This is an interesting idea relative to Stirling engines.
I wonder if it would be as efficient with less moving parts?
Picture a thousand mirrors, creating a 500 degree hot spot (~400 degree difference) which creates a monster sound that creates a lot of electricity. Would the sound at that intensity destroy the converting object?
I do mind paying a 35% premium for products to support some person just because they are local.
Put it this way-- I can buy TWO boardgames at the local gaming store or I can buy THREE boardgames from internet stores (and pay taxes on both purchases). Which approach makes it more likely that board game manufacturers are going to stay in business and produce more boardgames?
Internet is just inherently more efficient (you stock for the entire country instead of the random people in your area so you can stock obscure items) (you don't drive to the store to find out the item is STILL not in stock- which is what pushed me to the internet-- wasted time and gas).
Local merchants make sense where customer service matters. And i think it is wrong to shop a local store, get their advice, and then purchase online. If you rely on the store for service, then PAY for the service. But if the store is nothing but a forward warehouse-- I'll buy from the cheapest one I can find.
Recently saw reports of troops being ordered to remove armor they got through unofficial channels and saw posts here about a superior armor (Dragon armor) that was pretty blatantly spiked for corrupt/political reasons.
The military is very exposed to majors and lower generals recommending good but not the best systems and then going to work for the company that makes them after they retire.
Not at all-- our hardware is on a 3 year cycle. and the older machines are used by non-programmers from 4-6 years out. Huge multi-billion dollar corporation.
And they don't want people doing games and hardware acceleration was not required until Vista. It'll take a while to work its way through the company.
Okay.. I went back up the chain and found the original comment.
I agree about the printing money. Now the government has tried to hide this factor (by removing M3 availability) so we can't tell when they do but I think you also need lower interest rates for the grand parent comment to be true.
So they are running over 10% NET profit (that's extremely nice compared to many businesses- usually 7% is an excellent return).
* And this is after giving some unreasonably huge salaries to their executive class. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191901,00.html
A $69.7 million compensation package and $98 million pension payout to Exxon Mobil Corp.'s (XOM) former chief executive and chairman Lee R. Raymond has some shareholders and economists asking, "how much is enough?"
Currently, power costs are running in line with inflation (at least back to the 80s). That means when power doubles, solar may double as well (since inflation will raise the cost of making it).
I have high hopes for Nano-solar. I like their printable solar cell idea for weight, installation, and cost.
No I'm saying the CPI is heavily manipulated because social security and other COLA adjustments are based on it.
Every time some part of the index starts to go crazy, they remove it and then pretend it is still valid.
We are experiencing high inflation this time for a new reason. Increasing competition for resources by citizens of other countries and we are cramming into tiny urban areas so we are running out of land for housing in that context.
They are ignoring items that are going up massively in price and saying there is no inflation.
1) Nothing else to do on a lazy saturday afternoon 2) More entertaining than talking about your recent gall bladder surgery 3) Abstract technical conversations spur us to research subject so we learn a little 4) Humans are inherently social 5) Too early to see Shrek
I typically see 5 seconds of the first commercial, 1-2 seconds of each commercial in between and the last 20 seconds of the last commercial 2 or 3 times unless the skip lands perfectly. Sometimes- very rarely, that 1-2 seconds will pull me in. Recently these were for: New Movie Ads, Geico Commercials with the gecko and with the cavemen (tho I'm a solid Allstate customer since they give me great service and rates- of course I've never filed a claim yet in 27 years).
If I "watch" the commercials then that means either I'm out of the room, petting the dogs, or asleep.
I think I was thinking of GPL. Which says I can't take it and make a product from it without giving my code to the codebase (unless I just use the API to the product and not the code). And all the time we catch businesses violating that clear restriction to make hardware routers and crap. They shouldn't take GPL code and make a new product without making their source available.
I see that as roughly equivalent to this where they thought they had made a wimpy free version available and it turned out to have a hole that could make it a competitor for the retail versions.
From the responses to my first post, it looks like their legal position is pretty weak (basically- we have enough money to keep you in court for years and ruin you). However, I can't be certain of the amount of bias in the responses. There may be another location where it says Express is limited that combines with the license terms to "not over come technical limitations" to close the case.
Shame the guy wasn't putting the development time and effort into something good for java.
Actually- it works both ways. You get Battlestar Galactica about 6 months to a year before us. I watched BG on the computer from europe before it came to cable.
Likewise, lots of movies come out in the US, the months later in europe- then up to a year later (or Never!?!?) in australia.
