Thanks to Apple's brilliant design of the iPhone which has a glass front and back, the most common repair of the iPhone is to replace broken glass front or back. Parts and instructions are readily available and while it is not for the klutzy or timid, it can be done. Who would have thought that just dropping a phone would break the glass case?... certainly not Apple... or perhaps they planned it that way.
So, do you keep all of your assets in gold under the mattress? How do you pay bills? Do you live in the woods in a cabin with no services (ala Ted Kazinski)?
All hotels have air conditioning equipment which generates waste heat. They also have laundries and guest hot water which need a lot of heat. How stupid not to combine them?
It has been a long time since Discovery has been a "science" organization. It's mostly about light entertainment with some vague reference to science. Mythbusters is the prime example... mostly about blowing stuff up and otherwise crashing/destroying stuff... very little actual science. Not surprising that they "dumb down" the science units for their clueless audience which doesn't understand metric (and also blow the conversions by adding three digits of precision to a very rough estimate).
Except that most condo members who get put on these committees know absolutely nothing about technology so he is probably a step or two ahead of the others. The committee is not supposed to design the system but is to evaluate proposals from vendors. The committee needs to know when the vendors are blowing smoke (hence the "what questions to ask?") part of the query.
I've been working with some Arduino boards (arduino.cc) and they come with a note: "Thank you for choosing an Arduino board. This board was produced, assembled and tested in Italy. We point out that all our boards are made in Italy because in this globalised world, getting products for the lowest possible price sometimes translates into low pay and poor working conditions for the people who make those products. At least you know that the people who made your board were reasonably paid and worked in a safe environment."
I used to work for a large international organization. Every time I went to Africa, my laptop would get infected (from USB drives passed around at meetings). I finally installed Linux in my work laptop and never had a problem after that. (The USB drives still would get infected but not my laptop... I would just delete the offending files.) The organization was a pure Microsoft shop and also was plagued by malware inside the headquarters (rumors were that there were foreign governments who wanted information). Several times they had high level IT security meetings and I strongly made the point that they should move to Linux. This fell on deaf ears and they are still on Windows XP plus all of the Office, Exchange, etc. dross (and still plagued by security problems).
If only nuclear could be done economically.
Unfortunately, it seems to have a "negative learning curve". Plants keep getting more expensive, not less. Latest from Orlando Sentinel http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-05/news/os-progress-energy-rates-beth-kassab-050612-20120505_1_nuclear-plants-nuclear-reactors-progress-energy It seems that the Progress Energy boondoggle continues. In 2007 it said the twin 1100 Megawatt reactors would cost $5 Billion. In 2008 it said they would cost $14 Billion (plus $3 Billion for transmission lines). In 2011 they said they would cost $24 Billion.... and oh, by the way, they wouldn't be finished until 2024... not the 2016 date originally projected. The real kicker is that they are allowed to charge ratepayers now for the cost of building these plants even though they won't produce power until 2024 (if then). This makes Solyndra look like a great investment.
I'll go out on a limb and hazard a guess that this plant is not in the USA and won't provide any jobs in the USA. Too bad that one of America's top companies outsources most of its production. Their profit margins could support USA jobs.
I've seen people use the term "This." just as you used it here. I am not sure what "this" means. Is this some kind of new shortcut phrasing? What does it mean? I am a native English speaker (but an old person now and trying to keep up to date).
I think you have a very good point. The military is really not well suited to track down terrorists and bring them to justice. They are better suited for use where the enemy is also an army. Terrorists operate in small cells and it requires detectives and cops to track them down and bring them to justice. The invasion of Afghanistan was unnecessary since they were willing to turn over al Qaeda and it baffles me why we are still there when al Qaeda has been absent for years. (Iraq was never a terrorist threat, that was just Bush and Cheny trying to take over the world's oil.) Domestically, the FBI has been doing a good job of finding and thwarting terrorists and taking them before judges. This is the approach we should take to terrorists. "War" is the wrong term to use since the military is clumsy and ineffective against terrorists. I vote for the FBI.
Even being a US citizen doesn't protect you. Anwar al-Awlaki was a US citizen living in Yemen who was thought to have ties to al-Qaeda. His 16 year old son was killed a few weeks later. They were executed by the US (using unmanned drones) without a trial or even charges being brought in the US. The Wikipedia page gives a fairly comprehensive biography. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
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Thanks to Apple's brilliant design of the iPhone which has a glass front and back, the most common repair of the iPhone is to replace broken glass front or back. Parts and instructions are readily available and while it is not for the klutzy or timid, it can be done.
Who would have thought that just dropping a phone would break the glass case?... certainly not Apple... or perhaps they planned it that way.
Most big pharma research is on tweaking existing drugs just enough so they can get a new patent monopoly .
So, do you keep all of your assets in gold under the mattress?
How do you pay bills?
