This tablet is $50. And the latest Raspberry Pi 2 B is $40. If you add a power cord, case, and storage to the Pi, it is now ~$60.
Imagine how many projects the tablet would inspire if it was reasonably programmable. Or how about the tablet without a battery and screen? Those are the two most expensive pieces.
Could you give a little more detail? Also living in the midwest, if I COMPLETELY replaced my electricity needs with solar, I could only spend about $4,000 total on a system and have it pay back in 3 years. In some very brief looking online, this MIGHT pay for the inverter and installation.
What size system did you install?
All that this shows is that there isn't much difference between the ISPs. They had to scale the chart (it doesn't start at 0) just to show the differences. As Netflix commented in the linked post, their HD streams are much higher (4.8kb) than these graphs. Of course the graph is just an average, so it doesn't speak to how HD users are affected.
Another point which I rarely hear about in discussions of the iPhone is how it is fundamentally marketed differently. We have had an iPhone for many years now. It hasn't been the exact same hardware this whole time, but it has been an "iPhone" the whole time. Now think about other mobile phones. Ask someone what phone they have and it is either "LG", "Motorola", etc. Mobile phone models change so often than no one can remember what model they have currently, because there is a good chance that you can't even buy the model anymore. Apple has won the marketing game because by keeping the same name, they don't have to scrap all of their previous marketing whenever the model changes.
Some sort of license to work, i.e. they have to prove in some way that they know what they are talking about. Why are you trying to hold someone in an entry-level job up to the same standard as a "professional"?
If Comcast advertises that its service delivers downloads "up to 12Mb/s" (which is exactly what they advertise here on TV), then they are advertising that they can deliver UP TO:
...
Now, I am not saying that one should actually get as much as the theoretical maximum, but if Comcast is actually setting a limit that is substantially lower than that, then the simple fact is that they are guilty of fraud and false advertising.
Apparently you don't understand why they say "up to". It is so that they don't have to actually meet that standard. It can be "up to" 12 Mb/s for one second and 56kb/s for the rest of the month and they still have correctly advertised their product.
This isn't to say that not having a hard limit is proper, but at least keep your focus on the issue at hand.
Something few people seem to recognize is there are two separable elements to most of homeopathy. The first is the treatment itself, and the second is the explanation for how it works....
Take acupuncture. Twirling small needles in the top layer of the skin has a variety of benefits. But why? Traditions tell the story that it balances the energy flows, etc etc. A recent study examined three groups, one with no acupuncture, one with acupuncture in the traditionally prescribed locations, and one with acupuncture in random locations. Both of the latter two groups were better than the first (no treatment), but interestingly they weren't different from each other.
So yes acupuncture has some effect, but the traditional explanation has nothing to do with why it works.
Didn't you just describe the placebo effect? Replace "acupuncture" with "pills" and "locations" with "drugs" and you have the classic placebo experiment.
So then if something works and no one can explain it (or can explain why it should have no effect) it is a placebo.
After they buy a 99 cent (or $1.39) song from iTunes, people accept that they should pay another 99 cents to be able to have that song play when someone calls them? Why do people keep putting up with this kind of crap?
Because these are the same people who are paying $2.99 for just the ringtone. In that respect $1.98 for a song and a ringtone is a steal.
That's not to say that it isn't still a waste, but it is a proven market.
One of these days someone is going to come up with a game that both supports MMOG play but also has a single player campaign running on a mini-server. This title will rule the RPG world until someone brings out one that lets you run your own server, and create a portal from the mmog to your server (the portal simply doesn't appear unless your server is up; it could even be flickery if you have a poor history of uptime.)
This reminds me a lot of Blizzard's Diablo. It was fairly ground-breaking when it came out, and it had a good run. It may even still be running.
they aren't flying through storms, they fly AROUND storms- they aren't stupid. their choices increase from just straight up delays to either flying around a storm or a delay [they didn't do this already?] it is a good improvement- the delay could be a lot less and if it works well things will get better.
With all of the talk about saving fuel to cuts costs, is there any airline that would take the longer (greater fuel cost) route?
Anyone notice what the main control on the iPod is? It's fundamentally a knob (implemented digitally). And that's no small part of the product's success.
Which side of the argument are you on? Are knobs good or are digital representations of them good?
Maybe (and I'm going out on a limb here), it is all in the implementation.
People keep on saying how terrible the iPhone will be because of its touch screen. Maybe we should just wait until it comes out and see what the implementation is like.
Of course some inputs do seem better suited for certain applications. It is a struggle between what we are used to and what works best. As we all know, the two aren't always the same.
