It may have been a great investment. Lets see, he could put in a MM account and be getting 1% or he could have had it in the market and lost 30%. Timing is everything (Or he may have had it with Bernie and lost 100%)
I only use linux (and solaris before that) & DRM has not been a problem. My challenge was figuring out how to create a mp3 using linux. I found LAME and it works well enough for the transfers to the phone. I'd never compress anything for serious listening.
and this is precisely why I still buy CD's. It is physical media, with no DRM. I can make a copy for my phone's memory, I can stick it on a hard drive to make playlists for the house, I can stick it in the car (and even record it on the CTS's hard drive) all legally. And the really really nice part is that CD has 16bit/44KHz sampling, so it sounds good on a good system. Of course the copy squished into the phone doesn't sound that great.
in austin, I have only lost one station in the transition, a spanish language channel that was very weak in analog. I get 6 digitals. (FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, WB & PBS). The nice thing for me is one of the stations broadcasts weather on a 2nd channel, so I get a radar 24/7, which lets me see where it is raining. For me, its all a plus to switch to digital. Much cleaner signal and HD. the only negative has been slower channel surfing since signal acquisition is slower. This is all with indoor rabbit ears (like 12 bucks).
Agreed. +5 I've been watching for years now as you can't even buy a screw made in the US anymore. The big question is going to be when will China stop accepting our IOU's for real stuff? I expect that cliff is going to make the housing bubble look like the good old days.
this is actually the thing I've never gotten about tax exempt. I know they are classified as a charity, but as a child who had to go to church, I noticed very little went to "charity". Most (about 1/2) went to the building & maint fund. About 1/4 went to the pastor salaries and other salaries. I think about 10% actually got given away. Call me crazy, but can you imagine a charity (secular) giving away only 10c on the dollar and not being hassled for it? I've often thought the IRS should require like a minimum of 60c on the dollar to go to helping people outside the organization for the organiation to be a charity. The numbers should be audited every other year and if you fall below the threshold, your taxable.
So if there should be organic molecules present from comets, then what does it prove if we find them with the new test? It seems to me, that if we proved the test inaccuracte because there must be organics, then how does it prove there was life if there are organics? It sounds like we just spent a whole lot of effort to prove the experiemt was flawed.
Over the years I've seen a constant back and forth between "server" computing versus "desktop" computing. Remember when "workstations" first appeared. It was the end of the VAX'en. Its almost like fashion. BUT I think when the first cloud breach happens where possibly millions of accounts are breached and corporate secrets spill onto the the internet like oil from the valdez, cloud computing will end.
I agree. Look at the ebay purchase of skype. I think everyone is looking to the future for all this money that will be made, but it never will. Most skype users pay 0, and those that do, don't pay very much. Similarly, if I wanted to watch a youtube that cost me even a nickel, I'd pass. Too much trouble. I *know* they'd data mine the crap out of it as soon as I entered payment data and who wants payment data easy to grab from my web browser? Because alot of people would be like me and pass even at a nickel, means there would be no "volume" in the sales, which means the nickel would not cover costs. The "ad" model used by people like cnn and yahoo works, except I (and I'm betting alot of others) go read email or whatnot while the ad plays and it gets totally ignored. Ads work on tv as one person commented because our lard-ass is sitting on the couch and we are too lazy to get up. Most tv ads get watched if the remote is too far to channel surf. Lastly, I still don't know why anyone would use youtube type data for tv watching. The quality is crap. Why did we all upgrade to 1080i/5 channel tv so we could sit on a computer and watch ultra-compressed video? I for one even use the OTA when possible as the data stream looks better than cable. Call me crazy but I like to see technology provide a better picture like HDTV offers over NTSC instead of downgrading to what looks worse than NTSC (youtube).
Before "the web", these sorts of problems did not exist. You would have to publish the item as a book or paper and have it physically distributed via the local system, and thereby be subject to local controls. I suppose in some cases, you could pick up a broadcast via satellite, but by and large a country's physical borders provided information borders. Now with the web, you can email, visit web sites etc around the world fairly unobstructed. Even in china, I think you can get past their firewall in some ways. The question is, will countries, even western countries, snip the wires to try to put the genie back in the bottle? I think you could even find solutions to still allowing email. Why not just "delay" all inter-country connections by 30 minutes. This would make browsing impossibly slow, but email would still work fine. I don't think this is going to happen, but I wonder if the original creators of "the web" had any idea that their information sharing would ruffle so many feathers.
Its builtin to the inverter. As soon as the inverter detects loss of A/C sync from the utility, it cuts out. If it is a brief interruption, the inverter cuts out, waits until it resync's to the 60 cycle, and then re-activates the relay. It is explicitly designed so that if A/C is lost, the inverter disconnects as well.
