How Disney number future StarWars? It's a story that's been taken well beyond its use-by date. Disney would do better investing in new stories. Or, here's an idea. License existing books, and attach completely unrelated stories to them.
Agreed. At the moment we have sensors for a lot of these smell related things, but they're expensive (except for the extremely narrow use dedicated ones)
So it's more likely we'd go forth and find strange new allergy reactions, than commonplace peanut ones. Why peanuts, anyway? Do people get reactions from other common legumes? (peas, beans)
Like the early days of photography were. Grainy, black and white, expensive. SO you will have a relatively coarse smell camera to start with as well, but that's no reason to dismiss it.
Hang on, you have to pay for incoming calls on mobiles? No wonder these scams work. DownUnder, we pay for outgoing calls. (or get all-you-can-eat plans)
The fines for businesses that break the law need to be "the revenue earned during the period when the conduct was occurring" that would eliminate the sociopathic calculus that companies use to determine if the potential downside of breaking the law is less than the upside. Stating the penalty as "all revenue" instead of "all profit" would ensure that they lose more than they gain.
While I agree on the ethical/moral sense of "taking ALL their money", you're wrong about the sociopathic calculus. The sociopaths believe that they are smarter than the whole world and will never be caught, so no potential fine is large enough to deter them. The best we can hope for is to bankrupt them, and, ideally, imprison the worst offenders.
China has the right idea here. Execute them, its a 100% deterrent.
Each house is told to turn off their AC for 15 minutes every 2 hours. BAM, peak usage down 12%, nobody actually cares since AC off for 15 minutes is barely noticable.
But when the AC comes back on, it has to work harder because now the room is warmer. Sure, you saved that 15 minutes of AC usage but instead of the AC cycling on and off every few minutes as it would normally do to maintain a room at a given temperature it will come on and stay on until it's made up the difference.
No energy has been saved in the long run, all thats happened is a tall thin peak of energy consumption has been flattened and made wider.
Doesn't take inverter AC into account either, that don't cut in and out, but run the compressor with different PWM depending on how much cooling is needed
How about a smart meter that turns up the cost of electricity during peak periods? (instead of the reverse, which we have now, EG water storage heaters that operate during offpeak for reduced cost) Still not quite what we want - sensing use of A/C set to 21 instead of 19 (deg C in winter.) and charging more. That's tougher to code. And should we use economic tools to force conformity to some ideal standard?
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How Disney number future StarWars? It's a story that's been taken well beyond its use-by date. Disney would do better investing in new stories. Or, here's an idea. License existing books, and attach completely unrelated stories to them.
Two wrongs now apparently make a right? (goes to edit wiki's logical fallacy page)
Agreed. At the moment we have sensors for a lot of these smell related things, but they're expensive (except for the extremely narrow use dedicated ones)
So it's more likely we'd go forth and find strange new allergy reactions, than commonplace peanut ones. Why peanuts, anyway? Do people get reactions from other common legumes? (peas, beans)
Like the early days of photography were. Grainy, black and white, expensive. SO you will have a relatively coarse smell camera to start with as well, but that's no reason to dismiss it.
Are people allergic to the smell of peanuts, produced synthetically, or the real thing?
Or you could display revisions.
If I had points today, I'd mod it insightful just to be ironic.
I'd say mod that to funny, but a bit wasted on an AC.
Haha dude, you seriously need to hang around with more laid, back chicks!
fixed.
It's safer to drop a hair-drier into a bathtub than a cat. (whether or not you are in the bath)
Would a quantum cat zombie eat brain cat food?
You think you have control of that inbuilt webcam? Bradbury would laugh. (F451)
What's the RADIUS of Kerberos?
DO they need a step-ladder?
I shouted "DROP TABLE" a few times into the phone but I don't know if it worked.
- Bobby interjected
(sorry, I have this wild urge for malformed swifties at the moment.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty
... it's the only way to be sure.
- Tom droned.
Hang on, you have to pay for incoming calls on mobiles? No wonder these scams work. DownUnder, we pay for outgoing calls. (or get all-you-can-eat plans)
The fines for businesses that break the law need to be "the revenue earned during the period when the conduct was occurring" that would eliminate the sociopathic calculus that companies use to determine if the potential downside of breaking the law is less than the upside. Stating the penalty as "all revenue" instead of "all profit" would ensure that they lose more than they gain.
While I agree on the ethical/moral sense of "taking ALL their money", you're wrong about the sociopathic calculus. The sociopaths believe that they are smarter than the whole world and will never be caught, so no potential fine is large enough to deter them. The best we can hope for is to bankrupt them, and, ideally, imprison the worst offenders.
China has the right idea here. Execute them, its a 100% deterrent.
Or was never in stock? Ask many OUYA backers on Kickstarter, with the 'promise' that it would be delivered before it went retail... :(
Can you still learn COBOL? Or will the generations that know it now be the last? GOBACK repeat question for FORTRAN
There's a cassette walkman somewhere in my apartment. Even a turntable that plays 78s (onto USB)
But when the AC comes back on, it has to work harder because now the room is warmer. Sure, you saved that 15 minutes of AC usage but instead of the AC cycling on and off every few minutes as it would normally do to maintain a room at a given temperature it will come on and stay on until it's made up the difference. No energy has been saved in the long run, all thats happened is a tall thin peak of energy consumption has been flattened and made wider.
Doesn't take inverter AC into account either, that don't cut in and out, but run the compressor with different PWM depending on how much cooling is needed
How about a smart meter that turns up the cost of electricity during peak periods? (instead of the reverse, which we have now, EG water storage heaters that operate during offpeak for reduced cost) Still not quite what we want - sensing use of A/C set to 21 instead of 19 (deg C in winter.) and charging more. That's tougher to code. And should we use economic tools to force conformity to some ideal standard?
The problem is many people could be modeled on an abacus.