Your argument might work in situations where vital goods and services are at stake -- if someone price gouges while selling water during a natural disaster, for instance.
No, not even then. There's really no such thing as "price gouging." Since what happens if the vendor fails to raise the price of water is either shortage due to hoarding, or the price rises anyway through grey-market resale of hoarded water.
The price that maximizes profit is not gouging. It's efficiency. Any other price also cannot be gouging, either, by definition.
Buy the car adapter, and get a lead-acid gel cell at a ham-fest. You can get these in many sizes to suit your needs, and they're much cheaper (although also much heavier) than the blessed batteries. You might want to pick up a backpack to carry it around in.
Uh.. no you can't. Battery voltage is fixed by the chemistry. It happens that laptop batteries use a chemistry that has a relatively constant voltage over the useful portion of the cycle, so amp-hours is a reasonable proxy for joules.
If it's a 5 volt battery, you're not going to get 10 volts out of it without taking it apart and rearranging the cells.
pieterh made the mistake of suggesting the voltage is variable depending on load, and although this is technically true, the kinds of loads that will depress battery voltage noticeably are also likely to damage it.
You're claiming that you're doing moon bounce.. on 2W? And that in an unregulated environment that it would take the same 2W? Where's your transmitter, Puerto Rico?
And dont forget, the FCC does NOT control other countries output. You act like it does. There's always pirate stations, laugh stations, the Numbers, screamers, pings, and everything else coming man made and cosmic.
The FCC doesn't, but treaty organizations like ITU do. Or rather coordinate countries' efforts to control it. Because spectrum is an eminently limited, valuable resource. No one wants the entire spectrum to look like 11m.
I haven't had a "channel" "jammed" in any way on me. But I wouldn't need a half an hour to "get mobilized." A decent HT with an s-meter and a twelve stone bag of mostly water are all you need. Then, when you find he culprit.. you call the FCC, right? You're not taking baseball bats and sacks of navels to harass a loudmouth asshole, are you?
and without regulation of some kind (whether FCC regulation is appropriate notwithstanding) the noise floor of that 6-meter band would rise quite a bit. No way you'd be able to do 2W international communications. You might even have trouble with fifteen hundred kilowatts over a 17 dB beam during peak solar activity.
Have you considered mounting the drives vertically, with the axis pointing along the ship's longitudinal axis? I imagine that 7200 or 10,000 RPM disks would have quite a bit of precession, so maybe mounting them such that the axis with the greater perturbation is the same as the disk's axis would mitigate that a little.
If you feed it a long string of zeros and don't give it any stopping conditions, it activates the drive's vacuum pump and removes all of the air. This step eliminates the cushion keeping the heads off of the disk, so while "writing" zeros, they're also shaving a layer of magnetic material.
This is more than sufficient to wipe your drive and prepare for a fresh install, unless your drive uses vertical bits. Keep in mind, though, that hard drives are like wood floors. You can only plane them two, three times, tops, before they have to be replaced.
What the heck are you talking about? 400 years ago, everyone knew the earth was round. Ocean commerce would've been impossible without this knowledge. There wasn't even that much debate as to the radius of the mostly spherical earth, except for one Italian visitor to a newly emancipated Spain just looking for something to spend monies that had previously gone to the war effort on. (presumably in lieu of lowering taxation...)
GP was talking about a voting strategy based on the idea that a government that "gets things done" is the worst government of all. And after the government "shutdown" here in the states, I quite agree. The ideal state for any legislative body is constant bickering (partisan or otherwise) and blocking each others' legislative goals.
If something is truly important, there will be enough public clamor for even a strongly divided congress to take heed. For everything else, it's better that they are stymied at every opportunity, rather than ratchet up the taxes, regulation, and complexity of laws (which does benefit lawyers...).
As an American, although I like the idea of multiple weak parties never quite accomplishing much, I have to deal with the reality that "two party" is a local "optimum" for our voting style and go for the next best thing: no veto-proof majorities, ever, and a president of the opposite party to congress as much as possible.
No, that's the good kind of outsourcing: in any business, it's often advantageous to pay someone else to do the things you just need done, so you can focus all your effort on the business you're actually in. You end up paying less, because even with the premium of hiring out, the outside company is probably more efficient than you would've been, what with it being their primary focus, and all.
But if your publishing firm outsourced it's publishing, then there remains the question, "what do you do again?" Your customers will eventually just eliminate the middle man and go straight to the source.
