Back in the 1960's and 1970's, when electricity was cheap and TVs took a long time to come on from a cold start, many TV's had the "instant start" feature which was basically an electric heater sucking down a constant 40W or so to keep the tube warm. Later, the technology improved to the point where TVs could come on in a few seconds from a cold start and this wasn't needed, so this kind of fell out of favor. Most any CRT made in the past 30 years or so draws 1-2W or so for the remote, or 0W if it has a hard power switch.
Of course, it's easy to make points like that when you only pay attention to income tax, and ignore all the other taxes out there. Income tax is one of the few taxes that is progressive - or in other words where people who make more money pay a greater percentage of their income as tax. Most other taxes - sales taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, etc. are regressive, and the poor pay a much larger percentage of these taxes than the rich.
And the whole point of RAID is to reduce downtime. If you have to find another RAID card, then recreate the RAID, then restore from backups, that's a whole lot of downtime right there. Maybe some might find it acceptable, but in any situation where you can't affort to have the system go down, then you will want another card so you can be back up and running quickly.
Note this may not apply to RAID1, as you can generally use the remaining disk as a single drive in the meantime.
The obvious solution to the editting problem is to stop changing editions so frequently. The costs of editting a textbook probably won't be so bad once you spread the cost out over decades, which could easily be done for many subjects.
Used book stores are common in the US, but they typcially aren't a very good deal as the used book racket is how the bookstores make their money (the publishers control the price of the new books). Typically, the used book costs something like 80% of the new book, so you're not actually saving very much money. This might be okay, except when you go to sell it back you'll get something like 5-20% of the price of the new book. Then you have the textbook manufacturers, which are actively trying to destroy the used book market by changing editions every 1-3 years or so. The used book stores won't deal with older editions, so as soon as a new edition comes out, a used textbook loses pretty much all of its value. This leaves a small window where you can find used copies of the current edition of a textbook, and being able to resell it again later while it still has value.
In the Arizona desert, you'll be fine. There is almost no humidity, so the body's evaporative cooling system is pretty effective, just be sure to bring some extra water. Though the sun beaming through all that glass might present another problem.
This guy took a trip where he never went over 80% of rated range of his car in a day and he still felt he had to stop to recharge it during the day 3 times in two days! If nothing else, range anxiety is a huge issue.
I can kind of see why. Run out of power and you can't just have someone bring some electricity over in a can and be on your merry way. You're pretty much looking at having to call a tow truck and being towed to the nearest charging station.
Unless there is some huge benefit to driving a Tesla, it would simply not even be worth considering; if I bought one, I would then have to turn around and buy a second 'real' car.
Most families in the US have more than one car anyway. And for most of these families, only one of these vehicles ever goes on long trips, and the rest are just driven around town and to and from work. Of course, this kind of makes the Model S kind of odd - as a large luxury sedan it looks like it is being positioned as the "family car" that you would take on trips, except that it is not well suited for that role. Telsa might have more luck trying to build the commuter-type small car instead, where a 150 mile range would be plenty sufficient.
if i drop rocks over a cliff randomly in the dark, in the middle of nowhere, and one kills a hiker, i'm pretty much innocent because i had no idea that would happen, and no one would expect me to know that would happen in the middle of nowhere
Actually, I would say you're guilty of manslaughter. Throwing rocks off a cliff when you can't see what they might hit is a pretty reckless activity. You may reasonably expect that no one would be hiking in the middle of the night, but what if you hit someone who was camping? Or some rancher's cattle? The only way I could see someone being innocent is if this was on their own private land so it's reasonable that they expected they wouldn't hit anything, but there happened to be a trespasser down there they didn't know about.
Road damage is proportional to the third power of the vehicles weight. That means a SUV that weighs twice as much as a small car is also doing eight times the damage to the road. The fact that the small car generally doesn't get eight times the mileage of the SUV means that if anything, we are subsidizing the large vehicles on the road under the current system. Of course, it's actually the trucking companies that are making out like bandits - even a Hummer H2 does negligable damage to the road compared to a 40-ton semi.
I guess you never drive on toll roads, or long private driveways. For example, the private loop on our campus at work is a couple miles long.
I'm guessing that most people in those situations are already paying the gas taxes for the fuel they burn on those long private driveways, so they are already being taxed for something they technically shouldn't be. So it's not like the situation would really change for these people.
And if 99% was good enough, you'd be missing a paycheck every two years.
It's more like you not getting paid for the time it takes you to walk from the front door to the timeclock so you can punch in.
Besides, we have the same problem right now - you pay gas taxes on the fuel it takes to move your car on your driveway when technically you shouldn't have to.
Geez, you fanboys are dense. Just because someone is at the "top" doesn't mean it's any good. It's like saying the best cable internet service, or the best American-made car, or the best Chinese take-out. Pretty much all the smart phones suck and have glaring flaws. Yes, even the iPhone.
But the point stands, there are plenty of rechargeable appliances where the manufacturer chose not to incorporate easy and robust access to the battery.
