This is not some sort of high-frequency trading or other section of finance where speed matters. This is producing SEC filings...As long as execution time is not in the month+ range, you are going to be fine.
Yeah, thats how we get so much junk mail here in the US too. There are various discounts attached to things like presorting mail and dropping it off direct to distribution centers and if you do all of those, it can get pretty affordable to send spam to everyone.
You know the mail moves every day right? The USPS is open 24/7
Sure they don't drop it off at your house, and most post office customer areas are not open sundays (they probably can't stop saturday customer house for people who work), but mail that is in the system is constantly moving. If it was going to arrive on monday, it will still arive on monday (with saturday's mail).
I wouldn't be surprised if they still send the trucks around for a daily pickup on the blue boxes on saturdays since this requires significantly less labor than actually delivering mail to every single house in the country.
Shareholders however do not like it when news stories like this come out (traders might since they could be either long or short on the company but standard shareholders only like good news)
Also, not everyone is in it to make a quick buck...you can usually put something like an 80/20 rule into effect on stock transfers. 20% of the shares are going to make up 80% of the volume on any given day. That means that the other 80% of the shareholders are not quick in and out "make a buck" traders but rather long (or semi-long) term holders. Don't forget that telecom stocks (like AT&T with its steady dividend) are big favorites amongst retirees and pension funds.
Large long term holders don't just sell when things start to look bad, they go to shareholders conferences, they actively vote their shares, and they care about long term performance (look at how many proxy battles have been fought and won by calpers and other large public pension fund).
Have somebody who is already used to handling copyright violations offer up some service like that. If you are an amateur photographer (or even a professional who posts personal non-work images online) you don't really have the time/skill to really go after somebody using your image. You might see your image on some random company website, but you don't really know the best practice for going after them.
Getty or somebody could offer a service where the same team that guards their images, will go after the people pirating your images. I wouldn't expect them to do the searching, more of a "hey, these guys are using my image...you can keep X% of the royalties if you can get them to pay". Since they already have a team in place (a team that may not be busy all the time since they rely on finding infringements before they go to work), they could probably do this in exchange for a cut of the fee. You could also work it where they get a cut of the fee on that image as if it were a part of their catalog and then you have the option to license the image to them for stock usage (since some joe-image-pirate has already proved there is some demand for it).
Wifi is more like they made hundreds of photocopies of the letter to their credit card company and had them dropped from a helicopter 100ft above their house.
The recipient is still obvious if it was a normal business letter with their address at the top but you would hardly punish someone for picking one of those letters up off the street outside their house and reading it (note, these letters can't be in sealed envelopes...envelopes are like WEP, sure you *could* open it with a simple tool, but you know you are actively doing something "wrong")
If you are going to do solar-thermal (though this article is really about photovoltaics and not solar-thermal), why not do a collector model? Either tubes and parabolic mirrors (curved mirrors are too expensive though) or a collector tower (which has the side effect of looking aweseome).
The advantage of panels is you just put them there and plug them in...you can do 10sq ft or 1000sq ft.
The PbSe sounds bad but there are a lot of nasty bits that go into current solar panels. I mentioned it already in an earlier post, but there are companies working to design panel components that have less of an environmental impact.
That being said...maybe we don't really need more efficiency. There is a LOT of solar energy hitting the earth and we don't 100% efficency (its not like we are burning a limited fuel and want high efficiency...the solar comes just the same no matter how efficient the panel is). I would be perfectly happy hitting the ~30% theoretical barrier that a lot of current designs have or getting a bit higher on some of the 3rd gen/thin film stuff and then lowering the cost.
Price is the real issue here. After all, a square foot of arizona warehouse rooftop at 30% efficiency is WAY better than a square foot that sits at zero efficency because they can't afford the panels.
Large facility demand has actually slowed due to the economy...solar is still a pretty big investment. Prices are dropping and we are seeing some good hard work out of some of the sole-purpose solar companies (First Solar, Sunpower, etc) since they can't fall back on other products like the industrial giants can when solar orders drop.
We are also seeing some cool developments to make solar better. Not just big efficiency gains like this article mentions but also more environmentally friendly processes to make the panels (although replacing silicon with lead "quantum dots" may not be a step in that direction but even the normal production players like sunpower are hitting new efficiency records). As it stands, a lot of petroleum products go into the parts that make the panels...a cool development I saw a press release about a few weeks ago is from somebody called BioSolar who have designed a panel backing film based on some bio products rather than oil.
We are also seeing 3rd gen solar tech pick up which will drop costs even if it isn't as efficient (and really, when you are almost at 30% on commercial panels, cost is a bigger issue since we have a LOT of rooftops ready for panels)
When are we going to figure out something along the lines of dual-sim phones designed with this sort of use in mind?
