Energy consumption-wise, this looks like a method that would scale to covering larger areas very well (heating costs would be less than linear, refrigerated wall should go up as the square root of the area). Given a few successful trials I can see them scaling it to cover a very large area, and producing huge amounts. Given that they report a cost/benefit breakeven at $30, I would expect this to be a significant damper on future price rises of oil.
Hm, re-reading TFA I see that the test plot was only 20 x 35 feet. I wonder how much of the 1500 barrels they collected leaked in from nearby. Maybe the yield won't scale as well as they say it will.
FOSS ideology was never about names. If Linus didn't protect his intellectual property, Microsoft and SCO could make a company called "Linux Baby Killing, Inc."
People wouldn't care about that, what you want is a company called "Linux Baby Seal Fur Coats Inc".
Maybe they make more profit from $30 for 1.5 albums, than from $80 for 16 albums.
Not a chance in hell.
The incremental cost of stamping another disk, printing the liner notes and sticking it all in a case is way less than $1. Ignoring fixed costs, they make a profit of about $29 on that $30, whereas they would make about $70 on the $80 sales. The reason they don't drop the prices has to be that they don't believe they would sell 10 ~ 12 times as many albums.
I don't believe in the conspiracy theories about suppressed cures for cancer etc, however I do think that they direct their research towards whatever is most profitable for the company. That means treatments that suppress symptoms and manage conditions. Compared to a daily/weekly treatment that sells for $50 per dose, a one shot cure is a loss even at a $1000 per treatment. Combine this with the probable fact that it is easier to manage a disease than to cure it, and you can see where and why they spend their research dollars.
Sometimes, yes. For example, for short-term therapy for an acute condition. But not, I think, in this case, with an attempt at permanent change. You want to cleanly fix the DNA once and for all, not screw around with designing very expensive drugs that your patient has to take the rest of his life, with all kinds of annoying side effects.
You have no idea how pharmaceutical companies work , do you?
Actually thats the square of the percentage of the prevelance of the defective gene. eg red/green colour blindness is iirc about 7% of males, therefore it is 7% of 7% of females, or about 0.5 %.
If they go somewhere else for more money, then you are not paying them what they are worth. Simply write into their contract before you train them that the cost of that training is a loan and then deduct payments from a fair rate of pay. If they leave before they repay the cost of their training, then they still owe you the remainder. This is business, you can't depend on people to stay out of gratitude for past training, or out of loyalty. So make the training a business matter as well.
Let the free market sort it out.
If there aren't enough programmers or sysadmins at what they are paying, then they can raise it until there are. Supply and demand works both ways.
You seem to be saying that the Iraqi occupation is a live-ammo training exercise. That's a reason for the mess over there that I hadn't heard of before.
Actually the EMP happens when the expanding plasma hits the atrmosphere. Ground and low level nukes cause relatively minor EMP effects. To get serious damage you need a megaton (H-Bomb) explosion just outside the atmosphere. Best altitude depends on the size of the bomb, but between 100 - 400 km is usual. Too much above that and you will still get the gamma/xray flash, but not the current inducing EMP, which is what blows circuits. Gamma/xray have very limited penetration in atmosphere, so if you're close enough for them to hurt you the blast would get you anyway.
Nobody thinks they went in to get the consumers cheap oil. The mess in Iraq justifies the huge rise in prices for oil products. It doesn't suddenly cost more to produce or process oil from other fields, so where does the extra you pay go? - That's what they mean by follow the money.
Defective items should be returned for full refund or exact replacement under warranty or fit for use laws. I think a restocking fee on items the consumer just changed their mind about is fair enough. I sometimes buy from places that don`t offer exchanges because I don`t want a product that someone else has been using and then returned.
There is no "Government". There are only people. You cannot point at anything and say there is a "Government". Somewhere behind any symbol of Government there are people who make the rules and decisions.
One of the points made is that there is sometimes no way to tell the location of a VOIP phone, which is a problem if you are unable to talk.
How about if the VOIP app. insisted that you record a 30 second emergency message (stating your location/name/whatever) when being installed and then watched what numbers you were dialling. If you ever dialled 911, and then if there was more than 20 seconds of dead airtime, began to play the message over and over.
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Yeah, a lot of people I know would have trouble thinking no matter how many dimensions you gave them.
Energy consumption-wise, this looks like a method that would scale to covering larger areas very well (heating costs would be less than linear, refrigerated wall should go up as the square root of the area). Given a few successful trials I can see them scaling it to cover a very large area, and producing huge amounts.
Given that they report a cost/benefit breakeven at $30, I would expect this to be a significant damper on future price rises of oil.
