And old company PC requires more space, costs more to run, and probably has more points of failure in the hardware. A inexpensive router, while costing a little more in initial capital, easily will recoup that cost in the long run, just from a support standpoint.
I'll tell you what. If you want to treat me like I'm a pirate who is just downloading/burning songs onto CDs left and right, the damnit I'm going to be a pirate downloading/burning songs onto CDs left and right. Argh.
It wasn't a Wikipedia, it was Google definition:...which got it from Wikipedia.:)
I've received numerous calls by FOP. I've never feeled "threatened" by them, no more then what I might be by a commission appliance salesman at Sears. Telemarketers (or in this case telefundraisers) are salesman. They get paid if they "sell" something...so obviously they are going to lean on you a little to make the "sale".
Depending on the version of Windows, maybe hum along fine. While it wasn't a server OS, wasn't there a bug in 95 or 98 where when some timer counter overflowed, it locked the system.
How on earth is it extorsion (sic)? Extortion is when a person obtains goods/services from another by wrongfully threatening or inflicting harm to his person, reputation, or property. At best it's harrasment.
I'm not defending the FOP. Between them and PHV (Paralyized Hoosier Veterans), the two of them make up the majority of telemarking calls my house gets as well as my parents. But saying the are extorting money, or even coming close, it a little excessive.
What are you getting at? That he should move out of home? That's your priority, but why do you think it has to be everybody's? We don't know this character or his circumstances. Who says he isn't paying his parents rent/board? What's wrong with that? You are absolutely right. We don't know that. Except how many 21-year-old drop out hackers do you know that pull in $81k a year stick around to help out maw and paw in rural America?
Yes we are making generalizations and assumptions (yeahyeahyeah ass out of you and me but you before me) but I bet in this case it's accurate.
Speaking as the brother of someone who just came back from Iraq, I would much prefer this loser to rot away in jail then get shot in the ass in Iraq. The jobs of the soldiers over there is bad enough, let alone having to watch thier backs because this assbag didn't feel motivated that day.
And is the Army that desperate these days? I'd be suprised, if he indeeds sits around all day and just chats with people online, he could pass the physical fitness test, especially if he chain smokes.
...to build the 'Regional Calorimeter Trigger' (RCT) which will be a component of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, one of the detectors on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland
Ah, the RCT for the CMS on the LHC in CH. Why didn't you just say that.
I still have no idea what a RCT, CMS, or LHC really are and I RTFA.
It's kind of like those instant hand sanitizing dispensers you see at some fast food restruants. Yeah it may kill anything on your hands (if used properly), but the dead whatever IS STILL LEFT ON YOUR HAND.
Depending on the style of stove, cooking on it can be fairly inefficient. A lot of energy is wasted just on heating up the air around the stove. In the winter this may not be an issue. In the summer, the AC has to run longer to remove that much extra heat.
Your likely not the typical Slashdot geek. Many of us spend all day in front of a monitor. I spend 8 hours a day using one at work, then go home and may use it for several hours. So say on average I use a monitor for 10 hours. That's 200Wh per day with LCD vs. 1kWh. A savings of 800W or.8kWh per day. At your same.09/kWh rate, Still not great, but savings of $26.28/day.
But I know that many people also don't have sleep modes or otherwise allow their montiors to shut off in some form. So in those cases, 1.9kWh is saved translating into $62 of savings.
While you can buy a $400 19" LCD, you can also find them for below $200 after rebates or other type of promos if you do some shopping around. If you leave your monitor on all the time, you could pay for it in a little over 3 years, well within the lifetime of a monitor.
One thing that neither of us is considering is the fact that a CRT based monitor radiates more heat then the LCD equivilent, at least in my experience. While the extra heat may be welcomed in the winter, it's not the most efficient way to heat a room. And in the summer, it just adds to your cooling bill.
100% is slightly incorrect as it does provide some light. But almost all the energy is released as heat. And since it's vent-less, all that heat is released into your house.
The things I don't like about them is that they are ugly, don't heat the entire house, and they still release their combustion by-products into your house. If you have a drafty house that may not be an issue. But if your house is newer, more tightly sealed, it's going to be burning the same oxygen you breath, and releasing the same combustion byproducts in the same air you breath.
My preference is for a high quality condensing furnace. Looking around you should be able to find one about 97% efficient. They will cost more, but I think provide better comfort and you don't have to run gas lines all over your house to fuel the heaters.