Yes, but a junked laptop is just that: junk. A new laptop with the very same specs is going to have fewer gremlins. Not to mention that the battery will actually work rather than "used to work, but you can replace it with another one that is probably salvage from another junked laptop"
Also, some of the components will likely be manufactured using smaller process size, so they're likely to be more power efficient.
It would probably be kinder on the customers to have a "regenerative" cap, rather than a hard monthly cap. i.e. an hourly cap with rollover kilobits.
That way, if you do saturate your connection, you just fall back to the cap-rate until you've taken a break for a few minutes. Then spiffy-fast web surfing continues on.
No, it's a safety feature. They want to sell them as recreational watercraft. The 20 second limit and positive buoyancy ensures that flaky vacationers won't accidentally descend below crush depth, or run out of cabin oxygen.
Not really. They also avoid the problem of having to get air into the *occupants*. It's a sealed, atmospheric pressure submersible (but it is not a submarine in the traditional sense, those are actually more analogous to blimps than airplanes, and the watercraft is more like an airplane.). So they have to either have a tricky method of maintaining that pressure during a dive (doable, but adds cost) or just keep underwater jaunts brief and exchange the air frequently, avoiding the need for rebreathers, active pumps, carried oxygen, and the like.
And if the jaunts are brief, just power the engine the same way.
Heh. Good point. But what I think we should do is ban nuclear power plants because they're scary, and hydroelectric plants because of the herring, and wind turbines because of their dramatic effect on property values in favor of deep-ocean wind (that might take a while to come online) and.. uh.. hydrogen <waves hand> economy.
But since those things will take a while to build, in the mean time, we'd better build a few coal plants...
No, but a library of thumbdrive movies is an intriguing idea. Keep in mind that the "lots of space" of your thumbdrive is mostly occupied by a protective enclosure that you never need to remove. If you include the DVD *case* in the equation, thumbdrive films would be a significant space saver.
It's the cost that keeps it from happening. If usb sticks were as cheap to produce as stamped polycarbonate disks, everyone would already be well into replacing their collections with them.
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No, not even then. There's really no such thing as "price gouging." Since what happens if the vendor fails to raise the price of water is either shortage due to hoarding, or the price rises anyway through grey-market resale of hoarded water.
The price that maximizes profit is not gouging. It's efficiency. Any other price also cannot be gouging, either, by definition.
Buy the car adapter, and get a lead-acid gel cell at a ham-fest. You can get these in many sizes to suit your needs, and they're much cheaper (although also much heavier) than the blessed batteries. You might want to pick up a backpack to carry it around in.
Uh.. no you can't. Battery voltage is fixed by the chemistry. It happens that laptop batteries use a chemistry that has a relatively constant voltage over the useful portion of the cycle, so amp-hours is a reasonable proxy for joules.
If it's a 5 volt battery, you're not going to get 10 volts out of it without taking it apart and rearranging the cells.
pieterh made the mistake of suggesting the voltage is variable depending on load, and although this is technically true, the kinds of loads that will depress battery voltage noticeably are also likely to damage it.
You're claiming that you're doing moon bounce.. on 2W? And that in an unregulated environment that it would take the same 2W? Where's your transmitter, Puerto Rico?
The FCC doesn't, but treaty organizations like ITU do. Or rather coordinate countries' efforts to control it. Because spectrum is an eminently limited, valuable resource. No one wants the entire spectrum to look like 11m.
I haven't had a "channel" "jammed" in any way on me. But I wouldn't need a half an hour to "get mobilized." A decent HT with an s-meter and a twelve stone bag of mostly water are all you need. Then, when you find he culprit.. you call the FCC, right? You're not taking baseball bats and sacks of navels to harass a loudmouth asshole, are you?
uh.. technically it's still a cell phone. And is an 8-digit LCD or just a simple background process really that expensive to include in the package?
But.. Isn't that sand also mostly causing the coral bleaching in the Caribbean?
and without regulation of some kind (whether FCC regulation is appropriate notwithstanding) the noise floor of that 6-meter band would rise quite a bit. No way you'd be able to do 2W international communications. You might even have trouble with fifteen hundred kilowatts over a 17 dB beam during peak solar activity.
How about just a meter on the phone that says "how much this is costing you" and/or "how much you owe so far"
Have you considered mounting the drives vertically, with the axis pointing along the ship's longitudinal axis? I imagine that 7200 or 10,000 RPM disks would have quite a bit of precession, so maybe mounting them such that the axis with the greater perturbation is the same as the disk's axis would mitigate that a little.
Read the source.
