Trains will requre just as much security after some idiot takes control of it and derails it into something important.
There are a whole lot of people in the middle of the country that will probably never ride trains. Autos don't get much in subsidies anymore, besides the highway system, which was built for its defensive attributes, I can't think of too many other subsidies to the auto industry, especially net of all the taxes that are levied on auto companies, auto licensing, gas, and tolls. Pasenger trains recieve billions worth of subsidies, the only routs that make money are the corridors you mentioned. And lots of land was given to the rail companies to build the original rails. Air might get more subsidies, those rural air service subsides are quite large. And having airports built by cities helps.
Yes, trains make a lot of sense, especially along both costs, and as a cargo hauler, but passenger rail service to the middle of the country will probably never replace autos or busses on the highway system.
A tubine in this application would funnel its exhaust gas through a series of chambers that increase in size to transfer the energy in the the hot pressured air into work for both compressing intake air, and turning the shaft connected to the generator. It wouldn't power the train with high speed exhaust. Its actually pretty similar to a big turbocharger in an automobile. After it is exhausted, a muffler would rob some energy, through backpressure, but the turbine would get most of it. I don't know how loud these would be, Triumph, or another European auto company used turbines in one of their cars for a few years.
This is true for other things as well, the UI focus on those McDonalds cash registers is designed to allow people with little training to quickly sell and transfer orders of food, while that of a jet cockpit is designed to allow pilots with lots of time in there the ability recieve information about and control almost every feature on an airplane.
I've actually been thinking about this, since my apartment already has baseboard electric heaters, and the building next door has fiber, it would be much more cost effective to use a rack of something to heat my apartment, and host my own data center. I can just see my landlord's face when the APC guys show up to rewire the place.
In one of my biology classes, we all had to learn a few greek and latin roots, like post and ante. I find it useful because the meaning of most english words, especially the ones I would normally have to look up for a definition, meaning is derived from one of the two languages. Of course anyone who reads my posts will note that it did not help my spelling much.
I think the fairly marginal contribution to a huge problem was not what most of us contribute for, its that our name gets put in lights, and its sort of a fun way for people to compete with each other, if someone wrote a client to measure how much energy was saved by switching to powersaving mode, I would guess that some of the people who currently donate their cycles to a distributed computing problem might use it instead.
Who's that, the Scientologists? Personally I switched over to OGRs because it was already installed, and kinda cool, even if they are likely to just prove that the theorized optimals are actually optimal.
Yeah and if you order upgrades or replacement hardware from Compaq, sorry HP, Gateway, or Dell. It is marked up just as much if not more than Apple's genuine parts. As an example a 1.5 GHz processor was $250 from Dell.
There was a picture of this effect on the cover of our HS chemistry book. One of the coolest demostrations I recall was our chem teacher making brass pennies he coated them with a zinc powder, and heated them, telling us that he had read an old book, and discovered how to turn copper into silver (following the zinc coating) and gold once it was made into brass. After the lecture, we all got to make our own brass pennies.
Sorry, I didn't mean to point anyone in the wrong direction, I forgot the exact name and mistyped it in my browser, and it looked correct. I should have checked better. My apoligies to all.
Their CEO spent 25 years with IBM, one analyst is from there and two others spent their prior years consulting on IBM only technologies. Remember that this company has a research staff of nine.
Not true, monopoly pricing relates to the monopolist's costs not his customers. Imagine a company develops an electric car that will travel 400+ miles at 80 mi/hr, (lets say that the cost of a recharge is $10), has excellent safety records and is an all around better car. They of course patent the technology in the car giving them a monopoly to produce these cars, before the patent expires. The car could have better maintenence and a higher resale value. It doesn't matter if the initial price of the car is higher or lower than a gasoline powered car monopoly power merely means that the electric car company makes higher profits than competitive electric car companies. The TCO can be lower, and the electric car priced higher or lower than a gasoline powered car, because of the significantly lower operating costs.
This is a business technical term, it means that revenue growth slows, but in a secular pattern not just a cyclical downturn. He isn't arguing that the products we have now will be with us forever, but that the total revenue pie will decelerate and eventually decrease in size for all IT products. It all comes from a model businesspeople use to show how new companies/products/industries behave over time. They are introduced and only a few early adopters use their products. New features are added regularly. Plasma screens are a pretty good example of a product in this statge. Then growth begins to take off, as many people decide to start using the product. DVD players are in a growth stage. After enough people switch to the new product, fewer people are adopting it, and maturity sets in, new variations are introduced, but they don't usually spark the same excitement and rarely get new users, just people switching within the product. Televisions and PCs are here. Finally, decline sets in as everyone has begun using the product and they simply replace broken products. Washing machines stoves and other things are in this stage. New produducts are introduced in all of thes industry groups, but mature industries usually cannot grow as quickly because most people already have their product and don't want or need additional products.
In woodworking a router is a device that is used to cut a channel or groove out of a solid block of wood. You can see some from Craftsman here, they are generally held with the cutting blade down, the cutting blade is in the center of the bottom of the device, and dragged around along your desired line or edge. Its use very similar to the triming of a large whole with a dremel, but designed to leave a better line than I can do with a dremel, there are hundreds of bits to leave various edges.