Hm, re-reading TFA I see that the test plot was only 20 x 35 feet. I wonder how much of the 1500 barrels they collected leaked in from nearby. Maybe the yield won't scale as well as they say it will.
These days anybody carrying a backpack into a demonstration has a lot more to worry about than having their photos seized.
Inoson for me. :)
It's even a nice purple colour.
FOSS ideology was never about names. If Linus didn't protect his intellectual property, Microsoft and SCO could make a company called "Linux Baby Killing, Inc."
People wouldn't care about that, what you want is a company called "Linux Baby Seal Fur Coats Inc".
Maybe they make more profit from $30 for 1.5 albums, than from $80 for 16 albums.
Not a chance in hell.
The incremental cost of stamping another disk, printing the liner notes and sticking it all in a case is way less than $1.
Ignoring fixed costs, they make a profit of about $29 on that $30, whereas they would make about $70 on the $80 sales. The reason they don't drop the prices has to be that they don't believe they would sell 10 ~ 12 times as many albums.
I don't believe in the conspiracy theories about suppressed cures for cancer etc, however I do think that they direct their research towards whatever is most profitable for the company.
That means treatments that suppress symptoms and manage conditions. Compared to a daily/weekly treatment that sells for $50 per dose, a one shot cure is a loss even at a $1000 per treatment.
Combine this with the probable fact that it is easier to manage a disease than to cure it, and you can see where and why they spend their research dollars.
Sometimes, yes. For example, for short-term therapy for an acute condition. But not, I think, in this case, with an attempt at permanent change. You want to cleanly fix the DNA once and for all, not screw around with designing very expensive drugs that your patient has to take the rest of his life, with all kinds of annoying side effects.
You have no idea how pharmaceutical companies work , do you?
Many types of stainless steel are non-ferromagnetic.
Get a magnet and try it. Some stainless steels it will stick to, others it won't.
Actually thats the square of the percentage of the prevelance of the defective gene. eg red/green colour blindness is iirc about 7% of males, therefore it is 7% of 7% of females, or about 0.5 %.
If they go somewhere else for more money, then you are not paying them what they are worth.
Simply write into their contract before you train them that the cost of that training is a loan and then deduct payments from a fair rate of pay. If they leave before they repay the cost of their training, then they still owe you the remainder.
This is business, you can't depend on people to stay out of gratitude for past training, or out of loyalty.
So make the training a business matter as well.
Let the free market sort it out.
If there aren't enough programmers or sysadmins at what they are paying, then they can raise it until there are.
Supply and demand works both ways.
You seem to be saying that the Iraqi occupation is a live-ammo training exercise. That's a reason for the mess over there that I hadn't heard of before.
2143 called and wants their time machine back.
Personally I like the theory on landing it - "Land wherever you like, by the time you get down the ground will be flat."
Actually the EMP happens when the expanding plasma hits the atrmosphere. Ground and low level nukes cause relatively minor EMP effects.
To get serious damage you need a megaton (H-Bomb) explosion just outside the atmosphere. Best altitude depends on the size of the bomb, but between 100 - 400 km is usual. Too much above that and you will still get the gamma/xray flash, but not the current inducing EMP, which is what blows circuits.
Gamma/xray have very limited penetration in atmosphere, so if you're close enough for them to hurt you the blast would get you anyway.
Do you mean 'an effect-before-cause thing that you will be told about someday, but you can't remember the details' ?
Nobody thinks they went in to get the consumers cheap oil. The mess in Iraq justifies the huge rise in prices for oil products.
It doesn't suddenly cost more to produce or process oil from other fields, so where does the extra you pay go? - That's what they mean by follow the money.
Defective items should be returned for full refund or exact replacement under warranty or fit for use laws. I think a restocking fee on items the consumer just changed their mind about is fair enough.
I sometimes buy from places that don`t offer exchanges because I don`t want a product that someone else has been using and then returned.
There is no "Government".
There are only people.
You cannot point at anything and say there is a "Government".
Somewhere behind any symbol of Government there are people who make the rules and decisions.
One of the points made is that there is sometimes no way to tell the location of a VOIP phone, which is a problem if you are unable to talk.
How about if the VOIP app. insisted that you record a 30 second emergency message (stating your location/name/whatever) when being installed and then watched what numbers you were dialling. If you ever dialled 911, and then if there was more than 20 seconds of dead airtime, began to play the message over and over.
No, that he fixed a couple of spelling mistakes.
What is so bad about nuclear weapons?
Why are they so much worse than TNT or napalm or bullets?
Dead is dead. Does it matter how you got that way?
MOD PARENT DOWN - he discriminates against fat weasels!!!
The whole tax code may be that big, but this app is apparently only for simple PAYG forms with no substantiation. That cuts it down a lot.