The forwarding party obviously has to pay for the forwarded call. It always works that way. (Except in Asterisk billing, but that's a rant for another day)
When a wealthy individual puts his/her money into savings they either put it into a savings account in a bank or they invest it. The 3rd option is that they could literally hoard it in a mattress or a safe in their home, which is the only scenario that gives your argument a leg to stand on. But only an extremely small fraction of misers do that.
There isn't much difference between whether the money is stuck in a mattress or put in a savings account; the national banks try to keep the money supply somewhat stable, and if people stick money in mattresses, the national bank will just print more. It's as if the money was lent to the national bank instead, at 0% interest.
As to banks, some of what they lend goes towards investment, and some goes towards consumption. However, most rich people go for the investment option directly, not the banks or the mattress. In a situation with low demand, investment is useless. If the car manufacturers doubled their output right now, we'd be even further in trouble than we are already.
Person B will have more to spend, admittedly, but person A will have less. The net effect on the economy is null.
I guess economy isn't your strongest subject?
If you e.g. take money from the poor and give it to the rich, you will be slowing the economy down. The poor person would have spent that money almost immediately on essential things like food, whereas the rich person would have put a substantial amount into savings. (This kind of reverse Robin-Hood is often good for the economy overall). The same thing works in reverse, and therefore when unemployment is high or the industry has unused capacity, it is often a good idea to move money from the rich to the poor.
Another alternative is public spending, which is guaranteed to create activity instantly.
Until relatively recently, there was no punishment for escaping jail in Denmark. Of course you weren't allowed to break any other laws in the process, which could be hard to achieve.
Switches are notoriously bad for out-of-band management. Whereas any random server can be turned on or off remotely through an out-of-band ethernet interface, most switches are stuck with serial connections without something as rudimentary as remote power control.
You'd think that network equipment vendors would have figured out that networks are useful by now, but apparently not.
and yet, with water, thats the same thing they did.\ metric freeze, 0, boil 100... seems the standard is set from observing natural phenomenon, not arbitrarily picking a unit then arbitrarily measuring temp in it.
Degrees C isn't an SI unit. It is just as obsolete as inches.
It's also highly directional and mostly in frequency bands that don't make it through the ionosphere all that well.
Directional is an advantage. Omnidirectional is hopeless if you want to detect it from light-years away. Your only chance is a directional signal which happens to point your way. (Of course if you get just a few moments of signal, then it's hard to tell if it was a measurement error. You can hope to get lucky twice.)
The ionosphere is a problem.
So don't be surprised if even RADAR eventually fades into the background.
I won't be surprised, but for now I still believe RADAR is the best bet.
If they're smart, they probably have a Prime Directive just like we have in our fictional Star Trek series, so that they don't screw up our development.
Why would they want to not screw up our development? Besides, if Star Trek is anything to go by, they never actually followed the Prime Directive. A bit like the Pirate Code, now that I think of it.
It is quite common, although rather surprising, to get paper voting papers that have not been marked in any way - one can only guess that the voter got in to the booth, could not find the person/issue/whatever they thought they wanted to vote for, and didnt bother.
My guess would be that most of them are protest votes.
That's what those things on the sides of your head are for.
I'm sure, but the fact is that some of us suck at keeping a steady rhythm. Not everyone is born with the ability to do that, but it is apparently possible to learn.
Yes, you can do read only file systems with RAID 5. As long as a disk never fails, because if it does, your performance is gone again while the array rebuilds. All the information on all the disks needs to be read in order to fix the failed disk. RAID 1 needs rebuilding too of course, but if that's a problem, you just add an extra disk or two to the array. You only need to copy one disk, not all of them.
True dedicated hardware RAID controllers, such as the HP Smartarray, IBM ServeRAID, and the RAID controllers you see on fiberchannel SANs, are actually quite rare except in enterprise setups, and they are in general much faster than the Linux software RAID implementation.
