Every kind of window imaginable is available. But the rule of thumb to use when it comes to understanding energy efficiency building codes in the US is the owner usually gets to decided the cost/benefit ratio and buy accordingly.
Codes are set at a state and local level, so some are better than others. Which makes sense. Heating and cooling requirements in Hawaii are negligible compared to Minnesota or Arizona. Climates and microclimates mean that even two towns next to each other may have radically different needs. Any national requirements would have to be just as granular.
As for what's available, it ranges from quadruple pane to single pane (or no pane in some parts of the US). Argon or krypton filled. Thin films. You can spec the e value (optimize for the side of the house and climate), add coverings (inside, enclosed, or outside), etc etc.
NY has its own economic quirks (explained better in other posts) that bias people there towards lower efficiency.
Has anybody run it in a 68k Mac emulator? It would be interesting to see a performance comparison between modern PhotoShop running natively and version 1 running on an emulator.
The FDA regulates everything used in medicine. From bandages to drugs to MRI's. He mentions CAT scans and MRIs in the same sentence, so why didn't you think it was one of those?
What you cited has absolutely no relevance to his business. The first clue to his post was the amount of money he mentioned. If he's only spending $1 million, it's an absolute guarantee he is not developing any type of pharmaceutical.
He also mentions clearance, not approval. Drugs and PMA devices get approval. 510(k) products get clearance. I work in the medical device industry and have developed several products. $1 million is cheap. For that kind of money, it is probably a class I or class II device. Those usually don't even require clinical trials. A competitor would just have to file a 510(k) to get clearance (less than 90 days).
Furthermore, the economics you cite don't translate to small companies entering the market.
Creating a marketing and distribution network can cost millions to create even a small one. It is slow and can take years to build up enough sales to become profitable. A J&J or P&G has an existing sales and distribution network. They can roll out a new product in days to a sales force 10 times as large. Economies of scale mean they can crush a little company.
Alternately, they could try to sell the idea to a large medical company, say, Covidien. But is Covidien going to give them any money when they or anyone can knock off the idea? Nope.
Small companies can barely compete against the big guys as it is. Sorry to say, but patents are critical to their survival. Unless you prefer only large companies be able to develop and sell products.
Easier would be to require better capital ratios as banks get bigger. This fixes the problem two way. They are less likely to fail. And they are more likely to break themselves up in order to achieve better returns on capital.
It wasn't done by colonizers. It was done by British commanders who came to North America then went home. You're right that Americans have done some bad stuff, but spreading smallpox intentionally on blankets isn't one of them.
Seems there is quite a bit of evidence that the British used biowarfare on Indians and on the US Army. There doesn't seem to be any evidence of the US Army doing the same. The US Army had good reason not to fool with smallpox.
The British considered it effective because their army was relatively immune (smallpox was a common in childhood), whereas colonists and Indians usually weren't exposed and lacked immunity. So much so that George Washington had to implement an inoculation program to mitigate the effects of smallpox.
They have a mobile version of the web site. But I sincerely hope they make it possible to download offline packages for different areas. Pair it up with OpenStreetMap data , and you'd have a great app.
Unfortunately, just analyzing genes might not be enough. Gene expression and epigenetics are the other half of the puzzle, and a bit more difficult to discover. Even if you know the code, it's damn difficult to determine where in the body (if anywhere) the code is or isn't active without taking samples all over the place and testing each.
For the computer literate, think of it this way. The researches are disassembling the code of several people to see if there is a difference. But that doesn't tell them what the run time parameters were when a particular bit of code was run (or what inputs it may have had while running). And sampling a memory dump from one CPU in a massively parallel system doesn't give you the whole story either.
I recently asked a former prosecutor this question: "People demand that Wall Street bankers be prosecuted. What offenses could they be charged with?" His short answer was nothing. His explanation was very enlightening.
The long answer is they could be charged with all sorts of stuff, but proving it is difficult. There are two things that need to be proven: Guilty hand and guilty mind. The guilty hand is easy to see. With financial disasters, it's easy to prove that somebody is guilty of screwing the pooch.
However, he went on to explain guilty mind is incredibly difficult to prove. You have to prove that they intended to screw the pooch. All they have to do is claim "I thought it would work." As in "I thought we'd make money from the deal." Without hard evidence of their state of mind, they get to plead stupidity as a defense.
