The ZTE Open has similar specs and Firefox OS and is only $75 (on eBay). The high price in Brazil is probably due to taxes and import duty (which are crazy high in Brazil).
The utility of a smart watch is that has the functionality of your smart phone (without the pocket bulge... or do you like to "augment" your bulge with your phone?).
Good point... this is a survey of 155 Forrester clients. People who are Forrester clients are the dinosaurs of the business world. They have to pay Forrester to get a clue. I wouldn't put much stock in these numbers. (Interesting that the article shows 13% use Google Docs... maybe that's where all the users went.)
The Republicans started calling it Obamacare and they meant it as an insult. However, when people pay word games like this, it's best to just embrace it which is what Obama did do... he's fine with the term and taking credit for the law (the good and the bad).
Lots of people have expensive watches (some of them very expensive) and most of them seem to have no problem keeping them intact. (However, in your case, maybe a watch is not a good idea.) A wrist watch is much more convenient than digging into your pocket to check the time, messages, etc. So just as wrist watches superseded pocket watches, smart watches will supersede pocket phones.
Here's the innovative high tech part: "These smarts are further extended by a multi-stage gasification architecture, and an innovative “waste heat” capture and recycling system — what we call the Tower of Total Thermal Integration (Hot TOTTI). In traditional systems, hot engine exhaust and hot output wood gas have been “problems” requiring extra space and cooling components to counter. With the GEK Hot TOTTI, we’ve transformed these “wastes” into useful new inputs to the gasification process. It’s like adding a new “free” heat source to fix the old and well known thermal challenges of a gasifier."
TFA does point out that gasification is not "new" (used widely in WWII). This company has added an Arduino to monitor and control the machine so that is "high tech". What is groundbreaking (so to speak) is that they are making a machine that you can just buy and run with minimal training (and is easy to repair).
The cost of power plants are always quoted as $/W of installed capacity. Nuclear works out to be about $10/W, solar $3/W, etc. The 10 kW system is $19,000 ($1.90/W), 20 kW system is $27,000 ($1.35/W). This is a low cost power plant. Also, considering that the fuel should be free or very low cost since it is agricultural waste, the power produced should also be very low cost.
The 10 kW system is $19,000 ($1.90/W), 20 kW system is $27,000 ($1.35/W).
I'm not sure why it costs anything to make electricity from this. It uses free agricultural waste (shells, chips, etc.) The electricity is produces should be free. You may have to pay someone to run the machine and of course there is the cost of capital (figure 10%/year). If you run a 20 kW unit full time for a month (24x30=720x20 kW=14,400 kWH). Perhaps they calculate this as the cost...14,400 kWH @ $0.10 is $1,440 which should cover costs of running the machine and the capital costs. YMMV
Snowden turned all of his documents over to journalists whom he trusts to perform responsible disclosure. He says he doesn't even have the documents any more. Snowden hasn't disclosed anything publicly... Greenwald et. al are doing the disclosing. Greenwald has disclosed lots of different things including spying on Brazil, the European Union, Mexico, etc. No doubt, he may get around to China and Russia some day (if the documents are in the pile).
Going around to rich people's houses and stealing money... This is what some people call taxes. Government collects them and decides how they are spent.
Basic aerodynamics (Google it): Drag is proportional to the lift required for flight,[1] which is equal to the weight of the aircraft in level flight. As induced drag increases with weight, mass reduction, with improvements in engine efficiency and reductions in aerodynamic drag, has been a principal source of efficiency gains in aircraft, with a rule-of-thumb being that a 1% weight reduction corresponds to around a 0.75% reduction in fuel consumption.[1]
It might be possible to design a better seat but the airlines are using "better" to mean cheaper and a way to stuff more people on the plane. I had the unfortunate experience of flying from Denver to Reno two days ago on United on an Airbus A320 with their new seats. Worst airline seat ever. They don't have any back support. They force you into an uncomfortable position and there is not escape. The legroom is much smaller. I am not tall (5' 10") and never have a problem with legroom but these seats were jammed so close together that my knees were constantly banging the seat ahead of me (which was not reclined). This was only a 1.5 hour flight but it was 90 minutes of pain. Terrible seats.
