Why don't you pack up your tools and equipment and send it overnight using your favorite shipping company? Sure, it's expensive, but has to be cheaper than a corporate airplane, and while I know Fedex/UPS can be pretty rough with packages, I would say you're a hell of a lot more likely to still get all your stuff, intact, than you are dealing with the TSA and baggage handlers.
The price of all those things would be in the cost of the premiums, plus a good mark-up because of the overhead all of this would cause and the insurance company making sure they got their cut. In the end, the cost would be a lot more than if you just bought the gasoline and oil out-of-pocket. Though it might be hidden to the average person if the premiums were paid for (at least partially) by your employer or by the government.
Have you not been paying attention to what's going on with Obamacare? Any employer with over 50 full-time employees is required to provide health insurance plan to their employees. Well, not yet, since that doesn't go into effect until 2015, but that is is the law.
It's complicated. There was a clerical error, which caused it to fall out of copyright. No one really cared at the time since it is a really shitty movie, but once it became popular (due to repeated airings as television stations weren't paying any royalties on it) the studios came back and were able to claim copyright over it using the argument that it is a derivative work of another copyrighted story (not hard since it's not a terribly original story anyway). So basically, if you want to do anything with "It's a Wonderful Life", you'll have to give some money to Paramount.
Unless it's a 10" netbook, where it's barely acceptable, 1366x768 is a pixelated mess. Furthermore, in a lot of applications you're left with very little "working room" to do actually work in once you take into account the space lost by toolbars, status windows, status bars, ribbons etc. I'm talking things like IDEs, word processors, spreadsheets, photo editors, etc. Things like web browsers have done a pretty good job at using most of the available screen for displaying web pages, and things like games and movies run at full screen. Which makes 1366x768 okay for content consumption, but pretty bad for creating content. Granted, most people are consumers of information, so perhaps they don't mind the low resolution, but at slashdot a lot of us are using computers to create content, and such a crappy resolution is downright painful, especially since the widescreen aspect ratio means that the vertical resolution is especially poor.
Also, maybe you should get your eyes checked if you don't think there is a difference between a 1366x768 screen and a high resolution screen of the same size. Even if you can't make out the individual pixels, that doesn't mean that the smoother and better defined shapes for things like fonts don't make it easier on the eyes, or that you won't notice the increased detail in photographs (since even the cheapest digital cameras can capture in resolutions that exceed even the most expensive screens). If you still don't believe it, try playing around with the high resolution device you already have - your printer. Print some things at 100DPI and 300DPI and compare. The difference is obvious.
Fact is, 1366x768 sells well because it's cheap, good enough for most consumers of content, and it's cheap.
While true, a small car is using something like 15-20kW continuously just to keep moving at highway speed. The amount of power used by the laptop is going to be pretty much a rounding error. You'd be better off making sure the tires are properly inflated.
I had the same problem. It took me a while to track it down since I have one of the infamous Seagate 1.5TB drives in the same system which are known for stuff like this, but the HDD turned out to be completely innocent. If you use Intel's secure erase utility the problem goes away. Of course, this means you have to back up the drive and restore it. Also, no guarantees that it won't start doing it again. I ended up replacing my Intel SSD with a standard harddrive, since I've found them to be more reliable.
That's because those comparisons are biased in the sense that almost every time, the person doing the comparison starts with the Mac and tries to build an "equivalent" PC. Try starting with a PC, and building the equivalent Mac, and you'll find that the Mac is more expensive pretty much every single time, usually hilariously so.
Well, CAFE has a lot to do with it. Per the rules, the smaller the truck the less fuel it must burn, which seems reasonable. But the end result is that it's easier to make a large, gas guzzling truck than it is to make a smaller, more fuel efficient truck that fits within the rules. It could still be done, but you end up with a compact truck that costs 80%-90% the cost of the full-size model, and guess which one most people pick?
I guess the question would be, how long do they last, and how much do they cost to fix, and how much money do you save over their lifetime (versus another heat source)? Most people around here heat their homes with a natural gas furnace. They last a while but eventually they'll break down too. Typical lifetime seems to be around 15-30 years or so.
Though I would think that heat pumps would be somewhat reliable. They are similar to a AC unit and that's a pretty well solved problem. What tends to go wrong with them?
Well, compared to a heater that costs $40 - $180, a 40W light bulb is damn cheap. It's also doubles as a nice indicator light that will tell when it has failed or if power has been cut.