Which means that
"Do not attribute to malice, what can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I spend about 1/4 of my time in China. Different cities. And internet service is routinely slow and irregular. People routinely complain about how expensive and bad it is. And trying to access sites outside China can sometimes feel like using dial-up.
I'm waiting for these SoCs to be packaged a dozen at a time on a DIMM-style board. Slap a hand full of these on a motherboard for flexible expansion.
There's minimal demand for this. It's just my prediction of how computers might evolve as power and price drop to levels that make adding computing power as simple as adding RAM.
I'm not an accountant or tax lawyer, so treat this with suspicion:
US tax law doesn't do much to distinguish between receiving cash and anything with a market value. If it's a gift, you pay the gift tax based on the cash value when you received the gift. If it was compensation for employment, you pay income tax. If it was for an investment, you pay capital gains rate. If it was reimbusement for a business expense, you don't pay tax. If it was for, well, you get the idea. It's not quite that simple, but for a Slashdot explanation, it'll do.
The good news is that you only pay one tax. You can estimate the value yourself. If you estimate too low, the IRS may come knocking. If you estimate too high, thank you for helping to fund our wonderful government with your kind donation.
If the UK gets the U-233 bomb, next thing you know they will be threatening their rich, oil producing neighbor Norway. Norway will restart heavy water production for their nuclear program. France will increase their stockpiles (and make more nuclear weapons). The Germans will opt for chemical weapons. Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg will offer Russia and the US military bases.
And god forbid if the Irish get ahold of a nuke covertly from the British! They'll turn Iceland into a burnt wasteland.
Time to freeze British financial transactions until they give up their nuclear research. Time to end the menace before it all gets out of control.
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Or why aren't patents and copyrights mutually exclusive? How can you claim something is a patentable invention and copyrightable work of art?
Every kind of window imaginable is available. But the rule of thumb to use when it comes to understanding energy efficiency building codes in the US is the owner usually gets to decided the cost/benefit ratio and buy accordingly.
Codes are set at a state and local level, so some are better than others. Which makes sense. Heating and cooling requirements in Hawaii are negligible compared to Minnesota or Arizona. Climates and microclimates mean that even two towns next to each other may have radically different needs. Any national requirements would have to be just as granular.
As for what's available, it ranges from quadruple pane to single pane (or no pane in some parts of the US). Argon or krypton filled. Thin films. You can spec the e value (optimize for the side of the house and climate), add coverings (inside, enclosed, or outside), etc etc.
NY has its own economic quirks (explained better in other posts) that bias people there towards lower efficiency.
Has anybody run it in a 68k Mac emulator? It would be interesting to see a performance comparison between modern PhotoShop running natively and version 1 running on an emulator.
sudo get -off -my -lawn
Yeah. Remember that time, about 70 years ago, when a bunch of of Americans and British were running around Europe yelling "The German!" So silly.
The FDA regulates everything used in medicine. From bandages to drugs to MRI's. He mentions CAT scans and MRIs in the same sentence, so why didn't you think it was one of those?
What you cited has absolutely no relevance to his business. The first clue to his post was the amount of money he mentioned. If he's only spending $1 million, it's an absolute guarantee he is not developing any type of pharmaceutical.
He also mentions clearance, not approval. Drugs and PMA devices get approval. 510(k) products get clearance. I work in the medical device industry and have developed several products. $1 million is cheap. For that kind of money, it is probably a class I or class II device. Those usually don't even require clinical trials. A competitor would just have to file a 510(k) to get clearance (less than 90 days).
Furthermore, the economics you cite don't translate to small companies entering the market.
Creating a marketing and distribution network can cost millions to create even a small one. It is slow and can take years to build up enough sales to become profitable. A J&J or P&G has an existing sales and distribution network. They can roll out a new product in days to a sales force 10 times as large. Economies of scale mean they can crush a little company.
Alternately, they could try to sell the idea to a large medical company, say, Covidien. But is Covidien going to give them any money when they or anyone can knock off the idea? Nope.
Small companies can barely compete against the big guys as it is. Sorry to say, but patents are critical to their survival. Unless you prefer only large companies be able to develop and sell products.
And you, sir, did not pay attention to his post. He's not developing a pharmaceutical.
Easier would be to require better capital ratios as banks get bigger. This fixes the problem two way. They are less likely to fail. And they are more likely to break themselves up in order to achieve better returns on capital.
