Plasma screens certainly don't last very long before the colour starts going off.
Do LED backed LCDs use a phosphor coating? In which case they won't last more than 2 or 3 years either before becoming dim or losing colour correctness.
Indeed. Worked one of SBCs failed one-bill attempts. I have no idea what the total loss was but they lost $2B buying and later selling consulting firms who were pretty much dedicated to doing that piece of work.
Ahh, but can you detect the successful intrusions?
Most windows users can also look at their logs (assuming they keep such things) and view a large number of failed attempts. Of course, there are also a handful of successful ones.
Yes, I know OpenBSD is very secure, particular for root access; user accounts not so much if the user will run anything they download. More than half of OpenBSDs security is that security conscious people select that operating system.
Fees might be higher but employee theft, incorrect change issues, robbery, till counts, reduces trips to the bank for rolls of coin, insurance costs, etc. are all easier and reduces costs significantly.
Over the long haul, particularly if you consolidate transactions (swipe card 10 times over a week, company makes a single transaction for the total), cards are quite a bit cheaper. Particularly if you can eliminate cash entirely, hook directly into accounting, and ditch the employee taking the order by replacing them with a touch screen.
Key in order, swipe card, drive through to the next window.
You are confusing real things with money, and physical money at that. You can't use 1 unit of credit to pay off 2 units of debt.
You most certainly can and do. You pay $1 on your mortgage and the bank pays $1 to their creditor (likely another bank) who pays $1 to their creditor (government bank perhaps) who pays $1 on their debt (foreign bank),...
One of the major issues with housing in the US is the amount of money banks were allowed to borrow was boosted in the late 90's; and they loaned it out to people who defaulted. The banks were unable to make their payments as a result.
Even if you assume the bank takes the $1 you pay back and issues a dividend instead, the person receiving the dividend may well pay back debt on one of their loans.
It doesn't need to be exactly the same to be a problem. The amount of variation required pretty much depends on the likelihood of a mistake being made by a consumer.
Not really. Names are separated by industry too and how they are sold. A laptop sold in retail is significantly different than an operating system being sold wholesale (factories).
Remember, when you are dealing with a variable source that you cannot control the number of concern is the minimum available. We do not yet have a great way of storing large quantities of electricity.
I'm a big fan of Wind power but also realize that we, including Germany, tend to build an equivalent amount of Natural Gas generation for the minutes when the Wind isn't blowing.
Can you get unlimited calling, to any number in your country (and maybe a neighboring few), any time of day for under $30?
My current plan in Canada with Wind Mobile: * Unlimited calling * Unlimited long distance to Canada and United States * 5GB data per month (throttles at 5GB -- no charges for going over) * Unlimited text messages, including international * The usual Voicemail, Caller ID, forwarding, conferencing, etc. is included but may use some of your unlimited minutes. * Free roaming on any of their locations (5 cities at the moment -- this is not common with Canadian Carriers unlike nearly everywhere else in the world)
$40/month plus tax. It was a limited time package for my area though they do still offer something similar in Vancouver.
The big catch is they only have towers up in about 5 Canadian cities at the moment and being a new carrier there are issues.
Indeed. They have just as much influence over their leader as Canadians or British do. Join the party, vote for the guy you want. They vote for the leader of the party. Election voters really get a to choose 1 of 2 people; who both reached for the centre and have pretty darn similar policies.
Americans may (or may not) have more choice. I've found the system of primaries somewhat difficult to decipher but the final election is very straight 1 out of 2 choice. Very few who voted for Obama probably would have chosen Obama given a choice of ~200Million other potential candidates.
Now you get the point. Google Search is the official bookmark system for Chrome and nobody needs to know the URL because you can always find the best information by punching keywords into your bookmark system.
Have 5% of that go to funding programs to help addicts and 5% go toward product quality enforcement. A large number of expensive hospital visits are from what the drug is cut with rather than the drug itself.
So why are credit card fees still anywhere from 2% on up (borne by sellers)?
Isn't most of that basically insurance? The percentage varies with the risk of the merchant (online shops are higher, grocery stores can get lower rates). My card has bit hit with fraud a couple of times over the last decade. Both times I called Visa and they made the charges disappear.
While they probably didn't eat most of those fees (chargebacks or whatever back to the merchant) they probably did have a fair amount of overhead for those tasks.
There was one charge that Visa probably ate. The merchant went bankrupt and disappeared after charging my card but before shipping the product. 4 to 6 weeks delivery became 8 weeks before I got Visa involved.
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Plasma screens certainly don't last very long before the colour starts going off.
Do LED backed LCDs use a phosphor coating? In which case they won't last more than 2 or 3 years either before becoming dim or losing colour correctness.
Sounds like the business model of the movie "Waterworld," if you ask me
I will take 40% profit pretty much any day.
In (most of) Canada we don't even open the bids until after the closing date. They sit in sealed envelopes.
Makes #1 impossible.
I would be surprised if the process wasn't similar in the US.
It is very possible the US is too far on the left of the curve and optimal revenue might require a tax increase.
Indeed. Worked one of SBCs failed one-bill attempts. I have no idea what the total loss was but they lost $2B buying and later selling consulting firms who were pretty much dedicated to doing that piece of work.
