A civilization probably wouldn't need the output of an entire star right away. We barely need 1% of the sunlight that reaches our planet, a small panel could feed our energy needs for the next few decades.
It's the cost of the damn tickets. My local orchestra hall is always complaining that only ~10-20 people attend their 1000+ capacity hall. I wanted to attend one for a date night out: $50/ticket. That is just absurd for a weeknight second rate (mostly student) orchestra.
Belgium did institute that rule decades ago. The result is that cops don't shoot at anything or do anything because the criminals shoot at each other or at their victims and not at the police. The police there is afraid to go into any confrontation, especially with people of different color or ethnicity than their own.
This resulted in the country being a clearinghouse for illegal drugs, people and arms throughout Europe. Large portions of cities (like Brussels) have become ghetto's where the only reason thing standing against Sharia law is free higher education.
And I pay extra for each of those things. If everyone got free education and health care, perhaps even a maintainable pension (social security), that would be spending tax dollars.
Right now roads and bridges get payed by gas tax, our schools and local infrastructure by property tax, utilities are self-funding. My and my business' income tax goes primarily to the war department and a host of people and issues that work against my needs (politicians), the rest goes to people that are too lazy or incompetent to get a job or save (or have saved) for themselves. And no, I won't take any benefit of it in the future because the state cannot keep funding it this way for the next 20 years.
So even though I'm half way to retirement, my projected social security income is insufficient to maintain myself even today (if you calculate it out, it would return ~5% of what I've put in to date) not even taking into account the devaluation of the currency by then. So I still need to fund my own pension and health care privately.
The money is indeed stockpiled (in the end it's just a number in the bank) but that money can then be loaned against, invested through holdings and shell companies and is part of your 'net worth'. All of these companies, even though they have billions in cash, have also billions in outstanding loans because it is cheaper to loan the money than getting it out to physically pay someone. These companies don't buy things like you and me, they just promise the banks that they have x amount much like the bank does when it gives you a bank statement.
Extension cords and power strips are pretty much against code for any sort of 'permanent' installation. That also means if you use a power strip for your desktop computers at work, it's pretty much against code.
WTH car do you have with 500 miles range? I have a fairly economic luxury sedan with barely a 400 mi range, more typical is 350 similar to a Tesla. The average commute is what, 30 miles? That may be the range of a Leaf or Volt but a well-designed electric system should be close to if not similar to a regular sedan.
Star Trek does seem to have infinite energy and that's the point where things in economics get really interesting. We have been trading what boils down to energy (food, crafted objects) because it's been a finite resource that is necessary for our survival.
If everyone can create everything for 'free' and on demand due to a fusion reactor in their place, there is no reason to trade anymore, the only thing you can trade at that point is the space you occupy and space is expensive if you have to pay for the energy to get there and maintain it.
When you own vast amounts of a thing, it becomes worthless. If I have billions of dollars today, the small amounts of money I am capable of spending is practically worthless to me except for what I can get out of it. If you have vast amounts of energy, it becomes worthless and you only care what you can get out of it. As a result, the vast amounts of space you could 'own' becomes worthless and you only care about what you currently occupy.
There is definitely room for open source routers. Buffalo has been in that market for a few years and as a result sell some of the most stable of routers I've seen outside the enterprise market.
If you're going to build this, make sure all is accessible including the radios, each port individually and if you're going into the enterprise market, extensions to OpenWRT for centralized management would be awesome. I'd also like to see a router with more than just 4 ports.
So how is that rape? Miscommunication happens in every interaction including sexual reproduction. If your mechanic says your brakes are on their way out and should be replaced soon does not make him a murderer when they fail 6 months later. Soon is ill defined but for a mechanic it may mean a few weeks but you may think before the next inspection.
Rape is pretty well defined legally. Regretting after the fact or going along with it for whatever reason does not fall under the legal definition of rape. And yes, I know feminists are trying to reclassify all male advances towards females as rape but it doesn't make it right.
Being hacked is a sign that your security is inadequate and most likely your department is being ran by idiots. The only reason the government gets involved is because these same idiots that got hacked want to shift the blame.
So they flew to Thailand and cut out the middle man. Besides a small savings on their purchases, the next monsoon they'll still be without their drives. The problem wasn't that the distributors were piling up stocks, it's that they were physically unable to manufacture them.
How? Both companies are so rich and valuable the other doesn't have enough funds to buy out the other, let alone the stock premiums and regulatory costs involved.
Perhaps in a decade or two when one of them has driven itself into the ground but most likely by then they will both have devalued so much they'll be in the same boat and another player may buy one or both of them.
1) Marketing / FUD about what is in your tap water 2) Taste - bottled water is typically filtered better with minimal amounts of bleach added and flavored if not conspicuously with actual flavors, most bottled water also contains high amounts of added sodium (yes, salt-like substances) to make it taste better. The Nestle brands being some of the worst, if I use it for actual hydration after exercise or manual labor, I still feel thirsty.