Smartarray is dead slow for RAID5, and RAID1 in software doesn't tax the CPU. RAID controllers are only worth it because it can be hard to get Linux booting reliably from a software RAID 1 with a failed disk. As for RAID levels other than RAID1 and RAID10, don't.
Trees don't scale. You'd need to bury the wood in ways that ensured it didn't rot, and that takes too much room, and there isn't room for enough forests to make a dent in the CO2 amount on a useful time scale. Perhaps if you turned them into charcoal you could make room for the waste, but that wouldn't capture as much CO2 and you still wouldn't have enough area for the forests.
The interesting thing is, to assuming that geoengineering as a solution is impractical as much of the scientific community seems to suggest strikes me as odd being we have basically accidentally geoengineered ourselves into this mess
It is often harder to clean up a mess than it was to make it in the first place. If you can invent an easy process to turn CO2 in low concentrations back into carbon and oxygen, you have a winner. The easiest process is to just leave the carbon as carbon in the first place, but we seem to be unable to handle even that.
The carbon trading stuff from Kyoto was put in because of US negotiations. What most of the rest of the world wanted was much more akin to what you propose.
The rest of the world ended up with a crappy system to please the US, and then the US decided to not play along anyway.
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The forwarding party obviously has to pay for the forwarded call. It always works that way. (Except in Asterisk billing, but that's a rant for another day)
When a wealthy individual puts his/her money into savings they either put it into a savings account in a bank or they invest it. The 3rd option is that they could literally hoard it in a mattress or a safe in their home, which is the only scenario that gives your argument a leg to stand on. But only an extremely small fraction of misers do that.
There isn't much difference between whether the money is stuck in a mattress or put in a savings account; the national banks try to keep the money supply somewhat stable, and if people stick money in mattresses, the national bank will just print more. It's as if the money was lent to the national bank instead, at 0% interest.
As to banks, some of what they lend goes towards investment, and some goes towards consumption. However, most rich people go for the investment option directly, not the banks or the mattress. In a situation with low demand, investment is useless. If the car manufacturers doubled their output right now, we'd be even further in trouble than we are already.
Person B will have more to spend, admittedly, but person A will have less. The net effect on the economy is null.
I guess economy isn't your strongest subject?
If you e.g. take money from the poor and give it to the rich, you will be slowing the economy down. The poor person would have spent that money almost immediately on essential things like food, whereas the rich person would have put a substantial amount into savings. (This kind of reverse Robin-Hood is often good for the economy overall). The same thing works in reverse, and therefore when unemployment is high or the industry has unused capacity, it is often a good idea to move money from the rich to the poor.
Another alternative is public spending, which is guaranteed to create activity instantly.
Of course breaking out of jail isn't legal.
Until relatively recently, there was no punishment for escaping jail in Denmark. Of course you weren't allowed to break any other laws in the process, which could be hard to achieve.
New as in 25+ years. I'm not even sure whether Microsoft or Apple was evil first, but admittedly the famous Gates letter to hobbyists is rather old.
add a link and / or some instructions and earn some modpoints!
1) Jailbreak iPhone
2) Install any of the available SIP clients through Cydia
3) Profit!
Switches are notoriously bad for out-of-band management. Whereas any random server can be turned on or off remotely through an out-of-band ethernet interface, most switches are stuck with serial connections without something as rudimentary as remote power control.
You'd think that network equipment vendors would have figured out that networks are useful by now, but apparently not.
Depends how good your out-of-band management is.
and yet, with water, thats the same thing they did.\ metric freeze, 0, boil 100... seems the standard is set from observing natural phenomenon, not arbitrarily picking a unit then arbitrarily measuring temp in it.
Degrees C isn't an SI unit. It is just as obsolete as inches.
U.S. can easily become self-sufficient and keep all its modern amenities, unlike many other countries that resent the U.S.
I think you'll have to compromise on "easily" and "all".
