They are energy saving bulbs. Meaning that they save energy, not necessarily money. They also don't run nearly as hot so can further reduce the thermal load on air conditioners, but they don't help heat in the winter either.
The actual breakdown of the bulb's TCO will vary from bulb manufacturer to manufacturer, bulb type, as well as usage. Flicking a light on and off can decrease the usable lifetime compared to a bulb that is just left on or only turned on/off limited number of times.
Typical usage for a CF lightbulb is around 10,000 hours @ $10 a pop. Incadescent is around 1,000 at $.50 for a good quality name brand bulb. So you need 10 over the lifetime, costing 1/2 the price of a CF bulb, however the CF only draws 1/4 the power for equivilent output.
The corporate world isn't trying to control the dissemination of information. They are protecting their profits. It's not necessary for them to have symetric lines for most DSL customers as their downloading habits are very much skewed towards the download bandwidth. It's also cheaper for them to provide aDSL service then it is to provide sDSL. Upload bandwidth I beleive is more expensive, bit for bit, then the download. There is also distance limitations on the speeds available. sDSL may work well at relative slow speeds, but once you get to faster speeds, the upload speeds greatly reduce. Verizon offers download speeds between 768kbit@18,000 feet and and 7.1mbit@9,000 feet. There is no way that they can provide 7.1mbit upload speeds@9,000 feet.
Dynamic IP addresses are used for several reasons. The first is that it discourages customers from running servers. It doesn't eliminate it, but it makes it more of an inconvienence.
Those that truly need static addresses typically are willing to pay a premium for it. Business customers for instance. They can't afford to have e-mail not delivered or their website unavailable during that short period when an IP address may be updated. In this case, it is about the $$$. Most ISPs will renew a lease so in effect your dynamic address is typically static, but it's not guaranteed though.
Dynamic addresses are also cheaper for the ISP. In many cases the addresses aren't actually owned by the ISP but instead "leased" to them. The ISP ends up paying for each one of them. If they give everyone static, they need to have 1 or more addresses per customer. If they hand them out on a as-needed basis, they can save money as not everyone needs one at all times. At most they would need the same number of addresses as what they would need with static. At the least, they would need 1 per active customer. As leases expire the addresses can be reused, reducing the total number of addresses needed over the long term.
PPPoE is used because it can simplify the back end support and accounting process for the ISP as they can use essentially the same system for both dialup and DSL customers. If everyone is essentially treated as a PPP customer, regardless of the actual connection method, the same authenticaion servers can be used, the same tracking/billing servers, etc. ISPs didn't have to get another set of conectivity to migrate dialup users over to DSL.
Only living in certian states entitled you receive a free report anually or semi-anually. If you lived outside one of those states, you either had to pay for it, go to a "free" credit reporting site that would give you one free in order to hook you on their credit monitoring service, or request a free report under one of the following conditions: - Been denied credit - Had a collection agency state that their credit rating may be affected by a collection, - Unemployeed and intend to be employeed within 60 days of making the request (1 time/year) - recipient of public welfare assistance (1 time/year) - Beleive the file contains inaccurate information (1 time/year) but if there is inaccurate information, you can request a 2nd one to confirm it has been removed
The maximum the big 3 can charge for a credit report directly is $8. This likely will get you a fairly raw report but is still fairly easy to understand. Services that charge more are just profiting from you in exchange for making them a little easier to read.
You are right that it's bad to apply for credit in order to get the free report as it does count against you. However, you are incorrect that you should apply for credit all at once as there is a cap on the number of hits.
Applying for mortgages and car loans only count as 1 hit within a 30- or 60-day time frame, so it's good advice to apply at several different places to compare rates and terms. However, each seperate other applicaiton of credit, say for credit cards or store financing offers, count as sperate hits. Doing too many will add up and I don't beleive there is a limit on the number of those hits.
The position was listed as full-time but they want me to come on as contractor because the approval is easier to get.
Let me get this straight. They post an ad for a full-time position, even yet to be approved, but they want to bring you on as a contractor because it's easier to get approval. Right. What they are really looking for is a cheap temp that they can easily get rid of in a few months when they are done with you.
