My dads company ships tankers and half-tankers of industrial chemicals all the time, they also ship lots of those same chemicals via truck, but if it's going inter-city and the recipient is buying at least a half-tanker it's always cheaper to do it via rail. Also look at automobiles, 70% of autos are shipped via rail, those can obviously be shipped via truck, and they're not exactly low-margin or low-value items, so why do you think that is? Perhaps rail doesn't work for your industry, but there are obviously plenty of industries where it does work.
One obvious use to me is in the delivery of the parts for windmills. Those things are absolutely huge and are pretty much by definition installed in places without a road network. That work alone could probably justify more than a dozen ships since we're expecting to build tens of thousands of windmills in the coming decades.
If Helium had any economic value we'd be capturing literally tons of the stuff right now, all sorts of natural gas production is going on and I'd assume some non-trivial percentage of those wells contain a decent percentage He, but even though natural gas is at an alltime low due to a massive supply glut nobody is bothering to capture what should be a value biproduct because the government has been selling the stuff at a below-cost-to-produce pricepoint for decades. Sell off the reserves or start selling it at cost higher than the replacement costs and you'll see more production.
25% of all ton-miles, and 42% of all inter-city freight are carried via rail in the US. The percentage of all freight carried by rail has been increasing with the cost of oil because of the significantly higher efficiency. In fact today the US carries about the same percentage of cargo via rail that the EU does.
Most larger supermarkets have a bakery section where you can purchase "artisan" breads (aka ones made fresh by a person not something spit out of a factory 800 miles away a week ago). I prefer my side bread to be artisan but prefer my sandwiches on factory bread because that's what I grew up with. I did quite enjoy the good black bread and sausages when I lived in Germany for 6 weeks though =)
So how do you handle payroll withholding, taxes, etc. From what I've seen those are the most valuable pieces of the entry level ERP tools and the part that you're not likely to get in an open source package because it's expensive and very non-fun to keep that stuff up to date.
My dad's been using a cellphone since the 1980's, if the 5W bagphone he had back then and all the phones since then didn't cause cancer over 30 years of exposure then the couple hundred mW max units we carry today certainly aren't going to.
The one advantage that a carbon credit scheme has over a phased in tax is that you'll get some immediate buyin and corporate capture with a credit scheme. IE if a company can see a profit from selling off credits this quarter they'll probably make the economic choice to implement the necessary changes whereas if you have a graduated tax they may just see it as something they should try to outwait (ie we'll buy some senators next cycle that will squash this thing before it affects the bottom line too much).
That divide is also a bunch of BS pushed by the pro-business wing of the GOP, many conservatives have no problem with environmental protection, in fact one of the stalwart conservative groups, the NRA is one of the largest funders of environmental conservation projects on the planet and helped pushed through a voluntary tax on hunting related items that goes to fund federal conservation projects. I'm fairly liberal but I'm also a card carrying NRA member because I believe in both their protection of the second amendment and their conservation work. Another example is the Boyscouts of America, hardly a bastion of liberal thinking you'll find that they have more than a few members concerned about environmental issues and pro-conservation.
someone probably noticed that the eeproms that had been through the hot oven accelerated environment testing chamber had a statistically higher reflash rate.
Since a dollar is just faith that the US government will pay its bill there is no real difference between a dollar in the trust fund and a tbill, except we got to use the dollars in the trust fund to create some economic activity. Personally I think the only way to save the social contract that social security represents is to start raising the age for future retirees now, as the average age starts to push 90 there's no way that we can expect to work for ~38 years and live in retirement for ~28, especially with a shrinking or very slowly growing population. My retirement assumptions today (I'm in my mid 30's) is that I won't retire until I'm 72 or so and that I will receive no SS benefits, if SS survives in any meaningful way it will just mean I have a slightly cushier life in retirement.
Yeah, but it's more than that, the OP said "You must be pretty poor if you think $80K/year is good money...". That's so crass and out of touch with the majority of peoples experience that it's almost on the same level as Romney. You apparently don't have to have billions to be out of touch with your fellow man, just a large sense of self entitlement and a blessed life. It amazes me how much the tone of so many slashdot posts has changed over the last couple years when it comes to money. Perhaps it's just that folks who started out with slashdot are now to the point in their career where they're making a significant wage and are far enough removed from their poor college days that they are starting to forget what it was like to not have loads of money, but I personally find it sad.
Not necessarily, there are no Z speed rated tires that are also low rolling resistance. If he has a high performance car and opted for tires rated for faster than 150mph low rolling resistance wasn't an option.
I'm not assuming anything, I simply laid out the logic that the MS execs are likely using and said that it's based on the assumption that they can achieve a high enough attach rate to overcome the likely necessary reduction in the OEM price. Of course even if MS lost all OEM OS revenue it wouldn't hurt it that much as long as they retained business and Office revenue.