Samoa Airlines has recently started charging people by their weight. They have a lot of large people and they fly small planes where weight makes a big difference in costs.
When I was in medical school, I adopted a pattern of going to sleep for 4 hours in the early evening, waking up at midnight and studying for 4 hours then back to sleep for a few hours. This seemed to work well and improved my grades.
One nice thing I've discovered is chroot. It's low overhead, easy to use and doesn't require all of the fiddling of a VM. It only works with the Linux/OSX world so if you need Windows, you're out of luck (but, in general, if you need Windows, you're out of luck).
I don't know about the Federal site since I'm in California but the California site is great. You just have to enter your zip code (no registration) and it will show you all the plans in your area along with the costs and all of the details of deductibles, etc. Easy. The plans are cheaper than my current insurance so that's good too.
I don't want a "smart" smoke alarm. I don't it to think about whether or not it should sound an alarm (and probably get confused at some point). Smoke -> Alarm This thing costs 10x what regular smoke alarms cost and I will need about 5 for my house. I have a burglar alarm which monitors doors and windows and does a much better job than this of detecting "activity". I have never had a false alarm from my current cheap smoke detectors. Smoke -> Alarm KISS
Why would they pay you a nickle for open source? Open source is free. OTOH, they do charge for proprietary software so you might be able to get your penny there.
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The ZTE Open has similar specs and Firefox OS and is only $75 (on eBay).
The high price in Brazil is probably due to taxes and import duty (which are crazy high in Brazil).
The utility of a smart watch is that has the functionality of your smart phone (without the pocket bulge... or do you like to "augment" your bulge with your phone?).
Good point... this is a survey of 155 Forrester clients. People who are Forrester clients are the dinosaurs of the business world. They have to pay Forrester to get a clue. I wouldn't put much stock in these numbers.
(Interesting that the article shows 13% use Google Docs... maybe that's where all the users went.)
The Republicans started calling it Obamacare and they meant it as an insult.
However, when people pay word games like this, it's best to just embrace it which is what Obama did do... he's fine with the term and taking credit for the law (the good and the bad).
Lots of people have expensive watches (some of them very expensive) and most of them seem to have no problem keeping them intact. (However, in your case, maybe a watch is not a good idea.)
A wrist watch is much more convenient than digging into your pocket to check the time, messages, etc. So just as wrist watches superseded pocket watches, smart watches will supersede pocket phones.
Whoosh....
Here's the innovative high tech part:
"These smarts are further extended by a multi-stage gasification architecture, and an innovative “waste heat” capture and recycling system — what we call the Tower of Total Thermal Integration (Hot TOTTI). In traditional systems, hot engine exhaust and hot output wood gas have been “problems” requiring extra space and cooling components to counter. With the GEK Hot TOTTI, we’ve transformed these “wastes” into useful new inputs to the gasification process. It’s like adding a new “free” heat source to fix the old and well known thermal challenges of a gasifier."
TFA does point out that gasification is not "new" (used widely in WWII). This company has added an Arduino to monitor and control the machine so that is "high tech".
What is groundbreaking (so to speak) is that they are making a machine that you can just buy and run with minimal training (and is easy to repair).
Solar panels are now less than $1/W but by the time you add in racks, inverters, installation labor, permits, etc. the cost is more like $3/W.
The cost of power plants are always quoted as $/W of installed capacity. Nuclear works out to be about $10/W, solar $3/W, etc.
The 10 kW system is $19,000 ($1.90/W), 20 kW system is $27,000 ($1.35/W). This is a low cost power plant.
