Hopefully they hired someone who knows what they are doing / has some experience installing outdoor radio and network gear. There's more than a few of those people running around most populated areas these days.
So, in 1990 when I accessed "the Internet" from the University of Miami main campus, the request went from main campus to the Marine school, from there to a satellite, back down somewhere in Colorado, and then started following a somewhat normal routing. Of course, if I was talking to FIU across town, that meant about 7 land hops from Colorado back to Miami...
Sounds like Cuba's internet is better than U of Miami's was 25 years ago...
When the Navy runs economically based war games (simulations), fleets of small ships overwhelm and dominate similar budgets spent on large capital ships or fleets of mixed size.
Thing is, the Navy, Air Force, Army, etc. isn't about winning conflicts based on having the most powerful force we can field for a given budget. Shock and Awe play a huge part - the political power of stealth bombers, nuclear subs and aircraft carriers is in their ability to put a sense of dread and hopelessness into the enemy without having to fire a shot, or risk a life.
So, in this instance, I imagine that if you spent the cost of a modern B-52 on a fleet of small munitions equipped drones, you could probably pummel the hell out of any target within the drones' range, the death of a thousand cuts. There are some logistics problems, and the whole fleet could be overwhelmed with large air-bursts that exceed their flight capabilities, but if that same defensive firepower were targeted on the B-52, it would come down too. Obviously, consumer grade stuff isn't made to withstand any kind of challenge, but 100 small drones that can fly at 30,000 feet and an operational range of ~100 miles - that can be quite a threat.
If you don't want to mess with it, fine, leave it alone. God knows I've never been interested in building a Crysis system.
I play plenty of games on systems with 4GB of RAM and Intel embedded graphics, but I don't go whining when one won't work - that's just not a game for me to play on my NUC that drives the living room PC - and I think it's the game Dev's loss more than mine, I've got plenty to keep me entertained without their stuff.
But - if these devs solved their performance problems with a $50 RAM upgrade, that's damn cheap compared to the graphics cards that have been "required" over the years.
12GB of RAM costs less today than a damn sound card cost back in the 90s. If it means getting the game to market 3 months faster, I'd say it's a good trade - if they think it's worth optimizing to make it work (well) on 8GB later, that's their call. More likely they'll move on to develop something else instead.
New games have always stretched older machines. Most anything bought in the last 4 years or so can be equipped with 16GB RAM or more, if you just fork out the $$$.
Sadly, the government is everybody's mother. They tell you that you have to wear clothes in public, they tell you when you can and can't consume alcohol, they tell you how to drive, and taxes are usually more about behavior modification than they are revenue collection - sure, revenue plays a part, but how often have you heard debates over new "revenue neutral" budget proposals, that's 100% about behavior modification.
I'm not talking about calorie taxes so we can all live forever, but I am talking about paying for the corn subsidy with a food-consumer tax on high-fructose corn syrup. If we want to grow "cheap corn" for fuel, fine, but don't give the world free refills on $0.99 44oz sodas while you are at it.
When I was growing up (late 70s) I thought it was absurd what restaurants charged for soda - the consumer price was astronomical compared to the cost of goods. Well, the world has moved on and now you can get "any size soda you want for 0.99" because, what really costs the money is the storefront that you are taking space up in, and next is the labor cost for the person who takes your money and gives you the soda - the paper in the cup probably costs more to deliver to the consumer than the corn syrup in the product.
When I was growing up, people in line at Kmart took up roughly half the space that people in line at WalMart do today, if you want to talk about what end of the economic spectrum is going to be most influenced by that kind of tax, it's going to be the ones who don't pay for their own health care, but instead get it out of the emergency room at "county hospital" when they have their diabetic seizures. These people do need some government mothering, unless you want a significant part of the population sitting in "Internet Cafe" gambling joints, giving away what little money they have in exchange for the dream that they might "hit it big, this time" while they smoke, drink, and eat themselves into very expensive medical conditions that end up being even more costly in the long run because they are under-treated in sub-standard healthcare facilities that are funded by the taxpayers.
