Do you think it's fair for work to be priced at the level of the most desperate?
Sure, but you only get him for 40-60 hours per week. That's the way the free market is. In the real world, free markets are unusual - my work can't replace me with some other guy and expect the same level of performance, and that's the same with most places - there are business and personal isues that you pick up that make you more valuable to the employer over time.
What's your source for the 9% transmission losses? I have always heard a figure of about 2%, which is a lot more reasonable.
That's total driveline losses. My MR2 is quoted as having around 11% losses, and Subarus are around 20% due to the AWD. 2% is what you get from a racing transmission, where the clutch isn't damped and the gears are all straight cut.
The university has no right to prohibit legal electronic equipment in the dorm...true. But the FCC has no right to force private property owners to allow the university to do something just because it has police and a military to back up their decision. Its utterly arbitrary.
This is actually one of the few areas where the FCC should be regulating things - their job was (and still should be limited to) regulating the use of the airwaves and preventing interference. 2.4GHz is declared as free to all comers with some power restrictions, so declaring that all bans on equipment use (outside of FCC rules) makes perfect sense.
Have you ever considered the continuing costs of the rogue Iraqi regime on world markets?
There was no 'rogue regime' in Iraq until just recently. If you're going to knock Iraq or try and justify our invasion on a cost basis, at least refrain from using such loaded terminology.
The Indian government has put a lot of money into educating people and now the Indian IT sector is taking off. This will bring money into India and from those taxes generate revenue for the govt to pay for infrastructure etc.
Until they cease being the low wage country of choice, at which time they will either have their own industry or suffer collapse as US and European companies move to some other country.
I would like to see the look on a car sales person face in 1980 if you told them that Japan would be producing some of the top of the line cars, and that Toyota and Honda would both have Formula 1 and Indy cars.
In 1980, the Big 3 built crap that was lucky to make it to 80k miles, while Toyota (the poster boy for TQM, by the way) built small cars that ran forever. Perhaps you mean the 60s?
Seconded. I had one as a small kid, and the most dangerous thing about that dog was the tail - right at head level. That was until some guy decided to pull a knife on my mother. 65 pounds of claws and teeth.
The police and crown prosecuter (rather like a DA) admit to believing his story but argue that, even if your life is in imminent danger, to defend it reduces you to the level of those threatening it. Legally, they are correct: you're supposed to wait for the police and they are not obliged to try to help you (this was decided by the Canadian Supreme Court). And, that's what sucks.
Practically speaking, I'm quite happy to take up arms to defend myself. If the cops don't like it, then too bad. They themselves say that they have no obligation to provide for my safety. I'd just like to know what sort of high grade colombian they were snorting when they decided that shooting an attacker was the same thing as being the attacker in the first place.
The theory goes that you don't need to send a lot of data out, but you will get lots of data in. Also, it makes it frustrating to operate any services like mail or web.
No, if you have an up/down ratio greater than about 8, your download speed will be limited by your capacity to send acks.
Yeah, the industry switched from silver to black around 1990, and from black to silver around 2000.
Yeah, it's a conspiracy to get us to rebuy our whole stereo every 10 years! Or, if you want a decent stereo, go to a stereo shop, like Myer Emco. Lots of black there.
Console makers can offer such powerful systems for so cheap (both being relative, of course) because they traditionally take a loss on the system and make up for it in game sales and licenses.
Xbox and Dreamcast do not a tradition make. The Playstation series and Nintendo consoles were all sold for a profit.
Again, UTD may not own the structures, but they do effectively control the use of them, including the ability to dictate the terms of lease agreements with the tenants.
That's not relevant. The FCC has stated that landlords are unable to forbid the use of these devices by residents. This effectively trumps anything that goes in your lease.
You'll find out that laws have limitations, many of them don't apply on private property. It is for example perfectly OK for theater owners to make you check in all electronics devices at the door.
This one does: "We also affirm that the rights that consumers have
under our rules to install and operate customer antennas one meter or less in size apply to the
operation of unlicensed equipment, such as Wi-Fi access points - just as they do to the use of
equipment in connection with fixed wireless services licensed by the FCC."
Looks like the FCC has just said that you can use your bluetooth and WiFi gadgets anywhere you like, with no restrictions above the existing power limits.
Um, so what? Are you planning on somehow stuffing a DVD into your DB and querying it? 5G is a lot of data - certainly enough to evaluate the product with.
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Do you think it's fair for work to be priced at the level of the most desperate?
Sure, but you only get him for 40-60 hours per week. That's the way the free market is. In the real world, free markets are unusual - my work can't replace me with some other guy and expect the same level of performance, and that's the same with most places - there are business and personal isues that you pick up that make you more valuable to the employer over time.
What's your source for the 9% transmission losses? I have always heard a figure of about 2%, which is a lot more reasonable.
That's total driveline losses. My MR2 is quoted as having around 11% losses, and Subarus are around 20% due to the AWD. 2% is what you get from a racing transmission, where the clutch isn't damped and the gears are all straight cut.
The university has no right to prohibit legal electronic equipment in the dorm...true. But the FCC has no right to force private property owners to allow the university to do something just because it has police and a military to back up their decision. Its utterly arbitrary.
This is actually one of the few areas where the FCC should be regulating things - their job was (and still should be limited to) regulating the use of the airwaves and preventing interference. 2.4GHz is declared as free to all comers with some power restrictions, so declaring that all bans on equipment use (outside of FCC rules) makes perfect sense.
