Personally I think the minimum price per bbl oil should be more like $150, and I also don't trust the government to hold that money in reserve for using only for renewable resource research, development, and production, (See: Social Security Trust Fund) unless it was also Constitutionally mandated. Though that hasn't stopped us from violating Constitutional mandates and I don't like the idea of wantonly adding them.
eventually someone will find a viable alternative, although much later than we would if we use the tax revenue from domestic production and tariffs to fund the research,
I don't think there is any evidence to back that up. If we were to slowly turn off all domestic oil production, the price would spike and it would be extremely and immediately very financially rewarding to quickly put alternatives into large scale research and production. We are currently our own largest source of oil. I'm not against maintaining our current production methods and levels. I am against utilizing additional new technology that can extract more of our declining reserves that would be valuable in the future.
as it would be a natural resource we have in abundance that would instantly be made worthless.
Never. Gonna. Happen. It will become pretty clear as the price of oil starts declining long term rather than spiking and retreating, that it is time we could turn on the taps full bore and use the last of it. Until that happens, it is far from clear there won't be considerable price and supply spikes in oil markets as we search in fits and starts for viable and scalable alternatives.
The deficit wouldn't be noticeably detected by closing NASA down entirely. The deficit could be entirely eliminated by doing 2 things, ending all foreign wars that don't immediately affect our shores (cutting the defense budget in half at least) and by actually carefully monitoring and regulating the financial industry to prevent another economic catastrophe that causes our programmatic stimuli to kick in.
NASA funds the kind of high tech research and US based jobs that actually provide for the economic multiplier effect, and enable your car ten years in the future to get double the gas mileage. Though I in principle agree that the Federal government is doing things way outside its authority. But basic science research is exactly the kind of thing it should be doing (a la the NIH model) because this is the stuff that doesn't have an obvious market application now, but will be enormously important twenty years from now.
Increasing our production of domestic non-renewable energy resources is one of the most stupid ideas the T-party and R-party have right now, that is also unfortunately stupidly popular. We should be hording our resources for the day 30 years in the future that oil prices are twice what they have now, and other countries (not us hopefully) are fighting wars for control of those resources. Using them today is a supreme, extreme, and moronic waste.
It may not be as featureful and configurable and snazzy as BES. But it has the core requirements that businesses be able to require a password to access company information, and the phone can be remotely or automatically wiped.
The C-suite insisted IT find a way to support iPhones and Androids out of personal vanity, and after the work was done, there was little reason to not allow others in the company to access the same tools. Few people want to carry 2 smartphones all the time, and few companies want to pay for the cell service for every employee. Though many employees don't mind using a personally funded phone in moderation for company business. Supporting personal phones for company data is a win/win mostly. Only companies in highly regulated businesses like finance, health care, and defense with heavy penalties for accidental data release really need to worry about the consequences of company data on personal devices and that data safeguards work as advertised.
And in case you haven't heard, it is becoming much more common for small and medium companies to provide employees a hardware budget for them to buy personal computers for work purposes, then provide a VPN/remote desktop for secure access to company resources.
Instead they had a sprayer on a hose that was part of the tubs faucet that could hang up high if you wanted it. I was told this has something to do with the muslim religion or something, I dont really know.
But this sort of setup is against code in the US. Why? Because you can lay the hose down into the tub. If you have the tube full of water, and wash yourself in it... now the water is dirty. If the hose is laying in the water it can now siphon the dirty water back into the water supply.
This isn't true in general, though possibly it is in some cities or states without enlightened plumbing code. It is within code to have a shower/bath with a hand sprayer on a hose long enough to lay in the bottom of the bathtub. The water utility is required to maintain a minimum water pressure to prevent backflow, and if it falls too low for any reason, they'll tell everyone in the city the water is not potable and to flush their pipes for several days. New construction and substantial plumbing retrofits frequently require installation of a backflow preventer at the house water meter, or at least on every outside water faucet (not that it would solve the bathtub problem.)
The original cost of $7.99 included only streaming. Streaming is still $7.99. Originally streaming plus 1 disc was $9.99. Now streaming plus 1 disc is $15.98. So it is 60% more, not 100% more.
Shipping cost frequently negates the tax advantage of buying out of state, unless the product is high value low weight and volume. There is also the instant gratification aspect giving local merchants the edge. I know that ties into convenience, but don't underestimate its value. Personally I don't consider tax when choosing where to purchase. I choose based on price - shipping included, tax excluded, and then on my affinity for the retailer.
Taxation would be based on the address of delivery. If your property crosses Texas and Arkansas, your address is never 1000 Main St. Texarkana TX AR 75001. Your address will most likely be based on the state your mailbox is located in.