Poor decisions that kill quickly are mostly well regulated these days, poor decisions that are killing people slowly and expensively still seem to need some help.
In Florida (where Publix dominates the grocery market by a wide margin) we have an upstart with 2 stores that just carries produce and meat: Fresh Field Farms. They sell their produce and meats at significant markdown from Publix, organic and grass-fed at Fresh Field are sold for the price of normal stuff at Publix, and Fresh Field will have lots of commodity produce for 1/2 or less what Publix is selling it at, especially things that are locally sourced like strawberries and blueberries.
It could be that Publix (and the wider grocery industry) has shifted strategy on Produce and started charging what it costs them, especially Publix now that they've pretty much driven the competition out of the state. I haven't had "inside" grocery info for about 20 years now. Back then, grapes would sell for $0.49 to $0.79 a pound, these days they're selling these gigantic things that look like they've been fertilizer pumped to the limit and charging $2 to $4 a pound most of the time.
Rice is not a processed food, neither are fresh vegetables, meats, juices, milk, etc.
I presume before something like this got through the legislative process, it would have exemptions for WIC items and processed foods with a blush of "healthy" on them produced in any of the committee members' home districts.
I've never seen an impressive fish tank filter system - the impressive fish tank maintenance systems I have seen are bio-based like septic tanks, salt water systems splash water through bio-balls that film over with stuff that eats the waste, fresh water commonly pulls water down through the gravel base and up-out bubbler stacks, that gravel gets coated in gunk eating microbes that do a very effective job.
No HEPA style filter could ever approach that level of cleaning, you'd be replacing cartridges every few hours.
Maybe Florida is backwards, in the early 1990s I worked in one of our bigger more successful grocery chains Publix, and at the time Produce was a money pit, losses due to spoilage invariably ate whatever profits the department made. They would cycle potential store managers through Produce as department heads to see if they could manage to stem the bleeding before giving them an Assistant manager spot.
It could all be in the accounting, if you don't get charged for the stuff that spoils it would be profitable.
Also, for foot traffic patterns, most Publix in towns I have lived in seem to have Produce in the back corner, opposite dairy, but I have seen other brand stores that keep Produce up front... might be shopper demographics.
Yeah, we'll just stuff the tobacco, alcohol and MJ taxes too, right?
It isn't a ban, it's an economic incentive to make a healthy choice - one that will save the tax base when it comes time to bury your skinny butt - fat butts are a lot more expensive in the years before they die, and they also tend to die during their "productive" years a lot more than skinny ones.
If New York City can ban large soda cups, we can pass any kind of tax we want.
Start with processed foods (those comprised of 3 or more source ingredients) - and hit anything with calories with a per-calorie tax. 160kCal in 12oz of Coca-Cola, seems like we should start at $0.001 per kCal to me, or $1 on a 6 pack of 12oz cans of Coke.
Calories derived from protein could be exempt. I'd say that fat might get a reduced rate compared to carbs, so maybe tax by the gram instead of the kCal.
(Real) farmers own a lot of land, which is sort of like saying: they have significant assets. They also have a lot of free time to schmooze with their politicians.
Corn growing interests in the United States have deep roots and will vigorously resist any efforts to trim their subsidies.
Hawaii slashed sugar production in the 70s, it's only grown as a hobby there now.
South Florida still has a booming political sugar growing machine, but, as others have said, Corn took over around about the time that New Coke came out (late 80s) - and it still dominates the sweetener with calories category in the US food supply.
That produce department runs at a loss - it's just there to make people feel good that they're buying some "real" food too. Most of what is there is genetically modified to be as big and heavy as possible while still resembling the namesake commodity, with no regard to nutritional content and little regard to taste. Almost all of what is there is produced on the world Ag market and container shipped to you, picked at the peak of shelf life and delivered just in time to not spoil before you get it to the car.