Do you live in the woods in a cabin with no services (ala Ted Kazinski)?
All hotels have air conditioning equipment which generates waste heat.
They also have laundries and guest hot water which need a lot of heat.
How stupid not to combine them?
It has been a long time since Discovery has been a "science" organization. It's mostly about light entertainment with some vague reference to science. Mythbusters is the prime example... mostly about blowing stuff up and otherwise crashing/destroying stuff... very little actual science.
Not surprising that they "dumb down" the science units for their clueless audience which doesn't understand metric (and also blow the conversions by adding three digits of precision to a very rough estimate).
I think it's LOL funny!
Except that most condo members who get put on these committees know absolutely nothing about technology so he is probably a step or two ahead of the others.
The committee is not supposed to design the system but is to evaluate proposals from vendors. The committee needs to know when the vendors are blowing smoke (hence the "what questions to ask?") part of the query.
"It's turtles all the way down."
Painting roofs white could do much more than these risky geoengineering boondogles.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/30/492153/how-painting-roofs-white-can-help-turn-off-the-world-for-a-year/
I knew that Linux would be secure.
I had no confidence that Windows could be made secure. There are just too many vulnerabilities.
I've been working with some Arduino boards (arduino.cc) and they come with a note:
"Thank you for choosing an Arduino board.
This board was produced, assembled and tested in Italy.
We point out that all our boards are made in Italy because in this globalised world, getting products for the lowest possible price sometimes translates into low pay and poor working conditions for the people who make those products. At least you know that the people who made your board were reasonably paid and worked in a safe environment."
... in my mom's basement
The problem is that the organization and most of Africa run XP and don't use even the pathetic security features of XP.
I used to work for a large international organization. Every time I went to Africa, my laptop would get infected (from USB drives passed around at meetings). I finally installed Linux in my work laptop and never had a problem after that. (The USB drives still would get infected but not my laptop... I would just delete the offending files.)
The organization was a pure Microsoft shop and also was plagued by malware inside the headquarters (rumors were that there were foreign governments who wanted information).
Several times they had high level IT security meetings and I strongly made the point that they should move to Linux. This fell on deaf ears and they are still on Windows XP plus all of the Office, Exchange, etc. dross (and still plagued by security problems).
Guy buys a lot of newspapers and now is discovering that he can't make money with them?
He doesn't think they have a viable business model?
If only nuclear could be done economically. .... and oh, by the way, they wouldn't be finished until 2024... not the 2016 date originally projected.
Unfortunately, it seems to have a "negative learning curve". Plants keep getting more expensive, not less.
Latest from Orlando Sentinel http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-05/news/os-progress-energy-rates-beth-kassab-050612-20120505_1_nuclear-plants-nuclear-reactors-progress-energy
It seems that the Progress Energy boondoggle continues. In 2007 it said the twin 1100 Megawatt reactors would cost $5 Billion. In 2008 it said they would cost $14 Billion (plus $3 Billion for transmission lines). In 2011 they said they would cost $24 Billion
The real kicker is that they are allowed to charge ratepayers now for the cost of building these plants even though they won't produce power until 2024 (if then).
This makes Solyndra look like a great investment.
The Swiss grocery chain Co-op already does this. They give you a cart with a built in scanner. Just bag and go.
So...
The 1% are doing fine (as usual) .
The rest of us need jobs.
For the clueless ...
The question was rhetorical.
(You may need to look up the term.)
I'll go out on a limb and hazard a guess that this plant is not in the USA and won't provide any jobs in the USA.
Too bad that one of America's top companies outsources most of its production. Their profit margins could support USA jobs.
I've seen people use the term "This." just as you used it here.
I am not sure what "this" means.
Is this some kind of new shortcut phrasing? What does it mean?
I am a native English speaker (but an old person now and trying to keep up to date).
I think you have a very good point.
The military is really not well suited to track down terrorists and bring them to justice. They are better suited for use where the enemy is also an army. Terrorists operate in small cells and it requires detectives and cops to track them down and bring them to justice. The invasion of Afghanistan was unnecessary since they were willing to turn over al Qaeda and it baffles me why we are still there when al Qaeda has been absent for years. (Iraq was never a terrorist threat, that was just Bush and Cheny trying to take over the world's oil.)
Domestically, the FBI has been doing a good job of finding and thwarting terrorists and taking them before judges. This is the approach we should take to terrorists. "War" is the wrong term to use since the military is clumsy and ineffective against terrorists. I vote for the FBI.
Even being a US citizen doesn't protect you.
Anwar al-Awlaki was a US citizen living in Yemen who was thought to have ties to al-Qaeda. His 16 year old son was killed a few weeks later. They were executed by the US (using unmanned drones) without a trial or even charges being brought in the US.
The Wikipedia page gives a fairly comprehensive biography. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
The more I read about preparations, the less I want to attend.
Sounds like it will be a lot more pleasant to watch at home.