I kind of dislike how Kindle Fire and Kindle Paperwhite (and Barnes and Noble's competing products) get lumped into the same category. An e-paper device is not a tablet. It can't run apps, can't do video, can't do animated menus, can barely do text entry. If it could do apps, it might be ok for texting, possibly.
What it does, do, it does very well. It displays books for reading, and has a battery that lasts 1-2 months, depending on how bright and how long you run the frontlight for.
By your sentence, I'm assuming that you see the e-paper kindles on airplanes, rather than the tablet kindle, which makes sense to me. If you're going to get a tablet to read books on, why get the crippled Amazon tablet when you could get a Galaxy or iPad and install the kindle app.
I'm familiar with the concept. It's just that I haven't seen 3% offered in a long time. A certain national bank offers 0.01% for all regular accounts, but obviously that doesn't protect against the 2% inflation target that the FED has. That same bank has CDs at the whoppingly high rates of.15%. 10yr Treasuries are above 2%, but.. can you trust the fed's 2% target? I've no doubt they'll keep it up to 2%, but have a hard time believing that they're capable of moving it down to 2%.
They have set up a situation where you're stupid to save, because you will lose the value of your money that way. The only way to hold its value is to gamble it, on stocks or real estate, or some kind of item of value.
That subsidy should not come from ratepayers. The subsidy should come from grants of fixed terms that are voted on by the assembly, and the total budget for all such grants should voted on by assembly or better yet by referendum.
By making it come from rate-payers, the assembly has neatly divorced itself from the effective tax by making it look like the electric utility is just raising its own rates out of pure greed. (note: I trust that pure greed will be present, though, using the extra wholesale cost as justification to raise retail rates by more than that cost would indicate)
The problem with deepwater wind is that far less costly non-offshore wind projects can provide the power. There are very few existing wind-power projects, all of which were feasible with only net-metering with no fancy multiplier. Some were even feasible at wholesale rates(*). There are plenty of locations remaining that would be good for wind-power, but no one wants one in their back yard.
* In theory, if the cost figures weren't artificially low because the generator manufacturers are using cut-outs to avoid getting stuck in costly maintenance contracts (i.e disguising the price that a realistic maintenance contract would actually have to cost...), thus resulting in the few on-shore projects that did go forward failing within a few years.
Also, community college professors are sometimes regular college professors who are teaching a few classes at the community college because they believe in education. Effectively this means that the even professors' wages are being subsidized by their regular college wages.
But it is true that this isn't the whole story. There is the time-value of money to be considered, and the argument about living in a better house for longer is not necessarily the wrong choice. The extra interest bought you more time in a better house.
Or, if you bought the same price house, the extra interest left you with more cash on hand, which you could invest in other ways. This may or may not have been a better solution, though. If your money isn't working harder than the interest, you'd have been better off with the shorter term and lower interest. The house it self is also (usually) rising in "value" during this period....
Because every time the price goes up some politician has the brilliant idea to either 1) make loans more available or 2) make more "free money" (i.e. grants and subsidies) available.
Since neither of those is "building new colleges" or "training new professors" the existing colleges snap up this money through higher fees. This eventually may result in some increased build-out, but it seems to go slowly enough that they can keep the prices rising faster than inflation.
Worse, one of the ways in which they have "made loans more available" was to legislate that student loan debt cannot be discharged through bankruptcy.
Apple doesn't do that. They sell one version of their OS and that's it. All the OS features they offer are already there, including some command line scripting and compiling tools.
Anyway, the point isn't whether or not Apple is great. The point is that I'm not sure your argument that proprietary OS's are terrible is valid when only one of them is doing the thing you hate them for.
No, GP was right, they have a monopoly, which is why they're able to do this kind of market segmentation within a single geographic area. If they were not a monopoly, they would be competing with, hopefully, enough companies that they wouldn't be able to significantly cut the price because the price would already be pretty close to the actual costs.
This is a problem where infrastructure is the main cost and competition requires a duplication of infrastructure, and in other industries this kind of thing is addressed through regulation, however investors also love regulated monopolies - it's hard for the regulators to determine the right rules and change them under new circumstances, so prices rarely fall even when productivity improvements drive the costs way down. The regulation itself can help to prevent newcomers, so the regulated monopoly is sometimes more stable than the unregulated one, and still very profitable.
Phone goes out 8 hours later based on the battery specs they give you. Two hours later based actual capacity of the battery (which I assume is wrecked by a shitty charging profile because, "who cares, that's why," which works for laptops - you have to unplug the laptop manually because they can't be arsed to install a relay to automatically cutoff charging current when the battery is full?)
But.. what is green energy? Most of the things I've seen so far have been about as credible in terms of improving whatever "green" metric they claim to address as the products in the "nutrition supplements" aisle at the local drug store.