Ahh, but can you detect the successful intrusions?
Most windows users can also look at their logs (assuming they keep such things) and view a large number of failed attempts. Of course, there are also a handful of successful ones.
Yes, I know OpenBSD is very secure, particular for root access; user accounts not so much if the user will run anything they download. More than half of OpenBSDs security is that security conscious people select that operating system.
Why do you think this would matter to a typical user?
They will simply notice that Solution A allows X usage and Solution B allows Y usage; either way they're not buying the machine with Linux pre-loaded.
Fees might be higher but employee theft, incorrect change issues, robbery, till counts, reduces trips to the bank for rolls of coin, insurance costs, etc. are all easier and reduces costs significantly.
Over the long haul, particularly if you consolidate transactions (swipe card 10 times over a week, company makes a single transaction for the total), cards are quite a bit cheaper. Particularly if you can eliminate cash entirely, hook directly into accounting, and ditch the employee taking the order by replacing them with a touch screen.
Key in order, swipe card, drive through to the next window.
You are confusing real things with money, and physical money at that. You can't use 1 unit of credit to pay off 2 units of debt.
You most certainly can and do. You pay $1 on your mortgage and the bank pays $1 to their creditor (likely another bank) who pays $1 to their creditor (government bank perhaps) who pays $1 on their debt (foreign bank), ...
One of the major issues with housing in the US is the amount of money banks were allowed to borrow was boosted in the late 90's; and they loaned it out to people who defaulted. The banks were unable to make their payments as a result.
Even if you assume the bank takes the $1 you pay back and issues a dividend instead, the person receiving the dividend may well pay back debt on one of their loans.
Do computers use more than 1 or 2 watt when suspended (mine don't but they top out at about 50watt anyway).
It doesn't need to be exactly the same to be a problem. The amount of variation required pretty much depends on the likelihood of a mistake being made by a consumer.
Not really. Names are separated by industry too and how they are sold. A laptop sold in retail is significantly different than an operating system being sold wholesale (factories).
Yes, and include the minimum generation amount.
Remember, when you are dealing with a variable source that you cannot control the number of concern is the minimum available. We do not yet have a great way of storing large quantities of electricity.
I'm a big fan of Wind power but also realize that we, including Germany, tend to build an equivalent amount of Natural Gas generation for the minutes when the Wind isn't blowing.
Can you get unlimited calling, to any number in your country (and maybe a neighboring few), any time of day for under $30?
My current plan in Canada with Wind Mobile:
* Unlimited calling
* Unlimited long distance to Canada and United States
* 5GB data per month (throttles at 5GB -- no charges for going over)
* Unlimited text messages, including international
* The usual Voicemail, Caller ID, forwarding, conferencing, etc. is included but may use some of your unlimited minutes.
* Free roaming on any of their locations (5 cities at the moment -- this is not common with Canadian Carriers unlike nearly everywhere else in the world)
$40/month plus tax. It was a limited time package for my area though they do still offer something similar in Vancouver.
The big catch is they only have towers up in about 5 Canadian cities at the moment and being a new carrier there are issues.
Indeed. They have just as much influence over their leader as Canadians or British do. Join the party, vote for the guy you want. They vote for the leader of the party. Election voters really get a to choose 1 of 2 people; who both reached for the centre and have pretty darn similar policies.
Americans may (or may not) have more choice. I've found the system of primaries somewhat difficult to decipher but the final election is very straight 1 out of 2 choice. Very few who voted for Obama probably would have chosen Obama given a choice of ~200Million other potential candidates.
True, but there is nothing here that couldn't be done just as easily on OSX and Linux.
Remove users files in standard Gnome/KDE places and futz with the .bashrc or .profile file to make the login wonky.
Now you get the point. Google Search is the official bookmark system for Chrome and nobody needs to know the URL because you can always find the best information by punching keywords into your bookmark system.
And, instead of charging each individual household make the feed free and ask the government to charge a flat-rate fee for each household.
Response: "Your DNA is what got us into this in the first place!"
I think he's saying open source does not make a commercial product immediately viable.
Very few people run out and buy something just because it is open.
A large number of the phones sold are for under $100.
A 20% profit margin, on average, is pretty sizeable.
Make it a 20% sales tax.
Have 5% of that go to funding programs to help addicts and 5% go toward product quality enforcement. A large number of expensive hospital visits are from what the drug is cut with rather than the drug itself.
The ground is still a little wobbly at times.
So why are credit card fees still anywhere from 2% on up (borne by sellers)?
Isn't most of that basically insurance? The percentage varies with the risk of the merchant (online shops are higher, grocery stores can get lower rates). My card has bit hit with fraud a couple of times over the last decade. Both times I called Visa and they made the charges disappear.
While they probably didn't eat most of those fees (chargebacks or whatever back to the merchant) they probably did have a fair amount of overhead for those tasks.
There was one charge that Visa probably ate. The merchant went bankrupt and disappeared after charging my card but before shipping the product. 4 to 6 weeks delivery became 8 weeks before I got Visa involved.
I tried that. Won by 10 points after 40 rounds.