For that matter, VB.Net isn't hard either coming from a Java or C++ programming. The biggest learning curve is probably from a VB6 (or earlier) programmer trying to learn that there is more to learning VB.Net then changing the extension on the file.
FCC is the Federal Communications Commission. FEC is the Federal Election Commission. Learn the difference. The FCC could care less about polticial blogging.
Exempt employees are essentially salaried employees. In many, but not all cases, IT workers are considered professional workers and therefor fall under expempt status. This means that we are not bound under traditional labor laws that dictate minimum wages and overtime pay. That being said, exempt jobs almost always pay considerably more then minimum wages, and pay is guaranteed. You will make the same amount of money this week as you will next week; it's not dependent on the amount of work that you actually put in.
This is also true - and I wouldn't live in one, not ever. Where you live is always a choice (ok, well not always, but it is for those in NY, the only at-will state I know of, and others in the US) I'm in Australia myself and although the government is doing it's damnedest to weaken our unfair dismissal laws, even after they rammed the changes through we don't come close to at-will. That is just a worship of capital and hence extreme rights for the owners of it, i.e. the employer.
It's a two edged sword. My employeer can terminate my employment for any reason, but I can also quit at any time as well. Employees are still protected under federal and state labor laws where you can't be fired for certain things, such as race, nationality, religion, etc. Also whistle blowing regarding safety, illegal activities, harassment, etc usually are also protected.
All states in the US except Montana have at-will employment. A business is not required to have at-will employment, but most do. Because of this, most people here in the country essentially don't have a choice or other option. We don't have to sign a document agreeing to at-will employment, but the employeer also doesn't have to hire us either. Working under contract is another option, but many positions aren't contract positions or employeers don't want them to be, so for many types of jobs that option is also removed. Of course we could always move to a different country, get a work visa there, and start a new career, but that isn't exactly practical.
I hope 20 or so of those hours are paid overtime. I can't stand seeing some of my friends (grad lawyers and engineers) doing unpaid overtime because it's 'standard' in the industry or necessary to 'get ahead'. I'm out of here the second the clock strikes five
You obviously don't work for a company where you are considered exempt. You also apparently don't work in a state that has at-will employment.
Electronics can get zapped. I've had hard drives were a chip on the circuit board literally blew a hole out in it. By removing the media from the electronics, you have the ability to use any compatible tape drive with that tape. If the electronics on the hard drive go south, what do you do then? Tapes are also considerably more durable and can survive some bumps and bruises. Hard drives are more shock sensivite, both electronic and vibration.
Current building techniques, at least here in my parts, use PVC (or some other type of plastic) for almost all plumbing. Cheaper, easier to work with, continuous runs, etc. What's there not to like about it?
The article is a little short on information. My guess is that there still would be a cable/counterweight involved, only using the magleve for the propulsion to raise and lower the elevator instead of a motor pulling or slowing the cable. If that is the case, there is no more or less danger involved in the new system then before.
I would take any poll like that with a grain of salt. It's not exactly a random sample of the population. The majority of people reading the article and responding to the poll are either sports fans, fantasy players, or geeks. The first two are tired of being charged extra for everything. The last are concerned about the IP issues. Not exactly an unbiased bunch of people. You'd probably get a similar result if you went to a prolife rally and asked if abortion was right or wrong...if you survived.
I did think it's funny though the last option CNN included in the poll, "Only in fantasy dollars". I think it was the first time I ever saw a bit of humor in one of their polls.
Isn't complaining about $600m when you are considering $72b basically a rounding error? That's like comparing two items that cost $10 and $10.08. It's almost negligable.
"According to Auto Service World, Toyota (and possibly other hybrid companies)
The article mentions no other hybrid companies. The only companies mentioned are either Solomon Technologies, the patent holder, and various different divisions of Toyota. The "and possibly other hybrid companies" is just pure speculation.
are guilty of violating a patent with their Prius hybrid Systems.
The article just says that Solomon is taking their complaint to the ITC to block Toyota from importing more vehicles. ITC can't rule guilt or fine Toyota. If Toyota manufactured the vehicles here, it likely would circumvent anything the ITC could do. There has been no admission of guilt by Toyota so the only other place guilt can be determined is in a court of law. Until the case currently in US District Court is ruled on, there is no guilt. Only accusations.
The implications of which are big if there is no deal or settlement made (such as ceasing of hybrid vehicles in the United States)."