I used to have a verizon blackberry from work with a slot for a sim card (since verizon decided using a different standard from the rest of the world was a good idea and now needs to include all the GSM bits to appease business travelers). It would have been much more useful to me if I could put in my personal AT&T sim card and have it just work. Similar to how a BB splits your inboxes, it could have split SMS boxes for both numbers and automatically know which number to use for outgoing calls based on a contact preference (personal contacts get the personal number, business get business, bonus points if it does some machine learning based on incoming calls).
Breakfast is definitely not peak load time...pull up one of those load graphs for your city and you will see that it comes later. Sure there is more load at 7-8AM than at 4-5AM, but its got nothing on peak hours in most areas.
But what if you could load it, get it ready and then have it start the load when its ready.
Then it could email or otherwise alert you when it is time to dry.
Also, the improved run time does not have to be late at night...maybe it can synchonize with your networked alarm clock and have the laundry finish 10 minutes after you wake up so you can switch it to the dryer and avoid leaving wet clothes (although then you have to leave stuff in the dryer).
An underwater mortgage is underwater whether or not you choose to stay.
Rent a house or apartment in the new city and put up your old house for rent if you don't want to realize the loss right now (or assume that the value will come back). As long as you find somewhere with comparable rent, you are still only out the difference between rental price and mortgage payment.
Exactly. Things like picasa make a great sandbox...but you have to stay within the bounds of the sandbox. The plastic toy sand shovel was never intended to dig in real dry soil.
From picasa, you can email files, upload pictures to various websites, print files, etc. It does all of this better than the standard windows interface--I no longer get gigantic jpegs emailed to me by my mother and you can actually choose how you want your document to print. If you were doing this with files though, my mom would have made a small 400px across image to email me...then she would want to print it and it would look like crap because she had already discarded the data. Even if she didn't save the resized version, iterate through a few jpeg compressions and your image starts to look pretty bad.
My gmail tab did just this right before I read this article.
I noticed the tab no longer had the "Inbox (###)" text and instead just said "GMail" as I had timed out or something.
I'd be worried...but it was actually google's page and this happens every few days so I am used to it. Would I have checked the address bad and noticed if this had actually been a tabnapping attack? Probably not.
You don't think they have not already thought of your suggestions?
It is *not* easy to gather up the oil in the water and it is definitely *not* easy to just stick a cap in the tube.
Also, you speak of waste (and other people speak of BP being greedy and wanting solutions that gather the oil rather than stop it)...I saw evidence somewhere that the total amount of oil expected to spill was on the order of magnitude of 7.5 minutes worth of the worlds consumption. Believe me, this is not significant waste and certainly not a significant financial loss to BP (in terms of the oil value)--they want this thing shut quickly and cheaply just as much as you do.
That assumes apple isn't also checking name/address on the cards (which the meter surely isn't). Your influence over the ipad market is still basically zero. Now imagine how different things would be if you could by them in actual large quantities in order to limit supply in your one-apple store town and then sell on craigslist to locals for a profit? If you end up buying too many and haven't sold them by the time apple gets a new shipment, just go return them to the store for cash.
But hey...I accidentally sold my apple share in the market dip (stop order got triggered at 220...grr) but I had no interest in buying back in like I did when I bought the shares at 95--instead I took my profits and bought google.
Well, its an apartment, so its actually a kind of long walk to the back door (and the back door is sometimes inaccessible due to a gate belonging to the neighboring condo building which I do not have a key for). It is actually the front door that requires both keys, so guaranteed access to my apartment requires both the front/back key and the front-only key.
as to why I might want to go in the other door...I can think of far more reasons why it is nice to have it as an option than I can think of reasons why it would make sense to cut off a door in exchange for not carrying a tiny piece of metal. Maybe I come home carrying something large and the other door is more convenient?
You could easily replace the door knob and deadbolt with matching keys...I have this in my apartment (but unfortunately the back door has non-matching keys and I am not going to pay to replace 4 locks in a rental to carry around one less key).
Not being as adjustable/configurable as normal toolbars does bother me a bit.
I have not moved to widescreen monitors on the two displays that regularly get used for office apps, but even then, I often find myself wishing my monitor at work could rotate to portrait mode to display page-shaped documents better. The fat-assed ribbon at the top complicates this even more.
If I was on a widescreen display, I would probably prefer to jam the ribbon on the side of the screen for more vertical space (as I see a LOT of osx users doing with their docks despite the fact that apple ships with a bottom-dock on every system).