From what I've read, Verizon does do that. The problem is that pipes and wires aren't always where they are suppose to be.
My parent's neighbor put in a fence last summer. Verizon (or who ever the marking company works for) came out and marked where the lines were at. The fencing company drilled the holes for the posts several feet from the line, but ended up cutting the main telephone trunk to the neighborhood, consisting of several hundred pairs, 3 different places.
When Verizon came out, the neighbor asked "Who pays for this?" Verizon jokingly said "We'll send you a bill." After a brief period of rage, the neighbor was assured that it wasn't going to come back to him as it was marked incorrectly.
Verizon may be at fault in some cases, but I'd say the halting was more along the lines so that all sides of the project could get together and figure out a way to quit having so many cut lines.
Which is great...until you are out in the field somewhere and don't have net access...or your net access is dial up...or your remote computer is down...or any one of a number of other possibilities.
The original bill was introduced into the House, hence the HR2391 in the write up and article. It basically they was hijacked once it got to the Senate, but it still is tracked by the HR2391 name here. Check out the differences between #4 and #5. Anything that was in the house version was strickened out and all the extra crap was added.
Always say no. If they have a right to search it, they will search it anyways. If they don't, you just gave them permission. The end result likely wound't change, but why give them an advantage.
The XBox isn't getting a TV tuner to operate as a DVR. It's just an extension from a Windows XP Media Center Edition PC that does have the tuner. It's just a glorified official version of XBMC that has been around for some time and is free (mod chip excluded).
Did I miss the news where morals, ethics, and laws no longer apply to anyone? Oh...that's right. You weren't actually saying to do this, you were just speaking purely hypothetical.
I've yet to ever hear of a doctor who tells you something urgent over the phone, and insist you schedule the surgery right then and there, otherwise losing out on some hot deal.
But isn't America a so-called Democracy? Shouldn't there be more than just 2 options?
No. It's a Republic. Significant difference.
And you do have more then 2 choices. However, due to the current political structure of our elected bodies, anyone running under a party other then Republicans or Democrats has a very slim chance of being elected. In the case of presidential elections, the chance an independent winning is approximately 0...so yeah...you only have 2 choices in reality to shoot yourself.
Lowes bulk spools. 1000 feet for $.04 a foot. Or look around for a regular special of 1000 feet of cable, ends, crimper, and a basic meter for $40 or so.
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Not necessarily. They can give it away for non-commercial use and charge whatever they want for commercial use. However, anyone in the non-commercial use can easily give it to anyone in the commercial use category for free, essentially bypassing the need for a commercial entity to pay for it in the first place.
All this is beside the GPL requirements for open sourcing anything it's included in.
My $500 Sony Wega has discrete codes...and it's definitely not high end. My wife's college $75 Daewoo TV had discrete codes, and it's definitely not high end. My satellite receiver has discrete codes...
Many devices have a toggle IR code that will do as you say. However, most also include descrete codes that will always turn the device off, or leave it off if it already is off. Home theater buffs who purchase advanced remote controls that have macro capabilities use the descrete codes to program an "All Off" button for instance.
I don't know all the details as it was several years ago. I do remember him saying that everyone back in the enviromental test labs had the same problem.
You apparently never had any any of my profs in college. It wasn't unusual for my simple programs to triple in length after all the "necessary required documentation" was added.
"Oh, you never wrote a paragraph to described why you chose i to be a variable to increment in this loop. -1 point."
My dad was in a silimar situation. He was writing some VB code to test some electrical components. His PC was completely locked down. He couldn't run his programs that he wrote to do his job without having to go through his support desk to get it approved/installed. Got a new version? Had to go through the process again. Does that make sense?
Well, maybe you don't have the hard drive space, but others do. Many people have ripped their video and/or audio collections to save on their computer. They can the toss the DVD/CD in a cabinet somewhere and forget about them. Want to watch a movie? Just scroll through the list like you were going to watch a PPV movie...just without the $4.99 fee. Want to listen to your favoirte CD? Just hit play.
With XMBC, you can also download CD information or movie information. Then you can sort by genre, actor, actress, etc. In the mood for a movie with Jim Carrey but don't know which one? It will tell you which movies you have that star him quickly and easily.
