Bikes are cheaper to buy, but not necessarily to maintain. Bike tires are good for about 2000 miles. At $10 each, that's $2000 for 200,000 miles. Seats, chains, and bearings wear out, too. A low end Toyota will be competitive on repair costs.
The technology to look ahead in traffic and shift based upon speed changes that will not be required for several seconds does not exist now, and is not likely to exist soon.
I've installed 3 versions of Red Hat, 2 of Suse, 1 Mandrake, and Fedora Core 6. Despite the many flaws of each of these, none made Windows unbootable or hurt the Windows partitions in any way. In fact, the only time damage to Windows that occurred outside of Windows was trying to run wine-outlook-express.
Moving up and down robs your engine of momentum and is just plain silly.
You need to learn and apply integral calculus. Except for friction losses and the losses inherent in bearing tolerances, there is no loss in piston motion. This is
Larger bores for higher revs has been going on for decades - at least since the 1960's, which is when I first started paying attention. The larger bores also allow larger valves for a given cylinder volume.
Your figures are bogus because they ignore the time value of money (a.k.a. interest). At 4% interest and the most optimistic value of generated electricity (at the absurd $0.42 per kWhr) the payoff time is 600 years. Anything worse and it will never pay for itself.
The "intelligent" technology requires no large electric motor and expensive batteries. Figure it will be at least $3000 less expensive per car, and more reliable because less complex.
At full throttle, the mixture is richened so that all input air is consumed in combustion. (Normally, the mixture is set to burn all the fuel.) (Note: emission tests generally do not have full throttle portions, so this does not affect emissions ratings.) So unless you've altered your injection calibration to prevent this richening (which hypermilers do) this is not guaranteed to be the best technique.
In all likelihood, the managers were assured by the IT people that their system was safe. Should they be jailed for believing their hired experts?
The IT people are not paid to take the sort of risk that involves being jailed for mistakes.
A large part of the penalty cost here is likely to be covered by insurance. This is the sort of thing that insurance companies, in their own defense, should correct. Insurance companies like to give medical exams for high value policies involving their customer's health; they ought to be able to substantially discount rates if they can certify computer system security.
Every day, using vi, I accomplish in seconds things that would take minutes or hours in a GUI editor. Occasionally I do things that would take days, weeks, even months in a GUI editor. The power available from memorizing about 30 commands and learning regular expressions is astounding, provided, of course, that you actually have a use for such power.
Linux users are technophiles who still cannot accomplish everything without having to resort to a command line.
As opposed to Windows users, who cannot accomplish the same tasks because the tools to perform those tasks do not exist. Unless you count cygwin, or compilers so that you can create those tools.
A good Casio graphing calculator now retails for $40. Assume that the actual production cost is no more than half that. Add some cost for a substantially bigger display. Take back some cost with lower quality components. Don't provide a manual, packaging, or a guarantee. Allow time and the advancement of technology to take out the rest of the cost.
There should be only 2 chips: flash memory and everything else. "Everything else" on the scale of a 1985 PC can be put on a single die costing less than 1 dollar. ($2000 for an 8" wafer means $0.06 per square mm. $0.08 after scribing and cutting. 10 sq mm should suffice nicely.) PCBs can be pretty cheap, no reason to use FR4. Calculator keyboard. Monochrome LCD display, driven directly by the "everything else" chip. Display cost will probably drive total cost.
Even at minimum wage, it takes no more than four hours of labor to afford a one hour CD. Is that "poor" teenager only going to listen to that CD four times in his life?
The problem is that the teenager is lazy and disrespectful of the rights of the music owner. He sees others around him getting away with it, so he figures he should too. Someone's paying about $10,000 a year for this jerk's education, he can't pay 1/100 of that amount for his own pleasure?
The distinction is not between grumpy old men and impoverished prodigies, it's between responsible adults and grasping babies.
All your justifications and ideas of "intellectual property" are now gone.
The justification remains. Society wants a rich culture; it wants books and movies and songs and other forms of distributable art. A large portion of this art will not be created if there is no financial incentive to create it. Artists have to be able to support themselves. The existence of copyright protection helps make financial viability possible.
Good artists (by which I mean those who art is commercially successful) are encouraged by their success to make more good art; their customers and they both benefit. Poor artists receive no such encouragement and hopefully will give up so that fewer people will be exposed to their incompetence. Take away copyright and some of this positive feedback is removed. The ratio of crap to good stuff will rise.
Get used to tightening your belt and practicing your craft...or find a new trade.
I don't want the people who make stuff I like to suffer, and I'm willing to pay a reasonable amount to ensure that they don't suffer, particularly if I get some more of the stuff I like in return. It seems to me that you don't care about the wellbeing of those who produce things you like.
It is not the univerity's position as ISP, but the university's postition "in loco parentis" that gives it a semblance of an obligation to stop copyright infringement of its students.
Colleges are a middle ground between home/high school and the "real world". They often have their own branch of the local police force and try to handle legal events locally when possible. This does not mean that they can actually be found responsible for the actions of their students, but it does mean bad publicity when their students misbehave,
Because so many colleges receive direct or indirect federal funding, they are vulnerable to political pressure.
Here's a lesson for those of you who think government should be involved in education. Support by government necessarily means abuse by government.