That makes as much sense as saying that emergency room doctors are mass murderers.
Or perhaps it makes as much sense as making law based on scripture. This is not a Christian country, it is a secular one.
Sure we are. That deadline happens to be conception, the point at which two pieces of two separate organisms fuse to become a single new organism.
Since the majority of pregnancies abort spontaneously, would that make most women multiple murderers?
The 400,000 bodies exhumed suggest otherwise.
By that measure, Turkey is a rogue regime - they like killing Kurds too. Stalin killed some 20 or 30 million of his subjects. Was he a rogue regime?
Have you ever considered the continuing costs of the rogue Iraqi regime on world markets?
There was no 'rogue regime' in Iraq until just recently. If you're going to knock Iraq or try and justify our invasion on a cost basis, at least refrain from using such loaded terminology.
The Indian government has put a lot of money into educating people and now the Indian IT sector is taking off. This will bring money into India and from those taxes generate revenue for the govt to pay for infrastructure etc.
Until they cease being the low wage country of choice, at which time they will either have their own industry or suffer collapse as US and European companies move to some other country.
I would like to see the look on a car sales person face in 1980 if you told them that Japan would be producing some of the top of the line cars, and that Toyota and Honda would both have Formula 1 and Indy cars.
In 1980, the Big 3 built crap that was lucky to make it to 80k miles, while Toyota (the poster boy for TQM, by the way) built small cars that ran forever. Perhaps you mean the 60s?
Newsflash. Movies are not "real", not even documentaries. They all have biases (ommissions, points of view, inaccuracies, etc.)
You seem to be laboring under the misconception that Fahrenheit 911 was a documentary.
Seconded. I had one as a small kid, and the most dangerous thing about that dog was the tail - right at head level. That was until some guy decided to pull a knife on my mother. 65 pounds of claws and teeth.
n Texas, an adult trespassing after dark can be shot. A child can be shot of they are a clear threat to person or property.
I hear this makes repo-work ... interesting.
The police and crown prosecuter (rather like a DA) admit to believing his story but argue that, even if your life is in imminent danger, to defend it reduces you to the level of those threatening it. Legally, they are correct: you're supposed to wait for the police and they are not obliged to try to help you (this was decided by the Canadian Supreme Court). And, that's what sucks.
Practically speaking, I'm quite happy to take up arms to defend myself. If the cops don't like it, then too bad. They themselves say that they have no obligation to provide for my safety. I'd just like to know what sort of high grade colombian they were snorting when they decided that shooting an attacker was the same thing as being the attacker in the first place.
The theory goes that you don't need to send a lot of data out, but you will get lots of data in. Also, it makes it frustrating to operate any services like mail or web.
No, if you have an up/down ratio greater than about 8, your download speed will be limited by your capacity to send acks.
Why do you think people buy BMWs when they could simply mod a Honda Civic and get the same performance?
Because it'd cost $50k and have no warranty?
Yeah, the industry switched from silver to black around 1990, and from black to silver around 2000.
Yeah, it's a conspiracy to get us to rebuy our whole stereo every 10 years! Or, if you want a decent stereo, go to a stereo shop, like Myer Emco. Lots of black there.
Console makers can offer such powerful systems for so cheap (both being relative, of course) because they traditionally take a loss on the system and make up for it in game sales and licenses.
Xbox and Dreamcast do not a tradition make. The Playstation series and Nintendo consoles were all sold for a profit.
Such characterizations are usually exaggerated, though.
Try reading a bit more about him. I was able to peg him as a looney by reading his press release.
. It is good that the North has nukes, since it means the stalemate will continue. Which means peace.
suppose this will happen after Kim buys the farm? Keep in mind that the current head of state is not quite rational.
Suppressing kiddie porn violates the first amendment. Banning political ads 60 days before an election protects American liberty.
It's a lot easier to go after political ads and control their distribution.
Apparently, you can't. Once again, a dorm room is not a rental property.
These are apartments owned by some other corporation. It may or may not be a dorm room - I'd wait for a judge to determine that.
you still can't bring your AP in my house, in the dorm, or most likely in your cubbicle at work.
Apparently, you can. You can also install a satellite dish in a rented property.
Again, UTD may not own the structures, but they do effectively control the use of them, including the ability to dictate the terms of lease agreements with the tenants.
That's not relevant. The FCC has stated that landlords are unable to forbid the use of these devices by residents. This effectively trumps anything that goes in your lease.
You'll find out that laws have limitations, many of them don't apply on private property. It is for example perfectly OK for theater owners to make you check in all electronics devices at the door.
This one does: "We also affirm that the rights that consumers have under our rules to install and operate customer antennas one meter or less in size apply to the operation of unlicensed equipment, such as Wi-Fi access points - just as they do to the use of equipment in connection with fixed wireless services licensed by the FCC."
Looks like the FCC has just said that you can use your bluetooth and WiFi gadgets anywhere you like, with no restrictions above the existing power limits.
Then the University's only recourse is to cut off internet access to the student.
Tell me again how the university is going to turn off some student's cable modem?!
Come on, 5 gigs is not enough to hold one DVD.
Um, so what? Are you planning on somehow stuffing a DVD into your DB and querying it? 5G is a lot of data - certainly enough to evaluate the product with.