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I'm sure this power won't ever get abused.
They are energy saving bulbs. Meaning that they save energy, not necessarily money. They also don't run nearly as hot so can further reduce the thermal load on air conditioners, but they don't help heat in the winter either.
The actual breakdown of the bulb's TCO will vary from bulb manufacturer to manufacturer, bulb type, as well as usage. Flicking a light on and off can decrease the usable lifetime compared to a bulb that is just left on or only turned on/off limited number of times.
Typical usage for a CF lightbulb is around 10,000 hours @ $10 a pop. Incadescent is around 1,000 at $.50 for a good quality name brand bulb. So you need 10 over the lifetime, costing 1/2 the price of a CF bulb, however the CF only draws 1/4 the power for equivilent output.
The corporate world isn't trying to control the dissemination of information. They are protecting their profits. It's not necessary for them to have symetric lines for most DSL customers as their downloading habits are very much skewed towards the download bandwidth. It's also cheaper for them to provide aDSL service then it is to provide sDSL. Upload bandwidth I beleive is more expensive, bit for bit, then the download. There is also distance limitations on the speeds available. sDSL may work well at relative slow speeds, but once you get to faster speeds, the upload speeds greatly reduce. Verizon offers download speeds between 768kbit@18,000 feet and and 7.1mbit@9,000 feet. There is no way that they can provide 7.1mbit upload speeds@9,000 feet.
Dynamic IP addresses are used for several reasons. The first is that it discourages customers from running servers. It doesn't eliminate it, but it makes it more of an inconvienence.
Those that truly need static addresses typically are willing to pay a premium for it. Business customers for instance. They can't afford to have e-mail not delivered or their website unavailable during that short period when an IP address may be updated. In this case, it is about the $$$. Most ISPs will renew a lease so in effect your dynamic address is typically static, but it's not guaranteed though.
Dynamic addresses are also cheaper for the ISP. In many cases the addresses aren't actually owned by the ISP but instead "leased" to them. The ISP ends up paying for each one of them. If they give everyone static, they need to have 1 or more addresses per customer. If they hand them out on a as-needed basis, they can save money as not everyone needs one at all times. At most they would need the same number of addresses as what they would need with static. At the least, they would need 1 per active customer. As leases expire the addresses can be reused, reducing the total number of addresses needed over the long term.
PPPoE is used because it can simplify the back end support and accounting process for the ISP as they can use essentially the same system for both dialup and DSL customers. If everyone is essentially treated as a PPP customer, regardless of the actual connection method, the same authenticaion servers can be used, the same tracking/billing servers, etc. ISPs didn't have to get another set of conectivity to migrate dialup users over to DSL.
You have some bad advice in your post.
Only living in certian states entitled you receive a free report anually or semi-anually. If you lived outside one of those states, you either had to pay for it, go to a "free" credit reporting site that would give you one free in order to hook you on their credit monitoring service, or request a free report under one of the following conditions:
- Been denied credit
- Had a collection agency state that their credit rating may be affected by a collection,
- Unemployeed and intend to be employeed within 60 days of making the request (1 time/year)
- recipient of public welfare assistance (1 time/year)
- Beleive the file contains inaccurate information (1 time/year) but if there is inaccurate information, you can request a 2nd one to confirm it has been removed
The maximum the big 3 can charge for a credit report directly is $8. This likely will get you a fairly raw report but is still fairly easy to understand. Services that charge more are just profiting from you in exchange for making them a little easier to read.
You are right that it's bad to apply for credit in order to get the free report as it does count against you. However, you are incorrect that you should apply for credit all at once as there is a cap on the number of hits.
Applying for mortgages and car loans only count as 1 hit within a 30- or 60-day time frame, so it's good advice to apply at several different places to compare rates and terms. However, each seperate other applicaiton of credit, say for credit cards or store financing offers, count as sperate hits. Doing too many will add up and I don't beleive there is a limit on the number of those hits.
From what I've read, Verizon does do that. The problem is that pipes and wires aren't always where they are suppose to be.
