I wouldn't say that the heat is distributed efficiently across the room. Heat rises, which means that those light bulbs up by the ceiling aren't going to be heating the room well, just the air near the ceiling which will be the first to leak out of any cracks.
While that may be true, everyone has bought into the whole supply-side economics thing now. If that money isn't being used by consumers to buy things (and preferably things that are either disposable or otherwise will be replaced soon like iProducts) then that money is not flowing through the economy. Or look at it another way, how does that money in a bank account and the interest earned reflected in the GDP?
And why exactly can't Isreal's method be scaled up? People make this assertion here, but never back it up with any reasons other than "the US is big". I can see legal reasons why it may not work here, but we have plenty of manpower available if we wanted to.
While I've never figured out Starfleet's numbering system, I've gathered it's not just a simple sequential system. Given how many vessels have been numbered some form of 1701 should tell you that:)
As someone who was an early adopter of SSDs then went back to spinning disks (SSDs, at least the early ones have massive reliability problems) I can say that once your computer is up and running the difference is minor. Sure, booting up and launching your applications are a lot faster, but once everything is loaded into memory your system simply isn't going to need to be slamming the disk that much, especially if you have 8GB+ of ram to use as a disk cache.
Actually, the trash is a pretty good indication of how long people are keeping computers. Typical computer I find in the trash nowadays is a P4 HT or an Athlon XP. I've recently gotten a couple of early 64-bit PCs (some LGA775 late P4's and a Socket 754 Athlon 64). That says to me that desktops are getting retired at around 6-8 years or so. Still waiting for my first dumpstered dual-core machine.
Actually, Microsoft cut off a whole bunch of older processors with Windows 8. Basically anything without the NX bit can't run Windows 8 now. Granted, we're talking about some pretty dated hardware here, basically the 32-bit Athlons and the Socket 478 Pentium 4's, but I managed to get Vista and Windows 7 on machines like those and they ran just fine.
Why not walk to work if you're that close? You can swap a 15 minute car ride for a 15 minute walk. Not only will you be getting some exercise, you'll also be saving money by not driving the car.
I've always pictured them kind of like pneumatic tubes, where you would board a capsule and would get automatically routed to your destination through a network of tubes. The system would obviously have many capsules and more than one way to get from point A to point B so depending on various factors the same trip may take differing amounts of time and go a different route throughout the ship. Given that, the idea actually is pretty old, as Paris had a network of pneumatic tubes system to deliver mail a 150 years ago, and there were even pneumatic railroads which could carry people dating back to the same time period.
What "land" is left to be grabbed or to park "troops and equipment" on? All land (at least beyond the postage stamp size) is currently claimed in a way recognized by international law and treaty.
Well, you may have international treaties and law, but if Russia was to show up with enough force that no one was able to (or willing) to kick them off the land would be defacto theirs. Russia could probably get away with it too, because at the end of the day pretty much the only country that could kick them off would be the US so it would be up to whether the US gets involved or not. Not saying that they would, but they could.
To see this in action on a much smaller scale, take a look at the current bickering going on between Japan, China, and Korea over a bunch of uninhabited rocks. Or my favorite example (even involves Canada too) of Hans Island.
Keep in mind that these companies also generally won't count experience with previous versions either. Haven't used Exchange Server 2000 but have used Version 5.5 (released in 1997) for 5+ years? Rejected! Haven't tried Ubuntu 12 but have extensive experience on 10.04 LTS? Rejected!
We actually get a good amount of the liquids we need from the foods we eat. I wonder how long someone could survive on just canned food without water? My guess is that if someone isn't working hard or living in a hot climate they could get by, though the overall saltiness of the food they are eating could be a problem.
Hey, it's not like Republicans have good memories. If they did, they might remember that things like a health insurance mandate and carbon credits were their own ideas.
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Why don't you just take the old CFLs to Home Depot? They'll recycle them for free.
I wouldn't say that the heat is distributed efficiently across the room. Heat rises, which means that those light bulbs up by the ceiling aren't going to be heating the room well, just the air near the ceiling which will be the first to leak out of any cracks.
The Newton was pretty innovative for the time.
