Why do we have five branches of the military (who should all work together but end up "competing" for resources) and why do they each need their own data (which won't be shared).
I agree that this implementation requires a flat, hard floor but if you use your imagination just a little bit... you could use a larger hemisphere and even put knobby tread on it to make an ATV.
The video even shows one made using two hemispheres for greater maneuverability and traction.
Most medical journals lock up medical information and require subscription or individual access. It would be really useful to have open access to all of the medical literature. (There are some open access medical journals but certainly not the majority.)
Sounds like they are catching up with the rest of the developed world. London is probably the most famous for its network of surveillance cameras but most major cities are installing these things as fast as they can fund them in spite of the lack of evidence that they do anything to deter crime or capture criminals. I think the desire to keep track of people is a universal government proclivity.
I am sorry if I offended you with my "cute" reply. I was trying for "funny" rather than "trollish". It is so hard to convey humor in this context. I didn't really think you had a fundamental misunderstanding of how cables work. I know you are smarter than that.
Most people plug in something once and then leave it alone for years. You clearly have a different use pattern and should look for cables with nice sturdy fittings on the ends.
Yeah... those electrons really wear out the cheap wires in the cheap cables fast. You probably have one of those cheap TV sets which doesn't "clean" the electrons before putting them into the wire. That's why you're wearing out the cables so fast. (Also, avoid sharp turns... fast moving electrons can blow a hole in the insulation if they have to make a sharp turn.)
Washington DC also has traffic lights in roundabouts but I always thought they were a bad idea. They seemed to impede traffic more than facilitate it (they don't turn them off in light traffic). Actually, their roundabouts are really accidental roundabouts and weren't designed as roundabouts but rather as part of the city layout so I don't think they really "get" roundabouts.
A lot of businesses still use IE6 so that they can run their really lousy legacy applications. This in spite of the fact that it is sorely outdated and full of holes. I don't think this is a market that Firefox should pursue. It is exactly the market that keeps MS in business.
During the past 10 years, the USG has spent $5 trillion on war! This includes a lot of overpriced tools to kill people. Who cares if somebody got a Zune?
The data rates are not a good deal if you are constantly streaming Pandora or videos. However, most people don't do these things. (I am a certified geek and I don't do these these things.) I use primarily email, web browsing, Google Navigation and a few other apps which have moderate data requirements. I find I use less than 100 MB month. Also, when you have a WiFi connection there is no data charge.
ATT lets you look at your historical data usage on their web site. Check out yours... you may be surprised.
T-Mobile has an even better deal (for me, at least). You can get 10 cents a minute calls and a daily data plan... $1.49 for 24 hours unlimited data. I find this works best for me since most of the time I am connected by WiFi. When I am traveling a few days a month and need the data connection, I buy the day data pass. My total cost on T-Mobile is about $10 a month. No contracts.
You can use this phone with an ATT 'pay as you go' plan. You can get calls for 10 cents a minute and buy data ($15 for 100 MB $25 for 500 MB). No contract required.
I don't use the phone part much so my calls are only a few dollars a month. I only use data for email and web browsing so use less than 100 MB a month.
As you know, Microsoft will admit no liability and will not "insure" anything. All Microsoft crashes are your fault and you bear all expenses in cleaning up. Furthermore, no insurance company would dare to insure Microsoft software. My blue screen of death is orange.
My new car (not a Ford) came with Microsoft software which controls radio, cell phone and a bunch of other stuff like lights. It has voice input as well as a buttons (which are confusing). I haven't figured out exactly everything it is controlling but seems to be pervasive.
As you would expect, it doesn't work very well or reliably.
Is it reasonable for the FBI to go trolling through your life online, databases, trash, surveillance squads, and attending your meetings looking for random evidence of crime without having any "reasonable suspicion" of a specific crime?
I believe the window/program which "has focus" puts its menu at the top of the primary screen. I would like the menu to be at least close to the window. It's stupid to put it on primary screen when the window is on the secondary screen. If the Mac programmers are confused about where to put it, they could put it on both screens. However, I really never found any problem with having the menubar attached to the window itself where I could always find it easily without having to move the mouse to the top of the screen (or the next screen over).
They seem to have improved the menubar on top over the Mac by putting the menubar on the same screen as the program. This is much better than the Mac where the menubar always appears on the primary screen even when the program window is on a secondary screen... this drives me crazy...
I've explored various add-on programs and kludgy fixes for my Mac to get the menubar to at least be on the same screen but no joy. I'm still not sure I even like the menubar at the top of the screen. It can be a long confusing route to get to the menubar.
We've really gone to a "one dollar, one vote" system rather than one person, one vote. Of course, the rich and corporations win this hands down (and they keep "improving" the laws to increase their wealth)... I don't see any way for people to take back power.
If you do accept history, then you can see that the cost of solar cells has been dropping steadily since their invention and demand has been increasing rapidly since their invention. Initial cost in 1954 was $250 a watt and it has steadily declined to about $1 a watt (for the cell itself).
Demand has increased at 20 to 40% a year as the cost has gone down. (Demand curve, efficiencies of volume production, etc... basic economics).
You don't need a crystal ball. Fortunately, there is no "silicon cartel" to restrict the supply of raw materials so people who are expert at manufacturing (such as GE) can predict their costs accurately.