It's also highly directional and mostly in frequency bands that don't make it through the ionosphere all that well.
Directional is an advantage. Omnidirectional is hopeless if you want to detect it from light-years away. Your only chance is a directional signal which happens to point your way. (Of course if you get just a few moments of signal, then it's hard to tell if it was a measurement error. You can hope to get lucky twice.)
The ionosphere is a problem.
So don't be surprised if even RADAR eventually fades into the background.
I won't be surprised, but for now I still believe RADAR is the best bet.
If they're smart, they probably have a Prime Directive just like we have in our fictional Star Trek series, so that they don't screw up our development.
Why would they want to not screw up our development? Besides, if Star Trek is anything to go by, they never actually followed the Prime Directive. A bit like the Pirate Code, now that I think of it.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but I just had to say. If there really is no FTL, it is probably one of the most depressing aspects of existence.
You can go anywhere you want practically instantaneously (from your viewpoint) without violating relativity. Isn't that good enough?
It isn't lack of FTL that is holding us back, it's lack of energy.
If we don't DELIBERATELY send some intended-to-be-noticed beacons we'll again be lost in the background - our own and the galaxy's.
Except for RADAR. Maybe RADAR will be replaced too, but for now it's quite noticeable.
It is quite common, although rather surprising, to get paper voting papers that have not been marked in any way - one can only guess that the voter got in to the booth, could not find the person/issue/whatever they thought they wanted to vote for, and didnt bother.
My guess would be that most of them are protest votes.
That's what those things on the sides of your head are for.
I'm sure, but the fact is that some of us suck at keeping a steady rhythm. Not everyone is born with the ability to do that, but it is apparently possible to learn.
A real guitar won't tell you that your rhythm is wrong.
Yes, you can do read only file systems with RAID 5. As long as a disk never fails, because if it does, your performance is gone again while the array rebuilds. All the information on all the disks needs to be read in order to fix the failed disk. RAID 1 needs rebuilding too of course, but if that's a problem, you just add an extra disk or two to the array. You only need to copy one disk, not all of them.
The best RAID coprocessors are made by companies like Intel and AMD. You can find them under names like "Xeon" or "Opteron".
Shamelessly stolen from Alan Cox.
True dedicated hardware RAID controllers, such as the HP Smartarray, IBM ServeRAID, and the RAID controllers you see on fiberchannel SANs, are actually quite rare except in enterprise setups, and they are in general much faster than the Linux software RAID implementation.
Smartarray is dead slow for RAID5, and RAID1 in software doesn't tax the CPU. RAID controllers are only worth it because it can be hard to get Linux booting reliably from a software RAID 1 with a failed disk. As for RAID levels other than RAID1 and RAID10, don't.
Trees don't scale. You'd need to bury the wood in ways that ensured it didn't rot, and that takes too much room, and there isn't room for enough forests to make a dent in the CO2 amount on a useful time scale. Perhaps if you turned them into charcoal you could make room for the waste, but that wouldn't capture as much CO2 and you still wouldn't have enough area for the forests.
The interesting thing is, to assuming that geoengineering as a solution is impractical as much of the scientific community seems to suggest strikes me as odd being we have basically accidentally geoengineered ourselves into this mess
It is often harder to clean up a mess than it was to make it in the first place. If you can invent an easy process to turn CO2 in low concentrations back into carbon and oxygen, you have a winner. The easiest process is to just leave the carbon as carbon in the first place, but we seem to be unable to handle even that.
Check for messages about IRQ's being disabled. Do the counters in ifconfig keep counting?
Restarting services is unlikely to help.
No, they just want OEM's to be able to replace Internet Explorer.
The carbon trading stuff from Kyoto was put in because of US negotiations. What most of the rest of the world wanted was much more akin to what you propose.
The rest of the world ended up with a crappy system to please the US, and then the US decided to not play along anyway.
Yes, I'm bitter.