My parent's neighbor put in a fence last summer. Verizon (or who ever the marking company works for) came out and marked where the lines were at. The fencing company drilled the holes for the posts several feet from the line, but ended up cutting the main telephone trunk to the neighborhood, consisting of several hundred pairs, 3 different places.
When Verizon came out, the neighbor asked "Who pays for this?" Verizon jokingly said "We'll send you a bill." After a brief period of rage, the neighbor was assured that it wasn't going to come back to him as it was marked incorrectly.
Verizon may be at fault in some cases, but I'd say the halting was more along the lines so that all sides of the project could get together and figure out a way to quit having so many cut lines.
Which is great...until you are out in the field somewhere and don't have net access...or your net access is dial up...or your remote computer is down...or any one of a number of other possibilities.
The original bill was introduced into the House, hence the HR2391 in the write up and article. It basically they was hijacked once it got to the Senate, but it still is tracked by the HR2391 name here. Check out the differences between #4 and #5. Anything that was in the house version was strickened out and all the extra crap was added.
Oh. So you're the case that spoiled it for the rest of us. Thanks alot.
They couldn't. Ashcroft had already left.
Always say no. If they have a right to search it, they will search it anyways. If they don't, you just gave them permission. The end result likely wound't change, but why give them an advantage.
Yeah, but you are sooooo much safer now, right?
The XBox isn't getting a TV tuner to operate as a DVR. It's just an extension from a Windows XP Media Center Edition PC that does have the tuner. It's just a glorified official version of XBMC that has been around for some time and is free (mod chip excluded).
Did I miss the news where morals, ethics, and laws no longer apply to anyone? Oh...that's right. You weren't actually saying to do this, you were just speaking purely hypothetical.
I've yet to ever hear of a doctor who tells you something urgent over the phone, and insist you schedule the surgery right then and there, otherwise losing out on some hot deal.
And you do have more then 2 choices. However, due to the current political structure of our elected bodies, anyone running under a party other then Republicans or Democrats has a very slim chance of being elected. In the case of presidential elections, the chance an independent winning is approximately 0...so yeah...you only have 2 choices in reality to shoot yourself.
Lowes bulk spools. 1000 feet for $.04 a foot. Or look around for a regular special of 1000 feet of cable, ends, crimper, and a basic meter for $40 or so.
Not necessarily. They can give it away for non-commercial use and charge whatever they want for commercial use. However, anyone in the non-commercial use can easily give it to anyone in the commercial use category for free, essentially bypassing the need for a commercial entity to pay for it in the first place.
All this is beside the GPL requirements for open sourcing anything it's included in.
My $500 Sony Wega has discrete codes...and it's definitely not high end. My wife's college $75 Daewoo TV had discrete codes, and it's definitely not high end. My satellite receiver has discrete codes...
Many devices have a toggle IR code that will do as you say. However, most also include descrete codes that will always turn the device off, or leave it off if it already is off. Home theater buffs who purchase advanced remote controls that have macro capabilities use the descrete codes to program an "All Off" button for instance.
I don't know all the details as it was several years ago. I do remember him saying that everyone back in the enviromental test labs had the same problem.
You apparently never had any any of my profs in college. It wasn't unusual for my simple programs to triple in length after all the "necessary required documentation" was added.
"Oh, you never wrote a paragraph to described why you chose i to be a variable to increment in this loop. -1 point."
My dad was in a silimar situation. He was writing some VB code to test some electrical components. His PC was completely locked down. He couldn't run his programs that he wrote to do his job without having to go through his support desk to get it approved/installed. Got a new version? Had to go through the process again. Does that make sense?
Apparently you have never heard of satellite, FTA, OTA, streaming, microwave, etc. There is more types of "cable" tv then just cable.
Well, maybe you don't have the hard drive space, but others do. Many people have ripped their video and/or audio collections to save on their computer. They can the toss the DVD/CD in a cabinet somewhere and forget about them. Want to watch a movie? Just scroll through the list like you were going to watch a PPV movie...just without the $4.99 fee. Want to listen to your favoirte CD? Just hit play.
With XMBC, you can also download CD information or movie information. Then you can sort by genre, actor, actress, etc. In the mood for a movie with Jim Carrey but don't know which one? It will tell you which movies you have that star him quickly and easily.