Try growing your own, if you can still get your hands on decent seed stock, or pay double+ for "real" organics, if you stores in your state even carry them. The difference is remarkable - and if you do try growing your own, you'll appreciate how cheap the "real" organics actually are.
Meanwhile, the wage-slaves of the world who have enough time to skip the fast food restaurants barely have time to shop for pre-processed packaged foods at the grocery store - are you actually expecting them to take time out to prepare food instead of preparing their children for the NCLB standardized tests or watching 4 hours of passive entertainment a night?
The ideal system will re-condense the vapor quickly, perhaps before it is more than a few cm from where it boiled. The vapor movement accelerates the fluid near the "point of contact" and gets much more heat transfer due to the fresh fluid brought in, the vapor transfers its heat to the cooler fluid until it is vapor no more.
If those vapor bubbles live long enough to get near other boiling spots, then they're starting to have some negative effects. If you end up with a large reservoir of vapor at the top of the chamber, you could probably be doing things more efficiently/compactly: liquid-liquid heat exchangers are much more efficient per unit volume than vapor-vapor.
From a design perspective, if you know your chip case temperature is always at or below the boiling point, that's a powerful bit of knowledge. If the vapor gets too prolific and lets the chip surfaces get above boiling temp, then things get... messy.
Kinda like an asteroid detector system that doesn't plot trajectories... what they really need is mood rings for sharks, tag 'em all and when one is in a human biting mood, sound the alarm.
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Hopefully they hired someone who knows what they are doing / has some experience installing outdoor radio and network gear. There's more than a few of those people running around most populated areas these days.
We had a not-so-well-grounded cable service where I was growing up.
When lightning would strike miles away (as counted by thunder delay), we'd see sparks arc between our cable box and our TV set.
So, in 1990 when I accessed "the Internet" from the University of Miami main campus, the request went from main campus to the Marine school, from there to a satellite, back down somewhere in Colorado, and then started following a somewhat normal routing. Of course, if I was talking to FIU across town, that meant about 7 land hops from Colorado back to Miami...
Sounds like Cuba's internet is better than U of Miami's was 25 years ago...
When the Navy runs economically based war games (simulations), fleets of small ships overwhelm and dominate similar budgets spent on large capital ships or fleets of mixed size.
Thing is, the Navy, Air Force, Army, etc. isn't about winning conflicts based on having the most powerful force we can field for a given budget. Shock and Awe play a huge part - the political power of stealth bombers, nuclear subs and aircraft carriers is in their ability to put a sense of dread and hopelessness into the enemy without having to fire a shot, or risk a life.
So, in this instance, I imagine that if you spent the cost of a modern B-52 on a fleet of small munitions equipped drones, you could probably pummel the hell out of any target within the drones' range, the death of a thousand cuts. There are some logistics problems, and the whole fleet could be overwhelmed with large air-bursts that exceed their flight capabilities, but if that same defensive firepower were targeted on the B-52, it would come down too. Obviously, consumer grade stuff isn't made to withstand any kind of challenge, but 100 small drones that can fly at 30,000 feet and an operational range of ~100 miles - that can be quite a threat.
If you don't want to mess with it, fine, leave it alone. God knows I've never been interested in building a Crysis system.
I play plenty of games on systems with 4GB of RAM and Intel embedded graphics, but I don't go whining when one won't work - that's just not a game for me to play on my NUC that drives the living room PC - and I think it's the game Dev's loss more than mine, I've got plenty to keep me entertained without their stuff.
But - if these devs solved their performance problems with a $50 RAM upgrade, that's damn cheap compared to the graphics cards that have been "required" over the years.
12GB of RAM costs less today than a damn sound card cost back in the 90s. If it means getting the game to market 3 months faster, I'd say it's a good trade - if they think it's worth optimizing to make it work (well) on 8GB later, that's their call. More likely they'll move on to develop something else instead.