In a lot of places, the "green" solutions address only one real issue - satisfaction of some tax rule in order to allow the participant to enjoy a credit or to have tax-power-by-proxy. For instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... Deepwater Wind has legislated ability to "sell" its electricity to the grid at 24 cents per kWh in a state where the current retail rate is currently about 8 cents per kWh (6 cents commercial).
That's not about green energy, that's taxing power that has been granted to a private entity over the rate payers. Worse, what stops them from the outright fraud of pulling power off the grid at the retail rate and returning it to the grid at their grossly inflated rate?
You're thinking of CB. HAMS are very respectful and encouraging. There are just too many other things competing for the interests of potential new amateurs.
Partially because a lot of people who are suited to creating them are spending their time training to destroy parts of other countries instead of opening businesses.
The microwave oven is a by-product of war only by happenstance. There were plenty of people working with RF in and around the period and microwave radar in particular has significant nonmilitary uses.
The discovery that some frequencies are particularly good at melting a chocolate bar would have come from civilian contractors building weather radars or from amateur radio operators standing too close to their equipment, in the absence of a need to build advanced warning radar for protection from bombing sorties.
The internet is also not a great example. It was created so that a research agency with many disparate facilities could communicate and share data more easily. Any large organization with disparate facilities that needed to intercommunicate and share data had the potential of being the starting point for the wider internet.
Finally, Velcro was invented way before its use in the space program...
If I order the parts for a 797 so I can assemble it in my front yard, they shouldn't be charging Caterpillar for the privilege of delivering me my mining truck parts when I paid for the bridge so that I could get truck parts delivered.
Especially they shouldn't be charging Caterpillar and not charging Komatsu for the same thing.
Is Cogent their sole provider? I thought they had a significant portion being served by AWS (which was odd, I thought, because AWS seems to occasionally "go down" when Amazon Prime does not and nobody calls them on it)
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I kind of dislike how Kindle Fire and Kindle Paperwhite (and Barnes and Noble's competing products) get lumped into the same category. An e-paper device is not a tablet. It can't run apps, can't do video, can't do animated menus, can barely do text entry. If it could do apps, it might be ok for texting, possibly.
What it does, do, it does very well. It displays books for reading, and has a battery that lasts 1-2 months, depending on how bright and how long you run the frontlight for.
By your sentence, I'm assuming that you see the e-paper kindles on airplanes, rather than the tablet kindle, which makes sense to me. If you're going to get a tablet to read books on, why get the crippled Amazon tablet when you could get a Galaxy or iPad and install the kindle app.
I'm familiar with the concept. It's just that I haven't seen 3% offered in a long time. A certain national bank offers 0.01% for all regular accounts, but obviously that doesn't protect against the 2% inflation target that the FED has. That same bank has CDs at the whoppingly high rates of .15%. 10yr Treasuries are above 2%, but.. can you trust the fed's 2% target? I've no doubt they'll keep it up to 2%, but have a hard time believing that they're capable of moving it down to 2%.
They have set up a situation where you're stupid to save, because you will lose the value of your money that way. The only way to hold its value is to gamble it, on stocks or real estate, or some kind of item of value.
I think that that is also how perl does it.
One would assume that many women won't have enough facial hair to require shaving to meet the requirements.
That subsidy should not come from ratepayers. The subsidy should come from grants of fixed terms that are voted on by the assembly, and the total budget for all such grants should voted on by assembly or better yet by referendum.
By making it come from rate-payers, the assembly has neatly divorced itself from the effective tax by making it look like the electric utility is just raising its own rates out of pure greed. (note: I trust that pure greed will be present, though, using the extra wholesale cost as justification to raise retail rates by more than that cost would indicate)
The problem with deepwater wind is that far less costly non-offshore wind projects can provide the power. There are very few existing wind-power projects, all of which were feasible with only net-metering with no fancy multiplier. Some were even feasible at wholesale rates(*). There are plenty of locations remaining that would be good for wind-power, but no one wants one in their back yard.
* In theory, if the cost figures weren't artificially low because the generator manufacturers are using cut-outs to avoid getting stuck in costly maintenance contracts (i.e disguising the price that a realistic maintenance contract would actually have to cost...), thus resulting in the few on-shore projects that did go forward failing within a few years.
compound interest savings accounts
where can you get one of these?
Also, community college professors are sometimes regular college professors who are teaching a few classes at the community college because they believe in education. Effectively this means that the even professors' wages are being subsidized by their regular college wages.
But it is true that this isn't the whole story. There is the time-value of money to be considered, and the argument about living in a better house for longer is not necessarily the wrong choice. The extra interest bought you more time in a better house.