I used to agree with this...but now that I have spent more time in a business setting, I can say that there are very real reasons why top posting and html email make sense.
Hell, while I usually leave it in the default html mode, there are times when I switch it to RTF mode so I can control things like where attachments show up in the email (like you can do on internal network emails in lotus notes). Sure, I know not to send formatted stuff like that to unknown email clients outside the company, but 95% of my emails never leave our exchange server so I know for a fact that every feature is supported.
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People don't just think the bad reviewers are bitter people...they are either bitter people or people who had such a bad experience that they were driven to make an account just to leave a bad review and therefor should be disregarded as bad data (since their normal reviewing patterns have not been averaged in to the general picture of the community). Either way you get ignored;-)
In all seriousness, you can usually tell when a bad review is someone who is just angry or someone who actually has a good reason (not to say I have not been burned when buying electronics and just assuming the bad reviews were from idiots who couldn't operate it right--they turned out to be correct).
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This is not some sort of high-frequency trading or other section of finance where speed matters. This is producing SEC filings...As long as execution time is not in the month+ range, you are going to be fine.
Yeah, thats how we get so much junk mail here in the US too. There are various discounts attached to things like presorting mail and dropping it off direct to distribution centers and if you do all of those, it can get pretty affordable to send spam to everyone.
Sure they don't drop it off at your house, and most post office customer areas are not open sundays (they probably can't stop saturday customer house for people who work), but mail that is in the system is constantly moving. If it was going to arrive on monday, it will still arive on monday (with saturday's mail).
I wouldn't be surprised if they still send the trucks around for a daily pickup on the blue boxes on saturdays since this requires significantly less labor than actually delivering mail to every single house in the country.
Also, not everyone is in it to make a quick buck...you can usually put something like an 80/20 rule into effect on stock transfers. 20% of the shares are going to make up 80% of the volume on any given day. That means that the other 80% of the shareholders are not quick in and out "make a buck" traders but rather long (or semi-long) term holders. Don't forget that telecom stocks (like AT&T with its steady dividend) are big favorites amongst retirees and pension funds.
Large long term holders don't just sell when things start to look bad, they go to shareholders conferences, they actively vote their shares, and they care about long term performance (look at how many proxy battles have been fought and won by calpers and other large public pension fund).
Have somebody who is already used to handling copyright violations offer up some service like that. If you are an amateur photographer (or even a professional who posts personal non-work images online) you don't really have the time/skill to really go after somebody using your image. You might see your image on some random company website, but you don't really know the best practice for going after them.
Getty or somebody could offer a service where the same team that guards their images, will go after the people pirating your images. I wouldn't expect them to do the searching, more of a "hey, these guys are using my image...you can keep X% of the royalties if you can get them to pay". Since they already have a team in place (a team that may not be busy all the time since they rely on finding infringements before they go to work), they could probably do this in exchange for a cut of the fee. You could also work it where they get a cut of the fee on that image as if it were a part of their catalog and then you have the option to license the image to them for stock usage (since some joe-image-pirate has already proved there is some demand for it).
The recipient is still obvious if it was a normal business letter with their address at the top but you would hardly punish someone for picking one of those letters up off the street outside their house and reading it (note, these letters can't be in sealed envelopes...envelopes are like WEP, sure you *could* open it with a simple tool, but you know you are actively doing something "wrong")
The advantage of panels is you just put them there and plug them in...you can do 10sq ft or 1000sq ft.
That being said...maybe we don't really need more efficiency. There is a LOT of solar energy hitting the earth and we don't 100% efficency (its not like we are burning a limited fuel and want high efficiency...the solar comes just the same no matter how efficient the panel is). I would be perfectly happy hitting the ~30% theoretical barrier that a lot of current designs have or getting a bit higher on some of the 3rd gen/thin film stuff and then lowering the cost.
Price is the real issue here. After all, a square foot of arizona warehouse rooftop at 30% efficiency is WAY better than a square foot that sits at zero efficency because they can't afford the panels.
We are also seeing some cool developments to make solar better. Not just big efficiency gains like this article mentions but also more environmentally friendly processes to make the panels (although replacing silicon with lead "quantum dots" may not be a step in that direction but even the normal production players like sunpower are hitting new efficiency records). As it stands, a lot of petroleum products go into the parts that make the panels...a cool development I saw a press release about a few weeks ago is from somebody called BioSolar who have designed a panel backing film based on some bio products rather than oil.