Since when is 12GB RAM unusual for a new game?
New games have always stretched older machines. Most anything bought in the last 4 years or so can be equipped with 16GB RAM or more, if you just fork out the $$$.
I think I heard that the bank withdrew the terms after the publicity hit, they defended their position for about 36 hours before reversing.
Sadly, the government is everybody's mother. They tell you that you have to wear clothes in public, they tell you when you can and can't consume alcohol, they tell you how to drive, and taxes are usually more about behavior modification than they are revenue collection - sure, revenue plays a part, but how often have you heard debates over new "revenue neutral" budget proposals, that's 100% about behavior modification.
I'm not talking about calorie taxes so we can all live forever, but I am talking about paying for the corn subsidy with a food-consumer tax on high-fructose corn syrup. If we want to grow "cheap corn" for fuel, fine, but don't give the world free refills on $0.99 44oz sodas while you are at it.
When I was growing up (late 70s) I thought it was absurd what restaurants charged for soda - the consumer price was astronomical compared to the cost of goods. Well, the world has moved on and now you can get "any size soda you want for 0.99" because, what really costs the money is the storefront that you are taking space up in, and next is the labor cost for the person who takes your money and gives you the soda - the paper in the cup probably costs more to deliver to the consumer than the corn syrup in the product.
When I was growing up, people in line at Kmart took up roughly half the space that people in line at WalMart do today, if you want to talk about what end of the economic spectrum is going to be most influenced by that kind of tax, it's going to be the ones who don't pay for their own health care, but instead get it out of the emergency room at "county hospital" when they have their diabetic seizures. These people do need some government mothering, unless you want a significant part of the population sitting in "Internet Cafe" gambling joints, giving away what little money they have in exchange for the dream that they might "hit it big, this time" while they smoke, drink, and eat themselves into very expensive medical conditions that end up being even more costly in the long run because they are under-treated in sub-standard healthcare facilities that are funded by the taxpayers.
Poor decisions that kill quickly are mostly well regulated these days, poor decisions that are killing people slowly and expensively still seem to need some help.
In Florida (where Publix dominates the grocery market by a wide margin) we have an upstart with 2 stores that just carries produce and meat: Fresh Field Farms. They sell their produce and meats at significant markdown from Publix, organic and grass-fed at Fresh Field are sold for the price of normal stuff at Publix, and Fresh Field will have lots of commodity produce for 1/2 or less what Publix is selling it at, especially things that are locally sourced like strawberries and blueberries.
It could be that Publix (and the wider grocery industry) has shifted strategy on Produce and started charging what it costs them, especially Publix now that they've pretty much driven the competition out of the state. I haven't had "inside" grocery info for about 20 years now. Back then, grapes would sell for $0.49 to $0.79 a pound, these days they're selling these gigantic things that look like they've been fertilizer pumped to the limit and charging $2 to $4 a pound most of the time.
Rice is not a processed food, neither are fresh vegetables, meats, juices, milk, etc.
I presume before something like this got through the legislative process, it would have exemptions for WIC items and processed foods with a blush of "healthy" on them produced in any of the committee members' home districts.
I think the cable is better, but the carpet fresh is more stale.
And, there's plenty of intense UV light right outside, just open the windows once in awhile.
I've never seen an impressive fish tank filter system - the impressive fish tank maintenance systems I have seen are bio-based like septic tanks, salt water systems splash water through bio-balls that film over with stuff that eats the waste, fresh water commonly pulls water down through the gravel base and up-out bubbler stacks, that gravel gets coated in gunk eating microbes that do a very effective job.
No HEPA style filter could ever approach that level of cleaning, you'd be replacing cartridges every few hours.
Maybe Florida is backwards, in the early 1990s I worked in one of our bigger more successful grocery chains Publix, and at the time Produce was a money pit, losses due to spoilage invariably ate whatever profits the department made. They would cycle potential store managers through Produce as department heads to see if they could manage to stem the bleeding before giving them an Assistant manager spot.