But that doesn't make it right. A lot of manufacturers use the incorporated battery for planned obsolesence - they know the battery will fail, and they hope by making it hard to replace, that people will just buy a new device instead. Given Apple's history of intentionally hard to upgrade/repair machines, I'm sure planned obsolesence is a big part of why they go with the integrated battery.
Probably because Windows won't allow you to use older drivers intended for XP in Vista and Windows 7 because they wouldn't be compatible with the DRM model. Many of these cards, most notably ones made by Creative, do not have Vista/Windows 7 drivers.
This was around the Pentium MMX/early P2 era, if I remember right. I think it may have been standard equipment on some configs, as I ran across a few of them. Since I almost always hit the space bar with left hand I absolutely hated that keyboard. But if you like the idea, you might be able to track one down.
We have piles of those at work. They aren't bad keyboards, have a decent feel to them, and are comfortable to use, though I don't like the small backspace/large enter key thing. But set one next to a Model M and it just looks and feels like a cheap imitation.
I don't see how it would make a difference. The computers were smart enough to know the speeds from the pitot tubes were bogus, so it handed control over to the pilot - that's really the best it could do. The pilot should already know the ground speed - from the GPS or other instrumentation, and I would think an experienced pilot would be better able to guess at the airspeed than the computer.
Have you tried going into "Resource Monitor" to see what's accessing the disk? Note that I'm assuming that functionality was carried over to Windows 7 from Vista.
The stack I have here for Office 95 ends at 25, with disk 25 being PowerPoint Viewer. Though there were a bunch of different versions so I don't doubt it.
One thing that pissed me off a while back was one of the Windows upgrade disks, which would install on a blank drive provided you could prove you owned a previous version of Windows by inserting the install media when setup prompted you. Only thing is it would only scan the CD drive, so me with my stack of Windows 95 floppies was S.O.L. (at least without doing the full install of 95 off the floppies then trying again). That's when I found the CD key for skipping the media check on the upgrade disks.
It could be like floppy disks once were - they were cheap and plentiful enough that you could give them to someone and not have to worry about getting it back.
If you "power through" it despite lack of inspiration, you risk writing a book that becomes boring and uninspired after chapter 11. Has she considered writingt books with 10 chapters instead? A lot of writers write books that are way too thick and get boring halfway through. Better write only the bits for which you have inspiration and skip the rest entirely, IMO. You don't need to tell everything that happens, just the bits that are fun to read.
This isn't a bad way to do it - I'm sure you've read books where you thought that a bunch of it wasn't needed and it would have been a better book if it was shorter. So one possibility is to write the long, boring book, then cut it down to the right length. I find that sometimes I don't know exactly what I want to do with something until I have written it, so sometimes I'll just write a bunch of stuff with the general idea that I'll organize it later and end up deleting a bunch of it that ends up not fitting in with the point I'm trying to make or the story I'm trying to tell. I've always wondered why teachers don't teach different ways of writing now that computers make stuff like this trivial - except for essay-style tests I suppose where you're stuck with pen and paper.
I'm not sure it would work with software development. The closest thing would be to just start writing parts of the program that you think you'll need, and once you think you have all the low-level stuff in place then try to tie it together with higher level functions that call the lower level stuff, and then delete any stuff you end up not needing. However, that sounds like a recipe for disaster for any non-trivial program.
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Back in the 1960's and 1970's, when electricity was cheap and TVs took a long time to come on from a cold start, many TV's had the "instant start" feature which was basically an electric heater sucking down a constant 40W or so to keep the tube warm. Later, the technology improved to the point where TVs could come on in a few seconds from a cold start and this wasn't needed, so this kind of fell out of favor. Most any CRT made in the past 30 years or so draws 1-2W or so for the remote, or 0W if it has a hard power switch.
Of course, it's easy to make points like that when you only pay attention to income tax, and ignore all the other taxes out there. Income tax is one of the few taxes that is progressive - or in other words where people who make more money pay a greater percentage of their income as tax. Most other taxes - sales taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, etc. are regressive, and the poor pay a much larger percentage of these taxes than the rich.
And the whole point of RAID is to reduce downtime. If you have to find another RAID card, then recreate the RAID, then restore from backups, that's a whole lot of downtime right there. Maybe some might find it acceptable, but in any situation where you can't affort to have the system go down, then you will want another card so you can be back up and running quickly.
Note this may not apply to RAID1, as you can generally use the remaining disk as a single drive in the meantime.
The obvious solution to the editting problem is to stop changing editions so frequently. The costs of editting a textbook probably won't be so bad once you spread the cost out over decades, which could easily be done for many subjects.
Used book stores are common in the US, but they typcially aren't a very good deal as the used book racket is how the bookstores make their money (the publishers control the price of the new books). Typically, the used book costs something like 80% of the new book, so you're not actually saving very much money. This might be okay, except when you go to sell it back you'll get something like 5-20% of the price of the new book. Then you have the textbook manufacturers, which are actively trying to destroy the used book market by changing editions every 1-3 years or so. The used book stores won't deal with older editions, so as soon as a new edition comes out, a used textbook loses pretty much all of its value. This leaves a small window where you can find used copies of the current edition of a textbook, and being able to resell it again later while it still has value.
