I didn't say it's typical, typical is 30 minutes each way, during a blizzard it can turn into a 2 hour commute and the temps are by definition low enough to need a heater. A vehicle that meets 80-90% of my commute scenarios is not sufficient.
The problem I have with the Leaf is that my 25 mile commute would be way too much for it in the winter where I often get stuck in 2 hour traffic jams at temps from 32 to 0F, if my employer had a charge station it might be enough to risk it but draining 70+% of the battery just for locomotion during ideal temp days doesn't leave enough safety margin for cold weather performance plus heater usage.
Uh, in college the expectation is 2 hours out of class for every hour in class if you want to do well, expecting to just show up for lecture and do well is a sure way to fail.
I use Crashplan with a local copy, I figure enough cloud backup providers have gone bust it's worth having a local copy if I need it but in the event my house burns down or get hit by a tornado I have Crashplan to restore from.
Or use native Bitlocker encryption, the only wrinkle there is without TPM you'd need to enter your password at boot time and AFAIK AWS doesn't give you a console session to do that. TrueCrypt would have the same problem with if you wanted to encrypt the boot volume.
Suspicious yes, but not necessarily bad, remember that the NSA also manipulated the s-box values for DES to make them more resistant to differential cryptanalysis, a technique not yet known by the wider community.
No it doesn't unless you're using heating oil and prices are very high with delivery. If you're using wood, natural gas, or propane it costs about 2-3x as much per BTU to heat with electricity in most places.
My new 42" LED backlit screen consumes about 1/3rd the power (50-60W vs 140-150) of my first generation 1080p LCD, it also looks better. I probably wouldn't have upgraded if it hadn't been for a ghosting artifact caused by my HTPC menu getting burned in on the old one but now I couldn't imagine going back.
Flash is NOT shock sensitive, check out this link for proof. Cheap USB sticks with bad sodder jobs or cheap PCB's might be subject to shock but the flash itself is most certainly NOT.
On cars you never buy the first year of a redesign or new model unless you're a glutton for punishment or you're doing an expensive lease that includes free loaner coverage for maintenance and recalls. It doesn't really depend on the manufacturer either since almost all of them outsource a large percentage of their subassemblies to outside manufacturers.
Because the low cost of good digital equipment it's MUCH more likely that we'll have a recording of any given event. That Guthrie concert was probably only recorded by one person because recording was expensive and complicated, today most concerts I go to are recorded by hundreds of people. The likelihood of one copy out of hundreds surviving many years is much better than a single recording surviving and being discovered. As far as formats, it's not like it will take significantly more work for a future archivist to figure out a recording format that it did for the guys recovering that wire recording and cleaning it up.
Man, the poor drum and bass guys, they get to pick between severely rolled off bass drums or eviscerated cymbals, I guess that's why they almost all work in the digital domain.
Yes, 2.25% for these type of patents is considered exorbitant, typical royalty rates would be a flat rate of a buck or less per unit for a bundle of hundreds of these standards required patents. If everyone in a standard required 2.25% for the handful of patents they have that are included in the standard every single device would double or triple in price.
No I wouldn't, I had a Palm Pilot 15 years ago =) More importantly I try to keep up with material science research to get an idea of where things will be in 10-15 years, and there's no supercap material in development that's going to replace fossil fuels in that timeframe, at best they'll be used as part of the regenerative system in hybrids.
GNI per capita in sub-saharan Africa is $2,019 as of June 2011, do you really think they're going to on average spend 17% of their income on phone service?
Look at average life expectancy, Somalia is in the bottom 10 while the top 27 are all socialist democracies (ok Qatar and Kuwait are socialist monarchies). I think I'll take the evil socialism over a free-society.
Do you think a couple hundred people with African GDP will be able to pay access rates high enough to justify that kind of investment? Of course not, which is the same reason you don't see coast to coast 4G coverage except along interstate routes, there's not a high enough population density to justify the infrastructure investment.
At $100 they've wasted 99% of the funds on making people choose, when I was at Cisco anything under $10k could be put on a corporate credit card because it cost $68 in personnel time to cut a PO with approvals, I can't see how this model can possibly be effective with such small amounts of money unless it's a testbed to research the concept for bigger corporate-wide use.
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I didn't say it's typical, typical is 30 minutes each way, during a blizzard it can turn into a 2 hour commute and the temps are by definition low enough to need a heater. A vehicle that meets 80-90% of my commute scenarios is not sufficient.
