This is something that a lot of people forget. The amount of money you spend on sales tax is often largely optional. Most necessities like groceries don't have sales tax in most areas. I actually find that sales taxes affect me very little, even though my sales tax rate is 13% (Go Canada), as I tend not to actually buy that much stuff.
The problem is, is that they were probably collecting the taxes, to make it appear on the outside like they were doing the right thing, but they probably weren't remitting them to the government. Sure a good ecommerce system can ensure with somewhat decent accuracy that the correct amount is being collected, but it doesn't help you with actually transferring that money to the correct entity. I don't think a system exists that tells you how to remit taxes to the thousands of different tax jurisdictions in the United States.
Not so sure about that. 2 tons of water is about 1.8 cubic meters. Oil floats on water, and therefore is less dense than water. So 2 tons of oil would probably be pretty close to 2 cubic metres. A quick Google gave a density of 790 kg/m3. 1 ton is 907 kg. So 2 tons of oil takes up 2.3 cubic meters.
I undertand this. I don't really want to give any app root access to my phone. This is because I don't trust the apps that require root access any more than I trust the apps that don't require root access. Once they have root, there's no restrictions on what they can do. And there's a lot of things that require root that shouldn't. Such as apps that back up you applications and their settings.
Good for my tablet, thanks, but I can't root my boss' phone as long as my boss is paying for it.
FTFY. If you want control of your phone, you should buy your own phone. Personally, I don't think rooting is the right option either. The solution to "I don't want to give apps the ability to send out SMS messages" shouldn't be "I should be able to give apps unlimited super user privileges"
50,000 hours at 10 hours a day is 13.7 years. I certainly don't watch 10 hours of TV a day. Probably maxes out most days around 4, meaning that the TV would last me about 34 years. Assuming something else didn't break first. 50,000 hours is quite a long time.
They could probably format the card in EXT-2/3/4 and nobody would care. Most people just want extra storage for the device, and don't really care if its in a format that windows can't read. It would be easy enough to copy files between devices using a network share.
This and Google Reader. When Google Reader was cancelled, I switched to Tiny TIny RSS, and I have to say that I find it as good, if not better than Google Reader. Except that I mostly only use it on my phone. The web UI is great, but I find it quite slow, and that detracts from it's usefulness. If there's a good free alternative to Google Reader that you can host yourself, I haven't found it yet. I think GMail is the only cloud service that I really depend on for anything remotely important. Most of the stuff that the web hosting companies offer, like SquirrelMail is just atrocious. My provider (dreamhost) actually recommends that you use GMail for domains, because the other options are so deplorable.
I think it's even more complicated than that. With seven billion people on the planet, it's completely possible that something is both non-obvious and that many people could arrive at the same method of solving a problem in a very short period of time. Non-obvious is a very loose term anyway. Many things that seem obvious to one person, are not at all obvious to another person. How exactly does one test for "obviousness"?
The side facing the planet would not be getting as much direct light. When behind the planet it wouldn't get any. When directly between the planet and the star, it wouldn't get any, although as you said, it would get the reflected light from the planet. I don't know if it could get enough light this way to heat up the planet significantly. When on the "side" of the planet, it would get some direct sun, although it would have to go through more atmosphere, because of the angle, and therefore it wouldn't warm the planet as much. Similar to the poles or our planet, where they will have 24 hours of sunlight for months at a time, but the temperature will still be cold because the sunlight has to travel through a lot more atmosphere to get there.
Doesn't matter as long as they get more numbers to dazzle the advertisers with. They don't care if everything is entirely accurate. More information is always better. If it turns out to make them look bad (nobody hovers over the ads), they'll just choose not to report those numbers to the advertisers. If they can use the data, and spin it in a way to make them look good, then they will have more "hard facts" to let advertisers know they are getting their money's worth.
Personally, I've found that I've been able to get the ads on Facebook to behave moderately well by actually clicking the little X on the ads that don't apply. Usually I'll select "against my viewpoints" or whatever it says. But sometimes other options. By just removing a few ads / companies, I've been able to get rid of a lot of the nuissance stuff, and most of what shows up is real products, that I may actually be interested in, from companies who aren't just trying to scam me.
Of course, now that the vulnerability is known, owners of the machines should be regularly verifying that they work correction. They should verify that real notes are not flagged as counterfeits, and they should be able to verify that counterfeits do not get verified as legitimate. However, it might be hard to verify, depending on how the machines work. If you reprogrammed the firmware so that all valid notes are verified, but that only counterfeits with your unique ultraviolet ink pattern are legitimate, then most tests with other counterfeit bills would fail, and the machine would look as though it was working properly. If you had physical access to the machine, and there's enough free space in there, you could probably get it to respond to a bluetooth signal to give the desired response, in which case black box testing with different notes could not verify that the machine was working correctly.
