You'd wipe the device once, leaving the drive empty for the next person (as well as hundreds of thousands of writes available). I said treat the device as being write once, not actually making it write once. You don't even have to wipe the drive if you're one of those types of non-copyright-obeying folks.
How about when your teenager plugs in their 50GB mp3 player and it gets auto-loaded to the car-audio system and your half full system is now full?
Remember on floppies the little plastic that you could move to enable write only? Think about that, but in software. If you hook up an iPod, the in-dash system should automatically play music from it. You should be able to go into a menu and copy from the iPod to the in-dash system, with it asking you to confirm before proceeding.
Also, if you're worried about running out of space, that's because we're only at 64GB flash drives. Wait until we get to a terabyte. I wish you luck filling a terabyte drive with music that you'll have time to listen to in this lifetime.
As long as the driver is smart enough to disable a paging file, not that much writing is done to the hard drive on a Windows box (at least by the OS). When you do updates of course, writing is done. And when you save files, writing is done. But if you're just surfing the web and have 2-4GB of ram, disable caching, and the browser shouldn't write to the disk. If you're running Office, or games, save your work or savefile over webdav to a remote provider or use Amazon S3 to save those small amounts of data.
I can understand your reluctance to trust flash media. Indeed, it hasn't been proven like spinning media has. Let's take another example. An in-car radio. I want a 100GB hard drive in my car, solid state, that is for all intents and purposes write once. I should be able to dump 10s of GBs of MP3s onto it, and the index should be stored on a replaceable CF card (as the index would be changed often). But why would I remove music from the drive? I can just add more music.
For the above example, a flash drive works very well. If you need the benefits of flash storage mediums (vs spinning media) you should be prepared to engineer around the situation. Run temporary data out of RAM with battery backup, and only commit the data to flash between reboots and power outages.
Most of that is what's left of the supply. Once that's been worked through, you won't be able to get leaded solder, as all plants that sell components that end up destined for California and the EU have already retooled to not use lead anymore.
Buying a high end home automation system and then whining about the cost of proper CFL/LED bulbs for it is like buying a Ferrari and then bitching you have to put premium in it.
Someone once said "Your rights end where the next person's rights begin."
If someone wants to drive a Hummer, more power to them. I expect the government to institute a carbon cap and trade program, which will institute a per gallon tax on gasoline to offset the CO2 expelled by the Hummer. Also, I expect the government to institute an additional "access tax" on each gallon of gas, which shall total the yearly expenditures needed for any conflict in the middle east used to continue our access to cheap oil (i.e Iraq). Once these "externalities" have been properly restructured to be taken account into the price of fuel, I will have no problem with anyone purchasing as much fuel as they want. But until then, it's not someone's choice as long as others have to clean up after said douchebag, free market be damned.
You, my friend, are exactly what the problem is. Don't take it personally though. By you being the problem, I mean anyone who can lie on a mortgage application. Lenders have access to your credit report, work history, bank account information, etc. No other data is really needed to make a funding decision. So no lying should be possible, unless of course you went with a low-doc/no-doc loan, which is how you could lie. These are in the process of being outlawed by the Fed, as they allow lending to people who can't blatantly can't afford what they're buying. People like you who can use them in a responsible way are far an few between.
Disclaimer: I used to underwrite mortgages in a past life.
If you put all your cash in the stock market, and it tanks, you're left with nothing. If you put your cash into your house, and invest the rest, it doesn't matter if the stock market crashes. You still have your house. And you were smart enough to get a 30 year fixed mortgage, versus an apartment where the rent is only the same for 12 months at a time, right?. Plus, even if the value of my home drops, I still have a place to live.
Investing and renting instead of purchasing a home is a gamble at best. Not only do I build equity as a homeowner, it's been proven that over the last 70 years, home values appreciate at around 3%/year. My mortgage interest is tax deductible, and I can also get a home equity line of credit (instead of credit cards) where the interest is tax deductible up to $100K (try doing that with a credit card).
I realize you mentioned the tax savings aren't worth the cost of the interest. But really, they're just a side benefit to the fact that you're more secure in a home you own then in a rental unit controlled by someone else.
As a small business owner, I agree with your perspective. I'm waiting for thigns things to raise the price of goods coming from China.
1) Energy prices increasing. It will become more expensive to ship products over on cargo ships.
2) The yuan beginning to float. It's gonna happen sometime, sooner would be better then later though.
It's easy in your story to put blame on the carrier. Not their fault though. If you're going to be flying somewhere and you're not absolutely sure of the coverage (and you're flying in fairly undeveloped areas), you need to get one of two things:
1) An iridium phone. They're not too expensive compared to other aircraft avionics. They work almost anywhere in the world. And you can get prepaid versions if you don't want a huge monthly fee.