I don't know about where you live, but around here it's against the code to have a bare light fixture in a closet that accepts an incandescent. In other words, it has to have a dome around it or a florescent (or maybe LED now) fixture.
Well, I've been complaining that there are no high resolution desktop monitors for some time now. And there still aren't any, so there! Though the new 4K ones at 32" are a good start.
Most movies are shot in 2.35:1, which is wider than 16:9 (or 1.78:1, as the movie guys write it). So unless the movie has been cropped and/or stretched, it won't fit on a 16:9 display without black bars. There are a few 21:9 screens out there, which are 2.33:1 so damn close to what movies are actually shot in. Though I don't know if you can actually buy movies on DVD/Blu-ray that aren't 16:9 nowadays.
Personally, I find the 21:9 screens interesting because they are pretty close to two 17" 5:4 monitors in terms of size and resolution, but no bezel running down the middle.
I've used it. The interface is crap. Under the hood, it seems be a leaner, meaner version of the Windows 7 kernel with a bunch of honestly good improvements over Windows 7. It's too bad about the interface.
Well, you can always look at the Ford Escape, where the 2013 redesign ended up having a few issues with fires which I remember making the news. At time I think there was only a few thousand out there.
Well, it is an X-series, which was the most compact Thinkpad at the time and usually carries a bit of a premium over the T-series. With that said, it's still pretty steep.
That's not the case with a lot of warnings. Most warnings are for perfectly valid code, where the behavior of said code is well defined and any compiler should produce the same program. The warnings are there because the compiler thinks you may have intended something different than what the code states.
the problem was that the only low bandwidth video at that time was the horrid "realmedia" format that was designed to be crap from day one.
While I'm not going to argue that realmedia format isn't crap, you also have to remember that it was designed to be streamed over a 33.6k modem and played back on a K6. It's not like we were going to be streaming 1080p back in 1998.
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Why don't you pack up your tools and equipment and send it overnight using your favorite shipping company? Sure, it's expensive, but has to be cheaper than a corporate airplane, and while I know Fedex/UPS can be pretty rough with packages, I would say you're a hell of a lot more likely to still get all your stuff, intact, than you are dealing with the TSA and baggage handlers.
The price of all those things would be in the cost of the premiums, plus a good mark-up because of the overhead all of this would cause and the insurance company making sure they got their cut. In the end, the cost would be a lot more than if you just bought the gasoline and oil out-of-pocket. Though it might be hidden to the average person if the premiums were paid for (at least partially) by your employer or by the government.
There were never 60 Democrats in the Senate under Harry Reid. Get your facts straight.
Have you not been paying attention to what's going on with Obamacare? Any employer with over 50 full-time employees is required to provide health insurance plan to their employees. Well, not yet, since that doesn't go into effect until 2015, but that is is the law.
It's complicated. There was a clerical error, which caused it to fall out of copyright. No one really cared at the time since it is a really shitty movie, but once it became popular (due to repeated airings as television stations weren't paying any royalties on it) the studios came back and were able to claim copyright over it using the argument that it is a derivative work of another copyrighted story (not hard since it's not a terribly original story anyway). So basically, if you want to do anything with "It's a Wonderful Life", you'll have to give some money to Paramount.
Unless it's a 10" netbook, where it's barely acceptable, 1366x768 is a pixelated mess. Furthermore, in a lot of applications you're left with very little "working room" to do actually work in once you take into account the space lost by toolbars, status windows, status bars, ribbons etc. I'm talking things like IDEs, word processors, spreadsheets, photo editors, etc. Things like web browsers have done a pretty good job at using most of the available screen for displaying web pages, and things like games and movies run at full screen. Which makes 1366x768 okay for content consumption, but pretty bad for creating content. Granted, most people are consumers of information, so perhaps they don't mind the low resolution, but at slashdot a lot of us are using computers to create content, and such a crappy resolution is downright painful, especially since the widescreen aspect ratio means that the vertical resolution is especially poor.
Also, maybe you should get your eyes checked if you don't think there is a difference between a 1366x768 screen and a high resolution screen of the same size. Even if you can't make out the individual pixels, that doesn't mean that the smoother and better defined shapes for things like fonts don't make it easier on the eyes, or that you won't notice the increased detail in photographs (since even the cheapest digital cameras can capture in resolutions that exceed even the most expensive screens). If you still don't believe it, try playing around with the high resolution device you already have - your printer. Print some things at 100DPI and 300DPI and compare. The difference is obvious.