It could all be in the accounting, if you don't get charged for the stuff that spoils it would be profitable.
Also, for foot traffic patterns, most Publix in towns I have lived in seem to have Produce in the back corner, opposite dairy, but I have seen other brand stores that keep Produce up front... might be shopper demographics.
Yeah, we'll just stuff the tobacco, alcohol and MJ taxes too, right?
It isn't a ban, it's an economic incentive to make a healthy choice - one that will save the tax base when it comes time to bury your skinny butt - fat butts are a lot more expensive in the years before they die, and they also tend to die during their "productive" years a lot more than skinny ones.
Water kills:
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If New York City can ban large soda cups, we can pass any kind of tax we want.
Start with processed foods (those comprised of 3 or more source ingredients) - and hit anything with calories with a per-calorie tax. 160kCal in 12oz of Coca-Cola, seems like we should start at $0.001 per kCal to me, or $1 on a 6 pack of 12oz cans of Coke.
Calories derived from protein could be exempt. I'd say that fat might get a reduced rate compared to carbs, so maybe tax by the gram instead of the kCal.
(Real) farmers own a lot of land, which is sort of like saying: they have significant assets. They also have a lot of free time to schmooze with their politicians.
Corn growing interests in the United States have deep roots and will vigorously resist any efforts to trim their subsidies.
Hawaii slashed sugar production in the 70s, it's only grown as a hobby there now.
South Florida still has a booming political sugar growing machine, but, as others have said, Corn took over around about the time that New Coke came out (late 80s) - and it still dominates the sweetener with calories category in the US food supply.
4 digit user number pegs you at 40+, there's a saying about the ladies and dog turds: the older they are, the easier they are to pick up.
That produce department runs at a loss - it's just there to make people feel good that they're buying some "real" food too. Most of what is there is genetically modified to be as big and heavy as possible while still resembling the namesake commodity, with no regard to nutritional content and little regard to taste. Almost all of what is there is produced on the world Ag market and container shipped to you, picked at the peak of shelf life and delivered just in time to not spoil before you get it to the car.
Try growing your own, if you can still get your hands on decent seed stock, or pay double+ for "real" organics, if you stores in your state even carry them. The difference is remarkable - and if you do try growing your own, you'll appreciate how cheap the "real" organics actually are.
Meanwhile, the wage-slaves of the world who have enough time to skip the fast food restaurants barely have time to shop for pre-processed packaged foods at the grocery store - are you actually expecting them to take time out to prepare food instead of preparing their children for the NCLB standardized tests or watching 4 hours of passive entertainment a night?
The ideal system will re-condense the vapor quickly, perhaps before it is more than a few cm from where it boiled. The vapor movement accelerates the fluid near the "point of contact" and gets much more heat transfer due to the fresh fluid brought in, the vapor transfers its heat to the cooler fluid until it is vapor no more.
If those vapor bubbles live long enough to get near other boiling spots, then they're starting to have some negative effects. If you end up with a large reservoir of vapor at the top of the chamber, you could probably be doing things more efficiently/compactly: liquid-liquid heat exchangers are much more efficient per unit volume than vapor-vapor.
From a design perspective, if you know your chip case temperature is always at or below the boiling point, that's a powerful bit of knowledge. If the vapor gets too prolific and lets the chip surfaces get above boiling temp, then things get... messy.
Kinda like an asteroid detector system that doesn't plot trajectories... what they really need is mood rings for sharks, tag 'em all and when one is in a human biting mood, sound the alarm.
I'm thinking that innovations in electrostatic dust control developed here may have applications for Lunar colonies...
Better still, don't go on a pouty sit-in (and get paid) strike because you think somebody has taken the fun out of your job.
If you didn't want to be a police officer that everybody can respect when they see what you do, you shouldn't have applied in the first place.