In the Arizona desert, you'll be fine. There is almost no humidity, so the body's evaporative cooling system is pretty effective, just be sure to bring some extra water. Though the sun beaming through all that glass might present another problem.
I can kind of see why. Run out of power and you can't just have someone bring some electricity over in a can and be on your merry way. You're pretty much looking at having to call a tow truck and being towed to the nearest charging station.
Actually, I would say you're guilty of manslaughter. Throwing rocks off a cliff when you can't see what they might hit is a pretty reckless activity. You may reasonably expect that no one would be hiking in the middle of the night, but what if you hit someone who was camping? Or some rancher's cattle? The only way I could see someone being innocent is if this was on their own private land so it's reasonable that they expected they wouldn't hit anything, but there happened to be a trespasser down there they didn't know about.
Road damage is proportional to the third power of the vehicles weight. That means a SUV that weighs twice as much as a small car is also doing eight times the damage to the road. The fact that the small car generally doesn't get eight times the mileage of the SUV means that if anything, we are subsidizing the large vehicles on the road under the current system. Of course, it's actually the trucking companies that are making out like bandits - even a Hummer H2 does negligable damage to the road compared to a 40-ton semi.
I don't think it works that way - Prius owners don't drive six times more than Hummer drivers because their vehicle gets better mileage.
I'm guessing that most people in those situations are already paying the gas taxes for the fuel they burn on those long private driveways, so they are already being taxed for something they technically shouldn't be. So it's not like the situation would really change for these people.
It's more like you not getting paid for the time it takes you to walk from the front door to the timeclock so you can punch in.
Besides, we have the same problem right now - you pay gas taxes on the fuel it takes to move your car on your driveway when technically you shouldn't have to.
Geez, you fanboys are dense. Just because someone is at the "top" doesn't mean it's any good. It's like saying the best cable internet service, or the best American-made car, or the best Chinese take-out. Pretty much all the smart phones suck and have glaring flaws. Yes, even the iPhone.
But that doesn't make it right. A lot of manufacturers use the incorporated battery for planned obsolesence - they know the battery will fail, and they hope by making it hard to replace, that people will just buy a new device instead. Given Apple's history of intentionally hard to upgrade/repair machines, I'm sure planned obsolesence is a big part of why they go with the integrated battery.
Bummer about the expensive hardware dongle though.
Probably because Windows won't allow you to use older drivers intended for XP in Vista and Windows 7 because they wouldn't be compatible with the DRM model. Many of these cards, most notably ones made by Creative, do not have Vista/Windows 7 drivers.
Actually, it was done a while ago by Compaq. Lousy picture can be found here:
http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE/bs05/keyb.html
This was around the Pentium MMX/early P2 era, if I remember right. I think it may have been standard equipment on some configs, as I ran across a few of them. Since I almost always hit the space bar with left hand I absolutely hated that keyboard. But if you like the idea, you might be able to track one down.
We have piles of those at work. They aren't bad keyboards, have a decent feel to them, and are comfortable to use, though I don't like the small backspace/large enter key thing. But set one next to a Model M and it just looks and feels like a cheap imitation.
I don't see how it would make a difference. The computers were smart enough to know the speeds from the pitot tubes were bogus, so it handed control over to the pilot - that's really the best it could do. The pilot should already know the ground speed - from the GPS or other instrumentation, and I would think an experienced pilot would be better able to guess at the airspeed than the computer.
Have you tried going into "Resource Monitor" to see what's accessing the disk? Note that I'm assuming that functionality was carried over to Windows 7 from Vista.
The stack I have here for Office 95 ends at 25, with disk 25 being PowerPoint Viewer. Though there were a bunch of different versions so I don't doubt it.
One thing that pissed me off a while back was one of the Windows upgrade disks, which would install on a blank drive provided you could prove you owned a previous version of Windows by inserting the install media when setup prompted you. Only thing is it would only scan the CD drive, so me with my stack of Windows 95 floppies was S.O.L. (at least without doing the full install of 95 off the floppies then trying again). That's when I found the CD key for skipping the media check on the upgrade disks.
It could be like floppy disks once were - they were cheap and plentiful enough that you could give them to someone and not have to worry about getting it back.
This isn't a bad way to do it - I'm sure you've read books where you thought that a bunch of it wasn't needed and it would have been a better book if it was shorter. So one possibility is to write the long, boring book, then cut it down to the right length. I find that sometimes I don't know exactly what I want to do with something until I have written it, so sometimes I'll just write a bunch of stuff with the general idea that I'll organize it later and end up deleting a bunch of it that ends up not fitting in with the point I'm trying to make or the story I'm trying to tell. I've always wondered why teachers don't teach different ways of writing now that computers make stuff like this trivial - except for essay-style tests I suppose where you're stuck with pen and paper.
I'm not sure it would work with software development. The closest thing would be to just start writing parts of the program that you think you'll need, and once you think you have all the low-level stuff in place then try to tie it together with higher level functions that call the lower level stuff, and then delete any stuff you end up not needing. However, that sounds like a recipe for disaster for any non-trivial program.
I take it that you've never had to replace a headlight on your Honda?