OEM copies of Windows only cost about $80, and with PC's lasting about 5 years that means MS is likely to see an ~50% increase in revenue per user if the OEM price drops to near what the upgrades cost and they get a significant attach rate. For their corporate cash cows it likely means that they'll see a higher adoption of SA which will once again increase revenue. Of course this assumes they can pull it off, and actually achieve a significant adoption rate instead of just significantly fracturing the market and driving people to seek more stable alternatives.
Actually, if I was planning to travel to the Ukraine the exclusion zone would certainly be on my todo list, it's a cool piece of history and the pictures that have been shot around there are fascinating. The radiation levels are pretty insignificant everywhere but directly around the sarcaughous and in the cooling pond. If you want to see how minor the radiation is see this documentary about the naturalists working in the exclusion zone.
Huh? Amazon has albums for $5 all the time and there's zero percent risk of using your legally purchased files. I had been out of the market for a long time as well but when Amazon started selling unencumbered MP3's at reasonable prices I started buying an average of a couple albums a month.
Huh? Sprint had the first 4G network with WiMax and is currently in the process of rolling out LTE. By the end of 2014 everywhere that currently has Sprint 3G service will have LTE coverage and most towers will have fiber backhauls which is significantly more ambitious than the big 2.
Actually, he's right more right than you are. Windows has supported PAE since Windows 2000, and XP supported it up until SP2. For Windows Server PAE is only supported on advanced/enterprise editions even though the kernel is the same. Basically MS drew a licensing line in the sand saying they would only support more than 4GB of ram on the top two tiers of the server product even though 99.99% of the code is shared between the various versions.
No, 3.x could not run 32bit Windows apps out of the box, after NT 3 shipped they did later backport a subset of the Win32 API to 3.x, this was called Win32s and it was a separate download.
He'd have his press privileges revoked which would mean no backstage access, no access to the players outside what a fan would have, etc. He would still be free to purchase a ticket and live tweet the event but he would lose the access that the university has offered him as a member of the press. It's their facilities and they are free to do so, but is that what the fans who ultimately drive the revenue for the universities athletic department want?
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My dads company ships tankers and half-tankers of industrial chemicals all the time, they also ship lots of those same chemicals via truck, but if it's going inter-city and the recipient is buying at least a half-tanker it's always cheaper to do it via rail. Also look at automobiles, 70% of autos are shipped via rail, those can obviously be shipped via truck, and they're not exactly low-margin or low-value items, so why do you think that is? Perhaps rail doesn't work for your industry, but there are obviously plenty of industries where it does work.
We're already extracting tons and tons of Helium every year, we're just not bothering to capture it because it has no economic value.
One obvious use to me is in the delivery of the parts for windmills. Those things are absolutely huge and are pretty much by definition installed in places without a road network. That work alone could probably justify more than a dozen ships since we're expecting to build tens of thousands of windmills in the coming decades.
If Helium had any economic value we'd be capturing literally tons of the stuff right now, all sorts of natural gas production is going on and I'd assume some non-trivial percentage of those wells contain a decent percentage He, but even though natural gas is at an alltime low due to a massive supply glut nobody is bothering to capture what should be a value biproduct because the government has been selling the stuff at a below-cost-to-produce pricepoint for decades. Sell off the reserves or start selling it at cost higher than the replacement costs and you'll see more production.
25% of all ton-miles, and 42% of all inter-city freight are carried via rail in the US. The percentage of all freight carried by rail has been increasing with the cost of oil because of the significantly higher efficiency. In fact today the US carries about the same percentage of cargo via rail that the EU does.
And most of these same companies are in fact implicated in LCD price fixing.
Most larger supermarkets have a bakery section where you can purchase "artisan" breads (aka ones made fresh by a person not something spit out of a factory 800 miles away a week ago). I prefer my side bread to be artisan but prefer my sandwiches on factory bread because that's what I grew up with. I did quite enjoy the good black bread and sausages when I lived in Germany for 6 weeks though =)
So how do you handle payroll withholding, taxes, etc. From what I've seen those are the most valuable pieces of the entry level ERP tools and the part that you're not likely to get in an open source package because it's expensive and very non-fun to keep that stuff up to date.
My dad's been using a cellphone since the 1980's, if the 5W bagphone he had back then and all the phones since then didn't cause cancer over 30 years of exposure then the couple hundred mW max units we carry today certainly aren't going to.
The one advantage that a carbon credit scheme has over a phased in tax is that you'll get some immediate buyin and corporate capture with a credit scheme. IE if a company can see a profit from selling off credits this quarter they'll probably make the economic choice to implement the necessary changes whereas if you have a graduated tax they may just see it as something they should try to outwait (ie we'll buy some senators next cycle that will squash this thing before it affects the bottom line too much).
