similarly, along with the inability to save money goes the almost incessant need to spend borrowed money. not having to buy a $100 Windows license just means most people are creating $100 less consumer debt. Now, some level of consumer debt can be argued as healthy to a stable economy. The current economic constriction is as much from people reigning in debt-spending as being fearful. Economic activity shouldn't get back to where it was before. It was fueled by a phantom home-equity driven debt-spending binge. You don't fix a heroin addict's withdrawal symptoms by putting him on crack. You wait out the rough period and stabilize with reasonable activities.
Chevy Volt comes with a 110V charging cord. Of course, it takes ~8-10 hours to charge at that voltage due to current limits. the charging station you can install gives you 220V and supposedly cuts that to 3-4hrs. so it can do either.
we do use hydrogen as fuel. It just currently brings carbon along for the ride. you want to pay extra to separate the two first? go right ahead. you can't get it for free.
the EV1 was dead from the start. battery and control technology just wasn't there yet. new NiMH and Li-Ion's can actually perform well enough to give people a car they'll want to use. Sure, it's still expensive as heck, but at least when they get it it'll get them where they want to go.
If only someone could go back in time and convince them to come up with another word to describe electromagnetic propagation. Think of all the time and money that could be saved. If it's not an ionized particle, IT'S DIFFERENT!
if only there was a loosely associated group of computer hackers sometimes following the activist mindset and settling on particular targets of interest...
or what if multiple people use the same web browser? think: family room PC where mom/dad/teenager go and open up a web browser then log into their own facebook account. no, they don't have separate windows profiles and don't bother with addons that let you have multiple firefox profiles, etc, within one windows profile. (how would THAT affect this anyway...)
Most people don't look at their bills at all. Why? Paperless billing. My bank, credit card company, utility company, mobile, internet, TV and phone company all want me to switch to paperless billing. A few credit cards actually gave you a credit for going paperless. I know from personal experience that when I get the email notice of a new statement, I peek at the dollar value. if it looks about right I rarely click through to the actual statement. I guarantee you a lot of people don't even go this far.
FTFA: "When third-party vendors are contacted they claim the charges were authorized by customers and they often say they have audio recordings of the customer giving the OK, Madigan said...However, when her office obtained audio recordings, the voices turned out not to belong to the consumers who were billed, she said. " "Eppley said she called the third-party company and was told Eppley's company had OK'd the charges and there was an audio recording to back that up. Eppley asked to hear it but the company never provided the audio recording."
sounds like straight out fraud. When you're only stealing $5, but do it a million times, it's easy to avoid legal ramifications as people see you as a nuisance, but not worth legal hassle.
"it does not hurt anyone more than anyone else, it affects everyone in the same way."
I find your cognitive dissonance disturbing. Or at least your ability to believe those are somehow equivalent statements.
I'm going to take $10 from you and the person standing next to you. For you, that means you will have to do without a Starbuck's double mocha latte and chips. For the other guy, that means he doesn't eat at all today.
that's what regressive means. it looks fair on paper, but the impact is unbalanced.
"Sears actually took a very similar issue all the way to the supreme court and WON"
fixed that for you.
the difference here is that they're arguing Amazon has a presence in the state. the presence is in the form of a commissioned sales force. until SCOTUS rules that affiliates ~= physical presence, then they are not overriding SCOTUS.
society projects difficulty meeting total energy demand in the not too distant future. (difficulty in fielding/approving/building new capacity, etc.) they see shaving part of the lighting load as a way of pushing that threat further out, while sounding 'green' at the same time.
generally, fluorescent bulbs like to stay on. they'll last longer than incandescents if you turn them both on and keep them both on until they burn out. frequent on/off's throughout a day will have you replacing CFL's in no time.
if you studied fluid dynamics in college, and stopped at the article before reading the PDF, your degree is bull feces. It's an extremetech article about actual technology, with physics involved in the explanation. what did you expect?
"As shown later in Figure 18, this air-filled thermal interface has very low thermal resistance and is in no way a limiting factor to device performance; its cross sectional area is large relative to its thickness, and because the air that occupies the gap region is violently sheared between the lower surface (stationary) and the upper surface (rotating at several thousand rpm). The convective mixing provided by this shearing effect provides a several-fold increase in thermal conductivity of the air in the gap region."
so, the air gap exists, it doesn't create a significant thermal barrier, and you're stationary on one side and rotating on the other. Done.
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similarly, along with the inability to save money goes the almost incessant need to spend borrowed money. not having to buy a $100 Windows license just means most people are creating $100 less consumer debt. Now, some level of consumer debt can be argued as healthy to a stable economy. The current economic constriction is as much from people reigning in debt-spending as being fearful. Economic activity shouldn't get back to where it was before. It was fueled by a phantom home-equity driven debt-spending binge. You don't fix a heroin addict's withdrawal symptoms by putting him on crack. You wait out the rough period and stabilize with reasonable activities.