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One summer I worked as a checker at my local wal-mart, and it was not that bad. The worst parts in my memory were the constant butt kissing, and terrible attitudes of the other employees. The schedual did shift around a bit, there were 2 shifts for 8 hour days early and late, we did not have a supercenter at the time. Although it was more robotic you were paid to get people out of the store as quickly and accurately as possible, we did not have to hard sell much of anything there. I sort of enjoyed it. My favorite job in college was working as the tractor driver in an orchard. All you can eat fresh fruit, I was out doors, and I bulked up quite a bit, lifting the cherry bins all day. I made great money for the month harvest was going, too. A friend worked as a night auditor at a resort, and loved it, he eventually got his accounting degree and still enjoys the field.
Thwate is a Verisign company who used to charge lower prices for what ends up being a Verisign certificate. Last time I checked they were about half the price of Verisign. An alternative company is Baltimore Technologies. One of the main reasons to go with a known player is that their certificates are already in browsers, and they tend to do some background checking to ensure that your business is legit. Anyone can create SSL certs, it helps to be able to point to a name your customers will recognise, as a method to add credibility to your business.
I think that is the main reason I finally switched to Mozilla. Nothing was more annoying than IEs sometimes large size fonts. Although Opera did have a neat zoom feature that increased the size of everything, text pictures whatever else was on the page. I sorta miss that.
I really want a Skyline or at least to drive one (Gran Turismo does not count). Nissan would have done quite well bringing them to the states, they seem like the ideal 3 series killer.
I saw one of the stats that only 8% of cars produced today are manual. I had to search pretty hard to find a nice manual transmission equiped car. I think its pretty amazing how many people don't know or want to learn how to drive a manual transmission.
The biggest problem is most consumer price CVTs cant take much torque, the Audi model might be better at this, but the honda CVT is only available for smaller civics.
Most of the artists who came out against it in the early days, like Metallica, did so because studio tracks were being leaked before they had even been decided upon. Because they don't face a lot of risk from any potetial lost sales, or gains from additional sales, the sales aspect is not a big concern at least from what I have seen. I think if pre release tracks were not shared, most artists would not care. The artists coming out against sharing are probably doing it to please their contract holders.
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Trains will requre just as much security after some idiot takes control of it and derails it into something important.
There are a whole lot of people in the middle of the country that will probably never ride trains. Autos don't get much in subsidies anymore, besides the highway system, which was built for its defensive attributes, I can't think of too many other subsidies to the auto industry, especially net of all the taxes that are levied on auto companies, auto licensing, gas, and tolls. Pasenger trains recieve billions worth of subsidies, the only routs that make money are the corridors you mentioned. And lots of land was given to the rail companies to build the original rails. Air might get more subsidies, those rural air service subsides are quite large. And having airports built by cities helps.
Yes, trains make a lot of sense, especially along both costs, and as a cargo hauler, but passenger rail service to the middle of the country will probably never replace autos or busses on the highway system.
A tubine in this application would funnel its exhaust gas through a series of chambers that increase in size to transfer the energy in the the hot pressured air into work for both compressing intake air, and turning the shaft connected to the generator. It wouldn't power the train with high speed exhaust. Its actually pretty similar to a big turbocharger in an automobile. After it is exhausted, a muffler would rob some energy, through backpressure, but the turbine would get most of it. I don't know how loud these would be, Triumph, or another European auto company used turbines in one of their cars for a few years.
This is true for other things as well, the UI focus on those McDonalds cash registers is designed to allow people with little training to quickly sell and transfer orders of food, while that of a jet cockpit is designed to allow pilots with lots of time in there the ability recieve information about and control almost every feature on an airplane.
I've actually been thinking about this, since my apartment already has baseboard electric heaters, and the building next door has fiber, it would be much more cost effective to use a rack of something to heat my apartment, and host my own data center. I can just see my landlord's face when the APC guys show up to rewire the place.
In one of my biology classes, we all had to learn a few greek and latin roots, like post and ante. I find it useful because the meaning of most english words, especially the ones I would normally have to look up for a definition, meaning is derived from one of the two languages. Of course anyone who reads my posts will note that it did not help my spelling much.
I think the fairly marginal contribution to a huge problem was not what most of us contribute for, its that our name gets put in lights, and its sort of a fun way for people to compete with each other, if someone wrote a client to measure how much energy was saved by switching to powersaving mode, I would guess that some of the people who currently donate their cycles to a distributed computing problem might use it instead.
Who's that, the Scientologists? Personally I switched over to OGRs because it was already installed, and kinda cool, even if they are likely to just prove that the theorized optimals are actually optimal.
Yeah and if you order upgrades or replacement hardware from Compaq, sorry HP, Gateway, or Dell. It is marked up just as much if not more than Apple's genuine parts. As an example a 1.5 GHz processor was $250 from Dell.