Not exactly muddled up, but I'm not an Apple person, so I don't know the history. When I was trying to upgrade her, I searched google to see what the options were. It looked like people were saying when Leopard first came out, you could upgrade from Tiger to Leopard for $30, and that after Snow Leopard came out they discontinued those upgrade disks. I guess you are saying this is incorrect?
I said if you miss an upgrade cycle. Snow leopard would mean you didn't miss an upgrade cycle. I also said direct from Apple, not a third party that might have new old stock. Though most vendors immediately jack up the price after you can't get it from Apple anymore. Look again on Amazon for "Leopard" NOT "Snow Leopard".
I couldn't find a reference to whether CM was signing their ROM with the ASOP private key or not. Maybe they were, or maybe they weren't. This summary and the link to the CM developer comment doesn't by itself suggest CM was actually doing that dumb thing. What the CM 7.0.3 update supposedly prevents is the installation of any external apps signed with the ASOP private key. It is like how the native ActiveSync client in Android doesn't allow the use of self signed certificates anymore.
It is only $30 if you are careful to never miss an upgrade cycle. If you do, the cheap upgrade disks disappear from availability, and you have to call 800-i-fanboi to be told the upgrade will now set you back something like $180. Found that out the hard way after my aunt purchased an iPhone against my recommendation, then she discovered she couldn't sync it to her only computer, a PowerPC Mac.
I drove a 2011 Ford Focus SES with Microsoft Sync. It was equal parts awesome and awesomely terrible. I wouldn't pay a penny for it as it wasn't a feature. The car, however, was really cool otherwise. And I'm not a fan of American cars.
I've also heard that Carter (or the Fed during his tenure?) made some very tough (unpopular) choices on monetary policy that should have helped the economy, but that wouldn't yield results until the Reagan years.
They refused to honor a rebate many years ago for me because I "didn't send in the UPC" even though I sent the only bar code on the box to them and found nothing else that said proof of purchase or UPC on the box. They used to have hideously overpriced cartridges. They (at least used to) not support Linux. They put in anti-refill electronics in their cartridges to prevent end users from refilling them. And they used the DMCA to try to prevent third parties from defeating their sabotaging of the cartridges. Right now I'm only buying HP, Brother, or Epson. Though I am seriously considering buying a Panasonic laser MFP.
Yeah you're obviously got some problem, but I know where you are coming from. I have 3 WRT54GL routers running DD-WRT that took a couple months for me several years ago to get bugs worked out of my setup. I'm pretty demanding of them. Two run dual SSID WPA2, QoS, a few other things. The wireless would occasionally lock up, or the bandwidth meter would stop calculating after 6-8 weeks of uptime. Now I have them reboot automatically at 2am every night, and they've been absolutely stable performers.
If you want great Bluetooth support, don't hold your breath on a Mazda CX-7. Parents bought a CX-9 recently, it is a great car, but the Bluetooth support is beyond terrible. It doesn't support phone book sync or more than 1 connected phone at the same time. It frequently drops connections or forgets to autoconnect to a phone if the other person's phone was in it last. This is with 2 old Motorola dumb phones that have excellent Bluetooth support in every other use we've tried with them.
If you want to be able to voice dial someone, you manually have to send each phone number to it by Bluetooth, then teach a voice dial name to it. My $240 aftermarket stereo from 2 years ago supports up to 3 connected phones at the same time, always autoconnects and stays connected to phones, supports bulk phonebook access, and requires no voice dial teaching. If I was a Mazda engineer or marketing person, I'd never have allowed that to be installed on a car. It isn't a feature, it is a liability.
I see your point, but there is still more to it. The first point is in the last 2 years, due to improvements in hardware, software/firmware, and methods that can be applied to existing infrastructure, the cost per GB transmitted has reduced by almost half. It has gone down by a factor of 10 in I think the past 6 years. So even as the amount downloaded increased in your example almost 100% in 3 years, the cost to transmit the total data consumed has actually decreased.
The other point is usage pattern matters more than the total amount of data consumed relative to the cap. People may be using almost 100% of their cap, but if the subnet has a mix of users with different behaviors then it may not get overly saturated. Businesses use heavily during the day, residential customers in the evening. Older demographics more predominantly use the internet from 6pm-11pm. Younger demographics are more likely to use it from 9pm-2am or torrent overnight.
