Especially on a touch interface, where you have to make the controls really big anyhow. How the heck are you "wasting space" with all the decorations? I personally prefer a clean look, but then I also buy cars without leather seats - so I don't think my sense of aesthetic lines up with society at-large.
There is definitely AC hum, but I don't have golden ears and I listen to hip-hop, pop, and punk with some beginners jazz and funk mixed in for good measure. I grew up listening to hissy audio tapes and scratched phonographs. FM radio sounded (and still sounds) incredibly crisp and clear.
I will admit to being able to hear digital artifacts at 128kbps in the older MP3s.
You don't even need the LCD. There is no reason for the student to review their results real-time. Just a simple circuit to read the keypresses and store them for later retrieval. You could probably operate the device on a watch battery for a year.
That's an excellent point. In our case, we are already mass-producing with an assembly line running full-tilt 2 or 3 shifts - but some robots in our industry cost one million dollars or more and are basically hand-built.
Second, a factory - no matter how robotic - requires all sorts of support services, raw materials, and transportation. All of the people involved in those services spend their money where they live, and the whole local economy gets a boost. Even if you argue that this boost is trivial, it is non-zero and we are better off with a robotic factory then we are with no factory at all.
And of course there are national and economic security reasons to want manufacturing capacity, foreign currency flowing in instead of out, and an improved tax base. I'm sure others can come up with other benefits...
I work full-time on a robot built for a specific manufacturing process. A general-purpose robot would never compete in my industry.
That said, many factories don't run a continuous assembly process. Let's take an imaginary shutter-making factory as an example. Rather than have a batten-making machine going full-time, they might only make battens in a big burst until they have a sufficient inventory to make shutters for a few days or weeks. Then they might switch over to producing frames. Finally, they'll get their jigs ready and glue and clamp as many shutters as will fit in their jigs and then return to producing constituent parts. Having a purpose built robot for each purpose sitting idle 1/3 of the time might mean up to 3x the capital cost. In reality, the purpose-built robot might be slightly cheaper or faster - so the mathematics might be different. Point is, there could in fact be a scenario where a more general-purpose robot could work out financially.
He's right, though. We spend more per-student then just about any other country in the world, and yet look at the results. There are many problems with our public schools, and some of them probably include the uneven way they are funded - but we more than adequately fund education.
I don't think the Attorney General's communications can be released - there would be far too many bits in there about ongoing criminal cases and investigations.
I think they should be released, eventually. But current cases should not be in there. We do want SOME secrecy in government:)
Pennsylvania. Technically you can have it done more inexpensively. Cheapest I have ever seen is about $45. I always get my oil and filter done at the same time, which tacks on another $25-30. It might "only" be $80-90 after taxes, but I go to the dealer since I have a service contract. They find a lot less wrong with my car during inspection when they can't charge me to fix it...
Still, this strategy dies when they find my brakes are too low to pass. Then I have to pay dealer prices or come back again after getting it done elsewhere. Some of the cheap places make you pay again, but the dealer will let you come back one more time to check the failed item. Yes, they replace the rotors more frequently now, but you can still cut them once or twice. Then they warp and your brakes pulse even worse then they did originally and you get them replaced.:)
In any case, we're getting pretty far from my original point, which is that $600 falls within the amount of money you need to have on hand for car repairs (even if "on hand" means "room on your credit card") - not a fortune. Make it a water pump or a head gasket if you don't like the brakes getting changed out. Hell, the stupid cabin air filters are $40 now.
They were around the lower end of what you could get from it, around $150 for a stereo receiver. That works out to about $900 today.
I live in a house from the late 60s that has speaker wires strung all over the place to a single location in the den, simply because it was too expensive to stick individual receivers in more than one room. Today you just get a Denon distributed system or a bunch of Airport Express units for less money and have something that is even more versatile.
If you are doing the $100 state inspection anyway, getting all four disk brake pads and the rotors cut can easily approach $600. If you don't need the rotor cut then the job will be cheaper. Last time I had just the fronts done during inspection and it was over $250. I don't think I'm that far off. Throw in the oil and filter and I bet you get to the $600 mark.
I've never purchased a $600 phone, nor do I want to. But 600 bucks is a brake job at state inspection time, not a "fortune". At least, not by any standard of the 1st world.
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Perhaps if you made better use of your GMI, I mean GUI...
people see it as part of Apple's software polish.
Especially on a touch interface, where you have to make the controls really big anyhow. How the heck are you "wasting space" with all the decorations? I personally prefer a clean look, but then I also buy cars without leather seats - so I don't think my sense of aesthetic lines up with society at-large.
Ah, you were trolling. Congrats.
There is definitely AC hum, but I don't have golden ears and I listen to hip-hop, pop, and punk with some beginners jazz and funk mixed in for good measure. I grew up listening to hissy audio tapes and scratched phonographs. FM radio sounded (and still sounds) incredibly crisp and clear.