That divide is also a bunch of BS pushed by the pro-business wing of the GOP, many conservatives have no problem with environmental protection, in fact one of the stalwart conservative groups, the NRA is one of the largest funders of environmental conservation projects on the planet and helped pushed through a voluntary tax on hunting related items that goes to fund federal conservation projects. I'm fairly liberal but I'm also a card carrying NRA member because I believe in both their protection of the second amendment and their conservation work. Another example is the Boyscouts of America, hardly a bastion of liberal thinking you'll find that they have more than a few members concerned about environmental issues and pro-conservation.
someone probably noticed that the eeproms that had been through the hot oven accelerated environment testing chamber had a statistically higher reflash rate.
Yeah, because the ~45M illegal immigrants are all standing outside the 2,200 Home Depot stores (not all of which are in the US)...
Since a dollar is just faith that the US government will pay its bill there is no real difference between a dollar in the trust fund and a tbill, except we got to use the dollars in the trust fund to create some economic activity. Personally I think the only way to save the social contract that social security represents is to start raising the age for future retirees now, as the average age starts to push 90 there's no way that we can expect to work for ~38 years and live in retirement for ~28, especially with a shrinking or very slowly growing population. My retirement assumptions today (I'm in my mid 30's) is that I won't retire until I'm 72 or so and that I will receive no SS benefits, if SS survives in any meaningful way it will just mean I have a slightly cushier life in retirement.
Yeah, but it's more than that, the OP said "You must be pretty poor if you think $80K/year is good money...". That's so crass and out of touch with the majority of peoples experience that it's almost on the same level as Romney. You apparently don't have to have billions to be out of touch with your fellow man, just a large sense of self entitlement and a blessed life. It amazes me how much the tone of so many slashdot posts has changed over the last couple years when it comes to money. Perhaps it's just that folks who started out with slashdot are now to the point in their career where they're making a significant wage and are far enough removed from their poor college days that they are starting to forget what it was like to not have loads of money, but I personally find it sad.
The median wage in NYC is $35k, anyone who looks down on 230% of the median wage is an entitled fool.
Not necessarily, there are no Z speed rated tires that are also low rolling resistance. If he has a high performance car and opted for tires rated for faster than 150mph low rolling resistance wasn't an option.
I'm not assuming anything, I simply laid out the logic that the MS execs are likely using and said that it's based on the assumption that they can achieve a high enough attach rate to overcome the likely necessary reduction in the OEM price. Of course even if MS lost all OEM OS revenue it wouldn't hurt it that much as long as they retained business and Office revenue.
OEM copies of Windows only cost about $80, and with PC's lasting about 5 years that means MS is likely to see an ~50% increase in revenue per user if the OEM price drops to near what the upgrades cost and they get a significant attach rate. For their corporate cash cows it likely means that they'll see a higher adoption of SA which will once again increase revenue. Of course this assumes they can pull it off, and actually achieve a significant adoption rate instead of just significantly fracturing the market and driving people to seek more stable alternatives.
Actually, if I was planning to travel to the Ukraine the exclusion zone would certainly be on my todo list, it's a cool piece of history and the pictures that have been shot around there are fascinating. The radiation levels are pretty insignificant everywhere but directly around the sarcaughous and in the cooling pond. If you want to see how minor the radiation is see this documentary about the naturalists working in the exclusion zone.
Huh? Amazon has albums for $5 all the time and there's zero percent risk of using your legally purchased files. I had been out of the market for a long time as well but when Amazon started selling unencumbered MP3's at reasonable prices I started buying an average of a couple albums a month.
Huh? Sprint had the first 4G network with WiMax and is currently in the process of rolling out LTE. By the end of 2014 everywhere that currently has Sprint 3G service will have LTE coverage and most towers will have fiber backhauls which is significantly more ambitious than the big 2.
Actually, he's right more right than you are. Windows has supported PAE since Windows 2000, and XP supported it up until SP2. For Windows Server PAE is only supported on advanced/enterprise editions even though the kernel is the same. Basically MS drew a licensing line in the sand saying they would only support more than 4GB of ram on the top two tiers of the server product even though 99.99% of the code is shared between the various versions.
No, 3.x could not run 32bit Windows apps out of the box, after NT 3 shipped they did later backport a subset of the Win32 API to 3.x, this was called Win32s and it was a separate download.
He'd have his press privileges revoked which would mean no backstage access, no access to the players outside what a fan would have, etc. He would still be free to purchase a ticket and live tweet the event but he would lose the access that the university has offered him as a member of the press. It's their facilities and they are free to do so, but is that what the fans who ultimately drive the revenue for the universities athletic department want?