I often wonder how you can guarantee something doesn't violate any patents. Since there's no requirement for how long a new product can exist before the patent holder "all-of-a-sudden" discovers that the new product is in violation of the an existing patent, and since there are so many patents out there, it would be quite hard for there to be a guarantee that something didn't violate a patent. "Submarine patents" as they are called happen all the time. You don't bring up a case as soon as some product makes it to market. You wait a few years, and after the product is a success, then you go and ask for a bunch of money. I would say that in many, if not the in the vast majority of patent infringement cases, that the people violating the existing patent unintentionally, and without knowledge of the patent existing at all, or even if they were aware of it, they read it, and interpreted it differently and figured they weren't infringing.
I would create some interesting Day/Night cycles due to the fact that the planet would come between the moon and the star and create an eclipse. Taking Europa as an example, it's orbital period is 3.5 days, but also interestingly enough, is tidally locked. which means one side would get a lot more sun than the other. Ganymede, which is the largest moon in the solar system, has an orbital period of 7 days, and is also tidally locked. I'm not sure how common it is, but of the three moons I am now educated on, they are all tidally locked. This presents it's own challenges to life, although I'm sure it wouldn't discount life completely.
And people wonder why Apple is doing so much better than everyone else. Dell used to be "the" place to go (at least among the major OEMs, other option is build it yourself) if you wanted to customized your system to your own specs. Now it seems like they've lost sight of that, and the only things you can customize on their site are value add-ons where they can make lots of money like printers and extended warranties.
According to Wikipedia, the first Pentium Pro was produced in 1995, while the Pentium II didn't hit the market until 1997. Also, when you think about it, 10 years isn't even that old for computer equipment. I still have hardware that's close to 10 years old, and it's completely functional.Computers from 2003, while not top of the line anymore, are certainly good enough for a lot of tasks.
I would love to see someone else copy Apple in one regard. Make less choices for the customer. There doesn't need to be 10 different desktop models, and 10 different laptop models. Apple has 3 desktops (mini, iMac and Mac Pro), while allowing the user to choose a few basic options like amount of RAM, hard drive space, and processor speed. And they have 2 models of laptops. Customers know exactly what they are getting with Apple, and they know when there's a new model available, because it only happens once a year. With Dell, and other PC manufacturers, there's tons of different models, nobody really knows how to compare one to the other, and you never know how old the current model is, and when the new model is coming out.
I wonder how much societal collapse could be caused by a storm. Sure, not complete societal collapse, and not national societal collapse, but it seems likely that many parts of a single city's society could collapse if there was a big storm. Maybe in the US, this is much less likely, because the government would send in disaster relief, but look at what happened when Haiti was hit by that earthquake. Had the world not come to their rescue, things could have been much worse, and they were pretty bad anyway. Many cities in less better off nations could be pretty much completely ruined by a large storm.
I wonder if anybody is thinking twice about having a datacenter on the 17th floor of an office building, in a city by the ocean? Unless there is some specific need for you to be close to Wall Street, It's probably a good idea to make sure your servers are hosted where there is minimal likelihood of natural disasters, and also in a place that is easily serviceable from the ground. Although having it on the ground would have likely been worse in some cases, being a lot further inland where flooding is pretty much impossible would be even better.
I'm much more interested in having a single display that is ultra wide, with the possibility of it being curved. For work, it's not bad to have a bunch of monitors as they will most likely contain separate windows anyway. But for gaming, having a single, continuous monitor with no borders in the middle works a lot better. Currently, you either have to have 3 monitors, so the middle of the screen isn't obstructed, or have 1 monitor. Having a single monitor that's as wide as 2 monitors would probably be wide enough for a lot of tasks. Also, even for work, It would be nice to have an ultra wide monitor, because there would be more usable space. There's kind of a dead zone in the middle because you don't want windows sitting between 2 monitors. If you have 2 monitors, it's hard to display 3 things side by side (Firefox , IE, and Chrome for instance).
I'm not sure how Dell would charge $200 for going from 8 GB of RAM to 32 GB of RAM. Just doing some quick browsing on TigerDirect shows that 8 GB goes for about $65 while 32 GB goes for about $400. So that's a $335 upgrade. $600 doesn't even seem like that much of a stretch. A little padding added on for them doing the installation, but it's not that far out there. Just browsing around the Dell site for a price on speccing out a machine with 32 GB of RAM and I just gave up. XPS 8700 (which is supposed to be their performance machines, didn't even come with a RAM upgrade option. 12 GB is the only choice. Looked around on their business section a bit too. Optiplex and Precision work stations both had no memory upgrade options, and both were at 8 GB.
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Looks promising, but a 6 meter long car isn't very practical for the city.
