Sure, the fans kick in and you aren't saving as much, but are you still saving? I suspect you still are, there is a reason you are told to run ceiling fans in your house even with the AC on.
The thermal modeling for all this isn't that difficult. You can get power consumption, fan speeds, temp, etc and feed them into a pretty accurate plant model that should be able to on the fly adjust temperature for optimal efficiency. Or I guess we can hire company to form a bunch of committees to do a bunch of studies and come up with a bunch of papers that state the obvious.
Every major company has a Political Action Committee, or PAC and does things like this. A few times a year I receive emails and videos from the President/CEO about their standpoint on political issues. The last one we received had to do with potential changes in the way international earnings were reported for tax reasons. Most people just laugh them off or ignore them.
$10k to have your music get massive potential exposure via iTunes doesn't sound all that bad to me. Nobody is forcing the business model down peoples throat. iTunes isn't the be all, end all of music distribution. The alternative is open it all up for everyone until iTunes becomes as over congested and so full of crap that it is no better than youtube.
Because Green Hills is in the business of porting vxworks to any embedded system on the market. Green Hills provides the cross compilers. In fact, you probably can't even begin to think of introducing a new embedded cpu without talking with green hills to coordinate a port. It's kind of hard to shoot too many holes in a strategy that revolves around vxworks.
This is exactly why they are not a big fan. The reality is there is very little difference hardware wise in the lesser and more expensive models. If all you need to do is upgrade some software to get your cheaper model to behave like the more expensive then TI loses a ton of money. It's all about trying to get people to upgrade to a model with a higher profit margin.
When the business is the people who are paying you it's not a very good business practice to kill them off. Collateral damage/killing is completely different.
Until the first mishap. Private enterprise and investors can't survive the impact of things going wrong. Look at the numbers and you'll see an awefull lot of private satellite launchers go belly up shortly after a bad launch. The profit margins are just too thin to weather the downturn.
Other than the TRex, the prices were not all that bad. Sure, out of my price range. But $500k for a triceratops (I know its something else) seems pretty good.
I dunno. I checked out Elantris when I heard he was going to finish up the series and for some reason just couldn't get into it. One of the few books I've bought that I have left half read. Honestly, it reminded me of the last 6 books in WoT as far as pace was concerned. So in that sense maybe he was a good choice. I'm sure I'll pick this book up, but not until paperback which probably won't be for a while. I'm sure they'll make some good scratch for a while on the hardcopy.
It's called an IED because having your $100k humvee blown up by some stolen explosives with nuts and bolts duct taped to it doesn't sound very good. The cause is somehow more justified if the enemy is seen to be a bit more worthy of the expenditure.
I can't get to the article, but what do those numbers mean? Is that a yearly average across all games, or for certain games? The words 'up to' always raise a flag with me as it often applies the worst case across a broad range. For example, it wouldn't surprise me if Madden 09 (is that ea, if not its equivalent?) fits this case. Much of the development is carry over from previous years, however its major bucks to advertise for your target audience during NFL games. This pretty much applies to all their sports games, which is a major part of their profits. I think the sports games will always be more marketing simply because they have a larger audience that can be easily reached by paying big bucks at the right time. And these games are pretty consistent cash cows.
Much like the rest of the IT industry, mediocracy will become the norm and rewarded with ever growing salaries until the business becomes unsustainable and goes under. HR, diversity requirements and threat of lawsuits will not allow for an elite class of worker who makes exorbitantly more money, forcing the bar to be lowered.
The solution to this is pretty simply. Levy a $100,000 fine if you are caught. This will deter most people from doing it and those that do, any that are caught will more than make up the extra money in fines.
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I'm sure he's crying all the way to the bank. Maybe the reason he writes his books lacking technical authenticity is at least in part because that's what people want to read?
They need to make it sound cool like "Road Warrior", because sitting on your ass traveling requires a name sounds tough. As soon as you kill someone on your next business trip you shouldn't be able to use that label.
Honestly, how many Transformers nuts are out there that A) can drive, and B) can afford a new car. and C) are nerdy enough to want to spend $1k on something so stupid.
This has FAIL written all over it. On the plus side it won't cost them any extra money in tooling, however the marketing department should have to give back their salaries for wasting everyones time.
That's a nice twist of the numbers that is severly warped because of initial one time costs. If you compare it by calendar year as the plane approaches maturity you see 2008 numbers of 18H/1H, and so far in 2009 that is down to 10.5H. Keep in mind that the contractual requirements are 12H/1H once the plane reaches 'maturity', which is 2010. This is a goofy number anyway because it has more to do with how they pace it. It's not like someone has a monkey wrench on it for 3 days straight if it flies for 4 hours.
As another comparison, the cost per hour in 2008 was $19K, compared to the F15 which was $17k. History shows that this typically goes down as the plane matures and is ironed out
I'm not arguing it shouldn't have been cancelled, but to outright bash it isn't being honest either. I'm hoping we don't find ourselves in a situation where we were wishing it hadn't been canceled because that means we're in a much bigger mess than we currently are in Iraq/Af.
I have to completely disagree here with computers being more complex than cars for repairs. Realistically there are a handful of components on a computer that you ever need to deal with. In a weeks course you could teach someone with any sort of aptitude towards eletronics how to fix 99.9% of issues, because in the end its find out what's not working as you think it should, open a box and snap in the new part. Compare that to a car where you may need to diagonose things such as cylinder compression, belt timing, rebuild transmissions, and scores of other things. We're not talking Jiffy Lube stuff, but actual repairs and tuning. There's no comparison when it comes to the amount of knowledge aquired.