It is for this reason, I also don't have a problem with ISPs throttling based on traffic type as long as the throttling only applies when the link is getting close to saturation, and it applies equally to all vendors (including their own services) and no vendor can pay to upgrade their priority. So VOIP would get highest priority regardless if it was Time Warner phone or Vonage. Streaming video and audio would get high priority regardless if it was Time Warner streaming or Netflix. Web surfing would get medium priority, and torrents and email would get lowest priority.
But the actual wholesale data transmission cost is so cheap that the difference is less meaningful. Looking around on the internet, it looks like 3 to 6 cents per gigabyte is probably the current cost. Since the marginal cost of bandwidth delivered to a home for cable is driven by the point at which the local subnet is saturated and needs to be split, charging more for faster "unlimited" service makes more sense than charging more for each bit delivered.
Personally I'm fine with "unlimited" being about 250 gigs today. But I think that term should be a regulated standard. For example it might make sense to say residential unlimited must mean the maximum you can use in a month is equal to 65 hours worth of downloading at the highest advertised speed for your service (that would be about 250 GB for 10mbps service), and at least half of that must be available between 6pm and 6am, and after that point you can be throttled, turned off, or offered to increase your service to the next speed tier, but you can't be charged extra per bit downloaded.
About 10 years ago I read an extensive article about lean burning and running "oversquare" in aviation piston engines, done by a group that had tested a heavily instrumented engine. They said there was a small window just lean of stoichiometric where combustion chamber temps went up, but past that they rapidly went down again to a level lower than running stoic but with a mixture still reliably ignitable. Possibly this tech can keep the mix so lean that temps go back down and less NOx are formed.
You have a good point that Adobe has promised a lot, but delivered little. Though comments in this thread indicate Flash on Android is somewhere between acceptable given the constraints, to absolutely worthless. If you are denied access to the iOS platform, zero percent of 114 million devices is still a big fat goose egg. I can see them deciding it wasn't worth the investment risk. Android and Blackberry were the next 2 best candidates, I guess I'm not convinced Adobe had the foresight to pick the right one to target the most resources. It was probably serendipity.
Or given how Apple treats mobile app developers, maybe Adobe decided it wasn't worth the risk of investing in Flash on iPhone and then have it summarily dismissed if they weren't on the right side of Apple's business plan of the moment?
Adobe may have chose to wait for Android to be worth marketing to, and are now making the investments to bring Flash up to speed. Not that I like Flash one bit...
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I don't think there is any evidence to back that up. If we were to slowly turn off all domestic oil production, the price would spike and it would be extremely and immediately very financially rewarding to quickly put alternatives into large scale research and production. We are currently our own largest source of oil. I'm not against maintaining our current production methods and levels. I am against utilizing additional new technology that can extract more of our declining reserves that would be valuable in the future.
Never. Gonna. Happen. It will become pretty clear as the price of oil starts declining long term rather than spiking and retreating, that it is time we could turn on the taps full bore and use the last of it. Until that happens, it is far from clear there won't be considerable price and supply spikes in oil markets as we search in fits and starts for viable and scalable alternatives.
The deficit wouldn't be noticeably detected by closing NASA down entirely. The deficit could be entirely eliminated by doing 2 things, ending all foreign wars that don't immediately affect our shores (cutting the defense budget in half at least) and by actually carefully monitoring and regulating the financial industry to prevent another economic catastrophe that causes our programmatic stimuli to kick in.
NASA funds the kind of high tech research and US based jobs that actually provide for the economic multiplier effect, and enable your car ten years in the future to get double the gas mileage. Though I in principle agree that the Federal government is doing things way outside its authority. But basic science research is exactly the kind of thing it should be doing (a la the NIH model) because this is the stuff that doesn't have an obvious market application now, but will be enormously important twenty years from now.
Increasing our production of domestic non-renewable energy resources is one of the most stupid ideas the T-party and R-party have right now, that is also unfortunately stupidly popular. We should be hording our resources for the day 30 years in the future that oil prices are twice what they have now, and other countries (not us hopefully) are fighting wars for control of those resources. Using them today is a supreme, extreme, and moronic waste.
One word. ActiveSync.
It may not be as featureful and configurable and snazzy as BES. But it has the core requirements that businesses be able to require a password to access company information, and the phone can be remotely or automatically wiped.
The C-suite insisted IT find a way to support iPhones and Androids out of personal vanity, and after the work was done, there was little reason to not allow others in the company to access the same tools. Few people want to carry 2 smartphones all the time, and few companies want to pay for the cell service for every employee. Though many employees don't mind using a personally funded phone in moderation for company business. Supporting personal phones for company data is a win/win mostly. Only companies in highly regulated businesses like finance, health care, and defense with heavy penalties for accidental data release really need to worry about the consequences of company data on personal devices and that data safeguards work as advertised.
