These things might sell quite well to libraries and businesses that need clients for web-based apps. They're also ideal second (or third) machines for households with kids. Maintaining my kid's Windows-based machine takes time and effort and Chrome would do away with that while still allowing him to use the sites and apps that matter the most -- Youtube, Google Apps for homework and gmail. He doesn't need or use much more.
In 1970, gasoline cost 35Â/gallon($1.65 in 2011 dollars). The OPEC crisis caused prices to more than double by 1980, but accelerated inflation meant that the cost rose to $2.03 in 2011 dollars. By 1990, gasoline hit $1 ($1.57 in 2011 dollars). Fast forward to today, and the average US price is $3.27. In other words, after adjusting for inflation gasoline is roughly twice as expensive as it has been historically. When you factor in the increased cost of high-tech cars and a sluggish economy, it's not surprising to see reduced demand.
For the sake of argument (and because I like round numbers), let's assume that a diver needs about 1L of oxygen per minute on average. The amount of oxygen in seawater varies by salinity, pressure and temperature. Assuming 35 g/kg salinity (most likely less in costal areas), 2 atmospheres of pressure (equivalent to a diving depth of 10 m) and nice 20 C water, you're looking at an oxygen level of about 11 ml/L. Consequently, you'd need to process 92.59L of sea water each minute to extract 1L of oxygen. Heaven help you as you surface, because skimming along a meter below the surface would require the system to process almost twice as much water. [in fairness, oxygen concentrations increase as the water temperature decreases, but the difference between 20C and 0C water is only about 30%.] So there you have it: Your face-mounted breathing system would be a terrifying water vacuum machine that hovers only inches from your noggin, sucking 1.5L of sea water and gunk per second through a tiny mouth-mounted system. I'll leave someone else to calculate the energy density required of the 5 x 5 cm fuel cell that has to power this magical device...
The credit card company charges the merchant about 4% to accept a premium credit card, and the merchant pays that fee with your money. They give you a quarter of the discount back as a "reward" and you think you're gaming the system. Just pay cash, especially at small businesses who pay the highest rates.
You're missing the point. Eventually, the incandescent bulbs installed in low use areas of my home will fail. At that point, I will be forced to purchase a more expensive replacement.
Most of the heavily used areas in my home have already been retrofitted with CFL bulbs, but there are a few places where traditional incandescents make sense - the closet under the stairs, the furnace room and the basement storage room are all excellent candidates for cheap incandescent bulbs. In each case, the light is only turned on for a couple of hours each year and the cost of replacing those bulbs with LED or CFL equivalents far outstrips the potential energy savings pver the next few decades.
The 4 year old was actually pretty smart. She figured out how to open the door. It's not her fault that the vehicle was moving and she didn't have the life experience or cognitive reasoning skills to realize that it was a bad thing to do. That's why child locks were invented.
Company introduces new version of an established form factor, except slightly faster. Not really worthy of mention. The disruptive (or potentially disruptive) products are the ones/. should be covering -- like the tiny new laptop chargers from finsix (complete with built-in USB port so it can charge your phone at the same time). Let's hope for something extremely clever to come out of the upcoming CES show. I'm not holding my breath, though; we may have a decade of iterative improvements in tablet tech ahead of us before the next big hardware shift.
Actually, I suspect that tapping the mic would yield far more useful intelligence. After all, the camera will simply capture hundreds of hours of your poorly lit head and glazed eyes. The mic, on the other hand, will capture every single conversation in the room.
Umm. Malwarebytes is a *removal* tool that doesn't offer real-time virus scanning. It's only useful after the machine is infected. It scares me when a "how-to" post has only 4 points, and one of them is so blisteringly wrong that it makes you suspect the OP doesn't actually know how to drive a computer.
A $1 incandescent bulb that lives in the downstairs storage room or closet of my house will only get used 2-3 hours a year at most. With a little luck, it will last a decade or two. There is no rational reason to replace it with a CFL or LED.
Wow. That was a xenophobic rant. Given that Canadair was sold off in 1986, I'd fly on an Embraer instead, too. I live in Canada, and honestly don't have much opportunity to buy US-made technology. I bought a Pontiac Vibe in 2007, and it was a great little car (although basically a Japanese design made in Fremont). I buy lots of tech gear designed by US companies but made in China and shop at American-owned stores like Walmart, Costco and Target. I'm really not a sure where you get the bizarre notion that we're anti-American.