Either- inexorably the loop closes and the snake bites its tail again or this is the loop where they break the cycle. Perhaps the merged cyclon/human race is how they break the cycle.
Hopefully it will not have a pathetic ending like Bab5 (Ohhh. we are a big nasty race that's afraid to grow up-- god I felt like that ending invalidated the entire 4 years I watched the series up to there).
I do not really think you understand the world of hurt that would occur if identifiable terrorists killed a couple school's full of children. There is a touch of insanity in the american soul. When it gets out, cities burn.
At my company, we joke that everyone promoted is of the type of personality that if half the building fell off, they would calmly tell the survivors to start moving to the safe side and exiting the building.
A calm cool collegial demeanor is highly valued throughout our corp and acting otherwise can get you written up.
Aye, vote for Obama bin ladin.... such are the typos that make baby jesus cry.
So... obviously, i meant Osama bin Ladin. And lots of other rich, powerful people who stir up crap and get people killed because they enjoy it, it gives purpose to their life.
People can be poor and very happy. People can be rich and miserable. People who are really not that bad off can be stirred up to think things are horrible by the powers that be.
The fact is that if most of the middle east would just let go of the jewish issue and stop attacking them, they would outbreed isreal out of existence in 20 to 50 years. But no.. they have to keep stirring up crap and killing teenagers because of something that happened 60 YEARS ago (three generations). It's over-- let it go and move on.
Their job is to hold the recruiting company on the line as long as possible. Trying to go up the sales chain as high as possible. If you can afford it have a second college student for the calls to be transferred to as "someone with authority to deal with your call".
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Most of these words are in common usage on the street.
Shit is a particularly stupid example since we use it every day. It's like a rated "G" word which is peculiarly forbidden.
=> Applications that need more memory become practical.
If every box has 4 gig, some things become possible in this larger market.
Looking forward- the new hardware could have 20 gig and that would support things like real time voice recognition.
This is an interesting idea relative to Stirling engines.
I wonder if it would be as efficient with less moving parts?
Picture a thousand mirrors, creating a 500 degree hot spot (~400 degree difference) which creates a monster sound that creates a lot of electricity. Would the sound at that intensity destroy the converting object?
I don't mind sales taxes.
I do mind paying a 35% premium for products to support some person just because they are local.
Put it this way-- I can buy TWO boardgames at the local gaming store or I can buy THREE boardgames from internet stores (and pay taxes on both purchases). Which approach makes it more likely that board game manufacturers are going to stay in business and produce more boardgames?
Internet is just inherently more efficient (you stock for the entire country instead of the random people in your area so you can stock obscure items) (you don't drive to the store to find out the item is STILL not in stock- which is what pushed me to the internet-- wasted time and gas).
Local merchants make sense where customer service matters. And i think it is wrong to shop a local store, get their advice, and then purchase online. If you rely on the store for service, then PAY for the service. But if the store is nothing but a forward warehouse-- I'll buy from the cheapest one I can find.
Only until they have laws passed that lock in their monopoly (ala music via infinite copyright or medicine via regional licensing) .
Not sure on the body armor.
Recently saw reports of troops being ordered to remove armor they got through unofficial channels and saw posts here about a superior armor (Dragon armor) that was pretty blatantly spiked for corrupt/political reasons.
The military is very exposed to majors and lower generals recommending good but not the best systems and then going to work for the company that makes them after they retire.
Ah but as/400's are very reliable white elephants that can handle huge transaction levels.
And if you are running java & sql, your tie to the hardware is minimal so when better, more reliable boxen come along, you can switch.
Not at all-- our hardware is on a 3 year cycle. and the older machines are used by non-programmers from 4-6 years out. Huge multi-billion dollar corporation.
And they don't want people doing games and hardware acceleration was not required until Vista. It'll take a while to work its way through the company.
Okay..
I went back up the chain and found the original comment.
I agree about the printing money. Now the government has tried to hide this factor (by removing M3 availability) so we can't tell when they do but I think you also need lower interest rates for the grand parent comment to be true.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=XOM
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Revenue: 336B
Gross Profit: 164B
Net Income: 40B*
So they are running over 10% NET profit (that's extremely nice compared to many businesses- usually 7% is an excellent return).
* And this is after giving some unreasonably huge salaries to their executive class.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191901,00.htm
A $69.7 million compensation package and $98 million pension payout to Exxon Mobil Corp.'s (XOM) former chief executive and chairman Lee R. Raymond has some shareholders and economists asking, "how much is enough?"
Currently, power costs are running in line with inflation (at least back to the 80s).