If you feed it a long string of zeros and don't give it any stopping conditions, it activates the drive's vacuum pump and removes all of the air. This step eliminates the cushion keeping the heads off of the disk, so while "writing" zeros, they're also shaving a layer of magnetic material.
This is more than sufficient to wipe your drive and prepare for a fresh install, unless your drive uses vertical bits. Keep in mind, though, that hard drives are like wood floors. You can only plane them two, three times, tops, before they have to be replaced.
Perhaps you should stop boosting your wi-fi hotspot through your oven's magnetron.
I'm confused. If he's left politics, how can he still be your MP?
What the heck are you talking about? 400 years ago, everyone knew the earth was round. Ocean commerce would've been impossible without this knowledge. There wasn't even that much debate as to the radius of the mostly spherical earth, except for one Italian visitor to a newly emancipated Spain just looking for something to spend monies that had previously gone to the war effort on. (presumably in lieu of lowering taxation...)
GP was talking about a voting strategy based on the idea that a government that "gets things done" is the worst government of all. And after the government "shutdown" here in the states, I quite agree. The ideal state for any legislative body is constant bickering (partisan or otherwise) and blocking each others' legislative goals.
If something is truly important, there will be enough public clamor for even a strongly divided congress to take heed. For everything else, it's better that they are stymied at every opportunity, rather than ratchet up the taxes, regulation, and complexity of laws (which does benefit lawyers...).
As an American, although I like the idea of multiple weak parties never quite accomplishing much, I have to deal with the reality that "two party" is a local "optimum" for our voting style and go for the next best thing: no veto-proof majorities, ever, and a president of the opposite party to congress as much as possible.
No, that's the good kind of outsourcing: in any business, it's often advantageous to pay someone else to do the things you just need done, so you can focus all your effort on the business you're actually in. You end up paying less, because even with the premium of hiring out, the outside company is probably more efficient than you would've been, what with it being their primary focus, and all.
But if your publishing firm outsourced it's publishing, then there remains the question, "what do you do again?" Your customers will eventually just eliminate the middle man and go straight to the source.
It's filtered through slashdot, so you can be sure that even if our encoding was the same as you'res, we'd be on a different encoding.
html entity € seems to work, though. At least in my preview window.
But they *don't* charge shipping, so the difference in price is not as significant.
Yes, but a junked laptop is just that: junk. A new laptop with the very same specs is going to have fewer gremlins. Not to mention that the battery will actually work rather than "used to work, but you can replace it with another one that is probably salvage from another junked laptop"
Also, some of the components will likely be manufactured using smaller process size, so they're likely to be more power efficient.
Oh boy, $120 laptops have arrived*!
*if you're willing to pay twice that.
What? That's less than an order of magnitude of orders of magnitude. Well within slashdot's desired accuracy.
It would probably be kinder on the customers to have a "regenerative" cap, rather than a hard monthly cap. i.e. an hourly cap with rollover kilobits.
That way, if you do saturate your connection, you just fall back to the cap-rate until you've taken a break for a few minutes. Then spiffy-fast web surfing continues on.
No, it's a safety feature. They want to sell them as recreational watercraft. The 20 second limit and positive buoyancy ensures that flaky vacationers won't accidentally descend below crush depth, or run out of cabin oxygen.
Not really. They also avoid the problem of having to get air into the *occupants*. It's a sealed, atmospheric pressure submersible (but it is not a submarine in the traditional sense, those are actually more analogous to blimps than airplanes, and the watercraft is more like an airplane.). So they have to either have a tricky method of maintaining that pressure during a dive (doable, but adds cost) or just keep underwater jaunts brief and exchange the air frequently, avoiding the need for rebreathers, active pumps, carried oxygen, and the like.
And if the jaunts are brief, just power the engine the same way.
And then they settle on D20 and call it a day.
Heh. Good point. But what I think we should do is ban nuclear power plants because they're scary, and hydroelectric plants because of the herring, and wind turbines because of their dramatic effect on property values in favor of deep-ocean wind (that might take a while to come online) and.. uh.. hydrogen <waves hand> economy.
But since those things will take a while to build, in the mean time, we'd better build a few coal plants...
No, but a library of thumbdrive movies is an intriguing idea. Keep in mind that the "lots of space" of your thumbdrive is mostly occupied by a protective enclosure that you never need to remove. If you include the DVD *case* in the equation, thumbdrive films would be a significant space saver.
It's the cost that keeps it from happening. If usb sticks were as cheap to produce as stamped polycarbonate disks, everyone would already be well into replacing their collections with them.