It does not take that long to put in the "grid" part. My system was wired (the part requiring an electrician) in a couple of hours. The large cost component besides the panels is the inverter for a DIY. The magical box converts the DC from the panels to a sync'ed grid AC. The DC from the panels is extracted in such a way as to maximize the power, by constantly adjusting the voltage of the panel output. Its a cool little box with all sorts of protection to make sure the power company and your line doesn't crackle.
Its too bad neither the board or the CEO does that in reality. Reality is the board and ceo screw the shareholders and only are in it for themselves. See Countrywide, CitiGroup, JP Morgan,... I have said to friends over and over again, the boards should be in jail for failing to meet their obligations. But then we all know how it works. You sit on my board and give me a fat raise/bonus and I sit on your board and give you one. Everyone is happy EXCEPT the bagholders.
Agreed as is cutting down rainforest. The way I see it, we must do 2 things. Find a way to make something as useful as oil for fuel from plant material that is easily grown and second, stop having so many kids. Of course we will do neither, so overpopulation will start the next war with ? consequences. Call me a pessimist, but humans have a pretty crappy track record.
While I agree we (americans) have bought way too many SUV's and trucks for image sake, why does everyone blame the big 3? Hello. Have you seen a toyota sequoia? A nissan titan? Even honda's pilot ain't very efficient. Don't blame the big 3. Look in the mirror! The big 3 just built what you wanted. And japanese companies followed like puppies. The SUV's were cash cows and everyone wanted some. I think maybe the most popular suv I've seen is the lexus. And there is no way those are used for hauling manure.
To this guy who took it upon himself to provide this check, and kudo's to the supervisor who made it possible. The idea of providing DVD image scans so anyone can verify the vote is genius. I hope other counties start providing real verification like this.
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Try this one. Fairly detailed.
http://ecow.engr.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/get/ne/571/corradini/davis-bessenarrative2002.doc
The previous link was the first one on google I clicked on. Also, I noticed the plant engineer is serving time for his part in this.
Maybe we can build them safely, but maintenance is another issue. This is the same plant that almost went postal in 1985. See http://www.cleveland.com/powerplants/plaindealer/index.ssf?/powerplants/more/1095759100318143.html for just one reference.
It may have been a great investment. Lets see, he could put in a MM account and be getting 1% or he could have had it in the market and lost 30%. Timing is everything (Or he may have had it with Bernie and lost 100%)
I only use linux (and solaris before that) & DRM has not been a problem. My challenge was figuring out how to create a mp3 using linux. I found LAME and it works well enough for the transfers to the phone. I'd never compress anything for serious listening.
and this is precisely why I still buy CD's. It is physical media, with no DRM. I can make a copy for my phone's memory, I can stick it on a hard drive to make playlists for the house, I can stick it in the car (and even record it on the CTS's hard drive) all legally. And the really really nice part is that CD has 16bit/44KHz sampling, so it sounds good on a good system. Of course the copy squished into the phone doesn't sound that great.
in austin, I have only lost one station in the transition, a spanish language channel that was very weak in analog. I get 6 digitals. (FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, WB & PBS). The nice thing for me is one of the stations broadcasts weather on a 2nd channel, so I get a radar 24/7, which lets me see where it is raining. For me, its all a plus to switch to digital. Much cleaner signal and HD. the only negative has been slower channel surfing since signal acquisition is slower. This is all with indoor rabbit ears (like 12 bucks).
Agreed. +5 I've been watching for years now as you can't even buy a screw made in the US anymore. The big question is going to be when will China stop accepting our IOU's for real stuff? I expect that cliff is going to make the housing bubble look like the good old days.
this is actually the thing I've never gotten about tax exempt. I know they are classified as a charity, but as a child who had to go to church, I noticed very little went to "charity". Most (about 1/2) went to the building & maint fund. About 1/4 went to the pastor salaries and other salaries. I think about 10% actually got given away. Call me crazy, but can you imagine a charity (secular) giving away only 10c on the dollar and not being hassled for it? I've often thought the IRS should require like a minimum of 60c on the dollar to go to helping people outside the organization for the organiation to be a charity. The numbers should be audited every other year and if you fall below the threshold, your taxable.
So if there should be organic molecules present from comets, then what does it prove if we find them with the new test? It seems to me, that if we proved the test inaccuracte because there must be organics, then how does it prove there was life if there are organics? It sounds like we just spent a whole lot of effort to prove the experiemt was flawed.
