if you crash hard enough, you will form Helium pellets.
Right now, thermal depolymerization appears to be the best bet on this front.
This would allow us to stop short circuiting the carbon cycle and use atmospheric CO2 (via biomass) as a source for oil.
The cost per barrel of this oil has historically been around $100, which made it a hard sell. The combination of a spike in oil prices and a $42 per barrel biofuel tax credit (to be enacted at the end of the year) will make it much more attractive.
The remaining issue then is production - getting enough plants online to start making a dent in our fossil oil use.
While I believe this is not the ultimate answer, it is a step in the right direction.
$220 million / 2.7 million users = $81.48 / year
$81.48 per year / 12 month = $6.79 / month
The average VOIP account only is only $6.79 per month? That doesn't seem right. I have one of the cheaper accounts available ($14.99, VoicePulse), so I am a little skeptical of that number.
From the linked article, Vonage has 750,000 customers. Assuming they are all on the cheapest plan:
750,000 x $14.99 x 12 = 134,910,000
Which would mean for all non-Vonage VOIP customers:
$85 million / 2 million customers / 12 months = $3.54 per month per customer
Given the other players involved (VoicePulse, Voicewing, AT&T, Time Warner), I have a hard time believing that number.
- Tony
But METAR is not very accessible to developers... just three or four years ago I spent a good deal of time trying to find information on how to break down the METAR codes into something meaningful.
You must have not looked very hard. UCAR has had Perl-based decoders for a lot longer than that.
I found very few resources on METAR format.
You only need one resource:
FMH-1
- Tony
Those images don't look like satellite images, and they certainly don't look anything like the images Google has.
Caption from the image:
This one-meter resolution satellite image of Manhattan, New York was taken on June 8, 2002 by the IKONOS satellite.
But even with these photos, the angle doesn't seem to have been chosen for any particular artistic purpose.
And this has exactly what to do with copyright?
By your logic, it would impossible for any astronomical image to be copyrighted. I tend to think that these guys would disagree with that.
How can you copyright a satellite photo of the earth? Since you're so far away, there's no selection of angle (other than "down"), so it seems to me these are similar to a photograph of any other 2-dimensional object, in other words, not copyrightable.
Take a look at this image (WTC, 6/30/2000). If your premise was correct, we'd only see the tops of the buildings. As it is, you can see the East and South sides (assuming North is to the top of the image).
Now, take a look at this image(WTC, 6/8/2002). Not only can you see the sides of the buildings, they are imaged at a different angle than the first picture; you see the North side, not the South.
If there were a way for the same satellite to take two images, one right after the other, it would be possible to make a stereographic image.
I do this all the time when traveling. I take two images of large, far-away objects (mountain range, river valley, seaside inlet). If I'm in a plane or train, I take two snapshots a few seconds apart; if walking, I usually go anywhere from a few hundred feet to half a mile.
When using either the proper viewing equipment (think "ViewMaster") or simply crossing your eyes when the images are placed next to each other, you get a 3D view of the scene.
Regardless, there is no way you can say these images are equivalent to a picture of a 2D object.
- Tony
I would not go this route, although I've often thought of wind generation for a property I own. In your situation, I would try to save energy use in other areas.
Or, you can go another route. You can "purchase" 100 kWh blocks of wind energy for $2.50 per block.
While your particular residence will not be powered by wind, one of the participating grids will purchase X blocks of wind power instead of having to generate those blocks via fossil.
- Tony
You might want to look at that image again ... it says that there is a 20% chance that winds will be tropical storm force at Cape Canaveral between now and next Wednesday.
It was two large, male officers versus one small woman ...and a 2-ton vehicle. Given her attitude (that she was pulled over illegally), entering her vehicle might have been enough reason for her to put her idling SUV into drive and hit the accelerator, dragging two officers with her.
This is not to say what the officers did was right or wrong, just that there are a lot of things they need to consider before taking action, so things that may seem extreme in a review of video might seem necessary in the moment.
- Tony
Yes, I have seen them work. I have even seen the photo sets.
The reason they take two photos is that they need to prove that your car was not in the intersection before the light turned red.
Maybe it's a difference in jurisdictional requirements (some place may not require that level of "proof"), equipment manufacturer (eg, municipality didn't pay for the "two photo" option), or equipment age (eg, camera bought 10 years ago didn't work this way).
- Tony
It sounds like you are under the impression that a red-light camera just takes a single shot of the car.
When tripped, a camera actually takes two pictures; somewhat wide-angle shots that show the position of the car, the state of the intersection, and the state of the traffic signal.
The first shot will show your car behind the stop line (not in the intersection) and a red signal. The second will show your car in the intersection with the light still red. The photos are timestamped.
This way, they can prove in court that the car in the photo actually ran the red light at the time specified (the subject of the article above notwithstanding).
- Tony
It's a wonder how we survived as little as 10 years ago when we actually had to dial *GASP* SEVEN digits to call the police, fire, or ambulance.
Everyone I knew had a little sticker on their phones that said:They were given out for free by the local organizations.
Now, we get the priviledge of paying $12 per year per line to save a few digits.
- Tony
Here's a report from 1981. It was put together by some guy named Gordon Sumner.
Evidently, too much information can drive you insane.
Sure... they also offer Western.
Don't you mean:
Not a great director is he. Not a great screen writer is he. Straight get it.
The goal of (some of) the Kansas Board of education is to DE-EMPHASIZE the teaching of evolution. Not emphasize ID, or any other biases.
If they are not trying to push ID, why are they only talking about the Judeo-Christian creation belief and not that of any other religion (Hindu, American Indian, Aboriginal, etc)?
Those have just as much proven support as ID... and contradictions to the beliefs? Well, that's just God's, Shiva's, Zeus's, or [ Error: deity name not found ]'s doing.
- Tony
Don't forget the ever popular:
3a. If shit happens that contradicts the religious texts, then that is just God testing us or the devil tempting us.
as in:
Fossils were placed by ( God | the Devil ) to ( test our faith | lead us astray ).
I have no problem with those that want to believe a strict interpretation of the bible; just save the discussion for the Philosophy classroom.
Who says your smart folder just lumps all your MP3 files together? What if it automatically manages smart sub-folders named by album or artist or genre or BPM or whatever?
Frankly, I have no idea if any implementation does this. It seems like the next logical step after gathering the data is to provide a method to organize it via "smart rules".
- Tony
Take a look at Runway 9-Right. You can see a plane just after touchdown (by the shadow you can tell that the nose is still in the air). Now, scroll left. You can see what looks to be another plane on approach, a few hundred yards out!
I would think it's just an artifact of different scans.
- Tony
It's also worth bering in mind that there pay tax on their dividend, which here in the UK rests at 40% for most directors.
IANAnAccountant, but I think they will be paying 15% on their gains instead of 28% income tax.
That's a hefty savings.
- Tony