Well, compare the prices at the small grocers in the inner city to one of the big warehouse-style stores you see in the outer suburbs and you may price differences like that.
Well, maybe their hope is that the limit will drive sales of the next version of Windows when people start to hit the limit in a few years. Nowadays, someone who has hit the 16GB limit on Windows 7 Home Premium (which is easy to do now) either has the choice of upgrading to Windows 7 Pro or buying Windows 8.
Hell, if they just had an option that automatically does something like check for updates, download and install all available updates, reboot, repeat until there are no more updates that would be a huge improvement. That way I could just start it and let it do its thing overnight and I wouldn't have to babysit the damn thing for hours.
That's also assuming that the microscope software doesn't have to talk to some specialized hardware. If it's a USB/serial/ethernet you might be okay, but if it's firewire or some propriety card in the PC then you pretty much have to run on the bare metal.
If the router has been working well for me up to the point where the caps gave out, it's easier to replace the caps rather than buying another $40 router that may turn out to be a pile of crap.
Actually, that's exactly what they are doing. Apparently they look at the memory bandwidth of the card, and the higher the bandwidth the more power it is allowed to use. So assuming that your modern 200W card has sufficient memory bandwidth, it should be fine. Your 50W card may be in trouble though (if sold new), as it would be likely that it wouldn't make the requirements to be allowed to draw 50W with its older tech. So basically all that they are trying to do is ban high power, inefficient graphics cards - the card can draw more power if it gets a lot done with it, or it can be a crappy card so long as it draws little power.
Sounds like your lower end part was the power supply. Most cheap power supplies will fail if you try and draw anywhere near what they are rated (sometimes rather spectacularly too) which has lead to what I call power supply inflation where people now think they need 500W+ power supplies for a PC that might draw 180W peak from the wall.
From what I heard it was more of a wash for junkyards. They got a lot of cars, but the engines (the most valuable part) was destroyed and there were other restrictions on what they could do with some of the other power train parts. They all came in at once over a short period, and they had to have them crushed within 6 months which didn't give them a lot of time process them and pull parts off of them. Plus all the paperwork was a hassle for them. A lot of the cars went never went to a junkyard to be parted out and instead went straight to the metal recyclers.
That's not what the clunkers program did. The worst of the worst cars on the road didn't get traded in, because the people who drive those cars couldn't afford the cost of a new car (even with the rebate from the government). The clunkers that were traded in were owned by people who could more or less already afford a new car, so the car they were driving may have been an older, lower value car but wasn't a total claptrap. So the net result was that those cars, many of which were late 90's cars with decent emissions hardware and safety features like ABS and airbags were destroyed, and the old 80's polluting death traps ended up staying on the road that much longer as the market for decent $2-4k used cars that might have replaced them completely dried up.
You have to look at in terms of opportunity costs. Instead of using that labor and resources (including non-renewable resources like fossil fuels) blowing holes in the ground and destroying perfectly good automobiles, we could instead "juice" demand by doing something productive with it. Another space race. High speed rail across the nation. Massive investments into the power grid. Roll out high speed internet to all corners of the country. Do something that will pay dividends well into the future. That would be a stimulus. To do like Keynes suggests is literally destroying wealth, and at best only has a short term effect (in the long term, you still have to pay for it).
Many girls would probably think that the Tata is "cute". Of course, you'd have to make the modifications look good enough so that the resulting car doesn't look like a hacked up mess. Still probably wouldn't score you any dates though.
No, he's excluded because they don't want him there, and the $50,000 is just the excuse they came up with. If he had $50.000 in campaign donations there would be some other reason.
With cars, it's most fuel efficient to accelerate up to speed, shut off the engine, coast as long as possible, and repeat. Probably won't work as well for aircraft.
No, what would happen is that when you get tired of your car for whatever reason, you take it back to the dealer where you purchased it from where they would be happy to waive the reselling fee if you trade it in on a new car of the same brand. So there would still be a used market of some sort, but under complete control of the manufacturers.
What would undoubtedly happen is that car manufacturers would waive that fee if you trade in your old GM or Toyota car for a new GM or Toyota car. So while the used car market would not be wiped out, it would be under the complete control of the auto manufacturers which I'm sure they would be quite happy with.
So poorly run business goes out of business. Sounds like a free market to me, or are you one of those people who believes it's the government's job to guarantee profits for your business?
Ok, so what do you do when it's 13 deg. F (-10.5 C) outside, with a 40 mph wind? Have you ever driven a 2-wheeled vehicle on ice or in the snow? Or when it's pouring down rain?
You bundle up, that's what. I've ridden a bicycle when it's -10 deg F outside, which is more exposed than the scooter. Yes, it's cold, and it's a difficult balance between keeping your extremities from freezing not having your torso get too warm from the exercise. Snow and ice (as well as the sand they put down) are real hazards though.
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Well, compare the prices at the small grocers in the inner city to one of the big warehouse-style stores you see in the outer suburbs and you may price differences like that.
They need to start putting that resolution into something like a 19" form factor. 27" is just too damn large.
Actually, Windows has had it long before ChromeOS, Android, or iOS even existed, but you needed to set up a domain with Windows Server to pull it off.