It wasn't done by colonizers. It was done by British commanders who came to North America then went home. You're right that Americans have done some bad stuff, but spreading smallpox intentionally on blankets isn't one of them.
These?
http://blog.websitepulse.com/free-cloud-storage-and-china/
By "we", you must mean you are British. http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Spring04/warfare.cfm
Seems there is quite a bit of evidence that the British used biowarfare on Indians and on the US Army. There doesn't seem to be any evidence of the US Army doing the same. The US Army had good reason not to fool with smallpox.
The British considered it effective because their army was relatively immune (smallpox was a common in childhood), whereas colonists and Indians usually weren't exposed and lacked immunity. So much so that George Washington had to implement an inoculation program to mitigate the effects of smallpox.
I guess you never saw Time Bandits.
Versions using magnium-iron alloys are readily available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flameless_ration_heater
They have a mobile version of the web site. But I sincerely hope they make it possible to download offline packages for different areas. Pair it up with OpenStreetMap data , and you'd have a great app.
Unfortunately, just analyzing genes might not be enough. Gene expression and epigenetics are the other half of the puzzle, and a bit more difficult to discover. Even if you know the code, it's damn difficult to determine where in the body (if anywhere) the code is or isn't active without taking samples all over the place and testing each.
For the computer literate, think of it this way. The researches are disassembling the code of several people to see if there is a difference. But that doesn't tell them what the run time parameters were when a particular bit of code was run (or what inputs it may have had while running). And sampling a memory dump from one CPU in a massively parallel system doesn't give you the whole story either.
Needle meets haystack.
I recently asked a former prosecutor this question: "People demand that Wall Street bankers be prosecuted. What offenses could they be charged with?" His short answer was nothing. His explanation was very enlightening.
The long answer is they could be charged with all sorts of stuff, but proving it is difficult. There are two things that need to be proven: Guilty hand and guilty mind. The guilty hand is easy to see. With financial disasters, it's easy to prove that somebody is guilty of screwing the pooch.
However, he went on to explain guilty mind is incredibly difficult to prove. You have to prove that they intended to screw the pooch. All they have to do is claim "I thought it would work." As in "I thought we'd make money from the deal." Without hard evidence of their state of mind, they get to plead stupidity as a defense.
Which means that
is somewhat enshrined in law.
I spend about 1/4 of my time in China. Different cities. And internet service is routinely slow and irregular. People routinely complain about how expensive and bad it is. And trying to access sites outside China can sometimes feel like using dial-up.
I'm waiting for these SoCs to be packaged a dozen at a time on a DIMM-style board. Slap a hand full of these on a motherboard for flexible expansion.
There's minimal demand for this. It's just my prediction of how computers might evolve as power and price drop to levels that make adding computing power as simple as adding RAM.
profit? Freudian slip there?
True. But for the single transaction of gift giving, only one tax.
Yes. Banks have souls. Many, many souls. Usually sold to them for a new car, nice house, pretty girl, etc. You know, the usual.
With relaxed lending rules, you don't even have to sign in blood anymore.
I'm not an accountant or tax lawyer, so treat this with suspicion:
US tax law doesn't do much to distinguish between receiving cash and anything with a market value. If it's a gift, you pay the gift tax based on the cash value when you received the gift. If it was compensation for employment, you pay income tax. If it was for an investment, you pay capital gains rate. If it was reimbusement for a business expense, you don't pay tax. If it was for, well, you get the idea. It's not quite that simple, but for a Slashdot explanation, it'll do.
The good news is that you only pay one tax. You can estimate the value yourself. If you estimate too low, the IRS may come knocking. If you estimate too high, thank you for helping to fund our wonderful government with your kind donation.
True, but my joke was a nod to Germany's excellent chemical industry and recent decision to ban nuclear power.
Funny thing is every line I wrote was objected to by different people. Except for the one about the French. That's a bit disturbing.
Oh, I know. But I couldn't let that get in the way of a good joke.
If the UK gets the U-233 bomb, next thing you know they will be threatening their rich, oil producing neighbor Norway. Norway will restart heavy water production for their nuclear program. France will increase their stockpiles (and make more nuclear weapons). The Germans will opt for chemical weapons. Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg will offer Russia and the US military bases.
And god forbid if the Irish get ahold of a nuke covertly from the British! They'll turn Iceland into a burnt wasteland.
Time to freeze British financial transactions until they give up their nuclear research. Time to end the menace before it all gets out of control.