You presume the copper/fibre and labour to lay that cable is cheap, not to mention right-of-ways, head-end equipment, etc.
You propose that having to build all that infrastructure from scratch, you would be able to effectively compete with someone who already has all that in place (and got tax breaks, etc. while doing so over a span of decades), and thus is able to undercut you severely while still turning a profit.
Leap days and leap seconds serve different purposes.
Leap days are because our definition of a day (and thus a year) are not exact. A year is actually ~365.25 days, so we add an extra day every 4 years to compensate.
Leap seconds are needed as there's another small random variance in the length of a day (The mean solar day lengthens by about 1.7ms per century, due to slowing of the earth's rotation), so we occasionally need to add a second to keep us in sync with astronomical time.
It's fairly rare for the entire country to have a white Christmas (one of BC, PEI, Nova Scotia, or Newfoundland and Labrador will usually not have snow on the ground), which I believe happened this year.
XP 64 is nothing but grief. Vista 64 has issues, some major (BSODs when doing basic stuff like syncing an ipod with itunes (Could be apple's fault and this may have been fixed by now.) Specifically, it would throw a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL referencing usbport.sys if you tried to sync a large (200+) number of file.s), some minor (brief unexplained slowdowns. For 20-30 seconds, it'll respond really slow, as if it's eating into the swap, but there's no disk activity. Same thing happens with vista32, but it happens much more often on 64 versions.). server 2008 64 seems to be fairly solid, though I haven't pounded on it much.
The range would depend mostly on how fast you're going. The relationship between power use and speed is (generally) cubic, due to the equation for energy loss to drag.
IIRC, when I was running numbers in a previous discussion here about the smart fourtwo car, I came up with something like 37.5HP (~28KW) needed to maintain 80MPH (Highest speed limit in the US, AFAIK). That would give you a bit less than 160 miles on that thing. Slow that down some and the range significantly increases though.
That wasn't limited to Abit by any means. I've seen the same on ASUS, Biostar, eVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, XFX, Foxconn, PNY, Supermicro, and even a couple Intel boards.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
UPS is already investing in electrics. Lots of their transports are short-range (from the local depot to your door, though city traffic) with relatively small loads, which fits perfectly with small electrics.
Good point. I also like diesels in general as they have better characteristics (inherently better efficiency, more torque, and the engines last practically forever due to the heavier construction) for most people. Sure, they can be problematic to start in the cold, but that's why Andrew Freeman invented the block heater.
I'm not a fan of methanol though, as it's fantastically toxic (blindness, death, etc.), and can be absorbed via the skin, whereas ethanol is much less so. Also, methanol burns almost invisible.
Corn is not the only way to make ethanol. There are far better ways. Just look at how many different sources you can make drinking alcohol from. Ethanol is the same thing, just distilled to 200 proof.
you got whiskey (corn), rum (sugar, and you can grow sugar beets just fine in most of the US), wine (grapes or practically any fruit or berry. France actually is doing this with a lot of their surplus wine.), sake (rice), vodka (grains, potatoes), etc. All of those are potential fuel ethanol sources.
Problem being, petition then secret vote to form a union defeats the purpose. The petition is not secret, so they (management, etc.) know exactly who needs "persuasion" prior to the vote.
AFAICT, This law would only eliminate the secret vote if and only if you get 50%+1 of the workers on the petition, in which case you don't really need a ballot, as you've already got a vote from the majority.
Hearing? The curve was created so frequencies below about 250hz could be cut into narrowly grooved (and thus longer playing) records properly. Without the curve, any sections with sounds below that frequency would cut into the next groove of the record and predictably screw things up.
There were a whole collection of different curves in use prior to the RIAA curve being standardized. The curve was applied on the recording/cutting end, then applied in reverse in the amp, resulting in no difference for the person hearing.
1. Expensive as all hell. Check out the pricing on some satellite internet connections. Also take notes of the extreme transfer caps. They make New Zealand internet connections look positively limitless.
2. Difficult to upgrade/repair/etc. equipment. You try sending a service tech up to fix a broken satellite.
3. Extremely wide area network (lots of people per satellite), which results in very little bandwidth available per user.
4. Latency. Even at the speed of light, it takes a long time (computationally speaking) to get up to geosynchronous orbit and back down.
I'm personally a fan of terrestrial wireless. Sasktel here has a system based on an interesting hack of DOCSIS (Standard cable modems and CTMS gear, but add an interface box to transmit it over the 2.6ghz band and some high gain antennas). Works quite well and I have maximum spec signal strength (+15dBmV) from about 30 miles away.
The speed is not exactly blazing (it's DOCSIS 1.X set for 2.0Mb/256Kb for $60/month. or 3.0Mb/640Kb if you pay the large dollars ($300/month, IIRC) for a business connection, which includes SLAs and all that.), but it provides a good solution for rural areas, especially anywhere relatively flat.
a Watt-second is a Joule. A Watt-hour is 3600J, and a kilowatt-hour is 3.6MJ.
Still, *Watt-hours are a more convenient unit, as they can give nice round numbers, unlike what you get using standard time units (who the heck decided hours, minutes, and seconds should be base 60?) and SI units.
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You presume the copper/fibre and labour to lay that cable is cheap, not to mention right-of-ways, head-end equipment, etc.
You propose that having to build all that infrastructure from scratch, you would be able to effectively compete with someone who already has all that in place (and got tax breaks, etc. while doing so over a span of decades), and thus is able to undercut you severely while still turning a profit.
separates "children" from "adults" at the age of 18 with these laws
Actually, it isn't even that consistent. Age of consent ranges from 13 to 18.
Leap days and leap seconds serve different purposes.
