I forgot to include this in my previous reply to you. In the event you perform the procedure you mentioned ("cpu upgrade"), it's easily reversible in almost all cars. It's actually referred to as changing the ECU configuration via an ECU programmer (which connects to the OBD-II port on any car made after 1996). The ECU programmer for my old Viper let me rewrite the fuel mappings, as well as hundreds of other settings in under a minute. Others I chatted with who did the same thing would change the setting for performance, and then change it back before taking it in for emissions or the shop for service. Not something I condone (changing the ECU settings back before warranty work that could've been caused by the settings), but people do it without a problem.
Your analogy doesn't hold any water. The iPhone is a GSM phone. It follows GSM standards. To say I can only use it with ATT is like saying you don't warranty the car unless I only by gas from Shell.
Heh chief, better check your facts. You don't agree to the contract when you buy the phone. You agree to it when you activate it at home. If I don't activate it with ATT, I don't agree to any contracts.
Also, I have a problem with a company actively preventing you from doing something protected by law (unlocking a phone is protected under the DMCA).
You can do a chargeback against a charge on your card up to 90-120 days back, even if you've paid the balance (your mileage may vary, but this is my experience with American Express personal/business cards).
How you get to morality is beyond me. The DMCA specifically includes language that unlocking a phone is completely legal. If I pay Apple $600 for a piece of hardware, that hardware is mine to do what I want with it (Just like the Tivo I purchased). This is the same thing as saying I can buy a car from NonExistentCarCompany, but if I make any changes to it whatsoever, I'm hosed (which of course isn't the case due to law).
I can understand Apple putting methods into their devices to push you towards ATT, but to brick it if you do figure out how to unlock it? I'm quite sure legal problems are going to ensue (forgive the pun).
I would expect that people who were smart enough to pay for the phone with a credit card would say "Hey, my phone is busted. Fix it or I'm returning it. If you don't accept the return, I'm doing a chargeback." Visa/mastercard/discover/amex provide a fairly decent product warranty program for items purchased with one of their cards.
Nuclear reprocessing separates any usable elements (e.g., uranium and plutonium) from fission products and other materials in spent nuclear reactor fuels. Usually the goal is to recycle the reprocessed uranium or place these elements in new mixed oxide fuel (MOX), but some reprocessing is done to obtain plutonium for weapons. It is the process that partially closes the loop in the nuclear fuel cycle.
Use of breeder reactors combined with reprocessing could extend the usefulness of mined uranium by more than 60 times.
You might say, "But nuclear is bad!" It's much more environmentally friendly then coal though (considering how much mercury is dumped into the air ever year by a coal plant).
My utility company (ComEd) in Illinois is offering a timed meter program. Right now, I pay 7 cents/KWh for power (and it's mostly Nuclear from the data ComEd providers). The timed meter program has the price of power changing hourly during the day, with the lowest price being 2 cents/KWh from midnight-6am and the highest cost being between 14-16 cents/KWh from noon-6pm. Their marketing literature describes this method of billing as a way to help the utility shave peak loads during times of high consumption, and shift usage to off-hours.
Did you take into account the price of diesel fuel rising (which is used to move the coal from mine to generation facility), as well as a carbon tax on per ton of CO2 released by coal generation facilities? While neither has a big effect right now, in the next 5-10 years, they will.
Just like how the ever rising gas prices are making people buy stop buying SUV's, right? Right?!
Actually, yes. Right now $2.50-$3.50 gallon for people is still affordable for most people who drive SUVs. Let's be honest though. The US is never going to implement a tax to bring gas to $6-$8/gallon to promote conservation. What is going to happen is consumption by India (and to a greater extent, China) is skyrocketing. Right now, even with OPEC kicking in another 500,000 barrels a day, they can barely meet demand. As soon as demand pushes past production capacity, the price of fuel is going through the roof (check the price of crude oil. It just hit $82/barrel, a new record). It's gonna get really ugly in the next 2 years.
The best solution IMHO is to have Nuclear provide baseline power, and then slowly grow renewable outputs (solar, wind, etc) so as to rely very little on your baseline system. Once we get to the point where there is excess power in the grid, this should be used to generate hydrogen to pipe to homes for use in heating applications (to replace natural gas, which is slowly becoming harder and harder to produce).
Our company just standardized on T-Mobile for our Blackberry users, as the new Blackberry Curve can take advantage of T-mobile@Home's Wifi phone server. While Verizon has a much larger network then T-Mobile, we can now just place a Wifi access point anywhere we need better coverage (branch offices, basement of HQ, home offices of people, etc).
Same boat here. The wife test is a grueling crucible. Rarely does homemade/DIY handle it, although Tivo passed it with flying colors./doesn't understand why the wifey just can't learn SSH/shell commands =)//I kid, I kid
Wow. You and I want the exact same channels. How about we get a cable subscription to the datacenter I have space at, throw a Slingbox and a DVR there, and split the costs;)
Perhaps it's a sign that a million people have $600 of disposable income. Not necessarily a bad thing. How many people pay chunks of change to go to football/baseball/nascar events, all of which I consider a waste of resources. It's not up to me though. It's up to those with the disposable income what they want to spend it on.