This is something that a lot of people forget. The amount of money you spend on sales tax is often largely optional. Most necessities like groceries don't have sales tax in most areas. I actually find that sales taxes affect me very little, even though my sales tax rate is 13% (Go Canada), as I tend not to actually buy that much stuff.
The problem is, is that they were probably collecting the taxes, to make it appear on the outside like they were doing the right thing, but they probably weren't remitting them to the government. Sure a good ecommerce system can ensure with somewhat decent accuracy that the correct amount is being collected, but it doesn't help you with actually transferring that money to the correct entity. I don't think a system exists that tells you how to remit taxes to the thousands of different tax jurisdictions in the United States.
Not so sure about that. 2 tons of water is about 1.8 cubic meters. Oil floats on water, and therefore is less dense than water. So 2 tons of oil would probably be pretty close to 2 cubic metres. A quick Google gave a density of 790 kg/m3. 1 ton is 907 kg. So 2 tons of oil takes up 2.3 cubic meters.
I undertand this. I don't really want to give any app root access to my phone. This is because I don't trust the apps that require root access any more than I trust the apps that don't require root access. Once they have root, there's no restrictions on what they can do. And there's a lot of things that require root that shouldn't. Such as apps that back up you applications and their settings.
FTFY. If you want control of your phone, you should buy your own phone. Personally, I don't think rooting is the right option either. The solution to "I don't want to give apps the ability to send out SMS messages" shouldn't be "I should be able to give apps unlimited super user privileges"
50,000 hours at 10 hours a day is 13.7 years. I certainly don't watch 10 hours of TV a day. Probably maxes out most days around 4, meaning that the TV would last me about 34 years. Assuming something else didn't break first. 50,000 hours is quite a long time.
Not that there's really much of a different between 2000 degrees celcius, and 2273 K.
They could probably format the card in EXT-2/3/4 and nobody would care. Most people just want extra storage for the device, and don't really care if its in a format that windows can't read. It would be easy enough to copy files between devices using a network share.
This and Google Reader. When Google Reader was cancelled, I switched to Tiny TIny RSS, and I have to say that I find it as good, if not better than Google Reader. Except that I mostly only use it on my phone. The web UI is great, but I find it quite slow, and that detracts from it's usefulness. If there's a good free alternative to Google Reader that you can host yourself, I haven't found it yet. I think GMail is the only cloud service that I really depend on for anything remotely important. Most of the stuff that the web hosting companies offer, like SquirrelMail is just atrocious. My provider (dreamhost) actually recommends that you use GMail for domains, because the other options are so deplorable.
I think it's even more complicated than that. With seven billion people on the planet, it's completely possible that something is both non-obvious and that many people could arrive at the same method of solving a problem in a very short period of time. Non-obvious is a very loose term anyway. Many things that seem obvious to one person, are not at all obvious to another person. How exactly does one test for "obviousness"?
The side facing the planet would not be getting as much direct light. When behind the planet it wouldn't get any. When directly between the planet and the star, it wouldn't get any, although as you said, it would get the reflected light from the planet. I don't know if it could get enough light this way to heat up the planet significantly. When on the "side" of the planet, it would get some direct sun, although it would have to go through more atmosphere, because of the angle, and therefore it wouldn't warm the planet as much. Similar to the poles or our planet, where they will have 24 hours of sunlight for months at a time, but the temperature will still be cold because the sunlight has to travel through a lot more atmosphere to get there.
Doesn't matter as long as they get more numbers to dazzle the advertisers with. They don't care if everything is entirely accurate. More information is always better. If it turns out to make them look bad (nobody hovers over the ads), they'll just choose not to report those numbers to the advertisers. If they can use the data, and spin it in a way to make them look good, then they will have more "hard facts" to let advertisers know they are getting their money's worth.
Personally, I've found that I've been able to get the ads on Facebook to behave moderately well by actually clicking the little X on the ads that don't apply. Usually I'll select "against my viewpoints" or whatever it says. But sometimes other options. By just removing a few ads / companies, I've been able to get rid of a lot of the nuissance stuff, and most of what shows up is real products, that I may actually be interested in, from companies who aren't just trying to scam me.
Of course, now that the vulnerability is known, owners of the machines should be regularly verifying that they work correction. They should verify that real notes are not flagged as counterfeits, and they should be able to verify that counterfeits do not get verified as legitimate. However, it might be hard to verify, depending on how the machines work. If you reprogrammed the firmware so that all valid notes are verified, but that only counterfeits with your unique ultraviolet ink pattern are legitimate, then most tests with other counterfeit bills would fail, and the machine would look as though it was working properly. If you had physical access to the machine, and there's enough free space in there, you could probably get it to respond to a bluetooth signal to give the desired response, in which case black box testing with different notes could not verify that the machine was working correctly.