Leap days are because our definition of a day (and thus a year) are not exact. A year is actually ~365.25 days, so we add an extra day every 4 years to compensate.
Leap seconds are needed as there's another small random variance in the length of a day (The mean solar day lengthens by about 1.7ms per century, due to slowing of the earth's rotation), so we occasionally need to add a second to keep us in sync with astronomical time.
You mean that format where we can't even agree on how to end a line?
When they're chasing the wrong car.
Because a hot plate requires an order of magnitude or two more electrical power than the pump does?
It's fairly rare for the entire country to have a white Christmas (one of BC, PEI, Nova Scotia, or Newfoundland and Labrador will usually not have snow on the ground), which I believe happened this year.
Which 64 bit windows?
XP 64 is nothing but grief.
Vista 64 has issues, some major (BSODs when doing basic stuff like syncing an ipod with itunes (Could be apple's fault and this may have been fixed by now.) Specifically, it would throw a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL referencing usbport.sys if you tried to sync a large (200+) number of file.s), some minor (brief unexplained slowdowns. For 20-30 seconds, it'll respond really slow, as if it's eating into the swap, but there's no disk activity. Same thing happens with vista32, but it happens much more often on 64 versions.).
server 2008 64 seems to be fairly solid, though I haven't pounded on it much.
The range would depend mostly on how fast you're going. The relationship between power use and speed is (generally) cubic, due to the equation for energy loss to drag.
IIRC, when I was running numbers in a previous discussion here about the smart fourtwo car, I came up with something like 37.5HP (~28KW) needed to maintain 80MPH (Highest speed limit in the US, AFAIK). That would give you a bit less than 160 miles on that thing. Slow that down some and the range significantly increases though.
Supermicro deals mostly in server and workstation gear now.
That wasn't limited to Abit by any means. I've seen the same on ASUS, Biostar, eVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, XFX, Foxconn, PNY, Supermicro, and even a couple Intel boards.
Not completely useless. It becomes far, far, far less practical (You need a much larger table), but it will still work.
Check the 7th amendment.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
A job is certainly has a value exceeding $20.
LEDs aren't inherently blue light. Using proper LEDs or a proper mix of them, it shouldn't be that much of a task to duplicate that colour.
UPS is already investing in electrics. Lots of their transports are short-range (from the local depot to your door, though city traffic) with relatively small loads, which fits perfectly with small electrics.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4234572.html?page=2
Good point. I also like diesels in general as they have better characteristics (inherently better efficiency, more torque, and the engines last practically forever due to the heavier construction) for most people. Sure, they can be problematic to start in the cold, but that's why Andrew Freeman invented the block heater.
I'm not a fan of methanol though, as it's fantastically toxic (blindness, death, etc.), and can be absorbed via the skin, whereas ethanol is much less so. Also, methanol burns almost invisible.
Corn is not the only way to make ethanol. There are far better ways. Just look at how many different sources you can make drinking alcohol from. Ethanol is the same thing, just distilled to 200 proof.
you got whiskey (corn), rum (sugar, and you can grow sugar beets just fine in most of the US), wine (grapes or practically any fruit or berry. France actually is doing this with a lot of their surplus wine.), sake (rice), vodka (grains, potatoes), etc. All of those are potential fuel ethanol sources.
Problem being, petition then secret vote to form a union defeats the purpose. The petition is not secret, so they (management, etc.) know exactly who needs "persuasion" prior to the vote.
AFAICT, This law would only eliminate the secret vote if and only if you get 50%+1 of the workers on the petition, in which case you don't really need a ballot, as you've already got a vote from the majority.
2. Hasn't that been tried already?
3. Good idea.
4. "Loser pays" would be a good idea in general.
5. Very Good Idea.
Hearing? The curve was created so frequencies below about 250hz could be cut into narrowly grooved (and thus longer playing) records properly. Without the curve, any sections with sounds below that frequency would cut into the next groove of the record and predictably screw things up.
There were a whole collection of different curves in use prior to the RIAA curve being standardized. The curve was applied on the recording/cutting end, then applied in reverse in the amp, resulting in no difference for the person hearing.
Given the RIAA's history of suing people who don't even have computer and/or an internet connection, I doubt the efficacy of your suggestion.
We're about halfway through December, so 2.5 months.
1. Prohibit bill names. Just give them a number.
2. Prohibit omnibus bills.
1. Expensive as all hell. Check out the pricing on some satellite internet connections. Also take notes of the extreme transfer caps. They make New Zealand internet connections look positively limitless.
2. Difficult to upgrade/repair/etc. equipment. You try sending a service tech up to fix a broken satellite.
3. Extremely wide area network (lots of people per satellite), which results in very little bandwidth available per user.
4. Latency. Even at the speed of light, it takes a long time (computationally speaking) to get up to geosynchronous orbit and back down.
I'm personally a fan of terrestrial wireless. Sasktel here has a system based on an interesting hack of DOCSIS (Standard cable modems and CTMS gear, but add an interface box to transmit it over the 2.6ghz band and some high gain antennas). Works quite well and I have maximum spec signal strength (+15dBmV) from about 30 miles away.
The speed is not exactly blazing (it's DOCSIS 1.X set for 2.0Mb/256Kb for $60/month. or 3.0Mb/640Kb if you pay the large dollars ($300/month, IIRC) for a business connection, which includes SLAs and all that.), but it provides a good solution for rural areas, especially anywhere relatively flat.
a Watt-second is a Joule. A Watt-hour is 3600J, and a kilowatt-hour is 3.6MJ.
Still, *Watt-hours are a more convenient unit, as they can give nice round numbers, unlike what you get using standard time units (who the heck decided hours, minutes, and seconds should be base 60?) and SI units.