Over the years I've seen a constant back and forth between "server" computing versus "desktop" computing. Remember when "workstations" first appeared. It was the end of the VAX'en. Its almost like fashion. BUT I think when the first cloud breach happens where possibly millions of accounts are breached and corporate secrets spill onto the the internet like oil from the valdez, cloud computing will end.
I agree. Look at the ebay purchase of skype. I think everyone is looking to the future for all this money that will be made, but it never will. Most skype users pay 0, and those that do, don't pay very much. Similarly, if I wanted to watch a youtube that cost me even a nickel, I'd pass. Too much trouble. I *know* they'd data mine the crap out of it as soon as I entered payment data and who wants payment data easy to grab from my web browser? Because alot of people would be like me and pass even at a nickel, means there would be no "volume" in the sales, which means the nickel would not cover costs. The "ad" model used by people like cnn and yahoo works, except I (and I'm betting alot of others) go read email or whatnot while the ad plays and it gets totally ignored. Ads work on tv as one person commented because our lard-ass is sitting on the couch and we are too lazy to get up. Most tv ads get watched if the remote is too far to channel surf. Lastly, I still don't know why anyone would use youtube type data for tv watching. The quality is crap. Why did we all upgrade to 1080i/5 channel tv so we could sit on a computer and watch ultra-compressed video? I for one even use the OTA when possible as the data stream looks better than cable. Call me crazy but I like to see technology provide a better picture like HDTV offers over NTSC instead of downgrading to what looks worse than NTSC (youtube).
Before "the web", these sorts of problems did not exist. You would have to publish the item as a book or paper and have it physically distributed via the local system, and thereby be subject to local controls. I suppose in some cases, you could pick up a broadcast via satellite, but by and large a country's physical borders provided information borders. Now with the web, you can email, visit web sites etc around the world fairly unobstructed. Even in china, I think you can get past their firewall in some ways. The question is, will countries, even western countries, snip the wires to try to put the genie back in the bottle? I think you could even find solutions to still allowing email. Why not just "delay" all inter-country connections by 30 minutes. This would make browsing impossibly slow, but email would still work fine. I don't think this is going to happen, but I wonder if the original creators of "the web" had any idea that their information sharing would ruffle so many feathers.
Its builtin to the inverter. As soon as the inverter detects loss of A/C sync from the utility, it cuts out. If it is a brief interruption, the inverter cuts out, waits until it resync's to the 60 cycle, and then re-activates the relay. It is explicitly designed so that if A/C is lost, the inverter disconnects as well.
It does not take that long to put in the "grid" part. My system was wired (the part requiring an electrician) in a couple of hours. The large cost component besides the panels is the inverter for a DIY. The magical box converts the DC from the panels to a sync'ed grid AC. The DC from the panels is extracted in such a way as to maximize the power, by constantly adjusting the voltage of the panel output. Its a cool little box with all sorts of protection to make sure the power company and your line doesn't crackle.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. Its been a long time since he was arrested and I know I "lose" passwords I don't use.
Its too bad neither the board or the CEO does that in reality. Reality is the board and ceo screw the shareholders and only are in it for themselves. See Countrywide, CitiGroup, JP Morgan, ... I have said to friends over and over again, the boards should be in jail for failing to meet their obligations. But then we all know how it works. You sit on my board and give me a fat raise/bonus and I sit on your board and give you one. Everyone is happy EXCEPT the bagholders.
For the same reason they probably have on site day care. Times have changed.
Agreed. I'd also add the drug law methods. Seize ALL assets of the firm and its sexecutives.
Agreed as is cutting down rainforest. The way I see it, we must do 2 things. Find a way to make something as useful as oil for fuel from plant material that is easily grown and second, stop having so many kids. Of course we will do neither, so overpopulation will start the next war with ? consequences. Call me a pessimist, but humans have a pretty crappy track record.
While I agree we (americans) have bought way too many SUV's and trucks for image sake, why does everyone blame the big 3? Hello. Have you seen a toyota sequoia? A nissan titan? Even honda's pilot ain't very efficient. Don't blame the big 3. Look in the mirror! The big 3 just built what you wanted. And japanese companies followed like puppies. The SUV's were cash cows and everyone wanted some. I think maybe the most popular suv I've seen is the lexus. And there is no way those are used for hauling manure.
Does that include losses in charging? And if not, how much is does charge loss add?
To this guy who took it upon himself to provide this check, and kudo's to the supervisor who made it possible. The idea of providing DVD image scans so anyone can verify the vote is genius. I hope other counties start providing real verification like this.
If they are so bad, why is everyone so keen on breaking them? Seems like no one would care.
I like the analogy. Too bad I have no mod points at the moment. I'd mod you up.
We just need to get american idol to do the contest on the moon next year! We'd be there in a heartbeat.