There was a picture of this effect on the cover of our HS chemistry book. One of the coolest demostrations I recall was our chem teacher making brass pennies he coated them with a zinc powder, and heated them, telling us that he had read an old book, and discovered how to turn copper into silver (following the zinc coating) and gold once it was made into brass. After the lecture, we all got to make our own brass pennies.
Sorry, I didn't mean to point anyone in the wrong direction, I forgot the exact name and mistyped it in my browser, and it looked correct. I should have checked better. My apoligies to all.
We'll said, its nice to see another economist on slashdot.
Their CEO spent 25 years with IBM, one analyst is from there and two others spent their prior years consulting on IBM only technologies. Remember that this company has a research staff of nine.
Not true, monopoly pricing relates to the monopolist's costs not his customers. Imagine a company develops an electric car that will travel 400+ miles at 80 mi/hr, (lets say that the cost of a recharge is $10), has excellent safety records and is an all around better car. They of course patent the technology in the car giving them a monopoly to produce these cars, before the patent expires. The car could have better maintenence and a higher resale value. It doesn't matter if the initial price of the car is higher or lower than a gasoline powered car monopoly power merely means that the electric car company makes higher profits than competitive electric car companies. The TCO can be lower, and the electric car priced higher or lower than a gasoline powered car, because of the significantly lower operating costs.
I would guess that in this case gross pay probably included benefits like insurance, retirement, and leave.
This is a business technical term, it means that revenue growth slows, but in a secular pattern not just a cyclical downturn. He isn't arguing that the products we have now will be with us forever, but that the total revenue pie will decelerate and eventually decrease in size for all IT products. It all comes from a model businesspeople use to show how new companies/products/industries behave over time. They are introduced and only a few early adopters use their products. New features are added regularly. Plasma screens are a pretty good example of a product in this statge. Then growth begins to take off, as many people decide to start using the product. DVD players are in a growth stage. After enough people switch to the new product, fewer people are adopting it, and maturity sets in, new variations are introduced, but they don't usually spark the same excitement and rarely get new users, just people switching within the product. Televisions and PCs are here. Finally, decline sets in as everyone has begun using the product and they simply replace broken products. Washing machines stoves and other things are in this stage. New produducts are introduced in all of thes industry groups, but mature industries usually cannot grow as quickly because most people already have their product and don't want or need additional products.
Finally all the MS haters will have another game to play, I would guess that they were getting pretty tired of xBill.
In woodworking a router is a device that is used to cut a channel or groove out of a solid block of wood. You can see some from Craftsman here, they are generally held with the cutting blade down, the cutting blade is in the center of the bottom of the device, and dragged around along your desired line or edge. Its use very similar to the triming of a large whole with a dremel, but designed to leave a better line than I can do with a dremel, there are hundreds of bits to leave various edges.
One summer I worked as a checker at my local wal-mart, and it was not that bad. The worst parts in my memory were the constant butt kissing, and terrible attitudes of the other employees. The schedual did shift around a bit, there were 2 shifts for 8 hour days early and late, we did not have a supercenter at the time. Although it was more robotic you were paid to get people out of the store as quickly and accurately as possible, we did not have to hard sell much of anything there. I sort of enjoyed it. My favorite job in college was working as the tractor driver in an orchard. All you can eat fresh fruit, I was out doors, and I bulked up quite a bit, lifting the cherry bins all day. I made great money for the month harvest was going, too. A friend worked as a night auditor at a resort, and loved it, he eventually got his accounting degree and still enjoys the field.
Thwate is a Verisign company who used to charge lower prices for what ends up being a Verisign certificate. Last time I checked they were about half the price of Verisign. An alternative company is Baltimore Technologies. One of the main reasons to go with a known player is that their certificates are already in browsers, and they tend to do some background checking to ensure that your business is legit. Anyone can create SSL certs, it helps to be able to point to a name your customers will recognise, as a method to add credibility to your business.
They get better than 2.5G speeds, it might not be 2Mbps, but I have heard its in the several hundred Kbps range.
I think that is the main reason I finally switched to Mozilla. Nothing was more annoying than IEs sometimes large size fonts. Although Opera did have a neat zoom feature that increased the size of everything, text pictures whatever else was on the page. I sorta miss that.
I really want a Skyline or at least to drive one (Gran Turismo does not count). Nissan would have done quite well bringing them to the states, they seem like the ideal 3 series killer.
I saw one of the stats that only 8% of cars produced today are manual. I had to search pretty hard to find a nice manual transmission equiped car. I think its pretty amazing how many people don't know or want to learn how to drive a manual transmission.
The biggest problem is most consumer price CVTs cant take much torque, the Audi model might be better at this, but the honda CVT is only available for smaller civics.
Most of the artists who came out against it in the early days, like Metallica, did so because studio tracks were being leaked before they had even been decided upon. Because they don't face a lot of risk from any potetial lost sales, or gains from additional sales, the sales aspect is not a big concern at least from what I have seen. I think if pre release tracks were not shared, most artists would not care. The artists coming out against sharing are probably doing it to please their contract holders.