Sorry to say, but if your bank has poor customer service, fire it and get another card elsewhere. I hate to say it but Bank of America for all their past policy flaws has great customer service on their credit cards, I can handle most things including disputes online, they call me in case of suspicious transactions etc.
For my other checking, savings, loans and credit I have used local credit unions. They are likewise great at personalized customer service.
OpenSolaris wasn't fully open source. There are large portions (such as the kernel) that had to be replaced with truly open code and there are still large projects that made OpenSolaris usable ("Open" HA) that were never released.
People are working on OpenIndiana, it may be slow and packages may look outdated but that's quite on par with Solaris releases, these things are rock solid.
Yes, the issue was Win 3.1 with DR-DOS (eventually they had a compatibility mode) but you could run Windows 95 on DR-DOS. Windows 95-ME was still DOS + a shell. You could replace the MS-DOS with DR-DOS.
Back in the 80286 days, there was not even an L1 cache however the memory and ISA bus ran at CPU speed 8-20Mhz. Hard drive latency was ~65ms.
In the 80486 days L1 cache was introduced and L2 was sometimes available in (very) expensive modules. I remember buying 256kb for the same price as 16MB RAM. The L1 caches ran (if I remember correctly) at CPU speed, 1 cycle. However the bus speed started to slow down compared to the CPU. The VLB ran at CPU bus speed ("local" bus) and was often used for graphics but PCI (an inferior bus) ran at 33MHz so for anything over 33MHz, we started needing dividers. The RAM ran at 80-120ns so it started being slower than the CPU bus. Hard drive speeds were however up to ~30ms.
In the Pentium age memory slowed even farther compared to the CPU bus. Now it took several cycles to access memory, buses ran even slower (still PCI mostly, eventually PCI-X (133MHz?) until PCI-e (serial buses running) came along. Hard drive speeds went up to ~15ms
In modern age, L1 caches have slowed even further requiring 4 cycles for L1 cache and up to 30 for L3 caches. RAM is even slower access with bus speeds about a quarter of a single CPU but sometimes 16 CPU's need to share those lanes. Peripheral bus speeds however have gone up and PCIe 3.0 is now directly integrated into CPU 80486 VLB-style. Hard drives have latencies of 10ms (we have a mechanical issue there) still but even cheap SSD's can go down to ~1-2ms.
You don't have to be rich to give attention to your kids.
My parents were never rich, I am not rich, yet I have a high IQ as do my kids, one of which is mixed race with one of these 'minority cultures'. I was always prompted by teachers to take more advanced and gifted classes because the class couldn't keep up. I finished with a US-equivalent college-level education before my 19th birthday. I have a friend who is Hispanic in the US, finished with a bachelors at 16yo.
The problem is that these 'minority' parents aren't speaking English correctly themselves or don't do math correctly themselves. I'm not talking about immigrants, I'm talking about people that have lived in the US for several generations. The problem is not with the culture at the school, it's with the culture in these groups. They feel entitled to get these benefits, then they have to put the effort in it to get them. Speak correct English at home, don't engage with other parents or family that puts people down for 'acting white' or trying to achieve something outside their own culture. Heck, look at some of the comments Neil deGrasse Tyson has made on his own venture into science, his peers were pressuring him to do more for his 'community' as well and leave astrophysics.
Since the 60's there has been a lot of time and effort wasted on these communities and brilliant people have probably given in to the pressure within those communities to not do the best they can. When proper English isn't even understood in schools, you have a problem, not a school problem but a community problem.
NO, it is not in most cases because the chip is capable of holding your information in plain text or plain text + pin for offline transactions. A well-installed skimmer (with the keypad etc) can read that information (and are available for purchase): http://krebsonsecurity.com/201...
Your card holder rights are different when you enter a pin/signing a slip vs. not doing so. The bank will assume your PIN == your valid signature and you'll get to eat the losses.
If you dispute a transaction and the merchant produces a signed slip with your valid signature, you will not be successful in disputing the transaction (unless you claim that the merchandize is faulty or wasn't delivered).
In the future, when you enter a PIN, you will not be successful in disputing the transaction even though modern skimmers are capable of grabbing both your card info and your PIN information. In most cases, your card information is still available in plain text on the chip for offline transactions unless explicitly disabled by your bank. And if your bank has explicitly disabled ALL plain text transaction (some European banks and on-request in the US) your card is currently useless at the following places: Wal Mart, Tim Hortons and most gas stations (except Exxon/Mobil) - at least they'll still allow you to mag-swipe in those cases.
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A civilization probably wouldn't need the output of an entire star right away. We barely need 1% of the sunlight that reaches our planet, a small panel could feed our energy needs for the next few decades.