This satellite PLB is the smallest, most functional emergency transmitter available. In an emergency, it could quite simply save your life. It transmits on 406 MHz via the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system with a registered unique, digitally encoded distress signal and 121.5 MHz homing frequency. Plus, onboard GPS acquires LAT/LON when the unit is activated, meaning search and rescue crews will know your location within 100 meters. It is unaffected by terrain, obstructions or weather, and works anywhere in the world. It is also buoyant and totally waterproof. Weighs just 12 oz. and measures 1 3/4"d x 5 3/4"h x 3"w. Powered by two lithium-ion batteries.
Yes, these two items are expensive. But no more then an annual on your plane or the radio equipment onboard. Blame rests solely on the pilot for the safety of himself and those who he/she carries.
Lots of manufacturers have reseller policies that dictate how you can sell a product and the minimum price you can charge. Nintendo could simply decide they won't be selling anymore Wii consoles to any stores not following their policy.
Look into state incentives as well as bidding out the job to several different installers. You can even get 0% loans for the system from the state in most cases. Let me know if you need more info.
We should start building farms of these in the desert, and supply power to California. Simply keep adding panels as long as the manufacturing capacity exists. As panels degrade years from now, you replace them with (hopefully) more efficient panels that have been worked on during the first buildout. Build some intelligence into the system so you can detect damage and repair/replace panels as needed.
Because they usually are pretty complicated. Example: The Xantrax line of inverters for home renewable power systems can hook up to the utility, your solar array, and a generator. It will regulate when to pull power from the grid, when to sell power to the grid, when to start the generator when there's no other power available.
But many people DO have the option of where they get their power from. This is usually in the form of paying 2-5 cents more per kWh for their electricity, and in turn their utility will buy more renewable power.
Not to mention when carbon cap and trade comes into effect. The fed isn't going to push it through, but 13 states have already agreed to pursue the save policy as California is pursuing.
Agreed on both counts. I love my Thinkpads, and try to keep them going so I don't have to get a Lenovo (they have much of a cheap feel to them). Also, I'm a Bank Of America customer and not exactly thrilled about their customer service outsourcing as well as their recent purchase of Lasalle Bank. Who wrote "How to shitcan customer service" and stuck it in the MBA manual?
It does indeed make it up to 41K feet. Rate of climb is between 10,000-12,000 ft/minute, depending on departure airport temp and how much fuel I'm carrying (holds 270 gallons, if I'm staying local I'll carry significantly less due to the weight since each gallon weighs about 6 pounds).
I could use either a material that blocks an important wavelength (the green laser comes to mind) or look for a material that blocks light above a certain intensity (although I'd love to research the level of light received on a canopy from the sun at noon at FL410).
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You'd wipe the device once, leaving the drive empty for the next person (as well as hundreds of thousands of writes available). I said treat the device as being write once, not actually making it write once. You don't even have to wipe the drive if you're one of those types of non-copyright-obeying folks.
How about when your teenager plugs in their 50GB mp3 player and it gets auto-loaded to the car-audio system and your half full system is now full?Remember on floppies the little plastic that you could move to enable write only? Think about that, but in software. If you hook up an iPod, the in-dash system should automatically play music from it. You should be able to go into a menu and copy from the iPod to the in-dash system, with it asking you to confirm before proceeding.
Also, if you're worried about running out of space, that's because we're only at 64GB flash drives. Wait until we get to a terabyte. I wish you luck filling a terabyte drive with music that you'll have time to listen to in this lifetime.
Any other concerns you can think of?
As long as the driver is smart enough to disable a paging file, not that much writing is done to the hard drive on a Windows box (at least by the OS). When you do updates of course, writing is done. And when you save files, writing is done. But if you're just surfing the web and have 2-4GB of ram, disable caching, and the browser shouldn't write to the disk. If you're running Office, or games, save your work or savefile over webdav to a remote provider or use Amazon S3 to save those small amounts of data.
For the above example, a flash drive works very well. If you need the benefits of flash storage mediums (vs spinning media) you should be prepared to engineer around the situation. Run temporary data out of RAM with battery backup, and only commit the data to flash between reboots and power outages.
Most of that is what's left of the supply. Once that's been worked through, you won't be able to get leaded solder, as all plants that sell components that end up destined for California and the EU have already retooled to not use lead anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Substances_Directive
Buying a high end home automation system and then whining about the cost of proper CFL/LED bulbs for it is like buying a Ferrari and then bitching you have to put premium in it.
So THAT's what a conversational bitchsmack looks like. Well played.
A power vacuum is always filled.