And in case you haven't heard, it is becoming much more common for small and medium companies to provide employees a hardware budget for them to buy personal computers for work purposes, then provide a VPN/remote desktop for secure access to company resources.
I'm no expert, but apparently this is a Shattaf bidet spray for (obviously) cleaning your backside. Cleaning with water is required. I thought Muslims are not cool with toilet paper and using your right hand. The Wikipedia entry seems to suggest otherwise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_hygienical_jurisprudence#Islamic_toilet_etiquette
This isn't true in general, though possibly it is in some cities or states without enlightened plumbing code. It is within code to have a shower/bath with a hand sprayer on a hose long enough to lay in the bottom of the bathtub. The water utility is required to maintain a minimum water pressure to prevent backflow, and if it falls too low for any reason, they'll tell everyone in the city the water is not potable and to flush their pipes for several days. New construction and substantial plumbing retrofits frequently require installation of a backflow preventer at the house water meter, or at least on every outside water faucet (not that it would solve the bathtub problem.)
The original cost of $7.99 included only streaming. Streaming is still $7.99. Originally streaming plus 1 disc was $9.99. Now streaming plus 1 disc is $15.98. So it is 60% more, not 100% more.
Shipping cost frequently negates the tax advantage of buying out of state, unless the product is high value low weight and volume. There is also the instant gratification aspect giving local merchants the edge. I know that ties into convenience, but don't underestimate its value. Personally I don't consider tax when choosing where to purchase. I choose based on price - shipping included, tax excluded, and then on my affinity for the retailer.
Taxation would be based on the address of delivery. If your property crosses Texas and Arkansas, your address is never 1000 Main St. Texarkana TX AR 75001. Your address will most likely be based on the state your mailbox is located in.
I don't see where it says to destroy clothing. It particularly allows you to clean up carpet. http://www.epa.gov/cfl/cflcleanup-detailed.html
Not exactly muddled up, but I'm not an Apple person, so I don't know the history. When I was trying to upgrade her, I searched google to see what the options were. It looked like people were saying when Leopard first came out, you could upgrade from Tiger to Leopard for $30, and that after Snow Leopard came out they discontinued those upgrade disks. I guess you are saying this is incorrect?
I said if you miss an upgrade cycle. Snow leopard would mean you didn't miss an upgrade cycle. I also said direct from Apple, not a third party that might have new old stock. Though most vendors immediately jack up the price after you can't get it from Apple anymore. Look again on Amazon for "Leopard" NOT "Snow Leopard".
I couldn't find a reference to whether CM was signing their ROM with the ASOP private key or not. Maybe they were, or maybe they weren't. This summary and the link to the CM developer comment doesn't by itself suggest CM was actually doing that dumb thing. What the CM 7.0.3 update supposedly prevents is the installation of any external apps signed with the ASOP private key. It is like how the native ActiveSync client in Android doesn't allow the use of self signed certificates anymore.
It is only $30 if you are careful to never miss an upgrade cycle. If you do, the cheap upgrade disks disappear from availability, and you have to call 800-i-fanboi to be told the upgrade will now set you back something like $180. Found that out the hard way after my aunt purchased an iPhone against my recommendation, then she discovered she couldn't sync it to her only computer, a PowerPC Mac.
I drove a 2011 Ford Focus SES with Microsoft Sync. It was equal parts awesome and awesomely terrible. I wouldn't pay a penny for it as it wasn't a feature. The car, however, was really cool otherwise. And I'm not a fan of American cars.
Then it isn't a free market if the last mile in Japan is exclusively owned or peering regulated by the government.
Not that I agree that the free market generally functions "correctly" or in the best interest of society as a whole.
He appointed Volker to Fed Chairman, who employed tight monetary policy and high interest rates to end the high inflation that had been a problem for the last 3 presidential administrations. This is perhaps one of Carter's big achievements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Jimmy_Carter#Economy:_stagflation_and_the_appointment_of_Volcker
Really? I've never had it not work on Linux.
Too bad. I refuse to buy Lexmark printers.
They refused to honor a rebate many years ago for me because I "didn't send in the UPC" even though I sent the only bar code on the box to them and found nothing else that said proof of purchase or UPC on the box. They used to have hideously overpriced cartridges. They (at least used to) not support Linux. They put in anti-refill electronics in their cartridges to prevent end users from refilling them. And they used the DMCA to try to prevent third parties from defeating their sabotaging of the cartridges. Right now I'm only buying HP, Brother, or Epson. Though I am seriously considering buying a Panasonic laser MFP.
Ok, what brand is this? The only cartridges I've ever seen that cheap are really old ones from before MFPs.