While that may be true, everyone has bought into the whole supply-side economics thing now. If that money isn't being used by consumers to buy things (and preferably things that are either disposable or otherwise will be replaced soon like iProducts) then that money is not flowing through the economy. Or look at it another way, how does that money in a bank account and the interest earned reflected in the GDP?
Middlemen?
You don't even have to speculate about it. Bush and the Republicans bailed out GM to the tune of 17 billion dollars before Obama took office in 2009.
Setting up your own blog is so 2004 though.
With a Cuecat?
How so? Most every Mac is pretty much a rectangle with rounded corners nowadays. Okay, so the Mini is a square.
And why exactly can't Isreal's method be scaled up? People make this assertion here, but never back it up with any reasons other than "the US is big". I can see legal reasons why it may not work here, but we have plenty of manpower available if we wanted to.
Apple prefers to use hardware dongles, in case you haven't noticed. Really expensive hardware dongles too.
You joke, but I've known people to put jugs of water outside in the winter, let them freeze, then put them in their fridge so that it runs less.
While I've never figured out Starfleet's numbering system, I've gathered it's not just a simple sequential system. Given how many vessels have been numbered some form of 1701 should tell you that :)
No one would care if it wasn't for Apple running around suing anyone who dares to make a tablet computer with rounded corners.
As someone who was an early adopter of SSDs then went back to spinning disks (SSDs, at least the early ones have massive reliability problems) I can say that once your computer is up and running the difference is minor. Sure, booting up and launching your applications are a lot faster, but once everything is loaded into memory your system simply isn't going to need to be slamming the disk that much, especially if you have 8GB+ of ram to use as a disk cache.
My experience thus far with SSDs is that two hard drives in RAID0 are a hell of a lot more reliable than your typical SSD. But as always, YMMV.
Actually, the trash is a pretty good indication of how long people are keeping computers. Typical computer I find in the trash nowadays is a P4 HT or an Athlon XP. I've recently gotten a couple of early 64-bit PCs (some LGA775 late P4's and a Socket 754 Athlon 64). That says to me that desktops are getting retired at around 6-8 years or so. Still waiting for my first dumpstered dual-core machine.
Actually, Microsoft cut off a whole bunch of older processors with Windows 8. Basically anything without the NX bit can't run Windows 8 now. Granted, we're talking about some pretty dated hardware here, basically the 32-bit Athlons and the Socket 478 Pentium 4's, but I managed to get Vista and Windows 7 on machines like those and they ran just fine.
Is there dial-up providers who do IPv6? As that's about the only other option...
Why not walk to work if you're that close? You can swap a 15 minute car ride for a 15 minute walk. Not only will you be getting some exercise, you'll also be saving money by not driving the car.
I've always pictured them kind of like pneumatic tubes, where you would board a capsule and would get automatically routed to your destination through a network of tubes. The system would obviously have many capsules and more than one way to get from point A to point B so depending on various factors the same trip may take differing amounts of time and go a different route throughout the ship. Given that, the idea actually is pretty old, as Paris had a network of pneumatic tubes system to deliver mail a 150 years ago, and there were even pneumatic railroads which could carry people dating back to the same time period.
Well, you may have international treaties and law, but if Russia was to show up with enough force that no one was able to (or willing) to kick them off the land would be defacto theirs. Russia could probably get away with it too, because at the end of the day pretty much the only country that could kick them off would be the US so it would be up to whether the US gets involved or not. Not saying that they would, but they could.
To see this in action on a much smaller scale, take a look at the current bickering going on between Japan, China, and Korea over a bunch of uninhabited rocks. Or my favorite example (even involves Canada too) of Hans Island.
Keep in mind that these companies also generally won't count experience with previous versions either. Haven't used Exchange Server 2000 but have used Version 5.5 (released in 1997) for 5+ years? Rejected! Haven't tried Ubuntu 12 but have extensive experience on 10.04 LTS? Rejected!
We actually get a good amount of the liquids we need from the foods we eat. I wonder how long someone could survive on just canned food without water? My guess is that if someone isn't working hard or living in a hot climate they could get by, though the overall saltiness of the food they are eating could be a problem.
Hey, it's not like Republicans have good memories. If they did, they might remember that things like a health insurance mandate and carbon credits were their own ideas.