I'd like to know which Canadian urban centre you live in where the local post office counter is "15 miles" down the road. Mine is less than one kilometre from my house at the local grocery store.
Actually, no. The Canada Post community mailboxes have a handful of large compartments in several sizes that are used for package delivery -- the postal worker simply puts the key in your mailbox and you use it to unlock the compartment and then just drop the key into the mail slot afterward. The end result is that if I'm not home, the package from Amazon.ca that I'm expecting is available for immediate pickup from a secure and dry place.
Why would that be? Because the ten commandments are sensible? Three of them are "Don't work on Sunday (but don't forget to attend church so you can be indoctrinated by his earthly minions)," "Don't say bad stuff about God (and by extension, his earthly minions)," and "You're not allowed to worship other Gods but me (which once again benefits his earthly minions)."
We're reading Scott Adam's words precisely because he *didn't* dial back his emotions. He was distraught and angry that he couldn't alleviate his father's suffering when he needed it most. The irony here is that Adams is a wealthy man -- he has the financial ability to pay for the best health care the nation can offer, but health care isn't what his father needs. Adams has a right to be angry, and he has a right to demand change (as do any of us in a democracy). Sometimes that means saying things out loud that are perhaps better kept inside. In this case, though, his "inside voice" speaks a grain of truth; politicians who force unimaginable agony on the dying should take the time to visit care homes and hospices and realize that unless laws are changed, there's a high chance that their inhumane laws will result in them dying a long and horrible death, too.
If the price were absolutely right, I'd be all over it in a heartbeat.
If their service reliability and scalability is well above industry averages and they have excellent backbone connectivity to their suburban mall parking lots, I'd be all over it in a heartbeat. But that's a long shot.
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These things might sell quite well to libraries and businesses that need clients for web-based apps. They're also ideal second (or third) machines for households with kids. Maintaining my kid's Windows-based machine takes time and effort and Chrome would do away with that while still allowing him to use the sites and apps that matter the most -- Youtube, Google Apps for homework and gmail. He doesn't need or use much more.
In 1970, gasoline cost 35Â/gallon($1.65 in 2011 dollars). The OPEC crisis caused prices to more than double by 1980, but accelerated inflation meant that the cost rose to $2.03 in 2011 dollars. By 1990, gasoline hit $1 ($1.57 in 2011 dollars). Fast forward to today, and the average US price is $3.27. In other words, after adjusting for inflation gasoline is roughly twice as expensive as it has been historically. When you factor in the increased cost of high-tech cars and a sluggish economy, it's not surprising to see reduced demand.
I know that the US has long resisted a shift to SI measurements, but since when does JPL measure things in jelly donuts?
For the sake of argument (and because I like round numbers), let's assume that a diver needs about 1L of oxygen per minute on average. The amount of oxygen in seawater varies by salinity, pressure and temperature. Assuming 35 g/kg salinity (most likely less in costal areas), 2 atmospheres of pressure (equivalent to a diving depth of 10 m) and nice 20 C water, you're looking at an oxygen level of about 11 ml/L. Consequently, you'd need to process 92.59L of sea water each minute to extract 1L of oxygen. Heaven help you as you surface, because skimming along a meter below the surface would require the system to process almost twice as much water. [in fairness, oxygen concentrations increase as the water temperature decreases, but the difference between 20C and 0C water is only about 30%.] So there you have it: Your face-mounted breathing system would be a terrifying water vacuum machine that hovers only inches from your noggin, sucking 1.5L of sea water and gunk per second through a tiny mouth-mounted system. I'll leave someone else to calculate the energy density required of the 5 x 5 cm fuel cell that has to power this magical device...
You have obviously never configured an exception table.
The credit card company charges the merchant about 4% to accept a premium credit card, and the merchant pays that fee with your money. They give you a quarter of the discount back as a "reward" and you think you're gaming the system. Just pay cash, especially at small businesses who pay the highest rates.
You're missing the point. Eventually, the incandescent bulbs installed in low use areas of my home will fail. At that point, I will be forced to purchase a more expensive replacement.