Or, if you bought the same price house, the extra interest left you with more cash on hand, which you could invest in other ways. This may or may not have been a better solution, though. If your money isn't working harder than the interest, you'd have been better off with the shorter term and lower interest. The house it self is also (usually) rising in "value" during this period....
That is a very good question. I don't think I've ever seen a study that has explored this in any depth.
Because every time the price goes up some politician has the brilliant idea to either 1) make loans more available or 2) make more "free money" (i.e. grants and subsidies) available.
Since neither of those is "building new colleges" or "training new professors" the existing colleges snap up this money through higher fees. This eventually may result in some increased build-out, but it seems to go slowly enough that they can keep the prices rising faster than inflation.
Worse, one of the ways in which they have "made loans more available" was to legislate that student loan debt cannot be discharged through bankruptcy.
If they're putting you through the the sales department, maybe you could buy some ads if they thrown in "fixing the damn address" as a bonus?
Then, sue them, I guess, for holding you address for ransom....
Apple doesn't do that. They sell one version of their OS and that's it. All the OS features they offer are already there, including some command line scripting and compiling tools.
Anyway, the point isn't whether or not Apple is great. The point is that I'm not sure your argument that proprietary OS's are terrible is valid when only one of them is doing the thing you hate them for.
It doesn't ship with one. You used to be able to generate one off of the install partition, though. Is that no longer a thing anymore either?
No, GP was right, they have a monopoly, which is why they're able to do this kind of market segmentation within a single geographic area. If they were not a monopoly, they would be competing with, hopefully, enough companies that they wouldn't be able to significantly cut the price because the price would already be pretty close to the actual costs.
This is a problem where infrastructure is the main cost and competition requires a duplication of infrastructure, and in other industries this kind of thing is addressed through regulation, however investors also love regulated monopolies - it's hard for the regulators to determine the right rules and change them under new circumstances, so prices rarely fall even when productivity improvements drive the costs way down. The regulation itself can help to prevent newcomers, so the regulated monopoly is sometimes more stable than the unregulated one, and still very profitable.
Phone goes out 8 hours later based on the battery specs they give you. Two hours later based actual capacity of the battery (which I assume is wrecked by a shitty charging profile because, "who cares, that's why," which works for laptops - you have to unplug the laptop manually because they can't be arsed to install a relay to automatically cutoff charging current when the battery is full?)
But.. what is green energy? Most of the things I've seen so far have been about as credible in terms of improving whatever "green" metric they claim to address as the products in the "nutrition supplements" aisle at the local drug store.
In a lot of places, the "green" solutions address only one real issue - satisfaction of some tax rule in order to allow the participant to enjoy a credit or to have tax-power-by-proxy. For instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... Deepwater Wind has legislated ability to "sell" its electricity to the grid at 24 cents per kWh in a state where the current retail rate is currently about 8 cents per kWh (6 cents commercial).
That's not about green energy, that's taxing power that has been granted to a private entity over the rate payers. Worse, what stops them from the outright fraud of pulling power off the grid at the retail rate and returning it to the grid at their grossly inflated rate?
The bin is right next to a concentration of hundreds of people - the line to go through the security checkpoint....
You're thinking of CB. HAMS are very respectful and encouraging. There are just too many other things competing for the interests of potential new amateurs.
Partially because a lot of people who are suited to creating them are spending their time training to destroy parts of other countries instead of opening businesses.
The microwave oven is a by-product of war only by happenstance. There were plenty of people working with RF in and around the period and microwave radar in particular has significant nonmilitary uses.
The discovery that some frequencies are particularly good at melting a chocolate bar would have come from civilian contractors building weather radars or from amateur radio operators standing too close to their equipment, in the absence of a need to build advanced warning radar for protection from bombing sorties.
The internet is also not a great example. It was created so that a research agency with many disparate facilities could communicate and share data more easily. Any large organization with disparate facilities that needed to intercommunicate and share data had the potential of being the starting point for the wider internet.
Finally, Velcro was invented way before its use in the space program...
The F-35's will probably do great on every mission they're used in. The cost and quantity of those missions are the thing that is in question.
How many rounds per agent does that come out to? Is it enough to even practice with?
...if you have bandwidth, eventually you'll find a use for it.
Sounds a lot like Project Gutenberg
If I order the parts for a 797 so I can assemble it in my front yard, they shouldn't be charging Caterpillar for the privilege of delivering me my mining truck parts when I paid for the bridge so that I could get truck parts delivered.
Especially they shouldn't be charging Caterpillar and not charging Komatsu for the same thing.
Is Cogent their sole provider? I thought they had a significant portion being served by AWS (which was odd, I thought, because AWS seems to occasionally "go down" when Amazon Prime does not and nobody calls them on it)