That means when power doubles, solar may double as well (since inflation will raise the cost of making it).
I have high hopes for Nano-solar. I like their printable solar cell idea for weight, installation, and cost.
No I'm saying the CPI is heavily manipulated because social security and other COLA adjustments are based on it.
Every time some part of the index starts to go crazy, they remove it and then pretend it is still valid.
We are experiencing high inflation this time for a new reason. Increasing competition for resources by citizens of other countries and we are cramming into tiny urban areas so we are running out of land for housing in that context.
They are ignoring items that are going up massively in price and saying there is no inflation.
1) Nothing else to do on a lazy saturday afternoon
2) More entertaining than talking about your recent gall bladder surgery
3) Abstract technical conversations spur us to research subject so we learn a little
4) Humans are inherently social
5) Too early to see Shrek
Inflation is down if you do not eat or use gasoline (or pay property taxes).
All are ignored by the core inflation index. So the typical consumer is suffering from inflation while some fake number is within range.
I typically see 5 seconds of the first commercial, 1-2 seconds of each commercial in between and the last 20 seconds of the last commercial 2 or 3 times unless the skip lands perfectly. Sometimes- very rarely, that 1-2 seconds will pull me in. Recently these were for: New Movie Ads, Geico Commercials with the gecko and with the cavemen (tho I'm a solid Allstate customer since they give me great service and rates- of course I've never filed a claim yet in 27 years).
If I "watch" the commercials then that means either I'm out of the room, petting the dogs, or asleep.
I think I was thinking of GPL. Which says I can't take it and make a product from it without giving my code to the codebase (unless I just use the API to the product and not the code). And all the time we catch businesses violating that clear restriction to make hardware routers and crap. They shouldn't take GPL code and make a new product without making their source available.
I see that as roughly equivalent to this where they thought they had made a wimpy free version available and it turned out to have a hole that could make it a competitor for the retail versions.
From the responses to my first post, it looks like their legal position is pretty weak (basically- we have enough money to keep you in court for years and ruin you). However, I can't be certain of the amount of bias in the responses. There may be another location where it says Express is limited that combines with the license terms to "not over come technical limitations" to close the case.
Shame the guy wasn't putting the development time and effort into something good for java.
Don't like microsoft but the same issues apply to any other license like creative commons and gnu.
If you don't agree with the license terms of the software/artwork/music then don't use/extend it.
Actually- it works both ways. You get Battlestar Galactica about 6 months to a year before us. I watched BG on the computer from europe before it came to cable.
Likewise, lots of movies come out in the US, the months later in europe- then up to a year later (or Never!?!?) in australia.
They have done this many times before.
Either- inexorably the loop closes and the snake bites its tail again or this is the loop where they break the cycle. Perhaps the merged cyclon/human race is how they break the cycle.
Hopefully it will not have a pathetic ending like Bab5 (Ohhh. we are a big nasty race that's afraid to grow up-- god I felt like that ending invalidated the entire 4 years I watched the series up to there).
Bush's last speech? they have been playing quotes from it on the radio.
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We've given way over 30 billion in the past- that 30 billion is the new proposed higher level
Here's some already spent here: http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa
I do not really think you understand the world of hurt that would occur if identifiable terrorists killed a couple school's full of children. There is a touch of insanity in the american soul. When it gets out, cities burn.
yea... that's why we are giving 30 billion dollars to africa for aids.
Oil is high on the agenda but it's not all about oil, dude.
At my company, we joke that everyone promoted is of the type of personality that if half the building fell off, they would calmly tell the survivors to start moving to the safe side and exiting the building.
A calm cool collegial demeanor is highly valued throughout our corp and acting otherwise can get you written up.
Hhehe.
Aye, vote for Obama bin ladin.... such are the typos that make baby jesus cry.
So... obviously, i meant Osama bin Ladin. And lots of other rich, powerful people who stir up crap and get people killed because they enjoy it, it gives purpose to their life.
People can be poor and very happy. People can be rich and miserable. People who are really not that bad off can be stirred up to think things are horrible by the powers that be.
The fact is that if most of the middle east would just let go of the jewish issue and stop attacking them, they would outbreed isreal out of existence in 20 to 50 years. But no.. they have to keep stirring up crap and killing teenagers because of something that happened 60 YEARS ago (three generations). It's over-- let it go and move on.
Hire a college student at minimum wage.
Their job is to hold the recruiting company on the line as long as possible. Trying to go up the sales chain as high as possible. If you can afford it have a second college student for the calls to be transferred to as "someone with authority to deal with your call".