Most of the heavily used areas in my home have already been retrofitted with CFL bulbs, but there are a few places where traditional incandescents make sense - the closet under the stairs, the furnace room and the basement storage room are all excellent candidates for cheap incandescent bulbs. In each case, the light is only turned on for a couple of hours each year and the cost of replacing those bulbs with LED or CFL equivalents far outstrips the potential energy savings pver the next few decades.
The 4 year old was actually pretty smart. She figured out how to open the door. It's not her fault that the vehicle was moving and she didn't have the life experience or cognitive reasoning skills to realize that it was a bad thing to do. That's why child locks were invented.
Company introduces new version of an established form factor, except slightly faster. Not really worthy of mention. The disruptive (or potentially disruptive) products are the ones /. should be covering -- like the tiny new laptop chargers from finsix (complete with built-in USB port so it can charge your phone at the same time). Let's hope for something extremely clever to come out of the upcoming CES show. I'm not holding my breath, though; we may have a decade of iterative improvements in tablet tech ahead of us before the next big hardware shift.
England, obviously. Around here, you're more likely to find a gaggle of Schreiners, Schusters, Bauers and Maurer.
Actually, I suspect that tapping the mic would yield far more useful intelligence. After all, the camera will simply capture hundreds of hours of your poorly lit head and glazed eyes. The mic, on the other hand, will capture every single conversation in the room.
Umm. Malwarebytes is a *removal* tool that doesn't offer real-time virus scanning. It's only useful after the machine is infected. It scares me when a "how-to" post has only 4 points, and one of them is so blisteringly wrong that it makes you suspect the OP doesn't actually know how to drive a computer.
A $1 incandescent bulb that lives in the downstairs storage room or closet of my house will only get used 2-3 hours a year at most. With a little luck, it will last a decade or two. There is no rational reason to replace it with a CFL or LED.
In the year leading up to the termination of the Xserve line, Apple sold 42,414 units. They were a money-losing niche product.
Umm. Dude. I think you meat to leave this little manifesto in the comment section of the Toronto Sun.
Wow. That was a xenophobic rant. Given that Canadair was sold off in 1986, I'd fly on an Embraer instead, too. I live in Canada, and honestly don't have much opportunity to buy US-made technology. I bought a Pontiac Vibe in 2007, and it was a great little car (although basically a Japanese design made in Fremont). I buy lots of tech gear designed by US companies but made in China and shop at American-owned stores like Walmart, Costco and Target. I'm really not a sure where you get the bizarre notion that we're anti-American.
Engineering is dead. Once the service economy of the U.S.A. implodes, so will these job.
American engineering is very much alive. The same can't be said for high tech manufacturing.
I'd like to know which Canadian urban centre you live in where the local post office counter is "15 miles" down the road. Mine is less than one kilometre from my house at the local grocery store.
Actually, no. The Canada Post community mailboxes have a handful of large compartments in several sizes that are used for package delivery -- the postal worker simply puts the key in your mailbox and you use it to unlock the compartment and then just drop the key into the mail slot afterward. The end result is that if I'm not home, the package from Amazon.ca that I'm expecting is available for immediate pickup from a secure and dry place.
Why would that be? Because the ten commandments are sensible? Three of them are "Don't work on Sunday (but don't forget to attend church so you can be indoctrinated by his earthly minions)," "Don't say bad stuff about God (and by extension, his earthly minions)," and "You're not allowed to worship other Gods but me (which once again benefits his earthly minions)."
There is already a large body of law around utility theft. Consequently, there is no precedent to be set.
We're reading Scott Adam's words precisely because he *didn't* dial back his emotions. He was distraught and angry that he couldn't alleviate his father's suffering when he needed it most. The irony here is that Adams is a wealthy man -- he has the financial ability to pay for the best health care the nation can offer, but health care isn't what his father needs. Adams has a right to be angry, and he has a right to demand change (as do any of us in a democracy). Sometimes that means saying things out loud that are perhaps better kept inside. In this case, though, his "inside voice" speaks a grain of truth; politicians who force unimaginable agony on the dying should take the time to visit care homes and hospices and realize that unless laws are changed, there's a high chance that their inhumane laws will result in them dying a long and horrible death, too.
If the price were absolutely right, I'd be all over it in a heartbeat.
If their service reliability and scalability is well above industry averages and they have excellent backbone connectivity to their suburban mall parking lots, I'd be all over it in a heartbeat. But that's a long shot.
Sadly, It's not about the license fees. It's about using patent portfolios to suppress the competition.