Inositol - considered by some to be a B vitamin - tastes just like sugar and doesn't promote tooth decay. I believe it is actually an alcohol, not a sugar, but it looks like sugar.
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Anorexics do not get adequate nutrition and often hurt themselves thereby. The CR meme is low calories, excellent nutrition.
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Bikes are cheaper to buy, but not necessarily to maintain. Bike tires are good for about 2000 miles. At $10 each, that's $2000 for 200,000 miles. Seats, chains, and bearings wear out, too. A low end Toyota will be competitive on repair costs.
The technology to look ahead in traffic and shift based upon speed changes that will not be required for several seconds does not exist now, and is not likely to exist soon.
I've installed 3 versions of Red Hat, 2 of Suse, 1 Mandrake, and Fedora Core 6. Despite the many flaws of each of these, none made Windows unbootable or hurt the Windows partitions in any way. In fact, the only time damage to Windows that occurred outside of Windows was trying to run wine-outlook-express.
Carbon fuel cells do exist, but they're not practical (yet). They have to run at very high temperatures, among other problems.
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which is zero over a cycle.
Larger bores for higher revs has been going on for decades - at least since the 1960's, which is when I first started paying attention. The larger bores also allow larger valves for a given cylinder volume.
Your figures are bogus because they ignore the time value of money (a.k.a. interest). At 4% interest and the most optimistic value of generated electricity (at the absurd $0.42 per kWhr) the payoff time is 600 years. Anything worse and it will never pay for itself.
The "intelligent" technology requires no large electric motor and expensive batteries. Figure it will be at least $3000 less expensive per car, and more reliable because less complex.
Mass transit is not practical in my town of 1500, nor is it practical anywhere within 25 miles of me.
He is using comon sense. The impatient person is the moron.
At full throttle, the mixture is richened so that all input air is consumed in combustion. (Normally, the mixture is set to burn all the fuel.) (Note: emission tests generally do not have full throttle portions, so this does not affect emissions ratings.) So unless you've altered your injection calibration to prevent this richening (which hypermilers do) this is not guaranteed to be the best technique.
The IT people are not paid to take the sort of risk that involves being jailed for mistakes.
A large part of the penalty cost here is likely to be covered by insurance. This is the sort of thing that insurance companies, in their own defense, should correct. Insurance companies like to give medical exams for high value policies involving their customer's health; they ought to be able to substantially discount rates if they can certify computer system security.
Every day, using vi, I accomplish in seconds things that would take minutes or hours in a GUI editor. Occasionally I do things that would take days, weeks, even months in a GUI editor. The power available from memorizing about 30 commands and learning regular expressions is astounding, provided, of course, that you actually have a use for such power.
A good Casio graphing calculator now retails for $40. Assume that the actual production cost is no more than half that. Add some cost for a substantially bigger display. Take back some cost with lower quality components. Don't provide a manual, packaging, or a guarantee. Allow time and the advancement of technology to take out the rest of the cost.
There should be only 2 chips: flash memory and everything else. "Everything else" on the scale of a 1985 PC can be put on a single die costing less than 1 dollar. ($2000 for an 8" wafer means $0.06 per square mm. $0.08 after scribing and cutting. 10 sq mm should suffice nicely.) PCBs can be pretty cheap, no reason to use FR4. Calculator keyboard. Monochrome LCD display, driven directly by the "everything else" chip. Display cost will probably drive total cost.
The problem is that the teenager is lazy and disrespectful of the rights of the music owner. He sees others around him getting away with it, so he figures he should too. Someone's paying about $10,000 a year for this jerk's education, he can't pay 1/100 of that amount for his own pleasure?
The distinction is not between grumpy old men and impoverished prodigies, it's between responsible adults and grasping babies.
Good artists (by which I mean those who art is commercially successful) are encouraged by their success to make more good art; their customers and they both benefit. Poor artists receive no such encouragement and hopefully will give up so that fewer people will be exposed to their incompetence. Take away copyright and some of this positive feedback is removed. The ratio of crap to good stuff will rise.
I don't want the people who make stuff I like to suffer, and I'm willing to pay a reasonable amount to ensure that they don't suffer, particularly if I get some more of the stuff I like in return. It seems to me that you don't care about the wellbeing of those who produce things you like.Colleges are a middle ground between home/high school and the "real world". They often have their own branch of the local police force and try to handle legal events locally when possible. This does not mean that they can actually be found responsible for the actions of their students, but it does mean bad publicity when their students misbehave,
Because so many colleges receive direct or indirect federal funding, they are vulnerable to political pressure.
Here's a lesson for those of you who think government should be involved in education. Support by government necessarily means abuse by government.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Inositol - considered by some to be a B vitamin - tastes just like sugar and doesn't promote tooth decay. I believe it is actually an alcohol, not a sugar, but it looks like sugar.
Be careful with hydrogen peroxide. Read the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). If you get abdominal cramps, you've likely swallowed too much peroxide.
I've read in several places of caloric input being inversely related to age of menarche. (In a general sense, not a precise math formula.) While not a different type of development, this is definitely a slowing of development.
Anorexics do not get adequate nutrition and often hurt themselves thereby. The CR meme is low calories, excellent nutrition.
I've read that the milk in milk chocolate blocks the good effects of the cocoa.