If someone wants to drive a Hummer, more power to them. I expect the government to institute a carbon cap and trade program, which will institute a per gallon tax on gasoline to offset the CO2 expelled by the Hummer. Also, I expect the government to institute an additional "access tax" on each gallon of gas, which shall total the yearly expenditures needed for any conflict in the middle east used to continue our access to cheap oil (i.e Iraq). Once these "externalities" have been properly restructured to be taken account into the price of fuel, I will have no problem with anyone purchasing as much fuel as they want. But until then, it's not someone's choice as long as others have to clean up after said douchebag, free market be damned.
Disclaimer: I used to underwrite mortgages in a past life.
Investing and renting instead of purchasing a home is a gamble at best. Not only do I build equity as a homeowner, it's been proven that over the last 70 years, home values appreciate at around 3%/year. My mortgage interest is tax deductible, and I can also get a home equity line of credit (instead of credit cards) where the interest is tax deductible up to $100K (try doing that with a credit card).
I realize you mentioned the tax savings aren't worth the cost of the interest. But really, they're just a side benefit to the fact that you're more secure in a home you own then in a rental unit controlled by someone else.
1) Energy prices increasing. It will become more expensive to ship products over on cargo ships.
2) The yuan beginning to float. It's gonna happen sometime, sooner would be better then later though.
1) An iridium phone. They're not too expensive compared to other aircraft avionics. They work almost anywhere in the world. And you can get prepaid versions if you don't want a huge monthly fee.
2) An ELT. http://www.sportys.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=19&Product_ID=7279
This satellite PLB is the smallest, most functional emergency transmitter available. In an emergency, it could quite simply save your life. It transmits on 406 MHz via the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system with a registered unique, digitally encoded distress signal and 121.5 MHz homing frequency. Plus, onboard GPS acquires LAT/LON when the unit is activated, meaning search and rescue crews will know your location within 100 meters. It is unaffected by terrain, obstructions or weather, and works anywhere in the world. It is also buoyant and totally waterproof. Weighs just 12 oz. and measures 1 3/4"d x 5 3/4"h x 3"w. Powered by two lithium-ion batteries.
Yes, these two items are expensive. But no more then an annual on your plane or the radio equipment onboard. Blame rests solely on the pilot for the safety of himself and those who he/she carries.
July 03, 2007
Supreme Court lets manufacturers set minimum prices
Decision reverses 1911 ruling -- what does it mean for consumers?
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/shopping/2007/07/supreme-court-l.html
Lots of manufacturers have reseller policies that dictate how you can sell a product and the minimum price you can charge. Nintendo could simply decide they won't be selling anymore Wii consoles to any stores not following their policy.
Look into state incentives as well as bidding out the job to several different installers. You can even get 0% loans for the system from the state in most cases. Let me know if you need more info.
We should start building farms of these in the desert, and supply power to California. Simply keep adding panels as long as the manufacturing capacity exists. As panels degrade years from now, you replace them with (hopefully) more efficient panels that have been worked on during the first buildout. Build some intelligence into the system so you can detect damage and repair/replace panels as needed.
The day I trust a physicist for climate data analysis is the day global warming is proved to not exist.
Because they usually are pretty complicated. Example: The Xantrax line of inverters for home renewable power systems can hook up to the utility, your solar array, and a generator. It will regulate when to pull power from the grid, when to sell power to the grid, when to start the generator when there's no other power available.
But many people DO have the option of where they get their power from. This is usually in the form of paying 2-5 cents more per kWh for their electricity, and in turn their utility will buy more renewable power.
Not to mention when carbon cap and trade comes into effect. The fed isn't going to push it through, but 13 states have already agreed to pursue the save policy as California is pursuing.
Agreed on both counts. I love my Thinkpads, and try to keep them going so I don't have to get a Lenovo (they have much of a cheap feel to them). Also, I'm a Bank Of America customer and not exactly thrilled about their customer service outsourcing as well as their recent purchase of Lasalle Bank. Who wrote "How to shitcan customer service" and stuck it in the MBA manual?
It does indeed make it up to 41K feet. Rate of climb is between 10,000-12,000 ft/minute, depending on departure airport temp and how much fuel I'm carrying (holds 270 gallons, if I'm staying local I'll carry significantly less due to the weight since each gallon weighs about 6 pounds).
Lasers Aimed at Aircraft Cockpits: Background and Possible Options to Address the Threat to Aviation Safety and Security
http://www.mipt.org/pdf/CRS_RS22033.pdf
I could use either a material that blocks an important wavelength (the green laser comes to mind) or look for a material that blocks light above a certain intensity (although I'd love to research the level of light received on a canopy from the sun at noon at FL410).
http://www.viperjet.com/
If you've paid $400K for something, you don't mind spending a couple of bucks protecting it and your eyes.