If I buy a small print from a local artist to hang in my bedroom, should it be illegal for me to scan it, manipulate the colors, and print another copy that matches the decor in the guest room?
Yes. This is exactly what copyright is about. You aren't limited to only hanging it on the wall that the artist approves of, but you are limited to not duplicating it. There is nothing evil about this and no one is trying to squeeze more money out of you, but you can't just go around coping anything that you want. You obviously aren't "making a backup" of the print, you are in fact duplicating it for your own benefit.
ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEES ARE OFFERED. If you have a ton of money riding on finding all the right loopholes and getting everything 100% perfect, buy a tax program or use an accountant.
Honestly, that's the same guarantee you you get with a commercial tax program or from an accountant.
What about the audit protection that an accountant gives you? Sure finding all of the loopholes is one thing, but having someone protect you when a "loophole" failed or just when you are unlucky is worth it.
What happens when you get audited because of a flaw in on open source program that has no warranty at all? That is when the difference is readily apparent.
Have there been any intensive studies that attempt to show what happens to stolen laptops?
Something tells me that if they can't find the laptops and don't exactly know what was on the missing ones, then finding out what happened to them is pretty much impossible.
...but all they'll be doing in the long run is teach other navies' that don't wish to be spied on to take out any fish that happens to wander too close
But we have already started on this path with all of the experiments with dolphins detecting divers and the like.
Actually, why are they using sharks at all? Besides having sharp, pointing teeth, I wouldn't imagine that they would be any easier to train than dolphins.
It isn't the amount of S's that means anything. It is either all four or nothing. It stands for something like "Specially Selected Secondary Screening" or the like. And it is based on two things. One is a random component which means that even frequent flyers (over a hundreds of thousands of miles a year) will get selected occationally. AND there is a profile based portion: one-way, no prior purchases, paid with cash, etc.
Or even CitiBank's (www.citi.com)e-savings account. You can open it online, so no worry about having one nearby.
The 5% rate should be as good as any CD you could get, and since it is a savings account, you can access your money anytime. Also, depending on the rate the student loan is at, you could be making more money than you are losing in interest.
Doesn't this assume that their web server and their email server are on the same machine? Who cares if you bring down the unsubscribe form when they can still send out emails at the same rate?
yield of over 80 per cent - so it has to bin fewer than 20 per cent of the discs it produces
Thank God that they calculated those numbers for us. I would hate to think what kind of errors would be produced if we had to do that math in our heads!
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One article I read with regards to modding a harddrive said to do it in the bathroom. The idea was that turning on the shower to make the room steamy, also worked to remove floating dust. You have to wait until the steam is mostly gone though to do the work.
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This tablet is $50. And the latest Raspberry Pi 2 B is $40. If you add a power cord, case, and storage to the Pi, it is now ~$60. Imagine how many projects the tablet would inspire if it was reasonably programmable. Or how about the tablet without a battery and screen? Those are the two most expensive pieces.
It sounds like this might be in response to all of the reports of massive amounts of spam accounts: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/08/14/1851243/inside-the-real-economy-behind-fake-twitter-followers This might be one way to reduce the ease that the spam-twitter-herders work while at the same time providing a bit of income.
Could you give a little more detail? Also living in the midwest, if I COMPLETELY replaced my electricity needs with solar, I could only spend about $4,000 total on a system and have it pay back in 3 years. In some very brief looking online, this MIGHT pay for the inverter and installation. What size system did you install?
All that this shows is that there isn't much difference between the ISPs. They had to scale the chart (it doesn't start at 0) just to show the differences. As Netflix commented in the linked post, their HD streams are much higher (4.8kb) than these graphs. Of course the graph is just an average, so it doesn't speak to how HD users are affected.
Another point which I rarely hear about in discussions of the iPhone is how it is fundamentally marketed differently. We have had an iPhone for many years now. It hasn't been the exact same hardware this whole time, but it has been an "iPhone" the whole time. Now think about other mobile phones. Ask someone what phone they have and it is either "LG", "Motorola", etc. Mobile phone models change so often than no one can remember what model they have currently, because there is a good chance that you can't even buy the model anymore. Apple has won the marketing game because by keeping the same name, they don't have to scrap all of their previous marketing whenever the model changes.
Dentist...Cabbie...plumber...accountant...lawyer
What do all of these have in common?
Some sort of license to work, i.e. they have to prove in some way that they know what they are talking about. Why are you trying to hold someone in an entry-level job up to the same standard as a "professional"?
How about actually searching for something as simple as "laser"? This previous article appears on the first page:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/13/0315230
Now, I am not saying that one should actually get as much as the theoretical maximum, but if Comcast is actually setting a limit that is substantially lower than that, then the simple fact is that they are guilty of fraud and false advertising.