Length is based on light. Mass is based on this unit, before it was the weight of 1L water at sea level.
Sound like you're European. American cars (even European brands) don't have such range.
It's the cost of the damn tickets. My local orchestra hall is always complaining that only ~10-20 people attend their 1000+ capacity hall. I wanted to attend one for a date night out: $50/ticket. That is just absurd for a weeknight second rate (mostly student) orchestra.
Belgium did institute that rule decades ago. The result is that cops don't shoot at anything or do anything because the criminals shoot at each other or at their victims and not at the police. The police there is afraid to go into any confrontation, especially with people of different color or ethnicity than their own.
This resulted in the country being a clearinghouse for illegal drugs, people and arms throughout Europe. Large portions of cities (like Brussels) have become ghetto's where the only reason thing standing against Sharia law is free higher education.
And I pay extra for each of those things. If everyone got free education and health care, perhaps even a maintainable pension (social security), that would be spending tax dollars.
Right now roads and bridges get payed by gas tax, our schools and local infrastructure by property tax, utilities are self-funding. My and my business' income tax goes primarily to the war department and a host of people and issues that work against my needs (politicians), the rest goes to people that are too lazy or incompetent to get a job or save (or have saved) for themselves. And no, I won't take any benefit of it in the future because the state cannot keep funding it this way for the next 20 years.
So even though I'm half way to retirement, my projected social security income is insufficient to maintain myself even today (if you calculate it out, it would return ~5% of what I've put in to date) not even taking into account the devaluation of the currency by then. So I still need to fund my own pension and health care privately.
The money is indeed stockpiled (in the end it's just a number in the bank) but that money can then be loaned against, invested through holdings and shell companies and is part of your 'net worth'. All of these companies, even though they have billions in cash, have also billions in outstanding loans because it is cheaper to loan the money than getting it out to physically pay someone. These companies don't buy things like you and me, they just promise the banks that they have x amount much like the bank does when it gives you a bank statement.
Extension cords and power strips are pretty much against code for any sort of 'permanent' installation. That also means if you use a power strip for your desktop computers at work, it's pretty much against code.
WTH car do you have with 500 miles range? I have a fairly economic luxury sedan with barely a 400 mi range, more typical is 350 similar to a Tesla. The average commute is what, 30 miles? That may be the range of a Leaf or Volt but a well-designed electric system should be close to if not similar to a regular sedan.
Star Trek does seem to have infinite energy and that's the point where things in economics get really interesting. We have been trading what boils down to energy (food, crafted objects) because it's been a finite resource that is necessary for our survival.
If everyone can create everything for 'free' and on demand due to a fusion reactor in their place, there is no reason to trade anymore, the only thing you can trade at that point is the space you occupy and space is expensive if you have to pay for the energy to get there and maintain it.
When you own vast amounts of a thing, it becomes worthless. If I have billions of dollars today, the small amounts of money I am capable of spending is practically worthless to me except for what I can get out of it. If you have vast amounts of energy, it becomes worthless and you only care what you can get out of it. As a result, the vast amounts of space you could 'own' becomes worthless and you only care about what you currently occupy.
There is definitely room for open source routers. Buffalo has been in that market for a few years and as a result sell some of the most stable of routers I've seen outside the enterprise market.
If you're going to build this, make sure all is accessible including the radios, each port individually and if you're going into the enterprise market, extensions to OpenWRT for centralized management would be awesome. I'd also like to see a router with more than just 4 ports.
I assume that company has never heard of an MDM. With proper deployment tools, the employees never have to worry about installing any apps.
So how is that rape? Miscommunication happens in every interaction including sexual reproduction. If your mechanic says your brakes are on their way out and should be replaced soon does not make him a murderer when they fail 6 months later. Soon is ill defined but for a mechanic it may mean a few weeks but you may think before the next inspection.
Rape is pretty well defined legally. Regretting after the fact or going along with it for whatever reason does not fall under the legal definition of rape. And yes, I know feminists are trying to reclassify all male advances towards females as rape but it doesn't make it right.
Being hacked is a sign that your security is inadequate and most likely your department is being ran by idiots. The only reason the government gets involved is because these same idiots that got hacked want to shift the blame.
So they flew to Thailand and cut out the middle man. Besides a small savings on their purchases, the next monsoon they'll still be without their drives. The problem wasn't that the distributors were piling up stocks, it's that they were physically unable to manufacture them.
How? Both companies are so rich and valuable the other doesn't have enough funds to buy out the other, let alone the stock premiums and regulatory costs involved.
Perhaps in a decade or two when one of them has driven itself into the ground but most likely by then they will both have devalued so much they'll be in the same boat and another player may buy one or both of them.
