The military will have it before the commercial airlines, by probably a couple decades at least. The airlines are perpetually on the brink of bankruptcy whereas the military has (nearly) unlimited funds.
Hmm, I wonder if that doesn't also get them some cheap redundancy, just update DNS if their I2 connection goes down and then the Google traffic goes out the commercial pipe.
Um, more like a bunch of employers shed jobs just before the end of the year so they could put in their fourth quarter/annual statement that they expect to save x millions next year through operating with fewer employees.
It doesn't really matter who pays it, it's a cost of carrying an employee so it's part of your compensation package. Since the corporation is composed of the people who supply either the capital or the human capital it's all the same.
Sorry but the utility of having internet service FAR outweighs the cost, especially when you are unemployed! When I was laid off during the last recession it was probably the best bill I paid, I was able to apply for probably hundreds of jobs that were never advertised offline and eventually landed one of them. The fuel I would have burned and the wear and tear on the vehicle driving to the library every day would have been significantly more. Not to mention that the library has a limited number of seats and so if everyone did as you suggested there wouldn't be enough seat hours to go around. Oh, and in case you hadn't noticed these people are NOT getting something for nothing, they all paid their unemployment insurance tax while working as so are perfectly entitled to the benefits.
Because the power company can't really do power factor correction and so they have to produce enough for the apparent power. I'm not sure at the residential level but I know at the commercial and industrial level there is a billing component to measure and charge for that inefficiency. That's why for instance good PSU's with PF correction can easily pay for themselves, my small datacenter has a demand side PF of ~.905 and a supply side PF of.98 thanks to the inline UPS's with even better PF correction then the power supplies.
Ohio said that last year (a fairly bad year) average weekly volume was about 7,500 calls to their hotline, last week was over 80,000 calls and that was a holiday week!
Huh? Why would you waste gas traveling to the the unemployment office? Plus they can fill out job applications when they're done vs the time wasted traveling to and from the office plus waiting in line.
That's mostly because the US finally went to ultra low sulfur diesel, without it the catalysts would have been polluted in weeks at most. California was right to ban diesels until we switched, sulfur is a massive contributor to the detrimental health effects of smog.
Except the OJ isn't empty calories, it's providing nutrition and fiber along with the calories (and the fiber makes you feel full, unlike pop which just makes you feel like going to the bathroom). A large part of my diet plan was switching to diet pop, 3-4 16oz servings a day adds up to a LOT of empty calories! There are still health drawbacks to drinking the diet pop, especially since none of the major manufacturers uses sucralose yet, but they are a lot less immediate of a danger than mild obesity.
RoHS isn't really possible to avoid and most of the early problems with the leadless solder have been solved. There is some longevity problems with tin whiskers, but for the majority of consumer electronics it's not a problem on the timescale of the products expected lifetime.
You must have money to burn (and if you are looking at Wolf and Subzero you must) so the marginal cost of the energy use is nothing compared to the waste you've already spent on marketing image. For the rest of us it makes sense to look at efficiency, two refrigerators of the same size and general design are standing next to each other and one has the Energy Star stick at $200 / year and costs $400 and the other is $110/year but costs $450, you'd be stupid to buy the $400 model. This is what labeling can do for the consumer.
Except we are risking low double digit percentages of the annual GDP, barely more then the percentage drop we will have if unemployment hits Depression levels, it's a good gamble.
Actually what you are doing by spending money today is increasing productivity, as unemployment rises your economy wide productivity numbers HAVE to plummet as those people are still consuming resources but are not contributing significantly. Tapping future work to keep current productivity high is a good idea because the economy is NOT a zero sum game.
Heck, even 4GB DIMM's aren't even that expensive anymore, about $250 even with HP's markup. So for a top end gamer box you can do 6x4=24GB of ram, should be enough to play the game and cache the entire install folder to ram =)
I'm 30 and can still hear to 19khz without issue and can even hear 22khz but with about an 8dB loss. This despite spending many weekends in front of the sub stack and concerts and raves.
Actually I started buying music again as soon as they made it available without DRM. That's why the day I found out about the Amazon MP3 store I bought seven albums: good quality, convenient, and I actually own the files. The fact that the albums are almost all between $5 and $8.99 didn't hurt =)
Outlook allows you to setup profiles and set attachment size limits on each, it's very common to set it up to grab headers and body without attachments on dialup, this would be the same.
They SHOULD work with any OS, in order to make the install under Windows easy all of the cell modems I've seen in the last 5 years or so show up as a comm port USB adapter, then it's generally as simple as finding the dial string for your provider.
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The military will have it before the commercial airlines, by probably a couple decades at least. The airlines are perpetually on the brink of bankruptcy whereas the military has (nearly) unlimited funds.
Hmm, I wonder if that doesn't also get them some cheap redundancy, just update DNS if their I2 connection goes down and then the Google traffic goes out the commercial pipe.