I will admit to being able to hear digital artifacts at 128kbps in the older MP3s.
Tax revenue would be one of several benefits that the US would have by retaining the factory, yes.
They aren't in high school, but they also probably haven't had an entry-level finance class.
You are aware that government regulation is what lets carriers "own" any part of the electromagnetic spectrum at all?
You have it all wrong. Breed them by typing proficiency.
You don't even need the LCD. There is no reason for the student to review their results real-time. Just a simple circuit to read the keypresses and store them for later retrieval. You could probably operate the device on a watch battery for a year.
That's an excellent point. In our case, we are already mass-producing with an assembly line running full-tilt 2 or 3 shifts - but some robots in our industry cost one million dollars or more and are basically hand-built.
First of all, it can't and won't be only robots.
Second, a factory - no matter how robotic - requires all sorts of support services, raw materials, and transportation. All of the people involved in those services spend their money where they live, and the whole local economy gets a boost. Even if you argue that this boost is trivial, it is non-zero and we are better off with a robotic factory then we are with no factory at all.
And of course there are national and economic security reasons to want manufacturing capacity, foreign currency flowing in instead of out, and an improved tax base. I'm sure others can come up with other benefits...
I work full-time on a robot built for a specific manufacturing process. A general-purpose robot would never compete in my industry.
That said, many factories don't run a continuous assembly process. Let's take an imaginary shutter-making factory as an example. Rather than have a batten-making machine going full-time, they might only make battens in a big burst until they have a sufficient inventory to make shutters for a few days or weeks. Then they might switch over to producing frames. Finally, they'll get their jigs ready and glue and clamp as many shutters as will fit in their jigs and then return to producing constituent parts. Having a purpose built robot for each purpose sitting idle 1/3 of the time might mean up to 3x the capital cost. In reality, the purpose-built robot might be slightly cheaper or faster - so the mathematics might be different. Point is, there could in fact be a scenario where a more general-purpose robot could work out financially.
You can't see how retaining a factory helps the US? Really?
He's right, though. We spend more per-student then just about any other country in the world, and yet look at the results. There are many problems with our public schools, and some of them probably include the uneven way they are funded - but we more than adequately fund education.
I don't think the Attorney General's communications can be released - there would be far too many bits in there about ongoing criminal cases and investigations.
I think they should be released, eventually. But current cases should not be in there. We do want SOME secrecy in government :)
The worst is that if you upgrade right now, you just know they'll drop the price right after you get IPv6.
The irony is that if Cuccinelli had prevailed, it's hard to see how the same reasoning could not be used for his state-funded office communications.
Pennsylvania. Technically you can have it done more inexpensively. Cheapest I have ever seen is about $45. I always get my oil and filter done at the same time, which tacks on another $25-30. It might "only" be $80-90 after taxes, but I go to the dealer since I have a service contract. They find a lot less wrong with my car during inspection when they can't charge me to fix it...
Still, this strategy dies when they find my brakes are too low to pass. Then I have to pay dealer prices or come back again after getting it done elsewhere. Some of the cheap places make you pay again, but the dealer will let you come back one more time to check the failed item. Yes, they replace the rotors more frequently now, but you can still cut them once or twice. Then they warp and your brakes pulse even worse then they did originally and you get them replaced. :)
In any case, we're getting pretty far from my original point, which is that $600 falls within the amount of money you need to have on hand for car repairs (even if "on hand" means "room on your credit card") - not a fortune. Make it a water pump or a head gasket if you don't like the brakes getting changed out. Hell, the stupid cabin air filters are $40 now.
You can hook any amp you want up to the Sonos or Apple receivers.
In any event, it all sounds better than the sound after it's been through 50 feet of 60s speaker wire.
They were around the lower end of what you could get from it, around $150 for a stereo receiver. That works out to about $900 today.
I live in a house from the late 60s that has speaker wires strung all over the place to a single location in the den, simply because it was too expensive to stick individual receivers in more than one room. Today you just get a Denon distributed system or a bunch of Airport Express units for less money and have something that is even more versatile.
If you are doing the $100 state inspection anyway, getting all four disk brake pads and the rotors cut can easily approach $600. If you don't need the rotor cut then the job will be cheaper. Last time I had just the fronts done during inspection and it was over $250. I don't think I'm that far off. Throw in the oil and filter and I bet you get to the $600 mark.
$500 or a 2-year contract. I've never seen a phone that was $500 with a 2-year contract. Highest I've seen is $200 with contract.
I've never purchased a $600 phone, nor do I want to. But 600 bucks is a brake job at state inspection time, not a "fortune". At least, not by any standard of the 1st world.
Best Buy will sell you an insurance policy on a $30 cable that is really worth $2.
$600 is a fortune?
Sorry.