I though we were talking about electricity, not total energy use.
If you're talking about total energy, fossil fuels dominate with petroleum at about half and natural gas about a quarter of total energy usage. Some of the gas is used to generate electricity and the rest for heating and industrial processes.
Peak power usage in the US is actually during the day (business and shops AirCon and machine use) so solar power fits well with the peak in usage. Power at night is plentiful and cheap and we have too much baseload power capacity.
Solar power right now is competitive with the cost of nuclear (even without considering the cost of decommissioning and health effects of nuclear). Solar thermal plants right now produce power at about 13 cents which is less than the cost of "free market electricity" for most of us.
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Why do we have five branches of the military (who should all work together but end up "competing" for resources) and why do they each need their own data (which won't be shared).
The video even shows one made using two hemispheres for greater maneuverability and traction.
Most medical journals lock up medical information and require subscription or individual access. It would be really useful to have open access to all of the medical literature. (There are some open access medical journals but certainly not the majority.)
Sounds like they are catching up with the rest of the developed world. London is probably the most famous for its network of surveillance cameras but most major cities are installing these things as fast as they can fund them in spite of the lack of evidence that they do anything to deter crime or capture criminals. I think the desire to keep track of people is a universal government proclivity.
Most people plug in something once and then leave it alone for years. You clearly have a different use pattern and should look for cables with nice sturdy fittings on the ends.
Yeah... those electrons really wear out the cheap wires in the cheap cables fast. You probably have one of those cheap TV sets which doesn't "clean" the electrons before putting them into the wire. That's why you're wearing out the cables so fast. (Also, avoid sharp turns... fast moving electrons can blow a hole in the insulation if they have to make a sharp turn.)
Washington DC also has traffic lights in roundabouts but I always thought they were a bad idea. They seemed to impede traffic more than facilitate it (they don't turn them off in light traffic). Actually, their roundabouts are really accidental roundabouts and weren't designed as roundabouts but rather as part of the city layout so I don't think they really "get" roundabouts.
One example: http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
And if you buy your Apple computer from Amazon.com then they do not charge sales tax. Advantage to Amazon.
A lot of businesses still use IE6 so that they can run their really lousy legacy applications. This in spite of the fact that it is sorely outdated and full of holes. I don't think this is a market that Firefox should pursue. It is exactly the market that keeps MS in business.
(And we still have to overpay for oil.)
If you are addicted to porn or similar activities which use a lot of bandwidth then this plan is not for you.
ATT lets you look at your historical data usage on their web site. Check out yours... you may be surprised.
T-Mobile has an even better deal (for me, at least). You can get 10 cents a minute calls and a daily data plan... $1.49 for 24 hours unlimited data. I find this works best for me since most of the time I am connected by WiFi. When I am traveling a few days a month and need the data connection, I buy the day data pass. My total cost on T-Mobile is about $10 a month. No contracts.
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-plans/pyg-cell-phone-plans.jsp
I don't use the phone part much so my calls are only a few dollars a month. I only use data for email and web browsing so use less than 100 MB a month.
My cost is usually about $20 a month.
As you know, Microsoft will admit no liability and will not "insure" anything. All Microsoft crashes are your fault and you bear all expenses in cleaning up. Furthermore, no insurance company would dare to insure Microsoft software. My blue screen of death is orange.
As you would expect, it doesn't work very well or reliably.
Is it reasonable for the FBI to go trolling through your life online, databases, trash, surveillance squads, and attending your meetings looking for random evidence of crime without having any "reasonable suspicion" of a specific crime?
So the whole "unreasonable search and seizure" part (Fourth Amendment) of the constitution doesn't really apply?
I believe the window/program which "has focus" puts its menu at the top of the primary screen. I would like the menu to be at least close to the window. It's stupid to put it on primary screen when the window is on the secondary screen. If the Mac programmers are confused about where to put it, they could put it on both screens. However, I really never found any problem with having the menubar attached to the window itself where I could always find it easily without having to move the mouse to the top of the screen (or the next screen over).
I've explored various add-on programs and kludgy fixes for my Mac to get the menubar to at least be on the same screen but no joy. I'm still not sure I even like the menubar at the top of the screen. It can be a long confusing route to get to the menubar.
Zotero is free. Where is the profit in marketing that?
We've really gone to a "one dollar, one vote" system rather than one person, one vote. Of course, the rich and corporations win this hands down (and they keep "improving" the laws to increase their wealth)... I don't see any way for people to take back power.
Demand has increased at 20 to 40% a year as the cost has gone down. (Demand curve, efficiencies of volume production, etc... basic economics).
You don't need a crystal ball. Fortunately, there is no "silicon cartel" to restrict the supply of raw materials so people who are expert at manufacturing (such as GE) can predict their costs accurately.
If you're talking about total energy, fossil fuels dominate with petroleum at about half and natural gas about a quarter of total energy usage. Some of the gas is used to generate electricity and the rest for heating and industrial processes.
Solar power right now is competitive with the cost of nuclear (even without considering the cost of decommissioning and health effects of nuclear). Solar thermal plants right now produce power at about 13 cents which is less than the cost of "free market electricity" for most of us.