No. In the case of the article it just would mean Toyota couldn't import hybrid vehicles of this design (presuming they don't license the patent and settle the District Court case). They would either have to make them state-side or find a different design. Beleive it or not, there is more then one way to design a hybrid vehicle. This ruling wouldn't have an immediate effect on other manufacturers of hybrid vehicles although it might set a precident for future litigation.
I beleive you are confusing flash memory with some form of read-only memory (EEPROM, EPROM, etc). Windows can be installed to a flash memory device, such as a CF memory card via a IDE adapter or a solid state hard disk for instance. It use to be that it wasn't recommended to use the flash card as your swap space as the constance reading/writing would eventually "wear out" the card, but apparently it's not as much of an issue as it use to be.
Slashdot Mirror
And old company PC requires more space, costs more to run, and probably has more points of failure in the hardware. A inexpensive router, while costing a little more in initial capital, easily will recoup that cost in the long run, just from a support standpoint.
I'll tell you what. If you want to treat me like I'm a pirate who is just downloading/burning songs onto CDs left and right, the damnit I'm going to be a pirate downloading/burning songs onto CDs left and right. Argh.
Excuse me. This is an American-centric forum. Please don't bring up irrelevant facts that others have been doing this for some time now.
It wasn't a Wikipedia, it was Google definition:...which got it from Wikipedia. :)
I've received numerous calls by FOP. I've never feeled "threatened" by them, no more then what I might be by a commission appliance salesman at Sears. Telemarketers (or in this case telefundraisers) are salesman. They get paid if they "sell" something...so obviously they are going to lean on you a little to make the "sale".
Depending on the version of Windows, maybe hum along fine. While it wasn't a server OS, wasn't there a bug in 95 or 98 where when some timer counter overflowed, it locked the system.
How on earth is it extorsion (sic)? Extortion is when a person obtains goods/services from another by wrongfully threatening or inflicting harm to his person, reputation, or property. At best it's harrasment.
I'm not defending the FOP. Between them and PHV (Paralyized Hoosier Veterans), the two of them make up the majority of telemarking calls my house gets as well as my parents. But saying the are extorting money, or even coming close, it a little excessive.
LCallahan may not be registerable, but LCa11ahan is.
What are you getting at? That he should move out of home? That's your priority, but why do you think it has to be everybody's? We don't know this character or his circumstances. Who says he isn't paying his parents rent/board? What's wrong with that? You are absolutely right. We don't know that. Except how many 21-year-old drop out hackers do you know that pull in $81k a year stick around to help out maw and paw in rural America?
Yes we are making generalizations and assumptions (yeahyeahyeah ass out of you and me but you before me) but I bet in this case it's accurate.
Speaking as the brother of someone who just came back from Iraq, I would much prefer this loser to rot away in jail then get shot in the ass in Iraq. The jobs of the soldiers over there is bad enough, let alone having to watch thier backs because this assbag didn't feel motivated that day.
And is the Army that desperate these days? I'd be suprised, if he indeeds sits around all day and just chats with people online, he could pass the physical fitness test, especially if he chain smokes.
I still have no idea what a RCT, CMS, or LHC really are and I RTFA.
It's kind of like those instant hand sanitizing dispensers you see at some fast food restruants. Yeah it may kill anything on your hands (if used properly), but the dead whatever IS STILL LEFT ON YOUR HAND.
Depending on the style of stove, cooking on it can be fairly inefficient. A lot of energy is wasted just on heating up the air around the stove. In the winter this may not be an issue. In the summer, the AC has to run longer to remove that much extra heat.
Your likely not the typical Slashdot geek. Many of us spend all day in front of a monitor. I spend 8 hours a day using one at work, then go home and may use it for several hours. So say on average I use a monitor for 10 hours. That's 200Wh per day with LCD vs. 1kWh. A savings of 800W or .8kWh per day. At your same .09/kWh rate, Still not great, but savings of $26.28/day.
But I know that many people also don't have sleep modes or otherwise allow their montiors to shut off in some form. So in those cases, 1.9kWh is saved translating into $62 of savings.
While you can buy a $400 19" LCD, you can also find them for below $200 after rebates or other type of promos if you do some shopping around. If you leave your monitor on all the time, you could pay for it in a little over 3 years, well within the lifetime of a monitor.