You're referring to the stress testing of the wings, to examine at what percentage load factor they will fail at. And yes, they failed at, if I recall correctly, %150 of load capacity (something they will never see in actual flight without the rest of the airframe failing).
We've got a trigger-happy dictat...president, an apathetic populace, and a military-industrial complex with no stop button. Charging us user fees should be the least of your concerns;)
You're correct. The difference is between the control channel and the data channel. The control channel is a much more limited resource than the data channels that carry voice. This is why the price of voice minutes are often quite cheap or free, while providers continue to charge for text messaging.
Even if you are not talking on your cell phone, your phone is constantly sending and receiving information. It is talking to its cell phone tower over a pathway called a control channel. The reason for this chatter is so that the cell phone system knows which cell your phone is in, and so that your phone can change cells as you move around. Every so often, your phone and the tower will exchange a packet of data that lets both of them know that everything is OK.
Your phone also uses the control channel for call setup. When someone tries to call you, the tower sends your phone a message over the control channel that tells your phone to play its ringtone. The tower also gives your phone a pair of voice channel frequencies to use for the call.
The control channel also provides the pathway for SMS messages. When a friend sends you an SMS message, the message flows through the SMSC, then to the tower, and the tower sends the message to your phone as a little packet of data on the control channel. In the same way, when you send a message, your phone sends it to the tower on the control channel and it goes from the tower to the SMSC and from there to its destination.
This is incorrect. Very few satellites in earth orbit use any sort of RTG power source. Only satellites that are destined for the outer reaches of the solar system use RTGs, as the power available from the sun is inadequate at those distances.
Radar-equipped Ocean Reconnaissance SATellite or RORSAT is the western name given to the Soviet Upravlyaemyj Sputnik Aktivnyj ( ) (US-A) satellites. These satellites were launched between 1967 and 1988 to monitor NATO and merchant vessels using active radar. RORSATs were launched under cover name of Cosmos satellites.
Because a return signal from a target illuminated by a radar transmitter diminishes as the inverse of the fourth power of the signal emitted, for the surveillance radar to work effectively, RORSATs had to be placed in low earth orbit. Had they used large solar panels for power, the orbit would have rapidly decayed due to drag through the upper atmosphere. Further, the satellite would have been useless at night. Hence the majority of RORSATs carried type BES-5 nuclear reactors fuelled by uranium-235. Normally the nuclear reactor cores were ejected into high orbit (a so-called "disposal orbit") at the end of the mission, but there were several incidents, some of which resulted in radioactive material re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
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I forgot to include this in my previous reply to you. In the event you perform the procedure you mentioned ("cpu upgrade"), it's easily reversible in almost all cars. It's actually referred to as changing the ECU configuration via an ECU programmer (which connects to the OBD-II port on any car made after 1996). The ECU programmer for my old Viper let me rewrite the fuel mappings, as well as hundreds of other settings in under a minute. Others I chatted with who did the same thing would change the setting for performance, and then change it back before taking it in for emissions or the shop for service. Not something I condone (changing the ECU settings back before warranty work that could've been caused by the settings), but people do it without a problem.
Your analogy doesn't hold any water. The iPhone is a GSM phone. It follows GSM standards. To say I can only use it with ATT is like saying you don't warranty the car unless I only by gas from Shell.
Also, I have a problem with a company actively preventing you from doing something protected by law (unlocking a phone is protected under the DMCA).
FYI, I'm the GPP.
How can it be immoral that Apple pay a chargeback, if their warranty terms include not unlocking the phone (which is explicitly permitted by law)?
I can understand Apple putting methods into their devices to push you towards ATT, but to brick it if you do figure out how to unlock it? I'm quite sure legal problems are going to ensue (forgive the pun).
I would expect that people who were smart enough to pay for the phone with a credit card would say "Hey, my phone is busted. Fix it or I'm returning it. If you don't accept the return, I'm doing a chargeback." Visa/mastercard/discover/amex provide a fairly decent product warranty program for items purchased with one of their cards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
Nuclear reprocessing separates any usable elements (e.g., uranium and plutonium) from fission products and other materials in spent nuclear reactor fuels. Usually the goal is to recycle the reprocessed uranium or place these elements in new mixed oxide fuel (MOX), but some reprocessing is done to obtain plutonium for weapons. It is the process that partially closes the loop in the nuclear fuel cycle.Use of breeder reactors combined with reprocessing could extend the usefulness of mined uranium by more than 60 times.
Also read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel_cycle#Plutonium_cycle
You might say, "But nuclear is bad!" It's much more environmentally friendly then coal though (considering how much mercury is dumped into the air ever year by a coal plant).