Don't compare computer design and manufacturing with repairing.
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Sure, the fans kick in and you aren't saving as much, but are you still saving? I suspect you still are, there is a reason you are told to run ceiling fans in your house even with the AC on.
The thermal modeling for all this isn't that difficult. You can get power consumption, fan speeds, temp, etc and feed them into a pretty accurate plant model that should be able to on the fly adjust temperature for optimal efficiency. Or I guess we can hire company to form a bunch of committees to do a bunch of studies and come up with a bunch of papers that state the obvious.
Every major company has a Political Action Committee, or PAC and does things like this. A few times a year I receive emails and videos from the President/CEO about their standpoint on political issues. The last one we received had to do with potential changes in the way international earnings were reported for tax reasons. Most people just laugh them off or ignore them.
$10k to have your music get massive potential exposure via iTunes doesn't sound all that bad to me. Nobody is forcing the business model down peoples throat. iTunes isn't the be all, end all of music distribution. The alternative is open it all up for everyone until iTunes becomes as over congested and so full of crap that it is no better than youtube.
Isn't this basically the failed business model that put them under the first time?
Ya, sorry. I brain farted.
Because Green Hills is in the business of porting vxworks to any embedded system on the market. Green Hills provides the cross compilers. In fact, you probably can't even begin to think of introducing a new embedded cpu without talking with green hills to coordinate a port. It's kind of hard to shoot too many holes in a strategy that revolves around vxworks.
This is exactly why they are not a big fan. The reality is there is very little difference hardware wise in the lesser and more expensive models. If all you need to do is upgrade some software to get your cheaper model to behave like the more expensive then TI loses a ton of money. It's all about trying to get people to upgrade to a model with a higher profit margin.
When the business is the people who are paying you it's not a very good business practice to kill them off. Collateral damage/killing is completely different.
Until the first mishap. Private enterprise and investors can't survive the impact of things going wrong. Look at the numbers and you'll see an awefull lot of private satellite launchers go belly up shortly after a bad launch. The profit margins are just too thin to weather the downturn.
Other than the TRex, the prices were not all that bad. Sure, out of my price range. But $500k for a triceratops (I know its something else) seems pretty good.
Someone at PAX flying Virgin airlines.
I dunno. I checked out Elantris when I heard he was going to finish up the series and for some reason just couldn't get into it. One of the few books I've bought that I have left half read. Honestly, it reminded me of the last 6 books in WoT as far as pace was concerned. So in that sense maybe he was a good choice. I'm sure I'll pick this book up, but not until paperback which probably won't be for a while. I'm sure they'll make some good scratch for a while on the hardcopy.
It's called an IED because having your $100k humvee blown up by some stolen explosives with nuts and bolts duct taped to it doesn't sound very good. The cause is somehow more justified if the enemy is seen to be a bit more worthy of the expenditure.
I can't get to the article, but what do those numbers mean? Is that a yearly average across all games, or for certain games? The words 'up to' always raise a flag with me as it often applies the worst case across a broad range. For example, it wouldn't surprise me if Madden 09 (is that ea, if not its equivalent?) fits this case. Much of the development is carry over from previous years, however its major bucks to advertise for your target audience during NFL games. This pretty much applies to all their sports games, which is a major part of their profits. I think the sports games will always be more marketing simply because they have a larger audience that can be easily reached by paying big bucks at the right time. And these games are pretty consistent cash cows.
Much like the rest of the IT industry, mediocracy will become the norm and rewarded with ever growing salaries until the business becomes unsustainable and goes under. HR, diversity requirements and threat of lawsuits will not allow for an elite class of worker who makes exorbitantly more money, forcing the bar to be lowered.
I'd imagine ones that have had to receive tarp or some other government bailout.
The solution to this is pretty simply. Levy a $100,000 fine if you are caught. This will deter most people from doing it and those that do, any that are caught will more than make up the extra money in fines.
I'm sure he's crying all the way to the bank. Maybe the reason he writes his books lacking technical authenticity is at least in part because that's what people want to read?
They need to make it sound cool like "Road Warrior", because sitting on your ass traveling requires a name sounds tough. As soon as you kill someone on your next business trip you shouldn't be able to use that label.
Honestly, how many Transformers nuts are out there that A) can drive, and B) can afford a new car. and C) are nerdy enough to want to spend $1k on something so stupid.
This has FAIL written all over it. On the plus side it won't cost them any extra money in tooling, however the marketing department should have to give back their salaries for wasting everyones time.
That sounds really safe! I can just see the firemen playing rock/paper/scissors to determine who goes into the garage with the fire hose first.
As another comparison, the cost per hour in 2008 was $19K, compared to the F15 which was $17k. History shows that this typically goes down as the plane matures and is ironed out
I'm not arguing it shouldn't have been cancelled, but to outright bash it isn't being honest either. I'm hoping we don't find ourselves in a situation where we were wishing it hadn't been canceled because that means we're in a much bigger mess than we currently are in Iraq/Af.
I have to completely disagree here with computers being more complex than cars for repairs. Realistically there are a handful of components on a computer that you ever need to deal with. In a weeks course you could teach someone with any sort of aptitude towards eletronics how to fix 99.9% of issues, because in the end its find out what's not working as you think it should, open a box and snap in the new part. Compare that to a car where you may need to diagonose things such as cylinder compression, belt timing, rebuild transmissions, and scores of other things. We're not talking Jiffy Lube stuff, but actual repairs and tuning. There's no comparison when it comes to the amount of knowledge aquired.
Don't compare computer design and manufacturing with repairing.
That's impressive considering Grumman made it.
What about the big bad wolf?