For electric cars with a 200+ mile range there's a $7,500 federal tax credit so yeah, it would end up at ~$25k after discount but plus fees.
The problem I have with the Leaf is that my 25 mile commute would be way too much for it in the winter where I often get stuck in 2 hour traffic jams at temps from 32 to 0F, if my employer had a charge station it might be enough to risk it but draining 70+% of the battery just for locomotion during ideal temp days doesn't leave enough safety margin for cold weather performance plus heater usage.
Made by machines in $10B fab plants that need to be payed off before they are obsolete.
Uh, in college the expectation is 2 hours out of class for every hour in class if you want to do well, expecting to just show up for lecture and do well is a sure way to fail.
I use Crashplan with a local copy, I figure enough cloud backup providers have gone bust it's worth having a local copy if I need it but in the event my house burns down or get hit by a tornado I have Crashplan to restore from.
Or use native Bitlocker encryption, the only wrinkle there is without TPM you'd need to enter your password at boot time and AFAIK AWS doesn't give you a console session to do that. TrueCrypt would have the same problem with if you wanted to encrypt the boot volume.
Suspicious yes, but not necessarily bad, remember that the NSA also manipulated the s-box values for DES to make them more resistant to differential cryptanalysis, a technique not yet known by the wider community.
Bruce Schneier talked about DRBG being a probable backdoor back in 2007.
No it doesn't unless you're using heating oil and prices are very high with delivery. If you're using wood, natural gas, or propane it costs about 2-3x as much per BTU to heat with electricity in most places.
My new 42" LED backlit screen consumes about 1/3rd the power (50-60W vs 140-150) of my first generation 1080p LCD, it also looks better. I probably wouldn't have upgraded if it hadn't been for a ghosting artifact caused by my HTPC menu getting burned in on the old one but now I couldn't imagine going back.
Linus has NEVER been courteous, it's why he can effectively manage one of the largest projects on the planet.
Flash is NOT shock sensitive, check out this link for proof. Cheap USB sticks with bad sodder jobs or cheap PCB's might be subject to shock but the flash itself is most certainly NOT.
5C is 5 China, it's their bid to gain major penetration into the worlds largest cellphone market.
On cars you never buy the first year of a redesign or new model unless you're a glutton for punishment or you're doing an expensive lease that includes free loaner coverage for maintenance and recalls. It doesn't really depend on the manufacturer either since almost all of them outsource a large percentage of their subassemblies to outside manufacturers.
Because the low cost of good digital equipment it's MUCH more likely that we'll have a recording of any given event. That Guthrie concert was probably only recorded by one person because recording was expensive and complicated, today most concerts I go to are recorded by hundreds of people. The likelihood of one copy out of hundreds surviving many years is much better than a single recording surviving and being discovered. As far as formats, it's not like it will take significantly more work for a future archivist to figure out a recording format that it did for the guys recovering that wire recording and cleaning it up.
Man, the poor drum and bass guys, they get to pick between severely rolled off bass drums or eviscerated cymbals, I guess that's why they almost all work in the digital domain.
Also used repeatedly in the King James version of the Bible.
Yes, 2.25% for these type of patents is considered exorbitant, typical royalty rates would be a flat rate of a buck or less per unit for a bundle of hundreds of these standards required patents. If everyone in a standard required 2.25% for the handful of patents they have that are included in the standard every single device would double or triple in price.
Socialism and tyranny are orthogonal.
No I wouldn't, I had a Palm Pilot 15 years ago =)
More importantly I try to keep up with material science research to get an idea of where things will be in 10-15 years, and there's no supercap material in development that's going to replace fossil fuels in that timeframe, at best they'll be used as part of the regenerative system in hybrids.
GNI per capita in sub-saharan Africa is $2,019 as of June 2011, do you really think they're going to on average spend 17% of their income on phone service?
Look at average life expectancy, Somalia is in the bottom 10 while the top 27 are all socialist democracies (ok Qatar and Kuwait are socialist monarchies). I think I'll take the evil socialism over a free-society.
Do you think a couple hundred people with African GDP will be able to pay access rates high enough to justify that kind of investment? Of course not, which is the same reason you don't see coast to coast 4G coverage except along interstate routes, there's not a high enough population density to justify the infrastructure investment.
At $100 they've wasted 99% of the funds on making people choose, when I was at Cisco anything under $10k could be put on a corporate credit card because it cost $68 in personnel time to cut a PO with approvals, I can't see how this model can possibly be effective with such small amounts of money unless it's a testbed to research the concept for bigger corporate-wide use.