Yeah you're obviously got some problem, but I know where you are coming from. I have 3 WRT54GL routers running DD-WRT that took a couple months for me several years ago to get bugs worked out of my setup. I'm pretty demanding of them. Two run dual SSID WPA2, QoS, a few other things. The wireless would occasionally lock up, or the bandwidth meter would stop calculating after 6-8 weeks of uptime. Now I have them reboot automatically at 2am every night, and they've been absolutely stable performers.
I pay $4 shy of that in Dallas for Time Warner residential 15 down / 2 up. Next suggestion?
If you want great Bluetooth support, don't hold your breath on a Mazda CX-7. Parents bought a CX-9 recently, it is a great car, but the Bluetooth support is beyond terrible. It doesn't support phone book sync or more than 1 connected phone at the same time. It frequently drops connections or forgets to autoconnect to a phone if the other person's phone was in it last. This is with 2 old Motorola dumb phones that have excellent Bluetooth support in every other use we've tried with them.
If you want to be able to voice dial someone, you manually have to send each phone number to it by Bluetooth, then teach a voice dial name to it. My $240 aftermarket stereo from 2 years ago supports up to 3 connected phones at the same time, always autoconnects and stays connected to phones, supports bulk phonebook access, and requires no voice dial teaching. If I was a Mazda engineer or marketing person, I'd never have allowed that to be installed on a car. It isn't a feature, it is a liability.
I see your point, but there is still more to it. The first point is in the last 2 years, due to improvements in hardware, software/firmware, and methods that can be applied to existing infrastructure, the cost per GB transmitted has reduced by almost half. It has gone down by a factor of 10 in I think the past 6 years. So even as the amount downloaded increased in your example almost 100% in 3 years, the cost to transmit the total data consumed has actually decreased.
The other point is usage pattern matters more than the total amount of data consumed relative to the cap. People may be using almost 100% of their cap, but if the subnet has a mix of users with different behaviors then it may not get overly saturated. Businesses use heavily during the day, residential customers in the evening. Older demographics more predominantly use the internet from 6pm-11pm. Younger demographics are more likely to use it from 9pm-2am or torrent overnight.
It is for this reason, I also don't have a problem with ISPs throttling based on traffic type as long as the throttling only applies when the link is getting close to saturation, and it applies equally to all vendors (including their own services) and no vendor can pay to upgrade their priority. So VOIP would get highest priority regardless if it was Time Warner phone or Vonage. Streaming video and audio would get high priority regardless if it was Time Warner streaming or Netflix. Web surfing would get medium priority, and torrents and email would get lowest priority.
But the actual wholesale data transmission cost is so cheap that the difference is less meaningful. Looking around on the internet, it looks like 3 to 6 cents per gigabyte is probably the current cost. Since the marginal cost of bandwidth delivered to a home for cable is driven by the point at which the local subnet is saturated and needs to be split, charging more for faster "unlimited" service makes more sense than charging more for each bit delivered.
Personally I'm fine with "unlimited" being about 250 gigs today. But I think that term should be a regulated standard. For example it might make sense to say residential unlimited must mean the maximum you can use in a month is equal to 65 hours worth of downloading at the highest advertised speed for your service (that would be about 250 GB for 10mbps service), and at least half of that must be available between 6pm and 6am, and after that point you can be throttled, turned off, or offered to increase your service to the next speed tier, but you can't be charged extra per bit downloaded.
About 10 years ago I read an extensive article about lean burning and running "oversquare" in aviation piston engines, done by a group that had tested a heavily instrumented engine. They said there was a small window just lean of stoichiometric where combustion chamber temps went up, but past that they rapidly went down again to a level lower than running stoic but with a mixture still reliably ignitable. Possibly this tech can keep the mix so lean that temps go back down and less NOx are formed.
You have a good point that Adobe has promised a lot, but delivered little. Though comments in this thread indicate Flash on Android is somewhere between acceptable given the constraints, to absolutely worthless. If you are denied access to the iOS platform, zero percent of 114 million devices is still a big fat goose egg. I can see them deciding it wasn't worth the investment risk. Android and Blackberry were the next 2 best candidates, I guess I'm not convinced Adobe had the foresight to pick the right one to target the most resources. It was probably serendipity.
Or given how Apple treats mobile app developers, maybe Adobe decided it wasn't worth the risk of investing in Flash on iPhone and then have it summarily dismissed if they weren't on the right side of Apple's business plan of the moment?
Adobe may have chose to wait for Android to be worth marketing to, and are now making the investments to bring Flash up to speed. Not that I like Flash one bit...