I think we need a car analogy. Following iLost maps while drunk driving is like using a compiler. On the other hand, following the directions from your mother in law in the back seat is like a fish. YMMV
Microsoft had a contract to buy a certain amount of power and get a good discount. They didn't buy enough power so had to pay a higher price. I don't think this has anything to do with "idiots in state and local government". It's a contract matter between the power producer and a corporation.
If Microsoft had been able to convince more people to use Bing and Hotmail they wouldn't be in this position. (Cue the Bing and Hotmail jokes.)
Had a friend who has a BMW with run flat tires. He got a flat and decided to just run flat. Worked for a few miles then everything came apart. Required a tow truck and much time and expense to put everything back together again. I don't think these tires are very good. (I'm sure there is a joke in here about iPhone users and BMW drivers but I can't think of it now... perhaps someone more brilliant will come up with it.)
You may have a problem with your TPMS but mine works great. I live in the North and it gets cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Never had a false alarm from my TPMS. I did have one low pressure alert and guess what??... the tire had low pressure! Put a few pounds in it and good to go.
When I went to college, there were no computers. Well, no personal computers. We had a "computer center" where we could submit Fortran programs on punched cards. Anyway, I found a few odd room sized computers tucked away in various corners (IBM 1620 and DEC PDP-8) and used these as personal computers to learn to program. Word processing, spreadsheets, etc. all came later and I just learned these as they came along. The point... if you have to take an introductory course in how to use MS Office, they are wasting your time.
Yes, in the health care field, prices never go down even as "new wonderful exotic technology" becomes common and cheap to implement. In addition, once every doctor with dollar signs in his eyes has one of these, they will start doing them on everyone, regardless of benefit to the patient so there will be lots more procedure billed. This means that doctors can buy bigger boats!
The article states that dis-ordering the material reduces heat transfer but not electrical conductivity. (They added some sodium to improve electrical conductivity.)
I think most of the international visitors stayed in the Valley at the Curry camps. I was at one of the High Sierra Camps (Glen Aulin) in mid August as part of a 5 day backpack trip and haven't had any symptoms. (Also, didn't see any signs of mice.) The virus is rare but endemic to large areas of the Western US. I've often worried I might get it by working under my house (in the Northern Sierra) in the crawl space (where we do have mice).
The problem is that cops get points for arresting someone (catch the criminal). They don't necessarily get points deducted for catching the wrong person. This database will help them rack up points by finding someone who vaguely matches. All they need to do then is get them to "confess" (aka "plea bargain").
I ordered from Newark on 26 Aug and it was shipped (and charged) 5 Sept. My order from Allied on 16 July is still in limbo (not charged and not shipped and no word from them) (I'll probably cancel it once I get my order from Newark). So... it pays to shop around.
Yes, it is true that the roaming situation in Europe has gotten so bad that the EU has had to intervene. However, their "success" at lowering rates has only reduced roaming charges from "outrageous" to "atrocious". Roaming rates in Europe are now 29 cents a minute for calls and 70 cents a megabyte for data. These are still absurdly high rates. In comparison, all (I haven't seen a plan charge for roaming for years) of the call and data plans in the US have free roaming across the entire country. Just to give you an idea of the cost, I buy a "no contract" data plan (which allows roaming across the entire US) from ATT for $15/200MB (7.5 cents a MB or about 10% of the cost in Europe) or $25/1GB (2.5 cents a MB) and also buy phone calls to anywhere in the US (from anywhere in the US) for 10 cents a minute. You don't have to buy a contract cell phone in the US. You can buy an unlocked phone and buy "pay as you go" service the same as Europe. Unfortunately, most people aren't smart enough to figure out that the "free" phone with a 2 year contract actually costs them more than $1000.
I agree that Europe has some things right (no "free " phones) but they fail completely when roaming with absurdly high charges when you travel across borders from one tiny county to another.
Before a bank could offer 7% weekly interest, they would have to prove to the FDIC that they could financially support that payout which is, of course, impossible and in fact it was a "too good to be true" offer which did, nonetheless attract a good number of suckers. The world is full of people trying to steal your money in one way or another. This was just a fairly obvious and blatant scheme which would have been prevented in a well regulated world but in the land of laissez-faire, you, the sucker, are fair game.