Also, considering that the fuel should be free or very low cost since it is agricultural waste, the power produced should also be very low cost.
The 10 kW system is $19,000 ($1.90/W), 20 kW system is $27,000 ($1.35/W).
I'm not sure why it costs anything to make electricity from this. It uses free agricultural waste (shells, chips, etc.) The electricity is produces should be free.
You may have to pay someone to run the machine and of course there is the cost of capital (figure 10%/year).
If you run a 20 kW unit full time for a month (24x30=720x20 kW=14,400 kWH). Perhaps they calculate this as the cost...14,400 kWH @ $0.10 is $1,440 which should cover costs of running the machine and the capital costs. YMMV
Snowden turned all of his documents over to journalists whom he trusts to perform responsible disclosure.
He says he doesn't even have the documents any more.
Snowden hasn't disclosed anything publicly... Greenwald et. al are doing the disclosing.
Greenwald has disclosed lots of different things including spying on Brazil, the European Union, Mexico, etc. No doubt, he may get around to China and Russia some day (if the documents are in the pile).
Going around to rich people's houses and stealing money...
This is what some people call taxes.
Government collects them and decides how they are spent.
Reading comprehension is hard... this summary is not clearly written but it is accurate.
"Fun-loving, curious, and playful, Pluto has the heart of a puppy. He is a very loyal companion to Mickey."
I think it is Mickey whom we should cancel.
I thought it was Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, not Mothers Against Dungeons and Dragons... so hard to keep track these days...
Basic aerodynamics (Google it):
Drag is proportional to the lift required for flight,[1] which is equal to the weight of the aircraft in level flight. As induced drag increases with weight, mass reduction, with improvements in engine efficiency and reductions in aerodynamic drag, has been a principal source of efficiency gains in aircraft, with a rule-of-thumb being that a 1% weight reduction corresponds to around a 0.75% reduction in fuel consumption.[1]
It might be possible to design a better seat but the airlines are using "better" to mean cheaper and a way to stuff more people on the plane.
I had the unfortunate experience of flying from Denver to Reno two days ago on United on an Airbus A320 with their new seats.
Worst airline seat ever.
They don't have any back support. They force you into an uncomfortable position and there is not escape.
The legroom is much smaller. I am not tall (5' 10") and never have a problem with legroom but these seats were jammed so close together that my knees were constantly banging the seat ahead of me (which was not reclined).
This was only a 1.5 hour flight but it was 90 minutes of pain.
Terrible seats.
Samoa Airlines has recently started charging people by their weight.
They have a lot of large people and they fly small planes where weight makes a big difference in costs.
When I was in medical school, I adopted a pattern of going to sleep for 4 hours in the early evening, waking up at midnight and studying for 4 hours then back to sleep for a few hours. This seemed to work well and improved my grades.
One nice thing I've discovered is chroot.
It's low overhead, easy to use and doesn't require all of the fiddling of a VM.
It only works with the Linux/OSX world so if you need Windows, you're out of luck (but, in general, if you need Windows, you're out of luck).
The only people saving money now are the rich 1%.
They put their money in Swiss bank accounts.
They are free.
The rest of us are wage slaves.
I don't know about the Federal site since I'm in California but the California site is great. You just have to enter your zip code (no registration) and it will show you all the plans in your area along with the costs and all of the details of deductibles, etc.
Easy.
The plans are cheaper than my current insurance so that's good too.
I don't want a "smart" smoke alarm. I don't it to think about whether or not it should sound an alarm (and probably get confused at some point).
Smoke -> Alarm
This thing costs 10x what regular smoke alarms cost and I will need about 5 for my house.
I have a burglar alarm which monitors doors and windows and does a much better job than this of detecting "activity".
I have never had a false alarm from my current cheap smoke detectors.
Smoke -> Alarm
KISS
Why would they pay you a nickle for open source?
Open source is free.
OTOH, they do charge for proprietary software so you might be able to get your penny there.