Um, more like a bunch of employers shed jobs just before the end of the year so they could put in their fourth quarter/annual statement that they expect to save x millions next year through operating with fewer employees.
It doesn't really matter who pays it, it's a cost of carrying an employee so it's part of your compensation package. Since the corporation is composed of the people who supply either the capital or the human capital it's all the same.
Sorry but the utility of having internet service FAR outweighs the cost, especially when you are unemployed! When I was laid off during the last recession it was probably the best bill I paid, I was able to apply for probably hundreds of jobs that were never advertised offline and eventually landed one of them. The fuel I would have burned and the wear and tear on the vehicle driving to the library every day would have been significantly more. Not to mention that the library has a limited number of seats and so if everyone did as you suggested there wouldn't be enough seat hours to go around. Oh, and in case you hadn't noticed these people are NOT getting something for nothing, they all paid their unemployment insurance tax while working as so are perfectly entitled to the benefits.
Because the power company can't really do power factor correction and so they have to produce enough for the apparent power. I'm not sure at the residential level but I know at the commercial and industrial level there is a billing component to measure and charge for that inefficiency. That's why for instance good PSU's with PF correction can easily pay for themselves, my small datacenter has a demand side PF of ~.905 and a supply side PF of .98 thanks to the inline UPS's with even better PF correction then the power supplies.
Ohio said that last year (a fairly bad year) average weekly volume was about 7,500 calls to their hotline, last week was over 80,000 calls and that was a holiday week!
Huh? Why would you waste gas traveling to the the unemployment office? Plus they can fill out job applications when they're done vs the time wasted traveling to and from the office plus waiting in line.
That's mostly because the US finally went to ultra low sulfur diesel, without it the catalysts would have been polluted in weeks at most. California was right to ban diesels until we switched, sulfur is a massive contributor to the detrimental health effects of smog.
Ouch, doesn't that mean that you are just massively decreasing the power factor on the circuit and thus not saving any real electricity?
Except the OJ isn't empty calories, it's providing nutrition and fiber along with the calories (and the fiber makes you feel full, unlike pop which just makes you feel like going to the bathroom). A large part of my diet plan was switching to diet pop, 3-4 16oz servings a day adds up to a LOT of empty calories! There are still health drawbacks to drinking the diet pop, especially since none of the major manufacturers uses sucralose yet, but they are a lot less immediate of a danger than mild obesity.
RoHS isn't really possible to avoid and most of the early problems with the leadless solder have been solved. There is some longevity problems with tin whiskers, but for the majority of consumer electronics it's not a problem on the timescale of the products expected lifetime.
You must have money to burn (and if you are looking at Wolf and Subzero you must) so the marginal cost of the energy use is nothing compared to the waste you've already spent on marketing image. For the rest of us it makes sense to look at efficiency, two refrigerators of the same size and general design are standing next to each other and one has the Energy Star stick at $200 / year and costs $400 and the other is $110/year but costs $450, you'd be stupid to buy the $400 model. This is what labeling can do for the consumer.
Except we are risking low double digit percentages of the annual GDP, barely more then the percentage drop we will have if unemployment hits Depression levels, it's a good gamble.
Actually what you are doing by spending money today is increasing productivity, as unemployment rises your economy wide productivity numbers HAVE to plummet as those people are still consuming resources but are not contributing significantly. Tapping future work to keep current productivity high is a good idea because the economy is NOT a zero sum game.
Heck, even 4GB DIMM's aren't even that expensive anymore, about $250 even with HP's markup. So for a top end gamer box you can do 6x4=24GB of ram, should be enough to play the game and cache the entire install folder to ram =)
I'm 30 and can still hear to 19khz without issue and can even hear 22khz but with about an 8dB loss. This despite spending many weekends in front of the sub stack and concerts and raves.
AACPlus rocks, it's capable of producing listenable results at 56Kbit, quite an achievement.
Actually I started buying music again as soon as they made it available without DRM. That's why the day I found out about the Amazon MP3 store I bought seven albums: good quality, convenient, and I actually own the files. The fact that the albums are almost all between $5 and $8.99 didn't hurt =)
Outlook allows you to setup profiles and set attachment size limits on each, it's very common to set it up to grab headers and body without attachments on dialup, this would be the same.
Hotels, inexpensive Wifi, right.... Try more like $8-20 per day for most of the places I've stayed if it wasn't free.
Some providers require a username/password where username is generally 10-digit# and password is always the same.
We have ~350 BB handsets on 3 different providers and they ALL have unlimited data, I just can't imagine the possible overage charges without it!
They SHOULD work with any OS, in order to make the install under Windows easy all of the cell modems I've seen in the last 5 years or so show up as a comm port USB adapter, then it's generally as simple as finding the dial string for your provider.
Because the extra cost becomes a complete waste when Netflix shuts down or changes their site or DRM scheme in a way that's incompatible with the TV?