That was the most frustrating part of Netware... besides the large number of disks, you had to put some disks in several times and switch them back and forth. They also stayed with single density disks when the double density disk drives were widely available so the number of disks was twice as many as necessary.
If it had been done by a regulated bank, the investors would be protected. Even the currently very weak banking regulations in the US would have protected investments in interest bearing accounts up to $100,000 if it had been a regulated bank. Plus, the bank would have been vetted and monitored to make sure it really had the money. Bernie Madoff and the Wall Street "banks" have been able to work their way around some of the regulation and have purchased a bunch of our finest congresscritters to further weaken regulations.
I don't think the point is to save time. These are hacker / hobby computers. The whole point is to "waste time" with them. If you're looking for something that just works (for the intended purpose) to save time, buy a nice shiny Apple computer.
They are a classic monopolist. They use government regulations (patents) to gain monopoly control and extort payments from everyone else. In order to assuage their guilt, they develop some "good causes". Of course, the good causes they choose are idiosyncratic and based on their own value system and not necessarily something that society would have done with the money had they been allowed to keep it in the first place.
Andrew Carnegie is an earlier example of this. He was a ruthless businessman who built a steel monopoly and benefited greatly from government regulations (which he tailored to his needs) and used unsavory methods to put his competitors out of business. He also ruthlessly exploited his workers (see: Homestead strike). Later in life he felt Christian guilt and gave away his money (I guess he figured out he couldn't take it with him) to libraries, schools, churches (he was very big into church organs).
I personally think it is better to have society as a whole determine what to do with resources rather than have government empower individuals to amass great wealth and have those individuals spend it on their pet projects.
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I think we need a car analogy.
Following iLost maps while drunk driving is like using a compiler.
On the other hand, following the directions from your mother in law in the back seat is like a fish.
YMMV
Microsoft had a contract to buy a certain amount of power and get a good discount. They didn't buy enough power so had to pay a higher price.
I don't think this has anything to do with "idiots in state and local government".
It's a contract matter between the power producer and a corporation.
If Microsoft had been able to convince more people to use Bing and Hotmail they wouldn't be in this position.
(Cue the Bing and Hotmail jokes.)
Had a friend who has a BMW with run flat tires. He got a flat and decided to just run flat. Worked for a few miles then everything came apart. Required a tow truck and much time and expense to put everything back together again. I don't think these tires are very good.
(I'm sure there is a joke in here about iPhone users and BMW drivers but I can't think of it now... perhaps someone more brilliant will come up with it.)
You may have a problem with your TPMS but mine works great. ... the tire had low pressure! Put a few pounds in it and good to go.
I live in the North and it gets cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Never had a false alarm from my TPMS.
I did have one low pressure alert and guess what??
1. Get mad
2. ?????
3. Profit!
It's always that middle step which is the problem.
When I went to college, there were no computers. Well, no personal computers. We had a "computer center" where we could submit Fortran programs on punched cards.
Anyway, I found a few odd room sized computers tucked away in various corners (IBM 1620 and DEC PDP-8) and used these as personal computers to learn to program.
Word processing, spreadsheets, etc. all came later and I just learned these as they came along.
The point... if you have to take an introductory course in how to use MS Office, they are wasting your time.
Yes, in the health care field, prices never go down even as "new wonderful exotic technology" becomes common and cheap to implement.
In addition, once every doctor with dollar signs in his eyes has one of these, they will start doing them on everyone, regardless of benefit to the patient so there will be lots more procedure billed. This means that doctors can buy bigger boats!
The article states that dis-ordering the material reduces heat transfer but not electrical conductivity. (They added some sodium to improve electrical conductivity.)
I think most of the international visitors stayed in the Valley at the Curry camps.
I was at one of the High Sierra Camps (Glen Aulin) in mid August as part of a 5 day backpack trip and haven't had any symptoms. (Also, didn't see any signs of mice.)
The virus is rare but endemic to large areas of the Western US. I've often worried I might get it by working under my house (in the Northern Sierra) in the crawl space (where we do have mice).