I often wonder how you can guarantee something doesn't violate any patents. Since there's no requirement for how long a new product can exist before the patent holder "all-of-a-sudden" discovers that the new product is in violation of the an existing patent, and since there are so many patents out there, it would be quite hard for there to be a guarantee that something didn't violate a patent. "Submarine patents" as they are called happen all the time. You don't bring up a case as soon as some product makes it to market. You wait a few years, and after the product is a success, then you go and ask for a bunch of money. I would say that in many, if not the in the vast majority of patent infringement cases, that the people violating the existing patent unintentionally, and without knowledge of the patent existing at all, or even if they were aware of it, they read it, and interpreted it differently and figured they weren't infringing.
I would create some interesting Day/Night cycles due to the fact that the planet would come between the moon and the star and create an eclipse. Taking Europa as an example, it's orbital period is 3.5 days, but also interestingly enough, is tidally locked. which means one side would get a lot more sun than the other. Ganymede, which is the largest moon in the solar system, has an orbital period of 7 days, and is also tidally locked. I'm not sure how common it is, but of the three moons I am now educated on, they are all tidally locked. This presents it's own challenges to life, although I'm sure it wouldn't discount life completely.
And people wonder why Apple is doing so much better than everyone else. Dell used to be "the" place to go (at least among the major OEMs, other option is build it yourself) if you wanted to customized your system to your own specs. Now it seems like they've lost sight of that, and the only things you can customize on their site are value add-ons where they can make lots of money like printers and extended warranties.
According to Wikipedia, the first Pentium Pro was produced in 1995, while the Pentium II didn't hit the market until 1997. Also, when you think about it, 10 years isn't even that old for computer equipment. I still have hardware that's close to 10 years old, and it's completely functional.Computers from 2003, while not top of the line anymore, are certainly good enough for a lot of tasks.
I would love to see someone else copy Apple in one regard. Make less choices for the customer. There doesn't need to be 10 different desktop models, and 10 different laptop models. Apple has 3 desktops (mini, iMac and Mac Pro), while allowing the user to choose a few basic options like amount of RAM, hard drive space, and processor speed. And they have 2 models of laptops. Customers know exactly what they are getting with Apple, and they know when there's a new model available, because it only happens once a year. With Dell, and other PC manufacturers, there's tons of different models, nobody really knows how to compare one to the other, and you never know how old the current model is, and when the new model is coming out.
Possibly North Korea. For the simple fact that it's likely they would have denied access to foreign aid workers.
I wonder how much societal collapse could be caused by a storm. Sure, not complete societal collapse, and not national societal collapse, but it seems likely that many parts of a single city's society could collapse if there was a big storm. Maybe in the US, this is much less likely, because the government would send in disaster relief, but look at what happened when Haiti was hit by that earthquake. Had the world not come to their rescue, things could have been much worse, and they were pretty bad anyway. Many cities in less better off nations could be pretty much completely ruined by a large storm.
I wonder if anybody is thinking twice about having a datacenter on the 17th floor of an office building, in a city by the ocean? Unless there is some specific need for you to be close to Wall Street, It's probably a good idea to make sure your servers are hosted where there is minimal likelihood of natural disasters, and also in a place that is easily serviceable from the ground. Although having it on the ground would have likely been worse in some cases, being a lot further inland where flooding is pretty much impossible would be even better.
I'm much more interested in having a single display that is ultra wide, with the possibility of it being curved. For work, it's not bad to have a bunch of monitors as they will most likely contain separate windows anyway. But for gaming, having a single, continuous monitor with no borders in the middle works a lot better. Currently, you either have to have 3 monitors, so the middle of the screen isn't obstructed, or have 1 monitor. Having a single monitor that's as wide as 2 monitors would probably be wide enough for a lot of tasks. Also, even for work, It would be nice to have an ultra wide monitor, because there would be more usable space. There's kind of a dead zone in the middle because you don't want windows sitting between 2 monitors. If you have 2 monitors, it's hard to display 3 things side by side (Firefox , IE, and Chrome for instance).
I'm not sure how Dell would charge $200 for going from 8 GB of RAM to 32 GB of RAM. Just doing some quick browsing on TigerDirect shows that 8 GB goes for about $65 while 32 GB goes for about $400. So that's a $335 upgrade. $600 doesn't even seem like that much of a stretch. A little padding added on for them doing the installation, but it's not that far out there. Just browsing around the Dell site for a price on speccing out a machine with 32 GB of RAM and I just gave up. XPS 8700 (which is supposed to be their performance machines, didn't even come with a RAM upgrade option. 12 GB is the only choice. Looked around on their business section a bit too. Optiplex and Precision work stations both had no memory upgrade options, and both were at 8 GB.