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/pdfs/techfocus_gravity_film_ex.pdf
My utility company (ComEd) in Illinois is offering a timed meter program. Right now, I pay 7 cents/KWh for power (and it's mostly Nuclear from the data ComEd providers). The timed meter program has the price of power changing hourly during the day, with the lowest price being 2 cents/KWh from midnight-6am and the highest cost being between 14-16 cents/KWh from noon-6pm. Their marketing literature describes this method of billing as a way to help the utility shave peak loads during times of high consumption, and shift usage to off-hours.
Did you take into account the price of diesel fuel rising (which is used to move the coal from mine to generation facility), as well as a carbon tax on per ton of CO2 released by coal generation facilities? While neither has a big effect right now, in the next 5-10 years, they will.
Actually, yes. Right now $2.50-$3.50 gallon for people is still affordable for most people who drive SUVs. Let's be honest though. The US is never going to implement a tax to bring gas to $6-$8/gallon to promote conservation. What is going to happen is consumption by India (and to a greater extent, China) is skyrocketing. Right now, even with OPEC kicking in another 500,000 barrels a day, they can barely meet demand. As soon as demand pushes past production capacity, the price of fuel is going through the roof (check the price of crude oil. It just hit $82/barrel, a new record). It's gonna get really ugly in the next 2 years.
The best solution IMHO is to have Nuclear provide baseline power, and then slowly grow renewable outputs (solar, wind, etc) so as to rely very little on your baseline system. Once we get to the point where there is excess power in the grid, this should be used to generate hydrogen to pipe to homes for use in heating applications (to replace natural gas, which is slowly becoming harder and harder to produce).
Or you could just use solar for peak demand during the day, and use nuclear and wind power at night.
Our company just standardized on T-Mobile for our Blackberry users, as the new Blackberry Curve can take advantage of T-mobile@Home's Wifi phone server. While Verizon has a much larger network then T-Mobile, we can now just place a Wifi access point anywhere we need better coverage (branch offices, basement of HQ, home offices of people, etc).
Same boat here. The wife test is a grueling crucible. Rarely does homemade/DIY handle it, although Tivo passed it with flying colors. /doesn't understand why the wifey just can't learn SSH/shell commands =) //I kid, I kid
GP obviously hasn't been to Dominicks (Chicagoland area). They sell single eggs in a plastic package.
Wow. You and I want the exact same channels. How about we get a cable subscription to the datacenter I have space at, throw a Slingbox and a DVR there, and split the costs ;)
My mistake. Still a testament to the air-worthiness of an aircraft for the wings to be deflected vertically/almost vertically and not snap.
Perhaps it's a sign that a million people have $600 of disposable income. Not necessarily a bad thing. How many people pay chunks of change to go to football/baseball/nascar events, all of which I consider a waste of resources. It's not up to me though. It's up to those with the disposable income what they want to spend it on.
You're referring to the stress testing of the wings, to examine at what percentage load factor they will fail at. And yes, they failed at, if I recall correctly, %150 of load capacity (something they will never see in actual flight without the rest of the airframe failing).
http://communication.howstuffworks.com/sms.htm
Even if you are not talking on your cell phone, your phone is constantly sending and receiving information. It is talking to its cell phone tower over a pathway called a control channel. The reason for this chatter is so that the cell phone system knows which cell your phone is in, and so that your phone can change cells as you move around. Every so often, your phone and the tower will exchange a packet of data that lets both of them know that everything is OK.Your phone also uses the control channel for call setup. When someone tries to call you, the tower sends your phone a message over the control channel that tells your phone to play its ringtone. The tower also gives your phone a pair of voice channel frequencies to use for the call.
The control channel also provides the pathway for SMS messages. When a friend sends you an SMS message, the message flows through the SMSC, then to the tower, and the tower sends the message to your phone as a little packet of data on the control channel. In the same way, when you send a message, your phone sends it to the tower on the control channel and it goes from the tower to the SMSC and from there to its destination.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/technology/11apple.html?n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FI%2FiPhone
Yeah, exactly what they deserve. I'm no fanboy (don't own any Apple products), but I can recognize when a product has some signs of success.
There is an exception to this rule though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator#Use
By comparison, only a few space vehicles have been launched using full-fledged nuclear reactors: the Soviet RORSAT series and the American SNAP-10A.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RORSAT
Radar-equipped Ocean Reconnaissance SATellite or RORSAT is the western name given to the Soviet Upravlyaemyj Sputnik Aktivnyj ( ) (US-A) satellites. These satellites were launched between 1967 and 1988 to monitor NATO and merchant vessels using active radar. RORSATs were launched under cover name of Cosmos satellites. Because a return signal from a target illuminated by a radar transmitter diminishes as the inverse of the fourth power of the signal emitted, for the surveillance radar to work effectively, RORSATs had to be placed in low earth orbit. Had they used large solar panels for power, the orbit would have rapidly decayed due to drag through the upper atmosphere. Further, the satellite would have been useless at night. Hence the majority of RORSATs carried type BES-5 nuclear reactors fuelled by uranium-235. Normally the nuclear reactor cores were ejected into high orbit (a so-called "disposal orbit") at the end of the mission, but there were several incidents, some of which resulted in radioactive material re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.