One thing that neither of us is considering is the fact that a CRT based monitor radiates more heat then the LCD equivilent, at least in my experience. While the extra heat may be welcomed in the winter, it's not the most efficient way to heat a room. And in the summer, it just adds to your cooling bill.
100% is slightly incorrect as it does provide some light. But almost all the energy is released as heat. And since it's vent-less, all that heat is released into your house.
The things I don't like about them is that they are ugly, don't heat the entire house, and they still release their combustion by-products into your house. If you have a drafty house that may not be an issue. But if your house is newer, more tightly sealed, it's going to be burning the same oxygen you breath, and releasing the same combustion byproducts in the same air you breath.
My preference is for a high quality condensing furnace. Looking around you should be able to find one about 97% efficient. They will cost more, but I think provide better comfort and you don't have to run gas lines all over your house to fuel the heaters.
For that matter, VB.Net isn't hard either coming from a Java or C++ programming. The biggest learning curve is probably from a VB6 (or earlier) programmer trying to learn that there is more to learning VB.Net then changing the extension on the file.
FCC is the Federal Communications Commission. FEC is the Federal Election Commission. Learn the difference. The FCC could care less about polticial blogging.
It's a two edged sword. My employeer can terminate my employment for any reason, but I can also quit at any time as well. Employees are still protected under federal and state labor laws where you can't be fired for certain things, such as race, nationality, religion, etc. Also whistle blowing regarding safety, illegal activities, harassment, etc usually are also protected.
All states in the US except Montana have at-will employment. A business is not required to have at-will employment, but most do. Because of this, most people here in the country essentially don't have a choice or other option. We don't have to sign a document agreeing to at-will employment, but the employeer also doesn't have to hire us either. Working under contract is another option, but many positions aren't contract positions or employeers don't want them to be, so for many types of jobs that option is also removed. Of course we could always move to a different country, get a work visa there, and start a new career, but that isn't exactly practical.
Electronics can get zapped. I've had hard drives were a chip on the circuit board literally blew a hole out in it. By removing the media from the electronics, you have the ability to use any compatible tape drive with that tape. If the electronics on the hard drive go south, what do you do then? Tapes are also considerably more durable and can survive some bumps and bruises. Hard drives are more shock sensivite, both electronic and vibration.
Current building techniques, at least here in my parts, use PVC (or some other type of plastic) for almost all plumbing. Cheaper, easier to work with, continuous runs, etc. What's there not to like about it?
The article is a little short on information. My guess is that there still would be a cable/counterweight involved, only using the magleve for the propulsion to raise and lower the elevator instead of a motor pulling or slowing the cable. If that is the case, there is no more or less danger involved in the new system then before.
I would take any poll like that with a grain of salt. It's not exactly a random sample of the population. The majority of people reading the article and responding to the poll are either sports fans, fantasy players, or geeks. The first two are tired of being charged extra for everything. The last are concerned about the IP issues. Not exactly an unbiased bunch of people. You'd probably get a similar result if you went to a prolife rally and asked if abortion was right or wrong...if you survived.
I did think it's funny though the last option CNN included in the poll, "Only in fantasy dollars". I think it was the first time I ever saw a bit of humor in one of their polls.
Isn't complaining about $600m when you are considering $72b basically a rounding error? That's like comparing two items that cost $10 and $10.08. It's almost negligable.
The article just says that Solomon is taking their complaint to the ITC to block Toyota from importing more vehicles. ITC can't rule guilt or fine Toyota. If Toyota manufactured the vehicles here, it likely would circumvent anything the ITC could do. There has been no admission of guilt by Toyota so the only other place guilt can be determined is in a court of law. Until the case currently in US District Court is ruled on, there is no guilt. Only accusations.
No. In the case of the article it just would mean Toyota couldn't import hybrid vehicles of this design (presuming they don't license the patent and settle the District Court case). They would either have to make them state-side or find a different design. Beleive it or not, there is more then one way to design a hybrid vehicle. This ruling wouldn't have an immediate effect on other manufacturers of hybrid vehicles although it might set a precident for future litigation.
I beleive you are confusing flash memory with some form of read-only memory (EEPROM, EPROM, etc). Windows can be installed to a flash memory device, such as a CF memory card via a IDE adapter or a solid state hard disk for instance. It use to be that it wasn't recommended to use the flash card as your swap space as the constance reading/writing would eventually "wear out" the card, but apparently it's not as much of an issue as it use to be.