The problem is that cops get points for arresting someone (catch the criminal).
They don't necessarily get points deducted for catching the wrong person.
This database will help them rack up points by finding someone who vaguely matches. All they need to do then is get them to "confess" (aka "plea bargain").
This is a step up from a cardboard box and it's still dirt cheap:
http://h2database.com/raspi/
Try a Tupperware sandwich container.
I ordered from Newark on 26 Aug and it was shipped (and charged) 5 Sept.
My order from Allied on 16 July is still in limbo (not charged and not shipped and no word from them) (I'll probably cancel it once I get my order from Newark).
So... it pays to shop around.
Yes, it is true that the roaming situation in Europe has gotten so bad that the EU has had to intervene. However, their "success" at lowering rates has only reduced roaming charges from "outrageous" to "atrocious".
Roaming rates in Europe are now 29 cents a minute for calls and 70 cents a megabyte for data. These are still absurdly high rates. In comparison, all (I haven't seen a plan charge for roaming for years) of the call and data plans in the US have free roaming across the entire country.
Just to give you an idea of the cost, I buy a "no contract" data plan (which allows roaming across the entire US) from ATT for $15/200MB (7.5 cents a MB or about 10% of the cost in Europe) or $25/1GB (2.5 cents a MB) and also buy phone calls to anywhere in the US (from anywhere in the US) for 10 cents a minute.
You don't have to buy a contract cell phone in the US. You can buy an unlocked phone and buy "pay as you go" service the same as Europe. Unfortunately, most people aren't smart enough to figure out that the "free" phone with a 2 year contract actually costs them more than $1000.
I agree that Europe has some things right (no "free " phones) but they fail completely when roaming with absurdly high charges when you travel across borders from one tiny county to another.
How stupid do you have to be to assume a specific number scheme will exist in the future?
Before a bank could offer 7% weekly interest, they would have to prove to the FDIC that they could financially support that payout which is, of course, impossible and in fact it was a "too good to be true" offer which did, nonetheless attract a good number of suckers.
The world is full of people trying to steal your money in one way or another. This was just a fairly obvious and blatant scheme which would have been prevented in a well regulated world but in the land of laissez-faire, you, the sucker, are fair game.
That was the most frustrating part of Netware... besides the large number of disks, you had to put some disks in several times and switch them back and forth. They also stayed with single density disks when the double density disk drives were widely available so the number of disks was twice as many as necessary.
If it had been done by a regulated bank, the investors would be protected.
Even the currently very weak banking regulations in the US would have protected investments in interest bearing accounts up to $100,000 if it had been a regulated bank. Plus, the bank would have been vetted and monitored to make sure it really had the money.
Bernie Madoff and the Wall Street "banks" have been able to work their way around some of the regulation and have purchased a bunch of our finest congresscritters to further weaken regulations.
It sounds like they inherited a bunch of hardware and don't have a budget for more stuff.
So... make do with what you have.
I don't think the point is to save time.
These are hacker / hobby computers. The whole point is to "waste time" with them.
If you're looking for something that just works (for the intended purpose) to save time, buy a nice shiny Apple computer.
Just like Guantanamo Bay, Cuba which the US has occupied since a "treaty" in 1903... and they won't leave in spite of Cuban government requests.
They are a classic monopolist. They use government regulations (patents) to gain monopoly control and extort payments from everyone else. In order to assuage their guilt, they develop some "good causes". Of course, the good causes they choose are idiosyncratic and based on their own value system and not necessarily something that society would have done with the money had they been allowed to keep it in the first place.
Andrew Carnegie is an earlier example of this. He was a ruthless businessman who built a steel monopoly and benefited greatly from government regulations (which he tailored to his needs) and used unsavory methods to put his competitors out of business. He also ruthlessly exploited his workers (see: Homestead strike). Later in life he felt Christian guilt and gave away his money (I guess he figured out he couldn't take it with him) to libraries, schools, churches (he was very big into church organs).
I personally think it is better to have society as a whole determine what to do with resources rather than have government empower individuals to amass great wealth and have those individuals spend it on their pet projects.
I would think the limiting factor would be stupidity of the user.