We are also seeing 3rd gen solar tech pick up which will drop costs even if it isn't as efficient (and really, when you are almost at 30% on commercial panels, cost is a bigger issue since we have a LOT of rooftops ready for panels)
I used to have a verizon blackberry from work with a slot for a sim card (since verizon decided using a different standard from the rest of the world was a good idea and now needs to include all the GSM bits to appease business travelers). It would have been much more useful to me if I could put in my personal AT&T sim card and have it just work. Similar to how a BB splits your inboxes, it could have split SMS boxes for both numbers and automatically know which number to use for outgoing calls based on a contact preference (personal contacts get the personal number, business get business, bonus points if it does some machine learning based on incoming calls).
Breakfast is definitely not peak load time...pull up one of those load graphs for your city and you will see that it comes later. Sure there is more load at 7-8AM than at 4-5AM, but its got nothing on peak hours in most areas.
Then it could email or otherwise alert you when it is time to dry.
Also, the improved run time does not have to be late at night...maybe it can synchonize with your networked alarm clock and have the laundry finish 10 minutes after you wake up so you can switch it to the dryer and avoid leaving wet clothes (although then you have to leave stuff in the dryer).
Project quality fell off noticably in the 4 issues I recieved...now it is like the popular science/mechanics of DIY
Rent a house or apartment in the new city and put up your old house for rent if you don't want to realize the loss right now (or assume that the value will come back). As long as you find somewhere with comparable rent, you are still only out the difference between rental price and mortgage payment.
From picasa, you can email files, upload pictures to various websites, print files, etc. It does all of this better than the standard windows interface--I no longer get gigantic jpegs emailed to me by my mother and you can actually choose how you want your document to print. If you were doing this with files though, my mom would have made a small 400px across image to email me...then she would want to print it and it would look like crap because she had already discarded the data. Even if she didn't save the resized version, iterate through a few jpeg compressions and your image starts to look pretty bad.
I noticed the tab no longer had the "Inbox (###)" text and instead just said "GMail" as I had timed out or something.
I'd be worried...but it was actually google's page and this happens every few days so I am used to it. Would I have checked the address bad and noticed if this had actually been a tabnapping attack? Probably not.
It is *not* easy to gather up the oil in the water and it is definitely *not* easy to just stick a cap in the tube.
Also, you speak of waste (and other people speak of BP being greedy and wanting solutions that gather the oil rather than stop it)...I saw evidence somewhere that the total amount of oil expected to spill was on the order of magnitude of 7.5 minutes worth of the worlds consumption. Believe me, this is not significant waste and certainly not a significant financial loss to BP (in terms of the oil value)--they want this thing shut quickly and cheaply just as much as you do.
That assumes apple isn't also checking name/address on the cards (which the meter surely isn't). Your influence over the ipad market is still basically zero. Now imagine how different things would be if you could by them in actual large quantities in order to limit supply in your one-apple store town and then sell on craigslist to locals for a profit? If you end up buying too many and haven't sold them by the time apple gets a new shipment, just go return them to the store for cash.
But hey...I accidentally sold my apple share in the market dip (stop order got triggered at 220...grr) but I had no interest in buying back in like I did when I bought the shares at 95--instead I took my profits and bought google.
Was anyone else amused by the fact that they are clearly using Chrome in the facebook screenshot considering Google's views on net neutrality?
as to why I might want to go in the other door...I can think of far more reasons why it is nice to have it as an option than I can think of reasons why it would make sense to cut off a door in exchange for not carrying a tiny piece of metal. Maybe I come home carrying something large and the other door is more convenient?
You could easily replace the door knob and deadbolt with matching keys...I have this in my apartment (but unfortunately the back door has non-matching keys and I am not going to pay to replace 4 locks in a rental to carry around one less key).
The software move of putting toolbars on the side is usually free.
I have not moved to widescreen monitors on the two displays that regularly get used for office apps, but even then, I often find myself wishing my monitor at work could rotate to portrait mode to display page-shaped documents better. The fat-assed ribbon at the top complicates this even more.
If I was on a widescreen display, I would probably prefer to jam the ribbon on the side of the screen for more vertical space (as I see a LOT of osx users doing with their docks despite the fact that apple ships with a bottom-dock on every system).
Hell, while I usually leave it in the default html mode, there are times when I switch it to RTF mode so I can control things like where attachments show up in the email (like you can do on internal network emails in lotus notes). Sure, I know not to send formatted stuff like that to unknown email clients outside the company, but 95% of my emails never leave our exchange server so I know for a fact that every feature is supported.
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In all seriousness, you can usually tell when a bad review is someone who is just angry or someone who actually has a good reason (not to say I have not been burned when buying electronics and just assuming the bad reviews were from idiots who couldn't operate it right--they turned out to be correct).