Fact is, 1366x768 sells well because it's cheap, good enough for most consumers of content, and it's cheap.
While true, a small car is using something like 15-20kW continuously just to keep moving at highway speed. The amount of power used by the laptop is going to be pretty much a rounding error. You'd be better off making sure the tires are properly inflated.
That's because "Ford" is trademarked, and "F150" is also trademarked (in the context of vehicles at least). That has nothing to do with copyright.
I had the same problem. It took me a while to track it down since I have one of the infamous Seagate 1.5TB drives in the same system which are known for stuff like this, but the HDD turned out to be completely innocent. If you use Intel's secure erase utility the problem goes away. Of course, this means you have to back up the drive and restore it. Also, no guarantees that it won't start doing it again. I ended up replacing my Intel SSD with a standard harddrive, since I've found them to be more reliable.
On their other hand, their power supplies are excellen...oh hey what's that smell? $^$%&^ NO CARRIER
That's because those comparisons are biased in the sense that almost every time, the person doing the comparison starts with the Mac and tries to build an "equivalent" PC. Try starting with a PC, and building the equivalent Mac, and you'll find that the Mac is more expensive pretty much every single time, usually hilariously so.
Well, CAFE has a lot to do with it. Per the rules, the smaller the truck the less fuel it must burn, which seems reasonable. But the end result is that it's easier to make a large, gas guzzling truck than it is to make a smaller, more fuel efficient truck that fits within the rules. It could still be done, but you end up with a compact truck that costs 80%-90% the cost of the full-size model, and guess which one most people pick?
Fun Fact: The Econoline (well called E-Series nowadays) is slated to go away after 2014. Ford's replacement? The Transit.
I guess the question would be, how long do they last, and how much do they cost to fix, and how much money do you save over their lifetime (versus another heat source)? Most people around here heat their homes with a natural gas furnace. They last a while but eventually they'll break down too. Typical lifetime seems to be around 15-30 years or so.
Though I would think that heat pumps would be somewhat reliable. They are similar to a AC unit and that's a pretty well solved problem. What tends to go wrong with them?
Well, compared to a heater that costs $40 - $180, a 40W light bulb is damn cheap. It's also doubles as a nice indicator light that will tell when it has failed or if power has been cut.
I don't know about where you live, but around here it's against the code to have a bare light fixture in a closet that accepts an incandescent. In other words, it has to have a dome around it or a florescent (or maybe LED now) fixture.
Well, I've been complaining that there are no high resolution desktop monitors for some time now. And there still aren't any, so there! Though the new 4K ones at 32" are a good start.
Most movies are shot in 2.35:1, which is wider than 16:9 (or 1.78:1, as the movie guys write it). So unless the movie has been cropped and/or stretched, it won't fit on a 16:9 display without black bars. There are a few 21:9 screens out there, which are 2.33:1 so damn close to what movies are actually shot in. Though I don't know if you can actually buy movies on DVD/Blu-ray that aren't 16:9 nowadays.
Personally, I find the 21:9 screens interesting because they are pretty close to two 17" 5:4 monitors in terms of size and resolution, but no bezel running down the middle.
I've used it. The interface is crap. Under the hood, it seems be a leaner, meaner version of the Windows 7 kernel with a bunch of honestly good improvements over Windows 7. It's too bad about the interface.
Furthermore, it's not really an XP thing anyway. You can still run all the old 16-bit stuff on the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista, 7, and 8 anyway.
Should is the key word, I've seen some unbelievably crappy modems.
Well, you can always look at the Ford Escape, where the 2013 redesign ended up having a few issues with fires which I remember making the news. At time I think there was only a few thousand out there.
Well, it is an X-series, which was the most compact Thinkpad at the time and usually carries a bit of a premium over the T-series. With that said, it's still pretty steep.
That's not the case with a lot of warnings. Most warnings are for perfectly valid code, where the behavior of said code is well defined and any compiler should produce the same program. The warnings are there because the compiler thinks you may have intended something different than what the code states.
While I'm not going to argue that realmedia format isn't crap, you also have to remember that it was designed to be streamed over a 33.6k modem and played back on a K6. It's not like we were going to be streaming 1080p back in 1998.