1) Marketing / FUD about what is in your tap water
2) Taste - bottled water is typically filtered better with minimal amounts of bleach added and flavored if not conspicuously with actual flavors, most bottled water also contains high amounts of added sodium (yes, salt-like substances) to make it taste better. The Nestle brands being some of the worst, if I use it for actual hydration after exercise or manual labor, I still feel thirsty.
Sorry to say, but if your bank has poor customer service, fire it and get another card elsewhere. I hate to say it but Bank of America for all their past policy flaws has great customer service on their credit cards, I can handle most things including disputes online, they call me in case of suspicious transactions etc.
For my other checking, savings, loans and credit I have used local credit unions. They are likewise great at personalized customer service.
OpenSolaris wasn't fully open source. There are large portions (such as the kernel) that had to be replaced with truly open code and there are still large projects that made OpenSolaris usable ("Open" HA) that were never released.
People are working on OpenIndiana, it may be slow and packages may look outdated but that's quite on par with Solaris releases, these things are rock solid.
Yes, the issue was Win 3.1 with DR-DOS (eventually they had a compatibility mode) but you could run Windows 95 on DR-DOS. Windows 95-ME was still DOS + a shell. You could replace the MS-DOS with DR-DOS.
You can look up the specs easy.
Back in the 80286 days, there was not even an L1 cache however the memory and ISA bus ran at CPU speed 8-20Mhz. Hard drive latency was ~65ms.
In the 80486 days L1 cache was introduced and L2 was sometimes available in (very) expensive modules. I remember buying 256kb for the same price as 16MB RAM. The L1 caches ran (if I remember correctly) at CPU speed, 1 cycle. However the bus speed started to slow down compared to the CPU. The VLB ran at CPU bus speed ("local" bus) and was often used for graphics but PCI (an inferior bus) ran at 33MHz so for anything over 33MHz, we started needing dividers. The RAM ran at 80-120ns so it started being slower than the CPU bus. Hard drive speeds were however up to ~30ms.
In the Pentium age memory slowed even farther compared to the CPU bus. Now it took several cycles to access memory, buses ran even slower (still PCI mostly, eventually PCI-X (133MHz?) until PCI-e (serial buses running) came along. Hard drive speeds went up to ~15ms
In modern age, L1 caches have slowed even further requiring 4 cycles for L1 cache and up to 30 for L3 caches. RAM is even slower access with bus speeds about a quarter of a single CPU but sometimes 16 CPU's need to share those lanes. Peripheral bus speeds however have gone up and PCIe 3.0 is now directly integrated into CPU 80486 VLB-style. Hard drives have latencies of 10ms (we have a mechanical issue there) still but even cheap SSD's can go down to ~1-2ms.
Relatively easy although encryption isn't that hard on Mac's either.
You don't have to be rich to give attention to your kids.
My parents were never rich, I am not rich, yet I have a high IQ as do my kids, one of which is mixed race with one of these 'minority cultures'. I was always prompted by teachers to take more advanced and gifted classes because the class couldn't keep up. I finished with a US-equivalent college-level education before my 19th birthday. I have a friend who is Hispanic in the US, finished with a bachelors at 16yo.
The problem is that these 'minority' parents aren't speaking English correctly themselves or don't do math correctly themselves. I'm not talking about immigrants, I'm talking about people that have lived in the US for several generations. The problem is not with the culture at the school, it's with the culture in these groups. They feel entitled to get these benefits, then they have to put the effort in it to get them. Speak correct English at home, don't engage with other parents or family that puts people down for 'acting white' or trying to achieve something outside their own culture. Heck, look at some of the comments Neil deGrasse Tyson has made on his own venture into science, his peers were pressuring him to do more for his 'community' as well and leave astrophysics.
Since the 60's there has been a lot of time and effort wasted on these communities and brilliant people have probably given in to the pressure within those communities to not do the best they can. When proper English isn't even understood in schools, you have a problem, not a school problem but a community problem.
NO, it is not in most cases because the chip is capable of holding your information in plain text or plain text + pin for offline transactions. A well-installed skimmer (with the keypad etc) can read that information (and are available for purchase): http://krebsonsecurity.com/201...
Your card holder rights are different when you enter a pin/signing a slip vs. not doing so. The bank will assume your PIN == your valid signature and you'll get to eat the losses.
If you dispute a transaction and the merchant produces a signed slip with your valid signature, you will not be successful in disputing the transaction (unless you claim that the merchandize is faulty or wasn't delivered).
In the future, when you enter a PIN, you will not be successful in disputing the transaction even though modern skimmers are capable of grabbing both your card info and your PIN information. In most cases, your card information is still available in plain text on the chip for offline transactions unless explicitly disabled by your bank. And if your bank has explicitly disabled ALL plain text transaction (some European banks and on-request in the US) your card is currently useless at the following places: Wal Mart, Tim Hortons and most gas stations (except Exxon/Mobil) - at least they'll still allow you to mag-swipe in those cases.