Chevy Volt comes with a 110V charging cord. Of course, it takes ~8-10 hours to charge at that voltage due to current limits. the charging station you can install gives you 220V and supposedly cuts that to 3-4hrs. so it can do either.
we do use hydrogen as fuel. It just currently brings carbon along for the ride. you want to pay extra to separate the two first? go right ahead. you can't get it for free.
the EV1 was dead from the start. battery and control technology just wasn't there yet. new NiMH and Li-Ion's can actually perform well enough to give people a car they'll want to use. Sure, it's still expensive as heck, but at least when they get it it'll get them where they want to go.
the comments on that article are priceless.
even better:
The Sunscreen Smokescreen - Information is Beautiful
If only someone could go back in time and convince them to come up with another word to describe electromagnetic propagation. Think of all the time and money that could be saved. If it's not an ionized particle, IT'S DIFFERENT!
at least when they finish taking over the world we'll be able to find things on the internet REALLY FAST.
if only there was a loosely associated group of computer hackers sometimes following the activist mindset and settling on particular targets of interest...
good point. my work pc has firefox set to clear cookies and history at shutdown. so, my do not track request can't be respected after a reboot?
no. and above all, see the comment above about a max password length for Live.com accounts. (hotmail is part of live.com now)
or what if multiple people use the same web browser? think: family room PC where mom/dad/teenager go and open up a web browser then log into their own facebook account. no, they don't have separate windows profiles and don't bother with addons that let you have multiple firefox profiles, etc, within one windows profile. (how would THAT affect this anyway...)
Most people don't look at their bills at all. Why? Paperless billing. My bank, credit card company, utility company, mobile, internet, TV and phone company all want me to switch to paperless billing. A few credit cards actually gave you a credit for going paperless. I know from personal experience that when I get the email notice of a new statement, I peek at the dollar value. if it looks about right I rarely click through to the actual statement. I guarantee you a lot of people don't even go this far.
FTFA:
"When third-party vendors are contacted they claim the charges were authorized by customers and they often say they have audio recordings of the customer giving the OK, Madigan said...However, when her office obtained audio recordings, the voices turned out not to belong to the consumers who were billed, she said. "
"Eppley said she called the third-party company and was told Eppley's company had OK'd the charges and there was an audio recording to back that up. Eppley asked to hear it but the company never provided the audio recording."
sounds like straight out fraud. When you're only stealing $5, but do it a million times, it's easy to avoid legal ramifications as people see you as a nuisance, but not worth legal hassle.
"it does not hurt anyone more than anyone else, it affects everyone in the same way."
I find your cognitive dissonance disturbing. Or at least your ability to believe those are somehow equivalent statements.
I'm going to take $10 from you and the person standing next to you. For you, that means you will have to do without a Starbuck's double mocha latte and chips. For the other guy, that means he doesn't eat at all today.
that's what regressive means. it looks fair on paper, but the impact is unbalanced.
"Sears actually took a very similar issue all the way to the supreme court and WON"
fixed that for you.
the difference here is that they're arguing Amazon has a presence in the state. the presence is in the form of a commissioned sales force. until SCOTUS rules that affiliates ~= physical presence, then they are not overriding SCOTUS.
PROTIP: when you unexpectedly walk into a room with every surface covered in plastic...
society projects difficulty meeting total energy demand in the not too distant future. (difficulty in fielding/approving/building new capacity, etc.) they see shaving part of the lighting load as a way of pushing that threat further out, while sounding 'green' at the same time.
generally, fluorescent bulbs like to stay on. they'll last longer than incandescents if you turn them both on and keep them both on until they burn out. frequent on/off's throughout a day will have you replacing CFL's in no time.
not free to me and many others not paying the text message extortion... yet.
and the PDF accounts for that.
if you studied fluid dynamics in college, and stopped at the article before reading the PDF, your degree is bull feces. It's an extremetech article about actual technology, with physics involved in the explanation. what did you expect?
your work blocks PDFs from sandia.gov? but you can browse slashdot? or do they just restrict all PDFs?
in addition, page 10:
"As shown later in Figure 18, this air-filled thermal interface has very low thermal resistance and is in no way a limiting factor to device performance; its cross sectional area is large relative to its thickness, and because the air that occupies the gap region is violently sheared between the lower surface (stationary) and the upper surface (rotating at several thousand rpm). The convective mixing provided by this shearing effect provides a several-fold increase in thermal conductivity of the air in the gap region."
so, the air gap exists, it doesn't create a significant thermal barrier, and you're stationary on one side and rotating on the other. Done.
hmmm.... tape at attic temperatures for how many years? what lattitude?