Well, maybe their hope is that the limit will drive sales of the next version of Windows when people start to hit the limit in a few years. Nowadays, someone who has hit the 16GB limit on Windows 7 Home Premium (which is easy to do now) either has the choice of upgrading to Windows 7 Pro or buying Windows 8.
Actually, the last two service packs for Win2K came out *after* Windows XP.
Hell, if they just had an option that automatically does something like check for updates, download and install all available updates, reboot, repeat until there are no more updates that would be a huge improvement. That way I could just start it and let it do its thing overnight and I wouldn't have to babysit the damn thing for hours.
That's also assuming that the microscope software doesn't have to talk to some specialized hardware. If it's a USB/serial/ethernet you might be okay, but if it's firewire or some propriety card in the PC then you pretty much have to run on the bare metal.
If the router has been working well for me up to the point where the caps gave out, it's easier to replace the caps rather than buying another $40 router that may turn out to be a pile of crap.
Because the fastest chip on the market is some ridiculous $1000 Extreme Edition CPU?
Actually, that's exactly what they are doing. Apparently they look at the memory bandwidth of the card, and the higher the bandwidth the more power it is allowed to use. So assuming that your modern 200W card has sufficient memory bandwidth, it should be fine. Your 50W card may be in trouble though (if sold new), as it would be likely that it wouldn't make the requirements to be allowed to draw 50W with its older tech. So basically all that they are trying to do is ban high power, inefficient graphics cards - the card can draw more power if it gets a lot done with it, or it can be a crappy card so long as it draws little power.
Sounds like your lower end part was the power supply. Most cheap power supplies will fail if you try and draw anywhere near what they are rated (sometimes rather spectacularly too) which has lead to what I call power supply inflation where people now think they need 500W+ power supplies for a PC that might draw 180W peak from the wall.
From what I heard it was more of a wash for junkyards. They got a lot of cars, but the engines (the most valuable part) was destroyed and there were other restrictions on what they could do with some of the other power train parts. They all came in at once over a short period, and they had to have them crushed within 6 months which didn't give them a lot of time process them and pull parts off of them. Plus all the paperwork was a hassle for them. A lot of the cars went never went to a junkyard to be parted out and instead went straight to the metal recyclers.
If it's a car for sale in the US that you can buy right now it's probably the Nissan Versa which AFAIK has the lowest MSRP of any new car in the US.
That's not what the clunkers program did. The worst of the worst cars on the road didn't get traded in, because the people who drive those cars couldn't afford the cost of a new car (even with the rebate from the government). The clunkers that were traded in were owned by people who could more or less already afford a new car, so the car they were driving may have been an older, lower value car but wasn't a total claptrap. So the net result was that those cars, many of which were late 90's cars with decent emissions hardware and safety features like ABS and airbags were destroyed, and the old 80's polluting death traps ended up staying on the road that much longer as the market for decent $2-4k used cars that might have replaced them completely dried up.
You have to look at in terms of opportunity costs. Instead of using that labor and resources (including non-renewable resources like fossil fuels) blowing holes in the ground and destroying perfectly good automobiles, we could instead "juice" demand by doing something productive with it. Another space race. High speed rail across the nation. Massive investments into the power grid. Roll out high speed internet to all corners of the country. Do something that will pay dividends well into the future. That would be a stimulus. To do like Keynes suggests is literally destroying wealth, and at best only has a short term effect (in the long term, you still have to pay for it).
Many girls would probably think that the Tata is "cute". Of course, you'd have to make the modifications look good enough so that the resulting car doesn't look like a hacked up mess. Still probably wouldn't score you any dates though.
Never driven in out the dark in rural areas I've taken it?
No, he's excluded because they don't want him there, and the $50,000 is just the excuse they came up with. If he had $50.000 in campaign donations there would be some other reason.
With cars, it's most fuel efficient to accelerate up to speed, shut off the engine, coast as long as possible, and repeat. Probably won't work as well for aircraft.
Depends on if you're talking about a planet of gold with the same mass as Mars, or a planet of gold with the same dimensions as Mars.
No, what would happen is that when you get tired of your car for whatever reason, you take it back to the dealer where you purchased it from where they would be happy to waive the reselling fee if you trade it in on a new car of the same brand. So there would still be a used market of some sort, but under complete control of the manufacturers.
What would undoubtedly happen is that car manufacturers would waive that fee if you trade in your old GM or Toyota car for a new GM or Toyota car. So while the used car market would not be wiped out, it would be under the complete control of the auto manufacturers which I'm sure they would be quite happy with.
So poorly run business goes out of business. Sounds like a free market to me, or are you one of those people who believes it's the government's job to guarantee profits for your business?
That would be the last Air Force flight. NASA kept theirs going another year making 1999 the last time a Blackbird was in the air.
You bundle up, that's what. I've ridden a bicycle when it's -10 deg F outside, which is more exposed than the scooter. Yes, it's cold, and it's a difficult balance between keeping your extremities from freezing not having your torso get too warm from the exercise. Snow and ice (as well as the sand they put down) are real hazards though.