Apparently you don't understand why they say "up to". It is so that they don't have to actually meet that standard. It can be "up to" 12 Mb/s for one second and 56kb/s for the rest of the month and they still have correctly advertised their product.
This isn't to say that not having a hard limit is proper, but at least keep your focus on the issue at hand.
Take acupuncture. Twirling small needles in the top layer of the skin has a variety of benefits. But why? Traditions tell the story that it balances the energy flows, etc etc. A recent study examined three groups, one with no acupuncture, one with acupuncture in the traditionally prescribed locations, and one with acupuncture in random locations. Both of the latter two groups were better than the first (no treatment), but interestingly they weren't different from each other.
So yes acupuncture has some effect, but the traditional explanation has nothing to do with why it works.
Didn't you just describe the placebo effect? Replace "acupuncture" with "pills" and "locations" with "drugs" and you have the classic placebo experiment.
So then if something works and no one can explain it (or can explain why it should have no effect) it is a placebo.
Because these are the same people who are paying $2.99 for just the ringtone. In that respect $1.98 for a song and a ringtone is a steal.
That's not to say that it isn't still a waste, but it is a proven market.
One of these days someone is going to come up with a game that both supports MMOG play but also has a single player campaign running on a mini-server. This title will rule the RPG world until someone brings out one that lets you run your own server, and create a portal from the mmog to your server (the portal simply doesn't appear unless your server is up; it could even be flickery if you have a poor history of uptime.)
This reminds me a lot of Blizzard's Diablo. It was fairly ground-breaking when it came out, and it had a good run. It may even still be running.
Does anyone still use the old address for Tom's like I do?
?With all of the talk about saving fuel to cuts costs, is there any airline that would take the longer (greater fuel cost) route?
Which side of the argument are you on? Are knobs good or are digital representations of them good?
Maybe (and I'm going out on a limb here), it is all in the implementation.
People keep on saying how terrible the iPhone will be because of its touch screen. Maybe we should just wait until it comes out and see what the implementation is like.
Of course some inputs do seem better suited for certain applications. It is a struggle between what we are used to and what works best. As we all know, the two aren't always the same.
Yes. This is exactly what copyright is about. You aren't limited to only hanging it on the wall that the artist approves of, but you are limited to not duplicating it. There is nothing evil about this and no one is trying to squeeze more money out of you, but you can't just go around coping anything that you want. You obviously aren't "making a backup" of the print, you are in fact duplicating it for your own benefit.
What about the audit protection that an accountant gives you? Sure finding all of the loopholes is one thing, but having someone protect you when a "loophole" failed or just when you are unlucky is worth it.
What happens when you get audited because of a flaw in on open source program that has no warranty at all? That is when the difference is readily apparent.
I thought that they were specifically RESTRICTED from merging. I had read that when the FCC gave them their licenses that a merger was not allowed.
In fact, here is an article about it from just a month ago.
Merger
If it isn't the best link, don't blame me. It was just one of the first ones that I found on google news.
Something tells me that if they can't find the laptops and don't exactly know what was on the missing ones, then finding out what happened to them is pretty much impossible.
But we have already started on this path with all of the experiments with dolphins detecting divers and the like.
Actually, why are they using sharks at all? Besides having sharp, pointing teeth, I wouldn't imagine that they would be any easier to train than dolphins.
Isn't that like saying that infinity+1 is bigger than infinity?
If it never materializes, then it never actually is there to help.
It isn't the amount of S's that means anything. It is either all four or nothing. It stands for something like "Specially Selected Secondary Screening" or the like. And it is based on two things. One is a random component which means that even frequent flyers (over a hundreds of thousands of miles a year) will get selected occationally. AND there is a profile based portion: one-way, no prior purchases, paid with cash, etc.
Or even CitiBank's (www.citi.com)e-savings account. You can open it online, so no worry about having one nearby.
The 5% rate should be as good as any CD you could get, and since it is a savings account, you can access your money anytime. Also, depending on the rate the student loan is at, you could be making more money than you are losing in interest.
Doesn't this assume that their web server and their email server are on the same machine? Who cares if you bring down the unsubscribe form when they can still send out emails at the same rate?
Thank God that they calculated those numbers for us. I would hate to think what kind of errors would be produced if we had to do that math in our heads!
One article I read with regards to modding a harddrive said to do it in the bathroom. The idea was that turning on the shower to make the room steamy, also worked to remove floating dust. You have to wait until the steam is mostly gone though to do the work.
Does anyone know if this would actually work?